Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008 #4

squidipa - my guess is 200g :)

sasha - love that pic of kye, he and e have such similar builds! they even look a teeny bit similar to me in that pic :)

thepixie - aww yay for a spa treatment!! i have been looking at getting a massage or something as a treat. i am experiencing the same sagas with e trying to take a EBM bottle right now - haven't done one in ages (oops) and he's not taking them now :( tried twice with no luck. i really really want to go watch beckham play on dec 6 so will keep trying.

vic - lol at weighing n's poop! e has gone 6 days and then massive poop, then another 6 days and two massive poops. We're on day 3 again now lol.

hi everyone else, hope you had a fantastic weekend.. and thanks for all your birthday wishes on FB. had a fab bbq at our place with about 20 friends.

AND.... a year ago today i found out i was pregnant! we were in london on our round-the-world trip. i snuck out from our hotel and got a test because my bb had been a bit sore and i was wondering (no other signs tho). i remember buying the test cos it was so expensive! did the test in the hotel bathroom and then came out and told dh (who was watching tv). we were happy but more reserved than when i got my first positive test (which ended in a missed miscarriage at 12 weeks) but it was so nice to have that news a couple of days after my birthday.

when/how did you find out you were pregnant?

Good Morning :)

Rach I was reading your status on FB and I went back to my blog to see the dates when I found out :) Here is my blog post from the 11th December, my first post, slightly edited (but it was a private blog until I got to 12 weeks) :) He he for the every 6 days, I really must take more notice of the days, but it has seemed to be be Saturday afternoons/early evening ;)

"After waiting for quite some time DH and I decided that we couldn't be bothered waiting for out new house to be built that we would just give TTC a shot and see how we go, it can take a long time so we thought yeah this could take a few months or more so we'll be right!!

After the first month of TTC I met with my Dr about a month before for the dreaded PS, and spoke with her about us TTC and she just asked about what supplements I was taking and we also spoke about my gym work - as I was worried that I could push it too hard and do some damage. So after reassuring me the everything we were doing was fine, month 2 of TTC started.

I was a bit more relaxed, but when the TWW arrived I got myself so stressed out, wrote myself off and told myself that it wasn't going to happen this month, and went and spent the day at Victor with friends (I wasn't the chirpiest of people, but I don't think anyone noticed!!). It was a great distraction - but deep down I was shattered, kinda hard not to get caught up!!

I had been burping since the 29th of November, not just the occassional burp - a lot, and it was kinda funny!! Then cramps and got woken up one night with sharp pain in my BBS, and was a little nauseaus, but I said to Roy and myself nope, not this month.

Anyway I thought I would prepare for the testing - decided that I would test 2 days early as I wanted to do at least one POAS - it is fun!!! So on the Monday I bought supplies to cover all bases - good and bad!!

After writing myself off during month two of TTC I was absolutely shocked to find that I had a big bright BFP!! I had convinced myself that I was not UTD, and couldn't believe my eyes when at 5:50am on the 4.12.07 2 lines showed up straight away - OMG!!!
YEAH!!!!

So I quickly booked an appointment with my Dr that day as my Dr told me there is a massive shortage of OB's in Adelaide and I could end up waiting a long time for an appointment, (unfortunately my Dr was on leave and had to see another Dr), and appointment was 45 minutes late - not helping my nerves.

When I told the Dr so was very excited - more than me it was beautiful, she rang the office of Dr A B (OB) to see if she was available on my expected date, and great for me she was, so with the referral letter and phone numbers in hand I left the Dr's in a little daze, jumped in my car and rang the OB office straight away to book all of my appoinments in. First Midwife appoinment with S is on Monday 7th January, and my first OB appointment is on 8th February four our first US - yeah!!!!

In the meantime we are taking care of our little Jelly Bean, and sending lots of love.
Ahh.... We are on Cloud 9
xxoo"

:hug: for your angel baby Rach :angel:

Pixie - Yay for the sleep-in and the spa treatment!! Which reminds me I must book in for my facial and use the voucher before it runs out very shortly!!!


