Babies Born June 2006 #48

[AmandaJ]

Jaspen wow, 15 weeks and still got m/s, I hope it goes for you soon, maybe it's a girls this time you never know.

Rory re the twins, I think I'm more open to it then DH at the moment, I've always wanted twins, lol, I've also heard that about a few people just want 1 more to finish the family and end up with twins or more. With the please and thank you I try and get them to say it and if I can see that they are flatly going to refuse then I usually don't push them anymore and just try again next time. I also do what Bath does as well with making sure that I use please and thank you.

hugs xoxo

[nickers]

Hi Girls,

wow Amanda imagine twins! That happened to my old neighbour, they have 2 children, decided to go for a third and now she is 30wks pg with twins! i cant wait to see your new avater.
Bath- does the new place you found have a boxer dog? it would be nice to add him, but dont we have rules that avaters can only be changed every 6months or something?
Jaspen- sorry to hear your m/s is still lingering, hopefully that lifts for you soon, 15weeks wow, everyone elses pregnancies seem to go so fast! whens your next scan?

[*Ali*]

Hi all just popping in quickly to say hello- dont have much time at the moment because Liam just wont stay asleep during the day and I seem to spend all of my time rocking him off to sleep or feeding him. Feeding is a nightmare at the moment too, he just won't stay on for a long feed, fusses around argggg and then wants to feed again an hour or so later, Iam just about ready to toss it in.

Amanda- Congrats on your BFP, I will keep thinking pink for you.

Anyway better go, I hope everyone is keeping well.

[jaspen]

ali - certainly sounds like you are doing the hard yards at the moment - hope its just a short faze that vanishes real soon.

[MelS]

Wow, I haven't been on in ages and thankfully not too much to catch up on.

Jess - sorry to hear you are having more housing hassles. Hopefully you find your dream home soon.

Tali - tell MIL to mind her own business! Why do they think they can interfere in their kids lives? As others have said, its a decision for you and DH to make and she should keep opinions to herself. Bet she doesn't say anything directly to you about it. How is May going at school?

Nic - glad the christening went well apart from your little escape artist! Can't believe no one noticed him, they must have been having too much of a good time. Look forward to the pics, hope your family and friends took good ones.

Jaspen - not nice to still have m/s! You must be so over it? How is the rain, still going? Heard it has been pretty bad up north.

Amanda - twins, wow! I thought I was having twins when pregnant with Marley. Had bad dreams for weeks about it until first ultrasound. When is your first u/s?

Rory - similiar philosophy to Bath, don't push it, just go with it. Their attention span is zilch and can be so time consuming and frustrating waiting for them to say it. We have a big thing about manners in this house and everyone says "please" and thankyou" so the kids pick up on it. I wouldn't worry too much as they copy alot of what they see and that can be far easier than forcing them to say it. They are stubborn little things! Marley has thrown some ripper tantys over the smallest things.

Bath - I am not looking forward to the teenage years. We will be hitting you for advice when that time comes.

Ali - oh hang in there. I hope this phase settles and feeding starts becoming enjoyable again.

Well I am back at work 3 days now which started last week and so far so good. Kids are getting used to the routine and getting up a bit earlier. Chelsea is loving school and really likes going to either before or after school care. The teacher came for a home visit today which was great. Much easier to talk one on one at home than at the classroom with other parents all wanting to talk to her. The first thing Chelsea wanted to show her was her room LOL! She talked about how she is going in the classroom and I was very proud to hear her tell me what a lovely soul Chelsea is. Very kind natured and unphased by anything. She was also impressed with her lunchbox, saying how healthy and appetising her food looks. Wonder what other parents are packing that is so bad?

Marley had her first full 2 days at creche last week and that went great. She is loving the social aspect of it and is eating up a storm, 3 servings of mtea on Thursday! They are great with her allergy requirements, making her yummy alternatives if needed. She is getting the hang of sleeping in a bed, 1 hour the first day and 1.5 the second. Hopefully this week she will sleep even longer but she has come home very bright and chirpy. She even did her first drawing which is proudly on the fridge!

