Babies Born ~ November 16th-30th 2009 #5

Hi Girls - yay for Archie! That's so cute, put up pics on FB Kymmy :clap: I can see white in Amelia's mouth so I don't think we're far behind you.

Hi Mel - I'm the same as you, not getting on as much, my house is looking atrocious so thought I'd best spend more time tidying up when Millie is asleep. That hour or so goes so fast!

Hi Suz - that's so lovely of your stepdad and I bet you are looking scrumptious :p You need to put up some pics on FB for us to see how hot you're looking!

Hi Everyone else - how are we all?

AFM - it's stunning weather here in Perth today, just beautiful, the sun is shining and it's just glorious. And yep, you guessed it, after last week my mood has shifted and I am a happy chappy again! So far it looks like the wonder week has come to an end, my goodness what a horrible/hard week that was! Amelia is back to her usual self and is self settling to sleep again, not chucking tantrums, finishing her bottles etc etc. What a relief! I noticed yesterday she started to come good again and it was so funny because she started doing new things yesterday right on cue, feet in mouth, copying us with her mouth when we speak to her - she makes shapes with her lips like she's trying mimmick us ha ha. We took her swimming yesterday as I didn't go on Wednesday and she was kicking her legs in the water for the first time and squeeling with delight, it was awesome. So glad DH was there to see it. Although, grrrrrrr - he was supposed to film it but he only took pics and one pathetic 2 second film, WTFFFFFFFFFF!!!! Not happy Jan. Oh well, never mind. I went there yesterday feeling happy because I weighed myself yesterday and was down another 600 grams and another cm from my tummy but looking at the pics I look like a big fat heffar still......I'll be putting them on FB and you can see for yourself, I'm almost too ashamed to put them on really, yuk!!!!! So, this week's goal is to get stuck into some arm weights again and more exercise, I haven't done nearly as much as I should have. But, I'm halfway there, another 2.5 kgs and I'll be happy, another 3/3.5 kgs and I'll be stoked!!!!!!!!!

Well, best run, Millie's asleep so want to finish putting some washing away, mostly her clothes mind you, the girl has more than me!!!!!! The 00's are looking a little tight these days so out come the 0's I think, my little girl is growing too fast. BTW, I think I have a super tall girl here, she's longer then all the boys in my mums group, it's embarrassing! She's going to tower over me....I just hope she's not super super tall, she might have trouble finding a boyfriend ha ha. Just kidding. (this is coming from me who's 5'3") so everyone is tall to me. :o

Oh and HAPPY 6 MONTHS OLD TODAY to my baby girl, I can't believe 6 months ago she entered my life, I don't know what I did with myself before she came along, she's brightened up my world in so many ways. The only thing I miss is a Sunday sleep in ha ha!

Have a great day girls. Love you all.
xx

Hi girls
Sorry just quickly and no persies...

Archie just said Dad! He has grown a tooth, learned to wave and said his first word all in 3 days! I'm so proud of my lil guy!

Love you all xx

Oh Kymmy what a smart little guy Archie is... All in one hit too, you must be soooo happy! How is little mini bub going? Oh god I had a dream last night I could feel my baby kicking....hmmmm...Freaking wierd lol. Guess what...My bbs leaked everywhere the other morning...I was laughing so hard at my panic the other day thinking I was drying up lol. Did you get an answer about the colostrum for the new bub?

Alison gosh I feel so bad when I hear about Amelia swimming I havent taken V yet as she has been sick etc but have all the details so once again I am reminded to get her booked in lol...Teeth on the way too? Hooray! I think V is going tro be gummy forever haha...Im glad tho and so are my bbs ;)

Suz Oh your stepdad sounds nice. Its so nice to receive a compliment, esp when we are run ragged half the time lol...How is the diet going? I have fallen off the wagon after my gain last week I just thought stuff it for a bit and still lost 500g...go figure..

Mel...Well you wont see this but yep I feel like Ive been doing the same...less bb and more V..lol but fb is on my mobile so its easy to peek!

Sarah, Ohh rasperries lol :) Dont you just want to help them crawl? lol I took a pic of dh "showing" V how to crawl on the weekend..There they are side by side on their knees "practising"...Wow you are my hero for doing everything you do...Next time I come to Melb...not this time...Ill come check out your shop (s) :)

Bec, so I suppose you are making clippies as I type? lol. You are great Its so good to hear of you filling orders and staying busy with it..I hope it is becoming a good little earner for you?

Ok Hi to everyone else..Telly and Mon where are you?????

V is crying, bbl xxx

Hi Kymmy - yay for Archie!

