Babies born~October 1st-15th 2008 #9

[1MOREPLZ]

hey girls

not much new happening here....

i have the demon baby in this house...he climbs/hits/throws tantrums/scream/climbs....did i say that already?? eats paper.....has 12 teeth has had his first hair cut...looks like a BIG boy now

says soo many words it's not funny....
finally self settles himself to sleep!!!! which i am soo happy about...you try putting a 12.5kgs bubba to sleep!!!!!

AFM.....we have an appointment with our FS on the 18th March...and hopefully starting IVF in Jul/August and i have lost 3.3kgs on my way to baby body!!!!

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

csab - you make me laugh.. there are NO MORE for us, 2 is plenty.
The girls are going really well, had an off night last night but they are amazing, love them to bits.
Go V with the walking, isn't it cute when they start, how is she going with it now?

Georgi - well done on the book party.. $500 is awesome!
Hope you enjoy your time away, i'm going to QLD next mth
BJ sounds like such a clever little man, they are growing up WAY TOO QUICK aren't they.

Katones - oh you have a climber too... A never stops, she is such a full on kid lately.
Ohhh congrats on the weight loss and i hope all goes well with the IVF, will keep my for you.

How is everyone else, it's been quiet in here.. guess we are all busy chasing the lil ones around, they are so active now.

AFM - Ava has all 4 molars moving at once, her poor cheeks and ears, she is so irritable the poor little thing.
I got her thrown on the scales at Z's weigh in last week and she's only just 9.4kg (with clothes) so i can't wait until her 16mth MCHN appt, she has grown and put on weight she was only 8.3kg at her 12mth appt, i guess it's because she is so active.. cos god knows she eats HEAPS...
Well i have one full on child on my hands and shes a CLIMBER.. putting washing out the other day, turn around and she had climbed INTO THE TRAMPOLINE!
If anyone has seen pics on FB it's HUGE about 4ft off the ground with only 2 steps on the ladder, so suffice to say we have taken the ladder off so she can't get in as she knows how to open the net to get out but don't think she would manage to get down.

I asked the MCHN about her speaking as she copies EVERYTHING including and has even copied small sentences when we call our dogs, she now yells at them "JACK, CASS, GET HERE" or "JACK, CASS, SIT DOWN".. the MCHN said most kids don't put together 2 words (ie both dogs names) until about 18mths and normally sentences take some time after that... i'm not sure if i should continue to encourage her to form these words better? about 2/5 times the words are CLEAR, jack and cass are always clear but the others are not always so well formed.

Well i am trying to loose weight, am all about staying fit for my girls at the moment so am doing a food diary for a week to SHAME myself into eating healthier... lol but so far i think i have lost over 10kg as the last time i was weighed while PG i was 102kg and that was at about 16wks.. so i KNOW i put on more.. but in my ticker i am using this figure as it's the last KNOWN... so wish me luck!

Also i am hading to QLD for 2 nights next month for a wedding, i am taking Z and leaving A with DP... we can't really afford it but ppl are giving me cash for my birthday in 2 wks... so i'm getting a tiny tiny holiday!

Sorry is so long... hope everyone is well...

[belfie]

hey girls,

Zarava - wow that'll be a lovely little holiday for you! A sounds like such a bright little spark chattering away, she'll have to teach X how to talk lol. GL with your weight loss too.

Katones - nice to hear what's been going on for you. GL with the weightloss journey & IVF.

Csab - your post cracked me up, I got sooo excited! That's awesome about V walking I just love watching the first tentative little steps, sooo cute! X and I are sending back cuddles with interest too

Hi to everyone else. As for us, well it's been eventful. Had my first scan last weds (6 wks 3 days) I was impatient, but happy I did, all looking good with a little heartbeat of 111 yay meant to post earlier but have been soooo busy. Flew out to Tassie on Thurs (for my twin bro's wedding). Before the plane even takes off, X vomits all over me... and I mean covered - from shoulder to thigh. The looks I got from the other passengers as we walked to the toilet... . We delayed the plane taking off because they were still helping us to clean up lol. The guy who was meant to be sitting next to us got upgrated to business (he was appreciative) and he even lent me some waterproof pants to wear! How nice is that hey! (I did have a spare top)... and I'm thinking great, here I am pg and with m/s sitting covered in vomit for an hour.. .yech. Luckily was ok. Then 3 days later I copped the gastro myself with interest. Vomited steadily for 24 hours, I can't remember the last time I felt so bad. And of course, my bro's wedding was in the middle of it! Managed to make it to the ceremony but little else... and still had to "yawn" on the way home in the car . Thank goodness it finally cleared up, and now we're home and just knackered. And suddenly my m/s doesn't seem so bad in comparison to vomiting constantly!! Silver lining huh. Oh and I get to see my little bubba again on the 25th of Feb at my first obs visit - can't wait.

hope everyone else is going well.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Just a quick post... wish us luck ladies we have A's allergist appt today, my poor baby girl is going to be poked and prodded and fed for 4hrs at the RCH today.
A toddler and a newborn in a hosp for 4hrs, lets hope they are on time, the appt is at 1pm we have to be there 4hrs PLUS possibly an hour to make sure no further reactions, which means i wont be leaving the hospital until 6pm and then making the hr trip home.

