Babies Born March 16th ~ 31st 2008 #3

[Ewol12]

Hi Girls
It?s quiet in our house at the moment. Mick is at work and both kids are in bed, so I thought I would take the opportunity to catch up with all the gossip

WOW ? congratulations Andie, hope the pregnancy is going well so far

Isabella is finally crawling ? commando crawling. She can get up on her hands and knees and rocks but that is it. She has four top teeth and two bottom teeth. I think she is going to be a little witch when she gets older. Isabella was in the bath the other day and she chuck a tantrum and I was dumbfounded. All it was I wanted was for her to sit up so I could wash her hair and she wanted to lie down. In the end, she didn?t get her hair washed.

Riley went to the speech therapist and she was really impressed on how much his speech has improved since she saw him in February. He is talking like a 2 year old instead of a 3 year old but we are getting there. He is also seeing a psychologist as we are having him assessed and they are also testing him for a spectrum of Autism and the reason we are having him assessed is because the paediatrician thinks that where Riley is going to preschool is not stimulating him enough. We need to get him into a preschool from three and up instead of a long day, day care centre where he goes to school now. The preschool that I want to get him into is booked up till next year.
We are also toilet training Riley. We started a week ago and we take it day by day. Today was a good day but yesterday it wasn?t so good. Mick put Isabella on the potty today, she did a wee, and she has done a poo on the potty as well. Normally she poos around lunchtime to Mick decided that he would feed her lunch on the potty so it was going in one end and coming out the other.

YAY ? we are finally can start building (again) today week. Its about bloody time. Its been dragging on forever. We brought a dishwasher back in September thru kleenmaid and guess what ? they have gone into receivership. Kleenmaid was holding onto the dishwasher for us till the house was built and now its looks like we have lost our dishwasher. NOT IMPRESSED.



If you don?t mind me asking Nina ? why haven't you put him onto cows milk? I think you either give him water thru the night or let him cry it out and you may have a sleepless night or two. I how that might sound harsh but the milk is just a comfort thing for him

Sorry about the lack of personals, I will catch up on them soon
Take Care
Jo

[loulabelle]

Just wanted to quickly drop in and say a massive congratulation to Andie!!! What lovely news!

Be back soon for more catch up.

love to all of you!x

[AndiE]

Hi all - gee, it's been quiet in our thread, hasn't it? Must have something to do with active toddlers keeping us busy .

I don't really have time for personals - we've got an open home tomorrow morning and I've been procrastinating half the day about getting stuck into housework - but I just wanted to say a big thank you for all your messages of congratulations.

Everything seems to be going well, but compared to my easy pg with Cam, I'm not feeling the best - constantly fatigued, off-colour and ridiculously bloated (I do NOT remember that from last time!). Sorry, I'm whingeing. I'll get over myself soon! Thankfully DH is being sympathetic and helping out where he can.

Cam's got an ultra snotty nose but isn't too bad otherwise. He's just waking from his second sleep of the day - he's always mega-tired on Fridays. Three days of daycare certainly takes its toll on him in that regard. He's walking more and more and every day seems to walk further. He's so proud of himself, it's very cute to see.

Arrrgh. The housework is calling. Wish us luck that a potential buyer comes through tomorrow. We knocked an offer back last week - the guy apparently thought we'd be prepared to give the house away for a song! And naturally the real estate agent did her level best to talk us into selling. Pffffft. We've only had one open home, so fingers crossed tomorrow does the trick.

Have a great day/weekend everyone,
Andie xx

[luey]

Congrats ANDIE.

WE will NOT be having another one anytime soon. If ever. E is a bit of a handful at the moment. But Ican't blame him, we did take him to the other side of the world and have him travelling for 24 and 28hours. At hte moment and when we first got there he was waking during the night and would not resetlle and would jsut squeal and get very upset. Our first night there I was up from 330am and would not resettle and was walking him in the Lobby at 530 as he was making so much noise. I gave up trying to get him to resettle and we started the day. This am he was up from 5am after being awake at 1-230. I have a cold still, have been sick most of the holiday. WE did have a good time though. It was a bit challenging to say the least.

We went to a sleep school and it has made a difference. I know he is being a horror at the moment but once he settled down he was waking 1-2 a night or going from 11-5/6am. HE settles well too. Torrens House in Adelaide is different as they don't do any CC but htey do allow the child to cry with you there. Active settling. Look at the KAritane website for tips. Or the Child and youth health page. They run the sleep school and we followed the routine strictly and it did help. We are not so strict now and he is sometimes only having one sleep but it is still mainly 2. I was having to feed E 90mins-2hourly overnight to get him to settle, if I tried water it would be about an hour and still not settling. Once I put him on the bottle and at TH he improved, plus he was being wrapped tightly. Try wrapping if you don't already. It does make a differnce. Use a single bed sheet. My motto is 'if they can breathe it is too loose'. To settle E, I will put a hand on his chest to hold him in one spot if needed and jsut tap the cot mattress and shh, as he is not a fan of being patted htough this is changing. You can rock the cot too. Msot of the time now he will self settle with the dummy and his music. We have a glow-worm too which can be good to help stop him crying. If you use a dummy try a night light as maybe he will settle with that if he can see it. E loves his dummy. WE need to wean him off it. HE has it in all the time at the moment. with some breaks but he loves it.

E is not talking much, mum, da, good, go, or sounds like that. HE squeals too. HE can go from screaming to being adorable and flirting in 60seconds. It is quite annoying at times. E also shakes his head. Not walking yet but pulls himself up and sometimes will let go. Goes up onto one knee. He has 12 teeth and I think an eye tooth is niggling, not sure I am not allowed to look.

Anyway I have rambled enough.

Hi to everyone. If anyone wants more specifics on settling techniques feel free to Pm/ email me.