Babies born~November 1st-15th 2009 #1

Here are some updated photo's of Tess and Family taken Christmas day and the month of December.

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And our year in review!

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x Heather

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

Hope everyone had a great NYE and NYD,
We didn't do anything it was too hot and fortunately for me when that hideous storm broke out here I was nursing Shae in bed so I wasn't so scared :lol: DH sat on the veranda for a little while watching the lightening. We all were zonked out and didn't wake up until 3.30ish when Shae needed feeding.

I think she grew over night last night - I swear she did. I have been putting her in the 000 jumpsuits for a few days and they all seem to swim on her. She did big chuckies on herself this morning and I told DH to change her and to just pop her in a big suit and you'll never guess ... fits perfectly! She also slept from 11pm to 6.45am and only woke up when I panicked coz I could feel her breathing so I shoved my cold fingers down her jumpsuit onto her bare skin to feel her chest for a HB :lol:

Its a bit sad that she is no longer in her newborn size BUT its exciting now because she has a VAST wardrobe of 000 outfits and we finally get to dress her up :dance:

We also got our very first NON WIND SMILE :dance: I was chatting to her and making funny faces and sounds and she smiled thinking it was wind I tickled her under her chin and she smiled again she sure knows how to melt my heart it was beautiful.

I so cannot wait to start playing "what outfit will we wear today" unfortunately daddy put a jumpsuit that is in the PJ draw on her - then again we have no warmish 000 outfits.

I started taking the mini pill today much to my dismay (and DH delight) I hate putting stuff into my body but I s'pose its a necessary evil.

More soon

Luv Nae x

Happy New Year :hooray: I made it to 10:30pm...that's the latest for me in a while! Had a couple of glasses of a nice bubbly and let the boys stay up till 8:30pm so they could light some sparklers. Loved the free night show thanks to the weather!!

I love a good night routine! Have put Tess to bed her usual 6:30-7pm after bath and feed and she now just looks at me while I wrap her and put her into the bassinette, I stroke her head and she gives me a little smile and I walk out of the room and she is done :dance: She has been waking around 3:30am for a feed and then around 7ish, so we are in a good place and have been for a while. In the next week or two I will start putting her into her cot at night and use the monitor.

I too am about to start contraception. I am going to give the IUD Mirena a go. Will have the swab next week and then Mirena put in the following week. Did a bit of BB research and I am hoping I go ok with it as there is quite a bit of postive and negative on the BB forums for it. My SIL has it and another friend also and they both say it's great. I am giving it a try as it's a 5yr thing and then I might be able to convince Bernie to have the snip as we have now compeleted our family :clap:
I took the mini pill with Ben and it was good, although the first week I think it changed my milk as he got a bit funny about feeding and then after that he was fine...just in case Nae you have a little trouble thought it may help to know what may happen, I also think it may have started my periods again..can't remember???

Hey Nae, I love picking what Tess is going to wear! I started in hospital :redface: Think it's the excitement of been able to dress a girl for me although I did the same for the boys as well. I find getting her out of her PJ"s in the morning and into clothes and then back into PJ's at night helps with the night and day familiarisation. She loves getting nude for the bath. Wouldn't worry too much about warmer things..can always put a pair of leggings under a pretty dress and long sleeve top under the short sleeve dress to warm them up.
Tess's wardrobe is bigger than mine! Alot of things she will only wear once. She is now in 000 for most brands. Some 0000 is still just ok as they are on the big side such as the marquise things.

That's all for now...

x Heather

Hi all!
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas/New Year.
Em - I'm glad you survived Christmas relatively unscathed. It's a pain when adults are childish.
Nae - It sounds like your Christmas was lovely. Like Heather, I'm really glad your mum behaved and I love the pics of Shae. She's a sweetie!
Heather - Your pics are absolutely gorgeous. I think you've got the baby training well in hand too. You are my hero! My uncle reckons you train kids the same way you train dogs. I'm not sure it's the same. I think dogs are easier in a lot of ways. Can you imagine what would happen if I tied Poppy up to a parking metre next to a bowl of water while I went shopping?

As for me (or us really), we had a lovely Christmas. We went to Brisbane for Christmas lunch with my aunts, uncles and cousins. One of my sisters came too. My lovely 90-year-old nanna was there and she was quite with it. She has Alzheimers and sometimes she doesn't recognise people. She didn't remember I had been pregnant but she had a little hold of Poppy (she's not very strong anymore so it's lucky Poppy is so tiny) and she just gazed into her face with such a loving look. It was the nanna I remembered from my childhood. My cousin took some lovely photos. A few hours later Nan was tired and she didn't know who anyone was or where she was. So I'm glad I caught her early in the day. It meant a lot to me.

On Boxing Day my sister and her terrorist tribe arrived for a three-day assault on peace and quiet. The boys were reasonably well-behaved but it was all a bit noisy for me. But it was good to have a family Christmas with my two sisters and my parents. Even if one of the boys only ate bread and honey for six meals in a row.

On Wednesday we went to Brisbane to stay with a friend who's house-sitting a semi-mansion in the hills of Auchenflower. It was really lovely, so good we spent New Year's there. We had dinner with her family at her brother's house then went back and drank champagne til midnight. DP went to bed and we had to wake him up at 11.45pm. From the front deck we could see the fireworks over the CBD AND see the televised fireworks over the Sydney Harbour Bridge. But... we were SO TIRED the next day.
At the Auchenflower mansion Poppy slept and slept and slept. At first I thought it was because she had her shots in the morning but she did it the whole time we were away. I think my dad's noisiness has really been affecting her. Maybe it's just because she's a little older. But she's a different baby now. She sleeps, has a bottle and a bit of a play then she sleeps again. THIS is what I was expecting, not the continuous grizzling and 10 minute naps.

When I got home I realised I left our dirty clothes in the bathroom at Auchenflower. We leave on Wednesday so now my friend has to take our washing to her Mum to post to us on Monday. How embarrassing. We are also waiting for our passports and visas to arrive back from the Vietnamese Embassy in Canberra. And we still haven't got DP's tax file number sorted so we still haven't got our baby bonus. I thought Vietnamese bureaucracy was bad but Centrelink seems to be on a par. Maybe I should offer someone a "special payment" to speed things up, like you have to do in Vietnam.

Oh and Heather and Nae, people have given us so many clothes for Poppy. Sizes 000 to 1, so she is going to be one fancy pants princess for the next year or so. We got some toys and a play gym because I worry about the safety standards of the stuff sold in Vietnam. Now I just have to get it all back there!

