Babies Born ~ September 2007 #72

So far 2013 is going really well for me!

Erin has slept 5 hours in a row for the last two nights and last night I resettled her with no feeds at all. She hasn't had day feeds for a couple of months so hopefully she will wean completely soon.

Toilet Train Bootcamp is going very well - Day 6 yesterday and A was dry all day and we even went out to a friends house for 3 hours and she used the potty there. E tells me about 4-5 times a day that she needs to wee and will go on the potty when I put her there, but uses her nappy between times. Something to work on when we get back from holiday.

And W, seems we are getting a handle on these tantrums. I think a lot of the troubles have been parenting issues. Tantrums, as much as we try to ignore them, make him the centre of attention for as long as they last. There was nowhere to put him, he wouldn't stay in his room etc and he would end up being the focus until he stopped. He was far more likely to meltdown over something if I was playing with the girls i.e. attention not on him. DH reversed the lock on his room so we can lock him in. It sounds horrible but it has worked after only a few weeks. Now when he is amping up I give him one warning and then if he keeps going I quietly take him by the hand and deposit him in his room until he is quiet. First week he spent a fair bit of time in there, but now usually the threat is enough or if he does escalate it is over in 5 minutes rather than the hour we used to deal with. We should have tried it ages ago, we did hold the door handle shut and it didn't do anything - but in hindsight that is still attention isn't it.

Hi girls!

Arte: i guess it is, like you said, a way for him to realise that there really is no attention whatsoever to the tantrum. Kinda similar to what we have been telling the girls...i tell them they are more than welcome but i am not interested and therefore they have to take it outside lol. takes the wind right outta their sails hahahaha.

MD: all peaceful and people free in the house yet??

My complete apologies for the past posts that have been entirely uninteresting and rambling. I haven't really talked to a grown up apart from DH for 10 days now and I am going a bit mental!

dude. your posts do not ramble! Mine are short and sweet as generally i have power chucker baby doing interior decorating on my walls and floors these days bahahaha.

P.S. sounds like Miss E will TT before Miss A lol! ATM marta thinks it's hilarious to wee in ones pants :rolleyes: i think i am in for a looongg TT process with her...and we are not even trying yet lol.

No, houseguests still in situ. ILs terminally bored, I think. DH has not been proactive in planning activities, and now we're headed into a massive heatwave so that limits what we (I) are (am) prepared to do. Irony is we had lovely mild weather before Xmas when we were all running around, crazily busy.

Arte, you sooo don't ramble. But I fully understand going mental-ness so you're excused for self-criticism. On this occasion only :p (Naw, really I'm just defending my own title as Queen of the Long and Rambly LOL). Yay for A, that's awesome progress!! Also, fully pleased for you that the tantie-management is going well. We had a back-to-front door lock on H's room for a while. I understand how horrified some people might be with that because it would never ever have worked with our E, but it was something we needed to do with H (for a short time). It worked when we'd run out of other strategies, it worked quickly and it meant we didn't have to lean on using it very often.

Cass, well 2012 will be hard to top for you, won't it? You know how to do action-packed on the domestic front, don't you. LOL. I'm pretty sure you'll manage to keep yourself amused while the grass is growing.

No real resolutions here, more a goal: get a short published. I don't want to think too much about all the things that need changing/improving in my life cos it's overwhelming. Luckily there's a full 12 months in 2013... LOL.

Off to town today, hoping to find a few things on sale still. Need a new kettle. DESPERATELY need a new kettle.

MD: we love our tefal kettle. was a bit more exxy, but has lasted the distance. i think i am missing all the sales :(

ok, bbl...

LOL MD, I wish our kettle WOULD die. It's a ghastly ugly thing that was brought in an emergency and now it's going to live forever. Are there any indoor events that you can take the IL's too? A museum or something might have something on?

Arte, I like your posts. So how has the TT mission been going today? Glad things with W have seemed to have settled for you too.

Cass, that sounds like another full on year you have ahead of you.

