Emma: Love the pic's of Alyssa, sooo cute! Car...mmm, we need something with more seats but not really any bigger.
Barb: Love the sound of $150 per month Nanny..wish we could get something like that here! I am paying over $100 for two days a week for Ben and that is with Childcare benefit. I hope things go your way very soon, you and your DP really deserve it. I will try a prayer for you, worked for Oscar in Snakes and Ladders (he goes to a catholic school, he was praying again today only this time I was not allowed to know!!)
I really hope your Dad recovers soon...it must be terrible being in Vietnam with him being unwell
Jody: How is Elliott's tummy sleeping going? The boys slept so much better when they were able to sleep on their tummy's with their bums in the air.
Well, Tess has had two nights in a row of 12hrs or more without waking. I bath, feed and put her to bed anytime betweek 6-7pm and she hasn't been waking until 7ish sometimes later the next morning. Let's hope it continues for a little longer.
We went to visit Bernie's parents in Torquay on Australia Day and she was held onto all day by someone and slept and was so happy about it that she didn't really like being put down today to play....we got there in the end and she eventually realised how much fun it is to play with her elephant and giraffe under the play gym
She is very chatty and talkative..Oscar just loves it. Thankfully next week we will back into our usual routine of school and creche drop off on Tues & Wed. So if I can keep myself away from BB, FB and Ebay the house should be a bit cleaner and Tess a little more attended to.
As one of my friends would say "ahh the fun of it all"
my names Lexi, our lil girl Sierra Grace was born at 3:29pm on Sunday the 15th of November. Short labour (11 and a half hours) drug free, which im proud of!
We are enjoying our lil bundle of joy. Although this week has been a bad sooky week.
How long should I be letting Sierra sleep during the day?
It's really up to you with sleep. My DD is up usually around 7ish for a feed and then back down before 9am and then feed, play, sleep if I can. Her long sleep is in the afternoons after my lunch and she then has a power nap at 5ish until 5:30 or so and then bath, BF and bed by 6:30-7pm.
During the day I try to be strict with feed, play, sleep. Although this is difficult to keep up with if I am out and about..so she sleeps when she needs it when I am out.
It will also depend on how much Sierra is sleeping at night too on how much she wants during the day.
Hi everyone else
Well...Tess has just started doing all nighters It has been 3 nights in a row and she wakes up in the morning singing. Really hoping it continues, I know I will be in for the odd bad night, let's see how it goes.
So much change is such little time. She talks away and pays attention under her play gym to the toys. She is starting to grab at things too..I had forgotten how wonderful and sometimes trying this age can be!
I have to admit I have been super slack getting in here I get onto FB all the time but most of the time I find typing single handed a pain so if I do get into BB my posts are super short or I just lurk lol but I always read what everyone is upto
Welcome Lexi
Lets see what can I report - I am STILL trying to organise payment for that blasted stroller through the US website its just about doing my head in BUT it will be well worth it as it works out soo much cheaper then buying it here, even with the $350 shipping (converted from US tyo AU $$) I sent payment this time via direct debit or ITT whatever you want to call it and I was on their live chat this morning to be told I would have to try again to find out if it has cleared on tuesday morning such a drama but for $995 (yes with the current exchange rate it has gone up a bit) I get the pram, toddler seat, toddler hood (like the pram hood but for the toddler seat, air pump, soft pram harness and the wheel bag AND shipping. To buy the Pram and the toddler seat only here it is $1000.
Shae has had 5 nights in a row of sleeping from 8-9.30 to 6-7.30 now comes the tricky part of trying to get her to settle earlier we start her night routine at 5.30 but then she does her 3 hours solid sucking and stock piling milk for her night sleep We both check her a few times through the night still - gee we are hopeless
Renovations have had to be temporarily put on hold as we have a friend down from Syd this weekend and I needed to keep the bed up and let the dust settle in the room.
I need all your opinions on this as DH and I have different views over the rooms.
My question is, would you change rooms for your baby?
here are the details:
1- Nursery has gorgeous garden views and a south/east facing window. Its both the warmest and the coolest room in the house and the bedroom door is practically opposite ours.
2 - MIddle bedroom has a Northish facing window, is much bigger but has older style carpet ( we will eventually one day have new carpet in the current carpeted areas so it all matches right now there is 4 different lots of carpet) the view is not so great out this window, the room is a bit further away from ours down the hall but is right next to DH office.
