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Hi girls
Leigh I can't believe you have 7 weeks to go, excellent! Sorry to hear about your GD again, I remember you had it with Lara, so you know how you can control it with your diet, good luck.
Sorry no more personals, off to make sausage casserole for dinner. Both the kids are coughing and runny nose, I like winter, but not all the coughs/colds that come with it.
Take care girls.
Laurin x
Oh sorry about the GD Leigh, hopefully it will be ok because you know what to eat, etc. Do you have any feelings as to what the sex might be?
Laurin- yummo, what do you make the sausage casserole with?
I was going to get an early night but Im just not tired. I was tossing and turning all night last night, and Mia decided at 3am bottle might be fun :rolleyes: so I SHOULD be tired, but Im not! Oh well, might go and read!
Night all :)
Hi girls, thought i would pop in and say hi. i have been having trouble trying to get Bec to sleep as of late. She has all her teeth except the back molars, so unless shes getting those...I dont know whats going on! Her day sleep is up the put. She takes ages to go to sleep. Same deal with the night one and most nights shes not sleeping til about 930. She sleeps through most nights but am just thinking if she may be getting ready to drop her sleep all together. Shes still on 2 bottles of milk a day...at sleep time, although at night shes always wanting more...maybe growth spurt! Shes a bit of a sparrow when it comes to eating...just picks all day. Her language is still the same, she doesnt stop yabbering although its mainly babble! Shes a climber and a runner, so I have my hands very full most days. Its going to be very interesting when it comes to having #3 on board. All is going well with the pregnancy so I think! My tummy is getting bigger, so are my boobs. Have been feeling light movement for 2 weeks now.
Well I hope everyone is doing well.
Hi girls,
Mel - hope Bec's sleep gets better for you soon & that it's just a phase she is going through. My fingers are crossed she isn't ready to drop her day sleep just yet. Lara sounds so similar to Bec, running & climbing, bit of a sparrow at eating & her language is the same. I think I will have my hands full when my bub comes along too, especially since Lara is a mummys girl. I took Lara for her 18mth check up & needle the other day. She weighs 10.9 kg. Dr & nurse said she's a perfectly healthy little girl. It's so exciting you've started to feel some light movements, makes it feel more real hey! I've only got 6wks til my c/s now, I'm not organised, you wouldn't even know a baby is coming into this house, gotta get it's room ready yet. It's hard finding the time with Lara running wild. Cadence turns 5 tomorrow, I can't believe she is 5 already, the years have gone so quick.
Hi to everyone else, gotta go coz I can hear Lara pulling stuff out of one of the cupboards!
Have a great weekend
Leigh Happy Birthday to Cadence..hope she had a great day. Not too long left now! So very exciting. Am sure youll start organising stuff soon. Good to hear Lara is doing well. I got Becs needle done the other day and am off to the health nurse on Tuesday. I know shes already 12kgs, but shes really tall. I think she will be taller than her sister at the same age!
My pg is going well. I have 8 days til my scan. Baby is moving around more. Just starting to get excited!
Ok better run!
Hi Girls,
Mel - Good to hear everything is going well. Are you still keeping the sex a surprise at the scan? Can't wait to hear how you go. Fingers crossed you're having a boy. I still think mine is another girl. I will be happy either way as long as its healthy. A month from tomorrow my baby will be born (24th June). That will put me at exactly 36 wks. I am praying I don't go into labour before then, as you know if I labour my body wont handle it and more than likely rupture which can be fatal for me and bub. I wen't into labour at 37 wks with both Cadence and Lara so heres hoping I don't go before 36wks for some reason. I keep thinking only a month left of Lara being my baby. We still haven't fully decided on names yet. We think we have first names picked but no middle names. Bub's room is still our spare room so I really must start clearing it all out. Its not that messy so it shouldn't take too long........well I hope not anyway. Have you got names picked for your bub? I am going for a growth scan on the 1st of June coz when they measured my fundal height I am measuring 3 cm over. I know with Lara towards the end of my pregnancy I was measuring 4 cm over with her but I didn't get a growth scan but everyone told me I would be having a big baby and she was so tiny born 2.7kg and only 42cm long so who knows how big this one will be. Being born at 36wks it wouldn't be too bad if it was a bit bigger anyway. Bub is still in the breech position but coz I am having a caesar it doesn't really matter if it doesn't turn.
