Babies Born December 2010

Thanks Kaylee i will keep an eye on it. It is not heavy just hanging around, I have always been a tampon girl so i am getting over pads!!!

Babyluv i hope that wasn't a fluke and S settles to that sound more often!

Bex stop liking all these websites!!! I am going to go broke (DH will anyway lol)!!!

Ava had such a bad night! She woke nearly every hr!!! She had kicked her way out of her wrap and then a sheet and a blanket! It is quite cool so i think she kept waking cause she was freezing! Man i am feeling it today! She has her first photo shoot today so i really hope she is a good girl, this morning has not been a good start but she is asleep now so hopefully she will wake and be nice for the lady!!! Has anyone tried Gripe water? Does it do anything?

Renee: I found gripe water did nothing and the Weleda baby colic powder works first time everytime! It's AMAZING! But others here said Gripe water is great, I think Little Mrs has had lots of success with it. I have had return of the red blood, not heavy or even like a period, but just red and a lot more than there was, I was down to liners and getting hardly anything on them, and now back to revolting pads, just the regular ones. I too hate pads!! Good luck with your photo shoot.

Babyluv: When Ivy screams it is always wind - but she doesn't have reflux. If I am really super duper diligent and burp her properly after each feed (and also after each side) she is pretty good and calm at night and if I don't, boy do I pay for it at the end of the day. Then the build up of wind - like you said Sienna is doing - ends up coming out as super farts! Ivy is a farting champion. I have no idea if it's something you eat making her farty, it's just so hard to tell. The waves crashing sounds great I really hope that works for you. Friends of mine used to play white noise to their daughter and as soon as you turned it on she used to lay down and zonk out, it was so cool!! And you can easily do 10kgs in 10 weeks, I have faith in you, you won't be the fat bridesmaid :D

Kaylee: Boys are so much harder to dress, there aren't lots of boys clothes in the same way there are for girls, but there are some really really cool websites that have great clothes for boys. There is one called Boy Germs that recommends lots of toys and accessories and clothes for boys. After a 9 hour sleep Ivy will feed every 2 hours for the first 3 feeds then back to normal...usually, although it's been a week or so since we've had a 9 hour sleep. I knew she'd be lulling me into a false sense of security :) There are Kinders a lot closer than 40 minutes away, but we are sending DS to a Steiner kinder (and steiner school later on too) and that is the one we managed to get him into, there is a closer one in St Kilda but very hard to get into and I didn't get Q's name on the list early enough. The drive is fine as long as Ivy keeps being so good in the car FINGERS CROSSED! Have you got any photos from Karen yet? I'm eager to hear how they turned out :)

New Dawn: :hug: these babies must all be talking to each other and having belly pains at the same time, either that or it's a stage they go through at this age....Hmmmm....could be it.

Bexie: you are ruffle obsessed!! But I have to admit they are super cute, ruffly bums are great!!


Caixin: yep with the bath you say the same thing just before you do it everytime eg "Ivy, Ready, Go" and pour a small cup of water over their heads. Ivy was a bit confused by it at first but now she loves it. they have to be sitting up so it runs down their face and can't get in their nose or mouth. Did you get the dvd in the bounty bag? They show you how to do it on that. Yay for the sleeping that Claire is doing, what a champ!!

AFM: Only 2 wake ups last night, I just fed her in bed again...sooo lazy. Today Ivy has been doing some MUCH better sleeping and MUCH better burping, so I have managed to clean up the lounge/living area, including sweeping all the floors and put all of DS's toys away. The kitchen is clean and have done 2 loads of washing!!!!!!!!!! yesterday I did nothing because Ivy was so upset and I just couldn't get the wind out of her no matter how much I patted and bounced her, we ended up giving her the colic powder last night and it worked straight away again, I love that stuff!!!!!

Babyluv: Maybe it's indeed just a lot of wind building up by the sounds of it? I've found that sometimes C needs to be burped more than once. I've got roughly the same amount of weight to lose too so let's work hard together! I'm hoping the waves crashing does it for you each time. Oohh internet shopping... so addictive!

