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Hi all!
had Jensen in doctors a lot lately. He has had a cough that sounded evil, throat, chest and ear infections.
Cost me a fortune!
He also had to visit his ophthamologist to see if he needs more surgey on his eyes and it looks like he will have to have his right eye done again.
Hi girls.... Im fairly new to the site, i joined a while back but have only just returned now. My son was born on the 28/8/06 .. mind if i join in?
:lol:hay ladies, ive got a beautiful daughter Kavanna lou born 5/8/06 care if i join in im new 2 melbourne and are missing my girlfriends from sydney with there kids ive always got lots 2 talk about, dont know how to join a play group.
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trying for bub #2:sperm:
Hi girls :D Welcome!
Catherine, poor Jensen :( Hope he is over the worst of it now. When does he need to have his eye operated on?
I went into the city yesterday and gone is my happy little pram sitting man. Talk about scream and wriggle. I let him have a wander about in the toy dept of Myer so that kept him happy for a bit but you should have seen my try and put him back in. O_M_G talk about a feral child. I'm convinced that his Daddy had a quiet whisper in his ear before we left so that I'd have to come back early and not spend any money ;)
Hi Everyone, Hope all goes well with Jensen's op:pray:, is it a turn they are correcting?
Ben is doing much better at the whole foods although still won't takle anything but pureed at dinner. He now finally eats whole fruits such as kiwi, grapes and strawbs and even had a bit of my husbands brekky bar this morning:clap:! I am a little frustrated to say the least with dinner though, the other day at creche he ate vege spiral pasta and the day before that a Ben friendly (dairy free) Tuna mornay. So.......I tried the pasta at home and he just throws it around and will not eat it. :doh:
We takled Ikea at Richmond yesterday (v busy!!)Ben's red hair and cheeky smile at anyone who looks at him gets him alot of attention when we go out, quite handy as it keeps him amused and content. Oscar just loves to go on Dad's shoulders, he is a bit lazy to walk around especially when Dad is around!
Hope all the sick little ones get better soon and very quickly.
Heather
Jensen will probably just have his right eye done this time as the first surgery corrected the squint in his right eye.
He is trashing the lounge and pulling on my vertical blinds as I write this.
Will give more info when I have it.
Heather I was going to call into Ikea on Sunday but spent longer that I thought in the city so didn't have time. Ben sounds cheeky not eating pasta for you ;) He'll be an eating machine soon enough.
Catherine hope you blinds are holding up. We haven't got proper curtains in the living areas, just calico ATM. It gets me down sometimes but then I catch Caleb giving them a good yanking and I think that by the time I get them then (hopefully) he'll be over the curtain fascination!
Caleb has popped out 2 new teeth this week so now has 5! No wonder he has been a narky pants and not sleeping.
Hi everyone
I'm fairly new to BB, I have a lovely daughter born 25th Aug. 2006 and two older children aged 4 and 8. They keep me busy!
Taegan I hope you have settled in and find some friends soon in Melbourne:) I find having a baby a great ice breaker when first joining a play group. Maybe you could start a thread and ask if anyone knows of a good playgroup in you area?
Hi everyone
I'm fairly new to BB, I have a lovely daughter born 25th Aug. 2006 and two older children aged 4 and 8. They keep me busy!
Taegan I hope you have settled in and find some friends soon in Melbourne:) I find having a baby a great ice breaker when first joining a play group. Maybe you could start a thread and ask if anyone knows of a good playgroup in you area?
rosehannah,
yea thanks its pretty hard @ the moment we are staying with my parents so when we move into our home i think i will try a bit harder to meet some people.. i only know how to reply on bb i dont know how to start a thread but i have spoken in a few forums but no 1 seems to reply to me so i havent had any advise as of yet.
we used to drive threw tamm on our way 2 QLD nice place up there...
whats ur dd daughters name?? any teeth?? is she walking and the rest??
Hi,
Taegan, you could try your local MCHN (health centre), they are pretty good at knowing who's who and perhaps could put you in touch with an existing mum's group. Are you in the north, west east or south? We live in whats called the new West and every second person is either pushing a pram or about too it's a huge baby boom out here to say the least. Our area I think is number 1 in Melbourne for growth.