I've added some more pics here: Picasa Web Albums - GoingtobebiginAsia - Getting bigger

WOW GTBIA Poppy is gorgeous now. With that toothbrush hair you spoke of too! Random question - does it every cross your mind how a little mutli racial baby doesn't look so much like you? I only ask cause sometimes I do look at Elliott and he doesn't seem to look anything like me and every now and then I do wish he had blue eyes or something so people knew he was mine. I have an African American friend and if we go out together everyone addreses her as Mum! LOL! Mind you, when he projectile vomited in a store while my friend had him I didn't own up to being the mother!!

Shae looks so much like you, Nae! Here are a couple of my latest ones:

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I love it how you are talking about growing out of 0000 and 000. In my house, we are even talking in amazement of growing out of some of the 000. I bought two new jumpsuits for bedtime in 00 and they aren't even that big really! I think Elliott is pushing six kilos now. Tee Hee. People don't believe he is just seven weeks anymore.

I'm sort of getting the breastfeeding sorted. It's just a battle. I got some great tips on videos to watch and things to read and basically started the positioning and latching on from scratch. So that helped tonnes. Enough so I even healed enough to get adventurous and try side-lying feeding while in bed which is great. But Elliott is a sneaky little devil and just lapses back into bad habits with his mouth all of the time. So we have good days, bad days, perfect latch feeds where it's all warm and fuzzy and natural like it's "supposed" to be and horrendous chewy nipply feeds depending on just how much energy I have to fight to correct the latch. Night time when he wakes hungry and already crying I have sometimes just given up and let him feed however he wants.

At least now feeds can be as short as 10 mins so last night was a midnight feed, a 3.15 feed and then into bed with me at 6.30 for another feed and now he is snoring away but I'm awake enough to be up and doing stuff already since the feeds were quick and didn't disturb sleep too much. I must say he is a pretty good baby and will go down for naps and sleep without too much help mostly - just his slide/rocker thing sometimes.

The only time he screams blue murder is trying to push out the huuugge morning poo ha ha. Sometimes it takes hours for him to grizzle on and off before the explosion. Before I worked out what it was, his upset screams drove me mental and I swore and threw his spit cloth in frustration. Scared the crap out of my dogs to see me have a tantrum, which I never do. So now the dogs give me "poo warning" - when a certain type of scream comes out of Elliott the dogs run out of the room and sit outside the door in case I'm about to throw a tantrum dealing with it. It makes me laugh so hard, and now I don't throw a fit so much.

Is anyone else still bleeding? I stopped for almost a week now have red blood like a period. And have some of the pregnancy feeling back - back is sorer, cramps a little, even my sore legs from the unstable pelvis flared up. All I can think is it's the last bit of the uterus going back to normal - or a period, despite breastfeeding!!

Hey Tecopa, would you believe Poppy almost looks like a clone of me when I was a baby? I can hardly believe it. I didn't have the crazy hair though.
I'm so pleased you're getting better with BFing. I'm actually feeling like I got out of it pretty easy because FFing means I don't have to get up every time Poppy's hungry. DP is not working so it's only fair that he shares. He's more than happy to, too. He loves his little princess. His only complaint is she doesn't look like him. He says all his "stuff" has disappeared - her hair is dark brown not black and her eyes are dark grey not dark brown.
Poppy is still in 0000s. She's still got a bit of room left before she goes up to the next size. My cousin bought her a beautiful 00 dress with a pink sash and poppies growing up from the bottom. I can't wait til she fits into that!
Better go.... Poppy is outraged at feeling hungry.

Oh, P.S. ... I stopped bleeding a few weeks ago. I got a few cramps last week and I thought I was going to get AF but nothing happened. Maybe you need to get it checked out.

I didn't really talk to the doctor about contraception at my check up. I just said I couldn't take the pill because I tried it once before and it made me extremely crabby. I am not sure about IUDs. Heather, will you let me know how it goes? It's not something I've really thought about. I want to have one more and I'd like to have them close together but I need a bit more time to recover before I get pregnant again.

Oh I sure will Barb let you know about the IUD Mirena, you will all be hearing if it starts to make feel crabby :lol: I went on a pill called Brenda with Ben and it made me feel crabby,emotional and being just a total cow to poor Bernie, I knew it was happening but had no control over it, so I stopped straight away. He certainly noticed the difference when I stopped :D Poppy is so pretty, we all have such gorgeous babes :)
You had such a lovely Christmas and New Year..nice thing to have before going back to Vietnam...especially with your Grandmother. I love Poppy's hair!!
Oh and Barb, at least if your little one was tied up at the front of shop with a bowl water is better than leaving them in 60deg car :lol: I have nephew who has a terrible diet! He is 7 and usually only eats tomato sauce on pitta bread for lunch and dinner..he at least has a bowl of porridge for breakfast.


I too stopped bleeding about 2 weeks ago. No cramps or anything since.

Jody: are you exclusively BF? As sometimes if you slip in a bottle(even expressed milk) it may start or start the mini pill? Either of these may start regular periods. With Ben my periods started when I went on the mini people. I love the photo's of Elliott..how cute is he! Otherwise as Barb said I would have it checked out at the 6wk check if you haven't had it already or a GP. Tess seems to manage a poo with ease..she fluffs all the time (very smelly) and then eventually we get a big explosion which brings her much pleausure :dance:

The multi racial babies are sooo cute... I love Poppy's hair, she is so cute and just the look of Elliott is gorgeous. I have a friend who is Brazilian and her husband is Irish, her kids look nothing like her and all like him and when she goes back to Brazil with the kids people think she is the Nanny :rolleyes: She has a hard time convincing them otherwise.

Has anyone elses baby started to move a little? Tess has started to shuffle up by putting her feet flat and pushing. I put her down on her play gym and sometimes her feet are on our floor boards and she grips her feet and pushes herself up, has also done this in the bassinette. She is such a wriggler.

Barb..have a safe and easy trip back to Vietnam, and you have to love generous benefactors, Tess too is lucky to have one with the clothing :dance:

bye for now..love how it's getting busy in here again!

x Heather

Jody! I just looked at your photos. He's ADORABLE! And he's also huge! I love the spidey pjyamas.

Hi everyone - Happy New Year!!!!