Mrs Bexie: LOL on the ruffle addiction! Girls are certainly so much fun dressing up :) Yay on having ur SIL here. It's nice to have someone to talk to at home besides a baby isn't it? Claire's certainly heaps bigger now, she gets weighed tmr so we'll see.

New Dawn: How did PK's weighing go? Has he grown much more? LOL to winter woolie at 27?! I'm so the opposite, I love cold melbourne weather, can't wait for winter to arrive. I'm a little sad that if we move back to Singapore than we won't have winters anymore.

KayleeF: Hope L slept through giving ur boobs a break. LOL to him liking the italian lullaby! I find lying down to BF really good when I'm tired but C doesn't seem to get a full feed that way and just falls off to sleep so she's up very soon again for another feed. So I only reserve it for when I'm too tired to even get up.

Renee: I haven't tried gripe water but we've got one of those grobags that we use when it gets cold and so don't get the kick off blanket problems. They are such great kickers aren't they?

Kirsten: I've gotta try the water conditioning thing. Not sure what Claire will think of it. I did get the DVD, it's lying somewhere under the pile, gotta go dig it out. What a champ you are doing all that housework! I'm so lazy and tired that I just fall asleep when she sleeps. :P

Went for my OB review today and he said that the stitches were healing very well. Had to have a PAP smear done which was really uncomfortable ( almost forgot how much I hate this stuff) and we talked about contraception etc. What's everyone using for contraception? Think we'll be waiting at least 12 months before we try for our next one so body gets to recover and also so we can really enjoy Claire first.
C was so good in the car there but screamed the moment we reached the clinic and screamed all the way through my appointment and blood test. Boy it was hard to concentrate on a conversation with her screaming! I had to put her down in her pram while I had my smear done and she screamed till she was all red and sweaty. Poor thing. Then she was good again in the car on the way back. What a little stinker!

Thanks Kirsten. I don't know if she has wind pain or not. She seems to be really upset after some feeds but not others. Never at night only during the day.

Well photo shoot went well. Ava was pretty good. She had a few moments of screaming but the lady was great and ended up being here for 3 hrs. Some of the shots she showed us are just beautiful!!!

Woah so much to catch up on, can every one forgive me if I do topics instead of persies this time, sorry!!!

The gripe water worked really well for us the first time, had to use it again last night and didn't do the trick tho. Does seem all our bubs are getting bad tummies lately, maybe it's our milk changing around now or something.

The ruffles are way too cute!!! I can't look at the links you girls post, I would go broke!!! Looking forward to lots of pics of your girls in them tho!!

On the weight loss, you girls are doing better than me, i still weigh 76 so another 15 for me to drop! It's just not moving, I'm doing 100reps of 10kg weights and 50 situps a day, and BF but it's not wanting to come off!!

I've got it easy with the water thing, G loves the pool and the bath. We have bath time every day around early arvo.

G had a screamer evening last night, poor thing it sounded so painful it lasted from around 5pm til 9pm, but then she fell asleep on me (I wrapped her up and sat in a cold room with her ear up against my heartbeat) and then she slept from 9:30 til 1:30, the from 2 til 5 all in her own bed in her own room! Yay!

Bex and shelly how are you ordering those ruffles? Do you just email her? How do you know what you can pick from? Sorry it is prob really obvious.

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Bex and shelly how are you ordering those ruffles? Do you just email her? How do you know what you can pick from? Sorry it is prob really obvious.

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Hey sweets, just go through her albums and find what you like and email her or she will do a custom one if you want something different. She's listing some stuff on madeit dot com dot au on friday as well! Can't wait to see Ava in ruffles!

Well I have been influenced hehe :) I bought a pair of ruffles yesterday!

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Well I have been influenced hehe :) I bought a pair of ruffles yesterday!

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Oooh which ones?

