December 2010 babies!

Yeah I have thanks MB. She has baby vicks on chest, back and feet, karvol on a wash cloth stuffed in her clothes, she is dressed in thermals and 1 piece outfit to keep her an even temp. We are doing drops in the nose to help make it run and clear out but nothing is working. She is coughing till she passes out it's so so so scary and poor Jono keeps screaming and crying that his sister is going to die which isn't helping anyone

CL - take her to Middlemore Kids First!!!
They'll hook her up on an O2 saturation monitor & you will have instant peace of mind as it will go off if she stops breathing. I couldn't live without our Angelcare sound & movement monitors especially as Ryder had sleep apneoia & his alarm would go off several times a night. A few times he was gray with blue lips - scary stuff - so i know what you are going through!!!

And sorry to hear about your oldest boy - I must have missed your post about that - I hope he is ok - he's such a sweetie!!!

CL hope today is better! i see on FB you have taken her to hospital- good! i would have said rush her straight to hospital if you hadnt already! your doc is a nutter for telling you its not a big deal if your baby cant breathe and is passing out!!!! gee i have had SOOO many mums when i was working take their babies to the doc to be told everything was fine, and we kept ringing the mums to pick them up every day for weeks sometimes, because there was NOTHING fine about them- to finally take the kid to hospital themselves and find they have asthma/bronciolitis/chest infections/croup or the likes- you have to wonder if some of our doctors get their quals from the bottom of a cereal box at times!
ok rant over lol. sorry. a bit wound up after news my couz had a gun held to his head in the states..hes ok bit i keep thinking about the what-ifs.. *shudder* too many idiot losers in this world- seriously!

anywhoooo..hope everyone is having a good day, might go for a big walk today with little miss since its sunny, and have to lose the 800gms i gained last week!

I keep meaning to say that if anyone was going to do baby sign you might want to make sure you are doing them now (if you aren't already). The ones I used the most were food related, though we did bath and sleep as well, so I have started using them when I give Alex his solids.
This is a site you could use to get some signs (scroll down to see the words), or you can make up ones that make sense to you. Or maybe this site.

wow.. quiet weekend in here! Hope everyone had a good one.

Am very excited, Violet *almost* rolled over, hehe. It so looked like she was going to do it, but then she got distracted by her hands and decided to suck them instead.. never mind! A thought occurred to me though, once she is rolling, is it going to cause a problem if she does it during the night? Should I let her sleep on her tummy if she rolls over and decides it's ok? I'd imagine she won't think it's ok at all, and instead will cry when she gets tired of it (I'm assuming she'll do this rather than just face plant and suffocate!)

Ordered her a high chair today. Got a 'little kiwi' one off trademe. They're doing them for $120 at the moment. Can't wait for it to arrive as when I feed her in the bumbo she spends the entire time trying to eat her feet.. so her socks end up covered in food, and most of the time she vomits as she's putting so much pressure on her tummy. So bring on the tray to hide those oh so tempting toes!! =)

niquey - Olivia was doing that distracted by hands thing while wanting to turn over, it's interesting seeing her wanting to turn over cos it looks soooooo hard. She basically just uses pure ab muscles to help her turn! haha.. she can turn to the right now but not the left and not from front to back. She tries to move forward but instead of using her arms, the arms always go back like she wants to fly forward?? I don't understand that.

Ugh allergies!
Ever since starting solids Cameron has had a red rash on his cheeks. At first I thought it was teething rash, but now its spread all over his face and there's patches on his hands. So yes come to the conclusion that the huggies wipes I'm using is irritating the rash, but where the F is it coming from! Definately a food. I'm totally cool with it, I'm not going to give him drugs or creams to get rid of it, its his bodies way of dealing with it and if it gets too bad we can just steer clear of it.
Anyway so I'm thinking of what he's eaten that he might be reacting to. I'm thinking carrot or pumpkin. Think there was only one or two days that I haven't given him either or, and there's been only one or two days where the rash has completely gone. Can't remember if it happened simultaneously. So anyone have any idea about what could be causing a reaction? I'm not using anything new on his skin (he doesn't have it anywhere else), no washing powders or body wash that's different. My doctor said putting aqueous cream on it will aggrivate it and I have found this also. But its come from somewhere.

