Babies Born September 2007 #40

Morning!!!!

Nella; Thank you for your thoughts. The boys suprised me & were really good, even in the Dr's w8n room (& of course, middle of the day, running l8) then just as I got called in, I gave them lollies so they were busy with them whilst I had my stitches out. Then as I did groc shopping, I went thro Macca's drive thro before hand, so they were busy eating lunch as I grabbed a few bits & pieces.
I live just out of Kempsey. Moved down from Bris Jan just been.

JaZmum: Thank you also.
I understand what you are saying about when you are out. They are so full on aren't they. Normally I have to round Alex up from all sorts of places at the Dr's & being that Jack is a fast crawler, he's somestime just as bad as Alex.
I love Macca's when we go out! The boys can run & play, & burn off that energy. Our macca's is good as its got the older style play equip & it is gr8 for Jack as he can climb it.

Talking about Bris, I have to go back up next week & thought yst, I had better organise where we are going to stay. :doh: I used to be so organised with things like this.

Tis going to be a long day today ... i sent my ex-DH a txt: "5.43am! Rise and Shine" :rofl: (a joke I have with him ... ) . It didn't suprise me this morning when I heard Alex up cos he was asleep by 7.30 last nite. Didn't even have to put the gate up to keep him in. He had turned the lights on & had came to find me to do some drawing.
Jack is still out to it :) but its only 6.37 ... Normally they get up just before 6.30 but lately Jack has been having a 15min sleep in. He did have a rough nite, he's got some tooth or another coming. I can't believe how fast & sometimes easy, he pops teeth (or points) through.

Alex, won't let me take his nappy off, cos he wants to keep his cool red pants on.

6.54 & Jack is awake!

I'm going to go sort out Alex's prob & get him some breaky.

ttfn :) ....

Hi girls! wowsers i have missed soo much...at least i havent missed Oz's secret.....oooh i LOVE suspense!!

Hi and welcome (back?) Nella!! great to have more ppl to chat to!!! LOL! Our DD is becoming a climber also, giving me a heartattack everytime...
we live in melb now but lived most of our time in brisvegas. we used to live in east brisbane, highgate hill etc....moved a fair bit!

JG: we are in the same boat. L is getting teeth i am sure of it, but no cigar just yet, just the grumpiness and power nappies!

JaZMum: i hear ya sista! for the last 2 days we have tried to do things outside with Leila...we need to buy a linen cupboard. she has been nightmarish! (understatement) we end up back home a couple of hours later, defeated, exhausted and empty-handed. we have been dealing with in-store tantrums...psycho child on the loose ATM!!

AFM: well busy preparing for the melbourne cup. needless to say it is FREEZING here. so no doubt the irish horse septimus will do well. dont know how well i am going to do in my summer frock. but fashion should be painful LOL! just hope the rain holds off as i am wearing white ppl!! :o

Clare - have a wonderful day today! Make sure that if you do get your lovely white dress wet, you stay away from the tv cameras. We don't want to see all of your bits and pieces on the news :o lo. I'm so glad that it's not just me that's exhausted. I was thinking it was my age :doh:

Hannah woke up at 5:30 this morning, so I'm hearing you Andie - it's going to be a long day! She is having a sleep now though - we're getting some family photo's done today, so i need her cheery and smiling:pray: (i'm hoping the photographer can edit out some of the spots on my face - i really should get back onto my regular pill)

Renee should be heading out on her holiday by now - hope you guys have a great time!

have a great day everyone - and for those of you who like to have a flutter on the geegees, i hope you pick a winner.

Oz: Oh I want to know the surprise hehe how long do we have to wait to find out???? Can we GUESS?

Andie: Glad the boys behaved :) Chocolate always works when L needs to behave too hehe

Jaz: Hope your photos went well and Hannah smiled :)

It is so hot here today. I am dreading summer already...
I'm going to head off and tidy up while Loki's having a nap.

