Babies Born August 16th - 31st 2008

Hiya girls,

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 :D . 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.....

Hi Everyone,

Long time between posts sorry!

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

Erin, :hug: 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 :wall:

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 :lol: 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:doh:) 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:redface: 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:o 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 :o 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 :o 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

Hi girls,

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 :o 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.

I hope you are all well :)

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:doh:
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:wall:
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 :hug: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
:grouphug:

bye for now
Tasha

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 :)

just made a cuppa and came on to post , now Gab is screaming .... arrgh ..

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:wall:
lucy is now 5.5kgs :o
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

wow tasha , lucy is getting big ..

i'll pop back in later , but i hope everyone is doing well !!

Hiya girls,

How are you all, good I hope!

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.

Hi All,
Sounds like we've all had a difficult time lately.
I'm exhausted!! Jorja spent the last 2 nights awake most of the night. I think i've had about 4 hours sleep each night! I'd love for DF to get up to her up feel guilty if he does as he is the one who has to go out to work each day. So I do it, even if it means sleeping in the spare room to settle her...
Jorja is starting to smile now and it's soooo cute I could watch her all day!


We've set a date for the wedding and now have the stress of organising the rest of it. But hey, it can be fun too! :lol:
Charmalea - how funny and yes i do know how hard it is cleaning up suds. I had my younger brother here for a wk and he did a similar thing!

I'll be back later to write more, Jorja has woken up wanting boobie time :D

ok , so i get on to post , and now have to go out again to take dh to physio ..
but a long story short , Gab IS getting better on her reflux medication , but in the last 2 days startedto progetile vomiting and chucking up again ...

not fun at all .. and danielle i kwym about being stingy with smiles, Gab is too :lol:
had a wonderful day on sunday , it was the naming ceremmony and nixons birthday .. cept gab screamed through it all !!

Beth rolled over today for the first time!!! :clap: Even better, I actually caught it on video. :dance: I will post the link when DH puts it on youtube!

She was looking so cute during 'tummy time' yesterday that I thought I would tape her today so that family and friends in Oz could see how big she is getting. And wouldn?t you know it, about a minute in she rolled onto her back. I was so surprised that I almost dropped the video camera! She was surprised too but took it very calmly! According to my mum I was an early roller too, so brilliance obviously runs in the family! To test it wasn?t a fluke I put her back on her tummy a couple of times and she rolled over again each time. Then she cracked it with me and started fussing so I stopped trying to make her my performing monkey! :lol:

She was too tired to do it again when DH got home from work but I loved showing him the videos i had taken.

I hope everyone's bubs is letting them get some sleep. I feel so lucky (guilty almost) that Beth is such a good sleeper. She is doing 8 to 12 hour stints at night which is just wonderful. I usually wake to express around 5am if she hasn't woken for a feed.

Hard to believe that she is nine weeks old. It has just flown by!!

Hugs to all!

hi ladies
wow!! Mum2BeinNorway yay on beth rolling...think lucy needs more tummy time
we are off camping :o this weekend i had forgoten how much stuff you need to pack when you have a baby! lucky we hired a caravan cause the weather is absoluty shockin here raining and windy perfect camping weather :doh:
hope everyone has a fantastic weekend
will report on our first family camping expedition on monday...wish me luck
bye for now
tasha

Hi girls,

jjj, sorry to hear jorja isn't sleeping so well, I hope it has improved. I can sympathise with you. Both of mine are up through the night.
Good luck organising your wedding, it will be fun. It doesn't have to be stressful. I had a great time organising mine! Sooo long ago now though.....

Lea, glad to hear the naming day and Nix's bday went well.
I hoep the medicine is still working for gabriella and that your bf'ing is going good. Have you managed to sort out your problems?

Erin, what a clever little chicken Beth is rolling already! Lucky you had the video camera out!
I love your ticker pic too its so cute!

Tasha, good luck with the camping I hope the crappy weather improves! You're brave taking a new born camping, LOL!! I thought I was doing well taking Liam to a friends place for the weekend!! I hope you have a good time.

