Babies Born ~ September 2007 #54

Hi girls!

Sherie: ah, i didnt realise that there would of once been a lake nearby LOL! i am so used to just hearing of droughts growing up that the notion of a large lake in a regional place is rather foreign...ah what a sad state of affairs...at our local dam in my home (country) town, it went so low that the tops of the houses that they flooded all those years ago to fill the dam started to show! became a bit of sight-seeing spectacular LOL!

Cally: oh that is wonderful news about Bethany! April babies are GREAT LOL! ;) hope the work quietens down for you soon...dont want to be working too hard!

Oz: oh the train idea is lovely!! although i think that for us, Leila would just see that as further invitation...i will have to try it out though LOL! i am such a sucker.

AFM: all good here. went to MG today and it was so lovely! despite the excrutiating heat, it was good to catch up. but i must say i feel kinda strange being the odd one out pg/new baby wise. i am the only one left (other than 2 girls who have decided to keep at one kid). ah well, my time will come...wont it?!!! LOL!

have the air-con going...dont know how to use the frikkin ducted cooling. sooo need to master it by tonight as you can have it work in specific sections of the house (rather than having to cool the whole place ITMS). so would like to have it on in Ls bedroom and in ours...was waaay too hot to sleep last night. took until about 10pm to get poor L down...

weird i posted here earlier but it doesnt appear....
ETA - oh there it is! sorry!!

thanks for the support everyone, feeling quite excited but also pretty nervous ofc..
had swimming this morning with asha, was nice, weathers been hot here lately have got my air con on atm its prob not really needed but ive been doing housework so i feel like its hotter than it is..
trill- thinking back to all the kids ive done tt with i think possibly the boys were harder because there parents were pushing it before they were truley ready.. i think in the children ive seen the girls have been ready earlier but thats not to say they always are because obviously its a minute portion of the general population of children ive looked after lol very true on the wiping i didnt think of that side of it..

Arte - i must admit to also having a giggle at your holiday mishaps! I am lucky that generally our holidays with the boys have been geat - different to the past but good... but i am not as adventurous as you!

double post

Clare did you work out the aircon? I'm feeling rather smug that we got ours in when we did because a couple of friends left it a few weeks later and they're now regretting it LOL. Yay for baby Julia, how exciting.

MP Don't know about 4 mth sleep regression, Missy E turned a very bad corner around the 5 mth mark, that was when the fun and games started (ugh still can't believe it was over 4 months later when we finally got it sorted out) - are you sure it's a pattern developing and not just a short unsettled run?

Noni - does A actually swim or do you just play in the water? I'm thinking I'd like to start Missy E with some swimming lessons soon, just for safety, kwim?

Oz - I love that you're having a girls and boys weekend! Enjoy Sydney.

Cally - oooh i want diamond undies too! I haven't found any big pumpkin seeds yet either. I hope you grabbed a packet of butternut ones anyway just because they're ridiculously easy to grow, keep for ages and make yum soup. hehe

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NONI!!!!

MP im not sure about the 4 month sleep regression, I can't seem to remember much from when Logan was a bub (sad I know). Might be worth a thread on BB if you haven't already.

Noni good luck with the job, I think your going to do great.

Clare lucky you having aircon!! I think L is going to destroy the train under the tree but I'll be happy if it looks nice ofr at least an hour lol.

MD I am looking forward to a girls weekend while the biys have a biys weekend. I can't wait to show Z off lol.

Cally sounds like you have been busy lately. Its cute that K puts the undies on her dolls.

Off to have Z weighed this morning and take L to the park. He has adjusted to Z so well.

Happy Birthday NONI!!!

The diamond undies are pretty special - they are by Rio and are little stick on sequins in a heart shape on the front. Came in a 5 pack.

Clare - your air conditioning probably works in zones as opposed to actual rooms that you can turn on and off, so try looking through the controller for anything to do with zones.

MP - we had the three month sleep regression where she started waking 2-3 times a night. We went to QE2 at 6.5 months. You probably didn't want to know that....

Have had a few early mornings here. DD took her sleeping bag off the other night, so that has now been put away in the cupboard. I think she is waking up because she is cold, so we need to do some more practice with blanket pulling up.

No big pumpkin seeds yet, still on the hunt but will try butternuts anyway if we have no success!