Catherine, when we first moved into our house 4yrs ago (it was built new), I refused to move in without curtains or blinds, we did the DIY from Lincraft as a temporary measure and they are still up, glad we didn't go spend the thousands you can as we have a white fluffy cat and two boys who like to play peek a boo behind them.
Well, have given up on the whole foods for Ben for a while for dinner, after two disappointing nights again where he ate only yogurt one night and custard the other I am going back to puree :wall:with adding orzo or rice as he doesn't mind the lumps. He is also good on whole fruits and breads so he is doing ok (he is definitely not fading away at 10kg. He is a big boy and my neck and shoulders know it.
bye for now
Heather:)
Hi,
Taegan, you could try your local MCHN (health centre), they are pretty good at knowing who's who and perhaps could put you in touch with an existing mum's group. Are you in the north, west east or south? We live in whats called the new West and every second person is either pushing a pram or about too it's a huge baby boom out here to say the least. Our area I think is number 1 in Melbourne for growth.
Catherine, when we first moved into our house 4yrs ago (it was built new), I refused to move in without curtains or blinds, we did the DIY from Lincraft as a temporary measure and they are still up, glad we didn't go spend the thousands you can as we have a white fluffy cat and two boys who like to play peek a boo behind them.
Well, have given up on the whole foods for Ben for a while for dinner, after two disappointing nights again where he ate only yogurt one night and custard the other I am going back to puree :wall:with adding orzo or rice as he doesn't mind the lumps. He is also good on whole fruits and breads so he is doing ok (he is definitely not fading away at 10kg. He is a big boy and my neck and shoulders know it.
bye for now
Heather:)
Ps: has anyone tried the enliven, and if so what do you think? I am thinking it may a good idea???
Hi everyone,
Well I should be weighing myself and entering my stats. in the weight loss support forum, but I'm putting that off until I BF Ebony as I'll need all the help I can get after a big weekend of parties:lol:
Taegan, as you can see I'm still learning how to do things too, I accidentally entered my last post twice and I couldn't find away to fix it:doh: Ebony is doing really well, and is teething madly with 4 established teeth and 4 poking through. she is normally quite a happy bub, but has been unsettled over the last week (maybe from the teeth). She has been walking from around 11mths which was probably prompted by having to get around on cold tiles. She loves the outdoors and will make a bee line for any door left open. She paid the price for this love the other day when she got bitten by two green ants, we were sitting on the verandah watching her big brother catch the bus, when she started to cry I looked over and noticed her flicking at a green ant, I flicked off the green ant then took her inside to put on some sting goes spray on a bite on her belly, when I had finished I noticed that she was still moving her arms around and making unhappy sounds so I lifted of her shirt and found another green ant on her shoulder, it had bitten her around 10 times, poor darling. I felt really bad for not taking all her clothes of straight away but I had thought that I had found the culprit and dealt with him.
Hi all
Well long time no post! SORRY. I have been very busy now that there are 2!
William is loving being a big brother and has been an angel. I didn't expect him to cope as well as he has, but I suppose he is too young to be jealous.
William's 2 top teeth have come through so he now has 5. Soon to be 8 though as there are another 3 about to pop any day now.
Sammi~ How are you going??
Hi everyone!
Sarah
hi all
Well I had a nice early morning treat to clean up thanks to Jensen.
He decided he didn't want food in his stomach so he threw it all up on his cot sheets, blankets and wondersuit. mmm the smell of vomit!
After cleaning the cot and him and changing the sheets he proceeded to go back to sleep and woke 2 hours later hungry and happy.
Hope everyone else had a better morning and has good day!
Hi all,
Long time no posts for me - just too busy with the two and working full time I do try and get on occasionally but it's usually to ask a question in another section cause of probs with Child care and stuff!
Anyway, all going well for me but busy busy busy!
Hiya Sammi, hope you're doing well?
Congratulations Sarah on Spencer that's so nice for William to have a new playmate!
xxdd
Hi Everyone,
Well...it looks like both my boys have rotavirus :( Started on Sunday morning and it's been going on and on. Dr has taken a poo sample from Ben but it takes 4days to get results as they apparently take longer than other samples to get results...so it's not a definite yet but looking more and more likely.
They are sleeping lots and lots and not really eating and both have really disgusting bowel motions..Ben has 2-3 baths every day since it started. Oscar has been ok, seems to get better then goes down hill again. Have been keeping a real close eye on the dehydration. Let's hope we don't get it.
