Babies Born September 2006 #109

Hey all,

Millana - huge birthday hugs for a gorgeous One year old!!! hope you are having a great night Ness.

Nelle - have you recovered yet?

AnnaT - yay not long for you now, cant wait to hear your news.

Shell - those first few weeks are soooo hard, we are just getting a groove happening now and Finny is 3 and a half months, but probably my fault, I am a slacker when it comes to routine, etc. yeah, I know, it is hard when there is one mummy and two kids who need you at the same time.

Yeah, we have a chatterbox here, non-stop all day.......

Okay, better go, DH is home on Friday, hanging out, he will see such huge change in Finny.

Love to you all,
Laurin x

:birthday2: HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY MILLANA! :birthday2:

I hope you had a great day with her Ness!

anna - can't wait to get that text, how exciting. It won't be long now, only a matter of days, or weeks at the most :leap:

maz - work is going really good. Very busy ATM, as you would imagine. I too am hanging for June! I'm sure I think of it a dozen times a day, lol. I've decided that it might be best to layby some winter clothes for the trip, so I don't freeze my butt off :lol:

shell - it's full time, for now. I'm not sure how long I'll work though.

Happy Birthday MJ, hope that you had a fantastic day !

Annat - not long to go.. all the best for a wonderful labour!

Any one else going away at Easter?? we are going camping, we cant wait!

camping ... I'm jealous. We're not going anywhere. We went away over Christmas, and with me going away in June, it's best for us to stay home I think.

Maz - Im going to a birth centre this time because knowing it was my last bub I really wanted to have the ultimate birth for me you know? So providing no issues like Ripleys pregnancy which I havent I'll be getting my spontaneous au naturale waterbirth and natural 3rd stage. Its a beautiful centre (if you google Friends of the Birth Centre Townsville you'll find piccies - totally devine!) and my midwife is just fabulous, feels more like a friend than a care provider. So even though I am DYING here, the idea of doing it all my way and having that final beautiful experience is keeping me semi sane. Not that the boys births werent awesome, just that the way it all went down was out of my control with all the health issues - lucky River has cooperated a little too well this time :rofl: So no induction til Im 12 days overdue which is the 17th April *sigh* Im hoping and my midwife is pretty confident he'll be here by his EDD, he just has to make the decision to come out and play. Im so excited!

Jett is a talker too, his kindy teachers find it amusing because its often the cause of his injuries from kindy, too busy chatting away to himself or someone else and BAM stacks it on something lol He cracks us up with things he says, and we get the endless 20 questions too. Its amazing how fast they turn into little learning creatures!

That looks awesome Anna! I can't wait for the Cairns one to open ... one day :rolleyes: I won't hold my breath it'll happen any time soon though.

your birth plan sounds wonderful annat. I hope you get what you want. I know all about births with alot of intervention. It was needed but still i kinda wish i had it my way.lol
Jodi i dont know how you do it! and all the other mummy's working.Im glad im doing it from home!
Happy Birthday To MILLANA!! Hope her day was special.
Millana is a non-stop drama queen. I swear she does it to make my blood boil. I then rant and rave and then she ends up crying and whinging.Arghh does my head in but i have noticed she has opened up at gym more and not needing me to go and supervise her as oftn.
Ruby no complaints. Happy, she sings she is just at a lovley age. The only time she chucks a tanty is when she is tired and usually she will say "i stop crying mummy"
Im in the process of setting up my "business" more full time. This is so i can prove to myself and hubby that i dont need to go out to the workforce.I can have my own clothing factory at home.lol

OK I need some advice. J has been a NIGHTMARE at bedtime. He used to be so good. Now he cried hysterically every night. (Had been for about 2 months now) and wants the door open. Problem with having door open now is that he can hear E and makes him cry more.
Then he is waking between 4 and 6 crying again and wants one of us to get into his bed. This is abit of a problem, as DH does night shifts and I am home alone a bit. I have to be able to feed E, so can't do 2 things at once.
Laurin - I know you are using a sticker chart, can you explain exactly how you are doing it??
Any other advice would be great.
Thanks

Does he have a night light meg? Can you pop a chair and feed bubs whilst j reads a book or you can tell a story? He may fall asleep quicket than working himself up if you get my drift?

He has a night light, and i have tried feeding in there, but as soon as Miss E makes a noise he starts imitating her etc. i really think he is doing it to imitate her, as he sees that she gets to be picked up, cuddled and allowed out of bed. I jsut don't want to start a habit of having to get into bed with him, as I really hate cosleeping.

Meg - With the sticker chart, make goals with him to earn stickers that are really short-term, so he gets to earn them quickly (success breeds success). But stick to about 3 things at a time so he doesn't have too much to focus on, maybe one big thing (like staying in bed at night) and two little things (like picking up his toys, brushing teeth, eating his dinner etc. something he's not struggling with). Apart from that, Caddie's idea with reading to him is great, also maybe have soft music playing in his room so he may not be woken as easily by Miss E. Make sure you praise him lots when you catch him doing well.

Oh, another idea, maybe have a lucky dip box filled with little treats wrapped up that he can pick one out if he stays in his bedroom all night.

Caddie - Good luck with growing your business. You're so very talented, I'm sure you'll do well :D

:hello: Hello to everyone else!! Sorry, time's limited at the moment, gotta get running. Love to all

Hi Girls

Well im back from my week of bliss..if you could call it that, had a pretty good time, got well and truley pi$$ed on day 1, and most other passengers as well, so day 2 was really bad, throwing up, about half the ship was we had extremely heavy seas for 48 hours, and it wasnt pretty so day 2 and 3 was made up of just trying to lie in bed, as i had pretty bad sea sickness..the rest of the trip was pretty good, alot of people flew home at new caledonia as it was so rough, and they were so ill, and on the way home there was a cyclone on our path, so we went a differnet way..all was ok, i got facials and massages onboard, won $250 on the pokies, my girlfriend had no money ( it was a pi$$off) so i had to shout her,long story....went and saw lots of shows bymyself as my freind was sick and quite boring really..and as for the men on baord maz......none!!.....it gave me lots of time to think things through, but it was also very upsetting, as i had to much time to think about all the $hit that has happened, so i was in tears most days..but obviously they needed to come out..anyway thats about it..pretty good time really and i could have done the trip by myself

have a good one girls

Chrissy- Glad you had a good time, even with the tears but it prolly a good thing you got them out of you needed too. Sure half the boat weren't sea sick from getting p!ssed day 1? Lol. Too bad no hot men there! I always wanted to go on a cruise but I get really bad motion sickness that think I'll have to miss it.

Meg- How is everything with you? I've not seen you on BB for few days so hoping its cause you are busy and hope things are going ok, been thinking of you. Shar listed some good tips there, hopefully they'll work for you.

Caddie- Good on you setting up your business full time. I wish you all the success with it, be great for you to keep working from home that way.

AnnaT- Can't believe you are so close now! This one will prolly go over your due date (don't shoot me for saying that, lol) You'll have to go jump on the trampoline get things happening.

Jodi- I can see you popping out another soon so can work til then. Does it work out well financially paying for 2 in childcare? The childcare centres around me are all quite expensive so 2 kids would just about take my wage!

MrsT- Nup not going anywhere, have fun camping, hope your not roughing it too much!

Laurin- Hope your enjoying time with DH, how long is he back for? Be nice to do things as a family and also try and get some time to yourself while he is back, go get massage or something nice done.

We just taking one day at a time here, the lack of sleep made me quite teary this morn, just feeling exhausted but you would all understand going thru it yourselves. Look forward to when she sleeps better, thankfully Ash has been so good, my little helper, rocks the bassinet for me and puts Em's dummy back in.

chrissy - saw the photos, looked like fun!! Shame about the men, or lack of though. It was probably the first time in a long time you've had the chance to think about what's happened.

shell - yeah it works out alright financially. Our out of pocket expenses for daycare are $350 each week, and we get 50% rebate each quarter of those fees. So with 2 incomes, it's pretty good. I enjoy working, and I enjoyed my time at home with the girls full time. I'm fortunate I got to spend almost 3 years at home, there's so many people that have to go back to work when their bub is 6 weeks old. Plus my wage is going to pay for the renos we're going to do around the house.
As for number 3, bring it on! :D If only I could convince Heath.
The tiredness goes away, I promise. Once Emily started sleeping through at 5 weeks it was bliss. But before that, it was so hard to get up each morning with so little sleep. Especially between 3 and 5 weeks for Emily. That was just awful. I was surviving on 2 hours sleep each night. Not fun.

We had a busy weekend, even though we barely left the house. Just cleaning up and stuff. Emily is still crawling, but pulling herself up and standing unassisted. And she seems to think climbing is fun :wall:
As for Nina, same same. She's a real little chatterbox, and she comes up with the funniest songs!

Hope is all well with everyone else.

Check out the birth announcements girls, AnnaT has had River!

Woo hoo Anna

Just seen pics on facebook, Wow gorgeous is all i can say. Just about made me cry seeing how relaxed anna's birth looks..

Hi, can I join in here? My DS Damien was born on the 15th sept.