12 Months - 3 Years, August '05 #2

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12 Months to 3 Years - August '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: mumof4under4
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: Nikki
State: ACT
Baby's DOB: 15/11/02
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl - Boy
Baby Name(s): Jayden Riley
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/jaydenriley/
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Born 5lbs 3oz, 45cms long, 3.5 weeks early (induced due to High BP)
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Forum Name: MistyFying
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: 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: Odette
State: VIC
Baby's DOB: 5th December, 2002
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl - twins boy and girl
Baby Name(s): Ariel (son) Immogen (daughter)
Baby's Website: n/a
Health Concerns: Born at 31 weeks.
Ariel - ( 1402g) stopped growing at 29weeks - had HMD, on CPAP and 10% chance of survival - since been diagnosed with Kleinfelters syndrome - showing no symptoms so far. Born genitalia and bladder not formed - 2 ops and now better, just started T- therapy.
Immogen(1800g) - on O2 with 20% chance of survival - no other concerns
Notes: Both are now fit and healthy Ariel now weighs 18kg - he is huge and Immogen now 15kg - correct weight and height for age.
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Forum Name: B_H (Belinda)
State: Qld
Baby's DOB: 08/11/03
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Rhiannon Ivy
Baby's Website: Coming soon!
Health Concerns: none to date, but our son makes up for the pair of them! d'oh!
Notes: Super easy birth. 4 hours start to finish. All natural. Slept through from 9 days old Has been an all round great baby
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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: *Michelle*
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: mitch4now
State: VIctoria
Baby's DOB: 21st February 2003
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Jemma Sarah Ann
Baby's Website: www.babiesonline.com/babies/j/jemma3rd
Health Concerns: excema, a recently broken finger which will be monitored for the next 12 mths and may require surgery
Notes: Born 9 days late, induced, weighed 8lb 4 1/2, my biggest bub, she was way too comfy to come on her own.
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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: Simone
State: WA
Baby's DOB: 1st July, 2003
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: babies
State: Italy
Baby's DOB: 6 th August 2003
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Serena
Baby's Website: no
Health Concerns: none
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Forum Name: MUMMY4LIFE
State: South Australia
Baby's DOB: October 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Samuel
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns:
Notes:
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Forum Name: Jillian
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: Tanya
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: lozelijah
State: South Morang Victoria
Baby's DOB: 16th November 2003
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Elijah Jacob
Notes: Elijah was born at 39wks weighing 3.3 kg and 50cms long, now at 16months old he weighs about 11kg and is maybe 85cms tall these are rough as we all know what it is like to get a toddler to stand against a wall just for his mums enjoyment lol
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Forum Name: KelliD
Baby's DOB: 28 January 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Liam Samuel
Baby's Website: www.babiesonline.com/babies/d/dawsonkids
Health Concerns: Just found out he's intolerant to dairy and grains!
Notes: 3w 1d early (induced pre-eclampsia and gestational diabetes)
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Forum name: ladybug
State: NSW
Bubs name: Bianca Maree
D.OB: 10th February, 2004
Health Concerns: a special condition to do with her calcium too complicated to explain.
Notes: Elective c-section at 38 weeks bianca was admited to N.I.C.U
she lived in the Nepean Hospital n.ic.u for a month or so before being
transfered to Westmead children's hospital for further help and assitance.
came home on oxygen (on it for 2 mths at home)
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Forum name- Naomi
State- SA
Gender of baby- Boy
Baby's name- Nicholas Jacob William
Babies website- http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/n/nickyj/
Health concerns- None
Notes- 7lb 13oz, 10 days overdue, induced via syntocinon, emergency c-section due to fetal distress
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Forum Name: Astrolady
State: South Australia
Baby's DOB: 5th April, 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl boy
Baby Name(s): Lachlan James
Baby's Website: http://www.theastroweb.com/lachlan
Health Concerns: Slight eczema on back of legs
Notes: Born 12 days early. Only pain relief was pethadine. Weighed 6lb 5oz, length 47cm
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Forum Name: MichelleBrissyMum
State: Qld
Baby's DOB: 5th April, 2004
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Ashlynn Brooke
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/ashydashy/
Health Concerns: N/A
Notes: N/A
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Forum name: Wonderwoman
State: SA
Babies D.O.B.: 12th April, 2004
Gender of baby: girl
Baby's NameL Shayla Florence
Baby's Website: http://www.carefactorzero.net/modules.php?name=gallery
Health Concerns:None
Notes:Was induced due to Shayla being 9 days late. Used Gas only and was in labour for 90 minutes
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Forum Name: Mama Mel
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 22nd April, 2004
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Adara
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/adara
Health Concerns: Loud heart murmur caused by narrowed pulmonary valve. May need surgery in a few years.
Notes: Waters broke at 38wks 2days, induced at 38wks 5days. Born 6lb 8oz
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Forum Name : Ambah
State: Queensland
Baby's DOB: 2nd May 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Aidyn Jackson
Baby's Website: http://www.geocities.com/ambahden
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Born 7 days early (induced due to waters breaking)
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Forum Name: Katanya
State: Queensland
Baby's DOB: 15th May, 20004
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Boy
Baby Name(s): Felix
Baby's Website: http://members.dodo.net.au/~katanyas/
Health Concerns: At the moment..him gaining weight! Hopefully it won't be an issue for very long
Notes: My Partner and I follow Attachment Parenting philosophies, such as sling wearing, extended breastfeeding, co-sleeping and gentle parenting . Raising Felix is the best job I have ever had
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Forum Name: *Yvette*
State: Melbourne, Victoria
Baby’s DOB: 31st May 04
Gender of baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Angus Lindsay
Baby’s Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/a/angusllb/
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Normal 13 hr labour, 8lb 5oz
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Forum Name: Lulu2
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 12 June 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Mitchell Patrick
Baby's Website: Getting around to it!
Health Concerns: Terrible sleeper!
Notes:
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Forum Name: Christy
State: Queensland
Baby's DOB: 17th, June 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Matilda Lee Janssen
Baby's Website: http://members.optusnet.com.au/janssen97
Health Concerns: (e.g. eczema, reflux, colic) reflux
Notes: (e.g. 9 days early, breech etc.) born 17 days late, 20 hours labour, emergency c-section
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Forum Name: Kelly2202
State: Western Australia
Baby's DOB: 18th June, 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Asha Susan Noelene
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/k/kelyanbaby/
Health Concerns: None at the moment
Notes: Elective c-section, large age gap, working Mum!
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Forum Name: Marisa Man
State: VIC
Baby's DOB: 18/06/04
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Kayne Stuart
Baby's Website: slack have not done - maybe cos I don't know how!
Health Concerns: None
Notes: Kayne has 3 older siblings. Sarah 14 Emily 12 and stepson Luke 14
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Forum Name : Vicsta
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 19th June 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Bailey Harold
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/b/baileyh/
Health Concerns: Diagnosed with asthma at 3 months, but have not used ventalin since.
Notes: Born 3 weeks early due to pre-eclampsia
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Forum Name: bob
State: wa
Baby's DOB: 4th July, 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Isaac
Baby's Website:
Health Concerns: None
Notes:

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Forum Name: Lil G
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 6th July 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Ethan Thomas
Baby's Website: www.babiesonline.com/babies/l/littlemanethan
Health Concerns: None, healthy bubba
Notes: Ethan is fantasticly healthy, He was a breech bub and was born by C/S 10 months ago now, how time flies.
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Forum Name: Von
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 7th July 2004
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Natasha Marie
Baby's Website: N/A
Health Concerns: Had reflux, colic
Notes:Induced 2 weeks early hbp, posterior 12 hours of labour emergency ceaserean
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Forum name: Jen Schuster
State: TAS
Baby's DOB: 19th July 2004
Gender: Boy
Babys name: Joshua Seth Michael
Web Address: N/A
Health Concerns: N/A
Notes:Born after 22hrs Labour by forceps - 10 Days late.
Real little Cheeky Monkey!!!!!
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Forum name: jlk
State: NSW
Baby's DOB: 3rd August 2004
Gender:Girl
Babys name: Isabella
Web Address: N/A
Health Concerns: N/A
Notes: Growing up to fast

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Forum Name: Kellee
State: QLD
Baby's DOB: 12th August, 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy
Baby Name(s): Charles (Charlie)
Baby's Website n/a
Health Concerns: n/a
Notes: Having sleeping problems, but am on the way to fixing them. Crawling, sitting up on his own, hates solids (so far!) but will keep persevering!
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Forum Name: Rose
State: Victoria
Baby's DOB: 27th August, 2004
Gender of Baby: Boy / Girl Girl
Baby Name(s): Amelia Jane
Baby's Website: http://www.babiesonline.com/babies/r/roseamelia
Health Concerns: (e.g. eczema, reflux, colic) ?eczema, Has not been diagnosed as yet But rashy skin
Notes: (e.g. 9 days early, breech etc.) Induced labor.6hrs. Happily breastfeeding

Morning Girls

Michelle - Great to hear about your wonderful time in Queensland, and you came home to a clean house. I wish my DH would make an effort like that when I am away.