Now I have to admit at the moment the Nursery is a much nicer room but when the other is finished, I want to move Shae into the bigger room because she came first IYKWIM plus because she is a girl the old carpet is a bit girlier. It will be furnished almost exactly the same as the Nursery - single bed, cot, toy box and drawers maybe an extra set of drawers just because we have the room.
DH wants Shae to stay in the Nursery because its a better room (in his opinion) and when we have #2 then that baby can be int he Middle room.
My arguement is also that the nursery is closest to our room not by much though and because its cooler or warmer it will be better to serve as a Nursery while the baby is new and cannot regulate its temperature.
MY concern is simply that I don't want Shae to get use to one room then just shifted into another like she has been kicked out of the space she knew. The cots in both rooms will be exactly the same and I want her to have the bigger room.
What do you think? I will also do a forum post about this and get other opinions as well.
Personally I'd keep her where she is until #2 is well and truly on the way and see how you feel then. A little kid is really not going to care about one room being a little bigger or with different carpet - that's only going to matter to you! I also don't think kids would be jealous of the different rooms until they are much older, perhaps never if they are used to it one way or another. I'll go all Dr Phil on you here and it sounds like you and DH are arguing about different things. You want Shae to feel special, and have a bit more advantage as "first child" and DH is thinking of practicalities or more from Shae's point of view --closer to you for now, nicer room.
Hey Lexi - Welcome! Elliott has just started to change his routine again and if he sticks with this one I will be much happier. He goes into his cot at 6.30-7pm depending on how tired he is. Usually straight to sleep. 10pm another 5-10 min quick feed, 12pm another quick 5-0 min feed and then peace until 4.30 am today. Another feed and then up at 6am.
Although this is a lot of feeding it's better than having his long sleep from 7-12 and then every two hours like before! Now I'm experimenting with me having adult time alone from 7pm until 10pm. Then after that feed I go to bed. The 12 feed is pretty quick and then 4.30 is a little longer but I feel good cause I've had a good stretch of night sleep and not been in bed at 7pm like before!
During the day sometimes he is only a catnapper - 4 naps yesterday of 30 mins each and that was it! Sometimes a longer afternoon nap of a few hours. Mornings are best for me to get out and about with him and that will make him sleep more while I'm out with him in pram or car. If I go to a movie or something during the morning he'll sleep through it!
Thanks for the replies on sleep as well. Sierra has started going down at around 7pm and wakes up at different times everynight. For example last night she fed at 5:40, 6:40and then at 7:40 (only drank 60mls at this feed, she is now formula fed) she was then fed bout 12:30am, then fed again about 5:30ish then woke up at 8:30. But everynight is different.
I try to play with her during the day but she starts becoming really sooky after about 10 - 15 mins most of the time. I am looking forward to her being able to grab things! That will be fun.
Hi all,
Welcome Lexie. I love the name Sierra.
Every baby seems to sleep differently. I'm having trouble getting Poppy to sleep for more than 20 minutes at a time during the day (although I've just noticed she's fallen asleep in her play gym). At night I start trying to put her to bed at around 8 but last night she didn't actually go to sleep until 10.30pm, three hours after her last feed. I was not a happy camper. But once she's asleep she sleeps until 6am, has a feed with her eyes shut then goes back to sleep til 9am. So she kinda does 12 hours straight, but it's not very convenient for me because I'm not getting any adult time or eight hours sleep.
Nae - I second Tecopa. I think it's a bit too early to be worrying about rooms. You never really know how long its going to take for the next one to arrive. And then maybe you'll have triplets and so you'll need to build a new wing. Plus kids have different priorities when it comes to rooms. Maybe one bedroom would be better for building tents or playing jungle games and so that one is the one that is considered the best room. When I was a kid I liked having the biggest room (because I was the oldest) but I didn't like the setup. I couldn't run down the corridor and leap onto the bed (thus avoiding the scary monster under the bed) like my sisters could.
Miss Heather - Tess is singing!!! I wish I could hear that. Poppy likes having a chat. She makes all kind of funny noises. But when I get my camera out to try to record it she always stops.
AFM - We're settling into our new house. I thought it would be so great to finally be alone but it's been a tough few days. The house was FILTHY when we moved in. It's also about three times the size of our old house and the overall first impression I got was not good. I only saw it after we'd paid the bond and the first three months rent. There's a big mosquito problem, which I'm still not sure what to do about, so Poppy and I were stranded in the bedroom on the second floor for several days.
