Hi Beautiful Mummy’s!

I have my cup of tea and mint slices and BB and am not going anywhere until I get a bloody post written LOL

Sorry I have been MIA, have been jumping on FB most nights, but working full time is HARD. I can’t wait until I go part time – its only about 6 weeks I think, then I’ll have Tuesdays working from home and Thursdays off so it will be so much easier, I can spend more quality time with Bailz and get a bit done around the house, catch up with some of my SAH Mummy’s again and keep up with our Baby Buddies Gang It’s been so long since I’ve had time to post, I feel like I can’t catch up, but here I go..........

Krystie – I am still so mega excited for you! You must be walking on air! What a great result from your cycle and your little girl is on her way, what a great feeling it is when you learn you are pregnant. How’s it all going? How are you feeling? Is it hard to keep it a secret? How does it feel to be having a girl? So many questions tehehehehehe My little brother (Simon) is only 18 months younger than me and we have a great relationship – he is Bailey’s godfather. I think the age gap is fine. Personally, I am not ready for another baby yet, but not too far away, maybe a year or so behind you. But your kids will benefit from growing up so close, and I hope it transfers into adulthood and they have a great relationship like I do with Simon. Thanks for the ice tip, I didn’t know that (have told Sean too) as we have these little ‘Boo Boo Buddies’ in the freezer for ouchies – shaped like a pirate and a truck LOL

Bridg – Sorry to hear you aren’t in a good place, I read your post in the BooHoo thread and I’m a little confused, what’s happening babe? If you need a shoulder to cry on, an ear to listen? Sending you LOADS of cyber hugs seeing I am so far away. You have my number, call any time, I can take calls at work. Hope things turn around for you beautiful Mumma, you are strong and wonderful and you can get through ANYTHING! Just look how strong you were when the twins were babies. Sending lots of love to you x x x

Cathy – Yay for Cara standing and saying Ta – this age is truly magical isn’t it? I swear that every day when I get home Bailey has a new skill to show me

Jacinta – How’s your pregnancy treating you? You must be close to finding out Pink or Blue! Hope you are feeling well. It seems everyone pops a lot earlier the 2nd time – those stomach muscles just ain’t what they used to be hehehehehe Jamie’s monkey cake looked awesome – Well done babe!

Jess – Happy birthday to Andy – have been keeping up with your photo’s on FB. Looks like both your boys are healthy, happy and just beautiful babe

Bella – tehehehee, I totally get the jealousy feeling when someone else announces their pregnancy. Although I haven’t felt it for a while, when I was TTC and not having much luck I would have EXTREME reactions to pregnancy announcements (well hidden of course) and although there was happiness for them, I was overwhelmed wishing it was me. I know you aren’t at the extreme desperate infertile state of mind I was in, but I get it nonetheless How exciting re having your 30th celebration this year – hope it is awesome and lots of fun! LOVE the new avi!

Emma – Hope you enjoyed celebrating Jade turning one, it must be so tough to have to share her with her day, thats a tough one babe. I admire you for doing it solo – you are doing a fab job, Jade is clearly thriving and watching your video’s of her, she is one switched on bubba! (and gorgeous too). I would have smacked your XP girlfriend in the face (OK I wouldn’t have but I would have wanted too!! LOL) What a cow!

Vic – How’s CJ going? Hope she is feeling better. Glad she is a happy patient though. My Mum was telling me that she would have us all sick (she had three babies in 4.5 years) and take us all to the doctors and we’ll all be running around like we’d never been sick – LOL, kids and babies are so resilient. I’m never sure whether to take Bailz to the Drs or not, sometimes I just wait it out till the next day and more often than not whatever seems to be bothering seems to end, but sounds like you know perfectly what you are doing. Re giving medicine, I haven’t used one myself, but saw this dummy shaped sucker medicine dispenser thing in the chemist – so basically baby sucks on it thinking it’s a dummy and sucks the medicine – not sure if CJ has a dummy, but it’s an idea. Bailey is a panadol wh0re so no problems here LOL. It seems childcare certainly exposes them to new germs, bugs etc, I’m preparing myself for it when Bailz starts in July. But yeah, like BG, I am also of the opinion that a “bit of dirt won’t hurt”, I think if you keep babies in an antiseptic ‘bubble’ you do nothing for their immune systems rather than make it rather fragile. Hope CJ is back to her normal self and good luck for the hip check this week

BG – Sounds like your headaches are a result of all the stuff whirling about in your head babe, you have a hell of a lot on your plate at the moment (and handling it all well might I add), but you can’t sustain that pressure for ever, and you need to take care of yourself (easier said than done though hey?) I totally understand the sleep deprivation and running on ‘auto’, hopefully things settle down babe! I hope you have an absolute blast for E’s birthday after working so hard – I cannot WAIT to see the pic’s Sounds like you are well prepared for E’s party with all the cooking and pre-prep! Nice work organised Mummy! Oh, and I loved watching the vid of E walking – what a clever poppet! We haven’t turned the car seat around yet either, hoping to keep it rear facing for a few more months too.

