Babies born~March 1st-15th 2008 #10

[Sammiejane]

Skye, dont think the supply is dropping, just different iykwim - must be full of hormones, and i guess as the colostrum kicks in again it will change again.

Danni re the toileting, MJ use to just sit on the toilet, i knew when she usually did a wee - like 15-30 mins aftyer food, so would sit her on the potty then, if she did something we told her and gave her a clap etc etc, if nothing was done, it was no big deal.
Now she understands all about it and can 'let go' of her wee if she has any in her bladder when she is on the toilet. the thing that she cant do, is hold on, if she has to go, she has to go. That is something that she has to learn to do and, buy 'wetting' herself, she understands when and where she is weeing and hopefully will develope the control.
So what you are doing with Jazz, by sitting her on the toilet before bath, is introducing her to the idea of her weeing on the toilet.

[~clover~]

My baby so clever!!
Laying in bed last night, he started farting, lol. Started to concentrate, then said 'poo'!
We got up, went in & took off the nappy, he hadn't done anything yet, & then tried to find somewhere he was comfortable enough to poo... The hard part.
Won't sit on the toilet, too big. Not too sure about sitting on the potty. He did some on the floor of the shower, then nothing. I think he held it coz he wasn't sure where it should go. lol.

I just put the 3 of them in the shower with the potty & told the girls to sit on it & play games & hopefully get him to do it too, so he feels ok with it. He's getting so clever!!

[Sammiejane]

Thats great Skye!
So nice when they are not pooing in nappies, espec when they are MCN's!!!
We have a toilet seat for MJ, she prefers this to the potty, but might be harder with a boy - think you need one with a sheild as otherwise if he wee's at the same time it goes everywhere!

[danniellabella]

We only have a toilet seat insert for Jazz. I haven't got a potty. I don't want to get a potty unless I have to. I figure that toilet training is a way to not have anything to clean up...a potty is something to clean up. I've been rather slack with having Jazz sit on the toilet. It's hard when working full-time. She's not ready yet anyway. She doesn't even say Poo. She watches intently now when Matt & I go to the toilet though. I was doing a wee the other day and had to keep pushing her out of the way because she was trying to stick her head between my legs and watch. I said to her "what's mummy doing?" and she said "weeee"
She watches Matt and he hates it because there's so much chance of her sticking toys in the loo, and she pushes him while he's standing up. I might get him to either shut the door or sit down to pee for a while. She's also tried to touch him while he's weeing and that's obviously quite bad.

I found a long lost relative on FB. An uncle who has been estranged from our family for over 25 years. I don't know the full story - in fact, I hardly know anything at all. I'm not sure how to tell my mum (uncle is one of her brothers). Also not sure how to tell my nan & pop (the parents). One of my cousin's has been speaking with the uncle as well. She told her mum who said that it's fine as long as he doesn't have contact with the little kids (not sure what happened there, my cousin said my aunty would tell her). Also, this aunty said she doesn't want anything to do with him.
I'm not sure what to do. Anytime he's brought up, everyone seems to clam up and give very little info. I want to know the full story from both sides so I can make my own decision about keeping in contact with him or not.

[all girls]

Danni the bit about keeping him away from little kids is a bit sus......... I would find out asap before you go there last thing you need is a paedephile around your little girl sorry just my opinion. Surely they would tell you if it was dangerous to be around him tho.

[danniellabella]

Danni the bit about keeping him away from little kids is a bit sus......... I would find out asap before you go there last thing you need is a paedephile around your little girl sorry just my opinion. Surely they would tell you if it was dangerous to be around him tho.

Yeah, I'll have to find that one out. I don't know why my aunty would just say why she said that. My cousin has a son - if there's a problem then I think she has the right to know. It might also just be because he's HIV+ (I don't think I mentioned that).

I live in SA and he lives in NSW so that's ok. We're only communicating via FB, no contact details have been exchanged, nor are they likely to be for a very long time.

I got a slow cooker yesterday. I hope dinner tastes nice tonight. I turned it on at 8am just before I left for work.

[all girls]

I have a slow cooker it is awesome i have a few great recipes if you want any