Babies born~April 2007 #21

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Kel am glad you got some direction and are going to see someone. Youre having a bugger of a time with the kids and their sleep and being sick. Hope things get better.

All good here... just waiting as usual!

[MrsFabuloso]

Hi ladies!

How are you all....?

We are ok. I'm not feeling 100% today though and Lil and Li put me through my paces last night, tag teaming each other all night. I think I was awake every hour. No kidding. So over it. Just when I opened my big mouth and told mum they had been sleeping through the past 4 nights, and sleeping til at least 6.45 (5.45 non DLS time though! I am still adjusting...) most mornings. I'm never telling anyone if they're sleeping well again. Seriously I just jinx myself everytime. Now I have a headache, though I'm not sure if it's from not sleeping, having this cold or sinus or whatever it is, or from having an ear ache. Or maybe it's a migraine coming, which I haven't had for ages....since being pg, it feels like it's going to be one. The kids are behaving ok, though they are both tired since we woke at 5.50, or 4.50 in non DLS time. Grrrr.....I can feel today will not be a good day. Though if I feel like that I guess it will turn out to be like that. I will try to make an effort, but I so just want to curl up on the lounge and ignore everything except the tv. Why couldn't they have done this yesterday when they went to childcare and I could have had a rest...?? They like to torture me.

Mel, I hope you're going well and baby is getting her bum into gear to be born very soon! I hope the girls are being good and you are taking things easy.

Kris, hi!! How is the selling and moving going? I bet things are starting to happen now! How exciting for youall. I havee seen your lics on fb, you new place looks like it will be so peaceful and beautiful.

Kaz, how are you going? How is bubby going, and how is your body coping? I'm getting more and more aches and pains. My hips are getting worse, ick!! I never had this kind of pain with the other two, it was always just my back with them.

Jen....are you around?? How are Beau and Archie? How old is Archie now? How are you going? Are you working now? I hope all is well!

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Ah Kel- big hugs, hope you are feeling better soon. More importantly I hope those children start sleeping properly soon,

Am going ok, started getting back ache/period pain. Bubs is likely to be posterior os i need to turn her around so this doesnt kill my back. Girls have been good although Olivias attitude could be a lot better. Am over the NO all the time! My patience is thin at the minute.....

Better go am falling asleep!

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Ok... I am still here.... seriously thought I would have gone by now. Baby is well engaged, so much so that they are having trouble finding her head under my pelvic bone!!!!
Hope youre all well

[Kazbah]

Wow Mel, that must be very ... awkward-feeling. I'm stalking your FB, will Adam be updating your status when you go in?

Well I've 2.5 weeks left at work. Pip's room is almost ready for carpet, DH wants to get him a firetruck bed and I'm about to paint his wardrobe and stuff. Pip saw the baby today, and was imitating the baby's hand over its eye on the u/sound. So cute!

How is everyone else going?

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Hey Kaz- yep its awkward.... the pressure is weird and its even weirder feeling movement around my bum!!! This little lady is very comfy and I dont think wants to go anywhere! Maybe I will have a relaxed lady on my hands, instead of the 2 firery ones I already have!!! As for the announcement..... I have fb on my phone so I wanted to pop something up there when I am done! We have some plans of how we hope the day will unfold. mum is coming to our house to stay with the girls until the baby is born. We will call her to bring them in and have some family time so they can be the first to meet their sister. Then we will call other family and send out text and I will pop it on fb. I think though I have your number in my phone so more than likely you will get a text

Good to see youre on the home stretch. How come you had a scan? Do you have a low lying placenta? Yay on finishing work soon and getting Pips room finished. I love the bed ..... do you know what gender you are having? Hope youre feeling well too

Ok.... got to get off my butt.... girls are at day care for 3 hours this morning and it might be the last 3 hours I have of me time!!!

[Kazbah]

yay Mel!

Yes, low-lying placeta, but it's now 4.5cm out of the way, so all's OK for the FBC!

I have our 32 week appt with the midwives tomorrow night - yay!!!!!

Good luck, rest lady!

[MrsFabuloso]

Hello lovelies!

Mel, how are you going...bubs still firmly in place? I am hoping you're having lovely snuggly newborn snuggles right now, just as I predicted you would on FB!! If not yet, then I hope she's making her way here

Kaz, yay @ not long left for work! That must feel good! I hope you're feeling ok with the SPD and stuff. My back/pelvis is ok if I don't move too much, lol! The last week or two I have really noticed that I need to stop doing so much. I rested all day the other day and did nothing but make food for everyone all day and I felt alot better for it. The yesterday I did a bit of cleaning and tidying then walked around doing the groceries and felt it last night and this morning. Home alone now for 3 days so I think I will be suffering for it not much I can do about it though!
Glad to hear your placenta has moved up too.

Dis, are you around?? How are you? I hope all is well!

Jen...? Are you here too?? lol!

Kris, how's things? Has your place settled yet? When do you move?

