Babies born August 2007 #7

This thread is for parents who's baby was born in August 2007.

Your moderators for this forum are as follows-
Astrolady ~ Administrator
Trillian ~ Senior Moderator
Dachlostar ~ Senior Moderator
MistyFying

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
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 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

Your Previous thread can be found here.

Hi ladies,

Kim - fantastic news! Good luck with the new pregnancy, hope the belly grows nicely!

Bec & Molly- well done on the bf for sooo long. bec, i know how hard it is to express at work and congratulate you for keeping it up. Such determined mummies!

Re: the cows milk. I have been giving Ela cows milk too with her weetbix in the morning and she hasn't had any reactions. I am planning to stop formula when she gets to 11months and start cows milk. i'll be getting the special cow milk for kids with the added vits and mins and omegas and all sorts. We are having trouble feeding her at the moment. She won't sit still long enough, so we entertain her by giving her toys to play with or a book to look at. Not good habits i know but as long as she eats.
I gave her some egg the other morning with her toast and she loved it, white bits and all.

She has her top left canine coming out. You can see it in the gum and it has reached the gum line, so it's any day now. I rub bonjela on her gums at night and that seems to settle her through the night and only wakes 1-2 times. I also give her panadol on some nights when i see that sheis extremely grizzly.

She makes us all laugh and is so entertaining. She has this wide smile which she makes and squints her eyes at the same time, so adorable.

I'm not the only one planning for 1st birthdays! We have a set date of 2nd of August and day after her real birthday. We want a fairy theme, as her room has fairy borders and stickers throughout. We plan on a visit from the fairy to entertain the kids. Can't wait!

Ela is standing too. She will stand for 1-2 mins when occupied with something in her hand or watching telly and also squats up and down.

take care all...

Just a super quick note from me to say CONGRATULATIONS to Kim!!! woo hooooo! I wish you a very happy and healthy pregnancy :) :clap:

We have been away for a week in Canberra visiting some friends, so much to do now that we're home, but I will try to get back on BB later....

Just a quick post.
had a really bad evning with Ela. We took Devrim bowling and just after one bowl, Ela threw up all over herself. Of course, being mums, i had to leave and take Ela home (which is only 2 mins away) got her undressed, dressed, gave her some milk and drove back! DH and Devrim had already by that time finished one game and was half way through the second. I lost interest as i was soooo grumpy and let them play for me.
We got home andnoticed Ela was getting a temperature but she fell asleep relatively easily only to wake 1/2 hour later, hot as. We gave her some nurofen, undressed her and bathed her, which she hates when she's sick, so she was crying all the time in the bath and getting dressed. I gave her some weetbix to fil up that empy tummy which she emptied out at the bowling centre. Nurofen was quick to set in and she became her playful self again after scoffing down a bowl of weetbix and Nurofen. At 11pm, we put some bonjela on her gums and off she went to sleep. A real horror of a night.
Just wanted to share that. Canine teeth are the hardest to break through i've heard, so it's been a real bummer of a teething period for poor Ela and us. I can't wait til they finally rupture through.
Take care.

Hey everyone!

Serah - I hope that tooth comes in real fast for Ela.

Kim - Congratulations!! Stick lil bubba!

Well, what an eventful fortnight! Jensen has been soo sick! He's had diarreah, vomiting, no eating - and sooo clingy. It's been horrible.Went to the doctor last week and was given antibiotics. Didn't work. Went to another dr and was told if he wasn't better by monday to see the dr again. Tuesday saw another dr (first one and 3rd one from the same practice) who gave me some different antibiotics coz the others weren't working (and actually cared whether I was getting better or not). He also told me that probably the only thing keeping Jensen out of hospital - coz he was dehydrated and not eating - was that he was drinking some breastmilk. OMG did that flip me out. He told me that by Wed afternoon that Jensen should be feeling better. Tues arv after a nap he was a different kid! Actually could put him down and he'd play by himself! He ate food! Hes so much better now! Thank you doctor! He's still got the runs, so we're headed back to the dr today about that.

He's not sleeping properly at night and we think he's having nightmares/night terrors. He seems to be wide awake but screams like he's in a scary world of his own. It was horrible. It lasted about 5-10minutes, but seemed to come out of it ok, but wouldn't go back to sleep. Finally when he was back to sleep, I had the nightmares then.

Better go, Jensen's not sleeping long during the day anymore and I have to call the federal wageline ppl about the work problem which hasn't been resolved yet.

Oh - Jensen's been entered into the Mother and Baby magazine "Coverstar" competition.... If you want to check him out (and help to make him one of the most viewed babies - when I checked last he was on page 79 of the most viewed babies) Thanks!