Kat – all good re the FB cull – TOTALLY understand! Love your ‘secret’ one though – what a shame FB wouldn’t let you have Secret Santosha!! Keep posting some pic’s of Ivy if you feel comfortable, would love to keep up with her progress

Nicole – glad Aarons birthday went well, and a massive YAY re the all clear re the GA1, what a wonderful birthday present. It’s crazy to have a one year old isn’t it – I can’t believe that it’s a whole year since I gave birth, I remember it all so clearly now. Don’t feel bad for not posting, we all know how busy we are and how hard it is to keep up with a little one to also look after.

Nicky – speaking of one year olds, how’s Allira going? Glad you all had fun at her birthday! How cute re her little feet – I have big feet (size 10) and Sean’s are size 11, Bailey hasn’t worn shoes yet so I don’t really know what size he is, I s’pose I should get him used to them for childcare – any suggestions of good first shoes? Ooooh, poor Lachie – how’s he going babe? Hope no concussion, what a terrible accident. Hope you are ok too, it’s always a bit of a scare isn’t it? I must measure Bailz height now that I can, still have no idea of his length/height.

Amy – I think you are entitled to a bit of “woe-is-me”, we all go through rough patches, and you are dead right with your advice to Vic, sleep deprivation does could the judgement. Hope your holiday is fab, despite your dread LOL. Cute re Phoebs waving – Bailz is waving, clapping and blowing kisses when we ask (MOST of the time LOL) and it’s so cute, my heart melts every time. When I put him to bed Sean does this peek-a-boo routine where he comes back into the bedroom a few time which Bailey adores, then he gives Bailey a kiss (to which Bailey puckers up for) and Bailz waves as Sean backs out of the room, it’s too cute, such a lovely little routine. I have size 10 klompers too – and my feet are wide which makes buying shoes difficult. I had trouble finding girly, pretty wedding shoes which didn't make my feet look like they were exploding out of the shoes way back when, now I buy sensible Mummy shoes LOL. Doh re the girls ganging up on you already – aren’t they supposed to wait until they are annoying teenagers? LOL How’s Phoebe’s tonsillitis?

AFU – Things are going pretty well here, Bailz sleep is almost back to normal (he generally sleeps till about midnightish, gets wakeful and then sleeps with us (cos we are too tired to spend half and hour getting him back to sleep, easier just to chuck him in between us), I think he was getting a bit tangled up in his grobag and was using the 2.5 tog one but have gone back to the 1.0 tog for now as I think he was getting a bit warm too. When it cools more I’ll revert to the heavier one. About 3 nights before the brace came off he slept from 7pm-530am in his cot which was WONDERFUL, then of course he was unsettled after the brace came off and his sleep went to crap so that was short lived, hopefully it will return. Sean has been able to get him to go to sleep unaided during the day which is amazing as he’s always been a baby who needed to be rocked to sleep, but Sean puts him in his cot when he starts to close his eyes a bit and Bailz now puts himself off to sleep – WOW! Hope that continues so he gets some decent sleep at child care. Having no brace is just awesome, life is so much easier and quicker (eg baths, nappy changes) and I love using the high chair, I just load up the high chair tray with Bailz food and he eats happily and feeds himself happily. His confidence has skyrocketed, when I used to get home from work he would cling to me until his bed time, now he gives me a hug and after 5 or so mins he goes back to playing happily – I can even leave the room and he doesn’t care – it’s awesome! He’s always been such a happy kid, but there is now this laid back happiness that I’ve never seen before, it’s like its gone up a notch and he laughs and giggles much more constantly than ever before. And although it’s great, it makes me mourn a little for what we all may have missed while he was in the brace, it seemed it took away his confidence and independence in hindsight. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining and am sooooo glad we are at this point, but it’s bittersweet, yeah?

I went to the Dr today as I’ve been getting regular migraines in the last 6 or so months and we’ve identified that its during ‘that time of the month’, We think it’s the pill, and when I am on the sugar pills the oestrogen drop is the culprit so the Dr suggested I go back on the mini pill which should avoid this. When I was on the mini pill after having Bailz my periods never went back to normal, but now that they have been regular for some time, hopefully they will stay that way. Hopefully I will stop using contraception again sometime after Christmas but for now, hopefully this will help as the migraines I have been having have been quite debilitating (e.g. I need to go to bed and stay there until it passes). Other than that, just have been busy with work and life. As I said at the top of my post, I cant wait until I go part time, working 5 days straight is tough and I miss my baby desperately.

Hope you are all well, and to all the bubba’s about to turn one, hope you all have wonderful 1st Birthdays
Lots of love
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