Babies Born November 2006 #33

**luua** · January 23rd, 2008, 12:30 PM

i'm back ladies! Miss me?

back from the land of work and teething baby. I dont think they actually need molars...ella eats fine without them. Poor chicken is feeling the pain of every push of the molars.

Work busy but good distraction. I need a holiday though...one without MIL LOL

More updates later.... Oh i bought an ovulation test kit for next month! woo hoo

**Olive** · January 23rd, 2008, 01:59 PM

cause we missed ya ann!!!!

AF just showed up!! woohoo

**taralee** · January 23rd, 2008, 03:12 PM

yay ann!
yay jols!
just had NT scan. baby's growing well, heartbeat around 150-55 bpm.
i thought it would be great if mil and evie came along, big mistake. that was stupid of me. dh just ended up taking evie out. nice that mil got to see the baby, since she hasnt seen it like that before.
oh i could ramble but i cant be bothered. i am sick and tired of negativity today. makes me realise what a positive person i am.
hey, can i ask you guys...who bothers with private health insurance? we have it and pay like $54 a fortnight, and it covers me for having the baby, but otherwise it doesnt seem worth it. getting $20 back on a pair of $300 glasses just seems stupid to me.
gotta go get evie up from her nap.

**Olive** · January 23rd, 2008, 04:18 PM

tara yay on the scan!!!!
as for insurance i used to have extras but didnt use it for 12 months so cancelled it, we recently got hospital cover for all of us due to andrews age, we pay $62 a month for basic but thinking of upgrading for the next baby to $93 a month plus co payments as its still cheaper to pay by the day for a stay

**luua** · January 23rd, 2008, 08:07 PM

we are almost CRAWLING!! woohoo!

She followed me into the kitchen and then went into the laundry and tried to get into the bin! why is that the first thing she would go to???

She is on her hands, one leg out straight behind her and the other one bent under her. Its a weird shuffle crawl...but she gets around.

Ann

***EmJa*** · January 23rd, 2008, 08:28 PM

WTG Ella, Lol about going straight for the bin!!

**visitor1** · January 23rd, 2008, 11:59 PM

Hey ladies...not really in the mood for posting of late.

Nothing new. Chelsea is still not eating. Is now demanding her bottles back again. Ive still lost the plot.

Bummer on all the BFN's in here.

Glad the scan went well Tara...were they able to determine the gender?

Good work Ella on your crawling.

Im to lasy to go back a page so i hope everyone is going well...

I will just be popping in now and then fro, now on...i hope you guys dont mind. See ya

**Olive** · January 24th, 2008, 06:15 AM

woohoo way to go ella!!!!!

hi kim!!! dont worry chelsea wont starve, sophies been the dame at dinner time, not eating!! so she misses out!!

**luua** · January 24th, 2008, 07:22 AM

Oh kim - you sound like your over it! its almost the weekend. Leave the girls with Craig and pamper yourself.

This morning went from the living room into our bedroom and then our bathroom and straight to the toilet!!!

Again how do they know what they arent suppose to touch!? She's starting to coordinate those little legs and she couldnt keep up with Jake but not long now!

We had our first haircut this week. BOOOHOOO... my baby has gone. She's a real toddler now. She has bangs and her mullet is gone. LOL

Ann
Ann

**tiggerandpooh** · January 24th, 2008, 07:56 AM

Blanche - Emelia is a character.... she looks like she is into everything like Aston is... little entertainers! Love the pics.

***EmJa*** · January 24th, 2008, 08:21 AM

Vicky -Thanks, its so hard to get good pics of her anymore she wont stay still!! i recon Aston and Emelia would get on very well!!

Ann

to the hair cut! time for baby proofing

Kim- hope ur massage was good last night!!! lucky lady

**taralee** · January 24th, 2008, 09:45 AM

Kim evie's the same. i at least try to get 2teaspoons of meat and vege in and then give her custard or something to bulk her up for bedtime, but essentially the same. will not sit in her high chair either.

on the haircut ann. i think evie will be about 4 before she has her first one
did i mention we're walking everywhere now? cant remember.
feeling sick again this morning. and so so over it. i have such a grizzly baby

**Olive** · January 24th, 2008, 07:04 PM

yooooohoooooo !!!!!!

tara i hope you feel better this evening!!! yay for the walking (evie not you )!!!

