Girl- I dont think there is anything to worry about. My Friends Boy if 11 months and still doesnt crawl. Just cos some of the bubs this age are walking and some are crawling doesnt mean anything. All bubs develope different. Is She talking??? COmpared to other babies DD doesnt say much... although it is increasing. She is more content with trying to walk where others prefer to play or talk etc...
I was thinking maybe one of those Kinder little bars of chocolate or if they had easter ones i would maybe get 1 for DD. Kmart have the walker prams on special i wanted to get her for christmas last yr so might get her that instead of doing the easter thing. DS doesnt need any more hyper so maybe few for him and something to play with... people go MAD with chocolate for easter... I just want it over cos i'm so tempted by all the choccy... LOL.
Well Tiahna took 2 steps of the couch and crash landed and now wont stand. I thought i wrote this yesterday but nope.... Now when you get her to stand she squats down on the flats of her feet... Think she is scared a bit... She is sill keen on the futniture and gets around so fast now and is taking more risk to not need to hold on... I think the fall shook her up a bit though.
Tiahna is down to 3 bottles comfortably now. i finally got her to ddrink from cup... well straw mag mag cup and she loves it... She wont touch the sippy cups but loving the straw so is now drinking water... YAY... she spis on it all day and loves seeing her cup. Were now in 0 Clothes although and i'm loving the walker shoes... I brought her 2 pais. (buy one get one 1/2 price ). Also we still have no hair... its not growing at all...
Sass- I think you'll be the 1st with another bubs. GL with the diet... I actually got off my a$$ yesterday and went for a walk up the shop and carried all the bags home... God my arms were killing but felt good...
Bec- God i hope DS grows up... it seems like he's acting up more not getting better. He's just so nasty and bitter towards everything lately... GL with the choldcare decision. Its a toughie. Hope the BF sorts itself out... I have heard a few people saying same thing around this time and up... Probably another "fase"....
NaNa- Gosh like u need any more stress hun... Do u think that DS just has too much energy and is waking up at night from that?? r u doing the swimming lessons ?? was it you starting up or someone else... Hope u get everything sorted.
ALSo i find with my DS the more i try to make him do things my way the harder things were. I had to change my way of doing things to better suit us. especially now. You can take DP's aproach of yell yell yell or mine of talking calmly and guess who gets results... If you give jordan something to do he is mostly good but things like shopping are bad and doing things out of the ordinary or unexpected sends him out of wack.
Girl - There are a couple of bubs in my playgroup that are the same age or older than Aadi and they're not crawling yet. They do the same thing as Yasmeenia tho, spinning around on their bottoms and moving around the room like that! Don't worry about it. My friend's DS is a day younger than Aadi and doesn't even have any sign of teeth yet!
Good luck with uni, and your assignments!
Bec - I hope you're feeling better now. I know it's hard, but try not to stress about the BF, it probably doesn't help! If you can keep at it for 12 months, then you've done so great, and it will be easier to decide what you want to do then. AF really seems to mess things up a bit, especially if it's only just started for you. I found some really helpful info and advice on kellymom dot com that really eased my mind, I can send you a link if you want. I found it quite by accident because I was googling repair advice for my medela pump coz it wasn't working (it had been so long since I'd used it!). I hadn't looked at their site for maybe 6 months. It's a bit, well, american, but still relevant. Lucky Cam was so good for you when you were so sick. Also, I hope you work out something with childcare. I'm looking into family daycare and occasional care here now, since I'm not going to get a break any other way!
With the name changing business, unfortunately it's all thru Qld. I was born there, and Australia just isn't federated in some really major, important things like that. Argh! They're so backward and slow!! I have to get onto it and sort it out ASAP, and pay the stupid fees to have my dad's name legally again. I don't even want to be associated with him or his name, but I have to. For Aadi's ID, and if I ever want to live overseas (and therefore marry DP!). He's applying for work in Paris, and I'd be silly not to want to go there!
Jess - isn't it devastating when you think you've snaffled a great thing in an online stocking, and then it's gone?! It sucks! I don't know what Aadi's issue is, but 3am he's awake and yelling and kicking. DP and I are not the kind of people to yell or get angry, but we're being frustrated a lot at the moment. I haven't taken him swimming lately as we've all got a cold, and Gymbaroo is too far away and expensive, and by all accounts, pretty lame anyway. He just tears around the house all day, and I try and wear him out as best I can! Paed said I have to be REALLY strict with his discipline, but it's certainly hard when he doesn't understand anything much yet.
