12 Months to Toddler, January '05

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12 Months to Toddler List - Jan '05

Forum Name:
State:
Baby's DOB:
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl
Baby Name(s):
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Notes:

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Forum Name: Astrolady
State: Sth Aust
Baby's DOB: 27th October, 2001
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl boy
Baby Name(s): Kameron Andrew
Baby's Website: http://www.theastroweb.com/kameron
Health Concerns:
Notes: Born 15 days early. Induced due to being a possible IUGR baby, weighed 6lb exactly just over the cut of limit for IUGR, was 47cm long.

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Forum Name: Tatty Teddy
State: South Australia
Baby's DOB: 1st February, 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Kimberley Ann
Baby's Website: http://www.antique-locks.com/kimberley1.htm
Health Concerns: Asthma & eczema
Notes: Born at 35.5 weeks 4lb 13 oz

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Forum Name: mum2boys
State: Qld
Baby's DOB: 7 November 2001
Gender of Baby: Male
Baby Name(s): Lachlan Daniel
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/l/lochie/
Health Concerns: Renal reflux - grade 2 left ureter - suseptible to UTI's
Notes: Born 8lb 4oz - 1 day early - SVD


Baby's DOB: 15 October 2003
Gender of Baby: Male
Baby Name(s): Joshua Michael
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/l/lochie/
Health Concerns: Fractured skull 10 June 2004 - watch for fitting - Infantile Asthma
Notes: Born 9lb 11oz - 17day o/due- induced VD
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Forum Name: Joja
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 21st March 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Jack Ieuan
Baby's Website: www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/jacki
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Concieved thru' IVF ICSI
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Forum Name: Divvy
State: VIC
Baby's DOB: 20 May 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Alexander Peter David
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: where do I start? 5 weeks early (pre-eclampsia), 1.9 kilos birthweight (4 lbs 2 oz); very susceptible to chest infections; hospitalised at 6 months (concussion), 9 months (pneumonia), 15 months (gastro-enteritis); less than 3rd centile for weight for adjusted age; doesn't eat (very much or at all); etc etc etc...
Notes: Ummm... see above!
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Forum Name: Karls
State: Queensland
Baby's DOB: 10/04/00
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Boy
Baby Name(s): Lachlan Mackenzie
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: I suffered Pre-Eclampsia, he was taken early by C-Section. Has slight asthma.
Notes: Born at 36 weeks 5lb 2oz
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Forum Name: Bon_w
State: Queensland
Baby's DOB: 11 Jan 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Boy
Baby Name(s): Harrison (Harry)
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: None
Notes:
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Forum Name: MistyFying
State: Q
Baby's DOB: 26 March 2001
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Gabrielle Elita
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: speech/language delay
Notes:

Baby's DOB: 26 November 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl boy
Baby Name(s): Zeke Mackenzie
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: born with congenital heart failure
Notes: fit and healthy now!
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Forum Name: Tajemi
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 23 Oct 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Emily Rose
Baby's Website: BellyBelly Gallery... not sure what the address will be when it get up and running again
Health Concerns:
Notes:
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Forum Name: Kazz30
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 26 November 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Boy
Baby Name(s): Nicholas
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/n/nicholas261002/
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Born 9lb 14oz 3 days late
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Forum Name: Cailin
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 23 November, 2001
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Paris Antoinette
Baby's Website: http://groups.msn.com/pariswebsite
Health Concerns: Eczema
Notes: Born 3 days overdue via Emerg C/S - Weighing 9lb 11oz - Measuring 55 cm
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Forum Name: Cailin
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 23 November, 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Paris Antoinette
Baby's Website: http://groups.msn.com/pariswebsite
Health Concerns: Eczema
Notes: Born 3 days overdue via Emerg C/S - Weighing 9lb 11oz - Measuring 55 cm
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Forum Name: Simone
State: WA
Baby's DOB: 1/7/03
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Xander Lochlan
Health Concerns: Eczema, asthma, (early case of terrible 2's!)
Notes: Born 15 days late, induced. 9lb 2oz 50cm 38cm head circumference. Hospitalised at 6 & 11 weeks (bronchiolitis) and 3 x since July 2004 for asthma. Most recently the 18th December. always requires 2 night stay at least. Happy and healthy otherwise
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Forum Name: Barbie-up
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 3.12.01
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Caitlin Jane
Baby's Website: mother not computer literate
Health Concerns: none
Notes: induced 13 days over
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Forum Name: mumof4under4
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 11th July 2000
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Micaela Lee
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns:speech delay
Notes: She came 4 days late was induced, came out 56 cms long 9 pound 13 ounces was in labour for 12 hours


Baby's DOB: 13th October 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Jacynta Marie
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: nil
Notes: She came 4 days late as well (two more days she would of been born on my birthday) she was also 56 cms long but my smallest 9 pound 4 ounces.


