Happy Birthday Tom!!!
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Happy Birthday Tom!!!
Our babies are turning 1!!! Has anyone got a list of when the birthdays are? I feel awful because I have had lots of birthday wishes for Tom from you all, but I've forgotten when everyone else's are.
Megs, Tom is having a "party" on Saturday but it's more just an excuse to get together with family and friends.
Tom goes in tomorrow to have his twelve month MCHN appt... and I'm not going with him! Dh is going to take him, as I have to work.
Who else is still breastfeeding? How is it going? Tom is still having between six and eight feeds a day when I'm not working, around four or five on the days I'm at work. I'm not bothering to pump during the day any more. He drinks a bottle of cow's milk at daycare during the day three days a week but he's more interested in proper food.
They've got hand foot and mouth at the daycare centre, so we're having to keep an eye out for that.
TMTM, Jack's Birthday is on the 1st of May, we are having his party on the Sunday. It is just family but that soon adds up to about 20 odd people.
Jack is no longer breastfed, he weaned himself completly this week. He had started biting me all the time and just wasn't interested. He is drinking cows milk from a cup and has a lot of diary. I was a bit sad as he may be my last baby, but when he was biting I was quite happy to give it up.
I have had gastro this week, which was all I needed, so far no one else has it so maybe it was food poisoning. I'm hoping Tom doesn't get hand, foot and mouth Oscar had that when he was about 17 months old and it is really painful.
Good luck at MCHN, and I hope all goes well tomorrow for the party, you should have nice weather which will be good
So, it's ok to have cows milk as the main drink now? Obie (yes like obi wan - blame dh) is still having 2 bf and 2 bottles of formula which I'd love to stop buying.....
We're having a smallish party like you megs, on the Sunday following his bday
This time last year I was sitting around waiting for DS to make an appearance, and, TBH I was pretty convinved I was going to wind up getting induced again.
Lucky for me that didnt turn out to be the case.
3 sleeps to go til my 'little' boy turns 1! I cant believe it. Honestly it feels like yesterday that I was pg with DS1 and hes 4.5 now!
We have family coming for cake on Thursday night, becuase we have Thursday night family night anyway so just moving it to our house, and an afternoon tea on Sunday. I cant wait!
Hasn't it gone quickly Pandora, Jack still doesn't seem one to me, because my older boys were both well and truely walking by this age that seemed normal. jack isn't walking, and I have been given a referral for him to see an orthapedic surgeon, MCH is bit concerned with his hips still. Am so crossing my fingers that it is nothing.
We had Jack's party last weekend, was a lovely Sunday, just family, had great weather and everyone had a nice afternoon. I was getting myself quite stressed with all the different family dynamics buy they all behaved (well minus my SIL and BIL being over 2 hours late, apparaently hand trimming the lawn edges is more important than your nephews first birthday).
Saw MCHN for the first time in months on Friday, Jack weighs 9.7gms and is 75cms long, so is basically the same as Oscar was, Lewis is my odd one out the gently giant that he is.
Hope you have a great day on Thursday I'm sure your eldest will have a ball helping to open all the presents, and of course give them a test to make sure they work I know mine did.
Oh and on the cows milk, all three of my boys have self weaned around 12 months, nevery had formula and went straight onto cows milk, MCHN wasn't concerned as their diet's were/are good. Eat meat, diary, vegies fruit etc. I guess if you had fussy eater you mightn' as they may not be getting all the nutrients they need
Hey ladies! Happy first birthday to our darling babies...well, our darling toddlers now I guess!
Just putting this out there - but are any of you thinking about trying for another bub any time soon?
I would love to towards the end of this year but at this stage DH is a firm no. I don't see the big deal with 4 kids but he thinks it will strech him too far.
Are you thinking about it Sarah?? With my first son I was already 5 months pregnant at his 1st birthday. Scary when I look back now.
No more kids here, sad to say.
I don't think my body will cope will any more humungasoar bubs lol - Im looking at reconstructive surgery as it is once DS is 2 or 3.
Would have loved to have a little girl but it doesnt look like its meant to be for us, and I count my blessings that we have two healthy boys.
Megs - yeah, I'm starting to think about it more and more. Just playing out different scenarios in my head i guess...do I try to work a bit longer first, or do we just jump right in and try again - I mean, there's no guarantees it would even happen again for us - we have friends who had no dramas whatsoever with their first, but it took them 6 years and IVF to have their second.
I am at the stage where I guess if it happened right now I would be ok with it, but I'm not quite ready to start full on trying again. Does that make sense? When we first started talking about having a family we were thinking an age gap between 2 and 3 years (I know that's a big gap) would be nice. So if we wait a few more months we'll likely fit right in there. lol.
Pandora - My mum had a friend who had 3 boys, and they had finished trying for any more kids. Then a few years later she found out she was 17 weeks along with another bub (she was a bigger lady, and had always had irregular periods) and when she delivered bub at full term she found out it was the little girl she'd always dreamed of. :) But, having large babies is very stressful...I think I'm going to need some reconstruction done too...not to mention my poor bladder has some issues these days! lol.
