Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #3

[Indadhanu]

Nah you just have to have applied to register the birth to be able to get medicare etc

[mountain mummy]

Afternoon Ladies ...
Ok, I had all this stuff multi-quoted, and now I have to sort out/ remember WHY!!

Mind you my bbs would explode especially if it is in the next few days!!

Don't worry, Mine DO! He slept bl00dy 14 hours last night and wouldn't have woken up, I reckon, if I hadn't of woken him to feed him before piling the kids in the car!! I hand expressed in the shower (didn't want all that milk literally going down the drain!) and managed 100mls into a bottle (would have been easier if I could find my pump, but I was sooooooo sore, i'm sure it would have hurt!)

That 100mls actually came in handy, cause he got hungry on the way home from shopping, so I gave 2.5yo the bottle to feed him in the car. Would you believe Veygas actaully drank it all in about 5mins??? With an orthodontic slow release teat!! Go figure! I guess he's got his fave sibling! I reckon they'll be great mates!

But the strange thing is he has only had 3 feeds today. The were all decent feeds, but still..... expressing tonight was down on the usual so I'm not sure what is going on! I'm sure Jett would have no hesitation in letting me know if he was still hungry so I am not going to hit the panic button just yet.

Oh and speaking of splodey poos... we got one today. All up his back, even soaked through the nappy (it was a Huggies too).

MT, Veygas has been down to about 4 or 5 feeds a day (and none during the night) but yeah, they let you know if they are hungry!! As for Huggies, I think there is some conspiracy - they purposely have decreased the quality of the nappies to make us buy more!! I even upsized Veygas to the crawler ones and still sometimes get some "good" leaks LOL!

Mel what the hell happened on the July thread!

I was gonna ask the same thing!! (I occasionally lurk, but never felt really "right" about jumping in there!)

so does anyone know how we can get out of our lease early. Not HEAPS early, you know, just like beginning of December. Do you reckon they'd be ok?

I think under the circumstances, they'd HAVE to be OK with it! The last place we were in, the bathroom floor started to leak and was threatening to collapse, and this was about a month before our lease was up. The owners offered to put us up in a motel or something, but with 2 kids and 3 cats (at the time) and me still being at uni, it just wasn't feasible, so the real estate let us out of our lease.

Something to consider (I know it's a PITA) but would you consider (or could you) overlap 2 weeks rent in two places??

(oh shyte! DS2 just brought me a whole packet of wipes, minus the packet!)

WRT poo explosions - its so weird.... DS used to shiat up his back - DD is at the front - it MUST be a girl thing!!!!

Got the Austar guy coming around today (yayyy Leasha!!) so I've already changed for the day and brushed my hair (believe me, its a rare thing)

Funny you should say that Mel, as Veygas did a massive one this morning, and I really do think it's their balls that stop it from going all up their front!!! And YAY!!!!!!!!! for Austar (I just hope we can still get it when we move!!)

so I ripped out my breast pads and put them under a cloth I had in her cot (as we rubbed some olive oil on her head to get rid of the drieness and), she went to sleep, soundly until DH stirred her at 7:30am!!!! OMG is this my solution? I will be putting todays in her cot after her last feed, not during the day and see how she goes - please cross your fingers for me!!!

Fingers are crossed Vic!! But what you said got me thinking ... I changed the sheets about a week ago, and that afternoon, Veygas chucked up (on clean sheets!) Naughty lazy mummy that I am, I just put a cloth over it to soak it up. The next day, I took the cloth away, but he has slept through the night EVERY NIGHT since then!! I wonder if it's the smell of the milk doing it???? We'll see when I change the sheets tomorrow!! LOL!!

Nup no birth certificate here for us either. I was going to ring them the other day as I was getting a bit worried that they hadnt received the form but got on the website instead and it said there was a delay in the issue of certificates up to 10 weeks

I put Veygas's birth certificate application in when he was 1 week old, and we finally got it about 2 or 3 weeks ago (maybe because we are considered regional NSW????) BUt yeah, they had no hesitations in taking the money from our credit card ASAP!!

I'm sure there was more I wanted to say, but this has taken so long now, I just forget!! LOL!! Hope you're all having a fabbo day!!

[Arimeh]

Ahhh MM.. yes... balls.. makes sense now.. pmsl..

And you know, you can just jump into the july thread - they are pretty friendly in there - some of them must of had their cranky pants on the other night thats all..

[mountain mummy]

Ah Mel, It's understandable to be cranky, esp. with little bubs that won't sleep (or wake up lots) ... sleep deprivation can do terrible things to a person!

Speaking of which, mine is the OPPOSITE!! Had to go pick up DD from preschool (V was asleep) so unwrapped him, got him out of bed, put him in the car seat, drove to preschool, got DD, drove home, got him out of the car seat, wrapped him back up and put him back to bed. Do you think he stirred once?? Oh there were a couple of grunts and stretches, half opened eye for a couple of seconds, but he is still asleep!