Well, we have had a lovely day, we went to Mt Annan Botanic gardens. It was really nice. A beautiful day, not too hot or cold. Lily had an absolute ball running around in all the free space, and there was a lovely little playground for her to play in. She had a great time with some other kids chasing her and slimbing on stuff she's allowed to climb on, LOL. Liam was really good and just slept most of the time.
Ok gotta go, hope everyone has a great weekend.

The video of Beth rolling is here.

Gotta go grab a shower while she is having her morning nap!

Erin.....beth is just beautiful, the video was just wonderful to watch!

loved the video Erin.

Just putting DD to bed will try to get back soon :)

Hi everyone,

Im here, but not really with the program.

So much has been going on.

Just wanted to see how you were all going.

I hope you are all well :D

had my 6 week check with MW yesterday... bit late lol.
Thomas is now 6.3kg and 67cm long.....what a boofa.
Had a great night last night, still waiting for the girls to wake after 12hrs (was up to evie twice but she resettled quickly) Thomas slept well too but i have no idea when he feeds lol, so glad i can sleep through it. Went to a photographer yesterday to get the newborn and family shots, hope they work out.
lea: glad the naming day went well!
DH away as usual so have a busy day ahead, Grace ballet the both girls start swimming lessions today :)
Better get started, hope everyone is well :)

Just put my birth story up if any of you wanted a read :D

Have a good weekend ladies :D

thanks for sharing your story kristi ..

Well im about to go insane ..Nixon is regressing to wanting a dummy and is chucking tantrums every second of the day , by the time DH get home i am in tears and so is nixon , it just seems he is for ever in "time out " or im rasing my voice at him , its so depressing as i hate feeling so negative toward him ... but his whinging and tantrums really get to me ... ive never hit him but boy i'd like to throttle him somethimes , i knew the terrible 2s were bad , but this is sheer hell ... for both nix and me . poor thing he is growing and learning so fast that it must be overwhelming to him and as a result i get tanties ... makes me feel like crapola when i cant calm him down ..

Gabriella is getting happier each day and is starting to talk and not be so clingy .... today i didnt give her Zoton as we were in a rush , and i have noticed although she has been relativley calm , she has vomited heaps ...

Breastfeeding is still the same , nothing much has changed , pain in left nipple/boob still there and she is slowly starting to stretch out her feed im luck to get an hour between feeds now ....

I have a "day stay" on tuesday at the health plaza , where the nurses will help me with feeding and settleing ,as the only settleing i do is on the boob ( nothing much else works, once she starts she cant calm her self down ) so im looking forward to that ..
Gab has been great at sleeping long stretches at night , i suppose its because her day sleeps are only short , nixon makes too much noise and she always startles .... DH alwyays puts her in the cradle when he comes to bed and the past 2 nights i have woken about 4 and paincked when i couldnt find her in the bed next to me , then i find her in the cradle and panic that shes been asleep too long and get chicken, and dont want to look in there JIC .... kwim ...

apart from that ... I got my hair cut short and i love it !! i rarely love a hair cut because i have very curly hair , but i feel so much nicer with it like this !!

I hope your all having a great week end , im about to upload pics , so check out the gallery !!

Kristi got me thinking so heres our birth story
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ml#post1484649

Hi All - Have joined weightwatchers....should be fun, started last wednesday so ill let you know how i go. I normally lose weight when pregnant but this time, oh no :)

Its online as well so yet another computer thing to keep me away from the housework LOL

wish me luck

Am i the only one here??? LOL
H E L L O out there :)

Have just been reading other birth stories, i have just read the ones that said "warning" as i knew i wasnt up to reading these while pregnant.

WE are all so lucky with the births we had, thank goodness it all worked out well for ALL of us. The physical pain means nothing when you think about what some families have been through emotionally!

make me think about if i really want to risk having another one, i have been so lucky so far......