Oops, he's awake. Better go!
She is a chatterbox. She very stops talking or making noises when she is at home with DH and me. She even initiated conversations with strangers at the supermarket or shopping centre. But lately she is somewhat shy when it comes to new people. She is very cautious and keeps a close eye on them. She also doesn't like to be left with people she does not know but a month ago she didn't mind staying with someone new. She does show signs of wanting to stand. She usually pulls on me to help her stand.
Bec,
I do sincerely feel for you. It is hard to look after a baby and not feeling well. Good luck with trying to get daycare for Cameron. I guess it is best to place your child in a centre where you feel most comfortable with.
OMG I just noticed Tiahna is now getting the next 2 teeth beside her top 4 and 2 beside her bottom 2... OMG... This necklace must be working... We've had no tears or discomfort lots of other symptoms tho... I'm stunned. we have 7 through and cut (one only Just) the rest are big bubbles. that will be 10 teeth when they all come through.....
Well today i decided i would email round to see if i could get some kind of income from home... I looked at becoming a MCN consultant or kids clothes... Well i got 6 emails back with offers. so now i have to choose.
Wonder if i could do a clothing one and an MCN one.
Jess - Wow on the next teeth. I just seen your message on fb too about not having that necklace on...sounds like it was a very good investment...its amazing how the stones work. I use to be into crystals and stuff, so I have a couple of stones around the house, but I think they all need a cleanse though.
NaNa - Bummer being a QLD'er...stupid slow system. We were warned it was a bugger (and costly) to the named changed through QLD and that was over 6 years ago...obviously nothings changed. Hope it doesn't take too long for you. Yeah, not overly that stressed about the BFing - I'm proud to have gotten to 10months (I had it in my head I was going to dry up at 4months like my mum did with me and my brother ) - so anything past that points been great. I'm still offering, but no go. I'll just keep expressing as much as I can and at this stage as I've not been getting much, I'll just give it to him for his bed bottle.
Girl - See nothing to be worried about with the crawling...Yasmeenia seems to be possibly excelling in other areas to make up for it...little chatterbox hey. Cam's only recently started to become more chatty...that was an area I was a little concerned about, but I know he'll get there, and it seems he started to become more chatty over the last few days.
Well decision has been made about childcare...though I had to go and confuse myself just that little bit more though ...started to look into FDC as well. But as I had to let the centres know by today and after talking it over and weighing the pros and cons of all 3 options, we decided to go with the child care centre with the Thursday Friday available. Cam starts on the 16th April - Thursday week - it makes me sad that my maternity leave days are coming to an end and that I'll have to leave him with others (even if its only for 3 days a week). But I know he will be fine and probably have so much fun playing with the other kiddies. We will pop in there for a little play and complete forms next week.
Cam has begun waking up again a couple of times at night, well last night was 9.30pm, then 5am (but then thankfully ended up sleeping til 7.20am), then again he woke not long ago at 9pm. Not sure whats going on...he is dribbling a heap but can't see any signs of teeth coming through, so it must be developmental. Last night, both times took a while to comfort and calm, but after talking with DH today, we decided to try something else - as silly as it may sound. Everytime we go into when he is crying, he is standing up...so I thought, maybe its what my friend said about him trying learn to stand and walk. So just before when he woke, when I went in, after not being able to comfort with a cuddle, I put him on the ground and helped him stand then walk around his room...he then calmed down and seems to have gone back to sleep - no worries. Maybe that was a fluke, but interesting it worked though.
That's all from me for now, this has taken me about 1.5hrs to type as it is (was doing it bit by bit, while I've made and eaten dinner and calmed Cameron).
We had sleep school today. What a colossal waste of time! It was basically their take on controlled crying, and their ideas on when I should feed my child that goes against absolutely everything else I've read or tried, and against everything that works for us. They hadn't even bothered to read my notes or file when we arrived, and couldn't understand why we didn't want to even try putting Aadi into a cot to sleep 1, in a strange environment, 2, when he hasn't slept in a cot for months, and 3, when he was so hysterical from being kept awake by their nonsense and other kids there screaming that he was bashing his head on the bars. We left at midday.
