Babies Born ~ September 2007 #72

[Trillian]

Bugger MD! So what does that mean? Are you allowed to drive with that or is it not that bad?

[Artechim]

Bummer MD. Will they take your licence if it is confirmed? You did have an inkling that it might be that for a while, but I am guessing you had talked yourself out of it? I did think of you in my exam when the question of sleep and narcolepsy came up. On the bright side, a diagnoses might give you a chance at getting past the fog

My internet is over the data limit and we are speed limited back to dial up. P A I N F U L! It is like 2002 here! I see that there are some photos of new baby E on FB but it takes long enough to even load the page let alone photos so I am going to have to wait

Ginger, Happy Birthday for yesterday! I didn't have the patience for FB to load to write on your wall.

Trill, do girl sheep grow faster than boy sheep? Woofston is massive - I can barely lift her up anymore, but Boy is still tiny! The lady I got them off is coming soon to ring his nuts They are so sweet and friendly now. I was outside reading my book today and Woofston kept coming over for cuddles (and chippies ). I feel bad knowing that someone is going to eat them.

Nothing happening here. My new glasses are still 2-3 weeks away - do you think it is rude just to go with the ones they already have after they have ordered some in especially for me? I was going to get some family portraits done next weekend but then I realised I can't really when my glasses have a huge chunk of tape holding them together!

[Cassius2]

arte: i dont think it would be rude...but is it what you really want?? you'll have them for awhile so i'd be hesitant of making any compromises. and yep, no photos with sticky-tape glasses lol!

Ginger: oh crap! i forgot it was your birthday! but of course it was...it was miss e's EDD! hope you had a fabbo day!
have you guys made any decision on the house paint colours? i am just starting to really think about it and am too overwhelmed by all the choice.

MD: crap! are there like scales of the diagnosis or is it just a 'you have it or you dont'?

[Trillian]

Arte, it doesn't seem to matter much between genders, but what I have noticed is that twinned sheep will grow slower than singletons and it doesn't level out for a few months. By the time they are 5ish months they are *usually* similar sizes. What a huge PITA with the glasses. We got some new ones for L on Tuesday and they will be here on Monday. It would be so frustrating to have to wait that long when your old ones are broken like they are. I'd be calling them and making them hurry up.

[AnyDream]

LOL Cass, no I did not get to "see" myself sleeping. I think that would be just a tad freaky. Would love to have heard the snore-track though . What I did get was a page with a "picture" of my sleep (eg visual representations of sleep, breathing, etc) and that is pretty interesting. I've been saying for years that I have reeeeeaaaaaallly looooooooong dreams, like motion feature movie length, and yeah, turns out I do. I actually do.

And yes, Arte, I had talked myself out of it. And you are absolutely right about the bright side. It also happens that the treatment of choice is also the one that is supposed to help the most with chemo brain, so it could be two sleeping birds with one stone. But it's also a very expensive medication and big hoops to jump through to get PBS authorisation for it.

I soooo hear you on the dial-up pain. We had a flash back to dial up a few months ago. I'm sure you already know you can set your browser to only download text & turn of sigs and pics etc on BB just to speed this up from interminably slow to just unbearably slow. LOL. Re the glasses, I would wait until the ones I picked came in and reschedule the photos if you can. Because they're so essential and you use them all the time, it would be annoying to be wearing not-the-ones-you-chose long term, kwim? And I would ring them up and give them a good hurry-up talking to, Trillian-style. LOL.

[AnyDream]

PS Arte, thanks for the lambkins update. TBH I was kind of relieved to hear you were having chips with them, and not having them with chips. If you know what I mean!!

[Cassius2]

PS Arte, thanks for the lambkins update. TBH I was kind of relieved to hear you were having chips with them, and not having them with chips. If you know what I mean!!

[Cally]

My back issues are ongoing I suppose. Poor core strength combined with a sway back. I need to get back into the physio exercises. Get a bit complacent when it doesn't hurt (same with my hip and wrist - hardly have time to do anything else once I get all the physio stuff done numerous times a day).

MD - wow, narcolepsy. A bit out of the blue.

Arte - oh dear, slow dial up. My dad is still on some internet plan from the 90's I think with some super low limit and seems to be constantly over with a ban on all access whenever we visit and yet doesn't seem to see the need to upgrade. We went over our limit and got slowed down for a couple of days and boy was it painful.

playdate tomorrow with the only little girl that we know going to the same big school next year (and turns out her mum went to school with me and MP). Then orientation starts Tuesday - I think I'm almost as excited as Miss K.

[Artechim]

My internet is back!

My poor lambies They are so sweet. I feel terrible that someone is going to eat them. They come up for cuddles. Only 10 days until pet day and then they are gone

I am just going to wait for my glasses, since I remembered that DH is doing Movember so the photos wouldn't be that great anyway lol

Cass, I forgot to say that third babies are just awesome. Everyone with three is surprised at how well they just fit. My E is amazing, the easiest baby by far. She does appear to be a climber though, something the other two never really bothered with. She woke up the other morning and could suddenly climb down the stairs, climbs up and stands on the chairs at kindy and can climb the ladder onto the trampoline!