Things have been slow and lazy here. P and A started swimming lessons yesterday for 4 days which is just awesome. So glad we didn't go with the swimsafe 2 week ones. I just have so much to do in the last few weeks of holidays that I can't afford to have 2 weeks of swimming lessons. We will also beat the worst of this heatwave that's going to hit too. Bathroom reno's are slowly getting there too. Biggest issue has been deciding whether to put a second toilet in - we have one on it's own, but at times a second loo would be very handy. Luckily we had to remove the floor of the house anyway otherwise we'd not even be able to consider it.

go the double loo! I wish we had two and there are only 3 of us using it ATM lol. more for when ppl are in the shower and you need to go.

I am looking forward to getting Miss L into swim class. but here it takes so much running around...filling out forms, calling to book an appt to assess abiity and then a cat fight to get into a class. it's a real PITA and the only reason why she hasnt gone earlier...i have tried two years running to get her into a class!

AFM: seems I am going to have to get a D&C. the bit of placenta has reattached and now has a vessel and is pumping away and growing lol. basically i am 'a little bit pregnant'...with Emilia :rofl:

Oh eww Cass! that's not pleasant at all. So this is all still related to the PPH yeah? How are you feeling? Have you considered private swimming lessons for her? it might be easier to arrange. Will probably be a little more expensive, but well worth it IMO. or you can come and have a holiday here with me and I'll teach her to swim seeing as how I'm newly qualified as an instructor :lol: The irony of that being that I couldn't actually teach my own kids to swim because they wouldn't do as I say :/ So I've been taking other classes while P and A are doing their class.

bahahaha! i can so see how your own kids wouldnt give a rats listening to their own mum lol. hmm maybe a trip out your way is worth it for the lessons :lol: i swear, it is so crap how hard it is to get into classes here.

basically they are saying that a small part of the placenta was left behind. it is pretty common and usually comes down during the normal post partum bleeding, but in my case, i am special (lol) and it has reattached and decided to renew itself :o I told my IM that I may of been abducted by aliens and now am growing an alien baby hahahaha. unfortunately the public hossy just want me to wait (unless i have another PPH in the next 48 hours) another two weeks and during that time just say to take more ABs. but the ABs are pretty powerful and i dont have an infection (just for precaution) so i spoke to my GP and IM about it and we all agree that despite the $$ getting the D&C done now (and privately) is just better for my health. kinda sucks as we were just getting on top of the money stakes but alas, what's gotta be done has to be done i guess.

oh yeah, definitely spend the dollars and get it done now. You will be able to claim it on your tax too don't forget. two weeks is too long, not to mention what the abs would also be doing to Miss E's stomach as well as your own without any good reason for doing so.

Cass, that is just sad that the public system has to rely on pumping people full of antibiotics while they wait for ops that they need. Good idea to go private - you don't need something like that dragging out and impacting your health even more (as I am sure you are aware after the tonsil ordeal). What a freaky bit of placenta! Will you be alright at the hospital?

Trill, good on you for being a swim coach! They tried to rope me in for our local swim club, but I can't swim lol. Hoping that W can go to the 6pm class that is on 2x per week and that DH can take him and I can stay home with the girls.

TT going slowly. A will go if I pick her up, pull down her pants and actually sit her on the potty whilst she grizzles and moans but she won't make any effort to go on her own or even say if she needs to if I ask. Very frustrating. However, she is mostly dry so I guess I will just keep making her go often until she eventually clicks. Sigh. It was so much easier with W who used the potty one morning and refused to wear nappies ever again. Also, what the hell do you do with girls and bush wee?! Boys you can just send to pee on a tree, but it seems for a girl you need to remove all shoes and lower clothing. There must be an easier way!

Pull their pants down and then have them stand in front of you (facing away), then pick them up by the ankles - they sort of squat on your arms and then they go. Apparently DD just takes her pants off at the beach and does it, but not in my presence!

Currently suffering from burnt ankles here. Had a play date and forgot to sunscreen the lower half. On the plus side, Miss K spent 2 hours scooting and biking and then had an afternoon nap!

