Younger Members Chat #2

Ammaki, my DF and I are TTC, I am 19 and DF will be 19 in December. We haven't told anyone we're TTC this time around (soooo glad for BB, can vent in here all I want :) ), but in March ths year we were TTC, and we told people, and most people reacted quite badly, unfortunaltely. Lots of patronising, "Oh you're just babies yourselves" kind of stuff. The worst was my friend, who is 22 and 13 weeks pg, and people would say to us, "Well even So-and-So is young, but she's just that BIT older than you, so it's okay for her."

So yeah, we decided this time round to skip all that and just tell people once we were pg, I find it's easier that way.

Exactly the same with us Pumpkin, even if i TALK about babies my dad pipes up with "Dont get any bright ideas" which stings a little but what can i do. Im 23 in a few months, mum was 24 when she had me. Im not THAT young lol.

Totally agree am so so greatful for the lovely ladies of BB! They keep me sane hehe. I only wish a few of them lived near by haha.

Thats awesome everyone was happy for you Ali, i hope when we pluck up the courage we get the same reaction!

Yep my 3&4 were planned but I didn't tell anyone cos I didn't want to hear the reaction

Now everyone tells me I can stop but I still would like one more

Hi Ammaki :) Yup, DH and I didn't tell anybody we were TTC, mainly because we had only been a couple for a very short time and knew we'd get all the 'But what if the relationship doesn't last?' tripe, but also because I was 20 and DH was 21. We also didn't bother telling people we were TTC #2, but then a week after I went off the Pill DH's mum died so we were kind of tied up with all of that stuff, it didn't feel right to be actively trying for a baby when we'd just had our family plunged into absolute chaos (turns out DD2 was conceived 3 days before MIL died anyway!). And because of that, we didn't even tell anybody when we knew we were pregnant - waited until 12 weeks because we wanted to wait till things with the family settled down, and also because we lost our second (unplanned) baby on Christmas Eve the year before, and were scared of it happening again (thankfully we hadn't told anybody about that one yet, I had a sneaky feeling it wasn't going to make it and I was right).

Whatever happens, you will get the snide comments from people - if you don't tell people you're TTC, then you'll get the comments when you announce your pregnancy! Plus, I think it's kind of fun to keep your little secrets for a while... gives you that awesome, 'I know something *you* don't know!' feeling, hehehe. I'm childish, I know :D

Mon, that is great news about Serenity!! Sounds like she's doing really well, I'm so pleased for you guys :D Keep us updated on her progress, I love hearing about how she's doing :) Fingers crossed she will continue to thrive and will be home with you and her siblings very soon!

AFM... another boring day at Casa Glamourcide :) Mum just told me my nanna might be coming up for mum's birthday in a couple of weeks, which will be cool because she lives 700k away and has only met DD1 twice, and hasn't met DD2 yet... but on the other hand, DH and I were going down for a little holiday at the end of November anyway, so it's neither here nor there :D Will be great to see her though, she was always my favourite relative :D
Hope everyone else is doing well!

'I know something *you* don't know!' hehe love it! Thats so sad about your MIL and you loss! DP and i had only been together for a short while when we started 'trying', but we've lived together since day one and have had a pretty intense (but awesome) relationship. But yeah, thats another reason we hadnt told people.

Arg i feel SO much better just knowing im not the only one that is doing what im doing IYKWIM ...

Glamour that sounds awesome, your nan coming up. I bet the girls will love it! I love my nan! She's the best!

Heavenly i want a big family, DP does too just doesnt know it yet ;) LOL

Hello :)

We are all better now *yay* Poor Tristan didnt handle it so well and didnt gain as much weight as what the CHN wanted, he's fallen off the bottom of the charts now, but i'm sure he'll pick up soon!
At 4 months old he is 4980 grams 60cms long... Brendan was 4280 grams and 52.5 cms long... so not really a great deal of difference considering they were 1545 grams and 9.5 cms difference at birth! Thought that was interesting :-D
Tristan has started teething... he chews on his hands hehe kinda cute. Got an amber teething necklace... brilliant!

And just to make sure I dont get much time at all... I'm now a partylite consultant!! Still getting started slowly... but hopefully now we are all better I can get into it :-D

Brendan has a hearing test on the 30th and I think, going by all the cuts and bruises on his legs, his ears have gotten worse. He's been so clumsy lately, has grazes and cuts all over his legs. Then after his hearing test I am heading off for a weekend away! Going to Bunbury for one night then Busselton for one night, then home :) Going to visit 3 friends while I'm down there. It should be good, just me and the boys going. Nigel has plans on the Sat.
I was shown an article on toilet training children with SID (sensory intergration dysfunction) and somehow I dont think we'll be toilet training this summer. Basically Brendan doesnt feel when he goes. The signals from the bowel/bladder get confused by the brain and dont get processed properly (which is what SID is, the brain not processing signals properly) but I dont mind, it would be nice to have him trained, but Brendan cannot be pushed into things, if he doesnt want to do it you cannot make him... well you can make him do some things but it usually means he goes backwards for a while so its usually not worth it.
He's coming along so well... his latest thing is saying "ta mum" so cute... he actually calls me mum now when he wants something, so proud!!

