August Mums n Bubs chat #2

[BambinaCattiva]

New thread for a new month, welcome to October ladies and babies!

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Hi,

I've been MIA for a few days, lots to catch up on. Won't try personals except to say good luck CC with your wait.

DH has bought a new car, which means I get his old one, which is better than mine, so technically I get a new car too. DH also goes away for a week tomorrow, but my parents are coming to stay fri for the long weekend so won't be too bad.

G is still sleeping really well. Feeding at 7amish, 10, 1, 4, 7 and 10, then sleeping through from 10 till 7ish the last 3 days or so.
How many feeds is everyone elses bubby having in 24hrs? My OB's receptionist told me yesterday not to wake for a feed at around 3 hrs, let her sleep, and she probably could get away with 5 feeds a day. I'm a bit scared to let her go too long as she's sleeping beautifully overnight with this many feeds. I fed C 3hrly, and don't really see the point in making G scream for a feed. If she's awake and happy at 3hr I feed. If she's not awake and has been asleep for awhile i gently wake her. What do you guys think about this?

G generally has around about an hours awake time around each feed. Someone was asking about awake time in the last thread. I've startd to spend more time talking to her and pulling faces now, G is responding with massive smiles and is goo-ing at me!!

C has been accident free with her toilet training for almost 4 days now. Bribery is brilliant! She's aiming for a Wiggles computer game and only has 1 star left to get!

That tv show on the abc is great, life at 1. It followed kids the same age as C, so I'll be keen to watch it thurs and see how they compare to her now.

Gotta go, C's having a narney!!

Will do better personals next time. Sorry!

[Rydens Mummy]

Oh no the 1st of october already.
Ryden is 2 months old today. Where has the time gone

Everyone have a good day
Stacey

[littleleos]

hey girls....

wow we r in oct already.... gee how amazing

I finally got aidens renal us results and everything is perfect :yelclap:
So our 2 vessal cord thing is now in the past:smiliedance:
Thankyou girls once again for all your support especially when I was 23 weeks preg... gee I really thought I wouldnt be holding my precious baby in my arms... far out stop crying:( my heart goes out to anyone that has lost a child... gee I only went through a week of such heart ache, I never wanna go back there ever.

had our nurse check up also... 5kg now and 57cm Im starting to think he might have strawberry blonde hair...

sleep and feeding etc.... oh any playing
aiden sleeps pretty well during the night, feeds at 930 3-4ish and 7ish and has a few power naps throughout the day...
he feeds on both boobies for about 10 - 15 minutes each...
during the night I rock him to sleep and during the day I let him play under his mobile with my or a bath him.
aiden can spend upto 30min under his mobile before he has had enough. I wrap him and he usually goes to sleep.

well thats it for me... hope u are all having a lovely day

ill chat to u latter

[Lyglc]

hi ladies.

Thanks Jasmine for starting a new thread for october. Just as for Stacey, my littel Chloe si 2 months old today too. It's gone so fast - so much faster than with my other two. I guess I;m just so much busier now so that's why the time is flying. Dn't feel like a have a newborn anymore:thumbsdown:

Anyway, as far as awake time. chloe is generally up for about 1.25 hours then will go down for a sleep. Sometimes it's a little shorter, sometimes a little longer. She is generallyon about a 3 hours routine, but I do find if i'm busy that i tend to let her sleep a little longer just so I can get things done.

Aline - great about Aiden's result:yelclap:. As far as anyone who has lost a child. I can even begin to compehend what they must go through - I think it would be so very devestating.

Anyway, must go,I'm going to go and get all the vegies chopped for dinner while Chloe is still asleep, then I just need to cook it all later and all the preparation will be done.

Hope you are all having a great day.

[Purpose Blessings]

Hi girls - thanks for your kindness. I just have lots going on at the moment and am getting a bit stressed. We are moving 1800km away in less than 3 weeks to a remote town in north WA. DD1 turns 2 on sunday and is really defiant and testing at the moment. I am trying to do too much as I am running out of time and things need to be done and I am over tired. I seem to have a constant headache. DH is stressed out about decisions he has made and is stressful to be around and my kids are picking up on all the unsettledness ( i know thats probably not a word) and are either acting out or are increadibly clingy. So those are my woes. Nothing too serious and nothing compared to what others are going through but enough to cloud my perspective sometimes so I find myself writing posts that are increadibly unfair about my kids. That is why I either delete them or just stay quiet.

Sorry have to go again as one of them is crying...

[2girls&1boy]

Hi everyone :wave:

New thread already. Man our little ones are growing so fast aren't they??

I am incredibly low today - for those of you in the weight loss thread you will see. Not only do I feel like a bit fat frump that is destined to be this big for ever but DH's company has gone broke and don't look like lasting the rest of this week:eek:.

We are not too concerned about the job thing as we are both very rainy day people so we are fine financially, it is just the whole upheaval and stress of looking for another position blah blah blah.

Sorry for the whinge but I am really not a happy camper and needed to vent to someone and my DH really doesn't need me dumping more worries on him at the moment.

Hi to everyone and will be more positive tomorrow I am sure??

[Misheycat]

Hi All,

Chloe seems to get a lot more awake time than others and not necessarily by choice :( I don't think I'm over stimulating her and I feed her as soon as I see tired signs but she's so restless and not sleeping very long during the day. I have a book here "save our sleep", I need to sit down and read this I really do, no more putting it off.

C&G's Mummy - Well done with Georgia's sleep patterns, I agree if it works for you don't change it!

Lianas1stbub - Congrats on Aidan's US results!

Rissa79 - BIG :hugs: hope things get better for you and the move works out to be a positive experience in the end!

2girlssfar - Sorry to hear about your DH's job, I know where you are coming from on this as mine is still not working but we are also ok financially for the moment. Mine has chosen not to look for a bit (which has been a little frustrating for me I admit) as we have a young bub. I hope things pick up for you soon, as I said in the other thread PLEASE don't let it get you down, we all feel like frumps so try and keep positive and take the weight-loss one day at a time! :hugs:

Hmm Chloe is grizzling again, better go!

Michelle

[fire~fly]

Hello everyone,

Wow its october already!!! I cant believe Ethan will be 2 months on friday, its scary that we are fastly approaching christmas!!! :eek:
We are going well, 4 days ago i had to move Ethan into his own room (at the other end of the house! :() because DS1 was getting really jealous that E was sleeping in our room, so every night DS1 was a horror to get to bed, and then during the night he would come and sleep on the lounge outside our bedroom. So now that E is in his own room (which is right next to big brothers room, Nicholas has been going to bed without a fuss and is sleeping in there all night! :smiliedance: I feel a bit sad not having ethan sleeping an arms length away anymore, and i was so anxious that first night, but i have to do whats right for ds1 too. And i was planning on moving E in there at 3 months when we have to take the bassinette back, so were just doing it a month earlier than expected.
Feed/Play/Sleep
Feeding ~ Ethan is roughly in a 3hr routine, but it changes day to day. I feed him whenever he wants it which seems to be more frequently lately because he is bringing up ALOT of his milk so is hungry again sooner. He still will only take the 1 side and i dont think he is even fully emptying it, but he is happy so im not too fussed. In the afternoon he cluster feeds.
Play ~ He usually only stays awake for about 1hr15mins at a time, this consists of feeding, changing, playing on playmat or in swing/bouncer, looking at big brother and mummy on the bed and tickles and goo'ing and gaa'ing, if the weather is nice we will go for a walk outside or up to the park.
Sleep ~ He will usually sleep for 1.5hrs but if he wakes up after only 45 mins he will only stay up for about 30mins before he is tired and ready for a sleep again. For the last week he has been going to bed at 7pm then waking at 1am'ish and 4am'ish then up for the day at 7am. but last night he went to bed at 7.30pm, fed at 2am and slept until 7am!!:yelclap: man were my boobies full when i got up this morning! Had to express because there was no way that he was going to empty them!

2girls ~ I know how you feel about being depressed about weight, i feel so fat and ugly at the moment, i feel like im never going to loose weight because ive started WW this week and i feel so hungry all day! I hope your DH can find another job easily if it comes to that. My DH has just started a new business and its pretty stressful, especially now that hes working longer hours than what were used to.
Rissa ~ :hugs: for you! I have found it hard to tolerate my DS1 lately and have found myself really not wanting to be around him, but i have to remember that its a huge adjustment having his the new baby around, so i have decided to ignore the housework and whenever E is sleeping i make sure i spend quality time with ds1. Do you have any friends or family where you are moving? Well you will still have us (provided you will have the internet!!)
lyglc ~ yeah i dont feel like E is a newborn anymore either, i guess they are classed as "infant's" now hey?
Liana ~ Im so glad everything is ok with A now, how stressful it must have been for you.
jas ~ thanks for starting the new thread!

Sorry to everyone ive missed, was wanting to write more but E has woken up from his nap!
Bye!

[CrispyChicken]

Im sorry i seem to always be in a rush lately and havent had much time to do personals, but do want to keep you updated with Amelia.

GOOD NEWS!!! Amelia is just a carrier and doesnt have Cystic Fibrosis!

The paed called the hospy to get the results and then called us so we could find out sooner. So nice of him.

DH and I just have to get tested now to see who has the gene or if both of us do and one of us just didnt pass it on this time...

I have read the posts and see a few of you need hugs, so BIG :hugs:s to all who are down, busy, feeling fat, sick, moving, etc.

Well, im off to get some things done before the little miss wakes up!

Oh, by the way, Amelia's big 7 hour sleep was just a once off... bummer.

[cheezelz]

Congrats CC thats great news.:smiliedance:

[Lyglc]

Kristy - That's the best news I've heard all day!!!!

I'm so happy for you and Amelia (and dh too). You must feel so relieved. Try to take a bit of time for yourself the next day or 2 - it's such an emotional time and I know for me I was happy, but felt so drained for a few days afterwards.
Great that you also found out so quickly, especially when they originally said friday.

Anyway, really tired, must go. got a few things to do before Chloe's last feed and then I will hopefully get to bed. I really hope that I don't cough too much tonight. As soon as I go to bed (lie down) it gets so much worse - the last few nights it's been about 1 hour before the coughing stops and I can go to sleep.

Chloe is still coughing too, although she doesn't seem too distressed by it. She is coughing alot more though in the evening/night time especially when laying down too.

Take care ladies, Yvonne.

[Purpose Blessings]

yvonne - hopefully this gets you before you go...I read somewhere recently that putting vicks on your feet and then socks on is a miracle cure for coughing at night. I don't know if its true but might be worth trying just in cas it works.

[tahnee11]

Hi:wave:

My 15yr old brother is on holidays and has come to stay with me for a few days. He has definitely been a godsend. I have had a lot of trouble coping lately because of DS's tantrums and Isabelle's unsettledness and my brother has been great. DF on the otherhand has just been frustrating and difficult. Everytime Isabelle cries, DF just stands there and shakes his head because of the noise. The other night he said that all she does is cry. I got so angry with him because i'm the one who has her 24hrs and feeds,changes and settles her so why should he be whinging. He then got angry at me and said he thinks he is going through some sort of depression:confused:. Yesterday Isabelle was really unsettled so i was walking around the house feeding her until DS fell over and hit his ear (bruised straight away). DF told me to put Isabelle down and hold Dylan while he ran a bath so Dylan could eat a jelly cup in there. Once Dylan was in the bath, he spilled the jelly in the water and then wanted to get out. By this time Isabelle was in my arms again because she was crying so I asked DF if he would get DS out and he chucked this huge hissy fit about how he has had to do so much for DS lately. He makes it sound like, if he works, he shouldn't help with the kids. I am so emotionally and physically drained right now that I just snap at DF all the time. I just wish he would understand and take a bit more responsibility. Am I asking too much?? We are very tight with money at the money which has contributed a lot to the stress around here but I don't see why that should make us turn at each other.

Sorry for the vent but I have so much bottled up right now that I just needed to get it out.

Ok, time for some personals:

Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy - Isabelle has also had more awake time lately. When she's not crying, she gives these massive smiles like she's trying to laugh, very cute.

lianas1stbub - Great to hear the results came back perfect and that Aiden is still sleeping well.

rissa79 - :hugs:I understand how hard it would be to move so far away. I know I coulldn't do it. Do you have family or friends out there?

2girlssofar - :hugs: I hope a new job pops up soon for your DH

misheycat - I hope that book can help you because I definitely think that an unsettled bubs leads to a very emotional mum (aka me lol). I hope Chloe settles better for you soon.

fire~fly - It is sad when the little ones move into there own room. Thankfully DS hasn't got jealous about that yet.

CC - That's great news about Amelia:smiliedance:

lgylc - I hope the cooughing wasn't too bad last night.

BambinaCattiva - I can't help you to much with the dummy dilemma as my DS still has one but only for when he goes to bed, he spits it out through the night.

I hope everyone else is well and :hugs:to all.

[cheezelz]

Im just getting Brie ready for daycare but just wanted to boast that Piper slept 10hrs last night:smiliedance: She has been a great 8-9hr night sleeper without a feed but to increase to 10hrs is fantastic. DH & I went to bed at 8.45 last night and didnt wake till 6am. I dont mean to rub it in anyones face but Im just feeling very refreshed. :thumbsup:

[cheezelz]

Sorry I should add that with Brie I woke up to feed her every 2.5hrs for the first 4 months of her life. Its like she had an internal alarm closk that woke her up day & night at exactly 2.5hrs after the last feed. I was a mess. So I know how other sleepless mums are feeling. Ive been thru it. :yes:

Oh & Im taking Piper for her 1st immunisations today. No hesitations with it. Brie has had all of hers. Piper is just a bit last because I hadnt found time.

Anyone excited about the latest hi-5 dvd coming out today? I am!! Takig Brie to see them next month and this DVD has all the songs they will sing in the concert. I get excited when I see her copy them dance. Want her to learn a few of the songs to make the concert better for her if she knows the moves.

[babynumberone]

Good Morning Girls!

Tahnee: :hugs: I agree with Jasmine, maybe your DF should visit his GP. Glad your little bro is helping you out.

Kristy: So happy for you and your family!

Hayley: Ethan sounds like a great bub! Zaydn only takes one side each time too but he seems fine with it and is putting on weight nicely. He is now 5.6kg at 7 weeks. Everyone (well complete strangers actually like shop assistants) all comment on his size "oh my god he is huge," "what a chubby baby" and so on! It really got on my nerves yesterday as 7 women commented. And they say it like it is a bad thing, what do the expect me to do, ignore him when he is crying for a feed just because he is a little bigger than others his age :no:
Sorry, got a bit sidetracked then. Glad you managed to solve the night time drama with Nicholas.

Paula: Hope you feel better today :hugs:

Marissa: :hugs: for you too. You have so much going on now, no wonder you are feelimg stressed. What town are you moving too? Are you planning to live there long? I grew up in Port Hedland - I had a great childhood - fishing, camping on the beach etc. Your kids will really enjoy themselves!

Yvonne: Is your cough any better today? I hope so.

Alina: Fantastic news about Aiden's results - I am very happy for you!

C&G's Mummy: I think gently waking Georgia at the 3 hour mark is a good idea. If you let her go longer, she may get her nights and days mixed up (that is what my midwife told me). What you are doing sounds great so I say stick to it! Zaydn has between 8 - 10 feeds a day. He is all over the place atm though.

Getting bub to sleep: I do whatever works. I'm not fussed if Z falls asllep while feeding which he often does. I have come to terms with the fact that he is a velcro baby (always stuck on me or DH) so he falls asleep on us then we put him down when he is in a deep sleep. However, he has recentley started to fall asleep in his swing which makes things a little easier.

Big hello to everyone else!

Things have been a bit rough lately. Z has an extremely snotty nose at night and is causing him a lot of grief. The longest sleep he has at night is 3.5 hours and then he is waking up every hour or two. He isn't waking because he is hungry, he is just finding it hard to breathe and becomes frustrated :(
I have tried saline nose drops, nose suctioner, baby vix (not on his skin, I just hold the tub under his nose), his bed is raised and I am currently hiring a vapouriser from the chemist. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I have some good news aswell though - Z's cast comes off for good one Monday :yelclap:
I am so happy for him! He will be able to have a shower everyday and kick both legs around as much as he wants!

Hope everyone has a great day,

Claire x

[Purpose Blessings]

Good morning everyone

I am feeling a bit more positive today so will get straight to personals and then tell you all whats been going on with me if I get time.

Yvonne - How did you sleep? I hope yours and Chloe's coughing was not too bad.

Jaz - Up until a couple of days ago I have only been using a dummy when we are in the car as Emily really seems to hate being in her car seat. I have been trying to get her to feed on a bit more of a routine the last few days and so have given her a dummy if she has woken up before two hours from her last feed just in case she just wants to suck. I have had no problem at all with my kids becoming dependant on dummies so I feel like they are a great tool. Also Emily normally settles to sleep on her own in the bassinet. Nomally I just wrap her up and put her down, she cries for a minute or so and then falls asleep. Sometimes this doesn't work though and she has to be nursed to sleep and on rare occasions fed to sleep.

Cheezels - WOW, what a wonderful sleeper you have. You must be very happy. My kids aren't really into Hi5. Ds loves Curious George atm and DD1 love Dora. Ds has been copying swiper from Dora and walking around hiding things and then saying 'you'll never find it now, he he he' It is very cute.

tahnee - :hugs: for you. It can be very hard when it feels like you are having to do it all on your own and your partner is being less than helpful. My DH got a sort of depression after the birth of our first. He was really miserable al the time and kept going on about how his life had been ruined. He loved his son, but really struggled. I read after we'd gotten through this about male pnd and am sure that it is what DH had. I don't know if he would have gotten any professional help if I had suggested it but it might have helped for his feelings to be validated and for him to know that other dads were feeling the same.

I hope things get better for you guys.

CC - that is such great news :yelclap::D:yelclap:. You guys must be so relieved. I am so happy that you got a good result.

Thats all the ones that are listed and that I can remember. For those who I have forgotten, I hope you are going well.

As for me, like I said before I am feeling a little less stressed. The sun is out this morning and for the first morning this week I don't have to go out (well until tonight andyway), so I am feeling a lot more calm.

The move up north is a big one, but I am fortunate to have 1 friend up there already (she moved up a few months ago). Dh's company move us which means that they send packers to do all the work. I just have to go through all the stuff before hand to make sure we are not taking junk (3 years ago when they moved us last they even packed the contents of the bins - eww) We will probably get a much smaller house than what we have here aswell (i won't know until we get there) so I have to get rid of things we will just not have room for. I am not too stessed about the actual move but rather trying to get everything ready and trying to make the process as calm and pain free for my family. My kids have had to deal with lots of new transitions lately and now I am taking them away from their home, their town, their friends and everything that they know. Dh is starting a new position which means he'll be stressed while he learns the ropes. And to top it all off we will be moving out of a cold and rainy winter where the kids have had to be inside most of the time and into a very hot (i think the average temp is about 38 degrees and last year it peaked at 48:sunshine:) summer where they will have to be inside most of the time as it is too hot.

But on a big positive all the houses up there have hills hoist clothes lines (my one here is a pull out style) and with the warmer weather all the clothes will dry quickly and I won't need to use a dryer.

I have finally been converted to cloth nappies. I tried them with my first but forund it way too hard and didn't even attempt it with my second. But for some reason with number three I find it easier and so much more satisfying. I just use terry flats not mcns as I cant justify the cost seen as though this is my last child. I also love the way they look on the clothes line and find it theraputic folding them. I have even started putting DD1 in them (she will be 2 on the weekend) and DS in them at night.

Yvonne - I remember you saying that you made your own wipes. I bought some flanilette fabric yesterday to to this too (If I'm going to wash nappies I may as well wash the wipes as well and it must be so much nicer on their little bums). Did you just cut it up and overlock the edges? My overlocker is a little dusty but I'm thinking this is what I mioght do doday when the kids have their naps.

Anyway I'd better get some cleaning done and spend some quality time with the kids.

Hope you all have a great day.:flowerz:

[Purpose Blessings]

Claire - I took me so long (between running after the kids) to write my last post that you posted while I was writing. That is wonderful news about Z's cast coming off for good. I hope his snotty nose clears up soon for him though. Try not to let other people's comments annoy you too much. I get it with E as well. People ask how old she is and when I tell them 11 weeks they look shocked and say how big she is. I don't mention that she was 5 weeks prem and is only supposed to be 6 weeks old. I'm not sure how much she weighs now, I might have to weigh her and find out.

Alina - sorry I missed you before. That is absolutely wonderful news about Aiden's results. It was such a stressful time for you, I'm really glad that he is all right and you don't have to worry anymore.

ok, I here the rubbish truck coming so i have to run like a mad woman to make sure that our bin is out. . .

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there ladies,

Thanks for your support yesterday, very low day. I am not much happier today as DH invited his BF from schooldays over on friday night and his wife (she is little miss perfect IYKWIM and doesn't she know it??) but I am doing something about the weight issue at least and am doing a little workout on the treadmill this afternoon.

Claire - I adore chubby bubbies, Hannah was a real chubber and she was adorable as a baby (still is). At least you know that if Z got sick he has a little bit of weight to help him get through it. Also congrats for Z on getting the cast off soon, I bet he will be loving those baths.

cheezelz - OMG:eek: what a great little sleeper you have there.. Sean is good but I do still look forward to that day when I put him down at 7:30 and don't see him again until 6ish the next.

Rissa - I am glad you have a friend where you are going. A little support network goes a long long way. Good luck with the move..

tahnee - sorry to hear your partner is not the most supportive at the moment and no you are not asking too much at all. My dh seemed to go through a bit of this before Sean came along but is better now. I think they sometimes forget that yes they go to work but unlike us their job does finish at the end of their shift/day. Our job goes 24/7 and especially with a new baby you need help in particular with older siblings. Maybe too he is feeling a little down as really there is nothing he can do to settle Isabelle like you can. Very strange creatures those males are..

CC - I am so glad to hear about AMELIA. I bet you are feeling so much better.

Apologies to anyone I have forgotten.

Sean is still pretty ordinary sleeper during the day but man those little smiles and gurgles make up for it. I said to DH last night I am just so taken with Sean. I think maybe as I know he is our last I am just really savouring every little thing he does and I find him just so adorable.

Anyhoo enough from me hi to you all and have a good afternoon.:wave:

[littleleos]

hey everyone... how ya doing

aiden is finally asleep..... i think:cool: I have tried everyting. went for a walk, wrapped him, rocked him, errr he is such a power napper but hopefully this power nap will turn into a big sleep......

I gave aiden 1ml of mylanta this am and have had no acid vomits.... how good is that, he has also been so much more settled... not squirming so much after a feed

to those mummas that have babies that are sleeping through the night... what is your secret????? when they wake, do u put them back to sleep. Im just assuming that aiden is hungry when he wakes, could he just be uncomfortable?????

dummies... well I put one in aidens mouth to see what he looked like and I havent taken it out ever since:no: it works sometimes... gives my boobies a rest.... bambi was it u that was thinking of going turkey? Im not and expert but hmmm I would try to decrease dummy time and try something else instead.

poor little bubbas with colds.... saline nose drops are pretty much the best thing to clr a little bubbas nose... also can try elevating theie bed alittle bit to help with lung expansion... like when we have a cold we usually have a sore throat... so maybe abit of panadol to help with the discomfort... Im not a fan of those nose suckers... most of the yucky boogers are down the back of their nose where they cant reach.

yeah for zaydens cast coming off... did u keep them all... can u tell the different sizes week by week, did his blister heal ok???

well I am finally really enjoying breast feeding :smiliedance: still alittle bit ouchy.... I went to the dr yesterday cuz I was experiencing some symptoms of thrush or staff again... and she just put me on another dose of anti bugs... (she is a GP in training) so im not to sure if I should take them.... so I have just been spraying my nipples with fess nasal spray, im so over the decktarin gel... but still getting stabbing pains in my boobies... kinda like a really bad let down???? is anyone else getting this????
still about boobies.... how long does it take your bubba to finish a boob... seems like aiden is taking about 10minutes!!!! then I offer him my other (sometimes I wish I had 3)

well I think aidens power sleep has turned into the real thing

I have sooooooooooooo much to do so ill see ya latter

[Lyglc]

Well I'll try and see how far i get with personals as Chloe is due for a feed anytime now so I think she'll probably wake very soon.

But first of all - chloe slept through last night!!!! the longest she has gone. She had a little feed at 11pm (had to wake her for this one) and then she slept until just before 7am. I felt so much better this morning for getting so much sleep in a block.
The last 3 nights I have had to wake her for her last feed (sometime around 10-11) so I'm not sure if I should start to drop this feed and just let her go. I just don't want her to be waking twice in the night if I do this. Maybe I'll keep doing this last feed for a few more nights and then decide??

2girls - sorry you had a bad day yesterday. But you are right - you are doing something about it. Anyway, you have a beautiful new baby and even if you put on weight because you had him, wasn't it worth it! Good luck with the treadmill this afternoon.
Glad that you are enjoying Sean so much. I think that when you pretty much know they are your last child, it givs you a slightly different perspective. I think from other mums I've heard it's either, thank goodness it's the last time (eg, pregnancy, childbirth, sleeplessness nights, nappies etc) or they are savouring the time. I think for me it's mostly the enjoyment, but there are occasions when I think i'm glad I probably wont be doing this again.

Marissa - thannks for asking about my cough - I still have (and Chloe), but it is getting better. Didn't have much trouble getting to sleep last night which is great. I'm coughing no where near as much and when I do I'm generally not getting the headaches now.
Glad to hear that you have a friend where you are moving to - that will make it easier. but remember you have us too! So even when everything is new, you can still jump on the computer and chat away as normal! Good luck with sorting through all your possessions.
As far as the wipes, I made them from microfleece so they didn't need any edging, just had to cut them to size. If you have an overlocker though that would probably be the best to stop them from fraying.(I sent you a pm)
I love my clothwipes, so much nicer than disposable ones (even my dh agrees). I do have problems with the cloth nappies leaking though and Chloe seems to get very bad nappy rash when she is using them (unless it's just a co-incidence).might try the cloth nappies again in a couple of days (her bottom has just cleared up again from the last lot of nappy rash).
thanks also for the hint about the vicks!

tahnee - I had actually been wondering if your dh had some type if depression a little while ago (just from stuff that was in your posts). I wasn't going to say anything though in case I was completely wrong, but since you have brought it up I hope you don't mind if I comment. I think my dh has sometimes been depressed and he thinks so too. Alot of the stuff you have said sound similar to what he has gone through a bit. Especially with you saying that often your dh has said he would get up and look after the kids, but then stays sleeping. I think that sleeping alot is a very common thing when people are depressed.
I also know when we have had money troubles my dh has taken it very hard. I know earlier this year when things got really tough for us my dh was not fun to be around. He was so stressed about money and us losing the house (which we weren't anywhere near doing). I think he felt because he was the only working that all the responsibility was on his shoulders - and for him that was a huge amount of pressure.
Also as far as Isabelle not being settled and dh not being happy about it, is he only seeing her at the unsettled time of the day. I know my ds was very unsettled in the evenings and after having a perfect baby with dd1, my dh thought that ds was always unhappy. It was just that he saw him in the evenings which was ds's worst part of the day. This time with Chloe, he realises from experience that her unsettledness isn't the way she always is, just that sh'es that way in the evenings. It's sad when the dad's get to see the babies at their worst.....
I know also for my dh he really likes to feel appreciated and I know he seems happier when I comment on how hard he is working for our family. I know it's horrible when both people are stressed and seem to take it out on each other when instead it should be a time to lean on each other instead.
I don't know if anything I wrote makes sense (just speaking from my own experience)

cheezlez - great sleeping by Piper!!!! It's also nice especially when your last baby was not too good as sleeping at night time.
Souds cute about Brie learnign the hi_5 dances. My dd1 loved h-5. She will still watch a video very occasionally, but no so much into them now that she's 5.

Jasmine - generally I don't have to put Chloe to sleep. She tend to go off by herself. Sometimes she will fall asleep when on the floor (in the playpen to protect her from dd1 and ds). Sometimes she will get really irritable and then I give her a cuddle and she will often start closing her eyes and start yawning so I know she's ready for bed. Generally I will just pop her into bed then and she goes off by herself. Occasionally she'll cry and if this last for more than say 30 seconds i'll try patting her, If she's really upset then I'll pick her up, and then usually she falls asleep within a minute or so in my arms so I pop her back into bed.
In the evenings it's usually a different story, we will often rock/pat her to sleep in our arms as she is very unsettled.
During the night, I just pop her back into bed after burping her and she falls off to sleep by herself. She probably sounds pretty easy from this (which I think she is), but ds was much more difficult so I do understnad that it can be tricky getting them to go to sleep!

Claire - hope Zaydn is feeling better. If he's nose is all blocked he could be getting a really dry mouth too, as he's probably breathing through his mouth. So glad to hear that his cast comes off next week for good! That's great news - you must be so pleased. It's also really good that it's before summer is upon us as that wouldn't have been much fun for him.

Everyone else - A big hello!!!!!!!

Hope you are all having a good day. I've taken ages writing this post as i've had many interruptions. Chloe is still asleep I should go and wake her as it's been 4 hours since her last feed,

Hoping to go to the park after feeding her as it's gorgeous day here today!

[Lyglc]

my gosh, I wrote a bit, didn't I!

Liana - Chloe generally doesn't wake much during the night. If she does I listen to her cry, if it's just a little one I'll wait, but if it turs int a real cry then I'll get up and feed her. Quite often (even during the days) she wakes during her sleeps, makes some noises and then will go back to sleep.

Great news about the b/f. You've been very persistant especillay with all the complications. I'm really pleased this has worked out for you as it was what you were really wanting.

[Purpose Blessings]

oh Claire, i forgot to say that i am moving to Karratha. Its great to hear stories about how good it is up there. We are moving particularly for the kids. The lifestyle is just what we want for them and sounds like heaps of fun for us aswell. Not sure how long we will be there. I've stopped looking past 3 years these days as DH gets moved heaps for work and 3 years is the longest we have lived anywhere.

[CrispyChicken]

claire - yay for zaydn's cast coming off! it will make you so happy to see him 'free' again! oh and i get the same comments about amelia being big. she now weighs 5.1kg at 6 weeks. people hardly beleive me when i tell them she is 6 weeks. i think all her hair makes her look older too.

yvonne - i am having the same trouble with amelia. the first night i tried moving her last feed earlier (to 8pm instead of 10pm) and she slept for 7 hours! but the next night i tried it again and she woke at 12am and then 4am... im not sure what to do either.

[tahnee11]

Hi everyone,
Thanks everyone for your support. DF has been pretty nice today so hopefully thats a good sign. I think Isabelle is starting to get a stuffy nose so that could be making her a tad unsettled. I have a doc appointment tomorrow for her needles so we'll see what the doc says.

lyglc - Thankyou so much for your advice. Isabelle's unsettled time usually occurs right before DF has to go to work so instead of him being able to relax before work, he ends up having to listen to a screaming baby. I might talk to DF about it on the way to the docs tomorrow and see how he is feeling.

2girlssofar - I hope you are feeling a bit better this afternoon.

Rissa79 - I hope the move goes well for you and i'm glad the cloth nappies are working so well for you.

babynumberone - Isabelle has just started to get a stuffy nose so i'm going to see what my doc recommends for her. It's so hard when they are little, especially when they are already having trouble sleeping.

