Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #3

Morning everyone

Squidipa - I think it's just kids in general!! LOL! It takes my 7yo DS all freakin day to do his chores on Saturday - it should only take him about half an hour!! Don't know if he realises or cares that if he did it properly and quickly, he could get outside and play!! :rolleyes:

Stress can be hard on people and make them say stuff they don't mean, hope you and hubby have sorted it out and moved on hun :comfort:

Well we certainly are quiet today, hope you are all having a good day.

Hi! What a huge post Squidipa!!! Don't know if I am putting the tree up this year, we are have Christmas away this year so not sure if I will put it up, don't really have the room, if we do it won't be for a while yet, next year will be in the new house - yay!!

Got a good day of work so far - 6hours - yay!

Off to the shops then hospital shortly, Dad needs a few things so thought I'd better get the stuff into him this afternoon as it will be too much of a rush after Yoga.

N is sleeping reasonable well, did have to do a dummy place this morning - maybe my BP's didn't have a strong enough scent! Might have to squeeze a bit exxtra on the ones for tonight!!

Big hugs Kell - grr I know how you feel!! We might have to catch up and whinge together!!

I couldn't get on until now MM - BB must have been not working properly.... again...

Must run

Beema ~ I would love to catch up - if nothing else but to make new friends!!!!!

OMG! I just did a huge long post that I had spent a couple of hours on and now it is all gone! :angry:

Oh Yay Kell!! I will PM you about my diary this week!! He he!!

MT ~ Don't you just lurrrve technology!

B ~ Look forward to it! LOL

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OMG! I just did a huge long post that I had spent a couple of hours on and now it is all gone! :angry:

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3 words MT ... copy and paste :rofl:

I always copy what I write before I post it, JIC BB decides not to play!! LOL! That way, I can go back and paste it if need be without having to remember what i wrote! :hug: I'm sorry the BB monster ate your post.

ARGH! Babies!
Seven just had the most luxurious of baths, bubbles and all, and a massage. She loved it, and for the first time ever, she didn’t cry when I took her out.
We had a lovely feed, then 10 minutes later. BAM. Poo blow out. And, also for the first time ever, it went up the BACK!
So, naked as the day she was born, she got a ‘baby wipe’ wash. And a new set of jimjams.
So, S.E.V.E.N no longer spells Seven, it spells RatBag.

Oh, you may have noticed, she broke the 4 day poo rule! (we had poop 2 days ago!)


PS ~ This has been typed up in word and copied and pasted into here! I do that too MM!!!

Oh for pities sake ~ I have just looked down and found......Vomit. We now have chuck all over our nice second set of clean pj's! Oh I hope someone is getting a giggle out of this!

OMG Kel, if it makes you feel better we get a poo EVERY NAPPY CHANGE!
Well, we had ONE nappy today that was just wet. But that is such a rare occasion we practically put out bunting.
:waves: to all, but sorry no personals, it's late and I should be :asleep:

We USED to have poo every change. Then it slowed down to every 4 days, and I - stupidly - got used to it. Darn it!

Goo the poopey topic ya can tell we are all mom's

Happy 2nd anniversary to me :D YAY now there should be no reason as to why we cant now start the adoption

CM4E... Oh bugger, you got a CODE SPEW and a CODE POO ... :lol: LOL yes thats what I call it when its all blown out and messy, well its either that or I'd be so furstrated/upset at the fact that she poos and/or spews over practically EVERY nice outfit I own! Honestly, I can't hold her before we go out or else I'd have to change honestly she just wants to make me cry sometimes I think!


Did someone say CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!

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We got a Christmas tree on layby, Shel and I have never had one before. Well, we never spend Christmas alone, its always my family in the morning and hers in the afternoon. Which involves driving AT LEAST 3 hours in total BLEH, but this year we have said NO not travelling, if you want Christmas with us YOU can come HERE. We have Jazz now so we can say that (thats the excuse everyone else uses, we can't travel, we've got kids...)
Anyway, Christmas... our Christmas tree will go up on December 1. I also COOK up a storm squidipa! YAY! COOKING! Wonder what I'll cook for Christmas dinner? Suppose it depends on who decides to turn up...

I'll BBL for personals...

Morning everyone!!!!

