Babies Born September 2007 #42

[Cassius2]

Hi girls!!!

well it's good to see that BB is back! yay!

MD: welcome back sista! sooooo, about that million to one chance.....are you going to test or wait until you've sold the gear?! LOL!

Noni: i think we all have days of crapness with our dear children. i can imagine that it is 20 fold when preggers.
Leila is the same with getting into all the off limits stuff. i am constantly using mass distraction with her. luckily books have become a big hit.

Arte: have fun camping! i just got rid of a whole lot of camping stuff as let's face it my darling DH is sooo not into getting that close to nature and after 8 years i have had to admit defeat...

AFM: dress ups is the big thing in our house ATM...caught her trying to wrap herself up in a swaddle yesterday....and this morning she was a ghost with the blanket over her head and running through the house going woooo hooooooo whooo LOL! she also likes to put on bangles and her hat and gets us to put her shoes on too so she can play...
i am currently nursing a hangover from a dinner party that raged on last night so am feeling sorry for myself. hopefully it will help with the thesis writing ppfftttt!

[AnyDream]

i am currently nursing a hangover from a dinner party that raged on last night

I'm currently nursing a morphine hangover from my trip to the hospy at 2.30 am (!) so you're one ahead of me there. I don't know about a thesis but I'm pretty sure I could go head to head with you on some weird trippy existentialist poetry right now .

Noni...I know that insanity feeling soooo well. DD1 was very much like that...it's because she's very people-focussed (I think). My best distractors were things like playing outside (all kids relax outdoors), water play (you can set up a tub of water and some cups and just sit there and watch). I love SuperNanny's play and walk away method, basically you set up an activity, sit down and play to get them hooked, then when they're absorbed you can nick off and do something for 10-15 mins in the same room.

Arte, no I don't think I'm tempting fate at all, really don't feel like I could be PG. But the crazy part of my brain wonders occasionally. Actually still have one test left, should just PIAC and get it over and done with LOL. Think my diet is so ridiculously low-fat right now that it's killed AF dead in her tracks.

[Junglemum]

MD- Good to see you back. When are you getting those stones seen to? Did you get it all sorted?

Arte- After 3 hours, i was more than cranky, i was feral. Oh and DH copped it. Just because i was feral and somehow it seemed like it was his fault!!! Poor DH i really am a cranky preggo cow. Have fun camping.

Nonie- hmmm i think it is the age for it. And i think the fuse gets ALOT shorted when you are preg. Some days L drives my up the wall. But i am getting to know what activities will keep her amused for longer than 2 minutes. I always thought i'd not put the TV on for kids, but i tell ya what playschool gets me a whole 30min to do whatever i need to, so it is a part of our day now. I even feel bad admitting it! lol

Clare- you'll have to remind me what a hangover is....

Lu is having mostly one sleep from 11am for about and hour and a half. She then goes to bed for the night at about 6.30pm. If she has an arvo sleep bed time becomes a bit later.

Really should try and get this house sorted and get out some baby things! It all seems too hard atm. But i guess it isn't going to get any easier is it?!!

[~Kate~]

Hi chickens

Sorry for no personals again. I just have no memory of whats been written. Please know that I am thinking of you all when I read your posts and am giving advice in my head. Although, I then find that someone has said the same thing soon after anyway

AFM - I have a feral also. Shes into everything that I tell her not to. I have no energy to chase after her when we go out so I have to strap her into the trolley or pram (where she screams blue murder). If I let her walk then she'll suddenly change course and trip us all over. I have one of those kiddie harness things and that helps to a degree but once she reaches the end of it, she'll squeal the place down. SO embarrassing. I'm trying to avoid going out but have also had two nieces here (one at a time) since christmas so feel bad about making them stay home on their holidays.
We're off to the beach today once she wakes up so fingers crossed she burns off some energy.

Anyhoo...better go and do some of that fantastic housework! I hate walking on crackles and having bits stuck to the bottom of your feet.

Hugs to all

[Cally]

K is still on 2 day sleeps. This week they have been short (ie less than an hour each time) but she still seems to need both.

MM - K has her milk in the take and toss sippy cups, which are different to what we use for water. It took DH two long nights when she was 9 months to get her back to sleep without a bfeed, then we had another 2 weeks of short (ie just 5min) before she was fully sleeping through the night. good luck with it all. BTW - We always use lube, makes it a lot more comfortable.

Rainy - hadn't realised L had weaned. We are still on 2 a day, although she has had days where she doesn't ask for it and often only ends up with one (but there is no pattern). I think she would be weaned pretty easily if we just did distraction, although it may mean DH would have to get up as well in the mornings as if it's just me she's can be a bit obsessive about it. Hope you've got good air conditioning up at your place with this weather lately!

MD - welcome back. Does DD grope you when bfeeding? I am really getting over that part of it. Maybe in a month we might start active weaning if she hasn't already stopped by then. Sounds like those stones are still creating issues!

Noni - good luck with the scan.

AFM - all good here. DH was taking K to the pool today so that should be fun. I think they have been having a ball at home together this week, he's going to miss her when he goes back to work.

[Cassius2]

MD: oh on on you being unwell!!! was it the stones giving you grievances? but YAY on the morphine. noice.

test baby test. but quite possible that AF has decided to leave the building what with the move and fat free diet, she needs to get her head around that one!

cally: good on your DH for taking her to the pool. my poor DH cant swim that well so doesnt do the whole pool thing with her. he sits on the edge and paddles his feet...


thanks girls for the insight on the day sleeps. i really think that leila is heading towards one a day but ATM it is a bit too much for her. on the days that it is only one she'll sleep for 2.5 hours. but if it is two a day it ranges from 1.5-2 hours each. so i guess she is missing some sleep time. and then she is back in bed by 7pm.

oh a great thing that i came across the other day for Leila to drink her milk (she never really liked it from the bottle or sippy cups) are the long-life milk poppers. she loves drinking them!

[Olive]

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