Babies Born March 1st -15th 2008 #5

ARRRGGGG F*CK

my 3rd long post and bloody Belly belly errors..
i wrote everyone a long post and it's gone..

im so angry!

Buggar prama this site really annoys me like that sometimes..I have taken to copying what I have written before I hit submit becasue its happened ot me a few times to.
How you doing? you have been on my mind a lot
Danni SJ is right there should have been an incident report and you should have have been asked to sign the copy that stays in the centre and and gotten yor own copy to tak ehome. The centre is required bylaw to keep any records of your child until get this..they are 21 years old!!! GO back and ask for one. Poor Matt it is often the dads that get more upset about things that happen at childcare and yeah your right accidents do happen and it wont be jazz's last either. Sickness and bumps and scrapes that happen not only at childcare but a thome too its just seems worse when the kids arent in your care.If supervision at theentre isnt what you should think it should be then care might not be the place for Jazz. She does sound like has been enjoying it though.SJ is right it doesnt make it easy to swallow when they are so young though but its part of life I do hope Jazz is ok.
Trina hows things?
Skye hun
:hug: hang in there am sorry you are feeling this way atm you are doing such a great job you just need some good things for you wish I was closer to do some girly things with you

bron -
I normally copy my posts. But yesterday esp. I could post on one thread with no problems, and then go to another thread and get a token error. It was just random, didnt seem to be consistent error..........

danni - yeah, they MUST fill an incident report.
yoghurt is good for babies, as it has more calcium than normal milk. it's not cow's milk per se, just like formula.
but of cos if you dont want to give jazz yoghurt, you have every right not too.

im going to see the osteo today, i feel like i pulled a groin muscle. have been in so much pain, can hardly walk, it was so hard picking up poopy, changing him etc.

Prama our poor bodies are taking a battering huh we put them in such awkward positions to handles these wriggly babies..hope its ok.

Will loves yoghurt but only if I put some farex or weetbix in it *L he doesnt like runny food for some reason weird huh

Well, I spoke to the director of the CC today and sent her an email advising we are ceasing all care for Jazz effective immediately. I know we still have to pay for this coming fortnight but Matt said she's not going anymore at all, not even for the fortnight we are paying for. So he's got her every Wed & Fri starting tomorrow. (Although he was half asleep when he said this so I wonder if he'll remember) LOL.

I have asked the director to send me the bank details so we can do EFT for the money we owe. When she replies to that I'll ask her about an incident report for Wednesday. Thankfully Jazz's eye looks fine today, maybe slightly bruised if you look really closely but it just looks a bit like a tired bag under one eye rather than a bruise.

I feel kind of bad for taking her out of care, but it's becoming too much of a financial burden for us and also we feel there is no comparison with FDC. In my experience a CC is a business, they run it like a business in that they charge a fortune and have the least amount of staff they can legally have. I find that the child:carer ratio in cc is not suitable for a baby as young as Jazz. At FDC (well, at our FDC) it's run like what it is, a caring, loving home environment where the carer and her family genuinely love and care for the children like their own. There are only a max of 4 children in the home at any one time and even though it's only the wife who is the carer, her husband can assist as well but mainly does this with their own grandson who they look after most days. We have really started a good friendship with the carer and always feel welcome in her home.

Sorry for my long post. Prama, due to regular problems like you experienced, when I have written a long post, I always copy it before hitting the post button just in case so that if there is an error I can just paste it and try again.

Hi all.

First things first :grouphug:

Thankyou all for your support. I'm so lucky to have you all.

Danni - I have a friend who had her DD in FDC for about 18 months. It was onle 1 day a week to start, then everyday when she worked & they are really good friends.
My friend & her family moved up to Brisbane at the end of last year & when they came back for the last holidays at her mum's the FDC lady was there waiting for them!
Her DD misses her like mad & thinks of her as like a sub Nan. Its cute.

