Babies born~March 1st-15th 2008 #10

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This thread is for parents whose baby was born in March 1st to 15th 2008.

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Baby Formula - What Manufacturers Don't Want You To Know
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids or formula.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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[prama]

gosh.. we;re finally in a new thread.. haha thisis the longest it's taken us, huh!

my cousin's daughter will be here in dec and im taking her to see mamma mia!! yaay! cant wait!!

[Sammiejane]

I know, we have been really quite havent we!
No problems, i dont remember everyones birthday either, i rely on FB, but im not on it every day.
Trina, i sisnt even realise you had surgery, sorry... hope u are doing ok

[prama]

i know what u mean abt birthdays. steve doesnt get me stuff, even a card.. EVEN when i tell him what i want for my bday! sigh

[bjrose]

OMG! SJ!!! I'm so excited for you!!! Hope it wasn't too early! Can't believe your regular enought to be trying, lol. Without my depo I'm still 6 - 7 weeks apart, so don't think I'm Oing at all yet.

[Sammiejane]

nup i am on roughly 26-28 day cycle.
I have ben Oing since i got AF back, when MJ was about 3mths.
It has been hard as we have used no contraception this whole time, so i had to start keeping track. my iphone has a fertility friend app and so i have been using that, to keep track of when we shouldnt DTD up unntil now, i have used it in reverse of what its meant to be for!

watch this space - this is the only place i will be talking about it please keep my secret

OMG OMG OMG Skye i just noticed your Ticker!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!

[bjrose]

Lol, I know. I put it there to remind myself to get organised this year, lol.

I didn't get af back til Jesse was 9 months. Really hope it happens
Don't worry, will be keeping your secret
I know something you don't know...doo da, doo da

Prama- Mumma Mia sounds exciting! Bri is always walking around singing that song...no idea how she even knows it! lol

Oh & yeah, my birthday is always forgotten about, but I'm pretty used to it too. Jaz is getting older now though & she always makes me feel special on those days! She can be such a sweety. Just drawing me pictures & picking flowers & cute stuff like that

[all girls]

OMG SJ!!!!!! Secret is safe here. How you feeling?? OOOOOH so exciting

So sorry you're having probs Prama it is a horrible and stressful time when you are having probs in your relationship if you ever need to talk hun let me know.

Skye are you going to have any more???

This dust is making me feel crap Tahnie has a school excursion today i c an't believe they are still going ahead with it it is at the reptile park so is outside she really wanted to go so i let her and now im regretting it i kept paige home codie is in the cook islands with her dad.

I can't wait to walk again ive been on these stupid crutches for nearly 2 months and that is putting no weight on my left leg at all so my arms and hands are so sore im feeling so frustrated and really tired all the time ive gone from 2-3 hours of hard exercise a day to NOTHING feeling flat, fat and blah.

Ah summer is throwing some lovely tanties too and just the last week has been biting pinching punching etc she has all her teeth so not sure what her prob is just terrible two's I suppose she may be a little bored as we aren't going out and doing much at all because i can't push her in the pram let alone get her to the car to put her in her seat. I have to rely on the girls to do so much we had to go food shopping yesterday and the girls had to push the trolley and then carry all the shopping upstairs they are so good.

Im off to the couch how exciting......

[danniellabella]

SJ, how exciting. Good luck and "mum's the word" LOL

Jazz has over the past few weeks stopped eating as much. She's fussing so much at meal times and will only eat snacks and even then she doesn't eat them much. She doesn't really eat her breakfast lunch or dinner anymore. I don't know if I should be worried.
She seems to have completely gone off food. She does seem generally happy and energetic though so I don't think she's sick (apart from a bit of a cold).

[Sammiejane]

MJ is now refering to herself as Moll Moll, its so cute!!!

Danni - MJ did that for a while, i just gave her back her breakfast when she was hungry and she would eat that.
What type of snacks is she having? is it that they taste better??? I know MJ prefers the kids snacks that are bought to the fruits and other healthy bits that i give her, so i try to limit them so that she is more use to eating the ones i give her. MJ goes off her food just after a grotwth spurt and when cutting teeth too.

Trina - so sorry Hun, this must be aweful for you, so hard not having your mobility...
I feel no different, so suspect that i am not UTD, we shall see... not lomg to go before i can test...