Must go and try to finish the rest of my washing, while the sun is shining!

[New Dawn]

I too have been MIA but BHL is now away again for 2 weeks so will be able to catch up a bit as he hates it when I'm on the computer all day as he puts it...( I think it really because he wants to go on a look at mountain bike sites...

Jess- hope you have some good news soon with your housing...

Jaspen- hope the m/s goes soon mine normally goes around the 16 week mark maybe this meant pink for you?

What about this rain I thought we had it bad on the weekend as our pool flooded the back padieo area as we had so much and at the moment the pump is broken so we could get the water out and to make matters worst the drain blooked up so the water had nowhere to go that God BHL was home so he could un-block the drain as it was so gross I couldnt do it plus had about 1000 cane toads swimming around the back yard.... But when I realised you guys were under again and there is another low bearing down by the end of the week I thought the place will never dry up...

Amanda- when do you find out if you have twins or not? I too used to want twins but not now as if we did it would be 5 and that seems so much bigger than 4 Plus I am selfish and would be too scared that I would never get my body back again as I have been very lucky so far to come back down to size..

Rory- I am amazed that you are even trying the P's and Q's yet Kai isnt even talking enought to start that yet....

Mel- So glad that Chelsea is loving school. May is still crying when we drop her off but I think it so that she gets the attention from the teacher's aid as soon as she strats to cry now the teacher's aid will come over give her big cuddles and tell her that she can sit on her lap and that may can be her speical helper today, so now I think May plays on this a bit so that she can be the speical helper but what can I do May's has already worked out the system... But as we will be moving in june she will have to go to kindy ( if I can find one) so she will be in school next year anyway...

Well when I droped off the kids at school today Zaydens teacher from last years ran into us and asked about us moving so we told her when we were going and told her that we were thinking of putting Zay back a year to year 2 instead of 3 in Melbourne and she said what a great idea that was and that, that would do him the world of good, as it will give him a chance to catch up. Now I know that his report wasnt all that flash mostly C and D's but for a teacher to say that it would be so much better for him to repeat the year in another state makes me mad if it would benifit him there why wouldnt it have done the same for him here to repeat. I wish Australia would unifiy the school systems it would make things so much easier...

[jaspen]

thanks for the kind wishes regarding the m/s ladies - i'm hoping that it will mean a nice calm baby - I don't know where I figure this from but one can only hope. (and if it means pink that would be extra special but I'm trying not too hold out hope for fear of disappointment)

tali - it is so wet here at the moment trees are falling out of the ground everywhere with only the slightest breath of wind - flooding not as bad as last time cause it didn't last as long - i've never known Townsville to be so humid for so long.

mel - good to see the girls seem pretty flexible with changes to routine and mummy back at work an extra day - i must say we've never been huge on routine on this house - it just doesn't come to DH very easily.

anyway had better dash for the moment - ob appt this afternoon - don't know what there will be to discuss but hey i'll go give him his money for 10 mins of his time LOL

hump day ladies - hope the rest of the week is good

[New Dawn]

jaspen- Funny you say that as that is one of my baby tips LOL dont know if its true or not, but most ladys I know who have had "bad " PG have gone on to have very good sleeping well babies I have had this with all 3 of mine but that all changes when they turn 1, My GF had to great PG wouldnt even know she was PG apart from the belly but had babies who would sleep ever!!!! but with her 3rd she had m/s and back ach and all the good things that come with having a baby. But she had a wonderful baby who slepted through at 6 weeks plus she had had two boys and the last was a girl so could have been a different sex thing as well, but its always nice to think that you might be getting all the bad now and not once baby comes....

Well Kai is been a big pain in the bum, I am trying to train her so she has no nappy on but I have to put one on to do school drop off and pick up and for when she has her naps and this is when she is going I am putting her on the toilet and potty as we have both, but she just wont go I read her a book which she loves but the minute I have to put a nappy on her its like she truns on a tap its never ending the nappys are like night ones, but now the night ones are leaking as she is holding on so much it all come out at night. She know when she is doing it as she comes running pointing and saying a word that could mean wee ( she still isnt making out many clear words) so I know she understands, my only problem is I feel that if she doesnt get it in the next 6 weeks do I just give up as we would be moving in another 6 weeks from that date, and I dont want a half trained child with me when we move. But if I do that, that means that she wont be starting to train until dec this year.. Argggg I dont know maybe I am just beening silly over nothing as I always say you dont see many 10yr olds walking around in nappy's so she will get it one day...

[nickers]

Hi All,

Just a quick one to say i got a text from Donna thismorning.

She gave birth to a little boy thismorning, has not been named yet and he was 6lb 13oz

Congratulations Dee, hope your both well and look forward to hearing your birth story and seeing some pics!

[jaspen]

Congratulations Dee on the arrival of your second son - hope you are both well. (thanks for letting us know Nickers - please pass on my congrats if you're talking/texting her)

tali - I can only hope LOL!!!!!

[AmandaJ]

Congratulations Dee on the birth of your second boy.

hugs xoxo

[Jesswith6]

Congrats Dee on the birth of your son...Nice weight as well

[Jesswith6]

OMG...we were on the second page!!!!!!!

OK Junies I have a difficult decision. I have two outfits to wear out tonight and I can't decide what to wear.... Here are the two choices

[Roryrory]

I like the 2nd

[Smoke Jaguar]

Second outfit, Jess - it's very smart!
Ok, I'm back. First:
Congrats, Dee!! Thinking of you and your two little boys
Tali - I agree, the people at school should be using a full name unless a child expresses a preference for a shortened version, or when other kids start to shorten it without the prompting of a teacher. It's kind of rude, IMO. For instance, I have a shortened version of my name that ONLY my friends called me at school. Being that I didn't have many friends at all, it was only a handful of people I expected to hear the short version from. These days if I want people to know the short name, I give it to them. If I don't, I give them my full name and they can figure it out themselves, or get friendly with me and ask if they can call me something for short! Mean? Nah, it's just a courtesy.
Amanda - congrats, you! Yay for your little bunch of cells in there
Umm, there's so much to catch up on that I think I'll implode if I try to comment on it all. DP is on the bed, crashed from the jetlag he didn't believe he'd get (I mean, what would I know, I've only done long haul travel before and he hasn't...hee hee!) and I've sent Oscar off with my dad so I can clean up a bit more without the kid stringing out at me. Distraction is the theme here, and I can't do it while I'm tidying up!
Oscar did so extraordinarily well on the flight home and I got more sleep than DP, hence I'm still in the land of the living. Not for much longer though. I have the dogs returned by MIL and they look like they've spent half the week in planes.
Ok, from memory, someone asked about BFing. I'm still doing it and still enjoying it - probably couldn't have handled the flights without it. Oscar still shows a preference for it and I don't like the idea of making him wait till he's had solid food first. I'd rather he get his 'super food' (quoting Rosemary Stanton here!) first, then fill the rest of his belly with the solids he decides on (some nights he'll love one food and spurn it the next, some nights he'll barely eat a thing). I've explained to DP that it's ok if he has a BF and doesn't eat much after, cos it means he woudn't have eaten much anyway, and been less likely to have 'Babu' after, missing out on solids and BF nutrients. Ift hat makes sense. There are times he'll get distracted and his attachment is sloppy, so I have to reattach him (still!). This can happen at night, too, when he's being careless and really tired - probably my own doing by letting him suck on a dummy at night when he's not feeding, and I use the dummy so that I can give my nipples a breather! Oscar doesn't seem nearly ready to give up his Babu. London is where he fed the least during the day, but there were times when it's what he definitely wanted, and he'd waited long enough. I thought he'd be too distracted in Ireland, too, but for some reason, this wasn't so. Still no AF, so I guess the sporadic nature of his feeding is keeping my hormones in ovulation suppression mode.
I have photos from the rest of the trip on Facebook. I haven't tried uploading anything to BB for ages because it took too long, I'll see how it's going now.
We nearly had a heart failure today. We spent hours shopping in a mall in Dubai, which is so rare for us to do anywhere, but we really wanted to find DP a pair of sunglasses to replace his Ray Bans that he left somewhere in Wexford. I ended up choosing a pair, too, so the guy there gave us a discount, making a designer pair of sunnies VERY affordable! Anyway, we thought we'd lost them again, this time between meeting MIL and getting to the car. I discovered them in the luggage trolley, where they'd fallen out of a bag. I think the thought of choosing another pair and claiming TWO pairs of glasses on travel insurance took whatever wind was left right out of us. Not only had we already lost a pair, but it is hard work getting that man to a shopping centre (if you thought I had an aversion, this man is pathological!). We were in that damn mall for about 5 hours!
We have made it back alive and undivorced. Quite an achievement, given some of the more heated moments. Weren't too many of those, thankfully. It smells so good to be home - nothing like getting back and smelling all the eucalypts and hearing the kookaburras (did they always sound so loud??).
Next time we make that journey, it may well be with 2 kidlets. My head hurts to think about it!
Anyway, next trip is NZ at the end of March for a wedding.
Right, I'm starting to fade quickly, now. better go,and be back in true BB form!

[New Dawn]

Jess- I like the 2nd one the 1st doen't give you any shape...

Just letting you all know Kai did her 1st wee on the toilet today YIPPY!!!!!! but has sence dont nothing BOO....

Gee it sticky here today cant wait to move and have a shower and actully be able to dry my body without having wet sticky skin!!! Do you know how hard it is to put your knickers on in this weather I know you will know what I am talking about Jaspen....LOL

[nickers]

Welcome back Maya! thats great your still bf and wow on AF still not returning! even when i was bf Nixon i think it came back after about 4 months, and well this time around i never really had the bf opportunity and even with all the expressing af came back 2months ago. kinda didnt give me much of a break seings i bled for nearly 4weeks post birth....

Jess- which outfit did you wear? I also liked the 2nd outfit it was quiet smart!

Yay Kai on wee in the toilet! Ive been putting Nixon on the pooty before bathtime on and off for months now but still no success in weeing in it! i think we'll be a while off b4 he is ready for toilet training, will hopefully get the idea of it toward the end of the year in warmer weather and he will be 2.5-2.9yrs

dh has finally returned from all his interstate work, all up the ast 4 weeks he hasnt really been around. so today i had a day off, after swimming in the morning he went to his mums and i went to have a much needed massage. after that i went to Myer and bought my first ever suit! its a lovely black Cue one and im very happy with it, looks very corporate hehe! tried a few dresses on for a wedding coming up then went down the coast and did a tupp party for my gf.

I've started organising Nixon's 2nd birthday, yikes im gonna have a 2yr old soon lol! Im making a "builders" cake for him which is in the Jenny Dodd party idea's book. lots of great cakes and themes in it.

no word as yet on what Donna & DH have named their little boy.

[MelS]

Nic - thanks for letting us know about Dee, great news. Hope her and her new bub are settling in well. Can't wait to hear what they named him. Well done on getting a well deserved day off. Cue has some beautiful clothes and I bet your suit is fab! You are so organised planning the party now, at least you won't be rushed in deciding what theme to do. Can't believe Nixon is nearly 2! Love the new ticker pic, the boys look gorgeous.

Jess - have fun tonight, I would have said #2 as well.

Tali - i wouldn't worry about the toilet training much until you move. Its such early days anyway and might be easier once you have settled into a new place. We didn't really start with Chelsea until she was over 2. What age did your others toilet train? I have heard they all do it at different times. Great result today but then expect a few misses.

Maya - WELCOME BACK!!!! I have been checking your FB pictures and they are awesome. You must have a great camera. Glad the trip went well, sounds like my kind of shopping in Dubai! Hope you get a great nights sleep tonight and I am sure those kookaburras will give you a wake up call tomorrow (or those dam ****atoos!)

Has anyone heard from Julie? Its been ages since her last post - hope everything is OK.