Babies Born September 2007 #25

[Cassius2]

Hi Ladies! wow it seems so much has happened in the last 24 hours here!

Leanne: i would be FURIOUS! man i was angry that they had a really sick baby at leila's care last week (lots of coughing and sneezing), let alone mixing up the meds! that's just not acceptable. i would definitely put in a written complaint and i would demand an apology. ggrrrrrr. it's so frustrating because you have to put your trust in these people! we have a whole lot of new staff ATM nobody has told us what happened to the old staff, so i have had to spend 1/2 hour today giving them all of leilas instructions...not happy jan!

MD: thanks for the good luck vibes! the paper went well enough. the people were really interested and gave some great feedback on my research.
man i am so impressed with all you ladies going clothes shopping. i walk in there, see the clothes then freak out about trying them on and walk back out again!! LOL maybe it's the thought of seeing me struggle to get jeans on under fluro lights!

Renee: eeekkk! that fall would have freaked me out too! and yeah, i think it was a nervous reaction. somehting similar happened to leila when she was 4 months old. a friend went to lay her back down on her back and forgot that she didnt have great head control and CRACK! leila also went ballistic (with tears!). the person also laughed, but i could see he was devastated so i didnt push it!

JazMum: i have heard a few times that a change in our hormones can make the bubs unsettled. this can be from the pill and also from our AF returning. my midwife tells me that it can take a good week for them to get used to the change in taste. hang in there!!

Art: hmmm i must find hair ties. leila has loads of hair but i have tried anything exciting yet! your story has inspired me! however i too am waiting on the eye colour...when does that happen?? some babies in my group have already got theirs and they are much younger!! not fair!!
ha ha i am sure that duck a-la- shot gun pellets is scrumptious!! lorenzo organised a romantic dinner last night so he took me out to, yes, you guessed it, an italian restaurant! lol...actually it was really nice and it was also our first night out together alone since leila was born.

Hayley: whadda mean not much food??!!! QUICHE!!! OMG i soooo need to come to your mothers group!! LOL!! that is soo impressive. i can make toast.

Noni: leila isnt crawling yet either. she sits up and i think that ATM she is just so proud of herself for doing that that she is content to not move.

anyway best be off...gotta go to the library and look busy.

p.s. i bought a 'taggie' book yesterday for leila and she LOVES it! i noticed last week that she only plays with the tags on her toys, and then i came across a book full of tags for babies!! they've thought of everything havent they!!

[Ozstar]

Hi everyone,

Quick question for you all, how do you organise your bubs draws? Is buy size or type of clothes? I am just about to go through and clean out Logans draws and just wondered how everyone else organises theirs.

[Leemar]

cassius2- They kept apologising to me yesterday. I just dont understand if it was written clearly and I mean my DH hand writing is really clear for a man and he writed in block capitals. I am thinking they didnt even read the medication sheet. When Olivia started today I typed out a day plan for Olivia so they all know what she does during the day. I just hope they stick it up somewhere whey they can all read it. Gezzzz I hope they read it.

Katie- my kids draws are by size and like all shirts and dressing hang up and shorts and other stuff are in the draws.

[fianne]

hi ladies! back from holidays. just popping in to say hello and i've missed everyone. trip was quite hectic and tiring that i now need a holiday. won't stay on as the house looks like it's been hit by a bomb and i REALLY need to get heaps of washing done.
cassius2, where did you find the "taggie" book? what brand? max is the same, she just LOVES the tags of everything.
anyway, gotta go before i feel and guiltier. will try to keep up with the posts but will definitely not be trying to read up on 3 weeks worth of posts. (hard enough with a day or 2).
hope you have a good time in montville jazmum. i really like the place. so quaint.
leanne, i'd be fuming over the wrong meds given. not a thing to be mistaken lightly.
renee, hugs to rory. hope he's fine after the fall.