AFM, well, as I said DH is away til Tue night in Sydney for work. So I am a single mummy for a few days. Not really looking forward to that! But one good thing is that DH has been given a few extra days off, so on Wed, we will have a day together kid free since the kids go to day care. Then next week we are going back to Sydney again, and DH has gotten an extra day off, so we will have some spare time there instead of the whirlwind visit it was going to be! My mum and dad have given me a bit of money for bub so we might be able to go on a bit of a shopping spree for him, so exciting!! I barely have anything for him, just a cot and about 5 singlets, 3 little outfits, 2 long sleeve onsies, 4 short onsies, some socks and bibs, oh and a few packets of nappies. I want to paint the room for him before he's born too, lol! It's sunshine yellow at the mo, so ugly!! We need a pram, a rocker, some sheets and blankets, more clothes....plus I will need some summer clothes for me, I have no shorts,skirts or anything! Just long winterish clothes besides a few t-shirts. I also need mat bras desperately! My boobies are growing even bigger! I dread to know what size they are now from the 16 E they were....eek! I had my glucose test the other day, so I will get the results next week. It wouldn't surprise me if I had it this pg...

Ok I'm going, have washing to hang out after our torrential downfalls and cyclonic winds we have just endured for the last few days!! I hope everyone is well!

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Kel I am still here and I think your prediction migh be wrong. This is a pain in the back side! I'll be 40 weeks on Tuesday! I never been this far and it occured to me that this baby might be huge! OUCH!!!! Oh well. I have the text messages and phone calls and fb messages coming in asking if any movement.... ggr.... Its a Pain waiting... think I said that already! My sister extended her stay so she could meet the baby but has to fly out today to WA because her work wont give her more time. She has never seen any of my kids newborn so we are both a little disappointed. But what can you do! Maybe I might get a baby for my birthday on Wednesday!

Well.... have a good day!

[MrsFabuloso]

Mel, I said it before but, CONGRATS on your beautiful new princess!!! I saw that things a proving a bit tough these first few weeks....I so totally expect to be in tears every day for at least 6months, lol! Not looking forwards to that bit. But you had your bubba!! YAY!!! How as the birth for you, are you recovering well?


Hi girls, just a very quick one from me, we are well. We go to Sydney today, well start the trip, we will most likely stop because Damien is working and I don't wnat him to drive the whole way in one night. Plus I don't know if I can sit in the same position for so long! Lily and Liam are being very well behaved lately (though I am sure that won't last long!) Lil is growing wayyy too fast and this morning she came to me for the first ime ever and told me 'Look mummy, I didn't wee in my nappy last night!!!" It was something I was totally not worried about, but now she's done it, maybe I should try to get her out of nappies full time...?? Though, I don't want to be getting up heaps to change wet sheets while she's learning....lazy mummy I know!
Baby is getting very strong and tres wiggly and sometimes scares me whne he kicks, lol! They are also getting uncomfortable! His movements are very obvious now and you can see them on the outside, lots of people have said "OMG, I saw that!!" when he kicks! My back/pelvis is not going so great some days I can barely move. I had a migrane yesterday too, and was in bed all arvo. I had my GD test a few weeks ago, though I'm not sure how the results went yet, I haven't been able to get back to the doctors because he had a car accident and has been in hospital with a brain injury! He's back to work this week though, so I will just have to get the midwives to call him when I have my appt this week in Sydney.
Ok gotta go and pack and get things done before we leave for Sydney this arvo. I am excited about being back in civilisation again though!! Even just for a few days... I hope everyone is well!

[MrsFabuloso]

*cut and pasted from Belly Buddies*

We are back from Sydney. It was a LOOONNGG drive! Very uncomfy for me and it has totally stuffed my pelvis and back. I acn barely walk without hobbling adn holding onto furniture. I am feeling rather sorry for myself! I don't look forward to the drive to Sydney when I'm 36/7 weeks pg to give birth. It will be terribly uncomfortable! We even stopped half way, so it was only 4hrs in the car either way, but it didn't help much. I am totally tired and exhausted and I couldn't sleep well at mums place either, and Liam got a huge fever on the way home, not sure what it was but I had to give him nurofen and panadol an hour later to get rid of it. He been captain sooky pants since then and I can't lift him at the mo and he really doesn't appreciate that!! We snuggle on the lounge but he wants me to carry him around while I do stuff, and I can barely walk let alone carry a 13kg toddler around!
I still haven't gotten my GCT results, though I have a sneaking suspicion I may have GD. Only because I am sooo big (my belly is) I had too much amniotic fluid with Liam and I feel like I did with him this time too, I am just huge. My belly feels alot bigger this time. I should pull out Liam's yellow card and have a look at it. So I either have GD an da huge bub (or extra huge in my case since my kids were generously proportioned anyway!) Or I'm just really fat. And a hypochondriac! I have been CRAVING sweet stuff like it's going out of fashion. I have been drinking alot and weeing alot, but I do that when I'm pg, it's not anything that's really different. Plus my pelvic floor muscles are shot so I pee alot anyway, lol...sorry tmi!! But we will find out on Wednesday for sure.
I had a midwives appt last week and all was well- BP, babys heart beat. Thankfully she didn't measure my fundus because that is always a rather large measurement! If I do have GD, or evern the polyhydramniosis again, I will be a high risk patient and that will really stuff us up being rural, because the hospital will want to monitor me, which will mean I have to drag the kids to stay in Sydney for 6ish extra weeks. I so don't want to and would go bananas if I had to live at my mothers for that long, and be pretty much a single parent for that long, and that far pg too....trying not to worry about it though since it's not happened yet!
Ok gotta go I can't sit here for too long, or my back screams at me to move!
Sorry no personals, will try to catch up in the next few days. I hope everyone is well

