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HI there girls
IM not doing any personalls - sorry but now Ive got the bloody cold and I feel like $hit!!
Could you please, any off you send the rain my way? Its hot here, Ive got the air conditioner on and its so dry its not funny.
Picked up the last of my christmans pressies today. Have to be super organised cause BIL is getting married in Geelong on the 30th of December. Ahh need tissues......love to you all
xxmaz
hey girls,
ive gotten back from the dr' with akira as that rash come back and she hadnt eaten anything different. he said that its her body fighting everything as its not knowing what its meant to and not meant to. (if that makes sence) she only has to stany on the drop for another day so that good to hear and she should be right to go back to kindy on monday.
the nurse saw me waiting for the dr so she asked me if i wanted him weighed and he is 5 kgs OMG the fatty. but he doesnt look fat lol.
maz hope you feel better soon. well done on getting all the christmas stuff done before christmas.
rach that is a good idea he might put you on iron tablets to help with you feeling sick. who knows.
well i better go and make those pizzas for tea. and talk to riley a bit as he hasnt stop talking and giggling all afternoon lol .
later girls .
adele
Adele am on iron tablets, am hoping he gives me soe anti bi to clear up this god damn al=wful cough :(
Hi all,
Rach75- Hope you start feeling better. The heavy AF won't be good for your iron levels! Try keep up fluids too that will help with the dizziness.
adele- Hope Akira's rash clears up. I wouldn't mind going to bed at 8pm some nights!
maz- i haven't even thought bout xmas pressies yet! I'm one of those people that leave everything to the last min then get into a panic! Maybe i should just e-bay everyones gifts this year then i won't have to stress over the busy shops.
Sharleen- Hope Ambah's teeth don't give her too much stress. We still have that to look forward to.
ambz- Ashleigh's due for her needles next Thurs! I'm stressing bout going, i don't think I want to watch. i hate seeing her upset so i hope she isn't bothered too much.
Merrie- Harriet sounds similar to Ash with her routines.
Sarah Kate - Hope Emma's cold improves. Its good to hear she is still having a good night despite being so blocked.
I had good day today, went to a friends place who is big on astronomy and watched mercury cross the path of the sun, her DB has special sun lenses to put over his scope to filter the dangerous rays out so we could look easily without any probs.
Meeting up for coffee with my mums group tomor so that'll be good.
Better go check on dinner, cooking curried sausages (cheating using the packet powdered stuff!)
Good luck with the curried sausages Shellbell - OMG we had it last night - I used the mild mince curry packet...and Paige was up from 3 till 7 with really bad wind...LOL
curried sausages sound lovely.I have got nothing planne for dinner.Naughty me.
I have a tummy ache at the moment,and internittant cramps.Bloody hurts.
Chrissyt,our babies do look very similar! Funny that.
I have to follow my hubby to mandurah late this arvo.We borrowed our step father in laws car as our work car was getting fixed.We have to drop it off back to them.Its a real hassle as its 1/2hr there and back and right on tea time.I may hint we should go out for tea but depends on my tummy.
BBL
Rach - my first AF after Emma being born was very heavy so I am sure everything will be ok but it's always good to ask!
Now a question for you ladies. Did you get your bubs needles done through the council or through your doctors?? Not sure which one I should go to to get Emma's done.
SK - Paige is just being done at the MHCN centre at her 8 week appointment. :) :( :(
I asked my MCHN if she did it and she said no. Probably a good thing considering she is a complete COW!!! :mad::
i went to the doctor to have Ainsleigh's done SK, but they did not have the right vaccine in (she has to have the alternate schedule as my hubby is a TSI) so we ended up at the free clinic. I was worried about wait time, but it was quite quick. The clinic was very aware of adverse reactions (they ask you to wait 15 mins in the waiting room to check for a reaction) which was reassuring. Ainsleigh was starving (and screaming after her needle) so taking the time to feed her before getting back in the car was good.
Everything else cruising along here. Ainsleigh had her feet 'inked' on to tiles for Christmas pressies for the GP's today... she screamed the house down. She has become really clingy too, I wondered if it was because of Sam leaving to go back to work. She is not happy going to people she does not know. On the otherhand, could be anything.... she had a three hour sleep this morning and then the same this afternoon. It's 5pm here and she's still asleep, so could be an interesting night for us!
Sarak Kate- I'm going to the council for Ashleigh's needles. That way they are free and I'd feel better with them giving it as they are doing that sort of thing all the time whereas my Gp prolly wouldn't do it so often.
ChrissyT- Hope i don't keep Ash up with wind after this dinner! I didn't eat all that much, wasn't too impressed with my cooking.
I know someone mentioned somewhere that they got there bubs hands or feet done in plaster. Where can i go to buy this sort of thing as I'd love to get something like that to get Ashleigh's hands and feet before she gets so old! Do they sell some sort of kit?
Had Nina weighed today, 5.45kg & 60cm long. That's 200g up from last week.
All in all had a good day, lots of shopping with the rellies. They leave tomorrow morning and we won't see them until July next year.
shell - I have a hand & foot plaster kit bought from Target.
sarah kate - we went to our doctor for the needles as they bulk bill for kids under 10.
can't remember what everyone else has said lol. Have a good night all
rach that is good to hear that you are already on iron tablets. hopefully the dr will sort you out so you feel a bit better.
im going to the drs for rileys needles as there is a nurse there that has done all of akiras and she know me. just a pain in the butt thats all.
shellbell he rash has cleared up again we are waiting to see if it comes back before we can give her anything for it. yeah i loved it lol. slept really well until riley woke up and when i just got back into bed akira woke up to tell me she was hungry GRRR.
jodi lee - nina is only 450g heavier than riley lol. glad to hear you enjoyed your day out hope you spent heaps lol.
well im off to get akira ready for bed im a bit behind with everything tonight lol.
night
Adele
Way to go Nina!!!:
Had Nina weighed today, 5.45kg & 60cm long. That's 200g up from last week.
I must go weigh my lard arse kiddo.. I reckon the porker is about 6.2kgs by now.
Just a quickie. On comparing Bella's 12 week weight to Eithan. She was 6.5kg and 63cm
long. But she was such a skinny little thing. Looking on the growth chart, Eithan is the size of an average 6week old LOL.
Nina's weight sounds great. she sounds like she is doing really well.
Sarah-Kate-just noticed that you got married on exactly the same day as I did. Hope you had a happy aniversary last week.
love
Thanks Helen :) . We went to the movies and my mum looked after Emma. I think she was so excited like all her Christmases had come at once :rolleyes: . I hope you had a lovely day too.
Thanks for the advice re: the needles. Still not sure what I am going to do. The council have their next lot on the 16th November which then Emma will be 2 months old so I might just go there.
Shell, I want to do the plaster thing too. I might go to Target today and have a look at how hard it will be to do it myself. I was also thinking of getting a blank canvas and some paint and just doing her hand and foot prints but not sure if the paint would be safe enough??
i did hand and foot prints for ainsleigh's baby book emma... and let me tell you it was hard!!! i bought crayola poster paint from target. feet prints were ok, but at this age the reflex is to keep the hand closed, so did not get any handprints. ainsleigh did not like the texture of the paint on her feet either, so she screamed the whole time. have i put you off your idea? just kidding, it's a great memory!
morning girls
i can belive this im getting a cold now :( . simon told me to rest yeah right with two kids home very unlikely to happen. so i might just stay alll day in bed tomorrow and sleep.
i did the plaster thing from target and it was hard to. i did it on akira when she was 2mths and it didnt work :(. i took photos of her feet and hand to put in her book.
hello to everyone hope you all had a good night.
bbl
adele
We only got footprints of Paige as well...LOL There was NO WAY she was opening her hands up for us...we ended up with paint everywhere instead.
Non-toxic paint is fine for bubs SK....kids paints are non-toxic these days.
Sarah-Kate ebay has some great hand and footprint kits, either baby safe ink, plaster kits or you can even do 3d moulds
well we had another good night, well sought of, he went down around 9.30pm woke at 2.30am but stayed awake till 3.30am *sigh* but then slept till 6.30am and is half dozing on futon at present :)
I have been busy girl this morning still feeling like crap but things to do, have all nappies and bubs clothes washed and on line, have another load just about ready then have a load of our towels and a smalll load of clothes to do :) have washed and vac floors and put away dishes all that left to do is some ironing which I have been putting off *sigh* I hate ironing...anyway it is 8.30am and all I have left to do is hang out those loads of washing :) and go to dr and shops :)
Hi all,
I'll have to check out target this weekend for those plaster kits and if nothing there I'll get onto e-bay.
Might get some paint to do the footprints too. Would just be so nice to have. Don't have a car today so will wait til the weekend.
Ashleigh had the best night ever last night, put her down around 8pm as usual but only took 20 mins to settle rather than 1hr to 1.5. Then she slept til 3:40! Never slept that long then didn't get up til 8am!
Sarah Kate- Ash is having her 2 month injections on 16th too.
well done rach wish my house was like that but this week with akira home all day its a mess not matter much i clean it up. so today i have given up :) ill do it tomorrow or get simon to anyway :)
glad to hear you had a good night shellbell. hope she keeps it up for you.
Adele
I just did a really long post with personals and the bloody thing crashed on me
$^($^@(*^%(*@^%(@&$)(!@&)@&)(^&@(*^(*! is what i have to say!
NOT HAPPY JAN
so Hello to everyone BBL
Ive really got to do some washing cause Vy's been throwing up on me and I have daggy cr@p tops to wear, the ones that show your ripples..ah not apretty look.
xxmaz
Ihad a good nite until ruby woke at 3am and didnt go back to sleep till 4am.My eyes are bugging out of my head now.
Ruby and i have our checkups and needles today.Fun.Fun,fun.
I got my daughters hands and feet done by twinkletoes,so they are actual casts.Its cute because you can always remember actual size.I also put a photo in a frame taken the day the casts were done too.More expensive but i had a friend that spent $5000 in the last 3 yrs of her daughter and son on professional photos.Unbelievable!
caddie you can buy the cast like they do on twinklletoes off ebay and do yourself and friend of mine did her bubs and the y look great
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Maybe you should have more curried snags then...LOL
Girls...I am trialling what I never ever said I would do....a daytime routine!!!
I just feel like I need some structure to my days now, especially the days when we are at home all day. I really don't do well with this whole 'What comes next?' thing with babies although she has her own rhythm pretty much anyway.
So...as much as I always said I disliked the 'Contented Little Baby Book's' rigid structure, I am going to adapt some of the routine into our day.
Also, I was reading Jools Olivers book again for the 3rd time...and i must of missed the part where she also used some of her structure,
Eg: Getting up and feeding Paige at 7am...this is usually done in bed thow...lol
I dunno, i just want some direction now with her daytime feeds and naps.
ChrissyT- I think if a routine would do you good go for it. Ashleigh has some rough structure of routine, she usually wakes up around a usual time and we always try to put her down at same time, just in the day she calls the shots but we do have some sort of eat, play, eat again, sleep, although it can vary. Those books with the rigid structures you mentioned have a good basis but like you said they are bit rigid, I don't like how they say when your baby can eat, what if they are hungry before that time? But I do look at them to see as a rough guide how often a baby should sleep, play although Ashleigh never sleeps as long as they have and no way could she spread her feeds out to 4 hourly in the day.
Rach75- I've just checked out on e-bay those twinkle toes, do you know if your friend found it difficult to do? Cause those kits are reasonably priced but didn't kow how hard it would be.
caddie- good luck with the check up and needles. Can't believe how much your frined spent! I thought the $380 i spent on professional photos was way too much!
maz- I've got to the point now when Ash chucks on me I just sort of sponge it off, can't be bothered changing anymore!
Hell yeah...and what do you do with a baby who doesnt have a 2.5 hour sleep in the middle of the day...LOL
Hi girls
Thanks to everyone who has been thinking of me, I havent really had time to post from organising Julia's baptism and also shes been really unsettled this week also. Im still alive and still here. My there are so many girls in our Sept thread now.. welcome to the new girls. Trescillian came today and thankfully she has put on weight!! we are very happy..so looks like the breastfeeding is working better and also giving her the two topups of formula per day. Im still really tired, hopefully I can catchup on some sleep this weekend :)
Hello to everyone I will need to catchup on everyones posts.. so much to read.. havent had time at all to do anything.
Bel
xxx
Nice to see you back on belle,glad julia has put on weight for you,thats fantastic to hear.
Hope the baptism goes smoothly and its a wonderful day for all!
shellbell she said you do need 2 people and best to do when bub is sleppy or asleep but asides from that wasn't to hard
well dr visit went ok, Jack is fine, he gave me some saline drops to put in his nostrils about 5min before a feed to help with the snuffly probs he has been havin gwhile feeding
but me well..........he thinks I have a bacteial infection in my trachia region and gave me some good strong anti bi so hopefully by next week I will feel good again, tis hard to feel like crap have AF and look after a baby
TTYL as soon as jack has his b ottle we are ahving nap, but looks like he is asleep alreayd so I might lay down now too :)
Just back from the docs,Ruby now weighs 4530g and she only cried a little with her needles.I also got my contraceptive.I am taking yasmine,good with moods and doesnt put on weight.The last pill threw away my sex drive!
Now i just have to get the 2 rats to have a afternoon ninie so i can eat lunch in peace and relax. I hope they do...
Belle - So happy to hear you are well, thanks for the chat on the phone this morning. Great news that Julia is gaining weight! woo hoo... keep up the great work hon.
Maz - I hate it when I lose a post!!:angry: Big hellos to you! You feeling a bit better now?
ChrissyT - I've kinda got a vague sort of routing happening with Xander now .. also after swearing I wouldn't. But he kinda fell into it for himself over a few days (which happens to have included a 2 hour sleep in the middle of the day), I've just made him stick to it since then! It's working well for us, but he still feeds HEAPS during the day. Let us know how you go with it.
Rach - You got that package yet?
I love all those hand cast things, but I've left it a bit late with Xander, his hands are HUGE in comparison to when he was born so it just doesn't seem worth doing now. Slack I know. I want to see piccies once you've all done them tho.
Helen - Wow. Bella was a big girl! I reckon Eithan is just about perfect... such a cute little boy.
Caddie - $5000!!! OMG.. some people have way too much spare cash. I've heard the Twinkletoes are the absolute best for casts etc... never heard a bad thing about the finished product.
Xander is such a cheeky little boy, he grins and giggles quite a lot these days and whilst I miss my little newborn, I'm loving this new stage in his life. He has also just realised he has feet and wont stop staring at them - wonder what he is thinking?
I've uploaded a couple of new pics to my homepage of him if you are interested.
Catch ya chickees... gotta do some housework whilst he is sleeping.
i noticed this morning that ainsleigh has that same foot infatuation thing happening anna! tis very funny. i was given the plaster casting set as a gift when she was born, and it says two people job so DH and i said that will be our first job when he gets home next as she will be 12 weeks old then.
ainsleigh slept heaps yesterday (up at 5.30am then two three hour naps!) so she only had four bottles in total. as expected she was up at 4.30am and has only cat napped today. typical, as I am going out tonight and she is going to pop's for a sleepover (i'll go back to my dad's to sleep after i go out). best go and do my housework while she is quiet in the swing... in fact i think she has nodded off, but when i moved her last time she woke right up so she can stay!
hello to all!
sooooo tired, not really with it ATM. Love you all. Will try to grab 1/2hr sleep while he's down. Poor Bella, not much time with mummy lately and I feel soooo bad.
Love
Hey Caddie how are you? Congrats on Ruby's weight gain thats excellent news. What percentile is she in? Julia only weighed 4170kg today so very low on percentile so I am still worried, Im very happy for you though as Ruby is a good weight and only 2 days older than Julia.
Anna**- thanks for the chat this morning was great..today has flown by, and guess what this arvo Julia fed at 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 4pm so far must be a growth spurt for sure..
Charli - thanks for the chat the other day lets catchup again soon.
Helen - hon do you have your mobile again? will pm you my numbers again if you like so you can give me a call to catchup...since you may have changed your number?
Maz - Guess what we did the deed first time in 11 months and OPPPSSS we didnt use protection... Opps highly unlikely I would get pregnant considering I had to use Clomid and Metformin to become pregnant..
Chrissy - hope you are going well mate..hows the feeding going?
Shellbell - how are you going with Ainsleigh? hows your feeding too? are you doing the same still as me, breast + formula top ups?
Adele - sorry I missed ya on msn, lets catchup a bit later...
Rikki - have fun tonight, wow a sleepover! let me know how you go..
Back later for more personals.
Bel
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Great to see you back belle and even better that Julia is putting on weight.
I've just updated my ticker photo of Nina poking tounges at her favourite teddy, 'D duck' we've named him!!
Well thank god my rellies have gone now, that was sooooo exhausting having everyone here.
Anna & rikki, Nina too has the fascination with her feet, looks at them and giggles lol
Well it's hot and I'm going for a swim, BBL
Belle- good to hear from you again. I'm still just doing the whole breast thing, tried to express and give her a bottle of that in the evenings but Ashleigh flat out refuses ti take a bottle, we tried for about a week and gave up, i might try again next week, see if she might give it a go or not.
Good to hear julia is putting on weight, I hope she is settling better for you and i hope your looking after yourself too.
Helen.p- hope you get some rest, I don't know how all you mums with other children besides bubs cope, I always think to myself how I'd be having another little one running around on top of a newborn!
rikki- Enjoy your night out. I'd love to get out for the night without bubs.
Anna**- Ashleigh hasn't noticed her feet so much but she does stare at her hands alot. Its funny its like there wondering where they came from! Its just amazing the developments they make as they get older and the time just flies. Its great to see them doing all these things but at same time it is sad when you think how they'll never be newborn again. I've still got 4 more weeks til Ash is officially not newborn any longer.
caddie- Glad to hear Ruby was good with her needles. I'm scared bout going to get Ash's next Thurs.
Rach75- Hope you and jack improve soon. Should start feeling better now you have the anti biotics.
Met my mums group for coffee again today, nice to catch up with them. Fed in public too for the first time. It wasn't bad at all, now I feel more confident to do it again, just prolly wouldn't like to if i was alone.
one of the girls had a saying for when your bubs is unsettled, "if in doubt, throw the boob out". I loved that cause thats what i do with Ashleigh, it always settles her down. Thought it was quite funny.
Ooohh just noticed I got my avatar, looks very nice, think i look prettier in that than in person. LOL!
I feel like crap I shouldn't have lay down I feel worse have been coughing my lungs up since I go tup :(
Anna nope no package yet :(
Just a quciky cause Jed is giving me that' you on that bloody thing' look again. $hit Wilhelm is up.......just a wee stop.
Its great to see most of us are finding our grooves with our bubs..sorry to those who havent quiet got there yet. Ive been finding that if Vy is unsettled, I chuck her in the pram and just go for a walk. God knows I can do with it..lol.
Im off to go scrapping at a gf tonight..very jealous you did the twinkle toe thing Caddie ;), Jed wont let me :( (b@st@rd)
love to you all
cant wait to see who my sectret santa is....watchout!
xxmaz