Babies Born July 16th ~ 31st 2008 #8

[ShootingStar]

Hey all..

Well now its my turn to be unwell.
Seems like (well i think) im getting bad side effects from this medication. Ive had diarrhea all day from 6.30am this morning. Not fun going to the loo every half hour! Literally! Seems to be one major side effect. Think ive lost a few kilos. Havent been able to get incontact with my doctor, despite numerous phone calls to here.. so im stopping these tablets. Have only had 2 lots of 1/4 tablet. I just dont want to be going through this all tomorrow too because i think what ive got is way too much of a side effect.

Pixie.. hun i hope everythings ok. We're here for you if you ever need to chat ok. Make sure you look after yourself

Will try and catch up tomorrow.

nite

[Arimeh]

Kel you poor thing. Thats a crappy (no pun intended!) side effect. I've lived like that - I have IBS - so was going to the toilet up to 12 times a day - on a GOOD day. Ruled my life - thats why I have anxiety issues now. Stupid IBS. Anyhoo - yes, get off your medication - surely there is another one you can take?

Pixie - you know i'm always here for you. Enjoyed our chat today - didn't know you sounded so young on the phone hehe *mwah*

Not much happening here. DH trying to get DS to go to sleep (he had a nap today so will probably take AGES to go down)

Better go clean the house I guess!!

[Ayapi]

Pixie - sending you a BIG hope that everything is okay sweet we are here for you.

Kell - Oh sweet yeah I would stop taking the medication too until you're able to see your doctor.

Mel: how are you sweet?

okay I'll BBL or maybe tomorrow. Have a lovely night all.

[Anastasia]

Mary- Yeah I'm excited, I can't wait to go. I'm going in July. Yaaaay on the walk, I should start walking as well, oh well I used my treadmill instead. Sorry to hear that Izzy was unsettled.

Pixie- Hope ur ok sweety u know u can talk to us ok


Kristy- Yeah I wanted to blow my top. Next time if he does it again I will say something, hopefully there won't be a next time. Bon jovi would be ace to go to.

[Jewel]

Hey everyone.
I was going to post this afternoon, but as soon as I sit down and get all sorted someone needs sometimes.
Plus I've been in a mood.

Pixie - I hope you're ok. I'm here for you aswell. Even if you feel like yelling at someone, I don't mind. Fire away.

Kell - I hope you're feeling better soon and also I hope you finally got in contact with your doctor.

Kristy - That's great with the boys and how they're going with their food. Banana wasn't much of a hit here either. Lol. I hope you had a great day and found the cot(s) you wanted. Nah, we're not really having a party for him. Probably just the family thing on the weekend after it. I make a fancy cake for him, and stuff. It'll be a quiet one. Are you going to have a party for Ike's 2nd birthday?
Good luck with Issac and him climbing out of his cot.

Mez - I had high hopes that he'd like the farex again cause now it's like a wasted box. I'm such a cheap skate. Lol.

Mel, Tasia, Missy, Tan, SW, Feeb, Sweetpea, Belle, Zee, Chantel and anyone I might have missed.

Tonight we tried pumpkin. I just did the same thing as the potatoes and baked strip chunks. He enjoyed them. While I was doing them, Elijah came up and had one and wanted me to make some for him too. I was so shocked (and secretly cheering inside) since he rarely eats pumpkin ever, even when he was little. He's more of a fruit eater, sometime salad gets a look in but mostly fruit.
I'm not sure if he wanted it cause I was making it for Haydie or not, but he enjoyed the lot I made for him. Ate the lot.

I hope you've all had a great day and have a better tomorrow.
Hopefully it cools down too.
The nights are really nice here. They've been cooling right down, it's greattttt.

xx

[Ayapi]

Afternoon all,

It's pretty quiet in here today. Well I've been very productive today! this morning I did all my indoor exercises then after Izzy work from her morning sleep we went for our 1 hour walk. I then went up to Highpoint Target to buy a present for my cousins little baby boy born on Monday night.

we are going to see them in hospital tonight really looking forward to seeing a newborn again lol.

I hope everyone is doing well and the little ones are behaving.

talk to you all again later on.

[thepixie]

didn't know you sounded so young on the phone hehe *mwah*

thanks - funny but I thought the exact same thing about you! you'll have to meet me someday so you can see how old I look in person pmsl
to everyone, no time for personals but
1. **** it's hot I just wish it would rain already
2. She won't go to sleep it's driving me completely mental!!!
bbl

[ShootingStar]

Morning all..

Well yucky few days for me. Dh ended up taking yesterday off work to look after the kids. I called my doctor again yesterday and the receptionist assured me she would call me back. I stopped taking my medication. Nothing from the doctor. Took some Imodium about 2pm and last time i had the runs was 3pm yesterday so may have worked. Then 8pm they called me and said the doctor said to keep taking the medication as thats not what is causing the diarrhea. So hmm. Im in 2 minds on what to do.. start taking it again or stop. So found a number to call the nurses on call (is in VIC but they still took my call lol). The lady i spoke to was so nice and wonderful. She went through everything and basically said if my doctors said to take it then yeh i prob should try again. So i did last night. So far today ive been fine. So who knows maybe i did eat something bad or got a bug or something (if it was a bug oh im praying Jesse doesnt get it!!). Just still a little dehydrated now, lack of energy and well.. a few kilos lighter i think. Im yet to weigh myself, but lets just say i can see the bones in my hands and arms and i have a flat stomach! woah. Havent had one of those since before Jesse! lol.

sw.. ouchy.. hope it heals soon for you.

Tasia.. oh what fun. Mehh yeh your MIL will live. At least you were there at all!

HAPPY 6 MONTHS JACOB!!
Holey moley its been 1/2 a year already!!!?!??

Pixie.. hope Beth slept ok for you last night.

Mez.. oh look at you arent you good with all your work outs! well done hun! Oh how was the newborn? Tiny i bet! Its nuts to see newborns after you have a baby hey.. they always look so small.

Tenny.. thats great Elijah has taken to the vegies too! Im so hoping Jesse is the same ones Keira is eating solid stuff. He'll eat pumpkin and potato thats it.

Mel.. thanks hun. How is A going without his day sleep?

Jesses going great in his big bed. So happy. Have not had any problems at all with him getting up at night. Only thing we've had to do now though is DH park his car out in the drive way rather than in the garage as he leaves for work at 5.30am and if Jesse hears him (which he can if the cars in the garage) he wants to get up and wave bye bye. But when he wakes, which is usually around 6.30am hes just come and jumped into be with me until Keira wakes.

Keira's going great on her solids. Still just having the 2 meals so far.. farex for breakfast and veges at night. Shes just has garden veges and last night started with sweet potato and woah did she loooooooveee that! Once shes had a wide variety of vegies then will start her on a 3rd meal of fruit or custard.

Ok think i better eat something. Hope everyone else is well.

[ShootingStar]

Belle.. thanks hun. Doctor said its not the tablets causing the diarrhea and to keep taking them. So who knows, may have had a stomach bug or something. Started taking them again last night so we'll see what happens. No youre not behind.. some havent started solids yet.. i think everyones just doing it at their own pace and when bubs is ready. Keira is having jar stuff so far. But yeh i would prob puree it to start with. Keira doesnt mind her farex a bit thicker but i think thats because she was already use to the thick formula. But its all trial and error to see what suits bubs.

Kristy.. oow ouchy. I hope Isaac is ok. Thanks hun. Yeh im feeling a bit better today.. still not 100% but think i need to restock up my fluids and food. Grahame finishes at 2.30pm today so should be fine. Keiras asleep at and Jess is watching Thomas. Theyre pretty good kids so its not too bad. Hope she can work out whats wrong. Maybe it is the pill? did she say anything about that?

[Missy]

Hi all

just a couple of personals just abit busy.

Just wanted to say

HAPPY 6 MONTHS JACOB.

Just quickly bell i puree Liams food
Hope your feeling better kell, YAY on jess and his bed
Ayapi how cute, id love to see a new born again
SW you poor thing with the spider bite. Hope your finger feels better soon. What type of spider was it?

Well to everyone else

Oh pix how you going. you feeling abit happier
Zee hope Lucas is ok
Tassy how is the feeding going

sorry if ive missed anyone. In a rush

[Jewel]

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Happy 5 months Jacob!!!!!!!!!

SW - OMG. How scary about your finger, especially it turning green. I probably would have been crying or something if my finger went green. I'm glad it's better and your SIL helped.

Kristy - WOW. Good work with Issac and getting a urine sample. I hope your results come back fast and give you some answers, and Issac's too.

Belle - Hey! Great to see you again. Here, we only get rolling over when he feels like it too. Although lately it's been more often.
Haydie doesn't really like mash, puree, or the farex anymore ( ) so we're giving him potato and pumpkin strip chunk things that I've baked until they're soft & cooked. He then basically feeds himself. It's going ok this way for us.

Kell - I'm glad your'e feeling better and I hope you don't get sick from taking the tablets again. I'm going to start sweet potato probably on the weekend too. I'm hoping he loves it tooooooooooo!

Tasia - Don't worry about you MIL. Sucks about your key. I'd be all panic and mayham if I broke a key like that.

Mez - Good work with the exercise and stuff. Sounds like you're going great. I started to do some, but I haven't been in the right frame of mind this week so it's a bit half-ar$ed. Hopefully I'll be all into it next week.

We're doing ok with the sitting here. He's sitting up longer and longer by himself until he gets so excited and his arms wave that much it makes him fall, which is usually when Elijah comes over to play with him. lol.

xx

[Missy]

OK back again. Was running around trying to get things done. Alot cooler here today thank goodness. It was so hot the past 3 days. oh well got lots of swimming done.

Kristy cant believe I missed your post. Soz hun

Oh wow on Isaac. I know how hard that can be but well done Hope they get to the bottom of his weeing problem and hope your test come back with some thing easy to fix.

Tenny liam is only sitting when he is supported. But he is getting there. I have a pillow thing that supports him so I dont have to always hold him when he sits. It all takes time and im in no hurry to get him to sit. He is growing up Just so fast.


well Liam is having his 3 meals a day and 3 bottles some times 4 depending on how early he wakes. He just had for lunch some mashed banana with his milk. Was like custard when i made it. he loved it so much. He has had banana before(custard out of a tin) but Im one of those mothers that like to make their food fresh. I do have tin food for if we are going out. Just so much easier. He is making all sorts of noises now and its very funny to listern too. He is getting the biggest legs, nice and plump.

Anyways, hope you all are having a nice day.

[Arimeh]

Hi guys, just quick cos I'm at work.

SW - that sounds awful - maybe you need a holiday to recover Queensland perhaps? hehe

Can't remember any other personals sorry - read it in sections.

Belle - we haven't started solids yet - few more weeks till we hit 6 months.

Happy 6 months Jacob!!!!!

[somewoman]

didn't know you sounded so young on the phone hehe *mwah*

You say that to all the girls!!! =PP

sorry - couldn't resist

going back to feel miserable over my INFECTED SPIDER BITTEN FINGER now =\ No bloody wonder I'm arachnophobic

Oh - and hugs at ya, Pix... Love ya

[Arimeh]

Pixie chick - yes I often get telemarketers ringing and ask me if they can speak to my MOTHER. I get so pi$$y at them - I'm nearly 32 FFS!!!!!

SW - spider?!?! WTF?!!??

[feeb]

Hello all!!!

Been busy lately so havent been able to post much, well 1 week ago we started on solids at 5 months 3 weeks, been going really well so far farax, apple and sweet potatoe!!!!

Was weighted today 7280 grams and 66cm long so all great!!!!

Happy 6 months to Darling Jacob for tomorrow

Sleeping we had a great night last night 2300 till 0700 but really bad previous night up 3 times grr hopefully we stay like last night!!

mez how exciting getting to visit baby in hospital awww so cute newborns!!!

SW hope spider bite better soon.

hello to everyone else hugs to all try and stay cool in this damm heat wave

[Jewel]

It's fixed.

Pixie - I hope Beth sleeps for you. Haydie has been sleeping less and less during the day. I'm so ready to pull my hair out from the whingyness cause I can't hold him all the time.

SW - Spider bite! omg! Are you okay?

Feeb - Jacobs stats sound greatttt. I hope he sleep just as good tonight as he did last night.

Mez - Congrats to your cousin.

Not much going on with us. Heat rash, whinge and fighting sleep even more cause he's hot. Nothing new. :P

everyone!!!

Kell - I hope you're feeling better today.

[somewoman]

am mostly fine now. Guess I was always mostly fine, really!! But yes, spider bite.

I was building a cat enclosure in the back yard over chrissy/new year, and was bitten on my little finger about a week ago (the same day I think as when I posted complaining about all the spiders around here - maybe a few days prior to that). It immediately turned bright red and went GIGANTIC. Went to the docs, they told me it was fine and just exaggerated due to the location of the bite (little finger, not much space in there so any bites look worse than they are, yadda yadda yadda). Really painful - and of course Alyssa keeps grabbing at it and has an uncanny ability to always manage to catch the only sore part of my body...

Two days later I'm at the chemist buying some other random shtuff and she asks me about my finger, squeezes it, I scream, she says it's infected and I need to see a doc (it wasn't really any different to when I did see a doc!!). It's a weekend by then, so I call my SIL who is a GP, she comes over and looks, says it is infected and prescribes antibiotics. Oh yeah - it was tingling a bit and actually hurting down my arm at this stage...

SO I'm taking these antibiotics for two days waiting for a change, and it DID get a little smaller... My arm stopped hurting and the pain was just in my hand. Then yesterday it starts turning green. Yes, green. Not slightly green - grass green (well, the grass green we all knew and loved prior to the drought!!). Started tingling all through my hand and hurting again most of the way to my elbow. Was really quite disturbing. Call the docs and try get an appointment, nothing until Thursday. Call the SIL, she comes over with her trusty doctors bag, pulls out a scalpel and starts slashing away at my finger to drain it. Got lots of blood, no pus. Slashed some more, more blood and no pus. She says "it's in pretty deep - can you go another cut?". I tell her if she has to, she has to, and maybe don't ask me for the next one - just do it before I have a chance to say no

SO I get this really deep cut put into my poor little finger, and gunk starts ooooozing out all over the place. Was really gross. Hurt too. A LOT.

SIL convinced me to take some codeine and get an early night. Think the codeine wasn't so good on Alyssa because she had the most restless night EVER - up every two hours screaming for a feed. Perhaps the codeine just had a negative effect on my supply - who knows... I spent the night in her room with her sharing the bed - which I never do unless I know I'm awake!! Just seemed easier than picking her up out of her cot with my finger in the state it was in - damned near had me screaming every time it touched anything. BUT by morning it felt sooo much better. Replaced the dressing on it this morning and the colour is almost back to normal - just a bit redder than usual. The swelling has subsided immensely. Still have a couple of days of antibiotics to take, so hopefully they will clear it up fully.

Have spent a fortune now on pesticides. Surprised humans can live in this place now, let alone spiders.

So yeah - been away a while feeling sore and sorry for myself, avoiding using my hands, and generally just hanging out with the girl... Hope everyone is either doing well or on the improve. Been thinking of you all!

waves to all