morning all
leeanne have a wonderful trip - see you when you get back. i hope it goes well. poor X, he has been in the wars - at least you can worry about that when you get back.
MM I agree re taking snacks and toys with you, i find books quite good on flights too. will she have time to run around the airport at kl before you head to langkawi. hmm not sure re the drugs for them... i dont know what pain stop is.. maybe the brauers calm but you never know she may surprise you with how good she is. just make sure you take it in turns watching her,it is quite exhausting as you know.
Ange - thanks for the reply re pinching... it is hard to know what to do, he only does it to me i think...
Yep. I'm here, but been busy again so hadn't posted. Had a dermo appointment yesterday and my BT restults were all normal again, so we've upped the meds to 15mg per week and see how that goes. I"m having great results and no side effects yet so I'm happy to increase it. Also did all the back to school shopping and even without buying school clothes it was $500 - but $200 of that was sneakers and the rest was stationery and socks etc. Although we normally buy them two pairs of shoes each, but didn't do that this time as Erin got a new pair early in the last term of school and Lindsay reckons he'll only wear sneakers instead of boots too.
Have a blast on your trip Leanne and fingers crossed on Xs eye.
MM - I've taken Sarah on the tilt train from Bundy to Brissie a few times and its much easier than driving. Its a 4.5 hour trip via train and I make sure that I work one of sarahs sleeps into that. I feed her to sleep and then she stays asleep on me. I can usually get an hour out of her. Then its lots of snacks and play time to keep her busy. Try to get a seat with a dvd player or something or take your own portable one because that is a great distraction. Sarahs got one of those portable high chairs from fisher price which is a god send as I can strap her in and feed her up. Keeps her in place as well. She did run up and down the aisles at one point and the other passengers were watching out for her. They loved being entertained by her, although they could have turned around later and *****ed about the terrible mother that let her child run around barefoot making a racket. Haha
As for the PND, yep I was diagnosed with it. I think I was more susceptible to it due to being slightly depressed and very moody as a youngster (late teens - early adult). I know how strange for a teenage girl to be moody but mine was extreme ups and downs. I've had it under control for a while now but always had the thought in my head that PND was a real issue for me. I don't know whether I brought it on by thinking that way or not but was diagnosed a few months after S was born. I think its still a real issue now because I can feel the tension and stress rising with her and I need to remove myself from the situation to calm down. I have an action plan in place now to help me and DH and I will re evaluate the TTC thing once I've been taking care of myself for a few months.
Hayley:
ooh, bikini! wish i was a brave the beach we went to yst, if we go via the dirt roads only takes us 30mins. Thinking of making it a fortnitely trip.
Trill:
thanks for the insight on back-to-school fees!! Something to start thinking about.
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went and got a new digi this morning, am very happy!!!
I hear you on the depression .. I was diagnosed & treated when I was 16 & now that I have had it again, like I did, I realise I'm going to be plagued with it for the rest of my life. & it doesn't help that I resent it for contributing to the marriage breakdown. I just have to learn how to manage it. & so far, the best way to manage it now, is not to have my ex around & pretend to hate him in a romantic way. Depression is a scary thing. to all
Far out has anyone else got a feral child today? M has been an absolute mess since she woke this morning, I've just managed to get her off to sleep after about 45 minutes of comforting & finally gave her a bottle of milk. Gosh I really need to work on this bottle of milk/feeding to sleep thing. Anyway so I dont know why I did it, but I decided to go down to the shops as I needed to do a few things. One was open a bank account for M, I did that, but she was a little terror it was embarrassing lol. She ran out the door at one stage with me chasing behind, and a silly woman gave me the evils. The bank lady gave her a highlighter to keep her entertained which worked, until we went into target & she started eating it. I hadnt noticed & a lady came up to me & said 'you are going to poison your baby'. Then I went into another shop with M being a feral, I should have left by now, so I picked her up & was struggling to push the stroller with one hand & carry heavy M with the other when I accidently ran into another stroller. I apologised of course & the mother turns around & says 'watch it'! What is with people today!!? So between crazy M and the bunch of moody cows around the shops, I'm OVER it!
I am sad to hear that depression is so common. Its very very scary, something that has played on my mind once or twice thats for sure.
Thanks everyone regarding the travelling tips, I'm nervous this time around. M is just such a head strong girl these days, wants to assert her independence at every given moment. But I definately wont be going down the dugging track its just not worth it, besides I couldnt do that to her! While we are on the subject, my silly SIL 'sedates' her bub every night before bed with a dose of pandol. For one panadol doesnt sedate & secondly it's doing more harm than good giving it to him that often!! Sorry for that sudden outburst I am also being a feral today lol.
