March 2009 - The crawling / walking / talking race is on . . .

[jollyjoanne]

the new thread for March 09 mummies

wow boobz ! That must have been a shock but how great to be so far on and over the most stressful part.

Hope all going ok Loli

Sleep here - well it had got pretty good 7.30 - 6/7. L used to be terrible but it did turn around once I stopped b/f and put her on solids. But, she's been quite ill the last 8 days so has hardly been sleeping. The poor thing has bronchiolitis so had a high temp for 8 days and often been quite floppy. Its been really upsetting and stressful. Hope the other ill LOs are feeling better - its horrid when they are so young and can't tell you whats up isn't it ?

When L is feeling well she's v. active - cruises everyhere and can walk just holding one hand and has been known to stand unaided for quite a while until she realises what is going on. I don't think she's about to walk across the room unaided but guess it won't be too long.

Not much else to report but can you believe that it won't be long until we're celebrating first birthdays ?!

A desperately exciting thing (to me, anyway [sheepish emoticon]) happened today - Spike made his first sign! We have been baby signing on and off since birth, but started doing it a bit more since 6 or 7 months. The sign was for "light" and he is deliriously pleased with himself, and now spends half his time staring at the ceiling and making the sign! I'm very intrigued to see what the next one might be.

Anybody else itching to hear Loli's official announcement?!

Congrats Boobz! I can't imagine being pregnant and not knowing - I pretty much knew both times at week 5 - but must be pretty exciting for you.

Yay Yarnie on Spike sleeping through! Our sleep training resumes tonight. She's just woken for a feed - if she wakes again before 11pm I'll feed her but then it's no milk until 6am. I'm knackered, but determined [gritted teeth emoticon].

Haven't been doing signing with Melissa, but she has started clapping, which is v cute

Oh, Melissa's clapping! That must be very cute. I can't wait for Spike to start doing that. I love it when they clap when they are happy/excited!

Hi everyone Thomas and Daniel were born on Jan 2nd at 9:57am and 11:02am weighing 7lbs 3oz and 7lbs 1oz. TOTAL opposite of the breeze I had with Jim (must be karma)) was disastrous, 3 "shots" to kick off induction, dilated v slowly, births were horrible, i haemmorhaged v badly afterwards, nearly croaked and needed a 4 unit blood transfusion, twin 1 (Tom)'s birth was handled utterly shittily, he was born with broken clavicle, bruising and the cord round his chest, then was in NICU for 3. days with hypoglycaemia, on glucose drip an nasal feeding tube Danny was fine but his shoulders got stuck and i came v v close to em. section, everybody has said they are amazed I was allowed that long a gap witout crash section (although I was v much on the cusp but the initial limit I was given was 1/2 hour )

Will update more asap, we are ok now although I feel like shit unsurprisingly, my poor mu isdoing pretty much everything! Babies are ok though which of course is the main thing x

oh loli many congratulations on the births of the twins, but what a horrible time you have had. I am not surprised you feel so terrible, but at least you know of all the lovely things to come as you come home and they grow up. i feel bad i kept asking how you were going, but maybe it was some little distraction to jump on MN.

take care and wonderful to hear they've arrived ok.

xxx

Gosh Loli, really sorry birth was so difficult, hope you have a quick recovery. But HUGE congratulations on your boys!! Take care of yourself

loli congratulations honey! If you're planning on BF, don't worry about the nasal tube, DS1 was on one for 3 weeks and still took to BF fine.

Congratulations Loli x

congrats Loli !

Hi all, sorry to be so slack at photos, have put up a current one of Gabe now. He's started clapping too, I clap and he copies then laughs his head off, it's so cute

Good luck and any other mums going through primary school selection, we're seeing the local priest (for the local Catholic school) next week!

Hi all, well, Ben has slept through (7-6) for the past two nights, and he's eating much better, so the past week or so of sleeping misery might just have been due to the illness/teething. (Touch wood!) I have read up a lot on sleep training, lol, and I am glad at the moment that we don;t have to do it. But will see, I have read Dr Jay Gordon's advice and I really like his approach - and the fact that he says: it is not easy!!!

I agree, Wheely, it's horrible when they're ill, you just can;t help to worry! He was mostly grumpy in the day, and a bit more lethargic, couching with mucus streaming out his nose. But now I'm sick as well, Yarnie, so we're in the same boat. The lack of sleep must have affected my immune system.

I'm lying in bed, hoping dh will bring me some lunch. Ben is napping but will go to the babysitter in a while. And my mum is coming to visit in March, yeeeahhhh!!!

Loli Congratulations and well done and having to healthy babies! I'm sorry it was such a hard experience for you, and hope the bad memories will fade quickly. Hope you feel better soon and that you get a lot of love and TLC at the moment.

Boobz Can't quite believe I'm saying this, but I'm quite envious of you having another baby! I'm starting to think (through the sleeplessness) that I'd really like another baby...and I'm turning 36....now, just to convince dh...

Ben got one of ELC little wagons with blocks in for Christams, and on Satuday he surspised us all by grabbing it and walking donw the hallway! Not long now.

Can't spell enymore anymore

Well done ofr sleeping ben ./

Lovely pic of G Lau - what a great head of hair. Looks much older than my mohicanned baldy.

L had her first swimming lesson today. I think she enjoyed it but she kept her thumb in the whole time just to be sure .

Well done Ben on the sleep!

Sleep success (sort of) in the Modular household too. While there's been no holy grail of sleeping through the night, M is getting much better at being shush-patted back to sleep and last night only woke at 10.30pm and 5am, which is pretty good compared to the hell we've endured challenging nights of yore.

