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!
Erin, I know how you feel with DH. Mine was very similar when Lily was born. I think it's the whole loss of independance and freedom for men. I mean we're the ones that sacrifice our bodies and minds and our real freedom, they don't do half as much as women do! But it really affects men to be so relied on,kwim? My friends' DH was the same too, we had bubs at the same time and they went through a similar thing, it's such a big shift in your relationship.
Thankfully this time he has been really great and things do settle down once you get into a bit of a routin with all three of you, and you and dh become more of a couple again. That said, you do need to try to make a bit of time for the two of you. DH and I get time in the evenings some days and it's so nice to just be together, not being intimate, though that is nice too, LOL! But just being aware of each other, having snuggles watching tv, eating dinner together and talking, giving a massage, or whatever. Rather than being with bubs all the time and cleaning and feeding and changing....
It does get easier and your relationship does settle again. In time.
erin , i am the same as you , not having a high libido , i could got with out it and not be bothered , but my DH gets quite upset about it , he is taking it slowly by giving me longer hugs and better kisses , but i know his real intentions and im just not ready for it yet ... the pg and birth and BF have all taken over my body , and i want time to get used to being me again before i start geting intimate .. kwim
wow , kel 6.4 kgs !!! he will be a biggun .. nixon was like that , he grew soo quickly but in the last year has only gained 1 kg , must be something in your milk !!
Gabriella is just out of 0000 and is 4.8kgs ..and i think has grown 3 cm ..
we are still having a bad time with her reflux , but last night i put her on zoton , so im hoping she will feel better on it , she has been awake since 3.30 am and so have i , then just as she got to sleep , which was 5.30 , nixon woke , then nixon found gab sleeping in the papasan and turned it off and woke her up ,6.30 .... now she is starting to cry ...
best go and start the day ..
Hi girls. My libido is non exsistant but thats pretty normal for me LOL my DH gets upset about it too but I remind him I was the same before we got married & he still thought he could live with it so he has to put up with it. It causes alot of arguements though. I remember when DD was 8 months old & something happened with another female & he & his mum blamed me for not giving him enough sex
haha DD just saw a lizard outside & I took photos & some video of her touching it. I'll upload them later & put the video on my facebook page, very funny hehe.
Tobias is sleeping really well, last night he slept from 7:30pm (last bottle at 6:30) & slept through til 5:30am then I put him back to bed & I went back to sleep. he slept til 9 so we've only just gotten up lol Alot of the times he doesn't go back to sleep after his morning bottle but today he did which I was happy about cause I didnt get to bed until after midnight as I was online looking at second hand cars I have to go to bed earlier!
I have my 10 yr school reunion on the 25th so over the next week I have to make time to get my hair done, its been over a year since I had it trimmed & foiled so I look pretty crappy right now I told DH he isnt coming with me as I want to be able to relax & I wont be able to with him there as he'll be wondering who I'm talking to & accusing me of flirting etc. Partners aren't invited but he sent an email to my school friend who's organising it, asking if he can come as they had met once before & got on well. My friend said yes he could but I said he still wont be, its so annoying that he emailed my friend (& embarrassing). I emailed my friend saying thanks but DH wont be coming as I'd prefer him not to be there LOL DH had a little tanty & said "tell him I'm not ALLOWED" to go" so I put in the email "Mick said to tell you he's "not allowed" to go lmao" so my friend read about the tanty too hahaha So now whenever the reunion comes up he makes smart comments like when I say I have to get my hair done soon before the reunion, he says "Yeah so you look good for all the guys there since your hubby wont be there" etc Many arguements as you can imagine.....
I've been referred to a councillor as the score on the quiz given to me at Tobias' 6 week check up was too high so the CHN said "I'm not saying you have PND but I think theres some kind of depression there & I want to refer you to our councillor just incase it turns into PND without help. So now I will be making an appointment to see her, hopefully it will help.
I'm looking forward to Christmas, I love the Christmas season Just love the whole atmosphere & seeing the kids so happy. Everyone seems happier too which is nice (except when at the shopping malls haha when everyones in a mad rush LOL)
Sorry no personals again, I spent too long updating you all on whats happening here. I've now finished feeding Tobias & need to give Brianna something else to eat, then get us all dressed, drop Brianna off at kindy then I need to get my car detailed as we're hoping to trade it in over the next couple of weeks for a new (second hand) car for me... woohoo! Looking at the territory.....
