Babies born~September 1st-15th 2008 #5

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There are many issues that you will encounter as a new parent. We have put together this list of useful articles and threads in order to assist you with some common questions or issues you may have, and to provide you with bit of extra support that we all need as new parents:

Feeding Support:

Breastfeeding General Chatter
Breastfeeding FAQ's
Is My Baby Hungry?
Bottlefeeding FAQ's and Useful Information
Is Feeding Your Baby Taking Too Much Time?
Bottlefeeding General Chatter
Feeding Your Baby
Lactose Intolerance
Starting Solids/Homemade Baby Food
Starting Solids - When Is My Baby Ready?
Starting Solids General Chatter

Please contact the Australian Breastfeeding Association (ABA) or a Lactation Consultant if you are concerned that you may have breastfeeding and/or supply problems, and before the introduction of solids.

Sleeping Support:

Comforted Sleeping & Sleep Issues Forum
Comforting Tools to Aid Restful Sleep
Babies & Sleep
Controlled Crying/Comforting/Sleep Training
The Con of Controlled Crying
The Crying Game
15 Ways To Help Your Baby Sleep

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

Baby Massage
Cuddle Me Mum
Infant-led Feeding & Weaning
Baby Wearing
Recommended Reading List

Got questions?

Post your questions in the forums mentioned above, or in the following forums where you're sure to receive many friendly responses!

General Baby & Toddler Forum
Breastfeeding, Bottlefeeding and Solids
Gentle Parenting Forum

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Hi girls. Just wanted to come in and see how everyone is doing?

It's nearly birthday time again. Seems to fly by doesn't it?

Pam am heading up your way in the start of September. Care for a catch up?

I can't believe our babies are nearly 2 :(

Just thought I would check in with everybody. There isn't much happening here. Molly is talking more and more. She must be doing ok because DH can understand her :lol:

She is doing ok in her bed. I have to sit with her to get her to sleep but the time is getting less and less. Given how bad it was to get her to sleep in a cot towards the end, this is a dream :)

hi Donna :) Glad she's going well in her bed :) I took the side of Ashtons cot and he's been getting in and out LOL Picking up his toddler bed on the weekend :)

I only have one thing to say at the moment, and that is that I officially HATE this age! Ashton had some little switch flick in his brain and he's gone from a placid beautiful boy to naughty! Tantrums, running off, ignoring me, being naughty on purpose... just to name a few. Kinda doing my head in at the moment. Hope it passes soon!

Ashton is really toilet trained :( He refuses to wear a nappy at home now and hasn't had an accident in a week! :( Really growing up. Sniff!

:( Oh Mel. Isn't it hard to see them grow up? I have lots of mixed feelings atm I love seeing her do new things but still wish she was my baby KWIM?
I have got Molly a potty. Not that I think she will use it but she is showing interest in when I go so thought why not have it here so she can get used to seeing it.
We have the same going on with Molly. Seems she loves to test her boundaries too atm.

Hi girls...Donna a catch up would be great PM me closer to the time.
Gee Poppy is still happy in her cot so will be staying there or as long as possible, no toilet training either for us.I will wait ofr better weather before we try..enough washing as it is without making more for myself. We are off for a hearing test next week..and if that comes back okay, she will be gettign assessed for a speech delay..it may even be speech dsypraxia.. after speaking with the speech pathoilgist i looked it up and it seems a likely cause for her delay and loss of words that she used to say..otherwise she is happy and healthy..but is using more and more sign language to express herself.
Tilly is growing in leaps and bounds 4 months old now and I put a size 0 bonds grow suit on her the other day!!!! Her kidny is not effecting her feeding and growth..I'm still offering the breast then comping..but the only tiem she really seems to enjoy it now is in bed at night..she gets quite grumpy with me at other times..just too slow and not enough..then she chokes on the bottle cause its fast compared to me..and thats with a NB teat on it!!! :) oh well i guess you can only try1!
Good to hear you girls and the big bubbas are doing well...

Hi ladies!! How is everyone??

Just want to direct you to this thread lol https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ng-my-toe.html

Can't believe birthdays are around the corner!!

Woohoo best news ever :)

Omg yay!

Okay, a new thread explains why there hasn't been any updates showing up in my settings! haha.
Congratulations Ezy! woooooooohooooooo :hooray:
Matthew is doing very well and has been having a lovely five weeks with his grandparents who have been staying with us. It's going to be very sad when they head back to Brisbane next weekend. No toilet training here yet and he's still sharing a bed with me and breastfeeding through the night. Will have to come to an end soon, I guess!
What's everyone doing for parties, cakes and special presents this year? As I didn't have a party for Matthew last year, I am determined not to wuss out this year! Looking for ideas and advice!

all our posts are gone :( Poo bum.