Baby's DOB: 4th October 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Mitchell John James
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: He has been to the hospital due to him becoming paralised and after a week they found out he had a infection in his hip bone we were in hospital for over a month but everything is fine now but they are unsure if it will come back or if he will be a in a wheelchair in the future.
Notes: I was induced with Mitchell he came 13 days late, He was also 56cms long but he was my babiest baby he was born 11 pound 2 (natural)
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Forum Name:
State:
Baby's DOB:
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl
Baby Name(s):
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Notes:

Forum Name: Barbie-up
State: Vic
Baby's DOB: 3.12.01
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Caitlin Jane
Baby's Website: mother not computer literate
Health Concerns: none
Notes: induced 13 days over

We are a pretty quiet bunch in here aren't we :D

What is everyones toddlers up too lately. We have hardly seen Kameron since buying him 50 matchbox cars for xmas lmao, and he also got a huge homebuilt sandpit so spends alot of time out in that as well.

Love

Hi - I didn't even know this one was in here till last night when I was having a browse around.

Can I ask what a IUGR baby is ?

Caitlin is really into make believe playing - one day she told us to call her Michelle (the name of our hairdresser) and she set up her teddies in chairs and gave them pretend haircuts. Yesterday she set up a kinda on the front porch and told us to call her Jo, her kinda teacher this year !

And then other times, she says to me that I can be caitlin and she wants to be the mum ! And everything is a party - put grapes and sandwiches in one of those divider serving plate things and its a party. A bath towel on the floor is a picnic and party, plastic fruit wrapped in tin foil are presents !

Cheers,
Barb.

LMAO at the plastic fruit in tin foil !! how cute is that.

An IUGR baby is Intra Uterine Growth Restriction. Where the baby has problems or stopped growing for whatever reason. Kameron stopped growing on us at 30wks, I was measuring 25cm for my fundal height. So needed u/sounds every two weeks to check on his progress, at 37 wks they were expecting a really small baby (less than 6lb) and cause of all the stress etc I got pre-eclampsia so they brought me on at 37wks 6day. Kam was born spot on 6lb just a couple hundred grams over the IUGR cut off limit. He did spend a couple of days in Neo-natal with low blood sugar levels and Jaundice though and was nearly re-admitted at 2wks old cause he still had a touch of jaundice, but he pasesed his blood test JUST

They found out in my next pregnancy that I have a gene disorder that naturally causes me to have smaller babies.

Love

Hi,

Kimberley is doing great. Starting to talk more now and wants to know so much. She loves to look at books and play with her dolls.
She will be 2 next month and i still don't know where the time has gone.

Alex will be two in May and I don't know where the time has gone either!

Alex was definitely IUGR - I was hospitalised at 31 weeks and he was born 4 weeks later after numerous (daily) ECG and ultrasounds.. 1.9 kilos is tiny.

But they grow (relatively) healthy... eventually I'm told!

Yay for Kimberley and Caitlin - LOL at "parties"!!

If only life were so simple for us parents!

awww at 1.9kg Divvy !! Hard to imagine a baby that small. I kept thinking about how tiny Lachlan was then when we were told his weight he was 7oz heavier than what Kameron was. Looking back on the photos etc now though you can definitely tell Kameron was a lot thinner.

Love

Alex at birth = approximately same size and weight as a two litre milk carton.

Hi - I think I had the opposite thing - Caitlin never engaged properly and I was induced two weeks late. Also, before she was born, i didnt think much of the difference in weight in pounds, six, seven, eight pounds ? Caitlin was 8 lb 7 and lying next to the 6 lbers she was huge ! She would have been two alex's ! four litres of milk.

Before caitlin, i noticed with children of friends' that the year between two and three is so big with their learning and understanding things. They're not even a toddler any more at three it feels like.