There, now I've said that and she's just woken up! Big wave to all while I get shushing

Thanks, Gabriel does have EPIC hair. We need to take him to the barber again!

Hey Y'all!

I haven't been able to read in detail but big congratulations to Boobz - and how fantastic to find out you were already so far on!

And congratulations to Loli on the birth of two very good size twins! But sorry you had such a terrible time of it. Hope you all feel better soon.

Hello to everyone else and hope you are all doing well and coping in the snow.

I stopped posting as I got really ill at the beginning of November - I just burnt myself out because I am a foooool who took on too much. I was also anaemic, but it took ages to find that out. So I had exhaustion on a daily basis that was unprecedented and was actually worried I had done some permanent damage. Simultaneously, the kids were ill constantly for about 7 weeks and that, the lack of sleep and the constant exhaustion, it was a pretty low ebb and was teary a lot. It wasn't depression as I was ok when I didn't feel so tired. Eventually when I went to the doctors and told her all I had been doing (having third child, renovating three rooms and tons of problems within the family etc etc) and she said she wasn't surprised I was feeling so exhausted and checked my bloods.

Anyway, I've had super-heavy periods since HHB and that hasn't helped. We did go to see about the vasectomy for DH but I am going to try the arm implant first to see if it helps. Then of course it was Christmas etc. So I am starting to do better now, am on iron tablets but have had a few colds as we all have but am trying to not over-do it. I have to remind myself that 3 children are a lot of work in itself.

I did, however, go audition for a new singing group that do shows and raise money for charity and I got in, so it's really nice to be back doing that and doing something just for myself. Especially as DD2 is a walking cliche nightmare at the moment and screams constantly at everything. I also moved her and HHB into the same room last saturday and suffice it to say, we have not had much sleep since. We are working out the best way to make it work, but it may just take time. Or I just may have to move him back to our room and wait for the next 'window'.

It's not helped not being able to take them for walks as we are pretty snow bound and I can't push the buggy or carry HHb as he's so heavy, so that's not helped the 2 year olds mood at all. Or mine.

Anyway, can't complain we you look at what the poor people or Haiti are suffering.

Really hope you all had a great Christmas and New year and look forward to posting more regularly again. It's hard now that the toddler is no longer napping in the day as I no longer get any time to myself.

Take care.

Slick really feel for you. We all had a sickness bug back in Nov and I don't think I've properly recovered from that and I only have one dd to stress over. And I've had to have yet more time off work due to snow and again today as Mae is poorly again, so that always makes me stressed too.

Mae has was horribly sick yesterday, to the extent that I was seriously wondering where all the food had come from but eventually it got to bile and she was still puking so we went to the local out of hours doctor where she was all smiles and wasn't sick at all - sure he thought we were mad! And then the second she went back in the car she was sick everywhere again. And today it has been very smelly diarohea and far too much sleeping so fingers crossed it is passing and she will be better soon and also fingers crossed that we don't all get the bug again, as I say my tummy has felt funny for ages as it is.

Anyway enough moaning.

Loli can't believe how traunmatic your birth was this time round. But really glad that you two LOs arrived and are healthy. Hope you are all enjoying the new family members.

Lau also shocked at the hair, he looks so much more grown up than Mae who just has a few wisps of hair.

I've added a photo of Mae dressed up as father christmas.

Missmod and Mdavza glad you seeing progress on the sleeping front. I am starting to wonder if we just sleep through lots of Mae's wakings, we are quite heavy sleepers!

Welcome back Slick! I was wondering if you were okay. Sounds like you've had a hard few months so take care of yourself!

Actually, I do think that it gets harder to post now our little ones are crawling around and potentially getting into all kinds of trouble.

Hope Mae feels better soon Jolly - sounds messy as well as stressful for you and her.

Now, where is Meep?

Lol at 'EPIC hair' Lau Don't cut it off, it looks gorgeous!

Lol girls, Gabriel's always had masses of hair, he was born with a headful and it's just gotten thicker! We usually cut it when it gets in his eyes.

Has anyone been sent an 'invitation' to have their LO vaccinated for the swine flu? DS1 (3) has one but Gabriel hasn't.....

Yes we have here Lau. For both girls. They are having it done on Thurs. We have agonised a bit over the decision but decided (I think...) that as it was so horrid when L was ill with bronchiolitis and that's lung related (and I am asthmatic) that we should get her 'done' and although I'm not too concerned about DD1 I feel we should treat both the same. Also DD1 is 5 on sunday so its now or never.... But of course, now worried dd1 will have a reaction and be ill for her party... Arrrrgggghhh. I wish they'd never been invited for it tbh.

I have had the vac as has dh and we were absolutely fine other than sore arms (and apparently the kids don't seem to get this so its probably all in the mind.).

Hmm Wheely I wonder if we take G anyway they'll do him too... we need to check for DS1 with the CP and autism there's a lot of confounding factors.

Actually I have to admit - yesterday I postponed the girls' jabs. I was worrying that DD1 would be ill for her birthday (not likely but she was ill for her birthday last year and it was really upsetting and I knew I'd be really cross with myself if I gave her the jab and she reacted). They were fine about doing it for dd1 even though she will be over 5 by the time they do it.

I know some surgeries round here are only doing it if you request it so if you want G to be 'done' it might be worth ringing and asking.

L really snotty again - hoping its just teeth but she slept terribly last night nad I couldn't find the karvol plug in things. Grrrr.

Hi all - Lau and Wheely, I had my two done last week and no adverse affects so far... I couldn't not have them done after having it over the summer. God I felt crap. For days and days.

Melissa has finally got her two top teeth! They've been a loooong time coming