Heather - Alyssa has been wriggling up her bassinett almost since the day we brought her home!! she's never still. At least she hasn't found a way to wriggle down yet... Yesterday she was on her belly on her gym and she moved herself around in a circle so she was almost facing sideways from where she started. then did the same as tess and moved forward a couple of cms. she's also started rolling onto her side which she seems quite pleased with herself for. bit of a worry for mum though - making sure her backsleeper is in the bassinett every night just in case she learns to get right over..... I'm the same as you with some pills. i tried a new one a few years ago cause the one i was on wasn't doing any good with the pain of the periods anymore and it made me a total cow (and i put on close to 10kilos in 3 weeks i was on it which i'm still trying to get rid of :wall:). i was a mess - happy one minute bawling the next and grumpy and mean the next.....

Tecopa - we did a quick weigh on the scales at home yesterday and think Alyssa is pushing 6 kilos now too. has just had a growth spurt though and lost the chubbiness she's accumulated when she grew upwards. her dad's 6 foot 4 so i'm thinking she'll be a tall one!!! I finished between week 3 and 4. i've had a few little pains in the last week or so but no bleeding. think i'd be with the others and get it checked out. have you had your 6 week check yet??? not that mine was anything wonderful. dr just did a pap smear and asked if we were having sex again and that was it. no talk of contraception or anything. don't think she even checked my scar from the tear. and didn't fill any info in on Alyssa either so i'm going to take her to the child health nurses once they're back at work after the holidays. i now it's been done but it just didn't seem very thorough......

GTBIA - sounds like you had a wonderful chrissy and new year spending some special time with family and friends before you go back to vietnam. having a baby makes you realise how wonderful those support networks are doesn't it. and which friends will stick through you through anything and which ones weren't as good as you thought :shakehead:. we had some that started drifting away when they found out i was pregnant. it bothered me then but now i have my precious little bub it doesn't bother me as much. just a shame for DH as it's his best man at our wedding.

AFM - i made it to midnight NYE. we had friends over for tea and they left about 11 so by the time i packed up i'd just got to bed and heard the neighbours yelling happy new year. DH stayed up to watch the fireworks but i knew i would be awake about 330 so thought bed was the best place for me ;). DH has another week before he goes back to work so i'm making the most of an extra set of hands to have a bit of a break!!! not too many dirty nappies for me at the moment :). apart from that everything is just coasting along much the same. Alyssa is so settled into her night time sleep routine that i think i've gotten a little bit more relaxed about the whole thing and she's sleeping 4 - 5 hours through the day as well so all's good. she's started "talking" to us this week as well which is just adorable with a big cheesy grin!!!!

Got to go have a shower before it's feed time again. Talk to you all soon!!

Yeah I am due for my six week check up- it was over Xmas so I'm a little late. I'm so not worrying about contraception. I think I'm over my experimenting with boys and may go back to dating girls, when and if I ever feel up to having a love life again ;-) Right now I can't imagine being up for sex yet. I have been exclusive BF so should get the bleeding checked I guess. Just one more thing to do on the 'To Do" list.

Actually it's been a bit of a struggle over Xmas and New Year with holidays for everyone but not me LOL. Hard to pin down BF help when I needed it, plus my root canal got infected again and couldn't reach dentist, plus all my friends off having a blast some even decided not to use any holiday time to visit me which was a bit sad. Seems now work is firing back up for everyone they are back into the swing of it though thank goodness, since I do love it when people visit/help out! I'm pretty proud I've managed three weeks by myself now without Mum! Solo parenting is frakin hard though!

I can't believe the time has come for you to go back GTBIA!

OH. MY. GOD.
Maybe we're not going anywhere. The Vietnamese Embassy appears to have lost our passports. I've been on the phone so long I've flattened the batteries of both cordless phones. They say the posted them on December 15 but they still haven't arrived. We're supposed to fly out on Wednesday. I'm having a bit of a panic attack.
I also called the airline to check Poppy's luggage allowance. She wasn't booked on our ticket and I have to pay $198 for her!

Oh Barb :o Hope they sent your passports registered post at least then they can be tracked down. I thought you didn't pay for babies, especially since they don't have a seat or are eating!! And I also thought her luggage allowance was part of yours so you shouldn't have to pay for that either??
Hope it all gets sorted ASAP.

x Heather

Well, I've changed our flights to Saturday to allow a few more days for the passports to turn up. It's been a frustrating and stressful couple days. So now Poppy and I will be traveling alone. I really wanted DP's help on the first flight. The last week or so Poppy has been a complete Daddy's girl and only settles for him. I am dreading the flight and saying goodbye to DP at the airport today.
To make matters worse, a colleague sent me a heads up that I'm unlikely to be offered a new contract. Apparently asking whether I would be paid for five hours work was so offensive I am now unemployable. :o That's not asking to be paid but just asking IF I would be paid. Because before I left I was told I was not allowed to work online and a week later they were asking me to work online.

Hi Everyone,

Barb/GTBBIA: You need change your user name :lol: I hope you are reading this in Vietnam and everything got sorted by the time you were booked on your flights. Let us know how you go and how you have settled back into Vietnam.

Emma: When I had Oscar I assumed that the OB would do a check on him as well and was confused when he didn't really even look at him..but they don't. That's up to the MHN at your Health Centre or Paediatrician if there were complications that need to be checked. I am not sure where we get this impression re: the OB as most women I know (including me of course) assume the same as you first time round.
When I had Ben I didn't even take him with me for the 6wk check :lol: Alyssa sounds like she is thriving! I think my hormone make up changed dramatically after having kids as I never used to have any reactions to contraceptive pills before hand, hoping the Mirena will go smoothly. The OB mentioned it is just a quick phone call and I will be able to come in and have it removed if it's causing problems. She was pretty confident that it wouldn't.

Jody: You had a tough run over Christmas & New Year! Hope Elliott is attaching better. Good to hear you friends are back on board again...I too love it when people pop in!!

Hope everyone is else is coping well.

AFM: I had my 6wk check (7 & 8wk as OB prefers that) yesterday. She said everything was fine and the tear was well healed and looking good. I had pre-planned with her receiption staff to get the ball rolling for the Mirena. So she did a swab and checked my Uterus and Cervix was ok. She gave me the script and then showed me what it would look like when I picked it up from the Chemist (a warning I need to take a big bag!)...I nearly fell off my chair!! The packaging and bits and pieces are half a metre long! The Mirena itself is tiny, I am glad she warned me. She said most women freak when they see thinking the whole thing needs to go in :lol: The procedure itself to put it in is quite time consuming considering what it is and very sterile. The procedure takes about 5-10mins as they need to sterilise the area thoroughly so there is no risk of infection. So I am in next week to have it put in. She also mentioned that it would be best to give my body another week before starting Sex again as my Cervix was dry and Sex would be painful? Why I don't know, fine by me :D.