At this moment, in the room next to the computer, its big birds birthday - I just made him a cake - a loaf pan with a piece of paper stuck over it for caitlin to decorate and i just gave her a ruler to use as a knife.

barb.

lol @ big birds birthday. I can totally relate re the comment "at three it feels like they aren't even a toddler anymore"

Kameron has come along way in the last year with speech etc, he got off to a slow start, and now he makes up for the time he has missed. We got all his hair cut off to a #3 around the sides and back and spiked on top and it made him look like a real little boy !!! They grow up way too fast. In 8mths he is going to become a pre-schooler OMG. When he begins pre-entry into kindergarten.

Love

Jillian hope they are able to sort this child out that kicks and hurts other kids.
It much be hard enough for them to move up to the older group.

Kimberley next month will move up from the babies room to the toodler room at day-care and i am so scared for her as she has her favourite friend that looks after her. When this lady is away Kimberley looks for her and is so lost when she can not see her.
I got a phone call today from them saying she would not stop crying after her nap so i went to pick her up and by the time i got to her she was okay. I think she is teething again and it hurts so much.

Urgh at the kicking in kindy Jillian. Our playgroup is at the same place as kindy and in playgroup we have one boy that picks on the other kids. He hit Kameron on Kameron's very first day !! Cause it is playgroup the mothers go as well and the mother does nothing about it, so if I see him do something to another child I will dob him in to the mother cause she will at least then make the child apologise.

Kameron and this other boy will be doing pre-entry and kindy together as they are 3 days apart in age. So I am seriously looking into doing Kindy at a different time to this other child. Although cause playgroup is on at the same time as Kindy we get to see how the teachers handle certain stuff and they seem to take no crap, so that is good.

Love

Ummmm have some posts gone missing? I am sure I posted in here yesterday about Harry's 2nd birthday and there was a reply, but now they are not here...

Yeah Bon

We lost all the posts from 9th of Jan unfortunately. Our database stuffed up :(

How did his birthday go ?

Love

Happy Birthday Harry :)

Hope he had a lovely day.

Bon, it was me, I said HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!

Jillian - I did post a reply yesterday to you but all was lost.
Kimberley is doing much better but woke at 3.30 and would not go back to sleep for an hour. But at least she did not get up till after 7.30.
I think i saw a tooth making it's way down but she willnot let me check at all.
I can't wait to have Kimberley toilet trainned. She is telling us when she has filled her nappy so that's a start.

How are the boys doing ??

Thanks for the birthday wishes! Harry had a great day playing with his cousins (6, 2 and 21 months) and eating lollies and birthday cake. I made him a cake with a racing car track on it made with chocolate icing, and green icing for grass. I was quite proud of it!
Can't decide whether to start with toilet training. I just have the feeling he isn't quite ready yet, although he does sometimes tell me when he has filled his nappy. I think I might start by buying a potty or toilet seat and see what he thinks. Does anyone think one is better than the other? My MIL thinks potties are 'old fashioned' but I know some kids just don't like sitting on the big toilet.

Hi Bon

Our Potty is just like a seat with the potty part in the middle that you can remove. Kameron does also have a potty ring that sits on the big toilet, and he will use one or the other depending on his mood.

I have heard the potty that sits on the toilet with steps to climb up is quite good, and I have seen them in Kmart.

We were given both of our seats but if I had to choose I would have probably chosen a musical one that sings or whatever LMAO or the one with the steps that i mentioned above.

Love

Hi - those things for the toilet with the steps and the ring seat - out loo is a bit taller than average (thanks to the FIL builder) and that thing just didn't sit right and caitlin never liked climbing on it.

I bought a coupla little stools with the rubber feet - one for the toilet and one for the bathroom and they're ace.

Caitlin still uses the potty, only cos she can take it where she is playing so she doesnt miss out on anything. One of the pots we had was a white seat one with the little table in front, but her bottom used to get almost suction cupped to it and it left a mark. The better one was a purple turtle one from Kmart.

I liked the look of the ones huggies were giving away with the pull up bar codes, but you needed the potty before you bought the pull ups, by the time i had the bar codes, i'd discovered the aldi supermarket cheap version and had two normal pots !

cheers,
barb.

I think I might go for one of those turtle potties - Harry might like the novelty of sitting on a turtle! If he doesn't like it we can try a toilet seat, but I think he would feel more secure on a potty.
He gets his cast off on Tuesday. Yay! Mind you, you wouldn't think he has a cast on with the way he gets around on it. He has been walking on it since christmas, which is a good sign as it means everything is healing and it is not causing him pain. We are going to celebrate by giving him a nice bubble bath! And a swim in grandma's pool.

