V big to you, so sorry to hear about your friends daughter i couldnt even imagine what they must be going through..my thoughts are with them.
Jack is going well he is such a happy little man always smiling, so cheeky aswell!! he will be drinking his bottle and ill look down and he will be staring up at me with big eyes and a cheeky smile all while he is still trying to suck!!
Emelia is turning into such a big girl its quiet sad really that she is growing up so fast, but she is so much fun, always making us laugh, when i say no now she will turn around and point her finger at me and say no!!! (i didnt even know i did that!) last night Leigh was playing with her on the floor and she was looking through her book and Leigh grabbed it off her, she reaches over and says "dont touch my book" "no daddy" even pointing her finger lol. Leigh and i just looked at each other totally in shock!!!
Thanks guys, i'm dealing with it a bit better. I don't want to be melodramatic and i said this to DH too, it's almost like i'm "grieving" for our before baby life, but at the same time, i love this new baby so much and am guilty that i feel like that because he didnt ask to be brought into this world, neither did evie...oh i know i cant be supermum and i'm being too hard on myself.
Today i put Chino in the rocker on the floor in the kitchen while i made Evie some dinner, she goes up to him and does really gentle pats and kisses and then just pulls on his legs like she's going to pull him fair out of the rocker. then i get mad at her and i just crack. anyway, he's slept for hours so i got to do all evie's bedtime routine and i still just kept crying..at the drop of a hat. i eventually had some iced bun and felt better.
Which reminds me....does anyone remember what's normal for those early days? i know it won't last and i can't complain but chino sleeps for 4 hours at a time, has a wake and feed for around 2 or so hours and then is back asleep. I didnt want to get into the habit of waking him for feeds but i think i might have to.
plus he has a blocked tear duct which isnt very nice either. bm seems to make it stickier
anyways, sorry i havent done personals, will be back to my old self soon i hope
oh Tara take your time :P Don't rush back... its called babymoon because its all new again every time. It took us 6-8 weeks to remember that morning was morning, and arvo was arvo...
No rush Tara!!
Can i ask where you got Chino's name from...i love it..so unique and different...i talked about it all day when i got your SMS to Craig....love love love it...so different to Evie!!!
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you're dead right Tara, you ARE being too hard on yourself!!
i think you are a dead set LEGEND honey! just for you to be "with it" enough to be using the computer and posting on here with a newborn + baby - you are AMAZING!
i didn't know what day it was for MONTHS!!! so listen to bossy me, you are doing GREAT!!
four hours sleeps sound WONDERFUL! Go Chino!
I have just spent most of the last three days at the hospy where my bestie had her bub on Fri morning - so am majorily clucky again! Got to have loads of cuddles with the most gorgy black and wavy haired, blue eyed bundle of gorgeousness. Downy hair on his skin, wonderful wrinkly skin, long sharp fingernails, those cute balinese dancer hands. I got to change a baby boy for the first time - gee so much easier than changing a girl! never thought it would be. This lovely little bub fits in one of my arms, elbow to wrist, he's 3.7kg of loveliness - awwwww!
bilby has been missing me heaps and has gotten a bit ill in the last day and a bit, so been giving her lots of TLC today, plus dh is not home to mind her (weekend is over), then bring her into the hospy for me to feed (like we were doing sat and sun).
it felt weird going into the post labour ward of the same hospy, where i was 20 months ago - after the dreadful time i had there, i was proud of myself for coping with being back in that same environment - albeit as a visitor.
It's interesting what some of you said, the difference between having a
- newborn and a toddler
as opposed to
- newborn and a baby
I had never looked at it that way before.
CHristy - best of luck with the packing!
I hope the next 2 weeks go fast for you Kim! watched pot n all that!!!
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to you, so sorry to hear about your friends daughter i couldnt even imagine what they must be going through..my thoughts are with them.
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