BambinaCattiva - Thanks for the advice for DF to see a doc. I'm going to suggest it to him but whether or not he does is another question. He hates doctors so he will probably be stubborn

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi Girls,

Nothing much here to report. Just thought i would say hi.

Ryden has got himself into a nice little routine. He sleeps from 9pm until anywhere between 630-730am. He then feeds and has another 4 hours sleep. The only problem is that he dosnt really have much of a sleep between Lunch time and his bed time. He cat naps if we are at home, maybe half hour here or there. If we are out he sleeps well in the car or in his pram. He might nod of at 6pm until 8pm. Im not too fussed about it as he is never grumpy, he plays in his rocker or on is play mat and we have lots of one on one time. So im not sure if i should change his routine so he gets at least to decent sleeps. But i dont want to interupt his night sleep. I would rather him sleep through the night.

Any ideas

Todays latest tricks is that he has decided to smile a lot more, and even talks to himself. SOmetime you could think he is trying to talk to you, because he is looking me in the eyes talking away. He just melts my heart.


Stacey

[littleleos]

hey girls

quick question.... has anyone got the dunstan baby language dvd

when aiden is hungry he cries and says geng geng geng.... just wanted to know if it is one of the words????

and if u can remember what are the other sounds for wind, tiredness etc

going to listen to his cry when he wakes during the night.... maybe I can skip the feed shorly he can go without as he has put on 850gm in 3 weeks....

chat to u latter

[cheezelz]

Took Piper for her immunisations today. DH did the forst ones with Brie but this time he had to work. I popped Brie in daycare and did a bit of shopping before our appointment incase we couldnt get out after. OMG she screamed the house down. Poor little puppet went all red. She looked like she was screaming but nothing came out for about 5 seconds then wwwaaaaahhhhhhh! Thank god the nurse was real quick with the second needle so she didnt have time to relax inbetween. When Brie had her 12 month immunisations the nurse did the 2 needles about 3 minutes apart. That gave Brie enough time to recover then get hit again. Poor thing. She also got weighed and is 5.28kg. She has put on 580gms in 3.5weeks. I think thats good. She is also now 58cm long.

Does anyone write things in their blue books. I know there is a page to date when bubs smiles, laughs, talks etc. But do you write extra?? In Bries I have written pages of extra things to remember like hospital visits, dates of all her teeth cutting and when she properly pronouned her 1st 2 syllable word 'bubble' last month :smiliedance:. With Piper I have written about the whooping cough scare & starting FF. My mum can remember everything us kids did but I have a shocking memory.

Im going to prepare for bed. Murphys Law that I bet I'll be up all night with Piper.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Real quicky from me tonight as I'm exhausted because I did a bunch of exercise (man I'm unfit) and had an unsettled morning and afternoon with Chloe again (but I won't go there, I've whinged enough about this before).

CrispyChicken - I know this is mega delayed but a big congrats to you and your DH on Amelia's results, yay!

BambinaCattiva - Unfortunately we have succumbed to using the dummy and the way Chloe has been of late its been my savour in settling her, will need to ween her off it eventually.

Cheezelz - Congrats on the mega long sleep again, Piper is such a good bub!

BabyNumberOne - Excellent news about Zaydn's cast :yelclap: Hopefully his stuffy nose clears up soon!

Rissa79 - So glad you are feeling better today and much more positive.

2girlssofar - Hope things improve for you soon :hugs:. Have fun on the treadmill, I ran on mine today when Chloe finally went to sleep and it was actually good to chill out and listen to my ipod whilst sweating like a pig. Bring on the weight-loss I say! :thumbsup:

Lyglc - WOOOAH that was a massive post! :laughing: Congrats on your Chloe sleeping all through the night! Wish my Chloe was as good!

Hi to anyone I've missed! :wave:

Anyhow need to go nap, have a good night girls!

:flowerz:

Michelle

[cheezelz]

hey girls

quick question.... has anyone got the dunstan baby language dvd

when aiden is hungry he cries and says geng geng geng.... just wanted to know if it is one of the words????

and if u can remember what are the other sounds for wind, tiredness etc

going to listen to his cry when he wakes during the night.... maybe I can skip the feed shorly he can go without as he has put on 850gm in 3 weeks....

chat to u latter

Hunger is 'neh' The tongue reaches the roof of the mouth like a sucking motion.

I have the interview she did with Ray Martin. Im sure that if you search her on the internet you could find the other sounds.

Neh: "I'm hungry"
Owh: "I'm sleepy
Eh: "I need to burp"
Eairh: "I have lower gas"
Heh: "I'm uncomfortable

[Lyglc]

cheezelz - i like what you have at the bottom of your signature - turning chunky legs into spunky legs!
thanks also for thsoe baby sounds. i was thinking about those just the other day, but had no idea what they were. I think I have a reasonably good idea most of the time with Chloe with what she wants but I will definately take notice of the sounds she is making.
Poop Piper with her needles. I just hate the "silent cry" - you know it is always building up to something very loud and the poor little things look so distressed!

mishey - bummer that Chloe was unsettled again - hope that she gives you some good sleep tonight. you'll need it after your marathon effort.

Alina - that's great weight gain for Aiden!

Stacey - what a great sleep Ryden is having at night. I must admit, if it was me I'd leave things as they are as for me the night sleep is very important (so that I get enough sleep - much happier mummy then:yes:). I know from an info sheet from the health nurse it says that a 1-3 month old baby should be having around 15 hours sleep total per day, about 9-10 hours sleep at night time and then 6-5 hours during the day and to have 3 daytime naps. This will give you a rough idea of how much sleep he needs. I know my kids always had more naps during the day (probably 4, maybe even 5). but the total amount of sleep is the main thing I think and if he's happy when he's awake and putting on weight nicely then I think just keep doing what you're doing if you're happy with that.

tahnee - great tp here that today has been going better. hope dr appointment goes well tomorrow for Isabelle - hope she's better really soon.

chat tomorrow ladies - see ya!

[icugal]

Hi gorgeous girls !!! :wave:

Once again I must apologise for not being around. Life is a little hectic here atm... and having a 20 month hell-bent on destroying my house is not helping with things (all you first time mums... just wait until your gorgeous little bundles turn into evil toddlers *LOL*).

CC - So glad to hear that Amelia is free of cystic fibrosis !!! What a relief that must be.

Alina - Also happy to hear that Aiden's renal ultrasounds are good. Ashton is due to have another renal ultrasound in another 6 weeks or so (he was born with mild hydronephrosis)

Paula - I hear you on the whole overweight thing. I'm in the process of re-starting WW because I'm so unbelievably fat. So far I've lost nearly 3kgs in 2 weeks... but the weight is not coming off without a fight. My metabolism is definately not what it used to be. I also have to live with the fact that after 2 caesars... the awful tummy overhang is here to stay... forever !! Good luck mate !!

Yvonne - Your ability to respond to everybody all the time always amazes me !! Well done !!

Marissa - Good luck with the move !! We're going to be moving in about three weeks ourselves... except that we're only relocating about 15-20kms away... not 1000's like you !!!


Sleeping/settling - Ashton is now sleeping generally from about 9pm through to about 7am. For the record, he is now fully bottlefed (and has been since he was 6 weeks old) and that I generally put a little bit of thickener in his bottle at the last feed to help him feel a bit fuller (though I will stop this once the tin runs out). It's nice he is sleeping through... but the consequence of this is that he is feeding more regularly during the day to compensate (sometimes 1-2 hourly). My child seems to be starving 24/7... I kid you not. I seem to spend my entire day feeding this baby... and he is getting HUGE. My little Buddha baby !! :D

[tahnee11]

Morning ladies,

I am feeling so refreshed this morning, i have had a shower, cleaned the kitchen, put the washing on and bathed Isabelle. I hope this means i'm going to have a good day:D.
I hope everyone else is feeling well this morning and had a good nights rest.

Enjoy your day everyone:thumbsup:

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there lovely ladies :wave:

Feeling pretty good this morning. I went on the treadmill yesterday and will again today. It makes you feel so good to do some exercise, it is the starting that is the hard part.

Sean slept from 6:30 - 2am and then from 2:40-6:30 this morning. I cannot seem to get him to stay up any later than 6:30pm not matter what I do. He just wants to go to bed then and that is it.

tahnee - good on you for getting all that stuff done already !! Yes it means a good day for you..... I too have got heaps done already this morning and am feeling pretty positive it will be a good day.

icugal - great news on ashton's sleeping. Good to hear he is putting on heaps of weight, I just love chubby babies.

lyglc - :iagree: everyone's life is happier when mummy gets enough nighttime sleep and is happy..

mishey - you are a champion on the treadmill well done - I only managed to do 30 minutes (I wasn't tired but I didn't want to be sore and then refuse to get back on)

cheezelz - I hate immunisation time. I have cried with the first needle for each of my kids. I have had to do them by myself and I found it quite emotional. DH wondered why I was so upset but then he went to the 4mth ones and came out rather upset too.

liana - great weight gain for little aiden :smiliedance:

hello to everyone else got to go, sean is asking for some milk. I swear sometimes it sounds like he is screaming "muuuuuuummmmmmm"

[Tarabell]

Morning beautiful girls and bubs,

Feeling more awake this morning than I did yesterday... Little E slept from 7pm-1.30am, had a feed (wanted to play) and went back to sleep until 6.30am. He was obviuosly hot during the night as he decided he didn't want his bed clothes on so he kicked them off.

Immunisations - I'll be glad when the Rotovirus vaccine is out of Little E's system, OMG the past two mornings it has gone EVERYWHERE. I got poo all over me yesterday morning from an explosion out of the top of the nappy, then this morning I had to bath him as it exploded out the bottom of the nappy! They say that day 7 is the worst day, well that would be today!! Here's hoping that I have seen the last of it.

I am going to have to take E back to the GP as his eczema is not getting any better, I have tried Sorbolene and this other grease stuff that the pharmacist recommended, however it has made no difference and it is started to irritate him now as he is scratching his chest and I don't want it to get infected... poor little man!

Me - still having good and bad days, had a good chat to DH yesterday about how I was feeling re the family situation amongst other things and he is becoming more understanding of how tough things are for me at the moment and has been a little more patient and not making out I am such a bad mother because E is crying.... :(

Best go and do some chores, taking E into the City this morning to get him weighed (why not) whilst DH is at his job interview.

Have a great day girls,

T

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Hey there!

:iagree: with all the personals done so far.....so won't repeat them, mainly cos I'm lazy.

DH left yesterday for a week camping/shooting/golfing with his brothers. So wouldn't you know it C was sick! I had to take her to the dr, she had a temp, was tired and asking for a sleep (not normal for her) was saying she was cold but had goosebumps and had a sore throat. She's got tonsillitis, so is on antibiotics and slept with me last night.

Good news is G slept from 10 last night til 7:30am!!!:smiliedance: I can't believe how lucky I've been with her sleeping at night.

My parents are coming today to stay with us for the long weekend. We're picking up a trampoline for th girls xmas pressie this arvo and will set it up for C to play with.

Nothing else happening, so will try and check back later.

Forgot to say Congrats Kristy on Amelia's results. Wonderful news!!

CYA:wave:

[Rydens Mummy]

Good Morning Girls,

Ihope everyone had a good sleep. If not i hope you get a nap today.

Well suprisingly Ryden slept through last night. Becasue for the last week or so he has been sleeping through but i have been boob feeding him followed by bum change, put into PJs then he has a huge bottle (200ml) he is a pig. Then he sleeps through. Last night he was in his PJs early i boob fed him at 800pm and he fell sound aswleep on the boob. I put him in his bed thinking he will wake in and hour or so for the rest of hi fed. But he didnt. He didnt wake until 5.00am this morning if fed him again and he went back to sleep until 8.30. If he had the bottle he would have slept until 630. so not too much difference. So hopefully tonight he might not have the bottle. That means he is only one top up feed from being fully breast fed again. Yay.

Stacey

[tahnee11]

Hi, just checking in before I go out again.
Isabelle had her needles today and she wasn't too happy:(. She has also put on 1kg since i visited the docs 2 weeks ago which means she now weighs 7.2kg and is ABOVE the highest percentile in the book:eek:. The nurse also said she is teething already as her gums are a whitish colour so that may explain the unsettledness for the past week. She seems to be reaching her milestones pretty early. Anyway gotta run. Talk to you all later.:wave:

[Misheycat]

Hi All,

Just a quick one from me...

Well I finally received my baby scale today, paid $2.75 for it on ebay (well plus $25.00 postage but still cheap). Weighed Chloe she now weighs 4.38kg/9.66 pound = 1.74kg weight gain since hospital.

Last week when my GP weighed her she was slightly lighter but he seemed happy though she was in the 50th percentile, she does seem small but is definitely growing as she's now in big 0000's/small 000's (she fit in 00000's when born).

Anyhow Chloe is being unsettled (maybe its teething too??? ) so I better go. :hair:

Michelle.

[cheezelz]

For the record, he is now fully bottlefed (and has been since he was 6 weeks old)

Congrats for making the change. Im still tied between FF & BF. I stilloffer Piper a BF everyday. Just havent been able to make the full transision. Im sure it will be done by the time DH & I go to Melbourne for a weekend late November.



Immunisations - I'll be glad when the Rotovirus vaccine is out of Little E's system, OMG the past two mornings it has gone EVERYWHERE. I got poo all over me yesterday morning from an explosion out of the top of the nappy, then this morning I had to bath him as it exploded out the bottom of the nappy! They say that day 7 is the worst day, well that would be today!! Here's hoping that I have seen the last of it.

I was not warned abou thins but discovered last night when we heard a big squishy noise coming from Pipers direction. Another one today so hopefully it doesnt last too much longer. Brie actually had Rotovirus in Feb this year and after being in hospital with her for that I am happy to deal with Pipers nappies from the immunisations.



Well suprisingly Ryden slept through last night.

:smiliedance: For more babies sleeping thru the night.



The nurse also said she is teething already as her gums are a whitish colour so that may explain the unsettledness for the past week.

Teething?? I dunno about that? Brie didnt cut her forst tooth till she was 9 months. I suppose just wait and see.


Michelle: Glad to see you have changed your ticker too. We can all keep track of eachother. Lets try and make the numbers go down not up hey?


As for me. Today Piper has only had a BF at 5.30am and a 100ml bottle at 8.30am. It is now 3.50pm and she has slept all day. The immunisations have knocked her a bit. She is so much more sensitive than Brie. She also cries at the slightest wet nappy. Brie would sit in her poo till we could smell it. Everytime Piper wakes she cries, she cries in her sleep too. Gotta go...crying again.

[Lyglc]

hi ladies - got to be super quick as I need to get ready to go out to a 50th party for dinner.

Just wanted to check in and say hi to everyone. hope you are all having ok days.

Sorry, but don't have time for personals.

Mil came to visit today and she was meant to babysit the older 2 kids while we are at the party (we are taking Chloe with us). She suggested though while she was here that she might take the kids for the night instead. So we can stay out as late as we want to!!!! (of course taking Chloe into consideration, but she generally will sleep anyway - I hope!)

So tomorrow I will have a sleep-in YAY. so excited. I will of course get up to feed her in the morning but then I'll go back to bed until her next feed....very nice....

Anyway, will try to do some personals tomorrow.

Take care, Yvonne.

[tahnee11]

Teething?? I dunno about that? Brie didnt cut her forst tooth till she was 9 months. I suppose just wait and see.



Apparently it's just the stage where they are growing underneath. They aren't ready to break through just yet but they are probably causing a bit of pain/discomfort. DS didn't cut his for a while either but the nurse said it can happen so I was a bit surprised to hear that. The last thing i want is teeth while bf:laughing:

[Tarabell]

Hi Girls,
Went to the GP this afternoon re: E's excema, he has given me some cream to put on it as it has not gotten any better over the past few weeks and today with the heat he is scratching it so it is annoying him. I have had to put a mitten on his hand to stop him scratching. I have been bathing him in QV oil/wash, the GP told me to bath him in water only and put some oats in the bath so I'll try that and hopefully the new cream will help clear it up within the next week.

DH's job interview went well, so we play the waiting game now. It went for nearly two hours so E and I had to shop almost til we dropped waiting for him. Brought some more things for E and finally picked up my bounty bag from Target!

We went out for drinkies this afternoon and now DH has some new friends coming over to trade with him... I have told them that I like white chocolate so hopefully they listened to me!

Little E is asleep, the wonders of the 'Sounds of Silence' CD that I got today, he has not slept all day and has been very unsettled because of his rash, put it on and within 1 minute he was asleep!

Hope all the mums and bubs sleep well tonight

T

[M&O]

Hi Aug mummies :)

M & O keeping me super busy...I feel like I go from one pooey nappy to another sometimes. M is getting a lot better with her sleeping again, thank goodness, she has started having her day naps again! Yay! :smiliedance:
And O is sleeping pretty good during the day, and at night, we are generally getting up only once for a feed around 4ish.
Still BF and FF, would love to reduce the amount of FF, because I'm sure we are over feeding him, but he gets so grizzly if he doesn't get all his bottle. He is definitely turning into a chubba bubba (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k256/gmellor/Kids/47.jpg)...as you can see!
Had M's 2nd Birthday last week, here is a pic of her cake (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k256/gmellor/Kids/38.jpg), and one of her all dressed up (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k256/gmellor/Kids/33.jpg).

Oh and here is one last pic of my clever boy (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k256/gmellor/Kids/52.jpg)...he rolled front to back today for the first time, twice...I was super impressed as M didn't roll until she was almost 4 months, and he is not yet 2.

Anyways, must run...sorry it was all about us this time. Thinking of you all, I do read, just slack in posting. Will attempt some personals soon.

Kristy :)

[tahnee11]

Morning ladies,

I had a great nights sleep. Last night I layed Isabelle down on her play rug while I went to get a drink and when I came back she was asleep:smiliedance:. I picked her up and put her in her bassinet and she stayed asleep till 2am. I had to wake her because I felt like I was about to explode lol, she had a quick feed and then slept through til 6am in her bassinet. She just woke up for another feed (I feel like i'm going to explode again) and now she's drifting back off to sleep:smiliedance:.

M&O - Congratulations on O rolling already. Isabelle rolls from her back to her side and has been able to for a couple of weeks but she just can't seem to go the whole distance yet, maybe because of her big belly:p

Tarabell- I hope E's eczema clears up soon and you were both able to get a good nights sleep last night.

[cheezelz]

Little E is asleep, the wonders of the 'Sounds of Silence' CD that I got today, he has not slept all day and has been very unsettled because of his rash, put it on and within 1 minute he was asleep!

OMG I love that CD. We bought it for Brie. We didnt actually come across it till she was 4 months old. I found the one track that worked for her and burnt it on repeat onto a blank disc. We had made several copies to keep at home & in the car. A continuous blast of 'hear' was all we needed to make her sleep. After a few months DH & I found that we couldnt sleep without it too. One time we had a night without Brie but had to put it on to fall asleep. :laughing:



Apparently it's just the stage where they are growing underneath. They aren't ready to break through just yet but they are probably causing a bit of pain/discomfort. DS didn't cut his for a while either but the nurse said it can happen so I was a bit surprised to hear that. The last thing i want is teeth while bf:laughing:

Well thats one to look out for. Brie is currently cutting 6 teeth with 2 of them being molars. I dont need another baby in discomfort

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Hi girls,

Well i think it has been about a week since i have last posted i have been reading as much as i could though, the 3 kids have been keeping me super busy, the 2 older ones have learnt to punch each other when they argue driving me up the wall. By the end of each day my eyes are so sore and i am ready to pass it out when DP walks through the door.

Talon is great he is still sleeping his standard 10 - 4.30, 10 - 5.30 stints which is great cause i need all the sleep i can get. He usually has a feed then goes back to sleep till about 8 most days. DS1 and DS2 have decided that 5 oclock every morning is when they can wake up but they know they have to play in there rooms for a bit if that happens.

Talon is getting real chubby too, DP was picking on the fat rolls on his wrists the other day. I love chubby bubby's.

Talon and I are going out tonight to help my SIL celebrate the new her, she is having a girls only party at one of our local dinner spots to celebrate her weight loss success. She has gone from 125kg's to 65kg's in 3 years or so and finished off by having a tummy tuck in July.

Tara sorry to hear about E's eczema hope this new cream helps the poor little tike.

My eldest 2 got teeth about 5 and 6 months, i didn't even know DS1 got his first tooth till i saw DP's best mates mum in the shops and she told me cause he never whinged at all, i felt so bad.

2girls well done on getting on the treadmill. I have been trying to get DP to get my treadmill out of the shed for a few weeks now, we put it in the shed when i was pregnant. I like walking on mine while watching my favouite shows of a evening or watching sunrise in the morning.

I know how some of you girls with the 2 kids close together feel about constantly changing nappies and everything being a constant battle. DS1 and DS2 are 15 months apart and i felt like i was constantly changing nappies, struggling to spread my time evening amongst the 2 when they were little, it does get better though, my boys are the best of friends except lately when they have been fighting over everything.

C&Gsmum sorry to hear about Charlottes Tonsilitis, its horrible when your kids get sick.

Chrispychicken great to hear Amelia's test results came back ok.

Anyway i should go, Talon is stirring and i have housework starring me in the face. Hope you have a great weekend.

[tahnee11]

Aaaargh DS has spilt red cordial onto the carpet and I have only just noticed. I haven't got anything to get it out so Df can deal with it since he gave DS the cordial:banghead:. I only usually give DS water or juice so it shocked me to see cordial in his cup.

[Tarabell]

Morning Girls,

Little E slept from 7pm-2am, then from 3-7.30am and is now back asleep again.

DH and I are spending the day at home after being out in the heat most of the day yesterday. Of course today it is cold and raining and is meant to be 13 degrees here on Monday:confused:

Looks like the Rotovirus vaccine is STILL coming out as we had another episode of explosive poo this morning which meant yet ANOTHER bath as it was EVERYWHERE, all over him and me... :barf:

Catherine - Great to hear Talon is sleeping well, hope he keeps it up for you. Hope your other two cherubs stop punching each other... the joys of boys! Enjoy your dinner tonight.

cheezelz - :laughing: having to put the music on to go to sleep, it does actually say it is for babies not adults! We had the same with the vapouriser which we had on from the time he was born to put some moisture back into the air with the central heating happening, we didn't want to turn it off in case he didn't sleep without it on... it is off now and guess what, he slept without it. I think the cd is a much safer option to. Little E even has his own Ipod and speakers.

Better get a move on, DH wants me to watch Wall-E with him whilst E is sleeping.

Have a great day girls.

Tara

[Lyglc]

Hi ladies,

alst night went to the 50th Party - was such a great night, really enjoyed oursleves. Also we all got a surprise when she annouced that earlier that day her bf propsed to her!!! (her first dh died about 4.5 year ago). Very happy for her.

Mil was around yesterday to spend time with the kdis and then was going to babysit them last nght, but she ended up taking the back to her house to stay the night.

Chloe was really good at the party. She didnt' seem to be able to sleep much , but generally was pretty happy most of the night.

When we got home from the party, I fed Chloe (11:30pm) and went to bed. I woke up when it was light and could hear Chloe making sounds, but not really crying, looked at the clock 8:15am!!!!!!!!!! I coldn't believe it!


So anyway, got up and fed her, jumped onto bubhub for a little while and then went bakc to bed. I slept until after 12 noon!!!! It was so nice. Felt strange though being in bed that late in no noise from kids.

Had a really nice 45 minute walk all by myself this afternoon too, so feeling quite refreshed.

Anyway, to personals:

tarabell - hope the pooplosions stop soon! Chloe actually had one last night at the party (not from any immunisations though). It went everywhere, all over her pretty white stockings, bodysuit - it came out of nearly every hole in the nappy! This has never happened with her before.
Sounds like crazy weather you are having. Really hot, then really cold.....
Hope the eczema clears up soon with the new cream.

tahnee - had similar experience with DH - he is always more willing to give the kids food/drink that I wouldn't give them

terr 2 - sounds like youa re really pelased with Talon's sleeping - well done. He also sounds very cute being chubby!

cheezelz - that's very funny about you and the CD

M & O - love the photo's. O is very lovely. Also love the cake and M beign dressed up - so cute. I can't beleive he's rolling already - wow.

Well, better get going.

A big hello to everyone else. Hope you are having e nice weekend.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Just a quick one from me today as Chloe is stirring in the bouncer next to me so I'm preparing for cries.

M&O - Oliver & Marie are both little cuties! I can't believe Oliver is rolling already! Chloe is only 2 days younger and she hasn't come close to rolling yet.

Tahnee11 - Hopefully Isabelle gave you another good night's sleep last night!

Cheezelz - Hows the weight loss going? I'm glad I've put mine in my ticker, another extra bit of motivation to get out of the 80kg's.

Terrible2+1cutie - Glad to hear Talon is doing well with sleep and putting on weight. :thumbsup:

Regarding treadmills, ours is actually setup in our shed (its kinda a mini gym with DH's weight bench and kick bag) which can be difficult to motivate myself to get out there, its too big to bring in the house as we have no room. Would be awesome for you to go on yours whilst watching telly.

Tarabell - Hopefully E's poops ease off you poor girl! Your posts are making me worry about Chloe as she is getting her vac's tomorrow. He also sounds like a great sleeper!

Lyglc - Well done with your sleep in, your MIL sounds great to take care of the kiddies to let you catch up on sleep, good to hear their not all bad (I actually get along real well with mine thankfully).

Anyhow Chloe has been real quiet but has her eyes open so I better go as its not going to last ;)

Have a great day! :sunshine:

Michelle

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there everyone :wave:

Guess what???? Sean slept from 6:45pm - 2:45pm and then from 3:15 - 7:00am. What a top little fella he is... I still can't seem to get him to stay awake a little longer of an evening. I have tried waking him at about 10:00 but that just seems to break his long sleep and then he is up every 3-4 hours?? I am sure he will get there in the end.

We have had a really busy weekend and it isn't finished yet. Friends over on friday night with their 2 little girls, my best friend and her family over last night and this afternoon we are having a footy party over at our friends around the corner. The girls have had the most social weekend they have had in ages..

DH's work terminated all employees officially on Friday so we are now unemployed :eek:. The good thing is he was paid out for all that was owing so we got a fairly huge lump sum payment which eased the pain a bit.

Anyhow enough from me I hope all bubs and mums are going well and getting lots of rest.

Paula

[tahnee11]

Hi ladies,

DF had decided on a month and year for when we are getting married. SEPTEMBER 2009!!!! It is definitely going to be a wedding on a budget but i'm so excited that we actually have a month (still have to work out a date yet), I just hope nothing comes up where we have to postpone it. I spoke to mum last night and she said she will buy my dress:eek:. I was not expecting that but i'm very thankful because that takes out a big chunk of money we would have been spending ( I want a nice dress:p). If anyone knows of any contacts in brisbane/gold coast who are pretty good prices on anything and everything wedding related please let me know:thumbsup:

2girlssofar - I hope Sean slept well for you again last night.

mishey - good luck with Chloe's vaccinations today.

lyglc - Congrats on your friend's engagement. Good to hear you had a great time and were able to get plenty of sleep the next day.

Tarabell - Isabelle had her vaccines on Friday but thankfully the rotovirus hasn't had the same effect that little E is having. I hope it's over soon for you both.

[Misheycat]

Morning Girls!

2girlssofar - Glad to Sean is a great sleeper! :yes:

Sorry to hear about your DH's job, not sure what the deal is with us August girls and employment its like we're jinxed, my DH is still out of work (but mainly his choice at the moment), I've even considered going back to work but I'd prefer not. Hopefully your DH finds something else soon, thankfully you have the payout to help out!

Tahnee11 - Congrats on your pending wedding thats wonderful news! :yelclap:

Not much about me, Chloe is still doing her usual awake most of the day with naps here and there, unsettled most of the time. Wouldn't mind so much if she wasn't grizzly for half of it, ah wells. On a positive note at least around 5-7pm she finally goes down and has a big sleep for about 7hrs usually, then a 3-4hr sleep after this, then around 5am she's back to her old tricks.

Any ideas/tips to break this routine? Anyhow she is crying now better go get her (She woke me at 6am, almost made it to 2-hrs with little grizzles in between :rolleyes:).

Michelle.

[CrispyChicken]

Just popping in to say hi :wave:

Been really busy and exhausted the last few days and havent been on bubhub.

Just wanted to let you know im thinking of you all and your bubs and hope that they are sleeping, eating, growing, etc all well for you!

Have a great long weekend Monday! :flowerz:

[Misheycat]

Mishey - the only thing I can think of, is waking her up at about 10/10.30 (really whenever you go to bed/as late as you can stand it) for a feed so that she has a full belly for longer, then :fingerscrossed: that big block of sleep might happen when you're asleep.


Jasmine - This sounds like good advice I will need to try this, thank you.

Me - Thanks to Kristy's post I just discovered it was a public holiday today, doh!!

My doctor's surgery booked me in today for Chloe's vaccinations?! And I was also going to go shopping doh! I had no idea, its hard to keep up with public holidays since I've stopped working :o.

Ah wells today's plans have gone out of the window, will relax instead then. :p

[fire~fly]

hello girls,
just a really quick post from me today because ive got sooo much housework to do and ive had Ethan screaming all morning. Looks like my little man has reflux, for the last few weeks he has been bringing up heaps of milk after and in between feeds but didnt seem to bother him, he was just feeding more frequently. But the last couple days he has been screaming with pain from it (strange because ds1's reflux came on at about 6 weeks too). Ive booked him in to see the dr but couldnt get an appointment for another week, want to get him on zantac as thats what ds1 was on.
does anyone know, is there anything you can get them from the chemist without a script until he see's the dr?
thanks girls, will hopefully be back to do personals later, gotta go coz ethan is screaming again :(

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Hi all,

very busy here, have my parents and sister staying with me for the weekend while DH is away, so not a lot of time. I have snuck on a read all posts a few times but no time for me to respond.

Hope everyone else has a good day, should be able to do personals tomorrow when everyone leaves and C is in child care.

Catchya later

[2girls&1boy]

I am so happy...................

My boy slept from 9:00pm-6:30pm last night :yelclap: :yelclap: :yelclap:

I am hoping to repeat this tonight, I actually woke him at 8:30 and fed him so hope that this will work again :fingerscrossed:.

[cheezelz]

hello girls,
just a really quick post from me today because ive got sooo much housework to do and ive had Ethan screaming all morning. Looks like my little man has reflux, for the last few weeks he has been bringing up heaps of milk after and in between feeds but didnt seem to bother him, he was just feeding more frequently. But the last couple days he has been screaming with pain from it (strange because ds1's reflux came on at about 6 weeks too). Ive booked him in to see the dr but couldnt get an appointment for another week, want to get him on zantac as thats what ds1 was on.
does anyone know, is there anything you can get them from the chemist without a script until he see's the dr?
thanks girls, will hopefully be back to do personals later, gotta go coz ethan is screaming again :(

I had both my babies on 2.5ml of normal Mylanta before a feed. Max 6 x per day. This was on advice from the paediatrician. Its such a strong taste that they didnt take it so well but it worked.


Michelle I havent done anything yet in regards to my weight loss. Mum returned from Canada last week so we are starting Weight Watcher son Wednesday. Before I got married I lost 10kg on the progman and am so excited to start again. I dont think that you can begin any diet unless you are ready and I am ready. So I am trying to cram (chocolate) all I can into the next few days till I have to start. How are you finding things?

