Mmmm, grilled cheese....you just made up my mind for lunch Kaz!!!
Yeah, I will get it checked for sure. I know it can have serious impact on things. Could be part of why I'm so tired and getting depressed..... But then the tiredness could be part of the depression and the depression could be part of the sleep deprivation...who knows! It's an evil cycle whatever it is! I kinda hope I have something so it is easier to 'cure' than the depression is! But then I don't want any kind of chronic illness either (though that's what depression is lol!) Damien so lovingly told me he thinks it's nothing to do with my thyroid, that I'm fine, it's just that I'm getting really fat and so is my neck. Nice. Thanks babe. Way to make your 30wk pg wife feel better.
Totally over being pg. I hate the restrictions I have on me and I hate feeling like I do. The only good thing is the bubby in my belly. Everything else for me totally sucks! (Sorry if that offends anyone, but thats how it is for me). My kid free days are lovely and very much looked forwards to! I have been busy for that last few though, with D's and my wedding anniversary on one, his birthday on another and helping out a friend on another! Plus I make my doc's appointments on those days, so blood tests and checkups are those days too. But I usually get in a nanna nap and have made a point of going to one of the (two!) local cafes for breaky or morning tea. On my own or I invite one or two of the other mummies to come and keep me company. I had the most devine honey and macadamia nut cheese cake last week, OMG *drooool!!* I will have to go back this week and see if they still have some, it's the cake of my dreams! And I'm usually a chocolate chicky! Hehehe!
Well, we are almost there!! I *think* I'm 32ish weeks today....wow! Alot of people are telling me I have dropped, which I think I have too, unless baby's bum just isn't up in my ribs anymore, lol! But I think he's still head down. The pain in my back has changed too, which makes me think he's moved. It's now more in my hips and pelvis rather than back, though that stillhurts too! My heartburn/reflux isn't so bad either so I think that's a result of baby now squishing my stomach anymore! Still lots of movements and squirming in there. I think he likes to roll around alot cuase there's not so much kicks as that rolly polly feeling, just big slow movements that make me feel sick sometimes! I have been getting BH like they're going out of fashion. I can't hardly move without getting one. When I do alot or get really upset, I think I've been having a few real contractions too. Nothing regular and nothing I'm really worried about, but I am trying not to do alot of physical stuff, which is making me crazy (I'd be terrible if put on bed rest!), or get too upset or worked up.
My belly seems to have slowed with it's growth! It's not as huge as it seemed a few weeks ago, lol! Sleeping is just a fruitless effort for me. My hips hurt and I just can't get comfy. Like at the end of my other two pg's the best place for me to sleep at themo is on the lounge! But DS still needs DH or I to sleep with him, so we alternate who sleeps in there, and when I do I just have to resign my self to the fact that I won't be sleeping that night! Between DS literally sleeping on top of me, him waking at least 2 times, DD occaisionally waking and me waking to pee, or just being uncomfy, I think I might get about 4hours sleep!
I am still feeling terribly disorganised for bub. I had wanted to paint the room and decorate it al little but funds are really tight at the moment so I don't know if we will manage that right now. Plus we still don't have all the furniture we need, like a change table or a chest of drawers! And I still need to buy DD a booster seat so baby can have her baby car seat (a convertable SnS). Arrrgh!! I guess it's lucky we don't have a car anyway, lol...the car seat doesn't matter so much right now! But we do need to get one and God know's how that will happen since the stupid banks won't let us consolidate our debts and give a measely $12000, which we have proven we can pay back....grr, anyway, enough of that!
Ok, there's a fight in the loungeroom, gotta sort it out! Hope all is well with everyone, sorry for no personals!
Hey Kel- I saw you had a good sleep last night... yay for you. I hope your monkeys start sleeping well all the time. Time goes fast at this end of things, I hope you can sort it all out in time. Did you organise to get another car? Hows DHs shoulder?
Kaz- sorry we missed you yesterday, I hope you are doing well. Hows it all going with b/f stuff? I am glad I got help beforehand. I hope you have success with it but please dont put pressure on yourself if it doesnt. I have found that I am so much more relaxed and willing to work with it for longer and my mental health is not suffering as much. I still am expressing and bottle feeding for every feed but each time I put her to the boob she seems to be making progress. I am also taking her to osteo so am hoping that will soon start making a difference. I spoke with my LC last night and decided that if Amy hasnt made any significant improvement by the 3rd osteo session that I will start to look at changing her over to formula. However I was googling last night and it was suggested that 5kgs is a magic turn around point for babies as they are bigger and stronger.... so if I can stick it out til then I will definately give it a bell... if not oh well I tried! Shes putting on about 420gms each fortnight so maybe by the time shes 8 to 10 weeks she will be ok? Anyway, all the best for your birth. Did you go early with Pip or over?
