Babies Born~September 16th-30th 2009 #1

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This thread is for parents who's baby was born in September 2009.

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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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[Townsvillegirl]

Our Arrivals

09/08/09 - TK1999 - Caitlin L - 48cm, W-2.405kg, HC - 29cm (born 34w1d)
01/09/09 - Me+Him+Bub - Jonathon James L - 57cm, W 3.6kg, HC -
03/09/09 - Mummaofonesofar - Neve Lindy L - 49cm, W - 3.255kg, HC - 36.5
05/09/09 - BrookeMorrison - Oscar Slaide Ashyr L - 52cm, W 3.62kg, HC -
07/09/09 - Kimmy-Lou - Oscar L - 51cm, W 3.98kg, HC - 35.5cm
08/09/09 - Miss J - Ezra Nicholas L - 53cm, W 3.85kg, HC -
09/09/09 - Sossi - Joel Carl L - 51cm, W 7.9pd, HC -
11/09/09 - Leanne - Joshua Willhem L - 53cm, W 4.4kg, HC - 38cm
16/09/09 - Lisa - Anelise Lynette L - 49.5cm, W - 4kg, HC -
16/09/09 - AngelaK - Emily Grace L - 49cm, W - 2.96kg, HC - 35cm
19/09/09 - Easha - Jaida Grace L - , W - 3.16kg, HC -
21/09/09 - Townsvillegirl - Xanthe Grace L - 53cm, W - 4.11kg, HC - 37cm
22/09/09 - Meadsie - Samuel (Sam) L -52cm, W - 3.18kg, HC - 36.5cm
24/09/09 - Savina - Rayden L - , W - , HC -
25/09/09 - Nina21 - Laicee Kate L - 50cm, W - 7 pound, HC -
27/09/09 - Bon - Isabel Carmel L - 51.5cm, W - 4.04kg, HC - 36.5cm
27/09/09 - Henri - Stephanie Lyn L - , W - , HC -
30/09/09 - Erybery - Ella L - 54cm, W - 3.28kg, HC - 33cm

[Townsvillegirl]

Thought I would kick off our thread and post our arrivals list. Though looking at it, it seems we only have 3 babies actually born between the 16th and 30th of Sept so far ... If you want to be removed from the list, please let me know or if you want to join our group, also let me know and I will add you.

[~Leanne~]

Wow what a lot of gorgeous little bubbas!, and looking at the list seems our Master Joshua weighed in the highest!..... Took him to the clinic this morning he has put on 700g since coming home (4.9kg now) so he is doing REALLY well). The clinic nurse did not believe that he was only 2 weeks 5 days old....

[brookemorrison]

wow! such a large array of beautiful names for our beautiful babies
and out of that there is 2 Oscar's
my little man will be 4weeks old on monday, time flys doesnt it.
i am slowly but surely healing as i suffered a 3rd degree tear. and am slowly getting oscars routine together, he is still waking every hr to 2 hrs which has resulted in many sleepless nights, and me being extremly emotional.
i had a waxing appoitment yesterday booked it so that Oscar would hopefully be sleeping while i got it done, but nope wide awake half way through my eyebrows started screaming his little lungs out, tried absolutly everything nothing except me holding him helped. i got rather stressed and upset and decided not to continue with my waxing so walked out looking rather odd (one eye done the other not) i have to go back today to get the other done as DP is not working today as its his bday! so thinking of sneakily getting my nails done and coffee with my girlfriend while DP has oscar!

on another note my darling sister gave birth to her first son early this morning
after being induced on wednesday 4pm! poor girl mine was 13hrs and bad enough.
her and her DP welcomed Lincoln Oliver weighing a massive 9pound9. he has a beautiful head of hair congratulations to my sisterr.

Hope you girlies are enjoying your little bundles of joy!

[Lisa]

Congratulations to your sister Brooke. I hope right now you're enjoying getting pampered

I thought I would post in here to let you all know I am around and will be posting in here as soon as I get a chance. Anelise is sleeping at the moment and Harrison is (hopefully!) about to take a nap so I might join them also.
Anelise has been a brilliant baby... she loves to co sleep with us as much as I enjoy her co sleeping but there is still that part of me that is way too scared. She spent all of last night in her bassinette though which gave DH & I a lovely sleep.
Hope everyone is well

[~Leanne~]

I have posted this in the general chatter section too but...

Our little man seems to get the worst wind pain every two to three days. We are FF but he gets about two BF's per day (5 - 8 mins/side). We burp a few times during a feed (using different burping positions), have tried gripe water, massaging his belly with his knees (in a bicycle motion), etc, but nothing seems to ease his pain until he does a massive 'fluff' or a pooh.

Could it be that he does not like my b/milk? I am eating pretty blandly (trying to lose weight ), and I don't think he would be getting enough to make a difference?

Constipation from the FF perhaps?

How do we get the air out before it gets stuck in his belly?

Any ideas?

[Townsvillegirl]

Xanthe has had some pretty bad wind pain too and I am using Infant's Friend (I got some from the chemist) and it gets the wind up immediately. The stuff is magic (at least for Xanthe, I don't know about for all babies). We had a couple of really bad nights early on because she was in so much pain but have found this gets it up very soon after a feed and then she settles into a nice long sleep. If you want info on what's in it and what other people say about it you could google it. I googled it and couldn't find anyone who didn't find it good and it is made from all natural ingredients.

Hope that helps.

[Lisa]

I have also heard great things about Infants Friend. I have no advice for you other than the things you've been doing. I hope you find a solution that works real soon

[tk1999]

Congrats to your sister Brooke!

