March & April 2008 Mummies

Oh yeah dosn't help either that Liam sometimes has trouble bringing up his wind, and then he gets the hiccups. I just keep telling myself its not forever and they can't tell you what is wrong.

Any suggestions for wind?

Oh Dawn, know how you feel today!

We had an ok night she woke up coutless times but I just fed her and apart from an hour at 4am she did go back to sleep, problem is she is ultra sleepy during the day and its impossible to wake her....god its hard aye, especially when our bodies are yelling for a rest!

We just all went to pak n save, family of 4, and it was a huge mistake, I held it together in there but had to drop ben of at my mums on the way home and a have huge cry, she was like oh I was wondering when the 3 days blues would kick in, feel like a failure, not nice although I know it will pass, told dh to go surfing and leave me and sophia to have a good cry on the couch

Sorry for being so down ladies, we are so lucky really , its just our hormones and lack of sleep aye!

As for wind dawn, ben was chronic with it, i found putting him in a deep warm bath helped and rubbing his tummy whilst cycling his legs always brought something out..or good old bounching on the knee for 10 minutes... but that didn't always work.. Good luck

We had a better night last night, woke to feed him at 8pm and he was back in bed by 9.15pm after a bath. Then he woke at 12.45am and it took me 2 hours to get him back down again (flamin wind again, but once he bought it up he fell asleep on my lap). Nice and peaceful. He then woke at 5.30am to which he only fed for 1/2 hour and back down again and awake by 7.45am. Got him down at 10.15am but only for 20 mins when he woke crying and then it took me till 12pm to get him down, but he has been asleep since then (tried the cooled boiled water trick, and it seemed to work). If Liam doesn't wake then 3.30pm I will be waking him (and also Lockie). Sent DH down to pick up Lockie's birthday cake for his party tomorrow. Oh yip you're game I hear you saying!!! Got my BIL's 40th tonight but we are only going for an hour or so, that will be enough and the nerves will start kicking in.

Emma - big big big , its all normal, you'll be fine, its called exhaustion and lack of sleep. Perfectly normal. I must say I have had my moments in the middle of the time when I just wish I would wake up and its all a dream. But when I look down at him I wouldn't be without him for a second and I just keep reminding myself its not forever. I think what makes it harder is that we are at the stage of getting your life back together as our wee ones are now little people and at such a cool age, and when you go back to the baby stage they can't do anything for themselves and they are solely dependent on us.

On a really cute note I was trying to burp Liam this morning and I had him over my knee and Lockie came along with his cars and trucks and placed them on Liam's back so he could play with them. It was so adorable, he loves his little brother to bits.

Right had better go and make this dessert for the 40th tonight.

*lurking* wind...gripe water:) oh adn when Ethan got to 4 weeks it was heaps better..cause they dont recommend cooled boiled water for bf bubs...

oh and hey tiff..we will miss you:( (are you coming to meetup on 29th?) *lurker out*

Hi there Tiff and welcome to the March bubbas.

Sounds like gripe water seems to do the trick. I had this recommended to me by a friend as well, so looks like I should invest in some. He is usually pretty good but some seems to get stuck occasionally, and when that happens it takes forever to get him down and ends in an overtired bubba. When he goes down though he sleeps like a legend.

Right off for my shower while the house is all quiet.

I forgot to say, Rohann is forever getting the hiccoughs though they don't seem to bother her much (usually after she has burped) though in saying that she would often get them several times a day when she was in my tum

Lurker in -

Tiff when i was pregnant Kylah got hiccups all the time,and when she was born she got hem too, and she still does, everytime she laughs she will get hiccups, they dont bother her tho

Lurker out -

We're having the same wind problems here Dawn. This is the reason I haven't been online much this week.

Eimear is impossible to wind and, as a result, impossible to settle. We find she's more of a farter than a burper though and the feed after the difficult one we get a musical coming out her bum by lying her on our lap or on the floor and rubbing her back.

Even when we do settle her without a successful wind, if we put her flat in the cot she'll wake up after 10 minutes crying. She's spending alot of time in her rocker this week.

She's turning into a little miss chubby as a result. She looks like she's hungry sometimes when she's just windy.
It's a shame it's not Aoife as she's the one the doctors want us to fatten up more!

We have gripewater and the colic powder. Gripewater seems to be helping, haven't used the colic powder yet.

Yeah I'm trying to cut out dairy and caffeine which is hard at Easter

I wondered where you got to Tishy. This wind business is nasty stuff but it can't be that pleasant for them either.

I think my little man plays on it a wee bit and he knows when I put him in his bassinette as that is when he starts crying again and then I pick him up and he stops. I don't know I still haven't figured this one out.