Leash - thats a good excuse not to travel. Doesn't work here though - we are the ones with the least amount of kids in my family!! :rolleyes: And I think its at my sisters house this year - so thats travelling down in the morning to Narangba - and then travelling back up to Pomona to have the afternoon with DH's family at his sisters place. Gonna be a long bloody day. I hate christmas for that reason, its always the kids that suffer cos its just too long a day to fit everything in.

Squidipa - congrats on 2 years.

:o I've just realised its our wedding anniversary tomorrow.. PMSL.. OMG.. I had forgotten... PMSL... f**k... whoops!! Hopefully DH forgets too... LOL Nothing special - only 3 years married (3 years and 2 kids later.... hehe)

Kell - I hate changing outfits so quickly - thank god with the cloth nappies the explosions never go up her back - they are always kept within the nappy... (ahhh.. gotta love a good cover!! LOL)

Vic - yay for milk honey - you are a wonderful cow ;) (In the nicest possible meaning of course!! LOL)\

SB - if you are lurking - POST WOMAN POST ;)

LOL

I met the lovely SB (who hasn't posted in AGES) at the meet up on Sunday and it was lovely to meet her. Wish you lived closer SB - I think we would be great mates!!!! *mwah*

Hello to everyone else - yes slack I know, but too many posts for me to keep up with this morning!!!!!! Plus DS is trashing the place (DD is sleeping) so probably should go play with him and give him some attention before his sister wakes up again.

*mwah* to all and sundry!!!!!

xxx

Surely you've got the youngest though Mel lol, thats our excuse my parents have my brothers (7 and 15) and SIL has her three girls (11, 13, 15) but we've got the youngest so harder to travel (though its kind of a standoff with my parents as my 15yo bro has CP so he's a bit tricky to get travelling).

Reckon I could still use the "I'm still recovering from the c/s"? Probably not since my mums had one I guess :doh:

Oh, had my driving lesson. PMSL... yeah theres a reason I need lessons... though I DID do a reverse parallel park WITHOUT hitting anything! INCLUDING the curb (though the instructor may have used her pedals lol). Got my SIL taking me driving on Thursday, and another lesson nect Monday, 2 hours next time.
Oh, LOL, I left Jazz and Shel home with each other. I fed jazz before I left and said "ok, I expressed this, but she won't need it, but just in case". I got home (was only gone just over an hour BTW!) and she's fed her the WHOLE bottle of 170mL... because she was crying :rofl:. I seriously JUST fed her just before I walked out the door, so she basically had two full feeds in an hour. I can't say she wouldn't have drunk it if she wasn't hungry because my girl is a guts! Though I guess she would have spewed if she'd had too much. Still I had to laugh... I leave them home alone for an hour! It was the first time that I had left the house without Jazz and the first time Shel was home alone with her. I didn't worry (surprisingly) but I think Shel might have been a bit nervous!

PMSL @ Shel - oh the poor thing.. thank GOD DH doesn't freak out anymore - unless I leave him with both of them.. haha!!!!

And yeah I do have the youngest - but that doesn't matter in our family - we all have toddlers so they are the main problem in the car - they scream loud!!! LOL

No excuses for DH's family - we are the only ones with kids. (Which is why at our normal family dinners throughout the year we get pi$$ed off because they want to do a lunch thing starting at 12 - and then all of them get pi$$ed at US because we won't come until after 2 - after DS has woken up from his only nap that he has during the day. now seriously people, if you don't have kids - wouldn't you try to organise the things around the only people that DO have kids?!!!?)

Sorry - went a bit off track there. I'm still grumpy.

Hi Ladies!

It has been a while since I posted in here- sorry for my disappearance- but I was feeling a bit shy and overwhelmed with trying to remember who was who and babies names etc coz most you all knew each other from your belly buddies thread.. silly I know- coz you were all so nice and welcoming but I have been lurking? (stalking.. lol however you want to look at it!!) and I feel like I have gotten to know everyone a bit more now- plus I met Mel IRL over the weekend so I am going to make a bit more of an effort to post in here!! I hope that?s ok!!!

Mel?. It was great to meet you on Sunday! And you didn?t seem shy at all!! Although the crowd had diminished a bit by the time we sat down for a chat!! I am so glad I went! We will have to do it again sometime! Maybe we can start meeting half way between us.