Have a nice day everyone & I hope those of you who are sleep deprived get some good rest soon, I really do.
hi girls
sounds like we've all been having kinda the same issues...i went to the shop yesterday to buy condoms(i have pcos and the pill doesnt agree with me and we want to have another baby sometime soon so untill we find a sutible form of birth control we are stuck with condoms) anyways as i was saying, feeling as embarrassed as a horny teenager as i was going thru the checkout the stupid beepers went off so the checkout girl goes searching thru my bags of shopping to pull out the offending bulk box of condoms allerting every customer there that she had found the corse of the alarm so that pretty much squashed any tiny ounce of sex drive that i had!!!
my mother in law has been over from tassie since lucy was 1 week old she is not staying at our house( the reason i was so insistant on buying a 3 bedroom house hehe) but she is driving me insane!!! she walks around the house with lucy over her sholder trying to get a none exsistant burp from her when all she is is tired, and yesterday she was trying to force the dummy in her mouth making her gag!! and then on monday she WOKE her up i have always got on well with her but since ive had lucy i cant stand her. sorry if im windging but its not like i can talk to dh about it.
lucy is doing great lots of smiles and babbling, its fantastic watching my son interacting with her now, he thought she was pretty boring when we first brought her home
she sleeps well at nite but takes so long to go to sleep i put her down at 8.30pm last nite and she was still fussing around at 10pm she just gets over tired and wont give in to sleep... she just lays there and every now and then lets out a squeak cause she has lost her dummy.
sorry for rambling on hope everyone is doing well
Tasha
Tasha - poor thing and how embarassing !!! I send DH to buy the condoms as I am the same as you dont want to go back on the pill as it takes my body too long to recover and readjust but I hate the darn things .... why is it that everyone thinks just because our babies are fussy that they have wind - i am with you its gets sooo irritating that now i know i just take Ali back from whoever may be holding her and prove them its not wind she is just sleepy ..... if only every cry meant wind we would have a much better chance of udnerstanding them !!
Danielle - lots happening for you hun and good luck with the car hope you can trade it and get the one you want ! Hope that everything is ok with you and that your referral goes well ... are you feeling ok - if you need anything just let me know ok ... happy to help out ... we should do that catch up soon before xmas comes !!!
Lea - is Zoton medication for the reflux? Hope it makes a difference and things settle down soon ... did your day get better ?!
Kell - such a growth spurt .... good to see that he is thriving and doing well ... hope you manage to get some sleep. Such good advice re the couple relationships hun very well put and definitely makes alot of sense !!
Erin - sorry to hear things havent been so great but I am with Kell in that it does get better ... I guess it is harder for you both having so many other distractions to occupy your minds as well with moving back and work etc ... stick in there hun and hope things get better .... bet you cant wait to be back in Oz !!!
Ali has got her first virus she has a tummy bug and man her poos are horrendous ... you can hear her stomach gurgling so bad and the poor thing is really white ashen faced and so so sleepy hardly feeding much at all .... took her to the dr this morning and he said it could be from her shots last week or she could have picked it up somewhere but keep an eye on her and if no better sunday take her back ... poor little thing but she is mainly just sleepy and sooky wanting lots of cuddles so not too bad to handle except the stench of her nappies lol .....
Other than that doing work again and trying to keep house clean and get ready for the weekend ... i have to go and get my crown fixed so not looking forward to that but DH and I are going to dinner sat night just on our own while my parents babysit = that i am soo looking forward too !!!
Hope you all have a great day and take it easy when you can
xo
Melsta- My immediate thought when reading about Ali being sick is its probably from her immunisations last week, the gurgling stomach sounds like the rotovirus which they gave them orally. Poor little girl i hope she gets better soon.
Theres lots to catch up on again so my apologies if i dont personal you girls.
Tasha- The soy did clear up her skin. In a matter of days. It was amazing. How cute you got Lucy's ears pierced.
Lea- I hope Gab starts to settle for you soon.
Kell- My energy burst lasted quite a few days, has slowed down again though. 6.4kg!!!!! Far out Chardonnay is 4kg.
Danielle- Sorry to hear about the high score on the scale. I did mine today and scored high too. I hope it all gets sorted out for you easily.
