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New thread time ladies


http://www.essentialbaby.com.au/forums/ind...howtopic=827612

[Oswyn]

GOLD!

[JJ98]

SILVER!

Wow that is a big list - so where is everyone?

Hope everyone is going well

JJ

This post has been edited by JJ98: 08/02/2011, 10:13 AM

[chris08]

Bronze, wow haven't been on here for ages. How is everyone coping with the teething and sleepless nights?

Chris08

[sharkie81]

(.) (.) Prize!

Hi everyone,

It has been positively AGES since I have checked this thread. How is everyone going?

We're doing well. Alex has 8 teeth, crawls REALLY fast now, pulls up to standing and cruises around on furniture, "finger walks" short distances and has recently started babbling his version of sentences.

His sleep wasn't great for a good while there (due to so many teeth coming through in the past 4 months) but we're back to waking only once per night now which is so manageable.

Eating is going really well. He doesn't refuse anything- which accounts for his 10.5kg in weight!

I returned to work full time for 7 weeks just before Christmas. It was a contract position and it just ended, so now I am looking for some part time work (as I found full time too hard). DH has been off work since November being a SAHD and LOVES it!

Is anyone else starting to think about their babies' 1st birthday parties? I think we might do a BBQ in the local park.

Will be sure to check this thread more often from now on!

[Oswyn]

Hi ladies & babies!!

Chris - teething is happening for us at the moment! Matilda now has 2 teeth and we had a few sleepless nights because of them, but we are getting back to normal now, for the time being at least!

sharkie -Wow, sounds like alex will be walking in no time! Matilda is cruising the furniture now too! I've been thinking about where to have DDs 1st birthday party, we would have loved to be able to have it at our new house, but construction still hasn't commensed as there has been lots of hold ups, we still don't have our land titles yet! What are you thinking abut doing for Alex's birthday?

We had our 2nd swimming lesson this morning, Matilda absolutely loves it!! She is napping now, so worn out from it!!

...I can hear her stirring, better go!!

Take care all

Kath xx

[Hunca Munca]

Hi Ladies! It's Susil (I've changed my username. Kath, could you update the group list for me please? Thanks! ) Sorry I haven't been on here for a while, busy with work etc. But I've really been wanting to come back in and say hi! So I'm multitasking - expressing, eating lunch and writing on EB!

I'm glad you enjoyed my PP article - it's great that they published it, it will make a lovely memento for me. And Ben is loving the prize - it's a Chicco activity table that makes LOTS of noise. So good all round

Work is going fairly well, although starting to get fairly busy now. Ben is relatively happy at home with his Dad on my work days, although there have been a couple of days when I've gone home early as he's been very upset and wanting a breastfeed. He won't take milk any other way - never has taken a bottle and won't take it from a straw cup, sippy cup etc. So I just express at work to keep comfortable and freeze the milk - maybe he'll take it one day! He's eating plenty of solids and drinking water from the straw cup so I'm not too worried about him not having milk in the day. I do miss him, especially when DH calls and says how they went for a walk and stuff. But when I get home he is sooo excited to see me, which is lovely. He also tries to suck my arm, neck, side, etc. until he can get a breastfeed!

Ben is in a fairly good stage at the moment. His teeth came through - he has six now! And heis feeling much happier. He finally started rolling at 7 months and now rolls all over the place, and has started getting up on all fours and looking to crawl. He can't do it yet though and he gets so frustrated! But it can't be far off. He also makes the most adorable noises at the moment - no real words yet but lots of babble sentences in the sweetest voice!

Anna - how are things going for day sleeps? Ben still falls asleep on the breast, but I can take him off and put him down for a nap which is great. Surprisingly he's fine going to sleep with DH when I'm not around. Maybe you could get your DH to settle her on the weekends and you leave the house? Might be worth a go!

Kath - wow! cruising already! She must be getting into everything I think having your cousin as godmother sounds lovely - I don't think age matters for that sort of thing. Did you end up deciding? Teeth definitely hurt them! I don't know how the 'experts' can say they don't. Regardless of their studies, when a bub is cranky and wakeful for days and then a tooth pops through and they are back to normal it's pretty clear what was causing it!