Christy - I hope your mum gets the all clear to be able to get onto her flight, are you looking at cutting work hours down again in order to cope a bit better ??

Simone - Great to hear from you.

Well I have a little bit of news... on Sunday Lachlan stood up from sitting down all by himself \:D/ so now I don't have to go over and pick him up anymore if he is stuck on the floor YAY !!! but :cry: at him becoming Mr Independant now. I just wish he would get over the 2pm - 5pm bewitching hour, where he does nothing but scream.

I hope everyone else is going well :) Finally a half decent day here so I have to do my 2 tonne of washing LOL.

Love

Morning!!! Im enjoying some 'me' time as both the kids are still asleep!! I have the 2 tonne of washing, plus floors that are in desperate need of a wash, but i feel too yuck to do anything... been waking like this for about 3 days!!
ok, spoke too soon, the litle munchkin's waking, and im starving... later ldies!!

LOL must be washing day! I'm on my fourth load... :D

Load #5 here and still going 8-[

Love

:shock: FIVE loads Kathryn? That is a lot of washing! You must have a very big clothes' line.

Glad to hear the sicknesses are clearing up for you other ladies. Hopefully you're all through the worst of it now.

Gabrielle's head is much better (and would be even better if Zeke stopped poking the bruise and saying "sore! poor Dowl"... he can't say Gabrielle so calls her Dowl or sometimes Missy).

Gabrielle has a wonderful kindy teacher and I learnt yesterday that the teacher's 5 year old son fell off his bunk bed onto the bed below on Friday night and died from internal bleeding and a ruptured spleen. It's such a tragedy and my heart goes out to this wonderful lady who has lost her only child. So I'll be heading off to a funeral later this week.

It's hard to know what to say to her. I'll have to do some thinking and praying between now and then, I think. There's such a fine line between offering support and comfort and intruding on someone's private grief, especially when you don't know them really well IYKWIM.

Anyway, hope that didn't put a downer on your evening. Just something that has been on my mind constantly since I heard.

Well I ended up doing 7 loads and could have easily got 8 !! Thankfully Misty it was a nice day here so by 3pm I had brought in a couple of loads again, and yep I have a big hills hoist clothes line so can easily fit 8 loads depending on what I am washing.

OMG at the Kindy teachers son as well.... We have bunk beds but it doesn't have the ladder attached to get to the top, even I can hardly get up there without the ladder. Think the ladder might stay unattached for quite a few years yet so the boys can't climb up. How scary.

Love

Hehe... no washing for me yesterday, was all out of washing powder!
Have about 3 loads to do today though.

Still all sick over here... we are taking Aidyn to the Drs this arvo, I suspect he might have an ear infection maybe, cause he keeps touching and hitting at his ear, and his balance is not very good at all.
DP is still sick as well, and I am on again off again... yesterday I was all aching and shivery, but today I feel better again.

Misty - OMG about Gabrielles Kindy teachers son.... that is so shocking... how traumatic for the family... my heart goes out to her...

oh Misty thats so sad what happened. I truely feel for her. It would be so hard to know what to say & how to offer support during this time, but sometimes just knowing that someone is thinking & praying for them is the best support you can give. That would be devestating.

Earlier this year our friends had a tragedy in their family with one of the children & we had a hard time knowing how to offer support, but we just made lots of meals & dropped them off in an esky with a card....

(our washing is still up on the line this morning 8-[ better go get it off....)

Hi there everyone... re Yvette's twins...

Message from Kelly (BellyBelly) at 10.32am....

"Yvette's waters have been broken and they're waiting for contractions..."

Wishing you all the best Yvette!

HI girls- wow it was busy in here yesterday wasn't it, has to be cos I didn't come on so have 3 pages to read LOL

Mysti- that is so so sad about the teachers son, i understand not knowing what to say too, cos I would feel tha same, it's so tragic cos millions of kids sleep in bunks and are fine, but it's just a freak thing I guess.

Kelly I hope Asha is better and you don't get called to get her.

Washing day was yesterday for me too, I did 5 loads but spaced them over the day, last one bf bed, cos I can't use the clothes line, so lonly have clothes horse and dryer. I load this morning and so sad Ambah cos I too have no powder left LOL

Ambah-Hope you all feel better today.

Simone- hope you do too, there's nothing worse than being crook and looking after kids.

Christy that is amazing how your Mum got in straight away, hope she can go home soon. And Arron was trying to get me to look up info for him to go to Darwin last night, I told him to not even think about it this side of Xmas, like he will listen to me LOL Not looking forward to him going though. He said he was flat out while I was away, and while he did keep the place clean, the washing hasn't been put away, just stacked in the rumpus, he didn't wash clothes ( MIL did on Saturday though and when she folded the washing she did what I hate and left everything in the wrong way instead of turning it bf folding, so I had to refold 75% of the stuff), and he also didn't clean toiltets or bathrooms. And I pointed that out to him when he said about me being able to keep the house clean as it is atm. And he agreed that it was true, AHHH a milestone in our lives has been met I think, appreciation for what I do, probably won't last long though.

