Raels- I am with Mel. MAKE A COMPLAINT!! I cannot believe that the Nurses acted that way and said what they did. They are meant to be professionals and are meant to be there to help not put anyone down!!!! Sorry hun, but it makes me so mad!! TBH.. I don't think weight or height etc matters at all. As long as our bubs are all healthy and thriving who cares about numbers!!
Jess- You guys really can't catch a break can you? I'm glad you have family down at the moment. Will be good for you to have some help with Ethan. Sorry to hear he has Chicken Pox I hope he's feeling better soon. I hope you're doing ok hun. You have so much on your plate. Hope you're feeling ok.
Mel- Sorry to hear your family is feeling cr@ppy. We're feeling pretty sorry for ourselves here at the moment too. It's never ending with illness here at the moment! Yay for Jack's glove. How is he doing? (Sorry, I haven't read back through the posts)
V- Not good to hear that Jason is sick. Hope he is better now. to Avaleigh. Oscar had an ear infection last the poor little poppet Hope she is feeling better soon. I just kept the Nurofen up to Oscar and it only took a day or so for him to be back to himself.
Em- I haven't had my MCHN appt yet but a gf whose bub is the same age as ours as our MCHN had no dramas with him still having bottles. Oscar still has 4 bottles a day, which isn't ideal BUT it's what keeps him happy and putting on weight. I was talking to a MW the other week and was saying how I wish Osacr would drop a few bottles and she said "You know what? Don't worry about it!! He will give them up when he is ready" That made me feel a bit better.
Sacha- Wow! I didn't realise what a rough time you have had. Both Bali and the first few days of Autie's life. I would love to hear your story if you want to share it with me. You're one brave chicky!
Sorry to those I have missed.. I know there are a few of you but my brain is all over the place at the moment
A bit on us... Oscar is sick AGAIN!!! I had him at the Dr yesterday as he had a cough, snotty nose and conjunctivitis. So the Dr put him on his second course of ABs (he was on some last week) and off we went home. I gave him some last night and when I got Oscar out of bed this morning he was covered in spots!! I freaked out thinking it was Measles but the Dr seems to think Oscar just had a reaction to the ABs. Which I was a bit confused by seeings as he had the same ones last week for 6 days. Anyway, I just have to keep an eye on Oscar and go back if he gets worse. All his symptoms though lead to measles but anyway.. he is the professional!! Oscar is walking around everywhere and is SO proud of himself!! Such a cutie! Despite him being sick this week I haven't really heard a peep from him as he has been too busy playing with all his new toys!!
Me... well I had a gyno appointment yesterday which I have been waiting 3 months for and it was confirmed that I have PCOS. Only a mild form of it but it's still there So I just have to manage it with diet and weight and go from there. I do have to have a BT each year to test my insulin levels as my body can build a resistance to insulin and I can get diabetes. I'm in pretty good spirits about it all though and is sort of nice to have a diagnosis and a plan of attack. However, with my stomach problems I am heading into hospital next Tuesday for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy which will be yuck but again.. fingers crossed I can be given some kind of answer as to why I am feeling so cr@ppy etc. Anyway.. I have rambled long enough.
Preheat oven to 210 degrees and brush muffin pan with butter.
Grate carrot & zucchini. Sift flour, cinnamon & nutmeg into bowl. Add zucchini, carrots and pecans. Stir thoroughly. In separate bowl combine eggs, milk and butter and wisk. Add to flour mixture. Mix with a fork until ingredients are just moistened. Spoon into prepared pan. Bake 15-20 mins until golden.
Now I left out the pecans and added saltanas instead. I also added some banana although I probably should of reduced the milk a little when doing this, because it made it a little too moist. I made them in mini muffin pans, perfect for little hands!. I made vegetable fritters and yoghurt pancakes yesterday too. Mr Fussy wasn't overly interested but will keep trying him!
Sacha - I want to hear as much as you are willing to share!
Oh oh. What was in the 12month needles!!! I have the grumpiest baby ever. Do you remember that ad where the parents take the little boy back to the shop and swap him for another kid? Hmmm.. for some reason I keep thinking about that ad today..
Danni - babe, things don't sound too good for you atm. Hope you get some answers soon! It's great that you are in good spirits though, it's important to stay positive. Thanks for your kind words. Everyone I have spoken to says that I should definitely make the complaint so I am going to.
