someone in here reminded me a couple of weeks back about the rainforest jumperoo, (Ii *think* it was det?)well we unboxed ds1's one last night and jimmy absolutely loves it. he's in there right now bopping away, it's great!
megie- those playcentres are fantastic aren't they? ds1 goes crazy there!
shell- iywym about not getting too excited about sleep just when i think jimmy's doing really well, we have a bad day/night
holly-i'll have to add you on fb
isn't it fantastic when couples who are ttc for a long time fall pg, you must be so happy for them
tarkine-what pram did you get?
i'm thinking of buying a cheap twin stroller off ebay just to take into shops etc. as i have a mountain buggy double but it's just too big and not practical to lug in and out of the car all the time.i'm just such a money waster when it comes to baby stuff though! can't help myself
hi to everyone else, hope we all get good sleeps tonight lol
Just a quick post to let you know I'm still around, just having a really busy week with visitors and there's been a fair bit going on. Got BIL and SIL staying this weekend and my mum was here earlier in the week.
Ali - I'm so sorry I missed your birthday hun I even knew when it was too and I still didn't get in here. I feel like such a bad friend! Hope you had an awesome day! The eternity ring sounds beautiful! You're such a darl to send me something - I'm going nuts thinking about what it could be. Bad day yesterday though and didn't get to the p.o. Hopefully on Monday.
I'm jealous you all got to meet up. I wish I wasn't so far from Melbourne. I still need to chat to DP about the gold coast but I'm really keen to go!!!
hey girls
just a quicke as suppose to be doing a million things at the moment, instead i am wasting time of the puter lol
Boof started soilds today- he devoured every mouthful!
took him 3 goes at timing the spoon to go in his mouth at the right time and from then on his mouth was open and he was demanding more after each spoonful. We made up 3 teaspoons of rice cereal with 60 mls of b/milk and he ate the whole lot!
even got the grunts and head going from side to side wanting more and it quicker lol
will put some photos up on fbook later of it! He looked so cute sitting up in his highchair with his bib on eating!
We used the rafferty's brand of rice cereal and it was heaps nicer than the heinz or the farax- their range is ace - totoally organic etc and aussie- you get them from the supermarket. My DH has been to their manufacturing plant for work as well, and they are top notch as well. good to have inside info sometimes lol
lol rainforest on the juper-roo- boof is going off tap in it at the moment - they are ACE
highly recommend any type of thing like that to you all- a safe place that you put bub where they can jump around and cannot harm themselves!
Shel- glad miss E behaved herself- hope she did the same last nite as well
I better get back into it- got MG at my house tues and the house is a bomb- there is crap everywhere . Thinking of just getting the leaf blower and blowing the house out with that lol. I start in one room and by the time i get it done, the rest of the house has been trashed even more lol
mwah to all
back to it
det- ROFL at the leafblower!
yes agree that the jumperoo has been a great purchase, i remember ds1 used to go absolutely off tap in it too!
that's great to hear that about rafferty's. i used their stuff heaps with ds1. i can't stand farex!
Rainforest- I bought the adventure buggy with the toddler seat for my 2 so easy to get out and about with, also bought it from e-bay, (gotta love e-bay!)
Kaz- Yes come along to the gold coast! Hope the visitors are giving you time off from baby duties and giving you a break.
Det- woohoo on the solids. I'll keep that in mind bout the raffertys brand, I remember Ash didn't like the farex, so I'll try that out this time around. I'll prolly start offering at about 5 months.
Not much here, another unsettled night after the 2am feed, don't know what prob is. she just doesn't want to sleep and either grizzles or chat and squeals loudly but its not a happy chatting.
Df has taken Ash down local footy and Emily is asleep for the moment. woohoo quiet time! Be good to get her out, so hard with this weather and babies, hard to get her out and burning off energy.
Det - solids already.. how did you know bubs was ready?
Rainforest - been waiting forever for the beema Q (5mths). SIL has a phil and teds one, where the baby is under the toddler if that makes sense? - can't remember the name. the beema is great for one baby and the option is a skateboard for a toddler, for them to stand on - but since we are only having one baby it's not a biggie for us.
Kaz - sounds like ur place is crazy busy at the mo
Shell - bummer about the unsettled night.
Anyone recommend any good books to read?