Kellee- bugger about falling asleep, hope you find the time to do the assignment. It is hard with bubs to study

Kathryn- hi and hope you got all the washing in yesterday and also enjoy no playgroup, or do you have to be there for the shed erection?

I am sure I missed somebody, that always happens when I miss a day

I am here checking up, wanted to see if there was info about Yvette and the twinnies, can't wait for the announcement.

Cheers Michelle

Hi Michelle

Nope don't have to be there for the shed erection the kindy teachers can handle that but looking forward to seeing in on Friday, and actually looking forward to getting back there. driving me insane looking at 4 walls all day, going out to visit one of the mums tomorrow so at least that will get me out of the house for an hour or so

Kelly just asked me to post a msg about *yvette* as well so I have done that in the Messages for other members section, in case ppl want to post well wishes etc.

Love

Yay girls, yvette's girls are here, congrats to Yvette and welcome to them both
Cheers Michelle

Not much going on with us Kimberley is doing really well and just loves to talk. We went to CYH on Tuesday and she talked none stop they also thought she was 3 and not 2½ as they said she is so tall. I always thought she was small for her age.
She is great with Alexander still which is good.

I keep upto date with my washing i try and do it everyday or every other day even when it is rain. I just put it on the airer if it is rain as i don't have a dryer.

Yay for Yvette! How exciting! Can't wait to see some pics.

There is a LOT to catch up on here, and i don't have too much time so I'm sorry if I miss anyone out.

Misty - I know that the rights words will come to you. What a horrible thing to have happen, and so unexpected. She's in my thoughts. Glad to hear Gabrielle's head is getting better.

Wow, Aidyn's still sick! The poor little guy. I banish that illness from your house and wish you all a speedy recovery. You too, Jillian. There must be something in the water. Yep, Ekka time sucks. We've been fortunate enough to miss the flu this year (touch wood) but everyone else I know is crook.

Mitch - are DH's put here to make us angry? Ggrr... at least the house was reasonably tidy when you came home. Why would MIL leave things in the wrong way? So silly. She might as well have not done it at all.

Hello Michelle - I don't think I've met you yet. I think there are still a few people on here I haven't met - anyway, nice to meet you! Kimberely must be so cute talking so much. I can't imagine my Charlie doing that at all!

Trying to do this blasted assignment, but the computer keeps stuffing up and I can't look for any of the things I'm supposed to. DH has a 'sick day' tomorrow as he has a gig in town and they wouldn't have given him the day off. Hope he doesn't get sprung. My little boy is with his Nana today so I can do some uni work - I really miss him! I might go and pick him up early...
Anyway, back to it. Hope you're all well.

HI girls

Michelle sounds like Kimberly is going very well, reminds me so much of Jemma cos she never shuts up, although since I got back from QLD she has been doing stupid baby talking, which does annoy me. She wanted me to open the door today and instead of asking she said something like "shh lish msh bsh" So I wouldn't open the door until she spoke English, so she did but after it added the stupid words anyway GRRR! She also has wet her pants 3 out of 4 days, which is frustrating, I am not sure if she is just leaving it late or doing it for attention.

Kellee- I hope you got stuff done today and that DH gets away with his wagging LOL. Charlie will be chatting away bf you know it! Worse luck! Jessica will be joining us in this forum in 8 days and it's not fair! I don't want her to turn 1, or 2 or any other age actually LOL, what can I do!

Hi to everyone else, hope that Christy Ambah, Jen and everybody else who has sickies atm sees an improvement today.

I had 2 gf's drop up today, one after the other, so endless chatting LOL, just what I need. Arron went to play golf with the neighbour and another guy, promising to be back by around 5ish and if he's not we won't be having tea cos we have nothing to cook, Jemma is very tired and sooky, wish it was bedtime actually, would be nice!

Anyway must run, was so rapt for Yvette and the twins weren't too big after all, thank goodness, I was getting worried for her, with them getting so big. Just goes to show that ultrasounds can be way out.

Hi to everyone else, Lucy, Mysty, KatanyaVanita- everyone else.

Cheers Michelle

Hello all!!! We had a full on day out and about Brissy...took Mum & Matilda on the ferry into the city & walked & walked, Matilda passed out in the pram (gotta be a first!) and then woke up 30 minutes later grumpy as...but we got out because it was a beautiful day and .... she's leaving Sunday!!!!