[AnyDream]

Ah the dreaded core weakness. I was seeing a physio for a bit (pelvic laxity came back to haunt) and honestly the number of friggen exercises were unbelievable. Of course, I usually forgot half of them the next day , but even just doing the cut-down version helped hugely. I reckon it's better to do a few here and there instead of avoiding it altogether because it's such a big deal.

Playdate sounds fun! Tomorrow we are going to the Christmas Pageant. YAY!

ETA
Sorry, Arte, that looked like I was ignoring you. I don't understand. Who is going to eat the lambs? Are they only loaners? Can't they go to some rampant hand-spinning yarn-dyeing freak who will love them and shear them and talk to them and never, ever eat them?

[Artechim]

Yip MD, the lambs are loaners, but the path of destiny doesn't have many forks in it when you are a lamb lol.
ETA, or maybe it *always* has a fork in it??

Christmas pageant already!!

[AnyDream]

Yeah, the floodgates are opening and a tide of mince pies is sweeping through the land...

[Trillian]

well you better make sure the tide stops at the border :lol I'm in denial that it's getting close to Christmas. Just can't get into it this year. MD, unless they were merino lambs then they are only bred for eating. Crossbred lambs don't have wool very suitable for anything really because it's a very coarse, strong wool. I think they use crossbred wool for furnishings etc. So yes, unfortunately it is the lot of the crossbred lamb to have a fork in it's destiny.

Arte we had a few days of dial up at the end of last month and it sucks! LOL at movember making the pics look bad anyway. Still very frustrating for you. I got a text yesterday to say L's glasses had come in! I just don't know what is the hold up for yours that could take so long. Special order or not they shouldn't take that long. I'd still be complaining on principle

Cally, that play date sounds lovely. I'm sure she will like having a special little friend to start orientation with. Is she going to wear her uniform or haven't you got it yet? I wanted A to wear his, because he can be really fickle about *having* to wear particular clothes items - so if he feels like wearing a blue shirt but he had to wear a read one, then he'd crack the ****s because he 'felt' like wearing a blue one that day LOL. so I needed him to get used to school = uniform. But hardly any kids wore it this time. I remember when P started nearly all the kids wore theirs. But I think that in A's year group there are a lot of first born kids too.

[Cassius2]

why do i suddenly have a hankering for shepherds pie??

but TBH arte, i do not envy you one bit having to hand them back over.

talking of pelvic instability, i got the 'prolapse' talk from my IMs the other day...apprently it is the special one they give to all women who have 3 or more kids. we talked about cervix falling out, bowels... apparently i have to seriously limit my standing up time over the next 2 weeks minimum. this first week has been limited to only 10 minute stretches and they want me to continue into next week as well! also had me starting some basic pelvic floor exercises on day 2. interestingly they mentioned that it is not so much for now, but is about ensuring long term health as during menopause all the old pelvic floor injuries rear their ugly heads again and the risk of prolapse is really high. freak out lol!

[Artechim]

Cass, I never got told any of that after E! And she was so fat the titanic could have followed her out lol. I was back doing the kindy run on Day 3, perhaps that is why my fanny bits are falling out lol.

Trill, my glasses were coming from Austria. I suspect that big storm might have delayed them somehow?

Uniform. Arggghhh. I can't even be bothered. Sick of screaming wobblies over every freaking thing and now a new burst of attitude and deliberate defiance. Anyone wanna trade? LOL, 'cos I make him sound so appealing! He is a nice kid really.

[Trillian]

Ahhh, that would make sense about the glasses Arte.

Cass, have you got some of those recovery shorts? I wouldn't go so far as to say the risk of prolapse is really high, but it's more to do with the changing hormone levels during menopause. You gave birth last week. Things are going to be a mess for a while. If you get onto the pelvic floor exercises now, you aren't likely to have a problem. I do feel that they have gone a bit OTT though because cervixes and bowels falling out is what I'd expect to hear from a gyno, not midwives TBH. They don't just 'fall out' but they can drop a little and it's all to do with the ligaments that support the uterus. Maybe you could end up with a mild cystocele or rectocele, but they don't just come all the way out that much unless the prolapse is very severe. You would have to experience significant trauma for it to come all the way out. Even a grade 4 prolapse which is the most severe is when the bowel or bladder are protruding from the vagina all the time, but even then it's generally not that much, more of a bulge. that's basic anatomy. Women can have problems after one baby, and some women with 6 can have none. Do the exercises, but don't panic about it. I never got a talk after P about prolapse being a risk, and certainly not after A. Not even the physio who came to see me in hospital said anything about an increased risk of prolapse.

[Cally]

Play date went well - at least until some disagreement over who had more special food last night. I think they'd reached their time limit together. She's fallen asleep on the couch which doesn't happen often, so it must have been a good day.

No uniform for orientation here. Will probably buy part of it when we are there. Photos I've seen in the paper in previous years I don't recall anyone in uniform.

MD - My physio wrote them down, but I just filed it away because I was sure I remembered it all. Pulled it out a few weeks ago and I swear new ones have appeared on the sheet!

Arte - that is a long time for glasses, but that storm could have delayed them big time.

[Artechim]

Weather closing in. Having serious doubts about being able to spend 3 weeks with DH on this caravan trip