Megan - my doctor did tell me that a rash is quite common after the MMR shot but it should only be mild. Oliver loves mandarins too, been having them for a while. I haven't tried oranges yet though.
Sacha - I would love to hear your story too, as much as you feel you want to tell us! Oliver is over his reaction. He basically just got temps, grizzly and was off his solids for a day. All he wanted to do was breastfeed so I now have loads of milk that he doesn't want! lol, I will adjust again.
Em - yum, the muffins sound great! about the ad.
Well Oliver is all better now but last night was a shocker. He woke after only 2 hours of being in bed and ended up in our bed until around 2, but DF woke him when he got up for work cause for some reason this morning he was very loud! I probably should go and do some housework while he is napping.
Danni - *hugs* I agree with Raels, its good to stay positive. I had a gastroscopy and colonoscopy about 4 years ago.. It aint that bad LOL All I remember was them putting the clippy thing on my finger and putting me under and then I woke up in recovery..
DOH! Avaleigh is awake from her nap.. BBL - hopefully!
Oh my poor little munchkin, it mustnt be very nice having an ear infection! I was so overhelmed last night by it all cause she hasnt really eatten much since Monday and I was worried that she would starve and Jason didnt seem to care very much cause he hadnt eaten in 2 days! So I called mum and broke down in tears and she said everything will be ok and that with the ABs Avaleigh will be back to herself by the weekend and not to force her to eat cause it may do no good. I came out of my bedroom after the call and Jason asked what I was crying for!! It felt good to have a cry. I feel a little silly because mum suffured 3 years with me having ear infection and I cant handle a few days! I think that having to deal with a grown man having food poisoning AND a sick baby is just too much!!
Anyway, back to personals..
Em - that recipe sounds great! I must write it down and try it when Avaleigh is all better.
Hmm looks like that is it for now.. Have a good day everyone!!
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Seriously - why won't children sleep when they're tired . 20 minutes today, if we're lucky, and still he's fighting & fighting against it. Mental head.
Jan I know, if someone gave me some nice warm milk, put me to bed and said sleep for as long as you want, I don't think I'd get up for a couple of days.
Megan, I know how you feel about the tantrums. I think they suck your life forces out of somewhere around the knees...
Danni, you are doing great to be so positive when there's so much going on for you and poor little Oscar. Hope you both are able to get on top of things real soon.
LOl Em at your ad comparison! I think those shots must have a little dose of cranky juice in there somewhere because I've had a totally crap time with Autie since and she has only just started to come good today - eating and sleeping better TG! Thanks for the recipe, I would have to have left out the pecans anyway until I find out if Autie's allergy is all nuts, so I'm glad you already came up with an alternative. The sultanas would sweeten a bit too I imagine.
Raels, Autie has been in bed with me every night since Dan left on Tuesday - not only could I not cope with the getting up all the time, but I just feel she needs it while she's not feeling herself. I would prefer it not get to be a habit though because it doesn't work well when Dan's home - I think she gets annoyed he's taking up HER side of the bed LOL
Jan, I hear you. Just keep telling yourself it's a phase - that's become my mantra
Well, I'm not really sure where to start with the Bali thing I think it's best if I try to condense it a bit and then you can ask if you want more info someplace. It's easier when people ask questions - I never had to write it out before! I will assume you haven't been there, but if you have, you will get a better picture. I was on holiday with a younger friend and we were staying at a place called TroppoZone (for youngies wanting to party - not entirely my scene but it was Nic's choice and I love to travel so I'll go anywhere) There is a bank opposite the Sari Club and behind that is Troppo - a series of little one up one down cheap bali style rooms set out around two pools and an open air bar area/restaurant/lobby. So the Balinese are lovely and very tolerant of drunken Aussies taking over the streets at night with everyone mostly going bar to bar. The Sari was one of the main ones, as was Paddy's next door to the bank (there is an alley between, where the entrance to TZ is) On the Thurs and Fri, TZ organised a two day tour of the rest of the island which included two big nights and most of us from TZ had gone on that so on Saturday we spent our first night since getting there just hanging out around the pool recovering. Then there was a sound like a firework gone wrong and we all stopped and were like 'that was weird'. Then another and all the lights went out and roof tiles started raining down. Someone ran off to investigate and came back saying it was an explosion and buildings were on fire. I went up to our room to find bits of ceiling all over the floor and the roof half off, and found our shoes in the dark and we all went out. As soon as we stepped out into the alley, we could see how bad it was and there was the expected chaos you would imagine - bleeding, burnt black people (sorry if TMI), screaming, fire but no lights anywhere. So tourists from all around started helping people away from the area and we took many up our alley to get out that way (so proud of the Australian 'get in and get it done' attitude that night) There was very little (none that i saw actually) emergency persons of any kind. Many of the wounded were taken into TZ lobby and that's where I ended up again, helping there. The fire was spreading and TZ caught as well though they managed to get that put out using a hose from the pool after a few hours (guests did that too) By early morning, most of what could be done had been done and they (TZ staff) asked us to gather on the tennis court due to the rooms all having damage. We were sent guards to stand in the alleyway because by then,they knew it wasn't an accident, and that's where we slept. Then we hung out and found rooms that weren't damaged until they flew us out on Monday. During that Sunday, when we walked around outside (before someone finally got organised and made it a crime scene) the Balinese were all apologizing and begging us not to hate them. There was such relief in their faces when we said it wasn't their fault. I think we were definitely looked after from above that night, if we hadn't been buggered from the tour, we would have been at the Sari as we were every other night. So that's the abbreviated story and we were, of course, much luckier than many other people.
Sounds like I've got an unsettled toddy (!) on my hands - just when I thought it was getting better
I think Avaleigh has got gastro!! Yesterday I started getting really bad tummy cramps and then spend the rest of the arvo on the toilet, today I am ok, still cramping but not on the toilet. So I began thinking that Jason must have gotten gastro andnot food poisoning. I tried giving Avaleigh dinner tonight but after a few mouthfuls she threw it back up and it was a huge spew! I let her tummy settle a bit and bout hr later gave her a bit of milk to have that come up in a huge spew too. I've just now tried to breastfeed her but nope, huge spew!!
My poor munchkin has an ear infection AND gastro
Have any of you mums had a bub with gastro? What should I do? She cant keep down anyting!
V- Go to the chemist and buy sum Hydralyte or gastrolyte and give that to Avaleigh its replaces all the things she is losing with the vomiting and diarrhea...... I found when Chloe had gastro when she was lil Plain cooked pasta with a lil bit of salt was great it was the only thing she could keep down...
Hope that helps... Sorry the late response...
Bayleigh is having his first sleep over tonight at a girlfriends house and im missing him like crazy but i know he is fine lol plus Chloe is there also so if he gets to upset thro the night she will give him big cuddles whcih will calm him down
Okay, I'm here cos I'm bored, but I'm feeling a bit lazy, so I'm going to pike a bit on extensive personals, I hope you'll all forgive me, cos it's nothing personal
Sasha - thanks for sharing your Bali Bombing story. It must have been truly horrific & terrifying, but at the same time to have the opportunity and ability to help the injured people must have been an incredible thing to do. I don't mean this to sound weird, but it's definitely something to be proud of, that you contributed.
V - can't believe that Jason gave you & Avaleigh gastro. Typical man! Seriously, hope she's doing better for you now.
Danni - hope young Oscar is on the improve for you, poor little man. Having your PCOS diagnosed is good, but it sucks that you've got it. Good luck for Tuesday, hopefully it will be over & done with, without any problems and with some more results.
Em - thanks for posting your muffin recipe. I'm going to have to cook up a batch for Liam, his only "sweet" at the moment is stewed apple & natural yoghurt, or occasionally dried fruit, so it will be good to offer fussypants an alternative.
Sarah - how did Bayleigh go at his sleepover? Did you get a nice sleep-in yourself? You are much braver than I am, I don't think I could let Liam go away for a night, I'd miss him too much.
Well, I think we have some more teeth arriving in this house sometime soon, as I have a dribble guts wandering around, who can't keep his hands out of his mouth, and who's eczema has really flared again. Thank goodness for Nurofen I say. He's doing pretty well though, because he's not that grizzly all things considered. We took him for his inaugural tricyle ride today, thinking that we'd get around the block & he'd be content - no way jose, he loved it so we had to keep going for nearly an hour. It was so cute, he just sat back in the seat, propped his feet up on the mudguard and sang & talked for the trip. There's a house nearby that keeps a couple of ducks in their frontyard, so we went to visit them and that was super fun, the ducks were fantastically interesting, especially when they quacked.