Pandora, sorry to hear about the need for reconstructive surgery do you mind me asking is it due to a prolapse. I was told after Jack that I have a rear wall prolapse, my ignorant male dr was most unhelpful when I asked what I should do etc. My middle child who was 4040gms was the cause of all my damage I think. Must say I do bear that in mind when thinking about another one.
Sarah: 2 to 3 years isn't really too big a gap. I must say I have really enjoyed the age gap between Lewis my second son and Jack, their almost 21/2 years between them and it has been very nice, Lewis whlst not quite toilet trained was quite independant in many other ways and it made life a lot easier, the 16 months looking back a lot of work, that being said they are both great friends now
Megs I hope you get the all clear on his hips and it's just him deciding to take his own sweet time!
Re cow's milk, I have pretty much gone straight from boob milk to cow's milk, introducing the cow's milk into the mix at about ten to twelve months. Although two of my kids are now lactose intolerant, sigh. If Tom is like his last two sisters, he's got another year at least of the boob juice to go.
Sarah, no more babies for us. Dh had the snip when Tom was a couple of months old. We didn't plan to have Tom... but I'm so glad we did.
Pandora, sorry to hear about the surgery! I sometimes worry about a prolapse as I get a bit older. Apparently it's not uncommon for women who've had a lot of babies, but I'd rather avoid it. Now that I'm forty I'm beginning to stare down the barrel of perimenopause... now there's a scary thought!
Took Tom to the MCHN and he is good - 10.3kg (his weight gain has slowed a lot after those two nasty gastro bugs a month or so ago) and he is 79cm. So his weight is about middle of the road but he's tall! He's doing everything he should. I got the stink eye for the fact that Tom still has around four or five breastfeeds a day, and she definitely disapproves of the fact that I still feed him overnight. Heck, he's in daycare three days a week where he gets no boob at all for twelve hours straight, I am not going to begrudge him a catch up feed. And then she kept on saying stuff about "oh, he's a boy" as an explanation for everything. Bump on his head from falling over? "Oh, he's a boy!" Because girls never fall over. Active little baby? "Oh, he's a boy!" So why was my eldest even busier, when she's a GIRL? Chatty little person? "Oh, he's a boy!" So much for "girls' language develops quicker" I guess. And the kicker - as we left I said, "I'd better get him home for lunch, he's hungry." "Oh, that's boys for you!" What, girls don't eat LUNCH??? ARGH! I'm going to take him back for his eighteen month review and then I'm not going to bother again.
Oh, and she was also on at us AGAIN about whether we're going to delay starting him at school a year because he'll be just on the cusp of the cut off date. This is the second time she's pushed the issue. I kind of get sick of having to justify stuff that I'm quite well informed about. If we decide to send him early, it will be because we've decided it's the best thing for our family.
Has anyone else got trouble getting their walkers to behave? If we go out and Tom isn't in his pram, he's a nightmare. He hates holding your hand, but he won't walk with you either and just takes off at full tilt in whatever direction he fancies. ("OH, he's a boy!!!" LOL). My MIL got him one of those cute little monkey back packs with a tail handle, which he doesn't mind but he hasn't got the brains to realise that if he walks too fast and it catches him, he's going to fall over! Church is a nightmare. He hates his pram while everyone is doing interesting stuff but if you get him out he just wants to wreak havoc, or go and hassle his daddy at the altar.
Megs - I'm actually starting to wonder whether I don't have the beginning of a prolapse...I had some weird pressure like feelings (as though some organs were going to start falling out IYKWIM (sorry if TMI)), and have found that I'm on the verge of being incontinent some days. And heaven help me if I sneeze while I even remotely need to pee (and even sometimes when I don't feel like I need to pee). I focussed like hell on doing pelvic floor exercises, and it has improved somewhat. Thinking about going to see my ob before we start TTC #2 (need to get a pap-smear done anyways, so it'll be a good chance to get things checked over) so at least he can give me some reassurance!
TMTM - Emma isn't walking yet, but she tries to crawl away from me...she took off in a restaurant a month ago - chortling like crazy - to the point that she was laughing so hard, and trying to crawl away from me so fast that she kept falling on her tummy. lol... can't imagine what she'll be like when she's walking!
hey darling mummys
ive been off BB for a week or two caus DD was sleeping terribly, weve now had a week of sleeping thru so im feeling abit better!
ive enrolled to start at tafe full time (enrolled nursing) if i get in i start july.
still having troubles with my lazy housemate but things could be worse.
i cant believe are babies are 1 or almost one!! (i think jades the last aswell, on the 18th)
TMTM, jade still had 4 or 5 bottles a day and one overnight, i have tried cutting down or spacing them out but she wont have it. not sure how we are spose to wean them if they scream unless they get it!!
There are a few things.
Theres a prolapse but minor and not uterine.
Most of the muscle on the right had side of my pelvic floor tore away almost completely so it only half works.
I also have nerve damage so even though it works I cant feel it very well at all.
So I havent been able to play basketball or netbaal, which i previosuly did both more than once a week each, since having DS1 in 2005.
But, if i have surgery I have to have c/s for any future bubs, which Im not perpared to do deliberately, so have to be sure its last bub before having it done.
Both boys were over 4.5kilos and both had 38-39cm HC