Babies born~October 1st-15th 2010 #2

[brydz]

nikki thinking of you today hun, it would be a hard day. hope you went okay with the eulogy xoxo
wow 8kg little chubba. saw your pic in the bonds comp, my gosh he is a beautiful baby

raffy -18 weeks? wow. they are growing up so fast. V is 16 weeks now, and he is our youngest of the group.. did you end up going to the Dr about your 'girly probs'?
glad to hear that you enjoyed a nice night out with friends. good on you. its nice to have a break

afm today I had a valentines day date, with my friend Amie and her lil boy Nate. LOL. we had lunch and OMG it was to die for, the BEST baked potato EVER. so good I felt sick afterwards
V has had a good day today, slept almost 3 hours this morning and is now asleep again. he is slowly weaning himself from boobie feeds between bottles. which is good for when I go back to work.

I've been looking into childcare, the only place that has a spot is the one just round the corner, and they only have Mondays. but that is okay because i was hoping for monday and/or friday.
Because Tuesday will be the day I'm at uni if I get into that meds course, and wed and thurs are my mums days off so she can mind V and I can work. Although I'm still waiting to hear what days J will have off tafe if he goes, because I have to arrange for him to see V when he has time. He thinks it may be wed, so I might have to work mondays and thursdays. OR sunday and wed nights..

[zrieka]

Hello, I've just realised a little late this thread exists o.0
My little girl was born 8 October, and has doubled her weight since then. I am still amazed!

Nice to meet you all

[Pretz]

Hello Mummies,

Sorry I have been MIA for the past week or so, but have been recovering/trying to take it easy and have been busy with trying to organise my house and with Noah who has been feeding a bit more frequently again during the day (must be a growth spurt), but otherwise have been reading all your posts, just haven't had time to do persies.

Am doing better than last week this time when I left hossy. Still a little bit tender, but the bleeding has finally stopped and the swelling has gone down heaps...lol I'm on the mend, yay! DH is still counting the days til we can DTD again and TBH I'm starting to count the days too now as like he said, we'll need to get in lots of practice before TTC#2!! lol Yes, we have decided that we're officially going to start TTC#2 in October this year!! Wow, I almost can't believe it and although I'm excited and thrilled, I'm also a bit nervous about it. In a way I'm feeling nervous and scared as I'm just wanting to enjoy my little man for a bit longer before being pregnant again and for a new bub to come around IYKWIM.

Group Question - I know Raffy is planning to start TTC#2 soon too, but is there anyone planning to TTC again this year??

Meela - Welcome to our thread. Were you ever part of our belly buddy group and perhaps just changed your name? If not, no fear, it's great to have a new face. Congrats on your baby girl! Looking forward to chatting with you.

Everyone else - Hello and hope that you and your bubba's are doing well!

Sorry for the short reply, but GTG, Noah is hungry (again!) lol.

Be back for persies as soon as I get the chance.

Love to you all!

xoxo

[raffy]

Wow its been quiet around these parts for a few days.

Meela - hi and welcome to our thread. You chose a good month to give birth coz the ladies in here are gorgeous. Congrats on your little girl! Do you mind if I ask what her name is? My little man is cooper he was born on 10/10/2010 and he's our first

Pretz - soooooooo glad to here your on the mend babes. And that's awesome your excited about dtd hope it all goes well when the time rolls round. Hope Noah is doing well and your moving upstairs is going smoothly. Yep yep planning number 2 sometime this year and hopefully af pulls her head in and stops messing around so i no when I'm o'ing and stuff. We are planning to start in October at the latest so who knows we could be belly buddies again but i to just want enjoy my little man and get over this pnd as well

Afm - af still still hasn't nicked off 18 days and counting! I asked my gp about it and she said its probably hormones because i started the pill again this month but she said to stick it out and if it still hasn't stopped by the time i start my next pill pack to come back and she will prescribe a stronger pill that will stop it for a few days to give me a break and the it will start again and should only go for the usual 7ish days it works. I'm rather over it. Anyhoo cooper had his jabs on Monday. DF came with me so he was the bad guy and i was the one that made it all better and got cuddles. He pretty much slept for the rest of the day until 7.30 yesterday morning and when he woke up i swear he was swapped with the devil, he was grumpy and moody and clingy and screamed all day. Even my mum and sister were getting frustrated with him. He finally conked out at 10 and woke at 5 this morning and screamed for 3.5 hours but DF was on night shift so i didn't wanna wake him but by 8.30 i was exhausted and getting to the point where i was scared i would hurt him so i gave him to DF and slept til 11 and cooper woke up not long after and has been an angel ever since. Hopefully it stays this was. Anyways better dash and do a few things before cooper wakes. Love to all xx

[Sparkles]

Hi all,

Welcome Meela!

