Raffy - As I was reading I was thinking - perhaps you're UTD, but then saw you said you had AF....perhaps you should do a test anyway as I have heard that sometimes you can still get your period and be UTD! Glad you're having fun with trying but not trying... Hope you feel better soon though! WTG for Coops being able to sit up for a bit by himself too yay!
Brydz - It's so much fun to catch up with other Mums and bubs and it's good to share things with them and to get tips from them on what they do with their bubs etc. Don't worry bout V pulling hair, I think they all do it. I have noticed almost every bub that Noah has had close to him has pulled his hair, I think it's because he has so much hair, it's a temptation for others to pull it and he even pulls his own hair sometimes! lol
Hello to everyone else!
AFM, have had the worst pelvic pain on my left side since yesterday arvo and through the night. Not sure whether I'm ovulating as it kind of feels like ovulation pain...? Sorry for TMI, but I have also had HEAPS of thick white discharge (just like during ovulation) so thinking it must be it.... (unless it's a UTI as I have been peeing heaps and it's a bit painful when peeing too) in a way I just hope that it isn't because that means that AF is going to be rearing her ugly head soon and I don't want AF back just yet.... but on the other side I guess it means that if AF shows, it gives me about 5 or so months before we are going to TTC#2 and AF gets a chance to regulate herself.
Noah slept real well again last night, slept from 6:45pm until 5:00am this morning had a feed and back to sleep until 7:10am! I was up a few times having to go pee through the night and being in a bit of pain, so used my heat pack.
Just going to take it easy today and have a quiet day at home with Noah and DH.
Pretz - sorry to hear you are in a bit of pain, Hope you feel better really soon, and if it is AF she's not so mean to you. Enjoy your day with Noah and DH.
AFM - blagh sick again. Might go and and hunt down a HPT today. Leaving Perth tonight so spending all day collecting all of coopers stuff that has spread all over the house. Can't believe someone so little can have soooooooooo much stuff. gonna have to go and find a bigger suitcase I think because once again we have accumulated so much stuff, including an xbox 360 which I'm so bummed about because that's what I was gonna get DF for his birthday and now I have no idea what else I should get him it's a second hand one and there is a chance it won't work so I'm gonna hold out getting him something else coz I still might be able t get him one anyway Cooper and I have just woken up and I haven't seen DF yet so I might go find him. Talk to you all soon xx
Raffy - Sorry to hear you're still sick! Hope you feel better soon! Did you end up doing a HPT? I hear ya on being shocked to see how much stuff one little person can have, whenever we go to someone's place for the afternoon or their place for dinner it feels like I take half of Noah's room with me (playmat, toys, diaper bag, bottles etc) and it takes 2-3 trips to and from the car to get it all in and out! lol
Hello to everyone else!
AFM, still in lots of pain, but obviously it's not from ovulation pain.....it's....because I got AF this morning!!!!!!!!!! Was not looking forward to dealing with the crappy pain and cramps again, but at least I had exactly 15 months without her and hopefully will only have about 6 or so months with her and then hopefully no more AF for a while again! lol
Guess what?? My baby cut his first tooth this morning too! I thought he was going to get the one on the side (eye tooth) as it's been half way through breaking through the skin for weeks, but no, he cut the bottom middle one on the left!! I guess that explains why he was a bit cranky and grizzly yesterday afternoon!
Anyway, I'm off to go find some pain killers and bond with my heat pack...
Just a quick one, I'm a bit all over the place, just got home, finally, arrived in Brisbane airport and had a million missed calls from SIL, a very close friend of mine and DFs was killed in an accident at his work last night I'm not really sure what to do, I wish I was still there so i could go see his family and say my goodbyes at his funeral, right now I feel like it's all just a joke and I'm expecting him to call and say belated April fools
raff
there's nothing more I can say except that really truly sucks. wish I could come up there and give you a big hug. so sorry about your mate I read it on fb and was wondering who you were talking bout. tragic and so sad... take care babes xoxoxo I hope Coop is being a good boy for you and giving you lots of cuddles.
pretz that is awesome about the toothy peg. I think mr V is teething he get really cranky sometimes and fights the dummy really badly. its like putting it in his mouth is torture, so i'm wondering if his gums are ouchies?
afm mr V and I went to a wedding today. his first one. he was relatively good, I sat further back than most because I didn't want him being the centre of attention..
he grizzled for AGES trying to stay awake and luckily he slept through the most part of the actual ceremony.
