Hi Sammie and welcome aboard the mummy train. It is so nice to see you over here now to share all your experiences being a mummy.
to all my other girls.
Well I'm now celebrating as my IL's have finally left today after being here for a week. So now Tara can go back into her own room (she got kicked into the portacot in the study so the IL's could sleep in the spare bed in her room) which now means no more night time trips over the cold kitchen tiles to the study to check on her and no more having to carry the baby monitor with me all the time as now she is back in her room we can hear her when she wakes. So just finishing up washing the sheets from the spare bed and then catching up on my washing and then our little family has the weekend to ourselves without having to entertain people and also means we can get Tara back into her routine. Don't get me wrong, visitors are great it's just that it is hard enough work with Tara as it is let alone having 2 extra people to overstimulate her for 7 whole days.
Oh and at least tomorrow we can go back to having our family sleep in (when Tara comes into our bed in the morning) without having the IL's wanting to come into our bedroom for a conversation . Anyhow I hope you all have a good weekend and I hope our girls who are having holidays at the moment are having a fab time..
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Hi all sorry Ihave been MIA we were away on holidays and then I got sick. Darn gastro if only the kgs stayed off permenantly. Otherwise we are doing well. Xavier is settling into something of a routine and is growing so fast. We are still struggling with Campbells toileting and have now discussed it with his paed. He is on some strong antibiotics to kill all the bacteria in his intestines as he thinks this might be the issue.
Two exciting and interesting thinks are happening. My bestie is having her baby tomorrow. I so cant wait i am hoping she has a girl I want to by pink. We have had four boy born in our family this year.
Number 2 is I have inquired about donating milk to the human milk bank for premmie babies. I have such a huge supply that I have more than enough for Xavier. Will have to wait an see because i may not beable to because I had the blood transfussion.
Janie hope you and your mum are having a great time loads of cuppa's and chats
Smithy glad you love your new house great it's quiet too
Saph glad to hear Xavier is in a ruitine does that mean he's sleeping more for you at night? toilet training ahhhhhh not looking forward to that. How was your holiday? relaxing?
ATM little holiday on KI on the weekend Linc in the porta cot and he was good, although he was really windy and a bit chucky too but it passed who knows. Off to mums group for the first time today, really nervous but I think It'll be good for me 2pm so there is less stress about getting up and organised.
Getting mums house cleaned for mothers day tomorrow I hope she notices.
I'M BBAAACCKKKK MMMWWAAAAHHHH long post here i come!
Hi girls, been reading the posts but not a lot of spare time lately. Hey where's Murphy, you gone AWOL on us lady?
Neptune - thanks for the kudos love. good on you for logging those runs. I havven't been out for ages (i'll explain below) but the last run i did was about 3.5km, which i was happy with. I really want to get back to daily 10kers again soon, plus have a friend's wedding in a couple of months and all the kids from school will be there, so want to look fab! lol. Did you hear back from the prof about the counselling?
Janie is your mum there yet? so exciting. mine is coming from the other end of the country in a few week's time, i'm also excited... can't wait to show of bubba.
KellyD - yay for inlaws leaving! we just had a week staying with them and it has been a trial for Ashton. don't get me wrong, he loved the attention and got used to all the new faces pretty quickly, but we've paid for it since we got home! What brand is your portacot? did you find it sunk a bit in the middle? Ash would not sleep in the portacot, thankfully a friend lent us a bassinette, which he only just fitted into. and what a smart little girl you have there! sitting up!
green - did your boss agree to one day a week? and what a great idea for mum's day!
Hi smithy!!!
BG- the BLS advice is really appreciated. its so good to hear what others are doing.
hey sammie - sounds like you guys are rocking alogn very well. i love the name Colt too
hi BW - just remember, you can make such a difference to kids' lives. even if they don't appreciate it now, they will later. how fondly do we all remember those genuinely good teachers who obviously loved to teach and liked kids! it makes a real difference to people's lives.. and you probabl don't get paid enough either!
hey boc how are you going love? what is happening with you guys atm
Poppy - is it warming up over there yet? lol. any news? exciting happenings? ooh it's election time isn't it, do you think there'll be much of a shake up?
hi marcellus and lenny hope you girls are great.
