Babies Born March 2007 #5

[Karina]

Rachel,
I am slowly trying to cut out the large amounts of sugar I eat, and I am finding Claire is pooing less than she was before.. so it could well be the sugar?? I dont know though. Its so hard to tell when she cant tell you herself isnt it!
I sure do take my hat off to those single mums too. My mum did it with me and my sister, mum worked full time and paid a mortgage while sending us to school and kindy. I cant imagine how tough it would have been for her, and here I am finding my situation hard.
I thik AIN is more like aged care nursing - u can go to tafe and do a certificate III, and EN you do a traineeship for a year in a hospital and go to tafe also and get a certificate IV - I want to do that, but my chances of getting into that are slim i think(because you actually have to apply for it like a job thruough the dept of health and its apparently gets alot of applicants). I rang the nursing education unit at the local hospital and picked the ladys brain for about an hour with all my questions!
I also have private health insurance - its through the teachers health fund (DH is a teacher) and it comes straight out of his pay. we have "family cover". We only had the option of single or family, so we got family so we were both covered, and it also covers Claire and its no extra for us to include her. I only just put her on our policy the other week. Ikwym though, theres not alot of services in a private hospital that a baby would use at this age - I can only think of emergency but I'd go to the local public hospital for that, even though the private hospital near us has emergency too. It would be good though if bub needs to have some sort of operation (god forbid of course) and there is a waiting list through the public system. Thats all I can think of. We have it for tax purposes and also so we can get our glasses and stuff like that. There are a few things we use it for, but we can also get "public hospital cover" where we can have our own doc in a public hospital but be a private patient and its about $40 per month cheaper than the private hospital one.
Woohoo on not having a HECS debt anymore! Its nice to not have to pay that extra tax!
Hope the Aktavite works for you - I had it today as well but it hasnt done anything for me yet. We''ll just wait and see I guess.

Jo, Nic sounds just so beautiful. How cute that he finds you funny! Thats fantastic that he loves the girls too. The picture in your ticker is so cute - he looks like he is a really happy little boy. ooh wow thanks for the tip on the Australia website, I'm going to check that out. Its so hard to compare them from all the seperate websites with all the differnt formats and terminilogy they use.

Well I was lucky enough to get a bit of sleep a bit earlier - i fell asleep in bed while I was feeding Claire but then DH woke me up because I was in his way trying to get into bed heheh and then he fell asleep and snores loud and now I cant get back to sleep. Claire is asleep and looking very peaceful. I worry that she is too cold though - I have been doing the "one extra layer of clothing" rule but she always has freezing cold fingers and feet, even with socks on her hands and feet.