Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec'09 mums- bums in here!!!

Hey ladies!!!!  Need an update from you all!!

So Hollie is now 22 weeks!!  She is getting big and bad!!  A right little madam, which i find so funny!  Her reflux has good and bad days, and she is currently teething which has sent the sleeping haywire but hey-ho!!  She is also trying her best to roll, and anytime is set her on the changing mat, she does a 360 degree turn!!!

She weighed 12lbs 6ozs last wednesday so hoping she is near the 13lb mark now.  Feeding is still iffy, she feeds more at night than during the day, but am just going with the flow!  Will start solids properly in a couple of weeks, however have gave her a few spoonfuls here and there and she seems to enjoy it so far!

Here she is just woken up from a nap......

looking forward to hearing from you all!!!

What a cutie!  Olivia is 19 weeks tomorrow and weighed 13lb 5oz 3 weeks ago.  She is a delight to be around unless she needs a nap - she naps beautifully in her pushchair (if rocked!) but not anywhere else which is a pain if we are at someones house.  She is on her own room now in her cotbed and we often go in the morning and find she has turned 180 degrees so her head is where her feet should be!

She is still ebf and all is going well - I am now beginning to worry about going bak to work and expressing enough milk for her (I will have about half hour during lunch to do this) my mum seems to think I won't be able to cope with the stress as well as teaching - so this makes me more determined to do it!

O loves music and dancing 0 she finds my singing hilarious.  She goes to bed at 7/8 and we have 1/2 wakings in the night and up for the day at half six followed by a nap at 8 - which is when I shower.

I hope all other babies are well.  I shall upload pictures in a bit.

TL x

Hi all, lovely to hear updates!

James is 21 weeks tomorrow and such a smiley boy! He weighs 16lbs 8oz (2 lbs more than his brother at this age!) and has just had his 3rd injections which seem to be causing him to be unsettled and screamy some of the time. Hope it passes soon as it's making already bad nights, much worse. BF is still going well although I have a really sore boob tonight so am wondering if it a blocked duct? Had hoped that any problems were behind us but ho hum.

He mostly only naps for 30mins at a time and so wakes tired and needs to go for another nap after an hour or so! Hoping this improves as it's hard to get anything done or spend any time with Tommy.

He is trying to roll but not quite there and loves to sit or stand which is a killer on my arms! I am really enjoying this baby period but he is growing up so fast its scary!

Here is a pic from today, modelling his new knitted cardy from Grandma!

What beautiful babies we all have - I had a look from my phone earlier of some of the others - I think there was a post from Mazzy, and we've all very lovely little boys and girls!

Att is gaining weight and doing really well mostly. He's obviously teething, dribbling and rosey cheeked; chewing on anything, and struggling to feed sometimes due to teeth moving in his gums. He's getting slightly better in the evenings, not awake so much - although tonight we're struggling (sods law as H is out!).

Exclusivily breast fed, and very happy with it, although he's on colief to see if that helps the wind / gripping. Perhaps it is, or isn't. He's such a lovely little boy - smiling and laughing all the time, and loves watching J run around him - who loves running around to make Att laugh! A loves the bouncer - J then pulls it back and lets go so Atticus flies across the room - my hair stood on end the first time but they both laugh like mad now. My brother used to do the same to me! He  also loves the bumbo, and sits on the work surface watching me cook sometimes.

Can't believe he's 20 weeks now.

We're doing really well now as a family of 4! Love to hear from you all x

its so lovely to hear from you girls.  your little babs are just adorable...how grown up they are getting eh??!

Evening ladies

Lovely to hear from you all and see your lovely babies.

Noah is 17.5 weeks now and doing beautifully. Last weighed 2 weeks ago at 12lb 12oz so am expecting him to be 13+ by now. Still ebf and finally seem to have cracked it He feeds 3 hourly day and night on averge though the last few days has gone closer to 4 hours a few times in the daytime and will have the occasional 5 or 7 hour stretch at night. Usually 3 hours though. Ah well, eventually he WILL sleep through the night - right?

He has had head to toe eczema and has started clawing at his face so it is obviously itching him. We are on the steroid creams now and it does seem to be making a big difference already.

All jabs out of the way, and I hope the 16 week GS is behind us as he seems lovely and happy and it'd be nice not to lose that. He has been in the best mood today, chuckling away at me earlier, with such huge grins, and was absolutely mesmerised by his 1st ever balloon today.

This is my little boy recently:

And in his new outfit from his granny!

What Cuties!

R is doing well, was 6 months on Saturday - where did that time go!!  Just had to have a untrasound on the frontenel (sp) as his head circumfrence is bigger than the book said it sould be, although though it had grown consistently and at a steady pace.  All is well though and just in the 3% of the population of babies with slightly bigger heads.  I like to think it is al that brain power he has to carry round

We are now on puree which he loves, loves and loves!  Did have constipation for a week which was not so good but trying to give him more water to stop it happening again.  He is rolling around and movind all over, almost crawling but not quite.  Only waking once in the night for some milk and straight off to sleep again which is nice. 

He is a real joy to have around and just loves his cuddles!

I would post a pic but still dodn't know how!