Oz, I am still thinking the psychic was right!!

Rainy, what was your other news? Spill already!!!!

MD, I hope you had/have a great day at the coast. I was going to reply in your other thread re SAHM burnout but I never can think of the right words to get across what I want to. But I often do feel the same, that there is more to life than keeping everyone fed and clean.

Clare, lol, hope your white dress doesn't get rained on. My aunt in law wore white pants when we went to Dreamworld - bad look after the water rides lmao

Andie, sounds like things are smoothing out a bit for you now

Pregpan, well done for N with a two syllable word! W sort of says 'got it' when he picks up something but it is only clear enough for DH and I to understand so I'm not counting it yet. Same with Balloon, we know what he means but no one else would. Also yay for him pulling himself up.

Nella, welcome to our group. I was living in Brisbane (Camira) for 3.5 years but have just moved back to NZ so William can grow up the kiwi way (free of snakes and freakin' huge spiders lol). I am not missing the Queensland summer.

Kate, W has just come out the other side of the back arching tanties whenever he had to go in the carseat/pram/highchair. It lasted about 6-8 weeks I think, then all of a sudden one day he just stopped!

The newest word around here is ut-oh. He says it every time something falls (or is thrown). Very cute. I see him standing on the deck with something in his hand saying 'ut-oh' a few times and then he throws it off lol. He woke the other night and I found him sitting in bed saying ut-oh like he had accidently fallen awake.

DH made a sandpit over the weekend and it is a fantastic hit.

Hi all, well S woke at 3.30 last night but went back to sleep quite easily. She refuses to her a sleep this morning now and we are due to go out for a Melbourne Cup lunch so might have to give it another go otherwise shes gonna be feral.

I love bribery...why else would it have been invented if not for use on kids when we need to do things.

Well better go and see if I can put little miss down ... wish me luck:pray:

Arty, where abouts in NZ?

Andie, I am in Ohakune which is in the central North Island, right under Mt Ruapehu

Katie- you are soooooooooo frigggggin preggggnnnaaant!!!!!!

Arty: Nice, I have relies in Wellington & Auckland (mainly). Wld love to take the boys over but am thinking I mite w8 till they are a bit older so they can remember it more.
What made you decided to move there? U r from NZ originally, yes?

i agree with rain!!! well katie?? spill!!!

Thought I had better pop in and say hello hope you all win big on Melb cup.

Will be back for personals later.

arte - Hannah says uh-oh too. It's so cute isnt' it. She also says "tickletickletickle" while she's tickling your toes. She found her belly button this morning and started giggling while she was touching it.

photos went well, but OMG i was exhausted afterwards!!! Katie you're going to have to make sure you take a Berroca before you take family photo shots!!!! Jess and Zoe smiled beautifully, but we had to work hard just to get Hannah to sit in one place for long enough. Going to view the photos next week, so hopefully we got some nice ones.:pray:

Jaz, that's the reason why I don't want to attemp family pics yet - no way known would he sit still for long enough without throwing a tanty to have a decent pic taken.

Katie's pregnant aren't you?

Nella, I like how you've spelt his name, I've never seen that spelling before. I live in rural NSW on a farm.

OK, me-me-me post ahead now. Remember I said that I was doing the elimination diet for my psoriasis? Well it was a total bust so I went to my Dermatoligist yesterday and we've decided to put me on Methotrexate, which is an immunosupressing drug and it's also used for Chemotherapy. It can wreak havoc on your liver, so I have to have regular liver function tests to see how I"m coping with it all. There are some pretty ordinary side effects from it because it's pretty toxic, but I'm hoping I'll be OK (although losing weight wouldn't be such a bad thing, but knowing my luck I'll get every side effect bar that one LOL) I did my first lot of tests today to set the baseline for all future tests and I will start it on Friday.

