Babies Born October - December 2005 #14

[deancey]

I am feeling really tired today, had a nanna nap on the couch. Jamie has gone to get some new shelves for the shed so we can clean it out. We need to do that in order to clean out the spare wardrobe so we can move Jordan into the bigger room. Jamie is so exicted to start painting and decorating the new rooms.
Nikki Again I am sorry I didnt make it to you party.

HOpe you are all having a nice weekend.

[m1tbull]

Nikki - Congrats on your achievement

Kristie - Congrats on your achievement also

Cindy - Haven't heard from my real dad yet. Haven't heard from him in a while, which reminds me, I need to get in touch again.

Tracey - I sometimes think that Benjamin thinks that the whole house is his room

Well, I'm back from my op today. The surgeon has destroyed my hopes. I had another c/s cut with about 23 staples across it. The 12cm cyst had placed itself under my diaphram and the other one was twisted. Both were making my life hell as you all know. In removing them, she removed my tubes as they were attached to them and had to remove the lot apparently. I really feel gutted. As it took her 2 days after surgery for her to tell me the outcome. She had me in tears after a nurse had blurted out in change over that she had removed my ovaries both sides and left partial of one, which was not true. The nurse got put on report for doing it. I now have to find out about IVF on my own as they told me nothing and virtually stayed away from me my entire stay there, and I hadn't even been seen by a social worker which they usually do when they hit you hard with something like this. If anyone can give me clues on what to do as I know a few of you have done the IVF thing it would be great. I'm considering looking at the IVF threads to try and get answers also.

Melissa

[nicole mckay]

OMG melissa,i am so sorry that this has happened to you,are you ok,i am speechless,this should not have happened,i just cannot beleive it.did they not give you any indication at all before surgery that it was going to be this seroius?and did you even know that they were going to cut you open like that aswell.you must be so sore,this is just awful.i dont know anything at all about ivf but im sure you will get heaps of answers in the other thread,try to rest and make sure dh pulls his weight with benjamin and the house work.you definantly will not be going to work any time too soon,i am thinking of you.
nikki

[deancey]

Melissa I dont know what to say. I just hope you are ok. How awful to not have been told about this prior to the surgery. I am sure you will find heaps of info on here that will help you.
I Hope your recovery is quick. Thinking of you.

[Krisvee]

Hi!

Melissa - I'm sooooo so sorry. You poor thing - Thats awful. I hope you can sort it all out with ivf. What a shock for you and what a horrible way to find out...I hope you're ok as well and spend plenty of time resting and getting better....

Tracey - Glad your getting some snoozes in!

Nikki - Thanks heaps! Yeah only took me 1h10min to get home. I was buggered though! Don't stress - it's not your fault. It's really good for me to get the experience anyway. I still made some money out of it!! I've got one more party tuesday that fits into my financial month and I should hit my target.
It was good to catch up anyway! I'm glad Dylan was good! Would have been hard if he was a terror! Chantelle was so cute saying Dylan! hehe.

Cindy - A $500 party is good! I still haven't had one yet! LOL! I'd be so excited if I had one! hehehe. I hope your party went well with your mum today! Hope you didn't get mastitis!

Rachael - I wouldn't be able to make your party anyway - we're having Louis' b'day party next Sunday! I'm very excited!

We had a good weekend. Louis is still quite sick but seems to be on the mend. I feel like I may be getting it now...starting to feel itchy and heavy in the chest. Louis looked like he may have been getting conjuncitivitis yesterday so I put breast milk in his eyes and they look a lot better today!! Michael worked all weekend so we just chilled out at home. Poor things so exhausted. We have no food in the house though so mums coming to watch the kids tomorrow so I can some shopping. Louis is to sick to be dragged out to the shops I think...
We're getting Louis saying all the time now - Don't want it or don't want to and Mummy do it or Daddy do it. Little cheeky. I can't believe how much he talks back - hehehe.

I'm so looking forward to our catch up at the zoo for the kids - shall we do a kris kringle for pressies??

K - might get ready for bed! Dylan was really unsettled tonight (could have something to do with the chilli pasta last night???)

[cindyb]

Melissa - you poor thing! How rotten of them to not tell you what was happening or even what HAD happened! I hope your recovery is nice and smooth. I have had friends go through IVF but theirs was a much diferet situation to yours, as the othe girls have said, you will no doubt find loads of info on here along with people to talk about it all with.

No mastitis so far! I have been able to put charlotte on for a minute or two to clear out any hardness. I was wanting to keep up hermorning b/f but she just doesnt want it which is terrible! I feel really bad about it all and she is really chesty at the moment which i am hoping has nothing to do with the formula. Nikki - was it after you weaned harry that he started with his chesty stuff? she sounds just like he did to begin with!

