So our little guy is now officially 6 months old and is growing like crazy...we need to find a new car seat soon for him. I've been looking and researching the best ones but wow they are expensive, i've been waiting for the fancy Britax ones at the Bay go on sale...I can then use my HBC points for more than $100 off it...but that doesn't mean much when the car seat is still $400 before tax. Sooo i'll keep looking for sales and hope a good one comes up.
Kaelan is now 27 inches long and weighs 20.6 lbs, he fits in 12 mth sleepers and even has his 4 front teeth in now...there is one slowly making its way down but it will be here any day.
I can say that I can't wait for this teething thing to be over with, he will sleep much better and be back to his regular non-cranky self. And all the puking! No one told me they would puke so much when they teethe...ugh, i'm sure I change my top 3-4 times a day, thankfully we have a lot of recieving blankets and bibs to catch the extra puke.
Well i'm off to make supper while he blissfully sleeps for a nap...poor guy, wish the teething didn't bother him so much.
ttyl,
Liz
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Front Teeth!!!
Well Happy New Year!
I was checking out my son's teeth last night and noticed why he's been teething like crazy this month, his top two front teeth have made an appearance! They have just broken the skin and you can feel the teeth ridge but they are there.
Kaelan was about 4 mths old when he got his first two bottom front teeth, I was amazed that he got teeth so early but now he is about a week away from being 6 mths old and now he will have 4 teeth once they come all the way down, amazing!
As a nursing mom, this kind of worries me that he will now have two top and two bottom teeth to bite me with (nervous laugh). :)
I read somewhere that teeth are based on genetics for when they come in so I wonder which one of us (my husband or me) was the early teether to pass on this wonderful gene to our son. :)
I do have a wonderful ace in my pocket for teething that i'm happy to pass along. It's called "Camilla" made by Borion and you can purchase this little bit of magic from Walmart for $13.99 or from Zehrs for $15.99 or from the Old Kitchen Cupboard for $19.99. It's a capsule of clear liquid that has not much taste, that you squirt in your baby's mouth (they have to swallow it). You give it 15 minutes to work and if your baby is still upset you can give them another round or two every 15 minutes. You can't overdose your baby and it works so fast! No more tears and red cheeks! Amazing!
I also have Camilla pellets from my Naturopatic doctor that work as well, the liquid Camilla is still my favorite as I can just squirt it in my baby's mouth, pellets can be a bit tricky to get in the baby's mouth sometime.
I have also tried the Hylands Teething Tablets that work in a pinch but not as effective as the Camilla. As for baby Tylenol or Motrin, I've tried even these before I discovered Camilla and they didn't seem to work with my baby very well, plus i'm not interested in feeding him chemicals when there is a natural alternative.
Well that's my blurb about teething and Camilla, a magic wonderful thing for teething babies! :)
Good luck to all who have a teething baby.
Liz
I was checking out my son's teeth last night and noticed why he's been teething like crazy this month, his top two front teeth have made an appearance! They have just broken the skin and you can feel the teeth ridge but they are there.
Kaelan was about 4 mths old when he got his first two bottom front teeth, I was amazed that he got teeth so early but now he is about a week away from being 6 mths old and now he will have 4 teeth once they come all the way down, amazing!
As a nursing mom, this kind of worries me that he will now have two top and two bottom teeth to bite me with (nervous laugh). :)
I read somewhere that teeth are based on genetics for when they come in so I wonder which one of us (my husband or me) was the early teether to pass on this wonderful gene to our son. :)
I do have a wonderful ace in my pocket for teething that i'm happy to pass along. It's called "Camilla" made by Borion and you can purchase this little bit of magic from Walmart for $13.99 or from Zehrs for $15.99 or from the Old Kitchen Cupboard for $19.99. It's a capsule of clear liquid that has not much taste, that you squirt in your baby's mouth (they have to swallow it). You give it 15 minutes to work and if your baby is still upset you can give them another round or two every 15 minutes. You can't overdose your baby and it works so fast! No more tears and red cheeks! Amazing!
I also have Camilla pellets from my Naturopatic doctor that work as well, the liquid Camilla is still my favorite as I can just squirt it in my baby's mouth, pellets can be a bit tricky to get in the baby's mouth sometime.
I have also tried the Hylands Teething Tablets that work in a pinch but not as effective as the Camilla. As for baby Tylenol or Motrin, I've tried even these before I discovered Camilla and they didn't seem to work with my baby very well, plus i'm not interested in feeding him chemicals when there is a natural alternative.
Well that's my blurb about teething and Camilla, a magic wonderful thing for teething babies! :)
Good luck to all who have a teething baby.
