Just coming in quickly.. I have been reading but just havent had the time to sit and do a post...
bayleigh has the fever over the weekend and had it till tuesday then wednesday he woke with a rash all over his body went to the Dr and thak god its not serious its just a viral heat rash due to the fever reaching so high fast.... THANK GOD he didt have a another convolsion.....
sorry its just a us post
I must go and get ready chloe has Grandparents/special person day at school today and my Baby brother is going to go to it. So i have to go out to my mums to get him ad his GF and take them to school....
Hope everyone has a good day and those of you with sick bubbas hope they get better soon
Be back later hopefully to do personals
Will try and do some personals while Olivia is occupying herself with her books
Mel - Poor little Jack, he seems a very inquistive little man, wants to know all about the world!! Is he ok now? Hope you are going too and your Sister is coping ok with her divorce
Sarah - poor Bayleigh! So many babies are sick, touch wood. I was meant to go down the coast to visit my friend and her bub today but he is sick still, poor thing. I hope Bayleigh gets better soon!
Olimoo - I wish I had someone like you when I was breastfeeding. You really do think that it would be easy and have no problems. I couldn't feed Olivia and expressed for 3 1/2 months as I felt so upset I couldn't feed her. I hated not bonding with her in that way. I will def try with No.2 and I hope I can feed him/her.
em - Yeah I think Olivia's foot goes slightly out to the right, but she pushes her walker around ok and walks ok so I think its just her foot!! I think Mum said she thinks I did too but I will keep an eye on it for sure!
V - The pill is a strange thing ain't it! I have gone back on but haven't put on any weight just yet but have to be careful as I eat like a pig I surprised myself and have kept the weight off after Olivia was born but the pill has been ok for now - I will probably just wake up one day and be back to pre-pregnancy weight LOL But I got a strong pill for my acne as that flared up after Olivia - never had bad acne before....hormones are a strange thing for us girls!!
Thanks for all the advice on the sleep. I still trying to work her out. Olivia has been waking at 7am most morning, so she then has a 45-1hr nap at about 10:30, but then I struggle getting her to sleep in the afternoon!! So I wonder if I should try and stretch her out, have lunch around 11:30 then she may have a good 2-3 hours!! Its a bit hard at the moment. Yesterday she wa up at 11:45, she had a bout a 20 mins nap in the car from 4:40-5pm then was up till 9pm as we were at Nannas!
Has anyone heard of the Learning Ladder? They do party plan like Tupperware, not sure if its just in Melb or not but I am having a party on Wed, all education books and toys...they have a website, it looks pretty good!
I'm just about to go to bed but wanted to pop in and say a quick Hope you gorgeous mummies have had a super weekend! Will hopefully be back in soon *mwa*
Hi girls!
Just thought I would update.
3 weeks ( and a few days) out from the big day. I only need to confirm numbers with caterer ( will do that today), buy alcohol and glasses (Tuesday) and organise a tanning and waxing appt along with nails, and we're done.
I had a friend make my dress, and I got to pick it up on the weekend which was a huge releif.
Hoping that next week I can relax a little ( if I get everything done this week) and the week after that I can attempt to relax.... and then it will be here!
EEK!!!
Not much happening with Lachie, Going to get his 12 month immus tomorrow, he's walking around like a little pro, and does these little skip type things now, like he's about to take off.
We're using cloth nappies, and he has a habit of waiting for me to get him out of his nighttime sposie, putting on his cloth, and within 5 mins, he's destroyed that too! LOL
No more constipation problems here
Anyway, that's all that's been happening here.... patiently waiting for the big day, adn then ..... off on our honeymoon! Can't wait! 8 child free days ( although I think I will get very Lachie-sick after only a couple).
Yes very quiet in here isn't it?? Hope everyone is ok and I hope the sick babies are getting better and giving their mum's some rest. Oliver has a cold now, not too bad but he's a bit miserable and restless. I think he will be walking very soon also!! He has been doing this very cute thing where he comes up and grabs your face gently, and pulls you in for a kiss and hug, soooo beautiful. Not much else to report though except it's been really hot here the past couple of days...time some for shopping
Oh yey Nicky, thats all very exciting. Are you having a church wedding or an outside ceremony? Not sure if you have mentioned it before, my memory is crap atm. Where are you off to on your honeymoon, you have probably mentioned that before as well , doh!!
Congrats to all the babies that have started to or about to start walking, all very exciting.
Raels, that sounds very cute what Oliver does, such a sweetie.
Hope everyone else is well.
