Babies Born August 1st-15th 2008 #5

[2girlz]

Hey i've been lurking usually with a velcro baby and typing one handed really annoys me.

MM- LMAO ticker baby thats so cute!

MT- Thats such a good idea to do the course I always think how bad I'd feel if I couldn't help either one of my kids if they were lying unconcious not breathing

squidipa- gggrrrr for the lady being rough! and what snobs asking your 3 year old to stop playing with the toy

Leash- hugs to you and shel

Hello to everyone I missed really sorry but Allegra is crying AGAIN both girls have been pushing my buttons lately! and to top it off DF is bugging me and making stupid little comments about the non existence of my s-e-x drive
I hope you are all well

[MummyTummy]

Aww hugs Kel! Don't men realise that a woman's sex drive is low after having a baby for a reason? Our bodies don't want us to breed again in a hurry so we look after our babies, and also to not put too much stress on our bodies so we die of exhaustion before we've had more babies.... hmmm makes us sound like we are meant to be baby making machines and nothing else!!

[squidipa]

hi ladies i ams oo hot bit rushed but thought i have 2 mins so will tell you what epad said
he said PRETTY AMAZING!!!!!!!

josh has grown 4 cm's in 2 weeks

and his head has grown 1 cm in 2 weeks YAY!

pead said Josh has very much AMAZED him with that kind of growth.

Official weigh in tomorrow.

pead also said if i wanted to stop BF as he is fussing so much i could as josh has all the anti bodies he is gonna get from me now. I think i will i have done so well and done more than i imagined i could. I am VERY proud of MYSELF and VERY proud of joshies growth!!

BTW josh still has temp over 38 i gave him panadol last night and a few mins ago

Hi everyone sorry no time to read 2 mins over!!!

[thepixie]

Hello all! Absolutely flat out today, but just got a quiet moment while DD is asleep in the rocker and I try to stuff some lunch into my mouth!
MM good luck with the househunting.... it must be hard work with all the kids, but I hope you get the house you want! LOL about V being a cartoon baby.
MT - cute pics! my MG is going to do one of those courses next friday... definitely a good idea. for Jett's growth.
Squidipa!!!!! Congratulations on Josiah's big gains! That's great news, you should give yourself a huge pat on the back.
Kel - bummer about the velcro baby and the DF
met a really nice lady at the coffee shop today who had the same ob as me... her 7 month old wasn't that much bigger than Beth!
to anyone I've missed!

[*Beema*]

Hi everyone!!

Been flat out last two days, lots of work, I've actually done 13 hours in the past two days, plus some on Sunday night, so I reckon I will have a few extra hours up me sleeve before christmas which is great

Yoga last night and mothers group this afternoon, I got home at 12, threw together some wraps (I grilled marinated chicken - Terryaki Style), with cucumber and a yogurt with fresh mint, cut them in half (they were small wraps) and held them together with a tooth pick Lucky I took them as everyone else took sweets!! Wasn't planned so well this week!!

Jett!! That is fantastic!! Great piccies too!!

Congrats Squidipa on the BF'ing for as long as you have, so are you stopping now, or going to keep going? Yay on the growth for Joshie and goodluck at the weighin tomorrow!

We are weighing tomorrow wonder how we are going

MM, jeez it must be hard house hunting with all the kids!! V looks soo cute!

Hugs Kel for velcro bub!! And grr at DH, it take 9 months to grow a baby, surely there needs to be a reasonable length of time for recovery!

Pixie, they are all sooo different! Hugs!!

MT you know where I have been!! Hehe!!

Oh yeah I updated my blog a bit yesterday afternoon if you want a look

MWAH!! Mel!!!

I have to go as we have a veiwing of DH's latest animation at a cinema in town and we are going out for dinner afterwards then to see the latest Bond

Have an awesome night!!

[thepixie]

Vic love the blog update.... cute pics in the Bumbo and the basin!
we saw the Bond movie on Saturday - hope you like it!

[squidipa]

oh crap lost my post this is what i did copy tho

so much to catch up on so sorry i know ill miss something out,

MM josh does same thing wigth his left hand the second the nappy is off he is in it its terribly annoying when ur trying to clean poop up, that remind me we had a blow out today had to change him in the car boot i have a wagon.. I had to wipe all of him down i had just picked him up and there it was startinng to come out.

kel84 i am sorry the girls have been full on and hubbie is so exited that he is becomeing insensitive. BIG HUGS its alwas frustrating when your partners sex drive is different to yours hey i am lucky me and hubbies are the same.

Kiwiw girl ... no i dont have face book its just a personal choice IYKWIM nothoing against it but rather not be that easily contactable or found. i did take a looka t your clips and theya re great did u take them on ur digital camera????

Vic i did take a looka t your pics too dunno if i mentioned it but they look so cute. I will be weening my body off breast feeding now. i will eventually fully formula. Dr wants he drinking 1100ml a day well we will have to slowly reach that amount with still breast feeding . My boob shape has sooo changed. Ill need 10 push up bra's to have some sort of shape plus the fillets

not up to retyping the rest but love to all

[beckoes]

MT: i keep thinking i should do an infant resuscitation course but just havent got round to it, im going to sort it out this week and see if there is one in my area, so thanks for the motivation so cute about him being ticklish!!

