Babies born~ September 2007 #65

Cholc overload here too. MD I love your idea of plastic eggs and think we will do that next year.

Arte I am thinking blue for you too. I hope your scan and hunt for mat clothes goes well.

I hope everyone has had a great Easter and loooong weekend. We are still in Sydney, meant to head home tomorrow but I have a newborn shoot in the morning so will head home on Thursday. Its been a great holiday but I am looking forward to getting home. DH will still have a few days off when we get home which will be nice.

ooohhh squishy newborns! that would be gorgeous Oz xx

Cass she is a tiny little thing too only 2.8kg when born a week ago. Gotta love my job lol

mwah! i love it! Leila was so so tiny at well, just 100gms smaller than the bubba you are about to meet...i can't believe how fast they grow!

busy busy buy here again. Easter was fine - just a quiet one because DH was working night shift. But got a phone call from my sister on Saturday night saying that Mum was in hospital again as she got another infection in her foot and they had to take another toe off (same foot as before). So she is stuck in frikken Monash Clayton because she and my brother were down there for a week to have easter with my sister. So Monday I had to drive to Albury to pick my brother up and bring him home so he doesn't miss school and to cap it off he is a debutante partner for one of his friends so he also has rehearsals for that. We're hoping that they will transfer her back to wagga now they have done the surgery but they were talking about her staying in melb for a week to monitor dressing changes and mum is not at all impressed with that! She she is going to keep hassling them about coming back because if she stayed a week with my sister when she is incapacitated, she will either kill herself or my sister LOL.

oh far out Trill! how are your mum's spirits about it all? busy and stressful times for you :hug:

She is really low Cass. She is just so upset that it has happened again when she was doing everything right with her original wound. The Dr's seemed to think that it has something to do with her circulation because they went down by train so they had a 10hr train trip where she was sitting for most of that time and they think that the blood flow to her foot was compromised and allowed an infection to happen. It happened really quickly though but it's a good thing my sister is the massive pain in the arse that she is because she forced mum to go to the hospital instead of waiting till she got home to see her own Dr about it. And now she is in her element because SHE is the one who gets to run around after Mum and make all the phone calls and basically gets the world revolving around here which is the way she likes things. Trouble is she keeps telling us all the wrong information so we've (brothers and I) have told her not to call us, we'll just call the hospital LOL. But she can have that job - I've been there done that and it's hard! It's not as glamourous as she thinks it is

Trill, sounds like it will do your sis the world of good to have that responsibility for a bit (pity about the misinformation). So sorry to hear your mum is going through all this again. :hug: The train trip explanation sounds pretty plausible, but it means she'll have to be soooo vigilant forever more, which is a PITA too.

yeah that's what i was thinking too. goes to show our uber full on it all is...to think a train trip can set it off...does she have all the circulation stocking thingos etc?

i think this will be quite the reality check for your sis: even if you mum wont be there long...just doing the back and forwards to hossy thing is exhausting and emotional.

She didn't have the compression stockings, but she will have to get some now I reckon, even if she just wears them around home. Especially now it's getting colder and she's always been a shocker for feeling the cold in her hands and feet.

Hanging around waiting to hear if there's any exciting news from Arte...:)

trill- sorry to hear about your mum :(
fwiw the monash medical centre is where i had L when he was really sick and they were great, very thorough

cass- i love Maldon. beautiful town. great for antique shopping....those were the days huh? wouldn't dare try to do that now with these two terrors.

feeling totally jealous atm of our friends who have just had a baby boy on the weekend. also found out another friend is pg with a boy. totally don't want a third but totally of jealous of people who are having #3. what is up with that? does it ever stop or will i spend the rest of my life being jealous of pg women/women with newborn babies?

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Hanging around waiting to hear if there's any exciting news from Arte...:)

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i am stalking too. i think i have the perfect name too, but can someone please remind me what arte's dh's name is as i have forgotten

My DH's name is Rodney, it is W's middle name.

But won't be needing any help with a boys name - in the absence of anything dangling, it looks like we are having another girl!

Ginger, :hug: I am not sure if it is a life long thing lusting after a new baby. I guess at some point you come to a peace with it?

Trill, bummer about your mum. That is really rough going.

congratulations arte!!!!! so thrilled for you!

so you have a girl's name right?

I have a girls name that I like but I am not entirely sure about. I am going to PM you for an honest opinion.
What was the boys name you came up with?

that is lovely news Arte!!!

G, I know I am done - well and truly 110% done with having babies, but I still get insanely jealous when I hear about someone I know being pg or having had their baby and it is even worse when it is someone having their 5th, 6 of even 7th!. I guess it is just one of those things kwim? I think it stems from remembering how exciting and amazing it was to have a brand new little person in your life. So how was your trip away anyway?

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

wahoo arte! *squeals with excitement*

G: i dont think it will ever stop, that longing, that newborn squishy lust fest....darn it. and now that i am selling some of our stuff, it's so so hard :( i can't yet bare to part with some things (ie moses basket etc etc).