We had a good time together which is great & saw an amazing snake wild in the botanic gardens...I loved it & Mum ran away lol....

YAY for Yvette!! Ican't wait to see piccy's too :D

Yay Christy for your Mum and for you too! Every one must be feeling good and what a lovely day out and about, lol at yur Mum running from the snake, I don't blame her, I'm not much of a snake lover either, out dog killed a snake one night in our byard and we found it dead a few days later, it was in summer too. Scary to think the snake was so close to the house.

Well Jemma decided to shave tonight, took the razor from our ensuite and nicked her lip, it bled for ages, like all shaving cuts do, and she will NEVER do it again, of that I am sure.

Anyway have visitors so must dash, parents, brother and niece here, Arron has roped Dad in to help him finish Jemma's new room, Yay I may get my office sooner rather than later. That will be terrific.

Hello to everyone, I am counting down 7 sleeps till jessica's bday.
See ya Michelle

Hey ladies.

Yay at your Mum feeling better, Christy. I bet you're looking forward to having your house to yourself again. Sounds like you had a lovely day out.

Mitch - thank goodness that Jemma's room is getting finished! Now you've just got to worry about the rest of the house, which might take until Jessica is 12! My DH is a bit the same with things like that.

DH got away with his sickie, we think. He had to play in front of Premier Pete (not as exciting as it sounds) for a grand total of 2 minutes. What a tough gig (not)! I think he gets paid well for that too. Then he had a rehearsal, and I walked from QUT Gardens Point to where his rehearsal was in Paddington, but couldn't resist stopping in at a handmade chocolate shop on the way. I supposed that really negated all the good work I did on my walk, but oh well! Then we went out for lunch with the trumpet player in the band, who couldn't quite believe how we were able to still eat our lunches while chasing all over the restaurant after Charlie! Twas a nice day.

I'm just about to go into stupid uni to do some work. It's come to the crunch with this assignment (I know I'm mentioning it a lot, but it's all I'm thinking about right now!) so I've got to pull my finger out, so to speak (I never really understood that saying anyway) and do some work. Will chat intermittently during my 'study breaks'.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend.

Hi Girls

Been AWOL from this thread for a couple of days. Didn't have such a crash day yesterday, one of the older boys (2-3yr old) at playgroup yesterday decided he would send Lachlan flying by knocking him over on purpose, in turn Lachlan smacked his head against the dollhouse that we also have there. I let fly at his dad who brings him, as this isn't the first incident we have had with this child and the dad just sits there and says "oh don't do that" He is one of those kids that will completely ignore you if you say his name. For example the other day this child was in the doorway and I had my arms full of stuff and needed to get out. 5 times I said "Isaac can you move please" and the dad still just bloody sat there till I finally said "Do you think you can get your out of the way so I can get out" anyway yesterday I had enough and told him so as well.

Before the incident the same child was throwing balls at the older kids, Kameron included. So I said then "Isaac please don't throw balls" of course he didn't listen and so when his dad did it and he still didn't listen. I said "bloody go over there and smack him" as the child was continuing to do it. "oh no I can't do that" was the fathers reply... which is fair enough there is alot of ppl that don't smack their kids, but he did absoultly nothing to take him away from throwing balls.

He put Isaac in the pram and went to take him home but cause Isaac cracked the ****s he came back again ](*,) Definitely knows who wears the pants in that household and it isn't the father.

Anyways....... LOL

Going to the Port Power & Freo game tonight, my stepdad and a couple of his work mates (1 of whom I get along really well with) got free tickets, when a couple of the port players came to their work. Andrew hates the footy so he told them to shove their when they tried to offer him some LMAO. I can't stand Port either so I will be behind Freo tonight.

Will catch up more later - I have Andrew out mowing the lawn so we can see how our $300 10 person tent we just got off layby goes up, but need to cut down the jungle first ;)

Love

AARGH KAthryn at that kid and his Dad, certainly shows who's the boss and I can imagine how that kid is going to turn out. I hate parents like that. I hope lachlan and Cameron are ok. Have a good time at the footy, doesn't matter if you don't go for the teams, just nice to get out and about I say.