Leasha? Don?t worry Shane isn?t rolling yet either- and he still HATES belly time- so I cant see him trying hard to get onto his belly anytime soon!! Maybe I should try it the other way and have him half on his tummy and see if he will roll onto his back???

As for poo?s?. well we get one pretty much every day- if not every second day- and they can be VERY explosive!!!! Lol I got a good one on Sunday arvo- all over me!!

And sleeping? well we have good nights and not so good nights.. depending what time he goes down.. last night was great? 8-3am then back down by 4 and up at 8am? still awake now though?

And Christmas???!!!! No idea where we will end up this year- i would like to have xmas morning at home... but after that who knows!! I have been thinking about pressies for Shane already!!!

My mum is coming over soon so I better go and do a quick tidy up.. I?ll try to come back soon for some more personals!!!

Bye for now!!
SB

Good morning beautiful people!

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Oh I hope someone is getting a giggle out of this!

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Even if you didn't, I did LOL! ;)

And Leash, Veygas always waits til we're out before chucking all over my shoulder!! :rofl: But I guess after 4, you get used to it!! LOL!

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I've just realised its our wedding anniversary tomorrow.. PMSL.. OMG.. I had forgotten... PMSL... f**k... whoops!! Hopefully DH forgets too... LOL Nothing special - only 3 years married (3 years and 2 kids later.... hehe)

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hehehehe Mel, that's kinda like me and DP ... although we're not married, we'll be together for 4 years on 1st January next year, and our oldest will be 8 a couple of weeks later! Go figure :rofl: Obviously not his hey!! :shhh: hehehehehe

Katti - nice to see you posting again chicky!!! :dance:

Squidipa - congrats on your anniversary hun!

As for Christmas - we did the whole family thing coming here one year and it TOTALLY SUCKED! We vowed to always have Christmas day just our nuclear family, and arrange for one side of the fam to come a couple of weeks before and the other side to come a couple of weeks after ... This year, looks like IL's are gonna try and crash chrissie day though, as my FIL has decided to retire at the end of this year and they want to throw money around for the kids :wtf: I'd rather them put it in the kids accounts to help them out a bit later. They just want to get them ***** like toys and stuff (not even clothes!!! But my MIL has the worst woggy taste in clothes anyway!!) BUT they are still not coming on chrissie day - NO WAY!!!!!

I haven't heard from my mum since DS2's b'day in MARCH (again :wtf: ) so they can shove christmas where the sun don't shine! :angry:

Sorry, that's my rant for the day (I hope! LOL!)

DD started her kindy orientation today and she looked so cute in her uniform!!! She was really excited - I think she may even cry when I pick her up cause she won't want to come home! (they are only doing half days to get the kids used to being in a school routine)

Bloody DS2 didn't want to leave and he's only 2.5!!

Morning yummy mummies
StarBright - welcome!! Always happy to have new people!
so far DD has been pretty good about puking on me, hasn't done it too many times, and I guess the upside of having a poo every nappy change is that we don't get explosive build up! Hey got to find an upside somewhere :rolleyes:
Vic - great to hear your milk is back! Hope everything else is going well :hug:
Christmas should be interesting this year - we are going to stepmother's sister's house and having a spit roasted pig. The Bear killed the pig himself :o so it should be different! Never had a baby at Christmas before so not sure how it will go with pressies and stuff but I'm sure Beth will be buried in loot.
our anniversary is on the 29 December or the 30 December... we can't decide since we got married in the states so it can be either depending on which time zone you're using! But this will only be our 2 year anniversary so we haven't started forgetting yet!
O and happy anniversary!
:leap: Beth slept from 11.30 to 6.15 :leap: very very happy with her! and this morning the Bear and I heard a little giggle! so exciting and soooo cute!
Anyway, I have a very busy week so might not be around much, just wanted to say mwah to all and have a great day.

Hi everyone

Congrats on all of your anniversaries DF and I just had our 5TH!!!!!! gosh where has the time gone.

Squidipa- WOW your tree is up already! I bet the kids are getting really excited. Is your DH feeling better now? has his hours picked up? If only the bills would shrink or dissapear like work hours do.

The pixie- I'm going to have to get Beth to teach Allegra to sleep like that :p I'm always having nappy blow outs and have to change her clothes all the time I've been peed on a few times too do you find certain brands of nappies worse then others?

