Babies Born ~ March 16th-31st 2009 #6

Any progress with food PRMG? You know those food faces I think it's a woolies ad, where the kid makes a face out of tomato, cheese, sprouts, etc. Would something like that appeal? Or be fun to make and then just sit there? DD loves strips of cucumber, capsicum and cheese as a snack. Would she try it with a dip or something that has the same novelty factor? I dunno, you've probably tried pretty much everything!

How are you going with names for Bambi Mo? Not long to go now :) Did you go over with the girls or did they come early?

Early 2wks & 1wk Fx crossed i go early again, I'm starting to feel very over it.

Will keep my fingers crossed for you :) It will be horrible if you do go over, especially if you're mentally prepared to go early.

At this very moment if i hit 40wks i'm asking to be induced lol
I'm so very over it, my back is sore all the time, i get no sleep as Kodi is back to co-sleeping, even Maddi is waking up during the night wanting to come into bed.
I know it's because of the baby but it doesn't make it any less annoying.
I'm huge & i hate to think of how much more weight i'll put on over the next few weeks, she's transverse again & it hurt every time she moves & i swear she will be 10lbs she feels pretty big & really long.

Enough from me, hows your pregnancy going?

FW - I made her a face with cherry tomato eyes, cheese nose, and cucumber mouth. She looked at it, said "Happy" and asked to leave the table! LOL! DH is working on happy and sad faces with tomato sauce, and it's sort of working. If she has mashed potato and decides she doesn't want it, he'll do a sauce face on it and then she'll eat it. But if its something she isn't familiar with, she'll just eat the sauce! We'll just keep trying different things. Last night she devoured some cous cous and it had some corn through it. She didn't pick the corn out, so bit of a bonus there!

Mo - I hope Bambi doesn't give you too much more trouble and moves into a position where you're comfortable. The last weeks are rough, I remember that all too well :hug:

I made the most of the nice weather yesterday and took DD to the zoo again. She kindly stacked on two tantrums for me. Lovely.

Mo - You definately sound over it! The last 2 months were definitely the worst for me. My pregnancy is going well, got to hear the heartbeat for the first time the other day, not having an early scan with this bub though. I'm 14 weeks this week. I think time is going to fly especially with me studying and having DD to run around after.

PRMG - We have been known to sing the "Try it you'll like if" song from Yo Gabba Gabba at meal times :) It's amazing what a little bit of sauce or gravy can do sometimes. Sounds like a great day out at the zoo, bummer about the tantrums.

Been so busy lately! How is everyone?

So much has been happening, DD is on the path to speech therapy with suspected Speech Dyspraxia. She had a hearing test this morning which went well, she does have waxy ears but can hear perfectly so that's one thing ticked off the list. I was curious how they would test it and when she started with "we will try this test but it usually isn't something they can follow till 4" I was worried but DD followed the instructions perfectly and the tester was suitably impressed, wanted to get out the video to record her to show her students an example so left feeling very chuffed with my cluey little lady, even if she can't express herself orally yet, she can comprehend pretty complex things and she is so expressive physically. She has been getting some new words but as with most children who have SD, they are missing constanants, I'm still impressed as I never even thought she would get this far, let alone before we started the therapy although as her Dad had SD as a child also I've been implemented some of the strategies his Mum was taught to assist him and it seems to be helping. She can now say 'up' completely clearly, I think I almost cry everytime she does it. She also says 'poppa' in its entirety. Then her other words are 'uck' for truck, duck and yuck; 'ock' for sock etc. I'm starting to lose track of all the words she is attempting because she seems to be trying more and more everyday which is what really matters I think, that she keeps trying.

We moved in with DP and have been here almost 2 weeks now. Everyone has settled in so much better than I ever expected and we haven't had any sleep issues etc. She is still in the bedroom with us but sleeps through most nights, if not she just climbs in with us around 4-5am. She also fell asleep without a breastfeed for the first time ever when I was around (does so when she stays with my parents or her Dad's) last week, still can't believe that happened. Her interest in breastfeeding does seem to be fading slightly but her interest in trying new foods has skyrocketed, I'm still shocked at half the things she eats now. I'm still debating whether to slightly encourage weaning because I think it is a bit like now or never (well, not for a while) so there is a bit of a gap before the baby arrives.

