Babies Born July 16th ~ 31st 2008 #8

[Ayapi]

Morning lovely mumma's & daddy,

Pixie - good to hear that Beth finally did a poo for you and it wasn't an explosion that you were expecting. Izzy normally goes to bed by 7:30 - 8:00pm but sometimes it's 9:00pm depends if she is overtired poor little chicken. hope you get the naps right I just pretty much go with what she wants to do as long as she sleeps through the night I'm happy. Jess & Georgia are doing really well. Our meet up was beautiful, it was a beautiful day so very enjoyable and loved seeing all the little ones again they have grown so much, they were all sitting in highchairs

Tannis - how did your cake turn out?? Love the pics of your kids they are just adorable.

Tenny - Hope Hayden is sleeping better for you sweet. Oh your DS1 is starting school next week right?? Is he excited??

Not much happening today just having a quiet one at home with my princess, maybe do some washing etc. Oh and I have finally got Izzy to sleep in her grobag again woohoo..

[sweetpea678]

Hi Everyone,

Hope yourweekends are going well.

I had a pretty full on few days. On Thursday me eldest woke up with a temp of 39.2 and two sore ears. So took her to the dr's middle ear infection in both ears, while there got Reaghans 4month immunisations done (so behind). Friday Reaghan was grumpy all day.

Dh has been working heaps so two 14hr nights Wednesday, Thursday, home friday to sleep it off. Worked yesterday and agian today and tommorrow. So he is not here to help out with the kids to much.

Reaghan has decided she does't sleep threw anymore and has been waking every 3-4hrs. I my dd#2 has been sleep walking again and talking so sleep is none existent.

I think Reaghan is finnnaly going to get teeth. She was chewing on a rusk and there was a bit of blood on it, not sure where from though. She is sitting realy well and has nearly worked out how to get from laying to sitting and visa versa.

This comming week goto get everything ready for my two eldest to go to school DD#2 first year of big school as she calls it and everyday asks if school starts today.

Hope everyones bubs are doing well.

[Arimeh]

Hi everyone

I've been lurking but not posting.... no motivation.

Glad to hear all are well.

happy 6 months to Izzy for the other day Mez, sorry I missed it.

**goes back into the Lurker's corner**

[Ayapi]

Mel - Oh that's not a problem sweet... Hey what's still coming?? You have me curious now!!

Sweetpea - Oh I hope your little one gets better soon sweet and that you get some sleep tonight in your household. That is so cool that Reaghan is doing so well with her sitting.

Izzy is on the move she is getting into everything, I think I'm going to have to start baby proofing my house

[Arimeh]

Thanks Mez.. you'll find out soon enough.. bout two weeks I'm hoping.

Re: child proofing.. ya know, we never really did that? We put little band things on the bathroom cupboard which has the medicine and the laundry cupboard with the chemicals - but it doesn't stop him getting into them, just slows him down so I can stop him. We never got into the full child proofing bit, cos I saw my nephew trying to get into the drawer at my sister's place, and the only reason he didn't get into the knives was because of the lock. And my sister didn't tell him off because she knew he couldnt' get into it. And so we were thinking.. wellll.. what happens when you go to other people's places? Kids are just going to try to get into the stuff because they haven't been taught that they aren't allowed to, they just physically can't get into the one at home.

We just taught DS from an early age that he can't get into that stuff - so when we go to other people's houses, he doesn't try cos he knows its wrong.. ya know? I'm not saying that our way was better - it just made more sense to us.

Hmm.. was that a bit too soap boxy.... ? sorry

[Ayapi]

Oh cool well I look forward to hearing your news

I totally agree with you on the baby proofing. I pretty much don't want to put things away as I want her to learn not to touch just going to do like you said the cupboard in the laundry and under our kitchen sink. Everything else she will just have to learn not to touch so that when we go visiting ppl don't have to put their things away.

I have a friend who has 3 kids and every time they come over I have to put things out of their reach cause they just touch everything. They even go in my cupboard which is really annoying especially the one with all our dvd's.

Anyway enough of me B!@#ching

[*Belle*]

Hi girls

Sorry ive been away so long, my mum has been in hospital. Ive been looking after her every day there and Jeffreys been looking after the kids, she picked up Julia on Tues arvo to look after her and on the way home was dizzy, shakes, short of breath, her GP told her to go to the emergency at Mona Vale Hospital. We have never been so scared, they thankfully ruled out stroke and heart attack but she has a murmur in her heart but they say now its ok, her thyroid was overactive and her BP very high, she was in hospital 5 nights and ive never been so scared. She had CT scan as they thought there was a clot on her lung. they did ECG's every 12 hours. Turns out it is thought the medicine she was taking for her bronchitis with her BP medicine caused her to have this reaction and also asthma. So they have changed her meds and she was monitored for 2 days after it changed and then finally allowed home. There was NO aircon at the hospital at all it was so bad.... Im so knackered now, im at mums looking after her until she feels better, so we are all here with her.

Just wanted to let you know im here, but will not be able to catchup and post personals until mum is better, but I am thinking of you all and love reading how you all are.

Bel
xxx

[TheBear]

**goes back into the Lurker's corner**

Lurking? - 3 out of last 7 posts?

Hope you are all having a good long weekend...

Beth's poo drought was officially broken this afternoon, and it was not a pretty thing - I spent the morning disembowelling a piglet for tomorrow's BBQ and quite frankly it was a less unpleasant experience than dealing with that particular nappy!

Baby-proofing is on my mind at the moment too, I'm tending towards Mel's approach - but I think I'm going to deal with a few of the higher risk areas. I think we're going to secure the undersink cabinets in the kitchen and bathroom, move the hifi and computer electronics and associated wiring up out of reach, add doors to the lower level of some of the bookshelves in order to make them harder to climb and leave it at that.

[Arimeh]

Lurking? - 3 out of last 7 posts?

I came back out.... had things to say... got my mojo back..

Going back in there now..

*skulks back into the corner to which she came from*

[Jewel]

Hey everyone. I thought I was alone in here this morning.

Majella - Welcome back!!! We're still on 4 or 5 bottles a day still. With one meal, dinner and some fruit at lunch sometimes. and Happy 6months to your DD for back on the 13th. My DS2 was born a week early too, on the 19th.

Pix & Bear - Great to see you again, Bear. I'm glad Beth's poo drought came to an end. The waiting and wondering must have been a killer. We just go with the flow with the day naps.. although he still hates them and I have to eventually rock him to sleep cause of him fighting them but we get there in the end. Haydie doesn't go to bed until like 8:30 - 9pm most nights. When we eat dinner, Haydie sits up at the table in his highchair eating his too. (I even put a placemat for him now cause I'm a freak and he's just like us sitting up at the table. )

Mez - Sounds like you had a great time at the meetup. Good luck with the babyproofing. Just when you think you've got everything, they usually find something else, well that was what happened in our house. Yeah, DS1 does start school this week, he's actually going like 9 till 1:30pm on thursday, so it's not a full day first off cause of the strike that's on. The teacher wanted to still get them started, I think. I'm not sure if he's excited or not. He doesn't say much about it which is funny since he never shuts up talking about everything else. He hardly talked about Preschool either. It's funny.

Sweetpea - GO DD! We're just starting to get the sitting a bit more stable here, and the rolling is constant (and sometimes annoying) not that close to crawling. YAY with the teeth. They'll be popping through soon. I think Haydie has a heap of teeth all pushing through at once. I know I can see one almost cutting. MY DS1 starts big school this week too. We got the last few things today that he needs. I'm not really sure how I feel about it yet. Lol.

Mel - I'm dying to know what's going to be revealed too. I'm a nosey rosey.

Belle - I'm sorry to hear your mum has been in hospital. I'm glad it wasn't a stroke or heart attack or anything like that. I hope she's recovering quickly.. and what the.. No air con in the hospital??

As for us;
Last night we went back to having a full night sleep without Haydie waking every time he rolled over or whatev.. so trust me to have a bad night sleep and not manage to sleep well when I can, so maybe tonight, hopefully tonight.
His rash is almost gone. He's still got really dry skin though, but that's getting better quite fast too. YAY!
I'm going go for one last attempt at giving him farex. LOL. I know it's very high hopes but I don't know what else to give him for brekky and I want to start brekky again.. I'd like to give yogurt but I'm not sure if that was causing the rash.

Not much else going on. Boring, boring, boring.

ETA:
Kell - We must have been posting at the same time. Hiiiii. DS1 was really into things aswell. If there was something he knew he wasn't allowed, he'd be into it. I didn't really know much about baby proofing so we just did the put things up higher, and we put a latch on a sliding door so he couldn't get into the laundry and those places. Then the laundry was used to keep most things. It'll be different this time around though, new house and all. I hope we don't have to start proofin' the place yet. I don't want him moving too soon.

[ShootingStar]

Tenny.. ive just started giving Keira Bellamey's Apple and Cinnimon Breakfast. Its like a cereal. You can also get a Multigrain Cereal in the Bellameys too. Both are 6 months+. Or you could always mix a little pear or apple into the farex. Just 1 at a time incase he gets the rash back poor pet. Or theres always custard. You could try the egg custard. I was told with Jesse that custard is actually pretty good for them, alot better than those fruit gels. But i think, a way you can test certain foods, like if they have a real bad tolerance to them is to rub a little on their skin.