[Misheycat]

Michelle I havent done anything yet in regards to my weight loss. Mum returned from Canada last week so we are starting Weight Watcher son Wednesday. Before I got married I lost 10kg on the progman and am so excited to start again. I dont think that you can begin any diet unless you are ready and I am ready. So I am trying to cram (chocolate) all I can into the next few days till I have to start. How are you finding things?

On the weightloss support thread we had a weigh-in today and I've lost 1.7kg this week so pretty happy with that. I've been trying to go on the treadmill each day and I thought I did pretty well by doing 7km today, then my DH jumped on after me and did 12km (mind you it took him 2-hrs)!!! We are motivating each other which is great.

Feel free to join it:

http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?t=209831

I'm doing diet shakes and TRYING to have healthy snacks. For my BMI to lose weight they recommend 800 calories per day so its tricky keeping to this. Also TRYING to have 2L of water per day but struggling with that. Once I lose the bulk of the weight I'll try and go back to healthy meals, this is what I did last time I was on shakes.

[littleleos]

hey girls

how r u all

aiden and I are having a bed day, well we are still in our pjs as I have a upset tummy ... we also had a pretty busy weekend, so I wanna spend some time with my little man:p

we had my bros wedding on sat, aiden was so good, he settled just as we walked into the church and was a good little boy for the rest of the day
I let my guard up for 30min at the wedding and left aiden with a few aunties.... well the had heaps of cuddles and packed up our stuff, put aiden in his pram without strapping him in. thankfully I realised before I pushed out over bumps.... errr

cheezles thanks for the dunstan baby language stuff... im thinking that geng means... im starving, get me my boobies now!!!!

tara... how is little es eczema???? aidens is slowly clring up but still has cradle cap... mum said I used to get it bad and she used to put oats in a stocking then hung it under the running water for my bath....

(insert massive POOSPLOSION here:smiliedance:)

mylanta... I gave aiden 1 ml of it the other day as he was having really acid smelling vomits... it worked really well

well i really should get out of bed

chat 2 u latter

[Lyglc]

hi ladies, just wanted to say hi. Really busy here at the moment.

Chloe is going for her immunisations tonight, so it will be interesting to see how she goes.

Sorry, don't have time for personals, but just wanted to let you ladies know that I have been reading and thinking of you all!

My house is a disaster!!!! Must go and try and do something with it!!!!

[cheezelz]

Lyglc I only just figured out what your name meant :laughing: Der Im so behind the pack arent I? It only just clicked to me what I saw you added 'c' to the end.

Piper is unsettled today. She woke and ate 150ml which is unsual. She usually only eats 100ml max. Then with her next feed she chucked her guts up big time. She had never thrown up before. Then she threw up 2 more times after her bath. She is tuckered out now. Gave her a small BF (its only small cos Im runnin got of milk) and she's in DH arms. I'll wait and see if she continues before I start to worry.

Liana I hope you enjoy your bed day. Pitty that you have to combat an upset stomach. Would be nice to have a day in bed and not be sick.

Michelle are you not BF anymore? Sorry that I dont remember. I might start the shakes once I fully stop although my BMI is only 1-2 over the healthy range for my height. Im not sure if they will work all that well. Try not to burn yourself out on the treadmill. I will pop in to the other thread.

[Tarabell]

Hi Girls,

Just popping in before I go for a nanna nap whilst E is sleeping.

Alina - E's excema has cleared up alot since I started him on the new cream, he still has some cradle cap but I can deal with that, he is no longer scratching his chest and seems alot more settled. I am also only bathing him every second day now with the oats in the stocking. He really loves his baths though and seems to sleep alot better at night after he has one so I'll see how he goes and might go back to bathing him daily next week or something.

Hope you feel better soon.

Lyglc - hope Chloe was ok with her needles and that you don't get the explosions I got over the past week. They seem to have settled down alot now and I can finally go back to the cloth nappies!

Better go and lay down before E wakes up again, he has reverted back to being awake all day and taking forever to get to sleep at night... ARGH!! Plus he is constantly on the boob and they are KILLING me!

T

[Purpose Blessings]

Hi girls,

Busy, busy, busy here too. Only 2 weeks now until we move and there is still lots to organise.

I've got the real estate coming around this evening to tell us how much we should rent our house out for. The house currnetly looks like a disaster zone and I have been working all day so far. It just seems to never get clean. DD1 is toilet training herself at the moment and managed to trail poo all down the hallway and all across the toilet. That was fun to clean up.

All 3 kids are sleeping at the moment and I am so exhasted that I would love to curl up for a nap but I need to use the time wisely and mop the floors.

:thumbsup: to all the babies that are sleeping really well. Emily is only waking once a night but has been more unsettled during the day than she used to be.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: to those of you loosing weight. I was trying to but have put it on hold for a couple of weeks as I need comfort food to keep me sane. I am still eating pretty healthy, but must confess to over indulging a couple of times on chocolate. It was also dd1's 2nd birthday on the weekend so i def. over indulged with the cake (yum).

anyway off to clean. Talk more soon.

[CrispyChicken]

hi ladies! had a busy day at a sleep and settling group and then shopping and got a wax. i was going to go have a sleep while amelia was sleeping just now but i can hear her crying right at this moment... grrr....

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Well I got my BubbaMoe sling today in the post (I ordered one in Indigo Stripe colour, thanks Claire for inspiring me to get one :thumbsup:) which I've been wanting for a while, haven't used it yet though. Have also booked Chloe in tomorrow for her vax.

BambinaCattiva - Your DH sounds like a gem, glad both you and Charlie got a big chunk of sleep!

Lianas1stbub - Hope you are feeling better now!

Lyglc - Hope Chloe isn't too unsettled after her immunisations tonight!

Cheezelz - Yeah Chloe is now on formula full-time which is why I thought I'd start the shakes and exercising. Today I'm having a break from the treadmill to let my sore foot heal but felt guilty so did 60 situps :P Still tempted to go out though my DH told me to give it a break today. :rolleyes: My BMI has improved since exercising/dieting I've just moved outta the obese category into overweight, yay! :yelclap:

Tarabell - Sorry to hear about E, hopefully he improves again soon. :hugs: Chloe is still unsettled through the day but I'm almost in a routine and used to this now.

Rissa79 - Hi, hope the cleaning & packing doesn't burn you out too much. Losing weight by watching what you eat can make you grumpy (I admit I've been a little irritable with DH of late) so its a good idea to not think about this whilst your moving. Hope you feel more settled soon! :hugs:

CrispyChicken - Hi, hope you have some good tips from your sleep & settling day!

Well Chloe interrupted me halfway through posting, so I popped her into the sling which was a little awkward at first but I think with a bit of practice it should be really good, she was even almost nodding off for a bit there. :)

But then I fed her and now she's wide awake, I'm just WAITING for her to cry again. I'd pop her in the sling but I'm not sure how to take her out of this without waking her up again yet!

Michelle.

[ellie13]

hi girls- i a baaaack-:laughing:

our holiday was great. wen to hervey bay- where my parents live, and stayed with them for 2 weeks. it was so hot- i hate hot- but a nice change.

bianca has grown so much in that time- and started to be a very chatty little girl:cloud9:

anyways- as you can probably tell i am typing and bf at the same time....

we only flew in yesterday night- and already today we went to ikea to get a cot for bianca- as I want to use the time my mum is here to help me set up Bianca's room and move all the furniture around...

Anyway- I have to go have to give Bianca a bath as she just did a massive poo and vomit:barf:....

see ya

[Doody21]

Hey there mummies!:wave:

Its me doody... you have probs forgotten me..he he

I'm at mums on her computer as you know i have no internet any more!!

Havent reallly caught up on all the goss but i have seen all the beautiful bubs born!! Congrats to everyone i know its a bit late!! i have been thinking about you all and missing the chats and all the good advice! Well our little arlie is doing fabulous at 10 weeks now cant believe how fast it all went she is a little chubba with a double chin he he

Well hope everyone is enjoying their bubs!!

Miss you all, i will try and post when ever i get the chance!!

Ta ta doody!! :hugs:

[cheezelz]

Hi ya Doody. How can we forget a name like that. Glad bubs is well and your doing fine.

Well it ends up that Piper has a tummy bug. DH had one on Sunday morning which lasted 24 hours. He was throwing up and on the toilet. The reason I know Piper has it is because I HAVE IT!! I just made love to the porceline thrown :D I threw up so loud 4 times but DH still didnt wake to help me. Now Im trying to get that horrible burning out of my throat then I will go back to bed. It bloody 4am. I do feel a bit better now that I have vomited but we'll see once I lie down again.

[Tarabell]

:wave: Doody, great to see you again!

cheezelz - hope you feel better soon, DH have such selective hearing when you need them in the middle of the night.

Little E slept from 7pm-3.30am and probably only woke up because his nappy leaked everywhere so he was cold so I changed him, gave him a feed and put him back to bed. Of course I had to change his bed and find some blankets to make sure he was warm as he had wet through his grobag and bad mummy had the other one on the line.... :no: I even put the central heating on for him because I didn't want to have to wake DH up to get him to sort out the other oil heater in our room... the things we do for our boys!

Ok, might head back to bed not that it is past 5am.

T

[littleleos]

hey girls

aiden is being really clingy today... wont sleep anywhere but in my arms... I find this happens after we have a busy day or weekend... I have so much to do but im happy to sit on the couch with my little man:p

hey doody... nice to hear from u... arlie is a little princess


cheezles hope your feeling better... my tummy is much better, I think it was the potato salad I ate, I have IBS and silly things triggure it

bambi... r u still touching wood???? was it u that had the naughty dog visit... some people have no idea... rays friends have only just realised, that:p yes we have new carpet and yes take your shoes off err... polisehed floors and dogs claws dont mix

tara yeah to little e sleeping soooooooo well... aiden went from 8 till 330 he skipped his 1100 feed...

well im going to try and get up, may go for a walk cuz the :sunshine: is out but its abit windy

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi girls,

Nothing much to report, Ryden is still sleeping well.I take him to be weighed today. He weighed 5kg last vist a fortnight ago. And i recon my little buddah baby has put on a heap more.

Ryden and I are off on a little holidsy on Monday. We are leaving DP and DSS at home and we are heading over to Perth for 8 days. Hopefully Ry will behave himself on the plane. Im not too sure what to pack for him. Not sure what the weather is doing. Might just pack everything. I dont need to take any big stuff, as my Friends are orgainising everything at aPerth end. (car seat etc).

Well i should go and write up a packing list and do some washing before Ryden wakes up.

Stacey

[monique13]

Hi Girls

Sorry i haven't been around much its been so full on around since Samara has been born and now the kids are on school holidays its been crazy.
Samara and i are doing well she is sleeping 6 hours at night so i am getting a good nights sleep but she has been really restless during the day so i have been giving some formula feeds during the day and it has been working a treat so i am bf and bf now. We had our 6 week check up yesterday she is 67cm long and weighs 6.5kgs now so she is a little fatty.
Well i hope all of you are doing well and i miss not being able to chat much with u girls but when the girls go back to school next i will have some more time to pop back on.
Take care everyone.
Monique.

[Lyglc]

hi ladies,

have to be quick. Chloe is aslepp at the moment, but she has been quite unsettled at times today - guessing it's from the immunisations last night.

doody - great to hear from you. Also fatnastic that little Arlie is going well

monique - great to hear from you too. Samara sounds like she's very tall for her age. Glad you are getting a reasonable nights sleep!

stacey - hope that you go well organising stuff for your holiday

Alina - hope you manage to get some things done today.

tarabell - Isn't it annoying when anppies leak. For some reason, Chloe 's have been leaking lately - doesn't seem to make a difference with different brands either. It seems to be at the front on the right hand side????

cheezelz - hope you feel better really soon. Not fun for you!!

Ellie - great to have you back again. Glad you had such a nice holiday

Jasmine - I hope that you ended up getting s good sleep last night as predicted.

Well, I'd better go, try and get some things done while Chloe is sleeping. She did sleep well last night, going from 10:20pm (last feed) until 6:15am this morning.
Ds is alseep at the moment - has been for nearly 2 hours - not good. He's either unwell, or we are going to have an awful time gettting him to sleep tonight.

See ya!

[babynumberone]

Hi girls,

Things haven't been so good for us lately. We were under the impression that Zaydn's cast was coming off for good on Monday but it didn't. The back of his foot is still not in the correct position - his heel isn't where it is meant to be. So another cast was put on. I asked the doctor how much longer and she said maybe another two weeks but she wasn't making any promises. I feel so :( for my little man, the weather is getting hotter and he is learning how to kick his legs (well leg) around - you can see how frustrated he is that his leg is so restricted. He gets so angry, it breaks my heart. He also still has a stuffy nose, nearly 3 weeks now. It just won't go away - we have been doing everything (saline drops, vaporiser etc) but nothing is helping. I am taking him to the doctors today, not that they can really do much. His sleeping has been all over the place. He slept for 40 minutes in total yesterday during the day (usually he has at least 4 one hour naps). At night, the longest he goes is about 3 hours - I wake up to him snorting, coughing and throwing his arms about trying to breathe. I never knew it was possible to really feel someone else's pain and emotion until I had a baby :( Sometimes it feels like if I didn't love him so much then it would be easier to deal with the fact that he is crying due to pain and frustration. But of course I could never love him less.

I just feel so alone at the moment. DH is really, really busy at work. He is doing 12 hour days and he has to study on top of that. My mum works two jobs and my sister lives three hours away. I was meant to start a mothers group this Monday (I was so looking forward to it) but Zaydn's foot doctor is only in on Monday mornings (he has to see her weekly) and that is obviously much more important. I am going to try and see if there are any baby playgroups in my area - hopefully there is.

Anyway, sorry about all that....on to personals -

Monique: Lovely to hear from you. Samara's sleeping and weight sounds great - good job!

Stacey: Perth weather has been lovely lately - nice and :sunshine:

Alina: Hope you are enjoying the day with your little man.

Tara: What an amazing sleep - well done little E!

Lisa: Hope you are feeling better, you poor thing :hugs:

Doody: So good to hear from you! Arlie looks gorgeous in your avatar - congratulations!

Ellie: Welcome back!

Jasmine: Hope Charlie had a good sleep for you last night! Glad you were able to get stuff done yesterday. By the way, you will be happy to know we have been using cloth nappies for the past two weeks now and don't plan to stop :yes:

Michelle: Glad you got a sling - they make life a lot easier. When Z falls asleep in his, I take it off but leave him in it that way I don't wake him.

Sorry gotta stop there, Zaydn calls

Love Claire x

P.S: Big :wave: to everyone else!

[Terrible2+1cutie]

hi girls,

Well i think my AF is coming back, i went to the toilet before and was some spotting. I have had a wicked headache all day with some feeling of queezyness and i used to get that way before i fell pregnant with Talon just before AF. I got my AF back almost straight away after DS1 and DS2 too.

Babynumberone sorry to hear Zaydn's cast didn't come off, keep your chin up i know it can be frustrating.

Everybody else a big hello.

Well Talon is growing bigger and bigger every day, he is such a chubby boy now, but oh so happy. He is quite happy to play in his bouncer or on his floor all day every day, he knows though when i duck to the shops for 5 minutes leaving him with DP as he whinges. He is so in love with the boob, think he gets to much from me though cause he vomits lots after every feed. Talon hardly ever cries and sleeps from 10 - 5.30 every night then has a feed and sleeps 5.30 - 8 which is great. Just got to teach my older 2 boys to do that cause they are awake at 5.15 every day since the sun has been coming up earlier, drives me up the wall.

Anyway have to go for now as have a chiro appointment shortly so should feed Talon before i go.

[CrispyChicken]

hi girls, dont have much time, but check this out...

http://www.bubhub.com.au/community/forums/showthread.php?p=3124053&posted=1#post3124053

[Tarabell]

BambinaCattiva -I got the colour of his eyes right, his hair was dark (not blonde) and I was four days off the date he was born... time was right though.
Claire - sorry to hear about Zaydn's cast, hopefully he will have it off for good soon. I can relate to feeling alone, my DH works from home, but I may as well be here by myself... hope you feel better soon.

Catherine - great to hear that Talon is sleeping so well, what a little champion.

Lyglc - leaking nappies.... hmm, today I got pee'd on!! ARGH!

Alina - good on Aiden for sleeping through!!

Better go, E is not wanting to sleep...

T

[Lyglc]

Well here goes!

My guess:
Arrival date - 1st August (having a planned c/s so cheating a little:D)
Weight - 6lb, 10oz
Hair - dark hair, but not too much
Eyes - Blue
sex: girl (don't know what we are having, but today maybe I think it's a girl - changes all the time)
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this was my prediction, everything was correct except for the weight - 6lb 12 oz!!! Pretty close though!!

Claire - sorry to hear you're going through a rough time. Please know we are all here for you.

[littleleos]

gee i was really wrong.... though 3.3kg is close to 3.5kg

you have a good memory bambi!!!!

I finally figured out a way to get rid of aidens cradle ****... I tried olive oil and it made his hair so geasy 4 days... so today I got his QV cream and massaged it into his head... put a cap on to make it warm and to soften the scabs and about 1 hr later I was able to comb it out so easily... no oil slick and no more cradle **** :yelclap:

claire... hope u get some help from your gp regarding his blocked nose... its so hard to see them having difficulties breathing... u must feel so annoyed and let down that his cast is not being removed... but in the long run he will have less or no problems if they leave it on longer ( when he gets older his bones will be harder to manipulate with plaster) wish I lived "south of the river" so I could come and help u out... it not nice feeling all alone, I find it easier coming her and having a chat then calling a friend

talons mum... aiden has also been vomiting alot after feeding.... way more than a possit, I must remember not to burp him between my boosies!!! I was also thinking he was having to much, especially in the morning when my boobies are soo so so full ....

yvonne... yeah for chloe sleeping so well... u must feel so good... its amazing what uninterupted sleep feels like .... I miss my 8 hours straight:(

monique... just checked out your pics of your family... loved the comment someone made re sticking them together so they wouldnt move

stacy.. im going on a hoiday 2... I have no idea what and how much to pack... I actually started a hot tips thread to get some ideas

well i gtg... more spew on my top to clean up glad I have tank water

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi Girls.

Had Ryden Weighed and he has stacked on the weight again this fortnight. He now weighs 5.6kg (12.6lbs) that 550gms in a fortnight and is 58cm long that 2cm in 2 weeks.

On a down not, we think he might have a little Reflux. So the CMHN suggested taking him completely of his formula bottles. He has one in the morning and one before bed.

I hope i make enough milk for him and wonder if he will stop sleeping through.

Stacey

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there ladies & babies :wave:

Well we had Sean checked by the Paediatrician today. He now weighs 5.4kg and is 59cm long :yelclap: very proud of my boy..

He has slept through the last 3 nights so I am thinking this might be his new habit, well :fingerscrossed: anyway.

No time for personals tonight but will be back tomorrow.

See you later

P

[Tarabell]

Alina - did you take a photo of Aiden with his cap on?? glad the QV worked to get rid of his cradle cap!

Had E weighed last week, he was 5.2kg and 60cm's at 10 weeks. He is still under the 50% but he is slowly getting there.

am off to bed, night girls.

T

[Lyglc]

got to be quick - about to feed Chloe and go to bed. So tired today, she had her immunisation last night and today has been quite unsettled.
Althoush she slept through last night, I had quite a bad nights sleep as the older 2 kids decided to join us and it was very squishy and uncomfortable, I was too tired to take them back to bed and just put up with it.

Just wanted to say HI to everyone.

[Misheycat]

Hi All,

Chloe had her immunisations today and the poor little thing let out the biggest scream, felt so bad for her! But she recovered pretty well afterwards and was an angel for her daddy when I went to the shops shortly after. Though she was a little unsettled later in the afternoon and evening, she's asleep now so hopefully she stays down for at least 4-hrs.

Doody21 - Glad you got back online to say hi and that Arlie is doing well!

Cheezelz - Sorry to hear about your stomach bug, hope you feel better soon.

Tarabell - I hear you about changing bubbies overnight. With the new batch of huggies I've found on the occasion her nappy leaks, I've had to change her outfit in the middle of the night due to this...not a happy bubbie!

Chloe is similar to Little E with weight due to the size she was when born, last check she was just on 50%, I weighed her last week and she's 4.28kg. I will try and weigh her tomorrow and check her progress though she's becoming a chubba I'm not too worried.

Monique - Samara is so cute in her photos (as are all your kids) and is growing real well, she also sounds similar to Chloe during the day with unsettledness (is that a word :o?), hope this improves for you.

BabyNumberOne - Hope things improve with Zadyn's foot/leg, sorry to hear he's still in his cast, hope this heals sooner than later :hugs:. Thanks for the advice about the sling, will need to try this.

Terrible2+1cutie - Talon sounds like such a good baby your very lucky!

CrispyChicken - Wow I definitely see the resemblance between Amelia and yourself, that's amazing! Everyone says the same thing about Chloe looking like my DH, though she MIGHT end up having my eye colouring as they look fairly blue but these can change so I've been told. Who knows she might change as she gets older.

BambinaCattiva - Regarding the guessing game I was not really right accept she would have a small amount of brown hair which will change to blonde and the sex, the weight was KINDA close (5lb 12 instead of 6lb 6).

Regarding work I'm sorry to hear about the pressure to return to work, I feel like I'm in a similar situation if I want to buy a house I'll need to return early next year. Regarding childcare I'm actually worried about this too but my mum might be able to look after Chloe (she seems pretty keen to and has offered to as she doesn't work).

But I'm worried about missing out on those important milestones too! Neither of us are working currently (living off of baby bonus & savings) as my DH wants this time in between jobs with Chloe because we can afford it so I feel extra pressure to return.

Campergirl & 2girlssofar - Excellent news that your bubbies are thriving well with their weight gain.

Lyglc - Sorry to hear Chloe is unsettled for you and the other kiddies caused a restless night, hope you get a great sleep tonight!

Anyhow its almost midnight better go get some rest while I can.

Michelle

[cheezelz]

gee i was really wrong.... though 3.3kg is close to 3.5kg

you have a good memory bambi!!!!

I finally figured out a way to get rid of aidens cradle ****... I tried olive oil and it made his hair so geasy 4 days... so today I got his QV cream and massaged it into his head... put a cap on to make it warm and to soften the scabs and about 1 hr later I was able to comb it out so easily.

I just used plain sorbelene cream for Brie's cradle cap. She never got it till she was 12 monhs old which was odd. Worked a treat and was cheap.



Lisa, hope you and Piper are feeling better soon...not sure what's worse - when bubba's are sick (and they have no idea what's going on) or when Mummies are sick, and you still gotta do everything you normally do...actually, yes, I do know what is worse: When Mummy AND bubba are both sick.

Tell me about it. It was the end of the world when DH was sick with it on Sunday. Thank god it was onyl a 24hr thing for all of us and it skipped Brie.
As for BF till 12 months. If you have to go back to work (which I think is a great thing for you & your families future) maybe you can compramise. You can still BF morning and night and FF during the day. Maybe express once during the day so there are a few EMB around? Expressing can be really hard I found.

As for me check out my ticker. :eek: I started weight watchers last night and my weight is a tad heavier than I thought. Mind you at home I dont weigh myself with shoes or clothes. So I walked today after I dropped Brie at daycare. I am about to have breakfast so just have to skip a chocolate muffin and head for baked beans.....maybe?

[mumofasl]

Hi,
I just wanted to introduce myself and hope there is someone out there wanting the odd chat.
I am a mum of 3 girls Alianna (6) Scarlett (3) and Lulu (6 weeks).
So Hello:wave: and will post more in the near future!
bye for now.

[littleleos]

err aiden is stirring already before I begin typing

how u all doing... sounds like u are all soooo busy

how is the packing going marrissa... u must be stuffed

bambi... I still reckon u got the rawest deal by your employer... i think they could have said that the 4 days where sick days or ADO's I reckon u should accept the job and in april when u need to begin work, see how u feel then... u cant always tell them ur not ready. Its such a had decision to make are u able to work from home????

I dont know what im going to do work wise... im unemployed from january... its easy to get a job as a nurse but not as a paed nurse... some places have waiting lists.... I was lucky to get a job at my old work, I think my experience in a Paed ed helped heaps.. I could always be a midwife or a child health nurse in the commonity or a GP nurse and give all the babies their immunisations ouch... I would cry every day

YEAH for interest rates dropping, we are going to save about 200 amonth...

Tara... I just put a cotton bonnet on, nothing fancy, so I didnt take a pic (he did look cute)... u should give it a try... I bet aiden feels so much better with it off... a few people said to me that cradle cap is excema...

I gtg... have soooooooo much to do i bet aiden is going to wake any second... my boobies need emptying

[2girls&1boy]

:wave: :wave: Hi mum to mumofasl, you are more than welcome to come and chat with us August mums.

Busy busy here - went summer clothes shopping today for the girls with DH. Grace is back at daycare this week so that was a bit easier today.

Sean woke up last night about 3:30am I thought for a feed however he was just talking for about 30 minutes but was so loud. He went back to sleep though which was great.

Hi to you all hope everyone is going well..

[Lyglc]

hi ladies, must be quick. need some sleep and all kids alsepp so i'm going to bed too.

Just wanted to day Hi to everyone.

Life has been extremely busy this week. Hope to be able to get on here tomorrow and do some personals.

Hopefully i'll remember to write about going back to work as I did this after dd1 and ds. It was hard, but was also a good thing.

Anyway, I desperately need some sleep.

Hope you are all having a great week.

Welcome mumofasl!!!! Hope you have fun chatting with us!

[CrispyChicken]

hi girls!

just a quick one as i am off to mums today and have to get organised.

just wanted to say amelia slept from 7:30pm to 3:30am last night!!! if she had've gone to bed later, she would've lasted all night and i wouldn't have had to get up at all (maybe i should've woken her at 10:30, then she wouldn't wake til 6:30 - but it never works like that lol)... not that im complaining - 8 hours straight is a great start!

have a great weekend everyone - not sure if ill be on much.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Just a quick one from me as Chloe is awake and looking around, quite time only lasts so long :p

Yesterday I was feeling sick & ended up spending half the day in bed. Also Chloe was quite restless throughout the day though she had a few little naps here and there (thankfully DH was here to help out), but when she finally settled she slept from 7pm-1am and then 2-7am so I was pretty happy with that.

CrispyChicken - Congrats on Amelia's huge sleep!

Mumofasi - Welcome! :wave:

Hi to everyone else, hope all you girls have a great weekend!!! :flowerz:

Michelle

[Purpose Blessings]

HI everyone and welcome Mumofasi,

Sorry I haven't had a chance to read back more than the last page so I'm not sure what is going on.

Like usual at the moment, I am busy busy busy. But things are starting to come together. We have been looking for a hilux as a 2nd car for awhile and yesterday finally found one. Nothing like leaving it to the last minute. I was also able to get a new vacuum cleaner yesterday (we have a ducted system in my current house thus needed to get a normal type). I am actually looking forwrd to vacuuming today:confused:.

Dh goes away on Sunday for a week and then when he gets back the removalists come and we are heading off. I am really getting excited as we are having a little holiday as we drive up. We are going to monkey mia for a couple of nights and then to Coral Bay for a couple of nights. I so need this holiday.

Anyway my list of things to do today is ever growing so I'd better get to it

[M&O]

Hi mummies,

O had his checkup and first round of immunisations yesterday. Slight temp last night, but no poosplosions as of yet! He weighs in at a boof 5.8kgs.

Having big issues with M at the moment with both her sleeping and now her eating. All she wants to do is play with her food...driving us nuts!

Marissa - Hope you manage to get it all done, and have a fab holiday!

Michelle - Hope you are feeling better today, and isn't nice when DH's are around to help out. I live for the weekends!

CC - Great sleep from Amelia. O slept from 10 till 6:30 last night, and I was over the moon, that's the best sleep in a long while overnight.

Yvonne - Hope the sleep fairy found you!

Alina - I felt for the GP nurse yesterday, she got lots of smiles beforehand with O, and then screams...would definitely not be on my most wanted jobs list.

2girls - It's so cute when they just coo and babble to themselves in the middle of the night. You should make a tape of it, for Sean to listen back to when he gets older.

Lisa - Did you manage to skip the choc muffin? I started my weight loss journey a couple of weeks ago, have a LOT to lose...but doing okay so far. Pity about the family dinner tonight where a choc cake has been made for my birthday. Maybe a tiny tiny slice.

Stacey - Have you had any success taking E of his formula, O seems to suffer with a bit of reflux too. My doc suggested we cut down Oliver's supplementary feeds to only 3 a day, we have been doing around 5 a day. We managed 4 yesterday, so we'll see how we go. It's very difficult trying to combine the two types of feeding.

T2 - Sorry to hear you got AF back. It sucks, I got mine back a couple of weeks ago. I guess can't really complain though we hd 9 months off!

Welcome mumofasl :wave:


Hi to all the mummies I missed...but M has vegemite all over her, so I think its time for a bath and then down for her day nap, and then a shower for me might be nice...wish me luck!

[fire~fly]

Hello everyone!

What a day it has been here! DS1 woke up this morning full of the flu so hes a very unhappy little boy :(
As hard as it is watching him as sick as he is, i hope to god that ethan doesnt get it, that would be really really horrible.
Well we had a bit of an exciting day the other day, Ethan rolled from back to tummy! he did tummy to back about 2 weeks ago, but i thought he was just over-balancing while on his tummy, but now he can go both ways! Oh and ive started putting him in his cot because the bassinette that we hired is due back in 2 weeks. i think he was getting too big for it anyway.

M&O ~ How is O now from his needles? hope he is back to his normal self
rissa ~ hope everything goes well with the packing and moving. So will you have access to the internet up there?
Michelle ~ i hope you are feeling better after your day in bed yesterday! how is chloe now? most nights E sleeps 7pm-1am but then wakes again at 4am and 7am, not sure why he does a long stint and then 3hourly after that!
CC ~ yay for the great sleep, i have been thinking of starting to do a dreamfeed for E at about 9.30 when i go to bed, but im scared i will wake him up too much and he wont go back to sleep! :eek:
mumofasl ~ Welcome!! i love your girls names! beautiful!
Claire ~ im so sorry that you are having a bit of a rough time at the moment, must be so heartbreaking having Z in the cast now that the weather is heating up. hopefully it wont be too much longer :fingerscrossed: how did you go at the drs for the stuffy nose? I know what you mean about feeling all alone, i had a falling out with my parents and sister at the end of my pregnancy so ive only seen my parents twice since i had E, and havent seen my sister at all. DH is working long hours and his family dont speak much english, so all ive really got is my good friend that i catch up with every few weeks. Its hard, especially on the bad days. I really could have used my familys help today while nicholas is sick and just wants to be held all day, which is practically impossible while im having to feed and hold ethan!

Big hello to everyone i have missed, would like to have got everyone but nicholas wants me to come and sit with him and watch playschool. joy!
Hayley

[cheezelz]

a few people said to me that cradle cap is excema...

I always thought that cradle cap was a hormone imbalance where more oil is produced on the scalp. Im probably wrong so really should research first but ehh who can be bothered?

Welcome Mumofalso. Hope life and bubs are well.

