Babies Born May 2006 #54

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

Feeding Support:

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

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

Sleeping Support:

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

Other Useful Information & Recommended Reading:

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

Got questions?

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

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

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Good luck with the move Sara...
If I lived near Brissy I would come for a visit.
Stay safe.

good luck with every thing sara i'm sure we will eventually get to meet brisbane not that far from me

4kg lost Shazz... I am so proud of you!
I have not put on any weight.... yet... am trying really hard to be good this pg. But it is early days yet! and I am sure the MS is really helping out too.

thanks having gall stones and pancreatitis helps leanne but probably not the most popular way to lose weight lol people have started to notice so it feels good now

omg my DH just chased a BIG brown snake away from our front door i don't think i'm living the house again eeeeeeeeeek

Hey you guys, just catching up on posts....sorry i've been missing a bit....I am so tired at the moment.

Leanne, sorry to hear you aren't well at the moment.

Sara great to see you found a house. Best of luck with the move and the new start.

Shazz, man you poor love.

:hello: everyone else.

I have 3 weeks to go (yahoo), but a small person who is getting harder and harder to live with and IL troubles again! ....really looking forward to D-Day...who'd a thunk I'd ever say that again after last time?
I went through my bag with DH the other day. I made him sit down and see what was on the list so he knew what was needed. It's been ready since about 26 weeks, but he had to pack it by himself last time....and i don't want that again.

Poor buggar also had his Sergeant's exam today and he's rung me about 45 times to 'check up' on answers...I hate it when he does it cos he sounds so down when I tell him....hope he went alright. We had rain last night too...first time in months. Typical though we are supposed to lay grass tonight but becasue it was cyclonic last night they couldn't cut it and can't until Sunday night when DH goes back to work :dunno: murphy's law I guess.

Kim can you pls PM your home address and other details.... like email etc???

Hi everyone else. I am feeling rotten, so am going to go make some plain toast with a scrape of vegemite. Hope you are all well.

Oh, and happy Valentines Day to you all.....

leanne - fantastic to see that the pregnancy is still progressing well, hope the m/s eases up soon though. Well done to Katy and her big girl knickers!

Kim - my sister only has 2 weeks to go, there are babies all around me atm, I am loving it!! Wish I had one of my own though. Great to see that your little boy has hung on in there, I hope you get a great birth with this one.

Shazz - well done on the weight loss!

Sara - Hope your move is going well. Mabe Im gonna have to get a plane flight to Brissie one day....you will have to line up some cute guys for me.

Christine - Hope te new school year is treating you well.

My trip to Mildura was great, however my Aunties babe was stubborn, and come out the day after I came home! I met her this weekend, she is so tiny and petite with heaps o black hair, my cluckiness was ot of control LOL!

On Thursday I put an end to my marrriage. Was a very emotional time, however I am feling so good about my decision and am proud of myself for being so strong. Jay and I still get on really well whih is fantastic. Its funny though, al of a sudden I am cheking out EVERY male who walks by LOL. I am hoping i can find a nice family man in the next few years and settl down and have more babies....anyone have a man they can reccomend??

It is my sisters last ante natal class this week, she is 38 weeks today, I am beyond excited!!

Archie is loving Childcare, he pushes me out the door in the mornings!

Hope you are all well and happy xx

I lost you ladies!!
Hope everyone is going OK, sounds like a few illnesses :( Shazz and Leanne hope you feel better soon.
Kim- so glad you have held on this long, he'll prob be late now LOL
Elissa- glad you are feeling positive and happy. Hope your sisters birth goes well.
Off to school now, more another time.

My very best friend here at work who is 3 wks ahead of me lost her baby.
I am devastated.
It is going to be so hard for her watching me grow etc while she has lost her baby.
I feel bad as in the last week or so I have been saying how I am not sure whether I am ready for another one, and she lost hers and I didnt.

Oh Leanne thats so hard, hugs to you and your friend.

Oh Leanne, that's awful. Having been in both positions though I understand. She's your best mate - she'll still be your best mate :hug:

Elissa I'm so glad you sound so positive hun!! Lots going on around you too. That's tops Archie loves daycare.

Shazz hows the pain chickie?

AFM. BP's up again - back on bedrest and heavy duty drugs...kinda over it. At least Cam had enough annual leave to take 2 weeks early - otherwise I had to stay in hospital.
Darcy is regressing a bit on the TT. Even though she's been TT for 6 months now all of a sudden there are accidents everywhere. We know it's an attention thing...but i can hardly reach my knees let alone the floor lol.

hi kim wow so close now
pain is not so bad at all i see the surgeon tomorrow though but i'm sure all will be fine and he'll send me on my merry way all bloods came back with indicators of gall stones and pancreatitis so it will be interesting if i have to have another attack or what will happen before they do anything i'll be in daily to do a kim watch from now on so excited

leanne - I am so sorry for your fried, please dont fel guilty about it though, we all have moments of not knowig if we are ready, this is not your fault, and im sure being the gorgeous caring person that you are you will make sure your friend isn't feeling too badly about your progressing pregnancy x

kim - thank goodness there is not long to go now! Sorry to hear that Darcy TT has regresed, Archie has too since ay and I split, Im sure once bub is here she ill go back to her old self.

I am going to the Melbourne BB meet up in June, I am SO excited, wish it were sooner though. Hoping to get my new car this week some time, fingers crossed.

well I think the MS has gone for now, but I have had a migraine for three days. Is there anything other than Panadol that is safe. I can't really afford to take any more time off work...

Not long now Kim - hope you are doing okay.

I took mersyndol when pg (I had morphine and pethadine too so I am hardly a poster girl for natural pregnancy LOL)

Good morning all,

Just thought I'd let you know that my waters broke yesterday afternoon about 3pm. No real contractions since then....looks like we might be having another csec.
Been in hossy all night. Got Cam to bring in the laptop cos I figured I wouldn't be able to sleep - I did.
Poor buggar was in Sydney for my godfather's funeral when it happened....he got back here pretty quick though.

Oh no KIm! Will be thinking of you today, hope it goes well and your little man is in your arms soon.

Thanks hun, just waiting for a spot on the theatre list....

Kim's baby boy Nate has arrived!

Little Nate arrived by c-section this afternoon at 12:47 pm.
He weighs 9lb 1oz and is 51cm long - head circumference is 34 cm.

Mummy is tired but both are doing well.

Congratulations to you Kim, Cam, and big sister Darcy.....!!!

Holy cow thats a chunky one!!!! Congrats Kim, Cam and Darcy!!!

congrats again Kim i can't wait to see some pics ( cluck cluck )

OMG Kim!!! I was just thinking you must be close to having your baby boy!!

:bluecheer:CONGRATULATIONS!!! WELCOME BABY NATE!!:bluecheer:

Sorry I have been MIA, I dropped off the notifications a while back and haven't had time to come in and check on everyone....Its hard with 2 baby buddy groups plus I have been venturing out around the forum a lot more than I used to then of course there is FB!

Sara: Hope the move went ok, did Brent go with you? Love the pics on FB, the girls are GORGEOUS as always!

Leanne: Great to see you're still going! Almost at the 12wk mark! I hope the MS dissapears for good, mine went at around 10wks with Ashlea but 12wks with Jayden.

Shazz: Woohoo on the weight loss, but sorry to hear about your gall stones and pancreatitis. How is uni going? Eww @ the brown snake! We had one in our old house when I was 3mths PG with Jayden, it was about 2metres away from his room...luckily he wasn't there yet!

Elissa: I am so sorry to hear about your marriage! I have been meaning to PM you for ages, but slack a*** me never got around to it! I glad you are feeling good about it and its fantastic that you and Jay can be friends....How is Archie handling it?

Ashlea is crying, I'll catch up again soon

Hi girls!

I feel like such a bi*ch! I have been so caught up in myself lately that I totally missed all of Kim's posts and her birth announcement!

I did post in your birth announcement Kim but a HUGE congratulations again to you, cam and darcy. I feel so terrible for missing your posts. Hope you resting up well and enjoying your babymoon with your beautiful son Nate. He was a good size wasn't he. I love big baby's!

As for us, we are all settled in Brisbane. I started Uni on Monday which I am really enjoying. Bit disappointed that their is only 1 Midwifery subject this semester but I guess you have to get all the nitty gritty stuff out of the way first.

Tania - Yeh Brent came with me. Things are still pretty cr@p between us though. I am about to move into the spare room at the back of the house. Its sad but things will never work between us. I'm only putting up with him now because of the girls. Glad you liked the pics of the girls. They are cute but don't let that trick you cause they are rat bags under those cute faces! :lol: If your ever down this way, or me up their, we'll have to meet finally! You'd think after being cyber friends for almost 3 years now we'd all meet hey!