Erin- We havent had special cuddles either. Its not that i dont want to, but for some reason i just cant bring myself too. I feel like my body is so different now in so many ways and im not sure im totally comfortable with it. Just everything is different, smaller boobs, no belly, and things smell and look different.
Me- For some reason ive hit a downward spiral and i can feel im right on the verge of a big crash and burn. I was awake at 3am this morning feeling on the verge of tears. Im so cranky and irritable and i can feel myself shutting down from everyone, including C to a certain extent. I did the pnd score today and scored high. Im just so over everything. Mainly my health. My stomach is still sore. Im on strong meds that are not working at all. And i feel like i keep going to the dr to get results only to find myself with no answers having to go back a week later. Out of the blue yesterday too i decided i didnt want to breastfeed anymore. I just cant handle people in my personal space at the moment. Im just so irritable all the time, i cant sit and relax into feeding, i want to be up and doing something. I dont know where this came from cos i was enjoying it.
C had her needles today and the poo's from the rotovirus have already started. Shes slept alot today, which is a change from the last 2 days of her being irritable. I told the dr about me thinking she has reflux and he told me to give her infant gaviscon. Im not sure if its working or not yet. We are trying her on goats milk formula this week. Its between goats milk and soy i think.
Melsta , you asked if my day got better ??? NO it didnt ..
while i was trying to settle gab , i noticed nixon had found the Ironing aid spray , i wonderd if i had put the cleaning bucket away and i was certian i had , so i just thought " oh its just spray , ill clen it up when gab settles ... " THEN all was quiet , i thought oh good hes watching telly ... AH NO , he had the flea powder and was shaking it all over the house , AND had the new bottle of detergent and was spreading that all over the house , i had no idea this was happening , so when gab was sleeping i went out , only to step in dish wasing liquid ... and then looked around my house to find powder everywhere .. i walked into the kitchen and nearly died , DH had left the cupboard under the sink open and nixon found it ..
does any one know how hard it its to mop up dish washing liquid , suds were everywhere and nixon kept getting of the couch and stacking it on the slippery floor , i mopped 3 times and could still see suds , so i left it..
this happened all before 9 am ..... when i got home the floor had a slimy oily film all over it , ugh it was groose ... then gab started to whinge about 5 pm and i was feeding her and saw nixon drag a chair over to the sink and turn the tap on full ball !! there was notihng i could do .. after a while nixon filled a glass over water and was walking over to me , saying "wakker , wakker , wakker" and had was just about to hand it to me when a bit spilled and he slipped on the soapy floor ... poor fella , he was sooo sad that the "wakker" was all gone ...
it was sooo sweet he was bringing me a glass of water too , my heart just melted for him ... i cant believe he is 2 on sunday OMg !!!
Kel : yep the zoton is for reflux , it hope it works for her , its so hard to give it to her , she just ends up a sticky mess amd screams so much , so after i get as much as i can into her , i bath her in the sink just to calm her down , becuase you have to wait to feed them .
she didnt settle last night till around 11pm , she used me as a dummy for about 3 hrs , i just couldnt stand it , and since i had been up since 3.30 am i was buggered ... and each time i asked dh to take her , she went wild , so it was a huge cycle of feeding/sucking/napping (till i moverd her , then shed wake) trying her in the papasan /back on the boob etc ... untill eventually she slept but the moment i moved of tried to move her she would wake , so uncomfortable as it was , she slept on my boob all night ..
Kristi : hugs hun , i know how you feel , about being over everything ... and feeling irratable and snappy , i feel the same , and i know i should be "interacting " and stimulating gabriella but sometimes i have no energy and dont want to spend 20mins babbling with baby talk , she is never happy enough anyway so some times i think " whats the point" ..
good luck with the gaviscon , we noticed an improviment on it but it didnt fully solve the issue .. you have to be regualr with it , give each feed , and for the freqency she feeds , it just wasnt convientient for me , so with Zoton , i give her half a pack every morning. so far she is just as cranky but im sticking with it ...
morning girls
i just finished my post an then pressed the wrong thing and lost the lot
in short lucys not sleeping, only drinking about 70 to 90mls of her feeds but still going between 3 to 5 hours, and has now started spewing everywhere again
so im tired and feed up and feeling useless and dh is no help because he cant make her stop crying so just handballs her back everytime she grizzles.
