[146 Lucina]

Will be back soon, but just wanted to say,

Big Big Congratulations to Ards, for the birth of your gorgeous baby boy Noah
P.S,
I checked out your story on your blog. After all "that", I'm glad that everything worked out well.


First One, - Firstly, Taylor is just beautiful.
And, - I give Lachlan a bottle every so often in the evening. Before 6 months of age he just had S26 gold, which was fine, and is handy for use when out, if you get some sachets, and/or long life tetra packs . After 6 months I switched to NAN HA Gold (follow on) to avoid any problems with constipation from S26 gold (2). It is much easier on the stomach because it is made from 100% whey. Having said that, I am giving him less and less formula now days, because he is now having 3 solid meals, and still about 6 BM feeds a day. So I am thinking of switching to the NAN Pro, because that comes in tetra bricks and has a 4 week (open) shelf life (for the tin) instead of 3, like the NAN HA has.

This post has been edited by 146 Lucina: 07/03/2012, 09:50 PM

[*~lotusflower~*]

Hi All,

Its been very quiet in here lately.

Ards- Congrats!!! Love the name

Hope everyone is well.
xx

[mickey78]

Arrgghh! Sorry it's been so long girls. I'm blaming my iPhone - I mostly read on it now but it's a pain to reply to threads. Will make an effort to get on the laptop more often.

Luci, the list looks great - thanks for doing that. Wow, Lachlan is growing so well - must be all that good food he's getting. Love the pic - thanks for sharing. Glad to hear that his sleeps are going well. It certainly does make life easier. And good luck with the trying naturally - I really hope it does happen for you.

Kat, sorry to hear Caitlin's still having reflux issues. Hope things settle down soon but I am definitely for getting help with the reflux/sleeping if it's available. I took James to 'sleep school' and it certainly helped us.

First One, yay for a happy smiley baby! Great pics - what a gorgeous girl. Glad that your mothers group is going so well. Mine still gets together weekly - not all of us very often as a few of the girls are back at work but generally there's a few of us. We've started going to Lollipops Playland - wow, that's an interesting experience (I had a 2 year old try and flog my phone twice yesterday when I left it right beside me...). Re: formula, we just went with one they used in the hospital (S26 Gold) - apparently it can be a bit of trial and error to find one bub will take so we just stuck with it when James was fine on it.

Ards, congrats again hun on the birth of your beautiful baby boy Noah.

Kitty, happy 8 months to Ethan and Zach for last Tuesday. Hope all is going well.

Lotusflower, Bree and anyone I've missed - hope those babies are growing well.

Well James is now 8 months. I have no idea where that time has gone. I have already starting planning his first birthday party. Yesterday he weighed 8.7kg and was 71.5cm. He still only 2 teeth and we can't tell if the top ones are going to come through soon. He gets grizzly every now and then which could be teething but we can't really see anything. Sleeping's going pretty well. I haven't rocked or fed him to sleep since sleep school but it can sometimes take him 45 minutes + to settle to sleep, even when I know he is tired. We are on solids 3 x a day and he's loving it. No longer breastfeeding (a joint decision I guess you could say with a bout of gastro tipping us over the edge) but he does have 4 bottles a day. He has been commando crawling for a few weeks but hasn't got the hang of proper crawling on all fours yet. I don't think it will be too far away. No words yet but he's definitely 'experimenting' with sound. I'm trying to 'encourage' him to say 'mum' but he just thinks it's hilarious when I sit there saying 'mum, mum, mum' so I don't know how we're going to go with that.

Otherwise all is good. We might be doing a FET next month if everything does to plan. Exciting and scary all at the same time.

A couple of recent pics...





Mickey

[146 Lucina]

Hi Girl,

It seems the older they get, the less time we have to post.

Mickey, - Hope you pulled up unscaved after that storm on tuesday...
Such a happy chappy - James is just too cute in your photo's. I'm guessing he is probably crawling properly now, and everything has gone to the next shelf up. I hear you on the 1st birthday party planning. I'm not quite planning it, but ideas have been getting thrown around. I'm glad James is sleeping better now.
Are you starting your FET preparations yet? Even if it's just mentally.
Thanks for the info. We decided to try tizzy's method before getting the sleep 'nanny' to help us. I hated the first night, and day 3. Lots of tears for both of us. DP had to do the bed time routine. It's been nearly a week now, and Lachlan is self settling rather well (so-far) . Go figure, - I got that book as a present while I was pregnant, but wanted to go for the no-cry methods instead. But that stopped working for us, and turned into crying in my arms.

Ards, - Hope you are enjoying all your new born cuddles. Wow nearly a month old already.

First One, - How is the formula going? It is easier when you're out and about. I noticed from around 5 months old, it was very hard to get him to focus on feeding instead of absolutely everything else when we weren't at home.