Mwahahaha... I am succeeding at having ruffles take over the world!! LOL.
Yeah Renee: Just look at the photos, pick the one you want and either comment on it or email them.

I have bought 3 so far,
From Itty Bitty Butts: Patchwork princess in 000 and Pink Polkadot Days in 0
From Lil Miss Rosie: Watermelon Sorbet bloomer set with white sniglet and a headband

I have my eye on the set that Shelly got from lil miss rosie, a 4 ruffle pair from Little Lou Lou (but they don't go on sale until 22nd and I think she is only making one pair in each size). Frilly tushies have some lovely ones too.

Charlotte had such a bad evening yesterday! I had to give her zantac and then use the Brauer colic relief liquid later because she was screaming!! I had almost a whole bag of caramel popcorn and heaps of glucogel jelly beans and both of them have huve amounts of glucose in them! Glucose is from wheat... so I don't know if it was that cause she was perfect until atfter the movie and that would have been after the jelly beans and popcorn! I really hope it wasn't.

How is everyone else?

Hahaha Bex you truly are an addict!!

Xani has these:
From Georgie Girl: Peppy Patchwork in 00
From Georgie Girl & Muddy Ruffles: Cherry Carnivale Set in 00
From Sofiboo: Meadow Hoot Duo in 1
From Luv Child: Antique vintage bloomer & singlet in 000
From Lil Miss Rosie: Pinkalicious set in 00
From And the little dog laughed: Frilly bloomers in Tea rose in 0-6months

And I want more!!! Obsessed much?????

wow!! That's a good collection! And 2 georgie girl's!!
When Xani is out of them, I should buy them... all of them! hahahaha. I want waay more. And maybe when baby bonus comes in I will buy more sneakily.

My lil miss rosie ones just arrived and I love them!!!!!!

Aaaahhhhh... Must escape ruffle talk... Must not give in to temptation... Lol

I do have one rufflebum thing that friends gave us, tho the brand is hard to read! Will post pics on FB, maybe someone will know what it is... Other than too darn cute of course!

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Aaaahhhhh... Must escape ruffle talk... Must not give in to temptation... Lol

I do have one rufflebum thing that friends gave us, tho the brand is hard to read! Will post pics on FB, maybe someone will know what it is... Other than too darn cute of course!

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I've seen them and omg they are cute!!!!!!!

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Aaaahhhhh... Must escape ruffle talk... Must not give in to temptation... Lol

I do have one rufflebum thing that friends gave us, tho the brand is hard to read! Will post pics on FB, maybe someone will know what it is... Other than too darn cute of course!

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Go on, Do it! Every lil princess needs a ruffle collection :lol:

Adore the ones you have. Very very cute on G's lil tushie.

My child has sleep, grump and fart issues today!

OOh just quickly, I am excited because we found out today that DH is FINALLY getting his trade bonus that was meant to be $500 every 6 months for 2 years ($2000 total). We only had received one payment when we first moved to Wagga back in jan 2009.
So anyways, he called me today while he was at work asking for our bank details and when I asked why he said he was getting his trade bonus. We are getting $1000!! WOOHOO! It's going straight to my 100,000kms service and rego transfer to QLD but we were goping to have to put that on the credit card so I am happy!!

Finally the govt got their act together, it's meant to be an allowance to help trainees and apprentices buy tools n stuff while they are training so they really should have been paying it on time but they are slack.

yay bexie to the money!
i am in the ****s apparently for the paid parental leave you need proof of birth, medicare and birth deaths and marriages have done absolutly nothing!!! i sent in the forms 4 weeks ago!
so now i am going to have to go there in person and get it sorted!

Liam and I had the runs last night very horrible must have been the steak and onion pie i had yesterday!

Ruffles ruffles ruffles i want one for liam haha!!!

i made pumpkin soup for dinner i better fubush it be back later!

Hmm we havnt got georgia's birth certificate yet either, we posted it off 5 weeks ago...