I'm heading up to Canberra this weekend too - already have a pretty busy schedule but if you 3 are meeting up I will try and pop around too.
OMG, I can't believe Pregpan and Claire have seen each other out and about so often and didn't know, how freaky!!
We have a pincher here when feeding. Also thinks that bmilk is finger food, always trying to slip a finger in. I just hold her arm down when she does it. She bit my leg yesterday and I probably overreacted as I was so surprised, but then just did a very firm 'No, that hurts mummy' and put her down and walked away.
DD and DH asleep at the moment - DH stayed up all night watching the tennis, so at least I got a little lie in this morning as it wasn't finished by the time DD got up so he gave her breakfast.
Rainy - I think a doula is a wonderful idea. What great news that your friend is pregnant too!
Leanne - glad the party went well.
Pregpan - did you ask FDC lady if she thought it was nappy rash (figure she would have seen a few in her time). We use Penaten cream (comes in a blue tin), the only thing that seems to work on K. She pops up with a rash very easily.
Clare - I can't believe DH invited someone to dinner and didn't tell you! I would have totally freaked out. At least you got 'some' warning on the overnight visitors.
Trillian - sounds like A could be the next proper walker. We borrowed a push walker from the toy library for K - she takes one step, then walks to the side of it and then sits down. I've tried demonstrating but she hasn't got the hang of it yet. Oh well, 4 more weeks until we take it back.
How's everyone going with wiping their teeth down? I was trying in the bath last night but she bit my finger 4 times before I gave up - she was much more interested in sucking the water out of the washcloth. DH and I are going to the dentist tomorrow so will check with him if he has any suggestions.
Well DH is arranging a new backyard (kind of) this holidays. He spent the afternoon getting quotes for topsoil and grass and we are going to get edging around all the gardens - will be so much better. Hopefully it's all done by K's birthday party!
Rainy I have never even been to Vic. If you do have your DH there then your doula should be able to guide him and show him the best way to support you. My DH felt useless too, I wish we had of stuck with our doula but decided not to since my sisters were going to try and make it up for L's birth.
Pregpan maybe you will be able to spot Clare when you see her before actually being introduced.
Cally we need to do some yard work to perhaps I could borrow your DH lol???
Better run and make sure L isn't getting into to much trouble.
Cally- i havn't been teeth wiping as much as i should either, she bites me too! I give her a toothbrush in the bath that she chews on, better than nothing, but i guess i should persisit with the wiping.
Gracie- I don't have the guts either. i thought about a birth centre too, i would love to hang out in a birthing pool for a bit of my labour! but i too would have been booted out with my PE. I have full respect for my OB, he was so fantastic. There is a good chance if he wasn't so on the ball that things could have turned out much differently. Will def be seeing him again. I hear ya on the men being a bit useless sometimes, (although we did Rhea Dempseys pain workshop which was awsome for DH) but i would hate for DH to miss out on the birth, it's pretty amazing. I have never left Lu with anyone, (overprotective mum! ) so maybe i'll change my mind when the time comes!!!
That is a bit spooky about you two canberra gals eyeing each other off! Wish i was going to Canberra this weekend. Have a lovely catch up.
It was a lovely sunny day here, so bundled Lu into the pram and headed off on a walk through the bush. We were about 4 km's from home, when a storm blew in, i had no raincoat, just a little pram cover for Lu. The pram started leaking and dripping on her face, she was not impressed and started screaming! So i took her out and we huddled in a hollow tree fro half an hour until DH drove past on his way home!!! Lucky i had one of the dogs with me, she barked when he was coming so i ran out onto the road. He was very surprised to find a dripping wet wife and a baby wrapped in plastic!
I am exhausted now.
omg you guys can talk!!
just have to do quick updates atm as u know have a friend staying.. shes still asleep atm lol half her luck her bub goes to bed later and sleeps in!! so jelous!! managed to get asha to do 4 hours or so in her cot last nightafter about a week of refusing to go in at all so pretty happy with that!! if i put her in there earlier i think she would have gone longer too i was just being lazy letting her sleep in the loungeroom lol.. shes pulling herself up on absolutely everything she thinks she can now lol whether its a good idea or not and its still only dadadada here no muma - even though dada is a moron lol this morning we had a fight over bloody sunglasses lol he wanted to take mine because he couldnt find his and i said its not my fault u lost 2 pairs in a row lol which obviously struck a nerve because he resorted to f**k you then and went on about how it wasnt fair for me to say things like that when he was getting ready for work.. like hes so special because he goes to work! really gets me when he thinks its more important for him not to be upset just because he goes to work grrrrrr he tries to get out of everything now too ohhh i am sop tired can i leave the dishes work makes me soooo tired blah blah blah and then he sits on his ass and plays playstation.. what does he think i do all day anyway? sit on my bum? grrrrrrrr men!!! he slammed the door so hard as he left asha cried and a photo frame fell and smashed talk about over reaction!!!! ahhhhh well..
hope everyones doing well
oh noni - i know those arguments over the tiniest thing that get you so riled up!!! i think they are the product of sleep deprivation and i also think in these days with working and looking after baby etc generally BOTH partners think they are the ones doing the most!! well that is the case here sometimes anyway...we also had a big argument here last night, wont go into all the details - let me just say it isnt easy to balance both of us working and being v career driven.. and looking after N etc... and it certainly is not easy or really possible for women to 'have it all'.... grrrr grrrr grrrr!!
Clare - that is SO bizarre!!! i wish we knew each other too.... i told DH about it, he said i sound like a stalker saying i saw you - but i think it is perfectly normal as there are so few bugaboos here that that is why i noticed... i hope i dont sound freaky!!! anyway looking fwd to meeting you and MD this weekend. and YAY YAY YAY cally can join too - it will be so fun for all of us to meet up. I will send around a PM now to work out location and time...
N had a really wakeful night again last night, he seemed to be in pain so we ended up giving him panadol at about midnight and he slept til 5ish... so it ended up not that bad but i dont like giving him panadol. hmm - i wonder if it is that rash? it seems to be clearing up a bit... i will look again after FDC tonight and if it is still there and the same i think i will take him to the GP (or chemist - good idea sherie).
ok at work again so best be off to get things started for the day - bbl.
xxx
i thought about a birth centre too, i would love to hang out in a birthing pool for a bit of my labour! but i too would have been booted out with my PE. I have full respect for my OB, he was so fantastic. There is a good chance if he wasn't so on the ball that things could have turned out much differently. Will def be seeing him again. I hear ya on the men being a bit useless sometimes, (although we did Rhea Dempseys pain workshop which was awsome for DH) but i would hate for DH to miss out on the birth, it's pretty amazing. I have never left Lu with anyone, (overprotective mum! 
) so maybe i'll change my mind when the time comes!!! 
- even though dada is a moron lol this morning we had a fight over bloody sunglasses lol he wanted to take mine because he couldnt find his and i said its not my fault u lost 2 pairs in a row lol which obviously struck a nerve because he resorted to f**k you then and went on about how it wasnt fair for me to say things like that when he was getting ready for work.. like hes so special because he goes to work! really gets me when he thinks its more important for him not to be upset just because he goes to work grrrrrr he tries to get out of everything now too ohhh i am sop tired can i leave the dishes work makes me soooo tired blah blah blah and then he sits on his ass and plays playstation.. what does he think i do all day anyway? sit on my bum? grrrrrrrr men!!! he slammed the door so hard as he left asha cried and a photo frame fell and smashed talk about over reaction!!!! ahhhhh well..
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