hi ladies , just stalking you.
all my boys were 8 pound, 9 pound and 9 and half pound babies. DS 1 was 3 wees early and 8 pounds and 52 cm long. he is just about to turn 13 and only 2 cm away from being as tall as me and i am 176 cm tall !!!! now thats scary. i am taller by 1 cm than DH ( why i call him short. LOL ). i am scared of another BIG BOY again. but i told DH since all the boys were early i am going 4 weeks early this time !!!
i am feeling pregnant now with my little belly and people are starting to notice my pot . :-0
can't wait to join you guys. if i do go 4 weeks early then i may be in here sooner than we think ?!
Hello ladies! I finally have some free time to log on, Finn has been a very active and busy little boy and I barely have a second to myself during the day. He's at childcare at the moment - I start back at work in a couple of weeks and wanted to give him lots of time to settle in before I go back. So far he hates it, I think he cries for most of the day, it breaks my heart. Financially I have to go back, I've been on unpaid leave all year and we just have no money and mounting debts. Anyway, I'm sure he'll settle in soon and if not my mum will take him from October onwards until we can find somewhere else.
Enough of me, I hope everyone is going well! It's been so very quiet in here lately, I hope it's just normL crazy busy life keeping everyone away.
Must go finish the painting - trying to air the house to get rid of the smell before Finn comes home!
JBM, good luck with the last weeks of your pregnancy and see you in here soon
It has been quiet in here - I have just been flat out. I do read a lot still just often don't have the time to post.
Hiya JBM - looking forward to you joining us in here - you are over half way now!
Hi Lise - It is so hard when they start at childcare. Go with your gut on it as the crying etc can just be all part of the settling in process. By that I mean - what is the feel that you get from the centre. What is it that they do with the children. You really want to make sure that they are being stimulated not just 'babysat'. Jazzy took a while to get used to the process and now virtually pushes me out the door. It is great that you have put him in a couple of weeks early - I really wish I had done that myself. Jazzy loves her days at 'school' and does a lot of things there that I just don't get around to doing at home - you know a lot of messy play. She has learnt so much from being there and the really lovely thing is that she has formed some beautiful friendships - both with children and carers. But those early days were hard and filled with guilt for me. I am pleased that we perservered as it really does work for us now. It is great that you have got your mum for back up if needed. Are you going back to work fulltime or part time?
Well life is just full on, but great here. We are almost ready to move into our beautiful brand new townhouse that we have been building over the past year. Finally we are almost there. Certificate of occupancy should be issued any day now and then settlement date will be about 2 weeks from there. We are so excited, but it is very full on organising everything. We are not only moving, but we are converting our apartment where we currently live into an investment property, so we are having to organise everything involved with that. But it will be all worth it. I have been having loads of fun shopping - bought a new sofa and a sexy new french door fridge that I am totally in love with (I know - sad!)
Jazzy is just awesome. She has some typical terrible twos moments, but as a whole is a very good kid. She is talking up a storm - her language skills just develop by the day. She is the dancing queen - manages to make me laugh all day every day. We are in two minds about going back for a second go - in a lot of ways I really want another baby, but in other ways I am just so happy with my life and my little family as it is. I guess that means I am not ready! But I am turning 40 in a month so I really need to start thinking about making a decision one way or the other. I certainly never intended for Jazzy to be an only child... oh what to do!
I thought I'd join you all now that my bub is almost 2 weeks old and finally has a name!
My journey to concieve her was a bit different as I am single. I spent 2 years looking for a private sperm donor who I trusted and felt had good genes to pass on. Then I did one year of DIY AI with an interstate donor - who has proved to be a truly great guy and even after I had to stop trying with him, he has remained interested and supportive. Anyway I then did 1 year of IVF with anon donor sperm (3 full cycles and 1 frozen transfer - no left over embies). Finally concieved on my last full cycle.
I had 2 major bleeds at 7.5 weeks and was told I had lost the baby or babies (I'd had 2 embryos transfered and had been due for my first scan to see how many had attached when I had the bleeds). Luckily bub hung in there and when I had a scan the next day it was amazing to find there was a healthy heartbeat.
Anyway I gave birth to her on the 30th August. 2 and a half hour labour and the last bit was really fast (went from 4cm dilated to the baby being out within 10minutes). She was born in the bathroom off the labour room when I was briefly in there alone, so I actually caught her myself as she literally fell out! The midwife ran in the door in time to see me catch her! She was only 6 pound 13.
