We visited Emily and Alora today. Sienna is now 3 months old and Alora 4 months. It is amazing how quickly they are growing up! They had a great old time rocking out in their baby rockers. It gave Emily and I chance to have a little mum 2 mum time while they entertained themselves. Sienna was being her smiley self and even managed to have a sleep in Alora’s room. Thanks Alora for lending us your bassinet. Here...

A few weeks ago we moved Alora from her basinet (that we bought on Bartercard from Better Baby deals) to her cot. This has given her so much more room to move. Check out the photo below. her new nickname is now miss riggles!! [Show as slideshow] [View with PicLens] ...

The best thing that I have learnt about getting my baby to sleep is to know when to put her down. Sienna is breast-fed and feeds every three hours for about twenty minutes. After her feed we have playtime. Once she starts to show signs of being tired such as: Jerky movements Whining or crying Red eyebrows Hiccups I know she is ready for bed. In Sienna’s case this is pretty much exactly one hour after the...

I’ve just watched A Current Affair (ACA) on channel 9.  The Australian Women’s Weekly, Women’s Day and Harvey Norman are promoting a best baby/toodler moment photo competition.  The closing date is march 22nd.  I’m definately entering Alora.  Check out the details at http://www.harveynormanphotos.com.au/photo-competition.html They are offering a first prize of $10,000 towards your...

I’ve added some more recent photos of Alora to the “Emily – its a girl” page. Take a look… she’s smiling heaps now and is developing a deep laugh… like her mum… huh huh huh!

I’ve started a fitness class on a friday morning! Phew! Its funded by the Gold Coast City Council and run by mummylicious fitness just for new mums. Mummylicious run 4 classes a week and you can pre-purchase a 10 pass to use at any class over 3 months. This morning we did lots of core strength exercises which was fantastic for me as I need to tone up that tum! You can check out the program at mummylicious...

Today Christie and I caught up with the Bartercard crew for lunch. We went to a cafe called Peppertree – a Bartercard member. it was great to catch up on all the developments at work and hear alittle about the Franchisee conference taking place this week. Does anyone have any suggestions of good Gold Coast cafes or restaurants on Bartercard that we can meet at?

Yesterday Christie, Sienna, Alora and I went to the local children’s clinic’s ‘mum and bub class’. The presenter was from the Cancer Council discussing being sun-smart. She demonstrated a heap of hats, sunscreen and sunglasses. I hadn’t even thought about sunglasses for Alora! The Cancer council sell some really cute hot pink ones called Baby Banz ($19.95) which Christie and...

I was having problems with milk supply from the beginning with Sienna. To start with my doctor gave me medication called Motilium. This helped but I didn’t want to keep taking the tablets as there can be side effects. So I started taking Fenugreek which is one of the world’s oldest medicinal herbs.  It has a variety of uses, including increasing breastmilk production. You can buy it in tablet form...

A very sad day today, Granny Elsworth and uncle oz left to return to England. We’re planning on using MSN messenger lots so they can see and talk to Alora. Safe flight mum and oz x

Alora had her first night sleeping through… sorta!  Normally she wakes around 3.30am for a feed. Last night she woke at 11.30pm, which was unusual.  She put her self back to sleep, then woke again at 3.30am but again put herself back to sleep.  She woke at 5am and  I thought she was up and ready for a feed but she fell asleep in my arms.  She slept till 6am!!! It was a full 10 hrs!  Let’s...

Alora weighed in at 4.77kg yesterday.  She’s put on roughly 300 grams a week since she was last weighed! yay!

Yesterday Alora had her 2 month immunisation injections. Both scottie and I were alittle worried she would freak out at having a needle. She squealed alittle but wasn’t really that upset. After the appointment we bought some children’s panadol incase she got a fever. Sure enough Alora woke at 2am with a fever, we gave her 0.7 mls, as recommended by her doctor ,and fed her thereafter. She went...

Before going out to celebrate new years eve, uncle Oran had a go at feeding Alora! She seemed to to be a bit perplex at his funny facial hair! Following her feed she had a little kip! check out oz’s band Violet Bones They rock! the new single is called “I feel the need”. Digital download release will be available from the 15th February 2010 from all major on line digital record stores. HAPPY...

Alora had her first trip to the beach today. We met the crew (Granny elsworth, uncle oz Aunty leigh and uncle brian, cousins, Joanne and her kids) all down to byron bay. Alora fell asleep in the pub and slept for over an hour. I couldn’t believe it it was pack and 33c heat! very chuffed! Afterwards Scottie fed her under a pandanus tree overlooking the beach.

well now that we’ve sussed out that Alora likes to sleep on her front, she’s away! today she had a 2 1/2 hr morning sleep which scottie loved as he got to watch the cricket on the day bed in peace! Uncle paul, mia and lola visited for a bbq lunch and chilled with us on the deck. We’re yet to get the afternoon sleep sussed, we’ve had stuff on nearly every day so Alora hasn’t yet...

Alora’s first christmas! I didn’t get a chance to get scottie a christmas present this year so i wrapped alora and gave her to him for christmas! We spent the day at Scottie’s sisters – 20 people in total, it was huge!! Alora was a perfect baby and ….. slept! Uncle Paul gave Alora a very cute hat – check it out. [Show as slideshow] [View...

we had a night out last night with scotties parents and my mum.  (dinner at a surf club.)  Leigh (scotties sister) and her friend joanne baby sat for alora.  When we returned, my mum and the two super nannies suggested we now put alora to sleep on her tummy.  She’s a real cuddly baby and would only go to sleep if you rocked her on your front.  We tried the face down tummy position and hey presto,...

Yay! Sienna has put on weight this week! Last week she had lost 80 grams but with the assistance of tablets from the doctor to increase my milk flow she has put on 150 grams. She is back into a healthy weight and should continue to thrive. Hopefully my milk supply will also continue to increase. I was also suffering from mastitis, this has cleared up with the help of the antibiotic Keflex. My advice to anyone...

granny_mermaid ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 1 VLUU L100, M100 / Samsung L100, M100 Granny mermaid and poppy nemo came to visit today just in time for Alora’s bath!  Alora has decided she likes a deep bath so we have ditched the special baby bath we bought from K-mart and have started bathing her in the kitchen sink!! she loves...