Babies born~September 2007 #59

[Ginger]

well i've got a sticker chart up........doesn't seem to have any stickers on it yet though

[Cally]

Ginger - try it with chocolate, that seemed to get it going at our place. Stickers just can't cut it those first few times! K was saving all her poos until the nappy went on, she just seemed to get it one day, not sure how or why.

MD - no not clucky, but not ready to say 'That's it'. Same as the highchair and the playgym are all packed away, but I'm not ready to sell them/give them away.

Cass - woah, that does sound like a disaster! What a mess, hope it gets sorted out soon.

ETA: Golly gees, my brain these days! Completely forgot to say:
CONGRATULATIONS KATE!!!!

[AnyDream]

We aren't having a birthday party. We are having L's 2 besties over for a BBQ and I am letting the kids make their own cake, it will be messy but I figure the photos will be worth it.

Ummm, that *is* a party...??! birthday + friends + cake = all you need really, the rest is just mostly for the mummy's enjoyment (or not LOL).

Cally, our playgym & highchair etc spent a very long time in the shed but gee I was glad we kept them, it saves fluffing around when the time does come, plus it's always handy to have them to pull out when you have little visitors. I'm keeping a tub of baby toys for the same reason. Oh ok, plus I'm too sentimental to be able to give them *all* away LOL.

Well I had a little victory today with my mummy-confidence after I dragged Missy E all the way into the city for a couple of appts involving lots of waiting in waiting rooms and then sitting nicely & being quiet when I was seen (just physio etc)...she was so well behaved it turned into a nice outing when we stopped for lunch & a play on the way home. I get so physically tired when she acts up that I avoid taking her along to most of these things, so it was a real boost to have a success. Mind you she had a shocker of a tanty this morning regarding putting her slippers on and her dressing gown being the wrong colour so it wasn't all daisies and fields of green

[Ozstar]

Lol MD I am with you, I think it is a party. The other mums think cause it just us hanging out and no games or other guests that is isnt
Sounds like you had a very nice day with missy E today, I love those days.

Cally I don't think getting rid of your baby stuff even when you know your done would be easy.

G so any progress since your last post? Is the star chart just a TT one? Ours includes, packing away the toys, good behaviour and eating dinner.

I am very proud of L today. Apparently he had an awesome day at CC and they asked that I reward him (as they had run our of stars) when I got home, zero tantrums when we came home and ate all his dinner. We also realised tonight that he can wink, only with his left eye but he is quite good at it. We jumped into bed to read his favourite book which not only does he know most of the words too but he reads them with enthusiasm and changes in his tone of voice like I do, it was sooooo cute.

[Cassius2]

hi girls! just a quick one from me as i is tiiirreedd!

G: your party sounds like our party lol!

Oz: that is so cool on the winking...leila still just scrunches up the whole face...

MD: i LOVE days like those with Leila. they are rare (like when everything goes quite nicely) but oh so worth it!

AFM: well to keep it brief toilet is back in order...just in time for GASTRO. yay. not. (But how happy am i that it is working....imagine ).

[Cassius2]

hi girls! just a quick one from me as i is tiiirreedd!

G: your party sounds like our party lol!

Oz: that is so cool on the winking...leila still just scrunches up the whole face...

MD: i LOVE days like those with Leila. they are rare (like when everything goes quite nicely) but oh so worth it!

AFM: well to keep it brief toilet is back in order...just in time for GASTRO. yay. not. (But how happy am i that it is working....imagine ).

[Cally]

Oz - We borrowed Meg and Mog from the library last weekend and K just loves it. She tells me not to talk on certain pages and reads it out. She usually gets two stories before bed, but all this week we have read M&M twice each night. She also gets a mini book once she is in bed, the fave is Jemima Puddleduck and she just recites the whole thing.

MD - glad you had a good day with Miss E. K has been an angel lately and it just make a difference to life in general!! The occasional meltdown (ie just wanting yogurt this morning so I started to eat her oatmeal, then she decided it was hers....)

[Ozstar]

We just came back from the library with more books from the same author. i will have to get Meg and Mog.
Not a great morning though, with little sleep thanks to the wind this is a tired grumpy house today. L has just had the mother of all tantrums, I haven't seen anything like it. Surprisingly I kept calm though and just let him get it all out.

[~Kate~]

Okay, so contractions ramped up at 2am on Tuesday morning and I walked and breathed through them until heading to the hospy at 8.30am. Rang Rory and booked him a flight for 9.30am. Had an internal which showed good signs with my cervix but she couldn't feel bubs head. Had a scan which showed Hayley as being transverse ...(which is lying sideways cradled in the pelvis, def not head down). If my waters broke at that point, the cord could birth first which is very dangerous. They would have to wheel me to theatre with a midwifes hand stuck up my vag to stop the head from pressing on the cord. Anyhoo...they rang theatre to see when we could get slotted in and they said now.
As I was only 2cm dilated and bubs was in the wrong position it was decided that c/s was the best and safest option. This all happened so quickly that Rory was in the air (50min flight) from the time they made the decision to when she was born. So the first msg he got when he got off the plane was a picture of Hayley taken in theatre.
Mum was my lucky support person and she was so thrilled and proud to be in there with me. Aynsley (my sister) got to be my midwife so it was a really great experience. I ended up with the shakes pretty badly so didn't too many cuddles to begin with cos I was afraid i'd drop her. She came into recovery with me and had a great feed before we got wheeled back up to our room and she met her daddy. Hayley has been feeding really well and sleeping awesome. All this is typed with one hand so its not a perfect recount but gives the basic overview lol.

[Trillian]

Kate it is so great to hear from you and that you are both doing wonderfully! She turned then I'm guessing?

[Cassius2]

Kate: oh wow! cheeky monkey wanting to sit comfy in there lol! she's just beautiful!

Cally: that is what L is like with the Maisy 'first experiences' books. she can request to read each one 2-3 times in a row...makes for *fun* storytime lol.

Oz: yeah, sometimes just sitting back with a cup of tea while they throw themselves around is the only way to 'deal' with it lol! i figure there are just some moments when the meltdown needs to happen...let's hope he's done for a bit though

AFM: all good here. appears that it prolly wasnt gastro...yay! felt a bit off this morning, but am able to eat and drink.
Leila is at kindy, so took the opportunity to clean her room from top to bottom. really want to sort her clothes out, but am pretty flaked out now. also vacuumed the skirtings this morning

[Ginger]

ha ha , nesting much anyone?

[Cassius2]

ha ha , nesting much anyone?

bahahahaha! totally. it's amazing how the nesting woman sees 'so much to do'!

[Artechim]

Cass, so glad you got your dunny fixed! Sounds like massive (and expensive) dramas with the plumbing. Our toilet blocked up last year and everything was spewing out beside the house and it took days to get a plumber to come - I was too embarrassed to go near the disaster with him so I just pointed lol. The poor plumber must have thought we lived entirely on corn!

Kate, Miss Hayley is adorable! Hope you are enjoying your newborn cuddles. How is S going?

Ginger, is the star chart working?

W was a brat today! We were at home bored and he kept being really rough and breaking things - he tore a book which he has never done, and I heard him saying "I'm sliding down a pole" and looked over - the 'pole' was the curtains! Bring on summer!

[AnyDream]

Kate, so glad everything is going smoothly, remember to rest up, you get no prizes for leaping out of bed too early. That would've been amazing having your sis there as the midwife, so special!

Arte I'm PMSL about your toilet disaster & the pointing & the corn. Toooooo funny, although not at all at the time. We had a sewerage disaster a few weeks ago when the main (street) sewer was blocked so we got umpteen hundred litres of the neighbourhoods poo water discharging out of our inspection point only a couple of metres from the back door. hmmm very not funny at the time!

MP, re the TT, I think we are just going to have to bite teh bullet and go over to training pants not pull ups. Have you tried doing this...hopefully the discomfort of a non-absorbent pant is incentive to use the toilet instead.

Hey everyone, DH reckons I'll be stunting Missy e's emotional growth if I insist on sticking to the tricycle (and not a 2-wheeler with training wheels) for the next year. What do you think? So maybe I'm jurassic but we triked for a long time with DD1 and she's not stunted at all?

Cass, glad for you it wasnt' gastro after all... didn't seem to slow you down any?!

Oz, that is sooo cute about the winking.

Cally who would've thought Meg and Mog would be such a hit at this age? We've got a corker from the library at the moment called My dog, my cat, my mum and me (or similar) where they all get fat and then have babies. E loves it. I find it hard to get suitable books at the library, they all seem to be aimed more at the primary school agers, too much text & complexity. I think they're all mined out because of all the preschooler story sessions the library runs each week.

[Trillian]

E is a huge fan of the meg and mog books too - she's borrowed all the ones the school library has. I remember them from when I was a kid and I can't believe they are still going strong either.

With the TT for those of you that are having trouble, what I did with L, and to a lesser extent A, was what I found out the other day is called the 3 day toilet training method (google it). basically the gist is that you ply them with loads of water and then take them to the toilet at set times. I usually go 20 minutes. Every single time he sits on that toilet he will wee without fail. Also I recognise the signs that he needs to poo - like farting LOL, which is a dead giveaway that he is getting ready to do a poo. So when he's been farting for a while, I will take him to the loo and tell him to try to do a poo and it may take 2 or 3 trips till they are ready to do one, but most times he will do a poo the first time I take him. Now I know that might seem like you are just teaching them to wee/poo on command, and to an extent it is, but they also pic up the signs of needing to go. Now I can ask him 'do you need to wee/poo?" and he thinks about it and says yes or no, so he is learning to stop and think about what is going on so while initially I had to take him to the loo all the time, half the time now he is telling me when he needs to go.

[Cassius2]

sherie: i am soo going to be listening for farts now lol! DD is 100% on wees and is able to take herself now, but the poo is still a bit *precious* for her. not sure if she is recognising it all TBH.

arte: ohh i really felt for our plumbers. apparently - DH was telling me (i was like you: point and shoot) - they were about 3 mtrs down in a narrow trench and sliced the pipe that collapsed...and all this blocked up water and *bits* gushed out all over them and because it was so narrow there was no way they could move away lol!

i am with you on the summer thang. i have taught DD to sing "go away winter, bring back summer" to the tune of the peter and paul rhyme lol!

MD: we had our neighbours poo visit us in our house lol! i was like 'that aint my toilet paper' bahahahaha!

books at our house ATM are the richard scarry stories and dr suess. i am going bonkers as we are on constant repeat.

[Artechim]

Ewwww, other peoples toilet paper is not cool!

I can't stand Dr Seuss! I remember vividly hating the stupid nonsense rhyme when I was a kid and I find them just as terrible now! And they are sooo long - I have lost interest by about page 10 and yet it just keeps going and going! Luckily W has shown no interest in the couple that we have because I really don't want to be reading those suckers all the time. We will just stick with Hairy Maclary.