Wow, you guys have been busy! Took me a while to catch up!
I love everyones new ticker pics, your bubs are all gorgeous
jjj, welcome! I hear you on horrible induced labours, I had one with my DD too. Thankfully this time I had a great, fully natural birth, it made such a difference for me!
Kristi, I hope your motivation has lasted. I seem to have found some energy lately too, I have done 3 loads of washing, folded and packed it away, mopped, vacuumed, washed up, changed my bed and the kids cot/cradle and cleaned the shower!! Even though I am still living off 3-4hrs sleep a night!
Lea, sorry to hear bf'ing isn't going so well. Can you go and see another LC? Or maybe go the hospital you had her in and see the midwives? There must be something you can do!
Tasha, I had my DH take DD to have her ears peirced too, LOL! I'm too much of a sooky pants, hehe!!
Mel, happy birthday for the other day, sounds like you had a lovely time .Lots of us are 30 in our group!
Belinda, yep, we had a meet up the other day. Only 3 people went (me included), but it was nice to meet new people. There is a thread in the meet ups section about it. We have regular monthly meet ups on different days at different places around sydney. Where are you from?
Gosh can't believe it's time for needles already!! Our babies are growing too quickly already!
As for us, well we are still struggling with sleeping. DH has had night shift the past few nights and last night he went out and stayed at his friends place for the night. Of course those are the nights the kids play up...the other night I went to bed at 10.30 but didn't manage to actually get to sleep til 3am, then Lil was awake at 5am. 2 hrs sleep....about 6 in 48hrs. I am soooo tired, but I think I'm getting insomnia cause when I try to go to sleep for a nap, my mind won't stop and I just can't sleep, thinking that one of the kids will wake soon anyway, so why bother?
Liam has been pretty good these past few days, except last night, he was really unsettled for hours, just screaming. I'm pretty sure he had wind cause he was farting like no tomorrow through the night! He's getting really big and is definately out of 000's now. He's smiling all the time and is trying very hard to chat, it's so cute to watch.
Ok gotta go, hope everyone is well and had a great weekend!
Kell - aww look at the pic of the two of them they are so cute !!! Not good about the sleeping you will crash and burn soon with that amount of sleep in 48 hours ... hope you managed some sleep last night ... might have to look into the thread on catch ups as I didnt know it was on either ...
Belinda - good to hear Chloe has gained weight and it sounds like things are going better for you ... nice effort on the xmas shopping always have to take advantage of sales when we can these days .. what did you end up buying her? We are doing self settling with Ali as well and are going great guns - persistence is the key really and she is in her room at night now too which is different but needed ..
jjj - welcome and your little one is simply gorgeous ... good to see you are already looking forward to the next one - same here I cannot wait and am going to try the "boy diet" my SIL has that apaprently everyone who has done it got a boy ?!?!? Whether it is true or not not sure but worth a shot !
We are going well ... Ali slept in her cot last night so I am moving her out of our room now and she is so good at self settling during the day time for night sleeps in there now too ... she seems to have grown so much the past week and when her shots were done our Dr told us she had grown 5cm in 2 weeks - massive growth spurt !!!
Just working today then maybe going for a walk later on ...... nice day here need to take advantage of the weather and keep on track with my exercise regime !!!
hello everyone
hope youz all had a great weekend, ours was very busy...that was good for a change but so unsettling for lucy.
you wouldnt belive my saturday nite...our darling baby decided to sleep from 9pm till 4.30am!!! which is fantastic except i couldnt enjoy it because at 1am my friend turned up on our doorstep after having a massive fight with her husband, the poor luv she so desperatly wants a baby but they have to have ivf and its putting such a strain on their relationship i was happy to be her shoulder to cry on because shes been there for me plenty of times and im glad lucy had a great sleep
daddy was very brave on saturday, took lucy to get her ears done i went in an picked the studs then ran as fast as i could out of the hairdressers and into the nearest shop that sold teddies and bought her the biggest one i could find apparently she let out a little squeal but by the time dh had left the hairdressers she was sound asleep and they havent bothered her since and omg she looks soooo cute
kel, hope you got some sleep last nite, i cant nap during the day either i worry about what else i should be doing while dd sleeps so i end up just laying there.
belinda, yay for the weight gain and good luck with the self settling.
mel, belated happy birthday sounds like you had a great time, i have to wait till the last day of the year for my birthday but we will be in tassie for a holiday so im very excited.
kristi, hows chardonnays skin going? hope its getting better is she still on the soy formula? dont you reakon it stinks?
lea, hope things are getting better with gabs feeding
jjj, hello and welcome you'll love it here
bye for now
Tasha
Mel, yeah, I love that pic, it's the first one I've managed to get of the two of them looking at me! And yep, I've been getting more sleep cause DH has been home (yay!) but he's back to work today so it will be another few sleepless nights. I'm lucky he lets me catch up when he's home though, otherwise I'd go insane with sleep deprivation!
Yay @ Ali sleeping in her cot for the night. I need to try to get Liam into his, but I love sleeping with him and it lets me get more sleep too, which I so need at the moment! He sleeps in it in the day time so thats good, at least he likes it! Wow at her growth spurt too! I need to get Liam weighed and measured, I haven't done it since he was about 3wks old.....naughty mummy!