But DP has been running around town collecting all our stuff and organizing things. So now we have our dog, a supply of drinking water, a mosquito-zapper racquet, an iron, a clothes line and 12 spare airconditioning units downstairs. And a new motorbike (but no helmet so I can't take it annywhere yet). DP also fixed the washing machine but the fridge doesn't work. Luckily there's heaps of eating places nearby. And our street is so much quieter than our old neighbourhood. There's even birds!
Our lovely nanny/maid, Ms Quyen, has cleaned the house from top to bottom and I'm feeling a lot happier about things. I've also found a mother's group that meets on Wednesday mornings. I am looking forward to that, although I hope I'm not looked down upon because my husband isn't on a fat expat package with a fancy house, driver, maid and free tickets home. Since I've had the baby just about every Westerner has asked me what my husband does.
Gotta run. One of DP's brothers has just arrived to hang out with Poppy. He says Poppy is very beautiful because she has a high nose, long eyebrows and fingers like bamboo shoots. Apparently these are prized features in Vietnam!
Hey Barb: Sounds like things are finally looking up for you in Vietnam. Hope it went will with your MG. Ahhh, not quite singing La La La , just lot's of happy noises like singing.
Nae: Read on FB, finally your pram is on the way I love getting packages in the mail! Make any decisions on Shae's bedroom? I have started both boys in one room and moved them. Oscar moved when Ben came and then both together in one room and Tess is now in there old room. They didn't seem to mind, just excited they could have dinosaur stickers and doona covers.
Jody: Tess is a catnapper too. Sometimes get a longinsh stint of an hour or 2 but that's pretty much it during the day.
Lexi: How are you going?
AFM: All good Tess has discovered she has hands and likes to look at them! I have moved the toys on the play gym lower and she now grabs them. I think her vision has improved heaps as she seems to notice so many things that interest her now.
When I feed her she holds onto my top with one of her free hands and when she has a dress on she finds a part of and starts to pull it up and look at her hands doing it.
Still not great at tummy time..not worried about that. She is happy enough playing on her back.
She is regualarly sleeping all night now, which is good. I expect the odd wake up, especially with this weather as I assume she will be thirsty..you never know though.
I am about to invest in one of those Bumbo seats with play tray. I got the idea from Jody acutally as I saw a photo of Elliott in one and thought what a great thing to have for when she starts solids!
Better run..dinner is ready and missed the biggest loser
Hey all.
Just a quick post. Tecopa - how do you manage Elliot and the dogs?
I haven't been putting Poppy on the floor in case the dog licks her face or hands. But it's getting to be a pain staying in the same room with the baby, or strapping and unstrapping the Ergo. She's started shuffling back in her baby gym so I don't think it's safe to leave her on the bed anymore.
Any advice?
The Bumbo is great! So helpful for getting things done around the house. I've taken to cooking or baking and talking to E like he is the studio audience for a cooking show while he sits in the Bumbo on the kitchen table. And even eating breakfast at the table with him next to me!
As for dogs - at first I was always making sure dog and baby were never alone together and it was such a pain. Now I will go up to five - ten mins where I have a shower and the dogs and baby are all together. I probably shouldn't but it was just impossible otherwise. I guess there is the small chance that the dogs could bite or attack Elliott although so far I've seen no aggression from them toward him. If anything they steer clear - although every now and then they like to lick his head, or his arms. But I don't think I would recommend leaving them alone cause I don't know your dog! Maybe I should even be bringing the dog with me into the bathroom and closing the door so that I know they aren't near Elliott. Cause it's too much effort to take E into the bathroom in his rocker while I shower - at least the dogs answer to their names and can run to me!
I don't actually mind the licking stuff - good for the immune system. Elliott goes to the dog park with me and we sit on a chair above the dogs watching them all but sometimes I'm not quick enough and he'll get covered in dog slobber when an over enthusiastic big dog bounds up to us. I figure I'll just have to worm him and myself!! And give us a bath more than once a week if we go to the dog park!!! I usually only bathe Elliott when he smells or gets really dirty since he has sensitive skin.
Well, I think the basic problem is that we just don't have enough stuff.
I googled the Bumbo and it looks great but I don't think it will be possible to get one here. We don't have a table yet, either.
