Babies Born~ May 16th-31st 2009 #2

Hi All

I got internet back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!! so excited,mind you it takes almost as long to post when u do it one handed!!! The guy came to just check the external lines but felt kind and fixed the internal prob anyway.... or at least mostly. He said he would come back on sat and replace the sockets... ill buy him some rum to say thankyou cos he is doing it for free!

Naomi- so sorry to hear about bailey being inconsolable... not nice feeling is it. J got really distressed last night too. I think it was cos she went to sleep and when she woke was so dirty in her nappy i decided to bath her cos she was due for one anyway. anyway she was hungry but i thought cos i had her clothes off i would just do it. her dad was out and whilst i taught him how to bath her and always do it with him it was the first time i have bathed J. suffice to say it ended with her screaming, and me distressed. not sure if i had it too hot or she was just ****ed cos she was hungry, but putting her nappy on never took so long! she was so distraught. mind u it stopped when she was on the boob.

Vic- glad to hear you are keeping ur chin up, being positive even when it's hard helps and we r all cheering for u and CJ. kids r amazing at how well they cope with new situations, it will prob take you longer to adapt.

Kat- congrats on the growth spurt and on Ivy making more eye contact! yay! DH told me this morning he had his first real proper interaction with Jemima. She has been starting to coo and had a 5 min conversation with him much to his delight!

Cath- Sorry to hear you had to have the heel ***** repeated!!! I am not looking forward to jem's vacinations at all. you would never know i spent a large part of my career holding babies still for painful procedures the way a chill of aprehension goes thru me at the thought!!

Krystie- I hear you on the crazy night last night!! J spent all night pawing me no matter how much i fed her. She didn't cry, she just didn't settle... was knackered here this am, and it continues today... fed sleep feed sleep!! J also does the same thing in the car and I also find myself with a hand thru the back with my finger in her mouth. I have heard said that a baby drains a breast much more efficiently than a breast pump does and so Kyson prob gets heaps more than that. We do the same with expressing for the occassional morning feed for when I'm knackered and whilst I only get 80-100 off a breast she generally has most of that from her dad but refuses a little at the end and will still happily come in to me for heaps more straight after. I don't think she likes the bottle, which is nice to know:)

AFM- well my DH says he expectsw to not see me for 8hrs now that the internet is back on. LOL prob true. I am a little tired mostly accumulative from over a long time, I was a serious sleeper prior to pregnancy:) Am gonna get platinum membership and sort out an avatar, how exciting!

need to put feet up for a bit, c u all soon

bella

Hey Victoria girls... just reading that last bit of chat... do you want to try and organise a meet-up??

We could set it for a month or two's time so we've got plenty of time to plan and organise ourselves. I'd love to meet more of you (have only met Vic) and to meet these gorgeous bubbas.

What do you think?

hi ladies

sorry i've not been posting again - the bubba has been constantly attached again - and when she hasn't been i've been cleaning up a storm around here!

Vic - sorry to hear about CJ's hip - hopefully it won't be long and she'll be fine again. i like that you have a date in mind - will make you more determined to keep the harness on her while you need to so that it has the max impact and she's fine asap

to everyone else - i am sooooo unable to post persies - my brain feels fried! i just had mum here for a few hours just to hold E while i was doing stuff - was really helpful. i couldn't even think while she was here though - we were trying to work out what still needs to be done for the baptism - hopeless!! don't think it helps that DH is having some work issues (related to the stuff that happened while i was pg) again today - he's shirty, and ready to quit his job cos of the way they're being treated - not by his boss - by the bloody coppers! grrrrrr. soooo grumpy - i wanna take them on myself. meeting with the boss tomorrow and there will be some shiate hit the fan if the boss doesn't wear a fine that DH copped seeing he asked DH to do it and agreed to cop the fine if he got one!

Miss E is STILL pooping massive amounts several times a day - though it's not every nappy now! yay! she's peeing heaps and is putting on weight - my content little girl is layingin her bouncer, kicking about like a loon, big smiles all over the place - it's gorgeous

ooh, and she self settled herself for a day sleep today - only a short one (about half hour) - but she slept in the hammock for the first time - i'm a happy mummy - she seemed to like it (played for about 20 minutes before she slept!)

I'd love to try to have a meet up with the Vic girls and babies. Maybe we could all post where we live and we can try to work out somewhere convenient. I live in Caroline Springs :)

i'm in latrobe valley so i'm gonna have to travel no matter what - as long as it's an early arvo thing it should be ok - E travels pretty well - but i'm not sure on doing two hours each way with her - esp if i'm solo

I am in Camberwell Melbourne, would love a meet up as long as is not in October when I am in the UK!, happy to drive an hour or so for somewhere that is convenient for all, and see a different part of Victoria.

Have had some responses in the hip thread that make me feel a bit better and confident that will get the harness on quick. Off into work today to show off CJ and pick up supplies from staff shop - back later.

I'm in Croydon - outer east. Hmmm this could be tricky. Especially when we need somewhere where we can all easily feed and pop babies down to play etc., so someone's house would be ideal. Who lives closest to the middle of us all? (I'm more than happy to volunteer my place, but not sure if that works for all of you)

Have a great day mummas and bubbas!

I'm 3 hours from Melbs so would probably prefer something as close to the Calder freeway as possible, or no further than the City.... I'm not very keen on driving in melbs being a country hick and all.

