Babies Born July 16th - 31st 2008 #4

**ShootingStar** · October 11th, 2008, 09:39 PM

Yeh im not too phased now.. she is drinking a little more than she was the other week now.. but i think it may, like you said, be to do with the thick formula.. plus shes not bringing it all up anymore, so her tummy is staying full iykwim. Yep it does.. so i guess theyre really getting more than you think hey.

**Missy** · October 11th, 2008, 09:47 PM

yes they are getting more then what we think. So if Liam finishes his bottle he is really getting 220mls so that is great stuff. yes he hardly chucks anymore unless I dance around with him which I some times do then he chucks up on me...lol....

Well night all going to bed

take care

**Jewel** · October 11th, 2008, 09:54 PM

Hey everyone.

I've been a bit MIA lately and missed out on heaps. I did start to read the pages back but got a little lost cause my mind is a bit all over the place. I'm sorry.

Pixie - HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHICA! I hope you had a fantastic day & holiday too.

Kell - DP thinks Elijah gets growing pains too. It comes and goes sometimes. All we do if he is really complaining is give him some nurafen. I'm not really sure if there is anything you can do about it. It's just one of those things that happen, I guess.

Re: Good babies. I feel bad too that I have such a good baby. Elijah was a good baby, but Hayden is even better. I couldn't have asked for a better baby, seriously.

I've had a rough couple of days with Elijah. I'm so worn out and rundown by his attitude and naughtyness. I just don't know how to get through to him. Friday was the worse day. I did well to hold back my tears throughout the day while we were in public. While I was crying at home, Hayden was doing his giggles and smiles at me. He melts my heart so much. I'm so glad he's such a good boy. I don't think I could handle Hayden being really unsettled and stuff aswell as Elijah's attitude too. I'd be more insane that I already am.

Then I've got all those feelings ontop of everything else that I'm such a bad mother. I tell my grandmother that Elijah's been naughty. Hell, Elijah admits he's been a naughty boy to her aswell... so I start just briefly telling her about it, and she doesn't believe me. Way to go. It's bad enough she makes me feel like I'm 'as big as the side of a house' as my mother used to say... now I'm a person who lies about her children??
It doesn't help I'm low a$$ selfesteem either, I guess. Lol.

So tonight I'm just home with the boys. It's very quiet as they're both sleeping. Yipee!
I'm just relaxing and trying to enjoy time for me. I feel like I'm giving everything to everyone else and getting not much back, so it's good timeout for so me time... until I have to go pickup my sister from somewhere at like midnight..

Sorry about the ME,ME,ME post.
but finally on a somewhat good note... AF has started to show her face. YAYAYAY!!
As much as I hate her, I'm glad she's here. I was starting to worry myself about it, but now I know I'm not broken!!

Have a great night.
xx

**Anastasia** · October 11th, 2008, 10:06 PM

Tenny- Hey sweety. I'm sure things will get better sweety. You are not a bad mother. You're doing a fantastic job & we are very proud of you sweety

Missy- Wow Liam is getting 220mls that is good stuff. Jonathan is taking 150mls now. I think i have to change his teat to 2.

**ShootingStar** · October 12th, 2008, 07:12 AM

Tenny.. Big

for you hun. You are doing a wonderful job, dont believe anything different. It is hard looking after a baby and a toddler. Even if the baby is an easy baby. Theres just so much more to do. Maybe your grandmother meant it that she never sees him naughty.. not to say he isnt.. but he's good when your out seeing her iykwim. But i think its a common thing this attitude. I know Jesse will have it. He already has this look he gives when you say no to something.. then come on the tanties. But please dont ever think youre a bad mother, because that is NOT true. You are doing everything you can for your boys and you love them to death. That makes a wonderful mother in my eyes. When does Elijah start school?

**Missy** · October 12th, 2008, 07:21 AM

Good morning

Awww Liam woke at 3 and I asked DH to do the feed as I was having a good sleep. I told him could he do it and he can have the sleep in. so I got a full night sleep...yay

Tenny im sorry your haveing a hard time. Oh the side of the house, I so know what you mean but going by the photo in you ticker you look ok to me hun. Abit of a hotty id say.

