Telly: I thought i just wanted 3 kids but i'm not so sure now! I'm from a big family (I have 7 sisters and 1 brother) and we all had a great time growing up. My poor DD was an only child for the first 10 years and i don't want Archie to be lonely like she was. He'll always have her but the age gap is so big he'll feel like an only child iykwim? Soooo i dunnnoooo! Maybe 3, maybe 4 or maybe we'll do a brad and angie and adopt one from every country in the world!! I'll just keep my options open..
Brittney is adapting better than i thought she would! She is a real mummy's girl but she doesn't mind sharing me at all... i think if Archie was a girl it might be a different story! She likes being the only girl! She is sooo good with him! She is really maternal, always looking after people's little ones and she loves animals and is generally a really caring girl so she is great with the baby. She helps to put him to sleep, dress him and change his nappy. I'm pretty lucky really! She is a great help!!
AFM: I've had a really sad day today. Brit is really into her ponies. We have three here at the moment, one of which is on lease. He is the only one she can ride cos the other pony is 32 this year and can't be ridden anymore and the third is a big horse. He is the most beautiful pony, an angel.. never puts a foot wrong. We have leased this pony for the last two years (he is worth ALOT of money, not something we could afford right now) and knew he had to go eventually but we got the phone call the other day and he has to go on the 20th of this month... Brit is DEVASTATED to say the least.. She cannot stop crying! She wants to leave home so she doesn't have any reminders of him cos she'll be too sad! It is so horrible.. she is so distraught and there is not a thing i can do about it! And the worst thing is that he is being transported over to Qld so we will probably never see him again.
So i have spent the day consoling a ten year old, a six week old and then promptly bursting into tears myself
Had Archie weighed today and he now weighs 5560g which is great. Can't believe how fast they grow. I'll have to put up some recent pics of him on FB.
Does everyone's babies still have the hard lumps under the nipples? I am worried Archie might have mastitis in his left one cos it seems as though it is getting bigger. The Child health nurse said it did feel a bit larger than what she'd expect so has told me to keep an eye on it.
Is anyone else still bleeding? I thought it had stopped but apparently not!
Sorry for poor me post....
Have a lovely night x x x
Kymmy - that is so sad about the Pony - your poor DD, I really feel for her.. she must be absolutely inconsolable... haven't noticed anything under the nipples but will have a poke when she wakes up.. LOL Oh and nope, not bleeding. Thought I got AF the other day, my undies got a bit soaked, and then some brown when I wiped, and then nothing!! So don't know what THAT was.
Heavenly - ooh a 3 seater pram, that sounds good!!! At the moment if we have to walk anywhere, DS walks, DD1 goes in our pram and DD2 goes in a sling. If its just to the shops though we chuck DD1 in a trolley instead. Need to get rid of our pram and just get a stroller cos it takes up too much room in the car, considering we hardly use it!!
Glad to know my 3 year old is normal.....
Alison - yup tall kids here too. Can't remember which check up it was for DD1 but she was like on the 115th percentile for height - she wayyyy off the charts.. pmsl... DD2 isn't as tall, she is only 56cms at 7 weeks, so I think she got a bit of my short genes and not the genes from DH's family (nobody is under 6 foot tall in his family - even his nana is about 6 foot 2!!) Our wedding pictures are quite funny though (on FB for those interested) cos we have ones of his family and my family - and my family are sooo short compared to his.. bwahahaha.. and try not to worry too much about the 8kg - you only just had a baby!!! They say it takes 9 months to put on and 9 months to take off, so try to go easy on yourself
Hi to everyone else
DD2 is still sleeping, she is still off her morning bottle a bit, only had about 80ml this morning and then went to sleep really easily and I have resettled twice so far, she seems to wake up every 20mins or so, so I just see if I can get her back to sleep - twice been successful this morning, so its a good day!! haha!! DD1 still has high temps and is cranky as all heck, and very clingy, both the older kids are at the table with me at the moment playing with play doh and I'm on here. Probably should be playing with them I suppose.. LOL
I have been lingering but havent had time to post...
Glad all the babies are putting on weight...Abbey is now 5.1kgs - she put on about 450gms in 2 weeks so I'm happy with that....
