Amanda that sounds horrible at work, not too long left.

Sary I saw your pics of fb, looks like you had an amazing time! And well done to Beau!!


I have my 12 week scan today

Good luck with the scan today and seeing your little baby Rebecca!

Taking the kids to the pool today... brrrrrr.... but I am sure we will have fun. Going to be more challenging now with just only me. Got so used to double parenting while away. *SIGH*

Lauren - we stayed at Plantation Island Resort... it is the only thing on the island.

Amanda - you poor thing... you do sound tired. You work does sound very physical. Big hugs x

Claire - I saw on fb that all your family has had gastro! You poor poor thing! Such a horrible sickness... hope you have managed to avoid it.

Well all the other lovely ladies - hope you have a great day!

byeee

lol in that case I stayed there too lol, it was a long time ago and not the bestest holiday I've ever had

i have one happy healthy baby

Thats great news Rebecca. Gosh that 12 weeks had gone so fast.

I have officially finished work.......WOOHOO!!! I feel so relieved and happy that i can concentrate on baby now.

Well i'm off to have a hot milo and relax. Lots of cleaning and sorting to do tomorrow.

Night all x

you can relax now

that's great news Rebecca

We have a poo on the toilet in Melbourne too! Yipeeee!!!!!!!!

Rebecca - great news about baby!

Holly - whoohooo finished work... its getting soooo close!!!

Hi girls!

Rebecca, congrats on your healthy little baby - I saw the scan pic on FB yesterday - so cute! 12 weeks have gone fast! Has your ms settled?

Holly, yay on now being officially on maternity leave, though I can well understand that Hudson will miss the other kids. Is bub lying breech? 35 weeks - not long to go at all now! I am so so excited for you! Hope the obs appointment on Monday goes well.

Sary, hope swimming went well yesterday - is the pool heated? You must be looking forward to your DH coming home for the weekend! And well done to Beau for pooing on the toilet!

I vomited again this morning for the 3rd morning in a row. I am supposed to be baking some cupcakes for my mum to take to her cousin's place for a birthday celebration tomorrow, but I just haven't felt like it. I need to get some ingredients from the shops, but I think I will now just wait until DH gets home and get him to go for me.

I'm 26 weeks pg today! 13 more shifts at work to go...

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Amanda xo

No Amanda it hasn't eased at all. I hope yours does soon though, I remember being sick the entire way through Cooper's pregnancy, it's draining. That's great you're on the countdown at work though.



My nub is apparantly very 'girly' I'm not getting excited though, still think it's a boy, I will find out at my next scan

well i have just finished decorating cupcakes for Will to take to preschool tomorrow for his birthday, he'll be 5! Just think 5 years ago I was at this time fast asleep lol hoping that my waters would break in my sleep so that i wouldn't be getting induced in the morning lol, didn't happen lol

Morning girls,

Lauren, I hope Will had a great birthday!

Rebecca and Amanda, I really hope the morning sickeness settles for you both soon. Its such a yucky feeling!

Amanda, 12 shifts to go for you! Woohoo....

Well i had my Ob appointment on Monday. Bub is still breech and i have booked into a c/s for the 25th August.(unless i go into labour befgore that) Its scary to know a date. So exactly 3 weeks to go.
I feel fine about having another c/s. Atleast it won't be another emergency and i will be awake for this one. (I hope). DH is excited as he wasn't even allowed in with Hudson. Last time i went into theatre and woke up 3 hrs later with a baby. Its was very surreal.

So maternity leave is going well. Yesterday i spent the day nesting. I cleaned and organised all of the linen and cleaned out our wardrobe. Feeling much more organised now

Well i'm off to clean up after breakfast. Hope this finds you all well. xo

Hi ladies

So quiet around here these days...

Feeling quite exhausted today. It is week 2 of DH away during the week. One of my girlfriends invited us over for dinner last night to make life a little easier for me...

15 minutes into us being there... came a scream from the bedroom. Beau came running out to me holding his mouth and blood going everywhere.