lea, i feel for you im struggling just with lucy never mind having a 2 year old as well...but how cute with the glass of "wakker"
kristi, hope the gaviscon and the goats milk do the trick, i had a great big cry this morning...if you find yourself on the verge of tears just go for it, it made me feel good afterwards only for a short time but hey least i felt good for a bit, just a bit of a release really.
mel, hope ali's tummy bug has settled.
great big hugs to everyone who needs one today... i know i sure do
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
We are doing well. I am t-i-r-e-d, but I think that's par for the course for the next 6months at least... Liam and Lily are doing well too. Lily is a little monster, nothing new there. Her new trick is to climb up the lounges to get out the sliding door when it's open. She climbs up the back of the lounge and drops down the back, I have the lounges up against the sliding doors when they are open so Lily can't get outside onto the balcony...well I used to do it for that reason! I guess I can't have the doors open anymore We haven't really done anything exciting, just the usual, playgroup, park, shops...yada yada. DH is home now for a few days, yay! Maybe I can have a nap today, I'm sooo tired. Lil is still waking a few times a night. I think her ears are sore again. We go back to the specialist next wk (I think). I don't know that the diet thing has worked, though in saying that she has been talking alot and has picked up alot of new words. So maybe she has improved? We'll find out soon.
Liam is good too, though he's been a bit unsettled at times. Last night and the night before I was awake with him for at least 2hrs through the night. He's waking 3hrly on the dot, with one four hour sleep a night, but usually goes back to sleep when I feed him. He's getting really big now. He's already outgrown the capsule and is pretty desperate for a carseat now, LOL! He looks so squished up in the capsule. We're still feeding really well, I'm so proud of myself for doing it this time after so many problems with DD. He loves his booby and is feeding 2-2 1/2hr in the day.
Milly, I agree with your DH, it's time to have a rest and do things for you!!
LOL, lea thats the law of the world, 'When mummy sits down and relaxes, baby must cry and fuss'! It happens here too almost every time, one or the other will start fussing.
Tasha, that's great that Lucy is growing so well! I love your ticker pic, Lucy is gorgeous!!
Ok well, not much else to say. I hope all of you are well!
Hi everyone.
Well Tobias finally started to smile probably last week but he's still so stingy with them but when he's in the mood he gives a good amount He also did his first big laugh today, it was the best sound I've heard for a while!!! It was soooo gorgeous but when I got the camera out to film he stopped & hasn't done it since the little bugger!
We finally got the Territory we've wanted for ages. It's a 2008 model & its the exact one we wanted but never thought we'd be able to afford. We got a great deal as it was a Ford executives car & has done 14,000km so we got a great price. We pick it up on friday as they needed to put in the DVD player, tow ball & tint the windows. There's a photo in my gallery if you want to see it.
I must organise for Tobias to have his immunisations, to be honest I totally forgot! I feel awful.
He's in his cot now as he outgrew his snuggle bed LOL I also put a cot pic in my gallery.
Hopefully I'll be able to get into the dentist tomorrow & have my wisdom tooth taken out, I've been in exruciating pain today & stacked up with ibraprophen (sp?) as I'm allergic to codeine I cant have any strong pain killers
Well Tobias has just woken for his feed so muct be off. I hope everyone is well, should be able to catch up on personals soon.
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 ....
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 !!!
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 !!!
I know how you feel with DH. Mine was very similar when Lily was born. I think it's the whole loss of independance and freedom for men. I mean we're the ones that sacrifice our bodies and minds and our real freedom, they don't do half as much as women do! But it really affects men to be so relied on,kwim? My friends' DH was the same too, we had bubs at the same time and they went through a similar thing, it's such a big shift in your relationship.
I have to go to bed earlier!
Just love the whole atmosphere & seeing the kids so happy. Everyone seems happier too which is nice (except when at the shopping malls haha when everyones in a mad rush LOL)
) anyways as i was saying, feeling as embarrassed as a horny teenager as i was going thru the checkout the stupid beepers went off so the checkout girl goes searching thru my bags of shopping to pull out the offending bulk box of condoms allerting every customer there that she had found the corse of the alarm
so that pretty much squashed any tiny ounce of sex drive that i had!!!
she is not staying at our house( the reason i was so insistant on buying a 3 bedroom house hehe) but she is driving me insane!!! she walks around the house with lucy over her sholder trying to get a none exsistant burp from her when all she is is tired, and yesterday she was trying to force the dummy in her mouth making her gag!! and then on monday she WOKE her up 
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