Babies Born August 2007 #6

[Turkish Delight]

Hi All,

Thanks for all the well wishes. We are not overly elated or excited as it was really very unplanned, too early or even to have #3. I had even made an appt at my gynae for end of July to get my tubes tied! Need to cancel that appt! I must admit that i did want a #3 but hubby was being a bit selfish.

I'm not sure of my due date as i only got 1 AF since giving birth to Ela but i think probably mid to end Jan '09. Need to book an appt with the u/s ppl to determine due date. I will let you all know once i find out.

poor Molly and I, up so many times a night! Molly, is your little Ella a chubba? My Ela is. Have you tried giving her a big feed before her night sleep? Sometimes it works for Ela. I giver her 1 weetbix with milk and fruit puree to keep her tummy full. May be try that??

Take care all

[Campari]

Hey All!

Congratulations Sehra!! I'm sure once the shock wears off you will become really excited and #3 will be a lovely gurgly little newborn, how could you resist!!
I'll join you and Molly with the night wakings - Milla is still feeding twice a night - or three times if you include a 5am wakeup. Most nights its 11, 3 and 5. I might try the weetbix idea, although she does have a pretty big dinner at 5:30, with meat/veg then fruit and yoghurt. I'm sure she's not starving, just wants BBs and some loves!

Ali - thats exciting about your move. If you come to Brisbane you might live near us, as we are quite close to the Army base at Enoggera, and there is a lot of Defence housing around here. A girl in my mum's group is part of the Army Base mums too - they have a pool and stuff they can go to, and special playgroups for all the army kids. You'll find some new mates pretty quickly. Good luck with the challenge.

Milla just has the 4 teeth still, but I can nearly see the next top one so that is our next one. She is walking along the furniture, but not when we hold her hands. She just isn't happy unless shes standing up. She stands on everything - even leaning on the wall now. She says mamamam, dadadad and bububub. She's 8.1kg, 70cm. She never ever stops moving. I battle with her to change her nappy too, usually give her a new "toy" each nappy change (bottle of baby stuff, packet of wipes, shoe, panadol syringe.. whatever i can get my hands on that is within reach of the change table! She wont take a real toy at all!) At least she is back to just 2 or 3 poos a day now, it was either paw paw giving her a bad tummy, or she may have had a mild viral thing. It lasted a week, and yeah, we were ploughing through nappies. Hope everyone's seen Huggies on special at Coles ATM, 2 boxes for $60.

Better go. She is awake, and I am starving!!!

[Campari]

Hey all!
Good luck with the FET Kim!!!

Not a lot to report from here either... Milla had a crazy weekend totally out of routine cause we went out to a friends for dinner on Saturday and she just didn't want to sleep in the portacot. So, she entertained everyone til 9:30pm (usual bedtime is 7). Then Sunday morning I had to wake her up at 6am to go to the airport to pick up my sister. The she was too excited and only had one day sleep... Hopefully today we will get back to some normal sleeps since its totally pi$$ing down with rain and I'm not leaving the house for anything!

Still having to feed her once or twice in the night (usually twice....), but she hasn't been too cranky, and I don't think there are any teeth on the way for a while. Her top two teeth are so cute, but she just doesn't look like a baby anymore

Bye !

[Turkish Delight]

Hi All,

Had my ultrasound done on Tuesday and they could find the sac but no embryo at this stage. The sac measures at 5w3days which the sonoghrapher said that it was a bit early to see bubs and to wait another 2 weeks before repeating the scan. I will go and get it done next week which should get me to about 7.5w. I am still shocked and constantly thinking about how i am going to look after this baby with Ela still waking at least twice at night. I get really tired by the end of day and rest during the day is impossible with Ela and work too.

Kim, Ela has been having shorter naps during the day too. She used to sleep 3 times a day and has dropped back to about twice a day and usually 1 hour at each sleep. I guess they are getting bigger and want to explore.

Ela is now standing on her own and claps when she is standing but just won't take that step which we are all waiting for!

Birthdays for all of us soon! August is coming round really quickly.

Re: the nappies at Coles. I was tempted to buy newborn nappies at that price but i had to persuade myself out of it!!

Take care..

[Turkish Delight]

Hi All,

just a quick update on the pregnancy. Had an ob appt today where he did a scan but still couldn't see anything and was unusual at 6.5-7w preg. He said something was wrong and told me that i had a 99% chance that i miscarried. No bubs. I have been booked in for a D&C as well as getting my tubes tied tomorrow afternoon. I cried at the clinic but am now able to think logically as i was told that miscarriages before 12w is due to a serious deformation with the embryo. I am lucky that i never got to see bubs on both scans which i had as the grieving process would have been harder i think. Also, i'm glad that it terminated at such an early stage as losing it later on would have been harder and i don't think i could have looked after a disabled child. Those that look after disabled children are one of God's Angel. I am still very emotional as i was really attached and i had even named it little Zara. Never experiencing a miscarriage before it is really tough to deal with.

That's it for now. See you guys soon and take care!

[Mollygirl]

I'm so sorry to hear what you are going through TD, my thoughts are with you. I'm sorry I don't know what to say other than, be kind to yourself and look after yourself. I know it is hard when you are getting up through the night, Eleanor is still waking up 2-3 times a night and I don't get to rest during the day which makes me more emotional anyway.

Sending you big hugs and

[Mollygirl]

Since Ella is still asleep I thought I would post a bit more.

Kim - goodluck with FET next week - fingers crossed.

Campari - don't you love those hectic days but it's also fun too. Just takes a little bit to get back to routine.

I can't believe their first birthday is just around the corner - Ella was 10mths old yesterday. My last baby won't be a baby much longer.

I just hope she survives her brother falling on her and pulling her up. He is 20kg so quite a weight and this morning he rolled off the lounge onto her. I wish i could tell if she had a headache.

Myles has had his first antibiotics in 3.5 years last week - for an anal fissure that got infected would you believe! He eats too much cheese and doesn't drink enough water/juice so he gets a bit constipated. I think he is a hearty boy and I like to think the breastfeeding to 10mths gave him a good start.

Wonder when Ella will wean? She doesn't like formula in a cup, so I have started her on cows milk. She seems to really love bf - but then so did Myles and he just stopped one day so she could too, although Myles was drinking formula from a cup at that age.

Take care everyone - especially Sehra.