Hope everyone else's bubs and selves are ok.
Heather
Oh Heather, that's so not nice - my first DD had this when she was about 13months and lost so much weight no one else got it but we were really vigulant with washing hands and stuff. It's not that common for adults to get it and if we do we don't get it anywhere near as bad as the kids do and apparently the first time they get it is the worst.
Hope they get over it soon - keep up the fluids - my gp wasn't worried about DD not eating just make sure she drank and also he suggested to give her some jelly cause that's made up of water and they consider this fluids - it did help cause she thought it was a novalty.
Good luck with it all.
xxdd
Hi girls sorry I have been MIA in here. I've got lots on my plate ATM.
Sarah it was good to see you the other night :D Will have to come see Spencer one day soon while he is still teeny!
Heather :( hope your boys recover quickly. That is such a nasty thing to get!
Hi dd, Catherine, Rosehannah Taegan and anyone else that's lurking about ;)
Caleb is doing great! He's just got his 4th top tooth so we had a restless night the other night but he has been sleeping through ever since.
I'm having problems getting him to drink water which is a bit of a worry as I had planned on weaning him after my SIL's wedding. (I decided to keep him on it so I would have a nice rack to put in my bridesmaids dress ;) )
He won't even take EBM from a cup but will latch onto me in a heartbeat!
Hi all,
Heather I hope your boys are feeling better, it's so worrying when their ill.
LOL Sammi-j, isn't it sad that we don't get to keep the 'girls' shape and size when BF is over, it would be a just reward for a job well done;)
Well I have had a forced break from BB over the last week, my computer got a virus, $165.00 later and I'm back. On the up side, the house got a spring clean which was over due.
DD#2 is doing well each day she is getting cheekier and is climbing on everything. She is trying hard to talk, I get cheery "helloooo" in the morning when she wakes up, or "poo poooo" when shes done a #2.
Keep well everyone:)
hi all, long time no post.
Jensen been taking few steps every day so I am sure he will be up and walking soon.
He had an appointment with his ophthamologist last monday and he now has to have a drop in his "good" eye to dilate it so that hopefully his "Bad" eye will take the slack. So far nothing, but hopefully this will work so surgery wont be an option. I think it will be though.
At least I wont be as scared this time as I know what will happen and how he will handle it.
Hope all are doing well and kids are happy.
rofl rosehannah :lol: I can see myself resorting back to my pre pubescant body type very easily! Bugga on the virus. I've had a couple over the last year so I decided to buy a macbook a little while ago. Seriously thinking of going all mac when this PC gets a bit old. I'm a convert!. I'll give PC to the kids to use as Mason starts school next year.
Catherine hopefully the drops work :crossfingers:
I ended up with Caleb in the bed at 4am. I knew I shouldn't have posted about him sleeping through! Poor thing. I got him back to his cot and then Angus came in talking about mosquitoes biting him or something. No mozzies in the house I hope. I hate summer for that!
Thanks all for the good wishes, boys recovered well, lasted about 5days. I have ended up with a milder version of it:( !! I thought I was being so good with the washing and so on..I went through a whole box of washing powder in one week and not to mention the state of my hands from the washing them!
Hi Sammi, I use those tommee tippee no spill straw cups. Ben really likes them. Perhaps try spiking the water a little with some juice as an enticement.
Oh and re: the rack..you can get these amazing bras through a lingerie party..the brand is called Intimo (they have a website), one of the bras is called the dream bra and it has silicone in the cups to help with cleavage. I have had girls swear by them and wear nothing else, about to have a party myself and get one..so will let you all know :dance:
Oh yeah..would really love to get a MAC :pray:..my BIL and wife have one, it looks great and they don't need any virus checkers or anything.
Glad to hear Jensen up and about..Ben has dared once to go from one thing to another but not again. He does this thing wear he leans against something and lifts his hands up and giggles..like he is thinking about taking a step.
bye for now
Heather ;)
hay ladies, sorry havn't posted 4 ages we've had alot on from moving to melb from sydney we just got into our new place 3wks ago and we are Pregnant kavanna is going to be a big sister we are so excited first cycle of ttc!!! im 6weeks, so still early days yet!kavanna is really really well 12 teeth, she says duckie mummy daddy poppy nanny birdie, tah puppy and QUACK QUACK shes always got something to say just like her muma. with all this col weather i am very surprised we arent sick.. we are settled in and enjoying our new home!!