Marissa I would be petrified moving anywhere. Even if I had to move next door. I have soooo much cr@p in my house. You sound very calm and organised. Hope it stays that way.

Hayley how often are you giving bubs tummy time? I am so bad I think Piper has only has it 5 times. I keep forgetting and everytime I do put her on the floor Brie tries to jump on her. She is no where near rolling over and she is 11 weeks.


Im going to bed as I have a 1st birthday to go to tomorrow. Lucky mum is here and she can look after Piper. Its just lunch. More of a celebration for my bestfriend to celebrate a year of surviving being a single mum with a daughter. Im so proud of her.

[Lyglc]

hi ladies,

Just wanted to pop in and say hi. Have read all the posts, but I'm so sorry I can't reply at the moment as I'm desperate for bed.

very , very tired at the moment, Chloe has been very unsettled since her immunisations.

Sorry to hear that some of you /or your children have been sick - not fun at all.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend. maybe I'll find some time to get on here and write some personals over the weekend.

Tale care, Yvonne.

[Rydens Mummy]

Hello

Hi M&0 - I have had good success taking Ruden off his formula. He was on 3 to 4 formula feeds a day for a while and now he is down to just 1 before bed. Which at this stage i am happy to to keep this way. he sleeps 10 hours during the night with the one bottle so i really dont want to up set this. Im off to Perth on monday for a week the i come back for a week then am off camping at Wilson Prom for a week. When i get back i might try and half that lone bottle feed and see how he goes. He suffers really bad hicups that hurt him real bad, the MCHN said to me to try and take away as much formula anf this might stop them and it seems to have worked, he dosnt get them as often.

On another note. My sister had her baby today. She had a girl name Reegan Lee weighing 9lbs 13 oz (4.45kg). The funny this is she was delivered in the same room Ryden was exactly 10 weeks to the day apart.

Stacey

[ellie13]

:wave:

Sorry girls I have been so busy that I have not been able to catch up here at all, in fact I have not switched on my computer since I posted here last......

Hope everyone is well, and that all bubs are travelling good.

Here- all is great, getting back to our routine after the holidays. I have moved furniture all around the house this week, and Bianca finally has he very own room, set up properly as a nursery:yelclap:

Anyways, I will try and get on a bit more, it will all settle down once my mum leaves, as when she is here, I just love spending time with her. If she gets the all clear on her check up on tuesday:fingerscrossed:, than she will be going back home straight after that, so I am making most of the time she is here.

Anyways, better go, so I get at least some more sleep- sad isn't it, the only time I have, to get on here, is 4am:laughing:, sounds like Bianca is asleep now, so I better go.

You all have a nice weekend:flowerz:

[M&O]

Morning mummies,

Well O seems to be okay after his injections. No temp at all yesterday, but I think it has knocked him a little flat, he slept for a lot of yesterday. Managed to cut down to the 3 FF yesterday, but I think thats only because of how much he slept.

Anyways, up this morning just before 6 for a feed, and I've woken up with a thumping headache and a sore throat. I think the small slice of choc cake I had last night might account for the headache, but the sore throat is out of the blue.

M has ended up in our bed again this night...so another fairly cr@p sleep for us. Maybe I'll go hop O and I into her bed for an hour or so, before she wakes up lol!

ellie - thats great Bianca's nursery is all setup, you will have to post some pics.

stacey - congrats and well done to your sis, a big beautiful girl with a lovely name. Fantastic weening him off the FF is working. :fingerscrossed: I can manage the same for O or at least cut it down to maybe 1 or 2.

yvonne - sorry Chloe has been so unsettled for you, I hope she is back to her happy self soon.

lisa - enjoy the birthday party, I have a whole lot of admiration for single mums', she definately deserves to celebrate.

hayley - Excellent that Ethan rolled back to tummy. Clever little boy. O is yet to repeat last week's front to back rolls. Maybe I dreamed them hehe. Would like to get him in his cot soon to, definately getting towards being to big for his basinette, unfortunately the cot is still in M's room, and she still uses it occasionally, and she is not real big with the sharing and him having what she considers belongs to her. Oh well will have to make the move sooner rather than later.

Anyways, should go and try and get a tad more :sleeping: now I think the painkillers have kicked in a little. We'll see if O feels like doing the same, I guess otherwise I'm up for the day.

Enjoy the weekend girls :flowerz:

[tahnee11]

Hi ladies,

I haven't posted in a while so I thought I better check in. We've been really busy this week since my brother has been up visiting us, he goes back home today:(, I miss him already. Now that we have a date for our wedding, I have been busy trying to find a place for the ceremony and reception so we can book it in early. So many places are so expensive though and we don't want to spend a fortune.


M&O - Isabelle slept heaps after her needles too. I was expecting her to be really unsettled but she wasn't.

ellie13 - I hope your mum getsthe all clear.

Sorry no more personals, DS just came and told me he has done a poo:yelclap:could that be a sign he is ready to be toilet trained? I better change him before he goes and sticks his hand down his nappy:laughing:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Well I finally sat down- what a day- I was looking after 2 kids for my BF for most of the day, so it was go,go,go all day. I am finished:sleeping:. But on a bright note- got a lot done- great weather- so I fixed a curtain, and washed all the sheets that needed washing etc.....

CC- I've finally caught on your story-:hugs: for you- what a releive isn't it. Eventhough I still get a bit freaked out when I think about it, and I am not sure, but since it happened I feel really anxious about Bianca now- keep checking her, changing her sleeping arangements etc..... just scared of SIDS more than I was.... might have something to do with the stress of those tests, and go away soon. I don't know how you survived a week of waiting, you're very strong, I don' think I would of.

Jasmine- I will try and take a few shots, so I can post them, and hopefully I will get my bottom into gear and post some pics from holidays.

I know what you mean about the dress sence- my DD- well lets just say- sometimes I wonder.....oh well, she is the one that wears it, so :confused:

M&O-hope your headache and throat feel better soon.

Anyways- better go as DH is making a BBQ for dinner, and it is starting to smell good, and I am starving. Oh yeah I did a drastic change on my hairstyle yesterday.......I had the same haircut for the last 6 years, so I changed it:smiliedance:, and I like it:smiliedance:.

[Lyglc]

hi ladies, just wanted to say hi.

Had an extremely busy day today with doing outside work - lawns/weeding etc, dd1 had dancing, also had a birthday party to go to and chloe is still unsettled....:no:.

Reallly tired, again, tomorrow looks to be busy too...oh well.....

Anyway, hope you are all having a great weekend. Weather in melbourne today was beautiful.....nice to be outside.

can't beleive that some babie are rolling already. Chloe has only just started smiling in the last week or 2 (and it's only very occasionally still).

Well, little miss Chloe has woken again. better go feed her.

take care, Yvonne.

[CrispyChicken]

ellie - thanks for the hugs. surprisingly now that the tests are over i feel much more relaxed. they havent affected me too much. it was hard to wait a week, but we had no choice so we just did.

bambina - no repeat on the super sleep :no: theres no trick or i would be doing it!

firefly - i have the opposite problem when i wake amelia for a 'dream feed'. it is very hard to keep her awake enough to feed and then she just wakes as she would normally in a few hours anyway. its almost like she never woke up and had the dream feed. i dont think you will wake E up too much, but i dont know if its worth even doing it. i have stopped now and am just trying to get to bed earlier so i make the most of amelia's longest sleep.

[Purpose Blessings]

Hi girls,

DH left this afternoon for 5 days in Sydney. I miss him so much already. I know that sounds corny but things are just so hectic at the moment and he's litterally my other half IYKWIM. He helps to keep me sane.

Thanks to those of you who said I sound calm and in control. I don't often feel that way to be honest, but I try to stay positive as stressing really isn't going to help. And some very wise people have been reminding me to try not to worry about things. Dh gets back midnight friday and the removalists are coming on monday. I have a huge list of things to try to do this week, but if i don't get to them it wont be the end of the world. DS and DD1 both come down with head colds yesterday which are getting rapidly worse. Hopefully they won't suffer to much or for too long. And :fingerscrossed: that DD2 and I don't get it aswell, as that would really make things harder.

DD1 is continuing on her path of self toilet training and has started to refuse nappies. I just went into her room to see why she wasn't in bed and found her with her pants and nappy off and her trying to put undies on instead. It is weird for me that she is so keen. We had to practically force Ds to toilet train when he was 3 and we are still having trouble with him pooing in his pants now (he's 4 in Jan). I am really worrying about him as he starts Kindy in the new year and I can see this being a really big issue. DH tells me not to worry about it, but I can't help it. I've tried reward charts, stamps stickers, lollypops, positive reinforcment, negative reinforcement, the lot. He just doesn't want to do it. Sometimes he will have no 'accidents' for a week or so while he like the reward that is being offered, but once we try to mimimise the reward or he gets bored with it he goes back to his old ways. This really frustrates me as I think it means that he is very capable but is probably just to lazy to go to the loo. I hate thinking such a negative thing about my child, but it seems to be true.

Ds has also started to get really fearful. He won't walk down the hallway during the day by himself as he thinks something is down there. Instead he calls his little sister and gets her to go down with him:confused:. I don't know where this fear is stemming from and nothing I am trying seems to be helping him get over it. Now I am finding myself shouting at him to just hurry up and go down the hallway to do what ever he's been told to do... I hate shouting at the kids. I feel so terrible and like I am causing them emotional damage:no:.

ANyway, I didn't get on here to whinge about DS, but seem to have needed to vent. I hate thinking so negatively, it really just makes me feel worse. He is such a wonderful kid and I am very blessed to have him. He brings me so much Joy. So I am going to go and eat some chocolate (nothing like eating your emotions) have a big glass of red cordial (I'm a sucker for it) and hit the sack.

Hope you have all had a good weekend

[M&O]

Morning mummies,

Well after a weekend of feeling fluish, feeling a little better this morning, so here's hoping the worst of it is over. On a fantastic note, M slept in her own bed all night! :smiliedance: And O slept from...wait for it..8:15 till 6:45! Omg!

Had a good weekend though really, took M to the beach because the weather was gorgeous here in Adelaide on Saturday. She can't stop talking about it now. And my Mum and sister looked after them both for a few hours yesterday so DH and I could do some shopping. There is nothing quite like being able to get out of the car, and just go...and not have to get out a pram, a bag or two and then the kids lol!

Anyways be back later to catchup on the posts...O singing the I want my mummy song.

Kristy :)

[littleleos]

hey everyone

just got back from the outlaws... wasnt too bad... they forgot to mention that they both had colds and where hacking up their gutses all weekend... mother out law had just had surgery on her arm and was wondering why I wouldnt let her hold aiden... how on earth do u cover your mouth and hold aiden at the same time, she cant even hang out clothes let alone hold a baby:confused:... then she said poppy wanted a hold, I said he had a nasty cold "oh thats just his respitory problem"... bugger off, u should have seen my face when he spat rasberies all over aiden face ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh sorry just another vent errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

anyway... on a more exciting note aiden has been sleeping through the night .... last feed at 1000 and didnt wanna eat till 730 woo hoo

aiden is 2 months this afternoon... sad he is growing up soooooooo quickly but amazed at how different he is each day... (he is talking to me as I type)


spooky stuff
what do u think of these pics
not to glamorous as I am about to push out a baby

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=995560&l=e17fa&id=750662554 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=995560&l=e17fa&id=750662554)

3 funny circles in my lounge room..... not as big as the one above
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=995564&l=7684b&id=750662554 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=995564&l=7684b&id=750662554)

so if u didnt see them... there are funny circles in the pics... some people think they are spirt energies hmmm anyway I sent them to a friend who has done heaps of researh into the subject and she thinks the one in the birth unit is from rays family as it is over rays shoulder and the other 3 in the pic in my famuly room are looking over aiden...

weird weird weird.... what do u think

any way enough about me,... I gotta spend some time with my bubba

ill pop in latter for a better catch up


cya

[babynumberone]

Am I the only one who has a bub that isn't sleeping well at night?
The longest sleep Z had last night was 2 hours and 45 minutes... I'm exhausted.

Anyway will be back later to do personals. Taking Zaydn to hospital for his foot - wish us luck :fingerscrossed:

Claire x

[Purpose Blessings]

Alina - not sure on the orbs.

M&O - sounds like you had a good weekend

Claire - My first two kids diddn't sleep more than 4 hours until they were over 1. I think every child's different and you just need to try and recou[ sleep when you can.

As for me Emily slept pretty well last night. She was waking up until a few nights ago 1-2 times a night but on the advice of a friend I started to give her a dummy if she was just whinging a little bit. Last night i fed her at 9:30ish and then went to bed. She woke about 12ish but went back to sleep on her own with the dummy. She did this again around 2. She woke wanting a feed at 4:30 and has fed 2 houly since then. I still had to get up to her so had disrupted sleep but I was able to go straight back to sleep so it wasn't too bad. I'm hoping thah she learns to resettle herself so that we don't get caught in the trap of having to get up when she spits her dummy. First i'll get her used to the idea of sleeping through the night though.

Anyway kids are running a muck and snotting everywhere so i'd better go.

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Hi Girls,

Well i am feeling a bit down today, today is our anniversary of being together and DP like usual hasn't remembered, so far this year he hasn't remembered my birthday, mothers day or this anniversary. I know its not a big one cause we aren't married but it is still important to me and i am probably just upset over nothing.

Talon went to bed last night at 8 am and slept till 4.30 which is pretty good considering he usually only sleeps from 10 - 5.30. I fed him at 4.30 and he fell straight back to sleep till 8.30 which was great, just wish DS1 and DS2 will sleep in past 5 am, my kids must be the only 4 and 5 year olds that wake up so early, drives me up the wall.

Talon is 9 weeks old today and booked in for Thursday to get his needles and check up, wonder how much he has put on since his 4 week check up.

For those girls that wanted to see a photo of the snake cake i made for Blaze's 5th birthday back in September here is the link to the album.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=60660&l=a2061&id=721617941

Anyway should go organise dinner, having curry tonight, only thing i don't argue with my kids over.

Have a good rest of your afternoons and evening.

[tahnee11]

Hi Girls,

Well i am feeling a bit down today, today is our anniversary of being together and DP like usual hasn't remembered, so far this year he hasn't remembered my birthday, mothers day or this anniversary. I know its not a big one cause we aren't married but it is still important to me and i am probably just upset over nothing.



:hugs:I know how you feel when they forget things that are important to us. DP is always asking when my birthday is. He forgets a lot of other stuff too so I just put it down to his bad memory and I try not to worry about him forgetting but more focus on how he plans to celebrate those days with me once he knows.
For instance, Our 5year anniversary was in august this year and because so much was happening then (ie Isabelle was born) we BOTH forgot our anniversary:eek:. I didn't realise til 2 days later and when I told DP, he dropped his plans for the day and we organised mum to look after DS while we went out for dinner. Does your DP feel bad once he finds out?

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Morning girls!!

I've been MIA for a while now. Been pretty busy, had my parents here, then DH home from his time away. I had one REALLY feral day with C..........had me in tears because of her behaviour. So I've been a little down on myself of late. Not convinced I was being a good mummy.

Needless to say it's been you guys that have kept me sane, I've been reading everyone's posts, but have left it far too long to try personals. So I will start afresh, and next time will attempt personals.

But I'm over that now, feeling better again, so happy to rejoin the world of Bubhub!!!

Today is DH's birthday, so G and I are going to meet him for lunch while C is at childcare.

On another bright note, G is still sleeping beautifully. We seem to have developed a nice routine of last feed anywhere from 9:45pm depending on how she feels, then she sleeps through until after 7 most days. She did wake over the weekend at 6:30, but we were staying at my DH's family holiday house, and the room wasn't a dark as her room at home.

Anyway better run, C is driving me nuts. She won't stop talking/singing while I'm typing.

Will do personals next time, sorry girls.

Cya!

[littleleos]

hey girls...

just got back from my boobie group, there was a little baby that was alittle bigger than aiden when he was born so it was amazing to see the difference in size...I weighed aiden and he is 5.65kg so that 650g in 3 weeks,only thing is im not sure how acurate it was as he did the biggest poo when we got home so I reckon he has not put on any weight:confused:

bambi... yeah for charlie doing soooo well

c and gs mum... I reckon your doing a top job

talons mum... your hubby needs to speak to mine... he never forgets anything... its really annoying... like we will be walking down the street and he will say... this day three years ago we where walking around ayres rock...

well aidens grunting for something... wonder what

cya
oh I may be MIA for a week or 2 so I request that u all stop typing so I have less gossip to catch up on when I get home :laughing:

[CrispyChicken]

hi girls

took mia for her immunisations today and she was so brave. only screamed for less than a minute, then was back to her happy self again!

last night amelia had her fussy time from 3pm to 5.30pm when she fell asleep. she woke at 10.30pm so i fed her, changed her etc and put her back to bed about 11.15pm and she then slept til 6.45am! she actually started grunting and sucking her hands around 6am but after getting advice at the sleep and settling class i went to, i left her until she started to cry before i fed her. this tip has been good for the middle of the night too - sometimes she goes for over an hour before she is really hungry. the nurse said i will get used to sleeping through the noise over time lol. anyway, she did the same fussy thing today at the same time and has been asleep since 5.30pm again so i hope :fingerscrossed: she is copying last night's routine! until now her sleep patterns have been so random - 8 hours one night, then 4 hours, then 3, then 6, then almost 8 again last night... i dont know what to expect!

on a sad note, one of my BF's (remember they are both on IVF and both fell pg at the same time!) bubby went to heaven :angel:. im so sad for her.

well i can barely keep my eyes open (i have felt worse today even though i had more sleep last night :confused:) so i will have a nap til mia wakes up for her last feed.

night night :sleeping:

[tahnee11]

Hi everyone,
I feel like **** today. During the day it seems like i'm holding isabelle all day, either in my arms or in the sling. I think it's starting to get to me as i'm always tired despite how well she sleeps at night. I seem to have no energy during the day to get anything done. Isabelle is such a chubba bubba that she is transitioning between 000 and 00 now so I starting sorting through her clothes this morning while she played on her mat, well that only lasted 5mins and she's back in my arms again. Sorry for the vent but I just needed to get it out.

cc - I'm so sorry for your friend, it would be a hard time for her. :fingerscrossed: Amelias sleep patterns become more consistant for you. I might have to try that technique with Isabelle.

lianas1stbub - Wow your hubby has a great memory. My DP can barely remember what he did yesterday, let alone 3 years ago :laughing:.

Isabelle just did a massive poo, up the front up the back so I better go. Have a great day everyone:wave:

[Lyglc]

hi ladies,

Well I've been reading everything, but not really had time to post much lately.
The last week has been pretty full on for me. Chloe is just starting to be a bit more settled now after her immunisations - it's been just over a week now..... I had her at the doctors on Monday (I needed for her to get a referral for her last pead appoint) and mentioned her unsettledness to our doctor. He said it's not common to last this long but it does happen for some babies.
So anyway, trying to get stuff done at home too, house is a bit of a disaster at the moment. hopefully i'll get some time to clean today and my ironing pile is just so huge!

Anyway, I have been thinking of you ladies...

tahnee - I hope that Isabelle settles for you soon - it's so tiring....I've started thinking about getting out some 00 for Chloe too. She's just starting to have some of her 000 get small (although there are a couple of 0000 things she still wears, but they are big ones).

Crispy - sounds like Amelia did great with her immunisations - hope she is still happy for you. Good luck with sorting out the sleeping stuff!
Really sad about your friend - must be a really difficult time for everyone...so sad....

Alina - it's amazing just how quick they grown and lose that newborn look. I can't beleive how quickly the time has gone....

Jasmine - sounds like Charlie is growing very nicely!

michelle - hope you had a nice lunch with dh yeaterday. Also hope that Charlotte is being a bit easier for you today.Little ones can be very demanding sometimes... but you got to love them anyway!

tahnee - nice of you dh to change his plans so quickly for your belated anniversary. We had our "going out" anniversay while I was in hospital with chloe. Remebered a couple of days later (firsttime I've ever forgotten any anniversary). Usually we've just had a special dinner or something like that - so couldn't have done this anyway (being in hospital).
I used to quiz my dh on the important dates to check he was remembering them:laughing:. I also write them in his diary and give a little reminder notice a week in advance!!!!!!

terr 2 - sorry that your dh didn't remember - I know a few guys like this. I htink often women are better at remembering dates than men - why can't they be more like us:yes:. I can totally understand that you were upset. Are you feeling a bit better now?
Sounds like Talon is sleeping well for you...Hope the other 2 follow his lead!!!

Marissa - hope that you packing is going well and everything is getting organised. Been thinking of you!

Claire - hope that Zaydn is giving you some rest!

A big hello to everyone else!!!!:wave:

Anyway, I must get going and ry to get my house in some type of order. Hope you are all having a great day and enjoying your bubs!

Oh, forgot to mention, Chloe is now smiling much more...finally....it's so lovely...makes me all warm and gooey on the inside:yes:

[Terrible2+1cutie]

I am feeling a bit better now, he felt bad when he realized i was upset when he got home from work and asked why lol. lianasfirstbub can i borrow your DH, he sounds great lol. My DP working shift doesn't know what day it is one day to the next as his weeks are 8 day weeks with 4 on 4 off. I probably just over reacted.

On another note, i got Talon's name down for Kindy in 2013, scary huh. There were already 5 bubs on the waiting list. Where we live you have to put there names down at birth or they don't get in. I couldn't get my boys into a kindy cause we moved shortly after i had Bailey. Next best thing for Blaze and Bailey though was daycare and they love it there but Kindy's here are heaps cheaper than daycare.

Talon slept alot yesterday so he didn't end up going to sleep till about 11 last night but he slept till 7, so that was still good. He is getting his needles tomorrow so i am hoping he is like his older brothers and doesn't get upset by this. Older 2 boys have never cried or battered a eye lid with needles and were never unsettled afterwards so i was so lucky.

Anyway will pop back in later, hope you lovely ladies have a great day with your bubs and older kids. Its been quiet in here lately.

[Misheycat]

Hi All,

This is a quick one as I'm trying to motivate myself to go out and exercise on the treadmill.

Well I've been a bit slack in posting though I've been reading what you all have been up to. Chloe has been her usual self, most days she has unsettled moments but its actually tolerable, I think the worst time of the day is settling her between 4-7pm (times vary) then once she settles she sleeps for about 6hrs, then up for 1hr and down til 7am (though she wakes and has a grizzle on and off at 6am). Dare I say anything as I'm sure this routine will change one day - though if its for the better I won't complain :p

BambinaCattiva - Congrats on Charlie's weigh-gain he is doing really well! Last time I weighed Chloe she was under 5kg so I'm hoping she's above this now :fingerscrossed:.

Lianas1stbub - Congrats on Aidan's weight-gain also (not sure if the poo would have affected it too much :confused:).

CrispyChicken - So sorry to hear about your BF's baby, it would be devastating I couldn't imagine what she'd be going through right now :(

Glad Amelia did well with her needles, Chloe did the same thing did the biggest cry and had tears for a minute then she was all happy. I've noticed her poos have been a lot more regular ever since (a week has past now), she's formula fed too it used to be 1-2 a day now its 3-4???

Tahnee11 - Sorry to hear about Isabelle, hope she settles soon! Good news she is thriving well with weight though, Chloe is doing the same thing but with 0000 to 000's.

Lyglc - So sweet your Chloe is grinning away, I bet your hanging out to hear her giggle (I know I am)! Good luck with the cleaning and ironing, I felt like a washer woman yesterday with my own!

Terrible2+1cutie - OMG I didn't know you had to put your bub's name down for kindy already, I'm not sure I'll even be living in this area in 2013 as we only rent and our house is old and falling apart.

Hope Talon's needles today go well :fingerscrossed:.

Nappies - Chloe is finally growing out of her newborn nappies, put her in a huggies infant size today, yay! Those who are using disposables, though most of your bubs are probably bigger than my mini-me, did you use infant or go straight to crawler size? Its annoying they don't sell these in boxes (though I found some bulk online).

Anyhow off to the treadmill I go! :flowerz:

Michelle

[babynumberone]

Hello girls,
Had a horrible day on Monday at hospital. Zaydn had his last cast put on and we were informed what the next stage of his treatment involved....he has to wear special little shoes (on both feet even though his left foot is the only one affected) which are connected by a metal bar...23 hours a day for 3 months. Then after the 3 months he has to wear it at nap times and during the night until he is 4 :( I was devastated, my poor baby boy :(Then I became very annoyed at the doctor for not explaining things in the beginning. We had no idea the treatment involved this, it would of been nice to have been told in the beginning. That way we would of had time to get used to the idea. Anyway, needless to say Monday was a very crappy day.
That night I decided that I can either stay at home and feel sorry for Zaydn and myself or I can get out there and make some friends. I don't have many and the ones I do have don't have children yet. So we joined a local playgroup which we went to on Tuesday and it was great! The ladies are very friendly and there is quite a few bubs and one on the way. This morning we went to Family Rhyme Time which is a one hour interactive session where you learn songs and rhymes to sing to your baby. It was really good even though Z slept half the time! This afternoon we are going to Mums and Bubs Yoga which I am really looking forward to! Then finally tomorrow I have a Young Mums Group to go to which should be good!
Zaydn is doing well, weighed him at hospital and he is now 6kg so very healthy indeed! The weather is a bit warmer so his cast has been bothering him quite a bit but at least it will be off on Monday. And he will be allowed to have showers and baths again (got to find a positive in everything I guess)!

Big :yelclap: to all the babies who are sleeping well. Zaydn went 4.5 hours straight last night which is great for him!
Also big :yelclap: for bubbas gaining weight!

Yvonne: Glad Chloe is smiling lots now - isn't it gorgeous!

Tahnee: Isabelle sounds similar to Zaydn - always wanting cuddles. Hopefully as time goes on they become more independent.

Kristy: So sorry to hear about your friend. My ex-boss (who is also a close friend) went through the same thing last week, she was 10 weeks pregnant. I feel so sad for her....

Marissa: How are you, how is everything going? Not long now!

Jasmine: How has it been with your girls back at school? Have you been able to have more time to yourself? Hope so!

Sorry I can't do more personals, Z is over sitting on my lap while I do this!

Hope you are all having a wonderful day!

Claire x

[tahnee11]

Hi, I just put some bonjela on Isabelle's gums. I can see 2 front bottom teeth through her gums so i'm sure thats what is causing her to be so unsettled.

babynumberone - :hugs:I'm so sorry about the next stage of treatment Z has to go through. Good to hear that you are being positive and staying actiive though. Going to all those playgroups should help take your mind off other things.

misheycat - I got annoyed that Huggies didn't do infant in boxes either. I ended up switching to babylove infant so I could still buy the box and I have probably gone through 2 maybe 3 boxes of those and now she's ready for crawler. I'm not going to switch back to huggies though because I find babylove are just as good and so much cheaper. I remember I did the same thing with DS. He was in huggies newborn to start with and then every size up, i used babylove.

Terrible2+1cutie - Good luck with Talon's needles tomorrow. Hopefully he will be a happy baby for you

Lyglc - I love all the smiles Isabelle is giving me too. She's even blowing rasberries and making talking sounds.

[cheezelz]

During the day it seems like i'm holding isabelle all day, either in my arms or in the sling.

I feel the same. Im typing with my left hand whilst Pip is aslkeep in my right arm. Im not left handed so its a bit of a crazy look.



Nappies - Chloe is finally growing out of her newborn nappies, put her in a huggies infant size today, yay! Those who are using disposables, though most of your bubs are probably bigger than my mini-me, did you use infant or go straight to crawler size? Its annoying they don't sell these in boxes (though I found some bulk online).

I use the infant that a friend gave me. I can get them at a nappy warehouse near my place in boxes. They are 2nds. The prints on them are a bit eonky. Or else I have bought infant in Babylove. I hate the wiggles pattern but they do the trick. They work out cheaper too. I keep my huggies infant for nights and when we go out.


I started Bikram yoga last night. Its the one that is done in the 40degree room. Ive never done yoga before so this was a challenge. It went for 90minutes. I ached so bad this morning. I walked to the local shop to relieve that pain. I felt much better by lunch. Tonight I have my 2nd weight watchers meeting. I should have lost a small amount of weight but Im not wishing too much. Im not really looking for a number of kg's as much goal as much as a size I want to be. Currently I am a 14-16. Id love to be a 10-12. Im large chested so Id be happy with a 12 on top.

[CrispyChicken]

lisa - hope you dont feel too sore after yoga next time. i also hope piper settles down and you can put her down more in the day.

tahnee - hope the bonjela helps isabelle's gums and that it settles her down.

claire - big hugs. so sorry to hear about you day on monday. yes, it would have been nice to know from the beginning. sounds like you are having a positive attitude, though, which helps so much in situations like that. its great you are getting out and meeting other mums. i need to do more of that!

michelle - amelia only does 1-2 poos a day too. i havent noticed any chance from the immunisations so far... mia is just growing out of the newborn nappies now too. we are on the last packet. i bouth 2 packets of the huggies infant size when they were on special and i was also given lots of packets at my baby shower and from DH's work, so i dont think ill need to buy any more til she is in crawler. im glad about that as i like huggies the best so far(ive tried babylove, dribot from target, and woolworths select). it is annoying that they dont come in boxes, though.

Catherine - im glad you got Talon into kindy. i have got amelia into daycare til she is 4 then she will come to school with me (we have a prep class before real school) in 2013 for prep and then start kindergarten in 2014. its great cos teachers get a discount so sending her to a private prep class will be cheaper than putting her in preschool for that year! hope talons needles went ok.

yvonne - glad chloe is smiling more for you. hope you have a less crazy week this week and feel like you get on top of things again. it can feel so overwhelming when you dont feel in control.

alina - i know what you mean about size difference. sometimes i feel embarassed about how big amelia is. i saw a 12-week-old the other day and she was bigger than him and she is only 8 weeks old. im sure aiden had still put on weight - a poo wouldnt weigh 650g surely!

jasmine - glad charlie is putting on weight! he is creeping up the percentiles!

me - well amelia has had 2 days in a row pretty much exactly the same pattern now. been strange all day - not having her whole bottle, but feeding more often and not really having much sleep between feeds, then around 3pm goes crazy and i cant settle her and feeds like 50-100mls every half hour, then crashes at 5.30 for 5 hours. wakes at 10.30pm for a feed, nappy change, etc and goes back to sleep around 11.15pm and sleeps til around 6am when she starts grizzling, sucking hands etc, so i put the dummy in and she goes back to sleep again til i get up! today seems to be the same, but she hasnt got unsettled at 3pm - she has been asleep now since about 2.15pm and its nearly 5pm! i hope she is just extra sleepy from her injections yesterday and still sleeps through tonight...

[Misheycat]

I use the infant that a friend gave me. I can get them at a nappy warehouse near my place in boxes. They are 2nds. The prints on them are a bit eonky. Or else I have bought infant in Babylove. I hate the wiggles pattern but they do the trick. They work out cheaper too. I keep my huggies infant for nights and when we go out.

Where abouts in SA is this nappy warehouse as it sounds good? I might need to give babylove a try, might email them and see if I can get a sample to try rather than buying a whole pack (I'm trying to save money currently whilst DH is not working).

Well done with the exercise, yoga sounds really hard! I'm the same as you I'm in 14-16 (more 16 than 14 at the moment tho) and pretty much all my clothes are 10-12.

