Babies Born June 16th - 30th 2008

Haha, I love watching Josie trying to put her dummy in her mouth. Sometimes she likes to show off and take it out and put it back in again numerous times. Pretty amusing. I also like it when she gets it to her mouth but has it the wrong way... and then she had that look like "Yeah, I totally meant to do that".. hehehe!!

Glad to hear you had a nice break. I'm thinking about seeing if Luke's parents want to have bubba for a couple of days over Christmas and then go away for a little break. We would have been together for five years as of Boxing Day this year!

I'm sure you wont have any problem with those baby sitting arrangements. They'll jump at the chance for sure. DF just suggested a night in Lorne next week so we might be off again. It will be his last week off before starting shiftwork so we want to make the most of it.

I just fed Brock & he is just so good at holding that bottle - he pretty much fed himself with a couple of drops & screams after he dropped it. I just can't believe how quickly they go from holding it and dropping it after a couple of seconds to being able to hold it for a couple of minutes before dropping it.

It is very quiet in here. Taylor does the same thing with her dummy. She is getting very distracted while eating now so although she holds her bottle she wants to look at something new every 2 minutes so it falls out.
Its DP's bday this week and although he got a wii for his bday from us I want to be able to give him something on the day but I cant find anything small.
Anyways nothing really exciting to report on this end. Looking for work and finding it really hard to get a 3 days a week job. Taylor is good, squealing and laughing sleeping right now.

My mum's been back in hossy. At first we were worried her cancer might be back as something was showing on xrays on her lungs. They then thought it might be legionnaire's disease but now they seem to think she might just have had a really nasty infection of some sort. We are banned from visiting her as she doesn't want Brock catching it. It's been so hard not being able to see her. We couldn't even call her for the first couple of days as she was kept in emergency & they wont let you talk to people when they are in there. She's feeling heaps better today so hopefully all wil turn out well.

I switched formulas on Sat night as we ran out & my sciatica was giving me hell after a day out in the city & Safeway had run out of Karicare AR. I tried the HA-AR version and for 48 hours he didn't chuck at all. I thought it was a miracle but the next day he started to chuck a little so I don't think it's any different to the AR afterall. His poos are awful - runny & smelly - so I think I'll be switching back to AR.

Thats no good about your mum. How is she now?? Have you been able to see her yet??

Not much to report here. Still looking for work grrrr finding good part time jobs is so hard.
Taylor has taken to throwing a tanti when she doesnt get her way.... particularly at bedtime (never at naptime only at night) where she throws her arms around, does silent screams and then ends up gagging. We end up having to pick her up but generally I sit in the rocking hair with her for 5 minutes and then she will go back in and sleep. Dunno why she has taken to doing this all of a sudden.

Yes we finally got to see her on Sunday night. She's finally out of hospital. She now has to go have a load of tests so she may not be out of the woods yet. My dad has been sick too so he's getting tests too. I so hate my parents getting old. It's just awful.

Taylor's tantis don't sound like much fun. Good luck with getting those under control.

We switched back to AR formula on Sat but now Brock is chucking a lot again so I think we will have to stick with the HA-AR & put up with the mega smelly poos. His skin had cleared up really well & now it's starting to go bad again so I'll be out today to get the HA-AR again.

Sorry ladies I have been MIA.

I have never been so busy and am busy trying to get organised before for go away AGAIN!, as from next week actually. We got back a weekish ago from Mackay and have had so much to do Ie: paperwork, xmas pressies, staff breakup, packing and unpacking etc.... etc... etc.... and with kids sick, everything has been such a slow slow process. So this is a summary of what has been happening with us:

* Riley has chickenpox (arggghhh) - poor darlin
* Lachlan was vomitting and itching his tummy a week ago
* I have had vomitting and dirreha (felt like I was dying - Wade had to close the shop to look after me and the boys)
* Appts in Mackay for the boys went well - lachlan's perferated eardrum is now all healed over but Riley still has his heart murmour
* Riley has been feeding much better, not gr8, but it is a huge improvement - no screaming - YAY. I have started him on solids and he is still on LOSEC
* Riley is not sleeping thru anymore (but he is still sick too)
* My milk has dropped off since being sick last week, as I couldn't even keep icecubes down, Doc gave me script for motillium to increase my supply again
* Lachlan is speaking so well atm
* Lachlan's tt is still a disaster, he cannot start and stop weeing on demand at all, not sure what to do next.
* Riley finally takes to the bottle YAY

Anyway I am away on holidays from next Friday. Taking Lachlan to the Wiggles concert and then to Dreamworld also. Should be fun.

We get back on Boxing Day.

Just been so busy lately, and it is so unlike me not to be on the computer, but I am so pushed for time atm, so I apologise ladies.

Hope everyone is well. Can't wait for my bubba to be happy again!!!!

heya
just a quickie as I am so tired & it's so late!

That's no good about your mum Satya - glad to hear you have seen her. Blessings to both your parents! hope they have great health soon! I know what you mean - my parents are aging so much now and there is always something health-wise going on. My mum had to have one of her kidneys out this time last year and it turned out to have a cancer in it - luckily had no spread and hadn't gotten out of the kidney walls.

Oh sheeree!!! Poor little Riley - poor Lachlan & poor you!!!!!! How did your DP manage to not get it ?? lucky guy! Hope Riley gets over it very quickly! Keep persisting with Lachlan's tt. From friends I have heard it is often something that comes a lot later for boys. Plus the dads need to do alot of the work with that one. Charli has a heart murmur too. The paed reckons it's an innocent but she still has it. Here's hoping they go away! Hope your supply improves! I am sure it will! You holiday sounds fantastic! Have a wonderful time & hope you get some good relaxation in there!!!!

Smudgie - I know what you mean about finding it hard to get a good part time job. I remember finding the same thing when I went back to work after Liv. GOOD LUCK!!! May be the new year will bring good jobs up for you if you haven't gotten something by then!

There's a mouse in our house.. NOT HAPPY. I freaked out when I saw it last night. Plan on getting some traps tomorrow and just use them in the nights while Liv's in bed. Any other bright ideas?

Been trying Charli on solids - she's slowly taking to it. In some ways she isn't really that ready so haven't done it every day. In any case it's had her pooh-ing way more regularly which has made me happy! Her sleeping is still sporadic - not getting full nights much anymore but now and then there are some. Parents took Liv for the whole weekend so we could finally get onto getting her bedroom in order and she can go in the cot this week. Will be interesting but we have warmed her up to it by having her in the basinnette in the lounge room.. and she's fine. Now I just need to go buy a new cot mattress and we'll be right! Liv still having toilet 'accidents' - can only put it down to attention. Thought we'd be well and truly over this by now. :wall:

The weather in melb has been bananas - absolutely freezing on the weekend with hail & storms! And today warm and sunny - quite glorious! ... typical

Feeling the pinch of CHristmas already and I haven't even bought half the presents... it's going to have to be a cheap one this year! :doh:

Hope you are all going ok with the lead up to Christmas & I am just babbling now so need to go to bed.
xo

Hi all

Sheree - poor little Riley with the chicken pox. I remember having that as a child and it was horrid. I guess at least being so young it probably wont be remembered. I hope you are all on the mend. Have a great holiday.

Livyloosmum - Oh no - a mouse!!!! We had mice at one stage at my old house. It was getting in behind the gas cooker. We found mouse poo in our griller of all places. Absolutely foul. We put traps down & actually caught one in the griller & I think one behind the cooker. Good luck with it. We haven't made much of a start on Xmas yet. Just a few stocking fillers have been bought for my DstepD & nothing for Brock yet. Don't know what to get him. Our finances are still looking good (didn't think they would be after all this time off work, but they are) so we don't have to stress about it. Interest rates continually going down has been a nice little bonus for us. Melb weather sure has been strange lately. We had our aircon installed on Monday & we had to put our heating on in order to test it out as the house was too cool to get the aircon working!!!! Looking forward to not boiling this summer - last summer nearly killed me.


I've had an email from someone I work with that said that the woman who replaced me at work may be looking for part time work after I come back & that perhaps she & I could job share. I have no idea if my company would be willing to do this nor do I know how many days she'd like etc but it's got me thinking maybe I could go back part time. My DF is earning more money now in his new job so perhaps it would be possible for us to get by with just part time hours from me. Certainly something to think about.

Switched back to HA-AR last night and already Brock's skin is looking better. Not so many chucks either. Yay.

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That's good Satya about work, that's what I'm doing at the moment, job sharing with someone. It still remains to be seen whether it's going to work out because sometimes the person I share with just makes up her own procedures and I end up having to pick up the pieces. We keep a couple of registers for various things and she copied them to another location and was keeping the copy updated instead of the actual register that everyone else was using. Not impressed. Found out yesterday it was because she didn't know how to create shortcuts :-S
But that's worst case scenario!! I guess if you see eye to eye on issues and have the same level of skill you shouldn't have any issues!!

Very quick one, sorry no personals I have read them just no time to reply.

Taylor cut her first TWO teeth today.... well I think today, Its so exciting I onyl noticed like two days ago a few bumps. No rash No tears No fever nothing. Everytime she opens her mouth I sneak a look.

Sniff my little girl is getting so big.

Hi Ladies

I have been MIA for quite sometime, it's just taken me 1/2 an hour to read all the posts... no personals too much to take in atm and I am not sure I will mangage to get through all that's happened with us of late.. will do my best and try not to bore you all at the same time!

Cooper is going great guns! He now has 4 teeth and chews on everything! He looks like a real lil boy. He is trying his hardest to crawl but it's more of a cammando drag action and he seems to be stuck in reverse. As much as I want him to be mobile, I am kinda dreading it also.. the house is so not child proof as demonstrated by a GFs 8 month old! On a not so good note, his skin is a mess... four different GPs, four different diagnosis' ARGH it appears to be an eczema/infant acne type thing... at times he has these huge juicy pimples and I am concerned about scarring :( the PEADs DR believes it's an allergy to the protein in cow's milk and gave us a prescription for Pepti Junior - the stuff is rank and Coop refuses to drink it (i don't blame him) so the DR told us to put sugar in it.. UM NO THANKS and told us to use a hyrdocortison cream on his face which I have to wear gloves to apply.. UM NO AGAIN if i have to wear gloves to protect my hands why the F*** am i rubbing it on his face?? We have an appointment with a dermatologist 24 Jan but I can't see that being much help so in the meantime we have seen an iridologist (sp?) She told me that he has a weak digestive track with very little acid in his tummy so no matter what fomula he has whether it be cows, goats or hydrolised it will make no difference because he can't digest any protein. So she gave us two capsules to put in his bottle each morning to increase the bacteria in his tummy... we have been using them for a fortnight and no change as yet but she did mention that it would get worse before it got better.. we see her again in a fortnight... I am desperate for something to work.. quite over everyone commenting on his face, asking me if I wash his skin.. what kind of mother do they think I am?? We have started solids despite the PEADs advice of not to until his skin clears up... if his skin doesn't clear up than does that mean he will never eat?? Anywho he loves his food, apples, pears, bananas, carrot, sweet potato and pumpkin so far and what ever he manages to grab off my plate during the day - such a gutz!! I feel very domestic goddessy steaming and pureeing.. I'm certain the novetly will wear off soon but I have a stash and a half of frozen puree cubes so we'll be right for a good few weeks when it does!

DP and I have been having a few dramas.. the whole 28 day work cycle is taking it's toll on our relationship! The last time he was home it was like world war 3.. I get the cranks because I plan to get certain things done during his time off and I expect him to spend every minute he has off with us despite the fact i know he needs time to himself also.. he works bloody hard in crappy conditions but in saying that his job is from 6am to 6pm each day, once he gets off his machine that's it... where as my mine as a sahm is from 6am to 6pm than once coop is asleep, it's bottle washing, nappy washing/stuffing, resettling, soothing and because he is not home he just doesn't get it.. and even on his week off he will hand Cooper to me when he has a wet or pooey nappy and saying "here mum, your turn" GRRR i've had my fair share of turns during the month you've been away buddy! His way of dealing with our 'arguements' is to go the pub to have a punt and few beers but this just seems to make me crankier because i deal with things by talking them through which is mighty difficult when you're home alone... :wall: Towards the end of his 28 days away I can't wait to pick him up from the airport and by the end of the week I can't seem to put him on that plane fast enough MEH!

And ontop of all this his mum is sick again.. she had both breasts removed this time last year and 2 rounds of chemo but found out on monday that the cancer has spread to her uterus and bowel :( she goes into hopsital on wednesday and we are praying that they get it all this time, she keeps saying she won't do chemo again but if it comes to that I think she may change her mind.. at only 56 she is too young to just give up!

On a happier note, I am super excited about Christmas! Coop had his photo taken with Santa on Thursday, was so stoked when he didn't crack the sads (as did all the kids in front of us) when it was his turn to sit on the big red suited dudes lap! Santa was a very lucky fellow to keep his beard, Coop had such a fascination with it! He also tried to give Santa's glasses abit of a clean with his tounge! The photo I am not so impressed with but I think that's more to do with Coop's skin than anything else :( Any idea for pressies?? I have bought a few xmas picture books and wrote little notes in the front of each, thought we could share the stories for years to come.. but I am stuck as to what else to get..

OK bored you all enough will try and get on more often so to not bore you again with such an epic of a post! Hope it all made sense.. Take care mummies!

hi everyone

Serendipity - that sounds a bit of a worry. I'd never even thought about stuff like that happening in a job share. Anyway, I've decided to go back full time and see how it goes. If it's all too much I'll look for something part time at my workplace.

Smudgiesmum - 2 teeth - how exciting.

Tan - Poor Cooper (and mum) with the skin issue. I hope you find an answer to that soon. We've had loads of issues with Brock's skin - his is with rashes & possibly eczema. We keep getting told to put either canesten or weak cortisone cream on it. Just when it starts to look good it goes bad again. The warm days always make it worse. I used to use Dermaveen moisturiser on him but now that seems to be making it worse too. I'm now trying Gaiia moisturiser - only trying it today so we will see how it goes. I'm not surprised you are having relationship issues - it can't be easy with a roster like that with a bub. I hope you get things back on track soon. I'm sorry about your MIL having cancer again, such a stressful time for everyone. I hope she changes her mind about the chemo. Brock does a backwards crawly thing too and usually ends up on his back cos he loses balance.


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Brock has started on food. He gagged the first time he had rice cereal but he can now eat it OK. He tried sweet potato today and wanted more than what I was willing to give him as I'm so worried about bad reactions cos of his sensitive skin.

My DF started on rotating shifts today. Arvo shift this week. I think it will work well while I'm off work but I'm absolutely dreading it when I go back to work.

Satya: let me know how ft work goes. We seemed to have gone from being fine with money to being dire in the period of a week. I gues Xmas does that to ya. Anyways Im going back to work ft temporarily because its taking way too long to get a part time job.

Tan: I dont even know where to start. I hope things improve soon. Keep us posted on how things are going.... granted you have time.

Taylor is HATING Farex. Even with fruit she doesnt like it one bit. I gave her weetbix this morning although some people say not till 8 months, Ill just give it to her for a change and keep trying the Farex. But she absolutely loved them. Taylor is on lots of different foods now. Fruits being her favourite.

Went to see the MCN the other day (my last 'extra' one post PND) and she said that for Taylors height she doesnt weigh enough. Not sure that its a huge issue though. Taylor eats fairly well but she does have off days, hopefully now that she gets 3 solid meals a day as well as milk she will chubba up a bit but its not like she is skin and bones either and although her weight gain has slowed she is still putting on around 150g + a week. All these means tested charts and stuff..... pfft.

Anyways I have finished all my PND counselling and relationship counselling (until possibly next year where we may take a course) yay.

Taylor is enrolled to start swimming in Feb. Lets hope I am working pt by then coz its on Tuesdays.

Been experimenting a bit with food. He loves sweet potato and sweet potato with apple & carrot. Not so keen on rice cereal on its own but likes it better with apple. At first didn't like apple but now seems to like it. He's still drinking as much milk as ever & 3 small meals a day - 2nd feed of day around 9-10 then 3rd feed at 12-1 then at his last feed for the day.

Had Brock babysat on Sat night (by my parents) as we went to a party & we had the impression that kids were not welcome. We get there and most people hadn't bought their kids but 2 couples had. It made me miss him twice as much & I just wished I'd taken him. Realistically though he was better off home in bed as it was a bit cold.

WOW this thread has slowed down alot! It's almost be a fortnight since my last post and there are only three for me to read not sure if I'm happy or disappointed about that :think:

SATYA i totally understand your concern about sensative skin and eating.. we went into town last week and were gone for longer than expected so i gave Cooper supermarket purchased food - a popular brand that's slogan is + nothing else - and i will argue until I am blue in the face that they must contain 'something' else because he has had no reaction to the three ingredients when i have pureed them myself and after he ate the packaged stuff he had a rash all around his mouth and down his throat! And Cooper is the same with baby rice, won't have it without something else mixed in. He is actually abit of a gutz. He gets quite cranky when you don't shovel the food in fast enough, i have increased the size of his serves (he gets three a day) and he still doesn't seem content! Like Brock he is still guzzling down his milk. I am abit concerned about over feeding him.. Mother's Helping Others (a local organisation) are holding a nutrition workshop tomorrow so I am hoping to get some advice than. How are things going now that DF has started shift work? Are you going back to work anytime soon?

SMUDGIE'S MUM I am rather envious that you and Taylor have had such a pleasant 'teething' experience thus far! I wish the same can be said for us. I think there maybe more on the way, Coop is showing all his classic signs IE: he is a real grumble bum! Rash, snotty nose, flushed cheeks - i'm seriously over it, although i'm sure he is too!

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All these means tested charts and stuff..... pfft.

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AGREE! :dance: for finishing your counselling!! And hope you find a work situation that suits your needs soon.. swimming lessons will be sooo much fun! Have contemplated enrolling Cooper but i can't justify spending the money as I am a qualified swimming instructor and we have a pool where we are living, on the other hand it's always good to get out of the house - will think more about it after new years.

Cooper's skin seems to be getting better (just jinxed myself by typing that i reckon) we go back to the irodologist at the beginning of next week so it will be interesting to see what she says.

DP and I seem to be getting along better (albeit over the phone) he has been gone for 21 days and he gets home on the 23rd.. another long stint away but this time I think we needed it!

DPs mum seems to be doing ok thus far. They seem to think they have got it all but we have been down that road before so for now we all have our fingers crossed!

HAHA just reread my last three sentences... "seems" i am hard up for another way to start a sentence.. LOL