AFU - well we are back home from tassie and as a result had one very unhappy overtired baby. In fact up until last night, we had about 3 weeks of unsettledness... started with a wonder week at 17 weeks, then immunisations and flying to tassie at 18 weeks then the week in tas and then home at 19 weeks. I haven't had more than 2 hrs sleep in a row in all that time!
He did NOT like the portacot, would only sleep in snatches in the bassinette, ended up sleeping in my arms most of the time just so he would actually get some sleep. Got home and he was wakign all the time, feeding all the time, not resettling, not going down happy and being pretty grumpy aarrgggh. exactly like having a newborn again! brh
to cap it off he's gone back to 25th percentile for his weight but up to 90th for his length!! gee, tall, thin... hmm sounds like hubby
Also we started solids. I know, it's very early and I was intending to wait til 6 months and do what BG has done.. BLS.. but the doc advised us to try him on solids with all the waking, unsettledness, extra feeding and not as much weight gain.
and oh, my, goodness. He does this crazy little dance when he sees his food bowl and eats it all! (mind you i'm not giving him too much). WE are taking it very slow, he's had about a week of farex with booby milk; then introduced pureed pumpkin and this morn added potato.
I can't believe him, he eats the whole lot, hardly spitting any out. grabs the spoon and puts it in his mouth as well. Anyhoo, I've noticed he's chubbed up a fair bit and seems a lot brighter than before. Fortunately we have steamed veg nearly every night, so making his food is so easy for us lol. the most time consumign part is pumping milk to mix with it but i think i'm going to slowly go over to using boiled water... any thoughts there girls?
But we were still having sleep issues. so rang tresillian last night... i suspect he was over tired and being kept up too long. So last night, in bed by 7pm, rocked to sleep and put down. fed at 9.30pm when he woke, rocked to sleep and put into cot... slept til 1.30am (that is a huge acheivement, it has been only til 11.30pm after a 9.30pm feed) had a feed, fell asleep with eating, Went into his cot happily again, and didn't hear boo til 6.30am!!!!! then only wanted a nappy change, small drink and back to bed til 8.30am.
When he woke i offered booby 3 times, with 5 min break inbetween (placed in his cot for quiet, unstimulated time) and he didn't want it. so made his puree breakky and he ate it all then finished iwth a small booby feed??? So was a bit confused by this as he seemed to know it was solids time and he didn't want booby? any thoughts ther girls? just go with it do you think?
anyhoo the even more exciting part comes next, about 9.45am i stopped playtime, changed him, read a book in his room and had a little cuddle and rock. put him to bed awake with dummy... said ''nigh, nigh'' and walked out of the room.... AND HE WENT TO SLEEP BY HIMSELF... hhhoooorrrraaayyyy. So that was an hour ago! and not a peep!
please keep your fingers crossed he sleeps til at least 12.30pm then will have a good booby feed
i'm sure i've jinxed myself by hoorraying his sleep last night, but i really hope we've turned a corner now! don't mind doing a 9/10pm feed and an early hours 1/3am feed but feeding every 2-3 hours over night was killing me!
Also, post wonder week - he's really changed again. is much more coodinated and apparently nearly everything mummy does is funny. Even when he's screaming, once i settle him, he'll turn to me and laugh!!! WTF! we tell him that it's not nice to laugh at someone you were just screaming at 30 seconds ago! lol.
So anyhoo, we aren't putting him up for adoption just yet hahhhaahhaaha
waffle waffle waffle... now... i have spare time, and not baby is sleeping on me. what to do? what to do? oxoxo
Hi Grub, I haven't met with boss yet next Tuesday I put it off cos Linc was unsettled last week and I was too mad to chat with her cos I think she'll say no but I have 6 days Annual leave and 2RDO's so I can have 8 Thursdays off anyways (evil laugh) I will get what I want then I'm hoping Nana will take Linc for another 1/2 day OMG three weeks! I'm so lucky Linc will sleep (not that well) but anywere for now. so great to hear the solids are going down well now for some more sleep form mummy.
Today I had a mini melt down (linc did anyways) I'm trying to not let him snack feed in the hope he sleeps better during the day, so I'm not feeding him earlier than 3 hours. It's hard work and he woke up so hystericle (spelling??) and when I fed him he ate so fast he gaged threw up and cried for an hour. OMG but he is sleeping really well so maybe it's worth it. Mother group was ok but a bit odd will give it a go though.