I had my first Ob appointment last week too (they said I was such an easy patient only coming in for half the pregnancy haha) and everything is going well; good heart beat and the Ob felt a lot of kicks! This one seems pretty strong, have been feeling movement from the outside for over 3 weeks now! Haven't put on any weight (still hovering around 55kgs) but they didn't seem concerned, I was a little. The Ob was super enthusiastic about my breastfeeding and asked if I was planning to continue, I said I wasn't sure yet and just seeing how it went and she got me some information about tandom feeding, I was impressed. The midwife I saw (it is a private group pracitse of Obs/Midwives) wasn't as much of a fan and said something like "well, the WHO do say 2yrs I suppose" before grilling me about my diet... which made me even more concerned about the weight thing! I remember not really warming to this particular midwife last time although when she saw me in the waiting room she was mentioned how nice it was to see a familiar face, seemed odd she would remember me but maybe she had just looked at my file or something!

What else? Umm think that is mostly all that is going on and thank goodness for this new autosave because my computer crashed right as I was finishing up this post but hooray, all here when I got back :)

Hope everyone is going well, sorry for the long all about me post, time to go back and catch up on everyone else's news :hug:

JF nice to hear from you, glad things have improved for you :D

JF - I'm really glad things are going smoothly again with you and DP. Hope your pregnancy continues to go well :hug:

DD is starting to come along in leaps and bounds with food, thank goodness. She still isn't eating a lot of different things, but she's trying everything. The blueberries last week were obviously a good sign! We're still working on TT, and I'm trying not to get frustrated with it all. I know if she could just wee once in the potty or toilet, then we'd be right. It's just getting her to do it that first time.

I'm feeling a bit mixed ATM. Yesterday, I cleaned out DD's wardrobe, taking every baby thing out and putting it all in our spare room. I opened a box that I thought had leftover newborn nappies in it, and found her two leg braces and promptly burst into tears. Told myself off, closed the box and put it in the spare room. It's my birthday next week, turning 32. When I had DD, I sort of mentally figured we'd have two by the time I was 32. I know it doesn't mean anything, but it doesn't help the thoughts disappear. I'm feeling mostly positive, keeping smiling and enjoying the warm weather, but I'd like to have that baby bump sometime soon :)

Bambi's coming home outfit is finally complete!
I picked up her pinny & nappy, her beanie is finished & just waiting to be posted.
Now all i need is her but i'm happy to wait a few more weeks till she is full termed baked :D

:hug: MG, i have everything crossed that we will hear a PA from you very soon :)

hi y'all

a quick hello, even though i should be writing a paper, that's due next week. (did i mention that i'm studying child development this semester, and writing a paper on the relationship between marketing of food and beverages and childhood obesity - if anyone feels like proof-reading, give me a shout :D)

@jellyfish - not to make light of the fact that your daughter went to see a speech pathologist but sometimes i wonder if my son has speech development problems too. i trust that he is following his own developmental curve and given that he's bilingual, he's not saying a lot in either language (swedish or english)

next week it's DS2's christening, and somehow the guest list has blown out to 100 people. we are a bit skint at the moment, so i have to do the baking (last time we bought cakes).... cross your fingers that i don't put on 10kg after this little exercise. i have been trying different recipes during the past week - dangerous!!

ok, time to get taste testing (again!)

JF - Hi! That’s great that you’ve sorted things out with DP and you guys have settled in well. Good luck with the speech therapy. It’s good that you already have some strategies to help.

PRMG - Yay for trying new foods! We kinda been half hearted with the toilet training. I think it’s a fine line between forcing them to do something they don’t want to do and actively assisting. Some of the cloth nappies aren’t fitting very well anymore and I don’t really want to keep buying disposables so maybe ditching the nappies altogether will work for us. Would have to get DD sleeping in her own bed for that though, I don’t want to wake up in a wet patch. Happy Birthday for next week :hug: fingers crossed that you will have a baby in your arms by your next b’day!

Cheshire - The beanie is gorgeous Mo, can’t wait to see a picture of Bambi in her outfit :) Hopefully not too long now! Did you end up needing to buy much stuff for her after cleaning out the things that got wet in your garage?

Hi Tanya, good to hear from you. I am studying at the moment as well, it must be difficult with a toddler and a baby. Hope the christening goes well, good luck with the cake

Just coming in so say hi! We're still going really well with food, very excited about that :happydance:

Mo - Not long now!!!! How are you feeling? Bambi's outfit is really cute, can't wait to see a pic of her wearing it.

