Babies Born February 2007 #11

[Early Kids]

Goodmorning

Jayne, Hope Claudia is ok. Sounds like she is doing really well! 10.6kg, shes huge! lol. Brendan and I are both really well. Brendan is starting to eat more solids which is great... so i'm going to cut one milk meal out and replace it with more solids. *fingers crossed*

Tashie, Glad to hear things are looking up for your nephew.

Kristy, Brendan LOVES ice.

Well here an update on the dog food.... not only is he racing over to eat it (he just sucks on it, but still gross) but he is sharing... with the dog. Yesterday I caught him with a rusk offering it to the dog, the dog grabbed hold of it and then Brendan pulled it back and started chewing it again. Eeeew! I mean it's great that he's sharing, but with the dog?? PMSL!

We went out for tea last night, we just had a pub meal, but it was still going out! Brendan was very well behaved and I had my favourite... surf n turf! mmm mmmm.

Take care ladies

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Hi girlies!

Eugh, work. 3 weeks back and FINALLY computer access: I had to chase everything myself. So much for my line manager doing ANYTHING. Not best pleased.

Migraine: on co-codamol, an addictive opiate drug. Nice. I have no side-effects, Liebling has them all. He gets all excited and happy, but dizzy and woozy too after a feed. He also can't drive. I'm not taking them today because I feel a bit better, that and I don't like DS taking ages to go to sleep at night. May take some before playgroup and before bed actually. But just 4, not the usual 8. Eye test on Friday to see if it's my eyesight.

Now I know why we don't have pets... sharing with the dog? Mmmm. So pleased that DS can't do that!

Stats on DS:
Weight: about 20lb - that's just under 9kg
Height: around 76cm, maybe 77cm
Words: other than Liebling-language, he has Mumma, Dadda, Ja, No, Hey, Bye, Hug and Duck. He has also said (in context) gorgeous, hot, hiding, dog, love you, thank you. But he doesn't say those enough for me to say they're his words. He has a Liebling word for drink (ningy), end of bath (owap), time to leave the house (oo-yup) and a few other things, but those are the ones I can recognise easily!
Walking: Yup. He can walk confidently around the sitting room, navigating boxes and tables with ease. His only problem is the small step from the sitting room to the hall; he's a bit wobbley on that. He can go up it, but not down it. It's only about an inch high.
Teeth: at one year, 7 incisors. Right now he has 7 incisors, his top two first molars are halfway out, his bottom left first molar has started to break, his bottom right first molar is lurking, as is his final incisor. (We've not had much sleep and he's super-clingy atm for some reason!)
Other cool things: He goes for hugs with people he knows happily (asks for hugs), he can clap along when other children start to clap, rather than him just randomly doing it, he waves bye-bye and night-night, he can play with cars (driving them around and making them crash into each other), he loves hitting things with sticks and tools, if I wanted to stop feeding he's ready to but will take if offered so I am making him keep with two feeds a day, he is starting to use a fork/spoon to self-feed, he reads paper books without tearing, he draws, he can use a shape-sorter really well now (no help from parents!), starting to get the hang of baby jigsaws, carries toys/books to an adult for a play, ah, he's so cool I can't fit it all in here! He's fab.

Tashie, DS was tube-fed in hospital because as soon as I left I didn't want him on formula so we didn't give him much. He has dropped from 50th centile to 9th over the year, but he's so active the HV (MCN) is OK with this. I don't htink he needed tube-feeding now as he's ended up on that centile anyway, he was never destined to be a chubba bubba!

Jayne, poor Claudia. DS cut his lip yesterday, nowhere near as bad, but I just told him "just a split lip, you're fine mate, want a toy car?" and he was fine after that. I am refusing to take him to hospital unless he's going to die now because I don't want them to think me a bad mother - he's been in once due to a burn and again because he was finding it hard to breathe and I didn't call them for over half an hour then (on the advice of my mother, stupid woman) so want to be a good mum whose baby isn't in and out of A&E LOL, as if that's a good parent but I don't want to be suspected of anything IYKWIM.