But I did want to pop in today and give a big It's just sinking in for me It's going to be my first Mothers day so so so excited and wanted to share my joy.
Green - so funny you say that about Mother's Day.....I am going down to Melbourne to see my mum in Melbourne, as i always do, and i keep forgetting that I am now a mum!!!!! Very odd. Sorry about your melt-down, hope Linc settles for you soon.
Grub - hi love, welcome back from tassie, again hope that little cute Ash settles after his big trip. it does seem to upset them doesn't it? No wonder you haven't been running, what kind of spare time have you had????? None I'm guessing.
Hi to everyone else, sorry for lack of persies, I'm just knackered and need to get on with an essay blurrrgggghhhh.
AFM: Adam is a little unsettled at night at the moment, can't quite work out why, so just trying go with the flow. He is waking and crying out from a bout 3am, but when I go in there, he is sound asleep. Then he is waking full-on at about 545am. This is a huge change from sleeping until 7am without a peep......I realise that i have been very lucky and the honeymoon is over, but I would love to work out why all of a sudden. Teething? Maybe, who knows. Anyway, because I am a bit of an anxious bunny, the first cry at 3am wakes me, I check on him, then I am lucky to go back to sleep at all until he gets me up for his brekkie. So i am pretty sleep deprived at the moment. Plus, my dog is waking me to go out for a wee at 11pm, 1am, 4am....don't know whether she really needs to go, but think I am being manipulated hahaha, but don't want dog pi$$ in the house! Anyway, I am sure it will settle soon.
I now have the name of a psychologist who specialises in hoarding......but have I done anything about it??? Not yet, but i have showed DH the name, and I keep showing him units/flats for rent that I could move into, or pet friendly places for all of us to go.....so he is getting the message loud and clear that I mean business. For the first time in YEARS he sat down with me and told me what he is going to achieve in the next 2 months...it wasn't much in the moving stuff OUT of the house, but it was enough to clear the lounge, the hallway and make the other rooms safe enough. In the past his plans have been huge and in my opinion too big for what he's capable in a small time frame. This was far more realistic; i felt disappointed at what he told me he would do, but now that I"ve thought about it, I think he is being realistic for the first time ever and maybe he will do it. I told him that I will still move out for Adam's sake if he does not do this.
So I don't feel like counseling for me at this point, but may need it down the track. I feel better, finger's crossed.
Hi everyone
I've been reading but too slack to post, sorry . Those taking the time for all those persies put me to shame.
A has a cold and is not sleeping much. He's been in bed with me the past few nights. It's cute, really. I go in in the middle of the night. He sits up, clasping his teddy and water bottle and says: Mum take me to mum and dad bed.
DS does that neptune - yelling, crying then fast asleep. does my head in, cause it jolts you awake and it takes ages to get back to sleep. Don't want to turn the monitor off though because he still wakes at night sometimes and our room is at the other end of the house. Glad to hear your DH has a realistic plan.
All the best for sorting out work Green.
Murph - hope the sleeping is improving for you. On the booby feed question, the only thing I would say is be wary of replacing milk at this age. In the early days solids should be a complement to, not replacement of milk. That's why they usually reocmmend boob first. But then if he does it the other way but still has plenty of milk then it guess that's fine. How old is he now? He can put the spoon in his mouth - that's pretty good! Sounds like he's been growing upwards more than outwards recently - little bean pole.
Hey Saph, did you find out about donating milk? I think that'd be an awesome thing to do.
What a relief Kelly!
Hi Sammie and welcome! Never mind the housework. I still don't do any. Hope the scar is healing up ok though
Hope you had a nice time with your mum Janie.
Well, must dash. I'm actually supposed to be working :P
Marcellus - yes I found the milk donation place. Unfortunately they require donors with there own electric pump at the moment as they have none avaliable. I dont have one only a manual one which is fine for us as Xavier refuses to take a bottle so i only need to express for comfort. The other down side is you have to deliver it to pmh for storage. I live uo near Joondalup so the trek to pmh with 2 kids is beyond me at the moment. So for the moment Xavier is going to continue getting extremely fat with my abundance of milk. We have all decided that his vomiting is due to the fact that he is a little pig and gets to much milk the vomiting is just excess.
Hope everyone is doing well, Xavier is waking so off to do the grocccery shopping.
Smithy: Glad you love the new place, we missed you!