As for leaving the dog and baby together. The dog is such a sweetie I can't imagine her doing anything to the baby, apart from licking. However, today she is banned from the house so that defers the problem for another day.
Our new house is a typical Vietnamese house, quite narrow and deep with many storeys. I was downstairs in the kitchen washing the bottles and DP was playing with Poppy in the bedroom on the first floor. When I came back to the bedroom he was doing his Chicken Little reaction to a poo. Now, we've just changed formula to an Asian brand (not Chinese) and her poos have been very watery the past few days. DP had the nappy half open, her onsie pulled up, the bath in the ensuite half-filled and the shower running. "Can you help me," he said with a completely pathetic look on his face. He then got into such a position that I couldn't reach the tap, the towels ... a complete debarcle. And I'm thinking if I get frustrated and yell at him he'll never try to change a nappy again, so I just work with the situation. Poo is running down his leg, he's half in the bath, half out, the shower is splashing water everywhere and all I can reach is a teeny tiny baby washer, which I'm using to wipe the poo away. The poo is splashed from her belly button to her ankles. And in the middle of all this Mitzie bounds in with an angelic smile on her doggie face, squats on the bathmat and does a very big pee. Now I'm thinking if I yell at her she'll run away, still peeing and I'll have several rooms and maybe even the staircase to clean. So I only indulge in a loud "nooooooo" as the warm dog pee pools around my feet. I'd taken her outside to the street only five minutes beforehand and she hadn't peed so I didn't think she needed to go. And the front door was open so she could have peed in the courtyard.
So the dog is banned from the house today. I don't think the pee is a reaction to the baby. We had a confrontation with some dogs in the street a few days ago and I think she's a bit scared to go into the street. Sigh. But I didn't want to parade around in my nightie, so I stood behind the door, rather than stand guard while she peed in the gutter.
Ah, the joys of family life!
oh Barb sorry mate but i did have a giggle over your man and the dirty nappy plus the peeing dog, its awful but so darn funny coz i can imagine how that all looked.
Heather - yep pram is on its way FINALLY, nah no further thoughts on the room situation yet but only coz i have shut the door on it and done no more work. I like to feel the room as i work on it and try to visualise the little person in it ant at the moment it doesn't feel like Shaes room itms. not sure if i ever said how much i loved your avvy heather its really gogeous.
Jody - I am so glad you trust your dogs enough to leave E with them. I couldn't do it with our dogs, i have seen the way they turn on ech other my heeler Sheba is a bit weary of the pram and gets a semi threatened look about her. I took Shae into the bathroom while i showered the other day she chatted to me from her pram i just left the shower door open.
hey i just noticed you've got platinum membership now - awesome - when are you getting an avatar??
afm - well we have hit the 12 week wonder week bang on cue. Shae slept only 3 hours last night so we are all bushed. she has just started holding her own head up a bit more and has discovered a pitch higher than mariah carey.
most importantly
my sil gave birth after 17hr posterior labour to a 7lb 2oz baby girl that she named Briley Grace and boy is she cute. she is a spitting image of her dad which is such a shame coz he does't want anything to do with sil and doesn't even know she has had Briley.
anyways this is tricky typing one handed so i will go
Oh Barb I think you need to write a book. I hope you are keeping a diary. Any news on Singapore?? How did your MG group go?
Nae: Great news about your SIL and sad about the Dad Thanks about the Avvy, funny things to think of when you want to make one up. That's amazing that Shae is so on cue with the wonder weeks book. I am thinking of getting it as a gift for a friend who is pregnant..would you reccomend it?
Hey Jody..you got RAKD! Look forward to seeing your Avvy. I have a niece who has really sensitive skin and my SIL uses on of the products from the chemist to bath her in.
Can't remember the name, it is soap free and chemical free and all that.
AFM: I am trying to feed away a blocked milk duct so as it doesn't turn into mastitis. I felt a lump on my left nipple and it was sore to touch so I looked around BB and have figured it out to be a blocked milk duct. Have a Dr appt tomorrow just in case, might cancel it as Tess has been helping me out and I think we are on top of it I am pretty sure it came about with Tess sleeping all night and my breast's so full in the morning she hasn't been able to empty them.
I have a sort of feeding routine during the day..pretty much what suits me really.
I try and feed her alot in the morning to empty the breasts and then whenever in the pm. I had morning tea with a GF the other day and when I explained to her our routine (she has a little girl same age as Tess) she asked if I was doing a "Tizzy Hall", hadn't heard of her, so did a look around and discovered she wrote save our sleep. Something about 7,11 and 3 feeding times??