My party at mums went alright today, i got $1100 in sales and mum got the freebies she wanted (same as you kristie) andi got 2 bookings and two others are trying to work out dates that they can have them. Its probably the hardest part of it all- trying to get dates booked! Peopl either love or hate the whole party plan scene. when i signed up i had to have 4 parties in my first 2 weeks and my 4th party has just called tonight to say she has to put it off for a few weeks which stuff everything up and gets me in trouble with tupperware. I dont see why i should be though i will have paid off my kit with my 3 parties and the one i had here anyway. Oh well!
I did really well today though with presenting it all so that was good. I even managed to come home to roast lamb thanks to al!
i am really looking forward to my party for you next week tracey! did we work out if you want to do a cooking demo or something?

ok got to get some sleep - this bottle feeding is had work - she takes so long to feed in the middle of the night and she ends up wide awake and we have to do the whole settling thing over again! I have booked with my mum and sister to have a kid free night in a few weeks YAY, we have a dinner for als work in the city which should be fun considering its free grog!!!!

night all

[Krisvee]

Hi!

Urrggghh what a rotten night!!! I was going to leave Michael to get some sleep as he's so tired from all his work but Louis woke crying at midnight...I don't even think it's his cold so much anymore - poor munchkin has another tooth through so I'm thinking it might even be a bit of that! - Then he woke crying at 5am wanting to get up and watch tv - we ended up letting him cry and he went back to sleep. I'm not starting any of that nonsense! hehe. Then Dylan just woke constantly - the most sleep I got in a row was 1 1/4...he was just so full of burps and so unsettled. I brought him into bed and got a bit more sleep but he was so restless...grrrrrr. (Sorry for the whinge...)

Cindy - I hope Charlotte doesn't get sick....Dylans been having a little cough but it doesn't sound bad - It will be a miracle if he doesn't get sick though...I'm getting it now as well - I've woken up all congested...grrrr.
Well done on a great party!!! Thats excellent!!! Yeah at coming home to roast!! We had takeaway again last night as I haven't been able to do the food shopping - you know you've had too much junk lateley when you crave fruit and veggies - LOL!
Wow - a night out sounds soooo good. I don't want a night out so much as a night in! hehe. Hmm prob only have to wait another 7 months - hehehehe - and of course he'll prob be sleeping better by then...

Worked out the other day that I've only had 2 lots of 4-5 hours sleep in a row since Dylan arrived...no wonder I'm starting to get super cranky! LOL! Most night's I average about 1 1/2-2 hours before one of them wakes up....grrrr.
Obviously I do something wrong ...hehehe.

[cindyb]

Kristie- i hear you on the crappy nights sleep! Last night i got to bed and charlotte was squirming etc so i got her up to have a burp which she did followed by a chuck and a half! So i bought her to bed with me coz al was in the spare room with tori who has another ear infection! 20 mins later, just as i was getting to sleep she decided it was time for a feed but then she decided she didnt want a bottle, she wanted boobies which is fine, untill 10 mins into the feed she wanted the bottle and by that time she was wide awake and wanting to play too. I ended up getting her back in bed with me about 1ish to only have her sqealing and playin uhntill 4! I ended up getting al to deal with her while i tried to sleep but that didnt happen so now i am feeling rather crap and am hopingthat they overlap eachother with their sleeps today so i can get some! This baby business is bloody hard work!

I am fine with doing a kris cringle at the zoo, i was also thinking we should see if we can book one of the undercover areas so we have somewhere to meet back at for lunch etc!

[Pandora]

Melissa, I'm so sorry. I don't know what to say
for you.

Cindy, congrats on the party, sounds great. If you have paid off your kit they shouldn't care, expecially if you have potentially dated 4 parties from your mums.

Kristie, that sucks regarding the sleep. If it helps any, you certainly don't look sleep deprived, so you are hiding it pretty well!

Well, Neil's bands gig on Friday was pretty good. The acoustics in the room where they played aren't that great, and the stage was quite small - luckily they were down one guitarist for the night, otherwise they may not have all fit on there.

I went to see The Australian Ballet's performance of The Nutcracker on Saturday, it was awesome. We had crap seats, but I've never been to the ballet before and it was just great!

I have to ask again cos I can't figure it out, is the zoo on the saturday or the sunday?
I have a party on the sunday (that weekend unfortunately falls in my 2 weeks that I have to do them all) so if its that day then we can't make it

I have 5 parties, potentially six booked in now, so I'm hoping to confirm by tomorrow night so I can tell my manager which kit I am going for. I'm quite surprised the price dfference between the 4 and 6 party kit is a lot less than I had thought it would be.

[cindyb]

Rachel - thats great having so many people wanting parties! who are you going through?

I believe the zoo was happening on the 14th which is the sunday!

[Krisvee]

Hi!

Cindy - It certainly is! And why do I want to go back for 3rds?? hehehe. I never normally nap through the day anymore...too many other things to do but I did Saturday arvo! got about 45min where the boys were asleep together so that was nice!

Rachael - The wonders of make-up! hehe. I'm just in the mode of go go go at the moment so I try to just plow through it all without thinking about being tired but every now and then I just can't get myself going...
Thats great that Neils gig went well! Bugger about the small space though..
Ooh I love the ballet! I used to have a subscription and go to all the performances when I was a teenager - was very excting to catch the train in on a Sat arvo - I would have only been about 14 at the time...They are just so amazing! I'll try and go next year when the kids are bigger...spoil myself. Hehe.
Wow on all those parties booked - thats fantastic!! Well done!!
Umm I think our zoo party is on the Sunday - bummer!

Chat later

[deancey]

HI Ladies

CIndy YEAH at the great party sales. YOu can do whatever you like for my party I am not fussed. I should have around 6-8 people, hope that is ok. Good to see you havent ended up with mastitis. Hope Charlotte sleeps better for you tonight.
Krisite OMG you certainly do need a good night sleep. I dont know how you are functioning. I couldnt handle it. I would be a mess. You are a champion. A night in with a good night sleep would be great. I hope the sleeping settles sooner rather than later.
Rachel WOW are having so many parties booked. thats excellent.

I am cool with a KK for our joint party. Should we set a limit?
Well today we got some excellent news at work. They have changed the maternity leave to 3 months paid BONUS. When I had Jordan it was 3 weeks. This will mean I can stay home a bit longer this time which I am rapted with.
DH cleaned out the spare room cupboard tonight ready to move Jordan. He has picked the colours he wants to paint and reckons Jordan will be in his new room within the next 2 weeks. He is so excited its cute.
We wont do the nursery though for a while, after we find out the sex of this bubs.
Off to watch some tele with Jamie and spend some qaulity time together.

Have we set a date to meet up these holidays?

CHat laterXX

[nicole mckay]

im happy with kk.dont care how much we spend.

[Pandora]

Thanks guys. well one party has cancelled so back to four, which is probably better, less stress to pay off the smaller kit. I have 2 book parties too, so they should help I hope.

Milo still has conjunctavitis, its been over a week and 3 kinds of drops now and I think he is getting a chest cold as well. He hates they eye drops, its torture trying to give them to him, he closes his eyes as tight as possible, bawls and screams at the same time, its a full on tantrum.
In between crying he yells out "nooooooo! hurty!" and in the end, DH and I come close to losing it completely. it takes one of us to hold him down while the other one tries to get his eyes open to put the drops in.

It feels like he is going to have this damn thing forever, when it should have cleared up in a couple of days. I really can't afford to take another week off work. I don't know whats going to happen, creche want a medical clearance for him to come back, so I have to take him to the doctors tonight and see what they say. I just want my happy little boy back

[deancey]

Rachel I hope Milo gets better soon eye drops dont sound very fun at all. I hope he is ok to go back to creche for you next week.

Well Jordan decided at 3am he didnt want to sleep anymore. After I attempted to get him back to sleep for over an hr I woke Jamie to see if he would settle for him. Jordan was calling for us and crying till he was chocking, really awful. Jamie ended up bringing him into bed with us and he eventually fell asleep at 5ish when Jamie was due to get up. Poor Jamie is knackered today at work. He slept till 7am so I got a few extra hours in.
We have been to the park this afternoon and he loved it. I went to put him to bed and he carried on AGAIN. He even took his nappy off so when I went in there he was bare bottomed I couldnt help but laugh although I was trying to be serious and angry. LOL
I think he is alseep now it is quiet so thats a good thing.
Housework done so just relax till I have to cook tea. Chicken snitzel tonight Yummy
XX

[Pandora]

Sorry about my earlier meltdown! Its been one of those weeks.

Tracey, I think Jordan and Milo are conspiring againts us!
Milo was wide awake at 4:30am today too, announcing it was "up time".
I took him in to bed with us and he slept for about an hour, and we stretched it out til 6am when I finally got up with him.

[nicole mckay]

rachael,what did the dr say.
i took the boys to the show today we had a ball,it was so good to do something with just them,i was able to give them all of my attention and do everything we wanted together,thewy were so well behaved and had so much fun,it was really good quality time with them,i bought chantelle some showbags home,she absolutly loved them,corey got some tatoos in his and now we are all covered in them,chantelle included.LOL!
poor grant has been home for the past 2 days,we were putting rocks into the gardens and he tore a muscle in his back on sunday and can barely walk.has been hard work here without his help.the dr has put him on alot of meds to help.
i have bought the kk for the birthday party at the zoo,whoever gets this one will be absolutly delighted it is a fantastic pressie.chanteel has got a cold and is rather out of soughts and harry has tooth nuber 2.
nikki
nikki

[deancey]

Nikki its great to see you had a good time at the show with the older boys. I am sure it was nice to spend some time with them on their own. LOL at you all having tatts now. You should post some pics of you all Hope Grant gets better. A torn muscle cant be fun at all. Yeah on tooth #2 for Harry.

Well Jordan has gone to bed no hassle tonight so lets hope he sleeps in till about 6.30 ish as we are both working tomorrow so he has to be out of bed my 7.45 anyway so I can take him to mums. DH has gone for a walk with his friend so I am home alone. I dont think I will catch all saints tonight, with dancing with the stars back it makes it WAY TOO LATE, even when I wasnt pregnant.
Have a great night and catch you all tomorrow.
XX