Grub: I too get the screaming then the big grin! Does my head in! But I can never stay mad at that cute little face!
We are all good here. DS is a little tank, weighs 5.5kg @ 6weeks, put on 840g in 2 weeks, then 450g the following week , yep that's 2kg since birth! So much for him "not thriving" if I chose to bottle feed! He's out of 0000 and some of the 000 are getting a little snug around the beer gut.
To all those with unsettled bubs, thank you, you have made me feel a little more normal! I'm used to hearing of my cousins with their bubs, 13 weeks (slept 11.5hrs a night from 7 weeks) and 15weeks (slept 6-8hrs a night from 5weeks) and it drives me mental! We were still going every 3 hrs. But last Thurs DS went for needles (can you believe 6 weeks already???) and I got Doc to check him and he has reflux AND is lactose intolerant so is now on specially made Losec solution & is on De-Lact formula and we mostly seem to get 4hrly feeds at night.
Spent the weekend at my parents and he slept like a dream in the porta-cot. Wonder why he won't sleep in his OWN cot??? He'll lay there and kick for 30-40mins then it's WAAAAHHHHH!!!
Ahhh Mothers Day, will be so much nicer this year. Last year I had just had my first ICSI and a week before Mother's Day did a HPT and got a BFP. Then the next Friday had my BT & they said I was BFP but that something was wrong and chances were it would end in a miscarriage. So Mother's Day was not a very nice day. My family tried to be positive and make it a good day for me but I spent most of it in tears. Then the Tuesday after the inevitable happened. Can't believe it's been a year already. But at least the only tears this year will be of happiness.
Interesting though, dion't know how to approach the 1yr anniversary, I want to acknowledge it but DH has never accepted what happened. He believed "nothing was there" becasue it was so early (5weeks) and wasn't a foetus yet and when I Mc-ed he got really angry and told me I had no right to be upset cause nothing really happened and that I should have been prepared for it to go wrong. Since then he has acknowledged it for my sake but still admits he has no feeling towards it himself. I don't know what to do about that. Any thoughts?
Anyway had better go, trying to get him to settle in his cot, he's gone from the attention-seeking whinges to full blown "get me out of here" screaming *sigh*
Been busy lately so haven't had much time to drop in and post but have been reading how everyone is going.
BOC as for you question about your DH, with both my m/c my DH couldn't really understand either what it was like. To him the pregnancy didn't seem real until he could actually see something and even then it took him ages to really connect that a fat belly meant a baby. I think most men don't actually get the connection until they hold their child.
Anyway, looks like we might have brought forward our plans for no.2. I took Tara into DH's work yesterday and his boss mentioned that when I'm ready to look to go back to finding a job to let her know as they always have part time admin roles coming up (at the local hossy), so that bought on the conversation of do I get a job and then try for No 2 and possibly have to leave or do we bring forward our plans for No 2 and then possibly go back to work later.
Well we decided to bring forward trying for no 2 as I'm not getting any younger and it might work 1st time or the last time or not at all and then we will know where we stand on me going back to work sometime in the future.
So the plan is to make an appt with the FS for July and start the ball rolling for out FET's, by that time Tara will be 9 mths old so worst case scenario would mean that there would be an 18mth age gap. So how scary is that... in a couple of months I'll be back on the baby train.....
Well first of all, I hope you all had the happiest Mother's day ever. I couldn't quite get used to the fact that it would be my first either, but I got more and more excited and the day was better than Christmas cos it was all mine and it was fantastic!!! My DH is so damn special, I think I'll keep him. Morning after morning when I thought he was up working on his thesis, he was plotting and planning on the computer making me a book from Jazzy. Then it arrived in the mail and he had to stop himself form showing it to me early. Oh, it's so beautiful, from birth to her first 5 months in words told by Jasmine. It's absolutely awesome and it's going to take some beating for Father's day...damn he's too organised. Meanwhile, I managed only to get my Mum a card made online and still plodding away on a calendar....ahh to have time! And while I'm bragging, then I had yummy smoked salmon and scrambled eggs on turkish bread with garden fresh salad (and the good tea set Grub ) and later in the morning we went to check out a gorgeous surf beach with white talcum soft sand and that was devine until we dipped Jazz in for her first little splash and a huge mumma of a wave drenched her in freezing water. Ooops, DH felt soooo bad as we were only doing it for a photo moment to compare to our former Daintree photos. Off with the clothes and bundled into DHs yummy hoodie and all was forgiven. When we got home, we all had lunch and a sleep in bed together. Bliss Perfection. sorry to boast but I'm the girl that has to sit back when other girls are running down their men for being slack at everything (housework as well) and have nothing to contribute cos I got a goodin and I won't settle for less anyway.
