Babies born December 2007 #17

[aussienic]

HA!! We never DTD Well maybe once a month ok maybe once a fortnight.. but still from what we were doing our whole relationship it is most annoying!!!

[Buzzie]

Ash just got up on all 4s!!!! wooooohooooo so proud

Lori where are u?? hope everythings ok...

[BekZ]

Hi Everyone,

We are almost in our house. There is only 2 rooms to that need to be painted and then the floors have to be cleaned. Boy it is hard getting anything done with Loren. She is definately a baby that does not like to be left to self occupy. I have worked out a system though. I have set up a play pen, a walker, the high chair and a rocker and I shuffle her from one activity to the next. In between I get some moving jobs done.

Loren is full crawling now. She is trying to pull herself up on furniture but unfortunately she has fallen twice, one fall has resulted in a little bruise on her head. I felt like such a bad mummy. She has 2 teeth too. This may explain why she was waking every hour during the night screaming and she wanted mummy all the time. Oh and she is doing teething poos...about 6 per day.

She is also clapping!!! Very cute.

Nic - I have been having heaps of pms and low libido problems lately. I had the same issue afer I had Sara. I have started taking Vitex and vitamin B to help sort my cycles out. I am hoping this helps. It better or else I might end up single!!!!!

Lauren - WTG Ash up on all 4's.

[aussienic]

Lori: check in girly!!!

Bek: *faint* crawling omg... but how cute lol...

Lauren: Woo to Ash.. Slow down babies!!

Well I finally worked out how to get Olivia to eat.. Little Miss fuss pot wishes to feed herself. Everytime I tak the spoon to her mouth she clamps shut and wiggles so I can't even get it near her. I handed her the spoon and she just puts it right in her mouth. Then i say pass the spoon to mummy and she does and then I show her the spoon with more food and she gets all excited.. She actually ate really well tonight.. She had a spoonful of veges and then about a tablespoon of banana

I am going to try 2 meals tmorrow so breaky and then dinner..

[BekZ]

Nic - Loren does the whole clamp the mouth shut and shake the head thing. I now give her a spoon with food on it and she sucks it. Meanwhile I also have a spoon and sneak in a few spoons when she opens her mouth.

[kitten2b]

Bek, that is what I do as well

[aussienic]

I can't even do that.. She is to smart for me She sees the spoon coming and clamps shut.. thats what i tried the other day..

little Rat woke up bout 40 mins ago.. she heard me telling Dh I was going to bed She is in bed now but not sure if she is going to sleep...

[Trish]

AGGGG God I'm an idiot. I just did a full post and lost the bloody thing.

Ok, I am saying HI to all.

Saying OMG to those that are testing !!

And WOOHOO to those bubs that are crawling or on their way !!

Thankfully it's not my baby.

BBL to post properly

[BekZ]

The things we do to get a spoonful of food into bubs mouth hey!!!!

Miss Loren decided that 5am was a great time to wake up. Then Sara was yelling out and crying from her bed. So I put Sara in bed with DH and tried to resettle Loren but she wanted to party. So we got up. At least I have steamed some apple for morning tea for her and got a load of washing on and did some internet banking all before 6.30am.

Loren is on the floor atm and she is crawling in her sleeping bag...woops she just spewed everywhere....

I can't wait to move out from my IL's place. Generally they are great but my FIL is constantly on my back about the kids. Every time I get the lower fat milk from the fridge to give to Sara he has to comment about it not being good enough for her. Then he has to make mention about Loren's cold hands or Sara may taken off her shoes and socks and her feet must be cold .Bl**dy Nora!! sorry for the whinge.

Have a good day everyone

[aussienic]

Thankfully it's not my baby.

My thoughts exactly. Not sure if I could cope with a crawling baby right now

I can't wait to move out from my IL's place. Generally they are great but my FIL is constantly on my back about the kids. Every time I get the lower fat milk from the fridge to give to Sara he has to comment about it not being good enough for her. Then he has to make mention about Loren's cold hands or Sara may taken off her shoes and socks and her feet must be cold .Bl**dy Nora!! sorry for the whinge.

Have a good day everyone

I hated living with my Il's thankfully we didn't have any children when we did. heck we rushed into buying this house just to get out (stll love my smal house though its home) Kids hands are always cold.. and as for shoes mine only wear them when we go out lol.. your FIL would have a field day with me heheheh

I did not like Olivia last night.. I left her to cry for 10 minutes as I wanted to throttle her.. She woke at 9:50 which is fine but it was 12:30 before she finally went back to sleep. I was exhausted, my head was swaying.. Thankfully she slept till 7:30 this morning so I still got some great sleep.. but last night GGRRR and of course this mrning she is being just beautiful lol..

ps Isaac seems ok this morning.. no dizzies yet

[Liz]

Bek - Tallon's hands and feet are always freezing. He just does not keep socks or his uggboots on for long. He actually followed me out to the clothesline the other day without shoes on (he's normally pretty good when going outside to put his gumboots or something on) and he complained of sore feet LOL. They must have been so cold they were aching. i know the feeling coz i threw on my summer sandals one night to go down to mums to collect her mail and bring her bin in (she's on holidays atm) and my feet ached for about an hour afterwards.