BabyNumberOne - Claire sorry to hear about all the troubles with Zadyn's foot, I'm amazed the doctors kept you in the dark for so long! :( But your positive outlook is excellent and getting out and meeting new people and building your support network will be great for you both!

[Tarabell]

Evening Girls,

The past two days have been @#$@#$@#, have been crying most of the day which was made even worse by the Paed calling this evening to tell us he has the results of E's ultrasound from yesterday. His hips are fine (standard procedure cause he was breech), he doesn't have pylorus stenous (sp??), however one of his testes has not descended (we knew this as it is obvious) and after the sonographer managed to find the missing one yesterday it is much smaller than the other one and they don't think it is viable. He is referring us to the paed surgeon... my poor little boy, I want to make sure I do everything possible now to ensure he can have babies when he is older... I feel like I as a mummy must of done something wrong to cause this.

E has hardly slept the past 5 days, he is back to not sleeping during the day. My nipples are cracked again, E is vomiting blood from me which is heartbreaking to see. DH ignores him when he cries so I am left to settle him myself, I usually end up crying myself as he gets to the stage that he cries so much he vomits and nothing I do consoles him. DH is not being supportive at all, he'd probably not even notice if I had a nervous breakdown.

My grandfather called today to tell me my brother is here from England...why he called I don't know... he never calls me... it might have something to do with the for sale sign out the front of our house, he wanted more info to feed back to my evil mother... didn't give him anything though and I won't be seeing my brother either, he hasn't bothered to contact me since I sent him an email in March to tell him I was preg so I figure I couldn't be bothered seeing him especially the way I feel at the moment I really don't want the added stress.

Sorry no personals, I am so exhausted I can hardly think straight. Better go, E has just woken up from his 10 minute nap... :confused:

T

[CrispyChicken]

tara - im so sorry to hear about your horrible few days. big hugs for you :hugs:. it sounds like you need some residential care at somewhere like karitane or tresillian. also, about the testes - im sure you and the doctors will do everything they can. there is nothing YOU could have done to make that happen, so dont blame yourself. i know its easy to say...

[tahnee11]

Tara - I agree with crispychicken, don't blame yourself, it's not your fault. I really hope your DH starts helping you out, you need that extra support around you right now. :hugs::hugs:

[Tarabell]

CC - I spent 5 days at the residential place a few weeks ago... didn't really help much unfortunately as they weren't as supportive as I would of liked especially with the breastfeeding which was a huge part of the reason why I went there.

tahnee11 - I have given up on DH helping, no matter what I say or do it makes no difference...

Am off to bed now,
night all

[cheezelz]

Where abouts in SA is this nappy warehouse as it sounds good? I might need to give babylove a try, might email them and see if I can get a sample to try rather than buying a whole pack (I'm trying to save money currently whilst DH is not working).

Well done with the exercise, yoga sounds really hard! I'm the same as you I'm in 14-16 (more 16 than 14 at the moment tho) and pretty much all my clothes are 10-12.

Its called NappyWorld and it is at Parafield Airport off Kings Rd. They have seconds of all the brands and some from overseas. Worth a look if your usual nappies are not on special anywhere.



Evening Girls,

The past two days have been @#$@#$@#, have been crying most of the day which was made even worse by the Paed calling this evening to tell us he has the results of E's ultrasound from yesterday. His hips are fine (standard procedure cause he was breech), he doesn't have pylorus stenous (sp??), however one of his testes has not descended (we knew this as it is obvious) and after the sonographer managed to find the missing one yesterday it is much smaller than the other one and they don't think it is viable. He is referring us to the paed surgeon... my poor little boy, I want to make sure I do everything possible now to ensure he can have babies when he is older... I feel like I as a mummy must of done something wrong to cause this.

E has hardly slept the past 5 days, he is back to not sleeping during the day. My nipples are cracked again, E is vomiting blood from me which is heartbreaking to see. DH ignores him when he cries so I am left to settle him myself, I usually end up crying myself as he gets to the stage that he cries so much he vomits and nothing I do consoles him. DH is not being supportive at all, he'd probably not even notice if I had a nervous breakdown.

Have you tried white noise to calm E down? Worked wonders after a few tries with both my girls. I have a radio in Pipers room and when she gets really frustrated I put the radio 'off station' so its just crackle and turn it up rather loud. After about a minute she clams down. It has to be loud enough that if you needed to talk you would have to really raise your voice. Its not a nice noise but it might work. I ended up sleeping with it when my DD1 was born cos it was the only thing that promoted 6 hr nights. Also used ity in the car. There is also a CD called 'Sounds of Silence' which does the same thing. I got mine off eBay. Worth a look if your at your wits end.



Just came back from Weight Watchers and Im a bit angry with myself. Somehow I thought that losing weight would be easy. I really enjoyed going when I lost 10kg about 5 years ago. I have forgotten how hard it actually was to get going in the first place. I only lost 700gm this week. Mind you I only really started Sunday evening after I'd done the food shopping. Oh well more sweat and less stuffing my face this week.

[Tarabell]

cheezelz - we have the sounds of silence cd, unfortunately not even that has been calming him down lately. He can smell the milk and just wants to comfort suck, unfortunately it is a vicious circle as he comforts sucks, my nipples bled ALOT and then he vomits blood.

I gave E some EBM from a cup and syringe last night as I have to get him used to drinking from a little medicine cup so DH can feed him when I have my operation in a few weeks... :laughing: and I wanted to give my nipples a break. It took a while but for the most part he was good, of course he started screaming because he wanted to suck after a while. Tried him with a dummy the night before, he won't take one.. not that I am particularly upset about that, am actually quite proud he spat it out. Seriously though, I don't think DH will have the patience to feed him from his little cup so I'll probably have to end up doing after my op.

Sounds like he has gone back to sleep now, so I think I might go and lay down for a while.

T

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Well i am off to spend the day with my 2 beautiful SIL's and my beautiful little nephew who is 3 weeks younger than Talon, can't wait. Blaze and Bailey will be at daycare today so plan on doing that then Talon has needles at 1.30 before picking the kids up from daycare around 3.30.

Tara sorry to hear you are going through a rough patch, things will start working themselves out soon i hope but until then remember that we are all here for you.

Anyway got to run, got a few things to do before i get to my SIL's.

[mumofasl]

Hello ladies,
I have finally made it to the computer. I have had a hectic time thru the holidays as my eldest was sick with a horrible chest infection that now I have! I am hoping the baby doesn't get it she had a mild fever last night so she got her first dose of panadol which she then proceeded to scream the house down in pain. I call the hospital to get a little advice and she stopped screaming and went straight to sleep 2 mins into my conversation. I think my nerves are shot from lack of sleep/time to myself/and this infection I have, and am jumping on ideas with a bit of panic attached. My DD has gone to school today and 3 year old DD is at kindi, have just got the baby to sleep so heres for hoping a little bit of peace, although I have an appointment I have to get ready for and in turn will have to wake the baby........
There just seems like there is no time to do anything for myself since I have had my baby, am going to try a yoga class next week, but have doubts that something will come up and not let me go. Heres for hoping I suppose.
Baby starting to cry again!!
Sorry to vent on you all, hope the next post of mine will be a bit more positive.
Have a good day ladies and hope you are all well. (sickness is the pits!)

[Purpose Blessings]

Hi girls - Just a quick one from me. Emily is 3 months old today and I have officially stopped counting in weeks. It is going so quickly and I feel quite sad that my last baby isn't a newborn anymore. Like some of your babies E is wearing mostly 000's but I am starting to think about getting the 00's out.Funnily enough she is still wearing some of her 0000's too. I weighed her about a week ago and she was approx 5.4kg (i wasn't going to undress her as it was a cold day). This means that she is just under the 50th percentile for her age. This is miraculous seen as though she was sooo tiny and had IUGR.

Things with me are busy as expected. DH gets home tomorrow night, which I am really looking forward to. I am coping fine, but miss him. We leave on Tuesday for Karratha. I won't have internet for a few weeks as we don't have a house yet and will only be in temp accommodation. As soon as we get settled though we will get the internet connected.

Unfortunetely I have come down with the cold that ds and dd1 had a few days ago. It is making me feel pretty miserable and is hampering the packing a bit but I'm trying to soldier on.


For those of you that are having a really tough time at the moment here is a big :hugs:. Some of your issues make me cry just thinking about how hard it would be and what you must be going through. I really hope that things get better really soon and please remember that we here are always available to hear your worries, vents and concerns.

On that note my little princess has just started crying so I'd better check her.

Oh I forgot to mention that Em (dd2) has been sleeping really well at night. I am so proud of her. She is not doing as well as some of your little ones but compared to her big brother and big sister she is amazing. The last few nights I have given her a snooze feed at 9:30 and she has slept through until 4:30 and then straight back to sleep until about 6:30 - 7ish (unless her older siblings wake her up earlier). She is a bit more unsettled during the day but I can cope with that.

Anway crying has gotten worse so I'd really better go

[Lyglc]

hi everyone!

Sorry to hear that some of you are going through a really hard time, especially, Claire, Tara and Jasmine. As Marissa said, we are all here for you so please feel free to vent as much as you wish.:hugs:for all of you.

To those not feeling to well, I hope that you are feeling much better soon. It's hard looking after kids when you don't feel well!

Life has still been incredibly busy for me - I'm not sure why it seems so much busier lately, but it is!!!!I'm having trouble just getting the essential things done....

I have a sore lower back at the moment, not sure how I hurt it but today it's really been bothering me - I have trouble even carrying Chloe sometimes......

Anyway, been feeling like I'm not doing a great job as a mum at the moment - I feel like my house is a disaster - there's always so much that needs to be done and I don't seem to have much time for the older kids. But today, I thought I need to spend more time with them so we had a little picnic in the backyard for lunch and I've had them painting which they love doing (messy for me though,at least they are outside!).
Stuff can get quite overwhelming, but I've just got to make the best of it and make sure I spend time with them still.

Anyway, felt like I've been doing a better job being a mum today and I've even got the dishes done now. I need to make sure the house is on some type of order before I go to bed so that I don't wake up to a messy house - that would make me feel much better.

I'm not sure if the weather is beautiful all over Australia today, but if it is like it is in Melbourne, I hope that you are all able to go out and enjoy the sunshine a bit.

Hope your babies are all being really good for you today :yes:

Can't believe we are now having babies reach 3 months.....the time has flown.... I look at Chloe and she looks so big and not like a newborn at all.....the days quickly turn into weeks..into months... Need to make sure I cherish all the moments.....

[CrispyChicken]

marissa - just want to say all the best for your move. you have done amazingly well to manage all this with a new baby and 2 other kids! its great that emily has put on so much weight, too.

one of my pregnant friends had to have an assessment of her baby yesterday as the doctor thought he was a bit small (she would be due in 3 days). they found that her placenta was calcified and she had no fluid around the baby and that he was VERY small, so they did an emergency c-section. He was born only 1.82kg and 45.5cm long. i dont know why the doctor didnt pick this up earlier! he has to stay in the SCN for 5 days. she named him Will and he is healthy, just tiny. his head is normal size though! i told her it was to fit in all his brains!

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Hi Girls,

I had a great time today with my SIL's and my nephew, he is so tiny, long and lanky compared to my chubby bubby Talon lol. Talon has put on 2kg's since birth, he is 6.24kg's, 61 cm's long and head circumferance of 40.5, they made comments about him being tall. I must be doing something right for him to put on so much weight. On the other side of things he screamed blue murder for his needles, i thought he was going to stop breathing, poor guy, lets hope i am in for a good night tonight, Talon slept from 7.15 pm - 6.30 am last night.

Anyway will pop on ina bit and read what everybody has been up to, got to go pick the boys up from daycare while DP is home to look after Talon, he is sleeping at the moment.

[Tarabell]

Hi Everyone,

Just a quick one from me, still not feeling the best unfortunately. Thanks everyone for your kind words and encouragement.

BambinaCattiva - We use the cup and syringe as I don't want to use a bottle with him and DH refuses to use a bottle. I have the tommee tippee ones (closer to nature or whatever they are), however we have never used them. I only give him EBM as a top up after the evening feed as this is when my supply is at it's lowest and E's need for milk is at it's highest! I only intend to do this until my nipples get a little better, plus DH will have to feed him after my operation so he has to learn how to do it.

Took E to the Paed today and got the referral for the surgeon which we'll see in a few weeks, looks as though he is going to have to have an operation most likely to remove the testes as it is too small and there is a high risk of it getting a tumor or something like that. We'll wait and see what the surgeon says.

The Paed has up'd E's reflux medication as he is still vomiting a lot, today was a very spewy day.

We also discussed his excema, looks as though it is most likely coming from my breast milk so I have to cut dairy out for a month and keep a food diary to see if it calms down. It is either that or give up bfing which is not an option, he also said that if it doesn't calm down I'll have to look at eliminating eggs, fish, nuts, food completely (ok maybe not that bad) and possibly start him on solids earlier, however this is a little way off yet.

I just want my baby to be ok! At least I ate today so that is a start.

We have an open home tomorrow so we were informed this evening so I am leaving DH to deal with it, I am off to get my hair done tomorrow.

Quick question - how many feeds are day are your bubs having, I am flat out giving E 5 feeds a day. On a good night E goes to bed for the night around 7-9pm and then wakes at 2.30am, then again between 6.30-8.30am. I am wondering whether I should wake him at 10-11pm to get another feed into him or let him sleep. I don't mind getting up in the middle of the night (it is usually the only time I get to spend on EB), however I am concerned that he is not getting enough feeds in the 24 hour period?? Any thoughts? And I know I am lucky that he sleeps well during the night and I shouldn't be complaining, however he doesn't sleep at all during the day so as a results he is exhausted come night time and it is a battle to get him into bed which involves A LOT of screaming on his part and crying on my part.

Well this post wasn't very quick at all. Better go and get some rest and speak to MIL as it is her birthday today.

night all

T

[cheezelz]

:( Yesterday dropping DD off at kindy, Charlie was wearing a bright orange nappy & bright green singlet (He looked soooooo cuties!!) and was drawing alot of attention from the kids...then one of them started yelling, "Look at it's head! Look at it's head!" (Pointing at his strawberry mark) it made me so sad. Obviously this child had no idea - why would he? But it just broke my heart...I sincerely hope that his strawberry mark is one of the ones that does fade away without intervention...and that it starts doing so soon. If it needs to be removed by a plastic surgeon, they wait until the child is in school. I would hate for some child (Who doesn't know any better) or ignorant adult to make a thoughtless comment when he can understand, and leave him feeling like I did yesterday

Kids can be so mean. Adults too. My first born, Brie has a strawberry on her arm. When born it was the size of a pin prick. Over time it quickly grew to the size of a 5c piece. The Dr said that over time it will fade or seem to get smaller as her arm gets bigger. I had plenty of people ask my how or why Brie had hurt her arm. I would then have to explain that it was a birthmark and what the Dr said. They then would have a closer look to investigate. I dunno if it was to see if I was telling the truth or if they hadnt seen one before and it was one of the worlds great mysteries. To be honest I am glad that it is only on her arm but I do feel your pain in some degree. I know how you feel and know that you probably pray that it will fade before school. I know you loved Charlie no matter what and dont care what he looks like but also dont want to be teased. You could tell from today that the world is not always nice. Bries has faded now. It is more of a tan/brown colour now and is not raised/lumpy at all anymore.
Piper on the other hand has what the paediatrician called a 'thunder' mark between her eyes. He said it was from her head growing too quick in utero. Its the size of a 5-10c piece. It looks like a light port wine stain birthmark. The paed said that it will fade eventualy. At the moment when she cries it goes really dark red/purple. When she gets older and it fades it will flare up when she gets angry.
I hate when I introduced people to Piper and they say that she is 'soooo cute'. I wonder sometimes if they dramatise it because they want me to feel better about her birthmark. Not that I dont think that she is cute but sometimes I wonder. I know that they stare. i love her no matter what.
I hope that you dont let people get to you too much. I know its easier said than done because we are all protective of your kids. :hugs:



BambinaCattiva - We use the cup and syringe as I don't want to use a bottle with him and DH refuses to use a bottle.

Can I ask why your DH doesnt want to use a bottle. I think he needs to take a step back and think about you at the moment and if a bottle helps you out then he should be fine with that. I mean its not his nipples that are being chewed are they? Using a bottle isnt the end of the world and it is great that you have the EBM to be able to do it. Ive had to give up BF alltogether. As long as you only use it in emergencies I dont see the difference between using a bottle or syringe/medicine cup. They are both not real nipples. I would have thought that using a bottle would be easier and nicer for E?
You sound like you are doing such a great job. You also sound like you are under alot of strain form DH not helping. I hope that things ease with both you and little E. Please try and relax becasue if you get sick mentally or physically things probably wont run as smooth as you like. You'd also probably end up still doing everything too. :hugs:
Regarding feeding I wouldnt wake him. Piper sleeps from 9pm-7am. During the day she only has 4-5 feeds and it is no where near the amount the formula tins says. I spoke to a nurse and she said as long as there is poo and wee and bubs sleeps well and is putting on weight they are getting enough to eat. E wouldnt sleep so well if he was hungry. Thats why he wakes at 2.30 for a feed cos he is hungry then. If you didnt want him to wake at 2.30 you could try a dream feed at 11ish and see if then he sleeps thru to 5-6am.

I feel like Im babbling. Im off to bed.:wave:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Firstly-:hugs: to Tarabell and Claire and Jasmine. Hope you'll get some releif soon girls. You've been through the wars.

Sorry I haven't been on for ages, all is good here. Mum got good results:yelclap:, so we are all good for another 3 mnths. She left straight away on wed, so it was crazy few days, but things should go back to normal soon.

Bianca has settled in her new nursery well, loves her cot and I have been busy finishing and tydying it all up.

Well, I think I will have very busy few more days, as tomorrow I am going to the family planning clinic, as I have no other option left but to get diaphram:(, so off I go to get one fitted:(.

And sunday-well that will be an extremely busy day, as we are going for a BBQ at DH's friends house and than birthdays afternoon tea for DH's mum.

I will try and catch up with everyone on here next week, I promise, I just hope I get to sit down for a bit. I sort of feel ridiculous, as if I have had too much coffee- I run around like a headless chook all the time doing everything, I am strating to worry that I am doing way too much, but I just can't seem to stop. Oh well, at least the housework gets done this way, :laughing:.....

Hope everyone is well and that bubs are all growing well and doing great

[Tarabell]

Thanks ellie13

cheezelz - the bottle thing is to do with his niece who is a few months older than E, she lost weight when she left hospital (as NB's do) and' the hospital told them to put her onto formula so his brother spoke to DH and said whatever you do don't put E on the bottle.

E seems to be gupling alot of air in when he has the syringe or cup so I might try the bottles that we have tonight. He doesn't have much EBM anyway (maybe 40mls or so if that), I feed him (bf) and then give him a top up of EBM... seems to have worked as he slept from 8pm-4.45am so he obviously wasn't hungry. I am concerned though as his nappy was hardly wet after all that time which for lucky for his bed as DH forgot to put the cover on his cloth nappy, but not good as it wasn't very wet.

Today I will try to feed him more often and keep an eye on the nappies, he is doing poos but his nappies are not as wet as I would of expected as all that time. Then I think that perhaps I worry to much??

Ok, off back to bed... E is talking to himself, it is so cute.

T

[cheezelz]

Tara are you using disposble nappies? If you think they are not wet enough a trick a the hospital told me was to put a small square of coloured serviette or peper napkin in the nappy and if it has swollen up on the next change then there is enough wee.
Regarding the bottle I wouldnt have thought that you would use formula. But there shouldnt be a problem using EBM. Thats a very good solution especaially if you use he bottles you have because they are very good. And yes E would get less wind and not gulp as much because he would have a proper latch. Maybe worth a try when DH is not around just to satisfy your curiosity? Then you can see for yourself. xoxo
Good Luck.

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Hi girls,

Tara - firstly i want to send you some big hugs, sounds like you could do with some at the moment. I sometimes find that G hasn't got a really wet nappy in the mornings. She is generally sleeping from 10ish until I wake her to feed at 8am and often doesn't have as wet a nappy as I would expect either. Not sure that it's a problem, I guess if it happens everyday then maybe speak to your dr about it.
I'd say if he's pooing and sleeping well that he is content, and well fed. But just keep an eye on his morning nappies for a few days.

Ellie- Yay for your mums good news!!! Glad to hear Bianca is still doing well, and it does sound like you've been very busy!! Hope you get a chance to slow down and take a few moments to yourself soon.

CC - gllad to hear your friends baby is doing well.

Lygl - You are a brilliant mum, no one else could be as good for your kids as you. As far as housework goes - I think it's sooooooooo over rated! I'm sure you're doing the best you can, which as far as I'm concerned is amazing. I have enough trouble looking after 2 kids and maintaining any semblence of order in my house, so I think you awesome for doing it with 3 kids!!

Rissa - You too are amazing........packing to move with 3 kids and your DH away. WOW you must be a super woman!!

Bambina - Sorry to hear those kids were so horrible, but at least you know they didn't really understand how hurtful they were being, not like some adults.

Hi to cheezlezs, mumofasl, and everyone else I've missed.

Here - I've got G booked in for her vacc's on mon. C has tonsillitis again, a quick trip to the a/h gp service last night told us this. She came down very quickly last night with a fever and shivers and was very lethargic. But after a good nights sleep, some panadol and antibiotics, she's looking lots better.

I took C to a speech pathologist the other day about her stutter. We've been told she's borderline mild/moderate. So we're going to monitor it for the next 4 weeks, the speech path will decide whethr we need to start some treatment or whether to leave her a little longer.

I'm leaving the 2 girls today with my SIL so I can get a haircut. It'll be the first time I've left them both with someone othewr than DH for more than 15min. Hopefully I'll be able to relax and enjoy my haircut/me time and not stress to much about them or miss them too much.
Pathetic I know!

Hope you all have a good day, will check back later!


cheezlezs - I keep forgetting to tell you I LOVE your new signature.........turning chunky legs into spunky legs......it should become my new motto......although I don't know that my legs could ever be spunky, maybe just less chunky, LOL. My old motto was
"I wish I was a glow worm, a glow worm's never glum. Cos how can you be grumpy, when the sun shines out your bum"
but I think I'll adopt yours for a while now!!

[333]

Hi, my names Hannah and my first bub Hazel was born on the 31st of august. I havent posted on this post yet as im relatively new and you guys seem so close nit. I FINALLY managed to piece through the majority of the post so im mostly up to date with you guys. So heres my (or Hazels) story in dot form:

Pregnancy: I had some terrible morning sickness and chronic posteric hypertension in the beginning. After about the 20 week mark i had an easy pregnancy with a great, 4.5 hour labour (drug free :)) and a due date bub.

Hazel: I read that every baby has one unsettled point every day and one unsettled day every week and that has been hazel's ethos from the start.

Sleep: She has always had a strong concept of night but she usually feeds about four or five times from 9-9, but sometimes as little as three. We cosleep so its no problem how much she eats really as she sleeps straight after.
Her day sleeps are more varied. At first she was sleeping such long hours and we tried to (gently) wake her if she went too long (over two hours). She would then procede to scream the house down all night. Now we encourage her to sleep everytime she is crying but not hungry, cold or soiled and she is responding extremely well, overall a much calmer baby and it doesnt eat into her night sleep. I put her to sleep at night after her shower with daddy with a breastfeed a book and then i rock her to sleep witha lullaby. She is pampered and we will probably pay for it later but we dont believe in tough love so she gets what she wants.

Awake: She is an extremely happy baby. Anytime we talk directly to her (bar when she is upset) she will smile up at us. And she is now in the process of learning to coo which is adorable but tiring. She is currently in one of her wonder weeks (learning to coo). Its so sweet to see her trying, as she pokes her tongue out at me again and again occasionally getting out a cute little sound.After about ten to twenty minutes of this she will get extremely frustrated and tired and need to be comforted into sleep. And then the cycle begins again. This is a vid of her doin it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkpSQFlLEw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkpSQFlLEw)

So thats me and Hazel. NOw hopefully i will start posting more often. :).

Oh and just a question. Of you mums using dummys does your bub just take it or do you have to 'trick' them into it? I read somewhere that it was not good to give bubs dummy before two weeks so i waited. Now if hazel takes the dummy she will stay settled for much longer but it is an uphill battle to get her to take it. Do you think i should persevere or just give up?

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi Girls,

Yay i have had my name changed from campers girl to Rydens Mummy. I havent been on much this last week as Ryden and i are in WA. Enjoying some lovely weather at a friend hous in Ocean Reef. Which is a short trip North of Perth. We have been doing a lot of shopping and beach walks. Ryden loves the sand on his feet. He is not to sure about the heat. And the time difference has really played on him. for example he has been doing to bed at 7pm here (10pm vic time) which is normal. Where he normal goes to bed at 10pm in vic. This sounds normal, except he wakes up at the smae time which is at 6am vic time (but only 3am WA time), so i have only been getting about 2 hours sleep. Im staying with friends, so i dont want to go to bed early becuse we have some catching up.

Best go, we are heading out shortly, will be home on Tuesday, but should be on line agin later today.

Stacey

[Tarabell]

Evening ladies,

Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy - thank you.. :)

cheezelz - we use cloth nappies here so I can tell if E is wet or not. His nappy when I got him up this morning at 9am was saturated so I feel a bit better now and he has had some more wet (and dirty - geez this boy can poo) during the day. He went to sleep about 15 minutes ago without a top up tonight, I did bring up the subject of the bottle with DH... he wants to give him infacol to stop the wind issue which I don't really like using.

E had a better day today, still didn't manage to get him to have 6 feeds, only 5 so far. He might wake up before I go to bed so I'll see how he goes.

hazelsmummy - welcome to the August mum's group... I'm sure you'll like it here, we are a friendly bunch.

Went out and got my hair done today so I feel a little better, E behaved himself for the most part too. Just have to get through the weekend now.

Have a great night girls.

T

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Tara - if you want E to have another feed you could try waking him for a dream feed/roll over feed just before you go to bed. All you need to do is wake him enough to recognise the nipple in his mouth and he'll start sucking. He doesn't need ot be fully awake, so there shouldn't be any worries about him going back down.
It can be hard to wake them, I used to have to undress G and tickle her tummy to wake her. Now she seems to have a nap between 7 and 9:30ish and then be awake (sometimes grizzly) until I feed her.

Anyway good luck with it all. You're doing a great job, no one else knows E like you do, no one else could do a better job with him than you do. Doesn't matter what anyone else says, you're his mummy and your doing the best for him.

Hi everyone else!!!!

[CrispyChicken]

Wow, I'm surprised they left your friend so long before picking up the problem with her baby 1.82kg (3lb 15oz), thats TINY, especially for a fully-cooked bub!
Good to hear that he is otherwise healthy.


Yes, I was surprised, too. She is obviously not very happy with the doctor. I am so glad I didnt go public in this area (Im sure not all experiences in the public system are bad ones!). She said that her placenta was like it was past its use by date lol. It had all calcified and dried up. She had no fluid around the baby and he actually weighed more earlier and lost weight in the womb because he wasnt getting any nutrients. He is now on glucose via tubes and also BFing and already you cant see his ribs through his skin! He has to put on 2kgs before they will let him out of the nursery. I went to visit today but wasnt allowed to see him. I saw pictures and a video, though. He kinda looks funny because his head is normal newborn sized on a tiny body! He is so cute, though!

[tahnee11]

Hi, my names Hannah and my first bub Hazel was born on the 31st of august. I havent posted on this post yet as im relatively new and you guys seem so close nit. I FINALLY managed to piece through the majority of the post so im mostly up to date with you guys. So heres my (or Hazels) story in dot form:

Pregnancy: I had some terrible morning sickness and chronic posteric hypertension in the beginning. After about the 20 week mark i had an easy pregnancy with a great, 4.5 hour labour (drug free :)) and a due date bub.

Hazel: I read that every baby has one unsettled point every day and one unsettled day every week and that has been hazel's ethos from the start.

Sleep: She has always had a strong concept of night but she usually feeds about four or five times from 9-9, but sometimes as little as three. We cosleep so its no problem how much she eats really as she sleeps straight after.
Her day sleeps are more varied. At first she was sleeping such long hours and we tried to (gently) wake her if she went too long (over two hours). She would then procede to scream the house down all night. Now we encourage her to sleep everytime she is crying but not hungry, cold or soiled and she is responding extremely well, overall a much calmer baby and it doesnt eat into her night sleep. I put her to sleep at night after her shower with daddy with a breastfeed a book and then i rock her to sleep witha lullaby. She is pampered and we will probably pay for it later but we dont believe in tough love so she gets what she wants.

Awake: She is an extremely happy baby. Anytime we talk directly to her (bar when she is upset) she will smile up at us. And she is now in the process of learning to coo which is adorable but tiring. She is currently in one of her wonder weeks (learning to coo). Its so sweet to see her trying, as she pokes her tongue out at me again and again occasionally getting out a cute little sound.After about ten to twenty minutes of this she will get extremely frustrated and tired and need to be comforted into sleep. And then the cycle begins again. This is a vid of her doin it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkpSQFlLEw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkpSQFlLEw)

So thats me and Hazel. NOw hopefully i will start posting more often. :).

Oh and just a question. Of you mums using dummys does your bub just take it or do you have to 'trick' them into it? I read somewhere that it was not good to give bubs dummy before two weeks so i waited. Now if hazel takes the dummy she will stay settled for much longer but it is an uphill battle to get her to take it. Do you think i should persevere or just give up?


Hi, Welcome to the August mummies:wave:
I'm a bit like you. I cosleep with isabelle and I don't mind because this is my last baby so I'm just trying to enjoy every minute with her while she is little. I co slept with DS as well and I don't think it has had any negative effect on him because now he is in his own room and bed and he sleeps really well on his own.
As for the dummies, Isabelle wouldn't take one when she was born, it wasn't til only a couple of weeks ago that I managed to get her to take one. When she starts crying and I know she's not hungry, I just hold her in the cradle position with her chest facing me and pop the dummy in so it stays there. Otherwise it justs falls out. Once she has the sucking motion going, she falls asleep. When she didn't have the dummy, I had so much trouble trying to settle her and she would just want to feed and feed but then throw up afterwards. Now she is getting just what she needs and not overfilling herself.

[ellie13]

hi there girls......
well i finally managed to pop on and catch up, but as u can tell from my typing, i am bfing bianca and typing with left hand :D

tara- glad to hear u had a few relatively good days, hope they keep going. as for nappies- banca also has drier nappies through the night,i asuume it is normal. she used to poo and wee all the time, but now she poos about 3 x day, andwees in between, but not through the night much. she seems happy and contend, so i think it is normal.

hazelsmum-welcome to the group, hope you'll have fun chatting with us. as for dummy, i forcedit on bianca at the beginning, as my nipples were so sore from her needing to suck on them all the time for comfort......it took a few weeks of very persistant forceful dummy holding- but now she knows the drill and what a dummy is for:yelclap: and she sleeps and settles so well with it!!!!!

everyone else.....hi how are ya?????:wave: hope evryone is travelling well.

stacey- hope you're having a great time on holidays...

me- not much new. bianca is in a great pattern atm through the night, she goes to bed same time as dd at 7.30 and sleeps timm about 3.30, has a feed and than sleeps till 7 am when we get up for school anyway.

i am so happy with that- and now i have to go bianca is screaming.