Falguni - I hear you on the pinching. I must admit I feel a bit lost when it comes to knowing how to react to things like that. I guess I will just go with the whole removing from the situation for now.
Hayley .. i was going to have two today but am glad it is a daycare day! .. jack tipped two bowls of cereal all over the floor ... Alex ran off on us the other day but a lady stopped him, then asked if it I didn't mind cos she had the same prob with her son ..
hayley- everything i hear about your sil drives me crazy. i think she should be locked up with my mil.
yes lewis is constantly feral. i always end up having to carry him and push the stroller which is virtually impossible when you have a baby bump the size of mine. the baby aways kicks lewis and then lewis blows big mouth farts back to him.
i'm at the point now where i'm completely avoiding going out, i just can't do it!
andie- sounds like you had a great time at the beach.
can i ask you, how hard did you find it when jack was first born and alex was so young? how did alex react to jack?
sherie- sounds like things are going well at dermo. good news
leanne- have a fantastic time!enjoy
well we've got visitors from sydney popping in for dinner tonight, and i cleaned the house for 3 hours in preparation!! how bad is that?? it was disgusting though, so it had to be done.
MM, that is really annoying about the rude people in the shop. Obviously if your kid is being feral you aren't having the best day - they could restrain from making it worse by adding snarky comments. Your SIL gives me the *****s.
Rainy, you were asking a while ago about day sleeps? W just has one during the day now. Usually it is around 11am, but for the past couple of days he has been grotty enough to go back to bed at 9.30. That means that he is really tired by night time. I have a 2pm cut off for naps, so if he needs a second nap before then he can have it, otherwise he has to wait until bedtime. Usually he gets a second wind when DH gets home at 5.30pm, then we quickly do dinner and I try to get him in bed by 7(earlier if he is cracking). With two naps he was staying up until 8.30-9.30 and DH and I weren't getting any time together. How is Lewis sleeping at night? I promised you that he would be sleeping through before bub came, hope I wasn't a big fat liar (although I also promised you a girl lol)
PAP, are you still looking for somewhere to go for a pre-baby holiday? It is so freaking hot here, it feels like Brisbane. I am desperate for air-con! We are having a record hot summer.
Trill, OMG at how expensive school shopping is!
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Rainy:
OMG, wish I had your cleaning motivation!!
Alex had a hard time with me not being able to pick him up whilst heavily preg. In the hosp, he knew who Jack was, standing on the side of the cot saying "jack". He was really good with it all actually, wasn't too put out either. Just made sure I still did things with him & made sure he knew I sitll loved him.
I feel for all of you with feral toddlers ATM - I've BTDT before ROFL. Alisters not too bad ATM in terms of feral-ness, but he sure does make it hard to get anything done and keep it done kwim? He is a gold medal winning un-cleaner and DH even had the hide to say something to me the other day about the state of the house and I bit my tounge and said nothing until the following day when it was too hot to be outside working and so DH was inside doing bookwork and he took a break and had a cuppa in the loungeroom and in the space of a half hour, Alister had carted so much stuff into the loungeroom out of the kitchen crawers and cupboards and done a heap of other stuff to make the place look untidy and DH started complaining and I finally said to DH, "and you wonder why the place never looks tidy when you come home? You're the one who refuses to put child locks on the drawers and cupboards because you can't get into them yourself, but you've got the hide to b1tch about the state of the house?" He didn't say a word ROFL. Mind you the house isn't that untidy, it's just all the stuff that lays around on the floor - the rest of the house is fine, but he grew up with a mother who did nothing BUT clean and as soon as they put something down when they were kids she had put it away again. I've often told him he can always move back there
Geeeee Trill, DH wouldn't want to say anything like that to me ATM! You were very well restrained, i'm impressed............ My DH might have just been sleeping in the dog kennels.
OMG girls, I did something really stupid!! Last night I was cutting DH's hair with the clippers. He usually has a #4 cut but I didn't check to see if the #4 length comb was attached and started clipping - now he has a completely bald stip about 4cm wide and 10cm long up the back of his head!!! I felt so bad about it and yet couldn't stop laughing
Ange, cute ticker pic. Does L understand that you are having a bubba?
Trill, W sounds similar to A, not particularly feral but a massive anti-help. DH assumes that I do nothing all day because he spends 10 minutes picking up stuff when he gets home. It is getting really old.