How is everyone else going?
Good to hear from you Leigh. Still hoping to leave it a suprise, but i suppose we will work it out on the day! I have some names.... we decided to keep with the 'a' ending/sounding names for a girl, because I am melissa, then olivia then rebecca...which we did without realising it! So I think we have aggreed on Jessica Elizabeth for a girl and Patrick Stephen for a boy. It seems weird writing it down!
All the best for the next moth. It sure is going very quickly!
Hey Mel,
Love the names you have picked. I think its great you're keeping with the 'a' ending if bub is a girl. Do you have any feelings on what you think you might be having? Is your belly showing heaps? I'm going to miss my pregnant belly, especially as this is my last bub. Are you guys having anymore bubs or settling for 3 as well? I'm still freak out a bit when I think about the sleepless nights again and how I will handle having 3 children while sleep deprived. Both Cadence and Lara were great sleepers pretty much from the beginning so my fingers are crossed this one isn't a night owl!
Hey Leigh,
Thanks, I like them too. Have you got names or did I already ask you that! Seriously my brain is fried! This is most likely it for us. The only chance of having number 4 is if we came into a heap of money! Financially 3 is it! 4 means new car and rearranging our house plans.... I dont know how my body would cope though with another pregnancy. This time I am sticking out front, like a basket ball. With the girls I was round all over! I am thinking maybe a boy...but its a big maybe because I truely think that its most likely a girl with DHs side of the family producing all girls! I dont mind though. I have 5 more days til our u/s. It will be good seeing the little one. Am hoping not to find out...it will be all good. Even if we did find out we wont be telling. However I would love the suprise. I hope you get a good sleeper too. I have had bad sleepers! Olivia was crap and still wakes most nights and rebecca has only just come good (fingers crossed). I am going to try and breast feed again this time. I have a new health nurse who used to be a lactation consultant so shes given me a few tips... but whatever happens!
Hows your organising going??? Am thinking you'll do a last minute rush on the bedroom! We will be having the baby in our room for a while and then popping it in with the girls. I will have to get Bec out of the cot and will have to invest in some low lying bunks. Am hoping its a good sleeper coz I dont want them all waking up in the night!!! We are holding off on our renos for a while till money comes our way..lol... so will have to have all of them sharing.
Ok enough of me!
Mel - Pretty sure Kai for a boys name (well thats the boys name we had picked while pregnant with both girls). Haven't decided on a middle name yet. DH's name is Michael so maybe that??? As for a girl we're still deciding, names I like DH doesnt and vice versa. With the way you are carrying I would say you're having a boy too. I was round all over with my girls too and I am this time as well so that's another reason why I reckon I am having another girl, but you never know, I could just be one of those people who carries like that no matter what sex the baby is. As you know I can't have anymore kids so I am getting my tubes tied during my c/s but I think we would've stopped at 3. Same reason as you guys that we'd need a bigger car and we can't really afford it unless we won lotto or something. I'm still deciding on how I'm going to feed this bub. With Cadence I breast fed her and Lara was bottle fed. I honestly found bottle feeding a lot easier. I would love to try breastfeeding again to but I just don't know how I will handle sitting up all night feeding then up early to get Cadence to school and then dealing with Lara all day as well. I know I sound selfish just thinking about me but I think I'm also a bit scared to breastfeed again. My friend just had a baby and she bottle fed her first baby and now thought she'd give breast feeding a go with her 2nd and she is having such a hard time. I guess I will wait and see when the time comes. I said to DH I would love to try it in hospital but if I hate it the midwives wont let me change to formula coz they're really pushy. My baby may end up in special care being born at 36 wks anyway so I don't know if they'd make me express if I wanted to breastfeed or what will happen. If you end up leaving the sex a surprise at the scan will you tell us on here? I will be dying to know lol. We hard Lara in our room at our old place in the bassinet for the first 4 months or so and then she shared a room with Cadence but at our new house there isn't room in our bedroom for our bassinet coz the room is quite small to accomodate the walk in robe and ensuite so the baby will be in its own room from day one. Lara will still be in the cot and I am hoping to shift her into a bed when she turns 2 coz that's when I put Cadence in a bed. I just hope the baby can fit in the bassinet for that long. I'm not looking forward to putting Lara in a bed coz when Cadence went into her bed it was a bit of a nightmare everynight to get her to bed at night coz she kept climbing out and she could reach her door handle and kept coming out into the loungeroom. I don't think Lara will be able to reach the door handles here coz theyre a bit higher. Hopefully when you're bub goes into the room with the girls that they are no dramas and they all sleep well for you.