Off I went to the closest doctors surgery with him. They were wonderful there - gave me 3 options. Glue his lip, put him under and have stitches or go see a plastic surgeon. The doctor said he was worried as the cut goes from his lip into the flesh of his face. That is where it can be tricky to get it to heal right...

ughhh so there I sat wondering what to do with my poor little boy - whilst unable to get hold of DH (currently in Adelaide). Finally got hold of him, and the doctor even emailed him a photo so we could all talk about what would be best.

So Beau has a glued lip. Poor lil guy. He was pretty brave. Right up unitl the point of gluing his lip where I had to hold him down

Macy, Beau and I all snuggled down in bed together last night.

Headed back to the docs today. He said he was happy with how it is looking and to go back when the glue falls off.

Hello

I'm a slack Feb mummy aren't I?! I read and think about you girls all the time, and every day promise myself I will post, but then one day turns into the next...

We've had a pretty chaotic couple of months. I've had health issues, had to return to work, DS started daycare and the kids have been constantly sick. E's had allergic reactions (not sure what to?) and another trip to emergency when a ladder collapsed on her little hand and crushed it DS has been so sick, back on a mild steroid and both kids and DH were knocked down with gastro a couple of weeks ago. ugh ugh ugh!!! But in amongst all that there have of course been great times, so i can't complain too loudly (too late!).

I've just come home from visiting a friend and her 2 day old son. i want another baby! it feels melodramatic but i felt a real pang being back at the hospital again, with all the memories flooding back. and this is going to sound stupid but i saw an ante-natal class while i was there tonight and felt a twinge of regret that those exciting days of being pregnant for the first time and having a big romantic notion about life with a baby are all behind me! with luck we will have another baby soon but what if i never feel done?

My kiddies are (touch wood) doing well ATM. DS is 11 months now and saying 'uh-oh', mama, dada and no. he is just the most gorgeous little boy and i could eat him up with a spoon! DD is being a typical 2 year old and swinging from funny and gorgeous to...um... really annoying

Holly, not long to go for you! i feel so bad we haven't yet caught up. sounds like you are doing well. Is H excited about his new baby brother or sister?

And Amanda time is flying for you too. I saw your belly shot on facebook and you look great.

Rebecca, nearly died when i read you were 12 weeks!!! that has to be the world's fastest 1st trimester. how are you feeling? how's Cooper's health? i remember you had some worries about him. And how's your MIL?!

Sary, i am dead jealous about your hol. we're off to the gold coast next weekend but it's not exactly fiji! Hope Beau's lip is okay. it sounds exactly like E's injury. hers was stitched and it still looks pretty bad the stitches were pretty traumatic for her too, poor poppet.

Hello to Lauren, Megan, Brooke and everyone else

mammoth story ahead - sorry so long

i had some awful news about a friend last week. we met back in 2000 and hit it off and became really good friends. When we met she had a 6yo and 3yo. Her DD (the 3yo) had some pretty worrying developmental problems at the time and never got resolved, so that was extremely stressful for her.

About 2004 she starts to tell me that things aren't going too well in her marriage. Her DH got posted to Malta, insisted that he go by himself so as not to uproot the children, and then she discovers down the track that he actually requested to be posted there (without mentioning it to her). to cut a long story very short, he said he felt trapped by parenthood, esp their DD's problems (she was, and is, violent and unable to communicate, amongst other things) and wanted to 'live his life' and get to do all the things he missed out on by marrying and starting a family so young.

i was very unimpressed by him. my friend is just the most gorgeous woman and wonderful mother and deserves a hell of a lot better. in 2005 my friend lost her mum, which was a huge blow. then in 2006 i met her for lunch one day and she was like a different person. it was like someone had switched a light off inside her. she just looked blank and went from chatty and funny to giving monosyllabic answers and was extremely anxious. it was awful. this continued for a while and was really upsetting. in the end i wrote to her and said how worried i was about her, and she actually wrote back and said she was ADs and was sick, but would be okay. i was really relieved to get that letter as i thought it was an 'answer', and that she'd be okay. about this time her DH started calling her after work on a fri night and saying he was heading off to the coast/the snow/fishing with his mates and wouldn't be home all weekend. i was worried about her and i turned up on her doorstep one day and she was just 'gone'. that's the only way i can describe it. she was a different person. while i was there her DD ripped her own hair out and scratched her face til it bled and my friend did not even seem to notice. i cried all the way home.