I found it really hard to name her as I made up my 14 year old daughter's name and thus I wanted to make up this baby's name but nothing sounded quite right. It was agonising... I choose her middle name before she was born. It is Kohana (pronounced Ko-ha-nah) and is Japanese for little flower. I had wanted something unusual which started with a K and meant something which could be her special symbol. My 14yr old's middle name is Kimana which is native american for butterfly. It's also interesting that the first country I ever travelled to overseas was America and then the first country that my 14yr old and I travelled to together was Japan so both my children's middle names also relate to my travels.
Anyway I didn't want her first name to end in an a sound and as our surname ends in an e sound I couldn't have that either... so this just added to the stress I felt.
One of my friends commented on how my 14yr old's name is really pretty and I would never be able to make up another name as pretty... and this made me even more depressed. My 14yr old is called Ashalyn (pronounced Ay-shar-len)
Well it was a big relief last night when I finally settled on a name that my 14yr old approves of.
My baby girl is called Danicia (pronounced Da-nee-sha)
And now she is starting to stir so I better go... look forward to getting to know you all and reconnecting with some I recognise from the pregnancy forum.
Lori
DD1 - 14, DD2 - 13 days
Country Vic
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Lenny you are so right, I for one seem to think that life has taken over. So let me be the first to give everyone an update.
Campbell is doing really well. We seem to have lots of strategies in place to help deal with his sensory processing and he is coping with daily living better. Really we have a different boy on our hands. He is now able to verbalise his fears instead of just freaking out all the time. It is a big time for him. He is finishing up at daycare and kindy and starts at a new private school next year for fulltime school. I am excited as my work hours have changed and I will be able to drop him off and pick him up from school everyday. Yay!!
Xavier is growing so fast. He is nearly 2. He has delayed speech and after 12 months of going back and forth to the doc and being told he has a virus from daycare and his speech will come when he is ready I finally got as referal for a hearing assessment and ENT. His had a moderate hearing loss on the day of the test after 2 weeks on antibiotics. Then to the ENT his ears were fine, but he needs to have his tonsils and adenoids out. I begged to have the grommits put in as well. I think that he wasw a bit ****ed off with me questioning his judgement, but if he has to have surgery I only want it to be once. Poor thing has never had an ear infection or tonsilites, but is always so congested he is always bruised across the bridge of his nose.
As for me, I am plodding along. I have finally after more than 2 years been abl to ditch the brace for my SPD. This is a huge milestone, as I am starting to feel like I can exercise a little more and I am sure that getting some weight off will help me improve even more.
JBM - I am watching you, waiting for you to join us in here. lol
Hope everyone is doing well and not cracking under pressure with the lead up to Chrissie. Gotta go Can hear my lil boy shouting mummum. It is bnice to hear him talking doesnt happen often.
Hi again, welcome and congratulations all round
Please excuse my slackness.
I think that as I get older I gain perspective. It would be nice to get pregnant without forking out thousands of dollars, but I have wasted so much of my life wishing things were different and concentrating on what I don't have, and I really want to be done with that.
In brighter news, my christmas shopping is done. Just one secret santa gift We banned presents years ago. phew.
I'm still here, just very busy.... firstly will notice the "personality change" ie: change of user name (from kellyd)...
Everyone is growing very fast here, the boys are almost 7 mths old now and Liam is sooooo close to crawling and Rhys rolls all over the floor so have to be on my toes now. Tara is now 2 going on 15 and is cheeky with the odd tantrum and screaming fit thrown in for good measure.
I'm really stressing at the moment as I need to start looking to head back to work very soon which is so hard when you don't have childcare available and to get a place in a daycare centre - let alone 3 places - is near on impossible, so I need to try and find something in the evenings (yeh right). But getting back to work is a priorty as I am in some serious debt - with all the expenses associated with getting my 3 babies here - and seeing I haven't has an 'income' for 2 1/2 years I'm now living on borrowed (sorry for the pun) time. I'm going to have a chat to DH's boss at his Xmas party as she always told me to talk to her when I was looking at going back to work, I can only ask I suppose.
On another front I'm also having a dilemma about our 3 remaining embryo's and just can't bring myslef to have them destroyed as "what if"... Is it my destiny to try and see if there is another baby waiting for us or not, but htey have been on ice now for 3 years so I only have another 2 years left before my 5 years of storage finishes. DH does not want any more children but I just have this niggly feeling that I will feel like I've destroyed a little person if I let them go.
Although, why at this momemt I'm even considering another child is beyond me as I'm so busy and tired running around after the 3 I've got. It doesn't help that overall all my babies have been so go with sleeping and routines etc and we do get the odd bad day here and there but I've never had the non stop screaming baby to put me off having anymore. Oh well I suppose I still have a little bit of time to leave them on ice before I have to make a real decision either way.
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Hi again, welcome and congratulations all round 
We banned presents years ago. phew.
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