Ange- Everything was done slowly on sunday.... Definately wont be having any more fruit tingles for a while. Hope you are a bit better you poor love.:hug:
MD- how has the move been?
Clare- OMG thats a lot of poo
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Ange- Everything was done slowly on sunday.... Definately wont be having any more fruit tingles for a while. Hope you are a bit better you poor love.:hug:
MD- how has the move been?
Clare- OMG thats a lot of poo
hi girls
just wanted to let you know that i saw my ob and everything is looking good. passed the gd test and the size of bubs is lookin spot on for now. the ob has been talking to my doula and they are all set for a great birth. fingers crossed!
hope everyone is doing well xoxo
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Was supposed to see my OB today too Raino but had to cancel. Was supposed to have GD test, that would have been interesting. :lol: They advised me not to come in for at least three days as you can still be contagious up to 72hrs after you stop squirting everywhere! So looks like i'm out tomorrow. :( Bummer, can't believe i'm going to miss the breakfast party. Crap. Damn gastro. It's the last week too isn't it? Maybe we can just do breakfast next wed. :lol:
Thanks for all your well wishes, thought i was on the mend so decided to tackle the dishes, two plates in and i empty the contents of my stomach in the sink and the contents of my bladder in my ugg boots. Classy. :p
oh no! you poor thing, you sound so sick.
spewin you're going to miss the last week, pardon the pun ;) yeah we'll have to meet up next wednesday, just for fun.
i really hope you feel better soon. should i cancel lulu and organise it for next week?
You can always do both! She's a hoot and worth meeting for breaky twice i'd say, but whatever you think. ;)
gosh guys where is everyone??? got the lawns quoted today as dp has a broken thumb and cant mow them and they quoted 300 bucks omg they are deff not that long!!! or that big so a word of advice never go with vip!!! bbl when theres some more action on here!!
hi everyone - wow it has been quiet in here!
noni - what a crazy price for the lawns! that is ridiculous! i am sure you would be able to find a teenage boy on school hols who would do it for a whole lot less...
hope you are feeling better today.
not much going on here. i am feeling a lot better today, think the drugs are kicking in. i can eat which is a bonus! DS now has a cold so was home with me today - not the best day for it as i have heaps of work to do before I go on leave next week and also had a series of mini crises today... so a bit stressed. DH came and took over this afternoon so i got quite a lot done.
Rainy - wtg with the GD test and also your OB sounds fab. time is sure ticking for you.
Ange - hope you are feeling better today?
Sherie - did you get the results of your lap? i may have missed it if you already said - sorry
MD - hope the packing is going ok - or have you left already?
I am so excited to go on hol this sat - we really need it, we are all run down and exhsuted. hope the weather is good. we are off to noosa for a week and then to the sth coast. cant wait!
Preg- wish i was going on hols! So jelous. DH wont have any days off until march, :( Damn farming. Feeling much better today, alot less squirting going on anyway! :lol: Just feel like i have been hit by a truck, but on the mend.
Nonie- that is a joke, were they going to cut it by hand with some scissors or something???? BB was down for most of the morning so no-one posting! ;)
Poor Lu is getting two more molars, woke at 4am and didn't go back to sleep until after breaky at 8am!!! Poor DH, i was yelling at him because i was still sick and exhausted but he was tired too, just all a bit out of control, you know those moments?! :doh:
She wont eat, i guess it's the gastro plus teeth, all i got her to eat was a bit of yoghurt and about 4 pieces of pasta. Lucky she has a pot belly to rival santa's, plenty in reserve. ;)
Ange - lol at pot belly like Santa's!! We've got one of them here too (actually more than one if you look at mine too....). Hope you're on the mend.
PAP - you do sound like you've been in a bad way. Hope the holiday goes well. Which bit of the south coast are you coming down too (not that I'll be here anyway)
Rainy - hope swimming went well. glad the ob is happy with everything.
Arte - lol at bfeeding in front of the whole town!!
JG - how is the IU going? any more episodes?
AFM - chicken pox has made its presence known at day care. So far has got a couple of the preschool kids, so none of the littlies yet. Just have to wait and see if K gets it. So we might be having a spotty Christmas as it takes 7-10 days for the spots to appear. And we have both right hand side molars making their presence known, but luckily she doesn't seem worried by it. She wants us in with her while she goes to sleep still but I don't think that's related to anything. She stands up and cries and shakes the cot, but the moment we walk in she lies down and cuddles her giraffe. Starts off kind of cute but after going back and forth for a while, kind of loses the cuteness!!