AFM - Got a free raincover with my pram (can you hear the eyes rolling from there?).....still the same old pattern here - wake at 7-8am, then booby fest at about 10-12, usually try and get out of the house, then booby fest when I get back 2-5 or 9pm and then Alex goes to bed! Still wont' go down into his cot during the day.
Det - great story about Boof's first encounter with solids!
Shell - hope Ash enjoys the footy and that Emily does more happy chatting soon.
Ali - happy belated birthday from me too!
MM - hope you and J enjoyed the play centre.
Holly - how is your weekend going?
Well Posy hadn't done a proper poo for six weeks until this morning - it was like someone had emptied a bowl of soup into her nappy. Somehow the disposable managed to contain it all - but the clean-up job took almost half an hour. She started laughing as soon as I opened the nappy! Cheeky little minx.
I'm splitting my brain 3 ways at the moment - caring for Posy, writing/editing my book, and selling our house and buying another. It's going to be a busy July!
Madeleine, I didn't know you were selling your house...did I miss something?! Where are you moving to? Lol at Posy's poo! 6 weeks is a long time to hold off!
Det, wow solids already! Glad it went well. Boof really loves his food!
Tarkine, it must be good to have a pattern/routine going on. Oh wow, a free raincover - they should have refunded you half the price of the pram for waiting so long!
Shell, hope tonight is a good night. Glad you got some time to yourself today. I never would have guessed your real name! I thought it was Michelle lol. I'll keep an eye out for you too
Megie, how did the play centre go?
Rainforest, you've just reminded me to try out the jolly jumper! Hope L likes it. Saw your pics on fb too, L & J are just BEAUTIFUL! Gorgeous eyes and gorgeous hair. You guys make good looking babies!
Kaz, sounds like a busy week. Hope everyone is helping out.
AFM, my laptop needs repairing - something wrong with the cooling system, so the warning message told me! So using my sister's at the moment. Not sure if I'll get on much in the next few days but I'll try!
Don't know if I mentioned, but we got an appointment for L to see the ENT specialist tomorrow at 5pm at the Children's. I'm so nervous and feel sick with worry I think they were be probing around and sticking things up his nose/down his throat and I just can't bear to think about it. He will be so upset! Anyway, better go, DP is hovering around with Leon waiting for me to finish so I can take him so he can go to bed But I love him (he is reading this!) lol.
Holly- Let us know how it goes, maybe write down what you want to ask or say cause if you're anything like me you'll walk out thinking oh why didn't I ask this or this! I hope its not too upsetting for you, think sometimes these sorta things are more upsetting for mums!
mhami- god you are busy! I struggle just to get thru daily things let alone anything extra. I don't envy you at all with the house business, hopefully goes smoothly. What are you writing on?
Tarkine- I don't think I could get Ash to sleep in her cot in the day til she was like 6 months old. Day sleeps can be a pain, some days altho I'd like the break I think its easier now she doesn't have a day sleep.
Having Emily in bed and Ash out this arvo was funny, I didn't know what to do with myself!
Question for everyone, is anyones bubs besides my own still only having 40min naps or starting to go longer? I'm thinking maybe I should be trying harder to resettle her into a 2nd cycle.
Shell - The free play at the gym here is Gisborne goes from 10am till 1pm every Friday except the school hols. It is just so much fun!
Miss E still ususally goes 1 sleep cycle, then if I managed to resettle her, she may go another 2 hours!!! The mornings are usually pretty good, but it slowly gets shorter from there. She does about 2 hours in the morning, then maybe another 1 hour sleeo, then a 40 min sleep, then she goes to bed. Bed is between 7pm and 8pm, depending on the time of the last sleep. Then she usually wakes at about 3am for a feed, and goes back to bed tillabout 8am. Sometimes she sleeps through till about 6am, then wil lgo back down till 10am, but for the most part it is 3am.
Thanks everyone for asking about the playventre. J had a ball. Just what he needed in this wet weather.
Holly - I will be thinking of you tomorrow at the ENT. I really hope thatyou get some answers.
Mhami - Seems like July will be MEGA busy for you. Then there will be packing up a house! We moved when J was 10 months, and that included buying and selling. It can be a bit stressful, but well worth it if you get a hosue that suits your needs much better.
