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hi everyone well i know it has been a long time since i have been on here so much has happened since i was last on here and have just recently got the net back on i am not sure if you all remeber but i have May who is now 14 months old.
our 2 year old was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 6 months ago and that has been a big learning curve for us all but we are getting there with it all that is half the reason i havent been around. alot of my time goes into that and we just needed time to get our heads around all of that stuff but now we are getting it all under control.
i will have to read back and try catch up abit what are everyones little ones up to at the moment?
may is walking now just took off a few weeks ago
she has 7 teeth at the minute but having a terrible time at the moment cutting another set of molars(not alot of sleep going on here at the moment)
how is everyones little ones sleeping?
anyway i have to run right now will pop back tommorrow sorry again for the sudden disapearence.
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Hi Cap - of course you are remembered. Wow, diabetes - that would be a learnign curve!its difficult enough as an adult so I cant imagine all that is involved with an infant.
We have Zenith who is 14 1/2mths old. He is mostly walking but will still do his version of a crawl to get somewhere fast. He has his two front bottom teeth, four front top teeth and four molars - they came through in two weeks - 2 wks of hell!! lol
Good to see you back xo
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Hi All
Cap - Welcome back. I can only imagine how hard it must be dealing with a little one with diabetes. We hav Elijah who is 14 and a half months also - he is currently teething with his molars - I think maybe 2 have cut thru the gum, so I completely understnad the lack of sleep :( He sleeps well most nights, but when he's teething, its been quite bad.
So we have had a very interesting week. I have 1 child with chicken pox, Elijah and Cooper were sick too but fortunately didn't get the chicken pox..which is strange because its highly contagious. Altho I'm pretty sure Cooper was immunized for it. Elijah had antibiotics, so that helped, but he is still teething, so its been rough...lol. My sister was just down for 4 days, 2 of those days were spent at dreamworld, which is good, but very tiring. So I took Jhye to dreamworld while he has chciken pox (but don't worry, he is past the contagious stage now) - his pox are scabby and going away now. He still can't go to school, so he has had 1 week so far, and it'll prolly be another week or so before he can go back, apparently they are going around the school, but its good to get the pox out of the way...I remember having it when I was younger. And apparently its worse for adults.
Ok well I am going to have a nap as I didn't sleep very well last night, not sure why but I am extremely tired today.
Marni - Good news that you're booked into the hospital too :D hopefully once its done it'll be the end of antibiotics :)
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Hi Cap!! That must be so scary with your older daughter! I hope that you have all adapted well and it is just a part of your daily routine now. I had it while pregnant and couldn't imagine having it all the time. :(
Sleepy - That sucks about the chicken pox - but surprising that Elijah didn't get it? It is really contagious but I think the incubation period is about 2 weeks so it could still be coming.
Tina - Hi!!!
Well we have had a crappy few days. I am weaning!! We are on day 3 with no milk now and she is not happy but we are getting there. We have lots of wake ups at night with 4 hours being the longest screaming time - I am hoping that it is only a few more days and she will move on. She still wont drink cows milk but I am just giving her other dairy to compensate.
Hope everyone is having a good start to the week!
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i had chicken pox at 21...NOT FUN!!
Did you do a few feeds cold turkey or wean a feed at a time Marni? Zen still goes a bit ape at my chest if he happens to notice them but we've turned it into a game that he cant get mummies boobies lol...then I get him milk or something else and he is fine.
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Phoebe slept through!!!!!! Except for a minute of grizzle at ten to five she didn't get up until just before six!!!! I really hope that this continues!!!
Tina - I went cold turkey. This baby wasn't giving it up any other way. :) She still wont drink milk but I replace with food and she is happy to drink water.
How is everyone else?
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Morning everyone
Hi Cap - welcome back, wow what a lot to cope with having DD1 with diabetes
Marni - YAY on the weaning and P sleeping through, how long now until her ENT appointment?
Sleepy - Chicken pox yuck, hope your guys are on the mend. I had it at 15 and it was pretty bad. The 18month needles are chickenpox and I'm kinda of in 2 minds whether to get it done or chance it her getting it naturally.
Tina - hello :)
Well I've given up trying to wean the day nap feed until DH is home to help out settle her, I had a bit of a meltdown the other day and figure my sanity is worth more than a 5min BF. Apart from that she is doing ok, we have the 2 top molars through and 2 almost through at the bottom, plus a top eye tooth about to break through too BUT best of all she sleep through last night 7 till 7, though I had to get up at 4 and yell at the dog coz she was going mental at something lol.
Anyone have a child that loves going to bed at night?? By 7pm she is usually bathed and running around in her PJ's and not long after In the Night Garden Finishes and Hoot says good night she will come up to me or stand in middle of room and say ta ta or night night which means she's ready for bed and off we go.......just wish she'd stay asleep lol though she has been going 9-10hours so can't complain too much.