Well must go and have a shower and do some more work while Nakita has gone down for her sleep. :shhh:

:hello:Hello all
WOW it has been a year already since we were all clutching our :bfp: and racing onto BB with our pants still around our ankles to tell everyone, how time flies

Squidipa- hugs chicky and I guess hmmm 200g too

Vic- I hope everything goes well with baby number 2 I have a friend who had a baby the same gestation as you had miss N and her second was two weeks over due.
Poor Daddy geting covered in poo I hope he has a strong stomach hee hee

Kiwigirl- Just looked at the pic I took of my BFP and the date says the 7th of December but I think I tested earlier and got an extremely faint cross. I had only slight AF cramping no other signs oh except my due date which I worked out to be 13/08/08 when my first born was due on the 13/05/05 I knew it was a sign what were the chances of having dates like that! :D
Sorry to hear of your loss :grouphug:

The pixie- The day spa sounds sooooooo nice. LOL about the bottle confusion Allegra does the same thing then gives me this real cranky look to say noooo thats not what I want MUM!

Mel- I bought 2 new larger bottles with a faster flow teat and Allegra cracked me up when she was pulling faces while trying to keep up with the flow the first few times. How is Miss M going in childcare? I have an enrolement form for Allegra as I may need it in February back to work YAY YAY.

Sasha- WOW what a great routine you have K in I'll give you my number and he can baby chat to Allegra and tell her to do the same hee hee. Thats great he loves swimming :dance:

MM- sounds like you have a real mummies boy there (makes the most of it remember they grow up and don't really like giving too many cuddles)

Hello to everyone I missed

We cleaned up Cadences Highchair yesterday and Allegra loves it she sits up high and looks down on Cadence and the cat. She has been ok with sleeping lately but my routine of going to bed at 10:30 has gone right out the window as someone still wants to party till midnight.
I have had Allegra on both boob and formula for a bit now and she's doing alright she's not packing on the weight like I thought she would be.
Better go and start to get organised for my orthodontist appointment ouchie ouchie!
Take care everyone

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Vic- I hope everything goes well with baby number 2 I have a friend who had a baby the same gestation as you had miss N and her second was two weeks over due.
Poor Daddy geting covered in poo I hope he has a strong stomach hee hee
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I am really hoping we get to go to term - don't think I will be too thrilled about going 2 weeks over :rofl: What was caused your friends bub to come early?

Daddy doesn't have the strongest stomach, and he was yelping out holding Nakita up in the air and poo dripping everywhere, I just wanted to look and enjoy laughing at him for a while, but as it was going to get the couch I have to get a towel :lol:

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racing onto BB with our pants still around our ankles to tell everyone, how time flies

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:rofl: I still don't know how I didn't blurt it out at work, i must have had the hugest grin on my face!!

Hope the orthodontist app goes well!!

Got a good amount of work done today, and if N stays asleep a little longer I will get more done!! So better run!

not sure but my friend smoked heavily during her pregnancy :dunno:
you did soooooo well to hide your pregnancy AND the sex of miss N

my orthodontist made my day he said once a gap is closed in my teeth we'll talk about them coming off :leap:

thank u for ur messages i am exhausted and am resting!
The appointment took it out of me but i am determined if possible it be my last. It took 3 hours and loads of tears. I am wrecked physically and emotionally can wait for it to be over. I already knew i had and have post traumatic stress disorder thanks to my EX the *@#$ twit, well i hope this is the end of this chapter. Just resting up and processing!!

thanks again

Hi All

Hehe Kel

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you did soooooo well to hide your pregnancy AND the sex of miss N

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It was tricky, but in the end I just had to smile at everyone's guesses, sooooo many people were certain it was a boy cos of the way I was carrying!! Little did they know!

Yay about the gap closing, did he say how long that might take?

Glad to hear you got through your appointment Squidipa, :grouphug: hopefully you can now move forward and leave all this behind :)

I am buggered, went to work for 3 hours, worked at home, flew into the city to doa few jobs and then went to yoga, got home about 8.30pm, and my lovely DH was cleaning the floors :)

So I cooked up some lovely Veal Schnitzels from the farmers markets with a mountain of vegies (I love my vegies atm, have to eat a lot of them :)) I am off to do my evening express and then get an earlish night as I have an 8am meeting, with the national Landscape Design Manager for Delfin Lend Lease, so I have to be on the ball :doh:

Huge Hi to everyone else, hope you had a good day and havn't come down with a dose of Mondayitis!!!
Cheers!

Hey Everyone!

Sorry I have also been MIA. Been busy out and about - I haven't even been on BB to read posts let alone actually post! Normally I get the reading in at least!

Squidipa - :comfort: I hope it is your last appt too and things only go onwards and upwards from here. Oh and my guess for Joshies weight is 195gms. But I hope you get more!

Kel - Yay for getting braces off soon! :leap:

Rach - Thanks for prompting us to share our BFP stories. I remember being so excited... so it is good to remember it all again!

SB - Good luck with the move if you don't manage to get on here beforehand!