Tarkine - I agree, you shoul be gettinga big discount on the pram by now. You have been so patient. I would have told them to stick it by now.
Det - Glad solids went well. I think I am going to go with raffety's too when E starts solids.
I jsut have to say that I never spell check my posts. I hope everyone doesn't think that I am a really terrible speller. I am just too lazy and usually typing with either a baby on the boob, or a toddler demanding something!!! (or like now - lying in bed!)
OK - so my mother group it seems that every baby sleps through except Emilia, which i find strange as that is so not the case in here. I wonder how many are telling the actual truth in Mother Group. So how is everyone's nights going? How many are doing the sleep through? E prob sleeps through about 3 times a week, other than that she is up for 1 feed.
Meg- We don't sleep through here. Lewis is up at least once a night but usually twice we get a 5-6 hour block then a four hour usually. I have a hunch that maybe they are not all telling the truth!!!
Shell- Lewis is getting really good a self settling into the next sleep cycle, but if we are out or in the car he will usually only do the one cycle, for e.g this morning he woke at 7am back down at 8am slept for 2hours 15mins then up for 1 hour and back down for 1.5hours, then we went to my mum's so he only slept for 40 mins there.
hi to everybody else will try to pop in tomorrow.
Lewis hasn't been himself today, cries when other people hold him, not sure what that is about???
Shell- i get her through 2nd sleep cycles by not getting her put of the cot, just rolling her onto her side and patting her and putting her dummy in. Getting all my tips from a great book called 'baby Bliss' by Jo Ryan. Thanks for the tip about getting the eucolyptus. will do that tomorrow as she stil isnt better. Kaz- Might be coming out your way if DP can book this weekend. Would love to catch up if you guys around on the weekend. Will let you know. Mhami- Ash did 3 massive poos as well today! Rainy- Is the mastitis gone? We put DD in the jolly jumper on the weekend and she loved it!! Megie- my typos are so bad dont worry. everyone understands. esp me as I am so bad with it. I think the mums at mums group are lying to you. DD still wakes 3-4 times a night.Deep sleep is 7-mdnight, light sleep from midnihgt until 7am. Holly- thinking of you tomorrow. I hope thye can help L and that is not to tough on either of you Det- are you going to do solids every day? Thanks for the tips on the good ones to buy, will keep it in mind as have no idea! Nai- Teething! OMG! Our little J is jumping through the milestones! How exciting! Tarkine- Anything by Jodi Picoult. My sisters Keeper is a great book by her about to be made into a movie. Tear jerker but couldnt put it down. to everyone else.
Hope all is well. Will be back tomorrow to tell you what is going on in my world.
hey lovely ladies
still going through the house trying to clean up lol- how much of my hair am i cleaning up around this joint - man!!
boof was so funny with his food today- gave him so more rice cereal around 2pm today and after 3/4 of it- he fell asleep eating it lol- it buggered him out- mind you he was still eating with his eyes shut
at dinner time i gave him a boobie feed just before we ate and put him in the high chair as per usual with some toys to play with- well now that he has had food twice- he wants it all the time! Carried on with his mouth open demanding food until we fed him. Then he proceed to eat 1/4 of a mashed avocado mixed with rice cereal and b/milk. He tanked it all down and wanted more so he had even more rice cereal - all up it was around 10 teaspoons dry rice cereal and 100mls b/m!! So much for the theory of introducing 1-2 teaspoons to start with. After he ate, he then went on the boob again for another feed and didnt get off it until midnite! Something tells me we have just hit another growth spurt- always seems to happen right on the month! He is 5 months Monday!
Madeline- what are you writing your book about? GLuck looking at houses- any luck yet?LOL at the poop - they are the ones that i used to offer my hubby that i would do favours for if he changed them for me lol- it never worked
Pinny mum- during the day boof doesnt sleep for long- unless i pull up a piece of couch and he sleeps on me - other than that he naps through the day, but sleeps solidly from around midnite through to morning- so that aint too bad. Last nite he slept from 12am till 8am- and so did I - except cause i slept so long i woke with a migrane grrrr
Holly- good luck tommorow at the RCH- if you appointment is 5pm- be prepared for a big wait- by then they will be soo far behind- take something to eat and drink as well for yourself. The RCH is the best place for kids - they are awesome- DS1 is a long term patient there- had 5 ops and quite a few admissions for various things- the miracle factory i call it!