Kris- good to see you and the boys. Olivia loved it to bits. Thanks for showing me your car too.... got to say I like it and will definately look around. The only thing that worries me is the leg room for the back row..... Hope your semi move went ok too last night.
Hey Mel and Jen
Ok... got to go vote and the kids are into theyoghurt.... again1
Sorry about yesterday, I didn't wake up until 12:00 and ended up going into Belgrave / Earthly Pleasures. Totally over the pregnancy! Mel, are you in ABA? There's a book I've borrowed from our branch library, "Increasing your milk supply" which is quite interesting, might be worth seeing if your branch has a copy. That's a good weight gain isn't it?
Pip was induced at 8 days over, saw the midwife yesterday and we're still at 4/5 but she doesn't have any idea how "cooked" Quoll will be! I am just over it all to be honest - my pelvis is killing me sitting, standing, lying and when Trev drives it throws me around and is so painful! Thank goodness Pip's pregnancy wasn't like this, else we wouldn't be going back for a second. Voted 2 weeks ago at an early polling centre, couldn't handle the thoughts of standing in queue!
Pip's being semi-adorable when he's not being a total pain, at the moment he's screaming cause we put him in his room for kicking Trev But last night he was telling the midwife that he would share his underpants (?) with the baby!
how do u get to sleep til then????????
Am not in ABA but have been there for the drop in centre. Also I have milk... I am pumping now as I trype with my lovely double pump and the hadns free bra I made with a crop top! This morning I pumped around 140mls each side. Usually I get anywhere between 90mls and 130 each side. So supply aint an issue for me. Shes not great on attachment and when she does get on she falls asleep. I have tried shields but they hurt so bad. I apparently have large nipples.... so mine are like the diametre of big chalk and normal are like pencils... so with her tiny mouth shes had a hard time getting on. She is getting better though but she needs to wake up and start drinking!
I can totally understand you being over it. Hopefully youll be finished soon enough.
Well I'm averaging getting to sleep around 2:30 / 3am, 4 some mornings, and DH takes Pip for morning activities...I usually get up around 10:30 / 11 though
Mel, sounds like things are going pretty well. I'm so glad to hear that!
Yep, got one good nights sleep. DH let me sleep in our bed without the kids, shut the door and rest as long as I wanted. He can be so generous sometimes. I think he just know's I'm really getting to the end of my tehter. Some days moreso than others. This last week or so has been tough. I'm very teary over stupid stuff. I had been feeling pretty good despite my stupid back, but now it's getting worse and it's all too much. But DH has been great doing stuff and not complaining at all.
DHs shoulder seems to be getting better by the day. He had it treated the week before last and the doctor just confirmed that he can go back to full duties at work yesterday. YAY!! I think he's pretty chuffed, though he's not saying it, lol! He will still have to get his gun liscence renewed to be able to be back to full duties though because he's been off for so long, so that will most likely take us til next year anyway, but hey, he's well again, and at least he will be able to do some more differnt stuff at work than just paper work!
As for a car, well, we will be getting one, but totally not what we wanted. The banks just will NOT give us an extension on our loan so we can't get a bigger car. We are going to buy one off a work colleague of DH's. It's a medium car about the same size of the one we have. It will do and I am totally greatful that it's there. It sounds like a great deal, though I have no idea about cars! I had to swallow my pride and ask my nan to loan us $3000 so we can buy it. It was one of the most difficult things I have done! She had no issues of doing it and has actually given it to us, which I kinda thought she would, but that was just not the point. I was in tears by the end of the conversation, lol! My nan is the best and is always there for whoever needs her. She's a gorgeous lady!
Kaz, sorry to ehar you're not sleeping. I've been a bit like that. I'm not even bothering to try to go to bed before 11pm these days, even though I feel like I could sleep a day away, I just can't fall asleep. The anxiety and pain is doing nothing for me!
I can't believe Quoll is nearly here! 1 week to go!! :OMG: How are you feeling?
