August-September 2010 Moms

Hello Moms,

Well i feel like a walkign zombie, had a rough night with scream queen! Also today i lay her and she screams awake every 10mins and wants to sleep in my arms. Cant do anything in the house but hubby will understand.

I wanted to check with all moms about babies poo? Scarlett's is runny yellowish brown colour, is this normal?

Hi ladies

I joined weigh less this morning and gee its hard enough to eat anything with a small baby never mind specific foods and measuring them to....but i have 22kg to lose and i have to take it seriously.

Dh in bed eating an areo so im venting down stairs with a cup of coffee with skim milk! YUK!!!

LOL at girly...poo and vomit in 24hrs not to bad ha ha

Dh also works so i do the feeds from 10pm although he wakes up in anyway and asks if he can help....sweet but even though my days are hectic i can atleast chill on the couch every now and then he is on his feet all day so i feel bad keeping him out of sleep!

Re swing, Jess started in the swing from about a month and she loved it i put sienna in it and she hates it....dont know what it is about it???
Its alot of money to waste if baby doesnt like it but well worth every cent if she does cos it makes mommy's life so much easier.

I bought the fisher price jungle one for R1699 about 2.5 years ago but you get some great second hand ones to. My sis in law sold hers and made some money back so its worth it actually.

Anyway ladies he should have finished his aero by now so im off to get some sleep.

How old was ur little ones when u started putting them in the swing?

I think we've got he same one as Charnenay.

yip you dont need to worry about that. it's very very common in babies

Hello ladies

Hope everyone is enjoying motherhood as much as I am.
It's really tough some days but I still love the joy it brings.

I think Kaylee has started smiling. Last night daddy got what we think is a smile when he got home from work, and this morning I got half a one. She was awake and calm, and it didnt seem like wind. She is 5 weeks tomorrow!

We had a heck of a night last night. Kaylee threw up her 6pm feed because mommy didnt burp her quickly enough - left her to chill on my lap after her feed. It all came out all over mommy and the couch. So she was still hungry, and I had to give her the other boob. So come the next feed, I had no milk for her! I gave what I could, and she pulled and sucked like crazy. Eventually I took out some frozen expressed milk and gave that to her, but only about 40mls (thinking she'd gotten at least 20 or 30 from my breast) but 30mins later she was screaming again. Tried boiled cooled water to fill her for an hour but even by then my milk wasnt up to scratch cos I usually feed one breast per feed, and 3 hourly so takes 6hours for them to properly replenish. My poor girl!
So at 10:30 I defrosted yet more milk knowing she was gonna be hungry again soon, and she had about 20mls and fell fast asleep. I was expecting her to wake up often cos of the small amount of food, but instead she surprised me and only woke up at 4am thats 5hours! So next time was expecting another quick wake up, cos usually after her 4 or 5am wake up she either takes very long to go back to sleep or she wakes up fairly soon after a feed, but nope, she slept till 9!

Then today I got poo'd on! I changed her clothes before her 3pm feed, and she was screaming so I decided to feed in just her vest, and put the grow on after. After her feed she poo'd so big I got it on my hands! Lol, what a day!
She is very sleepy today though, so I'm hoping she's okay.
I will keep an eye on it, and take her to paed if need be, but in 2 minds cos we have our 6 week next Thursday anyway.

So that's my news!
I dont expect hubby to help at night cos he has to work the next day, and only gets up at 7:30. But he helps when he comes home at night so that I can cook and rest a bit.

What I did found re the dummies - last night i had to give her a bottle for the expressed milk - also NUK. And once she'd figured out the sucking on the bottle (after a lot of crying!) she suddenly also figured out the dummy. Doesnt keep it in long, and I have to keep my finger there to keep it in, but a vast improvement from the previous attempts.
Only thing is I dont find it helps much with soothing her like I hoped it would so dont use it often.

Im trying to convince myself to buy a swing for her, but they are pricey. Ive heard so many people talk about how they work so nicely to help get baby to sleep, and I can always sell it 2nd hand and get some cash back. Anyone else?
Charnenay where did you buy yours and what did you pay?
Found a store in Kenilworth (2nd hand?) selling one for R650. Just to get there...

Hi Meags,

Its the belly button that is protruding, it feel soft and mushy on the inside.

Mommy2J... yeah daddys do sometimes know better... i think we get a little over protective at times and they tend to see through that...

My hubby takes a night shift feed too... i just express a bottle before bed and he'll either do the 2am shift or the 11 shift depending on me... but i do find the small problem with this is that twice now i have accidentally woken up covered in milk.... oops!!!

Anyhow better get off... have pork chops in the oven...

have a good day ladies!