We didnt tell anyone we were TTC... Brendan we werent completely TTC just going with the flow. Tristan we were trying, charting too. I couldn't care less what others thought, this is our family. Nigel is starting to stand up to people now too. Whenever someones says that we shouldnt do that or should do this he says, they are my kids and I'll do what I want LOL... it's good and kinda funny :D

Take Care!!

Hey all Serenity was a month old yesterday and weighed in at 2.1kg

got my car back I'm so happy have two kids with gastro one is alot better though

YAY Monika thats fantastic!! As you know Brendan was born the same weight as Serenity but it took him 6 weeks to reach 2.1kg! He was 2090 grams when discharged at 5w6d old.

Brendan's hearing test didnt go well at all, he failed... have to go back again end of month. He also has ear infections again, so on drops for that. Poor fella has been through so much in the past two days. the dr tried flushing his ear yesterday with no luck so we were up at the hospital this morning to get it done. Never ending around here...

I'm going well too... almost completely off my meds now :D

Take Care!

My bday in 7 days WOOHOO

Go Serenity!!!! shes doing so well love!
and a huge happy birthday to you for next week
Im half way now to meeting my little man woohoo

Hey ladies hope you're all well :)

Just wanted to pop in and see how you're all doing! Babies sound like they're growing well :) Mummies sound good too!
Ill try and post more so personals are up to date etc :)

Hey girlies,
Can I join in? I have only just discoved this area of belly belly! Devistated I hadnt found it earlier! I am 7 weeks pregnant with my first, and belly belly seems to be my only friend atm cause all my friends are in different stages of life.. they like to go to discos and silly things where they all get drunk and do stupid things.
I have read a bit of the older posts and see that alot of u have bubs already, but I am interested to find out more about you all. I live in the outer eastern suburbs of melbourne.. In a semi rural area, nice and quite. I was diagnosed with endometriosis a few years ago and I am extatic that I am UTD after only about 4 months of trying. Really parranoid that it might go away. But I have my fingers crossed and I am keeping my legs shut so nothing falls out :)

LOL Hi poopie! Had to giggle at you keeping your legs shut!

I'm new to the thread too ;) am 22 and have been TTC for about 18 months :doh:with my DP whom is 24 :lol:

Congrats on your pregnancy!! x

Any plans for your birthday Heavenly? I love birthdays!!

Sorry to hear Brendan's hearing test didnt go so well Sally! Fingers crossed his next test goes well!

Welcome to Poopie!! Congratulations on your pregnancy :D I had to giggle at the keeping your legs shut...

Hey Kass!! Good to see you here :D Hope things are going well for you and Lucy!

Monika, any plans for your birthday??

Ammaki, thanks :)

Nope no plans for my bday maybe a BBQ but only with a few ppl nothing fancy

gonna be 24 with 4 kids I'm very blessed especially to have two of each kids..just starting to realise that life is short and Im so grateful for everything I have..my wonderful dh and my beautiful kids...

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Hey ladies hope you're all well :)

Just wanted to pop in and see how you're all doing! Babies sound like they're growing well :) Mummies sound good too!
Ill try and post more so personals are up to date etc :)

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Long time no see Kass!!! Congrats on the arrival of Lucy!

Happy Birthday Heavenly, and well done Serenity!!

Sally - I hope B-Man's hearing improves for you hun.

Poopie - Hi!! Good to see you here.

I ran over a tek screw recently, so glad I didn't have to go out today, DH Changed my tyre when he got home this afternoon. I hate it when people leave things like that on the road!!

Just wanted to pop in myself and say hi.. and now go back away because last time i said anything it was ignored.

Heavenly, yay, I love birthdays! And 24 with 4 kids, you go girl :dance: How's little Serenity doing?

AFM, had another m/c a few days ago at 5 weeks. This one hit DF and I hard, it's our third in 8 months. But we're not giving up hope,we can't wait for our little forever bundle :heartbeat:

poopie lol at keeping your legs shut, hahaha! :rofl:

I hope everyone is well, sorry I haven't been keeping up so well with everyone's news, but I'm thinkin' of you all :)

xx

Thanks for the welcome back :)

Heavenly- Wow 24 with 4 :) Any more on the cards? Can you make it 25 with 5???

PumpkinZulu- So sorry to hear of your loss :( What does your doctor think of all this?

LizJessie- HELLO!!! :D How is little William???

alioops- I couldn't change a tyre to save my life prob out of laziness haha How are those little girls growing? My dream is 3 girls....dont like my chances of changing Dp's mind for a 3rd haha.

Sally- Things are going well :) Cant wait to get to know her more kwim haha

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Thanks for the welcome back :)
PumpkinZulu- So sorry to hear of your loss :( What does your doctor think of all this?

