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You aren't being unfair!! It's not unreasonable to ask for some "me time". Men can be such big babies sometimes!!! No, it probably didn't occur to him that she could sit in her pram outside while he did the garden OR, that he would actually enjoy her company!
Vent away Roxie.... if we can't vent here I swear we'd go completely crazy.
I don't think they do understand what it's like having this little person constantly attached to you. DH is going to have Robert to himself (while I'm at work and he's on leave) from 3 December to 16 January so he'll get a taste of it.
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Where did everyone go?
We have been experiencing the 6 month growth spurt here, fun...NOT! Actually shouldn't complain, he is just waking up early i.e. 5am but I am not too worried as it will be daylight saving soon enough. It is his half birthday today! They grow up so quick; I love my smilely little man. He is loving his food, loves sitting in the high chair like a big boy. Needles tomorrow, yuk.
The osteo seems to have made a difference on his reflux, it has settled down a lot and he is awake more now so it has made going out a lot easier. DS1 is 4 next week, how did that happen? He is my baby.
We have school hols here next week, I hope I survive. We are going to the Titanic Exhibition at the Melbourne Museum, should be good but a big day for bubs and 3 kids on my own. I hope I haven't bitten off more than I can chew.
Hope all is well with you guys.
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Hello QB.... I'm still hanging around!!! :D
I've been very slack and just been on FB of late. Plus, we are in the process of moving so things are a bit hectic around here.
It is hard to believe how quickly they are growing up! It was only a couple of weeks ago that i thought we'd never be sitting up on our own and now that's all he wants to do! He still rolls around the floor and is never where I left him, but we haven't progressed to crawling yet!
I hear you on the needles... not fun at all. Robert only had a slight temp that night and then the next day, plus he was a bit grumpy. I didn't even bother going to bed, I just camped out on the couch and watched some telly with him while he dozed on and off. But I would rather that than some big nasty!
Well, what to catch up on......
This morning I swear I can feel a little tooth under my finger (anything that goes past his lordship's mouth, goes into his mouth). DH thinks I'm dreaming, but well I really want the tooth to spring up before Monday morning because DH is off again for another 74 sleeps! :cry: DH has been home since last Friday and I can't believe how quickly this week has flown by.
The last couple of nights have been a bit of a change - Robert's suddenly decided that 2am is a wonderful time to play?!!!! Argh!!!!! That's got to change!
We say goodbye to sunny Perth on 24 September (next Friday) and hello Canberra. I start back at work on 1 October and bubs starts full time day care. Luckily enough he will be in the same building as me and I can see him as often as I want so I (THINK) I'm okay with that. Well I've got to get to work on an assignment (I'm doing an interior design course) while bubs is asleep and DH is at the gym.
Sorry for being slack ladies!!
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Im still here - popped on the other day to post and realised no-one had been on in ages!
Ciaran is fully rolling all over the place these days, and has two teeth on the bottom. And is still super happy and cute ... :)
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There's definitely a tooth in there!!!
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It's moving day tomorrow!!!
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Good luck for the move Cass!! Hope Robert transitions well.
I've been very slack lately. Not getting much sleep with sick kids so have been in bed early and no time for BB.
I will try and get back later. Hope everyone's doing okay :)
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Well hello everyone!
I don't think I've posted on here since Willow was about 10 weeks old ... had a bit of a meltdown suffering with such an unsettled first born and I needed to find my own groove with this motherhood caper.
Pleased to say we have survived the first 6 months, Willow is doing really well and I've relaxed and settled into a bit of more workable routine and lifestyle.
It's been wonderful to sit here this afternoon and read up on all the threads. Everyone sounds like they've had similar struggles, trying periods and challenges ... just what you need to hear sometimes, just to know you are not alone or going mad.
Bubs update - Willow is rolling over, has one bottom tooth and his mate to the left is just breaking the surface today, has two lots of solids a day, 4 bottles and has slept through since 9 weeks (sleeping 8pm till 6am) - the sleeping is her saving grace, we've had a nightmare baby to deal with at most other times.
She's not able to balance enough to sit up yet and she's trying VERY hard to get a crawl motion happening. She has mastered the art of a back shuffle, so she is mobile and can't be left alone for too long ... she ended up wedged under the ottoman the other day when I went out the back to bring in the washing.
Willow had her 6 month needles last Friday, managed them fine but had a bit of a bump under the skin at the injection site on her left leg. I think it bothered me more then it bothered her!
I am still off work fulltime, planning to go back part time in April 2011.
Looking at childcare options now, woah ... who knew you had to book in so freaking far in advance!!
