Babies Born ~ September 2007 #63

MD we all think you are a fab writer, its your passion and you are great at it, dont let this knock your confidence!

Arte - Hope you are better in the morning?

Just saw Trill's fb post about her new little lamb, hope its doing ok.

hi all
gotta be quick.. been lurking but not writing as kinda time poor at the moment...
Arte - hope you feel better soon... ouch. do you do pilates or anything? can help w pelvis in preg.
hope it is just something easy that will be better after a rest

MD I agree with Cass - we know you thru your writing and it is beautiful. dont doubt yourself. xxx

Isa - YAy for taking E to the party, i am sure that will be the best option for you. I have done lots of expressing (when at work) so ask any q's you do have. it can work... (though i havent done it for a 2 day stint before)

Hey, does anyone know why all people are leaving BB? I am so out of the loop i dont get it...

MP, as best I can tell there has been leakage between BB and FB, there has been an outcry about the way the mods are modding, the discontent has been fomenting (love that word) in FB land & on other forums, some mods were stood down (Inanna and Spring Angel) over an unspecified "serious breach" (reading between the lines, I think someone might've shared private BB information elsewhere?) and they declared they were leaving BB, and a number of other people who were outraged over it (and/or the way it was handled) also left in a mass protest. Since then trouble has continued to brew and a few days ago Maz was banned for life (for ??), provoking another outcry. With a bit more trouble thrown in this week by someone posting someone's elses comments from FB here on BB.

IMO, all of this would have been avoided if people just paid the rudimentary courtesy of keeping each forum's business to that forum, I find it in appalling taste to ***** about happenings on one forum on another forum, kwim? Add to that people have not been protecting their anonymity with FB-BB-other forum leakage, and you know everyone wants to be right, don't they? And some people thrive on drama.

There seems to be an expectation when you come online that your subjective experience/opinion will be validated, I think that's what makes forum life so addictive, there is always someone there to agree with you, kwim? And so when people don't agree, for whatever reason, and you're expecting personal validation, suddenly it's a personal slight. And that's when it all gets so fraught, and the game playing begins.

Anyway, a whole group has left BB, presumably to take their tea party to another online venue (where presumably the mods mod differently or less, or it's the alternative venue where ppl go when they want to discuss BB's goings on?) and BB is going through the last burping unsettled stages of the purge.

That's the MD potted summary, I could have the wrong end of the stick totally. I have no idea which party is right or wrong or who has valid grievances or not, but there are a lot of upset people. Most of it the drama has taken place elsewhere on the net. At the end of the day I have my little Sept mummies thread family which is far too valuable to me to want to endanger it by getting involved in the drama.

sheesh!! geez i must be out of the loop i had no idea really...
as long as none of you leave i am fine...
thanks for telling me though, i was alittle confused
xxxx

i'm not leaving :) it's all cool, i'm perfectly happy with the way things run around here and with the way things have been handled. my 2c worth is that if you break the rules, well you gotta expect some consequences. that's my 2c and all i'm gonna say about it all :)
had soccer again today and L is absolutely loving it and totally blossoming. it's great to watch. his language has come along way too, particularly since he started at kinder.
so....i know it's been talked about in here before but my boys seem to be struggling with breakfast atm. they don't want to eat anything. any ideas?

Do they have milk in the morning? If they do cut that out and they might be more inclined to eat.... Other than that, i have started cutting up fresh fruit and yoghurt for them and they love it. I think they were bored of their cereal and fruit. So maybe offer something different?

i don't give them milk, they usually have a yoghurt but don't want anything else

I know people say breakfast is most important meal, but sometimes the girls don't want anything and then have morning tea. I'm fine with that. I go with the 'they'll eat if they're hungry'. A yoghurt for breaky is ok in my books.

Sas eats breaky pretty much all the time, but L will skip it somedays.

Do they eat much for the rest of the day?

I barely have the time to get onto the Sept thread, let alone the rest of the forum. So I have no idea whats going on, who is leaving, etc etc. :)

Ginger - I have also been giving M yoghurt for brekky one day, cheerios or weetbix the next. She likes to mix it up.

I have been wondering when to try M with no night time nappy. Is anyone elses kids out of the night time nappy? M still wakes with a soaking wet one....what do you do, just go cold turkey with it or wait a bit longer?

Just enrolled M in 'barbie ballet', she has been raving about ballet for weeks now. So thought we would give it a go. She is a real girly girl.

Poor E had her needles today, she has been unsettled and clingy. :(

Also I dont know what I am doing wrong, but my friggin nipples are sore again!!

Isa, we're still using a night time pull-up, mostly because the dry nights are a bit hit and miss. I kept DD1 in nappies until she was consistently dry. Kids get to night time dryness at varying stages, no hurry.

Miss E generally has two breakfasts, esp if she has picked over the first. First round is usually cereal, porridge, weetbix, bit hit and miss really (sometimes she eats it all and other times she just skims the top layer off), usually when she first gets up and I'm stumbling around half awake trying to make myself a cuppa. Second round is normally toast, crumpet, raisin bread, etc, usually a bit later when I'm having my breakfast. I've found this is far better than the constant whining for snacks that tends to happen when she only has one breakfast. Sometimes it depends on how distracted she is, so maybe experiment with putting the telly on or off (sometimes they mindlessly spoon more food in when the telly's on LOL).