I'm here Milly, been having computer probs though.
I feel so crazy atm, DH & I are now thinking of having another baby after I swore I wouldn't only weeks ago. This is prob TMI but we had unprotected BD last night & I hadn't thought about timing of my cycle. AF came back on the 15th October so not sure if it's during fertile time or not. I think I must be crazy after the terrible time I had last pregnancy!! DH seems to really want another, he keeps saying "There might be another little baby in your belly right now!" with a big smile LOL

Yes we are all so very lucky to have had the births we did & especially resulting with healthy babies!

I took some video of Tobias smiling today, will put it on my facebook page later as I haven't been able to get onto facebook today (Damn computer) He still makes it hard for me to get smile photos but at least he let me get it on video hehe

Hope everyones well :)

hey ladies
camping was fantasic...not so scary after all, but we kinda went camping in style nice clean caravan park and lucy was soooo good.
milly, ive been reading some birth stories too and i read the same one as you i think and omg did i cry, it makes me feel so lucky for the experience i had with my kids else it would make me think twice about going for number 3, ive been going to ww for 7 weeks now and have lost 3.4kgs so far.
lea, hope the day stay goes well and poor you with the terrible twos:comfort:
kristi, what an amazing journey you have had.

about a year ago someone very close to me did something horrible to me but i have come to the realisation that life is too short to hold grudjes(spelling?) and we are meeting tomorrow for coffee so i hope it goes well
bye for now
Tasha

Hehe, no milly you're not the only one...I'm just feeling reeeeaaaly lazy :) Well that and Lil's sick again and clingy.
Liam had his 6wk check up today (a little late!). He's now 6.6kg!! And 64 1/2cm tall. He's getting sooo big.

Milly, I have done ww, just before I fell pg with Lily, and I lost 10kgs on it. I found it really good. Though I went to meetings not the online one. Good luck with it :)

Ok I'm going Lil's crying and DH is trying to get ready for work. hy does she always get sick when he's working night shifts?? I'm in for another sleepless night I think....:(

Oh Kel sorry to hear that lil is sick again. You must want to pull your hair out some times. At least you know that she will be well again as soon as DH is off night duty LOL. Liam is doing well, he and Tom are almost the same but Tom is a little taller but seeing i am over 6 foot thats not so suprising LOL. After re reading danielles post i think you did well to not say anything about having your kids close in age LOL :)

Lucylu: IKWYM about crying, i feel like i have had such an emotional day and its just reading those birth stories, i think that i need to take the warning when its says "may upset"..... Keep us upto date about WW you are doing so well, but boy you started early, i thought i was doing well...

Danielle: Just wait i cant remember what you said......right re read your post HOLY ****... how could i forget LOL..... Well i am glad its you and not me that could be UTD, im crazy and want more but not just yet LOL. Its lovely that your husband is on side cause boy is he going to cop it a few times over the next few months if you are. We had unprotected sex the other day too but as still feeding over night and there is no sign of AF, they didnt return for almost a year the last times :) My belly is to remain empty for awhile, after 5.4 years of either being pregnant or Bfeeding i am looking forward to a break when Thomas weans! Keep us up to date mate.

Going to go and play with the kids now :) Thomas asleep agian after sleeping for 5 hours this morning :)

DANIELLE: Hope i didnt sound too shocked LOL. As we said we are all so lucky and if you are pregnant it would be the best thing in the world....so many people so want a baby i really souldnt joke about one coming when it wasnt really planned..... however whenever its a lovely thing to happen :)

LOL Milly, no not offended at all... you made me laugh!!! I am wondering if I've got something wrong with my head though to be seriously considering it, its like theres a little voice in the back ground calling me crazy & reminding me of all the probs I had but then theres a side of me that wants another & doesn't want to wait LOL
PS I'll try to read your birth story tonight, looking forward to reading it!

Kellie sorry Lily is sick again :( Hope everyone is healthy all at the same time again soon

Lucylu Glad the camping went well. Good luck with the coffee tomorrow :)

Lea sorry to hear about Nix regressing a little, I have heard its very common when another baby comes along. Brianna has weed in her knickers a few times since Tobias arrived too. Hopefully he'll pass this stage soon :)

Kristi I'll have a look at your birth story hopefully tonight, looking forward to it.