Hugs to all, have to go change a nappy before playgroup I think!

[Tashie]

Don't you hate it how you type up a reply and then you lose it, now I don't remember what I was saying...

Jayne - I hope Claudia is all good again now and she is still eating. Sounds like Jessica is a very sweet girl. You are lucky to have two gorgeous girls.

Ryn - I wouldn't worry about what other people think about you taking Liebs to the doctor or hospital. Go with your gut feeling. I am sure that there is a lot of accident prone babies out there and if you are concerned for his health, then that is a good thing, not a bad thing. I hope the eye test went well.

Sally - I'd see the dog food thing as a building block for his immune system. And they do say that dogs mouths are cleaner than ours. And hey, sharing is awesome, good on him. I am sure all our kids get into or will get into things that are not exactly desirable, when we are or aren't looking. I know I ate a snail when I was little, fresh out of the garden and on the night of Tobi's birthday he ate half a cigarette. It was my bro in-laws. I was in the kitchen and Tobi must have seen bro go and get something out of his girlfriend's bag and go outside, so Tobi followed their lend, grabbed the bag, went through it and started munching on a cig. I was in the kitchen and everything went quiet so I knew something was going on. I came into the lounge room to find Tobi had vomited everywhere. Poor little guy and on his birthday too. I hope he remembers that when he is 15 and gets offered a cig. ... So glad to hear that you are getting out and about. It is so important to have some 'us' time. Now that Tobi is in such a good night routine, I am really missing catching up with friends at night. When we lived in Brisbane we used to do dinner a couple nights a week, now that we are in Sydney, all of our friends have babies and dinner just doesn't work. So if you can get out have dinner than that's awesome.

Kristy - Hope the teething is getting better and you have a better night sleep tonight. I was talking to my Aunty that lives not far from our place about losing toys out of the pram and she said that she saw a duck on the side of the road the other day and thought it looked like Tobi's. It was! Poor duck not there now.

Lisa & Kym - How are you all feeling now? Being sick sucks. I have noticed now that we have Tobi, DH and I get sick more often too. We are slowly getting better. It really hit DH the worst, well it seemed to anyway. You never know with men and whether they are just whinging. How long does it take for ear infections to heal? Tobi has swimming tomorrow and I don't know whether to go or not. I wouldn't put his head under the water regardless. What do you think? He has finished his course of antibiotics.

Michelle - I know that you are back at work. But don't forget about us!

My little nephew is home from hospital, but I am really worried about my bro's girlfriend. She really isn't coping and my bro is not helping the situation with working from home and wanting her to lose weight asap.

I have offered for some friends to move in for two months while Nathan is away. They are pregnant, so saving some money will be good for them and great for us too to have some extra cash, plus having some company will be good. I do this every time Nathan is away and I always end up cranky by the end of it, but only for two months, it can't be that bad, surely!

Hope everyone has good weekends
xxx

[KymH]

I'm not sure about swimming post ear inf.... I prob would go, but then I'm always a bit blasee (spelling...!) about those things and Monkey has only ever had one ear inf so I'm not an expert!! I think he should be ok if you don't put him under.....

This virus has really knocked me around - I'm calling it the Contiki virus, 'cos its like the germs are on a Contiki trip - they seem to party on in one location for a day or 2 then travel to the next location!!!! I was feeling a bit better on Wed in the day and was glad I went to work then by Wed night all of a sudden I lost my voice!!! Still no voice but all other symptoms gone, so at least I don't feel crap. Can't go to work tomorrow though, as my job involves talking pretty much all day.

Monkey has been sharing with the dog too - bit of biscuit for me, bit for you..... she hasn't eaten the food yet, as Tilly eats outside. But Monkey is also a big fan of eating dirt and sand at any possible opportunity - I'm with Tash, its all immunity building!! Poor Tobi with the cigarette though, yuck.

Not sure if I mentioned the other day - I got AF back. I have been pleasantly surprised too that its not heavy either - just back to my normal, which is actually embarassinly light (only use "light / mini" products and only last 3 days max) - YAY.