Squidipa: sorry to hear about the injections, grace was ment to have hers today but i put it off...know i have to get it dont but didnt want to! silly. wow about joshies growth!!

Grace seems to want to skip her morning and late afternoon sleeps, but seems quite happy to be awake for 5 hours at a time! just have to find ways of entertaining her! any ideas/tips....what do you all do with your little ones to avoid boredom? been having fun in the pool today, she really loves the water!

Hello to everyone...im off to bed, too tired!

[MummyTummy]

Bec - No probs about the motivation! I am usually the same, too many other things distracting me. I hope you find a course in your area. The best way to entertain Jett is to take him out. He always puts his angel face on when we go out. I mix it up a bit by sometimes putting him in the sling and sometimes the pram. But if we have to stay at home and he needs entertaining I sing, and do finger plays/rhymes, read books, put him in his seats (bumbo, bouncer and swing) or on the rugs and play with his toys. At the first signs of tiredness I just put him somewhere comfortable and let him drift off to sleep in his own time. Seems to work, but if I don't catch him at that first sign of tiredness he just loses it if I keep playing with him. That is when he gets a shower and a cuddle and booby feed to calm him back down. It is difficult to entertain them at this age, but I just try to remember that their attention span is very short so I don't stick to one activity for too long if he looks like he is getting fidgety. Takes up a lot of time to do all the entertaining though!

Squidipa - WOOT on the weight and growth gain! Awesome Joshie!

Vic - I hope your evening was lovely!

to everyone else. I'm off to bed.

[nagromeyk]

what do you all do with your little ones to avoid boredom?

Yesterday I started doing aerobics with Kye and rolling him on the floor from his back to his front 5 times in one direction then 5 times back in the other direction. Did it a few times during the day - took up about 15-20 minutes plus had him out shopping in the morning and then mothers group in the afternoon. Dont know whether it was just a coincidence but he slept from 8pm until 6:30am... 10 and a half hours!!!!

Starting Mums n Bubs Yoga today, looking forward to it.

Brekky time here so gtg...... to everyone!

[thepixie]

Beck I would be the same with the motivation but one of the Mothers' Group girls organised it all so I didn't have to do anything! And as for entertaining, I am like MT - sit in the chairs, play with toys, try the playgym, have a play with her on our bed, take her for a walk in the stroller or just over to the park in my arms... go up to the coffee shop and have a coffee while she is in the pram... sometimes she falls asleep on the way so its a nice chance to relax.
Sash - LOL at aerobics with Kye! And I should try to find a mums and bubs yoga class.... so slack! didn't go to the pump class I was planning to go to either this week cause I had a doctors appointment. Next week though!
Vic hope you had a great night - did you like the Bond?
Squiddy I can't believe it but Beth actually helps when you change her nappy.... if you say "undercarriage down" she straightens her legs out ramrod straight so you can put her nappy on. She's such a classic.
She is doing great with the sitting, especially since we got the Bumbo the other day, she is already heaps better at staying upright without it! She has been sleeping really well this week too, I think it is because it has been a pretty huge week for her developmentally.
Here's a pic of her in the Bumbo ... I was joking to the Bear that we can give her a copy of the financial times and she can sit there reading it!

[Arimeh]

Morning all

MM - that ticker pic is soooo gorgeous - and yes, a little bit like the character from the ticker.. lol... DH and I pi$$ed ourselves laughing last night at it... hehehehe.. he is SO very gorgeous though.

Vic - happy 5 months for N - I think I forgot to say it before. And gorgeous pics as usual!

Pixie - yay for Beth sitting up, that pic is GORGEOUS - and yay for helping with nappy changing - I have two here that DON'T help.. lol.. especially the toddler - he likes to scream, and kick me with his legs....

Beck - I bet your xmas tree is lovely - we don't have one here. I don't have Miss M up for that long during the day - so I never have to entertain her that much (usually she stares at the tv and talks) but she likes her play gym thing, and talking to her brother or the cats!!! lol

MT - at least one of the kids needs a nappy change before leaving to go anywhere.. we are usually running 5 minutes late ALL the time. I really should do one of those courses too... yay for Jett's weight gain - woohooo!!!!

Leash - Sorry for not getting back to you, I was online cos I never shut BB down - but I'm usually outside doing stuff with DS during the day - or just not AT the computer - so sorry I didn't reply... we had Miss M's check up yesterday (which took me 2 hours at the docs) and her vaccs - so I wasn't actually at home (though DS was - he was with my mum) anyhoo - next week?

Kel - its hard when both kids are crying huh.. Miss M is about to lose it I think, getting close to bedtime for her - and DS wants to go outside and play with the puppy dogs - but can't do that until I hop off the computer, put her to bed and put his shoes on.. oh, and I'd like to get out of my jarmies too.. lol.. oh and def no sex drive here.. lol

Squidipa - yay for Josh's growth - thats fantastic!!!!!!