DOH - I want to come too - damn 750km journey LOL

oh naomi lol
:( i just saw a puppy on the news where someone cut his ears and tail off who could do that? :(
on a better note i can travel anywhere between ballarat and hallam so yeah pretty much anywhere lol

nicky i'm out the other side of the city by about 2 hours - bloody hard work finding a central spot!

Let's go to Naomi's house... it seems that's relatively the same distance for everyone!!!

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nicky i'm out the other side of the city by about 2 hours - bloody hard work finding a central spot!

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PITA isn't it!! haha
If I lived closer to people I would offer my house... a play centre is not really going to be worth it for kids our age.
If it was warmer, we could do the botanical gardens.


On another Note: Someone is building up my supply...... Cluster feeding between 7am and 12 noon and then feeding every 2 hours. No complaints though, because I still get my 10 hours overnight. Just funny when you can hit the wall on the other side of the room.....:lol:

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Let's go to Naomi's house... it seems that's relatively the same distance for everyone!!!

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Ooo I am hoping to get over there by the end of the year.... Probably won't happen, but really want to!

Hiya girls. Oooh, I wish I could come too :( Stupid Sydney.
BG: Woohoo for the sleep in the hammock! I am considering getting rid of ours. I hope everything is coming together for next weekend. I'll bet its going to be an awesome day.
Bella: Glad you are back online, babe! And woohoo for going platinum. Can't wait to see your avvy. There are some lurverly ones around atm.
Krystie: Thanks for the poo reassurance. I am sure Kyson drinks a lot more than 100ml at a time. Maybe sometimes he will have more and sometimes less. I'm inclined to believe that babies are quite like us in their eating habits - sometimes they want a snack, sometimes a large meal, sometimes a smaller one... Anyhoo, it's good to know he will take a bottle if you need him to.
Naomi: Amen, preach it, sister. They do knock you around, these little people. But good on you for pushing through it. Phoebe goes crazy just about every night for a couple of hours before settling down. I have never heard a little baby scream and cry so much. And there's nothing either DH and I can do for her except hold her and cuddle her and wait for it to be over and for her to crash. She doesn't want the boob, she is just mega tired and can't work out how to sleep. It sucks, and I often end up a bit teary myself. Good to hear that Bailey is doing better now.
Vic: Interesting that the hip dysplasia is more common in firstborns. I too wonder why that would be? I'm thrilled that you are getting some responses on the hip forum too.
LOL @ CJ choosing the waiting room to deliver a poo package. Phoebe did the same thing yesterday at the drs!
Kat: So glad Ivy is doing so well! Natty didn't take a bottle either. I tried when she was about 6 months old with formula because I'd gotten desperate about sleep and wanted to see if the formula would carry her through for longer (she was waking 1-2 hourly!). She just fiddled around with it in her mouth. I understand that bittersweet feeling of it.
Nicky: We're not really TT properly - Natty hasn't even done a wee in the toilet yet, so Lachie is ahead of her there! I am getting a bit tired of negotiating at nappy change time and sometimes I wonder if it'd be easiest to just bite the bullet and give it a go. Maybe in a couple of weeks.
Sorry about the food thing. I do a similar thing with Natty and we have had a couple of successes, but mostly she's still very fussy. I wish I had some sort of solution to offer, but we are definitely in the same boat as you.

Agh, I have to go. My kids are feral. I'll BBL.

Kat - LOL I would LOVE you all to come here. In all seriousness though, if you guys do have a Melb/VIC Meet Up I might try to align my Shepparton trip and come home via Melb or something as we are heading over to see my brother and family in the coming months, just haven't locked anything in date wise yet. I would love to meet you all and your bubs. Bridg - we should definately hook up for coffee while I am in Shepparton if you are up for it :) Nicky if you do come to Adelaide we should hook up too, would love to meet you!!

Was going to do a long post with lotsa persies but just realised our friends will be here in half an hour so I better go get ready.

Had a much better day today - back to 'normal' - whatever that is - LOL

Oh and Bella - you have inspired me, I am going to get a membership and an Avi too and support the site :)

If I dont get back on later - have a great weekend girls

Naomi
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Naomi - If you head to Shep, I'll come over and hang with you and Bridg;) I'm not too far from Shepp and we have the kids great grandparents over there;)

Amy - I'll fly up to Sydney one day just for you;)
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Ok, back now - one feral is in bed asleep, one is in my arms on the way to sleep.
We had our appt with our gp yesterday and as I mentioned Phoebe broke the poo strike in the waiting room, five seconds before the dr called us in LOL! And she's pooed another three or four times since then, so the drought is definitely over. As for the stink, well, I got myself a bit of a tummy bug the night before last so I wonder if Phoebs had it too and the bug was causing the stink... She smells fine now.
Questions for you all:
1. Does your baby have a milky white tongue?
Phoebe does and the dr told me she has thrush and gave me a script for nilstat. I don't think its thrush. I recall Natty having a similar looking tongue at this age. Plus surely if she had thrush I'd have it on my nipples? I don't.
I'm not going to give her the nilstat... I don't think...
2. When do you find time to DTD?
We haven't yet :redface: Each night I think, yup, tonight we'll go for it. Then I crawl into bed after 10 once P has finally settled and I am asleep before I can either nudge or wink.
3. Anyone else weird in the guts since having bubs?
I am really struggling with my tum... and my bum. Suffice it to say that I have been instructed to sit in salt baths each night and hope things will heal up soon :(

OK, P is getting twitchy and I'd really like to be in bed before 10, so I might go and do some rocking. Talk to you all later!

ETA: Awwww, Nicky, you're so sweet!