Any March & April 05 mums/moms want to chat?

[james030405]

Hi everyone

Jo: hugs to you.  I know what you mean about only having one baby.  james is a relatively good baby and I still only want one :shock: Hopefully we can catch up soon and you can see that you do have lots of friends.

James is doing really well on solids.  3 meals a day now.  I hadput off introducing lunch because it makes going out just that littlebit harder,but I was finding he wasn't lasting the four hours between 11 and 2 just on milk.   There has been a couple of days where he hasn't had it due to his sleep and I just give him a littleafternoon tea of fruit and that and his bottle helps him through till dinner.  He is finally opening his mouth which is good.  We tried red meat yesterday and so far he is tolerating everything.   

I think he is going through another illness as well.  The last couple of days he has been really grumpy and sad - he has also been sleeping a lot.  Yesterday (Monday) he woke up at 7am fell asleep at 9 for an hour, was awake for an hour and then went to sleep for nearly 3 :shock:  :shock:  :shock: He also had a catnap at 4:30pm and then went to bed at 7:15pm (with little fuss - thanks Traci for your encouragement).  It is now 6am Tuesday morning and I haven't heard a peep out of him.  Even though it is warming up here, I think he likes to have covers on him - when he was in shorty pj's andonly a sheet, he would often wake a couple of times a night and had to be patted back to sleep.  Last night put him in warmer pj's and so far so good........

Is everyone still on 4 milk feeds a day?  I don't know if it is because he is sick but the last few days the 11am feed he hasn't really wanted. I am starting to think maybe I should try this feed with his lunch.  Any suggestions?

I am sorry I cannot remember everyones post - I only come on every few days and there are so many pages.  :oops: But I will be on line chatting if I remember this week

Have a good day (and night) everyone. 

Lisa mum to James my textbook/spirited koala bear

[Richelle]

Hi ladies,

Just a quick question, when is the chat?

Richelle

[Debprins]

Richelle.. I was lol at the face in water. I know not funny but i did a similiar thing i thought it would relax dd by putting on her belly i heard a splutter and she coughed and sneezed bubbles!! OMG dont want to jink myself but put marli to bed at 6.45pm. a bit later than usual and normally i'm up at least 3 times a night dummy etc but last night she woke once yes once and i figure she was probably cold as she had herself outof her blankets at the top of her cot so i quickly fed her (it was 2am and she woke again at 6.45 this mornign its a miracle I'm trying to duplicate yesterdays routine because it obviously worked hope its not a fluke!! we'll see...

[FrasersMum]

Hi Richelle,

There are a couple of chats - one for US/Canada mums, one for UK mums and one for Australian/NZ mums.

Being geographically retarded  :oops: I have no idea where the Cayman Islands are, but you will find posts about the chats and chat times in The Lounge. 

I "think" US mums are Wednesday nights, Aust mums are Thursday nights and UK mums are Friday nights.

HTH
Jo

[Colesmom]

Richelle,

I'm as geographically retarded as Jo.  US/Canada chat is on Wednesdays and it's at 9:00 for me in Toronto.  Not sure where that would put you.

Here is the link  http://www.babywhisperer.com/forum/chat-room-link-vt41311.html

I couldn't find the list of times...but maybe this will help.
http://www.worldtimezone.com/.

Ladies...I'm posting the thanksgiving pics of Cole and I in a moment in the photo gallery...I'll post the link back here.

here it is:  http://babywhisperer.com/forum/cole-and-i-dressed-for-thanksgiving-vt43064.html

Traci

[Jayri]

Just so we can all be envious of Richelle, the caymen islands are in the western carribbean islands.
The chat for the us and canada is on wednesday nights and it starts at 9pm eastern time.
Anyone have a clue why Riley is all of a sudden not settling herself any longer. The noises she makes are borderline mantra/real crying, and she is really fussy when we put her down, so bedtime is becoming a time that I dread. Her tooth has come through and she has gone through a spurt lately, so that could be it. Any other suggestions!

[Richelle]

Thanks Jo,

The Cayman Islands are in south of Cuba and northwest of Jamaica.

I am from Canada but closer to the states hmmmm.... is there a dregs chat?

Hope you are feeling better...

[Little Bear's Mum]

Naomi - perhaps Riley needs to be awake a bit longer. She's telling you she's just not quite tired enough yet. Try keeping her up another 10 mins maybe.

I might have to look into the chat thing for Aussie/Kiwi mums.

Bye

[Colesmom]

Hey Naomi...I don't remember, is Riley on 2 or 3 naps?  when does her last nap end?  Maybe ready for more A time?  Other than that I'm no help at all.

