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phonics - Wednesday, 10 December
Well Raegan does not respond to her name, but she babbles a lot. If you know he can make the sounds, but just doesn't maybe he will be just a quiet baby. Its not that he CAN'T do it.

I am not sure what you do, but I always talk to my baby all day every day since birth. Itell her everything about mommy's day or what I am doing to her. I tell her how to get a bath and how good she is doing. Now she babbles all day at home and in daycare. She talks to everyone. lol its pretty funny.

Each baby does things on their own time, but since your son can do it, but chooses not to I think it is more of his personality.

kricket - Wednesday, 10 December
thats too funny, mine is the same! He always says stuff like i dont know, im not a doctor ive never done this before. Its true though, we probably should stop reading, i just cant! even though i try there is just sooo much info out there and i cant resist, even though its driving me crazy!! I will keep you posted if you let me know how Mike is doing! maybe they are just late bloomers?? who knows...they are babies.

kricket - Tuesday, 9 December
i used to think she made good eye contact, but now, not sure it she is just distracted by so many other things, but i find it hard to really get her interested in me? if that makes sense, i also used to be able to get her to smile alot easier/more frequently. she just does not laugh at all. Physically she seems fine, can sit with little support, holds her head well, is just starting to reach for objects purposefully.I just cant make up my mind. Are these real concerns or am i just really paranoid. No one else seems too bothered by it but me.

oldie44 - Tuesday, 9 December
6 breastfeedings a day is great! I did not realize you were BF every 2-3 hours, that is tiresome. But 3 of them at night, I do not know how you doing this, even half asleep is still interruption of sleep. Antoshka eats 5 times a day total, rarely 6, when he starts at 4-5 am. I cant imagine what I should do when I start solids, cut down on milk/formula? I will start worrying about it in a month, when time comes. Antoshka does not even think about trying to sit up, he platoed again - rolling from side to side and that is it, when I try to sit him up with support, he falls like a rubber doll. The only different thing is that we often find him on his tummy sleeping a night. He bables a lot, mainly "gagaga and kakaka" esp he likes it when we are tired and he is ready to sleep, he starts looking at us intently and produce those emotional "speeches", funny, when we can hardly appreciate this. We are still battling baby eczema, he has bumpy skin all over and redness on cheeks. I stopped eating nuts and oranges and will watch if it will help. Also, he has some redness and swelling of the remaining of his foreskin ( he is circumsized). I do not know why it happens, I wash it really well at least once a day. I thought curcumsized will be easier to take care and clean. I do not want to go to Dr, it is not bad enough, but I would like to find a solution.
We seems found a good feeding schedule for Antoshka. We now feed him before sleep time, but not swaddled and not sleeping yet. We throw a sheet over his torso and he tangles his hands in it and they do not interfere with feeding. He becomes sleepier by the end and it is easier to put him to nap. Often times it is enough just to carefully swaddle him and place in his bed without rocking. When we tried to feed him after he wakes up, he is so perky and happy that eating is the last thing on his mind. It is amazing that change in feeding time made a whole process so much less stressful. I hope it will work for a while. For several nights now I have offered him 8 oz instead of usual 6 and he finished it all! Coincidentally, he woke up later in am those days, 6-7 instead of 4-5, maybe it lasts him longer. I was surprised that his stomack can hold so much without spitting up. Good luck with girls birthday!!! What size clothes do they wear? We have several really nice prom type dresses that we bought for my older when she was in high school. She worn then once. They are all about size 5. I do not want to just donate them to Salvation Army, they are too nice. Whould your girls be interested if the size is good? I would be happy to ship them to you.
I remember thinking looking at Mike's pictures how mature his expression looks, definitely not someone with delay in development! Interaction is not only about being vocal. So, stop worrying or I am going to start panicking that Antoshka is not trying to sit up yet.

Laura Ward - Sunday, 7 December
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oldie44 - Saturday, 6 December
Definitely I am not going to stop pumping. I am thinking about pumping one extra time during those days when I am at home just for extra stimualtion. Even though sometimes I am falling off the chair so sleepy I am during late or early pumping sessions, I will keep going. As always, I set a goal for 1 more month secretely hoping for 2.
We will have to go to San Diego on Feb 12-13 for my son graduation from boot camp, but I am not going to think so far ahead.
I was going to suggest to try bottle, but you do it already. I have heard that some babies refuse breast around this time, but bottled breastmilk is a good option. I am such a coward, I do not want to start solids yet at least another month. Antoshka's cheeks never clear completely, sometimes worse, sometimes better, but never smooth. By the way, shame on me, I did not congratulate Mike on his 5th month birthday, I am doing it now!!
I increased intervals between feedings to about 4 hours and it seems better, he is hungrier and takes bottle more willingly. Last 2 days were good in that regard for me, but tonight my husband was trying to feed him when I was gone and with no success. I came back and 30 min later after calming him in darker room swaddled he took fine. Usually after he takes to sucking, he finishes the bottle, it is the taking it sometimes a problem. I think Antoshka is confused by our different styles, me, my husband and my daughter's. Since we are all family, everyone feels like inventing their own way of doing things. Just when we get grasp, it is someone else turn. I can't imagine having a stranger as a babysitter, she, probably, would not have cared as much as we do.

