Babies Born July 2007 #23

[BhoysGirl]

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.

[razzle]

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.

[Ngala]

Hi everyone!!

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

[CrystalBoo]

Hi Everyone

Try to get some personals in while Autie is sleeping...

Nicky, you must be getting excited by now with the big day so close! Where's your honeymoon? Who's having Lachie? I bet you will miss him big time.

Raels, how's Oliver doing? There's so much illness going around atm. Autie has had a bad cough and runny nose but that's coming good. I've had her on olive leaf extract and a natural expectorant and both seem to work really well. Dan will be away still for Father's Day but I packed him a present bag in his bag when he wasn't looking with just some small stuff and a card from Autie. He opened the presents already but is saving the card until Sunday. What have you got planned?

Wow Mel, you must have your own parking spot at the hospital by now! LOL Poor Jack! I think you have some exciting years ahead. Hope the ankle wasn't fractured?

Jan, good news with the sleeping and BF. Please tell me more about the meningoccocal trial. I had to have a giggle over the cereal for dinner - is your man kitchen challenged? LOL I think he's very lucky if you make dinner every night with a barnacle baby! Thanks for dressing Liam - I feel all warm and smiley now when I see his cute face LOL We are coping ok thanks, though Autie has been in bed with me most nights to make things easier. We may even have him home sooner than expected if this rain keeps up.

Bec, how scary for you both! How is Xavier doing now? I suspect Autie has a touch of asthma too, but they tell me it can't be diagnosed. Just in case you're interested, the doc told me to get a natural expectorant for her cough (Prospan - ivy leaf) and also mentioned that it also works in a similar way to Ventolin on the airways. It's safe to have with any medications and doesn't taste bad - might be worth a look.

Hi V, cute photo of Avaleigh in her special hat...LOL

Well, Autie had her allergy appointment this morning and it turns out she has severe peanut allergy (with a few minor allergies on the side as bonus treats) We have two Epi-pens at a government funded discount price of $31, and when they expire in 12m time, I can replace them for a mere $205... For life-saving medications??? And I also had to hand over $360 for the appointment. Someone somewhere is making some serious dollars out of allergy sufferers that's for sure. So that's our news and now I'm off to find some sort of cute medical alert bracelet which will probably cost my other arm and leg.

Have a loverly day everybody!

[BhoysGirl]

Hey Sacha - good to hear you're surviving ok. how nice that Autie will sleep in your bed, L won't have a bar of co-sleeping, unless it's on the couch, which really doesn't work for me. Bummer about her expensive peanut allergy, $205 for replacement pens is outrageous. DF's makes a very good sous chef & cleaner but I generally don't mind cooking most nights. Cereal for dinner is a rarity these days, it was mostly cos I wasn't having anything so it was just quick & easy.

The vaccine trial was interesting - we got a letter via medicare asking for volunteers, I ummed & aahed, then called them for more info. They are trialling a vaccine that's already in use for people older than 2, that covers more meningoccal strains, so I decided that I was comfortable with volunteering L's body for the greater good. Plus it had already been trialled in Canada on 1yo's, so I didn't feel like L was being a complete guinea pig. And they did home visits, which was a bonus. The first visit was by a dr & two nurses, they took a blood sample & gave the meningoccal vaccine (which might still have been just the standard one that all 1yos get anyway, we'll never know), we had to take temps & injection site measurements for 7 days, plus record any other medical "events" for 28 days. Then the 2 nurses came back for the 2nd visit, took another blood sample & did the other immunisations plus chicken pox. And that was it.

Hi to everyone else...

[mrscricket]

Hi girls! Just popped in quickly to say hi . Haven't had much time to get on lately so cant even do personals as I need to catch up on all the posts. Hope everyone is well, especially those with little growing bubbas inside!

Everything is well here - although I do personally believe I am being stalked by the Veronica's song . Everytime I turn on the radio, there it is "I wanna kiss a girl, I wanna kiss a girl..", everytime I turn on the tv, its the Dancing with the Stars ad. It is driving me crazy!!
Went for breakfast this morning with DH's niece for her birthday and my MIL was being horrible about Tom not walking. I nearly smacked her over the head! She kept saying to him - "now Nanny expect you to be walking by your 14month birthday, so you haven't got many days to go. You need to walk, you are being very lazy". Grrr.. She keeps asking me when I started walking, as DH walked at 11mths and she literally believes baby's follow in their parents footsteps. I walked at 10mths but tell her it was 19mths just to annoy her. Silly woman!

Well, I am going to spend some time catching up on all the goss while Tom is asleep, so hope everyone has a good weekend! And Happy Fathers Day to all the daddies!!

[BhoysGirl]

I feel like the resident lurking stalker...

Em - I can't believe you didn't hit your MIL over the head for saying such a silly thing to Tom, well done on the self restraint. Why is it that people seem to think that children are trained monkeys performing tricks to order? I think I'm very lucky that mine isn't in the country in a lot of ways, although my own mother can still do my head in at times just as well .

Okay, back to lurking for me...

[jemima]

Hello everyone!

Long time since I have posted here!!

I have kind of been keeping up on everyones news but kind of not as well - so much talkand sooooo long since I last posted . I must say it is a rather daunting thought doing personals so I might just do a general hi and then hopefully pick up from here on in!

We are all good. Charlotte is walking and has been for about a month so she now charges around after the boys which is cute to see. She has been sleeping really well but I think she is teething again so the last two nights have been a little bit broken but nothing to complain about. I am still breast feeding and expressing at work which is going well - although some days I think my supply is pretty low but I have been drinking heaps of green tea which I think has been helping with supply - and I just crave the taste of it at the moment - weird! Jesse (DS2) is sleeping like a dream now so I feel like I have my head well and truly above water at the moment (i know that can change in an instant)! We ended upo taking Jesse to a sleep dr and although the plan he gave us was nothing different to what we had triend before it just gave us some confidence and within two nights he was sleeping through from 7 until 7 and has been ever since so things are good. Dont get me wrong we still have good and bad days but I am seeing some light iykwim.

I am still working 5 days a fortnight and LOVE LOVE LOVE going - although I do miss the kids4 when I am there but I love having quiet coffees and shopping at lunch time. Work just gives me some balance with DH away all the time - although we have had a good run and he has been home for a while now but from about the end of September until June next year we will hardly see him - I am trying not to think about it much - bury my head in the sand type attitude.

I have been running a bit lately and have a 12km run in two weeks which I am looking forward to (in a painful kind of way). Running has become my "me" time and it is easy to do in that I dont have to drive any where and I can be gone and back within a short space of time and I can do it in my lunch break at work if DH isnt around to look after the kids.

Just a few quick personals

Congrat Jas and Jess on the pregnancies - (thats how long it has been since I have posted LOL)!

Best of luck Nicky on the up and coming wedding - cant wait to see some pics.

Olimoo - enjoy your manicure - divine!

Em - blah at your MIL. Mil just dont get it do they.

Sacha - gee thats expensive for life saving medication. Great yo uhave found out so early about her allergy.

Jan- Love the name change! fantastic job on the breastfeeding!

Mel - hello and I hope you are doing well. Hope you havent had another trip to the hospital with jack - hospital visits seem to be such a boy thing!! Cheers for tonight as I plan to have a glass of red or two!

Hello everyone else.

I will try and keep up - life is just so darn busy!!

Take care
Jem

[Enchanted]

Good afternoon Mums & bubs!

What a gorgeous day it is here!! For the first time in I couldn't tell you how many months.. I have washing drying on the line!! Such a great feeling Ahh... this is what my life has come to!!

Things here are flat chat.. we move on the 15th so I have heaps to do!! Madly packing today as next week will be a nightmare finalising everything, catching up with everyone and I have Dr's appts etc as well

I'll be back later but just wanted to give you a HUGE Jess. Glad to hear that everything has settled down though.. stay in there little bubba! Sending you lots of placenta moving vibes hun!

I'll try and get back tonight for personals. Have a great afternoon gorgeous ladies!!

[~*Niadalla*~]

Hi girls,
very quiet in here of late.
19 days until the wedding now, and everything is organised, just picking up my wedders tomorrow, have my hair and makeup trial in 10 days, and then yeah, wait until the day arrives.

Not alot happening I spose. I was fluey last week and am just getting over it now, Lachie wasn't well last night, and I got a BFP on Saturday arvo, so all things going well I will be heading to the docs this week.

well, hoep you're all doing well. Will pop back in soon.

xxoo