Leigh- I like Kai for a ame. Its hard to come up with names for girls that really hit you! Good luck on agreeing! I just got a cradle off ebay and its about 15 cm longer than my bassinett. So hoping baby will stay in it for a while until I sort Becca out in a bed. Am dreading it too. i dont want to go out and get another cot just for a few months though. Good that you can get your tubes tied during the c sec. Saves reopening. I dont know what we will do for contraception!!! I dont want to go back on the pill and dh doesnt want to have the snip. I dont want my tubes tied either because I figure I did all the hard work with having them its his turn....something we have tosit and chat about hey! Am so tired today. Olivia is sleeping poorly and throwing tanties at 230am does not make for a fun night sleep...especially when it takes nearly 2 hours for her to get back to sleep and then shes up before 7am and cranky all day! I dont know whats up with her. Shes always been a bad sleeper but got better at the start of the year when she went inot a single bed. In the last few weeks its progressively got worse. She has been having some nightmares and now shes sneaking into bed with us! Wouldnt be so bad if she went straight back to sleep! Oh well, am hoping its a phase....hoping hoping! Touch wood Becca sleeps through, although I think she may be getting a 2 year old molar. Shes been sooky and shoving her hands in her mouth and dribbling. Unlike her to do the hand thing and dribble! Shes been real quick with all her teeth too. Shes a bit constipated too. She poos a few times a day but its just a few pebbles at a time. I gave her some all bran this morning (both my kids love it) so hopefully that will help, otherwise I will get some prune juice!
better go.
Hey leigh....Its a girl! We got to the scan did all the measurements and all looks well. We got the lady to turn off the dvd to see what she was. Its hit me harder than I anticipated. I think i have cried most of the day. I am glad I found out today, because I would hate to be a mess at the birth. So we decided to tell people because I need them to get used to it too (I dont know why I feel I need peoples acceptance but I do and I know the comments will come thick and fast). So we decided to let it out and get used to it. I feel guily crying about it and I dont know why I wanted so much to have a boy...maybe because I am expected too? I dunno! I am hoping tomorrow I feel more positive...am sure I will as time goes by. Now to choose a name! Dh suggested my name as a middle name (Melissa) so no a ending names! He likes Amy Melissa...something he came up with while we were out. I need to think about it! lol Oh well at least I dont have to get lots of clothes!
Oh Mel, congratulations on another little girl. I know how much you really wanted a boy though. Little girls are great though!!! I'm still positive I've got another girl on the way too so I'm sure I will be in the same boat as you when the time comes. Someone did say to me that rather 3 girls than 3 boys lol, it's true though, I would. I was so sure you'd be having a boy. Just think you're going to have 3 lovely little girls who are all fairly close in age & that can play together etc. The main thing is she's healthy! Don't feel guilty for crying either, it's a shock at the moment for you but we all know you're not going to love or care for her any less. How's your DH taking the news? My DH is desperate for a boy too so I'm not sure on what his reaction will be if we have another girl. He jokingly says he won't be telling any of his mates that I've had the baby.