Dirk - Friday, 5 December
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oldie44 - Wednesday, 3 December
This is no fun day you are having. I do not think that feeding in sleep will form bad habbits. Antoshka eats in kind of haze, half asleep - half awake. It is a little nerve racking to find just the right moment, but the result pays off. I tell myself that it is not going to last like that forever, they change all the time, maybe one of those changes will be to better. With my Liza I was counting meals: one behind, 2 to go, that is how bad it was.
I think my milk is coming to the end - all of a sudden, last 3-4 days I am pumping a lot less with no visible changes in me and do not get engorged at all, sometimes even no let down. Well, I have done well as it is.

roseplus1 - Wednesday, 3 December
She is great. Sitting up and scooting a little on her belly. She refuses to roll, but loves to stand so maybe she will just start walking LOL. I would love to see him crawl backwards..I bet it is a funny sight.

luvbaby - Wednesday, 3 December
 OMG he is sooooooooo cute WOW! he looks like hes crawling.....

luvbaby - Wednesday, 3 December
Thankz hun! really i thought the same i cant imagine letting emily cry cause she hungry , i also dont let her cry at all.

roseplus1 - Wednesday, 3 December
wow, crawling already! How did you get that to happen?

oldie44 - Tuesday, 2 December
Thank you. I am writing letter to him and sending some family pictures. It is kind of weird with him, because he never cared about anything like that. Something shook him badly. Looking back I realized that I have never, even when he was a small child, literally never, heard from him that he loves and misses us. Isn't it sad?

oldie44 - Tuesday, 2 December
We are on the same page with emotional developmental - what you describe about Mike is the same Antoshka does. He does not copy our sounds and does not make any happy sounds to attract our attention. He is a lot more whiny now. I still see no signs of teeth, but behavior like they will pop right now. Motorwise he is the same, turning when he wants and sitting with assistance. I would not worry about it, boys are slower, as long as they make good eye contact and love to be coddled. With feedings I am the same and Antoshka really tries my patience. We practically switched to feeding when he is almost asleep. Instead of feeding him when he wakes up, we wait until he is drouzy and almost falls asleep swaddled and then carefully switch paci for bottle. Only then he will drink full 6 oz. Yesterday I got 2 great feedings into him when I picked him when he was still asleep and he drunk it all before he realized what is going on. The time when he only napped 40 min and woke up on his own, he had 1/2 oz and after 2 more attempts every hour I gave up mad and depressed, I finally gave him his feed again, after rocking and swaddling. By this time it was 6 hrs after prior feeding. He was hungry, but would not drink awake. My husband invented this method on weekends, after 2 unsuccessful feedings 2 times in a row. He regularly eats around 5 am now and this helps to ensure 5 feedings a day. My poor husband tells me that Anton cries 4-5 times at night and most of these times giving him paci is enough, but at 5 he eats. Besides my husband started having prostate issues and especially with cold wheater he gets up to pee another few times. I do not know how he still functions during the day.
To be honest, I am terrified to start solids, I am afraid they will mess up already fragile feedings. When he does not eat and spills my milk, I want to kick him, I have to step back for a few min. I remember solids were problem with Liza, esp when I would manage to feed her and she would suddenly gag and give me back the result of my 30 min work. My husband says the same as yours, but I cannot imagine baby not being hungry for 6 hors straight, esp when he is cranky. So we are in the same boat.
How many solids feedings does Mike has? Are you pumping during this time to keep up with milk supply or just BF him whenever he is due to be BF?
My 19 yo called yesterday first time and cried on the phone how he loves and misses us all and how he wanted to quit, but it would have been dishonorable discharge. He literally cried for 10 min and was repeating the same things again and again. I have never, ever heard him saying anything simular to that!!! I cried with him too. The do not hit him, but mentally make him feel like dirt. It is part of the training, the survival. I hope he will get stronger, not broken, I always thought he does not have enough resilience. I am worry about him. He said he went to jewish "chirch" (he does not even know proper name sinagoge)on Sunday, just to be among people. It is so hard when your child is crying no matter what age, even if he was a complete jerk with us for all his life.

oldie44 - Friday, 28 November
yes, I got it and I wanted to take some time to write. Your girls are beautiful, I think they look a lot like you. I always wanted twins, but it is not in my family.
I am not feeling well lately - since last Saturday, when we went for a walk and was very windy, my neck and shoulder just killing me, giving me headache. Also, Antoshka is getting heavy and I always had weak back and now it is hurting too. So, crooked neck and back with headaches is a little too much. I went to chiropractor and he spent 30 min on me and I am sure it will get better, but not yet. I called my Dr with simple question if I can take one of Non Steroidal Antiinflammatory, like Naproxen. I know that Ibuprofen is safe, I was given RX after delivery. My stupid dr responded "Tylenol is OK". I think I'll take Ibuprofen 400 mg 3 times a day, that is what general recommendation is.
I love the background where you and your husband are sitting, is this a park? The doggy is so cute too. I was wondering if she is not barking at the house and not waking up Mike from his naps.
Antoshka decided to go backwards and started to wake up during the night pretty regularly. My husband tries to give him paci, sometimes it works, but often times if he feeds him, he happily goes back to sleep without waking up again. So I told him that it might be easier to feed him instead of getting up several times and eventually feed him anyway. I do not knwo if it teaching him bad habbit of waking up at night, but concidering that his eating during the day is not the best, extra feeding at night is not such a bad thing.
Antoshka is not getting any better in entertaining himself, if anything it is worse. I often times, when I get tired, put him in the stoller, facing me, and going around my kitchen table while talking with somebody on the phone, just to pass time quicker and he gets entertained by watching me talk, listening my voice and me making faces. Whe we go outside, he does not like to fall asleep in the stroller and we end up picking him up when he tires and carrying him while pushing stroller home. Not fun. He needs quiet, dark place to sleep well, like I do.
OK, will talk later, got to go. Happy Thanksgiving!!

oldie44 - Monday, 24 November
Anna, I sent you 3 or 4 emails yesterday with Antoshka's pictures on your personal email. I did not know how to decrease their size so I could post them on this forum. Just wanted to make sure you got it. I noticed that you posted Mike's new photos. He is amaising! Standing on all 4 and ready to go!!!! Antoshka has not discovered his feet yet either. He looks like a really mature big boy.
Let me know what ypu think of my pictures. One of them has my whole family.

licah - Sunday, 23 November
I do the same as you. Cloth diapers during the day and sometimes at night. For daytime I use pampers also or when I'm out of the house for long periods. Do you have a diaper service?

oldie44 - Thursday, 20 November
I mean dream feed is actually waiting until he is asleep, carefully taking him out of bed and trying to feed while he sleeps, using sucking reflex. We did this with Liza when she hated bottle and formula.
By the way, the site for baby food is interesting. How do you make cereal? Why not use commercial? Do you buy organic fruits for the baby?

Ann-n-Sean - Wednesday, 19 November
*lol* Thanks!! I really hope I'm NOT pregnant this soon!! I haven't been on birth control because 4 weeks after I had Maddie, we moved across the counrty, and with my husband being in the Military we have to wait forever to get assigned a doc!!!

langiel - Wednesday, 19 November
Thank you so much for your input. It is truly appreciated!!

sonyasfirstbaby - Wednesday, 19 November
Thank you for the advice. I'm going to stay away from the formula. i would really rather not give it to her. I'm gonna let Sierra try rice cereal next week (she'll be 4months old). I think because she's a healthy, little porker, and we have no food allergies in our family history. that she'll be fine. Hopefully this will help satisfy her :)
I read your birth story.....it was pretty similar to mine....she was 6days late......ended up in an emergency c-section and she also weighed 9lbs 2oz :) I love the chubbies :)
Thanks again. Sonya

oldie44 - Monday, 17 November
I was thinking about it myself. Just last time I wrote to you that we only let him sit up with support, but now I gave him my hands to hold and pulled up in standing position and he was pretty steady and enjoing himself. Whenever he is in his stroller, he pulls his head off the seat. I strap him now in stroller. We actually have 2 cribs, Liza's and my friend's. It is just that my playnpan that he sleeps has miltiple pockets on the side and it is like a work station, I can find what I need with my eyes closed. But you are right, I need to make this step for safety, I can see how fast he progresses. I am off this Saturday, we will try to do this switch then. Thank you for your concern. By the way, I went to work for 2 days, among people and it took my mind off my obsession with food. I am much calmer today. Antoshka changed his schedule - gone sleeping untill 11 am, several nights he woke up at 5, last night 3:30, some days 6,7,and 8. But the good thing is that he goes to sleep earlier, around 10 pm, great improvement from midnight. And he knows when he needs to sleep. Yesterday I came home and he just woke up from his nap at 9 pm. I was worried that he will stay up until midnight, but no, at 10 he was ready. And he is so, so cute! I think absolute perfection.
My 19 yo went to Marines yesterday, I hope it'll teach him life lessons, since we could not do anything about it anyway.

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