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Pretz - Bahahaha I almost weed myself laughing at the start to your crappy day yesterday!! Ohhh the washing, the mug and forgetting the party tehehehe your a crack up! WTG on no cramps with AF! That is great :clap:
Awesome news on applying for another 12 months off, that is fantastic! Im like you, couldnt bear to leave my kids with anyone else, especially someone that I dont know, I guess childcare just isnt for me!
Clover - Hi!! Great to see you again! How cute on Summer letting go! Bet she surprised herself doing that. I sympathise with you, my Summer would sit in the pram all day if she had to, but Ben, can't go more than 10 minutes. It sucks cause I play netball on a Thursday and he has no option but to sit in there and scream! :lol:
Sparkles - Bloody men!! :rolleyes: I hope Ty is feeling a little better and you manage to squeeze in a little nap!
Re: Birthdays - I have no idea what I am going to do, seeing as my family is very AFL and the grand final is on the day before Bens birthday, I am either going to have to do something on Sunday night or a morning tea on the Monday. DHs family are very religious and church takes up most of the day on Sunday but if I wait to Monday, my dad and mum will have to work. SO, my only option is to do a night time thing which sucks and invite about 40 people. I have no idea what to make for food etc. Perhaps I will just do a kiddy party but then I want everyone there seeing as its the first birthday ... ARGHHHHH :wall:
AFM - I was determined only to feed Ben once last night, and after trying to get him to sleep for 30 minutes I gave in and fed at 11:30pm LOL haha but then when he woke at 3:30am, I persisted and after 50 mins :o he went back to sleep and didnt wake till 7:15am!! WOOO HOOOO! I think if I get his night times sorted, he will sleep better during the day ... and you know what, just quietly, he has been asleep now for 45 minutes!! :lol:
Happy 9 Months to Miss Alannah!!!
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Nikki - :rofl: glad that I could make you laugh (and almost wee your pants) lol I honestly thought that my pregnancy/breastfeeding brain/memory would have gotten better by now, but to be honest I almost think it's becoming worse!! lol I seem to be forgetting EVERYTHING unless I put a reminder on my phone to remind me of them, but even then, I have to remember to remember to put a reminder on my phone! :rofl: Thanks, yes, I am thrilled to have another year off from work as I can't bear the thought of leaving my baby to go to work! I'm entitled to 2 years off (unpaid maternity leave) and can then utilise any other leave I have but if I don't go back then, then I guess I'll have to resign and I guess that is most likely what will happen especially if I'm going to have bub #2 at some stage next year and probably just before the time I'd be due back at work. There's no way I'd be leaving my 2-3 month old bub then either!! lol I'd love to just continue to stay home and be a full time SAHM to my babies and if it means living tightly (as we are having to live tightly) then so be it! ;)
Mmmmmmmmm... that's a tough one having Ben's birthday around AFL time and your in-law's not being available on the day due to Church committments. Hopefully you can sort something out. What is it with these boys waking us at random hours of the night/morning hours?? lol Glad to hear you were successful and got Ben back to sleep until 7:15am this morning though and that he had a nice 45mins (or more hopefully) sleep this morning! Yay! :dance:
Re: Vix - I phoned her this morning and she said that she was doing better. She said that she might take a bit more time from FB but that she hopes to return (at some stage). Told her that everyone was thinking of her and said hello - she said hello back and I'm sure she'll pop in here again when she has the chance. :)
AFM, just popped my little man down for his nap after fighting for nearly 45 minutes and I got him out of his bed and we had a play. I might try to go have a nap too as I have a stinking headache all of a sudden so hopefully it'll go away soon.
Have a great arvo!
xoxo
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So sad to see it so quiet here now.
Alannah was up on all 4's last night rocking back and forth and she moved her knee forward!!!! She did it again a little later on!!!! *squeeeeelllllllllll*
MIss you all, think of you all everyday. :-(
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Vix - Yes, it's quiet in here - I think everyone's resting and recovering as a few of us girls and our bub's are sick! :( Noah and I are doing a bit better thankfully and on the mend. ;) WTG on Miss Alannah on all fours rocking back and forwards! It won't be long now and she'll be crawling around EVERYWHERE! Noah started off real slow with the crawling, but he is quick now, I put him in my bedroom on the floor when I get dressed and by the time I had pulled my shirt over my head he is in the living room already! lol :rofl: How are you doing? Missing you heaps - please come back to FB!? :hug: :hug: :hug:
xoxoxo
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HI vix - yep i am busy with my sick bubba! although Ty has started commando crawling which is pretty funny!
Thinking of you too, will be back when i am not so exhausted & when my little man is his happy self again!
Yay on miss alannah, she'll be off soon!