We are still the same, sick kids, sick mummy, Jack still hurting himself, this time his ankle, another hosptial trip, x-rays, more today, possible fracture, but hopefully just sprained, still won't walk on it after 4 days. I've just excepted now, that he is a real boy boy, and is always going to be hurting himself while doing what boys to best.
Oh Mel huge . Poor little Jack. How did he hurt his ankle? I am a very superstitious person and I really believe that things happen in threes so I hope all this sickness and pain is over for your boy now! Hope you all get better soon.
Nicky - we must have posted at the same time. Your wedding plans sound very exciting!! What cloths are you using? I am going back to cloth now that the weather is warming up. I just use terry flats but was thinking of getting some inserts and covers, but don't want to spend a fortune!!
Believe it or not Raels but Jack hurt his foot on a slop in our bathroom from floor boards to tiles, he was practically just standing still and he must have rolled it down the slope. He just dropped to the groud and starting screaming, he is hopeless!! Honestly, he will sniff out trouble to be made this one!!
Have you thought about making your own inserts and covers???
Hi everyone - I agree, it's been a quiet few days in here again.
Sarah - how is Bayleigh? Has his rash gone & is he back to his normal self for you yet?
Mel - poor Jack, AGAIN!! How's his ankle going today? Actually, not so much poor Jack, probably much more poor you
Raels - Oliver's kissing sounds so gorgeous, you are very lucky. Liam just doesn't do kisses, no matter how hard I try to teach him. And even hugs, very thin on the ground, unless he's feeling sick.
Nicky - yay, only 3 weeks to go. I'm very much hoping that you'll be sharing some photos with us once you're back from your honeymoon. I think you're going to have a marvellous day, because you sound like you're chilled but organised at the same time, which has to be a good thing.
Sacha - how are you & Autie coping without Dan?
well, we've had another visit from Chucky McSpew today. First time in his bed after his morning sleep - miraculously missing his woollen blanket, for which I was most grateful. Then after lunch (pumpkin soup in, pumpkin soup out), ALLLL over me, but nicely not on the carpet, again, I was grateful. And then late this afternoon. No idea where he would have picked it up from, because we really haven't been anywhere or seen anyone for a few days. One of those things I guess. But he went to sleep quite happily, so hopefully that's the worst of it over.
Still no walking here, except for when the nurses were here for his immunisations on Friday (long story short, I decided to do the meningoccocal trial, which meant home visits for all the jabs, which was very convenient). Anyway, my back was turned, but apparently he let go of my chair & took 2 steps to get to the next chair, which was seen by one of the nurses. No sign of it again though, so I'm not counting it as a proper example. And no problems with the injections either, which was really good, he cried for a second with the 3rd one, but once the needle was out he was fine. And the good thing is that they gave him the chickenpox one as well, so no 18 month visit for us.
And my new tough mum approach overnight seems to be working - he slept through from 11.30 till 6.45 last night, and the previous few nights when he has woken he's been content with a cuddle & then back to bed without a feed, so I'm hoping that now it's been a bit over a week that maybe it's working. I've tweaked the feeding during the day a bit though, I was trying to cut out the 5pm feed, but it was so difficult, he really looked for it, but wasn't looking for the lunchtime feed. So now I don't "offer" a lunchtime feed, it tends to push out until 4ish, which then generally gets me through until his bedtime feed. So end result is a much happier me, and a happy enough boy.
And my final bit of blabber for the day - I finally pulled out my resume, expecting to have to do a fair bit of work on it, but I am a genius, I did all the work last year, and looking at it now I really don't feel like I have to make any changes to it at all. Which is great, cos I hate doing resume stuff.
ok, can't caht for long but not feeling as clucky anymore.
Friday kept the boy home as I previously mentioned. he was having trouble breathing, so I took him to the doc, who put him straight on a nebuliser and called an ambulance.
After 4 hours at a & e he was admitted to the childrens ward where he and i spent the following 2 days. They finally let us out Sunday afternoon, Man i'm exhausted and it means he can't go back to creche yet because if he gets another cold now he would probably end up back in hospital.
At the end of it all, when as far as i'm concerned it is blatantly obvious Xavier is asthmatic because of his age they won't actually diagnose it. But at the very least we now have the ventolin to give to him, (i have been so tempted in the past to give it and haven't) and finally have a refferal to a peadiatritian too!! yay I might finally be able to understand what the doctor is saying. due to the difficulty in getting doctors to reginal areas we have a lot of migrant doctors in Bendigo. Don't get me wrong they are good doctors and know their stuff but we have a little language barrier and i'm kinda over it.
oh and my little gripe, I am really over being made to feel like a bad parent this weekend. Probably not intentional but for some reason all these doctors made me feel like crap, like i was the smallest person in the world. Oh and one horrid nurse, the rest were great. Silly old women told us we had to stay in this tiny little room thing (just partitions mind you). because of cross contamination. I think she was supposed to be looking after xavier that day until she overheard me telling xavier he had to stay in the room because of the nasty nurse. Poor little thing he just wanted to move around. He was so bored and frustrated (he was also tethered to the wall with an oxygen tube for the majority of the time).
Sascha, I don't think you can loose 10kg and eat choc honeycombe, if you find out how let me know.
nicki glad to hear everything is going so well. how exciting so close now
mel, poor little man. i'm feeling for you on the hopsitrip
Jan - How is Liam today? Could it be a possible reaction from the needles? I know Oliver got sick a few days after his. He only vomitted once but had temps for a couple of days. Things sound great on the bfeeding front, how nice that he is co-operating like that! I'm not sure if you have said it before but are you going to wean completely when you go back to work or do morning and night feeds still? Idealy I would like Oliver to be on 3 feeds a day but he is not showing any signs that this will happen anytime soon. He has about 5 but sometimes will still cluster feed in the early evening. How cute is your boy btw!! Hope Sacha feels warmer now
Jas - you poor bugger, ms is the worst. Hope it doesn't stick around for too long. Is it the same as it was the first time around?
Bec - to you and Xavier, poor little man. Are you an asthmatic? Sorry if you have mentioned it before. I hate when doctors make parents feel like crap. Good luck with the pead, hope you get some answers or a diagnosis soon.
Well as for us, Oliver's cold has turned a bit nastier. He is doing some powerful sneezes which have turned a horrible shade of yellow, sorry tmi, and now has a cough in the mornings which sounds a little on the croupey side. He is still ok though, eating and sleeping well. I have been using the Eukybear Rub on his little chest at night to help him breath a bit easier.
What has everyone got planned for Father's Day?
Hello to everyone else, Oliver is calling so best be off!
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Bec - what a horrible weekend for you, poor little xavier. Although I did laugh at the nasty nurse overhearing you - good on you!. It's funny how nurses seem to fall into two categories, they're either brilliant or nasty. Well, this is my experience with them anyway. I hope that the paed gives you some proper answers.
Jas - grr, m/s, sometimes I think that we girls copped a couple of serious design flaws, like it's not hard enough to grow the baby we have to feel gross during the process. Hope it passes for you soon.
Raels - have you been to the dr for Oliver's cough? Sounds nasty that it's turning yellow, well not the cough, but YKWIM. My aim is to get down to a morning & evening feed, and hopefully fully weaned by about christmas, although sometimes that seems an impossible task. We're not doing much for FD, as DF is off to the football in the afternoon, so it will be a pretty quiet day. My neighbour & I were going to spend today getting the kids to do a painting for their dads, but her DD ended up in hsp with gastro, so no go for getting it organised. So Liam & I bought a book as a present, which is probably better for us this year, as I don't think L is artistically inclined enough to grasp the concept of painting.
well, I've had clingwrap boy today, don't think he's spent more than 5 seconds not holding onto me. And so many Bf's, I'm just drained & exhausted, and so relieved that he's finally in bed. So tired that DF has had to have cereal for dinner as I just can't be bothered cooking anything tonight, not even stuff from the freezer, how slack am I.
Jan we are off to the doctors tomorrow. He seemed a lot better tonight but will get him looked at anyway. Yellow usually means in infection of some sort, or so I've been told! Hope you get some good rest tonight. Those days where they feed a lot is very tiring isn't it? But I think it is wonderful that we can comfort them in that way, much easier when you think about it.
I have added some more photos of my boys to the gallery if anyone wants a look at them.
I dont even remember when I last posted in here.. must have been a lil while ago!! Seems like its been awfully quiet cause I couldnt find our thread - had to go through one of my notification emails!!
We are doing really well here. Its been a busy week for me, but its been all good!!
Going out to get two new tyres put on my car today (found a nail in one yesterday!!) They've only got 2 for my car today and then need to go back on Saturday and get the other two fitted.
Better go get Avaleigh breaky so we can get out of here soon. Hopefulle BBL for a read
I surprised myself and have kept the weight off after Olivia was born but the pill has been ok for now - I will probably just wake up one day and be back to pre-pregnancy weight LOL But I got a strong pill for my acne as that flared up after Olivia - never had bad acne before....hormones are a strange thing for us girls!!
I can't believe how quiet it is in here!!
Hope you gorgeous mummies have had a super weekend! Will hopefully be back in soon *mwa*
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