As for how I have been travelling. Oh gawd, too much to tell, too much going on with the surgery saga and the will she or won't she? It's taken over my life, which I didn't want to happen but now I know it has to happen in order to really get on top of things and do everything I can for Jasmine ito have the best opportunities to develop normally. So life, apart from the amazing time I'm having with my 6 month old who is talking up a storm, sitting up, rolling over, laughing, smiling, eating solids and filling every crevice of my world with love and fascination (and mushy banana), is a tad bit busy. I've become one of those people...oh dear a child's advocate, knocking on all doors to find solutions. I am really having a few wins but still don't have all my ducks lined up. I have found a foundation who want to provide support with travel and I have an amazing bloke who is doing a lot of legal work to overturn my health fund's decision to not cover us. He's a ball breaker and I reckon he will win. It's not a legal challenge, it's just a company CEO with a lot of nouse and experience in negotiating. He has already done so much for us just to get us on the program in Melbourne, let alone everything he is trying to do. He has also got our surgery costs donated and is now looking for another $52 000 and we will be good to go. I haven't felt worhty of your praise when you've told me I'm brave, but I guess now I am starting to accept that it is taking its toll. Sorry Grub, but I finally cried. I decided to throw my hands up in the air and tell the world to get stuffed, and had a big exhausted cry, you now the type where you are not just crying for this situation, but for the IVF and the bloody hard time you've had...yep, an all out pity party. But Jazzy was watching and she was so confused as she has never seen me cry so she just tried to crack me up laughing and she succeeded. Yep, that did it. "don't waste another minute being unhappy Mum cos I am so damn happy and I dont know any better", was her attitude. So we just had a big old cuddle and got on with it and I decided to just go hard at trying to get the surgery early but not get too upset if we have to wait and there is a bit of developmental delay. It fully sucks if it doens't go ahead and I considered moving interstate blah blah blah, but we'll get there. We have really good people trying to help us.
So, yep. I have been hiding under a rock and will be there a bit I think. I haven't used facebook in a month, I haven't written to anyone back in the daintree, all the promises go out the window and it's just all about us at the moment until I gain a bit of momentum and then regain balance.
Awww Murph what a nice thing DH did for you they take ages to get together and it is such a special forever gift glad you had a great day.
KellyD at more babies wow back on the train so soon, mind you I miss my belly still.
BOC hope you had an ok weekend and bubs is more settled. I'd steal their porta cot
Saph hope you and the boyz are great and you got something nice yesterday.
Marcellus for work
Neptune hope Adam is back to his nice ruitine for you LUCKY LADY
Wow new set out is strange, will get used to it.
Yesterday was BLAH but I don't want to go on about it, I think I need to be more real with my expectations.
Rang the Union about my rights for work and they have to "concider" part time so I'll see how I go tomorrow. Wish me luck ladies.
I think Linc is teething or something big is going on, runny poo loads of drooling, chomping (hard) on everything. I know this doesn't always mean teeth but he's been up at 12midnight for an extra feed too again so tired mummy.
Hi Murph . I think we're all just impressed that you have so much extra to deal with on top of the usual mummy stuff! Sounds like little Jazzy as the right idea
It's fabulous to hear there are people working so hard on your behalf - on top of your own efforts! Really wonderful.
Glad your hubby is so good. Really, it should be the norm, shouldn't it?
Wow Kelly, that's just a few months away! All the best
ETA - good luck again with work Green. Hope they'll be more reasonable.
hi girls. wow the site looks different!
hey murph - you must be a bit spesh to use the 'good tea set' rofl. And crying is absolutely allowed! i hoped you felt better. I"m a bit of a fan of a big sooky-lah-lah cry every now and then. I'm a stress crier, when i stress I cry but it usually makes me feel better. You are the best mum jazzy could have! weather or not everything goes to the ideal time frame, I think she'll be just fine cos she's got you two as parents Remember all this happens for a reason and if you don't make the timeline, maybe there is a reason for that... something that jazzy is meant to do etc (not sure if that makes sense).