Hi Natty - you crack me up (V might be grumpy forever)....of course she won't, she's a lovely little girl with gorgeous hair and Amelia is very jealous lol. Definitely get her into swimming, I even found some wetsuit bathers to help keep them warm in the cooler months on Ebay from the UK, only cost $25 with delivery - they're $65 over here! If you want the link I'll post it to you on FB.

Hi Girls - got the dreaded 6 month needles this morning, I am so nervous about it, moreso than ever before because I just know she's going to know what's going on more, I can't bear to see her drop her little bottom lip and cry because of me. Makes me sad. Oh and does anyone else get ovulation pain? I had it before I had Amelia but it seems even worse now unless I just forgot, it almost debilitates me for a day, it's almost like the very beginning of labour pain (the very beginning lol) where you feel that sharp pain and it almost feels like it's coming out of your bum, remember that?!! (or was that just me ha ha). Anyway, it's like a massively bad stitch and I can't even walk without grimacing. Might have to mention to the doctor today, although I'm seeing a bloke for her needles today so probably no point, wonder if the nurse who does the actual injection will know? hmmm. I made a comment to DH yesterday about Amelia being back to normal after her wonder week and how it made me think that I'm not sure how I'd handle a newborn and another littleon and DH said, but if you get pregnant at the end of the year by the time you have the baby Amelia will be nearly 2. I just looked at him and said, so, you're definitely keen then and he said yes of course why aren't you! It was quite sweet really. I have to admit listening to Kymmy talk about being pregnant makes me miss it and we went to the baby shop on Saturday and seeing so many girls with beautiful bellies made me really really miss mine. Gosh I'm hopeless!

Well, best run, gotta have a shower while Millie sleeps, when she wakes we have to rush straight to the doctor - gotta time these things in between naps and feeds ha ha. Oh and how many naps are your bubs having? Amelia is still on 3 naps, don't think she's quite ready to drop that 3rd nap yet although I wish she would so I could get her to bed earlier than 7.30/8.00 pm!

Lol Alison...Gummy not grumpy lol..Id love that link! Yes please...and also what were the mats you bought a while ago? V is on 3 sleeps but I love it :)

Ok so little miss is asleep again so a bit about us lol

This weekend Vs Nono and nona (godparents) came to stay with us from Melbourne... It was so great, they are dhs best man and his wife and they are great to have as guests..She is a good help, not just a lump, and they both made a real effort with V even though they dont have kids themselves yet. It was nice to see V happy on other ppls laps too and she behaved herself so well I couldnt have asked for better considering the upset to her little world as she knows it. We had a couple who are our best mans cousins come over for dinner on Sat and when V has a bit of a dreamfeed she woke up and wouldnt sleep for 2 hrs because she knew other ppl were here. She was cying everytime the man with glasses even looked at her..Hillarious!!! so I had to take her for a spin in the car to zonk her out lol...1st time Ive done it but I just wanted to relax and she was not going to sleep. Other than that she was perfecto! They bought her a STACK of pumpkin patch clothes in size 6 to 12 months and they are MASSIVE lol...I cant see her in them for a few months yet haha.

I have made a whole heap of new food, you should se my freezer! Packed with ziplock bags of every vege and different meats and a pasta...Im going to do an avgolemono soup just for her too but there is so much choice to mix and match with.. Im findidng it hard to get her to eat fruit...Veges are no problem but she seems to absolutely hate anything with apple in it and only likes banana but Im scared it will clog her bowels up.. Also when can you introduce cheese? I suppose I could google it. Ive tried baby yoghurt and she is not a fan yet.

Oh and she isnt crawling yet, no teeth, but still trying to stand up on things, saying mamamama but she says it for her dummy, food, me..pretty much anything...Last night I got a sleepthrough!! So it looks like I get random ones but then other nights Im up like 5 times haha...keeping me on my toes...

OK finished my novel now

xxx I hope your bubs are all behaving and making you smile :) xxx

Hey all had drinks on sat night for me and J anni and let's just say after a long headache and 3 hrs sleep followed by a few vomits I am never drinking again was a great night only my bff came but we had loads of fun....serenity can now sit by herself if you sit her up and put one knee forward when rocking on all fours last night :( 8 months in 2 days don't they grow too fast!!!!!

Mon, Yay for Serenity, she is looking so pretty and I love that photo of all your kiddies. Dont know if I could risk a hangover quite yet lol but its great you got a night off ;) Good to hear from you...

Where is everyone?

Went to mg today and had to introduce ppl and did not know names, got them wrong etc lol how embarrassing! I did get lumped with fundraising choccies though damnit!
V slept with us last night from 2am onwards it was nice and cuddly lol

Got my eclipse tickets woohoo midnight session in 29 days yeeeeehaaaaaaaa

Hi Natty - lol that always happens to me! It seems as soon as I have to remember everyone's name I forget, sooooo embarrassing! I just blame baby brain. :D

Hi Mon - ooh I love Twilight, can't wait to go see the movie - hope they have it at mums and bubs otherwise some babysitting will be on the cards! Did you see the interview Fifi Box did on Sunrise this morning? Taylor is yum yum yum yum. God how bad am I, talk about a Cougar lol!