Tess is still going well and changing so much every day. She too has a little chat and reacts with smiles and giggles when I talk to her. It's just beautiful. Sometimes after she has a feed of one side she is in happy land (think she would have something stronger!) and doesn't think she wants anymore..then I put her down for a play and she decides that she does want it :wall: Does this quite often :D She went back into waking at 12 then 4 and last night woke only once at 3:30am..ahh bliss :dance:

Bye for now...

x Heather

Hi all,

Heather - I actually booked Alyssa in for her check with the GP (i delivered in a public hospital sothey don't do mum's check up. got to go to the GP) rather than the child health nurses cause all the nurses around here were on holidays from the 15th Dec to 18th Jan so i couldn't get her in on time. she did all the checks, just didn't fill anything out in Alyssas health record so theres no notes for the nurses. i was always planning on doing both - just didn't want to seem like a bad mum for not getting her checked on time........

GTBBIA - hope everything works out fine for your flight. i think i'd be a little daunted about the flight as well. i still haven't been to the shops on my own without mum or DH for support (but i could just be a big wuss!!).

Quick question, has anyone elses bubs started feeding less....... or for less time each feed??? at the start i was quite anal about being in control and was timing Alyssas feeds and keeping track on a piece of paper...... she got up to about 10 minutes each side and sometimes longer. the last couple of days they seemed to be really short (and she's screaming if i try and force anymore) so the control freak in me started timing them again and they're about 5 minutes each side. she's happy and content and smiling and sleeping and there's still plenty of wet nappies each day. could she just be getting more efficient at what she needs???? or be finished a growth spurt and not needing as much??? i'm going to weigh her today so i can keep an eye on that over the next week. just very disturbing when she pulls away from your boob and screams when you try to feed her :wall:.

Apart from that everythings going good. we're trying to make her bed time earlier which is good for her. she doesn't seem as tired in the mornings. we've got it back from about 9:30 to 8 which gives us a little bit of time as well which is good. the first night she went 8 to 2 then 230 to 5 then was only up for about a 5 minute top up and went back until 8. last night she did 8 - 430 and 530 to 8 so can't complain too much. thinking i might try a dream feed when we go to bed about 10 and see if that can get her through till morning :crossfingers:.. would be nice but i won't hold my breath........

be back soon

Barb - gosh hun it never seems to be straight forward for you hun :hug: hoping everything works out especially on the work front they sound very backward to me but I guess different cultures etc ....

Em - DD only feeds from one side per feed and the feeds vary in length - sometimes she will only feed for 5 min then not want any more, sometimes a feed can stretch out over 30-40 min (excluding burping time). Some days she will only be on the boob 6 times others it seems she never comes off :dunno: maybe bub was having a "not very hungry day" ?? I try to not clock watch now, seriously you cannot time these things otherwise you will worry yourself senseless. Just keep offering until bub no longer wants it ... thats the beauty of baby lead feeding the baby tells you when she is hungry or full.

Heather - let us know if it hurts !!!!

AFM - shae had another 8 hour sleep last night after a huge day of socializing. We had friends over for a bbq so she didn't get her catnaps in. She was really unsettled and up until 10pm when i decided i had enough and fed her to sleep in our bed. i took her off boob and had her on her back until 10.30 then wrapped her and rocked her in her room and popped her in her snuggle bed in the cot and left by 11 - she didn't stir until 7 this morning - i checked her twice through the night though :redface:

nae x

Barb: :wall: with your work. Perhaps once you get back and can ask them face to face they may be a little more helpful?? Who are you flying with? Alot of Flight Attendants are great at helping out Mum's on planes when they see you don't have anyone with you. My SIL has travelled alone with her little ones and said that the attendants are usally great and very clucky and willing to help out :pray: Can you check in online and choose your seat? Or ring and get a seat booked so you can get one of the ones in the front row (bunker seat??)that have a cot thingy for Poppy to sleep in?

Emma: Tess is feeding alot quicker as she has the hang of what to do. I try and go by the feel of the breast(how empty it is) rather than the time she takes. Sometimes she will be happy to be there all day as she is comfort sucking rather than actual feeding. You will find the feeds will vary regularly as they grow and when they stop over night they may want more during the day for a while to compensate. It's such a judgement thing breast feeding it is hard to know if they are getting enough, you are doing the right thing as in knowing that she is happy, sleeping and plenty of wet nappies then you are doing a great job and she must be feeding well. :)

Nae: Even though Tess is my third I find myself checking on her sometimes through the night just to make sure, especially if she isn't making noises. It's soo nice when they have long sleeps at night but can be a bit unsettling for you for a while. Tess only catnaps through the day as well.

Tess is having her 8wk Immunisations and Health Check next week. Busy day on Tuesday as we will be doing that and I will be going to the OB as well for part 2 of my appointment.

x Heather

Thanks guys!! it's just so hard to know you're doing the right thing. been having an attack of am i doing the right thing!!!! makes you feel like a bad mum when they scream and you think you're doing the right thing!!!!

I'm glad to see i'm not the only one checking!!! I'm sure DH thinks i'm a looney when i ask him to make sure she's still breathing when i can't hear her :redface:. good to know i'm not alone! i just don't know what i'd do if anything happened to her!!!!

got to go. going to go brave the shops...... wish me luck!!

Hi all,
I'm still in Australia. The passports arrived when I was 2/3rds of the way to the airport with DP. I'm booked to fly out on Saturday so hopefully DP has enough time to rent a house and arrange delivery of our stuff by then.
I'm hoping the flight attendants will help out. I was still quite sick from the dengue fever when I booked the flight so I booked business class. At the time of booking, it was only $100 more than an economy fare on Singapore Airlines. But... they didn't book the baby on so I've had to pay an extra $200 to take her. So for that I will be expecting a bit of help, considering she doesn't get a seat or food so we have to get our $200 worth somehow!
As for the job front, I am so sick of dealing with this employer. It seems I've had a ball of anxiety in my stomach for more than a year because of interacting with these people. I sent a few emails last night and tomorrow I've got to call a guy in Singapore to talk about taking up a job there. I didn't want to work fulltime for a while but I'm just sick of working in what I consider an unprofessional and ridiculously petty work environment. And we've burned through a lot of savings over the last four months. I have to get some kind of money coming in soon.
That's my update. Persies tomorrow. Like everyone else, it seems, I've got to go check DD is still breathing. If it's not one worry, it's another!

