Babies born August 2007 #7

[Campari]

Urgghhhh, seems like we all have grumpy sad sick little bubbas at the moment

Milla has croup. Poor thing. It started just as a very little cold with nothing but a bit of snot, and just suddenly yesterday she got a hacking cough, and she's lost her voice. Took her to the doctors late yesterday and she said its croup, so we have some meds to give her, and we are steaming up her room at night with a Vicks Vaporizer. She slept really well though, and I didn't need to give her boobs til 4:30 this morning, which is great! This is the first time she has been sick (other than one earlier cold), first time to the doctors for anything other than vaccines, and first meds. Breaks my heart.

Hope Ela and Jensen are better soon, and hope those teeth finally pop through for them, and Hayden too. Milla has one on the top that has been hovering just below the surface for a month too. Looks like two more bottom ones are not far away either.

Kim, hope you are feeling good! Have you had a scan yet? I'm so excited for you! Makes me clucky just thinking about newborns.

Take care everyone! x

[Turkish Delight]

Campari,

May be time for bub #2 then my dear!

Wishing Milla to get well soon. I've very frightened of croup as Devrim had many times as a bub and the dr. told me that the bacteria or virus which ever it is, can tighten the airways making breathing difficult. I remember that we could not sleep for the first nights scared to death if you couldn't breathe. The vaporiser should help.

Good luck..
Take care all.

[Turkish Delight]

Good morning ladies (well it's morning now)!

Ela is 11 months today! 1 month till her birthday. We are planning a birthday on the 30/08. This is because mum is having a hysterectomy tomorrow and will give her heaps of time to recover. She has been diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Luckily it hasn't spread outside the uterus. This also means that Ela will be starting child care in the next 1-2 weeks (DH is home on annual leave til then)
I am so afraid that they will treat her poorly at child care but i have no other option. It is going to be tough.

No canine's yet. They are happily sitting in the gums still.

Ela is now able to stand from a sitting position on her own without holding onto anything. She gets so excited when she does it, she claps and smiles. She just won't take that step though!
She hates socks. Does anybody else have this issue? She is not comfortable until those socks come off her little fat feet. She loves emptying out all the drawers and anything else she can empty out!

I have begun giving her cows milk during the day. I've got the Pura Kids milk with all those added extra vits and mins. She is taking to it quite nicely. She used to have a bit of cows milk everyday with her weetbix. What do you ladies feed bubs for breakfast? Ela has gotten a bit tired of weetbix. I ocassionally give her toast with some egg and cheese. She has only recently begun eating egg and seems to have no allergies.

Rhi- Jensen looks so cute in his photo! I have also entered Ela (Ela Safiye Cubuk). She is currently on page 4 on the newest babies section. Goodluck to both!

So cold and miserable outside..

Take care all.

[sconeonamission]

Finally!! A small chance to pop in here for updates!

Jensens nap time seems to be always cleaning up after him, or dh, the dishes etc. No rest for the wicked!

We are back on the teething path, this time I think canines, by the way he's been acting. It's like having a newborn again... Waking every 2hrs, 20-30 min calming him back to sleep, do it all again. Was good last night tho.

(pff don't know what happened there, it just posted with out me telling it to...)

Work appears to be sorted out now, fingers crossed! If all goes well, I return to work on the 14th of this month. I'll be working permanent part-time (so I have benefits and everything) 3 nights a week. 5pm to 10pm (or later depending if theres a run on). Decent hourly rate, although I must double check about penalty rates. I'm very happy with this out come, I was starting to stress about leaving him. Seems I would be the one with seperation issues. Jensen will be with my grandma (and my dad coz he lives there) from 430pm til when Andrew picks him up between 530-6pm, then its up to Andrew to feed, bathe, settle and get Jensen to sleep. Now I worry how thats going to go... I put a thread up on that, but only one person seemed to answer! I put Jensen to sleep the other night and he woke up an hour later. I sent Andrew in and Jensen just cried for 5mins, stopped instantly when I walked in. I picked him up, cradled him in my arms and he was asleep in what seemed like that minute! Cheeky monkey. This is going to be hard.

Rhi- Hope Milla is feeling better!

TD - Oh! Sorry to hear about your mum, hope everything goes well and shes up again soon. Just found Ela's entry in the competition - What a bright-eyed gorgeous girl you have there! Socks come off here too, I try and keep them on by putting shoes or sandals on over the top

No standing here! cirlces around my legs, cruises the furniture, pushes his walker around (and yesterday a stride/ride car thing). I think he could do it if he didn't think about it. Maybe he's just not that interested. He does get around quite fast crawling, and the stairs seem to be no hassle...

Kim and Rhi - will you be going to the Brisbane Meet up (Roma Street Parklands) next friday? We'll be there, if you wanted to meet up?

Hope everythings well with everyone else!
go maroons!

[Campari]

Hey everyone!

TD, so sorry to hear about your mum. I hope the hysterectomy is all she needs, and that she is Ok after that. My mum had to go through breast cancer with chemo and radiation several times over a few years, so I know the stress and worry you are probably all going through.

I'm sure Ela will be OK in child care. I think its us mums who have it harder. When I am at Mum's Group with Milla I think she has such a great time with the other babies and other mums that she wouldn't notice if I were to up and leave her... She really loves being around people, so in a way I think child care will be OK for her, if we ever get her in to one!!!! We are on 9 waiting lists, and have only had one possible lead with a FDC mum who lives locally, but isn't registered, so I have some thinking to do about that one. In the mean time, DH will take some flex, and my sister will look after her a few times.... I go back to work in August, 2 days a week, so soon now

Scone - glad you got your work sorted out, sounds like a good deal. I reckon it will be a bit tough on Andrew and Jensen the first few nights, but after that they will figure out what works for them.

