Babies Born August 1st - 15th 2008

hehe, Veygas sucks on my chin!! :cryinglaugh:

Yeah, sometimes I get their names muddled ... my grandmother had 4 kids and 8 grandkids - sometimes we'd even get called the animals names before she got ours right!! :cryinglaugh: But atm, I am getting everyone's names confused!! :doh:

Our eldest was still in night time pullups til he was nearly 6 - I got sick of having to buy 3 lots of nappies, so I forced him to become dry at night!! We had two weeks of bedwetting, then nothing since! Same thing now - I'm sick of buying 3 lots of nappies again!! :rolleyes:

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I'm sick of buying 3 lots of nappies again!! :rolleyes:

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i have never had 2 kids in nappies before man that would cost me to much. Once had pullups every fortnight and at 15 a week we felt that cost. the 7 year old sleeps through everything thats the problem you could poor water on him a night and he would stay asleep he is EXTREAMLY heavy on his sleep!

I got the two eldest kids to cook tea again the otehr day they done the salad and we had meat pies, well they ate and i didnt. Tonight they have steaming now
carrot
cabbage
beans
cauliflower Would have cooked otehr things but ran out of water a we have to cook with filtered water and there wasnt enough.

on stove pumpkin, kumera, and patato. we have left over hot dogs so we will just throw it with that. Felt we needed to eat a proper meal. But thought why waist the hot dogs in fridge as other wize ill throw em out. So thought fine thats the meat tonight. I got Josiah to self settle gee i hate that but it did work. kids are infront of tv dinner on hubbie at work house dont look so great but meh. I still smell Its cause Josiah likes to get inside my robe and it makes em all hot. Tomorrow is the last of my so called full on week then its just 4 again int he house. As for sleep cant see that changing. Might try to get lushy to watch josh and i shower tonight.

the silly creepy crawlys had the bomb again grrr. Saturday we are testing water anyhow so will take it back to shop. This is the longest silence ive had during the day in sooooooo long!!:clap:

kel i am missing your posts and sasha tooo come back!!!!!

Hello all,

Thought it was about time I got my A into G and came back to post.

Sorry I have MIA - just been pre-occupied with settling in at home. The days are just going by so quickly, I am really losing track on what day it even is at the moment LOL

I really laugh when I think back to when I was pregnant how easy it was and how much spare time I had - boy does ya world change once they arrive hey hehe but I am thoroughly enjoying mummy hood. Couldnt imagine my life without my little man now, has brought so much joy into our lives!

We had our first check up today and I am happy to say that Kye has gained 290 grams :hooray:
I am so pleased with that amount. He is obviously feeding well :cryinglaugh: He is also half a centimetre longer (55cm) and his HC has gone to 38.5cm :)

He is already in size 000 LOL and the nurse today said he wont be in NB nappies for much longer. LOL He is a very LONG boy so I am assuming he is going to be very tall like daddy.(daddy is 6ft 4) Kye is actually 1.5 centimetres longer than what DH was at birth so will be interesting to see how tall he ends up being as an adult.

Anyways just a quick one from me tonight - gotta go and get the man settled.

I'll attempt to make a more conscious effort to get back here more often but yeah I am still around.

Hope everyone is well - I didnt bother to read back on the thread, would take me too long to catch up!

hey sasha, love your ticker pic it is so cute!josiah has been in 000 since hospital :)

is everyone making memory boxes for thier kids? I have one for each child thought ild better mention it now before its to late for some of ya :(

Josiah still has the snuffles nights are worst another night on couch with him trying to keep him up right, Didn't want to wake everyone else up so think it's better to stay in lounge. I kept checking his nappy over night but it was fine not anything in hours and hours. he didn't feed either for about 8 or 9 hours but slightly woke due to the nose i put soother in and he was happy. Didn't want to wake him as figured he could do with a good sleep as he had not had much. Feed him to over flowing this morning. One side of me was all moo juiced wet and the other hard as.

Avent breast pads any one using the washable ones??? i find they stick to my nipple at times grrr anyone else got this issue?

I so wish the 3 year old didnt get up at 5am GRRRRRR i could be sleeping now !!

sasha - glad things are going well (soo hear you on the being busy now vs being pregnant and sitting around LOL!!) and your little man has stolen your heart :)

I can't believe Eli is three weeks old today... time is flying by! He's starting to get quite heavy too.

I'm sleeping well, he wakes up like clockwork every 3 hours overnight and feeds for about 15-20 mins and then straight back to sleep which is awesome. Getting him to go to bed earlier without being so grizzly so I've been having more time in the evenings with DH which is nice.

squidipa, I'm about to try using washable breast pads, had a spare pack of disposables to use and sometimes they stuck to my nipples which was uncomfortable. Did you manage to get your shower in?

kiwi girl... I love those disposable ones pigeon i think is the brand off the top of my head. Yeah i had a bath last night was good got to shave my hairy legs hehe:pray:.

Today i done up a rewards chart for the 3 year old and also hung a load of washing out. watched some movie with the 3 year old too. and now its lunch time then his bed time.

with all the savings i gotta do i am so glad that Christmas shopping is over and fathers day shopping the ex is getting a lava lamp that the kids picked out and as for hubbie well if your really interested ill pm ya as i dont want hubbie to find out from my posting. Question how much you guys think is right to pend on your partner for fathers day? and also for Christmas thats the only other thing for Christmas i need to do buy fr the ex from the kids and also for hubbie and him for me. Im already looking forward to christmas but not putting up my tree its so darn HUGEEE its 7ft

Hi guys,

Been so long between postings for me (sorry!!!) and I did sorta read through previous posts, but seriously you guys can chat!! ;)

Hugs to everyone having problems either with bubs, partners, other kids - hugs hugs hugs.

Things here have been.. hectic ... think i am struggling a bit with PND and trying not to let it take hold, so have been keeping busy doing other things. Went and got a new pram today so that was good. Needed a new pram cos going to the Hyatt tonight with workmates for a farewell dinner, and couldn't take my crappy old pram hehe

Squidipa - let me know if you want me to come down and visit you and we can have crappy sleepless days together ;)

Vic - I have two newborn MCN's here that don't fit DD anymore. Let me know if you would like them and I'll post them to you for your wee little one :) Would be good to see someone get some use out of them!!!! (I don't think they would fit my next bub either cos I brew them up pretty big!!)

Just a quick pop in unfortunately. Better go keep getting stuff ready for tonight. There's more to pack with two of them!!!!!

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Squidipa - let me know if you want me to come down and visit you and we can have crappy sleepless days together ;)

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Lol thats funny yeah wanna meet you as ive said so many times don't really know any one here.
I bathed both the boys today together and feeling quite impressed with myself and happy I WAS! then these 3 random men came to my door one man looked like he was totally trippin. They came back again with stupid q's Sorta rattled me a bit being at home alone and hubbie never answered his phone when i rang to check if he had it. He has one flat phone on him and other phone didnt answer.
Any how Josiah rather be in my arms in bath than on his safety ramp thingy support bath gadget waste of money scientifically proven device chair thing.

Hehe, yeah we don't use the bath safety ramp holder thingy in the bath either squidipa.

Eli's broken out in heaps of teeny pimples - apparently it happens around 3-4 weeks due to hormones. Anyone else had this?

Hi mums and bubs

Been really interesting here :lol:

Yesterday was a shocker, Naktia was soooo unsettled, hanging off my boob (when she has been pretty regular on a routine-ish for a few weeks), I was in tears by the time DH got home, was a bit too much! He took Nakita for a big walk in the carrier, I went to the shops went to the chemist, got some stuff from Brauers "Stomach Calm" and "Colic Relief", we gave her a half an hour bath, topping up the warm water, gave her the stuff (1ml avery half hour for the first 4 doses) then four hourly, and she finally went to sleep, let her sleep until she was ready to wake, gave her a bottle of EBM - she drank very slowly (poor little tike, think she was stilled buggered), DH looked after her i went to bed to get up for her next feed, 3:45am she was up, both boobs, Tummy Stuff and back to bed, awake a 6:45am, gave her to daddy for 20 min while I ran around the hosue getting a few things done, since then she has fed on her routine to the minute!!! She settled much better today and now she has a much happier mummy!!! I have bought a container of formula incase, but I returned it today :redface: as we could only get S26 - she had it in WCH but only through the gavage tube so never tasted it unless she chucked! Then at NECH she had Pre-Naan, you can't buy it though, and she did have a couple of top ups with a bottle after her gavage tube was removed, the rest was top-ups to the Boob and or EBM through the tube. So if I will get some more it will be the Naan, only because she has tasted it and gone back to my boob - bit scared of her preferring it over the boob!!! But at the moment we aren't worrying about any of it. I was also borderline using the dummy for the first time since being home - we used it in hossy once when we were removing the IV, it helped keep her calmer and she didn't burn up as much energy, the other times we used it was when teaching her to suck, so when we gavage fed her she had the dummy to associate sucking and getting a fully tummy. Since then we have a dummy free zone (well we actually have 5 :rofl:) - were given 3, but they are all large, and I bought a packet of premmie ones JIC, sterlised them but never used them.....

Still 00000 here.... she is getting bigger, just not big enough for the 0000 yet!!

Oh yeah, the concrete floors are polished - yay - will post some piccies on my blog at some stage over the weekend, the started the frame work today too :dance:

Mel - if you really don't think you would use the MCN's I would love them!! I can't wait for her to get big enough to get into the ones we have, they should be perfect in about 2 months!!! I will PM you my address :) Huge :grouphug: for the PND, if you need help hun just ask, have a great time at the Hyatt tonight!!

Rachel - Nakita had a heat rash, which seems to have subsided with the stuff we have given her since yesterday, and she has also had a lot of little pimples too, some days it looks bad other days clear as.... must be hormonal I reckon. How big is Eli??

Squidipa - I won't be thinking about christmas for a while yet, as for fathers day, NFI ATM!!

:woot: for the weight gain Sasha!!!

MM - Nakita sucks on daddy's nose when she is hungry - it is sooo cute!!!

The Pixie - I was the same - we must have been really pushing hard!!! When I noticed the next day my face looked terrible - so probably why I didn't get more photos!!!

We miss you too Kel!!!

Okay I am feeling really buggered right now, gotta express, do some jobs and go to sleep!!! Night!!

vic - yup honey you can have them. Let me have your address. They are pocket nappies, so you'll get inserts to go in them too :)

Squidipa - I don't know too many people - but am meeting new people from BB all the time. You should come to the meets that we have - there is one next week in Landsborough.

Kiwigirl - yup a few pimples here - just milk pimples, they'll go in time :) Where's my pic of Eli in cloth?!?! ;)

Hyatt was OK last night, was good seeing my old workmates again and having a slice of yummy pizza. DS just wanted to run around everywhere so DH was kept busy chasing him all night (seriously, he was never at the table at all) whilst I dealt with DD and chatted to my boss' wife. Spoke to one of the solicitors there as well (I'm a legal secretary btw) and she told me of a position that they are holding open for me for when I get back. So only another 8 weeks and I'll be back at work. Don't know whether I want the position or not, or if I will request another position there (basically I just get whatever I want) so lots to think about. Course its all dependent on whether I get DD into daycare cos if I don't - yup can't work!!!!!!

I think we are going to sell our house too... so gotta start cleaning that up and painting walls etc (specially the one that had a hole in it the other day from the plumber!)

Think I've crapped on enough.... ta ta...

Hi everyone,

Can do some personals today YAY! Jazz is having a wonderful sleep so I have time to do my own thing!

She is sleeping great lately. Only waking twice during the night to feed and then falls back to sleep relatively easily YAY! She wakes every 3 hours pretty much on the dot during the night, so if I time her last feed around 10pm and then go to sleep then, I only have to wake around 1am and then again at 4am, and then up at 7am which suits me fine. No more of these awake between 1 and 4 games she used to play YAY! She's having those awake times during the day now so I am feeling a whole lot more rested, and not getting so frustrated and exhausted at night.

squidipa... if I wasnt so wrecked I'd come give you a hand :hug: I'm sorry you don't have any support. At the moment all Shel and I have is each other, we have family around but they only come around for half and hour or so to pass Jazz around until she gets the *****s and then cries, and then everyone decides to leave us to settle her down. Though its just us 3, I can't imagine how exhausted you must be with your kids + bub, I can just remember how tired you were while pregnant. Sending Josh marathon sleeping vibes! Hope he gives you a long stretch during the night some time soon. I am thinking of you :hug:
I have the same issue with the breast pads Avent washable, keep sticking to my nipples, usually not a big problem except when Jazz has a mnoster moment and chomps down, and then they are sore and pulling the breast pad off hurts a little!

Rachel - congrats on the new car, how exciting! Good luck on expressing! Jazz has completely broken out in little pimples all over her face and head, I started freaking out the she was having an allergic reaction though i can't for the life of me work out to what!

Mel - :hugs: Not surely exactly what to offer, but if you can think of something I can do for you just ask k.

MM - Jazz tried too feed from Shel if Shel has cuddles when Jazz is hungry! Absolutely hilarious! LOL, well I think so! Jazz also sucks on shoulders when she is hungry, and her hand. Sometimes she makes out like shes starving and makes sucking motions when theres nothing near her mouth, like shes saying "i'm so hungry i'll eat air"!

Sasha - Definately hear you on the losing track of days, I am still doing that! Can't believe its almost September holy moly where did August go? Haha, its crazy how much time I had while pregnant, and now I can barely find time to shower! I am craving a long hot bath but just can't seem to find the time.

squidipa you are taling about christmas already! I am barely thinking about next week! Shel gets fathers day in our house, so I'm trying to work out what to get her. She gets fathers day (which will be another mothers day of course lol) because everything she likes goes on special at fathers day time, and asme goes for me at the mothers day time. Theres a stranley screwdriver set on special at big w $30 which will do her fine from Jazz! And maybe something small, some car wash stuff. All up I'd say $40-50.
Oh, and the meetup at Landsborough, you should definately come if you are up for it.

Oh bugger, there goes the little miss! Well, I can feed and scroll at the same time I think... she is due to feed on the right though, and I am a dodgy left hand scroller with the mouse!

Hey, just a question, having an issue with my boobs lol. Well, am lopsided something shocking though midwife said thats completely normal, but as well as that am having some issues with one boob going out of order every now and then. I try to express but my left boob just doesn't give anything up and sometimes I am not sure if she gets much out of it! It's so much smaller and softer, though it leaks a bit too so I know it works. Has anyone else had this? Is there anything I can do or will it just fix itself up? Oh, and theres no pain or redness or lumps. It just stops sometimes... very odd.

Hi everyone!

Well we had another shocker last night, but now I think i know the cause ... Veygas has a hole in his stomach and his bowel is poking through ... doc says not causing too much trouble cause he poked at it and was able to make it go back in (with a bit of squelchy noise) but I reckon that's why he's been so grizzly and windy :( I feel horrible for being so grumpy with him. So now he is sleeping (which he needs) but I still have to get it fully checked out by a paediatric surgeon at Westmead.

As for dummies, Veygas doesn't really like to suck on it, but sometimes I make him, especially if he has had a big feed and is just mucking around with my boob! :cryinglaugh:

Sorry for being selfish and not really getting into personals, but I am just trashed atm, cause I sat up most of the night with Veygas, and when he finally fell asleep, I was too scared to move in case he woke up again!

Hope everyone else is doing good though!

MM - *hugs* at least you know the reason he's been so unsettled now. Will he need surgery to correct it or will it close up over time?