I just found out there's a pre school here for free. Its run through the public school, I might go see them when Bri's feeling better & find out more about it. I'm not sure how it'd work when we don't use the public school. Bri will be going to the Catholic school here, so will have to find out if its still free.
Might ask about the FDC thats run through the DC centre across the road. I think I'll get both the little ones in somewhere 2 days a week & go start looking into TAFE.

Hope we are all feeling better soon.

Yes, our FDC lady is like a substitute grandma. She's a wealth of knowledge!

WARNING - BEETROOT POO IS JUST LIKE BEETROOT

I'm upset, I made a vent about that I was annoyed BB that I was losing my posts. and now ppl are jumping on me that I shouldnt be angry, I shouldnt direct it at BB cos it's a server problem.

I'm just so sick of ppl telling me how I should/shouldnt be feeling etc. All I wanted is a bloody vent cos I havign such a bad day and some posts would stick and others wouldnt.

Vent here Prama coz it gives me the sh*ts too!
I don't care who's fault it is! It's bl00dy annoying & it happens way too often!

On a happier note I just got the professional pics I had done of the kids when Jesse was about 1 or 2 weeks old. I uploaded some in my gallery. Check 'em out.

Hi girls,

Taking a break at work because I need it haha So busy today and I am almost considering taking work home but I don't want to. Anyway hopefully I can get what I need done. Doni can't pick DJ up for me this afternoon either because he is in Qld for the day for work. Oh well, hopefully my stepmum won't mind looking after him for a litle longer so I can get stuff done.

I am definitely putting DJ into childcare now. I have decided 2 days per week at a place near work. I have seen the place and fell in love with it and the carers were so nice as well. My stepmum really wants to look after DJ so I am thinking of letting her look after him on Thursdays. I just want DJ to get interaction with other kids and the learning programs they offer kids also.

I am soooo tired though, I don't know how to change around DJ's sleeping habits. No matter what we do he still wakes up at 3am and then grizzles for rest of morning. I think it is teething, not sure. His 6 months needles are tomorrow so I might bring it up with the GP while I am there and ask a few questions. \

re: yoghurt - DJ loves his yoghurt especially the banana one.... that would be about right, I hate bananas and he loves them hahahahaha

Prama - don't worry about the others, I get sick of doing a nice long post and then for it to not go through.... grrrr hope your leg feels better. We will have to catch-up again sometime soon, probably a few weeks time.

Skye - what a bonus on the pre-school for free ;)

Danni - I would have preferred family day care as well, but the waiting list is huge for this area.

SJ - yeah it sucks lugging the stuff around I feel like a pack horse. But I think I have made the right decision in putting DJ into childcare. He will start on 23rd. I have to send off Centrelink form tomorrow.

Bron - how is Will going?

Trina - how are you going?

Sorry girls it is a short post.... Just needed a break from work. I am soooooo tired. Thinking of another caffeine hit to get me through the afternoon.....

shell xxx
(the tired one.....)

skye - thanks heaps for your support. you are right, copy and paste is a workaround not a solution...
I just got annoyed, last year when i was still in the ttc thread, we weren't happy with something and because it was BB related, we got jumped on. It seems sometimes you can't say anything about BB in a constructive way without a hissy fit.

anyway, i just got worked up and i shouldnt have let them get to me. not worth it.

im glad you re feeling better. up and down days are so hard... steve thinks im not getting much better and it's hard on him. i;ve joined the depression and anxiety thread, but havent explored it properly.

shell - sorry you're feeling so tired, it's so hard when they start waking up.. i dont even sleep properly cos i keep thinking he's going to cry any moment.
i find now that carrassing his face gently helps calm him down and he goes back to sleep. i was so tired last night as i didnt really sleep the previous night, im sure he grizzled more times than i woke up.
hehe steve and i dont like banana either..

gotta go.. takeaway's here

Hi all,

I'm at work so a short one from me.

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

Trina

Hey again,

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 :)

Well I better go, and get ready for bed.

Shell xxx

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 :wall:

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!

Bron any news?

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.

Anyways. Gotta get this girl up for school.

BBL

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..:grouphug: 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!