No real tanties here, a bit of throwing herself n the floor and NO NO NO NO, but she is very easily distracted, or i just ignore the throwning on the floor business!

[bjrose]

Trina - Jesse does that. The hitting, pinching etc when he's peed off. He'll actually chase the girls with the sh*ts til he either hurts them somehow, or forgets what he was doing & thinks its a game, lol!
No, no more babies here. Well not for a long time anyway! We had a scare a month ago, but all is safe, lol. Made me mega clucky though!! I'm happy to not have anymore...but I would love to at the same time iykwim?
Hope your knee gets better soon. Can't be easy. So jelouse of Codie!!

[prama]

we havent got tanties either, he lies down on his back on the floor and does the caterpillar tanty only when he's really really tired. if we dont give him somethign he doesnt want, normally he cries for a few seconds and then is happy again. he only does the caterpillar when he wants something or wants to be picked up or doesnt know why he's feeling yucky when he's really tired. sometimes i lie down next to him and give him a cuddle and then he's all happy. luckily he hasnt done this in public yet!!
he doesnt say his name yet, and luckily doesnt say no yet either. just shakes his head left and right.


trina - take it easy with your leg, hope get some physio and dont do too much on it. it takes a long while to get back to its oldself

SJ - when will you know???!!!

oh yes trina - poopy did the biting and pinching when he's really bored. esp when we were in m'sia when he didnt quite have a routine. now that we are back, he's almost back to no biting. he only seems to bite me when he's really really tired here.



oh and i wanted to say we have an appt w relationships aust on the 3rd so will see how we go

[all girls]

I think the biting hitting etc has a lot to do with the other kids annoying her plus we haven't been going out or doing much for the last 8 weeks where as before she was at the creche every day.

Good luck Prama hopefully you will sort it out easily.

I've been going to physio since May when i first hurt my knee and since my surgery ive been going twice a week It's such a slow recovery I'm not allowed to squat, jump, run or do anything high intensity for 3-4 months if i had the torn bit of cartilage trimmed off i would have been walking within days but the surgeon said because i am fairly young the repair will give me a better chance of being 100% down the track.

Best i go see what Summer the cyclone is doing man she is a menace at the mo...

[danniellabella]

Jazz eats things like fruit, chicken crimpy biscuits, cheese, cruskit biscuits and the like as snacks. She loves fruit and cheese so I guess I should count myself lucky. She's going off the biscuits a little bit lately though.

[bjrose]

Lol, Prama your lucky! Jesse's been saying no for aaages! It was his first really clear word that he said with real meaning, lol. Mum, dad, nan, NOOO! Lol.

Says bye too. When he walks out of a room I'm in to go play, he has to say bye & wave first, & I have to answer him or he'll stand there saying it over & over again getting angrier every time, lol.

You guys all dusted out? Its apparently clearing everywhere else, but its still a big dusty haze here.

Ha ha ha, Jesse has just thrown everything off the coffee table onto the floor & sat himself up there like he owns the place! lol

[all girls]

All my girls have been up and down with their eating and go off food quite often. Summer sometimes eats non stop all day then some days eats hardly anything, its kind of like when we are more hungry sometimes and other times don't feel like eating. Summer is a pretty good eater she loves apple sultanas cereal yoghurt peas cheese pasta brown rice tuna,she will give most things a go. She can feed herself yoghurt and cereal with milk and most of the time gets it all in her mouth haha she even drinks the milk from the bowl like her big sis.

Not sure how I'm going to clean up all this dust in and around the house

[prama]

ooh im so glad to hear that poopy isnt the only one who has on and off days with his meals. some days he doesnt want much dinner at all.

[danniellabella]

Well Jazz ate everything she was given at daycare yesterday so that's good. She also ate all her dinner (wasn't a healthy dinner mind you, she had KFC popcorn chicken and chips).

She's starting at a new FDC on Monday. She'll go there Monday & Friday at this stage and then by the start of next year she'll be going to this lady Mon through to Friday because the other lady is retiring but will do some babysitting now and then so I'll make sure we keep in touch with letters and photos at the very least, maybe a visit sometimes. I'll really miss her.

Hoping to be back at work tomorrow. I've been off sick most of the week with a dreadful cold type thing. Well. Might do a little housework and watch a DVD and relax.