Woohoo at his cast coming off Bon. Bet he will be thrilled with that.
My mum has a turtle potty but Kameron isn't that keen on it, but I guess it is cause he isn't used to it either, luckily she also has a ring that you sit on the toilet seat, so when he is there he uses that.

He does pretty well though if we are out he will sit on toilet with no ring and hold onto the sides to balance, and with ours he climbs up himself and has a leg hanging each side lmao.

Love

Hi Girls

I have created a listing that has all of your baby's first's on it ie first smile, first laugh, first tooth etc etc.

If you want to check it out and start adding your babies details reply to the thread it can be found HERE

I will be deleting the posts as I edit them into the first post to keep the thread short, so if you need something else included just leave a post asking to have an age included against something (ie Kathryn can you put 1yr 2mths down for walking.)

If you have older children feel free to add them into the listing as well.

Love

Hi Everyone,

Kimberley finally has a new tooth on it's way. I am hoping the others will follow like the last lot did.
Only 14 days and she will be two :(

How is everyone else doing ??

Hi

Well Harry got his cast off yesterday. Poor little man freaked out when they started up the grinder thingy they use to remove casts. I had to hold him down while they got it off. Then he had to have another x-ray and he freaked out getting that. I am trying to comfort him and the x-ray guy is saying don't talk to him it will just make him worse. What the?? He is fine now though, he had to get used to walking on his leg again but now he is getting around fine. Running, jumping etc. Mind you I am a bit paranoid that he is going to hurt himself again. Doesn't help that MIL seems to think there is nothing wrong with him getting back on her trampoline again. I cannot believe she hasn't put the thing away. It is at least 15 years old, but "in all the years we've had it there has never been an accident" Until now!! But it doesn't matter what Stephen and I say, she will do what she wants anyway. So us telling her we don't want Harry playing on it anymore doesn't mean anything. ](*,) She will just put him on it one day when we are there and when nothing happens she use that as proof that she is right and we are unreasonable. GRRR.

I must admit my trampoline is a good 10years old. But we do need a new mat. It was fine up till xmas when both my nephews (they know they are not allowed) were jumping on it together. All of the stitching on the mat has now come away, even though the mat it's self is still holding on fine, but when you jump on it now too colour (ours is black) comes off onto your skin etc. So it really is time for a new mat. I also have to buy side protectors for it again since the dog ruined the ones i had when she was a puppy.

Glad to hear he is doing okay without his cast now though, and a definite What The ?? for not being able to talk to him when he was freaking out at the xray.

Love

Hi - do you knwo what new mats for trampolines cost ? Do you have one of those ones that are about 4 feet off the ground and about, say 12 feet long and 6ft across ?

My mum has one of those and the mat is dead, but i have this thought that a new mat would cost almost as much as a new trampoline ??

ta,
barb.

I did find a website that had some listed and yes mine sounds like the same size as yours and the mat on their website retails for around $75 -$95 dependant on how many spring holes there are and size, but they are located in Brisbane but did say they have a branch in Vic. Not sure where though.

I will be checking out toys r us next time i am that way as well.

Love

KerrieT would like to enter chat

Hi Kerrie

Jump on in :D

We spent some of the arvo today and Tatty Teddys and went in their pool. Kam was enjoying himself till he fell in face first when he leant off the step a bit to far to splash water, lucky i was only two steps away and he was out of the water again within seconds but a bit scary all the same.

Just hope he handles the bath okay, I did ask him a short while ago and I got a definite NO to having the a bath which isn't like him. So will try again a bit later

Love

Hope Kameron has a bath okay for you later :)

Forum Name: mumof4under4
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 11th July 2000
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Micaela Lee
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: speech delay
Notes: She came 4 days late was induced, came out 56 cms long 9 pound 13 ounces was in labour for 12 hours

Forum Name: mumof4under4
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 13th October 2001
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Jacynta Marie
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: nil
Notes: She came 4 days late as well (two more days she would of been born on my birthday) she was also 56 cms long but my smallest 9 pound 4 ounces.

Forum Name: mumof4under4
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 4th October 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Mitchell John James
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: He has been to the hospital due to him becoming paralised and after a week they found out he had a infection in his hip bone we were in hospital for over a month but everything is fine now but they are unsure if it will come back or if he will be a in a wheelchair in the future.
Notes: I was induced with Mitchell he came 13 days late, He was also 56cms long but he was my babiest baby he was born 11 pound 2 (natural)