JJ - Ben was constipated too, it was because he wasn't getting enough water with me at work and not having as much breastmilk. Did you find out what was causing it? How are the solids and sleeping going now?

Sharkie - any luck finding part time work? I haven't thought about 1st birthday yet - although it is so close isn't it!? Our babies are getting so big, where did the time go? Have you made any firm party plans?

Well, I'd better get back to work. I start at 7:30 so I can leave by 4:30 to get home in time for the dinner and bed time routine Talk to you ladies later! (sooner rather than too much later hopefully!)

Susan

[sharkie81]

Hi all,

Kath- Mum said I walked at 10 months so I think Alex will likely walk around the same age. He's standing on his own for a few secs at a time now. Re: his first birthday- so far I have decided we will have it in a local park which has a great playground. Will probably just have a BBQ. Am very excited to make his first birthday cake though!

Susan- Ben sounds lovely Have you tried mixing EBM into his foods? I am pretty sure you did BLW didn't you? You could still mix it into weetbix or yoghurt to give him some extra energy?
Yes, I am starting a part time job next Monday REALLY close to home which is great. I was getting a bit worried for a while there and we thought DH may have had to return to work but he is very happy to be able to stay at home with Alex for another 3 months.

Well, better go have a shower now that Alex is having his morning nap.

Will check in again soon

[Hunca Munca]

How exciting Sharkie - Alex must be nearly walking now! Ben is not walking yet, but I think he took his first tentative crawl step forward the other day, so I daresay he will be crawling properly anytime now. He has also worked out how to get into the sitting position from lying down, so is enjoying rolling around and then sitting up where he wants to. I didn't think he was pulling himself up yet, but I think he has done it at least once when I wasn't watching! This morning I left him on the lounge room floor and left a bowl of yogurt for myself on the couch. I then went to the kitchen to get him a cup of water. I heard a clinking - rushed back into the lounge room to find he had managed to get over to the couch and somehow got the yogurt off the couch. It was at the back so he must have pulled up and grabbed it off before sitting back down. There wa yogurt eveywhere - all over the couch, the carpet, and all over him. He was very happily slapping his hands in the yogurt and watching it splash I think it's time to bring the playpen out!

I am going to make Ben a birthday cake from the Women's Weekly birthday cake book! I am excited too I am going to make the number one cake - it looks like it is within my capabilities as a baked

We did/are doing BLW. We have tried giving him EBM mixed with other things, but he often refuses it. Lately I have said to DH to just give him milk in the straw cup at meals and whatever he drinks is fine. He can then have water at other times. He drinks a little of it, so that's something at least.

Yay Sharkie for getting a part-time job close to home! How are you finding it?

Well, that's all from me. Hopefully we get some more of our ladies popping in to catch us up with what they've been doing!

[Oswyn]

Hi Ladies & Babies!

Long time no post! (and this one will be a quick one!)

I hope you are all well! We have been busy, busy, busy! Planning a surprise birthday fishing charter for my hubby, car troubles, fundraising for our playgroup (I'm the fundrasing coordinator, always putting my hand up for things I don't need to be adding to my workload lol!), planning a christening on the otherside of Oz and a holiday, oh and starting to plan a 1st birthday party! So exciting!

How is everyone elses 1st birthday plans going? Anyone want to share ideas?? I'm thinking a pastel pink & yellow theme, maybe a butterfly cake, and probably in a nature reserve not far from home called Whiteman Park, it's where we had my baby shower. The house we are in is definately not baby friendly! Hunca Munca (gotta get used to that!) I've been looking through the Women's Weekly cookbooks for ideas too! The number 1 cake looks great!

Sharkie, congrats on the job, sounds fab!

I'm about to head off to work this arvo myself. The Tupperware is all packed in the car, just need to get myself ready now. It's nice to be out of the house and earning money, not spending it for a change!

Keep in touch

Kath xx