Hi All,

Took Ela to the doctors on Wednesday night for a checkup since we had such a bad night which carried through to the day as well. The dr. checked her ears, chest and her mouth and told us that her tonsils were quite bad and that she had tonsilitis! Poor bubba. Gave her some antibiotics and she is all well now even though i can see the white of her canine's so she's nearly there at popping one of them through.

Rhi- poor Jensen. Ela was the same. Hope he's feeling much better now. Don't you love winter! We gave Ela some Hydralite when she had the runs from the last lot of antibiotics she had. Maybe try that to prevent deyhdration??
I have to check out the Mother and Baby website. Good luck with that!

Take care all..

Urgghhhh, seems like we all have grumpy sad sick little bubbas at the moment :(

Milla has croup. Poor thing. It started just as a very little cold with nothing but a bit of snot, and just suddenly yesterday she got a hacking cough, and she's lost her voice. Took her to the doctors late yesterday and she said its croup, so we have some meds to give her, and we are steaming up her room at night with a Vicks Vaporizer. She slept really well though, and I didn't need to give her boobs til 4:30 this morning, which is great! This is the first time she has been sick (other than one earlier cold), first time to the doctors for anything other than vaccines, and first meds. :( Breaks my heart.

Hope Ela and Jensen are better soon, and hope those teeth finally pop through for them, and Hayden too. Milla has one on the top that has been hovering just below the surface for a month too. Looks like two more bottom ones are not far away either.

Kim, hope you are feeling good! Have you had a scan yet? I'm so excited for you! Makes me clucky just thinking about newborns.

Take care everyone! x

Campari,

May be time for bub #2 then my dear!

Wishing Milla to get well soon. I've very frightened of croup as Devrim had many times as a bub and the dr. told me that the bacteria or virus which ever it is, can tighten the airways making breathing difficult. I remember that we could not sleep for the first nights scared to death if you couldn't breathe. The vaporiser should help.

Good luck..
Take care all.

Good morning ladies (well it's morning now)!

Ela is 11 months today! 1 month till her birthday. We are planning a birthday on the 30/08. This is because mum is having a hysterectomy tomorrow and will give her heaps of time to recover. She has been diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Luckily it hasn't spread outside the uterus. This also means that Ela will be starting child care in the next 1-2 weeks :( (DH is home on annual leave til then)
I am so afraid that they will treat her poorly at child care but i have no other option. It is going to be tough.

No canine's yet. They are happily sitting in the gums still.

Ela is now able to stand from a sitting position on her own without holding onto anything. She gets so excited when she does it, she claps and smiles. She just won't take that step though!
She hates socks. Does anybody else have this issue? She is not comfortable until those socks come off her little fat feet. She loves emptying out all the drawers and anything else she can empty out!

I have begun giving her cows milk during the day. I've got the Pura Kids milk with all those added extra vits and mins. She is taking to it quite nicely. She used to have a bit of cows milk everyday with her weetbix. What do you ladies feed bubs for breakfast? Ela has gotten a bit tired of weetbix. I ocassionally give her toast with some egg and cheese. She has only recently begun eating egg and seems to have no allergies.

Rhi- Jensen looks so cute in his photo! I have also entered Ela (Ela Safiye Cubuk). She is currently on page 4 on the newest babies section. Goodluck to both!

So cold and miserable outside..

Take care all.

Finally!! A small chance to pop in here for updates!

Jensens nap time seems to be always cleaning up after him, or dh, the dishes etc. :( No rest for the wicked!

We are back on the teething path, this time I think canines, by the way he's been acting. It's like having a newborn again... Waking every 2hrs, 20-30 min calming him back to sleep, do it all again. Was good last night tho.

(pff don't know what happened there, it just posted with out me telling it to...)

Work appears to be sorted out now, fingers crossed! If all goes well, I return to work on the 14th of this month. I'll be working permanent part-time (so I have benefits and everything) 3 nights a week. 5pm to 10pm (or later depending if theres a run on). Decent hourly rate, although I must double check about penalty rates. I'm very happy with this out come, I was starting to stress about leaving him. Seems I would be the one with seperation issues. Jensen will be with my grandma (and my dad coz he lives there) from 430pm til when Andrew picks him up between 530-6pm, then its up to Andrew to feed, bathe, settle and get Jensen to sleep. Now I worry how thats going to go... I put a thread up on that, but only one person seemed to answer! I put Jensen to sleep the other night and he woke up an hour later. I sent Andrew in and Jensen just cried for 5mins, stopped instantly when I walked in. I picked him up, cradled him in my arms and he was asleep in what seemed like that minute! Cheeky monkey. This is going to be hard.

