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I have a random question to start things off......is anyone taking the Mini Pill?
I read the leaflet and don't understand.....does the fact that there is no sugar pills mean that i still won't get AF until my body is ready......or will this pill make it come?
Art - I know what you mean about all the teeth in this group - I will be disappointed if V gets hers in like 9 months and everyone has had them for ages already! I had to laugh about what you said about the weet-bix.....my DH got cranky at me a couple of days ago because i didn't rinse the sink and my leftover weetbix was stuck like cement onto the sink! That stuff is rigid!
Just a note - I really like this group.....I don't want us to crumble. Sorry to all.
Last edited by Sanchez; January 3rd, 2010 at 08:12 AM.
Morning! I really like this group too. You didn't mean any harm Sanchez, no one did for that matter. Let's continue sharing advice like we always have. I've personally learnt so much from you girls, BB in general. Not sure who PM you Pooley but I'm sure their intentions were good and thought chatting via PM may have been more apropriate than discussing it in our thread.
Sanchez - I'm on the mini pill but no AF here. Woohoo! Touch wood! I've been on it for 2 months now. I *think* the missing sugar pills is the reason for no AF as I used to frequently skip sugar pills to skip periods (on doctors advice due to endometriosis) and didn't get AF - which was the desired outcome.
Art - very excited about using the jumperoo today! I reckon Izzy will love it. She just loves to stand!
Hot night here last night so DH and I enjoyed a few wines on the outdoor lonuge. Was so nice. Izzy went down so easily yesterday which was a nice change as she took a liking to being rocked to sleep for about 10 days.
Izzy is still fighting day sleeps and yesterday was full on. She only had an hour in the morning and we finally got her to sleep, in the sling, for 2 hours late afternoon. Much nicer baby after that!
We are about to head out for a morning sail - izzy's first time! I'll have to drown her in sunscreen. It's warm here already, going to be 39 today!
Chat later!
Last edited by Taurean; January 3rd, 2010 at 08:33 AM.
Janine, I forgot to say a big Yay for your DH changing jobs - it will make life so much better having him there every night! There must have been some very looong days with him gone all the time.
Sanchez, no idea about the mini pill sorry. ATM we are relying on luck, which probably isn't the most reliable form of birth control lol There is a little boy at mothers group who is nearly 11 months and is still working on his first tooth!
Hi all! YAY for a shiny new thread, I think we need it! I also love hearing how we all choose to parent so lets keep the healthy discussion going
Sanchez - sorry I have no clue about the mini pill. I tried it after having DD and it made me feel so sick, I didn't last very long on it No sign of any teeth here. My DD got her first tooth at 8 months so I'm not expecting Ethan's to come through anytime soon. Probably a good thing as I'm bfing and I also still remember getting bitten by a tooth, ouchies!!!!!!
Taurean - hope you enjoy the sail! Ethan is fighting day sleeps too and driving me a bit mental at the moment. He gets himself so overtired and grumpy - why can't they just go to sleep
Art - lol on relying on luck as birth control! We are too but as we aren't planning on having anymore children we probably should look at something else lol! Are you planning on another bub?
We are plodding along ok except for the issue with day sleeps. Ethan loves to stand as well and can sit up for a few seconds on his own. I reckon give him another 4 weeks or so and he'll be sitting up. It's so scary how fast they grow up! I'm taking him to the health centre this week so will be interesting to see how much he weighs now, he seems so much heavier lately!
Luck for birth control - good luck with that!!!!!! Art and Sangie you may just be gluttons for punishment!
I woke up the other morning and felt so nauseous.....and then i had a panic attack thinking it could be morning sickness.....and literally ripped open the unopen mini pill pack and shoved 2 in my mouth!!!! Doesn't even bare thinking about
As for Violets development - I think she may be in the behind stakes. She was rolling at 2 months but has completely stopped - doesn't even look like she wants to move.
She doesn't talk that much - all up i reckon she would only talk for 10 minutes a day - if that.
Sitting up doesn't look too successful - stays up for a second and then topples.
She clenches her fists an awful lot but i am trying to get her to grasp objects.
She is all about standing on her feet though - not happy unless shes standing up!
I guess i am not too phased....she'll get it in her own time. But is this really heaps different to everyone elses babes?
Someone told me she was slow the other day - does make you think...almost made me cry though!
NW3 - glad you made it home safely! Sounds like you had a great time, well apart from that nasty virus. How is Sam now that you are home? Is he sleeping better? I hear you on the raspberries while eating, cheeky things aren't they lol! Ethan gets it all over himself now cos he blows raspberries with a mouthfull of food. I'm tempted to take all his clothes off and let him eat in the nude, I'm sick of all the changing of clothes after every meal!
Sanchez - yep Ethan can eat a cruskit without gagging. But it does go mushy when sucked on so its easy for them to eat. He loves it with avocado spread onto it. Poor V with her hard poos Does she eat rice cereal cos that has lots of iron which might be blocking her up? Banana can also be a culprit. Ellie used to get blocked up and stewed pears helped her a lot. Maybe try and get her to drink water if she doesn't already?? Good luck, I hope something works for her. We have a 2.3 year age gap and I think its great
Art - well guess I'm a nerd too lol! I'm a biologist. Since having Ellie I haven't set foot in the lab though. I got casual employment as a medical writer which is much more family friendly as I can do it from home around the kids. I have to say I don't miss being in the lab at all. No idea what I'm going to do once I'm ready to head back full time (probably won't be until Ethan is in school). I'm thinking of a career change but not sure what?! Are you going to go back to being a chemist? I know exactly what you mean about mother's group, I got some interesting reactions when I told them I had a science degree and a PhD. Since then some of them called me doc (fine by me!) but some seemed to be a bit intimidated for reasons I don't really understand. Another girl told the group she was a police officer which was met with a similar response. Weird really?!
I did my first few hours of work last week and boy was it hard, my poor brain found it very hard I must have lots of cobwebs in there. Here's hoping it gets easier very fast so I can actually feel like I'm making progress!
Well my two are asleep, yay for me for finally getting them to sleep at the same time So I might go get lunch and eat in peace! Hope you are all well, have a great weekend!
Oh man... i have missed heaps of updates in here. I'm not going to try and reply to them all - but will be more onto it next week!
Sanchez - cracking up at V feeding on your lips, lol. Tadhg could never latch on properly by himself, so i'm impressed V can do it while you're sleeping! We have the same pooping issues here It was much better for a week - and just from reading the other posts I'm thinking maybe it was apricots - so i'll be buying some more (tinned ones)! Its so sad to see them straining aye, Tadhg even cried twice and makes your heart ache. Re the feeding - lots of people seem to have strong ideas about this - but seems to me there is a huge variety in the amounts babies eat. As long as you're both happy, and V is not hungry/underfed I think you're doing perfectly - sounds like she is getting a very healthy mix of fruit & veges.
AM - sounds like a mixed bag with your trip, lots of good bits though! Here's hoping it wont be long before Sam is back to normal with all the good bits! Feeding and sleeping etc
Pooley - lovely photos, thanks for sharing
Art - i hear you on being bored at home. Study would be cool to keep you busy, thats why i've decided to try childcare - trying to convince myself its not 'bad' for T - i'm sure there are good and bad sides like everything It really can be frustrating to find out some things that go on at childcare, its a bit different when you have all the time in the world for your own bub -or 2! I'm very open to calling it quits if i can't handle it
Taurean - It was kinda tough handing T over to daycare - but didn't feel too bad. It was after about 2-3 hours that i found it hard, and the first day especially i was so desperate to collect him, my heart was nearly jumping out of my chest!
I was very open to being a SAHM if thats what i felt like, but i decided that I'd like to try and have a combination, and fortunately for me my workplace offered 3 days a week - plus i work from home, so i'm quite flexible with hours etc and its a relatively low stress job. Had the situation been any different (stressful job / 5 days a week / travel to work) then i would have let it go - and i may still, but trying it out for a couple of months. Its really nice for those mums who want to stay at home if they can have the choice and not have financial pressure - it would be so hard to feel like you were forced into a decision either way.
I used to be an IT Project manager, but since I moved to NZ I have changed to a Tester (of websites and systems), because that is much easier to do from home (my office is only in Sydney).
So daycare is getting a bit easier - but T's routine is all over the place. This weekend we are doing baby bootcamp - ie being rigid with a new routine, because I think T is one of those babies that really likes routine, and to know when the next feed will be - or that it is actually sleeptime now. The first 2 days are going really well! 2nd night in and all nightwaking has stopped, apart from between 5-7am, but hoping that improves. The daysleeps are going pretty well, and man is he happier. The big test is going to be how he goes at daycare though - i'm not that confident!
For those of you not on FB - we have discovered Tadhg has an allergy to eggs. I am one of these overconfident / silly? mums who believes in offering my son anything and everything to eat. So he has peanut butter, weetbix, marmite, bread, meats... and eggs. He has tried egg before - but it seems often allergies occur the next time you eat something, as your body only knows to fight it the 2nd time. Strange huh! Within a few minutes of tasting it he started grizzling and rubbing his eyes and wanting to get out of the highchair - i figured he was tired. Then i thought 'oh he's rubbed something in his eyes, theyre going all red' then it spread to his face and i started thinking, hmm must be allergic. I called plunket (health nurse line), not wanting to overreact, but by this stage the red bits had swollen lumps and his eyelids were swelling. So we jumped into the car and I tried to make him talk/cry the whole way so i could be sure he was breathing (which was a bit scary). The Dr's were great, i went straight in and we had 2 nurses and a Dr within 2 minutes. Adrenaline shot in the leg as a held him down, and tried not to choke on the yucky anti-histamine medicine. Then they put him on oxygen for about half an hour and watched him. He was pretty calm the whole time and i think we both coped really well. So we wont be doing anything with egg in it for some time... and will check in with the Dr again in a month or so (not too sure what that is meant to achieve). I am pretty convinced that he would have had this reaction at 1 year if i had waited to give him egg, so i am trying not to feel bad about it - especially as research is quite mixed on whether to wait or not. Interesting stuff anyway... my recommendations are to watch your baby for reactions the first 'few' times they try something new / more allergenic, and to try and only do eggs when you're not too far from a Dr. I nearly gave him some of my bacon and egg pie on wednesday at coffee group too (which is 20 minutes drive from any Dr, let alone an emergency one) SO pleased we didn't
One more thing from me - Tadhg is still only rolling onto his tummy, and not back, not crawling, not doing raspberries, has no teeth and very little hair, but really happy most of the time and doing new things all the time - the latest is picking up raisins and getting them to his mouth! So I'm a big believer in bubs doing things at their own pace - they're all different.
OK - what a novel! Lots of sleepy vibes for bubs (and those mums that need it!) x
Last edited by kellynz; May 1st, 2010 at 12:18 PM.
Kelly.... Just wanted to say how well you did in reacting to T's reaction, I probably would have freaked out and called an ambulance!!!
You are certainly not silly for letting your boy explore food, and you shouldn't be feeling guilty about what happened. I have given V eggs a couple of times as well.
Just one of those things I guess.
I am going to bed but yeah the baby constipation hit an all time high last night where I ended up in the bath with V while she was screaming at pushing out this rock hard poo that I thought was going to tear her little bottom. Oh god I almost cried. DH was on one side of the bath and I was at the other and it was like supporting someone through childbirth. So we have stopped solids for a while. I did read though today, for every mouthful of solid foods they eat, they should have the same amount in water. If she would drink h2o from a bottle/cup I wouldn't be in this mess I think.
Well we are back home and needing a holiday to recover from the holiday! I don't think holidays will ever be holidays ever again to be honest. At least not until the kids can fend for themselves!
Our trip was great and it was so good to catch up with all the friends and family over east. Izzy did really well with all the travelling and meeting so many new people. She was a real trooper and it's nice to know we really can drag her anywhere and she copes just fine.
Sleeps are a bit all over the place again lately. I'm not sure if it's the travel, a phase or more teeth but she's waking once or twice a night again now. She slept through a couple of times while we were away but that was it, mostly she was up twice a night, usually wanting a feed. I'm getting used to it now (after 16 weeks of perfect nights!!) but I can't make sense of it. Any ideas? I celebrated my 31st birthday while we were away and she had her worst night in ages and was a right turd the whole day. We opted to celebrate my birthday the following day instead. So much for the lovely first family birthday I'd dreamed of! I'll try my luck with Mothers Day instead!
Izzy is now commando crawling and starting to pull herself up on things. She discovered all the fun things in the TV unit yesterday and took a liking to the Playstation remote. It's looking like it's time we baby-proofed the house.
We are trying a few more interesting things with food but Izzy isn't all that keen on lumps and texture yet. I've whipped up all these amazing dishes for her on the weekend (like spinach and dahl!) but she'd much prefer the pureed stuff. Argh! I'll keep perservering even though all my hard work will probably be fed to the dog, LOL. On a positive note, she is a fan of finger food. We've tried Cruskits, zuchini, carrot, bread, banana, crumpets, toast, brocolli and cauliflower and have had a few choking incidents. Keeps things interesting, doesn't it?!
I've been feeling a little down lately as stupidly, I feel like I have no purpose in life. I know that's crazy seeing my purpose is being Izzy's mum but I just really feel like I've lost my identity. I think I need to do something but I don't want to work, so what do I do??? I've been talking to DH about it tonight and I'm thinking I might do an online course or some sort of study. I think I might join a mum's exercise class or maybe go to the gym again and put Izzy in the creche. Something for 'me' would make all the difference, I think.
While I'm talking about work stuff, I'll explain my 'old' life. I was a Product Manager for an investments company (a subsidiary of St George Bank) for a year before I had Izzy. Prior to that, I was a QA/BA (Quality Assurance/Business Analyst - mainly website testing) in the IT department for the same company. I worked in IT for that company for 6 years and loved it. Unfortunately the Product Manager role was full time so although I was offerd maternity leave, I knew I didn't want to return full time. I could have returned part time to testing but I didn't want to be committed to a return date so I resigned. The door is still open for me to return but I'm not sure if I want to go back. I've worked on that same website for so long that it's not that challenging any more but then again, anything seems challenging (mentally) now! LOL.
Sanchez - I hope V is OK after her nasty constipation! That's terrible hon. Izzy had a couple of bouts of constipation and both stewed pears and apples worked a treat. I ended up putting apple in all Izzy's meals to help and it really made a difference. I offer Izzy water at each meal and randomly throughoutthe day but she's still not that keen on it. If V is still breastfeeding a lot then she will be fine hon.
Kelly - that was full on with the egg allergy! How scary for you and well done for handling it so well!! I'll be keeping a close eye on Izzy when we introduce eggs. So you're an IT geek too! How's the testing going from home? I was only saying to DH tonight that maybe I could call my old work and see if I could do just 8 hours a week of testing. It's so easy to do from home and 8 hours over a week would be easy to fit in. I do miss testing, sadly!
Sangie (or should I say Doc!) - how's it going working from home? Who/what do you write for? What an interesting job! I admire you! I can write well when I put my mind to it but it doesn't do it for me. I had to write online Help documents for the website I worked on and it was my pet hate. Once I got writing I was ok but I fluffed around like an old woman at a christening each time I stared a new document. Drove me nuts!
AM - welcome back! Sounds like your trip was great but a but crappy at the same time. Bugger about the vommy virus. How did you cope with it? And how did Sam cope? Well done on tackling the long journey home on your own. Izzy coped really well on all our flights on our hols but the thought of doing it all alone scares the hell out of me! Well done hon, you did a great job by the sounds of things. I just hope Sam settles soon and starts sleeping on Aussie time. You poor girl!
Art - lol, I'm a nerd too. You win though, I didn't go to Uni! He he he. Isn't it amazing how much crap you need to take away with you once you have kids! Izzy had her own suitcase for our trip (plus her pram and car seat!) and her case was the biggest of the lot!
Hi everyone else.
Right, time I focussed on the important things in life - Desperate Housewives
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and kisses all round!!
No sign of any teeth here. My DD got her first tooth at 8 months so I'm not expecting Ethan's to come through anytime soon. Probably a good thing as I'm bfing and I also still remember getting bitten by a tooth, ouchies!!!!!!
Luck for birth control - good luck with that!!!!!! Art and Sangie you may just be gluttons for punishment!
Does she eat rice cereal cos that has lots of iron which might be blocking her up? Banana can also be a culprit. Ellie used to get blocked up and stewed pears helped her a lot. Maybe try and get her to drink water if she doesn't already?? Good luck, I hope something works for her. We have a 2.3 year age gap and I think its great 
I must have lots of cobwebs in there. Here's hoping it gets easier very fast so I can actually feel like I'm making progress!
So I might go get lunch and eat in peace! Hope you are all well, have a great weekend!
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