Well just letting ya'll know that I haven't removed any of you, I've disabled my account due to some recent nastiness ... wont be permanent, just until they grow up and move on, and my family keep their bloody noses out of it all too. Grr ... :(

Hey girls how is everyone? I am joining Mel in saying that I am not a fan of this age. Molly has decided that spitting on the table is lots of fun.

I can hear her in the next room crying as DH is trying to put her to sleep. I was the one putting her to sleep every night until I put my foot down. Some nights, like tonight I almost think that it would be easier if I did it but then I remember why I put my foot down :)

Birthday parties (yes, we had two!) were successful - made the same cake for each one using a star pan that I bought from a nice little kitchen ware shop in Griffith. We have a new lot of grandparents staying with us, so effectively we'll have had grandparents with us for three months. Not sure how I will cope on my own again after the October holidays have ended. :(
Finally got Matthew to the MCN for his two year old checkup. Still hasn't caught up on the weight he lost from the vomiting bug and then tonsillitis but not unhappy with his 14kg. I am a bit confused though that in June he was measured as being 90cm long (measured lying down) at the paediatrician's but today he was 89cm -measured standing. I guess it just the difference in the way it's done. Not that it really matters much anyway. I know he's not shrinking!
Still have weaning and getting him into his own bed ahead of me. Waiting until we move during the Christmas school holidays. If I survive that long!
Hope things have settled down now, Mel! Looked like things were getting pretty ugly there for a bit.
Loving the photos people have been posting on FB. What a great looking bunch of kids we've produced! Well done, us! :)

Hello everyone. My little rogue is keeping me on my toes. Screamed and cried today from the moment I put him in the shopping trolley until we got through the checkout and back outside. Then suddenly it was all sunshine and happiness, even blowing kisses to the shop assistant who carried out our groceries to the car for us. Arghh.

Hats off to those of you with more than one! xx

Well, I seem to be the only one posting in this thread at the moment but anyway, just in case some of you are lurking and may have missed my posts on FB, I have something to ask you. My cousin's little boy, who is just 5 months old, has Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). I am terribly worried. They are in Townsville and little Noah had surgery on Wednesday. Before he had surgery, my cousin was told to say her goodbyes. Anyway, he's pulled through the surgery but she's been told not to deceive herself as he is still very, very sick. He has a tube coming out of the corner of his right eye and another going into his heart and he has had a blood transfusion. They have also been administering morphine to him but he is still in great pain.
I am hoping that he will recover from this but I don't know what the prognosis is. I don't imagine that it would be very good. I am asking everyone to pray, or to just keep him in their thoughts. Please. :cry:

Little Noah has been in my thoughts Kerry. I can't even imagine how the parents are feeling!

I am lurking atm as DH is on holiday so not much spare time as such :)
Kerry- Noah and his family have been in my thoughts. :hug:

I was wondering were you all went every time I checked the old thread and tried the link it never worked boo hoo! did a search and found you all yay

Kerry how is Noah now I feel nervos asking that (HUGS)

How is every one doing any way! Im 30 weeks today yay! so with the GD I prob have 8 weeks left or around that any way, looking forward to it and yet dont want time to pass to quickly

Noah has made a great recovery, Niamh, and is home now with his family. My cousin is so grateful to everyone for thinking of him and praying for him. We are all good here, just moved to a new town and am now a home owner (well, mortgagor!) and still sorting out the mess of boxes. Fabulous that you are 30 weeks!! It has really flown!! Well done, you!!:) :)

Kerry, I was hoping that you would say that, I was sure I wouldnt have missed a post to say other wise on FB, Im delighted he is ok whoo hoo. I cant believe Im 30 weeks we are all settled in our new house as well, which I love and finally I can relax and start planning for baby. how are you finding your new house!

Yay some activity in the thread ;) Kerry so glad to hear all is well with Noah.
Niamh 30 weeks already? How time flies.

ASFM there isn't much going on here. Moo has hit the terrible two's in spades and all I feel like I do all day is yell at her and worry about my ability to parent. Sleep is still an issue here as it has been forever :) 10pm and we are still fighting to get her to sleep. I am thinking of totally cutting her day sleep to see if that helps. Lol could change my mind on that one.
Moo has started actually weeing on the potty before bed after just sitting on it for months. Although just seeing the wee is not enough for her to believe she has done it because she didn't fart ( that's what she tells me).

how is everyone?? If I removed you from FB please request me again! I was careful but it's hard to remember who is who!

Hey Mel. Long time no hear. How's things?

Brilliant Donna :) How are you and the miss??

Donna tell me about the terrible two's Eireann is so independednt and knows what she wants LOL we are trying to get her to sleep in her own room now, but Im putting a spanner in the works, I just cant relax or sleep well, Im terrified she will wake up and fall down the stairs, so need to get the stairs gate up so I can sleep again!

