Naomi, Nicky - hope the teething thing sorts itself out and you get some more sleep. I just got CJ an amber teething necklace with some of her christmas money, she has two teeth now and no issues so far but want to keep it that way!
Amy - Hope all went well with your interview - got my fingers crossed for you.
BG - Thanks for the slow cooker text helpline! In the end I drove into the city (Everyone else - I locked myself out, but slow cooker was on) and got the keys from DH. I couldn't be bothered waiting around for him to come home, so was just right timing but I don't think would have been an issue like you said if had been in another 8 hours. It was a lamb tagine, had with cous cous and CJ loved it (I was amazed at how she went for it with the cous cous)
Bella - How is the unpacking going?
Nicole - Glad you are feeling better - I was stumped on what AC stood for until the others replied - DOH
Jacinta - Hope job is going well. I think if I actually enjoyed my job I wouldn't mind going back so much. Still not sure what is going on job wise - hoping to job share, but work are useless at making any decisions.
AFU - CJ has rolled twice from front to back. She is still surprised when she does it. She seems to be getting into eating a lot more, and watching her is a lot of fun!
Just a quick one as we've had a very busy day and I'm knackered! Wanted to say thanks for all the well-wishes for the interview. I think it went as well as it could've. They were lovely people, job sounds pretty close to ideal... I should find out within a week, so fingers crossed.
Hope those who have restless bubbies manage a good night's sleep tonight. xx
No ...... sleeeeeeeeppppppp ............................ going crazy ..............!!
I ordered an amber necklace this morning, I took Bailey to the GP when the opened so she could give him the once over as I am near breaking point, she said he was perfectly healthy with an extreme case of teething!!
I was so over it this morning I put him in his cot, left him to cry (he was crying whether I was there or not so figured it made no difference) and ran into my room and screamed into my pillow for about 3 minutes, felt better, took a deep breath and went back to him, and got him to sleep. His sleeping is all over the place, naps whenever, waking hourly at night, NOTHING seems to work. Dunno what to do, will just ride it out ................ AS THIS TOO SHALL PASS, THIS TOO SHALL PASS, THIS TOO SHALL PASS...................
Aw, Nay, so sorry mate. Hope he is through the worst of it and comes good soon.
Vic: THANK YOU!!! Got my little package today. Natty is soooo thrilled with the transfers - she won't give them back to me so I have to wait until she goes to bed or finds another toy before I can snavel them back, LOL! Also I love the card! What a fantastic way to share your artwork. Are you selling them?
Hugs Naomi...must be something in the air....Aaron was driving me nuts last night too and had a bit of a cry myself.
I hear ya pain and I think our little group motto should be "THIS TOO SHALL PASS"
Hope you guys have a better night tonight.....
i hear ya the funny thing is jamie isnt even waking up hes crying in his sleep and rolling over about a million times a night do u think i can sleep no way its so loud even through the moniter and i know the necklace helps coz the 2 days he didnt have it coz he was broken he was a completly different baby waking every 3 hours crying not being able to put him down his whole attitue was different itwas like someone switched my baby with a little terror lol
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'm Nicky that's on everyone elses page. I wish I looked like my AV!
lol
Krystie, Allira often goes 6 hours or more without feeds now... so don't feel bad! I ended up leaning really hard on my boobies a few weeks ago, and got a little bit of a milky circle on my t shirt! Who would have thought there was any left in there! haha.
Ha - yesterday must have been the day for missing feeds, I was putting CJ in the bath at 6:30 and realised hadn't fed her since 1:30 (did have solids at 5:30)- she hadn't complained or anything in fact DH had remarked how happy she was!
And just now I have cut her thumb when clipping her nails - she didn't even notice but it bled loads!! She seemed to think was fun because I let her hold a tissue to wave around! Was the first nail I did and the thumb she sucks too!
Nicole - Will you take Aaron to some Dragons games? CJ has been to a couple of Storm games and loved it - especially the fireworks! CJ is a Melbourne Victory, Melbourne Storm, Hawks, Socceroo's, and Bush Rangers fan!! She doesn't get a choice in teams, DH says when she can pay to go to games herself she can choose her team but till then its who we follow or nothing!!
Well I had my meeting with my boss about returning to work and I must say I am VERY happy as I got more than I was hoping for with regard to working from home.
Although I'll be full time until mid July when Sean finishes his long service leave, then I will work four days and trial working one day a fortnight from home, if I can make it work my boss said he is happy for me to work one day from home per week which would mean I would work Mon, Wed, Fri, work at home Tuesdays and have Thursdays off - pretty stoked about it as thought he would say no. He is so happy to have me back that he is pretty open to negotiation - YaaaaaY!!
Oh, AND for the first 6 weeks I am going to work 4 days too, just to ease myself into it a bit. AND I can work 830-430 which is great as before I went on maternity leave I was on a rotating roster working anywhere between 8am-630pm. This means I can get up and be with Bailey from 6-730, then have a quick shower and go to work, and be home in time for his dinner, bath, bedtime which was important to me...... Luckily my workplace is only 10-15mins away from home. Now that I know what will happen I feel like the anxious **Going back to work cloud** has been blown away. Will I cry my eyes out on my first day back? HELL YEAH, but at least I still get plenty of quality time with my boy
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Naomi...must be something in the air....Aaron was driving me nuts last night too and had a bit of a cry myself.
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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