Mel - Wishing Aricyn a speedy recovery from here! And yay for you have the perfect baby... whenever I think I have Jett's routine figured out he goes and changes it on me so I have just given up now and go with the flow! The only thing that is hasn't changed is that once the last feed is done (around midnight) then he will sleep through to morning. Usually about 7-7.30, but sometimes earlier and sometimes later!

Sasha - Kye is just doing so well and that pic is just gorgeous! What a spunky boy!

Pixie - spa treatment sounds lovely! There is a lovely day spa here that I go to (they have a hair salon attached which is where I get my hair done) and they do the best pedicures, absolutely amazing. I would love to try some of their other treatments but I feel so self-indulgent so I don't. I keep dropping hints that it would be lovely but nada! Funny thing is that when we are stuck for ideas for presents DH often suggests getting a voucher from there for people!!! I just wish he would think of getting me one too!! Oh well :rolleyes: So kudos to The Bear!

MM - I know how you feel with the clingy bub, Jett has been like that over the weekend too. I am wondering if he is beginning to teethe too. He is really chewing and gnawing on things - his fists, his thumb, his dummy, my fingers... but he has no other signs so I just don't know! He keeps shoving his dummy in to the side of his mouth and going to town on it! And when he grabs my hand or finger OMG I can't believe how hard he gnaws!

:hello: to everyone else I have missed... Leasha, Kell.... and anyone else my poor brain has forgotten!

Last year DH and I decided that it was time to start TTC and so I went to the doctors to have the dreaded PS which I hadn't had done for 5 years (oops! :redface:) and while I was there I discussed my plans with my doc and she gave me some great advice and sent me for blood tests to make sure everything was set to go for the journey, along with the advice that this often takes some time and to prepare to not get a positive result for up to 12 months. So after that visit we decided that we would wait for the next cycle to start trying. My blood tests came back all ok, but my PS was 'inconclusive' which meant I would need to go back for another test next cycle. Not ideal when TTC. I ummed and ahhed over it all, but decided that we would not actively try, but just see what happens and would actively try the cycle after, after the PS had been repeated. I realised that I didn't actually know alot about my cycle in terms of length or predicting it so I started temping in an effort to know how long my cycles are and my ovulating patterns, but in so doing I also knew when I was ov-ing so DTD at the right time was not exactly difficult!! So, I bought some tests ready to POAS and decided that I wanted to POAS without knowing if AF was just around the corner or not just for the fun of it. So I did... on the 28/11/07 I peed, looked at the test for a few minutes, grew bored and left it to have my breakfast. I went back about 20 mins later and there was a faint line. Faint, but no mistaking it was there. I was shocked :o But having looked 20 mins afterwards I wasn't sure if the line had come up after the 10min limit or not. So I tested again the next day, and yep, there it was, darker and within the 10mins. I still couldn't believe it, so I went and bought a different brand of tests and tested again the next day. Yep. No doubt about it. Figured I may as well use the other test in the pack too so did that a few days later. Still yep. Still couldn't believe it so I bought another pack of tests and tested both tests again through the week - I think all up I did 7 tests!! Needless to say when I went to my doc for my repeat PS and told her I was UTD she didn't give me a blood test!! I was soooo not expecting it and know that I was very blessed to get my :bfp: on the very first cycle, but I still don't know how long it is! :lol:

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when/how did you find out you were pregnant?

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Rach - I just looked back on the photos I had taken of my home tests and the first one I took was 2nd December so must have a celebration on tuesday hehe

I was sitting reflecting the other day thinking I can remember saying last year on Xmas day "this time next year we will have a 4 month old" and now here we are, where has this year gone!!

Squidipa - I'm glad you got through the day, big :hug: to you hunny! I am hoping tomorrow is a better day for you and you get a good gain with Joshie.
My guess is around 200g :pray:

Kel - had to laugh when you commented about Allegra partying all night. K has always gone to bed fairly early; takes after me in that department LOL
Re: weight gain - I can give you some of K's weight for Allegra if ya want .... he's got an extra kilo he could afford to share :rofl:

Anyways will keep this short, K woke up all snuffly, think he might be coming down with a cold :(
Managed to get some spray into both nostrils and he settled again without me having to give him a bottle :dance: - hes such a good boy!

K has also decided he is a big boy now and doesnt need to be wrapped at night time; probably explains his snuffliness LOL. I always put a sheet and blanket over him when I put him down but yep if I wake up during the night and check on him he has always kicked it off and is just lying there with nothing on top of himself. He will quite happily sleep like that all night too, strange child!! LOL

Anyways me is tired, back to bed I go..... byeeeee!