I've got my growth scan tomorrow, hopefully everything is fine with bub & that he/she will be a decent size when born at 36wks.
thanks leigh... am sitting here bawling my eyes out reading your message. I need to go to bed. Dh has been grea. He was a little upset but just happy shes healthy. Thanks again - enjoy your scan tomorrow and hope all is well
hey Melissa - congrats on another baby girl :) i had gender disappointment with Finny.... all my life I had imagined two gorgeous little girls, who would play together be close, etc, etc. Then when I found out I was having a boy I was in shock and probably for the rest of the pregnancy....but the minute I laid eyes on Finn I fell so unbelievably in love I thought I was the luckiest mum in the world and I still do :) and you will be the same. I know you know all that and like Leigh said you know you won't care for her any less...I am a firm believer in everything happens for a reason....you will have three gorgeous girls, who will be best friends forever....if you need to I think there is a gender disappointment thread in here if you feel you need more support.
We are well here, the kids are fine, we are off to NZ in three weeks to see my family, I havn't met my little niece yet who is 7 months old and Mum & Dad havn't seen the kids for 12 months so we are all incredibly excited, I won't want to come back that is for sure!! I am a big sook when it comes to saying goodbye to my family lol.
Better go, really need an early night tonight xxx
ETA: aww melissa just saw your post, of course your upset, it has been a big day, your pregnant, your probably exhausted, everything will look better in the morning, please go to bed and try and get some sleep. Leigh - have a great scan tomorrow :)
Laurin, good to hear from
you. You'll have a great time with your family, bet you can't wait. I'm a sook when it comes to saying good bye to my family too.
Mel, I'm that positive I'm having another girl that I actually don't know how I will react if I have a boy. I've already told DH to capture the look on my face coz I will be in utter shock. I've only ever imagined myself having girls, I don't know what to do with a boy lol. Hope you get a good night sleep & feel better tomorrow, but like Laurin said, you will get so much support on here. Wish I could give you a big hug!
Thanks girls. I know when I give birth to this little lady I will be so thrilled. Its just something I need to get used to. It has upset me quite a bit and even though I had a great sleep I still find myself crying! I think thats from getting on the net and talking to everyone! All my friends have been supportive but it makes me emotional. I think a few more days of talking about it and I will be fine. Its lovely to think about how close my girls will be... I suppose i never had that with my sister, she was almost 6 years older than me. I have always been close to my brothers (all 6 of them) Thanks for listening. You'll probably be listening for the next few days:) Enjoy your scan Leigh
Aww Mel, big big hugs for you hon!!! I don't really know what to say to help, but just know that I'm thinking of you, and that I agree with the other girls, that once it sinks in that you are having a gorgeous healthy girl, I'm sure you will be over the moon. The relationship and bond btw mum and daughter is priceless!!
Leigh, glad to hear that all is going well for you! Hope your scan went really well today - it's so exciting hearing how you and Mel are progressing, not long to go now!!
Laurin, how exciting for you to be heading off to NZ soon - bet you're counting down the sleeps. Hope you have an awesome time!
As for us, we're ok. DD has developed a nasty chest infection which is awful. She is with my mum today (coz I'm at work) and I can't help ringing mum every 1/2 hour to check DD is ok, must be driving my mum crazy!! Other than that, DD is getting four teeth through at once - the eye teeth on the bottom, and whatever the equivalent is on the top so she's had her hands in her gob non-stop. so she's not been the happiest of girls, and OMG, the tantrums!!!! holy smokes, no one warned me about these!! Is anyone else's bub chucking major whammies when they don't get their own way??
Anyhoo, that's all for me - take care girls xxx