Babies Born January 2008 #8

[Mad Scientist]

hi ladies,

I had the best birthday. Got pretty spoilt and just had an all round great day. Don't feel any older except when I realise that I'm a mum.....that's when I realise, hey I'm not 16 anymore!! ;-)

Madelon - I want Amy's hair back!! It's definitely growing back though. I'm just so impatient. I'm so used to seeing her without hair and she just looks so different without it!! Good to hear that Sander's hips are fine. Bummer about his sleeping. Hang in there. It will improve. Amy goes through phases. Just when I think we're in a good routine it all changes!!

Kate - Don't you feel so much better when you start exercising again!? Good on you. You'll lose that weight in no time. I've been walking every day and go to the gym twice a week (only times that I can get Amy minded when there's a decent class on) but it is slowly working. I can fit into a couple of my old pairs of shorts now.....but that's no good considering it's winter now!!!!!!

Vic - I cried when Amy had her needles too. It's so awful!!

Maz - Amy is at that point with her hair now too. She's got tiny little short blonde hairs coming back though so it looks like I could have a blondie girl soon!

April - That's a real bummer about Bodie's sleeping. Hopefully it's just a phase and he'll settle down again soon. Amy had a horror couple of weeks that only stopped a couple of days ago now. I was at the stage where I was just exhausted and was wondering what was wrong with her when she went back to normal all of a sudden!! Go 25!!! :-)

Jen - glad your blocked duct is ok now!

Karen - I'm now feeding Amy on full time formula. I got post natal depression after we had no luck breast feeding. I felt like I was failing my little girl but in the end she was putting on such little weight that it was in her best interests for her to go onto formula. It took me a very long time to come to terms with it. No matter how good breast milk is for your baby, if they're not getting enough volume, it can be to their detriment in the long run. There is nothing wrong with bottle feeding (I've accepted that now) and I totally understand how you feel but the way I see it is that sometimes our bodies just don't work well enough and we are just lucky that we have formula as an option. Amy is going so well now. I've decided to give breast feeding a go with our next one but if it doesn't work second time around, not put so much pressure on myself. I hope everything works out. It's amazing how past experiences with our bubs scar us for so long. I'm terrified of the newborn stage now and am scared to have another baby because of how depressed and low I got. You will never fail your baby as long as you nurture him. Hugs to you xxx

Just a question ladies. For those of you who are going to have another baby, when are you thinking of starting TTC? We're going to start trying in a few months. Do you think I'm crazy? It's just I'm young, I'm not at work at the moment and if we have another one sooner rather than later, then I can stay at home for longer and start back at my career without having to worry about stopping again. I know that's a really logical way of looking at it but that's just me. We only want (and can afford!) two children so I think, we're going to do it eventually, may as well do it now! I'm so scared of the newborn phase but I know now that it definitely gets better so I think I'll be right second time around.....I'll just cross my fingers that we don't have another premmie.
Hope you are all doing well xxx Luv Nik and Amy

[believer]

Hey everyone!

Hey Nik, glad you had such a great b-day!
Didn't know the first few months where so difficult for you
Sanders hair is growing back now, so he has this weird mix of short and long, light and dark.
We definately want another bub, but I wanna wait untill Sander is 1 year old and hopefully can walk, as I had sore back last pregnancy and i am not looking forward to having to carry Sander around whilst being pregnant. The newborn period doesn't scare me at all, accept the humungus lack of sleep (still going). I am more in serious shock about how big he's getting already!! Where did my little bitty boy go?? I am getting him measured and weight next wednesday (yikes!! Needles too!) and I am sure he's about 7.5 kilo's/ 66 odd cm as he was 6820 gram and 62cm 5 weeks ago. He no longer fits in h?s pram and we already had to upgrade him to a jogger!
he's also teething (no sign of the buggers tho, just heaps of chewing, drooling and crankyness!)
Thank God breastfeeding is going really well over here. Except for him throwing up heaps (he's taking in too much air I think as he doesn't throw up as much after a bottle)
Hopefully we can do it at least untill he's 6 months (both dh and I have some allergies) but I already know I will miss our feeds .

so I was sad saturday, when I had to upgrade Sander from pram to jogger he;s growing up way to fast for me! Time just flies by and it feels like I didn't take enough time to enjoy him when he was really tiny! Think I was just doing what I thought I was supposed to instead of dropping everything and just enjoy him. Makes me really sad. I mean this time is wonderfull too, and I am soo proud of him, but their only tiny for such a short time..

Does anyone else have these moments when the responsibilty for another person seems almost overpowering?? I can just all of a sudden think: OMG how am I going to do all this?? Can I give him a stable family? When I was a kid I always thought that when you're all grown up, you'll have everything figured out, no more insecurities. Boy am I in for a big suprise! I am suposed to be all grown up but the insecurities didn;t budge!
It can really freak me out sometimes. Luckily it comes in waves tho

OMG I just wrote a novel and was very selfish!

Sorry everyone! I hope everything is going well and I will be less selfish next time I promise.

[JCE0810]

OMG i havent been on here for over a week, god i'm a slack @r$e arent i? wait dont answer that

Sophie had her immunisations done on friday and she had no reaction to them so that was good. Sophie & Billy were 4months old on Saturday woohoo!!!!. Got Sophie weighed and measure 2 weeks ago (cant remember if posted it or not) and she was 6.2kgs, 60cm long & her HC was 40cm so she's probably caught back up to the 50% line. Not ever going back to the health nurses they just dont make me feel like a good mother and i'd prefer to go to a chemist or the dr and get her weighed & measured. The dr was most impressed with Sophie's alertness & responses.