Well, so much for this, the baby alarm has gone off again.
Yay Megan - HAPPY BIRTHDAY, and woo hoo for clever little Lucas!
I'm having my first "break" today - Pat's bathing Liam, who has had a dose of gastro today, so we've been alternating between vomiting, changing clothes and cuddling/sleeping on the couch. Not quite the cleaning day I had planned, but oh well. Fingers crossed that he's over the worst of it & will sleep well tonight.
well seems Gastro is the illness of the week in here.... I hate that BUG I have a disinfectant bottle permantly in my hand whenever that ugly bugs turns up here LOL
Bayleigh still isnt 100% im goin to make an appt to see our GP this week and get him checked out again.... His sleep over went well apart from him waking at 3am and not goin back to sleep till after 5am but my G/F said he wasn't crying just talkin to himself LOL we later realised it would have been becoz her son sleeps with a night lite and door open where bayleigh sleeps with the door closed and no lite... I went ok i was texting her most of the night till about 10pm till she told me to cease all contact LOL. Chris and i went out for a late dinner of chinese (it felt weird eating my meal hot LOL) and then we went to a friends place and left there about 130am, of course i couldnt sleep so i sat up till about 4am and then i was wide awake at 6am so i got up and cleaned the house LOL so no sleep in for me but i had a clean house and it stayed clean for 6 hours LOL
Megan HAPPY BIRTHDAY for yesterday and YAY on the birthday present LOL WELL DONE LUCAS
Well im goin to pick up our new puppy from the pound today.... We are getting RUSTY a lil play mate We found her on the lost dog website for the local council and we fell in love with her so i took the kids out there on saturday to meet her and she LOVES the kids.. She's a Blue Heeler X we think with a Kelpie.. Thank god we are moving to a big block of land in 6 weeks so both RUSTY and KOBIE will have heaps of room to run plus they have an extra 5 arces next door to run that FIL owns. She had to go to the vet yesterday to be desexed and m/chip inserted so i hope she is going ok...
Bayleigh hasnt had his 12mth Needles yet and after wat everyone else has said i dont think i want him to have them LOL Its bad enuff he not 100% and isnt his normal happy smiley laughing boy (i do miss the normal bayleigh LOL )
Sasha- Thanks for sharing your bali story... I agree with Jan you should be very proud of the fantastic job you did while there Im sure there are many people that are very grateful of your help....
Well im goin to go and have ashower in peace LOL before the house wakes...
Hope all the unwell bubba's get better soon and same with any unwell mummies...
Sarah
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haha Sarah - I was wondering what on earth you were doing logged on & posting at 6am in the morning, but then I got to the end of your post & read that you were off for a shower in peace - I soooo get that. If I get a shower on my own these days, it's like Christmas!
I've got both my big boy & my little boy home sick with me today. The big boy not so much, but the little one still has a funny tummy. The big one is harder to care for though - he just hovers...does my head in, cos it messes up my routine. So I've sent them both off to bed for some peace & quiet. so far so good.
Bit quiet in here the last couple of days. Hope it's not because you are all sick. We have been here. Poor Oliver came down with a tummy bug on Saturday and is also cutting three teeth. The little buggers keep coming up but then disapearing again. It's his next two bottom ones and a molar. The last two nights have been hell, he has ended up in our bed (which I don't mind) but he has hasn't slept very well, so in turn we haven't either. He is off his food too. The last few days he has survived on bananas and strawberries but this morning I managed to get him to eat some weetbix. I came down with the bug yesterday and then DF came home from work with it too. Lexxen was complaining of tummy aches but was fine to play and eat like a horse so I think he is fine!
Jan - Those BIG boys are hard work sometimes!! Hope your boys get better soon and you don't get it!
Sarah - What in a shower in peace like? It has been so long I have forgotten!! I would hold off the needles too until Bayleigh is all better.
Megan - for yesterday!! Hope you had a lovely day. for Lucas!!!
Well Oliver is snoring so I should probably go and lay down myself. I have so much housework to do but bugger that!!
Just popping my head in for a brief skim over of what everyone has been up to. Seems like a bit of gastro is going around - bugger that! Avaleigh was actually alright on Sunday after her huge spews on Saturday night, I was a bit hesitant to give her much to eat but got to about lunch time and she was crying from hunger so I gave her some lunch and she was a-ok. It was ME that wasnt ok! I was awake from midnight saturday feeling like I would be sick but I wasnt sick and then all sunday I was on the couch feeling awfully weak and I slept most the day. I'm still not 100%, my gut is not happy with its cramping and churning and I have lost about 4kg with this all cause I am not hungry. Great weight loss program LOL just not very pleasant!
Well thats all that I can manage, I'm doing a 5 day week to make up for last week and I am only at tuesday and am already tired from it all!
Well I have a bit of highly exciting new!!! (Well I think it is) On Monday morning I got a so I am due on the 18th of April, 2009 so if this baby was born on his/her due date then Noah and this bubby will be exactly 21months apart! We are so excited, have put a pregnancy announcement thread up too!!!
Jas - I've said it before, but I'll say it again - woo hoo, congratulations, that's such exciting news, and I'm very very happy for you. I'm too lazy to do the sums - how many weeks does that make you??
I hope he's feeling better soon. I hope you're doing ok hun. You have so much on your plate. Hope you're feeling ok.
to Avaleigh. Oscar had an ear infection last the poor little poppet 
. I made vegetable fritters and yoghurt pancakes yesterday too. Mr Fussy wasn't overly interested but will keep trying him!
about the ad. 
. 20 minutes today, if we're lucky, and still he's fighting & fighting against it. Mental head. 
I think it's best if I try to condense it a bit and then you can ask if you want more info someplace. It's easier when people ask questions - I never had to write it out before! I will assume you haven't been there, but if you have, you will get a better picture. I was on holiday with a younger friend and we were staying at a place called TroppoZone (for youngies wanting to party - not entirely my scene but it was Nic's choice and I love to travel so I'll go anywhere) There is a bank opposite the Sari Club and behind that is Troppo - a series of little one up one down cheap bali style rooms set out around two pools and an open air bar area/restaurant/lobby. So the Balinese are lovely and very tolerant of drunken Aussies taking over the streets at night with everyone mostly going bar to bar. The Sari was one of the main ones, as was Paddy's next door to the bank (there is an alley between, where the entrance to TZ is) On the Thurs and Fri, TZ organised a two day tour of the rest of the island which included two big nights and most of us from TZ had gone on that so on Saturday we spent our first night since getting there just hanging out around the pool recovering. Then there was a sound like a firework gone wrong and we all stopped and were like 'that was weird'. Then another and all the lights went out and roof tiles started raining down. Someone ran off to investigate and came back saying it was an explosion and buildings were on fire. I went up to our room to find bits of ceiling all over the floor and the roof half off, and found our shoes in the dark and we all went out. As soon as we stepped out into the alley, we could see how bad it was and there was the expected chaos you would imagine - bleeding, burnt black people (sorry if TMI), screaming, fire but no lights anywhere. So tourists from all around started helping people away from the area and we took many up our alley to get out that way (so proud of the Australian 'get in and get it done' attitude that night) There was very little (none that i saw actually) emergency persons of any kind. Many of the wounded were taken into TZ lobby and that's where I ended up again, helping there. The fire was spreading and TZ caught as well though they managed to get that put out using a hose from the pool after a few hours (guests did that too) By early morning, most of what could be done had been done and they (TZ staff) asked us to gather on the tennis court due to the rooms all having damage. We were sent guards to stand in the alleyway because by then,they knew it wasn't an accident, and that's where we slept. Then we hung out and found rooms that weren't damaged until they flew us out on Monday. During that Sunday, when we walked around outside (before someone finally got organised and made it a crime scene) the Balinese were all apologizing and begging us not to hate them. There was such relief in their faces when we said it wasn't their fault. I think we were definitely looked after from above that night, if we hadn't been buggered from the tour, we would have been at the Sari as we were every other night. So that's the abbreviated story and we were, of course, much luckier than many other people. 
for yesterday!! Hope you had a lovely day. 
so I am due on the 18th of April, 2009 so if this baby was born on his/her due date then Noah and this bubby will be exactly 21months apart! We are so excited, have put a pregnancy announcement thread up too!!!
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