FW - Have you settled in to your place now? How's everything going?

JF - Hope DD has some progress with speech therapy. How's DP?

Tanya - How did the christening go?

And.....drum roll.......


MASSIVE CONGRATS TO ~CHESHIRE~ AND KELLBELL ON YOUR RECENT WEDDINGS!!!! WHOOP!!!!!

Congrats to Mo and Kell!!

hi y'all

just a quick hello to report that the christening went well, it was a lovely day.

i am suffering a little paranoia, maybe you girls can help me with. Before I left Sweden for Australia in December 2009 I was bullied by a mother in my english-speaking mothers group. We were initially friends and everything was fine, then she started gossiping about me and being really *****y. in the end, i left the group and all the people connected to her, which was obviously made easier by moving to Australia. now I am back and the fallout kinda ocntinues. I have never confronted her or mentioned anything to anyone I suspected she was talking to. But I think she has possibly started up again, or at the very least, one of my friends made an alluding comment the other day where i suspect she might have been in contact with the bully.

i just wish this would all go away, and i know at the end of the day, i'm gonna hafta stop ignoring it and start standing up for myself. this is all. (thanks for listening, i just needed to vent)

have a great day
ps - congrats chesire and kellbell on your weddings. please write and let us know how everything went (once all the kraziness has died down!)

Thanks Ladies :)
All going well here, nothing much to report.

Hope everyone else is doing ok :D

Hi Girls!

PRMG - Yay for progress with food! That is awesome. We are all settled in, not unpacked, but settled :)

Tanya - You already know that you need to stand up for yourself. Even if you want to avoid confrontation with this woman you can still clear up what she has been saying about you to your other friends. Sounds like a horrible situation to be in :hug:

How are you feeling Mo? Do you think Bambi is going to come soon? I hope the girls are being good for you and Bambi doesn't make you wait too much longer :)

Hi SP and Kell and JF!

AFM - It's been a busy last few weeks with 2 big assignments due, then this week catching up with people that I hadn't seen for ages because I'd been studying so much. I have my first scan next week, didn't do an early one, hopefully we'll be able to find out whether we're having a boy or girl. DD is being difficult, I'm not sure if it's the terrible two's starting late or the ferocious threes starting early! Day sleeps have been dropped which is the main problem, adjusting the evening routine to get her to bed earlier. Even when she has been awake all day she still doesn't want to go to bed and will tell us that she isn't tired. I went out for dinner the other night and she was still awake at 10pm despite DF's efforts. She has also decided that she doesn't want to wear a nappy but won't wear undies or training pants or sit on the toilet and did a poo in the lounge room yesterday. At least it was solid and easy to clean up, haha.

BA is up - CONGRATULATIONS MO!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Bec x

Yep Bambi is here but still no name.
Had a very quick & intense labour, Bambi had the cord wrapped tightly around her neck & came out blue and not crying.
Worse moment ever, took everything i had & more to not keep pushing when all my body wanted to do was push.
Also lost around 1.5 litres of blood & almost ended up in surgery but thankfully my loss started to slow.
Feeling very sore & my tummy is all bruised & swollen from the PPH.
We are both good now tho & that is all that matters.
We aren't going back for anymore, this labour was so hard on my body & i don't think i'd cope well with another birth like this.

Congratulations again Mo! She is gorgeous! I don't blame you for not wanting to go back for more, sounds like it was a bit scary.

Hope you are enjoying your baby snuggles and resting up and that Maddi has a wonderful b'day :)

Hope you have a speedy recovery, Mo and congrats again. She's absolutely beautiful. If I wasn't clucky enough before! Sheesh!!!!!!

Bambi is doing so well, she is just a dream baby at the moment, i was afraid we wouldn't bond after her birth but if anything it made me much more grateful.

Both older girls are doing well, l'm so bored at home i can't do much as when i over do it my bleeding gets worse & i get some horrible tummy cramps.
The girls have been pretty good about it, which is surprising!

Hope you're starting to get your energy back Mo!

I'm going to take a bit of a break from BB, been spending way too much time on here. Will see how I go, might have to resort to getting banned for a couple of weeks.

