June 2010

Hi Ladies,

Alex, Jamie still has gas. It is better than in the beginning, but hasn't gone away yet.

As for sleeping, Jamie has slept through every night since he was 8 weeks old. Sleeps from 9.30 till 7.00 in the morning. The only night we were up was last week Friday, and that was because he had a cold and couldn't breathe when sleeping on his back.

Nelria, the pictures are gorgues. I want have more photo's done of Jamie now, but have to wait till I get back to work and start earning some money for a change.

Eve, Jamie used to do the same, it is rotten smelling, but the gaviscon has helped for that was well.

Jamie feeds every 4 hours and skips a meal during the night.

Glad to hear it is going well.

Thanks ladies - it seems that we're all pretty much doing the same thing. I swear Alex doesn't like me very much, every time I pick him up, he moans, he prefers to sit in the pram next to me.

On to the next question:

- Do you ladies know when you're babies are having the 'long and 2 shorter sleeps' in the day yet? Babysense said that I should know, and I dont' have the fogiest. He sleeps when we drive and take walks.

- If you do know when they take day-sleeps, do you put them down, eg. rock them to drowsy and put in the cot, rock them to drowsy and put them in the pram? Should they take their day sleeps in their room so that they are used to taking naps in their room in the day time?

Alex only falls asleep in the daytime when I rock him/walk him in the pram or when we go for a ride. He is a dream to take out through, for some reason he always sleeps when we're out - I'm trying to make it roughly around 11h00 - 14h00 that we're out, so I guess that is his long day sleep. But when we're just at home, he doesn't sleep at that time unless I rock him in his pram.

- After bath time, we rock Alex to drowsy and put him to bed. Are we suppose to do bath time, massage and put him in bed without rocking? He is usually wide awake?

- Last one, Alex is on a 4 hourly schedule, however, it's definitely not 10, 2, 6, 10 etc. We reset the schedule for bathtime at 6 every night, but then it depends on when he wakes up. Last night it was 18h00, 00h00, 04h00, 08h00, 12h00, 15h00 and 18h00. I made the 15h00 an hour earlier, having a 16h00 and then 18h00 feed would be too close together.

Sorry for all the stupid questions. Babysense gives you guidelines, but not practical implementations (if you know what I mean).

Alex is an amazing baby. We don't have problems with gas and wind. We do however give him probiflora pead every 2nd day. I express a bottle for the morning feed, put the saschet in there and DH gives it to him.

OH JA, HE SMILED LAST WEEK FOR THE FIRST TIME!! YAY!!!

lucy- oh my word! London is practically sleeping thru! So u no longer feel like the walking dead i'm so looking forward to when i get to sleep more than 3 hours. Well done London!

nelria- ag moeder, pics r too oulik! I'm hoping i dont make mateo too dependent, he already cant be left alone in the room, he immediately starts fussing so when awake he has to be around me, i think i've started a bad habit i hear u about the bottle, i really dont wanna screw myself by waiting too long then i'll never be able to go anywhere alone.

eve- well done to Connor for getting back to his normal schedule! Hope it lasts! what studying?! I havent had a chance to open my books since mid june. I'm actually starting to panic about exams but since its only the end of oct im hoping i'll find more time during august, mateo is just too awake during the day! How's ur studying?

Maureen - thanks - I suppose I'll have to make some time and get some guts to go for the check up. Thanks for the info on meds as well - never knew you could give babies gaviscon. I'm going to call paed again today because Connor brings up sours 4 hours after feeding - that's not normal!

Lucy - I also have Frankie Focus and Connor loves it ehehhe Got it from the hospital

Alex - so excited for our appointment, will let you know. Wanted to ask you how studying is going?

Nelria - pics are gorgeous! I've used the normal happy hugger a few times but it smells. Heard there are ones with lavender in. Which one do you have? and how long do you put it in the microwave for?

Connor is back to 5 hour feeds and 4 hour sleeps (well that was last night) - touch wood!

oh and teddy also part of fam LOL

got a sample of newborn shoot back here is one with sussie

morning mummies

wooooooooohooooooooo finally some chatting

mrs s - I read that its fine for the 1st 6mnths to not really do anything and give baby time to take the world in so dont stress re keeping babe occupied with lea i did that lots showing stuff, running rounds shops, jungle gyms etc and now she espects mummy too entertain still 24/7 dont play on own and always need adult directly involved EXHAUSTING so now with xen trying different technique quality time so in awake time i take him and sit him facing me and then just chat, rest of time he goes in vibrating chair and i move him around house for change in scenery so far he is happy and contend hope it leads to independance

eve - i sound like broken record but did u get the heat bag? it worked wonders above thousands of rands of meds i bought for lea

alex - i gave lea bottle around 3 wks and xen also just once a week or so, so he gets used to teet and neither refused boob if u wait he will refuse teet and man then u stuffed later - go for it girl!!