MM- I HATE having massive groups of people over you always get stuck doing the cleaning especially at christmas. LMAO at the woggy clothes! Aaaaaw how cute are tehre little school uniforms I also think it's cute when you see a back pack with little feet walking down the street on the first day of school

SB- great to hear from you and those sleeping times are fantastic

Mel- :hug: I'd be grumpy too 12 is ok when the kids start waking up at the first slither of sun light on the horizon (like I used to) to open their presents but not when they're waking later.

Leash- YAY for your driving lesson and well done on the reverse parallel I refuse to do them :D. hee hee poor Shel DF still stresses even after having Cadence But that was really sneaky of Jaz tricking mummy into thinking she needs to be fed again

CM4E- Gotta love the poo blow outs, lucky the poo blow out didn't happen in the bath

MT- oh hugs chicky I hate it when that heppens. How is everything going?

Vic- Do you take N in with you to work still? you're so lucky if you do Child care is soooo expensive. We have no room for a tree either but I'm going to re arrange some furniture to squeeze it in

Sasha- forgot to say HAPPY 2 MONTHS

Hmmm christmas isn't far away and I need to GET a tree and i'm getting one with built in lights as I HATE fighting with lights every year no matter how neat I put them away they always get tangled.

Allegra has been sleeping better which is great but she has a cold and is due for her needles so I have to wait to get them done.
I have stopped receiving calls from our baby clinic now as I have a booking to go to a parents group in November I was getting a call almost every week telling me about their facilities they were almost as bad a telemarketers :rofl:

I love reverse parking of any kind!! (ok yeah, I'm weird!!) :rofl:

eta: woooohooo I just noticed my new avatar!!! :leap:

I saw your avatar before it looks great MM
DF reverses into parks all the time and I like to remind him AFTER he has shown off that we need to get the pram out of the boot

PMSL Kel, Shel does the same thing. Show off reverse parking and then I go "well YOU'RE getting the pram out!", apparently she prefers to drive straight out of the parking spot :rolleyes:

Morning Ladies,

Still peeved at DF - again. He had Seven for 5 minutes last night then because HIS legs were tired, he handed her back! What about me? I've had her ALL day! ARGH
So, now I can say something embarassing about him - he can't park my car at all! He gets it crooked, over the line, wheels turned on a 90 degree angle and I give him **** every time he does it! Its rather amusing when we go out because he hs to reverse and go in about 50 million times. He's like a granny in a too big car I tell ya!

Ok, rant over!

Hope everyone is having a good day!

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I saw your avatar before it looks great MM
DF reverses into parks all the time and I like to remind him AFTER he has shown off that we need to get the pram out of the boot

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Thanks Kel!
I do the same thing when DP is driving ... he always chooses spots where you couldn't possibly open the back door of the prado (cause it opens outways, hinged on the drivers side of the car) whereas I like to choose spots that I can reverse into, but still open the door (90 and 45 degree angle parking against curbs for instance!)

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apparently she prefers to drive straight out of the parking spot

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I have to admit that I like to drive straight out too!!

AND I also just noticed my ticker - VEYGAS IS 3 MONTHS OLD TODAY!! :bluecheer::hooray::leap: Where has the time gone??? :jawdrop:

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Still peeved at DF - again. He had Seven for 5 minutes last night then because HIS legs were tired, he handed her back! What about me? I've had her ALL day! ARGH

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Oh Kell :comfort: My DP would rather play PS3 or Wii, or watch wrestling :wtf: and drown out Veygas crying than actually pick him up for 5 minutes! Oh I've cracked it hard at him a couple of times, but I think he feels a bit left out cause Khaemon was (and still is) such a daddy's boy (although is now starting to snub DP in favour of me :o ), and Veygas is mummy's boy the whole way!

So I totally know where you're coming from with having them all day!! (In my case all week, cause DP is gone all week! LOL!)

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Does anyone else have the problem of spending all week settling bub into a little daily routine, only to have their partners trash it on their days off? Shel has gone from not involved to me having to say "can you maybe let her sleep?". She'll pick her up if she makes noise after only an hour asleep so Jazz will stay awake three hours and sleep for one when Shel is home, which makes for a horribley overtired whingey cranky baby, and I always have trouble getting her back to sleeping properly during the week... Or maybe its just my house?