And I'm booked in for a laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and a D&C on december 5 for my endo and I'll also have a mirena IUD put in at the same time so I can get progesterone that way instead of taking tablets like I did last time. DH is a bit miffed at that because of him having a vasectomy and all, but like I said to him, it was something that needed doing for the long term anyway and this will only be for a few years (mirena is active for up to 5years) and we would still have had to do something anyway. So there is no way known I could ever fall pg LMAO. So I'm on a bit of a rollercoaster ATM with all this, but I know it's all going to be for the greater good.

Trill I hope all the drugs dont wreak to much havoc on your body. Your going to be so over Dr's and tests shortly arent you.

Jaz we are having some family photos done this month so I will be taking as many tips from her as I can. It cant be worse then some of the weddings I have done lol. You will have to show us the photos.

Arte L does uh oh every know and then too, isn't it adorable.

Kate I hope S had a sleep for you.

Clare how did you go at the cup??

Guess I should share my secret?? Maybe I will pm everyone except for Rainy lol.

I knew you would all think I was pregnant, and I might be. My secret was just that we are officially TTC. My body gives me some pretty good clues when I am ovulating so hopefully it doesn't take to long. I was so tempted to keep you all going for a while. Next time I say I have a secret you will all know what it is.

ETA you guys are the only ones who know, we aren't telling anyone (don't want to have to keep answering the are you pregnant yet question.)

Katie - that's so exciting!! I hope it happens quickly for you guys :) (will be sure not to mention anything on facebook.)

Trill - you poor thing - that doesn't sound like too much fun i'd have to say. I hope you get nil side effects - other than the losing weight one ;)

Oooh Katie, it's still very exciting to be TTC, so hopefully it wont be that long and you will have another secret LOL.

I hope I don't get too many side effects either and I am not going to google it again (because I have just had the bejezus scared out of me with what I just read, which was info for health professionals and not what they give you at the chemist)

Hi Girls,

Katie- I am really excited for you. :dance::dance:
Sherie- you poor love :hug::hug:
Nella- Iam on the northside and yep is really muggie hear today. What a storm we got this morning I woke up about 2.30 with a fright.
Andie- Glad the boys were good for you.
Art- Wow a sandpit. I must say my boys love playing with there trucks and stuff (we have a dirt pit it was an old garden we pulled out and DH got some fresh dirt for the boys) WTG Will on your words.

Have a great day to all

katie- i'm so excited for you ttc!!! i really hope the clairvoyent was right and you have a little girl. i think we need a few more girls in here lmao!

sherie- omg, you poor thing...it sounds really full on what you have to go through. are you ok?? i'm hoping it sounds heaps worse than it is mate...

Woohoo, Katie on the 'official' ttc. Good luck! :dance:

Sherie - Poo to all testing and procedures. I hope it all goes well for you. :pray:

Well, my horse was a bust today. Went for Septimus (Septimus - September...get the connection ;)) and it was running second for a huge chunk of the race and then fell back at the last bit. Oh well...had a nice lunch though. How'd everyone else go?
Off to a Tupperware meeting tonight...big release. Should be good...although I'd rather be getting an early night. S didn't go down for a sleep at all so passed out in the car on the way home, didn't even budge when I turned the car off. DH was working out the front so I put the windows down and left her to sleep. She was a tad sweaty after that but wasn't grumpy at least.

So catch you all later...

Trill- That kinda sux but if it works will be great. Methatrexate can be really nasty for some people, but fine for others. The best thing is, you can always stop if it's not working out. Fingers crossed it sorts all your issues out without any nasty side effects. A girlfriend took it for psoriatic arthritis (which seems to flare up when she is preg) and it was great for her, no side effects, then she weaned off it and her psorasis was much better, infact 2 years later it is still pretty good. Hope it is the same for you.

Katie- Very exciting! Hope you have another secret to share soon. :D

Planted all the vegies today. Hope we have enough water to keep them going.

Hi Nella. :hello: we're in Vic, about an hour north of melb.