Sorry I've been MIA. Been keeping up on the news just haven't had time to post!!!! Been crazy here the last couple of weeks.
We're still putting along. Sleeping well over night and pretty good through the day. Alyssa rolled a couple of times back to front last week but i think they were more fluke than anything. Rolld from front to back on saturday though and it was definately not a fluke!!!! She's started having 'conversations' too which is just too cute!!! Is anyone else starting to have problems with teeth???? Everyone keeps teeling me it's to early, but there was a definate white lump on her bottom gum and we had two horro afternoons where she just screamed until i gave in and gave her a dose of panadol (which i didn't really want to do)........ It's gone down again now and the screaming and irritability seems to be gone too!
Had a very full on morning this morning. Little miss got up at 6 (which was fine seeing as she'd only had 2 dream feeds since 5:30 last night and slept through :dance). But the dogs been sick for the last couple of days and we took him to the vet yesterday and had to fast him till this morning. Poor little thing was crying this morning so we figured he was hungry and decided to feed him (the vet told us only pasta or chicken for a few days). Had pasta left over from last night but the little princess turned his nose up at thatso I thought I'd cook him some chicken. Of course there's none in the freezer so i decide to duck to the shops. Put Miss A in the glider so i can have a shower, then dress take her downstairs to change her clothes and she poops. So I take the nappy off and it's the most digusting runny poo I've ever seen her do and just as I get it off she goes again and it's dripping down the changetable, pooled at the end of it and spurted on the floor. So I clean up the dripping bits and put some wipes on the floor while I'm still trying to hold her, By the time I stand back up she's been kicking her feet in the pool and has it up to her knees!!!! By 8 o'clock I'd dealt with that and been to the shops and had chicke n in the frypan. But the worst part is he won't even eat it (and chicken is his favourite so I hope he's okay) . What a morning. I've told DH i want a raise!!
Jody - I bath Alyssa in alpha keri oil which is supposed to be good for dry sensitive skin..... might be worth a try????I'm the same with our dog. He doesn't tend to go near Alyssa so if I duck out of the room quickly I don't worry to much. Will be a different story when she's toddling around and chasing him though I think!!!! He's only little and has the gentlest nature.
Hi Lexi - Welcome!! Hope the day sleeps are going well.
Nae - Good luck with the sleeping!! We sailed through 12 weeks without a change. Just a few nights with extra feeds. Hopefully I haven't just jinxed myself!!!! Congratulations on becoming an aunt. A little one you can cuddle and hand back
Heather - Good luck with the lump. Save our sleep is a pretty strict 4 hourly feed and sleep routine., had a look at it when Miss A was born but decided pretty quickly it wasn't for me!!!!
Heather - yep I highly recommend the book for first time parents - its not one of those books thats so matter of fact and talks AT you nor is it humorous like Kaz Cooks books but I just love it, especially when out of nowhere shae is inconsolable and has a few super fussy/irritable days then I go and check against the book its awesome and it has some tips on how to make the baby's transitions into things easier, what new things bub "might" be able to do but everything is very gentle if that makes sense?/ I found WHat to expect the first year very clinical and I don't persoanlly find it helpful but this books is more reassuring ......
Emma - Thanks, this is the youngest now of the cousins there are 11 grandchildren now so Shae has 10 cousins ranging in ages from newborn to 22ish. its weird marrying into a family where I have adult nieces and nephews lol.
Not much to report I had a vent in the boo hoo room about mum (again)as she has started playing a few games between me and SIL ie giving SIL a tonne of second hand stuff from a friend of our family but not getting anything for Shae and it peeves me no end. Not SIL's fault at all but she is a single mother and everyone feels sorry for her because the bubs dad is being and a/hole BUT SIL will do nothing to help her situation she kinda just sits back and everyone just automatically start picking up the pieces for her ... but she doesn't realise she does this I dunno its weird, she gets herself into such deep dung and while she does work hard at some things, everyone else around her automatically shift into "help you as much as you can" mode and helps to bail her out ....I don't think she takes advantage either ....that or she is a master at conning people Still mum feels sorry for her and just wants to give her everything but she forgets that offically SIL really isn't anything to her nor is the baby ........ yes a tad of the green eyed monster but not for myself, for Shae ... good thing she is too young to understand, if mum keeps it up I will have to say something to her about it as its unfair.
anyhooooo
I am cooking a roast today for MIL as she and FIL are out running errands for SIL while she is still in hossy as bub has jaundice and she asked me to do it to help them out so thats what I am doing - slow cooked home grown lamb roast .. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm those noisy little lambs taste soo goooooodd
Hi all
Nae - so sorry to hear you're still having problems with your mum. I haven't been over to read the latest. I was really hoping the new baby would make her grow up a little. The SIL stuff sounds like an added pain. Best to just ignore it, let her live her life however she wants, as long as it doesn't impact too much on you.