Liz
Thursday, December 31, 2009
First and last play date of 2009
Well Happy New Year to all!
We spent the afternoon with my friend, her son (who is 3 weeks older than my son) and some of her work friends with babies for our first and last play date of 2009!
It was a great way to spend the afternoon, even if all of the babies there were really too young to actually play. Our son Kaelan did have fun looking and checking out the the other kids. It was interesting to see how they all interacted at such a young age, everything seemed very interesting to our little guy.
I'm thinking in the new year i'll try to have a few play dates with the other mom's I know with babies around my guy's age, I think once they can all sit up they will enjoy themselves lol.
Well to all have a wonderful night and wishing you much happiness and many blessings in the new year!
Liz
We spent the afternoon with my friend, her son (who is 3 weeks older than my son) and some of her work friends with babies for our first and last play date of 2009!
It was a great way to spend the afternoon, even if all of the babies there were really too young to actually play. Our son Kaelan did have fun looking and checking out the the other kids. It was interesting to see how they all interacted at such a young age, everything seemed very interesting to our little guy.
I'm thinking in the new year i'll try to have a few play dates with the other mom's I know with babies around my guy's age, I think once they can all sit up they will enjoy themselves lol.
Well to all have a wonderful night and wishing you much happiness and many blessings in the new year!
Liz
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Too Good to be true.
Well that lasted about what, 20 minutes? LOL, the baby woke up fussing, my hubby went in to check on him, picked him up, got puked on, and tried to put the less gassy baby back to bed.
We are now sitting in the living room hoping that he will fall asleep to the lull of the well used lullably cd playing that I got as a gift in a card when he was born (hmm that's probably where the word lullaby came from lull to sleep) :).
This cd is our Godsend, it works magic I'm sure of it...ohhh what's that sound...silence...hmm maybe he will go back to sleep, who knows...sure sounds quiet in there now. :)
We have been having some excellent success with the baby sleeping through the night for almost 2 weeks now... only a few nights of interrupted sleep but it's amazing to finally sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.
We were one of the (un)lucky ones who had a baby who woke every hour or two to eat for about the first 3 months...that time is a sleep deprived haze, on top of all the other new things to learn the sleep deprivation was the biggest on the list. Everyone tells you how you will miss sleep but my mantra became "sleep trumps everything", and I meant it! I would rather sleep than eat, pee, drink, shower, get dressed, you name it...it was amazing to me that I could still walk around in the zombie state I was in.
But now it's been two glorious weeks of 6-8 hours of sleep and it took about a week for my body to realize that I didn't have to wake up every 3 hours, but last night was pretty great, I think I only woke about 4 times but went right back to sleep. Here's hoping to another wonderous sleep night, I pray for a good one.
Goodnight (hopefully).
:)
We are now sitting in the living room hoping that he will fall asleep to the lull of the well used lullably cd playing that I got as a gift in a card when he was born (hmm that's probably where the word lullaby came from lull to sleep) :).
This cd is our Godsend, it works magic I'm sure of it...ohhh what's that sound...silence...hmm maybe he will go back to sleep, who knows...sure sounds quiet in there now. :)
We have been having some excellent success with the baby sleeping through the night for almost 2 weeks now... only a few nights of interrupted sleep but it's amazing to finally sleep for more than 3 hours at a time.
We were one of the (un)lucky ones who had a baby who woke every hour or two to eat for about the first 3 months...that time is a sleep deprived haze, on top of all the other new things to learn the sleep deprivation was the biggest on the list. Everyone tells you how you will miss sleep but my mantra became "sleep trumps everything", and I meant it! I would rather sleep than eat, pee, drink, shower, get dressed, you name it...it was amazing to me that I could still walk around in the zombie state I was in.
But now it's been two glorious weeks of 6-8 hours of sleep and it took about a week for my body to realize that I didn't have to wake up every 3 hours, but last night was pretty great, I think I only woke about 4 times but went right back to sleep. Here's hoping to another wonderous sleep night, I pray for a good one.
Goodnight (hopefully).
:)
First Post
Well this is my first post, I just put the baby to bed (hopefully for the night) and thought i'd get started. I wanted to write this blog to document all my adventures of being a first time mom and the knowledge and advice i've learned along the way from other parents.
There is so much to learn the first few months i'm just glad I now have time to write down some of the things i've experienced since my son was born in July.
If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to comment, I welcome any advice and knowledge others are willing to send my way.
Thanks,
Liz
There is so much to learn the first few months i'm just glad I now have time to write down some of the things i've experienced since my son was born in July.
If you have any questions or suggestions feel free to comment, I welcome any advice and knowledge others are willing to send my way.
Thanks,
Liz
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