Babies Born August 1st ~ 15th 2008 #6

[mountain mummy]

Hi all

Super busy here, settlement got postponed a day, so we picked our keys up today and started moving stuff ... the movers come for the big stuff tomorrow arvo, so hopefully we can get most of the smaller stuff done.

I haven't slept since 2am this morning, stress and worry and panic and i am so exhausted right now, however we have another big day tomorrow, so I doubt I will sleep much tonight either!

I will also probably be offline for about a week or so while we move and wait for the phone and internet to get connected

big to everyone and big MWAAAAAAAH! xxxx I'll miss you guys but I'll harass via SMS to those whose numbers I have!

[squidipa]

Sending as many calm vibes as possible MM, i HATE moving but glad to eb here and not in the caravan like iw as wqhen preggers wow that humbled me. Good luck!

I ahve started a thread but want your input on it to please.......
here it s.....heres the thing i won a auction on a pram in Ebay and seller has just emailed me this.

"Hi there

I believe you won the pram I had listed, however, I was kind of hoping for more than $40.00 as it is worth a whole lot more than that!
So I have relisted the item.

However, I would like for us to have a mutual withdrawal or would you like to work something out to achieve my desired price?

Looking forward to hearing from you."

I have tho paid in paypal so i know i have buyer protection. But what else can i do what should i say and how should i respond to this email. I know they cant do this. How cheeky is that resisting it GRRRRR

yeah me and hubbie are annoyed! but only as it's unfair and they arnt allowed to do this but have IYKWIM

[MummyTummy]

OOOh Squidipa. No way should you give them a mutual withdrawal. If they wanted a higher price then they should have put a reserve price on it at a level they were happy with. Obviously it is not worth as much as they think it is, cos on ebay it is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay. In this case $40!!

Goodluck with your move MM. I hope it goes well and you love being in your new home! Catch you on the flip side! Mwah!

[nagromeyk]

Morning all

Just quickly poppin' in to say HAPPY 5 MONTHS TO KYE AND ALLEGRA Gee the months have just flown by!!

Overcast day here today and very windy. Went for a walk down burleigh this morning at 5:30am before the sun came out. So nice!

Anyways gotta run, K is due to wake any minute now!

Have a good weekend everyone

[squidipa]

happy 5 months kye and allergra woot woot


well the saga goes on here the seller canceled the transaction

[nagromeyk]

Squidipa - thats sux about your ebay transaction! I didn't think people were allowed to 'back out' once the auction has ended. As MT said they should of listed a higher starting price if they wanted more for it, makes ya mad doesnt it ..... I'd be complaining!

Question to ask all of you - K is having roughly two tablespoons of solids for breakfast, lunch and dinner now. Is this too much? I am sooo confused as to how I am going to get him to drop down his milk intake and up his solids - suggestions on how to do it? or do I just gradually decrease his milk down and up his solid amounts? I am sooo paranoid that he is gonna put on heaps of weight now hes on solids! I weighed him yesterday and he was 10.1kg I am really eager to have him measured next week (when the CHN is back from holidays) as I have noticed a huge difference in his length in the past week - I reckon he's gotta easily be 75-76cm now!

Anyways gotta shoot and give K some lunch - apple custard today!

everyone!

[squidipa]

Question to ask all of you - K is having roughly two tablespoons of solids for breakfast, lunch and dinner now. Is this too much? I am sooo confused as to how I am going to get him to drop down his milk intake and up his solids - suggestions on how to do it? or do I just gradually decrease his milk down and up his solid amounts? I am sooo paranoid that he is gonna put on heaps of weight now hes on solids! I weighed him yesterday and he was 10.1kg

healthy weight for length kye is welll done mom. At moment josh is eating 1 meal a day of about 1/4th of a cup to a small jar. As for kye's milk , i just give josh what he wants i don't stick to deadlines or anything but nomally in feeding him he sleeps then has a milk. And thats working for us. He has lost 70 grams but im not worried as he has been unwell with a blocked nose. he is a bit better today.

its warm today hey
gotta scoot now love to all xoxx

[beckoes]

Squid:that whole thing with ebay is BS, they cant do that!! especially as you already tried to pay fpr it!! id be so mad!! hope you sort it put and get what you paid for.

MM:hope everything gets sorted with the move, so stressfull till you sort it all out i bet!

Sash: i tried G with a bit of solids and she wasnt interested, so i cant speak from experience, but sounds like he is enjoying his food!! like squid said, il just follow DDs lead, i dont think there is a set amount to give or a time frame to do it in, aslong as he is happy and you are comfortable and confident with what your doing it doesnt matter.
I can understand what your saying about him gaining weight (it sounds like hes a big boy, but long too!) bet as soon as he starts crawling/walking etc any baby weight will probably just fall off!!

We have the MIL up from sydney for a few days, i get on really well with her which is great....but it always happens that Gs routine aways goes totally to pot when she comes to stay, wont go down to sleep, cries etc, drives me cray, especially when she has been so easy the last few days, now is driving me crazy, up at 3am, wont sleep till 5am and only for half an hour, then wont go back down till about 11am.
We are going to get a proper car seat for her tomorrow , get her out of this capsual, she screams so bad every time she is in it!! Any tips for a good one that can stay rear-facing for a while, she is 7kgs now.

hi to all.

[MummyTummy]

Hey everyone, been very quiet in here! I just thought I would drop in and say hi...still here!

Jett has now had carrot and banana and apple in his solids. Not so keen on the apple, banana is def a fave and carrot goes down quite well too!! He enjoys the game of it, as we are doing BLS with the finger food that he holds and feeds himself, so these new toys are really interesting and tasty!! I can't help Sasha regarding Kye's solids. I know that milk should still be the staple food until he is one, but apart from that I'm not sure about how much or how often! Sorry!

Bec - we have the Safe N Sound Meridian which is able to be rear facing up to 12kgs. It is a fantastic comfy seat (Jett just loves it!) and he can use it up to 18kgs. It has adjustable and removable bits that you adjust to fit your baby as they grow. Not a cheap seat, but it has been a great investment for us so far, he sleeps so soundly in it!!

Ok, Jett is getting his 4month injections tonight (if I can get him there in time... he's asleep!). I know he is 5 months but he was sick at the time of the 2 month injections and so had them a month later. So we are behind schedule... the story of my life!

Ciao baby! Mwah!

[squidipa]

sorry becka im no help on baby seats really.

mt good luck tonight i hope u all end up with a rested nights sleep.

[*Beema*]

Hi Everyone!!

Just popping in to say hi!! Still going on crazy January!! We have had one wedding and a round of hen's and bucks night, and this weekend we have a birthday Saturday, I am in a wedding Sunday and N and I are staying over for the night before the wedding, for a girls night

This week is very hectic as well, I think I have Tuesday night free and that is it

A few of you have read my woo hoo post in the Breastfeeding Support section, thanks for your lovely comments Pixie and Squidipa!! MWAH!! I am finally formula free and fully BF'ing

N tried Avocado today and she sucked on a piece of watermelon, holding it in her mouth, she bit off a piece and I grabbed it out of her mouth, might have been a bit big, but I didn't want to take a risk!!

Beck, we have the S and S meridian retails aroun $469 as well, and have just bought a S and S Compaq retails arounf $355 Deluxe, both are reversible to 12kg

Squidipa, Joshies has chubbed up now so a small loss is fine They are also getting more active now so their gains drop right off! Oh and that really sucks about your EBAY, grrr!!!!

Sasha I think the amounts your are giving Kye are fine, I just give N what she wants, when she turns her head, pushes the spoon or spits it out, then that is it for that meal, letting her dictate how much she wants

Okay, I don't think i can go back much further tonight, hope you all have a fab week, I will pop back in and post if I can if not I will probably read your posts anyway!!

xxoo

[squidipa]

hrmmm the saga on these passports just keep going on, firstly we had to get it sent back to perth so some on could garentor them and also sign the pictures. Finally getting them back we were like YAY! But then we needed someone to witness our sig's and not knowing anyone here we had to get a JP to do it so more delay's. Then yay now we can hand all this in.Only to find the garentor signed every photo thats 8 photo's of every child so we had to get them retaken. Then they said your daughter is 10 and she needs to sign and i didn't have her with me that week . So there was that then we get a phone call saying the JP stamped over their sigs so that was another delay. Plus the garentor was 3 days out on Josiahs age.

After getting all the photos redone and getting a second lot of paper work from Perth and daughter signing and Jp's re signing it was like woohooo

only bad thing next was i missed the mail man and had to go get them but on the way today some blinkin twit decided to turn left even tho they were in the far right lane at the corner of king and morayfield road out side police station and hit the side of my car. For those of u whom know that intersection i was in the middle lane left to me was the turning lane i was going straight forward and right hand lane is straight forward too he was in right hand lane.

i had no issues with him giving over details so that was good he was elderly in 70's. My son was in booster on the side it was hit and joshie on far side so was all good. The damage is a small dent across the drivers door and scrapings across drivers door to rear of car door. Could have been worse i guess. DS3 kept say he a bad man, he hurt your car mom. naughty man. The bloke didnt even ask if the kids were k or say sorry he seemed confused. He kept saying i was turning left... ahhh yeah but ya cant in the far lane

in end i got 3 kids passports and now we wait on hubbies passport and thats been a bit of a saga to posting back and forth from nz.

well im tired and warn out a real roller coaster of emotions today!
love to all. weigh in day tomorrow not expecting more than 200grams
bye!!

[kiwigirl]

Hello!!!! I am just back from another trip away for 4 nights.. was a bit of a hard time but don't really want to go into it on BB publicly (msg me if you want to tho). Anyways..... E is great. He sits up so well now. He's sucked on a bit of fruit and LOVED it (strawberry, nectarine) but haven't started solids *yet*. However the last 3 nights he's woken up every 3 hours overnight eeek!! I am going to see if he keeps doing this and if he does I will likely start solids a 5 1/2 months (which he is on Thursday), instead of 6??

E is so sociable now, I love it! He also has quite a cheeky look every so often heh. STILL no rolling over but I'm kinda over trying to force it. He does try and "bum shuffle" (without success) and can push himself around quite a bit while lying on his back, so cute!

I have been annoyed that I lost a few posts on BB and also haven't been able to get on a few times, I guess there were problems with the boards?

I have some SUPER cute pics of Eli which I need to upload to FB soon.

xox to all!

[squidipa]

o.k mel ive been chatting to kel and she si free mondays and this monday is a public holli so i sugested monday 2nd feb? 10.30 at myn for a morning tea we can all bring a plate or something LEASHA are ya comming????? pm me girls k

[nagromeyk]

STILL no rolling over but I'm kinda over trying to force it. He does try and "bum shuffle" (without success) and can push himself around quite a bit while lying on his back, so cute!

Rach - E and K sound sooo similar. K is trying to roll, gets halfway and still can't figure out how to move his arm underneath I'm not pushing it either, figured he will do it when he's good and ready.

How does E go with being on his tummy? If I put K's U-pillow underneath him (like under his armpits) he is quite happy to just stay there, pushes up real well and doesn't crack it but if he doesnt have that underneath him he cracks it, so weird!

Squidipa - ya poor thing re: the passports. I'm in the process of having to get K's issued and mine renewed as we are booked to go back in March to see my bro and my nieces. It has been a big enough issue for me trying to get guarantors etc.... your scenario sounds so frustrating! But yeah hearing ya as I kinda had a similar thing happen, the person I had to witness my photo; she filled the form in correctly and dated it 06/01/09 but then when she dated the photo she put it around the other way i.e 01/06/09 so I had to get her to resign it!

I lodged K's application on Monday so hopefully there is no hiccups and I will have it in 10 days time. Going to post mine off next week.

Anyways woke up at 330am and couldnt get back to sleep so thought I'd pop in here and catch up. Going to watch the Obama Inuguration on CNN now.

Have a good day everyone!

[nagromeyk]

Warning: ME POST

I am feeling really bad right now. I was reading through the new posts and stumbled across one which was discussing Jumperoo's and Exersaucers. Apparently use of them can cause all sorts of spinal and hip problems later in life.... I hired a Jumperoo for K about a month ago - I just feel sooo s**ty right now that I may of set him up to have problems in the future. Especially with the weight he is!! OMG why didn't I think!!
I feel so s**t I am actually crying!!

I guess one good thing is that I have at least realised now and not 6 months down the track. It might at least prevent further damage. But still I cant help feeling bad

It isn't due to be returned until March but I'm going to email her today and tell her I have finished with it.

OK post over - I'm going now to give my boy a big hug and say I'm so so sorry!

[Arimeh]

Sasha - those things can cause damage - but if used ALL the time - like you have the kids in there for AGES.. unless you had him in there for an hour at a time, I don't think you have done any damage at all. The recommended amount of time is about 10-15 minutes max.. dont' feel bad. Not like these things are told to us on the packaging - otherwise people would never buy them!!!!!

Squidipa - yeah should be ok. Will PM you soon. Been a tad busy here.

Kiwigirl - now I'm curious. will have to message you on facebook to get the goss

Vic - congratulations!! Did I miss a thread of yours? I must have!!!!! I'll have to go looking for it now!!!! Well as soon as I put little miss down again for another nap, she is getting a bit vocal!!!

Hello to everyone else *mwah*

Kids are still sick here, so we're just staying at home being bored out of our minds and just chillin... gotta get them healed already!!!!!!

Have a great day all... byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[squidipa]

Warning: ME POST

I hired a Jumperoo for K about a month ago - I just feel sooo s**ty right now that I may of set him up to have problems in the future. Especially with the weight he is!! OMG why didn't I think!!
I feel so s**t I am actually crying!!

BIG i used those for my all my kids and none of them have any issues. Dont feel bad i dont feel you have done any harm or anything wrong. Your a great mom and it clearly shows. As you know Ds3 was HUGE and not as long as K was at that age im sure , and he also spent lots of time in a jolly jumper and he is fine. Please dont worry. Altho if at all concerned at a dr k! Big hugs sweet!!!!!!!

mel yeah ill wait for ya pm hehehe

leasha you comming???

Im still ticked off about that twit hitting my car grrrr

Also kiwi girl josh wakes about 20 times at night mostly for comfort that is Ill pm ya ohhh humbugs i had something else to say

oh yeah kiwi girl do ya think you might be going to kai iwi lakes anytime between 9th march to 3th april so would LOVE LOVE LOVE to meet ya and Eli. Or if your going pass Glinks gully u can pop in to our batch for a coffee, or maybe meet in whangarei. You can meet my TRIBE