I am exhausted after the gardening today, that's it for me! over and out.

ETA- Sorry Andie, i called Nella Andie, can you tell i am tired! :redface: How you feeling? You sound better.....

Katie: woohoo! fingers X'd.

Trill: I hope everything works out for you.

Kate: Its gr8 2 B able 2 leave them in the car sleeping hey, that's 1 gr8 thing bout being here .. I can unpack the car & shopping then tend to them without worrying about their safety.

I'm having trouble getting Alex down. He had a kit nap on the lounge this arvo but woke up crying & took me about half hour to settle him. Now he wants me to curl up with him ... its tempting, but not really in the mood to.

Jack is teething again. He got a canine the other day, no problems. He's getting molar points, gives me grief! Go figure.

Really should be doing the dishes ... to exhausted to stand there! haha, have to go get my anti-bio's from my friend soon ... she picked them up for me ...

hope you have a good nite ... :dance:

ttfn:

Hey ladies,

Had a great sleep last night and a good day at work. Feeling much more energetic tonight.

Hamish took 5 steps this afternoon. Full on walking is just around the corner.
Yeah for Hamish.

Falguni - wow gardening sounds nice, I miss my own garden. Enjoy your rest now tho.

Andie - I hope you have a good nite too. I'll keep my fingers crossed dear.

Katie - Sending you lots n lots of baby dust. How exciting....

Sherie - How you doing on the new meds, is it still to early to tell perhaps ? Hope the 5/12 comes around quick so you can get the endo sorted. Ive heard good reports about mirena.

Jazmum - How cute is Hannah with her new friend (bellybutton). One of my bestie has never been able to dress her daughter in all-in-ones as she is addicted to her bellybutton, especially when tired, it's a crack up.

To answer nella's question. Im in Newcastle NSW. About 2hrs north of Sydney.

Im meeting with a mothers group tomorrow. Im a bit nervous but I know Hamish will have a ball - he's such a social butterfly.

Hi to all that I've missed - at least it's an improvement of last nights effort :lol:

hi girls
Clare - how was the cup??? what an awful day weather wise, i hope you werent too cold...
We had a fab time in melb, though it is all getting too much for me, so we have decided to cut back all the travel and trips, despite what our family says... we just have to slow down a bit!
Wedding was gorgeous - sucha great couple and mum put Noah to bed by herself for the 1st time and it went AOK so I am so happy... we can leave him for longer than we thought! he is teethin badly, 2 molars plus one other front tooth - they seem to be nearly thru now so we will be up to 10 teeth soon! YAY 50% there!!
sorry i have read everything buit cant remember much, i am around the next few days so will keep up I promise...
Katie - YAY for TTC - hope it happens PRONTO!

hey everyone,
hehe in the night garden is on so i thought it might be a good time to catch up!!
as for ttc when u actually fall preg do you count from your last period to find out how many weeks you are? (im not pregnant btw).. just wondering for this trip in jan if i can keep ttc atm considering i am going on an 11hr train trip by myself with asha lol.. if you do count from your last period how sick were all you ladies at 10wks?? from memory i think thats when it started to get better for me still not sure about the train trip tho... if we did decide to go ahead with ttc and it didnt work out this mth and i got preg next mth i think itd put me at about 6wks when i go on the trip which wouldnt be ideal.. ahhh i am so confused i should probably just wait till i get back from the trip but i dnt really want to iykwim lol...
hmmm what else.. oh i joined this silly catologue thing where you deliver and collect the catologues and get a comission from any orders people make.. i start with them tmw so should be interesting.. figure itll keep us busy and a good way to get fit and make a little bit of money on the side without having to put asha in care which i personally just dont feel ready to do yet...
pregpan - glad noah went well with ur mum.. good idea deciding to slow down! i feel tired just reading ur posts sometimes haha!!
jg - yay for hamish congrats!! hell be walking everywhere before you know it! i cant believe how far ashas come with it all it really is amazing watching them grow!
andie - how did alex go? hope he ended up sleeping for u!
falguni - goodluck with the vegie garden.. am thinking of starting one myself.. i mean why not with the prices of things today!!
leanne - ur dirt pit sounds like heaps of fun bet the boys love it! what a good idea!
katie - congrats on the ttc hope it all happens quickly for you!!
sherie - hope everything works out with the meds you poor thing!
jazmum - hope the photos are nice :) i would like to get a family pic but i dont think dp would go for it lol..
hope everyone has a lovely day :)

