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does anyone have some quick and easy sweets recipes? I am doing edible xmas gifts for family this year but running out of ideas, plus DH is eating it as quickly as I make it!!!
made the cookies Nelly? and how about the chocolates in the icecube trays with Nuttella in them? snowballs - packet of arrowroots, condensed milk, coco powder and a couple of other things that I can't remember at the mo... but can find out. um ... what else. let me think. i'll give you a ring.
sorry i havent been around much, been reading just not posting!!!
will post a tummy pic tonight when i work out how to resize them!!!
all good just having pelvic issues, cant believe in due soon!!
yowza! lots of good recipe ideas..i saw a great one the other day if you still need one;
Chocolate Macaroon Kisses (makes 20 biscuits)
3 egg whites
2 cups shredded coconut
1/2 hazelnut meal (ground hazelnuts)
1/2 cup caster sugar
2-3 tablespoons choc hazelnut spread
Preheat oven to 170, line 2 baking trays with baking paper
Put all ingredients except hazelnut spread into a bowl, stir together.
Use 2 tspns of mixture, roll into a ball, place on tray and flatten into 4cm rounds. bake for 8 minutes.
Swap trays on oven shelves, bake for further 6-8mins or until golden, cool for 5 mins. transfer to wire rack.
Sandwich biscuits with the spread
I was going to those as gifts cos a) theyre quick and b)lots for kids to help with
My son Lennon was born on the 30th November 2006 so I am going to enjoy this section and chatting to other parents with children the same age as my son
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Taralee, i really don't want to become a single mum, i don't want bilby NOT to live in the same house as her daddy. THis is the last thing i choose to do. i feel i ahve no choice now. This relationship has deteriorated to such a point, i don't know what else to do. No communication, a great deal of actions from dh, that demonstrate lack of respect to me and this family. Unhappy living conditions that need to change, and his attitude is complete head in the sand. No goals, no shared goals. No budget at all, just living in denial constantly. I cannot live with this much uncertainty and anxiety. we are so cramped. bilby's behaviour is showing the results of that too.
but as much as i think the best thing is to go, can't see it happening due to
$$$$. hard to feel anything but trapped.
Nelly, i have gotten my figures from Centrelink, my figures already include the max amount of rent relief. I doubt i will get public housing. the public housing stocks are so low, govt has been selling off trust homes the last decade, and not replacing them. You can only get one if you're "catergory one" which i'm not, and even then you have to wait up to four years.
i won't be offended if no-one keeps reading from here on in, i just need to put down my thoughts, like a sounding board, helps me to see it in black and white, so don't feel you have to read this.
i saw a woman on tv tonight, her DD has bone cancer, just had a leg amputated this week, they are Category One on the Housing Trust wait list, have been told they have to wait four years to get housed.
in the meantime, they are living in the private rental market, (awful pidgeon infestation, poo everywhere, disease risk, vermin type situation, landlord won't fix it inspite of oncologist advising it must be fixed for health reasons) and they have to stay there, cos rental market is so high and fussy, the mum (single mum to 2 kids) says landlords don't like to rent to single mums, so she feels she has to stay, in the unhealthy situation, rather than be homeless (while the four years passes).
this does not fill me with optimism. This woman is in extreme situation, and SHE can't get public housing, bilby doesn't have cancer, i'm not escaping DV, i'm not in drug rehab, we are not homeless, so i'm not catergory one. I understand why there are catergories. but it's so obvious, the list of people needing housing is MUCH bigger than the actual number of housing available.
i spoke to a counsellor today, who said, me paying 50% of my income on rent would be very financially dicey. Private rents can increase unexpectedly, and any increase would cripple my budget, so he thinks 50% is not very do-able. Many private rents have gone up by 60% in last three years, no sign of them not going up more.
the financial advice is to not spend more than 30% of your income on rent. Does that mean you would have to have $1,000 coming in each week, to fit that? If most properties i see (at the bottom end) are around $300 to rent that is?
i know i need to make a change for bilby and me, to improve our lives, my head is spinning with the money bits.
reasons to stay
- dh is a good dad to bilby and loves her to bits
- bilby loves her dad
- i have no other support to help look after bilby, other than dh
- financially it will be super tough, to even meet needs. i will need to buy washing machine, fridge and a bed, bare minimum. prolly a small telly for ABC kids (my sanity time). i cannot imagine having computer or internet if i moved out. ($$$) so all my cyberspace pals would disappear into the ether - and by god, i would miss you all so much.
reasons to go
- bilby and i will have a chance to eat at table and chairs
- i can play kids cd's for her, using my old boombox that i currently have nowhere to put becos dh insists on having a 1970's sound system, wired up to stuff i don't understand (that i can't work)
- i will set up our home with easy access to outdoors and make the backyard safe for her to go and play in (he blocks the back door with a recumbant exercise bike that he doesn't use - weighs a tonne or else i would move it myself). we could do outdoor stuff like painting and mucky stuff, not shut up in airless dark unit all the time like we are now.
- i will use a carport/garage for it's intended purpose (car will be in shade) instead of it being 100% full of adhoc junk of dhs' that he won't let go of and is a hazard to trip up on if you choose to walk thru the garage
- it will jolt him into going to couples counselling
- i will no longer for liable for debts due to his extremely late tax returns
- i am hoping i would qualify for bond assistance from housing trust (for private rental market) - cos that would be close to $1800 to come up with - no way coudl i do that.
gigi you are doing really well and I am impressed with your research - I am so ad hoc I do things without finding out consequences and limits etc.
Here is a dumb question for you re public housing - does that include housing commission? I just see (and know from DH side in Syd) people in them that don't appear to be category one and yet they get a new place once they tire and wreck the one they are in. (Gee back to BIL and his exP) How does this system work?
Good that you will qualify for Bond assistance bcos that is one of the biggest costs of moving. I wish you lived near us you could have our old couch, fridge etc which we use but don't necessarily need. DO you have friends that maybe you could share house with in the interim, mayb see if anyone on BB knows of anything? With the property market crashing into recession that should start to free up rentals too I would think.... anyway just musing aloud.
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