Trill - well done on becoming a swimming teacher. That is so true about your own kids not listening to you - we tried to teach DD for a year and then she progressed more in the first 4 weeks with someone else. We have 8 days swimming starting Monday. Also, you have 4 kids - you can't have enough toilets!! Definitely put one in.

Cass - yep, that is one freaky placenta! Sounds like (unfortuantely), private is the way to go.

Hope you all manage to keep cool over the nex week or so. Sounds like some full on heat.

Cally, I really wish that A would still have a day sleep sometimes. He really needs one every now and then but hell will freeze before I can get him to have one.

Yeah the girls weeing outside thing is interesting. Miss Prissy (AKA DD1) would rather die than wee outside. P on the other hand was much more realistic and would go outside if she had to and A has it out at any opportunity :lol: But yeah, I just did what Cally said. Feels really weird to do it, but it's better than either getting them half nekkid or weeing on themselves.

I normally wouldn't have done the swimming course, because it literally has to be above 40 degrees before I will choose to swim. But it will get me more work as a teacher if I have the qualification. But I am really enjoying it and I'm glad I did it now. In one little group I have I managed to get all 4 of them off the pool wall and floating around the big pool using noodles and yesterday they were sitting on the edge of the pool crying and not wanting to go in. So it's quite a rewarding thing to do kwim? Especially because learning to swim is so important.

Cass :hug:. I hope you can get it all sorted out quickly. I'm surprised they didn't check all that stuff out when you were in hospy after the bleed??!

Trill LOL at your horrible kettle. Got a nice one, 2L, stainless steel and it really, really is quiet. It was a bargain too. Happy about that. It was a bit light on the ole bargains out there today, might've left it too late. Wanted to get a nice summer quilt but no joy.

But I managed to convince DH the swimmers he should buy were the ones with flamingos on. ;). hehehe. (High fives from all my sistas).

Trill - PUT THE SECOND TOILET IN!!! I dream of a second toilet - especially right now. You can't put a price on there being a dunny available when you're hopping about desperate to go! That's awesome that you're a swimming teacher. Just another shade of awesome in your rainbow of awesomeness, really.

Cally, ouchie on the ankles! I've done that before - usually my feet because I'm a hardcore sandal wearer LOL. Went looking for a UPF50 brolly today, no luck with that either. K's playdate sounds awesome. E is fully into scooting around on her new scooter :).

Arte - ILs heard on the news tonight that it was snowing today in NZ??! Is that near you? Hilarious if it was because we're expecting 44 degrees tomorrow. There was some dreadful realiteev show on tonight about baaaaad new zulland neighbours and it was at a place that can't have been too far up the road from your place (on account of how close the volcano was). OK so it wasn't really 6 degrees of separation but I did jump up and down and tell everyone it was near you! LOL.

Well it's still chockers here, and everyone's going a bit loco (not just me anymore LOL). ILs took themselves out for a long drive today and my sister is showing signs of nervous twitchiness. It's not helping that DH is at an all-time stressy high of stressness and I'm bouncing around on my new pills and not getting enough sleep. I thrashed the lappy last night to formulate hot weather sanity saving plans so we'll see how that all goes.

Hi girls I've been Mia again!
Trill great work on the swimming teacher qualification. It is a huge responsibility so you're doing great work
Cass- how is the dodgy placenta going? Def go private if u can afford it, you know we did that wirh l's tonsils/grommets and would do the same again in a heartbeat.
Wahhh! To all this TT! J is still in nappies and getting no closer to TT. Turning 4 this year :( finally managed to get a pead app for this yr so hoping we can get some answers/strategies :(
L is doing great and really ready and looking forward to school.

Hi md! Sorry I missed u there. Not looking forward to the heat wave?? I have had to evacuate my house in the case of a bushfire. What is your hot weather plan?

Gingy! I missed you darlink. Are you home from Sydney? Did you survive the Sydney people ok? Nice Chrissy/New Year? I hope the paed appt is helpful. That's gorgeous that L is looking forward to school. I think E is too. She was complaining today that she wanted to go to kindy LOL.