Milla's croup is all gone. The predmix stuff worked really quickly to clear up the cough, and she just had a snotty cold for another few days. All great now though, and back to her mischievous self. She is waking up again at 2-ish, which is annoying as she was going through til 4 or so without a feed up til last week.

I reeeeeeaaaaalllly want to stop feeding at night. I still dont have AF back, and we were hoping to TTC #2 around December or so. I always cave in and feed her though, after DH has tried to settle her for half an hour and she is screaming in his arms... Blah. We both have to be more strict about the no-boobs thing, but when she is sick, it wasn't fair...

She's a toothy monster now too - got 4 on the bottom, and 3 on top. The 4th top one is visible but not through the gum yet. She gives us loads of kisses, but does try and nip us on the nose sometimes. Have to stop ourselves from laughing when she does that, as its pretty cute to start with. DH has a blood nose right now as she clawed him in the nose - even after I cut her fingernails today!!

Don't think I will go to the meet-up on Friday. I have mum's group, its my favourite social outing of the week... But another time I would love to catch up with you guys and meet Jensen too!

Better go... got to get her out of the bath (DH is in with her...but he can't get her out by himself, Grrrrrrrrrr!!!)

Mwah xxx

[Turkish Delight]

Hi Ladies,

I am soooo excited. Ela has been chosen "baby of the day" in the Mother and Baby Coverstar comp. You can check her out in the "winners gallery". She is the one with the green frog. I really hope she makes it into the 14 finalists

My mum had her op on Wednesday and she is recovering o.k. but says that it's really painful. I feel so bad that i can't help ease the pain. I helped her shower in hospital today, the scar is soooo long. I would say approx. 30cm from her belly button down.

Ela had her first day of orientation at cc on Friday. She was o.k, when i dropped her off but had tears running down her cheeks when i went to pick her up. She couldn't get to sleep so was over tired. DH came along with me to pick her up but Ela wanted to be comforted only by me which got me really emotional. I got her to sleep once we got home, but was sobbing in her sleep. She was really traumatised by the experience. Dad has offered to look after her but then mum won't be able to get any peace and quiet so we rejected his offer until mum gets a bit better.

Campari - i hear you loud and clear re: the night feeds. Ela wakes up every 3 hours on the dot for a feed. You can set your clock by it! I get angry at her but then talk myself into believing that she will stop waking up eventually or that she is already 11 months old and her wakings will stop soon. I am very lucky that DH and i share the night rosters. He wakes once to feed her and then i will wake the next time to feed her so we both get a long stretch of sleep during the night. But you bf is another story altogether!! You have to do all the night wakings.

I went to a BB mums meeting her in VIC on Friday. Made friends with one of the mums as she had an 8 y.o and i have a 6 y.o but most of the mums kept in small groups and didn't really mingle.

Scone - babies are very intelligent. They know everything! Have you considered leaving a nightgown or something in his cot with your smell on it?? Jensen may be a bit old for that but it's worth a try. Ela prefers me to anybody else too.

When they want to get somewhere those arms and legs can move soooo fast can't they?? Ela pushes the dining chairs around the dining room. We have floorboards and those felt squares under the chair legs so the chairs slide as she pushes them. She looks funny. Ela also loves sitting under things, like under the dining table or billiards table, she loves it.

Take care all..

[sconeonamission]

Hi!!

Rhi - Good to hear that Milla is better!! I hear you about stopping feeding at night. We're going through such a terrible "stage" (lets hope its a stage) atm. Jensen wakes at 10, 12, 2, 3 and 630. It's not such a bad thing - he goes back to "sleep" right away, but the moment he touches the mattress or moves away from me, he cries at the top of his lungs! It takes about 30-45mins to get him back to sleep. Nightmare child. This morning he was having bad dreams... thats worse. But I only have to feed once thru the night, the rest of the time he just wants a cuddle. He doesn't self settle, so its demanding.

TD - Congrats on Ela making baby of the day!! Fingers crossed that Jensen and Ela make it thru to be finalists!! We both make it, I'll meet you in Sydney!!
We've tried DH wearing my dressing gown, but he wasn't fooled. I have to go out tonight, so its a real test of skill !

Kim - I haven't started planning a party yet... We want a small family gathering with few friends, but both dh and I don't have small families!! And you can't invite one person and not the other coz they'd get narky... I asked dh about inviting mothers group and his answer was.. we'll it's his party and they are his friends.. grr The list will be huge.

We went to the toy sale yesterday (KMART) and put on layby a christmas pressent and bought a v early bday present. It's a trailer for our bikes that he sits in and gets towed along... He hated it with his helmet on, but didn't want to get out when we got home.

No walking yet, but he has a stride/ride thing that he can walk behind! For christmas (or his birthday) I wanted to get him a trike thing with canopy (from the Target Toy Sale), but was going to see if his grandparents wanted to go quarters in it.


Guess what!? I signed up to be a tupperware demonstrator!! Whoo hoo! I thought I could gain more confidence, not be a social recluse and prove to myself I can do it!


Hes finally awake after a crazy morning and I have a sick dh home today, better go! Have a great day!