Rhi- Hope Milla is feeling better!

TD - Oh! Sorry to hear about your mum, hope everything goes well and shes up again soon. Just found Ela's entry in the competition - What a bright-eyed gorgeous girl you have there! Socks come off here too, I try and keep them on by putting shoes or sandals on over the top :)

No standing here! cirlces around my legs, cruises the furniture, pushes his walker around (and yesterday a stride/ride car thing). I think he could do it if he didn't think about it. Maybe he's just not that interested. He does get around quite fast crawling, and the stairs seem to be no hassle...

Kim and Rhi - will you be going to the Brisbane Meet up (Roma Street Parklands) next friday? We'll be there, if you wanted to meet up?

Hope everythings well with everyone else!
go maroons!

Hey everyone!

TD, so sorry to hear about your mum. I hope the hysterectomy is all she needs, and that she is Ok after that. My mum had to go through breast cancer with chemo and radiation several times over a few years, so I know the stress and worry you are probably all going through.

I'm sure Ela will be OK in child care. I think its us mums who have it harder. When I am at Mum's Group with Milla I think she has such a great time with the other babies and other mums that she wouldn't notice if I were to up and leave her... She really loves being around people, so in a way I think child care will be OK for her, if we ever get her in to one!!!! We are on 9 waiting lists, and have only had one possible lead with a FDC mum who lives locally, but isn't registered, so I have some thinking to do about that one. In the mean time, DH will take some flex, and my sister will look after her a few times.... I go back to work in August, 2 days a week, so soon now :(

Scone - glad you got your work sorted out, sounds like a good deal. I reckon it will be a bit tough on Andrew and Jensen the first few nights, but after that they will figure out what works for them.

Milla's croup is all gone. The predmix stuff worked really quickly to clear up the cough, and she just had a snotty cold for another few days. All great now though, and back to her mischievous self. She is waking up again at 2-ish, which is annoying as she was going through til 4 or so without a feed up til last week.

I reeeeeeaaaaalllly want to stop feeding at night. I still dont have AF back, and we were hoping to TTC #2 around December or so. I always cave in and feed her though, after DH has tried to settle her for half an hour and she is screaming in his arms... :( Blah. We both have to be more strict about the no-boobs thing, but when she is sick, it wasn't fair...

She's a toothy monster now too - got 4 on the bottom, and 3 on top. The 4th top one is visible but not through the gum yet. She gives us loads of kisses, but does try and nip us on the nose sometimes. Have to stop ourselves from laughing when she does that, as its pretty cute to start with. DH has a blood nose right now as she clawed him in the nose - even after I cut her fingernails today!!

Don't think I will go to the meet-up on Friday. I have mum's group, its my favourite social outing of the week... But another time I would love to catch up with you guys and meet Jensen too!

Better go... got to get her out of the bath (DH is in with her...but he can't get her out by himself, Grrrrrrrrrr!!!)

Mwah xxx

Hi Ladies,

I am soooo excited. Ela has been chosen "baby of the day" in the Mother and Baby Coverstar comp. :dance: You can check her out in the "winners gallery". She is the one with the green frog. :dance: I really hope she makes it into the 14 finalists :pray:

My mum had her op on Wednesday and she is recovering o.k. but says that it's really painful. I feel so bad that i can't help ease the pain. I helped her shower in hospital today, the scar is soooo long. I would say approx. 30cm from her belly button down.

Ela had her first day of orientation at cc on Friday. She was o.k, when i dropped her off but had tears running down her cheeks when i went to pick her up. She couldn't get to sleep so was over tired. DH came along with me to pick her up but Ela wanted to be comforted only by me which got me really emotional. I got her to sleep once we got home, but was sobbing in her sleep. She was really traumatised by the experience. Dad has offered to look after her but then mum won't be able to get any peace and quiet so we rejected his offer until mum gets a bit better.

Campari - i hear you loud and clear re: the night feeds. Ela wakes up every 3 hours on the dot for a feed. You can set your clock by it! I get angry at her but then talk myself into believing that she will stop waking up eventually or that she is already 11 months old and her wakings will stop soon. I am very lucky that DH and i share the night rosters. He wakes once to feed her and then i will wake the next time to feed her so we both get a long stretch of sleep during the night. But you bf is another story altogether!! You have to do all the night wakings.

I went to a BB mums meeting her in VIC on Friday. Made friends with one of the mums as she had an 8 y.o and i have a 6 y.o but most of the mums kept in small groups and didn't really mingle.

