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
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?!
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
yayay our Mummy murph is back (like mother smurf hahahaha).
i could feel your happiness and excitement oozing from your post me-deary. Hey I didn't know that c-o-c-k-t-ail was sensored! it's a word, true! lol.
Jazzy sounds devine. as for the walking my besties 1st DS didn't walk til 17 months! and he didn't have to learn to listen either!
So sounds so adorable Murph. They are just such a delight at this age i reckon. Turning into real little people. We think Ash is a bit of a crack pot and he keeps us entertained endlessly with his antics.
Big congrats on the BF!!! i wish Ash and I had the plot together but sadly i must admit i only felt guilt and then relief to stop BF at 7 months to start metformin for this FET. I am sooooo hopeful that it's different this time around and we get BF a lot easier than Ash and I did!!!
just one thing - i had to laugh when you said you were glad to take the train to sydney lol. wait til you do that trip a couple of times and you'll be driving! they send the bodgiest old ex-city trains out to the country areas and they taek forever!!! oh and take a jacket or two cos for some freaking reason those trains are freezing!!!
AFM - still not 100% but getting there slowly. DH came down very sick Friday/saturday and Ash has my yukky cough but apparently no other symptoms (thankfully). So it's been very quiet here atm. Poor Ash needs to get out and play but we aren't well enough to do that atm. I'm about to enter my third trimester so that doesn't help either.
well the child has slept in again but i've just heard him so up we get (that's an 8am sleep in 2 days in a row!).
hi to all our mummies. it's been quiet on here so you'll all have to post again now to let us know how you are going
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Glad you had a lovely day xx Hey, have you been raked? Is that what 'love a friend' means?!
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
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