Pretz - Yes we are going to start TTC in May (after today though i may only have one!!! hahaha), so Ty will be at least 16 months, we have always wanted them close together and still do, but it took over a year for Ty with a loss in between, so we will be stoked if we fell first go but are also realistic that it could take a while!! Most people i speak to think we're crazy, maybe we are, but oh well!!
Raffy - I have devil child as well, big hugs!!
AFM - Ty has been really out of sorts this week, pretty whingy which is so unike him as he is a really happy baby, thhinking teeth maybe or is there not supposed to be a big 4 month growth/developmental spurt, hoping he will get through it soon as he is tiring me out! Last 3 days though he is loving his solids,we had just been playing a few mouthfuls here and there and then monday arvo he was so grumpy so i trited some solids and he opened his mouth so wide and wanted more & more, so since then i ave been giving him apple/pear mid morning/lunch and pumpkin late arvo which he loves and he is still drinking his 5 botles too, so definately the little man is growing up me thinks!
Hope evryone else is well, and we don't all end up with grumpy 4 month olds while the poor little ones get used to the big world!!

[raffy]

Sparkles - we are the same and want our bubs close together so are gonna start 'trying but not trying' around april/may and hopefully we are lucky and it happens straight away like it did with Cooper, but i am also being realistic and also now AF is being a b-itch we no it could take longer i hope Ty starts feeling better soon and is back to his gorgeous happy self, grumpiness sucks big time huh!

AFM - well well Coops hadnt pooped for a few days which isnt like him coz he usually has a nice big one each morning and today i realised it had been at least 2 days (im loosing track now mums here and DF is on night shift, so hes home in the morning, so im not the only one who changes his bum) but today after his bath () we had a pooplosion and hes been a different kid ever since. having said that its bed time and hes grumpy again ahhh these babies, cant win hahah oh the joys. so im off to pace the halls until he falls asleep, gonna start trying controlled crying (me = plz dont hurt me) and see if we can get him to self soothe coz hes getting way way to heavy to pace around for hours while hes histerical and eventually falls asleep

[zrieka]

pretz No name change, just slow off the mark

raffy My little lady is Zoe. I shared a hospital room with a lady who had her baby on 10/10/10 - lucky day! Her baby was literally half the size of mine!

[raffy]

meela - ohh i love the name Zoe haha yeh i had another lady who birthed on the same day and one lady with a premmie and cooper was a monster compared to her lol how big was Zoe when she was born?

[zrieka]

raffy, she was 3.9kg. The lady next to me had a 2kg baby who came out with ONE PUSH! Jealous! On the other hand, she had a time of it TTC, so I guess we are both lucky in different ways. I just looked at my boyfriend on the day I stopped taking the pill :P

pretz - Zoe i now 8.1kg - double the baby!

[Pretz]

Raffy - Thanks honey. I'm glad that I'm on the mend too, it sucks to not feel well, especially when you can't stop and really relax as you have to keep going for your baby! lol Thanks I too hope that all goes well when time comes around for DTD and practising for TTC! lol Sorry to hear that AF is being a b*tch and messing around with ya, but whoohoo on perhaps being belly buddies again!! I think we have all called our bubs a devil child because of the way they can be clingy/whingy/cranky. I had one last night too, he didn't sleep a wink from 00:15 til 03:00 and was awake again from 5:45am so I am exhausted today, feel like a walking zombie.... zzzzzzz

Sparkles - Sorry to hear that Ty has been fussy this week. I hope he gets back to his normal, happy self for you soon. How exciting that you're going to TTC again soon too! I wish you well when the time comes! I really reckon there is a HUGE growth spurt at 4 months, well I think that is what it was with Noah because I really and literally felt like all I did once he hit 4 months was just feed him constantly, just like a cow being milked from morning to noon to night to morning again! lol