AFM, well, just plodding along. I can't believe there is just over 7wks til baby is due to come! It really is flying. I can remember just a few weeks ago I was hanging out for it to go faster and now it's flying by and I can't keep up. Feeling a bit miserable actually. Very sick of my back and not being able to move much. I have really over done things the past few days and I am paying today, living off panadol which is doing nothing much at all and just trying not to move. At one time last night I got up to go to the loo and just cried because moving my right leg hurts so much. But I am so bored and feel terribly sorry for women who end up on bed rest due to pregnancy. I couldn't imagine how boring and frustrating that would be, especially with other children.
We moved DD into her own room yesterday. She had been sharing with DS because the bedroom we put them into was just so HUGE! And they were used to sleeping in the same room from when we lived in the unit. But Lil was so absolutely excited about having her own room and keeps telling me that it's beautiful! She even went to sleep by herself for the first time in....at least a year! Without me or DH laying with her. She has just grown up soooo much in the past few weeks. She's night toilet trained herself all of a sudden too. Just went from one week waking with wet nappies, to the next week having dry nappies and not weeing in her bed yet (and it's been about 3weeks!).
DS is going through a terribly sooky laalaa me me me it's all abotu me stage. He constantly wants me to pick him up and I just can't, so he throws tantys and cries and follows me sooking all day. He's driving me bananas because it isn't that I don't want to cuddle him, I'm just not able to much, plus having them on me at the moment is just intolerable sometimes. I can't handle them being on me or at me or nattering about inane things all day. I'm feeling quite trapped sometimes. Just due to hormones and not being able to do things, but I hate feeling like this!! Part of me just wants baby to come but part of me is scared of having a newborn again! Sleepless nights, two other children....sometimes I just think I'm crazy for having another, lol! Especially when the other two are getting abit more independant, especially DD.
Hi ladies!!
Well, we are going ok. Except for the rain! I wish it would bugger off, it's even raining out here in the outback, I though it was supposed to be red dust and dirt storms out here!! Thoguh in a wya it's good because it's keeping those freaky locusts away!! I hate the locusts! My poor DD has kittens whenever she sees one flying around! I do too, but try to look brave for the kids, lol!
My back and pelvis still suck, but that's par for the cousrse now. I guess 3 kids in 4 years would do that to you!! I so miss my bady from then, lol!! I used to be so fit and slim compared to now! I used to walk everywhere, swim for exercise, go to the gym, fit into size 12 clothes...lol!! Ahh, the memories! And I worked FULLTIME as a childcare worker until I was 35wks when pg with Lily! :OMG: I couldn't even imagine one day working with the pg! It's such an effort to just walk the 20min round trip to the grocery shop! And it's all flat road, lol! Then I also worked part time with Liam's pg until 33wks...eekk! I just can't wait til I have myself back. I'm really trying not to wish time away, but I just ant to be me again and sort myself out, emotionally and physically. I over being so overweight and overemotional....it's just so sucky!
Baby Heff is doing well. He is kicking the crap outta me and is giving me some lovely (not!) cervix kick shocks too. Such a horrible feeling! Still have a horrible achey pelvis and hips, but that's par for the course now I guess. I am going to go through his things we have today and see what else we need/want. I have been informed that I will be having a baby shower in a few weeks (the day before we drive back to my mum's in Sydney for preparations for birth!) yay!! My first baby shower, believe it or not, lol!! I can't believe that we will be due to have babies in 6-7ish (+) weeks!! After such a looong pg, these last weeks are flying! I had my checkup the other day and all seems well with bub too. His heart beat was about 135, but he kept rolling away from the doppler so the doc couldn't get a propper reading, lol! I have put on about 10kgs so far and I ahve ahad a nice little chat with Heffalump that he can't make mummy too much fatter, lol! But if I think of it rationally, I expect him to be about as big as DS was, which was 4.2 kg, so 10-12kg in the grand scheme isn't really alot I guess, when you factor in amniotic fluid, blood, boobies and just all the other stuff related to being pg! I'm just a bit paranoid since I was overweight before being pg and I only put on 9-10kg with DS's adn DD's pgs full term. But I am not doing much at all in the way of movement since my back/pelvis is too bad to move much. Ah well, I will get it off afterwards!