Leash - one word - YES :wall:

But its ok - he puts her to bed every night - so he deals with the screams.. mwah haha.. ooooh I'm EVIL...

ETA - MM - YAYYYY for 3 months!!! Its going so quickly isn't it!?!?!?!?!?!! We'll definitely need to be belly buddies next time around ;)

Leasha.. TOTALLY!!! Even to the point where i will be getting him ready to sleep and i will have seen all the early tired signs and DH will come along and say "he's not tired" and proceed to play with him or keep him awake and then when he starts bawling he hands him to me and says "now he's tired" WTF????!!! :o He is also guilty of picking him up at the first little murmer.. and also- DS makes noise going TO sleep as much as he does waking up- and more than once i have JUST gotten him down and crawled back into bed 5 mins later i hear DH (who has slept through me feeding/changing and putting DS down) get up and say "are you awake buddy???" and pick him up and bring him to me for a feed!!!!!! LoL!!
My routine goes out the window on weekends and days off!!!

Oh and i am with Shel on the drive right out thing... me too!!

Calebsmum (kel)... I get that too- DH puts in about 5 minutes of effort and then passes him back, his excuse is " i dont have norco on tap" he wants boob!! which ok- 9 times out of ten i just have to flash them and DS settles, but he could at least try a bit more- its not like DS is actually hungry, its just the quickest and easiest way to settle him.
LoL- I am the crap parker in our family!!! I even have a small car and i am only recently getting good- when ever i do a decent park i make a big deal about it and say "look i did good- i am in between the lines and kind of straight!!" lol

MM.. very nice avatar!! And huge:confetti: Happy 3 months to Veygas:happybirthday: and i bet DD looked cute in her uniform!!! Have you posted a pic??

Pixie.. Yay on Beth's sleeping!!! And how cute- a GIGGLE!!!! Shane has giggled in his sleep- but he hasnt managed to do it awake yet- lol but he was the same with his smiles, he did it for weeks in his sleep before he cracked a real one awake- and now he smiles on cue!! lol

Well mum came and visited and Shane was full of smiles for her- she went OS from when he was about 4 weeks and she only got back about a week ago- so he had changed alot since she saw him last- she got to play with him and settle him and she had a ball!!
And i have finally ordered some actual prints of all of our photos of him!! I should get them delivered next week- i cant wait to frame some and put them in albums!!

DS fave new thing is to eat his hands!! He sucks and sucks at them - so cute!! Speaking of which- he is waking up now- and i am sure i can smell a pooey one- so i better get to it before it leaks!!!

Take care xoxo

LOL False alarm.... just some stinky farts!!

Sorry I missed you when you were up SB, next time?

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times out of ten i just have to flash them and DS settles

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PMSL I so know what you mean!

Jazz also tries to eat her hands. I am waiting for the day when I look down to see a fist on her mouth! I've got the camera ready lol. Jazz has actually woken me up at night eating her hands *suck suck suck*

Ahhhh babies. Gotta love them!

Yeah Leasha... i ended up going to caboulture too on sunday but had enough driving... we will meet up one day i promise!!! MAybe next time i am heading that way we can organise something with Mel too!!

Katti - Can you believe it I never had time to take a pic of her in her uniform??? :doh: I was feeding Veygas until right up to just before we left and had to feed him again as soon as we got home from picking her up! :( Hopefully next week I'll get one! LOL!

IKWYM about stinky farts!!! pooheeeeee!Veygas attracts the bloody flies!! LOL!

Veygas is a thumb sucker - hates the dummy to pieces, but will settle himself by sucking his thumb (I reckon that's how I'm getting away with him sleeping through the night!!)

ROUTINE OUT THE WINDOW??? YES!!!!!! Every weekend, cause DP is gone all week LOL!

Mel - I don't think I can wait til June next year!! :rofl:

Whereabouts are you Katti?? We are looking at getting land in Stanthorpe (I know Mel, it's not the Sunshine coast!! LOL!)