Scone - babies are very intelligent. They know everything! Have you considered leaving a nightgown or something in his cot with your smell on it?? Jensen may be a bit old for that but it's worth a try. Ela prefers me to anybody else too.

When they want to get somewhere those arms and legs can move soooo fast can't they?? Ela pushes the dining chairs around the dining room. We have floorboards and those felt squares under the chair legs so the chairs slide as she pushes them. She looks funny. Ela also loves sitting under things, like under the dining table or billiards table, she loves it.

Take care all..

Hi!!

Rhi - Good to hear that Milla is better!! I hear you about stopping feeding at night. We're going through such a terrible "stage" (lets hope its a stage) atm. Jensen wakes at 10, 12, 2, 3 and 630. It's not such a bad thing - he goes back to "sleep" right away, but the moment he touches the mattress or moves away from me, he cries at the top of his lungs! It takes about 30-45mins to get him back to sleep. Nightmare child. This morning he was having bad dreams... thats worse. But I only have to feed once thru the night, the rest of the time he just wants a cuddle. He doesn't self settle, so its demanding.

TD - Congrats on Ela making baby of the day!! Fingers crossed that Jensen and Ela make it thru to be finalists!! :pray:We both make it, I'll meet you in Sydney!!
We've tried DH wearing my dressing gown, but he wasn't fooled. I have to go out tonight, so its a real test of skill !

Kim - I haven't started planning a party yet... We want a small family gathering with few friends, but both dh and I don't have small families!! And you can't invite one person and not the other coz they'd get narky... I asked dh about inviting mothers group and his answer was.. we'll it's his party and they are his friends.. grr The list will be huge.

We went to the toy sale yesterday (KMART) and put on layby a christmas pressent and bought a v early bday present. It's a trailer for our bikes that he sits in and gets towed along... He hated it with his helmet on, but didn't want to get out when we got home. :rolleyes:

No walking yet, but he has a stride/ride thing that he can walk behind! For christmas (or his birthday) I wanted to get him a trike thing with canopy (from the Target Toy Sale), but was going to see if his grandparents wanted to go quarters in it.


Guess what!? I signed up to be a tupperware demonstrator!! Whoo hoo! I thought I could gain more confidence, not be a social recluse and prove to myself I can do it!


Hes finally awake after a crazy morning and I have a sick dh home today, better go! Have a great day!

Hi Everybody,

Just popping in to say that Ela is walking :clap:. She took about 6 steps on Sunday night whilst i was home and then had to leave to go and care for my mummy. Ela and DH came to mums yesterday took a few more steps at her place too. At our home last night, DH tells me that she is walking 3-4 metres and throws herself on the floor laughing and screaming because she is happy that she can walk. I can't wait to go home and see her tonight!!

I think it might take her awhile to get used to the idea of walking though.

We are having Ela's birthday on the 26/7/08. A little early but have to due to DH shifts at work. So excited about planning a birthday!

I'll post later on...

Woo hoo for Ela!!!! That is very exciting, and I hope you got to see lots of walking when you got home from work!

Scone - Milla is doing the same thing as Jensen with the night wakings. I am only feeding her once now, at about 3am, but last night she needed to be walked/rocked at 11 and 1 as well. She CAN self settle. She does it at 7pm when we put her to bed, and at all her day sleeps, but just in the middle of the night she hates being put back in her bed. We bring her in to our bed out of exhaustion, but as much as I love co-sleeping, sometimes she thinks its an invitation to party, and she jumps around all over us and is then awake for 2 hours while we are desperate for sleep. She is crazy! I don't know if its nightmares, or if she is scared of the dark (but we have a night light). She's not cold, cause we have the heater in there, and she's not hungry cause she is eating soooo much dinner. I considered doing what Kim said and giving her some night time solids, but don't want to get in to that as a habit!! Arghhh. Its wearing me out. For a while she was sleeping right through til 4am,and then **KAPOW** back to horror child.

Kim - How's your belly???!! Is it bigger this time round? My friends who are on to #2 popped out way sooner with their second pregnancy. I hope you are not too tired, running around after Hayden! Must be exhauting, I know how tired I got when I was pregnant (but not sure if it compares to how tired I am with this night time waking!!)
We are planning a picnic for Milla's first birthday with another bub from my mum's group who was born on the same day. So a joint party with lots of babies. I don't have family here, so its wont be too big on our part! Will just have cake etc in the park. I bought her some toys already from the Kmart sale - one of those little car things she can sit on and ride around on, and a baby doll. Otherwise she is getting books! She loves being read to, and really is the only time she will sit remotely still. She loves turning pages too, and now opens the flaps on books too - is very good at that!