And DH's kids did really well in the HSC, so he's v excited - he's a clever little teacher!
hi girls
i'm soooo soooo tired and whingey atm. my house looks like some teenagers have had a party here and my dh is completely useless. unfortunately marriage has not encouraged him to pull his finger out at all.
ange- sounds like hell at your house atm too. if you want to meet up at a play centre (lilydale?) one morning next week or something, let me know. they can run a muck together and then we can sleep all afternoon.
cally- well done to dh for his students doing so well. v rewarding for a year's hard work.
i hope the pox give you guys a miss!
pap- you must be sooo looking forward to going away. you deserve it after being so busy this year. when do you plan on finishing up work?
just a quickie before i go to bed...
Rainy: woot woo on the OB check today! yay for you and bubby!!!! ooh it is starting to get to the business end now!!!!!
Ange: oh...you...poor...thing!! i so so feel for you! i was out with a ginormous headache today and that had me floored, let alone days of unwellness...hope you feel better tomorrow.
Cally: eeekk! chicken pox are yukky. i remember them well LOL! have you had them?
Noni: that is way too much i think the most we spent was $150 for a massive overgrown yard.
oops best be off DH has finished the sewing...
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Hi all, well we are back from Melbourne. What a cool place it is, loved it, loved the shops. We stayed in Praharn? (cant spell it lol) and Chapel St was 50 metres away, so we spent alot of time walking up and down that street. Went to the bonds factory, the zoo, shopped in the city, luna park, st kilda beach & got squished in the trams in peak hour. Rainy I walked up and down Chapel looking for oobi, went to two kids centrals and all the pretty dresses were sold out in M's size, guess everyone is buying them for chrissy so I am sad to say I couldnt get a dress!! Came back with 3 boxes of krispy kremes though but DP has taken them to work thank god.
Now onto the bad part, hehe. We stayed with DP's brother & his wife & their 11 month old. What a mission. He is the perfect baby, so well behaved, just sits there, barely makes a noise and barely smiles (which is another worry in itself but oh well). M was constantly compared to him and it drove us nuts something chronic. All I got was comments like 'cant believe she is waking at night still' & 'he is learning from M that as soon as you cry you get picked up' & 'I would never put my baby in a bonds wondersuit they are so ugly'. Needless to say I cracked it big time on a couple of occassions and yes we kinda left on bad terms. They treat their baby like a robot, everything is done on the dot. He goes down at 2 on the dot and if he doesnt like it he cries till he falls asleep. He stays in bed till 11am each day as the father does night shift & wont allow the baby to be up at a normal time as the father needs sleep. Not once did I comment on their parenting skills, as everyone parents differently, but all DP & I got was 'tips' on ways to discipline her etc. When their son does a happy squeal, they shush him so he wont disturb the people living below. So we basically spent the entire time there walking on tip toes. I am SO glad to be home.
Now something else I need to get off my chest. All this comparing of babies started to really get me down, to the point where I was almost resenting M and questioning myself and my parenting skills. One night after having M wake up constantly I had a major breakdown and just cried and cried. I felt so out of control. Why is their 11 month old sleeping through & mine isnt, why does he sit still in the pram and M cries and thrashes about to be let out etc etc. Anyway now that we are home I am hoping these feelings will settle down, but I must admit I am worried about myself as I have been feeling angry at times with M during the night for waking me up, as selfish as it sounds. And it scares me to admit this, but sometimes I just want to smack her, that cant be good can it!? This isnt normal behaviour is it? I am hoping its just my pill messing with my hormones, so I am coming off it.
Sorry about the me me me post. :(
MM- if it's the pill messing with your hormones then i am in big trouble as i am not on the pill and sometimes have feelings like that. The other day when she was awake at 4am and i was exhausted i had to put her in her cot crying b/c i was scared i was going to shake her/yell at her or just loose it. I felt so guilty afterwards. I think it is fairly normal to have those feelings when you are sleep deprived, tired and especially if you are under pressure at someone elses house to be quite. I think the problem is that people don't like to talk about it. So i hope you're normal otherwise we'll both head off for councelling. ;)
Glad you had a lovely time in Melb, the people you stayed with sound shocking! Again i think M's behaviour sounds much more along the lines of what i would expect than wht you describe in their child. Don't let people and their silly opinions get to you. You are doing a great job and M is a healthy happy adventurous 1 year old. Lu is very boisterous and into everything, she pinches when she is mad and has massive tantrums. i thought there was perhas someting 'wrong' with her. i spoke to my MCHN about it and said it more likely means she is a little advanced with her emotions, but being so little it is hard for her to express how she feels so she chucks a wobbly. Again, if there is an issue with M then there is certainly one with Lu!
Thanks for all your well wishes, i am feeling much better today and Lu slept last night thank goodness. I have my oldest friend coming to visit, she's been living in an aboriginal community for 12 motnhs in NT so havn;t seen her for ages. Can't wait. Mum is here helping me clean and do the washing, what a champ! So i better go help her.