Tomorrow we are having DH's work chrissy party. Lily is sooo excited and has been counting down for days! She even cried this morning because it was raining and she thought she couldn\t go to the party, poor poppet! I had to explain she had one more night time sleep to go and even if it was raining we were still going to the party! I'm looking forward to it too, no cooking, yummy food and a jumping castle, plus the 15 or so other kids that will be there to keep my monkeys entertained! Hopefully DH won't get tooo drunk! Though I do wish I could join him, lol!
Lil is now sleeping in her own room. And she has night toilet trained herself!! We decided to move her into the babys room and when bub is ready to go into his room, he can share with Liam. Liam is still cosleeping withone of us. Bub's cot is in the spare room at the moment with our spare double bed which is where I plan on sleeping with baby...so I have no idea how it will work, but it will just have to, lol!! At least Lily sleeps most nights through now! She is just being such a pleasure at the moment,she's so gorgeous!!
Liam is gorgeous too, though he's being a bit of a cling on sooky lalaa lately! He's been wanting me to pick him up alot and then whinging becuase I can't. And he's also hurting and pushing Lily around somedays, which he hasn't really done much of at all. Still not eating well at dinner time, but I am so over it, I just don't care anymore. He eats and wats allll day, so he's not starving, but he just flatly refuses to eat dinner unless there is a fresh cob of corn there or sausages, and even then it's hit and miss with sausages these days, or he will eat pizza, but only store brought! He had been eating fish fingers and chicken nuggets (both homemade) and spaghetti with mince, but now he just won't. I have no idea why. But feed him something like yoghurt and he will devour it and ask for more. Or fruit, he would eat a whole punnet of strawberries, a banana, watermelon and an apple if that was what was on offer. Maybe I should just give him that....but then I want him to eat his veggies and meat too. And I don't want to be making two different things every night. If he doesn't eat now, he just goes to bed hungry. Like last night. He hadn't eaten anything 'propper' since about 2pm yesterday, and went to bed without eating at all. He took over an hour to get to sleep and through the night I heard his little tummy rumbling. God I felt like one shi tty mother then! But I'm just not going to give in! He will either get used to not eating, or he will eat what I give him!! Aaarrrgh!! I so don't know what to do! Lily has always been a pretty good eater and now she will eat almost anything, she will at least try anything.
YAY on the baby shower!!!! I've never had one either - how wonderful for you, who's organising it? The work party sounds great, I didn't organise anything for Pip this year - meant to get around to Friends of the Zoo, but you know how these things don't happen!!!! Been wondering about how you're going, my mum & dad are driving down from brissie at the mo and I just suggested they go through Orange as opposed to Parkes cause of the road closures. Hopefully they won't get flooded in anywhere. Pip is alternating between being adorable and being a pain, and DH isn't wearing deodorant - WHY? it's freakin' 35deg by 10:30 and he stinks, and my sense of smell is so sensitive at the moment! And he gets upset if all I say is "forget the deodorant this morning did we" - apparently he hasn't showered yet since thursday (triple ugggghs) and only puts on deodorant after a shower - I wish he did!!!!
mmmmm pizza. i hear you on the food, it's so hard to get them eating. I just use bribery for sweets to get him through the mains. and limit snacks in the afternoon.
Hey lovely ladies.... sorry I have been MIA, I have been reading but not replying coz I just cant get the timing right....but now I have put the girls to bed and have hidden away in the loo!!! hehe!
Kel- ooh a baby shower. I havent had one of those. Have fun. Sounds like your body is taking it hard. I hear you on the memories of how I used to be.... fit, slim (er) working.... now i dont have time for any of it! It will come though. Glad Lil is sleeping through most nights too... about time! Hope Li settles soon. Becca was very clingy towards the end of my pregnancy too. Goos luck with the meal time saga. I hope he leans quickly that he gets what he gets.
Kaz- yes we missed you the other day. Poor you on not sleeping well. Looking forward to meeting quoll.... I am guessing you know the flavour!!! Maybe we can catch up post birth. Would love you to meet Amy and I would love to meet quoll. Oh and yuck on Trevs smell!
Hi everyone else!
AFM- we are settling in fine! Fine enough for me to start thinking about things....like my visit to the drs on Wednesday and trying to decide about contraception and if I want more kids. I have a feeling that I might...maybe. I think dh might too.... I have to say though that I hate the first 6 weeks of baby, its so hard and emotionally wrecking! Things have turned around now and are looking up. I am still expressing though which I hate with a passion. I took Amy to the osteo for the 2nd time and there has been some improvement in her feeding. She has done 2 feeds this weekend without needing ebm. Shes going through a growth spurt though and is almost constantly feeding at night... anyway I am hoping things will look up in the b/fing saga coz I am going to review it this time next week and make some decisions. I dont think I am ready to give up though.