Mel you still have me any way LOL

OMG I forgot how big you get being pregnant or may be Im carring a little monster already :)

Oh sneaking in a feeling very guilty!!! I still have Donna's clothes and Kerry's doppler and BP..I have'nt forgetten but am very slack..Kerry my excuse is i knew you were moving and it would be a hassle for you if I sent it to your old addy!!!
Niamh wow that has gone so fast but then my baby is a big girl (9months) I blinked and look what happened :(
I have my 2 little ones at home next year the others are at school so looking forward to spending some quailty tiem with them verus the mad last 2 years of kinder /school runs..commitee meetings...excursions/incursions, docs/specialist appointments etc, this year is about relaxation ( well at leats I hope so??)
Kerry so nice to hear you are buying a house..can you Pm me your addy and i will post your gear back..are you still with DP?
Mel, hope your life is more relaxed now? sound slike you had a rough time of it for awhile.
Donna, could I drop the clothes at your dads? or let me know when you are down and we can catch up.
Hi to anyone else who drops by.. hope all is going great, try and check on you all from time to time although not in here much these days.

Pam how are you, may be with that extra time you will get on facebook may be LOL ;) Im always at you over that! wow 9 months already sure hard to believe birthday number 3 in a few months time! relaxing sounds like an excellent plan to me!

I think Eireann wants to potty train! tooo cold here for that! it would be perfect if the weather was warmer I could just let her run around in a vest, Im so fed up of this GD as well 6 injections a day is hard work and trying to remember the adjustments made to my insulin dose as well, I keep forgetting and give my self the wrong amount whoops! not giving to much though so thats a good thing!

Hope no one here is effected by the floods, I have been in tears reading the news so sad, its mad weather we are having the world over even here in Ireland it has been the coldest on record! we had - 10 day time temp soooo cold was horrible trying to do a school run with Shane and Eireann esp glad the temp is a little higher, but they are saying now the cold is to return, its gas we have so much rain all year round so much we could export it and some people have no water since christmas, because our stupid goverment never invested in the water storage repairing pipes or updating them, with the cold they froze and burst so all the water is underground! were I am is ok though thankfully ok enough from me, keep in touch girls!

Hey ladies!!

good to see some acton in here. I think of you all often. I got to meet Nicambar (Suzi) just before chrissy, she did a massive favour for me which was so awesome! It was great to meet her, even if it was only for a little while :)

Emily is going really well, some days she drives me sooo mad!! (well most days) but she cracks me up :) its the constant whinging that I find hard to deal with.
All is going well with pg number 2...touch wood...13 and a bit weeks to go!!

Take care my friends.

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Hey ladies!!

good to see some acton in here. I think of you all often. I got to meet Nicambar (Suzi) just before chrissy, she did a massive favour for me which was so awesome! It was great to meet her, even if it was only for a little while :)

Emily is going really well, some days she drives me sooo mad!! (well most days) but she cracks me up :) its the constant whinging that I find hard to deal with.
All is going well with pg number 2...touch wood...13 and a bit weeks to go!!

Take care my friends.

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Eireann is a little clingy and wingy too I think it because they know change is coming, my boys were the same Ild expect her to regress a little when the baby comes but it wont last long :) we are prob not our normal selfs as well tired hormonal etc etc LOL I have about 7 to 8 weeks left and Im feeling a lot more uncomfortable now baby really hurts some times I feeling more wriggling and stretching that kicking but he stretches and pushes out my tummy at the top high up on the right side and the pain its sooo sore I cant walk or move going to mention it on Tuesday at my appointment!

Hope all of you were ok and safe from the floods, Ive read so many sad stories and been in tears so heart breaking, I seen floods in Brazil as well and 500 people lost their lives just shocking as well!!!

Just a quick post, had missed the updated thread! Have not been able to spend much time at the computer since moving house, not least because the comfy computer chair was buried in the corner of the room and surrounded by evil boxes. Have rescued chair but room largely looks the same, alas. Pam, you will need to clear some space in your inbox for me to send you a PM. I was only just thinking of you, hope the floods haven't come near your area. Same goes for everyone else here, hope you are all safe and well.
Mini-Matthew update: still weaning him, he's regressed to having "booby" morning and night, OMG, and still co-sleeping. My plan to get him straight into his own room when we moved here (and to have him completely weaned by the start of the new school year) was highly flawed. He has started full time at the local childcare centre where he has been sitting on a toilet before having his nappy changed. Says: "I not!!!!" if I ask him to sit on the toilet at home. Bought one of those cushioned seats for kids to put on top of the regular toilet seat, thinking I could avoid The Potty. But looks like I'll have to buy The Potty. Any suggestions for a good starting potty? We have also graduated to the Terrible Twos with this morning getting off to a fabulous start over me asking him if he wanted to put on his dressing gown as it was a little cool. Result: total meltdown with him neither wanting dressing gown nor me to take it away. Checkmate. Lucky that school hasn't started back yet because I'd have been tearing my hair out and shrieking instead of trying to deal with it calmly. Well, calmly for about ten minutes before dumping him with my father. My parents are in the second week of a four week visit.
Okay - best catch up properly next time! Love and stuff xxx