Morning ladies,

I tried to post last night but had a bit of a screaming baby to deal with. He had bad trapped wind, it really wasn't like him at all. Poor boy.

Duck, I hope you manage to get an answer for Hollie soon. Poor little mite. It's awful seeing them crying all of the time and trying everything you can to help but it being of no use.

Louie is 15 weeks now (where has the time gone!) and last night, he laughed for the very first time. A proper chuckle with the little squeak on the end. It melted my heart!!
he's getting a really big boy, weighed in on Tuesday at 15lb 11.5oz despite being ill with norovirus for the past week.

He absolutely loves his jumperoo as he hates being sat down or laid flat for too long now. He's so alert and into everything! He's growing out of his carrycot fast and so I think he'll need the pushchair part of his pram pretty soon.

He babbles lots, and smiles all of the time. He's in his cot now and goes to bed between 7pm and 8pm every night. He'll wake about 1am for dummy, then 3am for a feed and back down until 6am -ish.So overall, can't complain really.

x

Morning all,

What cute babies we all have! I love seeing the pictures especially now they're getting a bit older and really starting to develop their own personalities and looks!

At 22 weeks things are a mixture of bad and good here.

I'll start with the bad, which is basically feeding and sleeping! Still waking up several times a night and it's getting so wearing now, I so desperately want a good night's sleep. Then recently she's started to fight me a bit when I try to feed her, pulling away and crying, although that seems to have improved slightly in the last couple of days. And we've had a few biting incidents - she's got two little teeth now and it really hurts! But obviously she's too young to understand not to do it. Naps are not too great either, since we unswaddled her it's hard to get more than 30 minutes at a time, but I'm not worrying too much about that, as on the days when she does occasionally have more, it makes no difference to her nighttime sleep!

We have started weaning this week, I wanted to last till 6 months but H really wanted to get her started and when I was ending up crying every time I tried to feed her over the weekend both H and my mum said we needed to get her started. I went to a weaning talk on Monday morning and spoke to the nurse afterwards about what was happening, and she said I should start her. First day went so well, she ate loads! It's been a bit slower since, but no hurry at the minute I suppose.

She's still a little one though, at the last weigh-in she was just over 13lbs, I don't mind though, I like her being little and cute (and easy to carry!)

The good things are all just to see how well Gabrielle is developing. She's rolling really well and is moving around quite a lot when she's playing on the floor. She's managing to get herself into a crawling position and I really don't think it will be long before she cracks it (we've bought the stargates ready!) Seeing her with her baby friends I can imagine in a few weeks I'll be the one running round after her while all the other mums get to sit and chat calmly! This week she's started to be able to sit up on her own, although I have to make sure I'm nearby to catch her, since as soon as she sees something that catches her attention, she's off after it and usually falls over!

She's starting to laugh a bit more often too although what works one day usually won't the next, so it's hard to get her to do it, we just have to wait for her. Generally she's a fairly happy baby though.

Here's the first meal:

and a rare one where H managed to catch a smile:

I love these threads, it's so nice to see how all our beaautiful babies are doing. They are growing so quickly

Isla (18 weeks) has just got over her first cold. She was a nightmare in the day on Monday, crying all the time. In hindsight, she was probably feeling really poorly and I didn't give her anything other than cuddles or breastmilk. Her feeding wasn't that great either. She was up 6 times that night, and I finally gave her Calpol which seemed to help a bit. Still, she's much less snotty now and is back to 1/2 wakings at night and up for the day anytime between 6-7am.

H got up with her at 6 this morning which was lovely, I got a lie in until 7.45, I really appreciated the sleep!

Isla's naps are very varied. She can generally only sleep for 30 minutes at a time, but in the last week she has done the occasional nap for an hour or even a bit longer, which is brilliant. I hope this continues!

She rolled over from front to back for the first time this week too, and was clever enough to ensure that H & I were both there to witness it, we were both thrilled She is much better at tummy time and will happily be on her front for much longer now

I've finally got round to uploading some more pics, so here's one taken yesterday of her eating her feet

And another one of her on her tummy

Lovely to hear from you all and see how much the babies have grown. All the photos are

G is 18 weeks. She is doing well - she is desperate to roll over and to crawl, but she ism't quite there yet - she rolled over once but it seemed to be by accident. She chats all the time, especially at 5am! Her favourite toy os a ball, but she seems t othink it fits in her mouth - sh squeals with excitement when we get the ball out.

She is still ebf, although I am still finding it hard at times. She is clamping down on the nipple quite a bit at the moment and I don't know why. She weighed 13lb 12 ounces last week.

She is going to bed at 7pm-7am ish but has bee up every 2 hours recently - I don't know if this relates to  cough or not. She is only having small amounts so it doesn't feel like a growth spurt. She needs a fair bit of sleep in the daytime - she really needs about a one hour nap in the morning and two hours in the afternoon, but it can be a battle. She managed 30 mins this am and is asleep on me at the moment. Most of her naps end up on me/ when out in the pram as that is the most reliable way of getting her to sleep!

She is enjoying swimming lessons, baby sensory and music classes each week and we are due to start sing and sign next month. We try to get out every day as she likes to be entertained all the time!

Here she is playing with her ball: