Babies Born August 1st ~ 15th 2008 #9

[*Beema*]

Squidipa, wishing you a safe journey xx

Just a quick update from me, we had Nakita's appointment with the physio at the hospital today.

And well I am glad that I brough up my concerns and got the referral, I don't feel like I was over reacting now

Nakita has been diagnosed (I hate that word as it makes her sound sick!!) with Hypermobility, so basically she very flexible/too flexible, and her muscles, ligaments and tendons are weak/lose/floppy. Which means she has to work a lot harder than a person with normal muscular control to be able to do certain types of movements.

So things that require the use of stabilising muscles, she is good at like standing still and sitting upright, but anything of a transitional movement such as rolling, moving from sitting to on the floor, climbing over things, pulling herself up etc are very hard for her.

We did the gross motor skills chart to see how she scored to get an idea where she was on the charts (another bad word ), to create a benchmark. She scored at 27, and based on her corrected age of 10 months she wasn't even close to the bottom of the chart She is the equivalent of an 8 month old on the 5th%ile, which is a bit scary
but I am happy having a starting point IYKWIM.

All in all it was a very positive experience, the physio we had was just gorgeous lovely woman, we are really thrilled with Jane!!

We have a range of exercises to work on to improve her muscle strength, and transition movements, and we have piccies to take to daycare as well, and I will run them through the exercises next week, they have already been doing the ones we have asked so far.

I am little bit frustrated as if we had stayed under the WCH system and not transferred private that it would have been picked up/addressed sooner as we would have been monitored more closely by her original Paed, where as we were discharged from her Paed at 6 months, but we cannot look at that now, my focus is on Nakita from now on in

So all in all I am happy, I am glad that I followed my insticts and sought the referral.

Onwards and Upwards!!!

Sorry if you have read this elsewhere

[*Beema*]

Is everyone ??

Another tooth!!!

Nakita's first top tooth (on the left hand side arrived overnight) accompanied with a very unsettled night, the one next to it looks like it will burst very soon, too, hopeing that it is over and done with quickly!!

[thepixie]

Vic I read this on your other thread... glad you've got a physio you love and a way forward! You sound a lot more positive too.... hope you feel better after taking some time for yourself. and for the tooth!
Not much to report here, sleep has been very bad this week, I think there are more teeth coming but can't get in her mouth to look. Don't feel I've accomplished anything this week, and still in denial about returning to work Monday week
At least I got my hair done this morning so that was good..... anyhoo, gotta run, grumpy overtired baby stuck under the desk!

[squidipa]

Congrats on the new tooth Vic

well to cut a long story short the whoel service has gone smoothly, It was a lovley service and we are glad made the trek out here regardless of maxing out our credit card we wouldnt have had it any other way. Its a straneg ans wery feeling like soemthing si missing every where we look. And it's feels like just yesterday we were here with gran.

This morning nanna has ds3 with her and poppato chruch and me and hubbie are using the wahsing machine and quietly looking through grans old belonging. We are here all day as the car we use has been borrowed for the day.

The day i flew in here my duaghter had her first period, and im not sure how im coping/feeling is probably a better word with that i wish iw as there. I am so scared now like a whole new level has been reached. Im upset and in some type of shock i guess ya can never prepare ya self for that can ya. My gosh she can have babies she just had her 11th birthday. I mean wow.

She wasnt scared or un educated she was as calm as anything she sent me an email and was all clued in. Thank good ness too as i had already given her the talk 1 year prior and a few in between. The day she got it was also the day they started learning about it in school too. I guess im just sorta feeling like i should have been there and also hoping she is fine and its not painful for her. Her dad has been awesome and they have a great open relationship so she is very comfortable about it with him witch is great.

i dunno im still processing all of this unsure how im really feeling regarding this. wow i guess happy yes but feeling heavy and strange to.

i been missng my bb support as thinsg like this i relie heavely on for feedback maybe i shouldnt i dunno but i do.

[thepixie]

Squiddy glad to hear things are going well. for your DD it's a very exciting time for her, shame you can't be there to share it with her.
Well it's a bit quiet around here :tumbleweeds:
We had a great night last night, went to see Simon & Garfunkel with the PIL's and that was lovely. My stepmother babysat and she is such a legend, she also did the dishes, tidied up, emptied the dishwasher and I suspect did a vacuum as well.... it was awesome! Even better than that madam actually slept from midnight until about 6.30 am, and then came into our bed and we snoozed until after 8! it was bliss!
My last week off work this week... I'm still in denial, I'm still hoping it is all a horrible mistake and they're going to call me and say they really don't need me to come back... *sigh* Anyway we're just going to take it one day at a time and if I really can't bear to be away from her I'll quit. But in the meantime... one more week.
Anyhow hope everyone has a lovely weekend and maybe someone will post soon!

[kim76]

Hi All

I have a little girl born on 7 August 2008. Anybody here from Canberra?

[thepixie]

Kim.... we're not as chatty as we used to be around here but you're very welcome to join us! What is your little one's name?

[nagromeyk]

Hey all

Welcome Kim!

Pix - going back to work aint that bad I started back last Monday. Have to work a couple of extra days this week as the manager is on leave but I am finding it fine!
But yeah I guess if you find it hard then quitting is the way to go!

Mel - how you going hun? had any scans yet, would love to see pics if you have them

Rach - how big is E now? I had K weighed and measured at the beginning of this month and he was 12.5kg and 83cm tall

Oh I dont think I came in to tell all of you - Kye now has his TWO bottom teeth and I think the first top one is close.
I managed to kind of get my finger in his mouth this morning and could feel a slight bump he's catching up to everyone else at last hehe

Anyways that's my ramblings ... not alot else to report really - how boring!

Gotta get ready to go out for my fortnightly lunch with the girls

Chow

[*Beema*]

Sorry flying in got a screaming headache...

Pix are you saying somethng in your sig

[kim76]

Hi All

My little girls name is Madisyn. She was induced 5 weeks early due to my type 1 diabetes.

She is now 9.5kg and 78cm long (very tall for her age). Two bottom teeth but that's it. They came through when she was 8 months old. She still isn't crawling. I'd love her to because she gets frustrated being in the same spot.

She was breastfeed up to a week ago. Little horror just wouldn't stop biting.
Her sleeps have been a nightmare from 2 weeks old. She would have 6 x 20-40 minute sleeps during the day and wake every 2 hours at night. We went to a sleep clinic twice which didn't help. She is now having 2 x 60 minutes sleeps and a 30 minute one before dinner. She usually sleeps until about 1am without a problem now but then it's a battle from then until about 5am.

Doctor put her on a dose of Phenergan to see if we could break her sleep cycles. I wasn't very happy about trying it but did for one night. It did nothing at all. Other than that everything is going well.

I work from home (try) but don't get much done these days.

I'd love to hear some more of your stories. I can be found on Facebook. My user name is kshanley76.

Cheers
Kim

[*Beema*]

Hi Kim and Welcome to our thread

Congratulations on your little girl, she has a beautiful name.
I was due the 14th of August, but delivered on the 30th June, almost 7 weeks early, but I post in this thread as this is when I was due and my DD has been more inline developmentally with these bubs and many of the lovely ladies were my Belly Buddies (in the pregnancy section) and I couldn't leave them they are just all so lovely!!!!

for the terrible sleeping, a few of us have been going through so shocking sleeping, and even moreso lately, so sending you some sleepy vibes your way.

I also work from home most of the week and go into the office on two days, soon to be three days. DD goes into Childcare on those days. Which she absolutely loves, she gets very excited when I drop her off, like the "peeing your pants level of excitement"

to everyone else, hope you are all ok.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MEL!!!!!!

Well must be off to bed and get some sleep while I can!

[nagromeyk]

Morning all,

I just had to race in here and tell you all that last night

KYE TOOK HIS FIRST STEPS

We were getting ready to go out to dinner and he was just doing the usual 'cruising the furniture' thing then he turned around and let go of the couch and stepped out.

OMG I was shocked, wasnt expecting it but was soooo excited hehe So proud of my boy!!

Vic he might be walking by the time we get down there or even better he'll wait so you can see it too, that would be cool!

Pix - how long did it take Beth from when she first started to get her balance and actually walk without stumbling over - days, weeks??

Kim - Beema and I were due the same day (14th Aug) in the end Kye was 3 days over. I planned and had a waterbirth. Labour was about 11 hours. Kyes birth stats were: 8lb 9.5 oz, 54.5cm long and 37.5cm head (yes he's been on the biggish side all along )

Mel - Happy Birthday for yesterday, hope you had a great day hun!

Anyways gotta run, boy is due to wake up any minute

Hope everyone is well

Ba Bye!

[thepixie]

Woohoo!!! Awesome news for Kye!! For Beth it took absolutely ages after she took her first steps - 6 weeks, before she really let go and started walking. But some babies just go for it straight away so it could be any time!
Hey Vic, hope everything is going a bit better for you this week! Re my sig = No! Bump is what we call Beth sometimes but I think I'd better change it cause you're the second person to ask if I'm pg!
Mel - hope you had an awesome birthday girlfriend! :mwah:
Kim my daughter was due on 29 July and was 2 weeks late so I chat to the girls in this thread and my old Belly Buddies thread.
We're having a pretty strange week. On Monday I got an email from work saying they don't have 3 days a week of work for me and they'll get back to me today.... so not sure what they are going to suggest. I would be happy to get redundancy as long as I get a decent payout... so I guess I'll know later today
to all

[Arimeh]

Hi Kim - welcome

I drift in and out a lot of this thread a bit, always try to read though, just hard getting time to post. DD was due on the 19th July but was 2 weeks late - taken out eventually on the 2nd August.

Thanks for the birthday wishes guys - it was an ok day (not much different than any other day!) I guess most of you saw my pressie from DH on facebook? Pretty awesome. Plus he went and got chinese last night for dinner, and an ice cream cake... I luuuuurve ice cream cakes - yes I am a 5 year old stuck in a 32 year olds body.. bwahahaha

Pixie - I hope they work out something for you. If they can't - just move up here and hang out with me

Yay for Kye walking!!!!!!!! Awesome!!!! Miss M is sooo not near that stage, doesn't even like walking on her knees. She starts crying whenever you put her on her feet, so we're just letting her do her stuff at the moment - she loves crawling and is happy to do so. No rush here!

Not much else going on....

[*Beema*]

Way to go Kye!!!!
DH just said... hmmm we have some baby proofing to do before next week!!!
We have it easy because Nakita doesn't go anywhere

[thepixie]

Mel babe - not much to work out... a big fat cheque will do nicely!
are you OK? Z is not in your sig anymore?

[Arimeh]

are you OK? Z is not in your sig anymore?

Yup all is cool babe - don't worry.

The big fat cheque sounds nice.. where do I get one of those?

[*Beema*]

Yup all is cool babe - don't worry.

Oh good, was wondering that the other day, hopefully it will allow you to be able to have a clear mind for your VBAC2, and cut back the pressure