Eli has a mild temperature and was unsettled for the first time last night. Poor little guy. He's happy at the moment but might be a long night if his temp goes up a bit. Doctor checked him out and said he thinks it's just a little virus.

MM - sorry to hear that about Veygas... no wonder he has been so unsettled. Hope it can get sorted out quickly.
Beema - yeah the crack addict eyes are a great look! NOT! LOL
We had a similar thing four or five days ago, with DD REALLY unsettled and just hanging off the boob. Problem was, the more she drank the more unsettled she got. In the end we put the dummy in... we were sorry to do it, but we couldn't see any other way to settle her without making it worse. She took a while to figure out what she is supposed to do with it but once she caught on that she was meant to suck on it, it did really help.
Leash, good to hear your little one is having a good sleep at last. Bugger about the lopsided BB's - don't know what to suggest!
Mel, I can't believe you're going back to work so soon - I hope you have internet access at work! LOL
Anyhoo, :hello: everyone else and have a great weekend.

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MM - *hugs* at least you know the reason he's been so unsettled now. Will he need surgery to correct it or will it close up over time?

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That's what we'll find out from the paed surgeon at westmead ... but the doc i saw today said it's a simple 20 min op if it is necessary. I still feel bad, like there's something i could have done to prevent it, even though know there isn't :(

MM i am so sorry to hear about Veygas when is your appointment? Dont feel bad thats like saying i should feel bad about Josiah's Tight forskin its nothing i did wrong nor nothing you did wrong. Plus we are going through massive hormonal changes and we mums get tiered and moody a bit easily :) :hug::hug:. I have broken out in pimples wow havn't had them in ages. Josiahs pead appointment with surgeon is on Tuesday.

Leasha... thats great your getting more sleep. i slept till 10 am this morning bu then was woken by woman at door. Josiah has sorta skipped a night feed so he gets one about 10 and 5ish. Wonder if thats due to his stuffed up nose poor little man. He is stirring now!

Kiwi girl i hope that fever goes away for eli soon it can be so scary. How you coping with that?

last night at about 12.30 i went to BED! yes in my bed, first time in what feels like forever. I hate the couch put josh in pram in a semi upright position next to me.

went to dr today josh got weighed gained he has put on 70 grams since 22nd is this alright????? is this normal that only 300 grams up from birth weight. Hrmmm thoughts im quite worried about this. the stupid nurse tried to weigh him fully dressed with a full nappy the twit! We got it done right in the end.

Me and hubbie are on antibiotics for our sinus and chesty coldy fluy thing hope fully some will get to josh and make him all good too. Dr dismissed my cramping tummy said take anti inflammatorys for it he didnt even check my SCAR hrmmm. gotta go back in 2 days after i insisted on blood test for iron level. WiIll hopefully see another dr.

I been on phone for ages with my BEST MATE and im a bit ticked not with him but the way ppl treat him is gay and there is some so called friends trying to tell him other wize and force this female onto him their daughter infact. Its driving him bonkers that they just don't get it i think its VERY crewl to do that and im so annoyed!

Done a star reward chart for the 3 year old seems to be making some diff with behavior. Altho this morning he did try to make sandwiches so we will put a barrier up tonight to block kitchen off and see if that works.

Leasha i don't know what to suggest about the lop sided ness in pregnancy i found i was lop sided and still am now.

I got 2 new maternity bra's today a slightly padded on black from target and a lace white on too leasha did ya end up get new maternity bra's i think ay said you were going to.

kel... sweety :)where are you you o.k?

Beema hope nakita is more settled for you now? is she?

So much more i want to say but hubbies waiting up to make me some crumpets to eat for tea so betetr scoot.
Gudism Hi ya :) SB hi and everyone else sasha too hello

Hope you all have good sleep!

got new bras as i have lost 10 kilo and now just hanging round 83 and im happy :)

i am so worried only 70 grams oh gosh might call hosi and ask a midwife if this is k got figures wrong yesterday so edited last post this morning