Hi all :)

When did we find out I was pregnant - hmm.... well we DTD twice that cycle - one on day 9 and then day 16 - then along came day 28 and it was a saturday, and I'm like.. hmm.. I'll do a test anyway - just random - and it was positive. Didn't believe it until I went to the docs on monday morning and had a blood test, rang them up for the result a few hours later and they confirmed over the phone that I was UTD. So I started getting all teary and my workmate (who was there holding my hand for the blood test and the phone call) got all teary too.

I then emailed DH to let him know that we were expecting another one!!!! :)

Anyhooo - got a little boy here who is bugging the crap outta me cos he wants to play with the puppy dogs. I'll be back later!!!!

*mwah*

Hi, im a bit late to be joining this but would be great to talk to others with little ones the same age!!
About us: Our DD was born 1st August and we have had a great (almost) 4 months, Breast feeding was ok after the first two weeks and has been going well, she slept through the night for a month and then went to waking once, sometimes twice a night between 6pm and 5am which was magic, slept well in the day two hours awake, two asleep through the day.

But everything seems to be changing!!! ALOT less sleep, change in likes/dislikes/habits/etc hoping to hear that this is normal and just something everyone goes through at 4 months!

Welcome beckoes, ya never too late to join this group hehe :p

You're lucky you can get your girl to sleep during the day for 2 hours!!! OMG .... K very rarely sleeps longer than an hour during the day but his sleeping pattern is good at night. He will sleep from 8:30pm right through until at least 5:00am which suits me perfect!!

Look forward to getting to know you better!

Welcome Beck - and may I say - wooohooo for another sunny coast member!!!!

WOOOHOOOO!!!

Our bubs are only a day apart :)

Oh - and there is a growth spurt at 4 months - so they could change their routine a little bit ;) I'm sure you wanted to hear that.. lol

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very quick and brief hi to beck, my son was born on 31st july. Welcoem to the group its never to late look forward to chatting with you. Your very lucky you get your bubs to sleep 2 hours during day myn wont sleep during day bar from few mins. he is teething and his top is always wet so we are using bibs and changing them VERY frequently!

ladies i think i have had a break through like a piece of crap has been lifted form my shoulders like just knowing whats to come the end of this has helped me.:) I know i am soooo close ill have to party when it all gets submitted tot he courts :)

thanks for the warm welcomes!! Its good to hear that the day sleeps being few and far between is pretty normal... that is one of the things that has changed...without warning...last week she would sleep no problem for LONG periods of the day, this week fights it and yesterday we managed 3 hours in little bursts over the whole day! SO unlike her!! today looks like it might be the same!

i thought she could be teething,but ive been told that the hand chewing/excessive dribbling/red cheaked/crying that has begun this week is NOT teething???

look forward to chatting with you all!!

Welcome bec! Great to have you here :) Grace is a beautiful name, actually we want that as a middle name if we have a girl one day.

:welcome: Beckoes!!! If you get a chance, check your DD's gums - if you can see them starting to get a bit white on the tops (easier with the bottom gums :)) then, yep, she's prolly teething! My DS is whingy (out of character whingy) and clingy (also out of character) and has had rosey rosey cheeks for the last couple of days now and he is teething - ALWAYS has something in his mouth! LOL!

HI TO EVERYONE!!!

Just quickly jumped in to say we got our home loan approval, so now we're SERIOUSLY looking!!! OMG it's so scary and exciting and terrifying and stressful and did I mention EXCITING????? :rofl:

I'll try and jump on a little later after all the kiddies are in bed, cause I have two here at the moment whinging for their baths!!

xxxx

Hello

Welcome Beckoes!!!! Love your DD's name and she could be teething a few of us in here are going through it. I could be soon as DD1 cut her first tooth at 4 months there is no limit to how early babies get teeth I've heard of a baby being born with a tooth and DF's sister cut teeth at 12 weeks!!!

MM- YAY for your home loan approval where are you looking for houses?

Squidipa- thats great that you are feeling better! I'll listen out for your party music :lol:

Sasha- K is so much like Allegra she alays kicks her blanket off and she hasn't been wrapped in ages because she would extend her arms and break out of the wrap

Vic- could be a while yet they wont say when so I don't hold them to that date and get dissapointed if they don't come off but going by my orthodontic plan i still have just over a year left

PMSL I just looked over at her in the high chair and she is leaning to one side slouched down with her foot on the bar just taking it oh so easy!
I'll see if I can add the photo I took