Newborn and baby advice

@Claudia_B - We've tried to get passport photos of Kara twice already with no luck (she's 5 weeks). It's absolutely ridiculous, she has to look straight at the camera and her mouth is not allowed to be open. No shades behind her head and no red eyes.

They told us after the second attempt to take a picture at home (normal digital camera) with a white background and they'll print passport photos from that. But so far no luck . Every time she looked at the camera her mouth was open.

Will try again today

Claudia - unfortunately Lia doesn't have a cold at the moment. And there is a ton of mucous - I'd definitely guess something is not agreeing with her as it is sometimes luminous green and it can't be foremilk/hindmilk imbalance as she only feeds from one boob each session and is definitely getting loads of hindmilk. I think it may be too much dairy.. so I'm laying back a bit for now, will see if it helps. As long as she doesn't seem distressed I'm not too worried.

LOL@ being the dummy for a while - I've done that on occasions, when my son use to get like that, would be the only thing that helps in a situation like that. With Lia I can't really - 10 minutes and her brother asks me what is taking so long (she feeds very quickly lol).

Thats horrible Zulu! Hope you get that tyre sorted out quickly and that your princess feels better soon!

Hi ladies

i had a hectic day today, i got a tyre puncture and guess what, my car doesn't have a spare wheel, now i need to get a nu tyre

Des, lets hope the meds will get Connor better.
My princess has been coughing now and then i gave her the Prospan cough syrup, hope it will sort her out.

She's "talking" a lot lately and giggles even is she's alone, she's also doing a lot of brrrbrrr, not sure what's happening.

We need to open another thread of 5 months upwards, time is running so fast, going back to work on the 12 of July, don't wonna think about the day.

Nyto ladies

@jacadabra: if babies have a cold or flu they often swallow their phlegm and it comes out in their poo looking sticky and "mucousy" so if that's the case I wouldn't worry! At least it's not sitting in their lungs:)

James has been miserable today and my hubby is in Germany for the week so feeling a bit blah. I eventually got tired of trying to settle James so I climbed into bed with him, lay down and let him latch on. We stayed like that for 2 hours. I managed to sleep a bit and James got to use me as a dummy(which he would do all the time if I let him, he hates his dummy and just takes it because he can't have boob) I hope he knows today was a once off because mommy was tired and frustrated!
I'm going to organise his sa passport tomorrow because we are still waiting on his full birth certificate and I'm worried it won't come in time to apply for his British passport before we go on holiday to Scotland to visit my inlaws. Getting the passport photos done should be interesting!!

Sorry about the sick n crabby men in the house Des, hopefully the med's work and everybody feels better soon. Lia is actually fine in malls (this may soon change though, like the sudden hate for car seat). As long as I keep her pram open so she can see, she is fine, if I close it she moans and groans. She also likes the pram to stay moving at all times - then she often even nodds off here and there and then I can close the pram up and she might sleep a bit.

Pinky - if you are strugging to get good nutrition in, perhaps get yourself some Formance shake from Dischem - this will give you a boost in the nutrition department. I've heard it is vanilla flavoured and nice, but yeah, haven't tasted it myself. Also, when you have time, fill a box with snacks - things like cereal bars, fruit sticks, dried fruit & nuts, biltong if you eat meat and other healthy goodies) keep this next to your breastfeeding place in the house and snack when baby snacks!! . You can also put things like cheese cubes/ pieces/ crackers and fruit in ther each morning.

Got to love 2-4 month age - they become so aware of their surroundings and generally struggle to shut off. Oh well, soon enough this will pass and we will have an easier time getting kiddies to nap. This not napping and hours rocking can be rather frustrating though.

Where is Bundle of Joy - she hasn't said much lately??

Sorry you've had a rough day ScribblingAl - hopefully she konks out for a nice long sleep tonight to make up for it! Ironic that it doesn't usually work that way though lol.

After we were discussing the bumbo seat - I whipped it out today, might as well try it seeing my son never used it. Lia didn't seem to mind it! I won't leave her in there more than 5-10 min's at a time though, but at least I might actually use the thing lol.

Lia has been having weird very mucousy poop nappies TMI, sorry. She doesn't seem distressed though but I'm guessing I'm poisoning her with my breastmilk again lol, will go back to basics and start trying to find out what the heck is causing it. Oh well.

Enough rambling.

Sleep tight folks!

Lucy they generally dont like the swaddling but its about perserverance!!! they do get use to it.

I have posted a link to a You Tube video that shows the thing I showed the other mommies but as soon as I get a chance to go to the orphanage, I will definitely take a step by step photo of this procedure

So glad it's helping a bit for the other mommies!!







the last link is the man who invented this! I learnt this from his video

Hi ladies, I'm defs keen on a get together next week - just say when and where and I'm there, my house is always on offer if we don't have anothee venue - just let me know!

We went to the Paed - he thinks Connors vomiting is just a bad case of infang reflux and has prescribed something called losec which he says should sort it out, he doesn't think we should change formula or anything! I'm going to start the losec tonight will let you know how it goes!

We also went past the creche to get a list of everything Connor will need and I must say they were so warm and welcoming that I already feel better!

Connor has still been a tad crabby today, my hubby has been sick though and the Paed thinks he might have picked up a little bug from hubby but its not too serious as he has no fever and his ears, nose and throat look fine!

OK, I'm off to tend to my little man - I've nicknamed him 'The Crab' for today! Ha ha