Natty - I'll tell you this t make you feel much better about forgetting the names at MG. Second or third week of MG with DS1, he was about 16 weeks, we went round the circle saying our name & baby's name, got to me and I said "I'm Ange and this is my son ....." I couldn't remember his name for about 5 seconds (that felt like 5 mins) and I named him, DH & I had been refering to him as Lucas from when I was 20 weeks pg. :rofl: :redface:

I gave Mr I yoghurt today - loaded a spoon up and passed it to him. It was plain Greek yoghurt. He puts the spoon in his mouth & winces, then does it again. I load up the spoon again and he repeats the performance 2 or 3 more times.:rofl: Dunno that he's gonna be as big a fan of plain yoghurt as his brother - he still just eats plain, doesn't like sweetened, flavoured yoghurt.

I've now got to remember to take food when we go out - I took a banana with me to the shops today & he ate/mashed it all over his face & clothes while I had my coffee & cannoli - bliss! I was going to say don't worry too much about then clogging V up natty, but I remembered we haven't had a dirty nappy for a day & a half and he had some yesterday too so I'll hold that comment back.
The porcupine meatballs were not a great sucess - I didn't follow the instructions and ended up with meat mush - tastes OK, but not great. DS1 says I don't like meatballs, but last night we had mince and rice (renamed for his benefit) and he ate it.

I love taylor he reminds me of Jose lol same skin colour etc

Angela: I give Archie plain yoghurt too and he is the same... he gets this horrified look on his face and shakes his head but then grabs the spoon and shoves more in! I feel terrible, cos it tastes soooo gross, but i guess if he didn't like it he wouldn't eat it!!

BBL girls x

Hi Girls - I gave Amelia some of the Rafferty's baby porridge and it has banana in it apparently, she was constipated yesterday so not sure if it was the banana, bit hesitant to try it again now! lol I have a book that says pear and sweet potato is nice, has anyone tried that, sounds weird to me! Also, has anyone tried avocado, I hate avocado but thought I'd try Amelia on it this week. I've only been giving her pumpkin and sweet potato, thought I should try something else now.

just a quick hello everyone
have had a shocker few days with harper, fever and super clingy. i feel i held her all day except to go pee yesterday, and last night was terrible.
nearly couldnt handle it
had about an hours sleep, feel awful, at least shes asleep now. hope its just a cold.
love you all
bbl
x madame x

I actually like plain yoghurt now - started when DS1 was this age & I'd finish his off. Avocado, I've given to Mr I & he's liked it, I've got 5 on the bench atm but they're not ripening. Warning though avo & banna stain if you don't rinse clothes straight away.

snowy - put avocado in a fruit bowl with your bananas and they'll ripen more quickly
natty - af far as i know cheese can be given from 6 months plus
Ali - Theo loves sweet potato and apple, have a taste, its actually really yum!
Madame - thinking of you :hug:
Kymmy - Hope you're feeling well
Mon - jacob is effing hot hot hot

love telly xx

Hi Madame - I feel your pain, I was there last week. Hope Harper is better soon, is she teething? That might explain the temp...Amelia didn't get a temp with her cold but the wonder week also hit last week so I think a lot of the clingyness and lack of sleep and constant crying was more due to that. I struggled last week, by the end of the week I was at the end of my tether, thank goodness she went back to normal Saturday, 5 days of that was enough for me! Mind you, she's still fussing a couple of times a night crying in her sleep, she's not even awake so don't know what to do. I tried ignoring it last night but it got louder and I was worried she'd wake herself up. I can't keep going in to plug in the dummy, that's going to become a habit, any suggestions would be welcome!

Hi Snowy and Telly - thanks for the tips on avocado. I think I will try pear and pumpkin then and see what happens. Shall I give the avo straight or mixed with pumpkin? Also, when should I go to 3 meals a day? At the mo she's having breakie and lunch. Do I wait until she drops her 3rd nap as I am wondering how I'd fit dinner in. My friend does solids at 5.00 pm and milk at 6.30 pm and straight to bed but her daughter who's a month older than Amelia has dropped that 3rd nap, Amelia is still going down around 4.30 pm/5.00 pm for an hour. I tried keeping her awake last week and it backfired on me, mind you, she was in a wonder week! Perhaps I should try again.

Hi everyone!!!

Im back in the land of the living…..well sort of!!!