**tiggerandpooh** · January 24th, 2008, 07:22 PM

i'm here... reading... but feeling like crap...sorry

**Olive** · January 24th, 2008, 07:26 PM

awww vick.. come here and give us a hug......!! .................. is that better!!! pour yourself a chardy love.

went to the drs yeterday totalk meds and am going to try again to come off them, so currently on 25mg every second night going to go to every third night, need to be off by june/july

**taralee** · January 24th, 2008, 09:09 PM

Good job Jols, good luck

Whats up Vicky?

**luua** · January 25th, 2008, 06:32 AM

Is everything OK vicky?

Sounds like things are improving if you're reducing your meds Jols.

Tara - How's the will walker? I feel like Ella is so far behind sometimes but I'm sure she'll catch up in a few months. How are you feeling?

Blanche - Emelia's photo with her in the towel hood is sooooo cute. She just looks like she is begging to go outside again.

I'm sitting on the floor with the laptop and little ella is slowly crawling over to me....will probably take 5 mins to get here....

Ann

**tiggerandpooh** · January 25th, 2008, 07:50 AM

thanks for asking girls... I'm ok... just got some head stuff to work through with my extended family - ie my mother, sister, sister's kids.... i've copied and pasted below from another thread... don't want to brush you guys off, don't want to bring you down either.... just demons out of the box again.

its early morning... I can't sleep - again. My head won't shut off. Its just spinning and spinning and spinning. My therapist would say to me...use the mantra we worked on last week... My distress does not change this situation, my distress does not change this situation.... That's for friggin sure!

I have a 13 nearly 14 yo nephew, son of my sister. He was sexually assaulted by an adult male two years ago. the perp went to gaol for 8mths. Things with my sister spiralled out of control - again... something that happens periodically, and has for years. My nephew and neice end up being sent to live with their father after DOCS become involved, and my sister keeps her youngest daughter. Does my nephew get any support, counselling, assistance ANYTHING to help him through what happened to him???? NOOOO!!! he just gets sent to live with his father, who has 4 other kids already. fast forward two years.... My sister youngest child is in foster care due to my sisters boyfriend physically abusing her daughter, and has been since last Feburary. She has just turned seven. in the last year has been placed in three different homes. My nephew has been charged with sexual assaulting his 12year old half sister, has spent the last three months being past around his father's family staying with who ever will have him while waiting for court... and is now staying at a hotel paid for by DOCs with my mother as supervisor, my mum informed me last night that he is being placed in foster care as well. He has tried to commit sucide by hanging, has been put on AD's and anti pyschotic drugs, his mother and father are so busy blaming each other,and slinging **** at each other, neither of them have been in contact with him regularly, giving him the love, support, guidance that he so desperately needs. He becomes yet another victim in this cycle of complete and utter dysfunctionality.... round and round the cycle goes...

I'm so angry at the moment. angry at my sister, angry at that THING that is my father, angry that I can't change anything, angry that regardless of all the work I have done it has made no difference... while my own kids are safe... it hasn't stopped the cycle continuing else where in my family....angry at how powerless I feel...angry at how insidious abuse is, how its tentacles of destruction reach so far generationally....angry at the system - how it hasn't helped my nephew to be safe - but contributed to the problem....just f@cking angry!!!!

That's it in a nut shell. i'm sorry if its more information then you needed to know. going a lifetime of keeping secrets doesn't work for me anymore... when people ask, sometimes I have to tell them...

It dawned on me the other night that my family could make up the cast of a Jerry Springer show- its that dysfunctional! and while that statement is funny, its also incredibly sad... sometimes I feel like I fell out of the sky into a reality that didn't belong to me... I have never been able to reconcile how my sister and I come from the same place - yet the directions, choices, consequences have been so extremely different they are polar oppositses.

God I bet you all wish you hadn't asked now... I'm sorry for my blatant honesty. I'm feeling extremely raw at the moment. I will work through it, and come to a place of recognising what I can and cant do it this situation...

Thank god Aston can spread the joy around like he does... stops me from being swallowed up whole.