Monkey said pig and birdie in the bath tonight while we were reading her farmyard bath book - she tried cow, but it came out more like puppy and sheep was just way too hard!

Think thats all for now, 'night all.

[Impatient]

Hi girls. This is really quick because now that I'm a f/t working girl, I just don't have much time for "me" stuff these days!

Bella's been great and has even started walking. I swear she was trying to run in the shoe shop yesterday - she'd had enough of the pram so we let her out for a few minutes while we tried out shoes. Today she's been pushing Bri's old doll stroller around the house - she loves it!

Here's her 12m stats:
Weight: 9.33kg
Height: 80cm (I think it was more like78cm personally)
Head: 46cm.

Doc was happy with her, and she's happy and healthy. She says woof, mum, dad, she growls like a monster, ta, yum, and other stuff I wouldn't have a clue about. She definitely understands us though.

DH is "between jobs" right now, so last week and this week coming he is a SAHD, which is great for me - I get to sleep in an extra half an hour!

Things get very tiring normally though, dropping Bri and Bella off at different places and stuff.

My internet business is just about ready for an official launch, so hopefully things will pick up soon - Being a business analyst is BORING!!!!!

Oh, and my sister's pg again! She's 6 weeks. Very exciting. We're all hoping for a girl so Bella has a little playmate!

better go- she's supposed to be asleep but I hear whingeing.

I hope you're all good and will catch up properly soon - probably when I get my first holidays....!

[Early Kids]

Evening ladies

We've had a pretty busy few days. Picked my parents up from the airport in perth on Friday, they spent the last 2 weeks in QLD. Then Sat DP and i went house hunting, woohoo, we found one we both really like, but we are unable to get a loan for it so his parents are going to try. but they haven't even been to the bank yet, even after 3 weeks of saying yep we will go make an appt ect ect. So i'm a bit annoyed that they are so relaxed over the whole thing. but they are doing us a HUGE favour so can't complain really.

brendan is doing well. He's a real little boy now, no longer a baby He is into everything and is finding lil hidey holes too! Got a good pic of him under the table... ROFL!

Anyway, sorry for no personals, sounds like everyone is well

Take care

[Lil_Aussie]

Hi girls

Long time since I last posted I know,,, but I have been reading the posts,, just havent had time,,or the energy lately to sit down and try to make a huge long personals post to everyone,, so though today,, "hey,, any post is better than none" lol.

We have hit 13 months old,, and DS is still NOT walking
I took him to the ECHN on friday last week,, as her waiting lists are ridiculously long now,, and it took weeks to get in.
She picked up straight away what was delaying him walking. He "W" sits. Something I never gave another thought,, but when he sits on the ground,, he sits with his legs bent around him,,, kinda like kneeling,, but spreading your legs out to the sides. She says this is putting strain on his joints,, which explains why his lefs and hips clunk badly alot. She also says that he needs to be asessed by the physio dept,, as usually kids who adapt the "W" sitting position,, have balance problems,, and they use it to be more stable.
On a much brighter note, he passed his measurements and every other thing on her 12 month checklist. When i got his 12 month immunisation,, they told me he had lost alot of weight again,,, and his head was growing much much too quickly, so I was eager to get a proper measurement at the ECHN.
His stats are:
HC 49-50cm (95%)
Height 80cm (75%)
weight 9.80kg (25%)

She says that he is perfect, and not to worry,, just have to wait for the physio dept to ring for their appt,, and to keep correcting his sitting position, telling him "legs out front buddy" everytime we see him doing it. But at least he is cruiding furniture,, and has just started using his puppy frame thing to hold onto while he pushes it around lol.

We are still nursing, although family and friends are pushing me to wean him,, but I dont see the point. I feel that while he is happy,, then it is best to let him keep feeding. Last baby and all,, I am in no hurry for him to grow up anyways lol .
Anyways, I will write more often, and hopefully get some personals done next time.

Lil