i got married the next month. my friend had RSVP'd, but never turned up. to my great shame, i did not speak to her for a few months after that - we were away on honeymoon, travelled to see DH's mum when her cancer was deemed terminal and we lost a couple of pregnancies in quick succession. when i tried to contact her i got no response. no answer at home, no email, no phone, nothing. i ended up tracking down a colleague of hers who said she had been signed off on leave without pay, and there were issues with her DH, but did not know anymore than that.

so since then i have been trying to find her. it's been 3.5 years. the only mention i ever found of her was in a respite centre newsletter, and i just assumed that was to do with her DD, who sometimes had respite care to give my friend a break, but when i rang her DD had never been there.

Then last week i read an article in the paper about a new centre that has opened up to provide an alternative for young people who are stuck in nursing homes. it mentioned my friend. it said 'xx has an acquired brain disorder and has been living in aged care for 2.5 years... Before being diagnosed she had a full-time job and was mentally fully functional'. she has a unique name, so i knew it was her, but then it also mentioned her sister by name, and she doesn't have a sister, so i thought maybe it wasn't her.

i looked up the 'sister' in the phone book and rang her. she is actually my friend's MIL, and it is her. i was devastated. i can't even begin to describe it. she was the most beautiful, funny, most wonderful mum and friend and i cannot believe this has happened to her.

her MIL remembered me and was happy to hear from me thank god. she explained that she has something called demyelination of the brain and was caused by a virus that attacked her brain. it was hard to get out of her what my friend's symptoms are, but she said she has no short term memory and does not speak, although she can. but the really upsetting thing was that she said 'she would not be much worse than the last time you saw her'. i *know* that she was in a bad way when i saw her last but she was living at home with her family - with her kids. i know her DH wanted out of the marriage and i feel sick at the thought that he put her in aged care as a way out for him. god i hope not.

but the most upsetting part was her kids. her DS, who was a gorgeous kid (school captain, sport, clever and just a lovely kid) was so devastated at losing his mum that he became mute for 2 years - didn't utter a word. and now he's so angry with his mum for desserting them that he will not speak to her. she loved her kids more than anything, seriously that was all she spoke about some days, and that is just devastating. the only visitors my friend gets now are her MIL, and DD, who at 13 is unable to talk herself. i am just gutted. i am going to visit her and her MIL was happy bout that. she said she would remember me, and to bring photos of my kids etc. she also said that she just stares at the wall all day as all she ever wanted was to be a mum and now that has been taken away from her.

god, i am just devastated. it feels surreal. i really want to write to her DS and tell him just how much she loves him and how much she used to speak about him. and i just cannot believe that all trace of my old friend is gone. i really cannot believe there isn't a spark of her old self in there. i just want to make things better.


so, sorry for the essay, really needed to get that off my chest. would you write a letter to her son? is that interfering? i want to help, i don't know how. apart from simply visiting my friend the only thing i can think of is fundraising for her kids? i don't know...

Wow Claire that is just devasting I would go and see your friend first and then decide about contacting her ds. I wonder if he realises exactly what state she is in. If you do contact him I don't believe it will be seen as interfering.

Okay back again... last post was a BIG woe is me post!

Beau is very happy... doing kamikaze's off the couch. He has learned NOTHING????! Got to head back to the doctor once the glue comes off. He has said it could take about 6 months to heal.

Claire - nice to see you back here. Have missed your posts! Sorry to hear you have had such a tough time lately. But Gold Coast next week should be wonderful! Start of things going on the up for you. Any holiday with the family is wonderful! Our last few holidays have been camping holidays - and they have been just as wonderful as Fiji. Maybe not as picturesque but just as fun!

I did think of you during my lip drama with Beau. Did Evie just cut open her lip or her face also? Doctor kept saying it is such a shame that he went into the Vermilion border (hadn't even heard this expression before) - where the lip meets the face - as this is harder to heal well. Just keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't scar too badly.

Sorry to hear about your friend. What an ordeal! I agree with Rebecca - I would go and visit her first before doing anything. *Sigh* Such a sad story.