Better go..

Hello to everyone else! Hope Xavier, Colby, Emma, Ella, Arianna, Willa and all the others I have missed are all doing well too :) Would love an update!

Mwah!

Hey Hey,

How are you all. Just a quicky to say hi to all. and wish an early happy birthday to all the bubbas for the month of August.

I don't get many chances to come in here anymore, so you probably will see me o so very rarely.

I hope for Xavier to sleep more and my work to become less stressfull so I can come in more, but at the moment it's just not viable.

Hey everyone,

just a quick note to say that I *may* have found the problem with Milla's hideous sleep issues of late... Literally for the past two weeks she was waking up over 6 times a night and taking ages to resettle (sometimes over an hour)...She was screaming and really hating being in her room/bed. Well, I read a bit about food preservatives, and realised that her horrible sleep started when I started giving her custard, made from custard powder. Normally all she eats is super healthy, home made, no sugars and no colourings. Anyway. I cut the custard out (I was giving it to her to try fatten her up, she was only 8.1kg at 10 months). The next night she slept soooo much better. Last night she slept non-stop from 7pm til 4am, had a feed then slept til 7am. This is such a massively huge improvement I am sure its related to her not having the yellow custard powder and sugar running around in her... I'll see how we go. So far its three blissful nights after a few weeks of terror.

Does anyone else give their bubs any really sugary/coloured stuff, and have you noticed any crazy behaviour?

I'll keep you posted.

Hi, just popped in for a sec !! BBL tho....

I try not to give sugary stuff... either way, it doesn't seem to affect him. I wish it was as simple as what you've found!! He does tend to sleep better the nights he has a formula bottle (the nights I'm not home).

Jensen is only 8.2kg as of Friday last week (so we'll say 11mths). I'm not worried about fattening him up.... He eats so much he just burns it off, so I'm not too worried :)

Finally! A chance to get on BB and not have to worry about Jensen!! I'm at work and it's quiet!

Tonight is my first night at work!! Jensen is at home with DH. They've have 2 practice runs (when I've gone to my meetings for Tupperware) and they've done really well. DH can get him down and asleep by 8! No fuss! Tonight maybe a problem, as he had a 3.5hr nap this morning and almost an hour and a half this afternoon. Fingers crossed.
There's not really much to report atm. There's a tooth coming through, but its taking its time. Jensen has started to lay himself down on his tummy and and push so he's moving backwards. Its funny to watch. Possibly he's teaching himself how to get off chairs and down stairs? I have also noticed that he's grinding his teeth, but its rare. Bought a baby monitor from a garage sale and it co-incided with Jensen sleeping through again! It does have a nightlight, maybe that helps?

Kim - It was good to see you again too! Nice to meet your bump too! I have that photo of Hayden Itook, I'll have to upload it for you. Hope Hayden is better soon.

It's almost birthday time! Hope the party plannings going well!

grrr lil monkey bit someone else again today! He was on the playgym thing (at one of those centres) with a little girl from mothers group. One of the older kids (from mothers group) likes to give hugs to the babies (she's 3) and wanted to hug the little girl. IT looked like Jensen wanted in on the hug and the older girl wouldn't let him. The litttle girl crawled away and the other girl went with her. Jensen went over and the older girl put her arm out so he went around the other side and bit her on the leg. Holy moly he made her cry! Left a purple welt the between the size of 5-10c peice. I could have died. Thankfully, he didn't do it again. Bit me on the nose when we got home tho... :(

On the upside, he's getting better at putting himself to sleep. He can do it for mil and dh, but doesn't really do it for me... I thought he was asleep by himself just now, but I can hear him.
Just thought I'd pop in and get that off my chest.

Hi everyone!
All is great with us... Milla is walking!!! She'd still rather crawl, but last night she repeatedly did 5 steps on her own! We'd put her standing in the middle of the room (she can stand by herself for over a minute before she plonks down on her bum), and we lured her over to the couch with her favourite toy, most she did was 5 steps. She was very proud of herself. She is still doing it this morning, but still needs our encouragement. She won't actually let go of the couch herself and start walking, she only does it if I stand her up with nothing to hold on to. Still cool though, and I guess she will be walking everywhere and driving us crazy very soon!

She is still sleeping heaps better since we stopped the custard - those food colourings were nasty! She has had a few nights recently of waking for a feed at 2 or 3am (I was loving it when she lasted til 4!). Her day sleeps are usually OK too - one at 9:30 and one bigger sleep at 1pm.

