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well i did one lol it was negative.. its pretty unlikely that i am but i just feel different.. ahhh well i'll wait out the week and then buy another one if still no af.
leanne - woooohooo for mumma time!! have a great one!my mum is taking asha again this friday and i cant wait!! haha does that sound mean? oh well lol
mm - no not hoping for another lol well it wasnt planned and now that it could be happening i am kinda semi excited lol.. i know with the way things have been with asha etc and my lack of coping skills at times its not the smart thing to do to have another baby but hey if it happens i'll welcome it.. sorry to hear you guys are sick!
ange - lol no i didnt even take folate during my preg with asha (smacks hand) i am hopeless with taking tablets!!
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MM, I was wondering how long it would take for you to realise that crawling creates a whole heap more work lol, very cute though. Sounds like M is doing really well
Noni, glad A slept well for you last night. I didn't take any folate or vitamins when preg either, can't swallow pills.
Clare, good to hear the tonsillitis is getting better. Do you inject into your own bum? I always thought the extra padding I have there would make it a good spot for injecting (when I was on insulin for GD) but could never quite reach it with my belly preventing the twist needed to reach it lol
Ange, sorry about the morning sickness. I also swore that W would be an only child, now I can't wait to do it again. The memory of how sick I was has faded but I am sure it will come back as soon as I start to spend some quality time with the toilet again lol
Leemar, sounds like you are in for a good weekend, I am jealous.
Kate, congrats on the crawling. It is such a bummer when they are having sooky clingy days.
Prepan, the ****adoodledo is really cute. No words here.
Well, I was almost a supermum this morning- I got up early, booked tickets to visit the inlaws, got W and I fed and dressed, went to W's music group, posted MIL's birthday present, did the shopping and was home by 11am. It has faded out now though because I should be cleaning the house but I am on here instead lol
We got a good haul of toys from toy library the other day for $4 so the wet inside days are not much of a problem now. W is getting more and more words that he understands. Today we got a balloon at the shop and at home I asked W 'where is the balloon' and he didn't know so I showed him, then a few minutes later I asked him again and he went straight to it. He can find mum, dad, chim (dog), artemis (cat), box, jacket and at least a dozen toys by name now. He is a little sponge, he learns so quickly I am constantly amazed.
His sleep is also getting better slowly. We have had a couple of times in the past week when he has only woken 2 times in the night :dance: After all this time I think I have figured out what a big part of the problem was: Blankets!. He always wakes up, kicks off the blankets, I feed him back to sleep and cover him back up. This last week or so I haven't been putting the blankets back on and he hasn't been waking as much. Seems too coincidental to not be related.
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hi all just did long post and lost it...
poor N is home with me.... he has conjunctivitis.... poor boy!! and poor mumma how am i going ti get my work done?? and DH away from tomorrow morning...
the jugging is so hard...
Now pls tell me this would not be why he has been sleeping so well????? please please... i thought he was on a new stage not just getting sick....
sorry for selfish post
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hello everyone
sorry i had you all worried...i'm touched that you guys noticed i wasn't here and missed me..aawwww:hug:
on friday i left a full glass of cordial next to the laptop. i went to answer the phone and when i came back lewis had poured the whole glass over the computer...it is stuffed....
it wouldn't even turn on....
aawww well, we needed a new one anyway, seeing as how it had no spacew bar, enter key or shift key- thanks lewis!
thanks for letting everyone know i was mia ange :)
i've had a quick skim over everything....
damn, lewis has just woken...just when i get a chance to catch up!!!
i'll be back as soon as i can to catch up with you all
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pregpan- big big hugs :hug:
you poor love. i don't know if that would make him sleep, i reckon it would prob make him more wakeful yeah?
lewis is still sick and sleeping really badly. i'm taking him to physio next week to rule outany problems there and tonight he is getting his first ever bottle of formula- wish dp luck in giving it to him!
since he has been sick he has developed a suck to sleep dependancy. it can be very difficult to get my nipple out of his mouth without him screaming. i am getting very tired and over it.
dp is going to give him a bottle at 7.30pm tonight so hopefully i can get a bit of a break.
then hopefully once he is totally over this cold we can work on some sleeping strategies. i am not into cc at all, but i'm also feeling quite desperate.
i'm really wanting to start weaning soon so might be asking you guys for lots of help!
i had all these things i wanted to write to you guys but i've completely forgotten everything! i'm blaming pg brain for my completely selfish rambling post.
mmm i'm so hungry- we're having indian takeaway tonight. we are the kings of takeaway atm
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Hi ladies
Noni, oh hun i kwym about being excited even though it wasn't planned, I think I would feel that way if by some miraculous event it happened to me. Glad you have caught up on some sleep, when's your next mumma-time day?
