Babies born December 2007 #14

[Trish]

Carrie, sorry to hear that you've had a sick household too. Seems we're all catching sickness of one kind or another. I fixed that link up, but will put it here for you so you don't have to go looking for it Why our children shoud face rearward

Abbey is so hard to feed too, I swear I nearly need to put blinkers on her. It's so hard with other little kids around. She wants to sticky beak all the time.

Nic, sounds like you all had a great weekend away. Sorry to hear that your getting sicker. Be sure to see the Dr hun, you know how fast asthma can turn on you. Good to hear that the boys are getting better for you though.

LoriRae, isn't it funny how having kids opens up a whole new world of people to you. Hope you have a good day at work.

Michelle, huni. I so wish I was near you to give you a hand and make you a cuppa. Yummo on all that spew. Sounds like great fun, not ! Sounds like she is definatley coming down with something. Babies don't jsut spew like that for no reason. Perhaps you should take both of you to the Dr's today, you need a long chat and while there's prob nothing to be done for Mirani other than plenty of fluids it's still good to get her checked out. Another hug for good measure.

Jus, if I join your mothers group there will be 2 of us whose babies don't sleep through. I miss my 6 week old baby who would sleep through nearly every night. Since this sickness and teeth have hit we've been having shocking nights. I was up atleast 5 tims last night

Morgan, thanks for asking after Abbey. She is doing much better, but still has a bit to go before she is clear. Her chest is still rattling and she still coughs or spews up green, but atleast she's getting it up. She sounds like an old smoker in the morning hacking up her lungs. I can hear her awake in bed atm laughing and talking, and coughing. Poor bub.
How is Alex doing ? I hope he is feeling better. Good to hear that the gastro has left your house too.

Lauren, happy 5 months to Asher. Hope he is doing well.

Alicia, woohoo on the tooth. Looks like our little girls are the toothy bubs. I love Abbey's new smile, it's like she smiles just to show off her teeth, too cute.

Hi to everyone else, hope you and your bubbies are all going well.

Happy 6 Months to Abbey
Can't believe she is 6 months old already.

Had Abbey back at the Dr's on Friday for a check up, her lungs are getting clearer so thats a good thing. Dr told me that if I feel she is getting worse to give her the redipred so her lungs aren't further damaged. Trying to ward off it doing permanent damage for her

Took the kids out to the pub yesterrday. LOL. Sounds nice hey, they had a hot rod show on there. Noah was in love. Must say there were some gorgeous cars there. Took some pics of them for the boys. Tehya doesn't mind them either.
Best go, Abbey has been awake in bed now for about 20 minutes. I figure she is happy enough so I'm not rushing to get her up. Bet she's been in there doing a poo.

Oh, gave Abbey a try of some rice cereal last night. The Bellamys organic one, put a little boiled water in it and some apples and she loved it. She cried when I wasn't fast enough at getting the spoon into her mouth. Little pig.

Any yes, I was bored

[M D]

Hey Girls! I hope evrone's night was ok. Poor Trish my little one has been sick for about three weeks too and although she is gettinng better she hd gone from great sleeper to a terrible one.

Fingers crossed all the Bubs get real better real soon.

Trish: I too use the Bellamys organis rice cereal along with their formula also. I love the idea that I am putting the least ammpunt of crap into my babies system. There is plenty of time for them to do that to themselves later. I have also found a organic delivery service for my fruit and vege which is great as the likes of Coles and Woolies have limited variety of organic fruit and Vege.

I'd like to hear from anyone else who is using organic or just has thoughts on it. Is it a waste of money? Is there any real difference? Iw ould like to think so.

Off to the shops today to buya sippy cup, wish me luck last week I looked and there were so many it got too hard and I didn't buy any.

Have a good day !!

[Carrie]

Trish- I'm glad to hear that Abbey's chest is clearing, hopefully there will be not lasting effects though. Is this a one off thing or is she prone to chest problems? How cute with her rice cereal, sounds like there will be no turning back now

kts64s- Goodluck buying the sippy cup, ikwym, I hate too much choice. I stand for ages at the shops trying to decide what toothbrush to buy, i hate it! I don't know a lot about organic food, but at the BB center opening yesterday I got a little show bag with an advert for Belmore Biodynamic Meats, an online organic meat shop. If you want a look just type in organicmeatsupply with a dot com dot au

I haven't given Gabe anything bit BM yet, should I be giving him water in a sippy cup?

ETA:
Liz- Woohoo on your good sleep! I find that when I actually get a good sleep, then the next day I'm more tired...probably because my body has finally got to relax ikwym with Dh being home, I feel like I get nothing done!

Janine- Sorry you have been sick, but glad for you that Jake didn't catch it. Go Jake with his custard - always a favorite I found! I hope that he sorts himself out a bit for you over the next few weeks before you go back to work.

[alicia]

Hi everyone,

Well Nic you were right about the second tooth coming through quickly. It is up this morning so now my little girl has 2 teeth on the bottom in the middle. She is growing up way to quickly for my liking!