Dont let anyone put you down and if ppl are abit nasty just let it go over your head. As for being a great mum you are. Im happy you have good boys too and I think we all need to talk about that too. This thread is just not for hard time but good times too. Im not going to hide that I have good boys and I dont think its fair. I agree with kell my MIL and FIL dont think callum can be naughty as they only see him in good moods. Believe me he can when he wants to be.

Anastasia yes he is but only some times the hole 220mls. YAY on the up to 150mls hun thats fab. He is doing well.

Morning kell, how did the kidddies go.??

well have to give liam his bottle.

bbl

*waves to everyone else*

**Missy** · October 12th, 2008, 12:59 PM

**ShootingStar** · October 12th, 2008, 01:18 PM

Missy.. oh wow that room looks awesome! I bet she loves it! Any 14 year old would love it! And Liam.. well he is so cute! Watch out all the ladies i say! Overnight, yeh the kids were ok.. Keira perfect angel as usual.. slept through from whatever time i put her to bed.. was around 9.30pm i think.. until 8am this morning. Jesse woke up once around 12.30am.. then was up when DH left for work around 7am.. so not too bad.

Very quiet in here! Everyone must be having great weekends!
Both my kiddies are asleep atm woohoo. Did the washing this morning and tidied the house. We're looking at moving. Found a place on the net last night which im going to call the real estate about tomorrow. Was sad at first last night with the thought of moving and leaving all the memories this house has brought us (both Jesse and Keira's first home).. but the house is too small, and we have a tiny yard. We need somewhere bigger.. and this place we're looking at has 4 bedrooms and a bigger yard.. so will be better for everyone. Jesse really needs more room to run around in. So im really hoping we do get this place and we like it.

**Arimeh** · October 12th, 2008, 01:49 PM

Wow so much chatting since I was last on!!! How am I going to catch up...

Kristy - you will have to give me your recipe for spag bol if its that good!!!!

I hope you guys have a good time at your meet up (who am I kidding - course you will!!!)

Jess - I bet G looks gorgeous in her dresses!!!

Welcome back Pixie & Bear - the pics look fab!!! Beth is so gorgeous... excellent that she was such a good baby for you too!! Thats always helpful!!! Oh and happy birthday for the other day Rach - I was going to send you a message on facebook - but I got distracted....

Missy - I agree - 24weeks does seem a bit wrong to abort - I've always been pro-abortions though in circumstances like the woman was raped or something like that - cos I wouldn't want to have a baby to a man who raped me.... but yeah.. 24 weeks ... seems a bit inhumane..... and those pics of Callum are gorgeous!! If I showed A those, he would say "oOOOHHhhh.. big TOOT TOOT..." pmsl!!!

tan - we have a treadmill too - but.. uh.. its downstairs.. and I don't use it.. lol... can't fit it in the loungeroom with all of A's toys.... did you give Chris his hat?? Oh and we give A his vitamins in the syringe, he gets claps and yays when he has his "vitamins" so he takes them no trouble.

Belle - Tara is SOO gorgeous!!!!

Kel - we had homemade pizza last night for dinner - yummo!!!!! (all low fat of course... unfortunately!!)

Tenny - you are doing such a great job... do you know that kids only play up for their parents cos they know in their hearts that their parents won't kill them.. but can't trust that strangers or other family members won't.. PMSL.. thats the explanation I got from my brother anyway - cos A is such a different kid down at their house, and at day care, and with his grandparents.... but such a naughty little so-and-so with me!!!!! My MIL always said that DS NEVER played up, was such a good kid, and it used to pi$$ me off.. now they don't watch him that often so not getting cranky as often..

Oh missy- yay for the full night sleep!!!! And Melissa's room looks tops!!! Wish I had that at her age!!!

Anastasia - Tan is not shy - could talk the ear off a donkey if she had to (JUST KIDDING TAN.. ME LOVE YA!!! hehehe)

Mez - hope that the tax works out in your favour - ouch for the 3 years!!!! With regard to bottles - M wakes up usually at 6, and I give it to her every 3 hours (cos she is a catnapper) so she gets one at 6, 9, 12, 3 and 6 - then will sleep from after that bottle till 6 in the morning. So she gets the 5 bottles a day - but has a 12 hour break in between... seems to work for her (and us!!)

Kel - fingers crossed for the new place!! ( I love moving - get to chuck heaps of crap out..lol)

I'm a bit all over the place with these personals aren't I... hmm

Anyhoo - us...