Morning Ladies! ... It stills feel 8am to me cos we slept in over 2hrs! ... no, don't feel good for it :(

Alex ended up settling down, but ended up in my bed at 1.30am. Jack was a bit restless before I went to bed, and got me up twice during the nite (but it was like 5mins apart!).

Noni: I only had motion sickness whilst preg with Alex whenever I was on a train & not sitting facing forward, & on the ferry in NZ. With Jack, I had a bit of queeziness, but not much.

JG: I'm about 3 1/2hr north of you

sorry, got side tracked ... trying Alex in jocks today. He can use the potty running around inside with a bare bum, but I want to move to the next step

bbl

Hi Girls,

Noni- Yep Dirt is great except when it rains but hey your only a kid once. I put a bucket of water outside with a towel and they have to wash there feet and hands before coming in side that sort of last about 10mins before the water is tipped into the pit too. lol.
Oops better go swimming today and have heaps to do before.

BBL

xxx

leeanne it sounds like there is so much fun and laughter at your place! what a terriffic mum you are! xxx

Awww Trill, big hugs, that must be really daunting for you! :hug: I was going to get on and bleat on about my liver damage but I think you "win" in the medical misery stakes today. Sorta glad you can get it all done on the one day, I know, not much consolation but hopefully it will mean it's sorted for a long while.

Well the Coast was goooooorgeous, didn't do half the things we wanted to but in a way that was good too. The highlight was that fresh gorgeous beach air in my lungs and the sight of Missy E loving the waves tickling her feet (shortly followed by a don't-hold-my-hand-mummy-tantrum :rolleyes:)! And the spa. Deep and hot! Mmmmmm. Feel like I've got my sense of humour back, but maybe not completely.

Katie, WTG on TTC! Hope it's a short but sweet ride this time :goodluck:

Both of my horses were nags yesterday, in fact the whole $12 our family bet on the geegees was a wasterooni LOL. But the girl in the coffee shop today won over $900 on a $20 bet AND it was her birthday on Monday. How good is that?!

Ange, wow, goodnews story for Trill there. Thanks for sharing that. I'm jealous of your veggie patch, I can't have one this year, it will be too late after we move for summer veg and my winter veg always gets eaten by the bugs so I don't bother.

Noni, GL with the catalogue thing. Let us know how it goes

Rainy I bet you're rapt with the decking...is it actually finished now? BTW think I might be down your way in the week before xmas if you want to meet up...

Leanne - dirt pit sounds like fun! First thing I'm doing when I hit Adelaide is going out for our sandpit sand. Can't wait, I know E will love it.

Umm, can't remember anything else, except welcome Nella!

MD sounds like you had a lovely trip away, I am so jealous.

Argh just realised the time, we are off to dinner shortly for BIL birthday. Will try and jump back on tonight.

md- i would love to meet up. whereabouts will you be?

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md- i would love to meet up. whereabouts will you be?

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Not certain yet and I have only the vaguest of ideas as to where exactly you are but we'll be in Vic for a few days and it's really not a large state LOL. Spending a day or two around Melb for sure.

Oooo can i crash the party too? :D

Katie - WOW I thought you were going to say you were pregnant!!! I hope it happens really soon for you guys how exciting. Sorry I missed you talking to me on fb the other night, I tend to leave it on and go away from the computer.

Nella - Hello & welcome!

MD - So glad you had a nice time away, you deserved it.