MM: ooh sweetie! big hugs :hug: don't underestimate just how hurtful and wrong they were to cast judgement and pass comparisons. we are talking about to different human beings, brought up in what sounds to be two completely different homes. i would have maddie any day over a baby that has been conditioned to not express themselves for fear of what the neighbours would think!
if it makes you feel any better i had leila throw the BIGGESST tantrum about going back in her pram in the city yesterday. EVERYONE was staring and one woman said in a loud voice to her friend, 'oh look at the poor child's face! look at those tears!'. i was like WTF??!! she is throwing a major tantrum cause she's not getting her way (i so dont want her getting lost in the christmas crowds) and you are feeling sorry FOR HER???
as for feeling frustrated i think it's just a normal reaction especially after a long trip away from home. where everyone is just so tired. i too have spent nights crying big fat tears over her cot as she screams into the early hours. hang in there sweet. when i feel the anger and frustration build up i just leave the room. at that point it's doing none of us any favours to have me in there so i go out and either take a breather and go back in or get DH to haul his butt in there.
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Thanks Falguni & Clare for saying what you said. I feel so much better today, in my own home, I can breathe again. I'm watching M run around, doing as she pleases, and this is the way it should be. I had to try and keep her quiet in Melbourne, I'm sure you can all imagine how impossibly hard that was. I turned into a nervous wreck at night when she woke I would JUMP outta bed to settle her. She ended up sleeping with us alot (another big mistake according to the BIL, thanks for that tip you idiot haha) as she just wasnt comfy in the porta cot. Their son is treated like a robot, he is totally different to what M was at his age. DP even one night in bed asked me if he is 'normal'. I just assume he is quiet and placid, but he is also so discliplined at his age, its sad. I just could not handle the two of them being constantly compared, they are totally different. Also M's routine was thrown totally out of whack with the time difference, and according to my BIL she has no routine at all. I could have killed him. No joke I felt like a complete failure as a mother. Everything down to her clothing was picked on, as their son only wears esprit, country road and seed.
Anyway something positive, I was so proud of M. We went to chadstone and I was in esprit kids with the SIL :rolleyes:. Anyway MIL took M for a walk down the mall and they got to about the fifth shop on the opposite side, then M turned and walked all the way back to me in esprit kids with the MIL following her. Good memory or what!?
Clare - Oh no I've had comments like that too, wish people would butt out.
Falguni - Sorry to hear you've been sick!
They sound like arrogant prats MM, which doesn't surprise me given they live in prahran! ;) No offence to any prahaners here! :chair:
Hmmm I could so turn this into a b**** fest, she is a complete snob (we all have no idea why her family are average people iykwim) & he is obsessed with becoming a millionaire. They just bought a new car for her, but he has the keys and she asks permission to take it. He watches what she eats, she cant have anything 'naughty'. He picks on her weight constantly, she is a healthy size 10/12!!! They only wear labels and I walked into an op shop and she wouldnt come in it. She wont shop at Aldi. Out of curiosity I asked her what the Melbourne equivalent of the area that we live in, in Perth, would be - she said something I cant remember and you can easily get a house there for $200-$250,000, that was an easy shot as she knows our area in Perth isnt that cheap, if only baahahahaha!! She made fun of my fake chanel purse lol. Also this will make you laugh, before bub she was totally body obsessed and would work out every day. Well now naturally she is carrying some extra weight. She asked me what size the skirt was that I was wearing, I checked and it was a size 6 (what a fluke my only size 6 clothing item LOL) and she spat chips. She then proceeded to randomly parade around the house in her bra & knickers as if to say I'm still ok. OMG like I care!!?? I am just incredibly dissapointed as I thought she had changed, but she hasnt at all, I would love to have a good relationship with my future SIL but how can I when this is the person she is. As for the suburb they live in, they wouldnt have it any other way, even though its a dody little flat and you get no sleep because people are walking down the path at all hours drunk.
MM - that poor little boy growing up like that. Wait until they have a baby that doesn't want to be 'conditioned', they won't know what hit them!! It's probably a good thing that they live so far away and you don't have to see them very often. (sounds like you got the good brother in the family too) Maybe try a post about nightwaking amongst older kids - you'll probably be surprised at how many come out of the woodwork!
Clare - DH and I both had pox as kids, but apparently not very badly. DH has also had shingles (so even though it was a mild case it was enough).
So last night I was saying the molars weren't bothering her - that was while I was going in and out resettling her for bed, then DH had another hour at 11, then another few goes at 1. What a dear though, he crashed on the couch in between because he had a feeling she was going to stir and wanted to let me sleep. So I did the 6am wake up and gave him an extra hour.
And the biting has definitely improved, hadn't done one for ages until the feed last night. It may have been an accident as she was squirming around so much, but god it hurt!!