Having not seen my friend in like a year, I felt a tad awkward even being there let alone with him being noisy.
The uneasy feeling left when the gorgeous bride walked in, saw me and v (who was asleep by then) and shot me the biggest beaming smile. I just knew I was meant to be there and really had to fight the urge to cry. She is such a beautiful person and I hate that our lives grew apart so much. Here's hoping this can be the start of becoming closer again. We never fell out, just grew apart with busy different lifestyles.
I ams ooooooooooooooooo thankful she allowed me to participate on her big day and be there. Even if I only went to the ceremony. I cant say the ceremony itself was beautiful becasue it was long winded and catholic and very traditional and totally not my thing. but my gosh I just love weddings anyway and what they symbolise and the love in the air and she was sooooooooooo stunning. and the bridesmaids were gorgeous. it was really feel good
V was going to go to his dads but after last night i changed my mind and took him with me. last night we were meant to discuss visits and just couldnt agree on anything.
Slept for 6 or so hours today and I'm still exhausted. Went to mums and cuddled and played with cooper then put him to sleep while mum made us dinner, she made devilled sausage which is my fav but I just wasn't hungry, I still have this feeling in the pit of my stomach and I think I'm gonna be sick but it never comes. Cooper ended up staying at mums for the night which is good coz right now I dont think I would be much good to him. Just a lot of stuff I pushed back or bottled up came to the surface today when I started crying about Shane, so not the best day ever.
Anyway I felt really rude being such a sad sack before, after pretz told us Noah has his first toothy peg - that's so awesome Hun. I think coopers super close to, been well grumpy and his mouth is clearly giving him the irrates. Sorry to hear it was AF that was making you ouchies. I wish there was some magical cure to make you pain free and I hope she goes away soon
Brydz - that sounds beautiful. Im so happy you got to be there for your friends big day, I to have friends that even though I dont talk to them as often as I would like to I no they would still be there when I needed them and those friends really shone through when I announced that I was pregnant to. Im truley happy for you and congrats to your friend. I love weddings to. Even though planning my own seems to be a giant pain in the butt they are so worth it
AFM - did a HPT and it was negative. Don't think it will happen this month either as I should be O'ing roughly soon as period was a week and a half ago and now all this has happened my mojo is gone again lol oh well it was fun while it lasted lol hopefully it comes back soon
Raffy - I'm sooooooo sorry about your friend! Hope you are getting lots of cuddles from Ben and your little man! I know you're trying but not really trying, but I'm sorry to hear that your HPT was negative, I was getting really excited there for ya, but I'm sure it won't be long and you'll get a nice BFP!!
Brydz - Glad to hear that you and Vinny enjoyed your friends wedding and that he was a good boy in the end. Sorry to hear that you and J couldn't agree on anything with regards to visits and stuff. I hope you can sort it out soon. Yeah it sucks with the babies teething. Noah started teething at 4 months and it took nearly 8 weeks for that first tooth to finally break through the skin, I just hope the next lot comes through easily and doesn't take weeks and weeks to come through when they start bothering him. Have you tried those teething dummies!? You can buy them at BigW. I tried one for Noah and he seemed to like it for a while chewing down on it, but he hates dummies so it didn't last long before he lost interest in this one too.....
Hello to everyone else - hope you're all doing well!
AFM, had a hell of a last 2 days. Got AF on Saturday as I mentioned in my post on Saturday and the bleeding was so heavy and the pain so horrific that DH took me to the emergency at the hospital in the early hours yesterday morning. They checked me out and gave me a scan and said that it is very normal for a first period after childbirth to be as heavy and painful and that it should settle in the next few days. The bleeding is still quite heavy, but not as bad and the cramps have eased a little, although I'm still taking the panadeine forte's for pain relief they gave me. Said to give it a week and if the bleeding hasn't settled down to at least a light flow and the cramps are still that bad to get in touch with my OB/Gyn, but so far so good, it's just ouchie! Forgot how horrific AF can be amd how much she really DOES SUCK!!!!! Gotta get a blood test today to check my iron levels as I have been feeling soooo faint/weak and they reckon I could be aneamic...
pretz - oh that really sucks about the AF hun. I hadn't heard that it was normal for the first one to be horrible like that. I hope it isn't like that again. You poor thing.
