Babies born~ September 1st-15th 2010 #2

[Cassius2]

hi girls!

marta has finally beaten her snotty nose gosh i am so happy! she has now become a pro at fighting off my attempts to wipe her nose lol.

she is so so close to crawling now. she is able to push up on her legs and arms and lurch forward (usually to grab the dog's tail lol), so i am guessing that it wont be much longer....eeepp!

we also made the decision to pull her out of creche. i figured that I have finished my PhD now (yay!) and probably wont be starting any work until next year, so thought to fly by the seat of our pants and hope like mad that she will get a spot in one of the creches nearer to home next year that we have applied for (i can live in hope right??! lol).
i am quietly panicking now that we wont get anywhere as we told her current place at 3pm and they told us that we need to keep our spot for 4 weeks as notice unless they fill the spot...which they did half an hour later

[Hope.Positive.Love]

Evening Ladies and Bubbas,

Cass: Its great news that Marta has finally got rid of her snotty nose..... Poor poppet, so many chn have had colds and coughs lately! CRAWLING!! YAY, well kinda yay! I am more than happy for Audrey not start yet lol I'm like her staying in one spot right now

belfie: Hello and Welcome, don't think I have seen you post before, if you have sorry I'm bad at thing like that!! I can't believe your bubba has 2 teeth now! that's awesome!!! Audrey still hasn't got any, been teething and popping out all the time but then straight back up they go! I hate teething!

Mily: Oh my love you are definately NOT a bad mother!! God I have days where I just think MY GOD CHILD WOULD YOU STOP!!!! and then does the guilt just pour alllllll over me!! We love our children so much but there are times where we just need a break and then of course we cry hahaha.. I had that last week, just getting off the antibotics and she wasn't settling and I was up for 3 hours and didn't know what was going on, I checked her nappy 3 times, in the dark, and didnt see or smell anything. Then all of a sudden I though to myself turn the light on and check, what did I find, red raw bottom, my darling had gotten thrush becuase of the anitbiotics and I didn't think to check!!!! I felt awful and cried and cried and ended up sleeping with her in the spare room!! We all have days where we think we're just not doing enough, but you know what 99% of the time we are doing great and fabulous and terrfic, we just tend to focus on that tiny 1%

Cherished?? You still with us??? Hope you're well

AFM: Well she's been off the drugs now for 2 days, need to take a wee sample to docs tomorrow and then we will be sent off for more tests. She is the happiest little thing ever its still hard to think something might be wrong. Her wee's are still a little off, not smell off, just not the same amount or frequency so I know theres something going on. AND AND AND we're sleeping through the night again!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY Bedtime a litte later at 7 -730 which is A-Okay with me and she sleeps through til 6!!!!!! Soooooo proud of my baby girl!! Have been reading about introducing Meats to her diet, she really really likes her food, so I was thinking some mince might be on the cards for her... Any suggestions?? She had some meat pie the other day, pastry and all, didn't realise how close she was to mummies lunch lol didn't seem to bother her which is good....

Other than that things going well.... She gets up on all fours now, but really hoping she doesn't start for another few weeks yet, I want to do a complete clean of the house beforehand, just once, then I'll only vacuum once a week still, but I want it to be perfect for when she does start... She eats everything at kindy anyway so she'll be right

Hope all you lovely ladies and families are well!! Take Care xxoo

[milly5]

HI ladies,
it's very quiet in here ....
thanks for all your words of encouragement - I really needed it!
Well, I am pleased to say that she has stopped biting. I think that she was learning how to feed and suck with2 teeth, while trying to cope with sore gums elsewhre. I just can't work out why teething needs to be so painful for them? I mean, from an evolutionary perspective, it just doens't make any sense!

Belfie - tell me more about your sleep consultant!!! I went to a community health run one and it well - well not helpful really. I would love for someone to come to our home. So Annika has 2 teeth as well! And it sounds like alot has been happening for you lately.

Cass - has Marta taken off yet? I think we are still a WAY off yet - she still doesn't even like to be on her tum - she's there for about 3 seconds, and rolls back. I think she will crawl on her back if she can!

HPL - how is Audrey now? Re the meat - I made up some rissoles but they weren't that good as the mince kind of broke up in what I would call "choke size" chunks. DD prefers steak (fillet no less, LOL) I just cut a strip off one of our steaks, and she just sucks and gnaws at that. I have also done it with a strip of chicken breast (but she prefers red meat).

Next week we'll be starting at daycare (with mum) in the lead up to mum going back to work in 4 weeks time (YIKES!!!). So NOT ready for that....

[Cassius2]

hi girls! sorry for the no posting...for some reason i didnt get HPLs update on my subs...

HPL: that is so so so cool (and envious) that Little Audrey is sleeping through! what a bubba! we are still on the one wakeup overnight, usually around 2-3am. it's only for 5 minutes so am confident that it will drop off in the coming months. but making the trek up the cold hallway wont be fun as winter sets in lol.

sorry to hear about the thrush . i got nipple thrush after the mastitis and Marta got it on her tongue. it was so hard to get rid off, so i feel for you xx

Marta eats meat, but like milly i find that she struggles a little bit with mince as when it cooks it does kinda form a few chokey size bits and Marta just spends the whole time gagging and getting cross at me ('cause it's all my fault lol).
we do the strips of steak, chicken and lamb (with the lamb we strip off a cutlet leaving a little strip on the bone for her to chew..she loves it, my little 'caveman' baby lol).

Milly: that must be a relief that she has stopped biting! we have a baby that loves to scratch your face off ATM and i am not sure what to do? i am guessing there isnt much i can do???
has the teething necklace helped at all?? argh! i so dont look forward to teething again lol.

AFM: well as of yesterday afternoon Marta has started crawling!!! . the house is no longer safe from her tyranny bahahahahaha! the cats have bolted from the house in sheer terror as this giggling, drooling machine charges after them lol. it also means that now i need to get safety locks on the doors and drawers as with the crawling her line of sight has risen and she is now interested in opening and shutting things. we already had our first hit in the head with a drawer and our first near miss where she tried to take off outside down the back step (thankfully not a big one, but still). it also does mean that i really really need to vacuum more often and sweep the courtyard area (we have leaves falling and loads of possum poo thanks to the resident family in the neighbours tree...yes, marta has tasted both yesterday eeeewwwww!).

[Cherished]

Awww HI GIRLS! Thanks for thinking of me, I'm still here. I hate being one of those gals who posts all about themselves all the time and I haven't had time to read back through all the posts and reply properly to everyone so I just haven't been posting today I thought I hadn't gotten any notifications for ages and didn't think that there could be a new thread Anyway I'm here now and when I get on top of things at home I will reply to everyone and fill you in on what's happening here. In a nut shell I'm pretty good but have the worst cold I have had in YEARS, nothing like the sniffle here and there during pg.... gotta go DS is awake now.... promise I'll be back soon for updates. xoxox

[Cassius2]

oh it is so good to see you in here! i had resigned myself to this thread slipping away so it's awesome to see someone here who can share in our baby travels

[milly5]

Hi ladies!!

Yes, it is quiet in here, but I think that it's a good thing - it means we are all busy with our bubs and our lives IRL to spend too long on BB! I know I struggle to find the time. And when I go back to work (next week - yikes!) I will be probably only popping in once a week or so.....

So .......

Cass - Marta crawling - wow! DD shows no sign of it here, hates her tummy time and will roll straigt back, but she will pull up (with assistance) and take weight thru her legs, so I reckon she is just going to wait till she can walk and skip the crawling all together! I had to laugh at everyone saying about needing to do some cleaning though, because I have been thinking that too!

Cherished - good to see you! Bad news about the cold, I hope it's better now!

HPL - how is Audrey going? She must be crawling now too, or very close?

AFM - well, DD had a snuffly nose for a week (I think it was hayfever, as she wasn't sick like a cold), it was just that she couldn't blow her nose, so she was all blocked up and couldn't feed, sleep or breathe through her nose. So poor mummy was very tired. Thankfully she is better now.
Our main "troubles" have been around sleeping - well day sleeps or naps - and for me they are still a challenge, but at least she goes to sleep for dad. I think she smells the milk on me, and just wants to suckle all the time because its nice.
Eating - she is enjoying her food, and likes feeding herself. She surprises everyone with what she eats (solid finger food only). If she does have a soft food like yoghurt, she won't allow me to use the spoon, she has to do it herself, miss independence.
And the biggest news - I am going back to work, just part-time, but still We have day care organised, which I am happy with what we have arranged, I just don't want to have to do it.
And the big plan is, after going back to work, we will begin TTC, so hopefully I won't be back there for very long!
Well that's us in a nutshell. Hope all you ladies are doing well.

PS. Is there anyway I can PM you guys a photo??? I don't have a facebook/photobucket/etc.