I think every mum checks on her kid to see if they are still okay! I have to start locking my dogs out at night, cause sometimes I'm so exhausted that I remember getting the baby out of the bassinet to feed, and feeding, but don't remember putting him back so I wake in horror that somehow I've lost/dropped/smothered him in bed and then I see a warm lump in the bed and tear off the covers ...to find a very surprised puppy dog. And Master E sound asleep back in his crib. Too funny!

Glad to hear the passports arrived GTTBIA and that you are all on your way back bit by bit at least. It does sound like you could do with a new employer I agree!When are you thinking of going back to work?

I'm tossing up doing some study during my year off from work - would be two nights a week from 6-9pm so wouldn't miss any Elliott time really, but could be exhausting. You'll love it though - it's the qualifications to become a private investigator! I have spend so much time and energy trying to track down Baby Daddy who it turns out lied about everything including, last name, age, employer, and of course is already married with children and not in any kind of open relationship whatsoever :wall:. But I've got so good at it all that I found all the right details to give to child support/legal aid for a court appearance that I figure if I got the qualifications I could help other women do the same :dance:

Hey Tecopa, your course sounds like fun. You could be Tecopa P.I. (Caught an old episode of Magnum PI late one night here. Too funny.)
I know how you feel about smothering. Poppy just wouldn't sleep in her hammock when we first brought her home and DP kept bringing her to bed with us. I am now in the habit of hugging a pillow and I was worried that I'd put a pillow on top of her or pick her up and fling her to the other side of the bed when I rolled over. And I was so tired, just a wreck... I'm so glad that part of motherhood is over.
Emma - how did your trip to the shops go? I find Poppy is very portable when she's asleep. She seems quite comfortable to be out and about but it is embarrassing when she gets grizzly. And she always seems to need a feed when we are all ready to walk out the door.
Nae - how's it going with BFing? Are things getting easier?
Heather and Emma - I get a bit of an inferiority complex when I read about your babies wriggling and giggling. Poppy has started smiling and it's very cute. But I just want more!
As for me ... I sat at the computer last night and did a lot of research. I need to talk to DP but I think it's time to leave Vietnam. It's a great place but all my skills and experience are wasted in a country with a super-paranoid state-run media. I had intended to go back to work four or five hours a day at the end of February but now I'm not sure what's going to happen. There's an opening coming up in Singapore with my old company.

Barb: Sounds like a good plan! What are the chances of your DP being a stay at home Dad and you work full time? Would that work? It was always a plan for us..whoever earnt the most would stay home and it just happend to be Bernie had the better wage and employment options. With Tess moving and giggling I think it's quite strange as both boys didn't move for ages. In fact Oscar was 18mths before he walked and he never crawled only commando crawled and Ben was about the same with walking in fact I think he was closer to 2 :o. Before you know it Poppy will be doing all the things you want (well most of the time anyway) and you will just want to get back to the baby stage again :lol:

Jody: :dance::dance: Well done on tracking down Elliotts biological father and soon to be (hopefully) part financial provider. I think a PI is the perfect job for you as I am betting there are a lot of women out there with the same predicament as you and have no clue where to start, could be quite a lucrative career move :lol:

Well...I am just back from taking the boys to the dentist. Oscar..great! Ben :wall: As a baby Ben had lots of ear infections which resulted in him taking antibiotics and then eventually grommets in and adenoids removed. As a result of the antibotics his back teeth are weak and discoloured and we need to take him to a paediatric dentist!! Thank goodness for private health cover as he is probably going to need to go under a general to get them either capped or filled being only 3yrs old:doh: Ahhh the joys, still wouldn't live without them though as they are just the best kids :D

Back soon

x Heather

Barb: Hoping you have an uneventful and safe trip back to Vietnam. It would be great if you could convince DP to move Singapore as it sounds like a good move for you all.

I have just worked out what a Dream Feed is :doh: Took a while as I noticed Emma mentioned it and looking around BB posts noticed a few others mentioned it as well. When I had Ben and Oscar it was called a roll over feed..ahhh how things change in such a short time!!
Miss Tess is doing great. She had a nice long sleep last night (6:30pm-4am), so I think it's time for her to go into her cot in her own room and we start using the baby monitor, she has been doing a long stretch at night for quite some time on and off :clap: She is a noisy sleeper and escapes out of her wrap most of the time now and sometimes the bassinette has been shaking and rocking too and she appears to be getting too big for it! Time flies when you are having fun and she sure is a good baby girl (in my biased opinion) :lol:

bye for now, finally just a short one.

x Heather

I am just popping in to ask what is everyone's baby doing in regards to poo?

quote :"At least 5 heavily wet disposable nappies (or 6 - 8 pale wet cloth nappies) in 24 hours, as well as 2 or more runny or soft poos over the same time, is the best indication that your daughter is getting enough milk."


I have heard BF babies can go up to 5days without one. I was lurking around BB and one of the Moderators was explaining to someone who was having trouble with BF Bub the above quote (I copied and pasted it). Tess only poo's every 3-4days and sometimes 5days. When she does eventually poo it is the right colour and consistency for a BF baby and there sure is alot of it! She doesn't have any discomfort before hand and it doesn't seem to trouble her..she is also settled and sleeping well so I use this as a judment she is getting enough.

Just curious to know if other Bubs are having quite a few days without a poo? It's been 3.5yrs since I breast fed so I am starting from scratch again with knowing what is really right and wrong :redface:

x Heather

I've even heard a quote that says "10 poos in one day, or one in 10 days" can be normal for BF babies. Imagine one every 10 days :o

I think what you are describing sounds fine. She's putting on weight, she's sleeping, she's alert and happy from what you say - sounds contented to me!

And with the wet nappy count, it took me a while to realise that disposables it's not going to be the same - cause you change them less often usually than cloth and they absorb so much more liquid before you notice.

We are closer to the 10 poos a day scale here. Almost every nappy has one. For a while there were none overnight and then from 4-7am Elliott would be working on a huge explosion and unhappy about it, but now we seem to be going back to poo with every change.

