Babies Born September 2007 #41

[~Kate~]

Hi Everyone
Just caught up on posts and now can't remember personals. Sorry... Forgive me...

Not much going on our end. My mum is coming up tomorrow from Brissie for a few days and then I'm heading down there for a week. She was originally catching the train up and then she'd drive down with me to keep S entertained but then we got $10 fares on the tilt train so thought bugger the car. Shes bringing my 3 year old nephew up so figured she'd come up anyway.

Also, moving on this weekend. We get the keys on Sunday and the removalist is coming at 8 in the morning. Unfortunately, my train leaves about 10 ish so I'm not going to be much good at all. Heres hoping that Rory uses common sense when arranging placement of our furniture. Female common sense not male common sense. or should that be Mummy common sense not Daddy common sense. Either way, I'm in for a shock when I get home and see how it looks. Please wish me luck girls.

Nighty Nights

[AnyDream]

You've a brave woman Kate! Lucky for you it's a woman's prerogative to make her man keep moving the furniture until it's 'just right'. LOL

[Isadora]

Lol OH NO Kate, good luck I think you are going to need it!!

[Artechim]

MD, for christmas I think I will get W a set of Baby Einstein DVDs. We don't have t.v and he hasn't been that keen when I show him dvds of Elmo, little people etc but DH showed him a Baby Einstein clip the other night and he loved it, waving about and pointing. They seem to have the little clips just long enough that he doesn't lose interest before it shifts to the next one. TBH I thought they were a bit of a have and I don't think it will turn him into a genius but I am hoping they will be a good filler for the end of the day when I have run out of ideas and am waiting for DH to come home lol. We will also get him some sort of outside toy - a wagon or little toddler climbing thing. That is probably all because he will get a few smaller things from the rest of the family. My aunt also had a crazy long labour and when they finally c-sectioned bub out they discovered she had a squarish pelvis and his head was all bruised from being squished against it.

JG, glad things have settled down re the BH's. I remember what a pain it was for you last time. Have you had the GD test yet?

Kate, well done at avoiding the moving! $10 trains fares are a bargain!

Pregpan, have you told your family yet?

Leanne, bummer about all the doctors visits, but great to hear that J is doing well in the poo department.

I have just ordered William's bed. I got a king single. I am going to start him having day naps in there when it arrives and hopefully move him into it for night sleeps after we have been away at christmas time. He is still waking about 4 times a night so I am not sure how it will go....

[MamaPan]

hi everyone!
well as youknow I dont do xmas but if i did i would be looking for an outdoor play equip set for the little man (little tikes make some good ones) and/or a smart trike! wow you get your babies a lot i must say - i am sure little N will be whingeing in the yrs to come when he sees all the other kids getting all these presents!! LOL!
at what age do we think about beds? well what stage I guess??? i am thinking N will move sometime in the next 6 months, but guess he has to be walking? he also still wakes most nights a few times so keen to hear how you go Arte. Lucky boy with a king single. also do you use sleeping bags in a bed?
JG glas things have settled down. How many wks were you when you went on bedrest with Hamish? Hope that doesnt happen again honey.
Arte - yep i have told my PIL and BIL/SIL and also, of course, my Mum and also my 2 best friends. no one else will know (aside from you guys) til 12 wk scan is done. it doesnt make dealing w the nausea/tiredness easy when no one knows whats up. and i am so bloated i reckon a lot of ppl think i have been indulging a little too much! I hope it happens for you soon, i am sure it will. xxx

[Trillian]

OK, I have a question for you Pregpan LOL. I know you don't do Christmas, and this is something I've always been curious about, but when do you get the 'big ticket' items for your children? (like swings and other stuff we would buy for Christmas) Do you make a huge thing of birthdays or do you just buy through the year kwim? It is hard in the early days when you know why you're feeling so poorly, but can't explain it to anyone else. Fingers crossed you will only have to wait till the magical 12wks till you're feeling better.

Arte, we always put the older ones into a bed when they were 2 (cause by then the baby had outgrown the bassinette and needed the cot LOL). No matter what age you put them in you will still have the initial issues of them getting out of it all the time. It's something you just have to deal with best you can till they get used to getting to bed and going to sleep without getting out of it again. We are getting bunks for the boys (cause their room isn't practical for two single beds) so it probably wont be till he's nearly 2 anyway.

