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!
Oh NaNa sorry to hear... I had an idea that sleep shcool is al about controlled crying (a friend of mine did them but in orange but i thought maybe some had a different approach... Isnt it aweful when people just cant offer you the right help... Having issues with DS and getting him help for his behaviour... ... But i could take over this thread with my whinging so i wont... I really hope that u can work with Ds and get him and yourself some sleep... I have run out of idea for you sorry... I guess the best person to know your DS is you and your DP... it might take a while but at least you know it was done your way...
Well after looking round for a SAH job i can accross HEAPS of consultant jobs but the commissions suck to be honest. so i'm looking into maybe starting up my own business... (just on the huss huss incase it doesnt work out) Just looking in to supliers and all the nitty griity of the website and hosting and blah blah blah... so we'll see... Even if its small to start with and i can expand... I would eventually like to hire my own consultants (my other SAHM friends) but that will be a while away yet.
We did have a little bit of sooking the other night from DD i guess 4 teeth care a bit much to handle even with the Amber necklace... (maybe i need bigger amber beeds... lol) well i gave her some sm33 and some panadol (more cos she was pulling so much on here ears i was worried she would pull the earings out making it worse. She had a much needed slep and was fine when she woke up so i'm impressed... (also woke with one bottom tooth cut and up... amazing,.... Some are slow to cut and come up but others are fast.
Bec- Its a bugger having to return to work isnt it...but i actually think CC is good for kids... i will be starting DD soon just for the socialisation and i think it helps then be less dependant on MUm all the time... plus they really enjoy it...
Jess - Yay on Tiahna walking. I hope those teeth cut through quickly for her then, its bad enough getting the 1 tooth, but 4 at once seems a little unfair for them hey.
NaNa - I'm sorry to hear the sleep school didn't work out, but good to hear the mothercraft nurse is able to try to help without the controlled crying. I really do hope things improve for you's soon.
Sassy - Anniversary's of loved ones passing are always hard...but I'm sure your Grandpa is keeping an eye on you. My Nana passed away almost 13years ago now and I still miss her dearly, but every now and then I get this feeling that she is here....I think she comes to visit Cameron, as sometimes he is talking to someone when nobody is there (usually in his cot at night).
Abb - How are you feeling? Hope the results were what you wanted. Has Hamish now adjusted to the daylight savings change?
Well not much here to report. I'm thinking Cameron might be getting his next tooth/teeth. I saw a little white dot on his top gum yesterday when he was crying after he let go whilst standing up and toppled giving him a scare (its the only time I can see right in when he cries). I also looks a little lumpy on his bottom gum too. He has been rather grumpy the last couple of days, so that could explain it...we will wait and see I guess.
I'm getting nervous about taking him to child care and me returning to work. But I know he will be fine (and so will I eventually ). I kept thinking yesterday (and today) - this time next week he will be away from me. I think I'll have to try to keep busy those days next week, so I don't sit around moping.
I've arranged to see my boss next Friday, so that'll help. I've also offered to go back early and he is thrilled. So I could be back at work in 2 weeks. It will be interesting, as they have a new computer system, mostly new staff and new procedures....I'll feel like I'm starting a brand new job almost. I use to be 1 of the most experienced staff there (I was one of the few people everyone would come to when they needed advise) - now I'll probably be asking all the questions - its a strange feeling - haven't felt like that since I started there 9.5years ago.
Cam has started to walk with a walker (like a plastic trolley thing you push). He kept trying to push his high chair around, so we showed him this thing (it came with blocks)- and now he is constantly getting up and walking with it. No sooner do I plop him down on the ground, he races over to it and is up and going...until he hits the wall, then he is looking around for us to turn him around. He also has this funny look on his face like 'look a me, aren't I clever'....so cute.
Well thats all from me for now I think. Off to start making dinner before Cam wakes.
HeyGoodLooking At first when I checked my notifications I thought there was a new member to our group....love the new name. Glad to hear your MIL was able to bribe Tiahna for cuddles with chocolate...I had a look at your FB photos, I see she enjoyed her bunny.
Sassy - Ain't that always the way...they never perform when you want them too. I am a little jealous Jayda and Tiahna are walking though...I can just see Cam's going to take his first steps when he is at child care - I think I'll have to tell them if they see he is about to walk to push him back down . I also had a look at your FB photos too, Jayda loved her chocolate egg too.
How was everyone's easter?
Well I wasn't planning on giving Cam easter egg, but then I started to think about it more and I thought its probably no worse then giving Cam birthday cake and fairy bread, plus we don't have a problem with fussiness with foods, he loves his vegies so a little treat here and there couldn't hurt. So when we went shopping on Saturday I bought him a little Lindt bunny (couldn't find any kinder ones). We gave it to him and knew exactly where to put it. He did an ok effort, but didn't guts it like I thought he might, only nibbled down half the ears (its one of the smaller Lindt bunnies) - so it was good to see he is not a chocolaholic like his parents yet
Nothing else new here, but I did have a quick question...
Have all your bubs soft spot closed over yet? Cam's hasn't yet, I'm not worried though as I know it can take til 12months, and it is getting smaller (its a little smaller then a 10c piece now). Was just curious.
Well, thats all from me for now. Off to get ready, we are meant to be going to a BBQ at a friends house- but it is pouring rain here, so I guess it might be an inside event now.
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.
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! 
... But i could take over this thread with my whinging so i wont... I really hope that u can work with Ds and get him and yourself some sleep... I have run out of idea for you sorry... I guess the best person to know your DS is you and your DP... it might take a while but at least you know it was done your way... 
At first when I checked my notifications I thought there was a new member to our group....love the new name. Glad to hear your MIL was able to bribe Tiahna for cuddles with chocolate...I had a look at your FB photos, I see she enjoyed her bunny.
. I also had a look at your FB photos too, Jayda loved her chocolate egg too.
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