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:bluecheer: Whooooohooooooo!!!!! Happy 9 months Noah!!!! :bluecheer:
......but where did my baby go???? :o
Sometimes the last 9 months feels like a bit of a blur! lol :p
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Happy 9 months Noah,
I no what you mean, definately doesn't feel like it's been that long since they were born lol
And here I am pregnant again :o
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Happy 9 months to my future son inlaw!!!!!!! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Soooo quiet in here...
Raffy & Vix - Thanks for the happy 9 months wishes for Noah! :hug:
Raffy - How is your pregnancy going? Hope you are feeling good. I read through some of our posts from last year when we all just got our BFP's and we were all sooo sick with morning sickness! Yuck! lol I don't miss the ms one bit, but do miss having a belly, feeling the kicks and flutters and being pregnant! Getting more and more clucky by the day! lol
Vix - Welcome back online. Did you sort the virusses out on your lappy/s? Hope you're doing well. Kisses and hugs to my future-daughter-in-law too! :D
Nikki - Happy 9 months to Ben today!! :bluecheer: Hope he has started to sleep better through the night and if not that he will for you soon, especially since he is 9 months now! :hug:
Sparkles & JaCaMa - Happy 9 months to Ty and Maddi for yesterday! ;)
AFM, thought Noah was getting better but he woke up all snotty again this morning.... :doh:He is very whingy and just won't sleep without cuddles from Mummy and Mummy doesn't get much done that way.....ah well, there's always tomorrow for trying to do stuff!
Hope you all have a great weekend!
Me xoxo
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Back again for the 2nd time today...I need some advice... :p
Group Question 1 - Do you find your bubs go to sleep easily when you put them in their cots for naps? Noah can be dead tired and I'll put him in bed, but will hear him play with his teddy, kicking the cot, crawling around, now standing up (he just cracked his cot mobile attachment as he was standing up and grabbed for it! :shakehead: lol) and shrieking, squealing, laughing, chatting etc and then when he is dead tired he will whinge for a while and then fall asleep but from when I put him in his cot until he is asleep it can take up to 30 minutes at times....:rolleyes: Anyone else experience this?
Group Question 2 - How does one deal with a baby that is suffering with seperation anxiety? For the past 2 days I can't leave the room and Noah will scream / whinge / cry. I always talk to him when I leave the room, but no, when he can't see me, he screams. He then crawls around to where I am and when he finds me he clenches to my pants/legs and won't let go or stop whinging until I pick him up. I can't even sit on the couch and he wants to climb up on the couch with me... Any tips/ideas please??
AFM, have a very CLINGY baby today and he is getting up to mischief in his bed as I said above. DH is working and I have so much I would LIKE to do but just don't seem to be able to get anything done. Guess tomorrow is another day I can TRY to do it....lol Just 5 minutes for myself would be great too! :pray:
Hope you all have a great weekend!
xoxo
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Hi pretz
I'm not sure about question 1 coz when coopers tired we give him a bottle and he falls asleep so then we put him down, if we put him in the cot when he's awake, no matter how tired he will just scream hysterically for ages until you go in, sometimes at night he will eventually just go to sleep but almost 99% of the time, as I said, he falls asleep on the bottle
As for question 2 no advice but Cooper is exactly the same!!! He screams when I leave the room even if it's only to the kitchen and he can still see me it doesn't matter he will just crawl and climb up my leg! I was hanging the washing on the clothes horse today and he wouldn't get off my leg which made it hard to go from the washing basket to the clothes horse and back, even last night, df got home from work, and admittedly Cooper had been very grumpy but normal daddy makes that better, nope, I went to pick up my sister from her work and Cooper was sitting on DFs lap and as soon as he saw me walk towards the front door he started screaming, poor baby, broke my heart (but made me feel special at the same time) I think he definately knows the difference between us being there and not being there, last night my sister came over and babysat while df and I went out to dinner and a movie with friends. For the last 2 weeks Cooper has been sleeping from 7ish to at least 6.30am even as late as 9am every night without an issue, last night my sister said he went to sleep at 7.30 then woke at 8.30 and stayed awake crying until 11 when he finally crashed out and we woke him up after 9am this morning. So I think it might have been him missing us as my sister said there was no other obvious reason for his crying and he hadn't been a problem for me for over 2 weeks. Bless. Anyways that was a lot of rambling about nothing in particular. Sorry I couldn't offer any advice
As for being pregnant, it is becoming very real now lol. Been feeling loads of flutters and on the odd occasion a nice big kick. Already almost 15 weeks lol going so fast. But I think that could be because most of the time I forget I'm pregnant. My MIL asked me how far along I was the other day and I honestly had no idea haha, I'm definately not pregnancy obsessed like in was with Cooper. Put a new car seat on lay by today and now we are counting down the weeks til we find out the sex :) only 3ish weeks to go :)
AFM - went and put a butt load of stuff on lay by today, hit up the kmart toy sales and lay by'd both birthday and Christmas presents as well as a cool walking-to-wagon toy for now and then as I said before put a car seat on lay by for little pickle, first baby thing I've bought this pregnancy haha can't believe it took me 15 weeks lol also today I bought my wedding dress!! All systems are go now, very excited, hoping to have the wedding during the week before coopers birthday so that all mine and DFs family can be here for both, only going to be an extremely small ceremony with just immediate family and our best friends and then going out for a very nice dinner that night lol, nice and small and casual :) can't wait
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Pretz - number 1, I don't know! :lol: Summer goes to sleep on the boob. Occasionally she might put herself to sleep in the cot, but more often than not its boob.
