December, January & February Mums

Time for a new sticky and for some pregnancy sticky threads to go! So, December mums (that includes Claire and Cherie now of course), how are your littlies doing?

I might make a boy for this month. Fingers crossed on my part there.

Thanks Emma, wanna un-sticky Due in Dec and Jan? We're all done

thought it was about time I did an update on Fay, might even get round to writing her birth up at some point as well.
Fay is 7 weeks old today and it seems like forever but has gone so quickly, what did I used to do all day without her?
She is putting on good amounts of weight, i think she will be passed 3.5kg when she is next weighed. As I have discussed, the breastfeeding thing did not work, I dropped that after 6 futile weeks of persevering and heart ache. she is now feeding about 50/50 on expressed milk and formula and I will keep that up for as long as i am able.
We survived her first set of immunisations yesterday, she had a really unsettled day with high tempratures, vomitting and sore legs, I was dreading last night as I was a bit sleep deprived already, so I kicked neil out into the spare bed, so that he could get soem sleep for work and she slept and fed like a dream. I had the best night (interrupted ofcourse) I have had since she came home. Regular Pamol has helped of course
What now? She is seeing a speech and language therapist to help with some of the problems with her tongue and sucking, as she still loses more milk than she gets, she doesn't seem to be able to seal around a teat with her lips and her tongue pushes the teat out of her mouth all the time.
Generally since giving up the BFing I have found a happier little girl who is smiling occaisionally but I think that refelcts the smiles she is getting from her mummy now, hard to learn to smile when her only interaction with mummy is sobbing and crying isn't it?
so that's us, glad Krysti is doing well Teresa and look forward to hearing from everyone else,

Claire and Fay

Yeah, I hope thngs are going well with cherie too.
Fay prefers her tummy too, often falling asleep on my chest. I tend to let her do that and transfer her to the cot on her back when she is deep asleep, but the gamble is trying to do it without waking her up, real gamble as she has no pattern for deep sleep, sometimes I can move her after 5 minutes and another time she will wake up after 30mins deep sleep when i move her.

Who said it was going to be easy eh?

I have strong suspicion that Fay has inherited our UK body clocks somehow. She sleeps like an angel during the day, you know, feed-play-sleep-feed-play-sleep, but as soon as it gets dark its feed-play-play-play-play-feed-play-play-play. Hopefully she won't get jetlag when we go home later this year for a trip.
She is having a real smiley day today , it is so cool. And I have her in some new outfits as she has outgrown lots of the rezlly small things we got when she came home, and a lot of it is not pink which is good for Dad's street cred.
Hope you managed a good night Teresa

sorry they are a bit big, haven't figured out the sizing yet

Thanx Kels, Neil is an amazing photographer so I think I will be spoilt for pictures of her.
Fay was in a ruch for Xmas and wasn't planning to hang around until her due date in January either

Great gain for Krystiana. Doesnt time just fly by, next thing we know our babes will be hitting the 6mth mark

Hmmm Yummy double chocolate muffins

Edited by Kels

My boy is 8 weeks today and he's over 14 pounds now!!......we must be doing something right huh lolz. Gosh lucky you having baby sleep 5-6 hours, my boy does about a 4-5 hour stint for his first sleep of the night and then back to 3 hours.....ah well I can't complain,he's so gawjuss staring up at me.