I'm considering cloth ... any suggestions on where to start? I have no idea! LOL!

[Arimeh]

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh

cloth!!! my favourite subject!!

[Indadhanu]

oh goodness now you've got her going

*giggles* just joking

[Arimeh]

PMSL

God my life is pathetic isn't it...lol

[Indadhanu]

Pfft, mines more pathetic. I've got the real estate guy coming tomorrow to do an appraisal and its possible the most exciting thing thats happened this week (mastitis isn't exciting). I almost went and introduced myself to my neighbours I'm that bored (who have been there for 6 months), but I got lazy. So I sat on my butt and pondered whether or not to do housework while Jazz is sleeping.

(And I WAS going to, except then she woke up )

[Arimeh]

HAHAHAHA!!!

I think I beat you.. my most exciting thing this week was having the Austar guy turn up today and now I'm watching Maury.. LMFAO....
We really should get together more often Leash.. bore each other out of doing the housework...

[squidipa]

leasha and mel the best thing that happened to me was speaking to my brother yesterday

did ya all know deals direct has free shipping today??

[squidipa]

Yeah im sneaky i just checked hubbie's email and he has already got invites to christmas party.

One problem i am sure he would love to go but not tell me and positive he would want to take me but the issue is we don't know anyone really in qld to baby sit getting the 3 year old and 7 and 10 year old looked after by ex would be fine but Josiah hrmmmm to much fr a single man.

Looks like we wont be able to go hey!

[mountain mummy]

Pfft, mines more pathetic. I've got the real estate guy coming tomorrow to do an appraisal and its possible the most exciting thing thats happened this week (mastitis isn't exciting). I almost went and introduced myself to my neighbours I'm that bored (who have been there for 6 months), but I got lazy. So I sat on my butt and pondered whether or not to do housework while Jazz is sleeping.

(And I WAS going to, except then she woke up )

You crack me up!!! I do the same thing, and then it's like "oh well, can't do anything, baby's awake now!!" LOL!!

And Mel, I figured "CLOTH" would be right up your alley!!

Squidipa - yeah, it's hard to get someone to look after all 4 kids hey!! Hence why I don't see the big deal in moving a million m ore miles away from family (they're hardly here anyway - not for my IL's trying though!! )

HOW'S THIS????? My DS (7.5yo) is on game ban (DS, xbox etc) cause he keeps playing with DD's (and mine) and then denying it - he even took DD's DS to school (which is against school rules too!) BUT my MIL has PROMISED to get him one for Christmas ... SOOOOOOOOOOOOO ain't gonna happen!!

Bl00dy grandparents!! LOL!

[squidipa]

HOW'S THIS????? My DS (7.5yo) is on game ban (DS, xbox etc) cause he keeps playing with DD's (and mine) and then denying it - he even took DD's DS to school (which is against school rules too!) BUT my MIL has PROMISED to get him one for Christmas ... SOOOOOOOOOOOOO ain't gonna happen!!

Bl00dy grandparents!! LOL!

hey your sons same age as myn born in feb hehe i should get ya number and get my son to call your son haha Here we have you and i chatting online and those two on phone hehe

A bans a ban are ya gonna bring it up with them or will the ban be lifted by then?

[2girlz]

Hello ladies

Leash congrats on the lessons who is your instructer with coastal my BIL does both manual and auto lessons for that company

MM- hee hee gotta love grandparents my mum feeds Cadence lollies then hands her back all hypo. and you just reminded me I'm still waiting for Allegras birth certificate is it normal to take this long? she almost 9 weeks!

Squidipa- Hey chicky how are things? I loooove the end of year christmas party but totally understand about getting someone to look after the kids DF's is on a boat so we have to get his parents to look after the girls over night (my parents winge if they were to look after the girls)

Mel- I got pay tv this week to!!! isn't it great haha Df was watching discovery channel for about 20mins and said maybe we should get discovery channel he thought it was free to air tv I didn't tell him I was hooking it up I was nearly peeing my pants laughing everytime an add would flash "on discovery channel" and it still didn't click.

Sasha- OMG 10 weeks thats so stupid I have to go to birth deaths and marriages to get my name changed (it's different on my birth certificate) so I can get a passport better start organising now.

Vic- WOW let me know how you go with the breast pads I never thought of that Allegra was up every 2 hours on Wednesday

Pixie- oh you guys had a great night thats fantastic I bet you're feeling all refreshed today.

So sorry I know I have missed people hello to you all

Allegra has developed a cough so she's a little crabby and unsettled and Cadence has been waking at 2am on the dot the joys of parenthood
I can't believe we are being given more money! not complaining though that will pay for my Bali trip and braces PLUS money for christmas

[MummyTummy]

What a chatty bunch!!

