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I have been on several times today and every time I get side tracked and don't reply lol.
Noni I cant wait to see some photos of little William, sounds like a great birth.
Ange I loved the lactation cookies, Dh and I used to scoff them every time I made them, mind you it took a bit of convincing before he believed me that eh wouldn't start lactating.
Kate pmsl at your sexy voice, hope your feeling better soon.
Clare the house sounds great, I am so happy for you. I love that your priority was checking out the cafes lol.
MD mmmm now I want a violet crumble
PAP lol at milk brain, I will have to use that one. Sounds like your Sydney trip was a success.
Leanne I am so jealous of your trip!!
Arte now that Noni has popped it means your next WOOOO HOOOO!!!
A big hello to everyone else, I have forgotten what else was said.
Not much happening here, DS starts care tomorrow. I was feeling really good about it but have now checked that I have tissues in my bag lol. I am going to meet a friend for coffee after, she can distract me and at least I am still close to care if I have to go back for some reason. I have arranged a million things to do so that I dont get to lonely. Better go to bed, I did to much cleaning today and am paying for it now.
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Oz - Good luck to you & L for his first day at daycare tomorrow. I'm sure all will be fine. Let us know how it all goes.
What do lactation cookies actually do? Do they help with milk production or something lol
I SO hear you ange & pap on the going o/seas thing. We have tossed & turned over that idea many many many times. Ange I think when you have an o/seas holiday as well, it really stirs up that emotion. We want to travel & we want M & future kids to be well travelled too.
Noni - So happy for you & your new family of four. xox So glad to hear the feeding is going well
Trill - I know what you mean, I dont like the idea of buying sweatshop clothing either. :(
Sorry girls gotta keep it short, bed time, but hello to you all!!!!
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Just a quickie- Best of luck Katie!
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hi girls
i've been reading but everytime i go to reply, i get called away or the phone rings or something gggrrr
we're all still sick here. just a bit of a cough/cold with lots of snot. i'm supposed to be meeting up with a friend at a venue to check it out for the kids' birthday party but now i don't know whether to go or not...do you guys still take your kids out if they're snotty or keep them home?
ange- i was on my deathbed when i had mastitis,so you're doing really well! that's why i didn't think that's what it was in your other thread because honestly i don't think i'd ever felt so rotten in my whole life!
you might hate me but i'm sending non-PNG vibes out to the universe, for purely selfish reasons
katie- best of luck for logan today and for you!!!
speaking of food issues- yesterday lewis had a bowl of coco pops for breakfast with dh, then dad took him up to the bakery for a babycino and chocolate donut...then he was eating a double freddo frog while dad did his supermarket shopping!!! no wonder i can't get him to eat vegetables, he's having way too much of the good life!! LOL
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Noni so great to hear from you hun! If he is feeding well and the boobs are feeling good, then stick at it - you're doing so well!! Just think, you have already fed him for longer than you did Asha without any problems at all, so that's an excellent achievement in itself!
Hey Kate! With the food thing, we had HUGE problems with Erin at this age and she would only eat a few mouthfuls at dinner and then she was done and it would take her forever just to do that. It caused some pretty big tantrums (from me ;) ) because I had gone from having Lindsay who practically inhaled food ( still does LOL) to Erin who ate like a sparrow and it sent me mental most of the time. What I did was just stopped fighting her on it. I would always serve up to her what we were eating and if she ate it, she ate it and if she didn't, she didn't. I never have her anything else to eat immediately after her dinner so she didn't think "oh I know she will give me something if I don't eat this" but would wait half hr or so after she had left the table. She eventually grew out of it and started eating everything on her plate (still sooooo slowly though). I couldn't do what Ange did with Erin because she is that stubborn and pigheaded that she would rather not eat at all than have to eat all her dinner kwim? Alister is like Erin in that I serve up what we are having and he will take it or leave it, or just eat the bits he likes but there is no *fight* to get him to do it. I don't worry about it nearly as much as I used to years ago because I know that if he's eaten well during the day, then it doesn't matter if he doesn't eat much at night.
Oz, I hope the first day goes well for you both. It will get easier for you :hug: Great plan to have a coffee with a friend though.
G, Unless they are really crook with fever/chills and over tired, I will still take them out if they have a snotty nose cause sometimes I just have to. So long as he is warm he would be right. LOL at your Dad treating Lewis, Alister gets the royal treatment over at the IL's too and doesn't eat lunch or dinner once he's home.
Well I had an early start to the day - 4.30am! Alister woke up and before I could settle him again he was standing up with his pillow asking to get out of bed. He didn't want to hop into bed with me so I put him on the lounge, put the telly on and come back to bed. He did sound a bit croupy too. He came in a bit later asking for a bottle, so I gave it to him and put him back on the lounge and then he came in again with his empty bottle so I picked him up, put the bottle on the sink and then went to put him back on the lounge and he threw up all over both of us, then on the loungeroom floor, then the bedroom floor and then the loungeroom floor again! So when I got us both cleaned up, vomit cleaned up best I could at 5am I stayed in the loungeroom with him where he went back to sleep, I dozed till the kids got up at 6. he is absolutely fine now - had a vegemite sandwich for brekkie, then two teddy bear biccies and just had a bottle and it's like he was sick at all. I think it's just because he was coughing and a bit phlegmmy that he threw up. So that's my day so far LOL.
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typing one handed lol.. Ashas at swimming lessons atm so everyone here is just resting.. ive put pics on my fb and in the sept group for u all to see finally lol!!
he seems a bit of a lazy feeder atm.. sometimes going 5hrs in between feeds which has me a bit worried but i do have milk now so is that normal?
having a check up tmw for weight etc so i spose we will find out how were doin then :)
thanx again for all the support hope to be a better belly buddy n get round to personals as soon as i can but no promises just yet lol :)
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hi everyone
i'm sorry, i'm just here for a quickie, as i saw Noni had posted.
I said it on facebook, but once again - Congratulations on the birth of the new little man in your life. :)
on the feeding issue - i remember when Hannah was a newborn, she would sleep for hours at a time, and i was worried that she wasn't feeding enough. He will let you know for sure when he's hungry. Enjoy the sleepy bubby phase.
Will catch up with everyone later. (how many times have i said that lately:rolleyes:)
anyway, thinking of you all
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Hey Noni - I will have to have a looky at the pics in a sec. With the feeding, barb has always advised that a sleepy baby isn't really a 'good' baby at all kwim? They should be waking often for feeding at this stage (not to contradict you at all jaz :hug: ) so I would probably be waking him for feeds as it will help your milk supply regulate, because you don't want to get it in, then have trouble keeping it because he's not feeing enough ATM kwim? In a few days he should be more wakeful so he probably wont seem so lazy by then.
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Katie, hope it all goes well with day care today. I bet you cry so here's a quick :hug: in case you need it!
Rainy, snottiness alone is not enough reason for social isolation - unless you know someone who's health might be compromised (ie I take snotty child to visit friends but would stay away from a pregnant friend, kwim). I had an extreme case of mummy guilt this morning, Missy E is *very snotty* and looking a bit glazed in the eyes, cough, but I still sent her to FDC this morning. I'm too tired and sore to be able to cope today. As it was I cried all the way there but the FDC lady didn't even blink an eyelid. I guess some other snotty kid must've been there last week otherwise E would still be healthy (since we don't go anywhere else where there are ppl. How sad is that).
Noni, glad to hear the feeding is going so well. I saw a little brand new baby boy at the drs today, and thought about W! I remember with both of mine that there were times over the first few weeks where they slept for quite long times, but that was offset by other times during the day when they would feed frequently (sometimes continuously it seemed). If you're worried, count the wet nappies, and you can wake him up or offer some extra feeds at anytime if you're worried. Don't forget you can ring the ABA hotline 1800 MUM 2 MUM for reassurance (cos I'm sure you're doing a great job of it) :D BTW you are exempt from personals right now - you've got a brand new bubby!!!
Kate, re the food - we generally give E a bit of what we're having, and if it's something that's new or I think she won't eat it, I add a couple of other finger food items on the plate - cheese, chopped fruit, crackers, bread, noodles, whatever. Then she's allowed to eat as much or as little as she wants. If that means she has nothing, then so be it. She eats a big variety of foods during the day and sometimes she's just too tired to eat at night. The trick is not to invest any parental stress into the situation...otherwise it becomes an attention getting exercise, kwim? Also - she eats things she recognises better than mooshy mixes, so separating the ingredients on the plate (noodles one side, sauce other side) often works better than mixing it together.
Ange, I hope those ABs are kicking in for you. I'm always surprised at how flu-like mastitis can be - even down to bringing on a cough (!!)
Trill rotten start to your day! I bet you had an I-love-my-vax moment though!
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lol started writing down feeds and hes actually having more than i thought :) had 6 in the last 10hrs seeing midwives tmw for hearing and weight check so will get a good idea how hes going then :) think im just paranoid since mash never bfed..
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Just popping in to say hi
Noni, I looked at your pics on FB, he is so cute
and PAP, how big is J getting already!!!
Still pretty cut up about the goat and the mum/dog situation. There was a dog attack in NZ today where a woman walking down the street got attacked by 8 dogs - they were interveiwing the dr's who were saying they had never seen such horrific wounds from a dog attack. All I can think is that if one of mums dogs did turn then pack instinct would take over and there is no way a little boy would get out alive if that many dogs were attacking.
Kate, re the food - if W doesn't eat his tea then he goes to bed hungry. He has a milo at bedtime which fills him up a bit so I don't feel guilty at all. My cousin made the mistake of making every bite a battle and now if her DD is annoyed with her mum she will just refuse to eat for the attention that it brings, to the point where my cousin will sit there for half an hour begging and spoon feeding a 4 year old. To my knowledge toddlers don't starve themselves and I won't make it an issue. That being said, if he eats zippo I will offer fruit to him a bit later - if he is actually hungry then that will do but doesn't encourage him to hold out for something better later.
Oz, that is a bit freaky that I am next in line now... I am looking forward to it though, I am over being pregnant simply because I would like to cough/sneeze/bend over without wetting myself all the time!!! I am so sick of my weak weak bladder. I guess as far as pregnancy complaints go it isn't that major, but it is so disgusting! Good luck with FDC tomorrow, bet you will be sad and he won't notice you are gone lol
Ange, hope the mastitis gets better soon. I had no idea that it could occur so late - I thought it was a newborn thing. DH's parents are at the bottom of the other island, no jobs for DH down there and to be honest they try so hard to help that they get on my nerves a bit. Good people, but we like our own space. Although they have finally realised that we are the parents and they can't walk in and take over during visits.
MM, congrats on AF! Hopefully everything is back on track so you can bring home a little bali surprise!
Sherie, why do they always have to vomit in the middle of the night/early morning??? It wouldn't be as bad cleaning up puke if it were a reasonable hour. I am starting to have Vax envy. Apart from the odd vomit, the carpet is now looking worse for wear with milo stains - hard to get out by hand.
Rainy, I had something to say.... might remember it later
It is 9.30pm and DH is still at work - his mill is down and he is the technical support so he can't leave until it is fixed. I was really looking forward to sharing the load a bit tonight after having no help at all for the last four nights. Oh well, I guess it is the weekend soon.
Oh, and I am going to lie lie lie about the goat to W. I can't upset him. He was sitting there tonight saying 'goat over at neighbours' (it was eating the grass in their back section). I just agreed, but will tell him it has gone to the farm when he wants to go check on it. Poor goat.
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Well Arte- only one solution, back to the big Island! ;) Come on we're waiting!
Noni- Well done on the BF'ing, great work. I used to wake my babies up when they were tiny to keep my milk supply up, Like Trill said. I would wake them 3 hourly in the day to feed and let them wake me overnight. Although i have read a BF'ing mum shouldn't let a NB bub go longer than 6 hrs overnight. (Not that my girls often went longer than 6 hours! )
Sherie! What a crap start to the day. I hate vomit more than poo i think. Is he still ok?
Just to clarify.... i totally agree about not making food a battle, i don't make Lu eat all her dinner. I just stopped offering her her favorite things all the time. I am not very good at explaining myself sometimes! Instead of giving her the 3 food i know she will eat i tell her she has to try what i cooked first. (what we eat) She only has to try it, one mouthful and i'm happy. If she tries it and doesn't like it that is fine, if she doesn't want to try it, that's ok too, but i stopped offering anything else. I was making the mistake of when she wouldn't even try something just giving her food i knew she'd eat. So i was kind of encouraging the fussy eating. Some times she'll only have 2 spoonfuls for dinner but that's ok, she generally has a big bowl of porridge the next morning! ;)
I am so clumsy with words when i type... why is that??? i'm not nearly as bad IRL..... i don't think! lol
MD- Yeah the cough is asthma related, i get it this time of year. but it is much worse this time. I've got a stronger steroid inhaler, i thin kit is helping. Feeling loads better thanks. :D It made me sad to read you were crying in the car this morning. :( You poor chicken, things must be pretty tough around your place at the moment. A big cyber hug from me to you. xxxxx
G- You better get going on those vibes, G flying to brisbane on Monday for an interview. It is down to him and one other guy!!!! :o Don't worry you wont be getting rid of me that easily! ;)
If Lu had that much chocolate she would be bouncing off the walls. :lol: L can certainly handle his choc well.
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OMG my insides hurt tonight, this bub has been feral all day..........must have missed DS. Speaking of DS he had a great day today, didnt miss me at all. Was a little upset once I left but easily distracted, went to sleep no worries and was so well behaved. He didnt even come and hug me when I picked him up. Came home and was a little feral though lol. I didnt cry either, I wanted to but was late for coffee with my friend lol.
Ange woo hoo n G's interview, thats awesome.
Arte you should move back here, only this time closer to the coast lol. Then we could do lunch all the time. :hug: I dont blame you for still being upset about the goats and your mums dogs.
Noni great work with the BF, like Ange I woke DS every 3-4 hours during the day and let him go 6 overnight, he always woke around then anyway. I second MD about you being exempt form personals lol
Trill what an awful start to the day, at least it didnt get any worse though.
Rainy I think L eats like a champ, very similar to my eating habits lol.
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Oz - how did the first day of care go (for both of you?)
Rainy - if it's just a bit of snot I take K out and about. Fevers or more serious then I wouldn't, but as MD said it depends on the situation. I have a friend who is due in a week and I know K would love to go and see the baby but I am tempted not to take her just because she is back at childcare and will be sure to have something!
food - K is typically given whatever we have for dinner, unless it is particularly spicy. She loves salad and will often hoe into that (definitely a good thing!) We were having some issues a month or so back and she was refusing to even get into the chair. I really need to get her a booster seat as she is currently sitting in her bebepod on a chair - that made a big difference to her interest in food. I let her choose her own cutlery, but if she still doesn't want what we are eating she is offered fruit, then she always sits with DH on the couch and has half a frozen GoGurt tube. If she doesn't eat much, she does have a good brekky the next day!! If all she has is the frozen yogurt I will offer some cheese or fruit a bit later though as sometimes she just seems to tired to go through the whole eating at the table thing.
Noni - gorgeous pictures of little W!! Well done on bfeeding, hope the weigh in goes well tomorrow!
DH is out tonight. Even though we waved bye bye to him, K still made me take her throughout the house to make sure he wasn't there before she went to bed. We also read Dear Zoo before bed and when we got to the monkey page, she insisted that she needed a banana!!
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Noni - So happy for you, W is a gorgeous little thing & A looks so cute holding him. The girls have given you some good bfeeding advice, how are you finding it?
MD - Sorry to hear that you arent feeling 100% today, you poor thing. Dont feel bad about dropping E off to care a tad unwell. I'm so sorry you are going through this xox
Arte - There was a dog attack in Aus a few months back on a small child, the child didnt survive. Its just too dangerous, it really shows how careful you have to be with dogs. I am overly paranoid though, I have a beautiful friend who just dotes over M & is always offering to babysit. I have always sad no & sadly always will (just cant bring myself to tell her) because she has two big dogs, they are very friendly, but she loves them to bits & I am scared at how they would react & if they would get jealous when her attention was being directed more at M. I agree with not telling W about the poor goat, it would be too sad for him.
Oz - Glad the day went well for L & yourself. I still often tear up if the daycare drop off doesnt go too well. We had one of those today & I had a little cry on the way to work.
Rainy - Had a giggle at L being spoilt rotten with all the choccy, bet he was loving it though. M has found the lolly jar's hiding spot in the pantry :doh:
As for dinner time, I dont even have the time to enter into a battle with food lol. M will eat most things I make thank goodness, but she definately has her fussy moments. I just make her a vegemite sandwich & a banana, that will fill her up. They always seem to catch up, small dinner but big brekky iykwim.
My baby girl is growing up, as of next week she is in the toddlers room at daycare!
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hi girls
cally-i had to laugh at K wanting a bananna :lol:whata funny little monkey she is!:D
we have a book with a pic of a man holding a newborn baby wrapped in a blue blanket and whenever we get to that page lewis starts putting his finger to his lips and going sshhhh shhhhh. cracks me up cos i realise i must've done this to him heaps when jimmy was a newborn!
ange- i will seriously be shattered if you go to PNG.....i'm getting really worried now....couldn't G just go for a job in yarra glen?????
lewis is awake bbl xoxox
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i'm back!!!
um arte- i still reckon you should move back here! :lol:
my bf's mum is always offering to babysit but i refuse because a) she has dogs b) she has a pool c) she is an eccentric lush who is way too loose
mm- i meant to say the other day, well done on your "Jets' find. i have 2 pairs of Jets, i love them.
md- sorry to hear you're not doing too well :hug::hug:
pap- did you get your CR offer???? i'm going to spend mine today!
well we went to check out a playcentre for birthday party but it was just so tacky, greasy and overpriced....so....we're going to have the party at my house. we decidedt hat with the money we would be giving the playcentre for 26 toddlers we could have a cracker of a party at home. we will have the 14ft tramp by then, pony rides, dirt bike rides, a remote control car show, a cubby, swingset, slide, jumping castle and ball pit, disco music and dancing......plus beer and wine and a bbq. my friend also wants to get some sort of paid enertainer- like a clown or something? i'm not too sure about this idea. what do you guys reckon? any suggestions?
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[QUOTE]an eccentric lush who is way too loose/QUOTE] :rofl: i hope this is how i am described when i am older. i love it!
WOW G that sounds like the party to end all parties! How you going to top it next year? ;) My friend runs a childrens entertainment company. Tony Bones it's called. They have all sorts of characters piratres, bears, fairies, check out the website. I've seen a few of them b/c they all come to that group of friends parties. They are great, but with all the other stuff you have going on do you think you need it??? Between the tramp, bike ponies and party food, you'll be all flat out! 26 toddlers?? That is chaos. sounds perfect. ;)