[Lyglc]

was about to write, but now Chloe has just woken up. Had a very disrupted sleep last night - all the kids were awake at some point:no:. DS has had a high temperature on and off for over a day now, Chloe decided to have 2 feeds during the night (I think she was woken though from the kids being awake), DD1 just wanted to come to bed with us during the night.
Ended up with 4 of us in the bed - so not too comfy!!! Also feel like I have a cold coming on....
so, so tired....

Anyway, better go. hope you all have a nice weekend.

[Misheycat]

Hi All,

Has been a couple days since I posted and I'm behind again doh! Well Chloe has been her usual restless self during the day which has kept me busy. I weighed her yesterday and she is now 4.75kg which I'm pretty happy with though she's still on the small side.

Hazelsmummy - Welcome, just watched your YouTube video of Hazel, so very cute! :) She does seem like a really happy bub! We use dummies with Chloe, we used them pretty early on and hopefully we can wean her off of them with no problems, they are a savoiur (sp?) for her unsettled screaming times. She usually takes it ok, she'll spit it out a few times in a row if she's not interested.

CrispyChicken - Not good about your friend's bub being so small! At about 34-weeks my measurements were 1-mth behind but then all the MW's after that said they were fine. But I was practically seeing a different person everytime and I felt like they fobbed me off quite a lot when I expressed my concerns about her size. Chloe was pretty small at 38-weeks (2.64kg) and the MW told me the placenta wasn't very big either, thankfully she's healthy.

BambinaCattiva - Noticed your post about hayfever, I've had this REALLY bad every morning for about a week or so. I've never taken tablets for it, maybe I should try it. I'm a shocking sneezer too as I sneeze about 5 times in a row without a breath, very annoying ! :p

Lyglc - Sorry to hear the kids were restless last night, hopefully they are more settled and you rest up tonight.

Anyhow enjoy the rare moments of peace and quiet with Chloe sleeping, might watch some tv.

Hi to anyone I've missed, have a good weekend girls! :flowerz:

Michelle

[ellie13]

:wave:

yvonne- hope Lachlan is better and that you didn't end up being unwell either. Thinking of you, let me know if I can help.

Misheycat-yay for Chloes weight gain, great to hear you're doing well. Hope your hayfever is not giving you too much trouble.

Everyone else- HUGE HELLO:wave:, hope you're all doing great and having wonderful weekend.

We had a lovely day today, had to brave the shopping centre in the morning, as I had to get some photoes done for my MIL, and get a present for DD1 for getting all her stickers. And because it was a wonderful day weather wise, we went to the park, which was a big hit with DD1 and Bianca, she loved watching all the kids playing and running. Tomorrow will be a big day, as we are going to dh's friends for BBQ lunch and than MIL's for her b'day.

Anyways, nothing else new here, hope that everyone is doing well.

Have a nice day everyone :flowerz:

[2girls&1boy]

Hi there August mummies :wave: :wave:

I have been really busy lately so haven't posted. Sean is doing really well and is just so lovely to be around. I have to say it - he loves his mummy. He looks around for me when he hears my voice and noone seems to be able to settle him like his mumma ( I feel very special).

hazelsmum - welcome, Hazel's video was adorable. When you said say hi to mumma it actually sounded like she said mumma!! v.cute..

Did anyone else's bub become really unsettled the after their needles??? Sean had a really bad day today full of crying unless we held him :confused:. He isn't like this during the day.

We are off to a birthday party tomorrow so I get to dress him up in one of his really cute outfits.

I hope everyone is going well and I shall try and post some more during the week.

:wave:

[Lyglc]

hi everyone, gonna be quick.

I've now got quite a cold!!! Maybe I've been a bit run down as late as I feel like I'm catching everything!

Tried to get a sleep tonday - after lying down for about 20mins and nearly asleep Chloe woke up.......

She has been really unsettled tonight. We are considering getting her a dummy tomorrow. I think we'll only use it in the evening in her unsettled time, but we'll see.

ds seemd a bit better today, still not quite himself and would get very teary pretty easily, but improvement from yesterday.

I hope that I get a better nights sleep tonight. Chloe has hardly slept this evening so hopefully she'll have a nice long sleep tonight. I need it.

Anyway, gotta go.

2girls - Chloe was very unsettled after her needles - it took her over a week to get back to her usual self (but that is uncommon to last that long). Just today I was thinking how happy she was, but this evening it's been a different story...but i don't think it's related to the needles anymore.

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Talon was upset after his needles on Thursday too, he cries alot and falls asleep in my arms and when i put him down he wakes up screaming, he just wants to be held, totally different for him.

We just got home from a 50th birthday party for one of DP's workmates, mum and dad looked after all 3 kids, i expressed a full bottle for Talon and he took the whole lot which is a surprise as this was his first time drinking from something other than my boob. He was unsettled for my parents all night too, just as they were about to ring me to say Talon was unsettled he fell asleep so that was good.

Anyway i am exhausted so i am going to hit the sack, hope you girls and your bubs have a great night sleep.

[Lyglc]

hi ladies,

I had a high temp most of the night (I think I've caught what ds had). Was freezing all night and had the electric blanket on high and still cold. Then after getting up this morning went between freezing cold to boiling hot. not fun. Took some panadol and that seems to have helped. Sneezing constantly, runny nose, swollen and sore glands.....I'm having a pity party just for myself:laughing:.
Dh is out at the moment with dd1, but once they are home I plan to sleep as much as possible.

Anyway, at least the kids slept reasonably well, chloe had just the one feed between about 10am and 8am so that's not too bad.

She was giving me the most adorable smile this morning...so lovely...really smiley...grinning away. I love it:yes:.

Anyway, hope you all have a nice day

terr2 - lucky you getting out. did you enjoy yourself?

[Terrible2+1cutie]

yeah i had a great night out last night, it was good my parents living 5 minutes away from the party place, i had my first glass of wine since October last year and it went straight to my head, i had it at the beginning of the night so i was right by the time i had to feed Talon next which was about 11.30 after we got home, mum and dad gave him bottle of EBM at about 9.30. Mum and Dad had my 2 older boys on the Friday night so we just had to drop Talon off on way. Its a sign of getting old when you start thinking that music is too loud at places and you realize you sound like your mum lol.

Sorry to hear you haven't been feeling 100% lyglc, its hard when you have other kids to look after at the same time.

Well we are having a quiet morning at home as i still feel exhausted from last night plus Talon woke at 3.30 for a feed so i had broken sleep. We plan on taking the kids to park and fly kite this afternoon when they wake from there nap.

Have a good Sunday girls.

[333]

Thankyou misheycat and 2girls :). I havent actually heard the video yet (we cant have sound and internet connected at the same time :(), which is probably a good thing because id probably pull it down if i heard my own voice. lol.

Bambina- Im feeding and typing too, not as easy as it sounds!And well done on the big sleep! My boobies wake me if bub sleeps through a feed. :)

Took hazel to a dinner at my SIL parents house last night and i have come to the conclusion taht Hazel is just not one for social occassions. She was in such a lovely mood but once we got inside and everybody was cooing over her she immediately became unsettled and overwhelmed. I had to take her away to a quiet room, feed her (even though she had a good feed 30mins before) and rock her to sleep. Once she was asleep i coukld walk around with her in my arms and she slept through all the noise. I think she is far to used to being at home with just me, DP and occassionally one visitor. DO you think this is OK? OR should i try and socialise her more so she gains the ability tó 'deal'with it. DO you ladies have similar experiences?

[Lyglc]

Hannah - Hazel is so gorgeous - only just got to watch the video now as I've only just figured out how to have sound as well.

Hope you are all well.

Me, still feeling awful, been asleep half the day and considering going back to bed again!

[CrispyChicken]

Hi Girls,

Not feeling too good today. Started getting a migraine in the shower this morning and it is still here... even after an afternoon nap.

I have suffered from migraines since I was 8 years old and have been to all kinds of specialists, etc, but apart from going on daily medication which has bad side effects, there is not much I can do for them except minimise the triggers. My triggers are stress and lack of sleep, so there is not much I can do to prevent them at the moment. To make things worse, my pregnancy induced hypertension (high BP) is still on its way to being under control, so I am still on the medication and cannot take my usual migraine medication with the BP meds. All I can take is panadol, which doesnt help much at all.

The strange thing is i only had 1 migraine during my whole pregnancy and it was pretty early on (I normally get about 1 a month). Even all the toilet breaks during the night didnt affect me in regards to my migraines. Since I have had Amelia, I have had 6 migraines and she is only 8 weeks old.

I really hope she starts sleeping through more consistently, as it is really hard to look after her when I have a migraine. I cant just tak my meds and sleep it off! I dont know how much longer I can keep up. I had 2 migraines just this week! It seems to be getting more frequent.

Anyway, sorry about my :ecomcity:. I guess I just needed to type it out to think things through in my head :dizzy:.

Hope you are feeling better, Yvonne, and that everyone else is feeling good!

[Frazzled]

Hi guys - have been MIA lately - sorry - just really busy and dont get on here much - when i do its just to have a quick read and then dont have time to write.

Toby is doing really well - don't know where the last 9 weeks have gone! He is now a chubby 5.8 kilos and 60cms long. His head is now 41 cm. He is very beautiful and quite calm and placid. Still feeding like a champ. He is still catnapping thru the day a fair bit, but sleeps really well at night. I put him down at 7.30-8pm and he usually sleeps till 3-4am and then resettles after a feed quite quickly and back to sleep at least to 6.30 though closer to 8am a lot. He is so different to Elliot - it is amazing how they feed off your vibes so much isnt it! I was so anxious with Elliot.

Feeling ok, apart from tired. Have to try and get to bed earlier.

Well, I hope everyone is well - I am off - had a massive weekend with a 3rd bday party and a huge Italian Christening today! So tired.

Hope you are all well, will try and catch up again soon
Love to all x
KAte

[Purpose Blessings]

Hi mummies,

I'm just writing to say farewell for awhile as the removalists are coming tomorrow and we will be on our way. We will get the internet connected in our new home, however this might take awhile as we still need to find a home, get our stuff delivered and then get it connected. I'm guessing I will be offline for about 3 or 4 weeks.

I wish everyone well for that time and am already looking forward to hearing about what all the bubbas have started to do by the time I'm back.
take care everyone
Marissa

Oh and PS: - Yvonne - It sounds to me like you are an amazing mum. I know it seems really hard sometimes especially when it feels like there isn't enough time in the day do do what needs to be done and still spend quality time with the kids. It sounds to me though like you do great. :hugs:! I hope you feel better soon too.

[tahnee11]

Hi mummies,

I'm just writing to say farewell for awhile as the removalists are coming tomorrow and we will be on our way. We will get the internet connected in our new home, however this might take awhile as we still need to find a home, get our stuff delivered and then get it connected. I'm guessing I will be offline for about 3 or 4 weeks.

I wish everyone well for that time and am already looking forward to hearing about what all the bubbas have started to do by the time I'm back.
take care everyone
Marissa

Oh and PS: - Yvonne - It sounds to me like you are an amazing mum. I know it seems really hard sometimes especially when it feels like there isn't enough time in the day do do what needs to be done and still spend quality time with the kids. It sounds to me though like you do great. :hugs:! I hope you feel better soon too.

I hope everything runs smoothly for you and you have a safe trip. All the best and we look forward to hearing how you are going in 3-4weeks:hugs:

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Good luck with your move Rissa........hope it all goes well.

I've just got home from taking G for her vaccinations...........she cryed a little but then calmed very easily. She's now sleeping soundly, and I'm hoping she doesn't develop any personailty changes because of this as she has been a delightful baby so far.

I really dislike making them cry like that, but i know it's what is best for her. I just hope she is ok today, and doesn't become to unsettled or grizzly today, I'll feel awful is she is.

Hi Kate - good to hear Toby is doing so well. It's very hard to try and catch up or even keep up when you've been MIA isn't it!!

Gotta run, taking C to a music and movement class so will be interesting.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Chloe is 10-weeks today, yay! :yelclap:

Last night felt a bit off colour and had have headaches on and off for last few days (think related to my TMJ - clunky jaw & sore neck) & felt nauseous but this morning I am feeling pretty good (:fingerscrossed:). Chloe is a little restless, watching her squirm in her bouncer after a 2hr nap, waiting for the cry any minute now.

Not much else to report from me, have been exercising and trying to eat better on and off this week and have lost almost 6kg over the last month which I'm pretty happy with (now another 20kg and I'll be set! :D

This weekend is my DH's bday and my parents are looking after Chloe on Saturday so we can have time alone together, plan on going to out lunch, maybe see a movie and do some shopping, looking forward to it.

Some quick personals...

CrispyChicken - Sorry to hear about your migraines, hopefully your BP settles soon so you can go back on the migraine meds! :hugs: Rest up as much as you can.

Frazzled - Toby sounds like he's doing great, the daytime catnaps and sleeping well during the night sounds similar to Chloe. Last night she did the the same, finally went down at 8pm and woke at 4am for a feed, then up again at 7:30am.

Rissa79 - Good luck with the move, look forward to hearing how you go in a few weeks time! :thumbsup:

C&G's Mummy - Noticed you mention personality changes related to vax'd? Ever since watching an interview with Jenny McCarthy on Oprah (and I usually never watch Oprah) about her son being diagnosed to be autistic only after being vax'd has made me paranoid but I don't think Chloe is much different apart from increasing pooping (which could be a coincidence but has been consistent ever since), her unsettledness has been there for a while don't think her needles affected her too much.

Well Chloe is still sleeping so yay!

Have a great day/week girls! :flowerz:

Michelle

[mumofasl]

Hi ladies,
I am finally feeling a little better, there seems to be a lot of flu/cold thingys going around, it hit our house badly. I have such a back log of things that need to be done, feel a little overwlemed by that.
DD3 is now 7.5 weeks I am heading to the clinic today to get some advice on settling. While I was sick I couldn't stand the sound of her crying so I have comfort feed here for about 2 weeks. She sleeps in my arms during the day, if I put her down she lasts about 30 mins and crys again. Am having trouble as I have the school run to do each morning and afternoon and it seems to unsettle her......
I am lucky in one respect as she sleeps well at night - usually 9ish to 4 or 5ish each night. My other girls, the first was a bad sleeper at night and my 2nd was very routined (textbook baby - every 4 hours). I am just having trouble as I like to be active and doing thing am seem to be holding the baby the whole day. I am one that can't stand the sound of her own baby crying.... my own worst enemy.
Well i hope you all have a good day and take care of yourselves. Will check in later.
:)

[Lyglc]

must be quick as I'm about to go back to bed. Not feeling as bad as yeaterday, but still not great either. Chloe is asleep and the older kids are at kinder and childcare, so need to make the most fo the opportunity.

Just wanted to wish you all the best Marissa with your move - hope that it goes really well, that you are able to find a new place quickly and that you really like it and also that you, dh and the kids adjust to the change easily. I imagine it will be a bit hard on all of you, but please know I will be thinking of you.
(Hopefully you'll get a chance to read this before you go, if not.....never mind....)

Anyway, will try and get on later today and do some more personals.

[fire~fly]

hi girls,
really quick one for me today as im feeling like absolute cr*p! Weve all got the flu here and ethan and nicholas have both got pussey eyes (cant spell the technical name for it...con-something-or-other) so its horrible when they wake up during the night and their eyes are glued shut :( makes me want to cry!

rissa ~ hope the move and everything goes well for you! and i hope it doesnt take long for you to find a house. Have a fun trip/holiday along the way!!!

sorry, no more personals for today, i think i need to go and make myself a lemon and honey drink coz my throat is absolutely killing me!!!
For those of you that are sick at the moment, i feel your pain :gloomy:
xx

[2girls&1boy]

Rissa - hope the move goes well!!!

sorry to hear so many of you are unwell at the moment. I hope you all have very speedy recoveries.

bambina - so funny about charlie waking up laughing. Sean has done that a bit and when I go in to him he seems to be having a great old time. I usually just leave him and he settles himself. Your poor sisters SIL it would be hard enough being at a baby shower let alone your mum asking questions. That champas gets you every time!!

sean is now sleeping from about 7-7:30pm through to 6am every night so I am a very happy mumma. He is a bit harder during the day still but he is happy to be on the playmat staring at the girls running around.

We had a great weekend, yesterday was Grace's little friends party and it was lovely, after that we went to my DH's cousins place to visit their new baby. Jasper is his name and he was born at 26wks. he is doing so well and is so adorable. We gave them some 0000 clothes which is just starting to wear. He is now 20weeks old but his adjusted age is 6 weeks. We also visited my sister so the girls had the best afternoon/evening playing with their big cousins who dote on them.

Okay that is enough from me - hi to everyone and I hope you have great weeks'.

[ellie13]

:wave:

Firstly BIG HELLO TO EVERYONE as I really don't know how much post wiil I get done:D

Yvonne-:hugs: hope you'll be better soon.

Firefly-:hugs: for you too.

Marissa-:sunshine: I really hope your move goes well and that you will return to us in no time with all the good news. All the best to your whole family in the meantime!!!!

Anyways- Bianca is starting to be a bit grumpy and wanting a feed, so I better go, but there are no news here, all doing great, so really not much to report.

[cheezelz]

OMG BambinaCattiva you are bloody gorgeous!

[Tarabell]

Evening girls,

just a quick one, I have a serious case of mummy guilt tonight. After fighting it for nearly 3 months I decided to try E on the tomee tippee çloser to nature' bottle tonight. He drank 30mls of EBM and then promptly fell straight to sleep... as in zonked out cold, no fighting sleep just straight to sleep. Poor little man was probably starving all those times I tried to put him to bed and he cried before. :(

I figured it would be easier for E to drink for this than have to put up with DH getting impaitent with him drinking from his little cup when I have my operation in two weeks. Although he is good drinking from his little medicine cup, it takes a while and much patience is required. DH will most likely have to give him 1-2 feeds whilst I am having my op and straight after so I am doing it to be kinder to E, I just feel so guilty giving him a bottle though... I somehow feel liked I have failed him... plus my MIL is going to go ape when DH tells her, even though I have asked him not to.

Anyway, that is my confession for tonight... I know it sounds weird but I am almost in tears about it. I don't even know how much EBM to have defrosted for a single feed for E when DH gives it to him. Is anyone able to shed some light on the typical amount of EBM to give? :confused:

Oh the plus side, DH brought me a great breast pump which is much kinder to me than the one I hired from the ABA so I have been expressing up a storm in case I can't bf after my op. I just wish the bf was easier and I didn't have to put up with cracked nipples and pain everyday... :no:

Ok, I'll stop the pity party. Sorry girls

T

[CrispyChicken]

tara - why do you feel guilty about giving him a bottle if it is working better? and the good thing is that you are giving him EBM anyway, so i dont see that there is anything to feel guilty about. its not like he is missing out on the good stuff, actually he is getting more! as far as how much to gve for a full feed, i would try 120-150mls. i know that EBM is different to formula but the ECN told me that the guide on the back of the formula tin is a good amount. she also gave me good advice when i was feeling guilty about not breast feeding. she said that both bubs AND I need to be happy. bubs will pick up on the stress and unhappiness if mum is dreading every feed. if expressing is working so well for you, why dont you express for every feed until your boobies heal? you might feel better about things and E will be getting everything he needs. anyway, thats just my suggestion...

[cheezelz]

Tara dont feel guilty. Its a great thing that E fell asleep with out a fight. He must have been so satisfied. Thats not saying that the other times you used the cup he wasnt. Just this time he was probably a gobble guts and enjoyed having a solid full feeding like when he is on your breast. Its also great that you can use EBM. Congratulations on having a great supply. I think that if what you are doing is in the best interest of your baby then a bottle every now and then of EBM is what is best. Hopefully he wont get as much wind now either. May also sleep alot better. Its not a failure thing at all. Its what you have to do for E to be satisfied. I remember being guilty when I havd to FF my first born when I had mastitis. I just didnt have enough energy to feed or express. But I couldnt let her starve so my feelings had to come last to her's. At least you have EBM. :thumbsup:
What nipple cream are you using. Are you making sure you only put it on the parts that are cracked. Dont rub it all over your nipple.

[cheezelz]

Sorry I finished my post so abruptly. Brie wanted to type so I had to post before I lost the whole thing. Ive just taken her to daycare. Wanted to stay in my pj's cos I feel like cr@p today. Was wondering if they would collect her from the car park but built up the strength to get dressed.


she said that both bubs AND I need to be happy. bubs will pick up on the stress and unhappiness if mum is dreading every feed.

Yep. I believe that a happy mum makes a happy baby.

Tara I think that you are doing a fantastic job. You intentions are great so dont be too hard on yourself. My bub hated being BF. She pulled off and spat the milk back at me. I expressed and she even spat that out. In the end I gave her a FF and she guzzled it with out a problem. Went back to BF and she got worse. I BF my DD1 for 12 months so I know how to do it but DD2 didnt like it, even tho her latch was fabulous! At least E loves you milk. Thats great :smiliedance:.

[M&O]

Hi girls,

Tara - I'm with the other girls on this...no need to feel guilty you are doing what you have to do for your bub. I myself have had huge supply issues with both of my children now, and the amount of unwanted advice and comments I have had from family members has officially driven me insane, not to mention extremely angry, you, and you alone know whats best for your baby, and it sounds like you are doing an excellent job.

Bambi - Congrats on your prize! I think I found about 3 icons this hunt lol, been a tad busy. But the last one in Feb or March I think it was, I found almost all of them and I won a first prize...blueberry nappy and some bath toys, I was stoked! It's such a great idea, not the prizes, but getting to see what products are out there.

As for us, well O is sleeping great at the moment, and M has been a bit better this last week or so. Have been trying a different technique to get her to sleep instead of DH being in with her each night for sometimes over an hour. Almost feel like we are getting some time to spend together now, and most of the night with just the two of us in bed! :smiliedance:

Well, O singing the mummy song again, so better get moving!

Take care mummies and bubbies :)

[Lyglc]

hi ladies, another quick one from me. feeling a bit better but still not great!

tara - as the other ladies said, don't feel bad about the bottle. Anyway, why does MIL get to have a say in it? She had her chance to raise her family, just the way she wanted to. Now it's your turn and you should be able to do things your way!

Last night we gave Chloe a dummy for the first time.It was sooo good! It's funny, my other kids never had dummies, but Chloe gets extremely unsettled in the evenings and she has started to suck on her fingers quite alot in this unsettled time. She doesn't want a feed as often it'll be just after a feed and she is refusing to re-attatch - I think she just wants the comfort sucking. Anyway, dh gave her the dummy and she stayed awake, but very content. Later after a feed I tried to put her to bed, she cried a fair bit (I wasn't feeling well enough to do too much with her) so I gave her the dummy, but she didnt' want to take it from me. Dh gave it to her and she took it from him:confused:. She did spit it out a little while later, but she stayed quiet and then fell asleep all by herself.

I only bought a cheap dummy (happy baby - not a pretty one), because at the chemist I went to yesterday it was the only dummy they had which was the cherry shape - someone had written they are better?

Question though, my older kids when had bottles had the cherry shaped teats as they were the only ones they would use. Does it confuse the baby when having a cherry shaped teat for both dummy and bottle?
I'm going to start expressing a bit of milk soon as there are a few things coming up that I will need to go to when I can't take Chloe with me so I need to have some expressed milk for her.

anyway, must go, hope you are all having a nice day.

[fire~fly]

Just got back from the drs (after waiting for an hour and a half with a screaming baby! why do drs surgerys always do this?!:hair:) and DS1 and me are both on antibiotics for this cold and both Ethan and DS1 are both on eye drops for the conjunctivitis. So its a really happy house here... not!
I must say i am a little less than impressed with the dr i saw. After going through what was wrong with each of us, asks if im b/f etc, he says to me, "you look exhausted, maybe you had better think about putting the baby on formula". I was gobsmacked! :eek: yeah im exhausted! but thats because im sick and awake all night coughing, both my toddler and my baby are sick with colds and gooey eyes and ive been waiting in that fricken HOT waiting room for the last hour and a half!!! i think i could have killed him!
Grrr... some doctors dont have a clue!!!
Im off to have a shower while the boys are asleep, E puked on me before and i feel a little bit on the stinky side! :barf:

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi girls.

Well Ryden and I are back from our little holiday to perth. and we had heaps of fun, going to the beach, Kings park and Yanchup NP. Ry was so well behaved you wouldnt have known he was there. He slept on the flight over and only need to be fed on landing. And on the way back he slep from my friends house, the half hour drive to the airport, the i.5 hour waite at the terminal the 4 hour flight home and the 2 hour drive back to Traralgon, he did not wake once, not even for a feed. We did fly on the 11pm flight home so it was his night sleep, but with all the distrubance of in and out of the baby Bjorn, , car seats, lane seat belts etc. He was fantastic. He has even been really good today.

I hope all you girl that are unwell get better soon.

Stacey

[ellie13]

:wave:

Stacey- welcome back- great to hear you had a good holiday, and that Ryden did so well:yelclap:

Yvonne- hope you're feelng better and better every minute. Great to hear that dummy is working a little bit....hope it will give you some releive and more settled Chloe.

Tara-:hugs:and I fully agree with everyone else- what have you got to feel guilty about????? You are doing great!!!!

Firefly-:hugs:hope the antibiotics are working for you and giving you and your little onces releive.

Jasmine- CONGRATULATIONS- so happy for you.

:wave: to everyone else....sorry if I missed ya in personals- not intentional- will have to go to bed as I am :sleeping:.

Me- still the same, all going nicely- going to the CHN tomorrow, so I will report on Bianca's weight etc. Might be in a bit of a truble as I didn't give her much tummy time......but she chucks all the time, that I just don't find a time when it would be appropriate to do much tummy time.... she gets a luttle bit every now and than but not consistent- hope it will be ok.

Otherwise- all good- hope everyone is doing well as well.

[monique13]

Hi girls

Well my baby girl is 2 months now it is going way to fast for me she is smiling all the time now and starting to goo its so cute she also loves her mobile she starts talking monkeys and get very excited. she is sleeping really well she has her last feed at 9.30 and doesn't wake up until 4.00 and by god my boobs are so full by then they just leak every where and spurt poor Samara in the face. Trying to give her heaps of tummy time but she doesn't like it for to long. As for me just being a busy mum of 6 don't really have much time to my self at the moment but i do have a girls night out coming up so i so looking forward to that.

To all the girls having a hard time with their bubs big big :hugs: to you all.

Jasmine - congrats on winning your prize how cool.

ellie13 - Bianca sounds just like Samara with the tummy time.

Stacey - glad to hear u had a great time in perth.

fire~fly - i really hate doc's surgerys because of that reason and i cant believe the doc said that . i hope you are guys are starting to feel better.

well girls i am going to leave it here for now and head of to bed take care everyone talk to u girls real soon.
Monique.:flowerz::wave:

[M&O]

Morning mummies :)


Well O slept pretty good last night, from about 9 till 1, and then quick feed, and then back to sleep till 8 this morning. M, on the other hand, made her way to our bed about 2am...so I ended up sleeping at the foot of the bed, as once she gets in, she spreads out!

On a cute note, O had his first giggle in the bath last night. He has been cooing and smiling for ages, but this was a lovely little giggle. :D

Jasmine - That's fantastic you are able to make your own MCN's...I'm hopeless at sewing, so my stash is all bought...bit of an addiction. You'll have to post some pics of yours.

Ellie - O is the same with tummy time, he seems to chuck every time I do it...but sometimes he will last a few minutes and he loves it. He rolled 3 times last night on the bed when I was changing him after his bath.

Stacey - Glad that Ryden slept and behaved himself so well on the flights. We are looking at moving or at least visiting the UK in the near future, and I'm so dreading those flights with 2 kids in tow...as I get very very flight sick myself :barf:.

Firefly - Ack! Such a cr@ppy time at the doctor's. They really have no clue sometimes. When M was about a year old I took her to our local doctor as we had just moved, she had a rash all over her...and the doctor actually starting taking out these text books that looked about 100 years old and flicking through wondering what might be wrong with her and then concluding "oh it's just a rash". :hugs: to you and your bubs, hope you feel better soon.

Monique - Glad that Samara is sleeping so well for you. Hope you enjoy your night out when it comes around!

Yvonne - Hope you are feeling better today. Did Chloe take her dummy again last night? It's funny how they will sometimes do something from one parent but not the other. Oh and then there is the lovely age M is, where she has started to play us off against each other a bit...if mummy says no...goes an asks daddy lol!

Anyways, best go and play with the bubblies.

Kristy :)

[babynumberone]

Good Morning Girls,

Hope you are all well and that all the bubs are happy :)

It has been full on the last few days. On Monday Zaydn's cast came off and he was fitted with his boots & bars. However, when we got home I noticed that the shoes were two different sizes. His left shoe (which is the foot which is affected) was too big and heavy causing his foot to be pulled down. He was in so much pain, screaming the house down. His left foot is very delicate as it has been in a cast for the past 6 weeks. I rang the lady who fitted his B&B and she said "oh don't worry about it, it will be fine." So after a lot of tears (from both of us) my mum offered to go over to the hospital and talk to someone else - she lives 5 mins from the hospital. Anyway, long story short...I went in the next morning, Z's shoes were fitted properly this time and he has been a delight every since. The person I saw the second time also gave me heaps of tips and showed me how to put them on correctly etc. (the lady on Monday was so vague).
Anyway, Zaydn is such a good little boy considering all that he has been through. Things are a bit harder now, like carrying him and feeding him but we will get used to it. Also people stare a hell of a lot which is going to take awhile to get used to...but I'm sure we will. Anyway, here is a little photo of him from this morning....


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1367984&l=497e8&id=705646567


Gotta go, my bestfriend is coming over to go for a walk!

Love Claire x

[tahnee11]

Good Morning Girls,

Hope you are all well and that all the bubs are happy :)

It has been full on the last few days. On Monday Zaydn's cast came off and he was fitted with his boots & bars. However, when we got home I noticed that the shoes were two different sizes. His left shoe (which is the foot which is affected) was too big and heavy causing his foot to be pulled down. He was in so much pain, screaming the house down. His left foot is very delicate as it has been in a cast for the past 6 weeks. I rang the lady who fitted his B&B and she said "oh don't worry about it, it will be fine." So after a lot of tears (from both of us) my mum offered to go over to the hospital and talk to someone else - she lives 5 mins from the hospital. Anyway, long story short...I went in the next morning, Z's shoes were fitted properly this time and he has been a delight every since. The person I saw the second time also gave me heaps of tips and showed me how to put them on correctly etc. (the lady on Monday was so vague).
Anyway, Zaydn is such a good little boy considering all that he has been through. Things are a bit harder now, like carrying him and feeding him but we will get used to it. Also people stare a hell of a lot which is going to take awhile to get used to...but I'm sure we will. Anyway, here is a little photo of him from this morning....


http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1367984&l=497e8&id=705646567


Gotta go, my bestfriend is coming over to go for a walk!

Love Claire x

The picture is gorgeous. He is such a beautiful boy and he looks so happy.

[monique13]

Claire - he is so cute you guys are doing a great job with him that's why he is a happy little man.

