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Olive, wow a secret/suprise wedding! Did your parents know???
Heaven, woohoo on the walking! What a clever little girl!
Nai, that's too cute - DD pressing the music and drifting back to sleep!
Malyna, good luck at the sleep clinic. Hope it works a treat and you get some great advice and helpful settling techniques.
Shell, I went out for dinner last night for my birthday. It was a great night out!! It was just nice to catch up with my close friends/family, eat delicious food and have a glass of champagne! Poor L though, he had 2 green runny/liquidy poos today, I feel so irresponsible :redface: Re work...nope I am not going back at all in the near future. I will be finished my degree in 3 years and then plan on TTC #2, then doing post grad...so looks like I won't be working for ages! Woohoo!
Kaz, I'm going to check out your thread. It was a really hard decision initially to resign from work, but then I thought I'd call centrelink and see what would happen to our payments once I started earning $$ (DP is an apprentice so we get youth allowance + parenting payment coz of low income). Turns out with the money I earn from working 2 days a week, it would cancel out most of the centrelink payments and we would only profit $50 a week from me working :o I was like omg no way am I going back for only $50 a week more than what I'm getting now. I don't want to be a welfare scab but I'd much rather concentrate on my studies, be there for my baby, and contribute/give back to society in a few years time. The getting organised, the traveling time, the buying lunch, the stress of work + leaving L, is just not worth $50 for 2 days work to me, I don't mean to offend anyone. But yeah, that made my decision so much easier!
Hi to everyone else!
Well that's all from me. My cousin bought me the sims 3 and I'm addicted! Should really try and get some sleep but would rather play the sims :redface: Talk soon! xox
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Olive - love the surprise wedding.
Kaz - I'll find ur post and read it. I'm kinda sorta back on deck and I'll get that stuff to you in the next week or so.
Hi to everyone. :grouphug:
I'm back early... it's a really long story, but we left on day 3 of a five day program. Let me just say that everyoen there agreed to be consistent but the advice given was not.
I can't remember what the technique was called, but the first night we did a bit of responsive crying, so listening to Alex crying and then going into him. For a baby who isn't a crier, it was heartbreaking. I fell asleep on a chair because I was so exhausted and let DH do the settling.
The second day I was told about another technique, where you leave your hand in the cot and the bubs can go to your hand, but you do not give them eye contact. Alex was supposed to be calm but instead screamed the entire 45 minutes, at which point I gave up and put him back on the breast and fed him to sleep.
The second night, I tried to settle him but ended up walking out, and sitting outside after the first fifteen minutes and left DH to settle him.
Anyway cut the story short, I had a PTSD trigger (seeing Alex screaming and pulling at my top) and now I'm off to see a pyschlogist etc and fighting against going on antidepressants. I can't stand to watch Alex scream and clutch at me and DH is only able to barely tolerate watching Alex scream. They said that it can take three weeks to settle him this way.
So keep your fingers crossed for us. I'm prob not going to post for awhile, but I'll pop in and read how ur going.
And Can I just say that my DH is absoutely amazing and he deserves the father of the year award. I moan and complain about him and his lack of household duties, but when it comes down to it, he is the most beautiful soul I know.
Happy 01022010 (the date backwards)
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holly sounds like staying at home is certainly the best thing you can do!! its certainly not worth it for a few extra bucks!!
glad you had a lovely night out for yur birthday!!!
malyna :hug: hun, that must have been very hard, so are you going to continue with the technique they recommended?? sounds like DH came through when you needed him.
AFU m is cutting tooth number 2 :dance:
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Dh is going to continue the method.. i can't cope seeing Alex crying so I'll settle him as best I can during the day (and I really have no idea how to do it apart from put him on the breast), until i get some professional help. The cousellor I saw said that she has had a lot of women who have gone through IVF showing signs of stress and combined with PTSD and an emergency C-section (which I found really traumatic) it's all got on top of me. just taking one hour/day at a time and that is all I can do.
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Holly - sounds like your birthday was lovely
Olive - yay on tooth #2
Malyna - I hope things settle down for you soon with Alex's sleeping. I hope that your DH can get him to settle and at least take some of that pressure off you. :hug:
AFM - Well I am now sitting in my office at work - maternity leave officially over *sob* I'm sure I'll get used to it but it feels really weird. I am missing my girls and missing being at home. The day is going really slowly.
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Hi girls,
Sorry I have been a bit MIA.
Hectic week/weekend.
Firstly a BIG :happybirthday: to LEVI!!!!! One today!!! I cant believe how quickly the time has passed. I loved your Ollie cake Levi!!!!
Back at work and this time of year is full on!!! I am teaching year 2 this year and I have quite a difficult class. I am teaching the little girl with down syndrme againa nd the boy with ODD, ADD and asperges and I have about 4 others that are really slow and are going to need support and individual learning programs.