I have mastitis at the moment and I feel terrible....my right boob is completely sore and red and looks terrible....at least when Abbey feeds though it's not too bad....I feel like I have a head cold...I know they say that you have flu like symptoms with mastitis but that's what's killing me..I was so achy last night I could hardly move and it was about 30 degrees and I had a jumper on and couldnt stop my teeth from chattering...the the other extreme this morning when I had the AC on at 6:30am!! Have started antibiotics today so they should help...nothing's easy is it!!
Kymmy - Sad news about your pony....poor girl having to deal with that...when you had mastitis did you feel like you had the flu? Maybe I actually do have a head cold and it's nothing to do with that??
Gotta go, visitor here...write later - hope you're all doing well!!!
Hi Kymmy - oh no that's so sad re the pony . I feel so sad for your daughter, why is the pony going to Queensland????? I wish I could buy it for her hee hee. You'll have to try and find another one to lease and surprise her with it, will take her time to get over the other one but I'm sure another will help. Do they really live that long, same as standard size horsies? I'm not up with horses but I do love them, they have beautiful eyes horses. My mum had a couple across from her house when she lived down south in Denmark and we used to go over and feed them carrots and apples, so cute. As for the bleeding, mine stopped after 4 weeks for a week and a half and then came back again and only just finishing now and I'm nearly at 7 weeks!!!! I thought it might be AF but I don't think so cause it was really light in amount and not bright red, more the dark red and then went into the brown and then yellow - sorry TMI but it was more like what they describe the locchia (sp?). Either way I just want it to go away, I want to go swimming on Sunday again in this 42 degree heat, gulp! Actually, does anyone know an you use tampons after 6 weeks then?
Hi Arimeh - gosh yours are tall too! DH is just under 6'3", I'm 5'3" and my whole family are short so not from my side. My great grandmothers nickname was Minnie as she was so tiny and my grandfather was only 5'4"! My nana was taller than him ha ha.
Hi Shayna - you poor girl, that sounds so awful, I really hope the drugs kick in soon and help you, not nice in the heat, yuk. I have been lucky not to get mastitis but the roids or tear or whatever is in my bum is bad enough, getting there but taking it's time, it's so ouchy when I poo ha ha!
AFM - got 5 hours out of Amelia last night, when we woke at 3.00 am I BF'd her, then topped her up with expressed milk (3 days worth of 80mls that's how sad my milk is), I went to put her back in her bassinette and I put the dummy in her mouth (I bought Happy Baby ones yesterday so they're a bit bigger as someone told me they stay in better than the Nuk ones I was using) and I think I pushed it in when she wasn't ready and made her gag and she power spewed all her milk all over me and the floor. It even woke up DH as it hit the carpet ha ha. So, of course, then she was hungry so had to get some formula to fill her up again!!!! Talk about a waste of my expressed milk, that stuff is like friggin gold to me!!!!!!
Well, best go, she's fallen asleep in her swing.....might take the opportunity to actually eat breakfast now it's 9.00 am and might even have a shower, lucky me!!!
kymmy, you poor thing as well as your daughter... hope you dont feel to bad.. it must be so horrible to see her so sad and you cant do anything about it as much as you would love too im sure!!! i stop bleeding and then start again acouple of days later. have you been doing alot?? its been 4 days so im hoping its not going to start again now... but it would stop one day and then start again after a busy day.. (or if i was naughty and had been jumping on the kids tramp) had to have a few days of doing nothing to get it to stop, was getting worried!! hope Archie comes right soon.
Alison, glad to hear Amelia's 6 week check went well
Heavenly, hope bubs gets better soon!
