August-September 2010 Moms

And here is my little smiley face - their smiles really does make one go all "gaga"

Too cute Kerry Emily has the same little pumpkin dress, we LOVE baby Naartjie

Mommy2J - congrats... and as for the 5 o clock colic... mine does it too... for weeks my famy called her the food detector... my little dietician... every time i put a mouthful of food in my mouth... but shes getting a little better as time passes... She sleeps from 8 till 2:30 every night... pretty good for an exclisively breastfed 2 month old

Oh its precious little ones laughing at everything! We went to the shops this weekend and everyone who looked in the ram got a big toothy grin! Shes been smiling for ages already but this ones different... magical and is also accompnied by happy banter!

Hey mommies

Mina moo hope you're enjoying your day at home before going back to work And happy 3 months to your little one! She is so adorable!
What are you doing for her cold? K has a bit of a flemy chest I bought vidaylin drops for her, and someone recommended putting eucalyptus drops in her humidifer but I am so scared of her getting a cold. She's been healthy till now.
Darn UIF! Maybe you need to find out why they've not paid - maybe something wrong with your paperwork? I went with Tums2Mums and expecting my 3rd payment this week coming.

M2J and Kerry you guys are way stronger than me. It melts my heart when she cries, esp when there are tears down her cheeks.
The doctor told us on Friday that K is probably a sensory child. Which means she needs rocking / swaying / touch to go to sleep and you cant just put her down and walk out the room, she will cry even more for being left alone. This is our personal experience. I think one has to consider each child and their personality to determine how to treat them. I dont like the idea of her blood pressure rising by all the crying she'd do to eventually fall asleep from pure exhaustion. Her heart is still a concern to me. I want her to go down calmly even if that means an extra 10 or 15minutes of rocking her in my arms. But hey, thats just me
Sounds like your little one is of a similar personality though. Loves interaction with people, and not one to be left alone. I love that about K though, a real personality trait.

Eileen so glad you came right about the reflux / colic.

Charnenay sounds like our challenges are much the same
Wednesdays when the cleaner is here I try to get out, as the noise just disrupts K's sleep. But she really struggles with going out too cos she just wants to stay awake so we often have hassles once home.

Dont you guys just live for weekends! Just so dad can take her in the morning and I can have a bit of a lie in. Yesterday K slept till 8:30 (with her usual feeds) and I went to bed at 9:30 the night before so I probably got around 10hrs sleep alltogether! Felt so rested. But this morning she was up at 6:30 and it was my morning to take her, so I struggled a bit. Now she's down for a nap so I really should be sleeping, but we're about to have lunch, I am on moomie (addict!) and I need to work on my cv

So we took K for an EEG and to see a nurologist on Friday.
The last few weeks, about an hour after her 4 / 5 am feed she starts moving her head from side to side and making noises. She stays asleep and it doesnt appear to bother her, but I was starting to worry cos my little 4yr old cousin was recently diagnosed with epilepsy. So I emailed my paed. And the minute he saw the chance of seizures (although an email explanation isnt the best) he referred us straight away to a nurologist who referred us to an eeg technician. The speed with which it all happened really scared us a great deal! Only found out after that its cause of her young age. If she was older they wouldve left it a few days. Apparently they treat it so seriously that both the technician and the nurologist came in specially - as they dont usually work on a Friday afternoon.
So we got the all clear. Having seen us after she said that if she'd heard our explanation she wouldn't have sent us for the EEG as the type of sidewards head turning, no matter how much is not considered to fit into fits / seizure symptoms. But I'm glad we went as now our minds are at ease about it and we can relax some. But what a stressful 2 days it was!

Righty lunch time now!

Hi ladies

There just never seems to be time to post, i often log in and read the thread, but never get chance to post
so here goes

Firstly congrads to kerry on using tough luv, i am a firm believer in it and it worked with my first baby like a charm and by 3 months we were in a stable routine that we are still in today and i never looked back.

sienna however is such a screamer i have battled more to use the tried and trusted tough luv because her screaming drives us all crazy, she scrams until you pick her up....but not last night, she was exhausted, scratching my neck and pulling my necklace and grabbing my clothes and screaming and i thought ' tonight is the night madam' i put her in the cot and stood by the door the screaming got worse i went in patted her back and changed her position and waited again, after 5 min of screaming....yes it does feel like foooorrreeeveeer.......... she finally passed out at 8pm and then...............wait for it..........SLEPT THROUGH ALL THE WAY TO 5AM!!!!! FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER! That is in total atleast 8 hours of sleep for me and a happy little baby got her rest.....sorry but i dont do this fighting sleep nonsence....you are tired you must sleep FULL STOP!

It is now official that i will stick to this and by end of the weekend she will hopefully be in the start of our new routine!

As for in the afternoon she has her naps she usually fights them but sleeps about an hour at a time, i find at around 5pm she screams and is so niggly until she has had her bath and bottle its usually while we are eating dinner so we all on edge shoving our food down to tend to her, It hasnt been easy to be honest sh is alot more demanding then her sister was but i feel like now for the first time i am starting to regain some control here!

She absolutely loves it when you talk to her she coos back and she can carry on like that forever as long as you looking at her....she wants to be involved and the centre of everything....its so sweet

As soon as you sit down and talk to her, her little face lights up!

she is on isomil now and doing well, no vomit anymore
as for dirty diapers...1 every secon day or so! its unusual for me cos her sister was poo queen....ha ha they really couldnt be more different!

Helloooooo all you wonderful mommies
How is everyone doing and coping thus far, by the looks of things you all are quite natural at this mommy thing hey...just to think a fw months ago we were all fretting on what to do, anxious, scared, excited etc.

I wish I had more time to chat here, even though I got a nanny for Sani now which I'm so glad about as I go back to work on Mon. the 1st Nov Where has time gone ladies and on the 30th, Sani will be 3months, gosh she's growing so fast, coo-ing, laughing, smiling, crying, pooing
She had a cold now last week that finally is clearing up now, must be change in season...DH says it raining 'n windy in Joburg today, almost similar to Cape Town weather!

Sani's next check up is on the 8th Nov. 14weeks!

Damn UIF still hasn't paid me out. that's another topic and I went the normal route, going back to work now and still nothing, now when I need the money the most

I see the Baby Expo is happening here this weekend at the CTICC, anyone going?

Sani just woke up now from her nap so I ran to check on her but forgetting that the nanny is here going to take some getting use to I guess Oh 'n that too, she's sleeping much longer periods now, i'm glad and is feeding from the bottle during the day as I feed her from me now only in the mornings 'n evenings. She sleeps next to me at night but in her cot during the daytime. In our culture we believe not take be out with a young baby after sunset so if I do anything it's during the day with her.

Well I hope we all can still come here and touch base, no matter how hectic we are or otherwise there's always facebook

Take care *hugs*