[*noni*e*]

i made like a rice pudding for asha today and she loved it got the idea by looking at ingredients on some of the baby food jars she likes lol.. i put brown rice, a little full cream milk powder, water, apple and cinamon and she absolutely loved it good thing is i can make it different each time with diff fruits added in
well i'm half way through the housework lol just realised i hadnt eaten lunch yet and dnt know when i will have time lol..
katie - i need to do ashas draws too i usually have the top three draws for clothes she wears now and the bottom two for ones that are two big.. so top one singlets socks and hats, next one down atm is winter clothes and next one summer clothes i have practical and impractical more dressy stuff on opposite sides..
cassius - i saw thos taggies things when i was pregnant and wondered what the hell do they need that for lol but now that i have a baby it all makes sence lol..

[Ginger]

hello ladies,

selfish post here * but need to vent a bit
lewis had his first swimming lesson today, and the actual lesson went great, he loved it and was splashing and having a ball....but then we all got out of the pool (10 ladies and bubs) all dripping wet and there was one changetable! that's right, one!!
it was crazy, and another class of kids finished at the same time, so the changing room was packed..you couldn't even get in the door!
so anyway, i found a bit of park bench outside and lay my towel down on it and managed to change lewis out of his swim nappy and boardies into his normal clothes, all while he's crying mind you..but then i had no chance of changing myself. what was i supposed to do? rip my soaking wet bathers off in the middle of everyone all while i'm holding a baby?? it was ridiculous! there was just nowhere to put the bubs down.
anyway, i ended up just chucking my dress over the top of my wet bathers just so that i could hold lewis for a while to calm him down. after a couple of minutes of walking him around he was fine so i went to check on my friend who was in the change room. i walked in and all you could hear was babies screaming. it was hectic!
my poor friend was standing there in her bikini dripping wet and her dd was screaming. it was horrible. my friend looked like she was about to cry herself so i put lewis on my hip and grabbed her dd in my other arm just so my friend could at least put some pants on. her dd was bawling by this stage and all these other mums were walking past giving me dirty looks. i wanted to tell them to f*** off!
anyway, i ended up driving home with a towel on my seat and my bathers still on. what a joke!
i understand they are a public pool but surely they could have better resources than that. they shouldn't hold a class with 10 babies if they can't provide the facilities needed!!
anyway, my friend complained and they reckon they're going to clean out a staff room and make a bench for us. if not, i'll be asking for a full refund and going somewhere else. it was just way too stressfull

thanks for the vent everyone!! sorry for essay
leanne- i would be so mad if i was you, that's just wrong!
fianne- great to hear from you

[Trillian]

Just a quicky from me - I swore I posted yesterday, but the gremlins must have taken it.

Anyway, teething again here so A is completely beside himself about it all, plus having his needles yesterday didn't help either - the needles were OK, he didn't cry at all but just the usual discomfort etc afterwards. So it's just fun fun fun here ATM.

Marydean, yesterday in Woolies I brought some rice rusks for Alister - they are a 'Baby Mum Mum' brand and look like a giant oval shaped rice cracker. Not hard like a teething rusk, but not too bad as a biscuit - might be an alternative for Miss E.

Noni, if you are still after a spill mat, Playgro brand does one specifically for use under high chairs - they were at woolies too and were about $13.

Brought a funky little backpack for Alister today just to downsize the nappy bag a bit for when we are out to dinner etc instead of having the nappy bag either hanging off the back of the stroller or fine somewhere out of the way under the table to put it.

[Artechim]

Vaccinations here today. He is already red-cheeked and grumpy. A dose of panadol has him feeling better for now though. The NZ schedule is different to the Aust one so there was a bit of mucking around. He doesn't get the pneumococcal or rotavirus, but does get the Meningitis B.