AFM, - AF showed up again for me. 29 day cycle at this stage. Still only going to try naturally, but it's hard to get motivated, as I'm sure it won't work. Probably a good thing I feel like this, because I'm putting no pressure on myself.

Better go. Want to get in a shower before the boss wakes.

Hi to everyone else. Hope you are all well.

This post has been edited by 146 Lucina: 23/03/2012, 10:19 AM

[minidiamond]

Lurking ...

Gorgeous pics ladies !! And quick congrats to Ards on the birth of Noah & Luci on your engagement !

All well at our house, morph scan is next week.

Happy weekend.....

This post has been edited by Liltuss: 23/03/2012, 06:33 PM

[146 Lucina]

Liltuss, - We'd love you to join us (if you want to of course). We have empty spots under the pregnant ladies title in our list now that Noah has been born.
How exciting that your morph scan is next week. I was so excited leading up to ours that I was basically wishing our holiday away, LOL. I hope the excellent results keep coming.
BTW, Even though the ring is being made at the moment, and the where and when (wedding) has been discussed in great detail. He still hasn't formally asked yet. - I hope it's just that he's waiting for the ring. I'd hate for it to be just taken for granted. I can't think of us as being engaged until he actually pops the proverbial.

[mickey78]

Arrghh Liltuss, I get so excited seeing your ticker! Wow, 20 weeks already. Thanks for popping in.

Luci, oohh - sounds like congratulations are in order. Hope he pops the big question soon though it sounds like it can't be too far away. We did come through that storm okay. Lots of trees down in streets near us but we must be in just the right spot to miss most of the action. We live near the river and that has been up for a week or so but has started to go down in the last couple of days. Glad to hear Lachlan is starting to self-settle - it can be tricky sometimes but once they can do it then life does get a little easier.

Well, James is crawling properly now (about a week now) and it seems there is no stopping him. He loves to climb over me when I'm sitting on the floor which is fine except he hasn't learnt how to be nice about it (ie. no pinching!). Sleeping is still going well though occasionally he'll throw a 4am wake up in there (like this morning) and it certainly is a shock to the system. 9 months next week - where has the time gone??? We are planning a FET soon. If everything goes to plan then maybe next cycle in April. Depends on if my body plays the game or not though it seems to be behaving itself so far.

A big hello to Ards, First One, Kitty, Bree, Lotus, Kat and anyone I've missed. Hope you're all going well.

Mickey.

This post has been edited by mickey78: 26/03/2012, 09:34 AM

[Ards]

hey Ladies

Sorry long time no speak but I was induced at 36 weeks (only 2 days on mat. leave) so it was very sudden and I didn't get much done. As you can see by my sig I had a beautiful little boy Noah by CS (birth story & pics on my blog).

Like most babies he is not a fan of settling so sleep is at an all time low. Apart from that we are doing well, few bumps but nothing to whinge about.

Lucina - Love the pics!!! I wish you so much luck for TTC getting on the train again is hard, take it easy xxx

First one - OMG she is beautiful!!!

Mickey - I'm loving James more n more you post pics on FB now he is crawling i bet he is a handful!

Liltuss - good luck with the scan!

[146 Lucina]

Ards, - What a gorgeous sig. Noah is soooo cute. Hope you both get some more sleep soon. Glad most everything else is fine though.

Hi to everyone else

This post has been edited by 146 Lucina: 29/03/2012, 06:54 PM

[First One]

Hi ladies,

Ards....massive congratulations!!! He looks just beautiful and I adore his name! I hope you are both doing well. Sleep will come as he settles into a routine and you will adjust to a lack of it LOL! I was a stanch 10hr a night person and suprised myself by managing pretty darn well through the early days. Just remember to ask for help if you need it - an extra hours nap during the day can make the world of difference!

Mickey, I'm so excited for you starting another cycle! My everything is crossed for you. As much as I'd love to go again, I'm pretty content with our one gorgeous girl. Yay on the crawling too. I can't believe it's been nine months! Taylor is 6 mths soon and I am amazed at where that his disappeared to?!

Luci, good luck for the big Q! How lovely Hope Lachlan is doing well? He'll be walking down the aisle with you as a paige boy by then?

Liltuss - you know I'm totally thrilled for you and can't wait to see your update when your bundle arrives! I do hope you'll join us in here? Even though we seem to post less and less, it's great to catch up And we'll have a few more answers for any questions as we slowly grow wiser LOL.

Hi to all the other ladies - hope you are all well and will duck in for an update soon.

AFM: Taylor is doing really well. She's a very happy smiley bub so we are lucky. She has also started sleeping 7-8hrs through the night which is lovely but she still wakes at 6am on the dot and no amount of boob can convince her to go back to bed LOL.

She's also found a new trick - she's up on her hands and knees now and getting stronger at that at an alarming rate! She's already impossible to keep in one place - she just rolls everywhere so to have her so close to crawling is a worry!!! Time to start baby-proofing the house even more thoroughly!

Anyway, looking forward to more updates soon