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Kellee, I just had a look at you www for the first time since Toby was born and I must say, I love the photo of your family. Charlie is just adorable, and I love your birth story, you have a great sense of humour.
I should be sleeping instead of playing on here...
But it's so much fun... :) Thank you, I think they're quite lovely too.
Hi Girls,
Shaz u lucky thing!! I am waiting for this to happen to me. I have ages to go I guess!! Anyone else having luck with sleeping?
Girls how do you get a pic of your babies near your ticker?
I’m here Kellee & Karen!!! Sorry I’ve been a bit MIA lately. Trying to get so much done and getting no where and I’ve had a bit of personal stuff happening. I’ve been reading and keeping up though- you girls have been chatting up a storm! I can’t believe I’ve missed out on a few pages worth of it! Today its already 4 o’clock but I’m going to get SOMETHING done from beginning to end (I hope). I might keep working on sorting the photo’s and writing a letter to my Nana…. Both Em’s and my noses are really stuffy again. I don’t feel bad but poor Em can barely breath through his nose. Other then that not much going on. We got our birth certificate so I’m framing that with a picture of Emerson – it actually looks quite good. We’re putting that on a wall with our gorgeous Winnie the Pooh cross stitch underneath.
We had our 6 week check up yesterday. Emerson now weighs 4.56 kgs, is 56 cms long and has a HC of 38 cm. So all is good. They barely checked him over actually. I talked to them about contraception as well and we’re going with the implanon implant. I’ve heard good things and bad things about this so I hope all goes well.
Kellee ~ I just checked out your site as well and its great!! You’re an excellent communicator – very fuuny. The pic was gorgeous and I oved your birth story!! Good to hear you’ve gotten out for a few walks as well. I’m going to do some leaflet dropping so I actually get out there each week. I’m starting with my best friend soon so it’ll be great. LOL @ not being able to handle the IL’s – you’ve got good coping mechanisms there! You’re going to love having DH home all the time.
Kim ~ I do exactly the same thing with Em – its nice to snuggle with them and get a bit more sleep as well!!! Besides if they sleep for another hour then they weren’t all that hungry to begin with!!! So don’t feel bad! I hope things get better with DH for you as well. In a backwards way I’m lucky. Living by myself means I have no expectations of any one but myself so I don’t have to get ****ty at anyone LOL. Is Darcy on her own room yet And did you get to eat your hot soup? Yep Em put on weight and I already have AF back – eeek!! I forgot how much I dislike it lol!! I’m not BF so I can’t answer the other questions! And I hope you have a great time away!!
Ange – I hear with sleep depravation. The first few weeks were horrid because of it. Its better now thankfully. If you got to Ticker Central – which is a .com not .com.au – they have tickers where you can upload photos. There may be other sites that do as well.
Vic ~ Glad to hear that Adam has started smiling! Thanks for the advice. He definitely feeds more during the day. I can’t seem to stop him grazing though. He downs a bottle and then will graze the next one and down the next etc. I’ve tried distracting him with the dummy, changing him, holding him etc and I’ve stretched out the grazing a bit but not a whole lot… any more advice would be appreciated.
Karen ~ Glad to hear that Phoebe is sleeping through! Lets hope it keeps up. Glad to hear that everything is in the all clear. You must be relieved.
Shan ~ Good to see you again and hear that everything is going well.
Shazz ~ Whoo Hoo for the big sleep. Glad to hear that things are going well!!
Well I have a massive headache and I feel a bit sick – this has taken me forever to write so I’m signing off. Will try and keep up a bit more so I don’t have to these massive posts LOL. Hope everyone has a great weekend!
Been a couple of weeks since I was on ... quite a few posts to read through!
Jovi's doing much better. She was weighed on Wednesday and is now 3950 grams which is awesome, after just 2 weeks on the bottle. She's drinking 150mL at most feeds now which is good. They're measuring her at only 53.5 cm ... she was recorded as being born at 53cm. So now I'm thinking that maybe the hospital was wrong as she no longer (and hasn't for about 3-4 weeks) fits into 0000 clothes and is into 000. It wouldn't surprise me if the hospital had measured her wrong. When she was born they weighed her at 6 pound 2 ounces, the midwife thought that she felt heavier than that and weighed her on a different scale and she weighed 7 pound 1 ounce (3202 grams).
She has to go for her needles on Tuesday ... that should be a fun day! NOT! She screamed really badly after having her heel ***** done, so I can only imagine what Tuesday will be like. We've already picked up some baby panodol just in case.
She also had the u/s done on her hips this week. The reason my dr wanted it done is that she bends flat out at the hips when you lie her down but thought this might be due to her losing the weight, so wanted her checked. The dr at the u/s said that her left side was completely fine and she has mild displacement in the right hip, but that it was that mild we don't have to do anything special for her, which is great! We were dreading the thought of having to have her in a brace for 6-12 weeks.
Thanks for the comments on Jovi's website. Yes, she is gorgeous and both of us couldn't be prouder. We went to Gosford to visit family over the June long weekend and were mobbed whereever we went! Woolies was the worse. I think we had every single female employee hanging off us gooing and gaaing all over her. Was just as bad when we went and got Charcoal Chicken.
I can't believe July's here already. I'm going back to work (FULLTIME!) on the 1st August. DH will be SAHD which should be interesting.