Leanne - I'm so sorry to read about your friend. It can't be easy for either of you. On the bright side, your chugging along nicely now! 10 weeks! I can remember when Kim was at that stage! It only seems like yesterday! Glad to hear that the migraines have settled down. Your heading into the "nice" 2'nd trimester!

Shazz - You've done so well with the weight loss! I wish I could say the same! Shame about the other things though. Must be painful. How are you going with your course? Are you enjoying it? Yes we will have to organise a day/time to meet one day. We're not that far from each other now.

Elissa - How are you going hun? I have read that you and Archie have a place of your own now. Where abouts are you's? Do you think that you and DP will work things out? I can sympathise with you hun. Relationships are hard work sometimes aren't they. I'd be happy to be single until I finished my course now I think. Men, uni, kids, life...all too much work. I'd like to narrow it down to kids, uni and life I think. Men take up to much of our lives.

Christine - Hi to you too hun. How's school? You enjoying being back?

I don't think I forgot anyone.

Well I will try and get in more often now that I have the net on. Can't make any promises though. ;)

Miss you all....

Take Care!

Glad you are enjoying the course Sara, is it hard? Jess wants to do nursing next year if she gets the uAI she needs.

2 posts in as many days....must be a record for me lately!! Now to finish what little Miss interupted last night :rolleyes:

Christine: How have you been, I have looked back on the posts and you haven't said what you have been up to (not in this thread anyway). How is that spunky boy of yours? And the girls of course!

Sara: I'm glad the move went well and you are enjoying uni. I'm sorry things are cr@p between you two still. Think of yourself and the girls though but don't "put up with it" for anyone, the girls will sense the tension! I'm here if you want to talk hun. We will definitely have to catch up sometime somehow! A friend of mine just had a baby in Bris so I will go down there one of these days to meet her little princess. I could imagine what the girls are like LOL Jayden is the same!

ASM: We went to maccas for brekki this morning met PIL & Nieces (6, 16, 19yo's) Jayden worked out how to lock the playground with just him inside! Luckily he didn't see the other door so we could get in! Then at spotlight niece (6yo) and Jayden ran all around the place hiding from me and niece19. Some lady said something nasty to Jayden so as she walked past me I said "I'll disipline my own children thank you" then as she walked past again I told Jayden to hit her with a wrapping paper roll LOL....ok not my best mummy moment but it was funny (he didn't do it) but she heard me. I had a big talk to Jayden in the car about why mummy was so upset with him and him and niece6 were great for the rest of the day. She is evening sleeping over here the night (Jayden's first sleep over party!). Exhausting day......no more babies for me, I can't handle 3 obviously haha

I will try to come in more often too.....although I am back at work very soon :( not looking forward to it at all!


ETA: OH and happy 7mths to my baby girl!!! I can't believe the time has gone so fast!!

hi everyone just a quick one running out the door as usual tania your dya sounds like it was an adventure if i were Jayden i would have hit her he he and happy 7 months miss Ashlea

Kim - OMG!!! Congrats on your little boy Nate, love the name, hope you are recovering well xxx

Tania - Thanks for the well wishes, things are a little strained between Jay and I atm, but nothing awful. Arch isn't coping well with the seperation at all, very violent and angry these days which is awful to see and very hard to cope with every day, but we will get through it. Love the pic of Ashlea in your ticker. Goodness surely it hasn't been 7 months since Ash was born??!! LOL at you telling Jayden to hit the lady, thats something I have said to Arch too, some people just deserve it!

sara - Glad you are enjoying Uni, it is a bummer that all the boring subjects are in the first semester, at lest you get them out of the way though. I have given jay too many chances to change things and it hasn't happened, so I have decided enough is enough I can't do this anymore, the guilt I felt about hurting him has turned to anger at the way he has been over the last few years, so I am feeling okay about it all atm LOL. Arch and I are living in Mount Gambier SA, an hour away from Jay.

Shazz - Hi, and hope Uni is going well for you.

Jay has taken Archie on holiday this week, I have never been without Arch for more than 24 hours so this will be a test. Jay has never ever done any childcare on the numerous trips away from home that we had so I am giggling inside myself thinking of how he will be realising why I get stressed on occasion LOL! Knowing Jay though, he will just get drunk and let my Aunty take care of Arch. I have plenty to keep me busy wghile Arch is away tough. Its my first day of Uni tomorrow which I am very excited about, plus my sister is being induced tomorrow night and I am her birth partner, so the next few days will be jam packed with excitement!! I am staying at my Mums tonight so that I dont get lonely inmy unit by myself for the first time.