Noni - Good luck with the ttc.

Joels G - YAY for H taking steps, he will be walking before you know it and then theres no stopping them!

I only lost $20 on the horses, I picked all the favourites and got no where haha.

As for tantys, M has been chucking tantys since about 7 months old. Boy does she let me know. I'm glad she's not the only one, we were beginning to dread the terrible twos thinking we have a very stubborn little girly hehe.

M LOVES remotes, what a cool idea I must look out for one for chrissy. It drives DP mad because she changes settings and chews off buttons lol.

Anyway must go and put miss grumpy bum off to bed....painted veil movie was lovely as well cant remember who asked? I'm watching Georgia Rule tonight with Lindsay Lohan.

Ange of course you can hun! I was thinking about all the Vic girls after I logged off, if you're close enough to be doing laps with Rainy then I guess you're in the same area (ish)? I'm still a big vague-o about where everything is but I promise I'll spread the MD love around if I can LOL.

MM Georgia Rule is really good. I loved it. Haven't seen Painted Veil.

Arte I meant to say before that I think you nailed it when you said "There's more to life than keeping everyone clean and fed" or in my case "keeping everyone but not the house clean and fed" LOL. I'm loving thinking of Will saying ut-oh and then dropping stuff. He is one cute and clever lil boy!

Pregpan, also remembered I meant to say - I'm soooo glad that you're slowing your hectic pace down - not only for your sake but also because it makes the rest of us look bad! LOL Also hoping there's another reason you might be wanting a little more rest than usual ;).

xxx

LOL MD!!!

Girls I have an important question... how do I change my user name?
I need to change it to....


PREGAGAINPAN!!!!!


woooo hoooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! Congratulations hun, I'm really really happy for you!

OMG Pregpan CONGRATULATIONS how very exciting

Gee with all you girls getting pg again and ttc I am sort of jealous.

Pregpan- thankyou for saying such lovley words your a sweetie
MD- Glad you had a great time away.

ATM- Livi has another molar poking though and she was really really restless last night
Boys are great and Jordy has finally started doing poos on the toilet so yippeee for Jordy. X has sort of gone backwards and will only do it in his nappy at night. (I have started to put Livi on the toilet when I change her nappy thought I would get a head start on her)

Hello to everyone and have a wonderful day

thanks girls - i am off to the GP today to 'confirm' it - but I couldnt not tell you any longer LOL!!! Got a BFP on Tues!!! I am still in disbelief, i guess it wont feel real for a while.... but OVER THE MOON!!!

It will feel real once those cravings for Hot Chicken rolls kick in again ;)

Leanne, I had a few problems with Lindsay and toilet training for #2's - he would only do them in his nappy first thing in the morning before I took it off. So I actually did a bit of tough love and when I saw the signs he was about to do one, I quickly ripped the nappy off and sat him on the toilet - he tried to hold it in but cause he was busting he couldn't LOL, so he did it and never looked back. His problem was that he was scared to do it on the toilet, so once he realised that it was OK, then he was fine with it.

Thanks for all your support everyone. It means a lot to me. I am OK with it now, have joined a support group so I hope to draw on their experiences with the medication.

Apart from all the health issues, things are just poking along here same as always. The big news was that Alister isn't in our room anymore - I moved the cot into Lindsay's room. The first few nights he was acting up and just mucking around when I put him to bed, meaning that I had to keep him up till Lindsay was alseep, but he's fine with it now.

He is getting to be such a handful now though, but also a delight at the same time kwim? He has really started to show an interest in playing with cars and trucks etc - he would play with them before, but now he's really playing with them kwim? Like he will drive them around a track and make car noises. The other day he came tearing out into the kitchen when he heard DH come in the back door and he said "HEY" to him - I always say to him, "hey, what do you think you're doing" when he's into something norti (like right now - can hear him in the bin LOL), so I think he said it to DH to ask him what he was doing.