Wow Taegan Congratuations :dance: I conceived Angus first go and it was a huge shock, especially after taking 12mths to get Mason.
Heather I'm very close to putting a bit of juice in his drink except I've got a relative whos kids are total juice addicts and it's put me off it a bit. Will see how we go. I have one of those straw cups and Caleb has finally figured out how to suck up a straw this last week!
I think Caleb is saying Angus too. When I picked up Angus from kinder to day he was saying A...Ssss over and over again. I think that is his first word besides Dad. I don't think that counts though as he's been saying it for months and pointing to everything ;)
Hi ladies
Jensen is hating the eye drops!!! Fights and screams the whole time I do it (which is about 2 mins)
Austin gets upset, Jensen screaming, drops flying everywhere and body parts flailing.
hope they work.
Hey Sammi, great about the straw cup. Just a drop of juice and then once he's got the hang of it you wean it out pretty quickly. My niece was the same with juice as they put too much in the water to start with and then it took ages for them to be able to get her off the juice. She's good now though!
I also think Ben says Oscar in a funny way..he says car, so not sure if that's a form of Oscar as he does like to play with cars? He babbles alot and says Ta quite clearly, he is a very chatty little boy.
It hards with eye drops. Ben has had conjuctavitas once or twice and boy you are lucky if any drop gets in. It's easier with two people and usually if you have something above his head so he is looking up to cause a distraction.. it sometimes works :pray:.
Well..Ben is a meat boy :clap:!! I just bit the bullett and stopped any kind of pureed food. I put a ****tail frank in front of him and he gorged it down..and the next one too..not so good on the veg and pasta, will keep trying.
Congratulations Taegan:dance: hope all is still going well..might be a silly question.. what is ttc? I am not quite used to the acronmyns just yet, even though I am a text queen (it took me a long time to work out what lol meant eventually a friend explained it to me:rolleyes:.
bye for now
Heather
Miss heather you will kick yourself when you see that TTC= trying to conceive;)
there are a list of frequently used abbreviations in the Forum guidelines under forum help, abbreviations & FAQ.
I am fairly new to BB and find myself stumped over some abbs.
HTH =Hope that helps:)
Read this ladies and then you'll be up with the lingo ;)
BellyBelly Forums ~ Pregnancy, Birth & Baby
Hi,
A blast from the past :p sorry i didn't realise how long it had been since i last posted:redface: anyhow nice to see some newies in here and i see a few of us oldies are still here which is great.
Mason is doing great, although he has to have grommets put in his ears, after recurring ear infections, saw the ENT and had a hearing test done, although his hearing seems to be pretty good he has fluid in them, so we're on the waiting list for that.
He's up and walking, has been for a couple of weeks, took him long enough especially seeing as he was crawling at 8 months ....... boys, he's just cut his 7th tooth which i think is very slow, he got his 1st at 9 months and had the 6 come thru quickly then nothing til last week. He's such a delight though and he loves being able to walk around and go outside with his older siblings.
I've been flat out with all the kids and their schooling and everything else, we have ds#2 seeing a psychologist as he has some learning probs so we're just getting to the end of all the testing she has to do and then see where we go from there.
Well i'm going to go and read the rest of the thread and see what you've all been up to.
Talk soon,
Hi Dawnb,
Your name is new to me so I must have slipped in while you were away. My DD#1 has had a lot of ear infections and has mild-moderate hearing lose, she is being watched at the moment to see whether grommets will be needed. How did Mason go with getting the grommets?
DD#1 was complaining of a sore ear last night and has woken up this morning with a tummy upset and a fever poor little mite.
I hope everyone are doing well, I have been trying to be a little more disciplined about how much time I spend on BB (yeah right he he) or at least making sure the house stays clean, not that it is that easy with a one year old pulling everything out of the cupboards.
Hi, sorry i don't know your real name hehehe :redface: he hasn't had them yet, if that's what you meant, he's on the waiting list to get them done, the ENT made him a category 2 so within 90 days i think. My last 3 kids have had to have them done too, ds#3 had glue ear really bad and had them done at 12 months and dd had them done at 12 months too, ds#2 had to have them done when he was 6. So must be a genetic thing for us.:
How did Mason go with getting the grommets?
