hi everyone,
Raining here too on the Gold Coast - windy like crazy last night - you too Ren??
BTW Ren - will PM you shortly about meeting up!
No school for Logan today - teachers strike - I am all for it myself - they deserve more!
So nice day so far. Amara is sleeping and settling so nicely about 99% of the time. I still have not gone over to sleeping bags yet however, still she is wrapped but only very lightly now and often she gets her hands out herself.
Hey Orangefeather, congrats on the loss of the half kilo!! while eating chocolate! he, he, good on ya! I have lost a little more too, despite NO running for a week, cycling instead. BUT today I went out running and my calf feels HEAPS better and more to the point, MY SANITY is back - when running daily has been your life for 10 years, it is hard to go without it!
what is Wii fit? sounds interesting - please explain!
Di's girl - Yes, Amara is very keen to sit up also most of the time! I am going to get rid of my second hand pram now as Amara is now sitting up in the Baby Jogger, looking around.. And Jared is 4 months already? wow..
Runner, have you not seen the ads on tele with Olivia Newton-John doing hula hooping and yoga? That's the Wii Fit. It's a video game, but it gives you a work out if you want it to. You even get your own personal trainer I worked up a real sweat yesterday doing rhythm boxing and yoga. I love the step classes too. The hula hooping is a real laugh too It also keeps track of your weight and BMI
Yay, Jared sat up by himself for over 30 seconds today!!!
Runner, have you not seen the ads on tele with Olivia Newton-John doing hula hooping and yoga? That's the Wii Fit. It's a video game, but it gives you a work out if you want it to. You even get your own personal trainer I worked up a real sweat yesterday doing rhythm boxing and yoga. I love the step classes too. The hula hooping is a real laugh too It also keeps track of your weight and BMI
Yay, Jared sat up by himself for over 30 seconds today!!!
Hi everyone
Well, we seem to be getting into a bit more of a routine here, Owen is sleeping better during the day and I've found myself waiting for him to wake up, lol.
Just wondering whether you girls who have stopped wrapping are using sleeping bags or are wrapping from the waist down? I've been experimenting with one arm wrapped and one arm unwrapped during the day and completly wrapping him at night. Have people found they settle well in sleeping bags or ok just wrapped from the waist down? I'm planning only to have his arms out during the day for the next week or so and after that seems ok will try him at night (very nervous about it).
Wow you've all bee busy chatting up a storm in here!
Soph - Glad to hear bubs is on the improve
Orange - Congrats on the weight loss!!
Runner - Good to hear the calf (and your sanity!) are back
Shellsie: - Ella never like being wrapped from about 5 weeks so i didnt even bother - she is now in a grobag (has been for the last 4 weeks) and it is THE best investment i have made - i still contribute her sleeping through (10-12hrs over night) to the grobag because she is nice and toasty and although she does startle herself, she self settles very quickly - HTH
AFM: I can't believe Ella is 4 months today - it is going by so fast! - We had her nurse appt today and she is my little boomba bubba - 7.3kg and 63.5 cm. nurse told me her teeth are "moving" under the gums and she reckons they will start erupting in the next 2-3 months - my poor bb's when that happens!!
Great news! (for me anyway ) Finally getting the internet this weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll be so so so glad to get back on here...
Briefly read up on on some of the updates;
Ella: Sounds like your bub is like my little chunka! Weighed him four weeks ago and he was 6.9kg!! Only knows how much he weighs now but i am struggling to hold him for long periods of time thats for sure! Thanks the loed for prams I say!!
Orange: Congrats on your weight loss! I have no idea how I did it but I have lost all my baby weight! I only just recently started walking regulary so I was very lucky. 72kg back to 55kg..i was all full of fluid I was!