With wind... a friend of mine is using a combo of gripe water and Infants Friend. I haven't used anything with Caitlin so far other than the burping positions... it takes a deal of time sometimes for her to bring the wind up but thankfully she is fairly efficient in bringing up her wind.

I can't believe Caitlin will be 8 weeks old tomorrow! I am the same as Lisa with co-sleeping... Caitlin loves it when she is in our bed but she isn't there the whole night. I bring her in if she is super unsettled or if I am too tired to sit up and feed her... I bring her in and feed her laying on our sides facing each other and then she usually drifts off to sleep but somehow I am awake enough to make sure she is on her back once she is finished feeding (I think it is autopilot!). DP is terrified of squashing her so it is him, me then Caitlin (with my arm around her and my knees up to sort of cocoon around her if that makes sense).

Hope you are all sleeping where possible and more importantly enjoying your babies!

[erybery]

Hi Girls,
Can I join this thread? I have just scraped in as my daughter Ella Georgia was born 30th Sept at 11:53pm!!! She was 3.280kg and 54cms long (so very long and skinny!) and head circ 33cms. I have just got home from Hosp today and so far so good as she seems mainly content, am just waiting to see what happens tonight when I can't press my buzzer for the midwives to help me with feeding / settling etc. I was due on 12th Oct so 2 weeks early but was very glad when at my Ob appoint last weds he announced I was already 4cms dilated and to head on over to the hosp as I was going to have my baby that day!!! Can't wait to get to know you and your babies better! xox

[Lisa]

Welcome Erybery & beautiful Ella I look forward to getting to know your both better & share the adventure through babydom with you

[tk1999]

Welcome Erybery and Ella!

Caitlin's burps are getting bigger... lol I have to check that it is not a chuck cause they sound like chucks but there was no follow through. We have Caitlin's hip ultrasound tomorrow as when she was discharged from hospital her right hip was clicky (actual 2 weeks old, corrected 36 weeks) and when we saw the paediatrician both hips were clicky (actual 4 weeks old, corrected 38 weeks). I have to take the ultrasound to the paediatrician for him to review and am going to ask him to look however the umbilicial hernia... I am not so worried about it now but DP is worried cause it sticks out quite a lot when she cries - you can see it poke up through her clothes!

[Townsvillegirl]

Erybery and Ella. Our group is great and you will love being apart of it (as you can see, I am very modest about what a great group we are ). I've added your info to our arrivals group at the beginning of this thread. I hope your first night home from hospital goes really well.

TK - Good luck with your ultrasound tomorrow. Sounds like a good idea to ask the ped about C's umbilical hernia if you are concerned. S/he will be able to give you more info than I did. DS's was really really large around his first birthday (it would have stuck out a good 3 cm and was very very wide) so I don't think C's would be overly concerning, but the ped will be able to tell you if it is anything to be concerned about.

Hi to everyone else.

AFM - Xanthe has horrible wind now and the wind pain is starting to cause lots of sleeplessness. It is so sad. I hate seeing her in pain. Infant's Friend has been working wonderfully for sorting her wind until the last couple of days and it is just getting worse and worse. She wants to feed all the time to make herself feel better. I have to give her to DH to hold because she has given me some major hickeys trying to latch on anywhere on my body she can get. Apart from that, everything else is going well and I am recovering really well from my c-sect.

[~Leanne~]

Erybery and Ella

[erybery]

Townsvillegirl - I hear you on the wind pain, we have a teriible time getting Ella to sleep and setle at nighttime as she is just in so much pain from the wind!!! and she wants to fee even more regulary at night. During the day I've been doing 3-4 hourly feeds and then at night she wakes and wants it every 1.5-2 hours!!!
Thanks fot the welcome girls.

[tk1999]

Ok so I had Caitlin's hip US yesterday and they said all looked good - have to get the Paed to review the report but he is on leave until mid October, so I couldn't get him to check her umbilicial hernia either.

Have made an appointment for 20 Oct to pick up the US (left it there for him to review when he is back) and to have the umbilicial hernia checked. DP wants me to also get it checked by the GP until we see the Paed so will go to see GP when he is next on (have to ring to check when).

I started Caitlin in the cloth nappies today

We had a shocker night with nappy rash - I had put Curash cream on during the day and it made the nappy rash worse... there were only a few spots so I put the cream on to get rid of it but it seems the rash spread to anywhere I put the cream so I then put moo goo on but the rash was beyond moo goo's ability to help.

I was going to put sudocream on but couldn't find the container and then a few of my fb friends advised to use bepanthen so DP went out to get some and ta dah this morning it is pretty much all gone!! The rash was causing her some discomfort when she wee'd so we were doing lots of nappy changes over night.

Today I am in a so so mood as yesterday was really hard with Caitlin being really unsettled so today I put her cloth nappies on and it has cheered me up somewhat

Hope you are all well - Caitlin will be weighed again tomorrow

[~Leanne~]

We have an unsettled windy spewy baby here too - last few days have been a shocker... Screams unless he is held upright on your shoulder or laying on his tummy on my tummy. The first two weeks he was perfect, nothing like his sister, but now the refluxy symptoms are appearing. Infacol seemed to work for a few days, but now I am not so sure.... Glad we are off to the paed this afternoon.
My DD is being so naughty as she is so jealous of Joshua that I am ready to scream. Anyone want a DD? Only kidding she's my miracle baby #1, but far out she is testing my patience today.
Anyway, better get back to it, Joshua is crying so hard now I must go save the poor little man.