Megan- they are full of crap ( excuse the french) if they say they are all sleeping through! I guarantee if you probe them more that they will admit that they sleep through once in a while- why do they have to be so competative about sleep - grrrr!!! That is why i gave up my first mothers group- tell them to keep it real !!!!!!
Hey OP- are you still gonna bring muffins on tues- dont stress if you are not- just wanna plan food etc. thinking of something i can offer that is dairy free for Jane. MIL is making a cheesecake and working out what else to have.
tarkine- knew he was ready as he was starting to try and grab anything we were eating, watching us eat all the time and showing interest in food, and he could thrust his tongue back to swallow as well. The last one is important as otherwise they wont swallow the food, just sorta gurgle it in their mouths- Boof just downs it- doesnt matter how sloppy or chunky- down it goes no probs lol- he is a tank. Also he is a big boy- so he can handle it!
Was worried about him pooping after all the solids, but did one tonite no probs, even after i had downed 7 panadeine today- another migrane GRRRR!
off to bed now- done enough cleaning for today and the house still is a shambles
home tommorow to clean up more. Hugs and kissed to the rest of you yummy mummies and your geogous babes
My poor baby's cold is awful this morning. She an hardly breath and coughs like she is joking smetimes. I feel like such a bad mum for letting her get sick. The poor thng.
Ali- Don't feel like a bad mum, they are bound to get cold/sniffles no matter how much we try to protect them from it. A midwife at the hospital told me that on average a baby will get 10 colds in their first year, not sure if it's a slight extension of the truth, but that's what she told me!! Chin up have you tried the fess to try and thin the mucus might help her breath better!! or even have a shower with her , the steam will help loosen her the muck!!!
hi girls
just sitting here watching 'in the night garden'
ali- have you got a vapouriser for her room? they really help. don't feel bad,they all get colds at this time of year, it's inevitable.
i think my mastitis is all gone. i'm still on ABs so i guess we'll see what happens when they run out
det-boof is doing so well on solids! is he a big boy? sounds like he's got a strapping appetite!
megie- i really doubt that all the bubs in your mg are sleeping through.i don't understand sometimes why mothers can't just be honest. if it makes you feel any better, my ds1 didn't sleep through the night till he was 16months old.
shell-jimmy only does 40min catnaps all day long. then he'll do a bigger sleep at night,
holly- best of luck today.
i saw your pics on fb too. leon is absolutely beautiful. was he a big size at birth? he looks like a big boy, like my lewis-he was 10lbs3oz. big boofer!
Hi All - sorry I have been MIA as we went to the beach for the weekend. It was fantastic! We stayed at a friends place while she is away and she has chickens. DD1 was so excited to chase chickens around and collect fresh eggs! While we were away Miss J cut her first tooth - she was terribly cranky Saturday night and wouldn't settle until 9pm. However she slept until 4am and then when she woke at 7.30 I felt in her mouth and there it was! She has been a bit happier since and had a good sleep last night only waking once!
As for her day sleeps it really depends - some days I can only get her to go 45min at a time all day so she gets 4 x 45min sleeps but then other days she can sleep for 2 hours. I don't know why or what the difference is If she is in her pram and I am walking her she often sleeps longer. Also if I need to be out of the house by a certain time I can guarantee that she will sleep longer!!
Det - yay on the solids! I will have to check out Rafferty's for when Miss J is ready. I think we used Bellamy's organic rice cereal last time. I hope your migraine is better
Mhami - you will be busy! Good luck on the house front.
Ali - I hope Ash is feeling a bit better today. It's so hard when they are sick
just when i think jimmy's doing really well, we have a bad day/night
I even knew when it was too and I still didn't get in here. I feel like such a bad friend! 
Hope you had an awesome day! The eternity ring sounds beautiful! You're such a darl to send me something - I'm going nuts thinking about what it could be. Bad day yesterday though and didn't get to the p.o. Hopefully on Monday. 
But I love him (he is reading this!) lol.
to everyone else.
If she is in her pram and I am walking her she often sleeps longer. Also if I need to be out of the house by a certain time I can guarantee that she will sleep longer!!
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