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So far everything looks fine testing wise, doc is putting it down to extremely bad luck :( Hopefully #4 will be the charm!

Liz: How is precious baby William? Everything settled at home? Looking forward to lots of news and stories soon :dance:

LJ - Get your buttox back in here!!! Just because no-one responded in text doesn't mean you were ignored, it means we didn't know how to reply. Tell us, what's happening in your life? Your wedding anniversary is coming up soon isn't it?

DM - I would have done it but the factory used the rachet gun to put the wheels on and it is the first time it has been taken off. DH was jumping on the wrench to undo the nuts, and he is not light!! I am not heavy enough to have shifted those nuts. The girls are good, Defiant but good.

Anyway I have a headache (from repeating myself so much and yelling at the girls :rolleyes:) so I better go and grab some headache tablets.

Hi LJ

pz sorry to hear about your loss

D_m hopes your dd going?

ummmm no not 25 with 5 dh said he would slap me if I even think of it and he's on the wait list for the snip and I'm not meant to get pg for 12 months cos I had an emerg csec.....

Serenity is going great next weigh in on Tuesday but she's sleeping longer now 4hrs during the day and 5hrs at night so if I feed her at 9pm then I only have to get up once during the night :D

Happy Birthday Monika!! Hope you had a great day

I dropped into a local high school today and showed off my boys. They were all interested in the premmie side of things as well as the young mum side of things. It was really good :D enjoyed it!

Happy bday Mon!

Sal- Sounds interesting. Were you asked by someone to do a talk or something?

Well the teacher of the class said that babies born less than 36 weeks probably wouldn't survive... My brothers girlfriends sister takes the class and piped up telling them about me and the boys. My brothers girlfriend gave the teacher my number and she rang to make a date!

Lmao what a stupid teacher they can survive from 22weeks on occasion

I know, thats why I said I'll go in!

Hi girls :)

Thought I'd join in..

I'm 23 (will be 24 in December!) and have a 2 year old DS with DF who is 33. I'm really bad at intros so will leave it there!

Welcome nella I just turned 24 on tuesday where you from? I have 4 kiddies but you can see from my signature lol speaking of which got to change my age hehe

Hi Heavenly, I'm from Brisbane. You must be very busy! One keeps me run off my feet - don't know how you do it! Well done :clap: and I love your kids names!

So whats been happening?

Nothing much around here... Brendan is sick again, but thats nothing new.

Having a few troubles with breastfeeding, but hoping to overcome those with a bit of help :)

Hi Sally

Not much here either, Loki is sick too (just a cold though) and I'm sure nothing compared to how sick your boys have been..

Hope you get the help you need to bf

Thanks Nella :) I've worked out the troubles... heat, growing, teething, sickness and general fussing. grrr... lol

Brendan is doing alright, I'm more worried about his ears... hearing test is next week.

Hi Nella:)

Sal- Good luck with Brendans hearing test :pray: all is fine :)

Hevenly- How is that little girl of yours growing?

Hi Heavenly :)

I hope his hearing test goes well, I have to take DS to the audiologist on Thursday for a hearing test because he still isn't talking..

Hope everyone is having a good week!

Hey all hunters 2 bday today so abiy sad...had our 6 week checks today and alls good

I'm thinking of joining next generation gym tomorrow anyone been ?

Nup havent been hun sorry! Happy Birthday to Hunter!

Nella, Thats what we first started seeing the Auds for... that was about 7 months ago. He's speech has come along so well now since having picked up on ear infections, glue ear ect. I hope it goes well for you too!

Kass, thanks hun :) Hope all is well for you and your princess.

Hello all and welcome Nella,

Today I learnt how to PM...I'm normally pretty good with computers but I am somewhat illiterate with this site. It's fast paced!I'm trying to keep up with you ladies :redface: Now I have finished uni for the year I might get to know you all a little better. Funnily enough I actually do know one of you now...very small world, it turns out my partners friend is who we got our puppy off is on here and would like to say CONGRATS to her on expecting after 12 months of TTC :) YAY

My body is finally back to normal now so we are TTC fingers and toes crossed. DP's son was sick yesterday and we had to take him to the hospital ( he was dehydrated) he does drink lots of water etc due in the day but not enough apparently so he needed an electrolite boost. Puppy has eneded up having a permanent spot inbetween DP and myself of a night due to cute yet horribly annoying howl.

Hurry up 1st DEC so I can set up the Xmas tree!!!

Hope all is well with everyone and I will be on here much more now :)

Hello!!
Some of you will recognise me, others wont. For those who don't, Im Meg (20), mummy to Isabell (19 months), pregnant with bub #2 due late July 2010, and engaged to DF (27). We live in Bunbury, WA.
How are you all!?

HI Meg,

I have been popping on here every few weeks but no I am going to try and get on here more often!! congrats on bub #2 :)