My first one was painless, the second I had cramps and latest one I had no pain again. It has been great, considering I used to get bad cramps all the time and also migraines.
Big hugs Pretz, that's awful. I didn't know they were worse after bub either, I guess I'm lucky, AF has been better since miss M was born. Anyway, I hope you are feeling better soon, and that the BT finds some answers
Hi everyone else!!!
Well am home from hossy, have to be on meds for the next 6 months & have regular BT's, but at least I don have to give myself injections twice a day now. Still short of breath & chest pain, but is getting better.
Hope everyone is having a great day.
Thanks hun, it's just a combo of my kids names lol. Madi has been awesome until I got home from hossy. I think DF may have stuffed up her losec at some point cause her reflux has started up again & she's refusing feeds again...ARGH I thought the rollercoaster was over. But she's sleeping well, so all is not lost. She's had a temp all day today, but no other symptoms...teething maybe? I've got an amber teething necklace on her, but I guess it wouldn't stop temps.
I thought that's what it was, beautiful. Oh what a shame she has reflux again, I hope it's under control again soon as you don't need that on top of being so unwell. Glad she still sleeping well though, must help I'm sure hope the teething necklace helps, poor bub
AFM - just gave Cooper a bath in his new bath seat, he loved it lol. Looked around the bathroom pretty much the whole time, it was a whole new perspective lol. He also loved being able to play with all his toys better I then gave him a massage afterwards which I haven't done since he was like 3 weeks old and I tickled his feet and he was laughing, then I would massage his legs towards his feet and he would giggle in anticipation and then laugh when I touched them. Was so cute. I will def start doing it again after a bath, it was a nice bonding moment and he clearly loved it
HI all,
I promise i will catch up but just after if anyone has advice for my little rascal. Ty still sleeps through the night but day sleeps are literally non existant and he is so tired & grumpy. Controlled crying does not work as he will scream for over an hour if i let him (going in every little bit to calm him etc), it's driving me insane, any suggestions would be great!! If he was happy i wouldn;t mind so much but he is SOOOO obviously tired this is just silly!!
Thanks (from a very frustratd mum) xx
The only things I can think of sparkles are, singing to him, giving a massage or taking him for a walk. I'm sorry I have nothing better. I hope you find the answer that works soon coz grumpy babies are no fun
I had this problem with Miss M from 6 wks old. I read "save our sleep" by tizzi hall, & while i didn't agree with.. well, most of it lol, what i did take from it was being in the room to help settle. I modified it to suit our family & it has worked a treat here.
Basically when she wasn't settling in bed & i was having to keep going in, I put a chair next to her cot and would sit there, making no eye contact or talking to her (ignoring her, but if she dropped her dummy I would put it back in without making eye contact), she would drop off to sleep & I would leave (i just played on my ph or read a mag/book while sitting there). This took about 1 1/2 - 2 weeks before she would go down & fall asleep by herself.
She still has 3 x 2hr naps per day, and 95% of the time I put her down & she goes to sleep without me going back, although she often still wakes after 1 sleep cycle (about 40min) I don't get her up, she may play with her toys & sing out for 15min, but then falls back asleep, I used to get her up after that 1 sleep cycle, but then she was still tired from not enough sleep - and as this went on throughout the day, by the arvo she was grumpy & overtired.
It's much easier now she is older, because she can put her own dummy back in her mouth (she ONLY has dummy at sleep time, or in the car)
But I never once had to let her get to that hysterical cry, cause she was happy if I or DF/DD1 was in her room. The whole exercise also made her feel secure in her room which has been awesome, because she knows its her safe sleep space & when she is put in her cot its sleep time.
I should also add we used "wrap me ups" by love me baby until 4.5 months (when she started rolling) and now we use grobags at nightime & a muslin/or cotton "blankie" during the day, Miss M associates these things with sleeping & i reckon having "things" they associate with sleep, like in our case a dummy & blankie - works no question
Thanks girls for your kind thoughts when I was in so much pain with stupid AF!