I have my Mum minding her one day a week, so I guess we can always ask her for 2 days if I really get stuck. I plan to go back to work 2 days a week to start off with and see how I go.
Anyway, I am pleased to be back on here and look forward to chatting more often!
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Hey thrilled and Squidipa,
I had been wondering how you were going, good to hear from you. Squidipa, Tobi has the same problem, he is on Zantac for his reflux, have you had problems with reflux? The Zantac made a huge difference, he was not so noisy after starting it.
Tobi's latest trick is shaking his head like he is saying no. He also tries to catch people's eyes and then gives them a big smile and his whole body wriggles, it is so cute. He is such a character, this is a great age, their personality really starts to come out.
Enjoy ladies.
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gosh its been quiet in here lately! I hope everyone is doing okay, and that the quiet is just due to the business of life with a happy healthy baby :D xxx
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We are fine - just busy!!
Must be a sign of our babies getting older eh :)
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We are ok ... teething ... but ok and survivng.
Will is just so clingy at the moment, making getting anything done almost impossible.
Am trying to just roll with it and accept that she just needs me now, the other stuff can just wait. But boy, it makes for a draining day.
I ache for DH to come in the door from work, just so I can have 5 minutes to take a shower and make a cuppa in relative peace and quiet.
Have ordered a Baltic Amber Teething Necklace - anyone else tried one? Had any success? Must admit I am nervous about using it ... they are little beads in the perfect shape to swallow :o DH is not too thrilled about the idea.
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Well here's an update from us......
Robert is rolling all over the place and is sitting unsupported. He looked like he was going to try to crawl, but now he can sit up he seems to have lost interest. I'm happy to have him remain in one place for now!! He has one tooth and the second one is about to cut any day now.
His latest trick is to bounce! He loves to bounce - we should have called him Tigger. He doesn't have a jolly jumper or anything remotely like that, but last Wednesday he started "bouncing" on my lap and now he doesn't want to sit (you have to try and bend him... hehehe!) he wants to jump and thinks it is just the funniest thing ever!
We finally moved back East, but until Friday we are still staying in a hotel - our furniture arrives on Friday so it's all go ahead for then!
I started back at work last Friday and Robert is in full-time childcare. The centre is great and I just pop around when he's due for a feed - they call me if he's asleep (when I'm due to go around) or if he's showing signs of being hungry. So far it's working. My lovely boss is happy for me to continue with this arrangement.
DH doesn't get back until 3 December. I miss him so much and it's sad how much he's missing out on. I've been recording everything I can but it's still not the same. I send him an updated photo (daily) so he's always got the latest one to look at.
I hope I don't sound awful, but I'm finding myself to be a lot less tired at the end of the day now I'm at work. You don't seem to appreciate how exhausting it is being at home with our little ones 24/7. Who would have thought I'd go to work to get a break?!!
Well that's it for me for now..... I better get back to work!
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Hi all - haven't been here for ages...so much going on and trying to keep a grip on everything.
Cass - so glad the move has gone well and work/care balancing nicely. I remember going back to work with DS1 and it was a holiday - going to be even more so after having the two - but it is the getting to work (getting kids organised) that is the hard part....lol!
Soph had her christening on the weekend. She had a ball and looked beautiful!!
She is sitting, rolling all over the place, commando crawling and rocking back and forth on her knees - she desperately wants to crawl and she is standing holding on to the couch....with so much practise to do - she isn't sleeping well at night....but at least she is in her own cot in her own room now...last night she was up on her hands and knees rocking each time I went in to her!!! No time for sleep she says!!!
Hope you are all well...
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I have been meaning to get on here for weeks! It's crazy how busy life can get sometimes.
Good to hear from you thrilled and squidipa :D
Toby is doing really well at the moment after about 3 months of constant ear and throat infections and antibiotics. At one stage he would finish the course of AB and would have an infection again in 2 days :o. Poor wee thing. It was horrible knowing he was in pain all the time. But he's a tough little nut and smiled through it all.
He's sitting really well and rolls all over the place, and I think he's very close to crawling - gets up on his hands and knees and rocks but seems to think he can just launch himself forward without moving his arms so we've had a few face plants :doh: I have mixed feelings about him being on the move. It's definitely the end of the little baby stage, which is a bit sad. He's also going to be a very active boy - he's never still now. Always has his arms and legs going flat out and spends most of his day trying to crawl :lol: He watches his big sister running around and I can see in his face that he's desperate to chase her!
