Babies born~October 1st-15th 2008 #10

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

csab - ahhh hospital appts with a little one are fun.. not I was lucky in that Ava was still quite little for most of mine, hopefully the next one is quicker and easier.
How you been feeling?

Katones - isn't it great listening to them, how have you guys been.. all good i hope!

Georgi - not sure about panadol for coughs etc, is there any chance you can ring a pharmacy and ask if there is anything safe for him to take? Poor little man.
He is so cute and clever.... Oh S**T isn't it funny how they learn sequences etc, such smart LO's we all have.

AFM - am slowly getting there with the unpacking, Ava 'HELPING' doesn't always help but she really does have the best intentions.
She is 20mths old today, i can't believe it's 4mths til our princess turns 2 and Z was 5mths old yesterday

Ava amazes me she has always called the dogs saying JACK, CASS get here etc (copying us basically) but now she's really starting to form small sentences, the other day she drank all of her milk looked at me and said MUM, MUM it's all gone my little girl is growing up.
Her fave word at the moment is APPLE, she runs up and down the hallway saying apple, apple, apple.. her pear last night was an apple (easy mistake) ten this morn she pointed at the fruit bowl and said mum, mum apple TAAAAAAA
She call the dogs saying jack, cass COME COME and then tries to whistle... it's hilarious.
She's getting quite good with knowing what objects are, if i ask her for mummy's phone she gets my phone from the table (even if beside DP's) same for the remote or Zara's rag (spew rag) i can't believe how quickly she is growing.

They are all so smart i'm sure i was never this clever when i was little.. FIL always comments on how clever little kids are these days and NEVER did they do things the way our kids do.. hehe
He says Ava is so cute and more entertaining than SIL's kids cos she does so much, hmm no favourites hey? but he's right she runs feral and niece and nephew ask if they can take their shoes off

Well better go, got some clothes to sort out.. Z is already nearly in 00 clothes that Ava was wearing at like 10mths old.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Just a quick one cos it's late, i am getting a cold and have a shocking sinus headache but my gorgeous little miss Ava did WEES ON HER POTTY i am so so proud of her, she can take off her own nappy and sometimes in the shower crosses her legs b4 she wees... so we have just been randomly letting her sit on the potty and tonight it worked... BUT she got excited when i clapped, stood up and started clapping and peed on the bathroom floor

then she got in the bath, did a bit of a #2 so i got her out and on the potty and she finished it there... ohhhh i am so proud, i know she's not 'toilet trained' but she's growing up

[Georgi]

ZARAVA That's great to hear. We've been putting BJ on the potty but nothing is happening. I hope it's all up hill from here for you

[belfie]

Zarava - that's awesome about Ava! Bummer re getting a cold I hope it's just a false alarm and goes away.

Georgi - look at your ticker, that's looking fantastic! How are you feeling now? I'm hoping that if your m/s hasn't settled by now, it will soon. Did you get them to check the colour at your 12 wk scan?

csab - GL working out what you want, there's a lot to weigh up, but you know your body best so trust your gut feelings. How are you feeling?

As for us, well X has croup this week, and the doc thinks possibly asthma too. Pls cross your fingers for us that he doesn't. Poor little fella has been very unhappy We're probably also going to see a speech path cos he's really lagging with his talking too. I've booked on in for July so we'll see if it improves by then. Otherwise he's still just the cutest little button, such a happy boy. Between us all, we've still been getting bug after bug (whether cold/gastro etc) so I'm going on mat leave early. Was gonna go at 29 weeks (cos of my high GD risk) but am going in a few weeks instead. I've only been in 1 day of the last 3 weeks, between me or X being sick, it's just ridiculous! So I'm excited thinking about all the things I wanna get done around the house (nesting much? ) cos i'll keep X in his family daycare 2 days a week while I clean up some stuff (empty a room for new bubba girl!) and do DH's bookkeeping. Bubba girl is going well, seems very wriggly and I feel huge haha.

Hope everyone else is going well.

[Georgi]

BELFIE - Hope it's not asthma, gosh, that's all you need. Good idea finishing work early. I am going to start looking around at day care centres as work is getting busy & I think it'll be good for BJ anyway. Unfortunately I'm still feeling alot of nausea. It's not where near as bad but just still there. Nope, not finding out the colour this time. It's gonna be a surprise

[belfie]

Nope, not finding out the colour this time. It's gonna be a surprise

That's cos it's pink pink PINK!
I really hope the m/s settles soon, it's just foul isn't it! GL finding a good daycare, X loves his which makes it all very pleasant & easy.

Re the asthma, well we probably won't know either way for quite some time. But the doc has started him on ventolin to keep his airways open (cos he finished the prednisolone tonight) - he was soooo good taking the puffs with the spacer and facemask on - honestly I thought he'd freak, cos it's 6 puffs with 4 breaths between each... so it took a while! His little face looked so pathetic through the mask, but he wasn't fussed at all. But now I've got a killer sore throat geez getting every bug under the sun is NOT fun!

[1MOREPLZ]

no good specialist/paed would diagnose a little un under the age of 2 with asthma and if they do they are useless!!!!

[belfie]

Katones - it was just a GP who flagged that it COULD be asthma but wouldn't be diagnosed yet... so we're just keeping an eye on it. He sure was one very puffed/wheezy little boy with the croup. Plus with his food allergies & ezcema we knew he would be high risk for asthma anyway, so just crossing fingers that we don't have a winter of croup & coughs. He seems to have come good now tho, off the ventolin & predmix which is great.

Georgi - how are you feeling now? It really sux that you're still feeling bad I remember just HATING it, so I really truly hope you feel better soon.

AFM I had an embarassing morning. Finally made it back to work after a few weeks of me or X sick... nearly fainted on the train, managed to stagger off, nearly fainted on the platform and got wheelchaired off by St Johns! Finally made it work (really needed to drop off my laptop) and my last day is gonna be Monday! so i'm excited about that. My other grief is my right hip/sacroiliac joint which is giving me major grief. I can't push a shopping trolley more than 5metres without it cramping up, have been trying to avoid lifting X as much as possible, and as for rolling over in bed omg ow ow ow! Then finally the penny dropped the other day when seeing my osteo... cos she was saying why it happens and all this blah blah. Well I got some pelvic floor nerve damage with X's birth - the right side of my PFM is only half the strength of the left side because of the nerve damage (great with a vaginal prolapse as well - NOT!)... and that's making the right hip worse... duh of course that makes sense, I just hadn't realised before. So i'm hobbling around and praying it eases up earlier this time. Last time it settled at about 30 weeks, so I'm just hanging out for it to settle... and in the interim... online shopping here i go!

[csab]

Hi all,

Sorry have been mia, as had litle bubba V in hospital, have been to the DR's for her today, but now I need to go and see the DR for myself. Will be back soon to update. hugs