Thanks all for your votes of confidence in my abilities. Just gotta find the faith in myself...

ETA - Arte, yep PNG was me. Long story. Revised it again when E was a tiny baby.

Well pancake tuesday has taken a turn for the worse. I popped up to the shops for maple syrup, and slipped over on some water leaking out of the icecream fridge, did a full blown slide and spill. Have twisted my ankle & hurt my knee (and suspect my shoulder will be sore from the jolt tomorrow too). Very ouchy but at least I can walk on it. I've had catastrophic sprains in the past needing crutches, so all that flew through my mind while I lay sprawled all over the tiles. I let fly with a few choice words at the Wendy's bimbos who stood around without rendering assistance even though it was their fridge that caused it. Maybe I'm getting old but I cannot stand girly girls doing all of female-kind a disservice by acting DUMB.

Far out MD! That's a bit too much excitement fit a Tuesday. I sprained my ankle on Sunday, so I'm hobbling around too. My story is no where near as good as yours though. I just ran and I shouldn't have! Clearly.

Isa- we are a way off dry nights here too. I have started talking to her about it though. She doesn't want to wear a nappy at night but she pees just about every time. So ive said if she can wake up with a dry nappy three nights in a row she doesn't have to wear one, and I'm encouraging her to call out to me in the night if she wants me to take her to the loo. I tried putting her on the toilet when we went to bed, but it made no difference so I just don't think she is ready.

In other news my bro has just been taken again by ambulance to hospital. No idea what's going on. Dad found him unconscious, but at least this time he is breathing. This ****ing de ja vu is crap.


Oh MD- I'm not entirely sure those girls are acting?!

Far out about your bro. :hug: It's v. scary. Thank goodness your dad was there when he was. I hope your bro is alright. xxx

JM, hey they were smart enough to know all about fake tans which is a place I have *never* been to :lol: Commisserations on your own sprained ankle, we just need someone else in the thread to do theirs and we can have a club. I'll be president, you can be treasurer, LOL. Secretary, anyone? It's a very exclusive club...

jm- oh no about your bro. i hope he's ok xoxox

md- gosh you poor thing xoxoxo

JM, my first thought on waking this morning was whether you've heard how your brother is going. I hope the day brings news that he's stable, and that he's being attended to by some really great docs who will work out what's happening. xxx

No idea still MD. He has been admitted. At least he's not intubated or on life support this time. He's kind of semi-conscious this morning, they are monitoring closely, he's kind of boarderline for oxygen saturation. Once again we are waiting to find out if he perhaps did it intentionally, or something haywire is going on. Last time he had no toxicity in his system and it was put down to the Lithium. Not an overdose, just a bad drug reaction. He's not taking that anymore so who knows. Mum found an empty box of zyprexa (anti-depressant, bipolar med) in his room, but that's a med he takes, so it could have just been there and empty from normal circumstances. Also found two full weeks of his meds and a bottle of valium all untouched in his room, so surely if he was going to OD, he'd have taken them?! Who knows. I'm rearranging book cases until i hear about either blood results, or he is conscious enough to talk.

JM, :hug: I hope you hear some news soon. I am guessing they are no closer to finding a root cause of the seizure/coma condition?

MD and JM, sorry about the ankles. I don't think I will join that club.

JM I hope you get some news soon and I hope the news is positive.

MD I love how you summed up all the latest drama. I hope your ankle is ok? How about your shoulder?

G I keep meaning to ask how things were going on the TT front with L? We managed to get 2 small poo's on the toilet and nothing since, its starting to do my head in.

L has finally given up the day nap, he has half an hour reading/rest time in his room so I can have a break then it is mummy and L time where we play hungry hippos and all the other stuff we can't do with Z around lol. Work has been crazy but I am on top of it all now thank goodness. I have a couple of BB ladies booked in next month.
I hope everyone else is well xx

JM :hug: still thinking of your bro and all the family. xxx

Ankle soreish today, not as bad as I thought it would be, shoulder/back is a real shocker though. It's the surgery side so one less muscle to absorb the fall, I suppose. Aaaah but the pancakes were soooo worth it LOL.

Oz, well I'd love to hear if anyone has a different take on the goings-on to me. :) Oz we had TT iss-ewes for a long time. E was hiding and pooping in her duds...the hiding indicated she was aware when it was happening, but didn't want to go to the toilet for whatever reason. We had her in training pants at that stage and DH would crack it every time she had an accident, so I said, right that's it, you're going back into pull-ups. As soon as we took the pressure off, and talked up the benefits of pooing in the toilet (no yuckky smell, your bottom feels so much nicer, etc) she took right off. She's had a couple of too-busy-playing accidents since but now pretty consistently identifying when she needs to go and going. FWIW they say it takes boys longer than girls (if their dads are anything to go by, males just don't have the same bumhole to brain connection, evidenced by all the couldn't-hold-it-in farting that goes on :lol:)