Ava is not allowed to eat lunch as they want her hungry so they can do the food challenge, we might have to go sign docs straight after as the block might be SOLD so i think as a treat she might be getting McDonalds as we leave the hospital so she doesn't starve!

Atleast i can keep her awake until we leave for the appt and she gets to nap in the car on the way there, but i think she will be VERY grumpy with her sore teeth and being awake so long by the time we leave.

[belfie]

Zarava - I'm so glad to hear that A seems to have grown out of her egg allergy and that you survived the appt (dunno how you did it!). We just got back from ours... unfortunately his reactions were even bigger this time, some had more than doubled, so still no eggs and treenuts for my little man. Apparently he's got a very good chance of growing out of the egg allergy - it's just a question of how long it takes. Could be by the time he's 3 or 4... or 10 or 12 years old! And only 15-20% grow out of treenut allergies, so fingers crossed he'll be one of the lucky ones. We still don't know what reaction he'd get, but as the doc said, with welts the size his came up, there'd definitely be some sort of reaction and we don't want to know what it is. We still don't get an epi-pen as he doesn't meet the criteria (i.e. hasn't had an anaphylactic reaction - or if he was older or had asthma he'd get the pen). Unfortunately he also had a borderline reaction to sesame, so we have to go back in for a food challenge to see how he reacts to it (and no sesame till then). Apart from that, he threw his biggest ever tantrum BEFORE the tests... then was good as gold for the rest of the time, even during the skinpr!ck tests. I was so proud of him.

Apart from that, not much intersting. Oh the allergy doc didn't even know what the rash is on his cheeks, so we're just gonna leave it, as it doesn't bother him at all.

Hope everyone else is going well.

[~ Zarava Flutterby ~]

Ohhhh poor Xander, was it just skin *****s today or food challenge aswell?

Ava survived the skin *****s and food challenge, she came up all clear which was GREAT but i still have to give the poor girl RAW EGG WHITES for a couple of days then slowly introduce cooked yolk then fully cooked egg.
She SCREAMED for the skin ***** test and then at the end of like 4.5hrs at the hosp she had to have a blood test, i am so so proud of my little girl!
She screamed for the blood test but was very upset when i had to take her winnie the pooh bandaid off... lol

Took her to the play centre today with a friend to keep her mind off the teething, all 4 molars are still moving and the poor girls gums look so big!
It was also to keep my mind off things, it's the anniversary of my brothers death today.. he passed of sids when i was little, A was the same age at the same time last yr and i was a wreck, so so paranoid.. i'm a little better this time round with Z though.

Hope everyone is well.. best be off for some sleep, Z's been a little restless when i go to bed, just had to cuddle her in my bed then tuck a shirt under her... not sure if it's that or that she's that buggered that kept her asleep longer than 5min.

[belfie]

Ohhhh poor Xander, was it just skin *****s today or food challenge aswell?

X only had the skinpr!cks yesterday, and we have to go back in for the food challenge (given the sesame is a new reaction that showed up). Dunno how long we'll have to wait for that, apparently it might be a while. They refuse to do food challenges on the eggs or nuts cos they think his reaction would be too big and there's no point sensitising his immune system to them any more than it already is. Luckily he didn't have to have a blood test, poor little A, that would have been nasty for her. GL with giving the raw egg whites, yech! Do you have to hide in food or a drink or something?

Re teeth, I've just discovered both X's upper eye-teeth are through - they snuck through without me realising lol. My DH is in the dog-house cos he played basketball and overdid it (MEN!) so his back is a bit dodgy again... but hopefully will be right again very soon... but in the interim, I'm chief lifter again grrrrr. Lucky my back is nice & strong & well used to hefting Mr 11.7kgs. Needless to say with m/s and hormones I've made DH sorry he's ever even heard of basketball, much less played it! My PG is going along well, it's amazingly less stressful than last time thank goodness - by this time last time I'd already had spotting, bleeding, SCH & umbilical cyst... so this is sooo nice and cruisey with only the migraine & gastro . Worst bit is that I'm showing heaps already have no idea how to keep it hidden at work... but I was exactly the same last time so it's no great surprise. I've been in mat pants since 6 weeks

Hi to everyone else, hope you're all doing well - csab, georgi, tanya, sami, katones, amandaJ