Melbourne Meet Up - Lauren and I were discussing having another Melb girls meet up sometime soon. Maybe at the Aquarium? So Haroula, Rory, Carrie and any other Melb/Vic girls let me know if you are interested and we will organsise a day.

[Carrie]

Hi Alicia, wow, all these toothie pegs!!! Wonder when Gabes will come - no sign yet...
A meet up would be great! The other place I know of that might be kind of central is Billy Lids in Hawthorne - a play centre.

[Nikki87]

Hi All!

Summer is goozying all over the keyboard as i type. Nice. haha. Summer hasn't any toothy pegs either yet. Luckily, cause all she seems to like doing is chomping on her fingers! She now sleeps from 9pm to about 6am, feeds then back to sleep till 10am. I'm lucky i got a good sleeper cause i really need some beauty sleep haha

Summer is going on her first holiday in July - DH and i are taking her to Bali for a week. Just to lay by the pool and do a bit of shopping. Will be interesting to see how she goes on the aeroplane!

My goodness, since i have started her on solids (she is now having a baby bowl full of rice cereal and butternut pumpkin a night) she has put on about 800g in 4 weeks. She is now almost 7kg and is in size 0 cause she is wayyyyy to long and her feet dont fit in any of the sleepsuits haha REALLY FAT LEGS TOO haha

Anyone else's bub almost sitting up? Summer sits up and plays with a toy then when she really gets excited she will lose concerntration and tumble back.

Hope everyone is doing well and any sick bubbas and mummas are getting better!!!!

[Buzzie]

hey nikki - lucky you on holidays again.. it wasnt that long i remember u saying should i go whilst im pregnant lol
ash isnt sitting up yet but....................he got on his knees on sat night YAY! mummy was sooo proud!

[Liz]

Any yes, I was bored

LMAO Trish. Get some sleep woman!

Well, I DID get some sleep last night, and don't know myself this morning! Kayla slept from.. (not sure when) around 9-ish probably, until 2.30, and then I woke up to her talking to herself at about 7.30! woo! Tallon clambered into our bed about 5am, but we all went straight back to sleep, so I won't count that

It made a lovely change from all those teething nights. Oh, can't remember if I said it here, but Kayla has actually cut two teeth at the bottom, not one. Which is a good thing! Just waiting for them to come up now.. but geez they're sharp - and she chomps down on me sometimes - ouchies!

DH is home on holidays this week.. so I can expect my whole routine (not that I have one... but still) to be thrown out every day. I should be happy to have him home I know, but he gets in the way of how I do things through the day LOL.

Ciao everyone!

[Jaycee]

Hi girls, sorry I’ve been MIA the last week but I got the bug too, like a flu but throwing up too, wasn’t nice but I’m on the mend and so far Jake hasn’t caught it, touch wood!!

Lori – Thanks for the advice, my husband says that too, if he’s hungry enough he’ll eat, I just stress a bit too much I think!!

We gave Jake some custard for the first time yesterday and the little bugga ate the whole tin!! (that’s probably not a good thing but we just couldn’t get it away from him!) he’d cry if we didn’t shovel it in fast enough!! Was really cute and I feel a little better as so far that’s the only thing he’s eaten, he absolutely hates farex!

Jas – bf definitely helps with immune system I think, Jake has been around so many viruses and so far has not caught one!!

Aussienic – Jake hates the cereal too so I don’t give it to him! He’s also a hungry little bugga and is feeding every 2-3 hours, that’s why we introduced a bit of solids. We probably did the wrong thing by offering custard before any type of vegetable, but to be honest I’m just glad he’s eating something, it’s now only 4 ? weeks til I have to go back to work and he’s still not taking a bottle or cup. Just do what you think is right!! Where are you going for your first trip in your camper trailer? I’m jealous, one day we’ll have one lol!!

Alicia – congrats to Olivia on cutting her first tooth, we’re still waiting for Jake to cut his. He’s got really rosy cheeks, hot and lumpy gums but can’t see any white bits yet!

Morgan – glad to hear you’re all on the mend

Jus – glad to hear I’m not the only one with the bottle/cup problems! We’ll get there eventually!!

Michelle – I hear ya on the mental thing and I only have Jake!! Sometimes its like all I want to do is sit on the couch and have just 20 minutes to myself, but it doesn’t often happen and Jake’s been a monster lately, although the last 2 days he’s been much happier. I just feel like I’m a mum and a wife but I’m not me anymore IYKWIM? Anyway that’s my little rant for the day and I feel a little better!

Trish – that’s great to hear that abbey’s lungs are clearing up!!

Kts – how did you go about finding the organic delivery service? I’d be interested to know the cost involved as well, sounds great!!

Liz – yay on getting some sleep, it really does change your whole outlook on life when you’re not walking around like a zombie!!

Well, that’s enough from me for now, sorry if I missed anyone, there was so much to catch up on!!

Catchya all soon
xxx