Caiden is all sorts of weird and wonderful. He does alot of stopping and starting in his development. Starded rolling onto his side and even sleeping on his side quite early on but as only mastered actually rolling over completely by himself once. But I am in no rush! He has just begun absoloutly laughing in hysterics. We have had plenty of smiles and giggles..but his laugh omg! Very precious...He loves standing up on our laps thought he will stand for half n hr straight and get cranky if we sit him down! HIis going to be one of those terrors that ru and never stop I can tell hehe
Anyway..SO much looking forward to being back online this weekend
Yay Caiden'smummy it's great to see you back
I have a boomba too I can't hold Jared for long periods of time - he was 8.3kgs a week and a half ago! We've had to stop calling him 'chunk' though because Ben started calling him that and we don't want it to stick as a nickname
Yay, Jared slept from 9pm last night until 5am this morning!!! Then he went straight back to sleep until 9am. It was wonderful!
Well i havent had much time been busy with the business as ive gotten out of real estate photography and once again focused my energies on chilren,babies,christening and special event photography so have been kinda concentrating on that,preparing to move and of course Nixon.
He's doing well,am resigned to the fact hes a catnapper,sleeps 45 mins-1 hour at a time during day has about 4 sleeps a day but then he in bed at 7pm and sleeps pretty much all night til 530am then has a feed and goes back down til 8am,so i cant complain..Hes still only tiny around the 6 kilo mark give or take,hes feeding has improved and now has between 150-200ml and yesterday we started him on solids(organic rice cereal)he scoffed it down and loves his food!!! so happy about that...
He is getting really strong,cant roll yet but can pretty much sit up straight and hold himself up,we are going to get a Bumbo so we can put him in there to sit and feed
He mimics a lot of things that we do,sticks his tongue out,raises his eyebrows(or should i say one eyebrow)if we do it,he responds to words.We say certain words that mean certain actions and he does them...Where has the 4 months gone??
We still have to swaddle him,am gonna see how i go half swaddle n leave the arms out during the day,if he can sleep in the car with arms out then we give it a go..
Well i move house in 3 weeks and i can say by then he will be out of his bassinette and into his cot as his kingparrot chocolate colored one which is quite large is getting too small,i think i will cry that day as ive grown attached to it as it symbolises his babyhood...
He is such a chatterbox,very vocal and very aware of whats going on and his surrounds..
Anyway i am off
Hubby cooking tea,myself Chillaxin as i have my Aunt Flo...feel yuk,i start my diet and excercise program as soon as i get the all clear from my endocrinlogist..im going back on my low GI diet the one i had to go with gestational diabetes as it made feel good,i feel so yukky,tired and toxic...
Have a nice weekend and to all you up North,please send us Victorian's some rain?
Cheers Bon
Well we all had our needles on Friday. DH and I got the whooping cough vaccine as well. Ben was the only one who missed out on needles and he's the one who got the lollipop
A quiet weekend here. Jared and I went to the footy again today. He loves it He loves the movement and colour, but the loud crowd noises undercover get to him a bit. Still, he doesn't cry which is good
We didn't have a good night last night, he was up twice I'm hoping he'll be better tonight but he has wind so it might be an up and down kinda night. I really hope not!
Oh Dis up twice is a good night for me Hope you get some more rest!
Bon - V jealous of Nixon's sleeping
Caiden - maybe try a jolly jumper? I was going to get one for H but i have a friend who is an OT who said not to but I still might. As long as they're not in there for ages and you stretch their legs should be ok (if not they might end up toe walkers because it doesn't build upcalf muscles or something!). They love it though!
Ella - yay for fatty bumba bubbas
Shell - I've never wrappedf any of my bubs, they've all hated it!
Orange - on the weight loss. well done.
Dis - I reckon Jared is as big as Lucie was at 1 - just over 9kg. Reckon you've got a rugby player on your hands
Ahhh we've all had conjuctivitis for the first time ever and i attribute it to Kinder. It's been one thing after the other here and i swear i could open a pharmacy, so exy! No one tells you that about kids, you suddenly get a very very well stocked medicine cabinet. Anyway Henry is finally starting to slowdown on the poohing front and they are back to sweet smelling breastfed poohs. I know that sounds gross but i really think they are!