Erin LOVE the video.... clever little girl! Tobias rolled over yesterday but it was from his back to his front, only did it once though & not on video LOL


Me As I said to Erin, Tobias rolled from back onto his belly yesterday, only once though but very exciting :) I'm taking him to get immunised tomorrow :o

Ok I'm back now, thought I might elaborate now that I have time to.

Yes, Lil is sick for the millionth time, another cold with fevers. She's losing her voice too the poor little monkey. She's such a bad sick person, like me, LOL!! All she does is whinge and want up. I'm so tired and going to go insane....
My house is an absolute pigsty, I just haven't had the motivation to clean up. I should do it now, while Liam is settled and Lil's in bed, but ugh, I sooo don't want to!!! I guess I'll at least do the dishes and hang out a load of washing :rolleyes: I just haven't had time to do it with Lily sick and having to go to the baby clinic today and we needed a bit of food too. Everything takes ten times longer with kids!! It's such an effort to get up and down the stairs with the kids too, I estimated I carry up and additional 22kgs when I carry the kids and a bit of shopping- Liam's 6.6, Lily's 11kgs, the capsule's maybe 3kgs, my handbag weighs a tonne, and shopping... all up 3 flights of stairs! Anyway enough with the me whinge!!!

Lea, big hugs hun, I hope Nixon has behaved himself today. I know how your feel though, Lily is the same. She's into everything, and I mean everything- food cupboards, clothes cupboards, the laundry, the bathroom, she climbs on tables, chairs, toys, the heater, the washing baskets...I can't put anything on tables or she takes it and wreaks it. She whinges all day, all I say to her is no, stop, don't, it's all negative and I'm struggling to be positive with her. I am trying to catch her doing the right thing, but its hard when she's doing all the wrong things, and when I'm busy with Liam or trying to clean up...it really sucks.

Milly, yeah I was thinking it though, LOL! But I didn't plan to have our kids so close Liam was a whoopsie...a very cute whoopsie, but a whoopsie all the same! Though mine wouldn't be as close in age as Danielle's would be if there was another bub on the way!! And you can't talk, your kids aren't that much further apart than mine!!

Danielle, I know what you mean about thinking you want another one. I was thinking the same thing the other day. DH must have known cause he said he DEFINATELY doesn't want anymore! I don't think I really do either, but it's just the thought of never having more that's kinda sad....I think had we started having kids earlier we'd have had more, but I don't really want to have kids after I'm about 32-33 or so, so it kind of limits things, plus I think DH is serious about not wanting more!
But really, good luck hun, I hope things turn out the way that you want them to.

Tasha, glad to hear that the camping was good. And congrats on losing wieght! I just can't get myself in the right headspace to loose much weight, I'm yoyoing-putting on and taking off the same 3kgs! And good luck with your friend tomorrow.

Ok, if anyone has posted since I started this post (about an hour ago!) sorry I missed you...hope everyone has a good night.

Hi girls,

Just popping in quickly.

Chardonnay is in hospital :(

She has had high temps of 38 to 39 degrees, which in a baby her age is not good.

My gorgeous girl had to have a lumbar puncture. I felt so helpless, i could hear her crying but couldnt go to her as they wouldnt let me go in :( That came back clear though thank goodness.

She is now on a drip having fluids and is on 3 different antibiotics IV. Because they dont know whats causing the infection they are covering all bases.

She will be in hospital until thursday at the earliest.

She is really not well, she cries even if you just move her or touch her, particularly when she has a temp.

Ive come home tonight cos of the other kids, Im going back there when they are at school.

Just thought i would come in and let you know and ask that you keep her in your thoughts and send her fast recovery vibes.

Sorry for no personals, I hope you are all well.

oh no kristi, I'm so sorry. How terrible that she needed a lumbar puncture, would have been torture for you too feeling so helpless. I'm so glad that came back all clear.
I hope they find the cause soon & can get rid of it. Poor little princess.
Sending bucket loads of get well vibes. I will keep her in my thoughts & prayers & hope she's home with you soon!
Big hugs hun :hug: