Babies Born September 2006 #94

[ShootingStar]

Jodi.. oh dont worry about people like that, they have no clue obviously! Jesse throw huge tantrums too. Monday he was not in a good mood to begin with and all day at the shops was just screaming and whinging because i wouldnt let him grab all the clothes and things off the racks! I just took it with a grain of salt and ignore most of it. Its annoying when youre trying to get them back in the pram but if its going to bother others, i really couldnt care less. Just smile at those who are shaking their head, cos that will annoy them even more hehe.

We're off to swimming this morning so will catch up more when we get back.

[Freya]

Meg - we dont use grobags in summer, Jett sleeps in a big boy bed so he has sheets and a quilt BUT he only ever sleeps wrapped up in his woollen blankie. Sooooo he sleeps in barely anything because of that (those old school Nanna-knitted blankets are mighty warm!) Come winter he'll have jammies AND the blanket (and the quilt if I can sneak it on him). He covers himself up anyway if he gets cold. Rips will be in grobags until he gets a big boy bed next summer when he's 1.

Jodi - ugh dont you hate people like that? I reckon they are in serious denial about their kids doing the same way back when. Jett isnt allowed out of the pram but he does throw tantrums that the whole shopping centre can hear. I just ignore him until he stops. If people give me dirties I say "Would you like to take him home with you?"

Nelle - is that bag packed yet? I cant believe you only have 5ish weeks to go. Feels like yesterday that I was pregnant and counting down. I cant wait to know what your having!!!

Ness - how are you feeling sweetie??????

Hi to everyone else!

Soooo things are going ok. Ripley is mostly formula fed now, and he is much more content but I keep having attacks of guilt He has boobie about 3 times a day still but my milk is dwindling so I'll let him feed until it disappears and then its formula full time. I decided I had to cut my losses and do what keeps me sane. Im still super proud I made it to 8 weeks! Maybe next time I'll make it to 12wks. The 4hr blocks of sleep have made a huge difference though (so has the endless crying stopping!). Bad news - the dreaded AF turned up on Monday She's isnt as nasty as she usually is though which is a good thing. So its on the pill for me if Rips stops BF completely before it finishes, if not the mini pill will have to do until he does.
As for Jett he is great. We've cut our last teeth (before 2yo molars) so he's been really cranky, those canine's are awful trouble arent they! He also had his first haircut while we were in Sydney, just a teensy trim of his curls. Not that it made a difference, he still wakes up with birds nesting in his hair He's got a few more new words too. I really need to sit and make a list of them all. I cant believe he'll be TWO in 7mths. He's such a little boy now, makes me sad to think that this time next year Rips will be the same!

BUT hopefully by then #3 will be on the way. Yep thats right Im officially certifiable DH keeps insisting that 2 is it but then he mentions how he wants a similar age gap between them all so we'll have to make a decision soon. He also refuses to get a vasectomy so I told him that we're having another one then. I just dont want to regret not having #3, you never regret children but you can regret not having them. I always planned on 3. Plus I want to have it while we are in Sydney incase we have another horror pregnancy, that way my sister and numerous friends are right there to help. Ry will be insisting we're done right up until the kid is born hehehehe So in another 6mths we'll give it another whirl and see what happens.

Anywho we have Coffee club today which we are running late for and then its Rips 8wk MCHN appointment. OMG he's 8 weeks old TODAY

Have a great day girls!

[*Nessa*]

Im ok Girls.

Just adjusting and it takes me a while to adjust to things. Dh has been riding to and from work so he is gone for a extra 2 hrs a day now. Which means he normally leave before the girls wake up and gets home after they are in bed.

So i really dont know who this is effecting more. seems like he got a the good deal. i know looking after the girls isnt the raw end of the deal but now i dont even have help with the bed time routine.


Oh and he still hasnt said sorry to me, which i think he owes me


Anna- 8 weeks is a great effort with BF, good luck with no 3. (your are nuts )

Jodi- oh i hate tanties, they seem to know when you are the least in control as well or cant do what you noramlly would. My local shops know Teleah well!!!




I had the appointment with the ob on Monday and theyw ont put me on BP meds due to it being so up down and all over the place cause they think meds might cause it to go to low and make me pass out. So just monitoring and more montiring.

So so over it.

Kell- have fun at swimming, will be htinking of you as i see what happens when i feed annika one of the biscuits i have packed at theplay cafe today. Its a new one so i dont know how they are going to react. I have my own lunch packed to!!! hehe. Rye bread with avocardo and ham YUM!!! just going to tell them I have GD so i have to eat what i have prepared!!!

other then that i am just laying low, trying to get everything organized.

Oh i do have a trainee doula now as well!!! she is bringing her oils and massage stuff down to meet me soon and yeah sounds good.

My hospital bag ispacked, had to do it when i was having all the BP probs. So ready for thes to be over and for her to be here!!

[caddie]

Hi all! Well my cousin didnt get the rash so it may be some yucky viral thing. Noone is sure and no blood test has been done so who knows. My girls are not sick so thats a blessing.
They both slept all night in there own beds! Yippee for me.I banashed aaron to the couch because he so annoys me. Just thinks he is the bread winner so can dictate as to what happens with the money. He wants to spend money on the car when its not needed. Its only the work vehicle.Its not broken yet so as far as im concerned why waste money. And he cant just have a conversation without screaming so i cant be bothered talking to him.
On a lighter note off to see the new 2 story ikea,cant wait!!
Nice to see you going well annt! Way to go on 3! I know you will cope its your body that has to behave!!!
ness,you poor thing.i cant believe this has happened to you..Dh can be such pains.
Jodi;ruby is very good with the tantys. wont sit in a trolley or a pram for longer than 1/2 hr so i dont go out much.
Me and a friend are currently making canvases and trinket boxes and all the baby nursery jazz to sell in 6 weeks at a baby market. So im very busy at the moment..
Hello to everyone. i hate this not having a quick reply because i cant remember everything!@ sorry.

[Visitor7]

meg - Nina is back to having day sleeps now, and they're usually between 2 and 3 hours.
She chucked a mega tantie this morning when I dropped her off to daycare. I told them that I'm going to leave her there tonight!
Nina is in a big girl bed, but doesn't like the covers over her. Each night she has the a/c on, and she is in summer pj's.

annat - great to hear things are going well. Have you found out where you're being transferred to?

caddie - that's great that there are no measles around. I don't go out much either, Nina would prefer to walk around, but it's too hard to do that with her at this age.

kel - hope you had fun at swimming! We've pulled Nina out for this term & next term as it was too tiring on me. We take her in our pool every day though.

nessa - that husband of yours needs a good kick up the bum. It's sad that it's affecting you just as much as him. You really don't need this right now. Try and take it easy as much as you can.

nelle - I hope that bag got packed last night woman!!!

I've got to run, have to go back into town now, and I have no fuel, so need to make a fuel stop first. bbl.

[Nelle]

Caddie, you do know that if you scroll down when you're replying that you can see what people have said - you can actually see more replies that way!

Nope, labour bag not entirely packed, kept discovering stuff I need to buy - but it's been started.

Was going to type more but someone's wandered over here and brought quite the stench with them...best go fix that.

[shellbell3]

Took Ash to the park this morning and the poor thing bumped her head so has a little lump there, goes along nicely with the scab under her nose and the bruise on her forehead!

Nelle- I remember the trouble I had when packing, then I hardly used anything!

Caddie- Glad the hear the girls are alright. The stuff your making for the market sounds great. Hope you make a nice little profit from it. And men can be PITA when it comes to the money. Matt doesn't really dare comment anymore on things cause I always bring up how much he wastes on smokes and his drinking night.

Ness- Could maybe you go pick him up from work, and then tell him because you are so nice comong getting him he can put the girls to bed? How long til he gets his licence back? If your Dh is anything like mine it can be quite difficult to get an apology, mine will always have some excuse instead.

AnnaT- Wow can't believe your already planning #3! You go girl! Glad to hear things are going well with the boys. Keep up those 3 feeds if you can, your supply will drop down but should settle at enuff for those feeds.

Kell- Love the new AV! have fun at swimming lessons.

Meg- i still put Ash in sleeping bags, am making some myself at the moment cause its so hard to find any in her size and the grobag brand are just to expensive. I have to have her in the bag cause she too kicks everything off then cries cause she is cold!

[maz]

God I just cant keep up at the momen!

I hope your all well and that NESSE your keeping your feet up (even if their up DH ar$e )
Caddie - id love to see a pic of what our making for the market.

AnnaT - so good to hear that your going well hon. And re the feeding - do what is good for you. So proud of ya getting to 8 weeks though WTG!!!!! and number 3...knew you still had another baby in ya. You go girl!

Shell - hows things chicki?

Nelle - are you resting up woman?

Jodi - Ive been PMSL over El Nino's anticks of late....her and Vy could be long lost sisters.

Kell - hows your FIL these days matie

Belle - so great to chat to you as usual honey

Anna - I so have to call you...god im a slack tart! MAUW to Xander and you

Chrissy - I have a box here called the chrissy box...its startingto get full

Meg - Vy sleeps in what ever is going at the time of night whichi is generally her nappy and a nitie and she has a doona on her bed. 9 times out of 100 she ends up in our bed.

Hello everyone else..have a massive head ache and the sewing I really wanted to do today didnt happen

[ShootingStar]

Shar.. thats awesome! Woohoo well done!!

Maz.. FIL is ok some days not the others (pain wise). Last scan showed the cancer had grown in one lung and not the other. Kinda good but not. He has to wait until april now and have another scan then and as to see whether to go back on chemo or what (they have to have 6 months break inbetween treatments). But in saying all of this, he was given 12 months to live last February, so its nearly March so hopefully continues to fight it out for alot longer. Are you still getting those migrains? Damn things. Hope youre taking it easy too.

Shell.. lol oh dear. Kids will be kids wont they! Hope shes ok. Thanks about the av i was bored one night and thought i needed a bit of a belly, since im getting one in real life now!

Jodi.. yep fair enough. We're stopping after this term too. Being next term will go through July no doubt and im due at the end of July... plus it will be winter. Am thinking though of starting him back up at the end of the year and putting the new baby in the creche while its on. I really want him to know how to swim, being we dont have a pool ourselves its a bit harder, but knowing how to swim for me its a necessity.

AnnaT.. i think youve done amazing with your BF as it is, so dont feel guilty whatsoever. You have to do what works and is right for both of you. I hope i can feed this baby as long as you have Ripley.

I was soo proud of Jesse today at swimming. They have a tunnel they roll out of the floating mat on top of the water and every time he has refused to go through the tunnel. Today was the first time he went through! I was soo soo proud of him! My heart melted when he did it, my clever boy!

My scan is on Friday woo woo. Trying not to think about it too much so the time doesnt go too slow. Hoping they can find out the sex! Even though i would like a girl i think if its a boy i am going to be just as extatic. To at least know we're having a son or a daughter rather than just a baby will be really nice.

[lilima]

Kell - 2 more sleeps!

Maz - great to hear from you. Hope your headache goes away.

Shar - well done on 18 months. I wish I was still BF, but alas J weaned himself.

Shell - I hope Ash doesn't have a big bump!

Caddie - Glad it was not the measles.

BBL - J is smelly!

[Visitor7]

sharleen - that is sooooo cute!! Does she know any other Nina's?
And a huge congratulations on your breastfeeding journey, 18 months is fantastic!

maz - maybe we can send them both to tanty camp. Hopefully they'll come back little angels, instead of being the little devils they're turning into.
Hopefully the headache eases up for you.
A huge congrats on your breastfeeding journey too!

annat - contemplating number 3 hey, you go girl!! Don't feel guilty about bottle feeding. A happy mum = a happy baby, remember.

kel - great to hear that Jesse did well at swimming lessons. Do you think you'll start swimming lessons back up next summer? Good luck for Friday, fingers crossed bubby behaves for you.

shell - hopefully it didn't hurt Ash too much. Nina is forever getting bruises or scratches on herself. She's such a tomboy at times!

nelle - good to hear you've made a start on your labour bag Has River's nappy rash gone?

I had to put fuel in my car before, and couldn't believe how expensive it was. I wasn't even taking notice of how much it was up to. But thought it was going for what seemed forever, and when I turned around to have a look, it was up to $92!!!!! I decided to stop it at there. It filled it to full, but not over the full line, IYKWIM. $92 is just outrages!

[mum3girls]

sharleen - that is sooooo cute!! Does she know any other Nina's?

Nope, sometimes photos from your visit come up on our screensaver (it runs through all the photos we have on our computer), and if she sees it I'll talk a little bit about Nina, but that's only happened maybe two or three times?? And not in the last few weeks. She's also got another doll that she calls Gabby (there's a Gabby in her Kindermusik class).

Meg - Around the time James weaned, Ambah had a go at it as well (was about a month before I got my first AF back) - I did consider just calling it quits then, but didn't (after 2 days of incredible pain she started feeding again). Emotionally I wasn't ready for it then. Now I think, while I'm sure I'll still be a little sad, I think now I'm more ready to accept the transition.

[Visitor7]

aaaawwwwww, we'll have to try and organise another meet up again soon, so they can meet each other again.
Nina's dolly is called Baby. She rocks and pats it to sleep. Yesterday she even put baby into her bed so she could have a proper sleep. And she will give her baby a bottle too. It's so cute watching them with a dolly isn't it.