We just purchased a brand new ford territory too. Wooohooohoooo! A 7 seater so now i can share Kinder pick ups
Yuk on the conjuctivitis Soph. Hope your little ones are better soon.
I know what you mean about bf poohs, you don't sound totally weird
We've had a good couple of days. We're getting out and about almost every day. Today we're hoping to head off to the library for the big simultaneous read a long thingy that a lot of libraries are doing. Jared is asleep though so I don't know if we'll make it.
I'm feeling kinda sick this morning. A bit like morning sickness actually, but more than likely due to me being overtired. Jared is back to waking up twice a night. He's just feeding SO much. Seriously, is he EVER going to stop growing?
I just realised it's been 10 days since I posted in here !! Time gets away...
It's my birthday tomorrow... I'll be 28!!! far out....
I'm meeting a friend for lunch (sushi yum) and then in the afternoon another friend will be visiting us with her little 8mth old boy! Then in the evening DH and I will order some Indian take away! Mmmm....
Ava is doing great.... so strong. She's a real little squealer she loves the sound of her voice and chatters away. A real chatterbox just like her Mummy She smiles at anyone who looks at her too... a real cutie!! We are so in love!!
OK gotta go. Time for a dream feed! Hope you're all going well and all your bubba's are nice and healthy. RunnerMum and I met up on Monday and went for a coffee and then had a walk together with the prams along the beach! It was nice!
Hi Girls,
Renee sent me a pm and i thought that i better drop in and let u all know what has been going on sorry that i haven't been in to do an update but back at work full time again and life has been busy with ivf appointments etc we do our last FET this month then we are going to have a 3-6mth break for a bit of our time for me and DH. Lovely to see you are all going along well and i will try and post more often to keep you all updated.
Hi Dee, great to hear from you Please keep us updated from time to time, I know life can get crazy busy and it's hard to find time to log on.
Ren, HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Hope you had a fabulous day
Jared is doing great. He slept much better last night after a couple of nights when he was up two or three times for a feed! It was like having a newborn again! He's still growing, which is just amazing. He's the same length as his 11 month old cousin. He's so strong and loves to stand or sit. Doesn't like to lie down or be treated like a baby He is totally in love with his big brother and can't take his eyes off him. Whenever he catches Ben's eye he totally cracks up like he's trying to impress him. They make me laugh every day.
Okay, gotta run. The oompa is asking for a feed
Just quickly.. is anybody going to do baby signing? We used it with Ben and found it REALLY useful. He even invented some of his own signs that he uses now when he says the word. I've already started signing 'milk' to Jared and he thinks it's hilarious
Thanks girls!!! Had a great birthday!!! DH and Ava spoilt me
Dis - tell me more about this baby sign language... where can i read about it? I have heard about it before but don't know much about it. Dee - thanks for letting us know how you are going! Good luck with the next FET... I hope this is it... otherwise the break will do you and your DH good. Maybe after that, some great news Ella - thank you for the message! How's little Ella going?
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I worked up a real sweat yesterday doing rhythm boxing and yoga. I love the step classes too. The hula hooping is a real laugh too
- she is now in a grobag (has been for the last 4 weeks) and it is THE best investment i have made - i still contribute her sleeping through (10-12hrs over night) to the grobag because she is nice and toasty and although she does startle herself, she self settles very quickly
- it is going by so fast! - We had her nurse appt today and she is my little boomba bubba
- 7.3kg and 63.5 cm. nurse told me her teeth are "moving" under the gums and she reckons they will start erupting in the next 2-3 months
- my poor bb's when that happens!!
I can't hold Jared for long periods of time - he was 8.3kgs a week and a half ago! We've had to stop calling him 'chunk' though because Ben started calling him that and we don't want it to stick as a nickname
on the weight loss. well done.
!! Time gets away...
She smiles at anyone who looks at her too... a real cutie!! We are so in love!!
Ren hope you have a great day and get spoilt rotten
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