I see your still around FW lol
Hope you enjoy your break x

Hope you feel better soon, Mo. Bambi is just gorgeous.

FW - You get so caught up in BB sometimes don't you?! Enjoy your break :)

Nothing much from me. Going through the motions.

Thanks Pak, she is pretty cute & did ou see the picture on FB.
Doesn't she look too cute in it, i want to get that one put on a canvas.

Hope your doing ok x

Mo, I've been looking at all the pics on FB of her. She is beautiful. Three gorgeous girls, lucky thing!

I am very lucky but i'm sure once they hit their teenage years i wont feel so lucky.
Can you imagine the household with 3 PMSing teenage girls lol

Family are really starting to annoy me, if one more person gives tells us that Phil needs to have the snip before i fall pregnant again i will scream.
Seriously it's no ones business but ours if we have anymore kids & when did it become ok for people to start dictating how many kids a couple should have.
We already decided we wont have anymore & they all know this so why do the feel need to bring it up every bloody time they see us!

Ok vent over lol

Ugh, that would drive me mental too. It's the equivalent of family members asking if there's going to be any more kids. One of my aunties made a FB comment to me asking me if I'd hurry up and have another. The she started on SIL. SIL's been trying for another for over two years (and is having fertility treatments) and you know my history. Just because we don't broadcast what's going on with every inch of our lives doesn't mean that things are rosy all the time.

Now look what you made me do, Mo.....vent of my own!!!:ROFL:

I think if you have 3 PMSing teens, Phil might be absent! You might be lucky and have it all go smoothly. Got my fingers crossed already for you :lol:

Haha Mo, can't keep me away for very long :) I just had to get my assignment finished and it's almost done, I am an awesome procrastinator! Only 1 more assignment to go after this one and 1 exam then I'll be finished my first semester. I love that pic of Bambi, how did you get her to stay in that pose? The thought of more than 1 teenage girl in the house scares my DF, I reckon it's half of the reason why he wants a boy.

Don't you wish you could tell your family to bugger off? You're both adults capable of making your own decisions and taking care of your own birth control!

Same to your auntie PRMG! And especially to do it on facebook! That really annoys me. I changed my facebook settings recently so that only I can see what people have written on my wall, at least I think that's how it works, haven't really tested it out yet. I'm too lazy to do a cull of my friends list so set up a list of people who I want to see more private stuff like my scan pic, etc.

:rofl: It's soooo annoying & not to mention rude.
It's even more annoying when people bring up the obvious like "you can't have a 4th because they wouldn't fit in your car" Well duh!!!!
Or "you'll need a bigger house" As if we don't already know that.
Man people can be so stupid!!!!

Pak i'll need all the fxing i can get, if my girls are anything like me, then i feel very sorry me lol

FW i just checked your FB & yep can't see anything but the photo's you post :D
Yay for being almost dine with your first semester.
That pose is actually 2 pictures put together as 1. So it gives off the illusion of her holding herself up. Took ages to get the shots, every-time we took one pic she would wake up & then we have to try again.
It was so worth it tho, it turned beautifully :D

Ahhh, makes sense now. I was trying to figure out how her hands were holding up her head defying gravity in the process.

We're heading to Brisbane this weekend for a wedding. Not looking forward to a 3 hr drive and 1 1/2 hour flight, hopefully DD is well behaved. We're going to take her to southbank to go on the ferris wheel thing again. She still talks about it all the time even though it was 6 months ago that she went on it for the first time. Might do the museum again too, I wore the shirt that I wore there 6 months ago the other day, hadn't worn it since then - DD says to me, "mummy, that's the shirt you wore to the triceratops" :) she has such a good memory, better than mine especially at the moment

FW - My DH just did the same for his settings. I just deleted the comments from FB that she wrote and then sent her a PM outlining what was going on. She's thankfully left it alone since. Good luck with your exam!

Mo - my mum reckons I wasn't bad as a teen, wasn't bad with PMS etc. So fingers crossed DD will be the same. I get a bit snaky now, but not so much moody, just get over the lack of help I get around the house, and it usually coincides with AF's arrival. But meh, I figure a kick up DH's bum every now and then to pull his finger out isn't going to hurt him. :ROFL: I do everything around here, so he should help!

I wasn't bad with the PMSing but according to my mum i was always a Itch with a capital B lol
When i look back i wasn't a dream teenager, but i made up for it when she got sick :D

That picture is absolutely adorable Mo! Interesting to hear how it was done, turned out brilliant!

Good to hear from people, been a bit quiet in here! I'm not really fitting in much with my belly buddies, I don't think I'm intentionally being left out or anything and they are all nice people but just don't feel comfortable posting in there so haven't been. Guessing the baby will be early anyway so might just hijack into the December bubs when the time comes and see if I mesh better there or just bore you all with my updates!

27 weeks yesterday, doing my GTT this week! Also had a blood test last week and everything is perfect, so why am I so tired? My Ob is even more comforting than I remember, he was disappointed I hadn't brought Imogen (hadn't seen him yet this pregnancy as he was on holidays so was seeing one of his colleagues) in so he could see her again (hasn't since she was a newborn) and was encouraging me to bring her next time by explaining their large array of toys and promising to keep the official stuff short, feel really comfortable with him and feeling super happy with my decision to go back there, even if going Private is so expensive... definitely my last baby and the familiarity is helping my anxiety a lot so figure that is worth a lot.

DD is going well, we have her next speech appointment next week where she gets her official assesment. I'm nervous but pretty ready to hear the words, I'm convinced it is speech dyspraxia already considering her Dad's history and the symptoms. Whatever it is or isn't I'm looking forward to starting the next part of the journey where we can help overcome it. She is saying more words but very few are complete, it is something though.

Me and DP and family life is going perfectly to be honest, part of me is still a little aprehensive and waiting to wake up from the dream but I guess maybe things are really for real now and he had his dramatic wake up call. Been living here 2 months, not sure how long it will take before I can completely relax... maybe Christmas. Thinking of that weekend (and the four days of silence) can still reduce me to tears instantly... I felt so humiliated, I still do a little (as well as heartbroken, alone, stupid, insulted, abandoned, confused etc etc haha) and it has been hard to resolve all of it in my mind... even though part of me does understand too, it was handled horribly.

Facebook aaaah. DP's parents added me, I'm pretty closed on mine (under 50 friends) and didn't really want to accept but felt obligated too. They still have no apologized or acknowledge in anyway how they treated me. I have no respect for them. They insist on liking or commenting on everything I post or write though, it feels very fake.

My parents are overseas and I really miss them, only a bit over a week to go.

FW - awesome to hear you're almost done with your first semester! We are at Southbank almost every weekend lately, they have this water area for toddlers that is brilliant, DD loves it and it has been so hot recently. Most of the museum is closed off at the moment, they are preparing for renovations and closing down for a couple of months soon so there wasn't a lot to see when we walked through a few weeks back, DD loves the big turtles though!

Yay my new avi is uploaded :D

JF i'm glad your guys are doing well now & of course your still upset. It was really unfair of them to treat you like that :hug:
If it does make you feel any better,about 2yrs before we had Maddi, Phil did the same kinda thing. I had to call my mum to come get me at 10pm because he decided that he just didn't want to be with me. Completely out of the blue, we didn't speak for about a week.
Took awhile for me to forgive & forget but we got there & if anything it made us stronger & 6yrs later we have 3 girls & are happily married.
Hang in there & let yourself be upset don't let it build up.
More :hug:

Thanks Mo, it does help hearing that you've come out the other side of something similar although I'm sorry you had to go through the same sort of emotions, not fun! We talk about it when it is on my mind, sometimes we joke about it, sometimes we cry together... I can tell he does feel horrible over it, I'm confident it isn't something I need to worry about happening again but you know, bit of a blow to the self-esteem I guess.

:hug: JF

Been awhile since anyone has posted so thought i'd give us a bump.

Not much happening here, Bambi is doing really well & getting so big.
She is already more alert & smiling. I can't believe she is almost 5wks old already :O
Maddi & Kodi are doing well, both girls have been sick but are getting better.

Hope everyone is well :D

DD slept in her own bed last night.....all night! She didn't wake up once :happydance:

That's my excitement for the day :lol:

We went camping last weekend, she loved it. We went to Lake Eildon and we got her a fishing rod. Took the rod apart and gave her the base and she copied her daddy and pretended she was fishing (well...he was seriously fishing but anyway!). She just strode into the water and laughed her head off. Her confidence in water has soared so time for some swimming lessons.

Hope everyone is well.