I have worked a few days for a private job at the Uni and DH has been at home looking after Milla all day. Its been going really well. She has been fine without boobies and I haven't had to express. She's had a bit of formula and a bit of cows milk, but mostly just drinks water those days. Sleeps have been great too, but she has always been able to self settle with the dummy, so we're glad of that! GTH that Jensen settles well for Andrew too Scone!

Kim - hope Hayden is all better now. Its really no fun when they are sick :(

Better go eat some lunch. I'm famished!
x

Snap! Was posting at the same time as you Scone. That's no good about the biting!! I have no idea how you'd stop that... I have to stop from laughing when Milla sometimes "kisses" me on the nose and there are some gentle teeth involved...

geez!! cant believe the last time i visited was in may!!!! :P goes to show how much time our bubs take up eh?

sehra - sorry to hear abt ur loss. hope ur mum's getting better AND congrats on your little daily winner. checked her out n she is cute!!! can we still submit photos in?

campari - looks like milla n arianna is almost the same. arianna goes to bed about 7.30 - 8pm but i normally feed her before n so she goes a little easier. but then to wake up like clockwork at 11pm and 3am. so yea, i'm bf to get her back to bed. i have tried custard with arianna but i dont think its a problem for her. have to figure out whats bugging her too.

kim - congrats!!!! dh has been talking abt #2 a lot lately but i'm not too sure abt it yet. part of me wants to have #2 coz i miss how small they were, you know newborns.....but another part of me wants to just enjoy having this one little person to shower all my love on, u know? it's a tug of war at the moment but we are not planning anything, come what may....my AF is already here so it's slightly easier to estimate my fertile period. we using the billing's method so if i don't check properly, i could have in 'trouble'!! lol :P

updates with us : arianna has 3 teeth on the top, the left one is still struggling to come out. we've got 2 bottom teeth clearly and the 2 outer one slowly coming through and this was what i thought was causing her not to sleep thru the night. she used to go to bed at about 7pm n sleep right through to 7am the next day!!! but now or at least the past week or so, it's bedtime by 7.30pm, up at 11pm - feed, 1am - feed, 3am-feed, 6am-feed, 9am-feed then brekkie. i feel like i'm going thru the newborn phase again!! this 1am thing started 2 nights ago....in fact, the first time that happened, we brought into our bed n just let her selt entertain, she was cacking, 'jumping', laughing all by herself while we tried to get some shut eye. the moment her batteries ran out n i tucked her in, she cried! little cheeky....it was far worst in the begining when she wont even sleep in her cot. she HAD to sleep in our bed so i thought if was the pain n she was looking for comfort but i didnt want her to get too used to sleeping our bed so i took dh pillow case n put it on her pillow n it worked....

no walking or standing at the moment, just major crawling all over the place and picking up the most minute stuff off the floor as she goes along. sitting up is not a problem anymore so that's good. food wise she's been having a variety of stuff but maybe not as many as one would expect. i try to make a variety so she doesnt get sick of it. she is used to homecook food n not a fa of the bottle food although those i keep for when we are out. i buy more of the fruity jars than the savoury kind - stuff u can give for dessert like custard n apple n berry ripple.

i thought i was the only one still getting up at odd hours n bf the bub! i am obviously not alone.... lol glad to share the pain ladies. :) gtg now....have to wash the dishes b4 bed...uuggh! and yes, it is passed midnite - crazy!

Hello All.

Re: Jensen and biting. Could it be he likes the reaction/attention he gets after he bites? Ela bites me but only does it when she tries a kisses me and turns it into a little bite. I yelp and she thinks its funny and gives me laugh and goes for it again. I know it is hard to not give a reaction esp. when it hurts. He's only little, may be he'll grow out of it. Cheeky little monkey!

I am jealous though of bubs putting themselves to sleep. WTG Jensen!!

WTG MIlla too. They do get excited when they walk and are so proud of themselves. It is so cute. Our bubs are no longer bubs but getting into toddlerville :(
Ela is really walking. She prefers walking to crawling and can even stand up when she topples to the floor on her own. She loves it and just like Milla gets really excited when she walks a real great distance. She wants to run/walk faster sometimes but that ain't happening yet as she topples over.

I've discussed with DH on numerous ocassions to have #3 but he won't hear a bar of it :( I guess 2 is all i have unless one happens by so-called accident ;). I want #3 when i'm about 35 -37yo when i really miss having a newborn around. Good luck to all TTC

GTH Hayden is doing much better. I feel bad giving them painkillers all the time too, but we really don't what kind of pain they really are in so it is better to alleviate their pain than letting them suffer through it. Ela has a chest infection, the wheezing is so loud that you don't need a stethoscope to hear it. She has finished her course of antibiotics but is still not 100%. Gotta take her back to the drs. tomorrow.

Ela has one of her canine's out and the other is close behind. 9 teeth now.

We have her birthday this Saturday 26/7 :dance:. I am so tired! I just want it to be Saturday. We are having a bbq with 24 adults and 14 kids. I have organised a fairy to entertain the kids with ballooning, face painting, magic, games. I have bought these HUGE alphabet balloons which are like 1m in height each and will spell her name E-L-A. These will be floating in the air attached to some weights. i have balloon centrepieces for each of the tables. A Happy birthday walkabout balloon. It is amazing this balloon it moves with the air flow like it is walking. Streamers to pretty up the house. Loot bags and helium balloons for the kids. Her birthday cake is in the shape of a book. One page will have her Mother and baby competition frog photo and on the other side a poem in Turkish. It is white mudcake. I am so excited yet i still have a lot to organise til then. i just pray that the day runs nice and smoothly :pray:

Misty - don't think that you can enter bubs into the Mother and Baby comp any longer as entries closed on the 9/7/08 :( I can't wait to see if either Jensen or Ela make it into the top 14 finalists announced Wednesday week. I'll be in Sydney for work reasons on the day and hope that i have time to check the web.

VERY long post. Sorry to do this to you all.

take care xxooxx

Hi All,


:dance:HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ELA:dance:

It's Ela's birthday today!! And the time is 11.51 currently. She was born at 11.35am, so i would have been in the op theatre, Ela in mum's arms and the docs stitching me up. Seems soooo long ago.

Not much to report from you guys i guess since i was the last to post and am posting again.

We had Ela's birthday on Saturday. it went without a hitch. people were very impressed at my balloons, decorations, cake, food, drinks etc.. It was great. I was tired by the end of ot though and all the cleaning the next day!

We got heaps and heaps of pressies. The fairy was exciting for her. She sat with the kids and watched the show.

She definitely walks now. No crawling at all.

That's all from me. Take care all.

Happy (belated) Birthday Ela for Friday, and Happy Birthday today for Xavier and the other 3rd August bubbas if you guys are still around!
Not got time to write anything now, but all is good with us... Milla is walking!!!
Hope you are all well too, and TD, hope you get a relaxing week now that the party is over. It sounds like an amazing day, wow!!
Bye xx

I just popped in to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and sorry I didn't pop in on the day to say it! Glad the parties went off with no problem, I'm curious as to how ours is going to go!!

Hi Everyone I have not been around BB much I just forget or dont have time but thought I would pop in as I have a spare few mins LOL

I have a darling Daughter who was Born on August 13th last year I cant beleive that next wednesday is her 1st Birthday already where does the time fly this time last year all was going OK hehe then she decided to have other ideas lol

Hope everyone is having fun planning their 1st Birthday Parties we are having Care Bears as a bit of a theme not that she will know hey

Take Care everyone and I should try to get in here more often

Care bears party ! Wow! Cool! We are having a "small" party too, but it's not going to work out that way!! That reminds me... must send invites!

Well. Jensen's sick.. Yesterday morning went to get him up out of bed and found spew splattered over his cot. :( Fed him some milk and 2 mins later vomited over me. Didn't eat much but was very clingy and sooky (as you would be). Only I had a similar sort of thing happening with me as well (nausea - no vomiting).Feeling better today tho. This morning at 3:30, I could hear him crying so I got up to find he'd vomited again sometime thru the night and it was matted in his hair. Had a shower and he finally fell asleep just after 4. He's still asleep now, so I better go and finish what I was doing so I'm there for him when he wakes..

Have a good day!

HI HI,

Happy Birthday to all those bubba's that have had them, and happy birthday to all those whose birthday is almost here.

Xavier had a pirate party last Sunday, and had a great time. We gave him a piece of chocolate cake and it was everywhere by the time he was done.

Poor little thing is sick as a dog now, and now has a chest infection (certainly not helped by the lack of afternoon sleep on his birthday)


Anyway, just dropping in quickly.

Catch you all

Happy Birthday Hayden!!!!
Hope you have a lovely party :)

Bec, love the ticker pic of Xavier, so cute! Milla went to a pirate party too last month, I'll have to figure out how to put a pic up of her too. For her birthday we are having an "M" themed party as we're doing a joint party with her best friend, birthday twin, Mia. Milla is going as a Martian, so I am all set to start sewing a green sparkly lycra suit... uh oh.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Just a quick pop-in to say - Happy birthday Hayden!