Ange, glad the shingles is sorting out, remember to take your ginger!! Blackmores has a really good MS formulation, I know it worked cos i only ever felt super rotten when I'd forgotten to take it for a day or two. BTW thanks for letting us know about Rainy, I'd been wondering too.
Pregpan, ah poor thing! Yes the juggling is hard, some days there are so many balls up there that you've got to drop one or two to save the rest. Hope you catch up on your work ok.
Leanne, super jealous of your dirty anniversary weekend! Enjoy!
Clare, glad your human pincushion days are nearly over, sometimes you just need that extra boost then your body can heal itself from there.
MM poo for missing swimming again! LOL now that M is into everything (some of us have been doing that for months)! hehe.
Sherie, sooo cute about A curling up with your nightie! E put herself to sleep not long ago as DD was getting ready for Guides and had to have crazy hair AND dress for the Olympics (we combined the two by doing Olympic colours in her hair with pipecleaners). I could hear E complaining in her bed but I had to get H ready superquick cos the leader was picking her up and by the time I got ready to go in there, she was asleep LOL.
AFM well had a lovely day catching up with another friend who's got a 3 mo, had a walk and coffee, etc. THEN I went to Athletes Foot to buy myself some woohoo walking shoes and met a young lady who's about to fly out to China because her fiance is in the Austn Judo team - how excited am I to have met someone who is Actually Going! So now I'll have to follow the Judo, Matt something is his name. Told DD and she was just as excited that I'd met someone as I was LOL. Oh we lead a small life, don't we?
No more choking incidents with E thank goodness, it was doing my nerves in. Intend to have a decent cook up cos the baby food freezer stocks are running low. She had egg in her pudding last night and today no probs so I'll get onto some pikelets and fritters. Re the talking, she says "Allo" when you go in there in the morning (that's what DH always says, Hallo) but I haven't really tested what other words she understands. Might try it with some toys like Arte did.
Oh, and I've decided what we're doing for mine and E's birthdays, going up to friends for the weekend, and I'll try to find one of those baby animal patting places to go to and have a picnic. Then we'll have a little cake and balloon party with a few friends the following weekend. Maybe a duckie theme since she loves her bath duckies so much! LOL I'm going to blow up zillions of balloons and have them all in a pit in the lounge room for E to play in!
Rainy, I'm not into CC either, but I had reached desperation point by the time we went to QE2. I tried a lot of the comforted no crying techniques and they were just exacerbating the problems and I didn't have the luxury of time to get it sorted, kwim? You're a fantastic mother and your loving attention will get him through whatever changes you need to make. xxx BTW where did you get your new laptop, I'm in the market for one right now!
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hi all
sorry for the selfish post earlier... was feeling a little stressed and v sad for N to be unwell again. that said the conjunc really does not seem to be bothering him much - what bothered him was having the ointment put in his eyes... poor little guy... i am dreading doing that over the next few days without DH.
V stressed about work, so much on. DH took him to dr and i did some and am catching up now while DH does dinner too...i will still be behind as N has to stay home tomorrow but what can you do hey... i guess i will be working after i put him to bed tomorrow night as well...
MD sounds like you had a fun day with your friend. and the party sounds wonderful too.
Rainy - good to hear from you!!! Lewis is a terror!!!! all these stories put a silver lining in the cloud of no crawl Noah!! LOL!!! how did the bottle go??? i have weaning tips... i still feel sometimes sad and sometimes fine about weaning... i guess it has to happen at some pt. i hope he took to the formula ok, though it did take a while for N - now he is so fine with it. which bottles are you using? N would only do the tommee tipeee closer to nature ones.
Anyway - sorry to rush off but gotta lower my stress levels by actually DOING some work!!
have a good night everyone.
