Pam that is wonderful news about your test results. I am so happy for you
eej: Hoping you are feeling better and the blocked duct has gone away.
Captain. I hear you on the barking dogs. We have them on both sides of our house. M now sleeps through the little yappers but not the big dogs on the other side.
Life is so busy here at the moment with no signs of things letting up. Mum has nearly finished her cancer treatment so we have been taking her in and out to the hospital. She finished her chemo and radiotherapy the other week and has been staying with us. She has 2 more day surgery procedures on Friday and Monday next week then she can finally go home. Last weekend I took Mum home to visit my dad. She was so happy. She hasn't been home in nearly 5 weeks.
My dad finally got to meet Molly and he was wrapt. He wouldn't put her down and kept taking her off for walks in the pram. We went and had a picnic in the park. I was meant to go meet my friend afterwards and my dad took off with Molly in the pram when I was trying to leave. It was funny to watch.
Molly is heading off to have her first lot of immunisations tomorrow which should be an experience. My mum is coming with us. Molly also has to visit the health nurse tomorrow before her injections. It will be interesting to see how much weight she has put on. I hope I get the nice nurse tomorrow.
Molly is growing like the proverbial weed and is starting to "talk" more making the most cute cooing and gurgling noises. She smiles heaps but it is still hard to get pictures of it. DH still doesn't think they are smiles and is so thick when I tell him that her eyes light up when she smiles, that's how you tell its not gas.
Breastfeeding.... now there is something that I really don't enjoy. I am more than considering stopping it. It is currently making me miserable. You all know our ongoing issues with it. The other week we finally had good attachment but Molly has starting chomping down on my nipples while feeding and they are red, sore and cracked again. She stops sucking and then chomps down hard. It just feels like it is one thing after another with it and I am at the end of my tether over it. I know that you should try and do it as long as you can but 10 weeks is more than I thought I would do and like i said it is totally making me miserable. Any thoughts?
Anyhow I had better go because I have to go pick up my mum from the hospital after her treatment today and I have to get Miss Molly ready.
Hi all,
Been a while since Ive been on, but have been so terribly busy! Had my Best Friend fly in from England on Friday morning. Friday night was my hens night. Dinner and Bowling! Yeeha! Then sat was spent tidying up the house. Yesterday was Sevens Baptism, and this week is all getting ready for NEXT sunday which is D Day! OMG so much too do not enough time to do it in!
Seven is a gem, sleeping well, feeding well, and pooping lots! LOL
I will endeavour to get pictures up of the weekend but my computer is having a meltdown so it may take a while.
Sorry for no personals. It might be like that this week I think!
I just received this PM from Nae Nae and she wanted me to share it with you all!
Hi All,
I tried to find the old group but cannot even find the old places to post its been so long since I have been in here.
Not too much happening from my end just busying myself with work and renovations etc.
We're doing well considering but are looking forward to putting this year behind us. Still waiting on the plaques and spose I should ring the funeral home about it but just can't bring myself to calling.
Anyways I hope you are all well, I wanted to touch base and let you all know that I think of you all frequently even though I have kind of lost contact you're always close to my heart.
Let me know if you have started a group somewhere, would love to pop in from time to time and check out what mummyhood is like for you all - and besides you guys will be the first lot of people I want to tell when we start trying again and get our next BFP.
I will PM her with the link to our thread so she can catch up with us all!
I have also now posted pics of Sevens Baptism and my Hens Night.
Kell-OMG not long now, how exciting! We just celebrated our 4th wedding anniversary on the 5th so all this wedding talk is making me reminisce. Hope it is an awesome day, I'm sure it will be.
Nic- I understand your reluctance re the imunisations. Emily had hers last thursday...it was pretty awful. SHe wasn't sick or anything afterwards but she howled when he jabbed her and for ages afterwards!
Pam- that is great news! A huge relief.
Kerry- I'm so glad Matthew got to see his father. Hopefully it can happen more frequently.
Donna- you have done a great job to get to 10 weeks with all the dramas. You do what you feel is right. Have you posted in the BF problems and support thread, you might get some good advice over there...not that you wouldn't get it here :-)
Banx- good to see you here.
Well my Aunt went back to Adelaide on Friday which was really sad. I miss her lots. It was so nice to have her here. It brought up a lot of mother issues which I had a good chat to the psychologist about. Its almost like grieving for the mother I lost and the step mother who wasn't so great.
My blockage has cleared so I was happy about that.
I asked my GP about the swelling in my feet I'm still getting and he has said my veins may have been damaged by the pregnancy. He's doing some blood tests so see. I so don't want it to never go away, its awful. I have cankles all the time.