Meela - Love your little girl's name. How big was Zoe when she was born? My little boy Noah was 8pd 13oz (4.03kg) at birth and when I weighed him 2 and 1/2 weeks ago he was 7.35kg so I'm guessing he has nearly or possibly doubled his birth weight by now too! Is Zoe your first bub or do you have other kids too? Are you a SAHM or are you on maternity leave and possibly returning to work at some stage? (Sorry for all the questions) hehe

Nikki, Vix, Brydz - Hope you're all doing well! Thinking of you all!

AFM, Noah had a feed, a bath, another feed and then fell asleep at 5:45pm and is still asleep so I'm hoping he will sleep well tonight. I should probably get my butt off the pc and have a nice relaxing bath and head towards bed too so I can catch up on sleep before he wakes again and decides that it's playtime in the morning hours...... that he doesn't want to play and chat and babble again that early for 3 hours though!!

Hope you all have a lovely evening/night!

Love ya's!

xoxox

[zrieka]

pretz - Zoe is now 8.1kg - double the baby!

Zoe is my 1st (I want to have 3).

I'm on mat leave, due back in April. Work is probably the last place I want to be, but my boyfriend is geared up for his 6 months being a SAHD.

[brydz]

raffy, she was 3.9kg. The lady next to me had a 2kg baby who came out with ONE PUSH! Jealous! On the other hand, she had a time of it TTC, so I guess we are both lucky in different ways. I just looked at my boyfriend on the day I stopped taking the pill :P

pretz - Zoe i now 8.1kg - double the baby!

Welcome MEELA! Zoe is a nice name. hahahaha I just happened to 'look at' a total stranger one night when I had a wee bit too much to drink. OOPS!
I'm brydz, single mummy to a very handsome young man (if I say so myself) named Vincent.

hi all might leave other personals til tomorrow as I'm pretty tired.

afm
today we visited J at his place again. Was going to leave V with him for an hour and go to my sisters but she had her tafe grad night so I had nowhere to go, and then V was being a little cranky bum so I ended up just staying there with him.

OMG talk about an ongoing saga. J showed me a letter he got today from BDM. apparently because we are still 'in dispute' over the name he has been registered as just plain Vincent, with no middle name at all.
Be nice if they sent ME a copy of such information (considering I'm the one who's already paid for the birth certificate).

According to J and his mother, he received a letter to say that I'd agreed to Vincent James Leo and it was the first he'd heard of it.
Yet I got a letter about 2 weeks back saying that J himself had suggested that and I could either agree, or disagree and it would be just plain Vincent. SO I agreed.

Either the BDM lady tried to trick us into agreeing.
Or he and his mother are lying to me (again).

and then, hahaha the cheek of her, when J left the room she said "i personally liked Vincent Eli better'
WTF? she was the one who talked him out of it, and I'm certain of that. what a weirdo.

anyway he now is just plain old Vincent, so I'll have to change my sig for the 100th time haha. Guess I still win cos I don't get to settle for stupid Leo! LOL

I'm off to bed. nighty night.

[raffy]

meela - nice, cooper was 3.76kg, not to shabby, and yes we just had to look at eachother and BAM pregnant wowzers 8.1kg thats a very healthy little miss you have there, well done. are you breast feeding or formula? coops is on formula now but i breastfed for 10 weeks, wish i could have gone longer but the universe had other ideas lol. where abouts do you work? and thats awesome your DP is gonna be a SAHD!! i think more men should do it if they can

Pretz - keeping all my fingers and toes crossed Noah sleeps well for you tonight, at least hes happy at that time, Cooper screams his lungs out. enjoy your bath

Brydz - thats so crap about Vs name... again. at least its just the middle name and they arent disputing his first name, after all when is your middle name ever used other that offical documents. that shes messing with you again, what a poohead.