No teeth yet, and they don't look to be that close either. DD was a late teether so I'm thinking T will be the same. Suits me while I'm still BF! He's been slow to take to solids but seems to be getting in to it now. He loves the veggies I make him and the baby custard I make from a powder. He's really not keen on the fruit and yoghurt packets (rafferty's garden) though - I think they're too sweet for him. Sometimes I'll mix the fruit in with some cereal and he doesn't mind that.
Sleep is still very hit and miss around here. He slept through from 8 pm until 5.30 am two nights in a row and then the following week was up every couple of hours. Day sleeps are a bit all over the place too. He will have a good morning sleep (couple of hours) if I'm at home but doing the kindy drop off really messes with the morning sleep. He will occasionally have another good afternoon sleep but often just cat naps until bed about 6.30 -7pm.
Has anyone noticed a bit of clinginess (is there such a word!?) lately? I've really noticed in the last few days that Toby wants to know I'm close and will get quite upset if he's unsure of a stranger or if I'm not within his sight.
thrilled - I sooooo hear you on being ready for DH to walk in the door at the end of the day. Some days I really envy him being able to leave in the morning, all dressed up with somewhere to go :lol:. My aim is to stay at home with Toby until he's at least 3 but I know I'm going to be very ready to get back to work (just a few hours a week) by then. I'd like to work just to earn enough to pay for a house cleaner!! I hate house work so much.
Cass - What a woman! Moving interstate, living out of a motel, starting a new job and all on your own with a 7 mth old baby in tow. I was freaking out about trying to move house within the same suburb! Must be so hard not having your DH there to unwind with at the end of the day and to share all Robert's special moments. Is he in the Navy?
I told DH that you were finding it less tiring to be going to work full-time than being at home and he didn't have much to say about that! I'm sure he thinks he's got it so much harder than I do :rolleyes: It's such a shame that he will never know how exhausting being a mum is.
Hope you settle i to your new place okay - what a relief to be out of the motel!!
LJ - great to hear from you! I often think of you and wonder how you're doing. Have you managed to get a break yet?
Phew - what a novel I've written. Better get moving - I'm taking DD to a new indoor playground for a play date this morning and I'm not dressed yet.
Have a great weekend :D
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Hi All.
I needed a good break from this thread :) I think its good sometimes to just clear your head and lay low..Which i did..I am all good ,everything is great now :)
Well Hannah update She has been sitting up by herself for months now, and has been crawling for a few weeks or more hhmmmm not sure what i think about that one yet,she pulls herself up on lounges in the bath cot etc and stands for a bit before falling over again.
She started saying 'mmmm' at 4 months then said mum and has been since then, the last few weeks she has been doing the 'da da's .. she may have said 'DAD' but sometimes its hard to hear .
We are doing BLS which we love, no mush food for the moo, she chews and loves to hold the food and explore,watch us eat and then copy,its just a great thing to doa nd we love it .We started off on mush but that just wasnt the way we wanted to go..Still full breastfeed going very well with that.
Very hard gums , did see some white tooth pop out but it went back in so no teeth out yet, still using me as a dummy , im still not being able to sleep much at night ,she sleeps in the bed with me mostly all night as there is no other way..Im not sure of a way to try and lessen the dummy boobie but am hoping she will stop soon as its been months now and my back and side are killing me from laying in the one position at night,along with my poor nipples!
She now can wave when we wave at her, she loves peek a boo ,she is a very happy baby..Except when she is over tired or teething..
Anywho hope everyone is doing great & those little beautiful babies of your's are doing marvalous (sp) lol
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I actually have a minute or two to give an update and let you know what we have been up to!
Well, the whole moving into the new home debacle is finally behind us. I can’t say we are truly settled as yet because I am still surrounded by boxes upon boxes upon boxes upon …… you get the picture. Last night I managed to sort out the pantry and put away the dreaded plastics plus empty two more boxes – where oh where did all this crap come from?
I have to get my sewing machine out on the weekend to take in a couple of skirts for work (out of necessity!!). My pre-pregnancy clothes don't fit! I really need to get some more tops suitable for BFing too - I put a dress on this morning, was all set to walk out the door and realised that I would have to strip at the childcare centre to give Robert a feed!!
Robert is settling really well into Childcare. The ladies there are just lovely and the whole carer to bubs ratio is very good. I wander down at 10.30-10.45ish and 2.30-2.45ish to give Robert a BF which is nice. I’ve put an electric pump on layby and know that I should get it out because we have some busy times coming up at work, but at the moment I’m enjoying taking 15 minutes twice a day to have a cuddle with my little man. Leaving it on layby is just my way of delaying the inevitable of giving him expressed milk hahaha! He seems all very nonplussed when I leave, but in the last couple of days when he sees me walk in, he starts this little bouncy thing and puts his hands up. It’s just too cute for words!