Well I am home atm, Arron is working nad it is my Nana's bday so we are going there later, after it gets dark cos Arron wants to work outside. We are sposed to go to a christening tomorrow and Arron is carrying on cos 1. he hates christenings/church/taking kids to church -me too really.
2. hedoesn't like the mum of the kid 3. he has never even been allowed to hold the baby/no one is allowed. I am not going to take the kids alone, so if he doesn't come we are all staying home, cos it's an hr away anyway and it's his family.

kellee- I hope the assignment is caoming along, I don't mind liostening to assignment stress, just hope it gets done. People with kids don't get how you do stuff like that, but you just learn to LOL

See ya all
Cheers Michelle

OMG at that father, Kathryn. That kind of stuff makes me so cross. I have a friend who has a 5 year old girl, and she has worn the pants in that family from day one. For example, and this is only a very minor example, whenever I go over there this girl loves to play with my handbag (well, at least the girl has good taste!). So she does things like raid my bag (when I've put it somewhere that I don't think she will find it), start playing with my mobile phone, take out all my cards, then get my chewing gum and come up to her mum and say "I want some". If that was my child I would turn around and say, "No, you can't, that's Kellee's and I want you to apologise to her right now for going through her things without asking". But instead my friend will say, "Can X please have some of your chewing gum?". I feel like saying no on principle! And you wonder why we have such selfish people in our society... oh well, all we can do is bring up OUR kids as best we can and hope they turn out to be good people.

Is the situation such that you can ask this father not to bring Isaac to playgroup anymore? If they are upsetting the applecart and ruining it for everyone else, I don't see why they should be allowed to come. Hope you're able to resolve the situation! And I hope that Lachlan and Kameron aren't too bruised.

I don't like Freo or Port, but I hate Port more (has NOTHING to do with the final last year, mind you.... he he he) so I will be going for Freo. I really can't stand that Port coach - he has such a bad attitude. I haven't been able to follow the footy this year, but as I hear that the Lions aren't doing too well, it doesn't really affect me that much. My dad has been a Cats supporter ever since 1965 (the year AFTER they won their last premiership) but I don't think they're doing that well either. I hope they win a flag before he dies! That might not happen though...

Hope all goes well at the christening, Mitch. Where is it? It must be such a bugger having to travel so far for everything when you live in the country. Why isn't anyone allowed to hold the baby? I have never encountered anyone like that, but I have heard of some mums who are paranoid about it.

Assignment is going well. I'm at the library as we speak (or, as I write). I have heaps of books to look at, which makes me feel like I'm doing something(!). I feel like I'm getting a handle on it now. It was so weird to catch the train in here without Charlie - I hardly do anything without him and I miss him! But it was kind of liberating at the same time. It's a great feeling to be actually using my brain again -I feel like it's been sitting around dormant for the past year. My poor little guy is having some teething trouble today - both his canines are coming through - and he woke up last night (which he rarely does these days, thank goodness!) so we've had to give him some Nurofen. I hate doing that, but he's one of those kids who either has no pain at all, and therefore is an angel, or is in excrutiating pain and needs the hardcore stuff to make him feel better. Panadol has never done much for him. I hate when we have to give our kids "unnatural" stuff - I remember that when he was born I felt bad even having to put CLOTHES on him! LOL It just seemed weird that he was able to survive au natural for all that time inside of me, and then when he came out he was bombarded with all that 'foreign' stuff. Wow, listen to me rambling, I really am procrastinating, aren't I?!

Anyway, better go and get some work done! Sorry for the long post - don't blame you if you didn't get this far into it!

HI Kellee
PMSL at your procrastinating post, but glad you are starting to feel good about the assignment.

We aren't allowed to hold the baby cos the mum is a bit of a freakout. At her 30th Arron's Mum (the father of the baby is Arron's cousin/MIL's nephew) wanted to hold the baby and her nephew refused to allow her to hold the baby cos his wife had told him nobody was to hold the baby the whole day. The baby doiesn't like being held cos it has been trained that way, even his sisters aren't really allowed to hold the baby. On the other hand we encourage people to hold our baby, so it is hard to understand. Anyway going out now.

Cheers mciheelle

Hello girls!

Yvette I hope you got some done of your studying...LOL at your procrastination efforts.

Kathryn thats sucks about playgroup... my friend brings her boy with her baby and when he gets out of hand I often go and grab him or hold the baby so she can do it. Its really unfair to everyone else when someone doesn't look after theirs.

Michelle, I have a friend like that who didn't like other people holding her little girl, now at almost 3 she won't go to anyone else and will tantrum if mum leaves her for 5 minutes even with her dad. Its sad because its really hard on the mum who didn't realise what was happening when she wouldn't let anyone else look after her daughter the first year....Two of us now go over and have a "play date" with the little girl so her mum can have a break sometimes...