Olivia is doing well. shes a delight most of the time and loves her sisters. Shes a great help too. She sleeps through most nights and I have recently taken her bed rail off and her connie off too (waterproof top sheet). Although she did wet the bed one night last week...first time in months.
Rebecca is doing well. She talks and talks and talks..... OMG she does not stop. Her language is so good and she has such a wide range of words. We are trying to potty train her but she wees/poos then says she needs to go or she will sit on the potty post wee! Shes been waking up of a night for some reason and cracks the sh*ts. So between everyone waking I dont get a load of sleep.
Ok better go... I need to do a grocery shop before it gets late.
ahhh Mel wow, hope your sleep improves. Good news on the feeding! And I LOVE that photo you've got in the ticker, so gorgeous!!!!!
Quoll - nope, don't know the flavour. Just back from a walk around Belgrave Lake park, didn't get any twinges or anything .. ah well.
Pip has been so cute, today he brought up his Thomas remote control (which has the music and sound on it) to play against my belly so baby will hear the train and music and be happy. So cute! And such an adult concept!
Kaz, yep, I'm excited about the baby shower, lol! One of the partners of the people DH works with is organising it. So lovely of her to do it, considering I have only met her about 3 times!! The other girls, who I assume are coming I know fairly well though. It does kind of make me sad that I have to come all the way out here for someone to see fit to celebrate my babies like this though...my own family and frinds never did
DH's work party yesterday was really good. Though today I am terribly sore and achey. I had lots of fun though, so in a way it's worth it (??!!) I ddin't sleep much and have been taking panadol religiously every 4hrs all night. Though surprisingly I am in good spirits, maybe cause I got out and had fun! I do wish I could have had a few drinks though, lol!
Yes, lots of road closures out this way. Lots of floods and water damage, though Cobar seems to miss the worst of it, which is good. But if we wanted to, I'm pretty sure the roads are closed from Dubbo, maybe even closer to us than that. Big floods north west of us too. We must be on a rise or something out here! And still more rain forecasted too. I feel really sorry for the poor farmers. They have all prepared for a huge locust swarm, which is pretty bad at the mo, though not as bad as first thought due to the wet weather, but now they're having to contend with the floods too. They just can't win. I definately wouln't want to be a farmer out here! Or anywhere I don't think!!
I had to LOL @ you're DH. Mine is the same. For some reason he will wash religiously if he's going to work, deoderant and aftershave every day. But have him home for one or two days and it's no shower for as long as he is abow to get away with it (which is usually no longer than a day or so until I say something!!) he's not really a stinky man considering the amount he sweats, but it's just not the point!! Though my sense of smell is terribly sensitive at the moments too, I usually have a pretty good sense of smell and at the moment, it's REALLY sensitive! But he sweats alot, then gets into my bed all grotty and dirty feet and disgusting!! UGH, men!!!
As for Liam's eating I have tried the bribery. I have tried everything, limiting foods, limiting drinks. I don't know what else to do, so now I offer him food if he eats, marvellous if not, he starves until I make something else. He gets no sweets or treats or anything unless he's eaten enough 'healthy' food for my liking!
How have you been hun? I can't believe Quoll is 'officially' due! I hope s/he isn't giving you too much trouble. Right now I am enduring some pretty horrible punches or whatever to my cervix and bladder!
How cute Pip is sharing his toys with Quoll! I'm sure that will change quickly once bub is here, lol! Lily said to me the other day that the baby was watching a teeny weeny tv in my tummy! Hehe. She's said some other funny things too, but I can't remember what!
Mel, I think we can forgive you for being MIA!! It couldn't be easy with 3 kids! It's hard enough to find time with just the two of my kids, lol! I guess I will find that out for myself in a few weeks though! Eeeek!! I am still feeling so disorganised! Maybe because I can't do much. I really want to get some serious cleaning done, but it's not going to happen unless DH does it.
Yay that Amy is still feeding ok and it's improving. You are doing a fabulous job with feeding her . The first 6-8weeks is the worst of it all. You're both still figuring each other out. Are you sleeping with her? Or do you get up each time she wants to feed? Do your big girls go to day care one day a week or something? I think that will be my saving grace, that I will have one day with bub all on my own.
