I had a crappy sleep last night...Cara was miserable. Gave her panadol about midnight, she woke up about 7 times!! (no joke!) Sometimes my back is sore from swapping sides of the bed to feed her! She has two top middle teeth just bulging under the gums ready to break through. She usually sleeps well from 9pm-7.30am, just wakes up, breastfeed. straight back to sleep. But not last night. Nasty teeth..I am sure we will all be happy when they have a break from teething for a lil while. Cara has had 4 teeth now (almost) within a month almost! Can't blame the girl for being fed up. She got the other 2 bottom teeth around 6mths.
I set up the wiggles playpen today. I've never had a fancy playpen before..usually just a wooden one..but I gave it away ages ago. It's a nice colourful one with things on the side panel for them to play with (mirror, phone, dial etc). She isn't crawling yet, but she can get herself around on her tummy VERY well. She can cover a lot of ground. This morning it almost looked like she was crawling!! Not far away. She's up on all 4s a lot and trying to pull up. She's so heavy though, she doesn't stand for long hehe. I just thought I'd get the playpen out for the times I can't watch her....doing certain housework etc. She pulled the playstation down the other day. I am sure in time she'll see it as a prison. But I don't want to stick her in there too often.
Cara seems much worse with these teeth than the other 4. She has been biting me on the boob HEAPS in the last 24 hours. I yell "OWWWWWWWWWWWW" (can't help it, it hurts), and she comes off and looks at me. She knows it is wrong. Occasionally she will cry if she knows she's hurt me. And then goes back on the boob and is fine.
All you teething Mums! Hang in there!! It will get better! hehe
To all you Mums that are going back to work/have gone back to work...all the best!! I've never done it before (work and be a Mum). Give yourselves a pat on the back and make hubby spoil you sometimes (and I hope he does his share of the chores too). Doing two very important jobs is HARD WORK! You ladies are the true wonder women! SuperMums!
Cathy - I just leave Kyson's teething necklace on overnight. I usually only take it off while he's eating (don't want food crusty's in between beads, lol), and for water activities like the bath, pool, shower etc.
Isn't it so cute when the bub's start learning new tricks? Lol. Kyson has got "gimme 5" down pat. He also sometimes waves bye bye. It's funny when I want him to wave hello to someone and instead I have to say bye bye to him to get him to wave hehe.
Nay - I've given Kyson a smidge of vegemite before. I put it on a little sandwich because I wasn't sure what else I could put on a sandwich for him. I kept it very light though.
Jacinta - Nice hcg level! That IS what the number on fb was yeah?
Amy - Hopefully by the time I get worried about changing seats for Kyson you'll have it all worked out and I'll just be able to ask you! My problem at the moment is that DH's car has leather seats and I hate how much Kyson's seat moves on them. He's still rear facing and the front of the seat (where his head is) seems to moves from side to side a bit when the car is going around corners. DH says it's normal, but I still don't like it. My car is so small that his seat touches both front seats. That's not meant to be the best thing, but I figure if I'm in a car accident that's bad enough for the front seats to push back and affect his seat, then then a cm or two between his seat and the front seats isn't really going to make a whole balogne sandwich worth of difference...
PS. I've seen one of Bella's wraps in person and it was gorgeous. I love how she coordinates her wrap with her outfit!
Vic - What a naughty little monkey Cerys is when you are telling her off, hehe. Sometimes when I growl "too rough" at Kyson he smiles at me too and gosh it's so hard not to laugh or smile at them!
What a sneaky tooth number 5. Hopefully now that it's here you'll get a better nights sleep tonight.
Bella - What a nice little sleep-in you got this morning. Hopefully her single waking through the night is a new trend. It's much better than the 4 times a night!
Also, should I be secretly hoping that you have an "accident" despite planning on waiting to ttc?
Nicole - I completely agree with Bella. If the doc's were concerned then I'm sure they would have gotten you to come in earlier.
Bridg - Fantastic news about the hips! Does that mean he's gotten the all clear?
BG and Nay - Firstly, LMAO @ dildocam! Classic! I felt a little embarassed when DH went for his sperm analysis, and then realised that surely it's much worse for us girls that actually have objects inserted INSIDE us! LOL!
As for whether my cycle will be the down-cycle or antagonist one (thanks for the terminology!), I actually have no idea to be honest. It was mostly spoken about at the compulsory counciling session which was like a group info session where they really generalised what a typical cycle might consist of. Then our PGD session yesterday was more about the actual science of how they were going to test the embies (exactly how you explained it BG!), rather than what my cycle would entail. I guess I'll find out the particulars next wednesday
My assumption is that we're not going to use ICSI (pending DH's swimmer analysis results, but considering they've worked 3 times before...), and the good news about my ovaries is that my baseline pelvic ultrasound showed at least 20 folicles in each ovary. Apparently that is ideal for a stimulated cycle (yay ovaries!). Oh, here's a fun fact! Before having Kyson I had a retroverted uterus (the top sloped in the wrong direction), but apparently now it's in the normal position, lol!