They had even blanked out on the nutritional posters on the walls about when to feed/BF your child, and put in their version. Very lame. DP and I tried so hard to go with an open mind and get something, anything, out of the day but they were just insistent that we try and put Aadi to sleep in a way that wasn't gentle and went against everything we have strived to achieve, and ended up being very distressing for all of us. We have never had that much trouble getting him to sleep, and they wouldn't hear us when we tried to explain that that wasn't why we were there!
Oh well. Completely threw our day out of whack, and now we have the end of daylight savings time to contend with too! We rang around a couple of other sleep schools but the only other one that is an option is $3000 for a 4-night residential stay, and will only accept our private insurance if I'm diagnosed as having PND and there's a risk of me hurting my child. Not likely! They did, however, put us on to a woman who works independently, and she's coming round on Tuesday night (for a fee) to see what help she can provide. She seems ok, and provides follow-up support, but I am going to call her and check what her thoughts are on gentle parenting and my personal beliefs first, tho. Don't want to waste our time and money if it's going to be a repeat performance of today.
My GP is on leave so he hasn't sorted out anything with our paed for extra care or assistance. Maybe in a couple of weeks when he's back... I think booking Aadi into occasional care for a half-day or two a week might be more useful. Give me time to rest first, then gather my thoughts and strength, and then focus on an effective way of dealing with this challenging little boy that doesn't crush his spirit or let him become a "problem child".
Jess - wow on all them choppers! So glad the amber necklace is working so well for Tiahna too!
Bec - I don't like to admit I'm a QLDer. Dont tell anyone! haha! Yeah, the government is soooooo freakin slow and backward, and they've JUST put the prices up on the certificate stuff. bah! I'll have to go back to my dad's name for now, even tho I've practically disowned him. And even tho I don't want one, you have to have a surname, apparently... Good luck with the childcare centre. I hope it turns out to be a great thing for all of you. I thought about FDC too, but I'm just a bit hesitant still. DP said No F'ing Way. That's pretty strong words for him, so CCC it is!
Thank you for remembering me Jess. I have been busy with uni. We are just over half way through the semester. At the moment I am in my one week break so I am trying to catch up on my readings. Three more assignments to go and I can concentrate on preparing for my exams. Yasmeenia has been wonderful. She is so sweet and lovely. She doesn't seem to be interested in crawling at all. She constantly wants to stand up. Using me or furniture to stand. If she isn't standing, she isn't happy. So I guess, she will be giving that milestone a miss. Lol. Since Feburary, she has been to childcare twice. She is enrolled at daycare as casual. I use it when I am desperate. For example: Putting finishing touches on my work. I am thinking about cutting her hair, shaving it all off but DH is against it. She has too much hair. I really want DD to start walking soon. Or at least by 12 months. How are other bubs with their walking?
Abb -
Today is Thursday and I hope your results are positive.
Nana -
Are you still having troubles with your little ones sleeping? I find it easily for DD to go to bed (bedtime) after coming back from childcare because she is tried. Have you thought about trying that? It must be tough on you. You are a champ. Keep up the good work.
Jess (Hey-Good-Looking),
Thanks for remembering me.
Sassy -
What has your friend decided? She must be very confusing. Her decision, neither way, will be life changing. I hope she makes the right decision.
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GL with the choldcare decision. Its a toughie. Hope the BF sorts itself out... I have heard a few people saying same thing around this time and up... Probably another "fase"....
) - so anything past that points been great. I'm still offering, but no go. I'll just keep expressing as much as I can and at this stage as I've not been getting much, I'll just give it to him for his bed bottle.
...started to look into FDC as well. But as I had to let the centres know by today and after talking it over and weighing the pros and cons of all 3 options, we decided to go with the child care centre with the Thursday Friday available. Cam starts on the 16th April - Thursday week
- it makes me sad that my maternity leave days are coming to an end and that I'll have to leave him with others (even if its only for 3 days a week). But I know he will be fine and probably have so much fun playing with the other kiddies. We will pop in there for a little play and complete forms next week.
haha! Yeah, the government is soooooo freakin slow and backward, and they've JUST put the prices up on the certificate stuff. bah! I'll have to go back to my dad's name for now, even tho I've practically disowned him. And even tho I don't want one, you have to have a surname, apparently... Good luck with the childcare centre. I hope it turns out to be a great thing for all of you. I thought about FDC too, but I'm just a bit hesitant still. DP said No F'ing Way. That's pretty strong words for him, so CCC it is!
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