Well...we dropped mum off at the airport today. I think everyone has to collapse now because we are all exhausted :D I'm happy to have my computer room back though

I have spent most of my weeekend down the hopsital. Friday night it was 7hrs with Alex and then Saturday night 5hrs with Kimberley they both had gastro. Poor Kimberley was put on a drip as she was dehydrated. She had been throwing up ever since Friday night while i was at the hospital she finally stopped being sick at 4a.m they let us go home at 2.30a.m because she had stopped being sick and they had no beds on the childrens ward for her. But as soon as i got her home she was sick again but went to sleep.

oh Michelle how scary! That must have been awful with both of them sick with gastro. I hope they have a very speedy recovery

Hi there.

I'm new here, and was wondering if I could join in your group?

Here are the questions at the top and my answers:

Forum Name: B_H (Belinda)
State: Qld
Baby's DOB: 08/11/03
Gender of Baby: Girl
Baby Name(s): Rhiannon Ivy
Baby's Website: Coming soon!
Health Concerns: none to date, but our son makes up for the pair of them! #-o
Notes: Super easy birth. 4 hours start to finish. All natural. Slept through from 9 days old :smt038 Has been an all round great baby!

Belinda

Great to have you with us Belinda.

Michelle :( @ having the kids down at emergency.

We thought we were going to be there ourselves last night. Lachlan slammed his fingers in the front door and they swelled instantly, but went down again after an ice pack and he was okay 30 mins later.

Love

Hi girls!! Just had a yuck day at work and am very very tired...need a good glass of wine & bed I think LOL... but I just thought I'd mention to those Brisbane mums that I've posted in the local members discussion something about a parenting seminar on this weekend...if you want to come please email me or PM me if you are platinum :D

Christy- hope that glass of wine helped LOL, and I bet you all are very relived that the holiday is over, including your Mum.

Michelle- sounds like a terrible few days at your place, I hope Kimberly and Alex are better today.

Kathryn- ouch at the fingers, kids seem to have miraculously bendy bones though, although jemmas finger did turn out to be broken, but most of the time they don't break.

Hello to everybody else. The countdown to jessica's first bday is on, 4 sleeps, and i will have 2 bubbies in here!

Jemma is such a chatterbox atm, it is almost exhausting LOL. She is starting to be interested in drawing and colouring too.

Will catch up sometime tomorrow hopefully, I am at Mum's for ebay tomorrow and have finally worked out a lunch date with my old Primary school friend for Thursday, will be very strange seeing someone I haven't seen for 19yrs LOL.

Anyway have a good one
Michelle

LOL the wine was nice thanks Michelle :)

Well I've had an amazingly productive day today, did the floors, played heaps with Matilda, did the shopping & I made muffins....pat on the back, now its time for a shower while Matilda is still asleep :) then to eat the muffins...

YUMM! MUFFINS!

Hope they were nice Christy, I might make some tomorrow!

Can't stop and chat, want to spend time with Arron, so he can't say I was on the puter and he was sitting all by himself LOL
Chat tomorrow girls
CHeers Michelle

Hi Girls

Just a quick one cause I am going to be late for playgroup if I don't get my arse into gear.

Everything is going well here for us. Lachlan hardly ever crawls now and loves walking along holding Kameron's hand. Too cute. But like Andrew said "lap it up now cause in a few years they will be punching each other" lol

Christy - Has your mum gone home now ??

Hello to everyone else !

Love

Hi Kathryn!! I hope you have a good time at playgroup & that father has his act in gear.

Yep Mum has gone home now...so things are settling back into "normal" Matilda's gone to day care & I've been organising work things... I have to do 2 lots of puppy pre-school so one on Wed nights & one on Mondays.... so Monday I start work at 7.30am and have 3 hours off with Matilda and then go back to work.... ah well at least its only one day, 5 years ago I was doing it 3-4 times a week.

Oh how cute to be teaching puppy school Christy. SOunds like you are feeling human again now you have your house to yourself.

Kathryn- hope you have a good day at playgrp, and there are no nasties today (kids or parents that is)

Hello to everybody, hope all the kiddies are healthy and all the parents too, it is a bit quiet atm! Are we claning houses, or working or what?

I should be cleaning out the fridge, cos i don't like the disgusting smell, but of course thought of something more important LOL. HMMM wonder what could be more important than fridge cleaning LOL?

Jordan is home sick, Jemma has gooey eyes and I am hoping they don't give anything to Jessica, want her looking stunning for her big day on Friday.

Anyway have a good one
Michelle

Just a quickie from me girls...

Have been pretty busy with family stuff over the past week, and today I need to get my arse into gear and get some cleanup happening! I am also playing around with a new photosite for Aidyn, so may have some updated pics to show you all by tonight.
Am also busy working on my essay to go with my uni application, and chasing down references and stuff.... so hopefully in a few weeks when this is all over I will have plenty of time for BB surfing!

Aidyn is getting so much smarter every day, its just so gorgeous! His speech is really picking up too, and yesterday he said 'kitty' for the first time. Which means his vocabulary now includes: Mama, Daddy, more, moon, shoe, kitty, banana... and he is very close to saying Spot (his favourite show) and bath!

Oh yeah... has anyone here ever had any dealing with brush turkeys??? We have one atm who has ripped up our whole side garden and decided his build his 'mound' there (for his mate to lay her eggs). I have done some research on them, and apparently these mounds are usually built to 1m high, and 4m wide!!! It is about half that size atm, but he has only been working on it since yesterday morning, and then we dismantled it in the arvo, but he built it up again today... and it just keeps getting bigger... ](*,)
Apparently it is impossible to relocate them too... I spent all day yesterday chasing the bugger with a golf club but the cheeky bugger would come back as soon as I went inside again!! Oh well... looks like we will have to do some replanting this summer... #-o

Ok gotta go for now, will come back and do personals tonight hopefully!

Ambah I would call the National Parks & Wildlife service...they relocate nesting birds sometimes (we recently had a Plover incident at the school...LMAO)

HTH!

I'm off to pay rego, just as I was getting back into my PJ this arvo for a nap DH rang up & said he forgot to pay rego which WAS due on Monday #-o so I'm off to do that now before picking up Matilda....

Hello everyone! Wow, I miss being able to check this forum. Sorry that I don't have time for many personals, except to say that I hope all the poor sick bubs get better soon and Happy Birthday to Jessica for Friday, incase I don't get on here before then (quite likely!).

I thought I'd better tell you what I'm up to. At the last minute, I got roped into doing the statewide "Reminiscing" Tour with Glenn Shorrock, Doug Parkinson and Wendy Matthews. Rehearsals start on Monday, so I have to get that assignment done three days early (AAAGGGHHH!!!). Therefore I haven't had time to check much, and probably won't have time to check much for the next month (the tour finishes on Oct 1). Of course, this means I have to leave my baby boy in Brisbane for the 2 1/2 weeks that the tour is out of the Brisbane area. I really don't know how I'm going to cope (even though I know that HE will be fine!). I don't want to even think about it. I can't really even get excited about it all because I'm so worried. I will have a chance to come back for 2 short days, but that's all in all that time. This means I have to wean him - he's only having a morning and night feed. Does anyone know if I express while I'm away whether he's likely to want to pick it back up when I get back? I don't think I'm quite ready to stop b/f yet. And because of his tracheomalacia, I wanted to b/f for as long as I could to give his immune system a boost. I would really appreciate any advice.

It was so hard for me to make the decision to go on this tour. I can't bear the thought of leaving Charlie, but it's too much of an opportunity to turn down. I'm really racked with guilt about the whole thing... has anyone else had experiences of being away from bubs for a while? I need to think about how I'm going to deal with it and would appreciate some advice.

Anyway, better go and do some more work on this assignment. I hope you're all well, and I'll check in when I can. I leave Bris on the 14th, but the tour actually starts on the 7th so hopefully I'll be able post a few times before I go.

Hugs to all!

Thanks for that Christy. I might try giving them a call tomorrow... though I have read some info on the net that says that they (parks & wildlife) wont come and relocate them, and they are a protected species, and their survival in the suburbs depends on our goodwill to let them nest in our gardens.... :-k
But i will call and beg them I think, lol!

Kellee - Oh my goodness, what a huge opportunity for you! That is really exciting... but at the same time I can totally understand how worried you are... I wish I had some advice for you sweetie, but the longest I have ever been away for Aidyn is 1 night. I think its important that you know that Charlie is going to be just fine when you are gone, so if you keep telling yourself that, hopefully it will make you less worried. Also can you ring up a couple of time a day and hear what he has been up to, and speak to him on the phone?
Sorry but I dont know what the best way to go about weaning is, however I reckon you should give it a shot of expressing BM for when you are gone, and trying to put him back on the breast when you get back.

What a bugger that brush turkey is Amabh! Hope that someone can do something, although having some baby brush turkeys later down the track would be interesting, but that's cos it's noty happening in my garden LOL

Christy- bugger having to go out when you were all finished going out. What happened with the plovers, mum has heaps of them at her place.

Kellee- Super news, I totally understand your worry but Ambah is right, Charlie will be fine and what a great experience for you. Good luck with the assisgnment and hope we get to chat bf you go. Thanks for the birthday wishes I am so sad. She got another tooth in the last few days and so now has 5, no wonder she hasn't been eating properly, there are actually heaps just about to pop through by the look of it.

Anyway must fly, Arron is waiting for me and will carry on now that I am on here LOL What's new!

Cheers michelel