Townsville Mums #2

[Lea79]

Maybe in the long-term future you will see me there as a Student Midwife aswell. But not as a RM. I plan to go indepdent once I get my BMID. What are your plans?
COOPER!!![/SIZE][/CENTER]

It would be my dream to become an independent midwife but unfortunately nobody wants to provide indemnity insurance to midwives. You never know what they let happen in the future!

[Nicola]

Hi

Courtney..Glad to hear Adam is doing well...Cooper is exactly 3 months older than Zander 28.11.06..we are having daily tantrums at the moment and its really testing me!!! Wyatt is doing better.

The last couple of days have been warm which is good..not looking forward to getting my white hairy legs back into shorts just yet though.

Bye for now

[MissWingBat]

Hear hear for the daily tantrums... Cari (31.6.05) is also crackin' a nana at the smallest things (like the word NO). We are trying to enforce consequences already, but the problem is she sends herself! to the naughty mat...
And also ditto on the white, hairy legs...
My DH has gone fishin' all day so it's another day of chaos at our house...

[Nicola]

Miss Wingbat..My husband works 6 days a week and then on sundays likes to go fishing...but he doesnt get to go all that much as I say that "we"need him at home on his day off...so if he does go fishing we have compromised with him leaving at 530am and getting home before lunchtime...although I would like a sleep in at least once a week..ha ha

He has taken the boys out this morning to check out some fishing spots...Im meant to b doing some tidying while they are out...do you think I can be bothered???

[shauna83]

OMG i am so glad to read i am not the only one that has a tantrum throwing almost 2yr old that spacks it over anything and everything...it has made me start looking for work so i dont have to deal with it...i sound like a bad mum i know but i dont have any family here to help im going crazy

Nicola my son is 27-11-2006 so ours are VERY close in age...what are some of the things he does??

Also what do use all think of MEM's comment about child care being a form of child abuse...what else are working mums meant to do....my very short not really rant over hehehe!!

What do we all want to do this week.......

[Emma-Lee]

OMG.. who is MEM?? and Where on earth can I read the stupid comments on child care being child abuse???
I can honestly say that if I didnt put the twins into child care it would then be child abuse! I need the break to get my sh*t together and refocus and get on with it. Child care have so many regulations now that I cant see how it could possibly be close to child abuse, i understand if some ppl dont agree with kids in child care but thats their opinion and each to their own but child abuse?? thats a debate waiting to happen. Im happy with the services the c/c has for my kids, the twins are happy, usually bathed for me ( so i dont have to do when i get home) and they eat more there..... Shauna if you want to put kids into child care find one and do a tour, it will determine if you like the place or not, its personal choice. Dont ever listen to one persosn opinion esp if its one like that.... like anything youll get a bad seed in a child care center be it kids or worker that you wont get along with but in the end its if your kids like it. I also know that the cc center near me had a lil boy who would not sleep, all he had was 2hr in a 24hr period, so mum put him in for a break, after 3wks child care have got him sleeping i think 5hours at night and in a better routine through the day.. so its not all bad. oh and now the mum has gone back to work coz she is getting enough sleep!
I had a great sleep last night, the twins slept all night, hoo Fu*ckin RA! still be nice if we woke up with no colds.. and rori has poo so bad its burned her butt cheeks! so she's finding it hard to get comfortable atm. She took a tentative first step yest and fell straight on her face.. i felt bad because she was hanging onto the ends of my legs and i didnt think she'd let go and try and step! Brodie finally has 2 teeth coming through but is vomitting milk up everytime i give him a bottle and my older two have chesty coughs... its rough.. esp coz ben is away. So we;ve layed low this weekend.. got takeaway and veged on the lounge room floor.
im not sure what im doing this week, im snowed under with study, aboriginal relations.
in depth and everything.. hope everyone is having a great weekend,
much luff
xx

[shauna83]

it was on weekend sunrise this morning Mem Fox or Foxx not sure which one, the author of magic possum etc...

Oh Emma-Lee my eldest does go to daycare the one on burnda st...i have no problem with it i just thought it an odd thing to say..i mean really...you need to work to provide for your children....im thinking of returning for sanity more than anything and to stop fighting with my toddler and husband we are still weighing up the odds as to whether we will have any money at the end after paying for daycare as it would be pointless if my income just paid fo DC..

Anyway all said and done, hugs to you all

[Ruby!]

Hi Guys!
Well we have made it to Townsville, we ended up getting a house in Mount Louisa. The removalist drops our things off tomorrow so the next week will be full of unpacking : (

Is there any mothers groups doing anything in the next week or 2 that Nick and I can come to??

[tsv_girl]

Welcome Ruby!
I live in Mt Louisa too - in the Crestbrook part. We should catch up. Declan is only 6 mths so he is a bit younger, but a walking buddy wouldn't hurt. I love talking about weddings!!
In the Mem Fox article she was saying that it is unfair for children to go into long day care when they are only 6 weeks only. And that some kids are in day care for over 60 hours a week.
I have put Declan's name down at a few places cause I'm going back to work in Nov for 3 days - a bit of a break and the extra money will help us.
I am dreading the tantrum phase, even now, he starts to throw a spack if we take something away, like an empty bottle or piece of paper!
Hope everyone had a good weekend, the cowboys finally won!

[Ruby!]

I have done it in one day!! All thats left is to put away the clothes so I feel I have done well, especially with a 13 mth old running me off my feet!!

Tsv_grl, I live just out of Crestbrook in santalucia dve. One of my friends lives in Crestbrook and we will be walking together so you are most welcolme to join us, she has a little boy too who is 5 and a half months. If you give me your email I'll send you my mobile number.

Where do the rest of you ladies meet for playgroup?? Is Lollipops anygood?? Now that I have finished unpacking I will need something to do!!

[MissWingBat]

GOOD FOR YOU RUBY! I am so impressed! It took us days, even weeks to finally get organised. Nothing better than a big move to get rid of all your clutter and really decide if it's worth the hassle to move it. I see moving house as putting everything into a sieve. Now I want to move!!

I really enjoyed my day off yesterday, and I got SOOO much done! I am still ok for Fridays for a meet up...

[Ruby!]

Thanks MissWingBat!

Yeah thats the only good thing about moving! Do you guys have a mums group on Fridays? Because my lil man, nicholas and I are looking for a group to join so that we can make friends! We've only just moved here from Mt Isa and the only other Mum I know works full-time : (

Also, any mums keen to go to the gym together?? Im about to join Domain Fitness and could do with the motivation, Im getting married on the 13th of December and have to lose at least 7 - 10 kilos to get into my dress so i really need to get going!!