Hey Von...hope you found something to wear to the wedding in this ridiculous heat! You know what they say, babies can sense tension in the house....otherwise maybe Dh's snoring is keeping james awake too?????LOL
I've been MIA due to a couple of days of feeling really tired and unwell. Two bleeding nipples and a mastitis scare thrown in just for good measure!
Apart from that, we're doing well Jared had a great night last night... slept for four hours, woke up for a feed and then slept for another three. Boy it makes a difference! For the first three nights he was here, I didn't sleep much at all, which is why I was feeling so ill. Anyway, hopefully it's all behind us now.
Ben is waking too early in the morning though which is a pain. He hears us up at 5am and decides that he'd like to get up and play too. Hopefully he'll settle back into later sleeps soon. I don't think the ridiculous heat has been helping much either.
Sorry, I don't have time to catch up much right now, I want to right up my birth story before it becomes too foggy to remember.
Wow, time is so flying for me I come in here thinking it's only been a day or two since I posted, but it's been almost a week!
Jen, the heat here has been foul hasn't it? I've been going from my place (aircon) to mums (aircon and pool) and back again, and that's it! Though today was much cooler! Thankgoodness. Since having Liam I so can't stand the heat...
I'm so torn over calling Karitane. I get to the end of my tether and then all of a sudden we;ll have a week of great nights and I'll think thank god she's sleeping, and then BAM! It starts again... and I just keep thinking it will stop soon, she's nearly 2 and she'll get the sleep thing...and now I think her ears are playing up again which is why she's been so bad again. SO I just don't know what to do!
I would love to ba able to send Lily to childcare or something for a break, but money is too tight for it. CC in our area is $60 a day, just too much. As an early childhood teacher, I have very specific requirements too, so it will be hard for me to find a centre! Family day care is cheaper and more appealing, but is fairly hard to find a place. She will be going to occaisional care when I start working for four hours once or twice a week if I need it, but otherwise it's too much money
Von, your nights sound like mine lately...they suck. Big time! My DH isn't as bad as your's he does eventually hear the kids, but he can sleep through most of it....where as I'm up at every peep. I think that's half my problem. I think that makes it all the more stressful cause they're not there to help, kwim. Well it does for me sometimes, and I resent that he can have a good nights sleep regardless of if the kids are wakeful or not. WHere even is the kids have a good night and I get to sleep, I can't cause I'm wondering why they're not awake, LOL!
DG, sorry to hear you're having a tough time. I hope things settle for you soon, it might take a few weeks but it does get easier and you get used to the extra work. You're lucky Jared is sleeping so well already, Liam is still up every 2-3hrs most nights Sorry to hear Ben's up early though. For me it's the early mornings that are the killers.....anything before 6am these days really hurts!
As for us, well, DH is on holidays now for 2 weeks (yay!) and I get to catch up on sleep! LOL Lily has been ok, a bit stroppy some days which has got me thinking her ears are sore again. I will be taking her to the GP tomorrow, and we have another specialist appt in mid Feb. I'm thinking dairy will be off the menu for a while. Which is ok for me, at least she won't have to have an operation sor grommets.
We are going to Adelaide in a few days (so I won't be online much in the next week or so) and then I start work and uni again in Feb, so I will be busy busy busy!!! I only have one unit to do for uni, and I'm only working 3hrs a day, but it will be fun trying to keep up with everything! I'm thinking BB might be the thing that's going to have to suffer for it all! But I will still be around a bit.
Ok that's it for me, I hope everyone had a great long weekend!
Ok gotta go
Hey Mel- sorry to hear about your sore boobies...ouch. Like Kel said, things do get better...albeit slowly!!!! Bugger Ben is waking up early though, hopefully he will settle quickly back into his old routine.
Wow kel you are going to be one busy chick...i admire you. Have fun in Adelaide.
Us- well Olivia is pretty much finished with her day sleep She gets tired around 5pm which is wy too early, so the rest of the evening is hard yakker coz shes a misery guts. We get her into bed by 7 ish and shes asleep straight away. I miss her having those arvo naps coz I am buggered by then. Am hoping its a phase. We still go through the same routine though- in bed at 1pm and bottle, she has rest time, although she usually does poos so i have to take her out of the room. Oh well....it cant last forever.
Shes back climbing everything again. She tries climbing the fly wire screen door, on tables...which she fell off today and scraped her chin, up on the edge of the couch. Oh and shes also worked out how to climb up the handles of the cupboards in the kitchen.
