Parenting after LT TTC #8

[lise]

It's okay grub, I'm not after sympathy, I can see the funny side which is why I posted it, thought others might be in need of a laugh too

But yes, I definitely need some more sleep. I just realized I haven't had my monthly B12 injection since January so that helps explain why I'm a bit tired and slow. At least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it

[saph204]

Oh Lise, I am laughing with you not at you. Similar thing happened to me with Campbell. Coiuldnt find him anywhere was getting really worried that he had let himself out the front door or something (This was when he was crawling) Complete panic, which is not usual for me. Only to find him sitting in the bath tub eating his toothpaste. He had shut the door climbed in and was having a lovely time. We all do these things from time to time.lol

[lise]

Happy birthday grub

On my way to the airport to pick up DH, yippeeeeeeeeee

[grub17]

lise, i know you probably don't think this.. but gee that went fast ie dh away time!!!

thanks heaps love. having lovely day getting spoilt ox

[lise]

Oh girls, stop me now!

DH has been a bit down about our finances, with me not working for the rest of this year, so we've been looking at our budget. For the first time today I had a serious look at eBay...and now have 9 bids going! I'm justifying it by saying that I'm saving money by not buying new but of course with 9 bids going I'm actually still spending a bit. And the problem is I'm very competitive and don't like losing, even if I have to exceed my maximum bid at the last second

Anyway, hope everyone had a lovely weekend. Was so lovely having DH home, Finn was so so excited, though initially at the airport he seemed not to really care! Was only when we got home it seemed to click and he was terribly excited. I couldn't feed him or do anything without him trying to look for DH

[BOC]

Oh and I know that Barney has left us but there was a BA that her daughter had her baby this week, a little boy called Cruz.

Bit of a mistake there in that BA , Barney's daughter had a little boy named Bailey Kenneth. Big'un too, 8 pound 11 and if you've ever seen pics of Jess she's a tiny little thing, no idea where she was keeping him LOL. And she had him with only gas!

I haven't had as much time to post with DH being away as I thought as Finn has turned back into a rotten sleeper. I thi k it's a combination of teeth and missing DH (at least I hope it is, I hope this is not the new routine!) but he's back to screaming when I put him in his cot, I have to feed him to sleep again most of the time, which I don't mind but then he wakes up in his cot and can't/won't resettle...

Oh big Hun he is right in the middle of a nasty wonder week, and around 8 months they get major separation anxiety happening too, both day & night. In my birth group at this age there were about a dozen of us at our wits end just like you are now. So rest assured it's quite normal but unfortunately you just have to ride it out for a few weeks. But at least you know what is happening. At this time I would put DS down of a night and he'd be waking 3 or 4 times and by 2am I'd just bundle him in our bed, he'd roll over, grab the front of my pjs and then *snoooooore* he'd be out! Hope he grows out of this stage real soon for ya!

A big to everyone else! And to our dear preggies!

As for us, DS turned the big 1 on Friday!!! OMG I cannot believe it a little depressed that my baby is not such a baby anymore though. Had a lovely gathering at home yesterday (the picnic by the lake got rained out but nevermind).

Anyway better run, DH is home early for once!

[grub17]

boc! he's one!!! gee whiz they are all growing up too fast. But hope he (and you guys) had a lovely day despite the weather!!!

i've got a flu atm, ugh and DS just wants to burn off all that energy he has double ugh. so we aren't a good match atm and i'm not looking forward to tomorrow if i'm not feeling better and don't sleep, again! ggrrr grumble grumble grumble.

[saph204]

Oh Grub, I feel for you. I too am feeling yucky. Ended up with only one kid in my class this afternoon so I just watched him play on the computer. How slack.lol

[lise]

Grub, hope you're feeling okay, I hated getting sick when I was pregnant, especially not being able to take anything!!

Saph, hope you're feeling better too! Glad that you were able to have a lazy day at work!!

BOC, can't believe Jagger is one already! I remember looking at your weekly belly pics and thinking how HUGE you were Glad you had a lovely day xx Hey, have you been raked? Is that what 'love a friend' means?!

[Murph01]

Hello from sunny New South Wales!

Well we have made the move and despite dagging around in caravan parks with our dogs and baby in tow, we are through the other side, have rented ourselves a cute little house and it's been total chaos trying to unpack when there are virtually NO cupboards or wardrobes. We absolutely love being in the 'big smoke', but as my cousin said when I told her that, it's not often Orange would be referred as the big smoke. Well after Kangaroo Island and the Daintree, whooee!! Anyway its beautiful and we have good heating and cooling and have tried out the heaters already...we are gonna freeze our bums off but it will be a nice change. Kelly, I can still see you laughing at us, I'm sure it won't really sink in until we see it for ourselves but SNOW? Really? It's all a bit exciting, I nearly wet my pants when we were visiting one of the conservation areas and it said a highlight in Winter is seeing the wombat paw prints in the snow. wombats are only my favourite animal in the world!

