Sounds like your little man is coming along great! Liam's not walking yet, but is preparing for it. I love how you can see them practicing and building their confidence - don't you??
All the best to your family. I hope one of you do win the lottery so you're all not out on your ear. *sending lucky vibes to you*
Just stopped back in to see what has been happening. It also makes it easier when I get emails again to let me know someone has posted.
Zee, you poor thing. DH needs his head reaved for putting you though all of that, and it sound like a great idea to take is slow.
*Sorry to hear about you family issue, I'll send you lotto vibes if you spilt it with me if you win.
Nettie, yeah I am in amazment when watching Wyatt. He is now starting to get his crys down pat. I can tell when his brother is annoying him or when someone has taken something off him, when he gets stuck, or when he is ready for boobie.
Wyatt is off, slowly starting to walk behind his pusher. I would love him to walk before wedding cos he would look so cute, but I dont want him to as the its more work and effort running after him and his brother.
Wedding plans,
Ok, so I have 63 adults and 7 children attending. Most things are done, but am unsure what else I have to do I thought I would be a lot more busier by now. I guess that will come. I order my dress from ebay like I had planned and it is PERFECT.
So I know how you all love some photo I have heaps for you, so in my dress and some of Wyatt.
I have done all the table seating, and just have to get order of day printed and place
setting and menu together.
I hope you are keeping safe and cool. It has rained over night so a nice cool morning today.
Hi Everyone,
thanks for the kick up the you know what Nettie, I do mean to post more often but now that i'm back at work i find it hard to find the time!
Glad to read most of you are well, sorry to read of your family troubles Zee hope it is going okay for you. Hope the rest of your wedding plans go smoothly sarah, its such an exciting and special time.
Okay so I started back at work on Tuesday 27th Jan, three days a week and we are all adjustng to it okay. Cooper goes to FDC while i work and his carer is wonderful!
He is nearly walking, won't be long now i think, he has two bottom teeth and still BF, he is so active these days a split second and his gone exploring around the house! Can't believe how quickly he is growing up
Sleep at night time is not great still he wakes at least three times a night and needs me to resettle him, he is still being wrapped to sleep, is anyone else doing this? After my MCHN hounded and hounded me i have stopped feeding in the middle of the night now so i have been doing that for a week, we've gone this long before but i end up giving in if i can't settle him after getting up four or five times, so we'll see if i last!
Whats new with everyone else???
I was feeding Liam before his sleep and I had a sudden 'Mummy moment'. It suddenly hit me - "look what I made!" Dunno why now, but I just got a very sudden awe moment - tears and all!
thanks girls - need all the positive vibes i can get to survive each day - russell new trick is standing up from itting down and trying to walk. quick question
are anyones kids headbutting stuff. this has been going on for a few weeks now started when he realised he could do "yoga" i think its the cat position. now it is everything me the floor the doors cupboards. it dosn't seem like a normal behaviour. it gets worse when he is frustrated at soemthing.
Sorry Zen. Liam doesn't headbut (well, not intentionally). If you're worried - see the child/youth health nurse. Liam does pelvic thrusts when on hands & knees... I'm sure all our bubbas are doing something slightly odd!
I can see why it would concern you though... he doesn't do it hard enough to hurt himself, does he?
Hi Guys! I'll try and pop in later for more detailed response, but yep, Nettie, I have mummy moments like that, especially having bottle time before bed, when he just gazes up at me...I just look at him and think....we made you....and I'm sooo lucky to have you (*sniff sniff, tear tear*) then I'm back to normal!!
HI ladies, It has been a really long time since i have been in here. No excuses other than I work full time and between that and my husband and Luke it is hard to do anything for myself!! Luke is going well - he is cruising around the furniture, crawling like a maniac and has 8 teeth. He is a bit sick at the moment and a little off his food, but weighs in at around 13kg and is almost 80cm long. Bit of a heifer!
My goodness....13kg and 80cm, he's doing well!
Benjamin now weighs in around the 9kg mark and is just heading into size 0 clothes...though in anything but grow suits (with feet), 00's are still a good fit!!
He has been pushing himself to sitting alot lately, and whilst he isnt crawling on his knees, he gets up on hands and knees and rocks alot.
He isn't pulling himself up, but I've noticed him getting alot more steady on his feet so thats cool.
Surgery went well. The Drs are pleased with how it all went so that's always good.
Me? Well, I'm home - alone - and not coping too well. I feel like I'm going slowly insane because I've left my boy in hospital (and my Husband) and this is the first time since he was born that I've spent the night away from him.
He's been quite clingly and dependent and neither of us got heaps of sleep last night (about 5 hours each - broken up) - as Liam will only sleep in our arms. So we took turns and switched every 2-3 hours. I feel REALLY awful that I've left DH there to deal with him while I'm home (have to go back to work in the morning) and I'm missing Liam like nothing I've ever experienced before.... haven't stopped sobbing since I left the ward!
I'll go back each night after work (around 1hour drive each way) and if I'm this unstable at work tomorrow, I might even be able to call in 'sick' to go early... I'll see what happens after a night's sleep.
On the upside (yes, there IS one!) - we got permission from the head Plastic Surgeon to use the haberman bottle to give Liam a feed around 6pm tonight. We tried to spoon or syringe feed him this afternoon (they don't want anything in his mouth) but it just really upset him as he's not used to it and didn't swallow reflexibly - so he panicked. He ate some pureed apples on a spoon, but the milk (formula) is what he really wanted. Also - the sucking action really comforted him. So we can now settle him easier and he has been playing and smiling as well as grizzling and crying!
