Beflie - glad it was a quick bout of the horrors and hope everyone else dodged that one. Vertigo is not very nice.. Have the meds helped with DH?
Bec - your fb photos are great. thanks for posting the link. I was wondering the same thing about how I would be combining study and caring for Hannah. I agree with you, my primary concern is Hannah. Maybe it's just one of those things I need to try and find out for myself that it's not for me right now? I am sorry about David. It is his loss, but I imagine that you feel keenly for Isaac missing that opportunity. All you can do is what you've done - make yourself and Isaac available and it's up to him. Congrats on your RAK too - are you going to get an avvy? I think you should. Sterla did mine. I can send you the PM I sent her with my request if you like. Interesting about Isaac's skin colour on his legs. I am completely bonkers about keeping Hannah out of the sun. She is so fair.... so I even avoid going for walks at the mo during the hot part of the day. That means no walks until at least after 5.30pm here. I even have a uv block out for the pram. My DH has a Cannon EOS 5D - which he says is even more entry level than yours. LOL. I am just a full automatic girl, but DH takes some pretty nice shots.
Buzzie - that was so tough for you with Rob when you were pregnant with Ash. Have you asked Rob what he was thinking at the time and why he was behaving like that? I would be curious to know. Love the new pic of Bella too in your sig.
Fuzzy - yay for solids for Chloe. That's awesome... I am holding off with solids, mostly because I enjoy the exclusivity and closeness of breastfeeding - that and I am lazy - breast feeding is so much easier. It seems that Hannah is not ready yet but I doubt she's far off - she too is entranced when we eat. I make sure she sits with us at the table in her bumbo for at least one meal a day and I have given her a spoon and bowl to play with while we eat. I have started to put the spoon near her mouth and to the edge of her lip. It's just something I felt like doing, not sure if it's recommended or not. Awesome about you going to the gym..... I have decided I need a bit of a bomb under me so I am going to go back to gaelic training tomorrow night. I will start very slowly, given that I haven't run since January 2010. So tomorrow night Hannah and I will hit the pitch and I will see if I can eek out one lap ( the warm up) kick a few balls and maybe do some other drills and do some stretches and come home. I won't be able to smash myself like I used to, as I need to be able to have energy reserves to parent Hannah. But it's a start.
Chuckie - good work on making it through your trip but blah for delayed flights! It is so much harder by yourself.... I have so much respect for mums doing it solo ( yay Bec). The thing I have noticed about it, is when you're solo, you have to seek out help when you need it to have a break. When there is a partner around, even if they work long hours or aren't that interested, there is the knowledge that on the tough days that there is someone else at hand. Sorry that DH missed out on his time with Peal on the weekend.
AFM - we had our first swimming lesson on Saturday which was also DH's birthday. It was awesome! Hannah loved it and cried only when as the demonstration baby she was taken a bit to far away from me. Next week it's DH's turn in the water with her. We're going to make it regular thing, but it's a bit mind blowing to think I am committing to doing this activity for the next few years. But water safety and drowning prevention are important to me. I almost drowned as a little one and I have an aunt ( who I never met) who drowned at age 2. The place where we went was really set up for bubs - in a corner of the pool deck there were benches with about 10 change tables and wipes and bins and hand sanitiser. It was all indoors too. Was a bit muggy in the very hot and humid weather but it was ok. There was one little kiddie in the class with us, not sure of her age but maybe 18 months, who just cried and screamed almost the whole time. It almost made me cry at times... poor thing. But there were times when she didn't, so that's a start.
Yesterday we went to yum cha ( for DH's birthday and to celebrate Chinese New Year). OMG Hannah just loves going out. She smiles at all the wait staff. And another first, she actually went to sleep in her pram ( first time since we've stopped using the bassinette/carry cot).
Hannah is pretty varied in her day time sleeps and no set times, certainly can't set my clock by her. Sometimes she will only do one sleep cycle at a time- about 45 mins, and others she'll get 90 - 120 mins or more. But she's still pretty good at night - only waking once mostly but sometimes twice. Sometimes the settling works during the day and other times it doesn't. I can't work out a pattern. So if settling doesn't work I just get her up and do our usual play routine but make it shorter and put her back in an hour or when she's looking tired.
Another first - Hannah actually rolled on to her tummy and then slept there. Normally she cries after being on her tum.
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