Chris locked the keys in the hilux on sunday afternoon so we had to wait 2.5hrs for the guy to show up to open the 1/4 window reach in grab the keys and unlock the car, and by that stage i had an over hungry over tired baby who was cold. RACQ didnt care we had a 4month baby who was due for a feed (i know Chris' silly fault for locking the keys in the car but christ have a heart!), so Chris is either ringing or writing to the RACQ to complain because they said they were sending someone local and they ended up sending a guy from the otherside of Brisbane.

Sorry for the selfish post but i do read the daily emails otherwsie i would be WAY behind and have no idea what was going on in here.

Oh Kate sorry again for my phone ringing you last night Chris didnt check the keypad was locked before he stuffed it in his pocket as i had my hands full with Sophie and yeah........ it rang you and then Chris told me off like a 5yr for not locking the keypad i said good on you d***head i dont normall stuff my phone in my pocket so no need to lock the keypad.

Ok i'll go back to hiding in the corner now......................

[Mads]

Good morning everyone!
I will try and type as much as I can before she wakes!
My parents are here for a week, just got back from overseas- they saw Addie for 1 week at the end of January so she has grown big time!

Lots of activity on here this week, hello to everyone who has posted- Maz, Kate, Jen, Jo, QueenMab, Madelon, Karen and anyone I missed.

Some tough times for Karen to you on the BF issues. I am still fully BF Addie, she actually refuses the bottle on the occasions I am away. I can fully understand your pain, I would feel so sad and disappointed to stop BFing, I really love it. But you have to do whats best for Frankie and yourself. I hope you come to some peace about your decisions. It sounds like the problems you had with your first boy really still have a major impact on your feeding. So many of the girls have had problems with their feeding and have battled to feed as much as possible and ended up in so much stress. I feel so priveledged and lucky with my feeding, cause reading about everyone one else is so mind opening.

Nik, Not good to hear about your glucose tolerance test- are you being good? SOunds like you are pretty healthy anyway! I would find it so hard to have a low GI, low dessert diet! I have had such an increased sweet tooth since my pregnancy that has not gone away. Re having another bub. Hmm people keep asking me this (Why is that??!!) I think my ideal age gap would be 3 years, I love the idea of Addie being old enough to sort of understand more etc. BUT I dont want to leave it till I am 35 to try again. So I reckon I will try again when Addie is about 18months old. I reckon you have to go with your lifestyle and you have great reasons for trying again soon. I read in Practical Parenting magazine an article in which one mum had 2 bubs close together and one mum had a big age gap and each were equally happy. It also said the the optimal time for our bodies (and minds) to be ready again is 18months after a bub. Food for thought!!

Anyway before this gets too long better sign off.
Hugs
Mary
(ps am trying out a new spelling for Adelines nickname- Addie instead of Addy- what do you reckon??)

[JCE0810]

Mary- Addie/Addy not much different whichever you choose prefer i suppose.

Oh i just check in on what use to be our belly buddies group and it made me sad, because i was pregnant this time last year and didnt even know it.

Nik- "For those of you who are going to have another baby, when are you thinking of starting TTC?" i must be crazy too because i'm already thinking about it too, we'll have 2 maybe 3 all up and i'd like them to be close in age and i's like to stay home longer so i can see the things Sophie does1st hand.

Sophie has been trying for a week to roll from her back to her belly & has mastered it today when i wasnt watching of course

[Apes23]

Nik: Good to hear you had a great birthday, I bet you went to Tally creek? hehe I love it there, such a nice spot. No your not crazy about TTC in a few months. Good on you! We aren't ready to try at the moment personally but that's just me & DH. I think we'll wait till Bodie's nearly 2 when we start.

Jo: Bodie has started to roll onto his side and I have found him on his belly once before. Can't believe all the tricks they can do now hehe. Good to hear Sophie didn't have a reaction to the shots. Bodie screamed the place down when he had his, nearly made me cry. He was a little restless a couple of days after but I think that's normal.

[Apes23]

Sorry was meant to write more but I accidently clicked on something and it posed it for me!

Jo: Yeah this time last year we were up in QLD on a holiday and I started throwing up with morning sickness! Crazy!

Mary: I think Addie is nice too. hmmmm decisions! I bet your parents got a shock to see Addie all grown up.

Karen: Sorry to hear your having BF troubles. I can't give you any advice sorry as Bodie has been bottle-fed since week 2. Hope you can work something out soon for both you and Francis. I'm sure once you start him with the bottle you'll both get used to it and everything will be fine.

Bodie is 5 months today!!! Can't believe how fast time has gone. One more month and we'll start him on solids, well Farax anyway. How exciting!

Hi Madelon, Kate & Jen.

April & Bodie xo

[JCE0810]

April: Nice one on Bodie rolling onto his side, hopefully he keeps going with the rolling. I know its amazing watching them do things especially when they dont think your watching. I was glad to that Sophie didnt react to her shots SIL kept telling me she would have a reaction, but i just kept checking her temperature & had panadol there if needed. After Sophie got her shots done i must have looked like i was going to cry or i lost the colour in my face because the nurse seemed a little concerned about me asked twice if i was ok i dunno. Sophie's been sleeping better during the day since having her shots, sometimes she'd only go down for an hour and wake up for an hour and then go down for 2hours, makes it hard to get things done around the house.

HAPPY 5MONTHS TO BODIE!!!

Silly weather here in QLD yesterday morning it rained here pretty heavy (it woke me up-tin roof) then it was just overcast all day some rain arounf 10pm last night and this morning it had been raining again and about 10mins ago it started raining again. Wonder what winter will bring considering Autumn felt like winter.

Friends of ours have a 3month old girl and are talking about ttc #2 from december but everytime i bring the topic up with Chris about when we'd like to start TTC #2 he finds something else to talk about. I'm not saying i want to start right now i just want to know what we both think we need to agree.