We started going through Melb IVF, but weren't too keen on the geneticist. So our specialist told us that we might want to start a-fresh with Monash IVF (as they are totally seperate and don't have anything to do with each other), and we've been really happy with everyone we've dealt with at Monash so far. I almost laughed when the Monash genetecist just happened to mention a study he had done with the Melbourne genetecist. We just smiled and nodded
At Monash IVF they wait until day 3 for cell collection and the embie has to have at least 5 cells. We've been told to expect that not all eggs will fertilise, then that some won't be suitable to test, and then that at least 50% won't be suitable for transfer. Fingers crossed my ovaries decide to churn out quite a few eggs to up the chances! At least our chance of the embie that's transferred (assuming we have one) sticking as apparently quite good.
Gosh, I'm really taking over this thread with all this! Hopefully the mods won't smac me for being off-topic...
BG - Also just wanted to say that I think you are pretty special. You always have so much time to give to others when it comes to advice, help and support. Not just for me, and not just in this thread, but I've seen how much you help others with centrelink info as well! You should be proud of yourself because you really help others!
Cathy (again ) - Oh please tell me that they DO get a break from teething at some point. I don't know how me (or Kyson) will hope if this goes on much longer. And he hasn't even got ANY yet! I know the exact playpen you are talking about. I saw one on ebay just before while I was looking at playpens. It looks really cute. I know what you mean about them moving so quickly too. I put Kyson at one of his toys on the other side of the lounge room, put two things in the dishwasher and turned around just as Kyson jammed his fingers in a kitchen draw. Who knows how he got behind me so fast! Lucky it was pretty softly, but he still cried. I'll have to get all the safety latches now though!
Ok, phew, that's surely got to be a big enough post for now, lol. And it's only taken me about 5 hours to write!
I just looked at Yasmin's old baby book and diary I wrote about her...and it said she got her first tooth at 11mths! All my other babies started to get teeth at 5/6 months though.
Cara seems to like the playpen...the kids have been jumping in there with her. Every night we do 'crawling training' (LOL) up and down the hallway with her....the kids crawl and she laughs hysterically! I almost thought she was going to crawl this morning..but after a couple of steps, she fell on her belly hehe.
All my kids has a smear of vegemite on their toast. I don't think it hurts. Has some good stuff in it like folic acid, which is good for them. I tried her with some tuna tonight..she loved it!
You girls talking about your periods....I still haven't got mine back. (was the same with Laura...I did not get it back til I stopped breastfeeding..at 19mths). I think this is due to the fact that Laura and now Cara don't sleep through the night. I am sure dropping that night feed would encourage your period back. So in a way, I don't mind the sleepless nights..no periods LOL. I got my period back at 6mths with Yassie (and I think Ronan) cause they slept through from that age. Or maybe because they were smaller babies and didn't drink as much from me??? Yassie weighed like 7-8kg at 1 year old!!! She was tiny compared to Cara who is 11kg and as tall as a 1 year old already probably.
Naomi: Awww you're a sweetie! I can't believe I had 4 kids some days. It's nice that you think I'm a supermum too. *blush* Just wish I was as organised as one LOL. I lose things ALL the time..it's insane! I hate to think what I will be like when demetia sets in one day!!! Oh and I want to say THANK YOU to you (if I am right...if I'm not...well thank you to whoever RAKed me!!) I will have to pass on the RAKness!
Krystie: YES...there is a time when the teething takes a break...I always think the early first 4-6 teeth seem the worst (maybe cause they seem to come with such furious pace in succession). I am sure we'll wait at least a couple of months for the rest. Well I hope...I would have to check my baby books to be sure though..
Bella: Yay for a good night's sleep! I hope you don't have to wait too long for baby no 2 either hehe. Another cute little redhead would be adorable hehe
Hahaha Krystie...I shouldn't hope to have an accident but I do. I am not on any contraception we r just using condoms. I had a dream last night that I saw a rip in DH's condom and I didn't tell him However that being said I have never fallen pregnant before the first time we tried in all my years of being sexually active ( and I have been very active at times LOL!) so I very much doubt that I would get preggers now without deciding to and I suspect my DH knows I would just love to get knocked up again now and so he has no problems looking after the contraception
Can I ask would the mods really tell us off for getting off topic? Surely not!! I would really laugh if they did
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