Obviously circumcision wasn't an issue for us this time around but we had already decided that if it turned out we were having a boy we would definitely get him circumcised. The issue was also brought up at our antenatel classes. As we are a "small" town we were told that our hospital doesn't do it, and that there were only 2 doctors in Bathurst that do it, and only do it in the first 2 weeks. They gave us their names in case we needed it. That's pretty much all that was said.
Name, age and family stats
Beck - 26, DH (Scott) - 28, Jovi - 2 months, + 2 cats Cuddles and Tazz. We live in Central West NSW - Orange
How did you come up with Bub's name?
Scott came up with it ... not surprisingly he's a huge Bon Jovi fan, but I made him find me a meaning (Happy) and an example (one is the girl from "Elf") before I even considered it. Once I did, I fell in love with the name straight away. Everyone we tell loves it too which is great.
Do you have family close by?
Scott has a couple of cousins that live here, but we don't see them unless we go and see them ourselves. Pretty slack really. Other than that, his parents live 2.5 hours away and my parents are about an hour the other side of them.
How many kids do you plan to have?
I can see myself having a few ... I think 4 would be a maximum, but definitely want more. Will wait a couple of years though I think before trying again ... hopefully by then our financial situation will be better also.
Are you BF or FF?
Started off breastfeeding and did that for the first 6 weeks until it was realised that Jovi was no longer thriving. She's now been breastfeeding for a little of 2 weeks ... loving it!
Do you use cloth or disposable nappies?
Started off in disposable as we had bought a huge box before Jovi was born, and were given a few packs. Have just started in the last week and a half to put her in cloth which she's adapting to pretty well ... mainly for financial reasons. The washing is going pretty good ... soak in the bucket over night then wash every morning ... or night depending on the load.
What do you do for a living?
I'm a public servant ... working for the Department of Lands but on maternity leave at the moment. Have to go back shortly which will suck, but we have flexible working hours and I will only be away from her 3.5 hours at a time which is good.
Hi baby crazy, glad to hear Jovi is doing well, she was smaller then Lachie even, gosh I though he was small being born at 6lb 5.5oz. Gosh how will you go when you have to leave her to go back to work, that would kill me, although the hard times I am having with Lachie and his reflux I actually asked my boss if I could come back to work and swap him hehe. Just joking.
Oh and just another thought, has anyone told you Jovi has a pixie face, she looks so much like my son in the face, everyone says ohhhh what a beautiful pixie face.
Lea – Hope you’re able to sort out your personal stuff soon. It’s hard enough looking after a baby without any extra worries. And writing a letter to your Nana… altogether now… “Aww”. That’s very sweet. I think more people should write letters these days – it’s a dying art. Hope you and Em are both feeling better soon too. Sounds like Em is thriving! Good luck with the Implanon – I’m interested to see how you go with it. Bugger AF too. It’s been a while since I had them regularly and I’m not looking forward to getting it back!
Hey Baby Crazy! Hope you’re well. Long time no write! Poor little Jovi with the needles – it is hard, but stay strong, you’re not hurting her in the long run. I don’t know what your GP recommends but mine says to give the Panadol before the needles just in case – seems to help with Charlie. Glad to see that the hip thing isn’t too much of an issues either. How are you feeling about going back to work? Yay for DH being a SAHD – my DH will be too when Toby is about one. He’ll be fabulous at it I think, although I’m dreading going back to work already! I didn’t realise Jovi was named after Bon Jovi! That’s so cool. Just had a quick look at your website too – Jovi is so cute! So obviously a little girl. Just beautiful.
Sheree – how is everything with you? I hope you and Lachie are both doing well.
Hello to anyone I missed too.
Left the house for the first time without Toby today to do the grocery shopping. Didn’t feel too bad about it until DH called me when I was almost finished saying that he’d woken up hungry. I felt so bad – I should have thought to express or something. What a nasty mum. He wasn’t too bad when I got home (luckily I wasn’t far away) but at least I know for next time. I hope he takes the bottle – he’s never had one before. He’s had a couple of unsettled days the last little while – and two really unsettled nights. I think he’s getting some terrible wind pain and it’s waking him up.
Please don’t feel like you have to answer this question, but I just thought I would ask out of curiosity – do you think it’s mandatory that you wait for the six week check up before you start DTD again? Just curious… I had some pretty significant tearing and stitches but things are healing really well and I wonder how long I have to wait? Last time it was out of the question, but this time… sorry if it’s tmi! Feel free to ignore me!
Anyway, dessert beckons. Hope you’re all well and having a lovely weekend. Oh dear – heard a nasty scream. Better go.
Just a quick one Kellee - but I heard it was recommended (if you wanted lol) so if you have issues you can talk about it when you go back for your 6 week check up. Everything was fine with me but my GP did ask if we had and if everything was ok!
Gotta go as Em is crying!
Sheree - We had my mum here all week (such a trying time for DH LOL) and she called her "Her little pixie" all week ... lol
As far as going back to work ... i'll probably call Scott every half hour for a while ... lol ... I've tried spending some time away from her and leaving her alone with Scott ... managed an hour and a half once ... will have to see how I go I guess ...
Scott's cousin recommended that we give Jovi half the panodol dosage half hour before her needles then give her the other half after ... she did this with both her boys and she said they coped fine with their needles. Will prob give that a try.
Just closing this thread now ladies.
The new thread can be found HERE