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hey everyone
i am feeling alot better the last few days with coping with asha.. putting her bed in our room means i get a few hours sleep to myself and then the rest of the night co - sleeping but i dont mind coz she is actually sleeping! yesterday i cleaned the house, mopped the floors and made cupcakes hahaha very productive.. ashas being a real clingy monster though which makes things a bit tough! she cries if i go down the hallway or anywhere out of site then starts following me crying all the way geez drives me mad!!
i am getting my wisdom teeth too :( man they hurt! on the plus side if been eating like foods going out of fassion lately and now that my teeth hurt i can hardly eat at all so a bit of damage controll going on haha.. on that same wavelength we have a fancy dress party to go to on the weekend and my costume is a litttle ummm i spose skanky haha so i dont wanna look fat in it!!! i am very proud of ashas costume tho!! i made her a little mouse costume.. i dyed a bonds suit grey and bought on of their little hats made of the same material and dyed it and made ears with the material and sewed them on a headband and then made a tail out of that same hat and sewed it on the suit.. its soooo cute will have to post some pics after the weekend..
pregpan - sorry to hear your having a tough time! hope the conjunctavitis clears up asap too. poor little N!
md - yeah its funny after the neg test part of me was happy but another point is dissapointed.. i find myself hoping i am and thinking about names etc etc hahaha maybe i will be ready to have another one sooner than i originally thought lol.. i am worried though because i really want a boy and i dont want to feel dissapointed if i have another girl next.. ohhhh well rambling!! glad the choking incidents have stopped! i wanna get helium balloons for ashas birthday but the normal ones are probably better to play with now u mention it... my next free mumma day is .........TOMMOROW!!! hahahaha
rainforest - good to see you back!! lol @ lewis destroying your computer i spose if u want a new one of anything u can just leave it out for him haha and then u'll have a good excuse to replace it? haha thats what i would do anyway!! howd he go with the formula? well i hope! atleast indian take away is kinda different and semi healthy you think you guys are take away kings atm you should see what weve been eating eeep no wonder i am putting on weight lol we had pizza just last night!! and in the same week weve had kfc and maccas too eeeeeeeeep thats awful!!
arte - what a clever boy!! ive never tried that with asha before.. good idea tho!
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morning all
Noni - yay for more sleep for you and asha!!! and LOL to all of us at the takeout - i think we have it a lot more now that N is older than when he was a newborn when everyone said we would live off it. i try to do a bot of cooking on the weekend but well i am not a leftovers kinda girl so we have takeaway about once a week at least. we used to eat out a lot before N so it still means we wat home cooked food alot more than we used to. that said i have arange of easy meals to make now - so the diet is a lot less interesting than it used to be. i need to expand the repertoire a bit. MMs zucchini bake is on the list now!
Clare - how are you feeling? i hope you dont have to go ythru the injections again...
Rainy - how did lewis go last night? i hope you got some rest.
as for me, DH left this morning at 5.30am.... but he is back sat night so it is ok. N had another good night sleep - i am lovng this - he had a settle at about 8.30 and then went straight through!!! til 5.30... bottle then and asleep again from 7am to 8.15 in bed with me... i dont know what has made him turn this cnr but am loving it - i just hope there isnt another corner in our path for a while LOL. that said we are taking him to melbs again next week so that will disrupt him again.. no mother of the yr awards here thats for sure!
His eye looks so much better - iwas expecting it to be REALLY crusty this morning but there was bnothing there.... it still looks more 'closed' than the other one but not too bad. i have to say getting the ointment in his eye is just awful... he screams and squirms and i have to hold him down to do it... not easy without DH! i think we have to do it for about 2-3 days after it all clears up, so at least til mon so i guess i will be a pro by the end of that!
anyway better go, i have N home with me today so plan to make the most of it (given i am dealing w the guilt re work already) and have some fun with him.
bbl - hope you all have a FAB day
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hello ladies, thanks for all your warm welcome backs :)
noni- glad we are not the only takeaway kings around here! dp loves pizza so we have that at least once a week. my favourite is indian.
md- we are using a borrowed computer atm and are getting a hand me down one from my dad on the weekend. i wish we could afford a new one :(
i know what you mean about reaching 'the point' before you went to sleep school. it's very hard. everyone told me the first 3 months were bad but he's still a bad sleeper at 10 months!