I hear you on the pangs for another baby. I still get them. Doesn't help that Macy keeps pleading with me to have another! But my head outweighs my heart on this one. We don't have the room, money or energy for any more. But I do feel I will be eternally clucky. I have been living a bit vicariously through my friends babies!

Holly - so exciting that you are now on Maternity leave. And you have a date! Yay! Must be a strange feeling. I know with Macy I was told you are being induced next Wednesday and I found that very surreal too. Getting very excited for you!

Lauren I hope Will had a wonderful birthday!

Amanda - hoping the ms is easing for you! And you too Rebecca!

Beau is very hit and miss with the toilet. Most days he is great... but other days I get frustrated (although trying not to) when we go through 4 or 5 outfit changes.

Hello to everyone else!

Hi Girls,

Claire, I'm also glad you popped back in. Have been missing your posts too. Sounds like a well deserved holiday for your little family next week. Your friends story had me in tears. Hows awfully sad. I also agree that you should visit her first and see what happens after that.
And yes we will have to catch up one of these days. I can't believe T is nearly 1. Where has that time gone?

Sary, Oh gosh poor Beau. Its is so hard to watch them in so much pain when you can't really do anything to help.I did have a little giggle though at the 'Kamikazes' off the lounge. He sounds so much like Hudson. Yesterday Hudson did a front flip off our bed. I rushed over to him praying he hadn't broken anything, only to find him laughing and he said "i'll do it again".....Meanwhile my stomach was in my mouth. I hope Beau's lip heals well and fast!
Hudson is the same with toilet training. Yesterday he had no accidents and was really keen to use the toilet every 5 mins, but today he insisted on a nappy and has only used the toilet once. He still refuses to use any other toilet but ours at home which makes it hard going out in public with undies on.

Hudson had a playdate with a little friend this morning. I haven't left him that many times and it was the first time that it wasn't with family. This is mainly because we don't know many people but he went really well. Didn't seemed too phased about me leaving. Although his little friend was a child that i have had with FDC for the past year so he knows them well.

Anyway girls hope you are all well xo

hey all
been flat out here so not evern reading much but hope everyone is ok

claire,, couldnt not respond to your story. what an awful thing to happen to someone. i hope that your visit to your friend can bring her some joy.

ill try be better at posting..... honest!

Thanks girls, Will's b'day went very well, the cupcakes all went too
Today was Jake's 6th birthday so cupcakes again the Fanta cake for dessert and I've made it again for Will's party which is tomorrow (Saturday) off to HJ's so no clean up for me but I'm trying to draw a pirate so I can go to bed, nearly done, need sleep

My mil's husband rang my dad today and asked to meet with him and my mum to discuss me. They say that if something doesn't get worked out now then they will 'take it further'

This is solely to do with looking after them and overnight stays. Can you believe that?

Dad said he's going to set him straight. I'm sure they (inlaws) think that they are over any my parents all the time. He even suggested they take half and my parents take half?

My boys had a sleepover on Saturday (coopers first ever) while me and dh went to a wedding, I'm pretty sure that's what this is about. Mum said she's seen drive up their street, which is quiet and definatley not a through road, mum assumes she's doing it to check if the boys are there or not.

Like I need this crap right now with being pregnant, organising talon to start school and caden preschool next year, me finishing uni and all that goes with selling a house. Not to mention coopy's appointment with the neurologist is in a couple of weeks.

Freaking nutcases

OMG i am spitting chips, can only imagine how furious you are!!! Where the hell do they get off?!

wow I hope your dad sorts her out she's a nut job

thank goodness last week is over 48+ cupcakes, 3 birthday cakes including a rather dashing looking pirate and I put on 1kg from all the cakes! Will still has an ear infection and has been put on more ab's and Tom has one too so he's on the same stuff, oh joy. Max has another snotty nose so still can't have his overdue vaccination, I swear the second that snot dries up I'm getting him to the dr lol. Joel has realised he's 2! Oh and Max now has 5 teeth and is using them to bite me when he's feeding. Doesn't do it to start with but when he's had enough rather than just getting down and going off to play he mucks around and comes back for a top up, it's during the top up he's doing it. Today he wouldn't feed off the right side, only wanted the left which of course Joel was on, had to do a swap, rather funny, he came at my opening and shutting his mouth and clicking his tongue! bizarre.