Babies Born August 1st ~ 15th 2008 #7

[2girlz]

Vic she's gorgeous!

Squidipa- they're normaly around the $90 mark thats at babies galore (they're always more expensive)

I'm in total shock I have received a message from a friend who was due to have her baby on the 29th of March Her baby was born a few hours ago OMG she's tiny!

[Arimeh]

Thanks guys for the cheers and yays for my RAK - I think its great.

Got a few very conflicting emotions tonight - happy about the RAK, but really really sad for my friend with the tumour - so one minute I'm up - the next I'm down, all over the place really.

I'll come back for personals when my head space is a bit ... clearer.

[squidipa]

thanks kel for that, cant wait to see ya tomorrow. CONGRATS on your friend having a baby. I hope all is well there!

mel im so sorry about your friend and her tumor no words i can i say will make it better bar from im sorry and im here if ya need a chat BIG HUGS!!! just sorry you are feeling this pains and unbelievable feelings.

i didnt tell you all this before but My brother recently..... his vision started to go in one eye they found a tumor and in the end removed his whole eye. He is in good health now

[*Beema*]

OH MY miss N is HUGE hope that doesnt offend you but wow she is gaining soooo well and looks so much like a cutie!!!!

No offence taken here Squidipa, she is HUGE, she is over 7kg, 7140g to be exact - she is massive, she has passed 3 times her birth weight I think most of her chub is in her face, I love playing with her cheeks and she has the best double chin ~ although she always has one, it just used to be all skin!!

And Wow for the rings, that is just so exciting. DH wants to get me my eternity ring, but I don't think we can afford it right now with the new house being built etc, so I am happy to wait!!

Thanks Kel Great to see you back!! I wish I had bought a Bumbo.. N love sitting up.

Mel for your dear friend and for your RAK

MT yay Jett, that is awesome, and a huge Woot!! For being a poster girl!!! What a fabulous job you are doing!!! a side bonus is that their clothes fit them a lot longer, we are still in 000 and 0-3, I put her in a few 00 and 3-6 months they are nice a baggy, very Hip Hop!!! He might catch N again!! Great to hear the BLS are going so well for you both, we try N with finger food, I think she just enjoys bashing it, but put a soon anywhere near her and the mouth is open wide!! We are giving her, her own spoon as well and she is so proud when she gets it in her mouth, but usually by that time the fadd has slid down all over her hands!! Ahh it is all fun!!

Oh the stories coming out of that area and just so heartbreaking, there just wasn't any time was there, I am glad your friend got out safe and sound, she is the one that is a vet as well ? Huge hugs to you and you friend, I can't imagine being in her position.

Well better be off, N has gone to sleep!!

xxoo

[MummyTummy]

Vic - I have a number of friends. The one who is a vet works in Kinglake, but lives in Whittlesea. Her house is fine but her clinic is gone and she has been working for the last week and a half up in Kinglake and only went home for the first time on Saturday night.

I have another friend from Kinglake, but he and his wife and little girl were so very lucky, they left 10 mins before the fire hit to come down the mountain to his parents place to enjoy their A/C. But they lost absolutely everything as they were only leaving for the afternoon. They didn't even know it had happened, and he had left his phone at home so no could get hold of him for a couple of days. But they are safe and sound and someone has kindly offered them a fully furnished home a couple of minutes walk to the school where he works.

And then another friend built his house up in Kinglake and had only just finished this year, he'd moved in 3 days before the fire. Luckily due to the new building standards his house survived, although the primary school opposite didn't. He's now saying that he's not sure he wants to live up there anymore.

I then have two friends in St Andrews, they are the two friends that have babies the same age. One runs the stockfeed, her house is fine, but she owned a house in Kinglake which is no more.

The other friend is the one that has lost everything, she had the neighbours that delayed trying to collect their valuables.

There wasn't any time or any warning that the fire was there. Normally the fire would go from Kinglake to St Andrews due to the lie of the land, this time it went from St Andrews to Kinglake due to the wind so both towns and the other towns in the same area just had no idea it was upon them until it was too late. It really is no wonder that people took their chances in their cars.

[*Beema*]

Gosh MT, soo many friends affected

It must be such a different place at the moment, the more it is less of a higlight on the news the awareness drops, I think these next few months and years are going to be very tough for your community

Fires can be so unpredictable and for it to do the complete opposite of what it has done before was so unexpected, I couldn't imagine how scary it would have been to be trying to drive in those conditions

I don't think i would want to live up there now either. But it may be better if people get back and start building again. But it is going to take a while for the infrastrucutre to be all back in place. It will be interesting to see what it is like 12 months from now.

[thepixie]

Hey folks.... I have read back, but not sure I can respond to everyone personally.... so forgive me!
first of all MT YAY for Jett's weight gain that is great! Good to see all of our bubs are on track now! So sorry to hear about all the devastation up there and all the lives that have been lost. it's a tragedy. I think living in cities people don't really understand the power of bushfires. Some of the pictures on the news etc have been mindblowing. Still thinking of all of you dealing with the aftermath so big s
Mel, for your friend. Another tragedy. lots of prayers and healing thoughts coming her way.
Vic - YAY for your RAK!!!! And you too Squidipa! Lucky people!
Kel, bumbos are cool, we use it instead of a high chair
Mountain Mummy bummer about the never ending boxes but hey at least this is your house... so now you won't have to move again for a long time!
Well, we have all been very sick here. After being up every hour on Friday night, Beth slept through Sat & Sun. Last night she woke up kind of grizzling and I was going to leave her to fall back to sleep, but after a while she started grizzling again so I went and picked her up.... OMG she was on fire! Her temp was 38.99, she wouldn't take the breast. I was so worried, I laid down with her on the couch for a while but when she kept refusing I got the Bear up. We rang the Health Advice line and they said to give her panadol (we'd run out) and if her temp was really high a lukewarm bath. So at 3.30 am we were giving her a cool bath. it cooled her down really well and she had a feed and went back to bed. She was really sick this morning, very lethargic, feverish, no energy so I took her to the doctor (after much rushing around trying to get appointments etc). She has our cold, but also she has an infection in her tonsils so she is on antibiotics. She is sleeping now though and her fever has gone down a bit... and I got more panadol. Fingers crossed she'll be OK. It was a bummer on the timing though there was a group session on solids for our MG which I wanted to go to, but couldn't take her there in case the other bubs got sick. Will have to get the dirt when we catch up on friday.
In other news I was contacted to do some freelance writing and I am not sure if I can be bothered... on the one hand it might be fun and a little cash... on the other hand I don't know if I have time... but anyhoo, missy crying so gotta run. New pix on FB if anyone's interested.... laters

[MummyTummy]

Hugs Mel - I missed it earlier, I'm really sorry to hear about your friend.

And more hugs for poor little Beth. Poor sweetie! Hugs to you and the Bear too Pixie! I hope Beth starts feeling better really soon, especially with the antibiotics.

[nagromeyk]

Pixie - for you and Beth. I hope Beth gets better soon!

Mel - sorry to hear about your friend, my thoughts are with you and her at this tough time.

MT - yay for Jett's weight gain, that is awesome!!

Kye had such a good day today, slept amazingly well. 2 hour block this morning then another hour and a half this afternoon and is asleep again now. It is very rare for him to sleep longer than about 45 minutes so I am feeling really good. Now all I need to get him to do is go back to sleeping at night without doing the wake ups between 9pm and 11pm LOL

Anyhow better run, the boy is due to wake up any moment....

Catcha's

[beckoes]

wow,havent been able to get on BB for a while. just tried to read all the posts but found it really hard to catch up and no way i could do all the personals, happy 6 months to all those who turned recently!! yay for the weight gains and other things. Sorry to hear Beth has been so ill! hope she gets better soon. Love everyones new profile pics! congrats to thoses with RAKs!! so nice!

Grace has been eating really well the lazst few days, wasnt keen on the purees anymore so we are now eating cruskits, toast, steamed veg, fruit, and LOVING it. has cut out the 10.30pm wake up and isnt grumpy anymore! so its goin really well. she is not 7.19kgs so puting on weight slowly.
Going to sydney on the 28th just me and G to see the inlaws, should be ok. I went out for my first night out the other day, expressed some milk and headed out for a mexican dinner at a friends house...complete with margaritas!! was great fun...lets just say im a cheep date after no alcohol for about 16 months!! Was nice for DH to be able to feed G with bottles as we hadnt done that before,

Hope everyone is well, so i couldnt do personals...DH is just plating up my dinner....lucky me!!

[beckoes]

Just added some photos of our adventure with food so far...but cant work out if they worked or not? Im really not that computer savy!

[squidipa]

i tried posting last night but it sooo didnt happen.

so ill now just be quick as im still waking up

pixie how is beth????

brain farting here, and i need to hurry up and wake up, need to replace my digital scales they went wrong microwave too. Not to mention the washing machine has crapped its self. OH and last night well hubbie accidentally didnt screw the milk lid on right and it leaked all through the fridge like all through it even ended up in the tray at the back of the fridge and all on the floor to it was about 2.5 litres wasted.

Hope fully next week ill have my safe n sound car seat too.

other than that im all good. need to drink this coffee and weight joshie as i forgot yesterday so xoxoxox

[nagromeyk]

Morning all,

Well a good night here - Kye went to bed at 8:30pm and slept until 4:50am - didnt have any wakeups hopefully this is the start of him going back to sleeping through, would be sooo good!

Well I decided to try Kye with some cooked broccoli and carrot pieces yesterday, made a complete mess but he looked like he enjoyed himself the photos are a classic! He has such an innocent look on his face hehe

Have swimming again today at 10:30 so must get crackin' and get some stuff done while he is asleep!

Have a good day everyone!

[*Beema*]

Morning all

Well after lots of 5am wakeups, last night DH and I decided that when she woke at 5am we weren't going to go in straight away, we think we have not been helping her settle. So this morning we woke to hear her chatting away, gradually getting louder, so he said ah go and shut her door and we will see what happens I rolled over and look at the clock and it was 7am!!

And neither of us had gotten up to her! So don't know what happened there!!

But we are going to be a bit more routineish andsee how thigns go, we had been really flexible, but I think she was suffering a bit, so we will see what happens I guess!!

Huge hugs Mel, I missed your post

Huge hugs for Beth as well, I really hope she is on the mend quickly!

Yay Sasha for the sleeping, awesome!!

Grr for the milk wastage Squidipa and your washing machine and scales!

Beck I just added you as a friend on FB, as I couldn't see the piccies.

We are trying some BLS, N isn't so keen on holding but we are trying, she ends up chucking a bit of a tanty cos she is hungry so we follow with a bit of spoon feeding, I am doing what you are doing with Beth Pixie, giveing her a spoon and me one, it is a lot of fun and nice amd messy!!

Well must run N wants some one on one attention!!

Bye!!! xxoo

[MummyTummy]

Hi Gorgeous Mums and bubs (and of course you too Bear if you are reading!!)

RAIN!!!!! Big beautiful drops of rain!! Rain forecasted for tomorrow too!

Just a quick one here... we're off camping for the weekend and will be leaving at lunchtime... still need to pack! And dry washing.....hmmmm.... couldn't the rain have waited half a day???

I don't really have anyting else to add...

Yay N and Kye for sleeping, can you teach Jett now?!! We still have 1 or two wake ups!

Hope you are feeling better Pixie and Beth!

Squidipa - it never rains, but it pours when things start to go wrong with appliances huh?

Mel - hugs - how are you going hun? Still thinking of you

Kel - How is your friend going with the early bub?

Kell - how are you going with Seven?

Bec - you have one gorgeous little girl there!! And broccoli always ends up in a mess at our house too!

SB - to you and Shane....

If I have missed anyone, I am sooooo sorry, but I can hear Jett stirring so need to go feed, then pack....

Mwah!

[~StarBright~]

Hello mums and bubs!!

I went to mothers group today and learned baby cpr- very informative!!
Shane has started really babbling now- only when he is cranky lol, he has started saying dadadadada but not sure if he actually means dad, or if its just the noise that comes out lol but DH loves it either way!!

We are doing spoon fed puree- but i have started giving him toast, which he likes to grab and suck on!!

Did anyone catch the show "raising babies" on ABC last night????? Very crazy ways of raising babies out there!! Very sad ways too!!

yay for the rain coming mt!!!

gotta go boy is awake!!

hi and bye to all

[beckoes]

SB. i wanted to watch that show but i missed it. had a nice day today, bit hot, but we went down the beach and it was cooler there. She ate cottage cheese and other stuff for lunch and egg yolk and roast apple for dinner. loved it!
its raining now and its cooler!!
hi to all

[mountain mummy]

Hi all!

SB - Veygas loves toast as well ... and anything that I happen to be holding!

I have been mixing stuff with Bellamy's baby porridge (cause it's organic) Farex was a bit of a no go, but he loves the Rafferty's stuff mixed in - like the blueberries, banana and apple, and the spinach, peas, broccoli and apple ... we tried their banana and pear stuff, but I think he has had a reaction to the pear, cause he came out in red kind of welts and scratched like crazy that afternoon (which he didn't do with the apple-y things) and since pear was the only new thing, I'm guessing that was the culprit!

MT - yay for the rain you guys certainly need it down there ... I know that up here in Sydney, it's been going for a while, and I've been hoping it was gonna head your way!

Vic - woohoo for Miss N sleeping in like that!

Sasha - and good one too Kye!! Hope he is still behaving for you!

Veygas woke up really early this morning, but yesterday was all out of wack and he ended up in bed for the night before 6pm! I just knew if I tried to keep him up any longer, all hell would break loose and he'd get over-tired and be really hard to get to sleep!

Mellie - hope you're doing Ok hun

Pix - hope you guys are all on the mend

Anyway, I have just finished playing with my overlocker that DP bought me last Monday - made a booster and an insert!! Look out nappies, here I come!!! lol! So I am gonna toodle off to bed now ...

Mwah! xxx