[Kazbah]

Good to hear from you Kel, sorry you're feeling so poorly with the pelvic instability!

I have decided that starting to teach Pip "10 green bottles" was not the act of a rational person.

[MrsFabuloso]

I have decided that starting to teach Pip "10 green bottles" was not the act of a rational person.

HAHAHAHA!!!! No it may not have been....blame the baby brain!

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Thanks girls for the congrats. Life is so very busy with 3.... I dont know how Kristie does it. Breast feeding sux and I am emotionally drained. I think I just have to come to the conclusion that my babies all dont want to suck. Anyway shes putting on weight with all the ebm... and did i say i hate expressing? Ok my hungry hippo is hungry again.... will try and get in for some personals. Am sure you have seen the pics on fb

[Kazbah]

awww mel, I'm sorry that the b/f isn't working out like you thought it would - I'm off to my first ABA meeting tomorrow, inspired by you! And I have a meeting with a LC on Friday next week too! How are you coping on your own with the 3 of them?

AFM - well oops, we are the bad parents of the day! Went out and got Pip his big-boy bed etc today, came home a bit sore so told DH I was going to have a lie-down and nap. (that was 3pm). Told him to take his mobile, but he left it with me? Anyhow it rings, I finally wallow around the bed to find it, see it's my friend who's little girl is in the same CCC as Pip and that it's past closing time for the CCC. Doh. Go out to find DH on the home phone with my friend, he'd fallen asleep watching teev too - thank goodness my friend was there, she picked up Pip and brought him home, else it's like $15 / 5 mins that you go past closing time!!!! ahhh well, least she has authoritaaayy to collect him!!!! And I had a good nap too And tonight, Pip is sleeping in his new room on his new bed for the first time, he was so excited!!!

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Oh thats too funny Kaz... oops! As long as you had a good sleep!!! Lucky your friend was there! Hey Kaz- do you want to organise a time/day to meet up with Kris before she moves? It will be easier now your not working. I think Kristie is free fridays which suit me too.... hope she pops in soon

Kel- hope youre well. Sounds like you are busy with the kids and feeling huge (oh I dont miss that) Hope you get good results back from your gd test.

AFM- I had a better day yesterday... am up and down like a yoyo with all this bfing stuff! I will have to go to an aba drop in soon as I cant keep affording all this extra help! My LC is good but she stopped calling after a while. I had this lady who came over to do reflexology with the baby. Shes also a midwife and she calls me more than the lc and I like her shes caring. So anyway Amy had a good try at the boob yesterday and managed 30 sucks in a row. It gives me hope that she can do it, now to just perservere.... and I hired the pump for 4 more weeks, so am hoping I have sorted it out eirther way by then. I am coping ok with 3 kids... the girls have been so good and patient. It does get hectic and trying but that can happen with 1 bub! I am trying to get out of the house now instead of sitting on the couch all the time. Its so hard when all you do is pump all day long! ok my time is up..... hugs and kisses to ya all!

[MrsFabuloso]

Hi ladies!!

Got my GD results last week and all is well, I'm just a hypochondriac!! Although when I took the kids to another doc for something about THEM he kept looking at me funny and then said 'Do you have thyroid problems, you thyroid looks swollen?' Ummm, no! So he's ordered me to have an u/s for my thyroid and a blood test tomorrow to check my thyroid function!

The kids are being really great today. They're keeping each other busy and playing so nicely. I love days like this! Particularly when I am feeling like I am today with a sore back, hip and neck and I am sooo tired. I was up to Liam every two hours or so last night. Plus it is just really hard for me to get comfy and sleep these days!

Mel, how are you going hun? How is the bfing going and how are your gorgeous girls? Half of me can't wait for bubs to come and half of me is kinda scared of how I'm going to cope with the three of them!

Ok gott a go the kids are hungry...(what's new???)

Hi to everyone else, I hope you're all well!

[Kazbah]

Oooh I have thyroid problem - it's the Adam's apple that gets swollen! So if you have a pronounced Adam's apple, that can be a reason. It is worth getting checked out as it can impact on fetal development and b/fing too. (just discovered that last night).

Hope you're feeling a bit better, it sounds like the kids are being angels for you

Mel - yes, that would be good!

I'm just keeping Pip amused while DH installs our new teev And I'm making lunch - just bread "pizzas" or welsh rarebit or grilled cheese on toast, whatever you want to call it!