Hi

just a quick one from me. someones awake and not happy about it but refusing to have a nap :wall:

Heather - Alyssa's record is 7 days (that was quite an explosion :doh:). she was going every 4 - 7 days for a few weeks around the 4 week mark (which worried me so young. i thought it was around 6 weeks they could start doing this). now we're back to multiple every day.the child health nurse told me that was fine and they could go 10- 14 days. the record she knew of was 31. that wouldn't have been pretty!!!!

going to go and try to settle little miss. if i don't get her down soon it won't be good. got to go and pick DH up from the club after cricket in about an hour. his leave pass runs out then :)

Thanks Girls..nice to know what is happening is reasonably normal (I personally could't do that :lol:)
:o 31days!!!

Well..Tess slept in her cot overnight for the first time last night. The bassinette is getting too small and her hands touch the sides and as she wriggles that she quite often ends up at the top of it with her head touching.
She did well last night..woke at 12ish then 4ish then into bed with us at 6am (boys were awake anyway!) and then slept till 8am. She did the same the night before. She has been doing 6:30pm to 4ish sometimes later so things really are very good. We are in a routine of her going to bed at night between 6 & 7, which is great as it gives us a chance to read the boys their stories and put them to bed between 7:30-8pm in peace.
This hot weather is a killer!! We have a small AC that makes a cool spot for us all. We are having new blinds and getting E Screens installed soon (end of the month) so this too should help with the heat.

Barb: Have been thinking of you and hope you had nice trip back to Vietnam. Hope to hear from you soon.

bye for now...keep chatting :D

x Heather

just poppin in to say hi,

some of you know from FB dd has a great sleeping pattern atm up to 8-9 hours over night which i am loving but reckoning it will change again soon :lol: i put dd in a dress for the first time this morning and all she did was scream - she is her mothers daughter :dance:

anyways better go and do stuff before it gets too hot

Nae x

Just a quick hi from me. DH went back to work today so i'm enjoying my first day of peace in a while. love him and all but he's so anal about the housework and getting everything done straight away. i swear once the washing basket has about 10 things in it they have to be done and the ironing can never sit over night. it's exhausting!!! so i'm rebeling today and am still in my pj's!!! figured i deserved it seeing as we had friends over last night and i cooked for 7 people!!!

Alyssa's still doing her same sleeps of a night time. getting up once for a feed but not actually waking up so she's sleeping about 11 hours most nights. then she'll get up for an hour and rhen grizzle when she wants to go back down. don't know how she can sleep so much. but i think she's worked out we're more active in the afternoons so she likes to be awake for that. knew we had people here last night so wasn't happy to go to bed at the normal bed time. wanted to stay up and be social so she sat on one of our friends laps facing outwards and watched us play cards and nodded off for catnaps when she was tired. such a little social bunny!!

We've started the day sleeps in the cot. Mummy isn't ready for her to go to her own room of a night yet!!! we've got a split level house and even though the nursery joins the end of our wardrobe it's downstairs and there's actually 2 flights to get down (about 8 steps in total) and it just seems so far away!!! i've already warned jono that we'll be sleeping downstairs in the spare room next to the nursery until i'm ready to go back up (i suspect he'll be back up there before me which is fine by me. queen size bed each!!!).

that's about all for me. and i guess i better go have a shower seeing as it's lunch time!!!

talk soon.

Hey gals I have a question - how much time do you spend with bub while they are awake? And how much of that is close attention/play/interaction?

I just have no idea. I always swore I wouldn't be like my mum who did what I call "Pot Plant Parenting". We were fed, watered and looked after, but pretty much left in a corner to amuse ourselves the rest of the time LOL. No real play time together or close bonding stuff. It really sucked.

So now I don't know if I do too much or not enough. Sometimes E is happy just in his bouncer so I will sit on the computer with him at my feet. Sometimes his is just awake looking about in my bed (safely) while I duck outside to do washing etc. I can't put him in a carrier for long cause of my back which doesn't help.

On a good day we have an hour or so on the play mat with toys and tummy time and hanging out plus I sit with him heaps. And I play the piano for half an hour while he watches and shakes his music bells (I attach them to him!)

Jodes - For me it depends on my mood, miss shae's mood and the weather :lol: today while the morning was mild I went out side took some piccies went for a short farm walk before the dogs started to annoy me then came inside. Missy napped for 45 min sl I sat on the comp. She was happy enough playing on the floor on this gym thing so I sat at the comp more while she was entertaining herself with her hands , boy that sounds bad but I mean she was interested in her hands she has only discovered they are hers ... when she wanted interaction she'd talk to me so I'd talk back and make gooey faces at her - when she lost interest in me she'd look away so I went back to the comp. Then when the heat set in we were both grumpy and not wanting to be held but not wanting to go down either.

Normally I spend quite a bit of time with her but I also do other things like the washing, I just sit her in the pram and wheel her out while I do the laundry then park her on the veranda when I hang it out or pull it off the line - she loves being outside so she is happy and I get jobs done.

Will be interesting to see just how long it takes me to renovate the middle bedroom with a baby - without one it took me 4 months from start to finish working on it all my days off I cannot have her in the room when I sand or scrap out the plaster from the lining boards so will be needing her to have "daddy time" I got 1hr today and did the smallest bit .......... I so need a steamer to remover the wall paper bugger if I will be doing it by hand again ...........

sorry went off on a tangent :lol:

nae x

Hot Hot Hot...the hottest January night since records begun :o

Jody: You are doing really well in the play department.

Play is a funny thing...I put Tess under her play gym and talk to her and show the toys on it and how they work. I leave her on it while I do things and can hear her get excited so I go and have a look and talk more to her.
I too use the bouncer a fair bit..I put it up on our bench while I am doing things in the kitchen or when the boys have their dinner and chat away to her and they do too. I have extra help as the boys like to play with her as well.
I do tummy time and also when it's bath time it's all play and fun so are nappy changes. As long as you interact with them that's the main thing as all babies reactions like smiling are learnt ones, from what I have seen of your photo's of Elliott he is one happy camper :)
Also remember with breast feeding or any kind of feeding that too is quality time as you burp and cuddle them and have a chat when they are over the moon they have a full tummy..the time at the end of the day when you have just fed them and have a cuddle then them to bed is quality time.

If you sat down at the end of the day and added up the time you spent with Elliott I am sure it would be alot more than you think. It also important for them to learn to amuse themselves a little too.