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Phoenix - If you are ready to wean then I say wait til you have DH home to help and go cold turkey. We had 3 nights of hell and then it was all good. Come to think of it she hasn't even tried to pull my top down for a couple of days and we are now on day 9 so I think we are all good here! I didn't let her scream either, I just kept cuddling and would offer water (which she threw away) and rocking and talking and cuddling etc. Eventually she went to sleep! As for going to bed, she wants to but once we are in bed protests for a bit!
Phoebe has slept through 3 nights now! She woke once last night but we were out for dinner and she didn't get to bed til like 10 so was way out of routine. Hopefully she is back to sleeping tonight though.
Hope everyone had a great weekend :)
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sleeping - Zen generally sleeps 8-7 with a 5minute grizzle at about 12.30am, takes me no time at all to resettle so its pretty good!
weaning - Zen was on 3 feeds a day and I cut out the midday feed, replaced by milk and lunch, then 1week later cut out his morning feed, replaced by breakfast and the week after cut out the last feed which was a night feed. We needed to replace it with a bottle of milk but its been really easy for us!
Marni - good you have your appt, hopefully it can all get fixed up soon
AFM: Zen has done the most poohs in the last 2 days ever! it was 5 yesterday, 2 so far today. They are gross and runny. Not sure if he has an upset tummy or if its two bottom teeth. He didnt get poohs with any of his other teeth :/
went to a hens night saturday night, it was really obvious I havent drank in ages as I ended up incredibly sick! I was on water during the night and stuff like that but my belly was VERY cranky at me the next morning!
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Hi everyone!!! It's been so quiet in here. Hope everyone is well and just busy!
Jleigh - How is work going? Is Bos getting better with you not around?
Phoenix - How is day weaning going?
Sleepy - How is E and his spots?
Tina - You will just have to drink more often, lol!!
Cap - Hope everything is going smoothly!
We are ok here, just for something different Phoebe has another ear infection!! (note the sarcasm!) Bring on Sept 19, I so hope the grommits help. Just in the last 5 days I have spent $60 in antibiotics - plus I have had to get nurofen and panadol. Yesterday she started breathing really heavy to, not struggling but it just seemed to be some effort. I hope it doesn't get any worse. As for me all my forms to begin study have been sent so I am just waiting for the course to get to me. I am excited but scared too, I haven't done study in years! Well I should start on washing, I have heaps and have to use the dryer so it is going to take forever!
Have a great day!
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Woah, has it really been that long since I've been on here?? Oops....:reface:
Cap - Great to hear from you again. May sounds like she's doing well. Sorry to hear about your 2yo - how are you all handling it? A friend's son was diagnosed at age 11 and he's had a real tough time getting used to it. Four years later, he's a typical teen who doesn't manage himself at all well and just wants to do what everyone else is doing, so regularly has hypos etc. Hopefully it'll be second nature to your little one and she won't feel so hard done by.
Marni - Have you heard back about your study yet? When do you start? How's Phoebe? Only a few more weeks to go until you'll all hopefully get some relief! Work is going really well. B is fine without me while I am at work cos he has Mum, but not so good when we go out or there are other kids around. I couldn't even leave him for 5 mins to get a cuppa last week. He's a lot more independent at home now, just likes to keep me in his sights.
Tina - Were the poos due to teething do you think? Mucousy poos are apparently a common sign, and B often gets runny ones when he's teething. I had chicken pox at 21 too, btw! ;)
Phoenix - Any progress with the weaning?! B loves bed time, goes down really easily 99% of the time. He gets two bedtime stories, but some nights will walk to his bedroom door and point after the first book if he's tired! He waves and says 'nigh nigh' if I say it first too - pretty cute! ;)
Sleepy - Is everyone over their chicken pox? Had they been vaccinated? I've heard lots of people get it anyway, but I'll still vaccinate B as it usually means if they do get it, it'll be much milder.
AFM - B is teething (gee, when are they not?) so is grizzly, clingy, with a runny nose and a bit drooly too. His gums are really red top and bottom so we're expecting lots of eye teeth. He keeps pointing to his gums and pulling faces or grizzling, poor little dude. Sleep is still awesome though, so I can't complain. :D
Does anyone else's little person (what do you call them? I'm still in denial that he's a toddler, lol!) grab your hand and drag you around to 'show' you stuff? B does it constantly, only he usually doesn't have anything to actually show me!
Any more talking? B tries sometimes, and has learned some more sounds (t-ssss for cheese, ac for quack, mow for meow, mmmmm for moo and moon and a few others, plus he makes a drill sound thanks to DH's laundry reno!) but not much in the way of actual words.