DS moved to his big boy bed last night - so far so good. DH got up to him during the night (he was sideways) but he never fell out or anything. I will post a pic later on of his new bed.. my little man is growing up!! Felt a little sad last night sitting next to him while he was going to sleep - such a big move from the cot to a bed!!!! But - now his sister can go into the cot cos she's getting too big for the bassinette... and keeps putting her head down the side and getting stuck.

I think thats the latest from here... she woke up once last night - but settled quickly with a dummy.. then woke at 6.45!!! So that was pretty good.. she's getting good at not needing to be fed after 6pm ...

weigh in day tomorrow for my first week on the diet.. hopefully I have lost a bit...

Hope everyone is having a good weekend!!

OH - Nearly forgot (duh dumb mummy) I brought a car yesterday (yeah I know, how could I forget THAT!! lol) I pick it up on the 24th - since I'm going back to work on the 3rd November - I wanted a car of my own!!!

So yup, thats all the goss.

**Jewel** · October 12th, 2008, 05:49 PM

Heyas.
Very quiet in here today.
Thank you for reading and replying to my MEMEME post before.

Thanks for making me feel better, and it helps heaps just to get it out. I tell DP but I swear he tunes out half the time and that doesn't help any. lol

Kell - Elijah will be starting Kindy next year. It kind of freaks me out that it's coming up so fast, but he's definately ready. I hope you guys get the bigger place. Boys need more space to go wild in. Lol. Elijah would go mental with only a small backyard to play in, I think.

Missy - OMG. I love Melissa's room. I wish I had a great room like that when I was growing up. Your photos are so awesome too. Thanks for sharing.

Mel - That's so true about the kids only being naughty for their parents, well in my case I reckon it's only for me. Elijah doesn't seem half as naughty when it's just DP. It's such a kick in the guts for me. Lol. I'm having a feel sorry for me few days. Hehe.
GO Aricyn!!! It's a bit of a bittersweet moment when they move to a big bed, isn't it. I'm glad he had a smooth transition so far.

He keeps it up.
YAY! Congrats on the new car. That's so excitinggggggggg!!!! WHOOHOO!

Tasia - How've you and your DS been going??

Hey Tan, Pixie, Bear, Mez, SW, Skittle, Jess, feeb and anyone else I might have missed. I hope you're all going great.

I'm tired and cranky today. Lol.
Bubbablue is a little off today too. He chucked up heaps this morning.. all over me, and the bed. I'm not sure if he drank it too fast cause we moved up to the next teat, or what. I'm not really sure.
I've also been thinking I need to harden up and say no to people more, and start putting me before them. No one thinks of me first so why should I do it for them? Lol.
Easier said then done though, aye.

MmM. Satay chicken & rice for dinner. YUMMMMMM!

<3<3<3<333333333

**Anastasia** · October 12th, 2008, 08:53 PM

Good evening ladies :0

Hope we all had a good day today. It was really hot in melbourne today, don't like it hehehe.

Missy- Yeah Jonathan is doing really well he drinks all of his 150mls.I might increase in a month or 2 see how he goes. The room looks great & liam is so cute

Kell- I hope you do get the place. It is sad to leave ur house after living there for long. Hopefully watever place you get, i'm sure u will be happy for you & ur family.

Mel- That's good that Tan is not shy. I'm really shy when I meet new people my heart races & get little hot. That's good that A moved into his bed well done

and well dne for putting M in her cot. I haven't even put Jonathan in his cot yet, I might do it late Nov early Dec. He is starting to get taller in his bassinette.

Tenny- Hey sweety Jonathan & I r doing really well thank you. How r u & ur kids going Yeah u have to learn to say no sometimes. I used to say YEs YES YES to everything & I'm like WTF why should I, do these people do anything for me NOOOOOOOOOOO. So now I say Yes & No depends wat it is.

**kristy J** · October 13th, 2008, 07:49 AM

Morning all.

Its monday again.... I'm don't know what happened to the weekend it went so quick. probably because DH worked all weekend i guess this will be another 14 day week. hope he can have thursday off to spend with us.

Tennykins i know everyone has already said it but i wanted to also reassure you that you are an awsome mum! the fact that you question yourself prooves it, it means you care. a friend of mine recons 4 year olds are worse than 2 year olds she said that the terrible two's are nothing compared to being 4 and 5. so your not alone and just think whan Elijah has grown out of it and into a beautiful young man we will be begging you to tell us how to deal with our terrors. and don't worry about gran older people sometimes say things without thinking.

Arimeh any time, i got it from my cousins FIL he was (died last year) an old italian man it was his mothers recipe it is surposed to be made with chunks of beef and cooked for 12 hours but im too busy for that and use mince and cook for 3 hours. he was a funny man always talking about his old country and how kids of today wouldn't know good food if it bit them.... "personally i perfer my food not to bite me"

Good for Aricyn he is a big boy now in his bed, i think i will cry when ike goes in one. his cot turns into a toddler bed tho so we will just keep him in it as long as we can and buy new cots for the twins. and our cradle's are really big so i think i have at leats another 4-6 months before we need to get them cots. when they can sit up.

kell- where is the house you saw i saw one in a window of the windsor real estate in FR that looks good.... and hey there is one on my street too but not sure if it has a fence.

missy mel's room is awsome love c u on wednesday. so who is coming now.

Pixie happy belated birthday sorry i missed it hope you had a great time...And i'll check out your pics a bit later bur=t everyons has said they look great so i cant waite to see.

Well we had a nice weekend, after swimming with kell and jesse i droped isaac at mums for a shower and nap and i took the twins home so we could get organised for a party we went to. picked isaac up on the way to the party. it was great all my babies were go well behaved the twins slept thru the whole thing actually people were disapointed cause most missed out on a hold cause they stayed in the pram sound asleep. Isaac was awsome there were about 7 kids there and the oldest was 3 so he loved it played till 11pm crashed in the car on the way home and slept till 7.30am but he was still so tired so went back down for a nap at 9am untill 1pm. we had a great time. we have another bigger party in a few weeks so it was a good practice. on sunday we just hung around the house and my MIL visited.

hmm not much else in new.

we took isaacs bottles away on thursday, he has been good only a couple of tanties but i think he is over the now, and his eating habbits are so much better without them. the dummy goes soon too.

hope my new nappies come today!

i would think so. oh i bought a fisher price walker wo walgon from deals direct, for twins for christmas. i just don't know what to get them they already have all of Isaac's old stuff.and we have waaaaaaaaaaay to many toys already.

well better run and hang out the washing while its early. i plan to mow the back yard today its too long and we get snakes already. i like to keep it really short in summer.

take care

Hello to Everyone i missed this time

kristy

**thepixie** · October 13th, 2008, 12:19 PM

hey everyone!

Hope you all had a good weekend.
Thanks for the birthday wishes.... had a good weekend, pretty quiet birthday, just went out for dinner with the Bear, my dad and my brother. My stepmother is going to get me some spa treatments, look after Beth and CLEAN MY HOUSE for my birthday

The Bear is off slaughtering a pig today, and starts his new job tomorrow so it will just be DD and me. We started asking people if we could borrow their spare cars and now there are three that we can borrow so we won't need to buy one straightaway!
Mel - what kind of car did you end up getting? sorry if you've already said. O and please send me the name of your miracle stretch mark cream.... either pm or on FB...
Tenny babe, you're doing a great job.... tell people to stick it if they don't return the favours you do for them. With two kids you're just too busy to be doing favours for ungrateful so-and-so's!
Kristy your spag bol sounds awesome! 14 hours, the Bear would be impressed!
Mez - yay for sorting out the tax returns! Tax is a four letter word in our house.
Kel, missy, tasia, tan, sw, jk,

and waves to anyone I've missed!

**Arimeh** · October 13th, 2008, 12:30 PM

Mel - what kind of car did you end up getting? sorry if you've already said. O and please send me the name of your miracle stretch mark cream.... either pm or on FB...

We got a white Mazda 323 - 2002 model - its very pretty.

Pity it will have such an ugly driver in it...pmsl

Cream - elizabeth arden - green tea enriched body butter. google for stockists. sorry i haven't sent nappies yet, will get them out of cupboard tonight so i remember.