AFM - eeeep got a phone call from the lady at the child care centre that i sent a resume to, i missed the call but she left a message saying she wont be in the office til next monday but to call her then and we'll organise a time for me to 'look around' so that sounds really positive and if i call her first thing on monday i could even go out to the RAAF base where the centre is and see her then, so fingers crossed ill have a job soon
soooooo we tried controlled crying, didnt let him cry longer than 5 mins without reassuring him that i was still there by kissing him and patting his bum and it only took 45 mins (which is like a third of the time it would have taken if we were holding him and on top of that he would be screaming and punching and kicking and pinching) so yeh 45 mins for the first night, im so happy with that. i pray it gets easier coz i hate hearing him cry and it took all my strength not to pick him up. and once again for those against CC plz dont hurt me! i was at the end of my teather and it was the last resort. anyways off to bed myself

ps can you tell i like the new smilies!! how cute are they?

[Nikki87]

Hello ladies!

Meela - Welcome and congrats on your little miss Zoe!! She is getting a big girl - 8.1kg, well done! Im Nicole or Nikki as everyone on here knows me! Glad you have found us and decided to join!!

Pretz - glad to hear everything is going well after your op - sorry to hear Noah had a bad night last night, I am sick of getting up to feed Ben 2 or 3 times a night. Still like having a flipping newborn! Thanks for your text too the other day on nannas funeral! Very much appreciated!

WTG on Pretz, Raffy and Sparkles TTC #2 this year!! You girls are amazing ... Im not even going down the path for number 3 until Ben is about 3 years old! Dont worry though, I will be following your journies very closely when they do happen!

Hi Vix and Brydz (thanks Brydz for your kind words - the funeral went well and my speech was ok ... not too scary!!) hope you are going well.

AFM - Far out - it must be the time for grumpy babies. Ben has been an absolute pain the last few days!! Feeding like a machine and absolutely loving his pumpkin the last few days. HATES farex though, wont have a bar of it.

Weighed him today and has finally doubled his birth weight - exactly. Little chubba has put on another 300g this week! Now 8.3kg

Hope everyone is going well ... be back on tomorrow to chat!

[brydz]

Good Morning all.

nikki -glad your speech went okay. I'm sure your nan would have been proud xo. Good on Ben for doubling birth weight. V is still nowhere near double his yet. Well I'm not sure atm what he is, hasn't been weighed for 3 weeks (gets done next monday with his needles).

raffy -oh that really sucks about your AF. hope it goes away and starts becoming normal and regular again. I must be just about due for my 2nd round. yuk. lets hope it is painless like the first one! I'm still going to call BDM today and find out about whether they tried to trick us into agreement or not. Because I really want to know if J lied to me, well lied to his mum. Because I get the feeling he still tells her what she wants to hear, and then when she finds out the real truth he gives in and does what she wants. I am very anti controlled crying, so I won't say any more. But each to their own I guess and we all have desperate times.. I hope you get a job soon! that would be fantastic! I've gotta do my first aid again before I write my resume up and apply for jobs.

pretz - I am hoping Noah slept better for you last night hunni. We had a good night here yay. bout time I say.

TTC - wow can't believe some of you guys are already thinking about it. That is great. Hope it happens when you want it to. No more babies for me for a while, considering this one was a big whoopsie hahaha. I think V will enjoy being spoilt for at least a few years!

afm
got no plans today, apart from calling BDM to find out what happened with that.
I have washing to do, and washing to put away. So I think I'll have an at homey do nothing type of day. Been a busy week so far.
Vinny slept from 930-630!! woohoo.
I didn't sleep the greatest though. First it was fire crackers going off in the neighbourhood. Then my mind wandering and not switching off, and then I woke a few times from the heat.
Not that it was hot. Just been SOOOOOOOOOOO HUMID! I feel like I'm living in the tropics. Yesterday was 23 degrees but the air was so wet. It was disgusting.
Night before last I left a biscuit with cheese on it on a plate in the kitchen, that I didn't eat, and in the morning it was wet like someone had poured water on it, and the biscuit was totally soggy. Way too humid for my liking.

Hope everyone's bubbas settle down and have a good day. I am off to get the boy up for his bottle, he's babbling away in there.

[zrieka]

brydz OMG, single parent! You must get this all the time but... I am in awe of you. I couldn't imagine how hard it would be having a little one on your own. My mum and dad split when I was 10 and that was hard enough on my mum.

raffy Zoe is on breast breast and more breast! We've started her on little tastes of food because she is so interested in what we are doing when we eat. It was funny when we went to the last checkup with the nurse. The nurse was clearly impressed with her length and weight. She had this little smirk throughout the entire interview. I didn't mind because Z is so healthy...she will be the baby that ate Tokyo!

TTC Not till Z is about 12 months. Then I think we will start "looking at" each other a lot! Although my Boyfriend has a cousin with one 3 months older than Z, and another one on the way already. I think she is crazy, in a good way

[brydz]

Meela - no not something I get much actually. thanks for the compliment though. I just do my best for my bubba boy.

afm - came out to mums, she went into town ahahaha. she is off to centrelink to try and get some assistance for the flood damage to her fences. reckons I'll be eligible possibly for a payment because I was 'stranded' out here too for several days and couldn't get home. I don't think I'll be eligible though.

[Pretz]

Meela - Wow, your baby girl is growing well! I hear ya, I'm currently on maternity leave until end August and don't even want to THINK about going back to work. Who knows what will happen by then.....my plan was always to be a full time SAHM so hopefully my dream can still come true! That's great that your DP will be able to be a SAHD.

Brydz - So glad that things are going well with the visits with J and Vinny and that J seems to be enjoying the time he is spending with Vinny. I'm also glad that he is showing an interest in Vinny. It's such a big change from how things were in the beginning. Sorry to hear about the issues you're having with BDM. Hope you get it straightened out / get behind what really happened??

Raffy - Thanks for crossing your fingers and toes for me but unfortunately I have had another bad night with Noah again last night. I just don't get it, it seems that everytime we have 2 or 3 nights I get excited about it becoming normal and then boom, he goes back to waking a million times and I don't get any sleep/rest. I'm keeping my all goes well with the job and that you get it. I have been starting to try the controlled crying thing too, but give in too easily I think because I can't stand hearing Noah crying and screaming. It breaks my heart, even though I know it's going to be good for both of us in the long term. I too love the new smiley's!!

Nikki - It's scary indeed how alike our boys are. Noah has been a pain too the last few days only wanting to feed and be on the boob and not sleeping well at night wanting to continue waking for another feed. It's really doing my head in and I feel very, very lost as to what to do. I'm booked into a sleep group at the Clinic next Tuesday and it just can't come around quick enough. I really hope they'll be able to give me some tips on getting him to settle himself and stay asleep. He's not too bad when he does wake at night as he'll wake, feed (BF) for about 10-15 mins but then within 1.5-2 hours he'll be awake again wanting to do the same again. I have started to try put him back to sleep again before picking him up, but he just keeps crying so therefore just offering him the boob. Noah has pulled the strangest faces at pumpkin this week, but he is getting used to it slowly. Seems another thing Ben and Noah have in common is that they both hate Farex. Noah won't have it either. lol WTG on Ben's great weight gain. Our chubba boys are growing well!!

Vix - Heya! Hope you and Erica had a great catch up with each other and Alannah and Lachie had fun meeting each other!! I'm hoping to see Erica again next month when she comes to Brisbane for work. Hope everything else on your end is going well.

AFM, not much to report on my end except that I'm EXHAUSTED, I just feel like I could fall over, yet when I do finally get to bed or lay down, I'm just not able to sleep, I think I'm OVERTIRED and then when I finally do nod off, Noah is awake again so I just can't seem to win at the moment. At least I was able to have an hour and 15 mins sleep with Noah this morning at 8am, but still not enough to make me feel a bit more energetic. I'm feeling a bit frustrated at the moment too and although I know it can wait, I haven't been able to do much during the day. I have a tonne of washing, the dishes from last night and yesterday morning was just washed thankfully but still needs to be dried and put away and then there's the house that looks like a bomb hit it with toys everywhere and the floors really need a vaccuum and mop, but thankfully Peter has been sweet and understanding and said that he would do it tomorrow...lol Sorry about my rant, it kind of helps just getting things off your chest.

Well then, off for some lunch before Noah wakes, he has been asleep for 40 mins now and I'm hoping it lasts just a while longer.

Love to you all!

xoxox