Gracie, it really pays to take a stroller in to the pool with you so you can change him in there and also gives you somewhere to put him while you get changed. None of the pools I have been to have had good baby facilities. Hope it is better for you (and your friend) next week. We went to the pool today after the vaccinations and found out about lessons so we will be starting again next friday

Fianne, good to see you back. Hope your holiday was good, bet your sister was happy to see Max

[fianne]

aarrrggghhhh...i totally forgot that we were supposed to get max her 6-month shots this week while dh (yup! we did get hitched in vegas) was still on holidays from work. didn't remember until i read about the other bub's shots. i knew i should've gotten on bb sooner. would've remembered.
holiday was good but too hectic. not enough time for anything. came home a bit upset coz' i didn't really get to spend as much "catching up" time with my sisters coz' i was always too busy with max. it's really a wonder how much of our time she takes up. and when she's out for the night, because she was sleeping on our bed, we ended up going to bed with her rather than staying up and chatting. partly due to my paranoia of her falling off (she can "manhandle" the pillows that we use to keep her in) and partly because i'm just absolutely exhausted.
we had decided to drive from washington state to san francisco and then on to vegas and then to los angeles. not easy driving so much with a baby who totally dislikes being in the car. car seat laws there required me to keep her facing backwards and she didn't like that. every trip was a struggle. i had nephews and nieces sitting in the back with her to entertain her. bought toys and cd's to amuse (on top of what i'd already brought with me). also bought her a dvd player (good deal) for the car. very stressful for me but then, we survived.
some plane tips for all....(1) if they offer you a whole row of seats but way at the back, don't take it. the flight from bne was so rough because we were in the back. she was so unsettled. (2) try to book night flights. flight left bne at 11 am so max wasn't interested in sleep. left l.a. at 11pm and she slept for 2/3's of the trip home.
some pointers on the u.s.....(1) they don't carry the same formula (for those who aren't breastfeeding) so if you want to keep the same brand, you've gotta bring your own. (2) nappies are better in aus. the huggies i got was just like the snugglers ones here. was so upset coz' i always worried about leaks and actually had a few too. and because i assumed that it would be the same as huggies here, i got a big bag and because i didn't want to waste it just kept using it. pampers brand was a bit better i think. recommend to buy small packs to try before buying big pack. (3) if you've got family (or friends) there, buying 2nd hand car seat and stroller saves having to lug it there and back. got mine for US$25. used it for 3 weeks and left it behind at my sisters to dispose of. also got a porta-cot but max didn't take to it so didn't bother carting it around the u.s. with us. (4) they public places (malls, etc) aren't as baby friendly as they are here. not many (if any) family/parent rooms. usually only find those drop-down change tables. sometimes, not even that. didn't see a single parent room with a microwave to heat formula or chair to breastfeed on.
my mum, sisters, brother, brothers-in-law, sister-in-law, nieces, nephews, cousins, friends, and aunties were all fighting to cuddle max. poor baby was so overwhelmed at times. became extremely clingy. dh was a bit upset at the start coz' she didn't want anyone but me at one stage. even he didn't do. my sister reckons that there was just too many strangers and she turned to the only constant (24/7) in her life which was me. on the upside, had heaps of babysitters....when she was happy to stay with them.
gracie, can see why that would upset you. i think that they should provide ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S a public pool. gov't wants more babies so should provide conveniences for having them. will have to look into swimming classes for max now that we're not due to go anywhere for a while.
trillian, hope alister's feeling better.
noni, sounds like asha is getting a culinary feast. just a question, is it ok to use full cream milk powder? just something that chn said a few weeks back when i did the time to eat session in brisbane. i think that dairy products were supposed to be introduced at around 9-months. and need to be "normal" ones (not low fat type) because the other types have got sugar and other stuff to make them taste better.
katie, just did a bit of a cleanup of max's clothes too. bought heaps of clothes but in different sizes so had to organize it into the closet. the big stuff i just put together by size. the current ones i've got by types. top drawer has long sleeved ones and have different piles for the shirts and onesies (the ones with buttons at the bottom) and jammies, second drawer has singlets, short sleeved onesies, short sleeved shirts and pants. jackets are in the closet on hangers together with dresses and anything else that doesn't go with anything in the drawers.
ok, gotta run. house isn't any better than what it was when i posted this morning. i wish that there was a cleaning/organizing fairy who'd put everything away and wash all the clothes at the snap of the fingers.