Leasha... lol yeah- when DS is upset i just pull them out and he gets soo excited he just looks at them and even starts playing with them before he clamps down!! Its funny coz its like the world is coming to an end- but as soon as he sees the boobies he suddenly has enough time to stop and play for five minutes!!! lol

MM..... i'm sure you can get her to dress up in her uniform again for a picture!! lol

I live in northern nsw, near Byron Bay- i had a loong drive to get to the brissie meet up!! I have a good friend who lives in caboulture which is near Leasha and Mel- DH and i go up there a fair bit for weekends. NEXT time i promise i will arrange a meet up- but usually its a last minute decision to go- even on sunday i wasnt going to go there- i was planning on coming right home- but at the last minute i decided i wasnt up for the drive home and went to my friends place.. i hadnt packed anything for myslef (luckily the nappy bag was FULL of clothes nappies etc for shane) but i go tburned big time with the poo explosion!! All over me!!!! LoL I had to wash my clothes there coz it was all i had!! lmao

Oh and those smelly farts before.. yep- explosion was not long after!!!

Shane tries hard to get the thumb in there- but hasnt quite mastered it yet!!

We are having a GINORMOUS storm here tonight!! Its windy and the sky is black!! I love a good storm!! It came up so quickly!!! I love storms!!!

Gee it didnt take me long to get back into the swing of things did it!! :p

hehehe Katti - we aren't in Qld yet - far from it! LOL, we are in the Blue Mountains!!! :)

Funny thing is, I think alot of the ladies in the July 16-31 thread are closer to me (I think I remember seeing that some of them lived around Richmond / Hawkesbury areas, which is kinda at the bottom of the mountain, if I go down the back road!! LOL!

And I just have to look at veygas, or make a move as if I'm gonna pick him up, and he smiles at me - sometimes we have trouble getting the thumb out of the way before the boob goes in though!! :rofl:

Thanks for the copy and paste advice! But I know I won't learn. I haven't had that happen to me before, I've always been able to click the back button and copy and paste what I have written in to Word before the site chews it up! Plus I don't normally write a post for that long..... oh well I have no one to blame but myself! :lol:

Anyway in light of my lost post I won't go back and do all the personals I did first time - but I am thinking of all of you! Mwah!

Starbright - Yay for joining us! Welcome!

Ok, quick recap of yesterdays post - went to the Expo on the weekend. Was really good, I bought a whole stack of itti bitti d'lish nappies so I can pretty much keep Jett in cloth fulltime now! I think I will still keep him in sposies for night times though for the time being. I bought a twilight turtle which projects stars on the ceiling and the shell glows. If you want to look at it just google "twilight turtle". Might save that one for him for Christmas though. I bought a few breastfeeding tops too cos I'm struggling with my every day tops and feeding. And I bought a sling for Jett for wearing around the house and quick trips in to the shops. It was funny, I tried it on and put Jett in it and he fell asleep straight away - so how could I not get it??? I paid my money and walked out with him in it - lucky it was new out of the box or I could have ended up with a demo!!

Jett has been a bit funny today - not out and out uncontrollable, but just not settling, whimpering and getting upset. I think a lot of it is him getting overtired and not sleeping when he needs to. He really fights it, one of the reasons I wanted to get the sling. I did put him in it earlier and like a charm he went straight to sleep. But then I really wanted a shower so I put him on the bed still in the sling but he woke up as usual when I was half way through my shower. Oh well, nothing I can't handle! :)

I hope everyone is enjoying their little cherubs!

Evening all!!! You can seriously chat on here I have no chance of catching up on todays chatter!

Long day today, work first up this morning, had a meeting - but had it at home and I was bought a nice hot chocolate - yay, gotta love that!

Caught up with my playgroup mums - we have already started catching up outside of our Friday session, this week is out last session.There are a few photos on Facebook if you are on there!

Went to hospital and saw my dad - WOOT!! He is coming out in the morning so I wil be picking him up by 10, the he is staying with us overnight and my mum is coming down from the country for the night and I am cooking a lamb roast!

Also my sister had her MRI today and it was all clear - WOOT! She has aslo been approvd to have the medication for one month for $25, heaps beatter than $30,000!!! But we don't know what will happen after that.

We have more bricks, pretty much downstairs is done, I guess they will be waiting for scaffolding for the second story.

Welcome back Starbright!

Must go and express, hopefully I will be able to keep up tomorrow!