Number 2 - the walker. Summer goes in the walker when I'm not in the main living area. She has loads of things in all different hidey holes to pull out one by one & keep her amused. Doesn't take her long to go through them all though! She's pretty independant & will let me know when she wants to get down to go get into something.
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Question 1 - I have always put Alannah in her cot from the day we came home. Even during the day I put her to bed, tuck her in tightly, close blinds, music on, kiss her and put up the sides of the cot, light off and pull the door to. If I don't tuck her in she rolls around the cot. I moved her cot away from the door yesterday as the light from the lounge shines in there at night. At night time when she goes to bed, she knows her routine. Bottle with a dim light on, music on and then into her cot the way I spoke about before.
Question 2 - sometimes she carries on if she can't see me but she yells (calls) out to me but mainly it is her brothers she is looking for! :-) Yay for me!!!! lol
Clover - so good to hear from you again.
BBL to catch up!
xxxxx
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Raffy, Vix & Clover - Thanks for your replies re: my group questions. He is a bit less clingy now so perhaps it was just because he was sick.. I guess if it is seperation anxiety that it's all part of their development/growing and obviously just a phase they grow through. I'm sure in time he will grow out of it and learn to be a bit more independant! ;)
Raffy - So glad everything with your pregnancy is going well and wow, I can't believe how quick your pregnancy has gone! I guess you're right about when it's no 2 it goes quicker as obviously you have your hands full with no 1! :D When is your 19-20 week scan? Have you booked it yet? I'm sooooooo excited for you and can't wait to hear what you're having. :dance: Feels like just the other day we were ALL counting down to our 20 week scans and found out what we were having... lol
Nikki - How is that cute little boy of yours sleeping now? Still waking through the night for feeds? Any luck with getting him on a bottle or some formula?
Sparkles - Hope Ty is even better today and that his cough goes away for you soon! It's so heartbreaking when they're sick and very exhausting when you don't get much sleep/rest yourself.
Hello to everyone else! :hello:
AFM, Noah is standing up against EVERYTHING now and has even taken the odd step sideways. My poor cats don't seem to be getting any rest anymore either (unless they're up high or on my bed where he can't get them) as he crawls after them and chases them around everywhere. Kind of funny to watch! :p I'm so glad he is feeling a bit better because for the past 2 days, I have this horrible pain in my left side and have had some spotting which I'm like WTF, I'm on CD16 so not sure what that's all about. I finally have my GP appointment booked for tomorrow afternoon at 14:15pm and thankfully MIL is able to look after Noah for me while I go to my appointment.
Hope you are all doing well and having a great day!
Love to you all!
xoxo
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Hi all,
I just struggle to get time on here at the moment!! i am thinking of you all & will write a long post soon!
xx
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MY AVVY HAS A BUMP :D
Pretz - no i haven't booked my scan yet lol another thing I keep forgetting lol but I am going to book an appointment to get a referral for it this week :) can't believe it's only 3 weeks til we find out what the sex is :o no words can explain how excited I am for that
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Raffy - LOVE LOVE LOVE your avi with the bump! How cute! Looks gorgeous! :dance: Oh I can just imagine how excited you must be about finding out the sex of your bub. I am soooo clucky and can't seem to stop thinking about babies, the more I hear of babies, the more clucky I seem to feel! :rofl: I think reading through our belly buddy thread in order to update the last of my pregnancy journal and "reliving" my pregnancy through there is another thing that is contributing to the CLUCKY feelings! lol :p
Sparkles - No worries, come back when you are ready. Thinking of you too! Will still post and keep updated with ya on FB too. Hope you have a great evening/night! :hug:
AFM, just took some panadeine for the first time since giving birth and it's making me feel a bit drowsy lol probably because I haven't had anything stronger than panadol for soooooo long. Got my heatpack on my tummy as I sit here as I'm feeling very achy and tender in my left pelvis... MIL phoned this evening sick as a dog so she can't look after Noah and because she can't look after him I changed my GP appointment for 11:45am, so going to leave my Mummies group a bit earlier...
Have a lovely night!
xoxoxo
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Pretz - let us know how the doc went! x