Kayla is sooo on the verge of crawling, but she's just not getting there. I seem to remember saying this about Tallon too LOL. Perhaps I just need to find the right incentive for her. Tallon's was a laptop on the floor - he crawled towards that. I wonder what little missy would go for.

Well, sleep was a little better last night. I think I got a 4hr stretch in there somewhere. I gave her one solids meal yesterday afternoon. I'm still not sure it's the solids.. i think it's probably more the age than anything.

OK.. must go.. Tallon wants me to read a book.. and I'm starving. Talk later!

[aussienic]

LoriRae: Where are YOU????

[Lolli]

Oops sorry to keep you all in suspense ladies....
I am, according to the test, NOT pregnant *dances and whoops woohoo!!!* But Ty didn't come up on the test for a few weeks and still no AF so I'm not getting too excited.... pray for me
I have had a seriously bad day (hence no post until now). Ty has done nothing but scream. Was awke crying every half hour last night. Would not go to sleep during the day. It's become a bad problem- only sleeps during the day after half an hour of screaming, then whimpers himself to sleep like I'm hurting him. It's breaking my heart I ended up at thr clinic today bawling my eyes out. The CHN- one i haven't seen before- has referred me to Trisiliian and 'demonstrated' today the settling method we will have to use. She popped him in his pram and tried to pat him to sleep. He screamed uncontrollably for a agood five minutes. I cried. She told me not to pick him up. I didn't. Then she ushered me out of her office into a busy shopping centre, telling me to just walk him until he went to sleep and don't pick him up. I couldn't get out of there fast enough. I picked up my sobbing, shaking baby boy and stood there and cried my eyes out. I'm so angry at her. Ty was hysterical. I'm angry at myelf too. I should have put a stop to it when he started to get into a state. I shouldn't have gone there in the first place. i know all the settling methods they use and I've tried them all. They don't work for Ty. And leaving him to cry like that was just cruel. So now I have a stressed, overtired baby, I'm still losing my mind and I'm expecting a call from Trisillian in a few days and I'm going to have to explain that I don't really want to go there.
I feel better now. Sorry for the anti climax pregnant news- I'll keep you updated on AF. If I found out I was pregnant today I might just throw myself off a cliff. Too exhausted to do personals. Going to have a good cry and come back later

[Buzzie]

oh Lori what a horrible day for you! I would say that good new on the BFN but i guess youll keep us posted if it changes.
Hope you get a better night tonight ...

[aussienic]

What a horrible experience.. I hope Ty settles down for you.. May I make a suggestion. just lay down with him during the day. Get on top of the sleep issue by getting him to catch up on some sleep and you too and then work on the settling issues.. I have found with my kids they get harder and harder to settle the more tired they are.. (steps down on the ideas now )

Congrats on the BFN lol.. fingers crossed it stays that way (if thats what you want)

Hey Lauren.. Loving the new pic of Asher..

I have had a pretty tiring day.. Olivia whiny on and off.. Isaac sick with headaches. They hit him hard today Jacob annoying the heck out of me, he isn't feeling well but won't sit still. Ethan was great.. He went out riding with his mates.. and they all came here aagghh. 4 extra kids today lol..

Well I got 2 down 2 to go

[Tinsel]

LoriRae I hope you get a good night sleep and everything is better tomorrow.

OMG, I feel like I have a newborn again! Monique has been waking up every night for about 4 weeks now and I am a tired mummy. Usually she wakes 3 times and has a feed at least one of those times and a nappy change. Very rarely I am up only once for a feed. This is a shock to the system after having her sleep through from 6 weeks old. Oh well, I knew it couldn't last but when will she sleep through again?

We started solids a couple of weeks ago and she is getting into it now. She is still not sure about carrot, not even with apple in it. I have a poo question. Monique has really thick, sticky poos and has made her bottom quite red (she has never had a rash before). Are they supposed to be quite thick? We were getting worried because she took days and days to poo after she started solids.

[aussienic]

Olivias poos are the same.. I think solids have something to do with it.. and same with the rash.. she gets a red bum but I am not sure if it is from the constant wiping or the poop...

[Lolli]

Hi all,
Ok. Had a cry and a mars bar and a cup of tea and Ty is finally asleep so feeling better now. I was, despite my whinging, a little bit dissapointed when I got the BFN- but today has reminded me why I really don't want another baby just yet!
Nic- Hope the other 2 go down easily. And I hope Issac and Jacob both feel better soon.I do lay down with Ty during the day and we co sleep at night. Up till now tha's worked really well. He fed heaps at night but I could handle that. But now he just screams when we try and put him to sleep during the day no matter what I do- pat him, hold him, rock him, feed him. So we get him back up (before he gets hysterical, beacuse he won't even cry himself off- just get to the point where he's sobbing so hard he coughs and hiccups). And he wakes up crying at night- doesn't want a feed or his dummy or a cuddle... just wants to cry don't know what's wrong with him. We're off to see the GP tomorrow and get him checked out.
I'm going to bed early and curling up with a good book (and probably Ty within the next hour or so).
Night all
ETA- Tinsel, Ty's poos are like that too (isn't it fun being a mum and getting to discuss all this glamarous stuff?)