Emma - welcome back. I hope your dog is ok. Poppy's also started rolling, which is causing her endless frustration cos she doesn't know what to do once she gets onto her front.
Heather - how's your bfing going? What a terrible trade off - a full night's sleep gets you a blocked duct. Where do you lodge a complaint about that?
Tecopa - thanks for your advice on the dog. I love thinking of you doing your cooking shows for Elliot. I don't do much cooking here. (No point when DP loves cooking, I don't really know how to get things done with only two gas rings and bundles of weeds and eating out costs less than $1).
As for me -- yesterday, the whole returning to Vietnam thing got on top of me. DP told me as he was walking out the door that he'd bought a dining table (without consultation) that was being delivered in an hour. Now, Poppy's morning routine and my general exhaustion means we don't really get going til 9.30. So I had to jump up and get dressed and wait for the table. But it didn't arrive at 9. Instead, halfway through Poppy's 9am feed, a guy comes to install the curtains the landlord promised. This creates all kinds of new dramas as he tries to work out how to get up to the curtain rod, which is 3 meters in the air. He finally works out that the only way he can hang the curtains is to drag the small computer table to the window, put the cheap and nasty folding stood on top of it and climb up. So he's wobbling up there in the air, the baby is crying because her feed is being interrupted and I'm nearly in tears because it's the ugliest curtain I've ever seen - a cheap nylon diarrhoea-yellow number that clashes with everything in the room.
Then the table arrives. It has a glass top, attached to a cheap imitation wrought iron bottom with very obvious suction cups. The chairs, also made out the cheap black pipe stuff, have a nasty velveteen cover on the bottom with brown-on-brown squares, which doesn't actually match the velveteen cover on the backs of the chairs, which are yellow-on-beige ovals. The yellow matches the diarrhoea curtains upstairs but clashes with the pink, black and white tiles on the kitchen floor.
All this on top of the five mosquito bites on Poppy's face, the result of DP putting the baby to bed while I went to the farewell dinner for one of my closest friends. And on top of months of living with my parents, three-and-a-half weeks of being crammed into his brother's flat, moving into a filthy mosquito-infested house and feeling stranded, isolated and completely useless. And I was supposed to go across town to pick up some shelves and meet someone for lunch and the deliveries made me so late I couldn't go at all - goodbye lunch with interesting new friend and free shelves.
So I had a big old complain to DP, who came home and cooked lunch and apologized for the whole world being against me. He also agreed that the dining set was too big and so it would have to go.
Today I feel better, Poppy's mosquito bites are less angry-looking and the mosquito problem is just about resolved so I could sit in the kitchen (ignoring the horror of the clashing colours and patterns) and have breakfast.
I didn't get the job in Singapore. They told me they made an internal appointment but that there was another vacancy arising soon that they'd like me to consider. But DP now says he wants to stay in Vietnam for another six months because he's getting a promotion and the new job title will look better on his CV.
Gee, maybe I should take up residence in the boo hoo room!
In the midst of all this Poppy has started rolling over. The half-roll from a few weeks ago was a false alarm. Lying in the baby gym and kicking the ball is sooooo yesterday. Now all she wants to do is do a faceplant and make puddles of drool all over the place. She can't get all the way over, trapped by one arm that gets stuck underneath her. I put her on a cushion on the floor yesterday and while my back was turned for five minutes she wriggled around so her legs were on the floor and the rest of her was about to overbalance and fall off too. It was only a drop of a few centimeters but I'm so glad I caught her in time.