Play is not necessarily in one big chunk..it can be all through the day at various times.

There is no real right or wrong, you sound like you have got right the amount happening.

x Heather

Quick brag from me....... Little miss slept through last night!!! 9:30 to 6. hoping it's not a once off. was so nice!! She has a new little trick too. i went to get her after one of her naps yesterday and she'd got herself out from the sheet we use to tuck her in (without untucking it) and had her arms and legs free so she could plant her feet and move backwards. she had her head at the top of the bassinett. thought she was very clever lying there smiling at me!!! just a bit of a worry because the bassinett is one of the calico ones (it's very deep and long which is why we bought it - the people in the shops thought it would do 5 months or so, but i'm starting to think not) so she's not going to fall out but she could easily ram her head into the wooden supports.......

jody - I was the same as you. wondering if i was spending enough time with Alyssa (and feeling a bit guilty) cause when she's happy on her gym i'll take the chance to grab something to eat or cook tea. i can still see her the whole time and if i'm eating i do it next to her but i wasn't constantly talking to her. i'm the same as heather and turn nappy changes into fun time. she loves having her nappy off so she's pretty receptive then as well. we play with a few of her toys and i've just started reading her a book occasionally too which she loves. smiles and chatters away the whole time. i'll sit her up on my lap and talk to her after a feed as well. then nighttimes i try and get DH to play with her (although i don't think he understands the whole concept - how do you play with a baby???). remember they just like to stare at you so as long as you're close and he can hear your voice. i have to confess i'm a bad mummy and have to start turning the tv off. i don't turn it on for her, more for some noise and company for me through the day - but she loves it. she's started turning her head to try and stare at it even when it's not on.

GTBBIA - hope your trip back was uneventful and you got some help from the flight attendents and that everything is settling in okay!!! It won't be long and poppy will be doing all sorts of weird and wonderful things and you'll be wanting your quite little baby back. Alyssa just wants to be moved and even when you're trying to cuddle her she's trying to push her legs down on yours and stand up. if you lie her down she kicks you in the belly and tries to fling herself away (has been doing this one since day one which was lovely just after the birth while the after pains were still hanging around ;).

Got to go. hoping missy wakes up soon. i'm going to the shops with a friend who has a 3 week old. could be interesting. i'm just hoping we don't spend our whole day in the mothers room feeding!!!!

Well it's all done :D

Tess had her 8wk Immunisations this morning and was a very brave girl. She cried a little bit and then settled very quickly. She hardly dribbled any of the Rota Virus oral fluid out. Then onto ther 8wk appt with MCHN and she has put on 640gm :clap: She is 4.65kg and doing well. The MCHN noticed she has little bit of flat spot on the back of her head so need to make sure we do lot's more tummy time and get her looking different ways when she is lying down.

Then it was onto the OB for my Mirena to be put in. It feels fine..just feels like I am having a period, so a bit crampy, otherwise fine. The actual putting in only took a minute it was the prep work and after that took a while. About 15mins in total. I am spotting which is normal and can go go on for quite some time while your body adjusts. Go back in 6wks time for a check. See how I feel tomorrow.

So it's all systems go..will let you know Nae how it feels when it finally happens;)

Emma: We put Tess in the cot for the same reason's you have mentioned. She was wriggling up to the top. She puts her feet down and pushes her way up, the little devil. I have stripped her cot of any blankets and will put her in a sleeping bag when the weather get's cooler. She just has the bottom sheet.

Now it's time to stay in the comfort of AC for the afternoon while I wait for this cool change to hit!! Can't wait for tomorrow's 23deg :)

x Heather

Hey everyone! Big wave to those that were in the Due Nov 1 - 15th group! I've been following the Born in 16 - 30th group but finding it hard to get time to post, and don't really know any of them from last year anyway so it feels a bit weird! Not sure I can catch up with all your posts here, but would love to join in even though Jasmine was born on 21st Nov if that's ok? :)

Jasmine will be 8 weeks old this Saturday (gee that time has flown by!) and I think we are finally finding our groove where I can figure out what she wants most of the time! I still havent written my birth story and I feel slack about that - maybe I should try and do it today if she has a big sleep later on ;) We had an amazing homebirth and she cosleeps with us at night so have not had any sleep deprivation yet! Breastfeeding was a massive challenge in the first 6 weeks, with cracked nipples for 3 weeks then suspected thrush which paed ruled out on Tues this week thank goodness. Am trying to put her down for sleeps during the day when I am home - is going ok sometimes, but if she sleeps in my lap its usually for 2 - 3 hours which she is much happier about so that's usually what we do. Bene trying to get her used to being worn in my sling so I can be hands free but doesn't always work - going to borrow a different one from a friend soon (Kozy) to see if she prefers being upright instead of in a pouch sling.

She has been smiling back at us since about 2 weeks old and super alert right since birth! She's just started cooing / chatting to us and when I was taking pics of her this morning on the chaise which slightly slopes she managed to roll from her back right over onto her stomach (and then freak out!) so will have to be more careful with her on the changetable now I think just in case!

Anyway, I'm going to flick back a bit through posts to see how everyone is going! Not sure I'll be able to keep up regularly as I try to go out every second day at least to do stuff, but I will try! :)

Welcome back Fi!!! How did Jasmine like the other sling? Tess likes the baby born as she is close to my chest and I think finds it comforting. Wow Jasmine has started rolling :dance: That's great...not quite there with Tess yet.

Emma: How is the sleeping going? I bought Tess one of those Gro Bag sleeping bags and it's doing the trick. She can still move, at least now she stays a little bit warmer on the cooler nights. She is settling nicely in her cot.

Jody: Get your computer fixed ok? How is Elliott's feeding going?

Nae: Hows the renovating going?

Mmmm, hope all is well with GTBBIA/Barb.

Well..everything is going well. I don't even know the Mirena is there, still have some spotting, otherwise feeling very good and confident about it.

Tess is in a funny routine at the moment at night. She goes to bed 6:30-7pm and wakes midnight and 4ish and then sleeps to 8am. She is doing the long stretches early on and I would rather them in them middle, although last night she went to 2:30 and then up at 6:30 and back down now..funny things :)
Tess is making lot's of new noises. High pitched giggls and lot's of trying to talk noises. She loves it when I talk back to her.
I did my first excersise class on Wednesday night..the pelvic floor needs a bit of work I think:o It wasn't a gush or anything drastic..just very aware that I need to excersise them alot more!!