But enough about me, how is that gorgeous girl with the computers in her head? She is just wonderful. she has handled the travel and the move like a dream and is having a huge growth spurt and eating everything in sight. She is now almost eating everything we eat which is great because she is a bit of a mouse but she gets what she needs. I am still breast feeding can you believe that? I must be some kind of veteran in this group, it wasn't planned and I thought about stopping a while back but then it works so damn well for us, particularly while teething and settling and if it wasn't the boob she was attached to, it would be something else so it's still a really nice thing to be able to offer that comfort and also nutrition of course. DH is totally supportive so I think it's just a bit of a surprise that I am still going with no end in sight after 17 months and a huge bonus that ended last week is that I didn't have a single visit from Auntie Flo since falling pregnant 26 months ago!!

Jazzy's last adjustment to her cochlears was 8 weeks ago and she is really in need of what's called a MAP (oops, can't remember what it stands for but it's 3am and I'm up with a crook belly after my first Chinese take away in about 5 years!), so we are trying to get her in to the Shepherd Centre in Sydney and I will travel by train to her appointments. Yay, no more ferries and driving We've made all the contacts and have to hear back about the details of therapy and audiology. All that aside, Jasmine is just an amazing little joyful thing and is delighting in the sounds she can make. We ditched the funny little hats and bonnets that we used at first to keep the head gear on and now with a life time supply of double-sided tape, we manage to keep the cochlears on for almost the whole day with no need for breaks and no tantrums or turns about putting them on. there is the odd struggle but generally she is getting the whole point and tries to put them back on when they fall off, or before they go on, like yesterday, I was getting the tape ready and she was holding them up to her ear as if they would help her watch telly. It's absolutely amazing to us, she is just so switched on and her listening skills are fantastic. I don't know technically how much she is hearing but at our last trip to Melbourne, she was doing so well that they opened her up to the full range of sound and said she should hear all normal conversation and noises now. She is really trying to mimick and her lips are moving to create sounds although her one word is still "mum mum umumumumum" which is used in all kinds of situations and not necessarily for her wonderful mother Therapy with her is all coming together, all those months, day in, day out when she had no hearing at all are paying off and she demonstrates so much ability that we have no worries or fears for her future at all. At 17 months Jazzy is still not walking on her own and I suspect it may be a balance thing, but DH thinks maybe it's because she is working on so many other skills and that also makes sense. She walks with us holding hands and pushes walkers and prams so we just provide those wherever we go so that she can get the hang of it.

Teething teething teething hey! Who knew what it could be like and for how like and for how long? Every time I see someone struggling with unsettled, clingy babies with their routines out of whack, I just think teething. Man it's so constant isn't it? I've discovered a new soother for older babies is a whole lebanese cucumber. It soothes and cools, they get a drink and a feed and sink those sore teeth and gums into the crisp cucumber. Of course I discovered this quite by accident yesterday when she swiped it instead of eating the slices I'd cut her. I am feeling quite a radiant glow of happiness this week when thinking of my feelings for Jazzy so clearly the teething is not too bad because there have been a few times of late where I have called my darling (butter wouldn't melt) toddler, a little turd! Little buggers they can be, biting eyebrows and knee caps and attaching themselves permanently to your leg. what a tough gig, I give babies full respect for that teething lark, that's gotta suck!

I have to comment on something I remember reading a while back. It was a comment by Grub about feeding Ash a ****tail of medicines and it had been censored because it had that word in it! Well it got my attention.

Anyway, I'm meant to be using this good wide awake time to be writing some articles and letters to Ministers I've had hanging around my neck like a big weight because other people want me to do it. It's not really something I've got motivation for now that the fight for Jasmine's surgery and treatment is over. I know that the fight still needs to go on back in Adelaide but somehow that part of my life is a distant memory and I just want to move forward and not fight law cases and seek compensation. I fought when it was important to fight and i did what I could. I would do it differently and not give away so much of my precious time with Jazzy trying to advocate for a better deal. Sometimes s*it just happens and you dust yourself off and move on and for us, we got the best possible outcome from a lousy situation. Blah blah, wake up girls, I'm saying goodbye.xoxo