JDsMum, sori to hear you have mastitis at the moment, hope those antibiotics work fast and you feel better soon.
took Ella for her 6 week cheak with our doctor... said shes perfict, just her head with the frontal fontanelle being small is his only concern.
we had decided 3 was going to do it for us... but im ejoying it soooooooo much that i can see me going in for nother in a year or 2. however my mum has been warning me to keep it to 3 as she had 4 and has problems now with a common acurance with a Uterus prolapse, have any of you had any problems with your body from having a large number of kids?? only answer if your comfortable doing so
Billy: I had a slight bladder prolapse after i had Archie. I was really really worried as i was reading all sorts of terrible things about needing surgery and even hysterectomies for prolapses!!! It was caused from him being fully engaged from 24 weeks onwards and the fact that he was over 4kgs. Apparently babies over 4kgs increase the chance hugely. Anyhoo, i went to see a physio that specializes in women's health who gave me exercises to do and within two weeks of doing these exercises it has all fixed itself up and things are pretty much back to normal! THANK GOODNESS! I was soo stressed about it! I later found out that the same thing happened to my mum and one of my sisters and my midwife said about 75% of women have this happen and it fixes itself before half of them even notice. So here i was thinking i was the only one and that something was seriously wrong with me! So i think as long as you do your PFE (and do them PROPERLY) then you'll be right. And think of all those women who have HUGE families.. surely they don't all have prolapses? It can run in families though.. something to do with the muscles.
As for the bleeding, i haven't really been doing too much at all! Just the ususal housework and stuff. I dunno what is going on! I have my 6 week check next week so i'll ask the Doc. Hope you and your beautiful kids are well
Alison: Thats great the 6 week check went so well. It is sooo amazing how fast they grow! My friends bub is 6 months old and i can't get over how much they change in such a short time! They go from little pip squeaks like ours to very "toddler looking" bubs in a matter of six months! It's amazing!
The pony is going to Qld as it's owner moved there just after we started the lease. She is a riding instructor now and wants to use him as one of her school horses. She also has an 8 year old son who will ride him too. I wish you could buy him for her too!! haha! But $14,000!!!?????? Hmmmmm... He is worth it though, if i had the money i'd buy him in a heartbeat.. when your child's safety is at stake you'd pay anything. Ponies generally live a bit longer than horses.. i don't really know why. One of the ponies Brit learned to ride on had to be put down last year due to cancer of the penis... he was 43 and still ridden every second day!!!! The more you ride them the longer they seem to live. Our old girl is blind in one eye and almost blind in the other which is very sad as she is a great pony otherwise. You wouldn't know by looking at her that she is almost 32!! But she gets sooo much love and affection by Brit and I think that makes a huge difference.
I will never lease another pony for her as it is too heartbreaking when they have to go back. I'll save up the dosh and buy her something she can keep forever.
JD'smum: Sorry to hear about your mastitis... sounds like ours is a bit worse than mine was. I caught mine at the beginning and got to the Dr as soon as i could. She said i was really lucky that i came when i did because it gets really bad really quickly. It's good that you've started the antibiotics, it should clear up pretty fast now. The fever that your describing sounds like it is from the mastitis... I really hope you start to feel better soon
Hello everyone else!
Crikey i've rambled a bit haven't i???
I'v had a better day today.. took Brit down to my best mates farm where there is heaps to distract her from her sadness.. She is about to have a ride on her pony now and i'll walk with her then she'll go off to my sister's for a sleepover. Archie has been really good all day too.. Might get a chance to spend some quality time with my husband tonight!!! Might try to get myself knocked up
Hi Kymmy I’m sorry to hear about the pony, I can imagine how heartbroken your daughter is and it must suck not being able to fix it as that’s what you would want to do the most. I’m glad your mastitis cleared up quickly, I’m a bit paranoid about every twinge now in case I need to go and nip it in the bud too. I must be naïve because I thought it was only something you got when establishing bf.
Telly thank god for the Angelcare monitor though I don’t think Id be came to put her on her belly without it. My Aunty is a mw and said whatever works, especially with that monitor. Ill try the fan too although dh said he breathed on the mattress the other day and it picked it up..amazing really considering the sensors are under the mattress. Lol on Theo’s 4.5 kg! V is 4.6 now and she feels so much bigger than when she was a newborn (or is she still a newborn? I duno) I really feel for you then because I thought pushing her out at 2.67 was hideous lmao..
Billy I think prolapses are a bit hereditary..My mum had one back in the old days and they just gave her a hysterectomy but I’m fuzzy on the details. My mum has always had a weak bladder so I was a bit worried about my pelvic floor. My ob had a look the other day and said it was all back to normal and I don’t even need to do pf exercises either..Must have an elastic fanny so I asked dh if it felt all normal there and he said it is back to normal which is a relief…when I looked there after the birth I cried lol…It was black!