Had another feral toddler day. Just met up with a couple of mums & bubs from mums group for a coffee & a shop browse. Their two littlies (same age as M) just sat perfectly in the pram, M didnt at all, chucked major tanties and did the whole go stiff thing when I tired to put her in the stroller. I must admit I have having a chuckle to myself now as I type this, but at the time omg my face was like a beetroot & I wanted to disown her LMAO!
Rainy - I am with you, its almost to the point where I've decided to be house bound too. I almost cancelled my catch up with the girls today because I could predict the behaviour that she would show. Cant imagine what it must be like for you juggling a belly as well you poor thing!
I guess one day we will think back & laugh at the tough toddler days that often arise!!!
Trill - Our house is the same. I guess now your DH can see what you mean, after he had a day at home yesterday. Mine is the same with the cupboard locks as they will ruin the kitchen apparently. Now I just leave the house as a bomb until M is in bed for the night.
Arte - LOL thats hillarious, bet he wasnt too pleased with you!?
Falguni - The new ticker pic melts my heart!
Guess what I found a perfect little Oobi dress at the shops, yes here in Perth, with 20% off it, yet DP made me feel bad & said not to buy it. So I didnt and I'm sad! He is right though, I guess its not a necessity & she does have way too many clothes already....but still I am thinking of the Oobi dress waiting for me at the shops hehe
H, the way I see it, if it's still there when you go back, then it was meant to be I've done that with the girls too - leave it the first time, but get it the second time LOL. Don't worry about the way M acts in public, she wont ever learn how to properly behave in public if you don't take her out kwim? I have a friend who never takes her kids out anywhere, but will complain that on the very rare occasion that she does, they run amok Erin was always a shocker like that too and she just has a zesty personality.
Arte, that's soooooo funny!!!!!!! What did he do when he found out? Good thing it's been so hot over there
Ange, I was simmering on the inside don't worry. I just bide my time and strike when the moment is right.
Arte, it's usually the kids that give themselves a bad haircut, not a wife to a husband! Hope you took a photo! Lulu knows there is a bubba in my tummy and she comes and lifts my top and kisses it alot, but i don't think she actually gets it IYKWIM.
Ah Trill i see, i think i could take a leaf out of that biding time book. I just can't help myself when i'm mad!
MM- Don't worry, Lu is always the most feral when i go to MG. I was reading toddler tactics by pinky McKay (sp?) today, made me feel better about her 'spirited' behavior. Those other two kids happily sitting in the prams will be just the same in a month or two.
Had OB app today and BP was high. Had a mini internal freak out, but after 5 min lying down it was fine. So no PE just yet, thank goodness!
Trillian - Oooh I like that idea! Yes you are right I think M is much the same as your E with the zesty personality. She is a very head strong & independent girl, every time we go to the doctor she plants her mouth firmly shut & shakes her head so the doc cant check her throat! Little terror. You are right I'd much prefer a bub with personality, just some days I wanna pull my hair out!
Falguni - Oh glad to hear the bp went back to normal. Not long to go now, are you nervous, are you doing a birth plan or going with the flow?
Arty:
hehe at the clippers incident. I can imagine you laughing. I'd prob do the same!!
Trill:
totally here you on the house! Its hard when DP/DH's don't really understand why the house ends up like it does hey. I get sick of picking up after the boys (until I trip over or stand on it!) One my kitchen cupboards have one of those elastic straps around the handles
Fal:
OMG that is so cute of Lulu.
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taking Feral kids out: i find that if I take the boys to say macca's to play b4 i do my shopping, its better cos they have burned their energy up already.
Had swimming lessons today & afterwards I was talking to the instructor & she mentioned Alex's energy & how he runs & runs & runs & mentioned ADHD, & I was like yeah, he's booked in to see a Pedi in Feb ...
but mine was extreme ups and downs. I've had it under control for a while now but always had the thought in my head that PND was a real issue for me. I don't know whether I brought it on by thinking that way or not but was diagnosed a few months after S was born. I think its still a real issue now because I can feel the tension and stress rising with her and I need to remove myself from the situation to calm down. I have an action plan in place now to help me and DH and I will re evaluate the TTC thing once I've been taking care of myself for a few months. 
the beach we went to yst, if we go via the dirt roads only takes us 30mins. Thinking of making it a fortnitely trip.
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Erin was always a shocker like that too and she just has a zesty personality.
Arte, it's usually the kids that give themselves a bad haircut, not a wife to a husband! Hope you took a photo! Lulu knows there is a bubba in my tummy and she comes and lifts my top and kisses it alot, but i don't think she actually gets it IYKWIM.
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