July 2008 babies!

We're still going to Thomas, its been our motivation to do wees in the big toilet for the last month. I'm really looking forward to it coz I know K is going to love it.

He had a huge tanty today, made himself hysterical, he wanted to stay with MIL istead of coming home for dinner. Kinda hurt my feelings - how silly!

He has also recently become a complete pita to get to bed. He has just worked out how to open his bedroom door so keeps coming out into the lounge. Its taking him two hours to go to sleep with all the messing about. Grrrr

Bleh, i have a toddler who doens't ave arvo sleeps.
BUT, he does wee's and poo's on the potty and we've had 2 home days in undies (apart from arvo 'sleep' time) and no accidents. He comes running saying wee's on the potty then he'l say 'quick my wee's are coming out'

Evelyn turns 1 on Friday.  She's not walking and has no teeth. Total oposite of her brother.

BB - Nat was only just crawling at 11 months, and didn't walk till 13 months. What's the bet all her teeth come through at once!

wow BB cant believe Evs going to be 1! where has time time gone! Dont worry Jayden didnt walk until 18 months! and wow no teeth but at least she can eat everything, so hope they dont come through all at once

Jayden just threw up all over me not sure if hes got the bug I have had or if he got too worked up in a tanty!

spicey - have you been to the doc? chickenpox shouldn't have pussy lesions, they will look like little blisters. Hope he's doing better soon anyway!

With quite a few of our friends having kids with the pox lately, I'm feeling glad we decided to immunise Nat against them.

Crappy day yesterday. babies are such hard work. Can't wait for this newborn phase to be over with! I've decided that people who go mental/lovey-dovey over little babies must have easy ones!

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Anna what does of losec is she on? Jayden got up to quite a high does in the end and I know little miss did too, we had to up Jaydens does with the advice of the pead pretty much everytime he had a growth spurt www.cryingoverspiltmilk.co.nz is a great resource if you havent seen it already, talks about meds and doses etc too

Blondy are you still on gavascon? maybe try losec? I remember the pead saying that gavason and meds like that really are just like a thickener but losec etc nutralise the acid and do something else I think? anyway cant remember exactly but there is a difference between the two and he just said losec was the best.

Blondy thats good that your happy with your decision to immunise Nat, Ive been thinking of doing Jayden and youve just reminded me! it is one shot or is it oral? Jayden is the worst scratcher out and gets really itchy, I think he would find the pox really horrible and would probably scar, also I supose if they are vac then they arent going to bring it home to baby either! Maybe I will book him in when I go have the flu vac

On another topic, who ended up getting new matresses for baby number two and who ended up using the same ones? I remember when I was pregnant with jayden using second hand matresses were a no no but now I see that there is no direct evidence to suggest that second hand matresses directly contribute to sids, so Im not sure now! so was wondeirng what you all did for baby number two, did you buy new matresses or use the same ones? also my aunt has a matress from the hammock she may have used 6 times I can have what do you recon? all new matresses will add up, but at the same time I want to do all I can to protect bubs from sids!



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cool thanks Blondy, we purchased a damn exensive matress too! and we are smokefree, although grandad smokes but outside, thats the only smoke Im exposed too, and the dog chewed through the movement monitor cord but luckily dh is a sparky so hopefully he can fix it! or I will be getting another one, it saved my sanity!

Are those covers good blondy? would you recommend I get one for number two?

bummer bubs sleeping probs cant be fixed by meds but glad that her reflux is under control, I so hope this baby is easy not like jayden, makes it hard work ahy, glad to hear shes doing well at night though makes you feel more human with sleep!

Great thanks for that about the vac, totally getting it for Jayden! been meaning to for ages, just one of those things that never gets done!

I have the same mattress. There isn't much (any) evidence to support Dr Sprott's theory about cot death being due to bacteria in the mattresses; there is more evidence to suggest it's due to the brain not regulating breathing, swallowing and the apnoeic periods correctly. I hated the mattress cover and took it off after two days. Far too noisy for me. Ben's on a 2nd hand hammock mattress. I figure it was only used for 3 months before he used it.

Sorry for being a bit of a drama queen last night , we are doing ok. This morning was nice, I visited a friend and although Sylvie was her usual unhappy self being able to chat while 'jiggling' her took the boredom out of settling her - I should get out more!

She's on 10mg of Losec a day; as she's 6.5kg that's 1.5mg per kg so according to the COSM website that puts her at about the average dose, about half the maximum she could have.

I'm pleased to hear that Lexie is improving Blondy; I understand your reluctance about the medication as I was like that with Clara, and if you can manage ok with Gaviscon that's great.

We're using the same cot mattress too

Sounds like you're excited Sarah! What do you have planned for it, are you having a party for her?

BB, I say you take full advantage and let her cater it. ;) But at least your oven's working so you can make a cake... Happy birthday Ev, hope Ryan doesn't steal all your pressies!

Anna & blondy. I guess I really was lucky with Spud; fingers crossed we have a relatively low maintenance this time too. :\ Blondy, sucks you're back to DF, but I guess this time you know all the tricks for surviving it...