I'm off to mothers group again tomorrow. The first one was quite interesting. There were women from all over the world - Australia, Scotland, England and Denmark. The apartment was quite fancy and a lot of the ladies were talking about going to Phuket or Bali for Tet (Lunar New Year) but it wasn't the snootfest I was dreading. I don't know if I can ever host a group, though, with the current hideous colour scheme in our house. (We also have television sets, rice cookers and air conditioning units stacked up to the ceiling in the living room because BIL is cleaning out his warehouse for Tet.) I am thinking of writing a book about this craziness. But I don't know who'd read it!
Hey Barb: I'd read your book! Hopefully with Singapore 'soon' would mean in the next few months and by then your DP would have been in his promoted position to add it to his CV. Do you plan to meet on a regular basis for you MG?
Emma: How is your dog? Oooh, poo! Haven't been too bad in that department here so far, other than one incident when Tess was a couple of weeks old at Myer. I couldn't do the save our sleep thing. Tess is so good at night, I don't really mind what she does during the day. Some days she just happens to be in the 'save our sleep' routine without any prompting from me
Nae: not good to here about your Mum playing up again.
How did the Lamb go? I love Lamb! Especially when it would be sooo fresh I go to the Farmer's markets when I can so I can get good quality organic meat.
Jody: I went an got a Bumbo as well as the play table that you can attach to it. Tess is not quite strong enough in the neck yet..almost there!
Lexi: How are you going??
Well...you all seem to have rolling babies! Tess is not really interested. When I put her on her tummy she will just turn her head to the side so you doesn't have her face imbedded into the ground. She sort of does a half roll. The boys were really 'lazy' with rolling and walking so I assume she will be same
I have tried lying in front of her and putting the mirror in front she is just not interested..suppose she will do it in her own sweet time.
The strange lump thing got a bit sore, went to the Dr who gave me a script for AB's. He wasn't sure what it was and I tried to explain the ABA thought it was 'white spot'. He went onto the ABA site and put that in the search, and nothing came up. He was beginning to suggest to stop feeding from that side, I cut him off and point blank said I won't be doing that! On further research from me when I got home I think it may have be a milk blister. Not sure so I have started the AB's incase of infection and it seems to be getting better.
The mornings are busy here. I leave home at 8:30am to take Oscar to school so I try and make sure Tess has fed enough before I leave as I quite often go somewhere straight from School Drop off. Now that she is sleeping all night, she sometimes doesn't wake until 7:30am so it doesn't leave alot time to have her fed and make sure the boys are ready. Tess will only sometimes take one side and snack on the second so I am trying to feed her again before I leave to see if she will finish. I hate being late, so far I haven't been. I don't want to be one of those Mum's that makes excuses for being late due to having kids. Hope that doesn't sound harsh
I am just loving spending time with Shae, its almost like there is something new happening on a daily basis - like this morning for example she was poking her tongue out which is a new thing, and she loves being rolled onto her side then left to roll back onto her back (though tummy time is still an issue). She is giggling a bit more now, the other night at bath time she was in hysterics as was I until she wriggled out of my grasp and took a huge mouthful of water and screamed
We have also progressed from the snuggle bed in the cot to just the cot, though we are still wrapping her ......... I wonder when should we stop the wrapping?? Her starle reflex isn't as strong but she grabs her face all the time
Renos are coming along very slowly, yesterday I spent the entire day scraping plaster out from the grooves in the lining boards, today I will clean up that mess and hopefully weekend after next I'll start the sanding ......... I hate all th prep work. Still undecided if we will move Shae into that room DH and I still disagree too much
I am loving mothers group, I wished we all met more than once a week, some of them go walking in the mornings but its a bit of an effort driving 1hr return just to go walking
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(he goes to a catholic school, he was praying again today only this time I was not allowed to know!!)
It has been 3 nights in a row and she wakes up in the morning singing. Really hoping it continues, I know I will be in for the odd bad night, let's see how it goes.
I get onto FB all the time but most of the time I find typing single handed a pain so if I do get into BB my posts are super short or I just lurk lol but I always read what everyone is upto
such a drama but for $995 (yes with the current exchange rate it has gone up a bit) I get the pram, toddler seat, toddler hood (like the pram hood but for the toddler seat, air pump, soft pram harness and the wheel bag AND shipping. To buy the Pram and the toddler seat only here it is $1000.
We both check her a few times through the night still - gee we are hopeless
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sorry mate but i did have a giggle over your man and the dirty nappy plus the peeing dog, its awful but so darn funny coz i can imagine how that all looked.
I go to the Farmer's markets when I can so I can get good quality organic meat.
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