Hi Sasha !!!

hello to everyone else.. better go - someone keeps trying to put his shoe on the keyboard of the laptop - think he's trying to give me a hint that he wants to go outside?

Oh and Miss M's latest stats were
HC ? 40.5
Weight ? 6.13kg
Length ? 66cm

And she was very brave with her needles yesterday - was a bit unsettled in the arvo - but was much better after we all took a nice cool bath (it was HOT here yesterday - very sticky).. seems back to normal this morning!!

*mwah*

[nagromeyk]

I have to laugh when reading about everyone's "stats"

Kyes as at Friday 28th Nov were:
Head: 44.4 cm
Length: 68cm
Weight: 8.63kg

Bloody huge he is!! I was looking at all the babies yesterday (as it was the first time I had taken him there) and of course he was the biggest by miles but yeah he was the oldest too which made me feel a bit better hahahaha

Yoga will be interesting today, it is so funny to see the broad range of sizes in babies!

Man its only 8 oclock and it is already sooooo hot here

[squidipa]

Mel.. needles so suck hey josh is still getting past it its taken a lot outa him, Mrs m's stats are great altho i thing josiah will over take u soon with the formula

pixie.. great pick yeah josh loves the walker i put a rolled up hand towel in front of him tho he loves all the pooh bear toys.

becka i am same as every one just doing lots of things and small amounts of time i do a lot of walking on the porches as he loves it outside.

sasha.. good luck with mums and bubs yoga sound fun!! fab weight woohooo josh is so picking up even with just 480 mil formula yesterday he had 135 gram gain over night.

from last week to this week we have another fab gain off...

335 gram gain

making him 5390, there were 3 days off loss weight but i didnt care thats when he was feeding 17 times a day obviously i couldnt keep up with him didnt care as knew he had still gained.

gotta scoot

whats your guesses for next weeks weigh in he is slowly going on formula as fast as my body allows him to.

[*Beema*]

Morning all

Last night was really lovely, the viewing of the animation went very well, dinner was yummo and the movie was okay, but the plot was a bit crap IMHO, mind you the car scene at the start and some of the fight scenes were aweseome!!

Not happy this morning, I have just answered my mobile and it said Congratulations you have just signed up for some quiz competition - WTF!!! Not happy at all about it, I didn't even listen to the whole lot, it was from a landline as well. Not Happy Jan!!! Hubby had the exact same thing 13min later, so when N goes down I will be calling 3 to see what we can do.

Yay on all the stats, I just love seeing the amazing differences in the bubs.

I have just weighed Nakita, 1/2 hour after her second feed on Wednesday, if I am planning to do a official type weighin, nice and accurate for the week

Results are:

+180grams, bringing us to a grand total of 5470grams

Well congratulations Squidipa, take your time with the weaning, we don't want to hear of another case of mastitis!! One of my Mothers group firends is really prone to it, she has just started weaning her little fella off his on of his two middle of the day feeds, and within 48 hours she had mastitis again!! So she is dropping the feed by alternating one day bottle one day boob, for a week then dropping it all together.
then giving herself a week or so break before she tries the next one.

*EDIT* Another Fab gain Joshie!! He is going to overtake Nakita again by next week I bet!! I would be guessing around the 320gram gain!

Thanks Mel M is really long, a good 5cm taller the N

Pixie, Beth looks soo cute in her Bumbo!!! My Bond thoughts are above

Wow Sasha, you have grown a beautiful big boy there!! He is soo tall!!

MT Gotta laugh about the explosive poo!! They are just shockers!!

Well must be off, N needs another nap, then I am off to the office for a meeting, home again and off to the gym tonight Going to be a good girl

[beckoes]

Thanks all for ideas to avoid boredom....i do most of those things, but think i will look at getting a Bumbo, think she would like that as she loves to sit up and look around but isnt keen on being in the reclined position in her bouncer. She is not keen on her pram for the same reason so i mainly walk with her in a sling which she likes. loves to be outside. She loves looking at herself in the mirror!! easily passes 10 mins....so vain!

MT:wish i could get grace to sleep that easily!! I tried a shower with her this morning when she was getting a bit angry and she loved it...giggled most the time, never thought to take her in the shower!

Sasha:love the sound of aerobics or yogo...might try something like that when she wakes up for her sleep.

hi to everyone else

[mountain mummy]

Hi everyone!

Just thought I'd quickly catch up on posts - not really time to reply personally, but just had a big vent over in that thread.

Also, DP rang me this morning - his truck caught fire and he narrowly made it out, but lost EVERYTHING (including his car keys, house keys etc) ... he said as he was diving out of the truck, the flames were already in the cab, and the truck burnt to the ground. Obviously he's not going to work tonight but I have to ring him in a minute cause I may have to go pick him up from the depot ...

Hopefully BBL to catch up properly.

Mwah!! xxx

[*Beema*]

OMG MM, big So glad he made it out ok!!