Hehe, R is sounding alot like Liam. Remember when we used to say our big girls would talk and talk and talk?? Now it's our middle ones! Though Lil still goes through times when I just wish she would shut up! And I still ask her to stop talking!! I was also thinking of trying to get Liam to toilet train, but I vetoed it because baby is so close to coming and I just don't think he will get it. Lil was sooo easy to train, she almost did it all herself (Like Liv if I remember correctly??), but I don't think Liam will be as easy. I will wait til he's bigger and baby is here and we're all in a bit of a routine!!
And there's not much sleep going on here for me either. Yesterday morning I just got up because I was so sick of laying in bed doing nothing. Liam was tossing adn turning and my back hurt so I just gave up on sleeping since I had been laying therer for an hour or so, so at 5.30am I was up with the birds while the kids slept til about 6.45am (a sleep in in our house!)! Then when DH got up at 9am I was buggered, lol. I fell asleep on the lounge and dozed for a while, but had to get up and do the salads adn dips I was making for the chrissy party. At least I will get used to no sleep before baby comes!
Hi to Kris and Dis and Jen!!
Gosh Kris, you guys must be close to moving now right?? How exciting for you!
Dis, how are you doing? How is Spongey? You must be just about due too aren't you?? 4ish weeks or so?
Jen, how are your gorgeous boys going? What have you been up to???
Ok gotta go and hang out some washing....just about the only chore I can manage without too much hassle, lol! Sooo sad, haha!
Am trying so hard with this bfeeding stuff. Had my LC here yesterday and she basically said its a time thing and if I have the time we will eventually get there...but she cant say how long. A will happily suck from the bottle. She has issues with keeping suction and comes on and off and gets lots of wind too. LC suggested trying to put the teat over my nipple to see if she will suck better...lol....i suppose I can only try! She sleeps in our room in the bassinett, I get up every feed because theres no point in trying to feed her in bed because she doesnt stay on long enough so I would have to turn the light on and sit up to see what I am doing. The girls go to occassional care 8 hours a week. Although that finishes at the end of the week... I have been using that time to try bfeeding in peace! My house is a pig sty and the bathroom is ferral! I need sleep and have been up since 5am feeding and pumping and cleaning bottles... not to mention that i didnt get to bed til after 11 and was up a few times feeding and resettling babies/children. OMG.... I am so tired.
Adam looked at me pumping this morning and said....it looks painful and uncomfortable. Well it is. I hate it with a passion and dont know how much longer I can go so she better hurry up and do it properly soon. The base of my nipples burn from rubbing on the pump attachment and then that impacts on feeding coz it hurts....
Sorry about the me post.....
Kaz- happy due date. Maybe Quoll will be like Amy and come out on its due date!!!!
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I made the decision last night to just stop and give formula full time. So I have iven her nearly 8 weeks ebm and cant be happier. I only wish I could have been one of those women who just shove them on and off they go. Now for the wonderful weaning process..... Am feeling at peace wih it all though. Just make things easier in a sense and I have done it all before. I just hope shes ok on the formula. I will continue to express off for a few more days until I dont burst!
And Kaz....hope its all going well...I saw on fb your movements and cant wait to hear your announcement
oh Mel I know how it feels, I was similar with Pip. It's good though cause Adam will be able to do the feeds without any guilt on your part. And although twe would all rather bf, we know that formula is fine. Great effort in sticking it this long.
Thanks Kaz. I am just over being restricted to a pumping regime. If Amy was taking at least 1 feed a day from me then I know I would think differently because I would have some hope. The fact that in nearly 8 weeks of her life outside she has taken only 2 feeds and those feeds were long and hard to do. I am excited about getting my boobs back, my nipples are killing and it hurts when she latches on... so much so my mouth feels like it has the blood taste in it (strange but true).
All the best with you too. I hope Quoll makes an entrance soon for you and that you have a successful bfeeding journey.... if not take your words you have given to me and know that formula is fine!