Hi girls...
Kerry I have cleared space in my inbox..I thought I could have more messages than that? No floods here for us..we are the the foothills of the mountain ranges fire is our biggest worry. We have a great potty that has a sensor and when the wee or poo it plays a very upbeat series of songs its a fisher price and looks like a throne..you have to get a fluky wee first then they start to get the hang of it. A booby regrssion? oh well I don't think he will be doing that for much longer I can't imgine that he would be much more than three and thinking he was too old for that!!! What about cutting one feed out..Poppy still loves her bottle morning and night and loves to lie and relax with it I guess its the same.

Ezy not long now do you know what you are having? Very exciting!!!!

Niamh my sister added me to facebook..but I can't find anyone and really don't have the time still..I need to be ebaying if I have some spare moments to pay for our always expanding bills eg this year the kids have started at a private school..ouch!!!!

Hidey Ho Ladies... I am still here, I could never find the new threads LOL.. all good here, NOT, terrible 2's suck a$$ big time... It's funny though, I love Arabella to bits one minute next minute I just lose the plot... Oh the screaming and shreiking, I reckon our neighbours think that I'm murdering her some days. No potty training here, she is way too stubborn and strong willed.

Donna - I am going through the same dilema atm with what to do with dropping the day sleep to get her to bed earlier at night. It just turns into a shyte fight basically by 6pm and she wont eat and just screams if I try and put her down if I give the day sleep a miss. Now I seem to have mucked the routine up completely and well, we don't have a routine.

Erin - It was great to meet you, I'm sure we'll get to catch up one day soon. I can't believe how fast yr pg is going.

Kerry - congrats on the house :) also so glad to hear that Noah is well again, that must have been awful to go through. We are still co sleeping but Iam going to have to give it up soon, it's killing me cause Bella is such a restless sleeper. Don't ask me how I'm going to do it, but I know that I NEED to lol..

Niamh - I didn't even know you were pg again, woo hoo congrats.

Pam - I find FB a little easier to keep track of people for some reason... My, your little babies are growing fast too. Glad to hear that you were out of the floods.. damned bizzare weather, one minute there's raging fires, next there's walls of water raging through towns.

Take care and stay sane all of you :) and I can't wait to hear of the new arrivals in the coming months xx

Haven't been looking in here for ever so long. I think all the silliness in some of the other forums on BB put me off visiting BB at all. If that makes sense.
When did you become Visitor8, Mel? Is that like the alien movie? Or an allusion to something else?
CONGRATULATIONS to our Niamh on the birth of her little bundle of blue love. Was very exciting reading the announcement on FB and seeing all the lovely photos.
Not long for you, Erin! Are you excited to be nearing the end of this part of the journey? Thanks Pam for sending back the breast pump and doppler. I've added them to the pile of things I need to sell or give away so that I can reclaim space in the garage.
Matthew is doing well at the childcare centre now. He was losing weight with being too tired (or too slow) to eat when it was lunchtime there but that little issue seems to have been ironed out. Does have tonsillitis for the second time this term though. So I'm on a day off from work with him at home. I'm so tired and can't wait until the school holidays start here. Will make another stab at weaning and toilet training the young master and getting him sleeping in his own bed. All the things that everyone else seems to have managed with their little monkeys! I think I've been waiting for it to kind of happen of its own accord... :lol:
Hope you are all well and if you are lurking would be lovely to read your news. The sort of news that we don't put on FB, hahaha :D

Nope not long to go!! Getting exciting. We aren't tting yet, im in no state to be cleaning up accidents or lifting Em on and off the toilet all the time!! She is keen but mummy not so much!! She asks for undies all the time and tells me she is a big girl but it's just to hard right now. DH can try when he is back!
We are only just getting the hang of her sleeping in her own bed too!
It sounds like the move had gone well for you two. Don't feel pressure to do any of that stuff, I think all in their own time!
Mel left BB for good I think so that is why her username is gone.

Hey ladies any one still around, with our little 2008 bubs turning 3 got me thinking about our thread and how we were all just over birth or waiting LOL

How is every one, I still can not believe 3 years has gone by all ready so fast!

I am still around Niamh :) 3 years certainly has gone past very quickly. Its a little sad but exciting at the same time. How is everyone doing?

Hey everyone, is anyone still around I am posting while you are all in bed LOL just thinking about you all, I know I am in touch with some of you on facebook but do wonder how everyone else is doing :)

Hard to believe our september 08 babies will be 6 this year :)

just have to laugh last time we posted here our little ones were 3 :lol: