I'm doing ok having a really down few days. The girls are going well, decided to do swimming with Summer to try and wear her out cos she is definately the most active out of all my girls, she is into everything the little princess and not sleeping well at all.
Hope you are all well and sorry for the short post and lack of personals thinking of you all
DJ hasn't stopped eating today, looks like another growth spurt. At my stepmums he had one full tub of yoghurt and 1 full jar of vege mash, then I gave him some rice cereal with apple puree and he ate the whole thing and was wanting more. He has been drinking down all of his milk as well. I am wondering if I should dropped one of his milk feeds? He is still on 6 feeds per day, but 2 of those feeds he doesn't drink much, only 80ml so I am wondering if I should try to drop one feed. I am going to GP tomorrow to get his needles done so might ask while I am there. He is now wriggling his way across the room with his bum and legs. I now leave the room and he has wriggled to the other side of it haha so I don't think it will be long before he starts crawling now.
Trina - good to hear from you. Sorry to hear you have had a few down days, it will get better hun. I am hearing you on the sleeping.... Must be just this stage of their development..... Thinking of you
Prama - thinking of you, and good idea on the thread, it helps to talk to others going through the same thing. Always happy to catch-up anytime you need to chat. And yeah tiredness doesn't help - I need more sleep. Hoping DJ will get a good night sleep as well. Hope Poopy does as well for you
Hi all. Went to the doc today. Dunno whats with my kidney, but I do have a scar on it & I have no idea what from. Never had a kidney infection or anything before.
Talked to him about anti depressants, but I'd have to stop bfing, so gotta make that decision.
Jesse's pretty sick. Ear infection in both ears & sore throat. His temp was 39.8 when I took him to the doc. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw it!
Him & Bri are on ABs so hopefully they'll be a bit better tomorrow.
Bro & SIL's last night in town tomorrow
Anyways, its 2.45. Off to bed!!
Night all!
Morning...
Skye, glad you are OK, well sort of... there was a thread a few days ago re stopping BF so you can go on AD's... IMO you need to do what is right for you so that you can function properly and cope with it all, if that means stopping BFing, well so be it, Jesse has had your booby juice for 6mths now.
Poor Jesse with the ear infection, was he very distressed? poor little man... you guys are having a rough trot arent you. Great news on the day care, going and doing something for you is proably what you need. You have been a mummy and at home for so long now, you possibly need to rediscover yourself
Prama - isnt that what the boohoo room is for, so that you can vent away without being told off? Some people
Danni - sounds like FDC is a much better option... has you sster left yet?
Shell - sorry that you are feeling so tired, hopefully starting aycare it will get a bit asier for you
Trina - good to her from you... thinking of you loads, hope you are doing ok, good idea on the swimming you certianly have a little wriggler!
OMG! I'm awake!
My alarm just went off as I was typing this & I've been awake for 20 minutes! One good thing about sick kids - they don't give up til they get what they need!
Jesse's not real good. I couldn't put him down yesterday. Got nothing done & a sore back. He would only sleep for 20 - 30 minutes at a time.
Was hard to settle last night. Was probably awake every hour after about 8. He had been awake for about an hour when I posted earlier. I finally gave up & put him in our bed & he went to sleep til Anth got up at 5.45. I'm sure I stuck a boob in his mouth after that too, but no idea when.
He's sleeping now, so I hope he's a bit better today.
Bri had a sleep day yesterday. Went to sleep at about 10.30 & slept til about 3.30. She was a bit more bright & alert after, but didn't sound any better last night.
With re to the bfing & ADs I'm not sure. One of the main reasons I suffered it after the girls was because I couldn't bf them. I think the main reason it hasn't quite settled in is because we are doing it. Every time I bf him it reminds me that I still need to be their mum & that I can do something right iykwim. I don't think I'm ready to give up just yet.
no news all my records have had to go to committie..new hospital here a nightmare to deal with..not in crisis atm though count not great.more waiting..over it
sorry short headache this morning.. for all we need it
I'm home from work today after a terrible night. Let me tell you about it:
Night started out great. We went out shopping, then came home at 8pm and started watching a movie. Jazz went to bed at 8:15pm. At 9pm we heard her crying, went into her room to check on her and she was absolutely covered in sick.
So, I gave her a bath while Matt changed the sheets and put them in the washing machine.
Put her back to bed at 9:30 but she was unsettled so I stayed with her. She was sick again! Rang our doctor who does some evening work, got answering machine. He rang back at 9:50 and told us to come straight down (by this time she'd been sick 4 times). Got into the car to go to the doctor and she was sick a 5th time. Arrived at doctor about 10:10pm - she was sick again when we got out the car (that's 6 if you're keeping count). She was sick again in the doctor's office. He told us to take her to the hospital and gave us a note to give them. Got to the hospital about 10:45pm. Booked her in at triage, then on the way to the paed waiting room she was sick yet again. Then in the waiting room was sick another 3 times before 11:30pm when they started a trial of fluids which she didn't perform too well in at first. She had to have 15ml of hydrolite every 10mins. First dose she didn't keep down 5 mins after having it. 2nd dose came up after about 10mins, 3rd dose came up as well. This happened a few times and it was looking like she was going to be admitted so she could have IV fluids to rehydrate her.
By 2am she had started keeping the hydrolite down and continued to keep it down until 4:45am when we left the hospital. I'll also mention that between 9:30pm and about 2:30am she had not done a wee.
She seems fine now and has so far kept a bottle down.
My sister hasn't left. They leave on Thursday next week. They've found a house which looks great and they move into that on the 26th. We're having a farewell dinner for them on Sunday night.
We are going househunting later this afternoon, thinking about moving.
I checked my work email this morning (I can do that from home) and had an email from the child care centre saying even though they normally have a 2 week cancellation period, they are going to wave that and only charge us up to today. This would be because in the email I sent them I said the reason we were stopping is because it was becoming too much of a finacial burden for us!
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