hi everyone
hoping i have a bit more time to write now...
CLare - can you put a couple of pics of your house on our FB page - i am DYING to see it... sorry i know i should just embrace the cojoining of FB and BB and i wouldnt have to be so annoying with pics! I hope it is your time soon on the TTC wagon, i know that feeling when you are waiting and it is a long road and ppl all around are preg... it will happen soon hon i am sure. did you see your naturopath when you werein italy?
Noni - best of luck for tomorrow - will be thinking of you. where are the kids going on thu and fridays?
MD - looks like it is REALLY hot there this week. It is pretty warm here too, but coping ok - more indoor time with J than i would usually have.
Oz - how is it all going? i cant believe Z is 4 wks already - it goes so quickly the second time hey.
Sherie - did you ever get to the bottom of the allergies etc with A?
Well, re the sleep regression i am not sure - i am just hoping it isnt a bad pattern forming as he has been so good til now with the self settling and N was such a nightmare... I thyink it is just an unsettled time - he was a bit unsettled last night again but not as bad so we are hopefully coming to the end of it. I had read a little about the 4 month regression so just wanted to know if any of you had a clear one and how you got them through it. I might post a thread about it just to see...
On the TT front - N has done 2 wees in the potty! onelast night and one this morning! we arew trying to be relaxed about it but i think this is good progress. question - how do you transition into using the training undies (which I bought) - do they have to be using the potty a lot. each of these were done when we just put hm on there when he 'usually' seems to wee - before bath and when he got up - so he didnt tell me he needed to go or anything. funniest thing - he told me they were both yellow wees - i think he thinks some will be a different colour!!! anyway i am proud of him!
we have the kindy fete this weekend - should be nice. i need to do some baking for it. will be good ot bake again, i have been layig off since i have been on ww. i havelost another kg now, so 4kg down so far!

ETA - Cally.. what were the wake ups like? J always wakes 2 or 3 times (when he is 'good' LOL) but it is usually a quick feed and chg and he is back to sleep... so i thought that was prettyy ok at this age - am i kidding myself he is an ok sleeper? i just dont want to be in a terrible pattern like we got into with N... i know some babies sleep through at this age and i just cant imagine J doing that. I am happy thathe self settles a lot of the time for day naps and at night.

Happy Birthday Noni hope you have a awesome day

Just jumping on to say Happy Birthday Noni!!!:birthday2: Hope you have a gorgeous day!!!

Happy birthday Noni - hope you are having a wonderful day xxx

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NONI!! :happybirthday:

MP: oh yeah!! i totally forgot to put the photos in!! my bad. will do ASAP! and WTG N on the TT front! that is brilliant!

Cally: ah yeah, it has zones....and in those zones it has different levels of fan force?? so hard to figure out...

Oz: that is so cool that L is coping well with Zs arrival, it's a fear of mine if we have another bubba...Leila is always a bit concerned when we hold another baby lol.

MD: worked out how to use the simple (not awesome ducted) aircon. so not as effective, but divine nonetheless for yesterday. loving this place LOL!

AFM: all good. am at work (cant you tell? ;)) have the air con on and am enjoying the sunny weather. got to visit my friend and her baby yesterday for some CUDDLES! so exciting and she was soooo tiny and soooo perfect!!! like a little lamb *mwah*. leila thought the hospital was cool with its wide corridors and managed to find some crinkly flower wrapper paper and ran up and down scrunching it loudly...:rolleyes:, ahhh nothing like an out of control toddler to ruin the romantic illusion of newborn calm...

Mp - our wakeups were just for a feed and a change, but I am really bad when I have disturbed sleep so I didn't cope very well with it. K had been just doing one wakeup for over a month so I had got very used to that. It may also have been especially bad as DH got shocking gastro about that time where he had a whole week off work and that meant my parents didn't come down for a vist and I had a major meltdown in front of MIL as well. Well done N on the TT, we have had so much practice, but nothing seems to come out. I would love to put her on when she wakes up in the mornings, but if she isn't taken straight to the fridge for some yogurt, we have huge meltdowns.

I think with the training undies I would use them when he is good at the potty and you were really ready to start training. ie, not when you're about to go away, when he is telling you often that he has done wee's etc

PP atm things seems to be fine with Alister - what made a huge difference was stopping the toddler milk. So the irony was that we gave him that thinking that it made up for the not eating and all the other issues but in reality it was causing some of them. Since he has been off it his eating has improved out of sight. His eczema has flared a bit lately though and not sure if that's the heat or cows milk, not that he has a lot of milk now anyway.

With the wakeups, as you know we had a shocking time with Alister but that was more to do with reflux than any developmental thing. I noticed it a lot with Erin, but once she started crawling at 4.5 months it settled again.

Arte - LOL at your camping adventure, what a mission.

Noni - You might be surpised at how easy it is for A to let go of the dummy? M was so attached too, even wanted it during the day while playing. However she has been fine without it. Takes a bit longer to fall asleep but thats ok.

Kate - The ENT dr said to me if kids have 3 or 4 (cant remember) ear infections within a 6 month period they look at putting grommets in. That is what M is getting done this Friday.

Just a quick one to let you all know I'm still around, hope you are all well.

I hope the next two days fly by for you H :hug:

With the dummy thing, we took Lindsays away at 6mths because he just didn't need it - would go to sleep without it and never woke during the night to need resettling with it so he was easy. Erin was about this age too, being an October bub and we gave hers to Santa. that worked well too but there were a few days where she kicked up about not having it. DH wants to do the same with Alister but he's still a bit wakeful at times where he needs it to get back to sleep and he's a lot more attached to it. We might leave it till Easter ;)

If M was waking for it & needing it to go back to sleep, I would have kept it a bit longer too!! Anything to keep them sleeping. But with her the dummy was just becoming something she wanted during playtime as well, so we decided to put a stop to that lol.

MP - I forgot to say I so hear you on the fussy eating now! M has been pretty good so far, but lately she is SOOOOO fussy ahhhhh!!