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

hi girls, quick one from me.

today's my birthday...yay for me..........and this morning my sister in law from sydney (who also happens to be my best friend in the whole world) arrived on my doorstep out of the blue as a surprise!

we've spent the day just chatting and catching up, and she's staying the night before flying home tomorrow. she's just headed to town for a meeting ( the excuse she used to come over) and will be home for dinner lter.

it was the best birthday present, so my day has been great. both girls have been good, i've finally had the chance to show G off, my sil hadn't met her before today.

it's been a great day, but i'd better run will catch up tomorrow

[tahnee11]

hi girls, quick one from me.

today's my birthday...yay for me..........and this morning my sister in law from sydney (who also happens to be my best friend in the whole world) arrived on my doorstep out of the blue as a surprise!

we've spent the day just chatting and catching up, and she's staying the night before flying home tomorrow. she's just headed to town for a meeting ( the excuse she used to come over) and will be home for dinner lter.

it was the best birthday present, so my day has been great. both girls have been good, i've finally had the chance to show G off, my sil hadn't met her before today.

it's been a great day, but i'd better run will catch up tomorrow


:party:happybirthday:party:
I HOPE YOU HAD A GREAT DAY

[333]

Quick post from me. Baby hazel beinga bit of a high mantenacnce bub today. NOt crying or anything just needing a lot of cuddles which luckily im very happy to give.

Baby number one that pic is so cute. What a happy little man.

Hazel slept from 9pm till 345am last night!:smiliedance: I know most of your bubs have gone far longer but my Hazel is a boobie monster and this is HUGE for her. Unfortunately i went to sleep at 11pm so i didnt reap all of the benifit (although DP woke up at 8 and took her for me 'til 10. Bliss:cloud9:). I will be sure to go to sleep earlier to night and hopefully she will repeat her performance.

Do any of you feel a real need to stay awake atleast a while after bub is asleep. I know i should take advantage of all i can get but sometimes i just need ' big people' time. At first i was able to switch of the second she did but now i need an hour or to where im not being a mummy and just being me.

Hope you are all well!:wave:

[Lyglc]

hi ladies. How are you all?

I've not been around too much - been reading and catching up, but generally not having heaps of energy to be posting.

Still unwell, fevers have stopped - thank goodness! Head is still quite stuffy. Ds is still unwell - everytime I think he's better, he comes down with a high temp again.

My lower back is still playing up from last week, so I've booked in to see the physio tomorrow. i've had alot of trouble moving Chloe as whenever I bend, especially if I'm holding her, it's very painful. Even to put her on the bed or in her cradle hurts. Hopefully the physio will make me all better!

Claire, little Zaydn seems to have such a lovely personality, happy even though he's got the brace on. Glad that it got sorted out in the end.

hannah - hope you have another good sleep tonight

Michelle - Happy birthday

Jasmine - hope you have a nice dinner tonight

tahnee and monique - hi!

kristy - your bed sounds like ours. last night i told my dd that I would try my best to stay in MY bed all night long and not jump in her bed! She thought this was very funny....

A big hello to everyone else....

Well must go now, need to clean up the house a bit.Bit tricky though as I find it hard to pick up stuff and dh has Chloe asleep on him at the moment. I'm happy for her to be there as she is usually quite unsettled (she has the dummy in, but I bet if we move her she'll wake). I don't want to hold her as that hurts my back too. So I guess I'll do some of the tidying up.

[cheezelz]

Just a short one.

I have lost 1.1kg this week from weight watchers. Thats 1.8 in the past 2 weeks so Im well on my way back to being spunky. My goal is to lose at least 5kg by Christmas which I think is possible. We'll see I suppose.

[ellie13]

Hi there all-

Well I took Bianca to CHN and here are the stats- weight 5.910kg, 61cm -well done- she has grown 5 cm and put on nearly 800g in 1 mnth (last weigh in she was 5.190kg- so funny the numbers just reversed-lol)- so glad. I am very happy with that. And she has given me few very good tips for Bianca's reflux, eczema and couple of other things- she seems to be really nice nurse, very supportive..... so I had a very positive visit.

Claire- such a beautiful photo- so good that you did get it sorted at the end, it really helps when somebody does actually talk to you and try to help you. He is doing so well, and so are you- you are so wonderful as a mother, I don't know how you do it, with all of this. Well done.

Tahnee and Monique- hi how are ya?

Hannah- is sounds like Hazel had a great sleep, Bianca does about that much, and I think it is great. DD1 certainly never slept this good. So Hope Hazel continues in her good sleeping, and you get some good nite sleeps too.

Yvonne- hope you feel better soon darl, I really feel for you and Lachie..... hope it is better soon !!!!

Jasmine- hope you had a good day at home. Washing- I know what you mean, there is so much of it, it is never ending is it. Hope you got all done and had some rest as well.

C&G mum- Happy birthday- so great to hear that you got such a nice supprice. Hope you had a great catch up tonight too.

Anyways, I better go I guess and catch some sleep too, as I find myself lately falling asleep as soon as I slow down- yesterday DD1 was reading me her reader, and I nodded off- so BAAAAAAAD!!!!! Better have some sleep than.

BIG HELLO TO EVERYONE I HAVE MISSED- HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!!!!

[Rydens Mummy]

Hello Girls,

We had a nice relax day at home today.

Tomorrow we have our first mothers group meeting at the MHCC, for the first 6 weeks the MCHN organises guest speakers and stufg and after the 6 weeks we go it alone and organise our own things. Hopefully i can make some good friends. Because i sure am getting bored here at home.

Well better go, got cleaning to do.

Stacey

[tahnee11]

Morning everyone,

DS woke up again at 5 this morning. I really wish he would just sleep til at least 6 but he is up at 5 and wants breakfast. I have tried putting him to bed later but it doesn't make a difference. Our dogs seem to bark around 5 every morning so that might contribute to it. Sooo tired:sleeping:

Rydens Mummy - Have fun today and hopefully you meet some new friends.

ellie13 - Great to see Bianca growing big and strong. It's nice when the doctor visit is a positive one.

cheezelz - Well Done Cheezelz:yelclap:

Lyglc - Good Luck at the physio today. Let's hope he waves his magic wand and your back gets better quickly.

BambinaCattiva, hazelsmummy and everyone else - Hi:wave:, Hope your little ones let you get a good nights sleep.

[cheezelz]

Piper is 3 Months Old Today:eek::crying:


OMG how could this have happened?? It seems like I was only in the hospital last week. She did give me a not so lovely pressie this morning of a power chuck down my leg and over the carpet. I suppose thats ok after a 9hr sleep.

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Hi girls,

Well i haven't been around to much either, been reading but finding it hard to post as been struggling with the 3 kids, not Talon so much but Blaze and Bailey, they fight over the most trivial things who's going to put there seat belt on first, open the front door, turn the tv off, do this do that, its driving me up the wall. Plus Blaze hits Bailey then Bailey hits Blaze then they run to me screaming, when will it end.

Talon on the other hand is starting to settle down after his needles, he was so unsettled wanting to be cuddled all the time and falling asleep while your cuddling him then wakes up when you put him down but he is good now. He only been doing 1 poo a day but when he does that one poo it explodes it is that runny it runs out the sides. While lying on the floor last 2 days he has worked out how to keep himself entertained, he kicks his mobile hard so it wobbles the toys that are hanging above him, he happily does that all day and talks to it to.

Ellie glad Bianca is doing so well 800 grams in a month is a good amount to put on.

C & G Mum - happybirthday glad you had a great day catching up with your SIL and things what a great pressie.

Claire - so glad you are starting to get things sorted with Zaydn, he looks so happy even though he has gone through so much in the last few months.

Yvonne - hope you start feeling better soon and goodluck at the Physio.

Everybody else a big hello, hope you are all doing well.

Anyway i should go in the process of making a pineapple fruit cake, just have to let the fruit mixture cool before i continue, i am on morning tea at Playgroup tomorrow. Boys are at daycare today so i plan on having a productive day and do some housework as well. Have a good day girls.

[2girls&1boy]

Terrible2 - how funny, I made a pineapple fruitcake yesterday afternoon. What a coincicence :) I also know what you mean about the older 2 fighting. Grace & Hannah are always at it, usually ends up in screaming and someone crying :hair: drives me crazy sometimes.

Claire - Zaydn is a little cutie. He has such a great smile. I am glad that you got the boots fitted properly for him. Poor little love.

Rydensmummy - have a great time at your mothers group. They are a godsend I can tell you. I have met some great friends through mine.

ellie - well done to bianca, she is growing beautifully :yelclap:

cheezelz - :yelclap: on the weight loss. I am still exercising and eating well and have lost about 2 kg so far. So slow and steady.

hazelzmummy - great news on the long sleep. I was topping Sean up at about 10 and finding it made no difference. Mind you he just decided himself that after his 7:30 feed he sleeps through until 5-6am which I am really thankful for. I hope Hazel starts stretching it out longer for you!

C & G - Happy birthday for yesterday!!

hello to everyone else, I am off to hang out some washing.

[Terrible2+1cutie]

2girls thats funny about you making a pineapple fruit cake yesterday, i use the recipe out of the Simply too good to be true cookbooks and my kids love it. Hopefully there will be some left for them once the mothers ho into it at playgroup tomorrow.

I am glad i am not the only one with fighting kids at the moment it drives you up the wall being there referee all the time while trying to feed, bath and settle Talon, oh well hopefully things will improve soon. All i know is that i am glad that by the time Talon is old enough to fight with anybody Blaze and Bailey will be at school and will only have to deal with them all fighting on weekends. Blaze goes to school next year and Bailey goes the year after.

Off to do some more housework and get cake out of the oven.

[M&O]

Hi girls,

Super quickie from me today. As I am attempting some housework, as my Mum has kindly taken M for the day!

As usual I couldn't be content with just cleaning had to reorganise some rooms around lol. DH he is going to go "What did you do that for"...when he gets home.

O has not slept quite so good the last couple of nights, and we were up at 5am this morning...so hoping its not the start of a new trend, because he was sleeping brilliantly. Anyways, he is making up for it now and having a lovely long nap.

Had to post this pic (http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k256/gmellor/Kids/113.jpg)...I think he is definitely starting to like tummy time...he even squealed with delight this morning.

Okay better go do some more stuff..my lounge room is covered in clothes, and if I don't get them away before M comes home, she will think its her own personal playground!

[Lyglc]

wow! so many posts today!

Oliver is so cute - what a gorgeous photo!

Well, I don't have time to do personals at the moments, sorry!!! but it's for a good reason, soon I'm going to feed Chloe and then go for a walk to the park with the kids.

I'm feeling so much better today. I've still got a bit of a stuffed up head, but no where near as bad as it has been.

My back is feeling a fair it better after seeing the physio (still sore, but not as bad as it's been either). I can cough now, without my legs nearly collapsing under me!

It's also a beautiful day in melbourne, nice and sunny...the world is a good place again:laughing:

Sorry, I've been so down in the dumps lately.... between being sick myself and the kids, not fun.

But, I'm feeling more alive today than I have for quite a while so that's really good.

As far as mother's groups go, I love mine, and still catch up with them. A few people have moved away and don't come anymore, but there's still 7 of us who meet every now and again. We've known each other for 5 years now. this year has been the first year we haven't regaurly met every week as all the kids had different kinder schedules so it made it quite difficult. but fo rthose of you thinking of going to one, they can be so great!
My next door neighbour still meets with 2 ladies from her mother's group and their kids are in their 20's.

As far as older kids fighting. My 2 are doing their fair share too!

Anyway, better go. hope that you are all having a really lovely day and enjoying the time with your little babies.

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi girls,

I just got home from my first mothers group meeting. And i have to say that i really enjoyed myself and learnt alot. We had a lady talk to us about sleep and settleing. It was great. She sent me home with a few tips, i have already implemented them and what a change in Ryden already. On a normal day Ry would sleep about 10-12 hours of a night, then all he would do during te day in cat nap in his rocker, he would have 45min here and there 10 min more. It never has fazed me because we all get a good sleep at night.

Well i got home at 3pm fed Ryden (20min) I then changed his but Wraped him (There way) and put him in his bassinnette, silences the i heard him then i went in a re settled him (there way) and i havnt heard from him since. The only change i will have to make is to give him play time then sleep, not play feed sleep. But he was starving and tired after mothers group. The other hint they gave me, is to not put him to sleep, let him put himself to sleep. WHich is what he has done.

cross my fingers and lets see if he can sleep a bit longer during the day

Stacey

[Lyglc]

ADVICE NEEDED PLEASE


hi ladies, haven't had a chance to read any more posts since my last one, but just wanted to ask some advice.

Tomorrow morning dh and I are going for a footbath and massage (nice!) but I need to leave some expressed milk for MIL incase Chloe needs a feed while we are gone.

I have expressed 120ml - that should be enough shouldn't it? I can't remember from when I expressed when my other 2 were babies and I have a feeling a while ago people were chatting about how much breastmilk a baby has per feed.

I would love some advice, as I certainly don't want to go out and have Chloe starving and her being upset for my MIL.

[cheezelz]

Yvonne how long will you being without Chloe for? Have you timed the appointment so you can feed just before you leave her? If you are only missing one feed I would have thought that 120ml would be fine. That is about what a formula container says to give a FF baby per feed at 3 months so you can use that as a guide. Thats if she doesnt get hot and would like extra. I find that if Piper is hot she will drink more than usual. If you have more might be safe to take that as back up.

Well enjoy yourself anyway. Hope you have fun cos you would deserve it :goodvibes:

[tahnee11]

Morning everyone,

This post may be a little morbid so read at your own risk;)

We were having a pretty good day yesterday. DF and I were just talking about our wedding plans etc. We haven't spoken too much about it lately because we have been stressed about money etc. Anyway we were driving back home after being to the bank when DF's mother called and told me to get DF to pull over because she had some bad news. I had this gut feeling what it was when she said it was bad news and I was right, DF's nan had passed away. She apparently died peacefully in her chair. DF is hiding his emotions pretty well, he says he didn't know her but deep down I can see he's upset. I feel really bad for him too because his older sister just got married and we couldn't afford to go to her wedding in Adelaide. If he had of gone, he would have got to see his nan and his nan would have got to see the grandkids:crying:. We have to borrow money off my mum now so DF can get down to Victoria for her funeral on Tuesday. I barely knew his nan but I got really emotional because my greatgreat grandma is in her 90's, still living in her ownhouse, going out to bingo etc and she could pass away peacefully at anytime and not get to meet my little Isabelle. We are going down to see her in May next year but it seems so far away an what if i'm too late. :crying:

[Lyglc]

hi ladies. Beautiful day here in melbourne - love this weather.

Went to the day spa this morning with dh - the footbath and massage were so nice.....have 3 more pampering sessions on the voucher we each got so I'm going again next friday to have a manicure. I've never had a manicure so it will be lovely!

It sounds awful, but i didn't even think about Chloe and the older kids really while I was gone. i know when I first left Grace I would get very nervous, but I guess my MIl has looked after the kids quite a lot and so I feel reasonably comfortable with it. Also I guess we were only gone for 1.5 hours so it wasn't like we were leaving her for a whole morning or afternoon.

Didn't end up needing to give Chloe expressed milk as she had a feed just before we left and then had a feed soon after I was home. I have thought though that I might give her the bottle anyway for a feed today and then express another lot and freeze that. Just so I can get her used to a bottle.

Tahnee - sorry that you got the sad news. Hope that everyone is coping okay.

Thanks jasmine and cheezelz (Lisa?, so can't remember for sure) for your help on the expressed milk amount.

A big hello to everyone else.

Hope you all have a great weekend.

[1sttimemum]

Hi everyone,:wave:
its good to be able to talk to people with bubs around the same age. Ive been trying to find some answers, but having no luck! My DD(26-08-08)8wks has not done a poo in her nappy for two days now and am just wondering if that is normal or should i go to the gp. There is a big wee every nappy change, but no poo's.

This raising babies thing is not all it's cracked up to be and a lot harder than i thought possible. Starting to get in2 proper routine past week. 4hrly feeds 7,11,3. I have only woken her a couple of times 4 feeds, otherwise she like clockwork. Have resorted to giving formula for 11pm feed (2 fill her up)cause she doesnt settle between 7pm - 11pm and by the end of it, i need sleep and get cranky with her (which doesnt help the situation). :sleeping:
I feel like a single mum some of the time (hubby a coppa and works shiftwork all over the show). would luv an extra pair of hands to make me breakfast, settle etc. most days dont get out of jammies till 1pm and feel half day is gone with nothing achieved.

Whoa sorry guys, you can tell that i needed to vent.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

A quick one from me, I've been relatively busy with Chloe and exercising when I can, haven't had a whole lot of time to post so I'm behind!

Today I left Chloe with my parents to celebrate DH's birthday tomorrow, had a big lunch (naughty as I'm trying to lose weight but this was a long awaited treat), watched Saw 5 (nice and gory - I'm a horror fan) and did a bit of shopping. Was an awesome day and my parents are in love with Chloe as they hadn't spent this long with her since she was 2-weeks old (she was all smiles and playful thankfully though she barely slept).

Some quickie personals... (sorry to anyone I miss)

M&O - Oliver is gorgeous! So envious he loves tummy time, struggle to have this with Chloe without her crying, though she will lie on my chest on her tummy.

Tahnee11 - Sorry to hear about your DF's nan. :hugs:

Lyglc - Your day spa sounded awesome, don't worry I was the same today with my Chloe, I love her to bits but was nice to have a break as well.

:wave: 1sttimemum - Vent away, I'm a first time mum too and at times I get frustrated but its all a learning process, you'll get there! Regarding poos from what I was told as long as your breastfed bubbies have wet nappies then you shouldn't worry too much.

Just to verify though I found this online:

How often will my baby have a bowel movement?



Breastfed Babies: Your baby may have many bowel movements a day After one-to-two months, your baby may only have a bowel movement once a day or every two-to-four days.



Bottle-fed Babies: All babies are different. Your baby may have one-to-four bowel movements a day or only one bowel movement every other day.


How long should my baby go without a bowel movement?

If your baby has gone two-to-three days without a bowel movement or if baby's bowel movements are very hard and look like small pellets, the baby may be constipated. Your baby may also be straining and grunting when trying to pass a bowel movement.

Have a good weekend girls! :sunshine:

Michelle

[tahnee11]

hi ladies,

Thanks for all your support too. Today I have just felt rather miserable. After adding up the costs for DF to go to the funeral, it ends up being $1000:eek:. I understand he has to go and I would never stop him but he said he is going to stay down there for 4 days which means spending more money that we don't have. I haven't said anything to him because I don't want to sound mean but I just had to vent it somewhere.

misheycat - Good to hear you had a great day

1sttimemum - Isabelle has been a bit like your DD, she didn't do a poo for a couple of days and then when she did, it went all up the back of her:barf:. I also tend to feel like the day has gone and nothing is done and its hard to rely of DF a lot of the time as he works nights so he sleeps in. Feel free to vent, i know I have been.

lyglc - Wow, what a lovely day with DH, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope you enjoy your manicure.

BambinaCattiva - Thanks for your post. Sorry to hear about 4 of your grandparents. I can imagine how tough that would have been. DF seems a bit better today, i think trying to organise his flights etc for the funeral, is taking his mind off it.

[ellie13]

:wave:

Well DH is watching the 9/11 movie thing on tv, and I really don't want to watch, as I know I will end up crying heaps, and even more paranoid and scared than I am, so here I am on bubhub babytalking;).....

I don't know where the time goes- it is like whooooossssshhhhh.... gone, and it's friday again, so so fast, before I know it I will be hundred y o :laughing:, I really hear you cheezels, Bianca will be 3 months in a few days, and I just don't know where it all went.

well we had really busy few days, PFN meeting yesterday, and catching up with a friend, than we had loads of my friends catch up this morning, it ended up being 10 of us, out of which 4 were mums with new borns born July, and early August.....so it was nice, but Bianca fell asleep in the pram at 10:30 and slept till 2pm, I didn't want to wake her up, so I stayed in the shopping centre all day, untill I had to pick up DD1 from school.... didn't even spend than much suprisingly:yelclap:

anyways some personals...

Yvonne- so great to hear you'r feeling better. Wow it sounds like you had a great time, some pampering, great to hear, u deserve it.....

Tahnee- sorry to hear about such bad news :hugs:, I hope everything gets sorted out with the trip.

Misheycat- great to hear you had a good time!!!

1sttimemum- vent away, we all need it sometimes. And it is normal for little onces not to poo for a few days, I believe that for BF bubs it is up to 2 weeks that they can go without poo, best of luck, hope your DH gets some good shifts so he can help.

Stacey- great to hear you got soem really good info in that session, hope you meet some great friends.

Jasmine- you crack me up, honest, I love reading your posts.

Cheezels- how are ya?

And to everyone HUGE HELLO- hope you're all travelling well.

I am hoping :fingerscrossed: that we might get a new computer soon, which might be faster so I could get on here more often- it would be so great!!!!

Anyways- you all have a great night and a great weekend.

[cheezelz]

Hi everyone,:wave:
its good to be able to talk to people with bubs around the same age. Ive been trying to find some answers, but having no luck! My DD(26-08-08)8wks has not done a poo in her nappy for two days now and am just wondering if that is normal or should i go to the gp. There is a big wee every nappy change, but no poo's.

Hi and welcome to our insane group. Regarding the poo there is no problem with a breastfed baby going without doing one for upto 9 days my doc told me. Formula babies are different. My DD1 went 7 days and I was worried so took her to the doc but they told me they wouldnt do anything till it had been 9 days. Great sign that she is doing lots of wee's. She must just be using all the you are providing her in the breastmilk and having no need to get rid of any. Good job. Just beware that it could be a ripper so when you go out make sure you take a spare set of clothes (or two) in case she lets it rip and its onw of those up the back and in the hair clean ups. Yep motherhood is not what it is all made ou to be.



:wave:Cheezels- how are ya?

Oh Ellie, you care! :laughing: Im ok I suppose. Well Im not depressed like I was with DD1 so Im not too bad but then again at times I dont think Im coping at all. Dont really want to get into it but today I hit DD1 so hard on the back of the leg that she fell to the floor. I had Piper in her swing and evertime I looked over DD1 was behind it pushing it up and down as far as it would go. Then I put Piper in her bouncer and DD1 stood behind and bounced it up and down so Piper was being flung all over the place. Good thing she was strapped in. I dont know how many times I have to nicely take DD1 aside, away from what the bad thing is and tell her she is naughty and to stop. DH also isnt here because his best mates wife just left him so he is over there comforting him. Maybe Im just having a bad day. Maybe I just dont know the best way to communicate or discipline Brie and thats why she continues to do the naughty things.:ecomcity:
Any ways thanks for asking. Means alot that you remembered me. xo

[Lyglc]

hi ladies!

no posts today????? hopefully everyone is having such nice weekends that they are too busy to come on here.

My weekend so far has been quite nice. Nothing too special, just normal stuff, but enjoying time with my family.

Thought I'd just say hello:wave:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Cheezels-:hugs: we all have bad days and the days when the kids just won't do anything we ask them to. And we (mums) are human after all and allowed to loose it once in a while-hugs to you again, hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

Hi Yvonne- hope you're having a great day too.

It is very quiet here today isn't it- hope everyone is having a great day- and a HUGE HELLO TO YOU ALL!!!!:wave:

us- well we did have a nice day, I had 4 kids today, so I took them all to McDonalds and they had a blast, than watched the new Barbie movie, and that's about all. DD1 had a great time having her 2 best friends over and Bianca had a great time watching the kids doing silly things. All in all a good day.:sunshine:

At Maccas I saw a mum with bub 13 days old- oh so cute, but oh so tiny (eventhough apparently he was born 8 pounds 14) but just reminded me how fast are our little bubs growing and how fast the time is going. I just can believe it.

On that note Bianca will be 3 months tomorrow:smiliedance:, getting a bit emotional :crying:, thinking she has been here for quarter of a year, and also because past the 3 months mark it's no longer a new born in my books.......booohoooo..... oh but she is so cute and I am so in love and so very much enjoying being mum to my two gorgeous girls, like I never thought I would enjoy. I just love them so much, and am tankfull that they are healthy and so bright and so beautiful-----see what I mean about the emotional????? I think I need some pills-lol-lol.But honestly- I am just so in love with my 2 girls, can't even describe it- lost for words most of the time.

Anyways I better go, so I don't bore you all to tears with my heart full of love and make you sick with all of my happy feelings-lol. (and I haven't even drunk anything today-lol- only milk)

[tahnee11]

Morning everyone,

Im feeling very tired and a bit emotional this morning. I got up a few times to DS last night. He hasn't been feeling too well the last couple of days as he has a stuffy nose. This morning he was whinging quite a bit and then all of a sudden :barf:. It was his first real throw up, on the plus side, he did climb off the lounge before he threw up:thumbsup:. He seems a bit better now after having a chuck. I just hope he gets better soon because I am worried how im going to cope with 2 kids while DF is away.
DF got home at 4 this morning and has only just gone to bed now. He then has to get up at 11am to get ready for work today and doesn't get home til 8pm. Tomorrow we all have to get up at 4am to take DF to the airport so I'm feeling alone already.
Anyway, I better go now. It seems like my last few posts have been just whinging, sorry about that. I hope everyone has a great day and I'll check in later.

[1sttimemum]

thanks for advice every1 regarding poos, but funny thing was the next morning when DH came home from work DD was ready for feed, so he changed her and guess what there was poo and it was everywhere.ha ha ha.

I have finaly got her in2 a routine and she seems to follow it most of the time,but then when DH around he doesnt seem to follow it which makes it a bit hard

gotta go screaming baby

[ellie13]

:wave:

Tahnee-:hugs: hope Ds feels better and doesn't get any worse, and I really hope that you'll find the time without DH easier than you think. Hopefully it will fly by for you.:hugs:again for you.

1sttimemum- :yelclap:on the poo, what a timing....hope she will keep to your nice routine for you.

No news here....going to a birthday party today with DD1, so will be out for most of the day.

Hope everyone has a great sunday!!!:sunshine:

[CrispyChicken]

Hi everyone!

I havent been around much this week as my computer has officially broken and we dont really have the spare cash to fix it right now. I have only read the last few posts, so wont go into personals, except tp say welcome to 1sttimemum!

Amelia has been whingey and a bit strange (as in all over the place) this week. Maybe its a growth spurt? Or the change in weather? She slept through the whole night twice this week woo hoo! She has been very weird with her feeding though - wont just sit and have a whole feed, but rather 50mls here, 100mls there...im up and down every few minutes it seems! Makes it hard to get anything done. Not that Im complaining, maybe thats the comprimise i have to make to enjoy her sleeping through! cant wait for it to become a nightly habit... at the moment i never know what im going to get each night!

i really should get her weighed again... last weigh in was at 6 weeks (5.1kgs) and that was 3.5 weeks ago!

i finally got to see my friend's baby (the one who's placenta calcified and he was born 1.8kgs at full term) as i wasnt allowed in the nursery when i went to visit in hospital. He came home yesterday (after 10 days in hospy) and he is now 2kgs. He is so tiny! It's hard to believe that Amelia was only 1.3kgs heavier than that when she was born. She is growing so fast!

dont know when ill be on again next, so i hope all you mums and bubs remain well and happy til then!

[333]

Hey everybody!
Welcome 1sttimemum!

I started my mothers group on Thursday which was great :). Was a bit worried about it, but all the ladies seem lovely, and the bubs are gorgeous. Hazel had a bit of a sook but i think the other Mums appreciated me breaking the 'breatfeeding-barrier' for them, as afew of them started staraight after me.

Ive had a nice weekend. V. cruisy as Hazel has been on her best behaviour. Her sleep has increased with the cooler weather (in perth it recently got very hot for a few days) which i am LOVING. And she is just being so cute lately. I have taken like 5 videos of her in the last two days. She is so smiley and happy at the moment :cloud9:. Me and DP will just sit staring at her for upwards of an hour (or until she gets over whelmed and needs to be rocked to sleep).

Ive given up on the dummy just intime for her to discover her hands! :thumbsup:. So sick of running all over the house to locate one just to have her reject it when i give it to her. Scking on her hands is much cuter:yes:.

Sorry i didnt do personals. My head is toooo spacey at the moment (doesnt know how to deal with all the extra sleep;)).
I hope you are all well and your bubs are treating you aswell as mine is!

xoxo

:hugs:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Hazelsmummy- that is great to hear that Hazel has been sleeping so well:yelclap:, hope it continues for you!!!! And good news about the mothers group, hope you find some very nice friends.

CC- great to hear you're doing ok, eventhough Amelia is all over the place. I think it is normal- that's just kids, they get into a routine, and than juat change it.It's hard to keep up sometimes.
Hope you can get your computer fixed, we are hoping to get a new one soon, as this one is a shocker.

Jasmine-:laughing: about Charlie's poo....Bianca used to do heaps of poos, but has stopped now so much, she does 2 or 3 now per day, but they are woppers- like the onces where you have to change all the clothes and bath the baby kinda poos:rolleyes:- bless her for it, cause it would be much worse if there were no poos:D

:wave: to everyone else- how are ya all??????

We had a lovely party, kids had a great time, came home really tired. Bianca had a good sleep in the pram, and fun watching the kids.

Anyways, nothing really new here, feeding heaps, don't know where all the milk is comming from, but obviously it is enough as Bianca is happy.

Ok you all have a great night!!! Heaps of sleep wibes to you all.

[tahnee11]

Morning everyone,
I was up at 2.30 this morning to take DF to the airport:sleeping:. On the way back, i got lost trying to get back on the motorway because it was dark and I couldn't see the road signs clearly, plus DF gave me wrong directions:rolleyes:. Anyway, i got really upset cause the directory wasn't in the car, it was dark, I was tired and I was driving round who knows where. But I got there in the end and thought I would try and put the kids back to bed when I got home but they didn't want a bar of it. So here I am wishing I could just go to sleep.

ellie13 - Good to hear you had a good party

hazelsmummy - Isabelle has found her hands to but she doesn't seem to have too much control of them as she keeps whacking herself in the face lol

Just wondering if anyone has heard from lianas1stbub?? I have just noticed that she hasn't posted in here for a while. I hope she and bubs are well. UPDATE: Never mind I just read back over the posts and she said she was going to be MIA for a couple of weeks.

Hi to everyone else and I hope you all got a good nights sleep.

[Misheycat]

Hi Girls,

Well Chloe has been driving me a bit loopy, my whole day is spent trying to humor her, she's restless and has happy time and grumpy time at the drop of a hat, then by evening when she finally sleeps for a chunk of time I am too exhausted to spend this with DH, I just want to sleep :(

One cute thing she's started doing over the last couple of days is making chewing noises with her mouth and blowing bubbles :p

Ellie13 - Yay for Bianca being 3-mths old now! :yelclap:

BambinaCattiva - I think Charlie is pooing on behalf of the boys and Chloe is doing it on behalf of the girls, :laughing: I get excited now when she only does wees when I change her, its rare when its not a yucky poo! :yes:

CrispyChicken - Chloe has been the same, has been driving me insane, my days are spent humouring her and I swear she wants to feed every 2hrs during the day rather than 4hrs, plus she's wasting some bottles and I need to make extra other times! Bummer about your computer, I'd go insane if I had to share mine with DH (he's on his ALL the time).

Tahnee - I know what you mean Isabelle finding her hands, Chloe is the same but I've had to revert to using scratch mittens again because she's scratched her face a couple of times this week, she can't keep them away from her face. She's starting to hit her toy doggy though which is cute :goodvibes:

Sorry to hear about getting lost, I would be the same, I'm not big on driving places where I'm not familiar as it is (last time I did this I had a car accident).

Anyhow hope you all have a great day/week (just in case I'm delayed in posting)!!!

Michelle

[Terrible2+1cutie]

Morning Girls,

Tahnee i know how you must feel getting lost especially in the dark, i am so not good with driving where i am not familiar especially at night, when i go away in a couple of weeks cause it will be mum, me and the 3 kids i am borrowing my dads navigator thingie for the car for when we get near the bigger cities etc and Mount Tamborine which i have no clue aout.


Well Talon is 11 weeks old today, yay, this last week he has been sleeping and settling alot easier at night, i feed him at 7.30 and he plays for a bit, then sleeps right through to 5 usually before he wakes for a feed, he didn't wake till 6 this morning so it was great.

Talon too has found his fingers as you could see from one of the photos i posted the other week, he sucks his thumb with his hand over his face when he is tired or thirsty, so cute but if i don't keep an eye on this thumb sucking he can go up to 5 or 6 hours without a feed during the day so i have to feed him as soon as that thumb goes in his mouth.

Talon and I are off to have lunch with my mum today, can't wait, since she got back from her trip around Australia she has gone from working 5 days to 4 days a week so she has a extra day to spend with us if she wants, plus its a extra day i can make an appointment on etc if i need to.

Anyway i better get going, kids are watching play school but it must be almost finished, have a good day girls.

[ellie13]

:wave:

T2+1-I love the thumb sucking, Bianca does the same, thumb in and the rest of her palm jsut streched over her face and in her eye- so cute. We try to always swap it for a dummy as Dh is worried that she will be a thumb sucker, as his sister sucked her thumb till she was 13, and also one of my neices and my brother were big thumb suckers, so we decided that it will (in theory) be easier to remove a dummy later on, than a thumb:laughing:, but it does look cute.

Mishey- hope you can have a break for a bit- I love how their moods change so quickly- just this morning Bianca in a middle of a huge winge cry, changed her mind and strated to smile- was so cute.:cloud9: When I've had enough of Bianca's not good for anything sleep (well no proper sleep) through the day I put her in a pram a walk, she sleeps really well that way, and than wakes up happy.

Tahnee- great that you didn't get too lost. Must of been a bit stressfull, but you got out of it. Hope you can get to bed early tonight and catch up on that sleep.

And-:wave: to everobody else I have missed- hope you're all having a great day.

Us- absolutely nothing new, Bianca just fell asleep, so I will try and do some washing and cleaning. Walked to school with DD1 this morning, so I feel refreshed and nice. Otherwise there is nothing new to report, trying to give Bianca a bit more tummy time, but she doesn't like it very much, and wondering if I should go and get the Jolly Jumper already, as she is very strong on her feet, and loves it when I bounce her on my knees. We were going to get her one for Christmas, but I think she might be ready for one already????

Ok better go and do some work.

Have a nice day ya all:sunshine:

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi girls,

I hope all are doing well, i havnt been around for a little while as poor little Ryden has a cold and conjucktivies (sp) He has eye drops and a cream for his eyes, but is on nothing for his cold. He is just miserable. He dosnt have a fever luckly, just a horrible cough and a little stuffy.

Is there anything i can do to help his stuffyness, i have one of those nose things which i have been useing. Can you use vicks in a little warm water in his bedroom or anything like that.

best go he is waking up

Stacey

[Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy]

Hi girls,

Stacey you can get vapourisers, there's a taav brand and a vicks brand, that warm and humidify the air and make it easier to breath. Pharmacies have them for about $50, or you could try ebay.

really quick one here, I've had a bad few days.........lots of hassles with a girl from my mothers group.

also found out that C's child care centre has 1 confirmed case of whooping cough, so had to go to dr's today. She's now on ab's (all children that attend the centre need to take them for 7 days) and DH and I have to have a booster injection..........I had mine today, didn't hurt anywhere near as much as I thought it would, but am happy to do it so that G doesn't get sick.

Has anyone else had a booster for whooping cough? SA dept of health recommends parents of newborns have it asap after birth or those planning preg to have it, so just wondering if anyone else had it. I kept forgetting to ask my GP about it until today, I didn't get told about it in hosp, just read a flyer at the dr's rooms a few weeks ago.

Only other news here is a workmate of DH's had a bubby last night. Well actually his girlfriend had the bubby. Her waters broke fri, she was only 1cm dilated and was sent home, had an uncomfortable night fri, went back to hosp sat, only 3cm dilated, sent home again with pethidine, another uncomfortable night sat, back to hosp yesterday, still awhile to go. ended up with an epidural, was told she may have to have c-sec, but ended up delivering with vontouse assistance.

She's very tired at the moment, understandably after 48hr labour!! She was 40w and 6days, bt her baby boy was only 6lb something according to my DH.........he's not great at relaying the correct details all the time! They named him Hugo, and apparently apart from being a little dry he and mum are doing well.

I felt awful for her that she had such a long labour, she's said she's not doing it again!!! Makes me feel very lucky with my labours being so short!!

Gotta run, C's in the toilet!

Hi to everyone, will try personals later!

[ellie13]

Oh Stacey- I hope that Ryden will feel better soon. Yep get them Vaporisers- you'll need them for years to come- I used mune heaps with DD1- a great investment.

C&Gmum- hugs for you too darl- what a shocker- hope the antibiotics work and none of the kids get sick. I heard about the booster-actually read about it, but when I asked Gp- he just had a blank look on his face......oh well.

Hope everyone else is having a better time health wise than you two poor girls- keep strong, com and vent to us.

[tahnee11]

Morning ladies,
Time without DF here has actually been easier than I thought. Not as much washing that's for sure lol. Isabelle fell asleep in her bouncer this morning:smiliedance:, usually I have to nurse her to sleep in the sling (she's in the sling right now).

Charlotte & Georgia's Mummy - Sorry to hear your friend had such a long labour but good to hear her and bubsare doing well.

Rydens Mummy - I hope Ryden gets better soon, i agree with C&Gmum, vaporisers are pretty good. I bought one when DS was a bub because there wasn't much else to give him.

ellie13 - Isabelle isn't much of a fan of tummy time either but then again neither was DS. I'm trying to get her a walker or entertainer off ebay because I think she prefers to be upright and getting a 360 view lol

Terrible2+1cutie - I hope you had a lovely lunch with your mum.

misheycat - Isabelle can go from happy time to real grumpy time too. It's amazing how quick her moods change. She's also blowing bubbles like Chloe, its very cute:cloud9:

[1sttimemum]

morning every1

its so good to read that we all not alone in this world, even though it feels like it sometimes.

had an interesting weekend.went back to work for 3hrs on sat, good to get away and interact with humans. Sunday,well **** hit the fan, i walked out after DD wouldnt settle and DH and i had huge fight. i had had enough. got in car and drove to park, sat and cried my eyes out for 2hrs. Spoke to mum calmed things down and went home. DH and i talked things through.asked him to help around house and support me with raising DD.Poor little DD had been mucked around so much lately that she was confused.I hadnt been eating/sleeping past few days and it was obviously affecting DD. I tend to bottle things up and then let loose. Went to inlaws sun nite, mother-in-law fed us and looked after bub. DD slept for 10hrs that nite.bliss!! she slept 7hrs last nite.my boobs tell me in morning that we not had a nite feed!!

Y'day mother-in-law babysat 4 1st time.DH and i had uninterrupted lunch, shopping and chance to have adult talk.it was the best. i brought normal 'skinny' clothes 4 the 1st time, looking 4ward to wearing them.

My advice to every1 ask for help(god knows i will be from now on) and use the support of grandparents, what a god scent they r.

have a good day :yelclap:

[tahnee11]

morning every1

its so good to read that we all not alone in this world, even though it feels like it sometimes.

had an interesting weekend.went back to work for 3hrs on sat, good to get away and interact with humans. Sunday,well **** hit the fan, i walked out after DD wouldnt settle and DH and i had huge fight. i had had enough. got in car and drove to park, sat and cried my eyes out for 2hrs. Spoke to mum calmed things down and went home. DH and i talked things through.asked him to help around house and support me with raising DD.Poor little DD had been mucked around so much lately that she was confused.I hadnt been eating/sleeping past few days and it was obviously affecting DD. I tend to bottle things up and then let loose. Went to inlaws sun nite, mother-in-law fed us and looked after bub. DD slept for 10hrs that nite.bliss!! she slept 7hrs last nite.my boobs tell me in morning that we not had a nite feed!!

Y'day mother-in-law babysat 4 1st time.DH and i had uninterrupted lunch, shopping and chance to have adult talk.it was the best. i brought normal 'skinny' clothes 4 the 1st time, looking 4ward to wearing them.

My advice to every1 ask for help(god knows i will be from now on) and use the support of grandparents, what a god scent they r.

have a good day :yelclap:
:hugs:Good to hear you worked things out. And yes I agree, grandparents are a godsend, in fact, my mum will be here in about an hour:D

[Purpose Blessings]

hi girls,

We are now in Karratha. I am still in temp housing and only have dial up inernet so won't be around much but wanted to say a quick hello. Things are going well. The kids were great on the drive up but are obviously out of sorts a bit. Em's routine went out the window and she is really unsettled. Sometimes waking every 2 hours during the night again. She has also been really skwirmish when feeding like she is in pain. I think she just needs to get back into a routine and she'll be fine.

The other two are coping well but are quick to cry and need me around them constantly. It must be hard when eveything changes so much in such a short period of time.

I haven't had a chance to read back but hope everyone is doing really well.
better go for now.....Marissa

[333]

:hugs:Oh jasmine,

I know exactly how you feel about the breast milk. Its a very intimate personal thing. Hazel didnt put on quite as much as the CHN had wanted and i felt so personally insulted by the implication (however non existent) that I wasnt 'beefing' her up enough:no:. Even though its obvious she is perfectly healthy :o.

Thats really good that you spoke to your doctor about how you were feeling. So many people dont. A lot of the time they believe it is triggered by sleep deprivation, so your intincts were probably right. Just think how lucky you are that you are on top of it now. A friend of mine is still 'hoping it will just pass' 1 year post partum. :thumbsup:Be proud of yourself for doing the right thing for you and your beautiful baby boy.

Sorry if this post is a bit rambley, Hazel is a bit high maintenance today and im struggling to keep my thoughts straight:sleeping:.


:hugs:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Marissa- great to hear form you- good that things are going as well as they can be- hope it continues like that and you can get settled ASAP.

Jasmine-:hugs: just for you. Hope Charlie will get better soon with more meds, and start putting on heaps of weight. And you deffinately did the right thing to speak to your Dr and getting some meds- if they work it will get you enjoying everything a lot more- I have my fingers crossed for you.

1sttimemum-:hugs: for you too. Good that you had the guts to just go out and calm down:yelclap: well done. Hope you get heaps of help from now on, and things start improving for you. Hope you're feeling a whole lot better. It can sometimes get a bit too much, hang in there.

Hazelsmum- I know what you mean about the milk......it is so personal. Hope Hazel settles for you well tonight and you can get a bit of a break.

Tahnee- yeay for your visitors....enjoy. I love when they fall asleep in the bouncer- so cute. How is she going tonight? Hope your time without DH will keep going smoothly.

:wave: to everybody else.... hope you're all keeping well and bubs are healthy and everything and everyone is :valentine:

Me- nothing new, baught the Jolly Jumper for Bianca today- she had a go, couldn't jump in it yet, but she like to spin around- all in all I think she enjoyed it. DD1 had swimmng at school, so it was fun to watch, but was it hot there or what- phew- like a sauna.

Anyways- I will love ya and leave ya for now, I think I will go to bed early, as I slept in this morning, didn't wake up till 7:55am and we leave for school at 8:30am, so it was rush,rush,rush.....might have to make sure I go to bed really early, as I am strating to feel a lot run down.

You all have a great night and day, hopefully I will catch up with you all tomorrow.

[1sttimemum]

can someone please tell me how u attach a photo 2 ur profile.i like seeing every1 elses kids and want to show off my DD.
just waiting for DD to doze off into deep sleep and then im going to bed also.

nite everyone:sleeping:

[333]

In the user control panel there is a section for your avatar. You can download one from there. They have to be really small though, so its best to first resize them or open them in paint. I usually make DP do it for me as i am hopeless:geek:.

Hopefully you and bub are asleep now :). Hazel has been asleep for over an hour so im officially a sleep waster:rolleyes:.

I willl try and lure DP to sleep now.

:sleeping::sleeping::sleeping:

[tahnee11]

Morning,
I woke up this morning and i feel like going for a walk through the shops with the 2 kids:eek:. I never do that unless DF is with me but I just feel like gettin gout of the house. I'm going to see if my sister wants to come with me too. I don't have any money to spend but I haven't been down to the shops for a little bit so I don't mind a little window shopping:p.

ellie13 - Isabelle was pretty good last night, can't complain lol. She has her usual really unsettled period for about an hour before she goes to sleep but i'm starting to get used to it. I hope you got a good night's sleep and feeling more refreshed today.

BambinaCattiva - :hugs: I hope you are feeling better today.

Rissa79 - Good to hear from you and glad you are doing well.:thumbsup:

[ellie13]

:wave:

Jasmine-:hugs:.... it's funny how us mothers feel so responsible about everything that happens to our kids, even for things we have absolutely no control over.....:hugs: hope you'll get at least some support from your family about the PND, but if not, come and chat to us. And trust me the effect Charlie will feel from the tablets is nothing compare to what effect a major depression for his mum would have on him. You are doing the right thing:yelclap: for standing up for yourself and getting help. You are a wonderful caring mother, there is nothing you can do about his reflux, just follow expert advise, which you are doing anyway already. Hope you'll start feeling better soon, love, and if you need to chat let me know. I am even happy to give you my ph no, if you need someone to talk to.

Tahnee- did you go for the walk? Isn't it great when we wake up with at least a bit of an energy..... Hope you are having a lovely day.

Hazelsmum- hope you got to sleep soon after and that Hazel let you have a great nights sleep.

Claire-how is Zayden doing? Hoe is his foot?

Yvonne- Are you ok? haven't heard from you for a little while, hope everything is ok.

Alina- where are you- we do miss your funny stories.

Cc- how is Amelia?

And everybody- all of you lovely ladies that I have missed here- hope you're having a lovely day-:sunshine:- how are you going? How are your little treasures?

Us- had a great sleep, fed Bianca at 12:30am and than she went through till 6am-- at least I didn't sleep in today, and had heaps of time to get ready for school!!!! Well done Bianca:yelclap:, you are a champ.

Anyways, otherwise absolutely nothing new, it looks like a really nice day today, so I might walk to school this avo to pick up DD1.

Will catch up with you all later.

[babynumberone]

Good Morning Girls,

Hope you all had a lovely sleep! I thought we were going to be in for a shocking night as we had visitors staying with us and didn't get to bed until 11pm. I've found that if we aren't in bed by 9pm Zaydn seems to forget how to sleep very well (waking up every two hours). But he suprised me by doing his normal 5 hour block, feed then another 3 hours :thumbsup:

Ellie: It sounds like you are doing really well! How is DD1 (sorry I have forgotten her name) with little Bianca?

Jasmine: :hugs: Hope you start feeling better. I totally agree with what Ellie has said - you are an amazing mother and you are doing what is right for you and your whole family. Happy mummy = happy family! Maybe us WA mums could organise catching up for a coffee and cake sometime soon???

Tahnee: Hey! Did you go to the shops? Hope you had fun!

Marissa: Great to hear from you! Good luck with everything and hope to hear from you again soon!

Big :wave: to everyone else - hope you have a wonderful day with your little ones!

Me: Things are going very well suprisingly. Z has adapted very well with his boots & bars and no longer cries when I put them on. BTW thank you to all that commented on the photo of him in them :) I have been doing daily foot exercises with him to try and reduce the chance of him needing the tendon operation - we find out on Monday if he needs it.

The groups I have been going to have really helped. I look forward to each one. We have yoga today which has been wonderful for Z and me. We are starting a new short course today too, baby reflexology - should be interesting!

Just a question, has anyone's bub seemed to cut back on their feed time? Z is 11 weeks now and is feeding for about 5-10 minutes each time (used to take about 15-20 mins). When I try to re-offer he doesn't want anything to do with me. Everything else seems fine (nappies, sleep etc) though so I'm not sure what he is doing. He isn't finishing it all though coz I'm still quite full afterwards :confused: Any advice would be great! Thanks heaps girls!

Love Claire x

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1sttimemum- Isee you managed to change your display pic. V. cute picture!

Tahnee- I know what you mean about sudden urges to go out. It also feels quite nice sometimes to go out without DP. Reminds me of independance :smiliedance:.

Jasmine- As ellie pointed out you are definitely doing the best by charlie by treating this. You should be extremely proud of your strength in getting to this now :yelclap:, in its earlier stages rather than leaving it to affect more of your life and beautiful family. I really admire you for that and if DP ect only understood this im sure they would be just as proud. I think its quite common for the partners to take it personally though IYKWIM so DP reaction may have been more of an inflection of his own rather than anything else. You can also PM me if you need some one on one chat time (or even meet up if you are down in perth (cbd) anytime soon). We are all here for you:yes:.
RE:tummy time: Hazel still wont have a bar of it! At my 6 week checkup my CHN made me feel really bad about. SAying she should def. be lifting her head for atleast a little while by now. I do give her a few minutes each day but it just completely unsettles her and makes her cranky until I get her to sleep again. Any advise is welcome.

Ellie- 1230- 6 sounds great! Last night Hazel slept from 9ishpm to 9:20am this morning with only 3 feeds!(!!!!) Absolute bliss. She has actually been doing something similar to this for the last few days. I guess thats the benifit of the first bub, you get to sleep in 'til she wakes :sleeping:.

Babynumberone: Hazel definitely has shorter, but far more efficient feeds now:yes:. I have read that this is entirely normal. AS they get older they are just more adept to getting all they need in far shorter periods. Obviously if he starts losing wait or something you will need to get ikt cjhecked out. BUt from what you explained it sounds like he is just getting fuller quicker. Be proud of your little man!



And me:


I think i basically said all the 'me' stuff in the personals. Hazel is in such a good mood after a nice sleep last night. She has been cooing away all morning. I am LOVING the pram at the moment for settling her. It is a godsent. I can sit and watch TV or be at the computer just puching away with my feet. DP even ensured maximum laziness by addin a string to the front bar so taht we can push her awayt with our feet and pull her in easily. I know its terribley lazy, but sometimes we all get sooo tired...i definitely think its worth it.

:wave:To everyone else!

xoxoxoxo

Hannah

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:babydust2:UPDATE:babydust2:

Just gave Hazel 5 mins of tummy time. She immediately got frustrated trying to look around so i helped lift her had then let my hand go and she held it there!!! Then after she let it down again she pulled it back up by herself! ONly briefly but she did it afew times and now i fugure the curiosity is there!

:smiliedance::smiliedance::smiliedance:

Just thought i'd share:cloud9:

[Lyglc]

hi ladies, I have been reading and last night i did a post and then it got lost :geek:. i think it had timed me out as I did the post over a few hours.

Life has been quite crazy for me lately....feeling much better though healthwise, cold almost gone and my back is much improved.

Jasmine - so glad you went to see your doctor - best thing you could have done!

Hazelsmummy - wow! Isn't Hazel clever.

Claire, glad to hear that Zaydn is adjusting well.

Hi to everyone else - got to go as Chloe has decided she would like a feed.

Oh, as far as tummy time, Chloe isn't a huge fan of it either, but today i did it with no nappy on (just put a cloth nappy and mat underneath her). well, she totally got her legs up under her like a little frog! and then, she actually moved herself gradually 90 degrees. So she started out in one spot and turned a quarter of a circle completely - her whole body! DH has been home today and he was just as shocked as me!

Anyway, muyst go , baby calling!

[tahnee11]

Hi, i'm back. I did go to the shops, despite DS whinging at every park or merry go round thing we wenrt past:p. I didn't want to get him out of the pram because I knew it would have been too difficult to get him back in especially since I had Isabelle in the sling the whole time, she was an angel:cloud9: she just slept. When I was about to leave I stopped at boost juice and bought DS a treat for being good. They sell these little wiggles sippy cups with a straw for 4.95 plus u choose what you want in it. DS had banana and he loved it. After I left the shops, I went and visited my sis, and went with her to pick her DD up from school. DS had fun because he got to play in the sandpit. Well that's my day, i'm going to try and set up the webcam so I can talk to DF while he is away and then i'm headed over to mum's for dinner. All in all, it was a great day :D

lyglc - Congrats on Chloes movements, how exciting. I can't wait til Isabelle starts moving around, then she should be able to entertain herself for longer.

hazelsmummy - What are beautiful moment for Hazel. The milestones are coming.......

babynumberone - Good to hear Z is doing well. Isabelle has cut back on feeds too. He sounds healthy enough but if you are worried, you can always see the doc.

ellie13 - Good to hear you had a good night's sleep, hopefully you will get the same tonight.

BambinaCattiva - :hugs:I hope your day has gotten better sweety.

[littleleos]

hey everyone... Im baaaaaaack

I actually missed this place and u guys :p its cool to keep intouch and compare notes and get some hot tips makes me feel like im not alone

so how is every one going... so much to catch up on... I can remember requesting u guys to stop typing until I returned:no:

our holiday went really well, Aiden is such a good back seat driver:cool: he had a few blow outs on the way... one big memorable one a bonnie doone :laughing:

We had our first visit to an ED ... he went a really blue around his lips but didnt stop breathing :confused:... I heard about that old wifes tale that when a baby has wind they goes blue around their lips, well I wasnt going to risk it and got him checked out, got the all clr but im still going to visit a dr when we get home... its so different being a mum and not a paed nurse

aiden has changed soooo much in the past few weeks... he has great head controll, has found his fingers and wont stop sucking them... has a cute little giggle... he is not a fan of tummy time but I kinda put him over my knee that I have crossed over my leg... its weird to explain but he loves looking around, bit better than being on the ground
he also feeds sooooo much quicker... Im kinda worried sometimes that he is not getting enough but his nappies are always full of number ones and massive 2's

well its dinner time for aiden, my mum is trying to distract him as I have been trying to get on her all arvo...

chat to u latter
give your bubs a big hug.... how precious are they :hugs:

[cheezelz]

Hip Hip Horray. I lost another 700gm this week. Thats 2.5kg ib 3 weeks. Slow and steady wins the race. I know that by slowly losinh the weight Im not puting my body into shock and am setting myself up for healthy eating habits later on.

[Rydens Mummy]

Hi girls,

Well i think Ryden is finally on the ment, he still has a yucky eye, but it is getting better, with the eye drops and crean the doc gave him. The doc said his cough isnt a cold and is a virus, thus why not snotty nose or temp. So im releived he is getting better, because we are going away camping on friday. I also had Ry weighted today, he is now a massive 6kg (13.2lbs) and 60cm long. So he is still putting on a nice amount of weight even though i have taken him off all but 1 formula feed.

Well should go to bed, looks like Ry dosnt want that formula feed tonight and might sleep through without it.

Stacey

[tahnee11]

Good Morning, I had a great dinner at mums last night. I was really nice to have some company while DF is away. After dinner, we all played the board game Family Feud which was really fun (DF doesn't really play board games). Anyway I plan on cleaning up a bit today and then heading to the airport this arvo to pick up DF:smiliedance:.

Rydens Mummy - Good to hear Ryden is getting better and I hope you have fun camping on Friday.

cheezelz - :thumbsup:Well done, congratulations.

lianas1stbub - Welcome back! Good to hear your trip went well.

[Misheycat]

Good Morning Girls!

Well I weighed Chloe this morning and she's finally reached the 5kg mark, she's 5.2kgs! :D I've always been concerned with her weight as she was small at birth and I was hoping she would hit the 5kg mark b4 she's 3-mths old (in 3 days time).

Marissa - Glad to hear things are going well in Karratha!

Jasmine - First of all big :hugs:. I hear you on the reflux front, I've been worrying about Chloe's regularly vomits and weight quite a bit, she's hasn't been diagnosed to have this but I've been close to seeking medication from the doctors and feel worse for pursuing it. When I queried this with my GP last time (8-week checkup) he pretty much said this was normal and so I didn't push for meds. Now I'm not so sure? I just worked out from the WHO charts Chloe is approx at the 50th Percentile, hmmm?

Claire - So glad to hear your family is doing great and Zadyn is a happy bub and adapting to the boots, he's adorable and looks to be a real sweetheart with those big grins! :goodvibes:

Not sure about the feeds as Chloe is on formula, but the amounts she takes are all over the place. She doesn't take 180ml though like the tin says for her age - only rarely - most times she drinks around the 150ml mark?

Hazelsmummy - Glad to hear Hazel is doing well with lifting her head. Chloe tries this but gets frustrated with her tummy time and fights being there most of the time :p

What I try if she won't lay on her tummy on her blanket is I'll lie her on my chest when I lie on the couch and talk to her and she tries to raise her head up. She gets frustrated here too but takes a lot longer plus I can hold her hands and help her when she struggles then let go and she holds her head on her own for a short time.

Yvonne - Wow Chloe sounds like she's on the move already, that's awesome! Glad to hear your cold/back probs have almost cleared up.

Alina - Your ED visit sounded scary, well done for getting Aiden checked out regardless. Glad to hear he's thriving as well.

Lisa - Congrats on losing 2.5kg thats awesome, well done!! I've been really slack over the last week with exercise been a bit of a couch potato when I'm not slaving to Chloe ;)

Stacey - Glad to hear Ryden's getting better and he's putting on lots of weight!

Hi :wave: to everyone else I may have missed, hope you are all well!

Michelle

[littleleos]

hey everyone... Im back again, gotta make up for lost time

is anyones bub starting to get teeth??? mum told me last night that I got some at 8 weeks and aiden is dribbling err my poor boobies have only just healed

another question.... howmany feeds are your bubbas having a day... aiden only occasionally has 6 boobies a day hmmm and has gone from having 2 boobies at a time to 1.... maybe he is just a super sucker now

I think nappies are on special at target or woolies... they are the bulk box huggies but im not sure if they come in a 5kg bub size???? u can buy 2 boxes and save $16

aidens hospy visit was ok... I was pretty cool and calm until I got their, I was taken straight in and they picked that I was a paed nurse straight away.. they wanted me to listen to his heart but I told them that I was a mum now not a nurse and that it would freak me out more if I listened to it... I have hid my stethescp[e... but have about 3 thernometers hiden around the house.... Im a freak


after seeing pics of your bubbas in jolly jumpers and chairs I elevated aidens phil and ted to a sitting position and he loves it :yelclap: I thought his head would clunk forward but he has developed such good head controll over the last week its amazing

cheezles... cool on the weight loss... gives u more motovartion to loose more... I am actually liking pics of myself for once rather than hiding all the yucky ones

yvonne... yeah on chloe doing a spin... soon she will be doing 3 point turns

hanna... yeah for hazel lifting her head, aiden does a really cool clown ball thing that u see as circuse gee its hard to explain but his head goes back and forth with his mouth wide open ready to catch a ball
a cool tummy thing to try... cross your leg over your knee so your ankle is sitting on your knee.... then kinda put her chin over your other knee with her bellie in the triangle hole.. its also good to ease a bloated stomach

michelle... yeah for chloe making it to 5kgs... she is doing so well:yelclap:

stacy... I just realised u changed your name... did ryden skip his bottle... aiden decided to skip his roller over feed and only has 1 boob at atime

tahnee... thanks for welcoming me back... an was it u that was wondering where I had got to... thanks for thinking of me

anyway.... Im gunna go and spend some time with my little man and my hubby

cya

[Purpose Blessings]

I am having a bad, bad bad, bad day today. It all just seems too hard. I know even as I write that that I'm being silly, but sometimes all these changes, the limboing (is that a word??? if not, it should be) and having 3 kids under 4 is just too hard. Am I insane to have taken on so much? WHat was I thinking????

The house situation is stressing me out big time even though I know that stressing won't help in anyway. We are currently in a temporary company house as the company houses that have been offered to us are all unsuitable. We have found a house that is much more suitable however it will not be available for another 7 weeks. We have to be out of this temp house in 2.5 weeks. I have just found out from the removalists that they will not be able to deliver our stuff until at least 3 weeks, thus we will be without our things (beds, fridge etc) even if we did get a house. Oh and just as I was writing this a maintanamce man from the company just come over to say that the neighbours have seen a snake in the garden junk piles that the people before us left in this back yard. The house is a shambles as the kids are going insane from boredom (we only have a small selection of toys that we brought with us, the rest got packed) and have demolished the joint with shredded newspaper thrown all over the floor, and have just thrown all the washing that I had folded but not put away yet all over the floor as well. How EMBARRASSING. He must have thought I was a hopeless house wife and mother. I hate it when people see such a mess. Especially people from DH's work.

Oh and another reason that I am feeling sooo ****... Emily has gone back to 2 hourly feeds day and night. I feel devistated and so unbelievably tired. I hear about friends babies that are younger than her who are sleeping 11 hours at night and feeding 4 hourly during the day and I can't help but wonder why it has to be so much harder for me. She is not small anymore and is a whopping 6.something kilos. Considering that she was a month prem she is doing amazingly well on the weight charts. Surely she doesn't need to feed so much.

Ds has continued on with his being scared of everything and has even taken it up a notch. If he cant see me he starts to panick and if he cant find me straight away he goes into histerics. Last night the people next door had visitors over and he could here them talking. He just wouldn't stop sobbing when we told him to go to bed. I went to bed not long after him and when I got up in the middle of the night to check on him he wasn't in his room. I found him sleeping in the most awkward positon on the lounge room couch.

DD1's behaviour is much the same as always. Very strong willed and quite defiant. She is very difficult to handle at the moment but probably no more than most 2 year olds.

My grandfather was admitted to hospital last week with pnemonia and they don't expect that he will be going home. He has been very sick for a long time, so its not unexpected but I just feel so burdened.

How selfish do I sound. I will stop ranting now. I'm so sorry for going on like this, but I know that I can get these things out with you ladies and you will not judge me and are all just lovely support. If I try to tell people these things in the real world then they might want to throw me in a mental hospital and hide the key.

I do feel a bit better for the rant though. Made me realise just how silly it all sounds :thumbsup:.

Sorry for no personals again. I will try to do better next time.

[Misheycat]

Just another quickie from me...

How do you calculate the age of your bubs from week to month? My DH and I just had a debate about this and I'm really confused.

I mentioned to him that Chloe will be 3-months old this coming Monday (as she was born on a monday = 12-weeks ago = 3-months.

Well he then said, hang on wouldn't she be 3-months old on the 11th as this is date she was born - which also makes sense.

So now I'm really confused?! :confused:

Marissa - I just read your post, I can't imagine what you are going through at the moment, you are certainly not silly for being upset and I hope things work themselves out for you soon! I'm also really sorry to hear about your grandfather and hope he pulls through.

Feel free to vent away here as we will always listen! BIG :hugs:!

[Purpose Blessings]

thanks Misheycat.

As for the date thing, I work out the weeks from day to day ie: monday to monday, and the months from the date. 11th to the 11th the next month. Emily was actually 13weeks when she turned 3 months. I've stoped thinking in weeks now and am just going by the date from month to month. Thus now i think she is 3.5 months.