Babies Born October 2007 #22

[~Trish~]

Morning everyone!

Amy!!! It's been so long, how are you going? How is baby Fin? How is life as a mum? Show us some pics!

Nic - Your day of scrapbooking sounds LOVELY! It must have been nice to have some "me"time. We didn't take K to the dr because he fell asleep before DH got home and as the day went on he got a bit better. He was up coughing this morning though

Viv - Yep it is hard work with everyone being sick. I suppose there will be many more days like this to come yet!

K had a better night last night. I put him to bed later, he didn't actually fall asleep until 9pm (*tsk tsk*), but then he didn't wake for a feed until 4:45am. He went back to bed and would have stayed asleep, but he had a coughing fit and didn't really go back to sleep properly until 6am. I think if he wasn't sick he would have done really well. I managed to dose on and off all morning so I feel ok today so far.

It is our wedding anniversary today! 6 years of marriage, wow that went fast! We don't have anything special planned. We are all sick (except DH) and it is going to be another hot day today.

Ooh, I managed to upload some new stock on my website yesterday. It took me all day in amongst doing other stuff, but I'm glad I've actually started things up again.

Hope everyone has a great day!

[~kellie~]

Morning all,
we've got a tupperware shape-o-ball for tahlia too! I love tupperware... almost thought about selling it myself, but I am too lazy

Trish - hope Kieran improves for you today... I know when Tahlia had her cold/cough, she was always worse in the morning and then improved as the day went on. 9 - 4.45am sounds like a pretty good stretch for him last night! Hope your feeling better too! Its our wedding anniversary this week too, on Thursday, 4 years for us!

Amy - welcome back! Cant wait to see some pics of your little one

Finally went to check out the ergos yesterday... I was impressed! Still trying to convince DH that we need one though! Trish - I might PM you about them

DH and I are going out for lunch today for our anniversary, 1st time we have left Tahlia can you believe? My sister is looking after her, I hope she behaves for her!

[Khaleesi]

Since my Mum has to live with us we needed a bigger place so we are in the middle of moving.
We should get the keys to our new place tomorrow or Tuesday.
I'll post before we leave but not sure how long i'll be without internet.

Happy Anniversary Trish & Kellie.

[Willow]

It's our anniversary on Thursday too - all these March weddings hey??

We're going up the coast to my parent's place for easter, last minute decision but am looking forward to it. Bit nervous though cause last time we went was a disaster! The kids didn't sleep very well and I was on my own (DH couldn't come, had to work) and it was soooo stressful! But L has improved out of sight since then (he was only about 9 weeks old) so we should be good.

Anyway, I'm thinking we'll take advantage of the baby sitters and go out for dinner for our anniversary! We never get to do that when we're at home cause we don't really have anyone other than MIL to mind them and I don't like to ask her unless it's absolutely necessary, because she's the one that always has to do it, iykwim.

Had a good night last night. We had friends over for a bbq and L was a very good boy. In bed at 7pm and didn't hear a peep out of him all night! Dream fed him at 11pm when I was going to bed, then he woke at 2am and then slept till 6.30am. Fed him and put him back down, but he only slept till about 7.30am.

Trish - have the Ergos come in? Was just sussing out ebay, they only had two listings. But I discovered there's not much point in selling my bjorn, wouldn't get enough for it so might as well hang on to it and just keep it in the car or something. There's about 1,000,000 others listed on ebay and mine's an original so they aren't selling for much.

Mo - good luck with the move.

[~Trish~]

Afternoon!

Boring day at home today, it's too hot to go anywhere! I took K out to the shops earlier to buy DH an anniversary pressie. I couldn't get to the shops this week coz I was feeling so sick, but I'm feeling a lot better today .

Willow - I am still waiting on the Ergos! The courier company sent them to the wrong depot apparently, but I won't find out until tomorrow what is happening with them. You don't get much for Baby Bjorns anymore on eBay! Hope you have fun for your anniversary, it would be so nice to go out without the kids.

Mo - Happy moving! Are you moving far from where you are now?

Kellie - Happy anniversary to you too! I can't believe there are so many anniversaries at once!! March is a great time of year to get married.

[Khaleesi]

Trish we are moving to Carrum Downs so not too much further.

Thanks Willow & Trish not looking forward to moving in this heat.

[nickers]

Hey Amy!
nice to see u back, so tell us more, how have you been?
Happy annaversary Trish & Kellie!
kel if ur ever interested in selling it let me know cause i know a few disti's in Melbourne (thats where i started) so would make sure u went to someone good lol!
so because i spent the day scrapbooking yesterday i made today tupperware parties. i did two. the first was for my sister, she has had one for me b4, but went so well, she got $400 worth of stuff for free.... so we helped each other out!
Tyron was very spewy tonight, thought we got past that, i mean he still spews a lto but def increased the amount tonight, i coped it all over me 3 times. quiet unsettled too
so i am setting my alarm for 5.45am getting up and going to a work out in the park that is run by a WW group i am in! every week i forget about it, but looking forward to excersising properly. i used to do so much before kiddies but there is just not enough hrs in the day, the only time i will ever feel like or have time to do it is sparrows fart. wish me luck!

[~kellie~]

good morning all! Only a few more sleeps till the Easter Bunny comes!

Thanks for the happy anniversary wishes... we had a nice lunch out yesterday and Tahlia behaved for my sister well.. she even had a sleep for her. Can you believe I had my first alcoholic drink since Tahlia was born!

Nickers - hope Tyron is better for you today, I know what you mean about getting out to exercise. I think I need a few extra hours in the day! I'm almost thinking about cancelling my gym membership, cause I'm not getting my moneys worth out of it at the moment.

Mo - good luck with the move

Trish - hope you had a nice anniversary and got spoiled too! I've almost convinced DH on the ergo

Willow - Happy Anniversary for Thursday! 20th March was a great day to get married! What year was your wedding?

[LizzysMum]

Hi All,

Trish - hope you guys are improving. Sick kids is hard work. Eliza also drags home all the bugs from preschool!!

Viv - congrats on the full boobies , my supply has been a bit down too. This heat has not helped.

Had a good weekend here. Went to a 3rd birthday dinner on Sat night and Eliza had a ball, heaps of playmates We left at 9.30pm and she was still hyper. Amara was good, she fell asleep there, woke when we got home but had a feed and went back to bed.

We got to meet the surviving twin of my friends who lost their other little girl late last year. The little survivor is now almost 4 months old and weighs 3.4kg. It is amazing to see a baby so tiny that is 4 months old and she was smiling for us! She is adorable. Amara looks like a toddler next to her.

I also played my first game fo football back ths year (soccer). It was soooo hard but felt good to be running around again, even if I am fat, old and slow. The other teams average age was about 18 (less than half my age LOL!) We only lost 1 - 0 so not too bad for a bunch of fogies. We do have 3 ex-Australian Matilda players on our team but they have not played for a while and it was boiling hot. I bet I will hardly be able to walk tomorrow!

Hope eveyone has a good day

[~Trish~]

Afternoon everyone,

The Ergos have landed LOL! How exciting!! I tried one out with K earlier, but he was being cranky so he didn't last long in it! He is not himself with this cold, he is so grumpy all the time. He still has a nasty cough the poor thing, I'm monitoring his temperature in case it turns into an infection. I look forward to giving the Ergo a good test run!

Thanks Leah, we are all improving slowly, poor Kieran is the sickest of us all atm. That's awesome you got out and played soccer! I used to play soccer with my work's corporate team, DH played too even though he didn't work there. It was a lot of fun and very social (I had never played before). I didn't end up playing in the corporate games though, I was also in the company band and we were busy rehearsing for the upcoming Christmas party, I couldn't be everywhere at once! I miss getting out and doing fun stuff!!

Kellie - Glad you had a great time for your anniversary, yay for alcohol lol! We had a bottle of wine chilling last night, but didn't get a chance to open it. Hopefully tonight! We didn't do anything for our anniversary. I bought DH a pressie, card and some choccies, but he didn't get me anything. I think because we both forgot our anniversary last year until the day after (I had pregnant brain then) he thinks he has gotten off scott-free!

Nic - You're a good girl excercising so early in the morning! Did you actually end up going? Hee hee!

Mo - Carrum Downs is a lovely area, I'm sure you will be happy there. How is the move going in this horrid heat?

Have a great day everyone!

[Rebecca77]

Afternoon everyone!!
Looks like we are all too busy to chat lately! It has taken us ages to get to 4 pages!! Normally by now I think we would be up to page 7 or 8.
Anyway - my weekend was pretty good. Worked on saturday - took little miss C in with me. We did stocktake and it took 8 hours!! fun fun fun! She was pretty good - she likes to be around people and noise. Then we voted.
Oh and DH finally got back and of course - Caitlyn is over her conjunctivitis! Thank goodness. But all I could think about was - look at the fuss I have made about the lack of sleep etc and of coruse she is going to sleep through for the first time in ages. But noooo it wasnt to bed. Poor little miss C has been a bit constipated and of course having a poo was hurting her ALOT!! She pushed and grunted and groaned and went red in the face and basically all we got was a little skid mark. So....we started pumping fruit back into her. Apples yesterday and apples today. Rang daycare and she has finally had one!! YAY But they couldnt tell me what it was like so I will see when I go to pick her up.
Anyway - other than that - its been a very boring couple of days!! But 22 days till I go to Townsville! I can't wait!!! Woohoo - going to see all my friends that I havent seen since October/november.
Anyway - had better get back to work. MWAH

[Rebecca77]

Oh happy 5 months to my beautiful little girl!!!!

[Junglemum]

Carrum downs Mo? We'll have to catch up when i'm in Franks-town. (About every second week)

My supply is back too. I'm eating more and back to leaking. I thought my boobs just had the whole feeding thing under control and didn't leak anymore, apparently not. Supply was low. Bad mumma starving her baby! Crazy thing is, have lost a couple of kg's even though eating like a horse?! go figure.

Lu now mobile. liked it better when she was stationary.

Had a wedding in adelaide over the weekend, nice to get away, not long enough.

Sleeping good again, 5 month glitch i decided.

Sorry to hear about all these sick bubs. Hope they are better soon.

Stinking hot, off to jump in the pool.

New real food poo stinks!

Leah- nice work on the soccor lady! Was thinking of running around a netball court, but your words ring true with me. "old, fat and slow" Ahhhhh to have the old toned body back..........

[Willow]

Rebecca - happy 5 months to your baby girl - man, how fast is it going?? It's starting to scare me!

Trish - woooot! Glad the Ergos finally turned up. Had L in the bjorn again at playgroup and man is my shoulder paying for it this afternoon. Talked to DH about it last night and he said I could get one! So as soon as I've had a chance to check one out etc I'll let you know. Hope you are all feeling better today.

Nic - know what you mean about exercising...I'd love to but just can't find the time at the moment.

Question of the day - how many of the older bubs have dropped down to two day sleeps? Was looking at my Tresillian chart thingo today which shows rough guidelines of how much and how often they should generally be sleeping at each stage and I can't believe he'll be down to only 2 sleeps in about 6 weeks?! Having said that, he was totally uninterested in his late arvo nap today, was in bed for 1.5 hours but was awake talking and rolling around the whole time

[ninja_turtle]

ange - glad you upped supply again. i think we must have just thought the body knew what it was doing and went back to our old way of eating. when i think about it now, there is no way james was getting enough calories. oops.

i never thought i would be pleased to be sleeping with a towel again.

little man slept through last night 7pm to 5am with an 11pm dream feed. i woke up more than he did.

meanwhile, today has been horrible. he has been trucking through 2.5 and 3 hours for his waking times. last stint was 3.5 hours ending in me feeding him again because the put down, cry, settle, put down, cry settle wasn't gonna fly.

bleh.

it's so weird how nature gives with one hand and takes away with the other. luckily i slept last night or else i would have been thoroughly boogedy today.

has anyone noticed that pregnancy is the new black? i have no less than 3 friends about to pop. is it my age, or is everyone doing it??

celebs: naomi watts, nicole, jessica alba, halle berry, christina aguilera, j-lo, nicole richie... the list goes on. it's not my imagination, i'm sure.

[Junglemum]

I think it's the age viv. All my friends popping out babies too. Over 30 and all that. Also think i used to be interested in travel, drinking, partying etc. and really dis-interested in babies so never paid attention. Now i eat drink and sleep baby stuff so i pay more attention to baby related things...... I know when i was UTD, it seemed there were pregnant women EVERYWHERE!

Yeah, good night sleep often followed by crap day here. Infact Lu was ratty today. cat napping. whinging.

Can't wait till i'm not BF'ing and can have a genuine day to myself. Is that selfish????

Woot! to leaking hooters. Was excited to wake up on a wet patch this morning.

[alz]

Hi everyone,
What a yuk day! Sounds like a few of us have had a rough couple of days.
Well Ethan and I survived our first weekend alone. DH had a great time away and came back really energized which is good. I came down with a fluey thing last night and have felt like carp all day today. I slept alot as dh had the day off work which was good. Am starting to feel a little better now. Just waiting up to feed E at 10 and then I am going back to bed.

Went back to the doc for Ethan today and he is much better. No more wheezing which is great. Need to keep up with the nebuliser until he stops coughing but the doc is happy with his recovery from croupe. Yay Ethan!!!

He turned 5 months on Saturday which is exciting.

Willow - Ethan is sleeping less too. He often only sleeps for 45 min to 1.5 hours in the late afternoon now. We used to make him go back to sleep but now we let him get up if he wont re-settle and he goes for a while without getting grizzly. Yesterday he slept for 45 min, got up for a play, bath, bottle and then bed but he was awake for about 4 hours!!! His doing not ours. I think he was a little excited to see daddy after him being away for the weekend.

Have a great night everyone.

[Saffi]

Hi all from Port Douglas!

Having a nice time up here. Been doing the tourist thing. L has been really good considering his routine (what we have anyway) is totally shot. He actually slept through the first night up here but that was only because he hadn't slept more than 2 hours all day.

Viv - KWYM about everyone being pregnant. I think it is partly that I notice these things more now, but definitely seems to be a baby boom happening.
Trish - hope K gets better soon.
Rebecca - happy 5 months to Miss C.
Alz - glad E is getting better.
Brissy girls - where are you all?

What are your plans for Easter?