Rebecca is doing well. I cant believe she is 10 weeks already tomorrow. How time flies. She smiles lots and is desperately trying to make noises...so cute. She has her moments with feeds, last week for 2 days in a row, she fed 2 hourly and didnt want to be put down, then the following day she slept all day between feeds. I can never keep up with what shes doing!!!
We are doing pretty good managing it all. My body has healed reasonably well, although I have about 12kgs to loose Doesnt help with the bowel of ice cream dh made tonight Dont think I will go back to work this year either, unless we are desperate for money. And if I need to I will probably do night shift on the weekends.
Ok, I should get to bed...the tennis is keeping me up, and bb!!
Mel, Olivia sounds like Lily. She's a climbing monster too. Lil climbs up the kitchen drawer handles to get onto the bench....so now I just let her have a dining schair there to see/get what she wants and just make sure I don't leave anything dangerous there I'm fast running out of surfaces to leave 'stuff' on. Like important papers, just things I don't want her having!
Don't admire me yet....not sure how I'm going to go! I'm thinking I might be a tad ambitious yet! But it's stuff I have to do, I have to go back to work and I have to finish my degree this yr or the rest of it will have been for nothing cause I can't do it next year. So it's all a matter of have to not want to!
Hey All...
happy Australia Day for yesterday....we performed our patriotic duty and had a sausage sizzle for lunch, lamb rack for tea and followed it with mini pavlova...its tough loving your country so much! Hope everyone else had a good day too....
Mel - Oh, I think I would be mourning the loss of day sleeps too....I hope for you it is just a phase aswell. I guess just keep putting her in there and hope for the best. Good on you not having to work for the rest of the year (I mean PAID work that is)
Kel - Can you put your name down for part-time family day care and maybe by the time you start up uni again something might pop up? I think its good you have high standards! At least you are super aware of what they should be doing etc, I have only ever looked at one daycare when Beau was 1month and left crying! (I am sad tho!) It does sound like LIl's ears, good luck at the specialist - I cant imagine Beau having to give up dairy! It would halve his diet Have a great time while DH is off all together, try and find time to put your feet up and let him take Lil out for a bit to give you a break. (even better L & L and go see a movie)
Dis - Oh Dis I hope your mastitis has cleared up. I am sure you are doing amazingly well with the boys. Hope Ben starts to sleep in a little bit more, bit tough if he hears Jared though! How is he settling in to being a big bro?
Us - Beau is coming out with lots of new words every day atm, he is discovering lots of his toys a bit more and is obsessed with his wooden skittles and standing them all up and bashing them down, he is obsessed wth drawing!! All day its "drew drew!!" Its always hard when DH has a few days off and goes back to work..we realise how much we miss him x
Oh well, better go and take advantage of the little one being asleep...
Oh how things have improved here! My mastitis has cleared up without too much trouble and I'm getting a bit more sleep. Jared is asleep in the hug a bub right now - he seems to like it as much as his big brother does, but if this heat keeps up, he won't be in it half as much. Ben is still asleep and it's 7am! When I got up for Jared's feed this morning I just sat in silence watching him feed instead of turning on the tele and that seems to have done the trick with Ben - yay! I just hope it's not a one off.
Jen, don't you love all the new words? We miss Craig when he's back at work too. He's only had to work two days since Jared was born, but things are back to normal from tonight It sucks here because I have breakfast and bedtime on my own which is pretty tricky.
Kel, hope you're having a good time in Adelaide. You're in for a busy time with uni, work and the two littlies!
Mel, I don't know how you and Kel deal with the climbers you have! It would drive me nuts!!! It's bad enough that Ben can now reach a lot of things on our counters and table by standing on his tippy toes!
Von, I hope your nights get better soon. It's horrible when you're up all night and even worse when DH doesn't hear a thing. I can't sleep through the slightest noise from my boys!
Ben has been doing so well with the big change in his life. Yesterday, Craig went through the alphabet and he repeated every letter after him So funny. I managed to get half of it on video. Most of the time I miss all the cute things because by the time you get the camera out - you're too late!
He's also back to eating better and last night had an awesome 10 hours (he's just gotten up now). Something I hope is going to become common again!!!
Well, best get him some breakfast. Hope you all are coping okay in this horrible heat
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Jared had a great night last night... slept for four hours, woke up for a feed and then slept for another three. Boy it makes a difference! For the first three nights he was here, I didn't sleep much at all, which is why I was feeling so ill. Anyway, hopefully it's all behind us now.
Sorry to hear Ben's up early though. For me it's the early mornings that are the killers.....anything before 6am these days really hurts!
I'm fast running out of surfaces to leave 'stuff' on. Like important papers, just things I don't want her having!
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