Have a great weekend everyone

x Heather

Hey All

Have resorted to borrowing a laptop since my computer is going to take ages to fix just cause all the Apple service centres are slow at the moment! Gah.

Feeding is going great guns here. Had a couple of nights of 7-midnight sleeps which is heaven and then sometimes even only a 3am feed after that. Of course other nights goes back to every two hours or so.

I'm getting into a routine with expressing 50-100 mls a day too just so I can have it on hand - I may need to have oral surgery soon, and I'm thinking of studying, and of course want a tiny bit of baby free time. Would you believe I've only had 2 hours away from Elliott since he was born!

Went for my six week check up finally LOL. All is good. Everything is back in it's place. And Elliott is now almost SEVEN kilos. OH MY GOD. I was a bit embarassed by it at first - him being huge, after all I had a lifetime of "fat" jokes but it's more like he's just long and advanced too! I can hold him almost like a real baby and not worry about his head - he can hold it now in almost any position and even lift it clear off the floor with tummy time. And he wants to sit up rather than lay down like a baby. And he laughs and talks and now tries to grab my hand with both of his to guide the dummy in when he really wants it. I just think I'm blessed to have such a healthy "bonny" kid as the old neighbour says.

Hi all,
I just did a speed read of all your posts. Things seem to be going quite well, on the whole.
I don't have very much time, so no persie for now. But big hugs to you all.
Things aren't really going as smoothly as I expected back here in Vietnam. The flight over was quite good. Poppy slept for most of the day and only really cried once when I was a bit slow getting a bottle ready. Thankfully she was due for a feed at both takeoffs, so her ears didn't seem to bother her at all. She had a funny look on her face as we descended, like "oh, what's happening in my ear" but it didn't seem to worry her that much.
But one of our bags went missing. It was the bag with all my clothes in it. It took ages to fill out the forms and actuallly get out of the airport. There was a welcoming committee of DP's parents and a brother.
DP had already told me that our house wasn't ready so we'd be staying a few days at his brother's flat. He told me that we would have his niece's room and she'd go and stay with her grandparents. But ... I think there were about 30 people in the flat when we arrived. It was all a bit too much for me. I just wanted to get Poppy's bottles ready for the night and go to bed. But there were people everywhere, stroking and pinching Poppy and yelling right in her face. Oh, and clapping their hands in her face when she got a bit unsettled. It was just awful. Vietnamese people have a much smaller personal space and it was just too crowded and noisy and all the advice seemed like criticism. It was still 30 degrees and Poppy's grandfather asked me where the baby's mittens and blanket were. It was nearly 2am Australian time when I told DP to tell them all to back off because we needed to sleep. They had the welcome home feast without us. I felt bad but it was just too much.
So, it's been more than a week and we're still stuck in the two bedroom flat. There's nine of us. There's no internet. I've read my plane book and magazine. There's no tv for me to watch. I'm climbing the walls! And our house won't be ready for another week or so. The landlord says the renovations are taking longer than he expected. But thankfully my luggage turned up after three days wearing the same clothes. Luckily I had a change of clothes in case Poppy threw up on me on the plane.
I got an email from my work advising me that my contract would not be renewed because my hourly rate was outside the company's salary policy. :o No discussion, no reply to my emails. So I have a telephone interview tomorrow for the job in Singapore. I've done a bit of research and talked it over with DP and we're going to go for it.
My Dad's also in hospital, which is very worrying. He had to have a hernia in his stomach fixed and he was supposed to be in overnight. But he's been there a week, throwing up and feeling sick and they can't work out what's wrong.
Throughout all this Poppy has been very good. The first few days she was quite unsettled, but once she adjusted to the time difference she's been ok, bar a few grumpy hours in the evening. I am not enjoying being a stay at home Mum, though. I find it very wearing. I am trying to keep my chin up but I just want to get on with the next stage of our life. DP and I have hardly had any time alone since mid-September. Our bedroom wall has a hole in it, so we can hear everything in the bedroom next door. (His brother snores).
So, since we arrived home, Poppy has accompanied me to a job interview, two cafe lunches, one coffee date with the girls, a wedding and drinks at a bar (outside, as far as possible from smokers). She's been a dream baby, either sleeping in her capsule or in the Ergo or just calmly looking around. I've left her with the relatives now for the first time. It's just so expensive and slow to take taxis and lug her and her stuff around and I just needed to send an email about the job interview tomorrow.
I'd better rush off and see how they're coping with Poppy's witching hour!

Gosh Barb I bet you cannot wait until your in your new place and life seems less hectic. You certainly always seem to have lots of stress around you I really admire your strength in not losing the plot - seriously I would have been at my wits end by now.

Well I am suffering a case of insomnia. Chris came to bed around 1 this morning and for some reason our bed has just started squeaking. He was moving around heaps trying to get comfortable which always disturbs me but with the squeaking it woke me right up. Then just as I was starting to drift back off to sleep he started snoring really loudly :wall: so its 10 to 4 Shae will be waking any moment for a feed, I feel tired but I cannot get back to sleep - god I hope this isn't the night she decides to have a long sleep.

I feel like crying but thats just coz I am so tired and I feel sick after dinner, we had fish and chips but I stupidly decided to have a hamburger as well and it was horrible I felt nauseated all evening. I feel hungry but don't want to eat much in case I actually get to go back to sleep and I don't want heavy food in my tummy.

We had Chris' aunt and uncle over yesterday and they stayed for ages and bulk of the conversation was about fishing yep thats right uncle is a mad keen fisherman - we have no interest in fishing but it was THE topic of conversation .... we did talk for a while about snakes too now that was interesting because I got a few more bits of useless info out of it like Tiger snakes are nocturnal hunters and their breeding season is Feb to March which is super handy to know as they are the most aggressive during breeding season.

We need to call a plumber out this morning the pressure from our pump is really bad, I decided to have a shower last night and told chris to bring shae in so she could have a wash but by the time he came in there was barely a trickle. we still gave her a super fast wash but it was horrid with no pressure. The pump is fairly old so I am betting we'll have to replace the bladder.

Anyways this seems to be a bit more of a grumble then a post but its 4am and I am dog tired but can't sleep and I still feel unsettled in my tummy.

MIgh go and hopefully the crappy infomercials will bore me enough that I can catch a few minutes rest.

Nae x x