His latest trick is to try to stand up in the bath. He grabs the side and pulls himself up. I don’t encourage this at all – firstly for safety reasons (thank goodness for my crocodile bathmat purchase from Ikea) and secondly I don’t want him standing before daddy gets home! (yes, he's in the Navy) The little bugger is already getting up on all fours and rocking, I know that I most likely won’t be able to defer the crawling until Peter’s home but I definitely don’t want him walking! I don’t encourage it (or actively discourage it) so more than likely he will be up and running in record time! How long between getting up on all fours and rocking was it until Hannah crawled Shell??
He has two little bottom teeth and takes delight in biting me. I’ve tried the stern “NO” and taken the boob away, but he thinks it’s just the most hilarious thing ever. He actually bit one of the childcare workers fingers yesterday – she said she was holding him on her lap and he had hold of her hands and before she knew it, he had stuck one of her fingers in his mouth and bitten down! Hope he doesn’t get expelled!!
The last few nights have been great sleeping-wise. Up until now I’ve been running on empty. I think a combination of being dragged around from pillar to post and uncomfortable portacots had taken their toll – added to that a dose of a cold and sore throat and my little man was not giving me any rest (up every 1 to 2 hours each night is not good when you have to actually leave the house the next day and function!). A week ago I had a grumpy baby who had an even grumpier mum who wasn’t at all happy to chat with her little man in the wee hours of the morning….or the hour after that, or the one after that, or the one after that…. Yesterday and today he had some of his breakfast, ate all his lunch at childcare and last night he attacked his dinner again with gusto (and did the same the night before) so I hope that he’s finally feeling settled and we can get ourselves into a routine (or sorts). I have probably jinxed myself now and will be woken at hourly intervals again tonight!
I still worry all the time about not feeding him enough and whether or not I’m doing the right thing with just about everything but I managed to get DS1 to 15 so maybe I’m not doing so bad.
The more I think about it the more I think we should write down our experiences to put into a book of sorts. I think it’s a fabulous idea – I just wish I had one of those books that I can refer to: one with real advice from real mums, not something that a doctor/midwife/child health nurse wrote. Something that says it’s okay now and then to feed your kids weetbix for breakfast, lunch and dinner because you’re too tired/couldn’t be bothered to get them anything else!!
Shell - wonderful to have you back - I'm glad everythings going so well for you, Hannah sounds like she's doing really really well (ah, they're such a joy!) :) Also, the "no mush" thing is great. I must admit that Robert has mush for breakfast - his oats mixed with fruit puree - and he also gets pureed veges at the childcare centre. For dinner I still mash but not as finely. He loves cooled carrot sticks, spiral pasta and his favourite are teeny little vegemite sandwiches. He mostly just squishes it all around his mouth and between his fingers but some is going in! I usually give him a plate of food (on the weekend when I have more time) to "play and experiment" with... something to get his hands into and feel the textures and taste the different flavours.
Squidipa - two in nappies.... argh! Obviously you've still got your hands full! Chakotay looks gorgeous.
Jandals - we've had quite a few face plants too. I'm sure he thinks it's my fault! I get the most accusatory look.
Does anyone else have really really sore nipples?? Sorry if TMI but I swear this bub is chewing more than drinking and I'm constantly sore, it's like they are grazed. Or maybe it's his sucking "style" has changed???? I'm not giving him additional feeds so it's not that.
Well I better get back to work!
Hope everyone is doing really well
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Hey Ladies,
Well Lennox is still my lil baby. I think I just don't want him to grow up too quickly!
With DS1 he was crawling by 6 months,sitting up, eating banana, watermelon, the works. Lenny on the other hand can't sit up at all or crawl, tried the finger food and nearly had to call the ambulance cos he went purple chocking on the food. So we have moosh moosh and more moosh lol!
He is very happy with it.
He is such a happy baby. So cheerful and loving. I know that he is perfectly healthy and very alert, he is just taking his time with it all which I am totally happy with.
His big bro looks after him so well. He feeds him at night time and helps bath him.
The two boys are so very different.
So interesting to hear what your lil bubs are up to and what they like.
Cass my boobs are just on the mend. Len was pulling off the nipple when he was teething and did it so many times it cut a slice into it. Had a bit of a yucky wound going on for a bit..sorry TMI there.
Well off to bake a cake for a wedding and get ready for work tonight, don't start till 7pm but I have so much to get done b4 DH gets home and has to look after them.