Tasha, I hope Lucy has settled after your big weekend. Lucky you with Lucy's big sleeps, I hope they have continued for you! LOL@ you running when she got her earings, hehe, I was the same. My DH did Lily's and I went over to the shops to distract myself and so I couldn't hear her!
We have been good. I have caught up on some sleep (yay!) and I feel almost normal again! I also managed to keep the place relatively clean after my energy burst the other day. But now it's trashed again, Lily had a fun morning emptying her toy box everywhere! Anyway, that's it, nothing too exciting going on here today, just a lazy day, the weather is rainy and cool, so home is the best place today!
Kell - glad you have managed to catch up on some sleep and your DH is the best for allowing you to bank sleep time ... its hard to get photos when they are looking at you hey but the benefits of being snap happy is that at least once it will be captured ... I dont think there is a rush to move them in I put Ali in only cause she was doing so well during the day so figured time we had our room back though I do miss having her in our room .... still it is all good I just have to get used to it .... agree with you about the weather definitely best to be at home ....
Tasha - thanks for the belated wishes .... Wow your poor friend hope she is ok but she is lucky to have you there for her at that time when she prob needs it most ... IVF can be such a torment on relationships hey ... Good to hear that Lucy's ear piercing went well and that she wasnt too upset ... you will have to try and post a pic so we can see them !!!
Today just bumming around at home and doing some more work ... some days i wonder why i agreed to it like yesterday i couldnt be bothered doing anything not even cooking dinner and basically veged all afternoon once i did work ... not like me at all and I sent DH out to get dinner .. think he was a bit concerned too that i was so "blegh" but we get days like that ... today i have done my half hjour on the WiiFit so feeling more energetic and didnt sleep in as much as yesterday either so that may have helped ... Ali is doing her first feed between 4 and 4.30am and goes every 4 hours or so like clockwork so gone is the sleeping till 6am but hey it helps me plan my day if I know she is so routine !!!
Wow we're so quiet in here! I hope it's cause everyone is doing fun mummy things and not that everyone is stressed!
Mel, we all have lazy days I definately do!!
Well, I am back to being sleep deprived, though not too badly yet, LOL, give me another 2 days by the time DH is off again and I will be feeling it.
I finally managed to catch a smile on the camera from Liam, it's in the gallery if anyone is interested . I weighed him todya too, he's 6.4kg!! And 64cm long. He's just growing sooo fast. I think he might be tall and well built like his daddy!
Ok gotta go DD is demanding my attention.....
Beth is getting so big! She is almost out of 000s! I just can't believe how quickly she is changing. I look at her now in the Moses basket and she is just so much bigger! Soon we will have to think about an alternative for the basket as it will become a bit too small. We don't want to buy a cot here as we won't be able to take it back to Australia with us so seems like a waste of money. The two options I am considering is putting her in the day bed that has one high side (which I will turn to the outside) or taking out one of the of big drawers from the chest! The drawers are very big, bigger than the Moses basket anyway, so it's not as crazy as it sounds!
Everything is great with DD but not so great with DH. I think he is really struggling with the fact that most of my attention is directed at her. He also has very limited patience with her if she is crying and just passes her to me. She is also refusing bottles with EBM and as he has so little patience he just gives up after about 5-10 mins and hands her to me. We fight a lot. Mostly about stupid little stuff. He is also very stressed about work, the move back to Australia and he really doesn't want to leave Norway, but I seem to be the one copping it. I know i shouldn't take it personally but I can't help it.
Warning the next paragraph could be TMI!
We have also not yet had 'special cuddles'. My libido has never been very high and I am really not that interested, but I know that he is feeling very hurt that I am not keen. I have started on the mini-pill last week, so we are covered contraception wise. I guess I should just get back on the horse, huh?
Anyway enough of my whinging! Sorry for no personals. There was so much to read that it has all blurred into one! Will try harder to keep up and post more often!
Hello ladies,
Well we survived the wedding and are now home again. Am a bit tired but DH said that some women are not even leaving the house yet, and you just got home from your 3rd interstate trip in 6 weeks....." So i guess ll have a bit of a rest over the next few days, must do a food sho tho and DH gets home wednesday so that will be nice, Thomas is crying......talk more later
good morning girls
lucy had her needles yesterday... it was horrible! she screamed the docs down and then screamed our house down but after some panadol she settled and was fine after that thank god cause dh had two teeth pulled yesterday and was very grumpy
lucy is now 5.5kgs
the doctor put me back on diabex for my pcos so that in a years time when we start trying for another bub we dont have the same problems as we did conciving lucy(nearly 2 years of trying)
its been quiet around here so i hope everyone is doing ok?
talk soon
tasha
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.Lots of us are 30 in our group!
i was happy to be her shoulder to cry on because shes been there for me plenty of times and im glad lucy had a great sleep
apparently she let out a little squeal but by the time dh had left the hairdressers she was sound asleep and they havent bothered her since and omg she looks soooo cute
some days i wonder why i agreed to it like yesterday i couldnt be bothered doing anything not even cooking dinner and basically veged all afternoon once i did work ... not like me at all and I sent DH out to get dinner .. think he was a bit concerned too that i was so "blegh" but we get days like that ... today i have done my half hjour on the WiiFit so feeling more energetic and didnt sleep in as much as yesterday either so that may have helped ... Ali is doing her first feed between 4 and 4.30am and goes every 4 hours or so like clockwork so gone is the sleeping till 6am but hey it helps me plan my day if I know she is so routine !!!
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