Vic - breast pads, what a great idea. Might try it when I try transitioning Jett in to his cot. We gave it a go last night and he woke up at 3.30. He never wakes up when he's in our bed, so it might be a bit of a slow process as DH and I love our sleep!

Kel and Mel - Yay for pay TV. We have it here too, and it is fantastic, especially the nights when all you do is channel surf cos there is nothing you want to watch on any of the channels!!

MM - My mother has always said that one of the perks of being a grandparent is getting revenge on their kids.... bloody granparents!! I don't think I could up the size of nappies for Jett, his legs are too skinny, as I discovered with a couple of my cloth nappies

Mel - Look at what you've done without even trying... all these cloth nappy people! Although I had started building my stash before I had officially met you!

Leasha - Hope that abscess is going... ouch! and you can avoid going to hospital. And :yeahthat:, what they said, about the lease thing. You should be able to break the lease early due to the circumstances, and the new owners may buy it as an investment property in which case you are in an ideal situation to stay. Saves them going through the process to find suitable tenants. Although they may put the rent up which may not suit you. When is the lease up? When is the house up for sale?

Pixie - Yay for the dummy leading to a good night! Always helpful!

Sasha and CM4E - Mwah!

Not sure who else I've missed but mwah! to you and your bubs too!

Jett has been a bit grumpy today, not sure why and not over the top, just grumpy! Maybe not enough to eat yesterday? Oh well, there is still output in the correct colours and textures pmsl!

This morning I had him on his tummy in his cot and he brought one leg up and kind of pushed up with one arm and rolled over. I'm not sure he meant it though - he had this look on his face like " WTF just happened????" but he didn't cry or anything so it obviously didn't bother him! He's asleep right now beside me on his tummy so he is quite content sleeping like that, but just for the record I would never put him down for a sleep like that unsupervised!

Someone asked my what Gymbaroo was (can't remember who, sorry) it is activity based learning developing kids physical abilities. They sometimes use equipment and sometimes just on the mat. For example, we were sitting on the floor with them on our outstretched legs singing Jack and Jill. As we sang "Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water" we raised our knees so they became more upright, "Jack fell down" lowered our knees, "and broke his crown" circled the tops of their heads with our fingers "and Jill came tumbling after" we would raise and lower one knee at a time so they would tilt side to side. It is developing their sense of space, and teaches them a sense of rhythym at the same time which is needed for such things as crawling and walking. As they grow older they do different activities based on their physical development at that age. She also mentioned that because babies spend so much time on their backs now while they are sleeping it is good to put them down for playtime on their beliies as much as possible and when they crack it, as they all do, to roll them over rather than pick them up and put them on their backs to again develop their sense of space and get them used to what it feels like to roll. I found it all very interesting.... and like I said, Jett loved it!

[mountain mummy]

hey your sons same age as myn born in feb hehe i should get ya number and get my son to call your son haha Here we have you and i chatting online and those two on phone hehe

A bans a ban are ya gonna bring it up with them or will the ban be lifted by then?

hehehe Squidipa - there's only a month between them!! Zak's in January. As for the ban, it WAS meant to be over in the 1st week of december, but who knows now! DP already told his parents off for it - they just seem to do it so much, like last time they were up here a few weeks ago, they rocked up with a 2 wheeler bike for 2.5yo We were upset cause we had seen a bike that we wanted to get for him (with a handle on the back for us to control the bike) ... they just do ***** without thinking ...

Might try it when I try transitioning Jett in to his cot. We gave it a go last night and he woke up at 3.30. He never wakes up when he's in our bed, so it might be a bit of a slow process as DH and I love our sleep!

He's asleep right now beside me on his tummy so he is quite content sleeping like that, but just for the record I would never put him down for a sleep like that unsupervised!

MT - after Veygas's hernia op, I was too scared to have him in bed with me (and he had just spent 3 days in a cot by himself in the hospital), I was surprised at how well he adjusted to being in the cot. My DD preferred the cot as well when she was a bub ... but all kids are different. I KWYM about loving sleep!! LOL!

As for sleeping on their tummy, all of my kids so far (except Veygas!) have managed to roll onto their tummies during the night (as bubs) and tey still sleep on their tummies!! I think it's genetic, cause I prefer to sleep on my tummy too!!

oh and :yeahthat: about grandparents! And channel surfing too!

[Arimeh]

MT - both my babies have slept on their tummy

[MummyTummy]

Interesting about the tummy sleeping. Especially the genetic theory, i love sleeping on my tummy too, I missed it so much while preggas. I'm not game enough to put him down to sleep on his tummy unless I will be there and awake, but he did manage to wriggle in to the frog position earlier, like the kid on the bonds easysuit ad, so I think he would be fine. I let him have a decent sleep like that before - 3 hours in the end! He's now crashed out on the couch with DH (also crashed out). Awww so sweet!