Rhi - Can't wait to see that Martian suit!

Today was awesome! Full on tho.

Yesterday was more of a celebration than today tho. Went to breakfast with my mum and two of her sisters and my cousins (and one of the cousin's baby - 9mth old boy!) at the restaurant BIL works at. Was a great morning! Came home and Jensen had a sleep then when he woke helped dh work on the car. Went to dinner with 2 of dh friends and dh's parents.

Today was another big day (other than it being the obvious!). DH had organised the day off (how sweet!). We had to drop some things back to his work at 8am, then popped in to see his mum. Photos at 1030 then morning tea at a friends. Pick up Tupperware order at 1 then see my dad for late lunch. Checked out a swing set at toyworld (grr at that - more details later). Then home for dinner!!

The birthday party is on Saturday. I don't think we'll be playing any games or anything. Just a nice afternoon with family and friends!

The girl at work is away this week so they want me to work during the day... Not impressed. I'll be working what I can work not what they expect me to work. Thats why I work at night... we sorted that out! grrr. I'll be back in to post some photos, hopefully sometime tomorrow!

HI All,

Happy Birthday ahyden and Jensen.

THanks for the nice comments about me little pirate, arrr.

Hey there!
Happy birthday Jensen, sorry I'm a bit late :( It sounds like you had a great day / week, with still more to come! woo hoooo! I'm still amazed that our babies are turning ONE! Still a week to go for Milla.

All good with us. I am back at work and its OK, mostly. I find it a bit frustrating that things happen so slowly there and I could finish my real work by lunchtime and then be home with my baby, but the day drags on a bit with all the useless twaddle in between... Never mind. I enjoy my lunch break, morning tea etc :)

Yesterday Milla fell over and put a tooth through her tongue. We're almost sure one tooth has gone all the way through, there is a massive puncture mark on her tongue and its all purple and swollen today. Its gone down overnight though, so haven't taken her to the Dr. There was a lot of blood (DH was looking after her at the time, phew). She won't eat, has trouble drinking, and babbles with a lisp. Poor thing. It looks soooo sore. We've been giving her nurofen/panadol, and she was so tired after a rotten day that she slept a lot last night. I think the mouth area heals pretty quickly when it's damaged so hopefully she'll be OK very soon.

Other news here is that the in-laws arrive from Belgium on Sunday for 5 weeks. So am crazy busy trying to clear out the spare room again, and get the house tidy for them.

Hope the Birthday Month continues to be a happy one for everyone,

xx Rhi

oh my gosh! Poor Milla! Hope she feels better before the in-laws arrrive!

HI all,

Campari, good to focus on the positives :) Lunch tea breaks. even with the annoying twaddle, use it as your down time, you will appreciated home with Milla even more. Poor litte thing biting her tongue, I think there is heaps of blood flowwing through the tongue, hence the heaps of bleading and I agree I think it heals fast.

Happy Birthday for Milla too, I might not be back before then.

Thanks everyone, the tongue is all healed and my crazy monkey is all set for her birthday present overload tomorrow! She still has a bit of a mark where the tooth went in, like a scar already, but its not swollen anymore. She was sooooo drooly after it, and kept sticking her tongue out (even more than usual, as seen in her ticker photo).

I am still boobie feeding her, and I am so proud!! 12 months!! Woo hoooo! YAY to you too Becca, as you've had it even tougher with working full time for so long and expressing. Awesome job! And Rhianon, a big YAYYYYy to you!! And also a big yahoo to you Kim, for looking after a one year old, whilst being pregnant! Exhausting I bet. What a big year for us all!

All good here with the in-laws, but I have been working the last two days, so tomorrow the real test begins..

Byeeee xxx

:clap::clap: to everyone.

Good job on the 12 months feeding campari. We are still feeding here too, but I have successfully weaned him off the middle of the day feed and ont cows milk. Yay!
Now I don't have to express at work anymore!!

Hi girls!

Its been AGES!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL THE AUGUST BABIES!!!!!

Congratulations to Kim on your pregancy hun! I can't belive your already 16 weeks!!!

Well things are pretty good here. Colby is growing up very quickly! Walking, climbing, falling and crashing everywhere!! Her and her sister get along famously!

Sadly I decided to end our BF relationship as Brent and I now live apart and it was too hard when he took the girls on his weekend. She still looks for it and tries to make a bee line for my nipple when she see's them!

We did'nt do too much for Colby's first birthday. Just a bbq and a cheesecake for her to demolish.

Not much else to report. I will try and get in a bit more often. I am offline at the moment cause of the move but will be online again soon!

Hope you are all well....

Take Care!