I get my new car tomorrow, I am very excited about that too! I think I have over used the word excitement in this post.....that can only be a good thing though.

I AM AN AUNTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chas James was born at 11:15pm last night by c-section, 8lb12, 51cm, 36.5hc. He is a real sucky baby, constantly has to be sucking on something. My sister is a champ bfer already and has milk pouring out of her breasts already!! I am very proud and tired LOL, Oh, and CLUCKY! Can't wait to pick my little boy up tonight and give him a huge cuddle.

Congratulatons Aunty!!!! He sounds just gorgeous...... Cluck Cluck over here too. (even though I feel so rotten!!!)

still got m/s?

congrats elissa on your new nephew

Awww Congratualtion Elissa! And congrats to your sister!

So tell me....How'd it feel for you seeing it from that point of view? Its amazing and terrifying at the same time isn't it!

How'd birth go?

Great to hear the breastfeeding has come some easily for her!

M/S seems to have subsided, but the migraines... OMG!!! Dr has recommended me cut my days dow at least to 14 weeks, as hopefully then he thinks they might settle down.
I have woken up with a headache for 2 weeks now.....
But other than that all is pretty good...

How are you KIm?
Anyone know what has happened to Sheree?
Elissa love Avatart picture.

Have a nice day.

Helloooo??? Where is everyone? Miss you guys.

Hey you guys...I promise I will catch up....got a buggar of a kid (no not Darcy) who won't be put down.

Thats boys Kim!!!
Riley is a wild man ATM, he has a very attractive black eye from his tanty when he hit my bedisde table and bruises all over his legs from his active lifestyle! He is going to the loo of an evening when he has no nappy on so is ready to TT its just me being organised enough LOL He gets a treat when he gos so h squeezes out every drop of urine that enters his bladder as soon as it gets there LOL
Hope the headaches are settling down Leanne,I hate migraines, I used to get thm a lot but not so much now.
Did anyone see me and my class on 9 news on monday night????

good to hear from you Kim hope little man gives mummy some BB time soon we miss her
Leanne i hope the head ache bugger off and leave you alone i am feeling for you hun i really am
i have been migraine free for 2 months i feel semi normal again the dr's finally gave in and helped me they pet me on a anti epileptic drug daily that they have found has helped migraine suffers it has changed my life i don't wake up every day with a head ache that turns feral with in an hour i now wake pain free and only get a headache not migraine if i am tired or un well it is heaven only draw back is my short term memory is not so good ( not good when you are studying as hard as i am to pass ) so any way i am rambaling but thought i'd share that i totally sympathize cause i suffered pretty horrendously whilst pg and the things that helped me where getting in a hot shower ( only on my head ) then turning the cold on only then back to hot getting out on hot then laying down in a dark room ask your dr about an anti emetic ( maxalon) casue if your anything like me the nasusea hits the hardest then the vomiting starts and doesn't stop till a jab in the butt any way
also wearing the sea sick bracelets daily i think helped and plety of water
and if you don't want water ginger beeer ( calming to the stomach )

hope you find some thing that helps :hug:

Christine no i missed it i was trying to get home so i could catch it but Nope stooopid trucks and low gear coming down the range saw to that i bet you were a star
any way i am going to bed i am exhasuted that to a sick wheezy coughing snoring excuse for a husband happy weekends all
tak to you all next week
shazz

Hi girls!

Just poppin in quickly to see how you all are.

We are ok here. Me is so behind on uni stuff! I'll be right though!

Mum, sis and bro came down to visit us this weekend. Was ok. Glad to send them home though! Too busy with them here.

Girls are good. Naughty as ever! Nah they are ok. Colby really starting to talk now. I have some pics from Australia Zoo that I will post on FB shortly. Don't think I really got any of the girls now that I think of it!

Course is going ok. Still very disappointed with the course structure but $hit happens hey.

Not much else to report.

How's everyone else going?

Okay ladies need advice here.

Katy is pretty much toilet trained wee wise (YAY!!!), but how do I help her to not be scared of the toilet or potty when it comes to doing a poo. She totally freaks out.
Tonight I saw her concentrating and noticed she had started something in her undies, so I quickly put her on the loo and said okay darling you can do this, you are a big girl and so clever, show mummy how clever you are. She totally freaked out.... Crying big croc tears.
So after about 10 minutes I put her in the bath and guess what. Floating nugget amongst the bubbles....

Sigh.