Kristy - geez who has that amount of time to cook!!! lol sounds wonderful though

Another sleep through here from DD - slight fussing at 4.30 but went back to sleep. DS on the other hand... hmmm... no comment...lol... bad night started at 12.30 when he woke up all hysterical and screaming... DH thinks he had a nightmare.. who knows... then he was restless for the rest of the night, so none of us got a good nights sleep.

DD has another chiro appointment today, have to drop DS off at DH's work - too bad if his bosses don't like it - got no choice!! We got a portable DVD player yesterday to go in the car - it was so nice to hear DS giggling this morning to curious george rather than the constant whinging and screaming we usually get in the car!!!

Thats about it i think.. nothin exciting...

**thepixie** · October 13th, 2008, 12:52 PM

Thanks for that Mel! And for the swimmer nappies, no worries, they won't fit till DD is 7kg anyway so you have some time! We are going to borrow a friend's car (they are OS) cause Bear will need ours to get to work - and it's guess what? a Mazda 323! who is stalking who here! LOL
No sleep throughs here

she has been waking at 3-4 again. I try the dummy but she is always starving so it doesn't work!
But we were very proud yesterday, she was lying on her play mat and she rolled all the way over on to her right side, on to her back again and then all the way over on to her left side! clever little monkey! The Bear said she rolled all the way over when he was sitting on the bed with her but I was in the other room.
anyhoo, gotta run and try to finish the dishes before she wakes up hungry!

**Jewel** · October 13th, 2008, 12:53 PM

Hey,

Kristy - Sounds like Issac had a fantastic time at the party and I'm glad the twin were great and slept the whole time. I so didn't know 4 and 5yr olds would be worse then the terrible twos. I wish someone had of warned me then. I really did think once you got past the terrible twos, it'd be smooth sailing. I was sooooo wrong it's not funny.

Tasia - Good to hear. Hayden is going really well. Elijah is naughty but fine. Thank you for asking.

Pixie - You'd think people would think about things before asking me/expecting me to do things for them since I've got 2 kids now. It's unbelievable, seriously. Glad you had a great birthday. I hope the Bear has a good first day at his job tomorrow. YAY Go BETH!!!! That's awesome. Hayden is doing the roll to one side thingo too.

Mel - There is a miracle stretchmark cream? I have hundreds and thousands of them, do you think it'd still help?? I'm really selfconcious of them lately, I don't really know why though. I hope DS has a better night tonight, so you all can have a good night sleep too. What exactly does the chiro do? How do you know if your baby needs to go to the chiro? Sorry about my questions. I know I asked alot sometimes.

Does anyone elses bubba has a favourite side?

Not much going on with us today.
Have a good rest of the day.

xoxo

**Arimeh** · October 13th, 2008, 01:34 PM

Tenny - I call it my miracle cream yes!!! I had heaps of stretchmarks after DS and this got rid of them - couldn't even tell I had them in the first place - now I've got worse ones, so am using it again every night after my shower...

Ok - the chiro - he just checks how her body is aligned - if her neck is out - which is usually common with babies considering the way that they are delivered - its a rough road, whether down the long road, or out the emergency exit!!!! If it is out, he gently manipulates it back into place, then gives her a little massage to make the muscles loosen up a bit.

We took DS to a chiro on the advice of a MCHN because he was really hard to settle and would prefer to look in the one direction. Then we found out about his neck being out and it was a reason why he couldn't BF properly because it hurt him to stay in the position for that long. So he fixed that. So when we had DD and she was hard to settle, and would prefer one side - then we took her there as well. I highly recommend it, they can fix numerous problems - ie, flat head, colic, reflux just to name a few.

And I don't think you ask very many questions at all.

Pixie - hmmm... I think I could be stalking you.. maybe...

I don't even know if DD would roll over yet - haven't really tried - if I lie her on her back she just turns her head to watch tv.. lol.. and kicks her legs.. but thats about it. We don't really try her on her tummy that often either because she sleeps on her tummy so we don't want her thinking that we want her to go to sleep when its play time!!! LOL.. poor bugger would get all confused

***Belle*** · October 13th, 2008, 02:07 PM

Hi girls

Seems our family is not having a good couple of weeks, we are sick again, Julias got another ear infection and end of cold and Taras had her needles today so both are crying and not well... Im not handling the crying very well with my anxiety, thank god they arent crying for 15mins now so I can get some sanity back....

Hope you are all well.

Bel
xxx

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