Thanks Kell for sending me the link its nice to finally have the courage to get back in here and get back in contact with you all - sorry my bad for dropping off the face of the earth for a little bit
now I have found you all I will be sure to pop in more often. Hope you're all well and bubbies are behaving - as much as bubbies do
Anyways I have around 181 posts to catch up on so best start reading
Hi all. Not much going on here. The weather has turned a little on the cool side so Bella is totally enjoying snuggling and sleeping *yeee haaa*.
Nae - so nice to see u and get yr pm - I have sent u one just now. xx
eej - , I am so protesting this immunistation thing now - I just hate when Arabella sobs. She has only just started to cry real tears now and it's so distressing.
Kell - wooooo, u will be a Mrs soon, how exciting. Love the pic's u put up.
Donna - Do what u feel is best matey, like u said, 10 weeks is a damned great effort. I have been giving Bella a couple of bottles of formula each day. Not cause I'm sore or anything, it's more that she gets fidgety and fussy on the boob cause of the reflux. Yr doing a super job.
Hi girls,
Kerry sad for you hunhard now that you mum has gone, definately hard being a single mum, hopefully DP will find some more time to drop in now that he has been for the first time,...... fingers crossed that Matthew will be on his mind OFTEN, which I am sure he will.
Kell, how you fit everything in is amazing, have a great week leading up to your wedding.
eej, aunt leaving sounds very difficult, glad you were able to talk to your physcologist about it, finding a good one can be very hard...Good luck with the cankles, I hope they just go (go on just run away, shoooo
Captain, the decision is very hard, but I always think if you are feeling miserable is it worth it???? Maybe give it a few more days/weeks and see if you still feel the same??? Or maybe give yourself a break and try a bottle a couple of times a day, your milk supply should be well established now, if you skip a feed here and there it should'nt matter too much as long as they are'nt straight after each other.
Sue,immunisations are due in our house as wellhad a talk to the maternal health nurse about delaying them, she has talked me into having them done.... Hate the crying!!!!!for any reason and especially for one that I inflicted on her..
Indie, very glad that things are looking up for your family.... I am absolutely sure it strengthens any bond and your mum and dad are going to really treasure little Molly.
Hear you on little eyes lighting up, Poppy is the same, my dad commented the other day that she is looking more and more like me, i think it's mor eabout the twinkle in her eyes when she smiles, often a crooked little one, sooooooo cuteee!!!
Hi Banx, there are a lot of girls missing in action, very hard to find the time to get on, sometimes I just have to sit down and find it, definately keeps me sane. People think I'm nuts i talk about you girls often, in everyday conversation, most people don't undersatnd???
Anyway must go baby girl has woken up after a long sleep and a missed feed, so best I go and reward the little treasure
I havent been on in ages and im so glad to see every one is still here and doing the best we can
I have been having a drama filled eventful few week we have been so busy trying to find a new house again our friends have let us down badly its been horrible I wrote a thread on it Ild be here for ever explaining it all. finger crossed we might have a house sorted we should know in the next few days I hope. its only a short term let as we have deided to go home earlier than planned.
Pam are you ok.
Naenae great to see you here
And every one else ((((hugs))))
Eireann is doing really well and getting big so in love with her she is starting to laugh and try and talk I love when she wakes up in the morning with a beautiful smile
Hi all, sorry i have not been around much, been super busy with the kids. With playgroups, ABA meeting, move2music classes, swimming lessons, housework, lactating, settling blah blah blah there just doesnt seem to be enough hours in the day to even fart.
Nath is doing wonderfully, just had him weighed and the little fatty is already 6.1 kilos! Yay nath, he is sleeping through the night on occasions - maybe 4 times in his wee little life! but its beautiful anyway.
Breast feeding is going smoothly, we do have a supply issues, but are sorting that out at the moment, and still going strong. Still exclusively breast freeding, not at the point where we have to top up with EBM or Formula.
How is everyone going anyway? i have missed you all terribly!
Haven't been in a while as I just can't find the time like mummatotwo.
Things are going well, I've become obsessed with my weight now that i'm starting to slow down on the EBM, have 2 weeks before I start to give it up fully however we do that. I thought about all the diet companies like WW but I don't want to pay so much money for it, might spend it on getting some healthy lunches. I've decided to calorie count as my diet & so far it's good, with working out 30 mins every weekday whilst Madeleine has a nap time & trying to walk 10,000 steps but not always acheiving the walking.
Madeleine is well, she had her immunisations today & cried so much with the oral that by the time the two needles came well, lets say she had a fit.... poor thing I felt horrible.
She's started sleeping through the night for about 9 -10 hours, it's so great but she's got this habit of grizzling for her dummy quite a bit that lasts for about 30 mins as she spits it & grizzles then falls back into a deep sleep. I think she's wanting a feed in that time but she wont wake up, we've tried to feed her but she falls asleep after a few sucks. Shouldn't complain as i'm getting so decent rest.
In terms of weight, we don't get weighed again until she's 4 months, but she's getting two long for her 000's & shes got a really nice fatty baby body.
Niamh, sorry to hear what your friends have put you through, it's a terrible thing.
Calebsmum, good luck with your wedding how wonderful it's come up so quickly.
Captain sorry to hear ashlyn has been sick, hope she's better soon.
Nat, sorry to hear about the RSI, my mother had it & it's such a terrible thing to have as the simple things become so difficult. good luck with your tests
Sorry if I missed ppl, gotta run storms coming & gotta get in my washing
Kerry, glad the lansinoh worked for you. I went through tons of it in the first couple of weeks. I've been getting the sharp pains in only one foot. Def worse after I've been carrying Ashlyn around.
Sue, it sucks that your having to deal with that on top of having a new bub. I can't believe how horrible people can be sometimes.
CJ, well done on being able to exercise. We have a beautiful home gym but so far I haven't been able to finish a single work out. I'm just so hopeless with dieting that the only way I can lose weight is with exercise. Running is def out with my bbs ATM, lol.
Mummatotwo, I hear ya on the having no time! I'm dreading next year when kindy starts, another activity to add to the list.
Nat, Hope you get the carpel tunnel sorted out. It's so painful, I can't imagine still having it now.
Kell, all the best for Sunday. Can't wait to see the pictures!!
We had the needles done last week too. Luckily Ashlyn was due for a feed and I had a really good nurse. She did the needles so quick and then I put Ashlyn on the bb. Crying wasn't to bad and she had no marks. So at least that's over for a couple of months.
Sleeping has been pretty bad. I feel so jealous when I see people talking about 5 hrs sleep. I can't wait to get that much, lol. I'm trying to stay positive cause I know it wont last forever, but it can be hard sometimes. Thank God its the weekend and Danielle will bugging me to spend time at her Grandma's, it's the only time I can get some rest.
Well it's nearly time for Ashlyn to have a feed and then I can be off to bed. Heres hoping for a good nights sleep,
Hi all... Just a quickie, need to go and pick up DS from a sleepover party. Man it's so hot here. Bella is in the "arctic" bedroom - LOL, she still needs to be swaddled for her sleeps so I have the temp at near freezing so she can be rugged up. I dipped her toes in the pool again before and might attempt to get her in there this afternoon - she has freaked each time I try to get her in.
Kerry - Oh how good are the ear thermo's. DF nearly had a fit when I sent him off to pay for it at the chemist ROTFL.
captain - I left the needles so late that the next lot are due in about 6 weeks - will have to get myself phsyched up for that.
Niamh, I am fine!!!! I am of to see a specialist on Tuesday to see what is going to be done about the lumps???? Hope things work out re you living situation sometime soon.
Glad Eireann is doing so well, i imagine you are enjoying buying girly things.
Mummatwo hi, long time no see. I hear you on loads of activities we are out every morning and busier next year with kinder for DS. Nath is doing great, my little chubba is not far behind weight wise.
Candy, I feel the same about my weightreally need to get it under contol hate the fat feeling!!!! i weighed myself the other day and have manged to put on 2 kilos???? i guess it's all the junk I have been getting into lately, I am thinking I might do lite and easy for a couple of months....Great when the babies start sleeping through, Poppy has been for a couple of weeks, I keep holding my breath thinking it's going to change anyday
NatB nice to see you, sorry to hear bout all the unheaval in your life, glad both your gorgeous girls are doing so well.
Kerry, I am going next week to get Poppy's immunisations done, I have them done in the evening then they sleep through the worst of it!!! Well it's worked with the others, so fingers crossed. Matthew is doing great, glad your DP sounds like he is coming around, do you think co-habitating could be on the cards????
Nic, swimming pool sounds fantastic, I am sure as the weather gets hotter and Bella gets older she will start to love the water. Poppy still hates the bath, so I am sure she would freak out as well. i think it's more about she does'nt like the feeling of not being secure...she loves beng wrapped and in the pouch, and wakes herself all the time if she is'nt, very over the top startle relflex
Captain only a little bit longer to wait before Ashlyn starts sleeping through, they say 70% of babies sleep through at 4 months that is 8-10hours so even is she does'nt go that long I am sure she will go longer than she is now.
Hi to all the girls I missed hope you are all going okay
Had Poppy weighed yesterday she is 5.7kgs and is 59.5cm long and head is 39cm, chubby but looks in proportion, she issleeping really well, we try to do last feed at around 8.30ish then to bed around 9.30 she was sleeping to 3.00am but has extended to 5.30 then the last 2 nights to 6.30am she really is my dream baby, the others were much older before they would sleep through. She is starting to really conect with the other kids, today she was staring at Gabe and when he looked at her she gave him the best smiles, he is so proud of his baby sister, he tells everyone that will listen how cute she is... Sophie loves her heaps as well, but wants to squeeze her at every opportunity, I know the feeling I could bear hug her as well and spend my life kissing her at every opportunity.
Anyway off to try and catch up with some other girlies on here.
Just added some photos of the three little kidlets, that were taken last weekend.
Last edited by blackduckies; November 15th, 2008 at 05:35 PM.
Eej - yeah facebook is great but BB is definately home a great place to catch up with everyone too and to share experiences with a great bunch of women
Kell - Congrats on tying the knot - bet there was lots of wooooo lovers hehehehehehe what an exciting year for you both and what better way to end it too as a married couple - much love to you both.
Pam - my dear friend I would love to receive anything you want to send hun. Just remember one thing you cannot make me upset, I cry readily anyway I would love to pop out one wed, will have to organise myself a bit but I will endevour to see you before Chrissy - I promise.
Did everyone post birth stories? I must go have a looksee.
Hello Nae - good to "see" you - hope you are doing okay. I look at your purple teddy you sent, and think of your little angel often
Hi to everyone!!!!!!!!!!! Been seriously MIA, but wanted to pop in and say howdy!!!
Babyland is lovely, Remy is a cutey-pie, great night sleeper, not so great in the day - but guess we can't have it both ways.
It is just me, or is anyone else getting clucky for "just one more bub". A part of me tells me I must be completely bonkers (I already have an 11 and 9 year old). I asked my ob about this - and his advise was "you'll know when you have enough" (mind you he has 7 kids lol) - but I just feel like I need one more. Open to any of you guys talking me out of it !!!!!
Glad everyone is doing okay, and all the bubs are settling down and are a bit more predictable!
Promise to come back again real soon - hugs to all.
Just popping in quickly this morning, before I head out for a long day with friends.
Kel, you looked gorgeous, congrats on your happy day.
Lee, I too want another one & hope to convince DH to start trying next November, 3 will be enough for me. My DD1 will be turning 9 shortly so I'm keen on rushing in the third baby as I don't want a big gap, my DD1 has my baby sister for company but this baby will have no one when she's a little older. Maybe your thinking the same as your 2 children are older you don't want one left out?
Nat, Madeleine loves her baths she goes a little nutty in the water, I haven't taken her to the pools yet, might try that when its a little warmer here.
Captain, I here you on the running thing, I've been trying to do some aerobics & the jumping up and down hasn't been easy with the BB.
Nicambar, oh how cute I can't wait to get some santa shots of my girls together
eej, nope I'm the same with settling madeleine, she has a way of playing up for DH everynight she wont even take her evening bottle from him as she wants to play, I take over & she takes the feed and goes off to sleep for 9 hours.
blackduckies, gorgeous photo's Poppy is a cutie
I started Madeleine on karicare ar formula on tuesday & she's taking it well although her poo has been really thick & she cried this morning whilst doing it, so not sure if we will stay on it. Regardless with the reflux she needs to have her milk thickened so we'll see what option we have.
I'm trying to stop my milk, who knew it would be so hard. I was barely making 80 mls per feed but since I'm trying to stop it they are full & painful, i'm doing what it says to express for comfort only, although I woke up lumpy this morning so had to express a lot more, I look forward to it being over.
hard now that you mum has gone, definately hard being a single mum, hopefully DP will find some more time to drop in now that he has been for the first time,...... fingers crossed that Matthew will be on his mind OFTEN, which I am sure he will.
had a talk to the maternal health nurse about delaying them, she has talked me into having them done.... Hate the crying!!!!!for any reason and especially for one that I inflicted on her..
really need to get it under contol hate the fat feeling!!!! i weighed myself the other day and have manged to put on 2 kilos???? i guess it's all the junk I have been getting into lately, I am thinking I might do lite and easy for a couple of months....Great when the babies start sleeping through, Poppy has been for a couple of weeks, I keep holding my breath thinking it's going to change anyday
Congrats on tying the knot - 
wooooo lovers hehehehehehe what an exciting year for you both and what better way to end it too as a married couple - much love to you both.
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