Jan/Feb/Mrch 2012 Momies to Be

Shame Annie, how frustrating.

It is best to take baby out during their "awake time". If you do take them out try to stick to "routine" w.r.t. when she naps and baths. When I take Vica out we take a carry cot if it falls during her nap time.

All babies are different. If you expose them to the social side of life I think they tend to be more social (like it). If you stay home all the time I think they could end up preferring to be at home. That's just my opinion, don't quote me.

At 4 months baby approximately feeds 3 hourly with an awake time of 1 and a half hours. So after every nap, quickly feed her and you have an hour to go out!

Sometimes if we're in the mood to walk around in a shopping centre (or anywhere you can walk with a pram) we do it when Vica must sleep. We have a tandem pram, so Dieter sits in front (wide awake) and Vica lies flat in the back seat sleeping, fully covered (dark).

Few things we do.

I did the BAbylove program with my son when he was about 8 months old as I struggled with his day time naps. It has helped me tremendously. BabyLove is very strict routine program which I did not follow 100%. I only wanted my son to go down easier during day time naps.

With Vica it is so much different because she is prem. I have to work out her awake time according to her corrected age (almost 4 months). On Wednesday she is 6 months old real age! :-o If she wasn't prem and 6 months old, she would've had 2 hour awake time.

Why am I rambling about this? Sorry!

Whenever you take Tallulah out, just make sure that she stays in her sleep, awake, feed pattern. And try to copy her sleep environment as it is at home.

Should help.

You can even put her in a wrap close to your chest or a carrier if she prefers to be close to you to relax.

You're doing a great job Annie. We are all wonderful mothers.

You should feel like a hero. Because every time you go to pick up your little one their face lit up like you've just done the most awesome thing in the world - and you have - you're a mommy to your precious baby x

Carol janroux is a cutie pie...

Annie izelle loves going out, she looks around everywhere but I only take her out if there is no wind (not lus to sit with ear ache) icw gumtree I'm always on gumtree looking for bargains, finally found a tinylove pink playmat but the woman is charging almost what a new 1 costs, going to go look at the flea market on market and see what's there...

Hope everybody is well and your precious angles are full of smiles and doing great...

At what age are babies beginning to enjoy outdoors and day outs somewhere? Took 4 months old Tallulah to the flying field this Friday for a day to watch SA Nationals where pilots fly radio controlled airplanes. The day was sunny and a bit windy, we sat undercover, but she totally hated the environment, she fussed and cried and just couldn't settle, everything seemed to upset her: sun, wind, people, noises, pram - you name it. We came home, she screamed so much I had to give her Panado, then she slept for 12 hours! I sank into depression when I got home, must I seat in the house 24/7, and for how long?

Angi - all things you mentioned are very very useful. I had doubts on many baby items when bought them, but it turned out everything was needed. Whatever you can afford - get everything. I bought all my stuff second hand from johannesburg.gumtree.co.za, 3 times cheaper in near new condition. I didn't find that Baby Expo sells cheaper stuff, prices were the same as in the shops.

Carol - Janroux have such a definite boykie-face, such a kissable cutie! What is HFMD?

Ai I wrote a nice long post and its gone!

Anyhoo

Hi ladies.

Those are all great things to have. I just use a car seat on kitchen counter. As long as he cnan see me he is fine. The bumbo seat they can use from +-3months. When they can hold their backs and neck straight. only a few minutes at a time. The get tired mommie!!! hehe The carrier gave me back ache and Ruan got very heavy after a while.

Ruan has HFMD - got it at school so he is driving me crazy at home this week.

Janroux it doing well. Discovered he can stand and doing it constantly. He struggles with wind now. Trying to get him on bottle. He took his first bottle from daddy in Pick'n'pay. It was rooibos, maybe that is why. He does not like formula. He tried S26gold, nan, and now we will try Isomil like his brother.


Lucily daddy is getting little more hands on now that babba is bigger. He is so chuffed about the bottle thing

Janroux is sleeping from 20h30 till 06h00 again after a week of waking up once at 2 or 4am. So that is great. Sleeping less during the day though.

Hope all you mommies are doing great!

All those things you mentioned are convenient to have when you have your second baby!

I use the baby carrier when I go shopping. I put my 2 year old in the trolley and Vica in the baby carrier in front of me. So much better having your hands free. It has also helped when she was niggly and I had to attend to other things. Calmed her, she was close to me and the rocking motion calms too. I was actually chasing Dieter up and down the house with Vica in the carrier. So it was like she was part of it too - she fell asleep at least!

Bumbo seat - Dieter never liked it. But Vica has already sat in it. She wants to be upright currently. I just don't put her in there for long. Minutes.

Bouncer chair also convenient. I have mine on the kitchen counter. Babies are so much happier when they're almost "eye level" to adults.

You have to keep the second child 'higher' so the older one don't terrorise them too much

x

Hi Annie

So far I'm going to expo (unless dh has to work) the 19th May only, meeting up with a few ladies from my other thread...hoping to get some nice specials on various items...

Has anybody noticed how more expensive the pink things (playmats) r compared to the multi coloured 1...

Need your advice please is a bouncer chair necessary and from what age can you use a bumbo chair. Do any of you use a baby carrier? Izelle wants to be by me 24/7 so was thinking of investing in something coz I can't sit by/with her whole day.

May you all have a blessed day
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I am going to the Expo, in Johannesburg it's 10-13 May in Coca-Cola Dome, I guess I'll come Saturday, 12th about 10-12 am. Some good prices there! If any of you ladies can come - would be great to meet you in person. Any other day is cool for me too. Not sure if I would bring a baby though, it's would be hard to get through the crowd with a pram, plus difficult to shop. Last Expo queues to get nappies were so long and tiresome, one cannot do it with a few months old.