pregpan- ok....formula bottle went ...ok. used tommee tippee bottle. dp gave it to him, he drank about half. then i put him in bed, he still wanted a bf, so i gave him a quick one and he went to sleep. woke up about an hour later, then i went in and resettled him. woke up an hour later, bf him back to sleep. then he slept for about 4 hours. bf back to sleep, then slept another 4 hours,
not toooo bad. slowing and surely we will get there.
it's a big improevement on how it's been the last couple of weeks where he has still been awake at midnight, screaming from overtiredness and refusing to sleep.
we're just going to keep working on stretching out his sleeps, reducing bfs. see how we go
do you think N may have turned a corner b/c he has weaned?
well we were supposed to go to mothers group today at 1pm but at 12.50pm lewis started screaming hysterically and wouldn't let me put him down even so i could get dresssed to go. it was doing my head in! then he just fell asleep and slept for 2 hours. usually he doesn't have his arvo sleep till 2 or3pm so he must have just been exhausted today...aahhh sleeping is so harrrrrd atm. ever since he's been sick i just feel all over the place :(
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Rainy - N's sleep has really improved since I weaned him.... I have no idea if it is linked (I would like to think not but I am not sure) but he has been pretty bad since 4 months and now he is sleeping well and he has been for 6 nights now - ha ha have prob jinxed myself. as you know i weaned gradually for the most part but then it kinda suddenly ended last thu - he has been sleeping thru pretty much since sat night and has only had 1 feed (also a bottle) in the night in all that time... i have no idea if it is linked or a coincidence but I am taking it!!! if you want to know bit more about how i weaned him just PM me.... I dont know how you are coping wuth the sleep dep while preg too... hats off to you my dear! I love Indian too.... hmm maybe i will get that tonight since DH has abandoned me!!!
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pregpan- i'm so glad you're on here- i have been searching for that vego pasta recipe you posted in the last thread and i can't find it. can you tell me it again please? sorry to be such a pita but i have to ring dp and tell him what to bring home from the supermarket.
yes i would very much like some weaning help. did you just start with one bottle of formula. i want to do it very gradually- take about 3-4 months or so? if he's very against it then i may tandem feed.
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which one hon??? the roast veg one??? if so you need yellow and red capsicum, courgette, aubergine, vine tomatoe or cherry tomatoes, garlic and red onion - roast them all up and puree.
the other one had ricotta which i dont think yuo ate eating right now???
yep i started with one bottle, a day time one... that was a few months ago - replaced a feed every few weeks til all day was bottles and then did the same with pre bed and wake up feeds... he dropped the night feedimg when we did this.
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ohh thanks, do you think i can eat ricotta in food? i was looking for that one. our oven is dodgy atm.
might look on taste dot com and see if i can find an easy one.
how many bottles does N have a day now? does he self settle or do you help him to sleep?
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just a quickie- i eat ricotta. As long as it is fresh out of a packet it is fine. When cooked it is extra fine! (I eat all cheese if it is made from pasturised milk and i know it is fresh. ;) )
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thanks ange
what about fetta? i miss fetta
how are you feeling today?
ps- happy 10 months to lewis today!!yah
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Yup i eat fetta too. ;) Again as long as it is fresh (i get the packets you have to open) and made from pasturised milk.
I feel like a cheese and crap sandwich again. :D But thanks for asking! :rofl:
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yeah i ate ricotta thru the last preg, well in the last tri once my OB told me i was crazy not to.... i wanted it JUST to have this pasta - which is one of my favourite meals!!
Ange - sorry you are feeling crap - i hope the ms passes soon... are the shingles still bothering you?
Rainy - it is a mix, to be honest he has been rather good at self settling lately, but i also pat and trock depending on how he is. as you know i used to feed to sleep and also rock a lot... so this is a bit of a miracle week... no idea what is making it happen and i am sure next week i will have a hell week... he has 4 bottles a day (and on the odd occasion ie once this week one in the night too)... he was bfeeding a lot more than that - 2 or 3 times in the night... so i was scared he would be having like 8 bottles but that hasnt happened... he has 200ml in most bottles (some are 150ml). my next challenge is to get him to drink water from a sippy cup as surely when he is on cows milk in a6-8 weeks or so he wont drink 800ml a day of it???? or will he????