Oh, I am an Auntie too, as of last week! :dance: I have a gorgeous little niece!
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Do the Brissie/Coast girls want to do a day at Queens park Ipswich? The (yes, I am going to say it) TODDLERS can play in the park plus we can check out the free zoo there and we can take our own food so its really only a petrol cost involved.
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poking my nose in to say Hi!
Im not online as much as I used to be, but will try and be sociable :)
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Hi Everyone - Sorry I haven't been online much lately, been super busy.
So chicken pox - Complete nightmare adn do not wish that on anybody - especially a little 1 year old bubba :( I have had 4 weeks stuck at home and its driving me batty, but E is doing much better now, he still has the spots (be it faded and completely not infectious) and a few scabs, but in general, health wise he is doing better.
Tina - That sounds absolutely great - when the rain stops :) Just let me know when and I'll be there :D
E isn't really talking yet - he can say hello and dadda and mum, but still nothing else, sometimes I think I hear words, but prolly not lol. He gets into everything, loves running around the backyard and playing with his brothers, so he stays pretty busy..lol.
Well I will be back soon, have to go change E's bum lol.............
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Tina - Ipswich is a bit far for a day trip so you can count me out. Hope you guys all have fun tho. I love Queens Park - will have to remember to take B there one day!
Trish - Hi!!! ;)
Sleepy - I'll bet you've been super busy! Glad to hear E's spots are going. B loves being in the back yard too, though he has no-one to run around with! Mummy does some weeding and he pushes the broom (yep!!) around or throws the bark out of the garden beds, lol!
We filled up B's sandpit on the weekend but he's only been in it once so far (and loved, loved, loved it!). Hoping the weather stays ok this arvo and he can have a quick play when he wakes up. We are off for our first dentist's visit this arvo. :D I'm thinking it'll be pretty quick 'cos I doubt the dentist will even be able to get a look in his mouth! B is great at opening his mouth when we ask, but not at actually showing us inside, lol! I'm just hoping I don't need any fillings....
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Hi everyone, this is third attempt at trying to post - I've lost the other two, not very happy :(
I've been slack and reading but not posting - haven't really had much to say lol
Sleepy - glad to hear E is finally getting over his chickenpox, I wasn't going to bother getting A vaxxed for chicken pox but I've now changed my mind.
Marni - poor P with her double ear infection, hope she's over it now and not long to go until her ENT appt. Hope they can get her booked in quickly to get her grommits done.
Jleigh - I hear you on the teething, just when molars (which took their sweet time) have finally broken through it looks like we have eye teeth starting to come through.
A big hello to Tina, Cap & Trish and everyone else.
Not too much going on here, we have day nap weaned. I had given up to save my own sanity while DH was at work but he's been looking after her while I've been working and last week I came home to a sleeping baby and we've pretty much gone from there. Sometimes she asks for "b**bies"and as cute as it is to hear her say it I say it, I just tell her no time for milk or into bed...she drinks her bit of milk and then goes down without too much fuss. The other morning she didn't even have her morning one but night feed will be around for a while longer I think, I enjoy that one and she's not going to give that up to easily :D
Talking - she doesn't stop!!!! Alot of it is jibberish but there are now quite a few understandable words and she seems to be coming out with more all the time - she says dink (drink), hot, yummy (for food), out (she gets told that often enough lol) and her all time favourite NO. The past couple of weeks her ability to make herself understood has improved so her high pitched squeeling tantrums have lessened, she'll now answer no to everything I point out or ask until I get to what she wants and she goes silent as she can't say yes lol.
oh and we had our first haircut yesterday, she looks way to grown up with a fringe :(
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Phoenix - Awww, a fringe! That IS grown up! First haircut is on my to do list still....
The 'no' thing is pretty cute (for an outsider that is ;)), isn't it? One of the boys in mum's group is doing that, think it's driving his mum crazy!! :roll eyes: B doesn't seem to be saying as much as lots of the other kids, but he definitely understands more than a lot of them!! He also spends a heck of a lot of time pointing to things over and over so I'll say them so I'm thinking he's just listening and waiting. Poor DH is jealous that other people's babies are talking more than B!!! It's all competition with men, isn't it??
And well done with the day nap weaning!
We had to cancel our dentist appt as DH's car broke down and I had to drive to Brissy to get him! We're on for next Tues though....
What has everyone planned for Father's Day? We are supposed to be getting together with my family, not sure when or where though! DH is getting a (second hand) toddler bike seat for his bike so that he and B can ride together! Mind you, he hasn't touched his bike for over 4 years so it's covered in dust and dirt and has flat tyres and goodness knows what else wrong with it, lol!
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we are having a picnic at the beach is sunday is nice enough :dance:
