August and Sept ’08 Mums and Bubs

First, if i didnt have the monitor with the movement pad i would still have Lily with us. but with DH back at work its too hard on him.
He told me off the other night for trying to do everything as well as look after Lily. Im not allowed to feel like i have to get all the housework etc done!! but sometimes i feel like i should be doing way more cause im at home all day. oh well, will make the most of it!!

You could pop out for a coffee? :)

LOL it so funny how much changes when it is not your first. Ems has been in her own room from the beginning I sleep sometimes in there if she is unsettled.   And i ahve left her with her Dad heap's and even with Nana today while i took the boy's to the dental nurse. In saying that I would never leave her with anyone else. With my first I would not let him out of my sight.
Well we have been having some really long night's. She is very unsettled and i think i only getting around 4 hour's sleep if that.   So starting to struggle with the lack of sleep cause i can't really nap during the day. I think it is cause she has a clod which she got from day one casue we were all full of it ourselves when she was born. hopefull y it will clear in the next few day's.

Maysie - what is a miracle blanket? Haven't heard of that one.

Joels doing pretty good, 3 hourly feeds during the day and 4 hourly at night.

Spent the whole day yesterday in cloth nappies as well.

Does anyone use a dummy?

Hi Ladies, hope u r all well, & ur wee babes.

Here's a couple of photo's of my wee angel, Jade.

I have just given Alex some gripe water as the poor little man seems to have a sore tummy too. Hopefully it works and he starts having a nicer time winding

Hey all     -- thought it was about time I showed myself. I've been keeping up with all the goss, but usually when I sit down at the computer I'm feeding and not so good at typing one-handed!!

Everything going pretty well for us here. Been in cloth pretty much since day one, which I'm seriously stoked about and not even minding all the washing! Cian's feeding really well now too and we're even getting nights sorted out after a week of him not wanting to settle in his bassinet - although I'm not sure how much of that was me not wanting to let him go! lol

Happy to hear everyone else is good...

Hi everyone. Having major problems with wind - seems everything I eat is giving them tummy aches. Its driving me mad. The boys are also puking all the time - Im going through so much washing and bibs - every 3 hours its a change of bedding, wraps and a couple of bibs (and often clothes too). I have given up breastfeeding both boys as I started to run out of milk so now I am breastfeeding one boy and bottle-feeding the other and swap over each feed. They seem to have taken to the bottle really well which is a relief.

DH is not much help at the moment - he is busy doing his own thing in the evenings and when its his turn to do the night feeds he grumps the whole time and makes it miserable.

Ive got the boys on a 3 hourly routine during the day and a 4 hourly at night. Means Im doing a feed at 10:30pm, 2am and 6am. Supposidly I should get a decent amount of sleep but they havent been settling well at night lately and sometimes I can only grab an hour or two sleep all night.

Kelpa, hope things improve for you. I agree about the shower each morning. Im grumpy if I dont get one cos it makes me feel so much better. Keep hanging in there.

Sorry for the griping - just need to vent to others who are going through a similar stage.

Cat what are you doing to help with the wind? My in-laws are up at the mo and MIL told me that Alex is holding his wind in which is what he does when he is groaning so I have been working on keeping him straight so he can't use his legs to hold it in.