Ali – Abbey is still having 3 or 4 sleeps a day….all depends on how she goes with her midday sleep. If she can stay down for a couple of hours then she only needs one more sleep at about 4 or 4:30 to get her through but if she only has a nap at lunchtime then she’ll go down for 2 more sleeps….really wish she’d have the 3 all the time cause 4 really stuffs up the night time routine but sometimes she just wont sleep all that long during the day…..really frustrating!!!

Telly – You pervert you!!! I forget that I’m 30 now and still have a perv on the young ones sometime and day dream about my life back when I was 20…..no responsibility, just party party party….those were the days!!!

Snowy – I’m having trouble with stains all the time on Abbey’s clothes….she just had some pea, carrots and corn the other night and got some on her white top and for the life of me I cant get the stains out….does anyone know a good way to get them out?? I’ll have to strip her off naked she makes such a mess sometimes!

Madame – Sorry to hear about Harper….hope she gets better really soon. Abbey has been clingy since about Sunday and it’s driving me bonkers too…only happy on the hip…if she’s left on the floor or in her bumbo she cracks it…..LOVE having SATC on in the middle of the night….revives me a little bit if I’m up!!!

Heavenly – Happy Anniversary to you and Jose!! Hangovers are terrible now….I’ve only had a couple since I’ve had Abbey and it’s a nightmare!! So not worth it now! Still haven’t seen the second Twighlight movie yet…better get cracking on that….

Natty – Ha ha!!! I had been going to my MG for about a year and I couldn’t remember one of the girls names for the life of me and no one mentioned it any of the times I was there during conversation so one day I asked her if she was on FB and she said yes so I asked her her last name and went home to look her up but luckily she found me first and that’s how I ended up knowing it!!! I felt terrible….she’s a really nice girl and we are quite good friends now!!! He he he!

Hi to everyone else I have missed!!!!

AFM – Well, I feel like there is so much to talk about but I’ll try and keep it short!!!

Solids – Have been trying Abbey on a couple of things, mainly home cooked but some of the Rafferty pouches too…..sometimes she is into it and others she is not and she rubs her hands all over her face, through her eyes and all through her hair….drives me bonkers if it’s the middle of the day and we have to go somewhere cause I nearly have to giver her a full wash down with the mess she gets herself into!!!

Have had a few chocking incidents….mainly with the stuff that I have prepared so I don’t know if I have maybe done it too thick or something?? She also does funny things with her mouth, like she doesn’t really swallow straight away so when I put the next spoonful in I think the mouthful from before is still in there and then she gags cause there is too much in there?? Does that make sense???

I panic when she starts to go red….one day it was with the toast so I whipped her out of her highchair and threw her nearly upside down and slapped her on the back and then she threw up all her milk etc and it went everywhere….do I need to panic or will she get through it?? Snowy, you said you gave Mr I a banana, but I’d be too panicky to give her that in case she chokes…..or would she be alright??

I have been mixing up a little bit of that Laughing Cow cheese (that comes in a wheel with 8 little portions in it) in with Abbey’s veggies to give her a bit of protein etc….do you think this is OK?? She loves her yoghurt – plain or I might put a bit of fruit with it and opens her mouth no worries for that, but veggies are a different story…..

She’s sitting up pretty well on her own – no crawling or talking yet though. She now puts her arms out to you if I or whoever is going to take her put their arms out to her….I remember when JD first did that….it’s very cute!! She’s also a real little stickybeak!! If there’s anything that’s going on that she doesn’t want to miss she nearly breaks her neck trying to have a squiz!! Go go gadget neck!!! PMSL!

Has anyone turned their bubs around in their car seat yet? I saw the video that Mel linked and I can see the reasons why you would leave them rear facing, but just wondering what to do….

My Aunty that stayed with us last weekend has a really bad flu so is going back to the Dr tomorrow….god help me it had better not be swine flu and that’s why Abbey’s is my Siamese twin….

I cant see any white in her mouth so I don’t know if it would be teeth….would have to be wouldn’t you think??? She rips at her right ear and makes it bright red…..more so at early afternoon and night time. I don’t think she has an ear infection as she lets me touch it and prod around in it and last time if I did that she’d roar her head off so do you think it’s teeth?

Sleeping is still cra*py. Don’t think that will every change!!!

Sorry for the essay again – probably wont get to post again for another week at the rate I seem to be going…..but I’m always reading so help me out with my questions!!!! You’d think already doing this before with JD that I would know what to do!!! I swear I’m losing my mind sometimes…only lost my wallet last Mon from leaving it on the car roof when I was on my way to Playgroup. Cancelled my cards cause couldn’t find it after I retraced my drive about 100 times, then the police had it that afternoon. So then I went to Coles a couple of days later, used my cancelled card and couldn’t figure out why it wouldn’t work…..god I’m really losing it I think.

xoxooxox