Anyways, tonight I've put the safety sleep on his bed, since every night he's woken us up by rolling over and shuffling up one end of his cot and getting stuck! He also spends about 2 hours per night just lying in his cot chatting to himself! What a weird child.

I'm also really happy with how chilled out (ish) he is. Miss 2 was already crawling and off, she was so active and a real handful. Cameron prefers to lie on the ground playing with something, studying it. He's really social too, gosh the giggles and chats! It's so nice to have a completely different baby.

Anyway I've been reading up on everyone's stuff every now and again. Just thought I'd say hello.

Oh and Craftlovers, hugs, our thoughts are with you. Hang in there! I hope Holle gets better soon. xxx

Soda - I'm going to steal your line 'she's a thinker not a doer'

Minki - Kenzie hasn't had any reactions to stuff, although she seems to prefer jar cooked meals rather than her mother's!!

Kenzie's new trick is to take the tray off her bumbo and throw it on the floor/kitchen island, along with all the food on it to demonstrate that she's finished. Tried to tell her off for it and she just thought it was funny that I was pulling an angry face. Hard to stay grumpy for long when your little girl starts giggling at you

Yay Violet for rolling. She'll be off now! lol Yeah I fully agree about the people getting competitive about their babies and when they do stuff. Noah has done things early but I just credit that to him being him rather than anything I did lol, and it's been hard work running about after him! lol I think a lot of it has to do with genes/temperament- Noah is very determined and he gets frustrated when he can't do something so he works on it relentlessly until he gets it, lol and he never stops moving even when he was a newborn he wriggled constantly, apparently I was like him as a baby (determined rather than wriggly lol) and Im still like that as an adult. So maybe more chilled out babies take it more at a steady pace, who knows hehe. They all get there in the end and enjoy the time when you can leave them in one spot while it lasts as once they start moving you have to have eyes in the front, back and sides of your head and constantly move things when you think you already babyproofed everything you could, lol.

Just wanted to share a couple of things. 1, I bought these simply organic apple rice cakes from the supermarket they say 9 months plus but they are big enough that as long as you sit with baby the whole time and take it when it gets too small, they are no problem. Noah really loves them and his rice rusks also. He also loves sucking on a wedge of apple or toast. He so loves feeding himself.

2. With sippy cups, I spent heaps of money on the flashest non spill sippy cups but found Noah had a hard time using them as they were big and bulky and hard to suck. My Mum got a very basic $3 plastic one from the supermarket (sistema I think) just your typical sippy cup with the 3 holes, and nice thin handles, and Noah finds it so much easier, can hold it easily, and has cottoned on to the whole concept and drinks all his water now. I found the non spill ones were too hard to suck from. So I am only using the $3 ones now! lol they are just the blue ones you get from the baby range sistema makes, they do all the plastic containers with the blue clips. So if you haven't got a sippy cup yet don't be taken in by all the fancy ones (unless you like them/they work for you of course).

ooh i bought a fab sippy cup a couple of weeks ago and Maddy LOVES it! AND its non spill! its the NUBY brand, i got it from baby factory but i know they are other places too (babycity perhaps as well?) anyway the sippy bit is soft- like made out of teat material but a sippy cup shape, at first Maddy kinda just chewed away on it, but as she chewed little bits of water came out and now shes learned to suck from the cup. (tho when her teeth are bothering her she loves chewing on it with the cool water inside- so double whammy purpose!) my friends boy has one, he has 4 teeth and he hasnt even marked it with his teeth either so definitely hardy material! Maddy is getting really good and trying to hold hers too. and it was about $12 from memory so pretty cheap for a good cup!
worth a try perhaps anyways