Mel, you have done a marvellous job for Amy and she is such a lucky little girl that you have persevered for so long . I remember with Lil, that I just felt like her slave trying to feed her enough, booby, formula, pumping ebm. It was just all about feeding her. It really got me down and when I decided to stop pumping it was such a relief. I just fed her what I could from my boobs, then gave her a bottle if she needed/wanted one. When AF returned when she was about 5ish mths she wanted less booby and then when I got pg with Li, she didn't want it at all and finally weaned herself totally. Honestly it was kind of a relief not to have to worry about it so much any more, though in a way bottles and formula were a pita, it was nice to not worry about how I needed to feed her! I can't imagine how you're feeling doing all of that and having Liv and Bec to care for too. I was at my wits end and I just had her! When she finally weaned, I was upset, but a friend put it into perspective, saying that 'in the playground, will you be able to tell she's one of the children who have been formula fed or breastfed?' Which is true. She will grow just as healthily and strongly (is that a word, lol!) as a child who might have been breast fed from birth.
Kaz, I know how you're feeling too! After at least a week of serious pre labour with Liam and teo trips to the hospital for pain relief and sleeping tabs so I could sleep, I was sooo tired and over it. I hope Quoll will be here by morning for you
AFM, well, I have done too much today and stuffed my back well and truely. Stupid me, but I am soooooo wanting to nest and getting frustrated that I can't. So I took some paracetomol and just got on with it once the pain relief wore off, I couldn't walk. Literally for about 3 hours this arvo I have just been laying on the lounge. Took more paracetomol (which thankfully works for me mostly)and I fell asleep for 2 hrs while the kids napped, which was bliss! Damien has just gone to get us some subway for dinner, complete with cookies (mmm, mmm yummo, though I still want some peanut MM's, or Cold Rock ice cream with peanut MM's, mars bar and cookies and cream icecream....OMG *DRRROOOOOLLLL!*). I didn't make it to the baby's stuff either, so I will try to do something in the baby's room tomorrow. Even just sort his clothes. I just haven't done anything for him at all, and I'm starting to feel anxious!
Ok, gotta go, dinner time...
Things have been so quiet around the place!! My belly buddies are really quiet too! But I guess it is the silly season and everyone is busy! I just don't have any where to go or any way to get there to be busy!! Things are very quiet at my house. I'm bored out of my brain, nothing is open today after 12, so I have nowehre to go. People have left town to go to family's place for chrissy, so the kids friends are mostly out of town. So I'm lonely, bored and feeling sorry for myself! DH is home today, but he just wants to watch movies...I'm so over tv! I have been laying down watching tv most arvos to try to ease my pelvis/back. Some days it works and cooking dinner is fine, some days it doesn't and I have to force myself to do things. Last night I was in agony and couldn't contain myself and just burst into tears while trying to get to the loo. DH hasn't seen me cry over my back at all and I think it shocked him that I was in that much pain. I am usually able to hide it, but last night I just couldn't. I think it might have helped him realise that I REALLY am in alot of pain some days and really do need his help. He's done a few loads of washing today and vaccumed last night for me, and he's been running around like a loony with the kids. It makes me so happy to see them playing like kids should play, not doing quiet things all day like drawing and building and watching tv, which is about all I can handle.
Mel, how are things? Have you and Amy settled into an easier routine now? I hope so hun, I hope the exhaustion and stress of trying to feed her has settled.
Kaz, how are you going? I guess you;re just waiting for the impending arrival of your bundle of joy!!
Kris, how was the move? I saw your pics on FB, the inlaws place looks really lovely and peaceful! And the boys certainly look like they're having fun!
Well, that's it, nap time for little people in myhouse, and maybe mummy too, lol!
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But last night he was telling the midwife that he would share his underpants (?) with the baby!
. The first 6-8weeks is the worst of it all. You're both still figuring each other out. Are you sleeping with her? Or do you get up each time she wants to feed? Do your big girls go to day care one day a week or something? I think that will be my saving grace, that I will have one day with bub all on my own.
once the pain relief wore off, I couldn't walk. Literally for about 3 hours this arvo I have just been laying on the lounge. Took more paracetomol (which thankfully works for me mostly)and I fell asleep for 2 hrs while the kids napped, which was bliss! Damien has just gone to get us some subway for dinner, complete with cookies (mmm, mmm yummo, though I still want some peanut MM's, or Cold Rock ice cream with peanut MM's, mars bar and cookies and cream icecream....OMG *DRRROOOOOLLLL!*). I didn't make it to the baby's stuff either, so I will try to do something in the baby's room tomorrow. Even just sort his clothes. I just haven't done anything for him at all, and I'm starting to feel anxious!
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