Okay everyone.  Not sure if you remember I was supposed to go to lunch at a pub last week?  Well, I never went.  Why you ask.  My father was rushed to hospital with Panreatitis on Thursday night.  He got a day pass believe it or not for Sunday...but I just couldn't justify going all that way.  Anyhoo, after what transpired at that family event forced me and Cole to go there today anyway.  My parents are renovating their house and have hired my no good brother to do the work.  He called them up sobbing 3 weeks ago apparently because he needed money.  Shall I remind you he's 42 years old!  And he's getting paid a pretty penny I might add after treating my mom and dad like crap for years.  My older brother and I are executors of my fathers estate so we had the joyous task of discussing my fathers financial affairs today - Thanksgiving!  anyway, the talk went well, all my brothers turned up (there are 3) and everything got settled away I think.  Oh ya, and about the pancreatitis...dad is still drinking.  *sigh*. I told my dad he shouldn't be drinking and he said "thank you for your concern".  I said, as long as you know my position then this is the last time I will bring it up.  Phew.  thanks ladies.  needed to vent.

Cole of course was great all day.  Two 45 and a 30 minute nap though which resulted in me feeding him to sleep for bed. He was great at the pub (the house is now under renovations!) and at a friends place that I dropped by on the way there.  And also great in the car.  Meltdown at bed as I expected but that's okay.

Lisa...was 7:15 bedtime earlier?  I think it was 7:30-8:00 before.  Glad to hear it worked!

Andrea-Cole isn't really experiencing stranger anxiety...but a touch of separation anxiety.  Doesn't like it when I leave the room.  He was handed around to about 10 people yesterday and was pretty good after being in the environment for about 15 minutes.  He LOVES men.  I think because he sees so little of DH he really craves that attention.  Oh-and I love the pic of you guys.  totally cute.

Richelle-great lilly pie..love her in the hood.

Hayley.  not positive about reducing the night feed but I'm tempted to say to reduce it each night..should be done in a few nights.

okay, I think that's all.

[Colesmom]

hey...i guess there is no reason we couldn't just go chat any time right?  If you ever want to chat ladies...just post and maybe we can hang out

[Richelle]

Traci UGHHH Families and Cole is adorable in his outfit!!!

Naomi - I find Sophie is hard to settle when she is tired but not quite tired enough if that makes any sense.  She has 2 teeth coming in and I haven't noticed anything different with her except a new habit of pulling her ears.

Sophie is starting to fight her evening catnap so we will have to see.  Same problem as Riley, won;t settle.

I love the hood on Sophie too.  It was when we were visiting Canada this summer and we could not only hang out outside longer than 1/2 an hour without melting but we could wear cute little sweaters!

I look into a chat this week!

Richelle

[Colesmom]

Richelle...not sure you know but pulling at the ears is associated with teething.  wasn't sure if that's what you meant by the new habit.

as for being cool in Canada over the summer...are you crazy!  we had our hottest summer on record.  I didn't take cole outside for about 6 weeks!  but i guess compared to the caymans it was cool!

[Little Bear's Mum]

Hey, if you're little ones don't like tummy time I've just found a great way to get Daniel to enjoy it. Put him infront of Baby Mozart DVD on his tummy! Amazing, he's transfixed and happy on his tummy! Now if only I can get him to start wriggling around while he's there he'll be even happier. But as everyone says, try not to encourage them too much as it's much harder work once they start moving.  :lol:

Traci, that's not good to hear about your dad. I hope he's going to be okay. It couldn't have been an easy conversation to have on Thanksgiving. As for brothers.... well, you can't choose your relatives. Hopefully your other brothers make up for the not so fabulous one IYKWIM.

[mrayohler]

Hi all!

I read a couple times a week and had to jump in tonight.

Jo - I have to agree with your feelings about another.  I have two and I keep wondering - how in the world did Judy ever think to have a third and OHMYGOSH then she had twins!!!  And - how in the heck did my MIL have 9??? I'm so tired after 6.5 months of night wakings that there's no way I want more.  Thankfully my husband is on the same page.  Hang in there.  It is so rough - its a good thing the babies are so darnd cute.

Thanks for the tip about the ear pulling.  We've had a couple trying (bad naps at home, night wakings, difficult to settle etc) weeks after the baptism two Sundays ago and a bad illness for both me and Payton last weekend.  Finally this weekend was back to good sleeping but very crabby baby.  I think its her top teeth coming in because she started with the ear pulling.  I was originally worried about an ear infection after our colds.  She seems better today thankfully.  Oh, and her appetite seemed to have really shrunk - does anyone know if that happens with teething too? 

Payton is generally awake 2-2.5 hrs but tonight, no catnap and she was up and happy for 4.5 hrs!  Wish me luck tonight!

[Erin M]

Traci - You and Cole both look great!  I love the pictures.  Cole is really cute in his adorable little clothes.   Sorry the family situation is so yucky right now. 

Naomi - I posted about this earlier, but right at 6.5 months, Katie just became a different baby - crankier, sleeping less - I think it was a combination of teething, increased mobility, solids, and needing more awake time.  She's still a bit harder to settle than she was (too interested in rolling around her crib) but much better on the whole. 

Take care all - will try to get to the US/Canada chat this week!
-Erin