Oh and give your DH a good ole pat on the back love! what a treasure. But i'd be concerned about that sneakiness he's shown lol.
kelly d - that is so super exciting! fingers crossed.
well it looks like i have a baby whose a stickler for his routine and his bed and his grobag in precisely the correct order, thank you very much mummy! it's like all the sudden he woke up one day and decided to be precious! lol. My mum assures me i'm getting my comeuppance for being a little bbeee-atch.
But he's settled into a 7am wake up 7pm bed routine with 2 x 2hr sleeps and an arvo nap He's nearly 5 months now and is eating solids like they are going out of fashion, so today i added lunch to the menu. But we are still only on farex, carrot, potato, pumpkin. Tomorrow is 'add a food day' but not sure if i should go sweet potato, oats, yoghurt, avocado or banana. hhmm any suggestions?
The only thing that is bugging us atm is he keeps wetting through his MCNs... THREE complete bed, clothes, nappy changes last night! brh.
anyhoo going to explore this newfangled site.
oxoxo
hope you all had a happy mum's day. I was also spoilt and like murph, I really have no major complaints agains DH - he cooks, he cleans, he rubs feet (usually on the way to elsewhere but hey gotta give a bloke a break lol). We had grilled crossiants with ham and super naughty cheese followed by a lunch of chicken and veg rice paper rolls; fish and chips and sticky date pud with icecream.... mmmwwwaaaahhhhh got a breastfeeding necklace and flowers to boot.
Murph: So nice to see you back, I was wondering how you and the precious Jazzy were going. Wow you sure have a lot on your plate but I agree with Grub, she has chosen the best mummy & daddy to help her through no matter what happens. OMG, so much for Jellyfish Jazz... it seems like she has made huge leaps and is now ahead of Tara. We are only now sitting on our own, still no attempt to roll any further than what she has been doing for almost 3 months and no sign of teeth either.
Grub: Yay for routine but it can be a bugger if you need to do something and it spoils the routine.... Tara is one who also only likes to sleep in her cot (the porta cot will also surfice) but this means if we are out she just will not go to sleep and will only crash in the car seat when she is exhausted but this generally occurs about 10 minutes from home.
Green: I hope you can get some resolution about going Part Time...
And also a big Happy Mothers Day to you all for yesterday... I also got breakfast in bed - poached eggs on toast - and I got a beautiful keepsake present of a Swarovski Crystal baby girl bear (she has a pink bow) to remember my first mothers day. After everything we went through I wanted something I could keep forever to remember this special day. Then to top it all off my mum & dad came over in the afternoon and brought over with them an apple & blueberry pie from the Sovereign Hill bakery. It was so yummy that we had left overs for dessert as well.
Now a question for our more experienced mummies... Tara has now become a child who seems to persist in rolling onto her tummy for her day sleeps. Seems good in theory as she can turn her head but she still doesn't know how to roll back onto her back and therefore she wakes herself up when she wants to change position. We try and put things in to block her from rolling onto her tummy but she can do it in the one spot so that doesn't help, and we generally end up in a rolling game that can take anything up to 40 minutes for her to fall asleep on her back or side. Any thoughts or ideas what I can do?? At night she is no problem and falls asleep on her back it is just the day sleeps that are the issue.
Hi girls! And a big happy mothers day to you all - especially those of you who have just celebrated your very first one. After all the time it took us to get here it really is just such a special day.
Kelly - I went through this with Jazzy also. Unfortunately I didn't find anything that really helped. The MCHN suggested a sleeping bag, but I didn't get around to trying. If it is any consolation, it didn't last for long before Jazzy was crawling and by that time the MCHN said not to worry about it because if they are strong enough to crawl they are strong enough to get out of that position. Jazzy is a big tummy sleeper now.
Grub - your little man sounds gorgeous - so funny how much order he already likes in his life!
Green - I know when I was negotiating my job share with work my sister (who works in HR) said that the laws had changed at the beginning of this year. The change requires an employer to consider more family friendly working conditions - e.g. job share, part time etc. Good luck - I hope that you can come to an arrangement that suits.
Murph - I'm sorry to hear that you are having a hard battle - but it is great to hear that you have some wonderful people on your side. Remember - crying is not always a bad thing. Sometimes it is a great and necessary release of emotions. Jazzy sounds like she is doing wonderfully well and a big woohoo for your wonderful DH - what a great job he did with the book.