Kate, just think pleasant thoughts when you see the house for the first time when you get back LMAO. I had to deal with the same thing when I went into labour with Lindsay and we'd only just finished moving all our stuff in 2 days before and the previous owners still had all their stuff to move out (but it was all pack ready to go) and I had to leave it up to him to do it while I was in hospital. Luckily he didn't do too bad and I was too tired to care LOL.

Cindy glad to hear that the BH's stopped for you.

[MamaPan]

hmmm well some ppl compensate by buying presents for channuka instead - i do get N things (and other kids in the family) but I dont want to set it up like channuka = xmas as that isnt really right (usually smaller pres)... there are other times of the yr he will get stuff and his bday is a big deal (as i guess it is for everyone) but i guess i would just get it for him in the yr? not sure....

[joel's girl]

JG, glad things have settled down re the BH's. I remember what a pain it was for you last time. Have you had the GD test yet?

I had the first BT at 14 weeks and result were great - no sign of GD. I still need to do the standard 28 - 30wk one as this is ususally when things change hormonally I was told. There is no way of telling either, my OB said she's had lot of 2nd time mums that arn't cursed with GD the 2nd time round. Im confident I'll be one of those !!

Preagainpan -Firstly I hope your MS is bearable atm sweet - it's tough hey ! And now to answer your question. I first went into pre-term labour at 28wks with Hamish and then again at 30 wks - both times were stopped with medication and a stay in hospital then I had to stop work and get as much bedrest as possible which then at times was changed to complete bedrest when things flared up again.

I had done a good job at forgetting how bad that part of the pregnancy was - except for the fact that that's wen I found you lovely ladies of course !!

Im hoping that I have just been overdoing things and all will calm down soon.

Sherie - How are you feeling ? Are you welcoming or dreading your upcoming surgery. I know sometimes the symptoms were so bad that you could actually look forward to the surgery as you needed the relief. I've been thinking of you dear.

Wishing you luck Kate......... Why can't I be busy when we moved...thats a great idea, furniture can always be re-arranged but moving sux majorly.

BTW you all might remember my ***** a few weeks back about the house we are renting being on the market - well it sold at auction for $25K less than the owners paid for it less than 12 months ago...... now just waiting to hear what the new owners intend on doing......Will I or won't I be moving with a 4 week old bubba ??

WOW this turned into a novel- ooppss !

[Isadora]

Pregpan - Well I must say I am slightly envious of you, sometimes I wish we didnt do christmas either! Such a stressful time. Maddie is still in grobags, I love them they work well for us. Hope that ms wears off soon, its horrible!

Arte - Yay congrats on the big boy bed.

JG - I hope they wont make you move with your 4 week old. Wow the owners would be spewing at the sale price.

Trillian - When is the op?

I'm reading a book on autism at the moment, just a quick question for you ladies who didnt do the MMR vaccination, is that due to the fear of autism?

[Trillian]

H, nah, I didn't get the MMR because of that, it just didn't sit right with me to do it when he had his food sensitivities, eczema and reflux etc so I didn't want to upset his system any further by giving it to him. Of course it was in my mind about MMR and Autism, but that alone didn't play a part in the decision. Are you worried about it at all?

Thanks Cindy its on the 5/12. I'm not worried but I am kwim? I think I'm more worried about having a general anaesthetic LOL. But I am looking forward to it if I means I can just get on with things again. that's great that you didn't have a sign of it with the 14wk test. My best friend had it with her first and she got a high reading at the 14wk test with her second and she ended up with it quite bad again, but she is predisposed to it anyway as she was older and overweight etc. My Mum got it with her last term pg very bad (again she was predisposed to it) and after my brother was born she had a surprise pg (thought she was starting menopause) and her levels skyrocketed to nearly 50. She had to end the pg as it was too risky for her health to continue it. Oh and fingers crossed the new owners of the house are happy to either let you stay, or stay long enough so you aren't moving with a newborn.

Pregpan, thanks for answering that for me I can totally get why you wouldn't want that celebration to turn into a quasi-Christmas because that would sort of defeat the purpose of not celebrating it I suppose.