JaCaMa - Glad that you're home. How are you feeling? Hope the meds help. Love your new username too! How is Madi's feeding going? You said that she was refusing feeds again?
Raffy - Glad to hear that Coops is enjoying his new bath seat. Noah loves his baths too. I just sit him up in the bath and keep my one hand around his back under his arm incase he slips, but he splashes and kicks at the water and goes nuts. Can't wait for him to sit up without losing his balance.
Sparkles - So sorry to hear that Ty hasn't been sleeping well and has been unsettled. I reckon it's teething. I agree with everything JaCaMa said about trying to sit next to Ty's cot and going a bit further away everytime or staying there til he is asleep. I hated the controlled crying, but thankfully didn't have to put up with it long as Noah pretty much settled himself within a week and a half (although the crying killed and broke my heart). I really hope he will settle for you soon and sleep better. It's so hard when they get overtired and you try everything and it doesn't work.
Hello Nikki, Vix, Brydz and everyone else - hope you're all doing well!
Group Question - How many of you are still BF? I think Noah is starting to self-wean from BF as he doesn't seem to keen on boob anymore. He would only drink for about 2 minutes and then latch off and show no interest in going back. I leave him then, but 5 minutes later he cries again so I try again but the same thing happens. I eventually give in and offer him a bottle and he is happy to drink that. I think he would rather have a bottle of formula and his solid foods, well it seems to feel that way, however he does take the boob when I feed him around 5-5:30am when he wakes for his first nightly/morning feed. I know this sounds like a terribly silly question, but if I were to wean him, how exactly do I go about it!? lol Iy's probably good if he does wean because he already got my nipple with his first tooth the other day and he just got his second tooth today! lol
AFM, feeling soooo much better and no more pain! Still on AF - it's day 7 today but it's mostly just spotting (just like it used to be before I fell pregnant), AF lasted 7 days then too so hopefully it will be the last day today and I have a nice short cycle again (used to have a 26/27 day cycle, O'ing on CD12 or CD13). Had my BT on Monday and got results on Wednesday afternoon, saw GP yesterday and I'm aneamic (sp?) and was told to take some iron supplements and have a repeat blood test in 2 weeks to see what results show then. Hopefully it'll sort itself out. Noah had his pediatrician appt on Tuesday and it went really well. He said that Noah is growing well and a happy contented little boy so to just keep doing what I'm doing as it seems to be paying off. lol Noah weighed 8.21kg and is 71cm, HC43.5cm. I asked him about weight gain etc as I know Noah had lost a bit of weight about a month ago or so, but he said not to worry because when babies become more mobile and active they tend to lose a little bit of weight and that it can be normal, but that Noah is perfect and a healthy weight and as long as he eats he will be fine. He said as a guideline Noah should roughly gain about 2.5kg between now and his first birthday putting him around the 10.5-10.7kg mark and that would be fine. So I'm happy with that.
Well then, I best be off, have a pile of laundry to fold so might do that before Noah wakes from his nap.
v is unwell. took him to the dr this morning as he was wheezing quite a lot (has a cold type thing for a few days) and not drinking as much as he should be.
I have to take him to ballarat to see the paed and get checked over again. I think he said it is likely viral and bronchiolitis and that means he can't have any anti biotics or anything.
hopefully the paed won't want to admit him. because I feel ill myself (same thing) and really dont want to be stuck in a hospital.
have to wait and see. am waiting for mum to get off work at 2 before we head over there. i'm too tired to drive.
Glad you're having fun with trying but not trying... 
Hope you feel better soon though! 
WTG for Coops being able to sit up for a bit by himself too yay!
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it's a second hand one and there is a chance it won't work so I'm gonna hold out getting him something else coz I still might be able t get him one
anyway Cooper and I have just woken up and I haven't seen DF yet so I might go find him. Talk to you all soon xx
because I got AF this morning!!!!!!!!!! 
I read it on fb and was wondering who you were talking bout. tragic and so sad... take care babes xoxoxo I hope Coop is being a good boy for you and giving you lots of cuddles.
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