Babies Born November 2006 #47

[nelly]

hi girls am still here and still fat!

Bub has turned and seems to be in a really good position so my cs date has been cancelled ... have I already told you that? probably but oh well! Have tried all sorts of things to get a wriggle on - except sex as DH is refusing (might be because I am asking him so romantically if he'd like to deposit some prostoglandins!) RLT and EPO but I keep forgetting to drink the tea regularly so am getting tabs today. MY plan is acupuncture next week if nothing has happened. We even spent several hours traipsing around seaworld to no avail yesterday! Darren is in Sydney 2 days this week (today and Thurs) so if that doesn't tempt fate not sure what will.

Take care lovelies!

ps Ann updated her FB the other day she is still on her in-laws farm getting support with the girls but all are well.

[Olive]

awww tara thats hard! how do you function?

nelly how exciting that bubs is on a good posy!!!!!
i had AC the day before millie was bron!!

[taralee]

im also sick now too which is fantastic....jols...i dont function lol its all about surviving.
glad bub has turned nelly, thats great!! crossing fingers for you!
i didnt know ann was with her in-laws..do you mean support as in an extra pair of hands or is she really having a hard time - does that make sense?

[nelly]

i didnt know ann was with her in-laws..do you mean support as in an extra pair of hands or is she really having a hard time - does that make sense?

I can only imagine for a bit of both!

[Nicola]

Hi Everyone

Not long now Nelly......We had some vigorous sex (TMI??)the night before my waters broke with Zander....I hopped out of bed at 6am and felt a pop and water just gushed everywhere. With Wyatt at nearly 40wks I had 2 sessions of acupuncture and a day later a strip and stretch...that night I started labour.

My latest pregnancy drama is my feet are getting swollen and my knuckles are really sore..so Im trying not to get to paranoid about preeclampsia..my next antenatal appoint is in 12days..I had some protein in my urine at my last appoinment but was told that happens when you are a bit dehydrated...I am really bad at drinking plain water

The boys are running me ragged and Im not sleeping well blah blah also we finally moved into our house even though it hasnt settled, our solicitors arranged with the sellers solicitors to let us move in early because we had to be out of our rental and had nowhere to go..it has been one stress after another and relaxing is the furtherest thing on my mind even though I am longing to do it!!! arghhh

Anyway enough of my dramas hope everyone is well...bye for now

[taralee]

OH Nicola...you poor lil dot pregnancy always seems so glamorous in theory doesnt it I'll cross my fingers for your non-preeclampsia-ness and say here here to kids running you ragged!

Chichi is up every hour or so just about every night now (did i mention that already?) anyways, it kinda hit me today that hes really not going to start sleeping thru until he's weaned or i just stop feeding him at night which has just opened a mega can of worms for me.
can i just vent my thoughts and you can choose to read them or not
1) i dont think hes ready to stop night feeds as he doesnt eat enough during the day
2) i am at a bit of a loss what to feed him during the day since he doesnt really want pureed stuff but doesnt get enough of solid stuff in and keep it in
3) if he's weaned then thats it....no more babies for me.....
making me a little sad...and i think im hormonal.....but still sad

My question about ann is that i am really hoping she doesnt have/get pnd....i hope shes enjoying it as much as she can..what a trooper!!

[taralee]

whoa! looking at my post there are a lot of sad faces....what a gloomy gus i am! sorry!

[christy]

Girls who don't know... we've been back in hospital with Matilda. She had a temp on Sat and a sore neck so I took her to the hospital (now I'm going to be a bit paranoid about meningitis for a while!) and then after 30 minutes there she was great, no temp, nothing so they sent us home. On Sunday morning she had a febrile convulsion at home and I brought her back to the hospital. She came good, but they tested her wee & bloods and she had a raging UTI. Her bloods were a mess as well so we were admitted for IV antibiotics. She went really badly for 48 hours or so but then came good. I had a few teary moments then.... Then they did an ultrasound. They found she had two ureters coming from her left kidney and going into her bladder. They didn't explain it much but that we would have to come back for a nuclear scan and then see a urologist to decide what happens next. So as we were leaving the hospital with a huge "unknown" hanging over us, they called us back (we didn't even get to the end of the ward!). We went down for a nuclear scan and that was traumatic... but we got it over and done (she was so brave.... so brave). And found that her left kidney doesn't function as well as her right. So that was the information we left hospital with.

I got a call today from one of the paediatricians looking after her (who is also a urologist in South Africa but not registered in Australia) who said that the nuclear scan was okay, it didn't indicate that we needed to do surgery at the moment. He said we would want to monitor it over time but that we would review with him in a few weeks time after he discussed Matilda with the specialist paediatric urologist at Sydney Children's Hospital and he could give us a plan then.

So scary scary times for us, good that we are home now. Good that we went to the right place for her.

[taralee]

oh Christy!!! You are all in my prayers xxxxxxxxxx

[Nicola]

Christy...thinking of you and your family.....

Taralee have you tried doing a big late feed before bed and using settling techniques for the night waking...its hard at first but if it means you get some sleep then it will be worth it

I sprayed our room with No Vac Carpet Deodoriser last night about two hours before bed and totally stunk the room out, it dries in 5 minutes but the smell has just lingered....we had to sleep in spare bedroom and today the house still stinks of floral ****e..arghhh it really got up my nose and I hope its not harmful in pregnancy........

Im starting to think the old lady poodle smell was better

[taralee]

nicola - i have been doing the big late feed but because hes been sick/teething i havent tried any other settling techniques altho i know i should...
yes! that no vac stuff is good but i tell ya! it stunk out our lounge room for days!!! i used it after the kids went to bed thinking it would be fine for chichi to crawl on in the morning and the smell lasted strongly for quite a few days, still get whiffs of it now - 3 weeks later!!

[Olive]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TARA

hope you have a fab birthday and mothers day!!

happy mothers day everyone!!

[taralee]

Thankyou Getting so spoilt i dont know what to do with myself!!!

[Nicola]

Happy Birthday Taralee!!!

What a great day to have a birthday......

I got spoilt today too.......Life is great sometimes

[nelly]

Happy birthday Tara! I got spoilt too but would have rathered be in labor ....

[tiggerandpooh]

Huge hugs christy. you have been in my thoughts. and hope that in amongst all of this you are taking care of you, and letting others be there for you.

happy birthday taralee. hope it was wonderful.

Jols - how's your two little girls going?

Nicola - nearly half way. wow that has gone so quick.

Blanche - hello?

Kim - how you doing?

gigi- hidey ho. hope all is good in your world

Ann - if your reading - hang in there hun.

Nelly - keep asking... but focus on the end product. really clearly. holding that baby in your arms. don't focus on "it won't happen today". does that make sense? I am so excited, and cant wait to meet your little person. I'm so sorry that I haven't been the support that I wanted to be. I had a lovely afternoon on Saturday, and hope you did too.

hope i have forgotten anyone. nothing much to say on my end... same same same. so I won't bore you with the details. just making butter. xoxo

[Gigi]

any news on Nelly?

making butter? wow Vicky!

Happy belated birthday, TaraLee.

i doubt you'll read this Christy, but wow, thinking of you and Matilda, big hugs.

bilby was so naughty today, i think she must b getting better (8th day of her cold), but i'm still all flemmy and keeping tissue companies in business (and lemsip, and benadryl etc).

[nelly]

still here gigi - a few random tightenings but not much happening here ...