Hi Marcellus, BOC, Saph, Neptune and everyone I have missed.
AFU - I have happy to say that Jasmine is still doing really well. Had a little bit of a runny nose the past couple of days, but no temp or signs that she is feeling unwell. She is literally running everywhere at the moment. No longer likes to sit in the pram, she wants to hold my hand and walk beside me - makes going anywhere take a lot longer, but it is just so sweet that I really don't care.
Kelly - cant give you any suggestions to stop her from rolling but I wouldnt worry about it. Xavier has slept on his tummy from birth. Day and night and will not sleep any other way. I have decided that we have a cat napper and we are never going to get sleep during the day. He sleeps well during the night so I guess I cant complain.
Need some help, how did you transition from the bassenette to the cot. Have been trying to get Xavier to sleeep in his cot but he just will not sleep in it. He will cry and scream and then I put him in his basenette and he will go striaght to sleep. If he does amange to sleep in there it is only for half and hour. Campbell had no trouble moving.
to all my other girls.
as my IL's have finally left today after being here for a week. So now Tara can go back into her own room (she got kicked into the portacot in the study so the IL's could sleep in the spare bed in her room) which now means no more night time trips over the cold kitchen tiles to the study to check on her and no more having to carry the baby monitor with me all the time as now she is back in her room we can hear her when she wakes. So just finishing up washing the sheets from the spare bed and then catching up on my washing and then our little family has the weekend to ourselves without having to entertain people and also means we can get Tara back into her routine. Don't get me wrong, visitors are great it's just that it is hard enough work with Tara as it is let alone having 2 extra people to overstimulate her for 7 whole days.
. Anyhow I hope you all have a good weekend and I hope our girls who are having holidays at the moment are having a fab time..
I hope she notices.
but I have 6 days Annual leave and 2RDO's so I can have 8 Thursdays off anyways (evil laugh) I will get what I want then I'm hoping Nana will take Linc for another 1/2 day 
OMG three weeks! I'm so lucky Linc will sleep (not that well) but anywere for now. so great to hear the solids are going down well 
It's just sinking in for me It's going to be my first Mothers day 
. Those taking the time for all those persies put me to shame.
, yep that's 2kg since birth! So much for him "not thriving" if I chose to bottle feed! He's out of 0000 and some of the 000 are getting a little snug around the beer gut.
) and later in the morning we went to check out a gorgeous surf beach with white talcum soft sand and that was devine until we dipped Jazz in for her first little splash and a huge mumma of a wave drenched her in freezing water. Ooops, DH felt soooo bad as we were only doing it for a photo moment to compare to our former Daintree photos. Off with the clothes and bundled into DHs yummy hoodie and all was forgiven. When we got home, we all had lunch and a sleep in bed together. Bliss
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), is a tad bit busy. I've become one of those people...oh dear a child's advocate, knocking on all doors to find solutions. I am really having a few wins but still don't have all my ducks lined up. I have found a foundation who want to provide support with travel and I have an amazing bloke who is doing a lot of legal work to overturn my health fund's decision to not cover us. He's a ball breaker and I reckon he will win. It's not a legal challenge, it's just a company CEO with a lot of nouse and experience in negotiating. He has already done so much for us just to get us on the program in Melbourne, let alone everything he is trying to do. He has also got our surgery costs donated and is now looking for another $52 000 and we will be good to go. I haven't felt worhty of your praise when you've told me I'm brave, but I guess now I am starting to accept that it is taking its toll. Sorry Grub, but I finally cried. I decided to throw my hands up in the air and tell the world to get stuffed, and had a big exhausted cry, you now the type where you are not just crying for this situation, but for the IVF and the bloody hard time you've had...yep, an all out pity party. But Jazzy was watching and she was so confused as she has never seen me cry so she just tried to crack me up laughing and she succeeded. Yep, that did it. "don't waste another minute being unhappy Mum cos I am so damn happy and I dont know any better", was her attitude. So we just had a big old cuddle and got on with it and I decided to just go hard at trying to get the surgery early but not get too upset if we have to wait and there is a bit of developmental delay. It fully sucks if it doens't go ahead and I considered moving interstate blah blah blah, but we'll get there. We have really good people trying to help us.
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