Babies Born June 2007 #8

[lexismum]

just wondering where abouts in Sydney you are?

i would love to get together with other mums, i have never been to a mothers group and was wondering if you would be interested?

i am at west ryde

Hi everyone

Missbanana and Teepee - wow at your bubs walking! Diana is nowhere near walking yet. She is standing and can shuffle from one piece of furniture to another, but as for walking by herself, I think she doesn't bother because crawling is so much faster. Honestly, I am amazed at how quickly she gets about. Almost as fast as I can walk, so when I want to catch up with her, I really need to chase her. And she loves playing chasies....

Pam - welcome. Christian and Diana share a birthday. Diana was born at 11:49am on 19 June 2007. Re sleeping bags - I have been putting Diana in one since she was about 3-4 months as she kept kicking her blankets off. The one I have her in is from 6-18 months, and she can roll, wriggle, stand and even crawl in it.

Charly - hope you and DD1 get better soon. Its awful that mummies don't get sick days, isn't it?

Laura - sounds like the constant sooking could be due to teething, but if you're worried maybe take him to a gp to make sure that there is nothing wrong. I'm sure that Logan isn't sooking just to annoy you, so hope that you can find the source of his discomfort soon.

Lira - congratulations. Wishing you a happy and healthy pregnancy.
Hi to everyone else.

I am hoping to get Diana weighed and measured this week, so will let you know how it goes.

Also, I have decided to break away from my mothers group. I have been feeling increasingly uncomfortable when meeting up with them recently as they all seem to have very different parenting ideas to me (e.g. they are into controlled crying, anti co-sleeping, etc), and are not afraid to tell me so, therefore I have been feeling really judged and defensive. Am I being a ***** for not wanting to talk to them anymore?

[teepee2]

Hi all!!! I'm still alive too - though it does look like alot of ppl have been MIA lately :P

We are all doing well. Mikayla is over her chest infection and running around like a little huricane!! Matt was in QLD for a convention for 5 days which was really hard on Mikayla. He normally puts her to sleep at night so when it came to bedtime she cried and cried for her daddy (and I must admit I cried at seeing her so sad!) But he got back yesterday and it seems like she's already forgotten he was ever gone at all!!

Celsie my SIL bought Mikayla one of those monkey packs too - they are an absolute godsend!!! and she loves to wear hers which helps. I hope Caeleb gets better really soon - the poor little man. Its terrible when they're feeling so sick. It was really funny though with Mikayla - when she had a rattly chest her laugh sounded like an adorable little chuckle - sooooo cute!

Zofia Mikayla is now managing to climb up onto the lounge but she's not as adventurous as Diana - thank God!! She hasnt tried to master the bed yet! I have managed to teach her to climb back down backwards which is good - she used to try and get off head first!

Dragon sounds like you've got one veeery strong little boy there. You'd better watch him - sounds like he'll be ready to wrestle you soon

Sarah they are very resilliant arent they? The number of bumps and bruises Kayla has had on her head are amazing - and they dont really seem to phase her all that much. As they say its pretty hard to break a baby's head

Lexismum I'm in the inner west and Sarah & Starfish are both in the inner city I think. A meet up would be great if we can manage to arrange one.

Congrats to all the bubs that are starting to stand and walk. I cant believe our babies are growing up so fast. Remember when we were all anxiously hanging on to feel that first little flutter - and I always had my head in the toilet bowl LOL. Gosh, the funny things we talked about hehe - Its seems like only yesterday....

[lexismum]

would be great
if you like you can email me yourbest@optusnet.com.au

Hi all!!! I'm still alive too - though it does look like alot of ppl have been MIA lately :P

We are all doing well. Mikayla is over her chest infection and running around like a little huricane!! Matt was in QLD for a convention for 5 days which was really hard on Mikayla. He normally puts her to sleep at night so when it came to bedtime she cried and cried for her daddy (and I must admit I cried at seeing her so sad!) But he got back yesterday and it seems like she's already forgotten he was ever gone at all!!

Celsie my SIL bought Mikayla one of those monkey packs too - they are an absolute godsend!!! and she loves to wear hers which helps. I hope Caeleb gets better really soon - the poor little man. Its terrible when they're feeling so sick. It was really funny though with Mikayla - when she had a rattly chest her laugh sounded like an adorable little chuckle - sooooo cute!

Zofia Mikayla is now managing to climb up onto the lounge but she's not as adventurous as Diana - thank God!! She hasnt tried to master the bed yet! I have managed to teach her to climb back down backwards which is good - she used to try and get off head first!

Dragon sounds like you've got one veeery strong little boy there. You'd better watch him - sounds like he'll be ready to wrestle you soon

Sarah they are very resilliant arent they? The number of bumps and bruises Kayla has had on her head are amazing - and they dont really seem to phase her all that much. As they say its pretty hard to break a baby's head

Lexismum I'm in the inner west and Sarah & Starfish are both in the inner city I think. A meet up would be great if we can manage to arrange one.

Congrats to all the bubs that are starting to stand and walk. I cant believe our babies are growing up so fast. Remember when we were all anxiously hanging on to feel that first little flutter - and I always had my head in the toilet bowl LOL. Gosh, the funny things we talked about hehe - Its seems like only yesterday....

[Starfish]

Hi everyone

I have booked a local community room for Diana's 1st birthday party (as our apartment is too small). So exciting. I am going to make some invitations this week. Its going to be a very casual affair - an afternoon tea with a cake and some toys for the kids to play with. Should be fun though.

I handed in an essay for my uni course this evening. Feels so good to have finished it as I have been thinking of little else the past couple of weeks. It's been very... ahem... challenging trying to write and study recently, as Diana is very curious and insists on "helping me out". The other day she managed to delete an entire email with one press of a key (and I couldn't seem to undo the action). Luckily it was a short email and I remembered what I wrote.

Lexismum - I live in Redfern and am up for a meet-up. I will send you an email.

Hi to everyone else.

[teepee2]

Lexismum & Zofia let me know what you arrange and ill try to make it. My email address is tinanolan@optusnet.com.au

[Celsie]

EXCITING NEWS!!!

Caeleb is walking!!!

Just had to come in and share my wonderful news. I'm so proud of him. He's been standing on his own for a few weeks now, but today, he took a few steps round in a circle, then about ten in a straight line, towards Daddy!

So happy for him!!!

[MumofLewis]

Congrats Celsie what a clever little chap! He will be able to walk to his birthday cake!

Lewis can stand without support sometimes but doesn't take any steps even if he's holding onto something. Even when he's walking along the furniture he only takes a few side steps and then crawls away! Do you think it's worth putting him in a baby walker to teach him to step?

What's everyone else doing for their bub's birthdays? Me and DH are planning on making him a Mickey Mouse cake for his party. Not sure how yet!! I put a really cute bike on layby for him, it's one of those with a handle on the back which comes off when he's old enough to pedal.

Anyway it's good to see a few of us are popping back in here, it got awful quiet!