Awww, thanks Chicks!! I should really stop complaining - in just under seven weeks I will be back at work wishing I was home with my baby - teething or not...............
Have told myself to suck it up and enjoy - it honestly seemed to help us all - the whole Mum's stress becomes babies stress is sooooooooooooooooo true!! Thought I'd try to break the vicious cycle. Gave the little guy a pep talk at bed time tonight, hopefully it works LOL
Am eating a salt n vinegar chip sandwich for dinner - the epitome of laziness (and a sure sign that I need to do some grocery shopping), tastes good though
Naomi - I support the warehousing part of an IT system (SAP you will have heard of it at Optus I expect), so yes is office based and before I left was alot of out of hours work as need to speak with UK and US, so the plan would be for my friend and I to both do two days in the office (different ones) and then half a day doing the evening/early mornings needed to work with UK/US. Although our roles aren't exactly the same do go fairly well together (she supports sales and distribution) and we have worked together for years (she was in UK for a while). I am due back 26th Apr (which is actually ANZAC day holiday in VIC) - but my friend is due back in about 4 weeks, and work are just being useless in responding to anything (which is completely typical of them).
Amy - Glad Natty liked the transfers. I have thought about selling the artwork at a local craft market (someone commented that on facebook this week strangely enough), but not really got round to sorting it yet. Some bits are available through a site called Zazzle (if on my FB profile you check out my websites there is a link to it) which I am just experimenting with. It seems quite a cool site for getting things personalised with photos etc, and I got a load of the cards done when they were 75% off as thought is always useful to have cards in for sending to people and even the cheapest cards in shops are quite expensive - compared to getting a few in. I originally did the picture for my wall as we couldn't find anything we liked cheap enough to buy and wanted Melbourne scenes, but looks good on the card, and my one of the Rivoli looks great on a canvas bag.
Nicole - I often think of that phrase too, but in my head it is the voice of Gandalf in LOTR because he says Thou shall not pass and I have watched those movies too many times.
Hi All!
How are we?
Sorry, I too am in zombie mode at the moment. Allira is not sleeping very well either and nothing will fix it. JUST COME THROUGH ALREADY TEETH!!!!
I guess things wouldn't be so bad if Lachie wasn't pushing my buttons at the same time. He's just started biting and pushing Allira. It's horrible... I was hoping that he wouldn never get to this point.
The biting hasn't occured for the last 4ish days, but the pushing continues. Allira does pretty well with it most of the time, and I know Lachie is only trying toplay around with her, but geez....!!!!
I'm so over being grumpy all the time. I hope this passes soon. It's so super frustrating!
Naomi I hope the necklace works. If I hear good things, I might have to get one for Allira.
How is everyone else going?
Sorry I've been a bit airy fairy. Once I get these kids back on track, I will pop in and concentrate a bit more.
xxoo
Oh my gosh I felt like the most horrible mummy yesterday I went to my mum and dad's for the afternoon with Kyson and while we were there we invited over a girl that mum and dad used to foster when she was younger and her little boy (he's 3 weeks younger than Kyson). I breastfed Kyson as they got there at around 3.30pm. Then we had so much fun and mum and dad just adore Kyson. Dad took him out to the train room (lol, I'll post pics on fb later so you can see what I'm talking about) and then at 7.30 we all had some dinner. For about an hour before dinner Kyson was a little harder to occupy, but he was fairly happy. Then after dinner my mum was holding him and I gave him his sippy cup. Well I have never ever seen him gulp that water so fast. He wasn't losing a drop. I even commented to my dad that I'd never seen him drink like that. He ended up drinking 2/3 of a full sippy cup before I realised to my horror that I hadn't given him a breastfeed since 3.30pm!!! I felt absolutely terrible! By that stage he'd already filled up on veggies, steak and water, so I figured I should just feed him when I got home. Then it ended up taking an hour and a half to drive home (stupid stupid freeway and westgate road works!!!) so the poor pumpkin went 6 hours between feeds! I still feel so terrible about it. He was a little angel though. He slept the whole way home.
When we got home I was so engorged that he filled up completely just from one side and I had to express the other side off (160ml!!!).
Oh, there was one funny part though. As we were getting our stuff ready to hop in the car I felt "let down" and commented to my mum jokingly that I'd have to change my top when I got home. I didn't think I'd actually leak though because it's been quite a while since I leaked. Then I was just popping the nappy bag in the car while mum held Kyson and I flet what I thought was a glob of Kyson's drool land on my arm. I turned and said "How on earth did he drool on my from that distance?", then looked down and realised that I was leaking so bad that I was DRIPPING! My poor dad looked away quickly, hehehe.
LOL Krystie your poor Dad!!
Don't be too hard on yourself just think when the little man sleeps at night for 7+ hours he is fine without a feed...but I am sure we all have had a day when we forget a feed.
BTW go Kyson in drinking lots of water...maybe he needs to speak to Aaron for me
AFU, well we saw Aaron's paed today and are getting another Head u/S done next Wednesday.
Once we have these results will decide on a plan of action...i.e keep monitoring with paed or get the second opinion.
Aaron weighed 9.5KG today!!! My little buffa!!!
He was so happy in the waiting room a 6 week old bub was crying, Aaron turned around and started talking with him...so cute you can just imagine what he was saying. DH recons he was telling the bub to pipe down I'm watching some tv
Anyway must away....oh yeah...who else is on FB? Be great to put faces to names...although we all look like our Avi's ....heheheheh
LOL Krystie - your poor embarrassed Dad!! That is gold! I've overlooked a feed before too and then when Bailey has been grumpy its like - you poor bugger, your mum is trying to starve you LOL!! Nicole is right, if they can go overnight without a feed, a missed feed occasionally wont do any harm
Nicole - look me up (Naomi Graetz), and you can compare me to my avi LOL. Um, there is a stark difference - my avi is hot, I am not! tehehehehehehe
Nicky - will keep you posted on the the amber necklace, hopefully it will arrive asap. Today is a MUCH better day for us. Last night Bailey slept from 645pm-540am would you believe - I dont know myself today, please please please let him be back to normal, seems very happy today, hope it lasts!!
Vic - My boss mentioned job sharing to me, but (A) cant afford to cut back to half my old hours and (B) the lady he wants me to job share with is sooooo different to me that it wouldn't work, and I dont think it would be fair to the team to have two managers as we would manage completely differently. Hope it all works out for you when you return (whenever that is )
I should really stop complaining - in just under seven weeks I will be back at work wishing I was home with my baby - teething or not...............
I went to my mum and dad's for the afternoon with Kyson and while we were there we invited over a girl that mum and dad used to foster when she was younger and her little boy (he's 3 weeks younger than Kyson). I breastfed Kyson as they got there at around 3.30pm. Then we had so much fun and mum and dad just adore Kyson. Dad took him out to the train room (lol, I'll post pics on fb later so you can see what I'm talking about) and then at 7.30 we all had some dinner. For about an hour before dinner Kyson was a little harder to occupy, but he was fairly happy. Then after dinner my mum was holding him and I gave him his sippy cup. Well I have never ever seen him gulp that water so fast. He wasn't losing a drop. I even commented to my dad that I'd never seen him drink like that. He ended up drinking 2/3 of a full sippy cup before I realised to my horror that I hadn't given him a breastfeed since 3.30pm!!! I felt absolutely terrible! By that stage he'd already filled up on veggies, steak and water, so I figured I should just feed him when I got home. Then it ended up taking an hour and a half to drive home (stupid stupid freeway and westgate road works!!!) so the poor pumpkin went 6 hours between feeds! I still feel so terrible about it. He was a little angel though. He slept the whole way home.
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