DD started CC today. It was a really strange feeling. She was fine but only had one sleep that was an hour and a half. Not much for her. She didnt cry and was fine and I rang a few times during the day and they were lovely but I still felt a bit sad. She is going again tomorrow so hopefully she will be okay.
:grouphug: to all. I am working again tomorrow (3 days this week) and then I will be able to catch up properly on everything :)
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Kailani - I wouldn't be going to work for only $50 for two days either hun. Sounds like you'll have a full time study load anyway. That, plus L plus the rest of your life is enough!
Malyna - :hug: :hug: :hug: I'm sorry sleep school was such a ****e experience for you. Take care of yourself. xo
Nai - I can't imagine being back at work. It must have been weird. I was hoping the day would go really quickly for you too :(
Olive - That didn't take M long!! I am sure it was only a couple of weeks ago she was toothless! Now DS is the slow coach with only one tooth half way up!!
Shell - :hug: I feel sad for you too hun packing up baby toys. There'll be grandkids one day (a long way off I know!).
Ali - I'm glad DD had a good day at childcare. She looked so cute with her little backpack on (FB)
Det - Happy birthday to boof!! Can't believe it's been a year since we were all stalking the belly buddies thread to see who would go first! Hope you had a fantastic day with him. He's growing up so fast.
AFU - Not much to report. Sleep is still ordinary - woke 2 hourly for most of last night until 4am. Is anyone else's bub still not crawling? Or are they all crawling/commando crawling by now? DS is taking his time......
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thanks for the wishes ali
sob sob cant believe my little man is one today!!!!
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det i hope Levi had a great day!!!
BBL... someone whinging!
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Det - I hope Levi had a great day! I can't believe he is one!!
Ali - I'm glad A had a good day at CC. She seems like such a social little girl that I'm sure she will love it. Miss J really enjoys going and loves playing with all the other babies.
BBL - grizzling baby!
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nai how did your first day end up going??
aarrrhhhhh the whinging
ETA oohhh bad night last night, was up around 5 times :o
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Just a quick fly by to say happy birthday boof for yesterday! It's sad our babies are becoming toddlers! I saw the pics on fb looked like he had great party, loved the cake.
I'm off to work again soon. On upside we have had mostly sleep thru nights the last week (touch wood).
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im sad too shell :( this time last year i was 37w6d pregnant :( arrhhhh i miss it!
we stopped giving M panadol/dimezine monday night and last night was a shocker, either the fluid is still there or its her teeth, Dr said to do it for one week, two if needed so might give it to her again tonight and see what happens, back to the dr on monday
S starts kinder tomorrow :( :) cant wait but sad all the same!
got to see Pinny yesterday!
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Olive - yay on all the teeth!
I took G to ballet this morning and Miss J decided she wanted to join in - it was so cute
Baby Ballet - Vox
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Happy Birthday Levi for the other day!! The first one to turn 1!!! Yay
Malyna- I don't have any advice but just wanted to give you a big hug, I've been thinking of you all day, glad Dh is there for you.
Nai- that baby ballet was just gorgeous!!! She is a real doll!
Olive- I feel you, I'm feeling quite sad about it, life is going way to quickly;y for me at the moment!! But I'm taking it all in and enjoying the ride, Yay on the third tooth, which one???
Wishing Sophie a great day at kinder... loved catching up.
Ali- Sounds like a full on class do you have teacher aids? Glad DD like CC, looked so cute with her back pack
Shell- I'm not sure what to do with the baby toys, still not sure but more than likely we won't have anymore as much as that makes me so sad to say that!!! Woo hoo on the sleeping thru!!
Hi to everyone else...
AFU we have our first bruise to the head!!! Poor littlw man, bumped on the coffee table, but he is ok!! Not a lot to report but I'm feeling weird about L turning one! I've been reading my birth story lately and the pregnancy diary that I wrote... makes it really feel like only the other day! I loving this stage but I'm also missing that newborn cuddles!!!
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Happy birthday Levi. One wow where has the year gone?
Ali - sounds like you have a full load.
Olive - hope its teeth
Nai - J is just too cute for words - she is so clever and that coordination... wow!
Shell - :hug: clearing out the baby stuff is hard.
Pinny- hard to believe a year has gone by.
Thanks for the support :grouphug:
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thats soooo cute nai!!!!
pinny poor L :(
tooth is the lateral incisor (next to the top fron one) so we have all 3 teeth coming through on the same side :rolleyes:
missy has already woken once already :rolleyes: i really should go to bed now!
oh i had some of DD1's knicker out yesterday DD2 grabbed them and sort of knew what to do with them, was trying to put them on her feet, like you would when putting them on, does the same with socks :o
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ok so whats everyone getting bubs for their birthday?? need ideas!