Mason is driving me mad the last few days all he wants is to be picked up and my back is killing me from picking up 13kg all the time. I think it's teeth but i don't know if i'm starting a bad habit or what but he's so whingey :doh:
We went to a big park yesterday (seeing as it was a public holiday here in Melb) and he had his 1st real play since he's been walking and he had a ball. He loved climbing but the only thing is he needs to work out the getting down bit lol. We took a picnic and all the kids had a good time and we got ice cream, was a nice family afternoon.
Better get back to it, the house doesn't clean by itself :(
Hi dawnb, sorry for the confusion:redface: I should have reread your post before posting myself. Sounds like you had a really nice day at the park. We didn't do anything special as my DD was still not well so we stayed at home. Don't our babies grow up so fast! My DS is eight now and I don't know where the time has gone.
hay ladies, kavanna her dad and myself have had gastro this week it hasnt seem to end!! glad that we are getting threw it tho!! shes also getting number 13 tooth and me being 7wks preg hasnt helped @ all!!! the weather is werid 1 day its raining next its sunny & 26.... 2 days time & its the 1yr annaversary 4 kavannas christning... its gone so fast i didnt think that the 1st bday would come so fast now look christmas is only a few weeks away....!!!!
hope u al r ready for xmas happy shopping love taegan
Taegan, poor you! We had just had a bout of that 3 weeks ago.
Ben had a bad night on Friday night..he is usually such a great sleeper..he ended up in our bed thrashing about most of the night!
Took him to Dr's and he is on Antibiotics again for his ears and this time a chest infection as well :(. Also have to give him 4hrly Dimetapp on top of that. Drugs kicked in pretty quickly and he was back to his old self by bed time. May have to go down the grommit path as this is his second lot of Antibiotics for the same ear infection, the last time it went on for 6weeks, not sure just yet. We have private cover so at least I know if that's the case it will be done quickly. My niece has them, she saw specialist within two days of getting referal and had the grommits in within two days of seeing the specialist..so once the ball was rolling it was all over in the blink of an eye!
Take care all
Heather;)
Heather i hear ya on the ear infections, and i think Mason is now waking in the middle of the night cause of the fluid build up in his ears the poor lil man, wish they'd give me a date for his grommits.
Hi Dawn, My brother's little girl had to get grommits and she was on a waiting list too as they don't have private cover. They were told the list was three months long (they live in Rowville), they got a call not long after being told that and she was in by the Friday as they had a cancellation. Perhaps you could get into your Dr again and put a few tears on to see if he can get him in sooner, there must be a priority system as in the severeness of the ear problem.
Ben has take 2 steps so maybe by Christmas he will be a toddling toddler!
Take care
Heather
Hello Ladies can i join here?
Jacinta was born August 29 last year
I didn't evn know thius place exsisted till recently
and i joined here as i am 7 weeks preg with bub number 4
but i am pretty familiar with the baby stuff as i've just done that again - it is all the toddler stuff i have forgotten.
I am a SAHM with 2 kids at school and Jacinta at home. Also i am a cloth nappy addict
looking forward to catching up
Vicky
Hi Vicky welcome it's a bit quiet in here atm, we must all be busy running around after our toddlers hehehe i see by your sig you have a '98 and a '99 i have a '97 and a '99 ;) and an '03 and a '06 i also have a 16yo but that's it for us hehe.
Well i just found out that Mason won't be getting his ears done til after March *sigh* they shut over chrissy new year and there's a back log oh well nothing i can do about it.
He's so clingey atm and he didn't sleep real well last night and is playing with his ears hmmmmmm i think i need to get him checked just in case.
Well better get back to the cleaning, no-one else is gunna do it.
Have a good one ;)
Welcome Vicky :D Congrats on your pregnancy! Hope you're feeling alright ;)
You're not too far from me! My second home is Fountain Gate...And you're a cloth nappy girl too! Make sure you find your way over the the Cloth Nappy Chatter thread!
Dawn :hug: I hope Mason isn't getting too much grief from his ears.
I think that Caleb has decided that language isn't his thing. Wish he would talk soon.