Hopefully in the morning the pain management team will assess him not needing the morphine any more (he's on the minimum dose now) and we can remove the drip and oxygen and have him tangle free!
The splints on his arms are ticking him off a bit - but that's a small thing to deal with for now. They should come off in a few days.
Here's hoping DH has gotten him to sleep in the cot and is having some well earned sleep right now... Can I hear a 'Hell yeah!'??
WOOOHOOOOO!!!!!! Way to go Liam (and Toni and DH) well done!
You were very brave leaving him Toni, when Bj ended up in hospital at 10 weeks, I refused to leave him, slept on a chair in his room for 3 nights (DH had work), only time I left his side was one day when DH came for a visit after work, I went to the vending mechine down the hall!
You guys have done very well, and I'm stoked to read he's doing so well!!
Well done, and massive hugs and kisses to all of you from us!!
Wyatt is walking everywhere. Which is so cute, but it also mean double running around now for me, I am so lazy. however I already have a 3 year old and I do enough running after him. No teeth yet still, we have the lumps under there, but they just wont come though.
Anyway wedding is in 8 days (21 march) and parents fly into 2 morro. So am trying to get house clean and yard FH decided to dig it up 11 days before wedding. **Never said he was bright spark**
Well I better go have lots more to do, and hens night is tonight.
Sarah - hope you have/had a great Hen's night! How exciting! All the best for the wedding too... look forward to seeing some pics in your gallery!
Liam did a few steps to DH the other day which was quite impressive... but he's not doing it on his own yet.
He's got the splints off and is almost back to normal. We went to the Baby Expo in Adelaide today and he absolutely loved it! He's still a bit clingy so didn't last too long in the pram - but DH carried him in the sling for about 3 hours. He charmed the pants off nearly every stall holder - everyone loves his hair!
Hope everyone else is well! I'm a bit slack this month because the nappy hunt is on and I spend most of my 'puter time' looking for icons! If you don't know what I'm talking about visit diaperdecisions dot com....
I know it early 5:40am. Can't sleep, there is so much to get done. My parents fly in today. My mother is going to be the biggest stress for me. I honestly don't know why they are coming a week early I guess they figure they could help. But honeslty the only real way they can help is to babysit kids while I run earns.
Anyway Hens Night. OMG it was so borning, I felt so sorry for guest. MOH and BM did one game after I told them I wanted to have games all night, it was parcel the parcel. I felt like I was 4. They have been so slack and un supportive during the process for me. They have not gone out of way to call me up once a week and ask how thing are going or come around and help you do menu or name tags or put petal cones together. So disappointed in them, I honsetly thought my MOH would have made it really specail for me.
Groomsmen yesterday, FINALLY got there suits organised. They were worse than girls. I B*t#h slaped the best man, as he was being a pain in the bottom, kept changing mind. If you didn't know him I would say he was Gay, which he's not, but you would take him clothes shopping with you as he would give his honest thoughts.
Anyway last night was the FIRST time FH has put Wyatt to bed. I have been expressing milk like I am a cow. Anyway saved up 200ml put in bottle, and told FH it was in fridge when he was ready. Along with how to wrap him up and put him down with Giles (teddy bear). I know I not ment to have anything in his cot, he only has Giles, his first teddy from Daddy. Wyatt pulls Giles over to his noise and rub's his fingers which arn't in his mouth on him. If he doesn't have Giles he doesn't sleep. Hence Giles doesn't leave the cot.
DS1 has Beckett and does the same only he rub's beckett arm on/under his noise, and rub's his hand. Beckett little hand has been warn out off fur. Again Beckett isn't ment to leave bed so we know when he is when we need him.
Nettie, that is great news that laim is starting to try. DS1 walk early at 9 1/2 months so I was hoping and not, that Wyatt would walk early. Thought was he would look so cute walking down aisle but then he would run off.
If he falls to his bum, he would just rather crawl away then try and stand back up.
Wow Liam does have alot of hair. That is what I expected Wyatt to have when he was born, but only a little bit.
How is Laim now after surgery? When does he have to go for check up?
Hey Sarah? How much (if you don't mind saying) was Wyatts suit for your wedding?
My brother is getting married in october and we'd love to surprise everyone with Benjamin in a suit, but I can't afford to spend a fortune!!
How is everyone?
Benjamin had a hearing test today, went well, except it looks like he has yet another ear infection, will go to dr on friday...apparently at the moment one ear has some "colour" the other is congested...if he's gonna get one, it'll show up properly on friday!
***UPDATE***
Yet again Benjamin has an ear infection in both ears, and a throat infection....grrrr.....no wonder he was velcro boy....we kinda knew it was coming though, still a bummer.
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Liam's just learning to eat - so he's a light feeder too. He loves bread though and tends to much at about a handful of it at a time. We tried some veggies this arvo for lunch, but he just played with them. Put them to his mouth, but then made a screwed-up face and didn't bite...
He's eaten banana and rockmelon before though - but again only a small sample. Will play with more than he eats!
BW Luke is a big eater. he has 1.5 weetbix and a tub of yohgurt for b'fest. He has sao's or a muesli bar for morning tea, he has mashed vegies and cheese for lunch, another tub of yoghurt and half a banana for afternoon tea, tuna or beef with mashed vegies and cheese for dinner and custard for desert. And 2 bottles. he is a bit of a pig. He will also eat biscuits hand over fist if permitted!
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when on hands & knees... I'm sure all our bubbas are doing something slightly odd!
. They have not gone out of way to call me up once a week and ask how thing are going or come around and help you do menu or name tags or put petal cones together. So disappointed in them, I honsetly thought my MOH would have made it really specail for me. 
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