Alison, Noooo!!! That would have been so annoying to lose all that breast milk. Its great Amelia takes the dummy though V screams blue murder if you put one even near her which sucks in the car, yesterday she was so upset I had to reach behind me and put my finger there for her to suck (while driving mind you) so she could calm down..She will take a bottle of ebm though so I’m not sure how that works…must be from all that comp feeding at the beginning but well continue to give her bottles so she doesn’t lose the skill if that’s what you call it.
Shayna CONGRATULATIONS!!!! on Abbey giving you some slack lol I feel like I have been there with V and it is changing very quickly with us so fingers crossed for you two as well. Have you heard of the wonder weeks book? Id like to get it apparently it has all the developmental leaps in it and explains a lot of the things the bubbas go through so you can understand…Must order it myself….Sorry to hear about the mastitis too, as if you needed that too. Is there something specific that causes it or is it a bit of a random thing?
Heavenly I’m glad your shopping trip went well, I honestly don’t know how you do it mate I take my hat off to you xx
Arimeh gee your kids are cute! They all look very similar too lol.. I love your comments about a 4th and you’d like a sleeper haha I don’t think even one of us has a sleeper so they must be rare
Hi Snowy!, Hi Ubba! Hi Madame! Hi anyone I have forgotten!
V and I went to the Sydney BB meet up yesterday. It was only about a 50 min drive there and about 15 or 18 ladies were there with heaps of kids but they were all pretty well behaved as far as I could tell. The lady hosting it had a big house so little groups could split off or mingle but everyone ended up at some point talking to each person…I think..I expected it to be a lil bit weird but I felt really comfortable so that was pretty cool although that might have something to do with my amazing social skills learned from constantly moving as a child and adult lol..When you move that much you have to actively seek out friendships otherwise you can really get lonely.. I’m really proud of myself I have started a few new friendships lately irl. Dh is really encouraging and I can tell he is relieved I am doing my own thing too. V was popular as she was behaving herself after her…..
MAMMOTH SLEEPTHROUGH!!!!! Woot! 2 nights in a row she has gone to bed around 11 or 1130 and woken at about 6 or 630 !! What a gift from her I hope it continues… We are going great guns with her sleeping and because of that she is such a happier baby. I have been staying up after that feed to do house stuff but Ill try and have a nice afternoon cuddle sleep with her as well because she is harder to get down in the afternoon..Too much excitement from the day maybe but she sleeps better in the afternoon with me but that’s ok because I have missed co sleeping with her lol..
Today is my friends bubs 1st birthday party and I am excited to show off my new improved happy baby so hopefully she keeps it up this afternoon lol. The other day I went to Myer and bought a new maxi dress (to hide underneath lol) it looks really nice on and gives the illusion that I am somewhat in shape hahaha. Well V has been back asleep since 8 so not sure if she will be up soon but Id better take advantage of the freedom and fold some washing, what fun…blergh..
Hey ladies, just a quick post.
Kymmy i am soo sad to hear about your pony I can only imagine how heart broken your daughter is.. poor thing. 14 grand tho... geez!!!! I knew they were expensive, but that is obviously higher than average yes?? lol, gosh i hope so! We grew up out west, and a lot of my family own cattle properties, so we were always riding horses as kids, was heaaaappps of fun, so i know how special your pony must be to her.
natty that is so cool that you went to the bb meet up! And be damn proud of yourself for seeking out new friendships irl! I'm horrible when it comes to making friends, i really prefer to stay at home with a book, so going out to see people is a real effort. You've done well Hooray on V's sleep through!! That is great! Theo has been sleeping 5 hours a night in a row, which i'm pretty chuffed with too
Okay, nothing much happening in my life.
just doing the house work - exciting times!
xx
I can only imagine how heart broken your daughter is.. poor thing. 14 grand tho... geez!!!! I knew they were expensive, but that is obviously higher than average yes?? lol, gosh i hope so! We grew up out west, and a lot of my family own cattle properties, so we were always riding horses as kids, was heaaaappps of fun, so i know how special your pony must be to her. 
Hooray on V's sleep through!! That is great! Theo has been sleeping 5 hours a night in a row, which i'm pretty chuffed with too 
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