Shock horror, I’m awake. Seven WAS soundly asleep, until the very second I put her in her basinnet. She’s been crying ever since. She’s currently on my lap whingeing. Doesn’t want a feed, just wants to me to stand up and hold her. My back is about to break. Holding a 5.5kg baby for hours on end is not good for a bad back!

DF has been asleep since 7.45. He’s ‘tired’. Im over him being ‘tired’. So am I! He doesn’t wake up every 2hrs to feed a hungry baby. He doesn’t get up early to spend all day with a needy baby. He gets to go to work and come home and go to friggin bed!
If I bring this up, I know what he will say. “I work all day”. So frigging what?
Somethings gotta give.

I need this baby to go to sleep before midnight. I have tried everything. Im SO dam tired! This is NOT what it was supposed to be like.

I am sorry about the ‘me’ post again – but I am going to lose my mind if I don’t vent. I know you are all going through the same things, but I don’t know what else to do.

Morning yummy mummies!
Hope all had a good night and :hug: to those who didn't!
Well I was supposed to go and do the bay walk this morning with the girls from my mother's group but the weather is dreadful so not today.... But it's on every wednesday so next week. I don't mind because I have to be at an appointment at 12 so I was going to be cutting it fine. :dance: today is the day my stepmother is minding Beth so I can go and get a spa treatment! it's a late birthday present so it should be a great day.
Kel - I feel for you babe... hope you get a solution soon. Leash, where is that frying pan you used to hit Shel with - it sounds like it worked on her so pass it on to Kel!
Vic - great great news about your dad and your sister!! And saw your playgroup photos on FB - sooo cute!
MT - bummer about losing your post, hate that! and great that Jett liked the sling. We have (two) Baby Bjorns but DD HATES them. Wondering if she would like a different type of sling or if she just doesn't like the whole concept.
MM - happy three months to Veygas :bluecheer:
kel84 - you were asking about nappy brands - we used to use huggies until everyone started saying they had gone downhill, since then have used aldi and babylove... both good. Waiting for the poo frequency to drop a bit then will probably get the nappywash service, since dad has offered to pay for it.... so then it would be cloth flats.
I posted my birth story here so if anyone has half an hour to kill go for it.... make sure you have a cuppa handy though it's pretty long!
Big waves to mel, SB and everyone else - hope you all have a great day!

Kell... I'll express post the frypan... or maybe I'll come down and smack your DH with it myself. I also used some words with Shel, although it was a bit risky, could have gone the COMPLETE other way so I don't actually recommend doing that unless you get to the end of your patience and don't care about the outcome! Sending some huge cyberhugs :hug: I hope Seven sleeps tonight :hug:

CM4E - honey, vent all you need to!! Guess what? We (mums) work all day too, and all night! We are constantly on call, we don't get perks like sick leave, annual leave or overtime! Heck, we would have to be in one the most underpaid professions in history! :lol:

:comfort: I hope Seven starts being a good girl for you. Have you tried to talk to Trav about this calmly? (before all the pent up emotion) I know it's hard with a needy, clingy baby.

I really don't know what to suggest hun. How do you bath her? Ever since I got Veygas into one of those bath seat thingys (where they are a little more independent cause you don't have to hold them) he kicks and splashes around in the bath (and wears himself out methinks!) and then I feed him in a dark quiet room (while my other three get up to all kinds of mischief!!), half wrapped. I finish wrapping him after his feed, kiss him on the forehead, tuck him in and leave the room, all without talking to him, and as quietly as possible.

This routine seems to work for us ... but then again, my household has to be routine-d otherwise I wouldn't get anything done! LOL!

Big :hug: hun!

MT - yay for the itti bitti's - how do you find them (fit wise, absorbency etc, as opposed to where LOL! ;) ) And woohoo for the sling!! How heavy is Jett now?

Vic - what good news about your dad and sister! And $25 is a heap better than $30,000!!! :o Hopefully if these meds do her good, they might be able to make more arrangements for them to continue being subsidised!

Well, we had that storm hit early this morning, scared the crap out of DD so much so that she wet the bed (first accident!!) AND THEN IT SNOWED!!!! :wtf: It's like winter again - currently 3 bloody degrees!!!

Anyway, gotta get DD's bedding dry before tonight and then have a nice hot cuppa!!

mwah to all!! xxx