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 Topic: HelenElla
 Posted By: Guests
 Subject: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 2:09pm
 
 
        
          | Hey girl just wondering if you have had baby yet or are progressing there   |  
 
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 Posted By: jack_&_charli
 Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 9:18pm
 
 
        
          | was thinking the same myself just this afternoon   
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 Posted By: mum2paris
 Date Posted: 05 November 2005 at 10:52pm
 
 
        
          | hhhm am pretty sure i saw a post from her today somewhere. maybe i'm wrong but pretty sure the date was today's?.. 
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 Posted By: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 11:34am
 
 
        
          |  Hi everyone we had our little girl Miya Rose at 9:29 last night and have all just got home now. She weighs 8pound 1ounce. The labour went well although a little bit painful. After having strong contractions for the past few days we went and I was only two cm dilated so the midwife covering for mine did a sweep which eventually brought on stronger more regular contractions. I was in strong labour for four and a half hours and ended up needing no pain relief although Josh did have to spend most of the labour rubbing my back! Miya was born with the cord around her neck but it didn't cause any problems. I ended up with a small cut but didn't need stitches.   |  
 Posted By: jack_&_charli
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 12:14pm
 
 
        
          | yay!!!!  congrats helen!!  i love the name, it's gorgeous! jack was going to be maia if he was a girl  my friend had her wee boy this morning at 5.42am, 6pd 2oz.  all these babies arriving is making me soooooooo damm clucky!!!!   glad all went well for you helen, can't wait to see some pics of your wee darling
 
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 Posted By: paigesmum
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 12:37pm
 
 
        
          | Great news! Congratulations!!!! Beautiful name! Can't wait to see some pics.
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 Posted By: daikini
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 1:46pm
 
 
        
          | Congratulations Helen and Josh! Welcome, Miya!
   
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 Posted By: Guests
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 2:28pm
 
 
        
          | AWESOME!!! Congrats that is a gorgeous name for your little girl  Glad to hear it all went well   |  
 Posted By: toniellis
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 3:05pm
 
 
        
          | Congrats HelenElla! Thats a beautiful name! Well done! Hope to be hearing the full, wonderful birth story soon   
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 Posted By: Kazzle
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 3:41pm
 
 
        
          | wow, congradulations to you and your family. 
 
 
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 Posted By: fattartsrock
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 4:00pm
 
 
        
          | Yay! congratulations!!! 
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 Posted By: aimeejoy
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 4:09pm
 
 
        
          | Congratulations!     
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 Posted By: lenabeanz
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 5:13pm
 
 
        
          |  Congratulations!!   
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 Posted By: angel
 Date Posted: 06 November 2005 at 6:59pm
 
 
        
          | C~O~N~G~R~A~T~U~L~A~T~I~O~N~S~!   
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 Posted By: newmum
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 7:40am
 
 
        
          | Finally!!!  Congratulations Helen and Josh!  Welcome Miya.  What a beautiful name!!!!   Another girl!!  We will need some more boys soon to keep Bailey and Joey company!
     
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 Posted By: lou
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 8:30am
 
 
        
          | Congratulations  
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 Posted By: preggy_sunflower
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 8:50am
 
 
        
          | Congratulations!!!  What a beautiful name   
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 Posted By: nikkitheknitter
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 8:56am
 
 
        
          | Yay!!!!! Happy family! Well done Helen.
 And beautiful name. I love the way Miya/Maia/Maya sounds. It's so pretty
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 Posted By: Southlandmummy
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:00am
 
 
        
          | Congratulations.. 
 All the best :)
 
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 Posted By: mum2paris
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:02am
 
 
        
          | Congrats to you and your family. Good to hear that things went well. Miya is a beautiful name!   
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 Posted By: Carmel
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:05am
 
 
        
          | Congratulations to you and Josh, love the name   |  
 Posted By: Tastic
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:14am
 
 
        
          | |  newmum wrote: 
 Finally!!!  Congratulations Helen and Josh!  Welcome Miya.  What a beautiful name!!!!
   Another girl!!  We will need some more boys soon to keep Bailey and Joey company!
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 I know.. too many girls now LOL
 Thats ok though.. Baileys already a ladys man
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 Posted By: jack_&_charli
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:27am
 
 
        
          | hehe Jack has 3 'girl' friends so when he is older, he will be sweet!!   
 he now has a 'boy' mate to play with though born yesterday...finally!
 
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 Posted By: fattartsrock
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 9:54am
 
 
        
          | My Jakes a bit of a "ladies man" already! lol! he holds hands with some of the girls at coffee group already, very cute.  I saw a tee shirt I am tempted to get, it has some little chickens on it, and says "chicks dig me" his father says he takes after him...(he wishes..) 
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 Posted By: Maya
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 1:00pm
 
 
        
          | Congrats! Love the name, but then I would be biased  . I considered Maya Rose for my Maya but ended up with Maya Grace. 
 
 
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 Posted By: AlyAyde
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 3:58pm
 
 
        
          | Congratulations!  Welcome Miya! 
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 Posted By: mumstheword
 Date Posted: 07 November 2005 at 4:06pm
 
 
        
          | Hey congratulations, I so love the name, Ivr just got out of hospital, yay ive benn in labour now for a week and a bit, on thurs my contractions whers o strong i thought it had to be time, but after 4 hrs of bad contractions they have died down to mild but sore contractions roughly 9mins apart, hanvt even dilated a mm so in home unlesss anything changes, i begged for 3 days 2 let me come hm and today they finally gave in... i just wish shed make her mind up.. in or out, if she does thuis much longer when she does fiannly arrive ill need to sleep for a month to catch up.... siiigggghhhhhh... 
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 08 November 2005 at 12:42pm
 
 
        
          | Congratulations!!!  I love the name too, we were considering Maia but maia marama is a bit too mmmmmm unfortunately!  Looking forward to some piccys! |  
 Posted By: Maya
 Date Posted: 08 November 2005 at 9:10pm
 
 
        
          | LOL Lizzle, Marama is part of my Maya's name (but not straight next to each other) 
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 3:49pm
 
 
        
          | yeah, but Maya's name fits together i think. |  
 Posted By: Maya
 Date Posted: 09 November 2005 at 7:39pm
 
 
        
          | LOL, my parents reckon she will curse me when she is older and filling out forms etc... 
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 Posted By: faewie
 Date Posted: 10 November 2005 at 10:11pm
 
 
        
          | I was thinking of maya for my baby if its a girl, maya bella rose,,, theres quite a few mayas around now!!! beautiful name for beautiful girls      congrats helen!!! 
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 11:48am
 
 
        
          | i love Bella too, but it was rejected for "sounding like a name for a horse".  My husband has some really strange ideas.  He likes very....ummmm..don't want to offend anyone, but plain names...Sarah, Emma, Emily...etc.  We have so far agreed on Lily if B2 is a girl, but i haven't brought it up again in case he changes his mind. 
 Weird though. I just found out my uncle Dennis isn't my uncle dennis after all.  My grandfather registered him as George when he was born, but my grandmother refused to call him George as she didn't like it, and he's been Dennis ever since...I only found out cause it's on his passport.
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 Posted By: nikkitheknitter
 Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 12:07pm
 
 
        
          | Judith... Aw, while it is causing you heaps of pain, I hope she stays in as long as possible!!! (Sorry) I want your girl to be happy and healthy.
 
 You are doing so damn well!!!
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 Posted By: faewie
 Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 5:15pm
 
 
        
          | lily is a great name, another fab girly name is nina, my friends 5 year old is a nina and shes so cute! lol Bella is after my partners ma and rose is after my ma, my ma however doesnt want me to name the baby after her... hmmmmm
   
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 Posted By: Xander&Harmony
 Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 10:10pm
 
 
        
          | u could always tell ur ma that u want baby to have the coolest midle name  
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 Posted By: Xander&Harmony
 Date Posted: 11 November 2005 at 10:11pm
 
 
        
          |  hmmm dnt no y my post was underlined hehe 
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 Posted By: faewie
 Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 1:59am
 
 
        
          | lol, thats right i could, good plan!!!  i was even thinking of spelling rose roze lol 
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 Posted By: Alan Mum
 Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 10:30am
 
 
        
          | Congrats on the new baby I agree with eveyone else what a lovely name. My Dad did not want me to call my son after him so we went with something from Peter's side, but I was talking to Dad the other day and told him the next boy was going to be "Harrison John Baker" my dad is "Henry John Harris"  Known as Harry so I thought Harrison was a good way of including my family name ( I am getting married in 4 week's so it won't look werid as I will be a Baker) hubby does not really like it, but he got to chose Alan and I did not really like that to start with (I love it now of course)so I am sticking to my gun's my next boy will be Harrison. ( we do how ever want a girl next)
 
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 12 November 2005 at 10:41pm
 
 
        
          | Hey i had a thought just now...is the baby Miya as in mai - a or miya as in meee- a? |  
 Posted By: nikkitheknitter
 Date Posted: 13 November 2005 at 12:08pm
 
 
        
          | hrmmmm... We need confirmation Helen. This will bug me until I find out now. (I really need a life  ) |  
 Posted By: newmum
 Date Posted: 14 November 2005 at 3:05pm
 
 
        
          | I thought it was Meee ya so was wondering why you guys were all going on about Maya/Maia.... 
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 Posted By: daikini
 Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 8:37am
 
 
        
          | I read it as My-ah, but I'm biased 'cause my daughter's name is said Ky-ah! 
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 12:18pm
 
 
        
          | I love both names anyway! |  
 Posted By: Xander&Harmony
 Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 2:18pm
 
 
        
          | i thought my-ah too i thought Kiya was kee-ya opps 
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 Posted By: daikini
 Date Posted: 15 November 2005 at 9:12pm
 
 
        
          | Most people who read her name without hearing it first think that, Becs.  We're both used to being asked how to say her name.  It's no big deal.  I've been asked heaps of times if her name is Maori - but there is no "y" in the Maori alphabet!   
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 Posted By: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 11:05am
 
 
        
          | Miya's name is said my-ah. Both Josh and I liked the way the name sounded but we thought the common spelling(mya) was a bit too boring so we had a look on the internet and decided to go with the Japanese spelling instead. I just thought it looked pretty spelt that way. Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, ajusting to juggling my two year old as well as Miya has been a bit time consuming since Miya won't sleep when Chloe does during the day. |  
 Posted By: newmum
 Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 11:45am
 
 
        
          | Good to hear from you though and get clarification!   
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 22 November 2005 at 3:59pm
 
 
        
          | Oh, i love it.  Mi in japanese means beautiful...it's a neat kanji if you can find it.  not sure about "ya" but can find out if you are interested. |  
 Posted By: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 4:30pm
 
 
        
          | I'd love it if you could find out what it means. I don't know anything about japanese I just went to a baby names web site and typed in the way we wanted to spell Miya and it came up saying it was japanese. |  
 Posted By: aimeejoy
 Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 4:41pm
 
 
        
          | Ooooh, hows everything going Helen? 
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 Posted By: mum2paris
 Date Posted: 23 November 2005 at 8:35pm
 
 
        
          | Great to see you Back Helen - can sympathise with the sleep thing - i alway shtought paris would be the one keeping me from having daytime sleeps - she's not, Ayja is the one that doesn't sleep - Paris sleeps all afternoon and Ayja decides she's tired just as Paris wakes up! Hang in there.   
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 Posted By: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 24 November 2005 at 5:52pm
 
 
        
          | Everythings going well thanks, a part from the sleep thing but thats expected. I've also learnt that I need to allow almost an extra hour just to get two kids ready rather than the usual 15minutes it used to take me. I will try and put a photo on as soon as I work out how. Aimee hows things with Hannah is she sleeping though the night yet? |  
 Posted By: aimeejoy
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 12:29pm
 
 
        
          | Glad things are going well Helen  Cant wait to see a photo. Hannah is doing really well. She is waking once at about 3am but only having a small feed and straight back down so Im only up for about 15mins! Hopefully she wont need that for much longer   
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 Posted By: newmum
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 12:42pm
 
 
        
          | Wow aimee that's great!!!!  Joey did that for a while too and then decided to sleep through (he sleeps from 8pm until 6am now, usually) I think he was about 9 weeks then... Good girl Hannah!!!
 
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 Posted By: aimeejoy
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 1:21pm
 
 
        
          | She sure is!    We have a pretty structured day which I think helps with a lot of awake time during the day and feeds well, so i guess she doesnt need it at night. 
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 Posted By: HelenElla
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 4:49pm
 
 
        
          | I have been having problems at night with Miya because she seems to decided she just wants to be awake at night. She sleeps a lot during the day and is impossible to keep awake but she was waking up about 12am and would stay awake til 330am then sleep til 630am she's usually asleep again about 7am and sleeps almost all day. We are now trying everything to keep her awake from 6-930pm then bathing her and putting her to bed and trying to use the controled sleeping method but I'm finding it so hard to stop myself from cuddling her. Last night she was finally asleep at 11pm then just woke up to feed at 330am then slept from 4 until 730am. it was like a dream! |  
 Posted By: aimeejoy
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 7:48pm
 
 
        
          | You feel soooo much better aye! Its amazing what sleep deprivation does to you - no wonder its a form of torture!!   
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 Posted By: mum2paris
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 9:30pm
 
 
        
          | what's even worse is juuuuusst getting to the beginning stage of sleep when all the nice dreamy sleep hormones have jsut been relased into your body - then hello, you're woken - and it actually feels worse than if you had just stayed awake co syou have all that sleepyness just sitting there. if that makes any sense.. 
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 Posted By: nikkitheknitter
 Date Posted: 25 November 2005 at 10:22pm
 
 
        
          | yep, mum told me when i first had hannah that it's not staying awake that kills ya but never actually being able to relax. 
 i think the form of torture they use is letting you drift off and waking yu at irregular intervals. sounds supisciously like a newborn's sleep patterns
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 Posted By: lizzle
 Date Posted: 26 November 2005 at 8:21am
 
 
        
          | Yeah, jake slept with me last night and slept really well, but he moves around so much, i was constantly woken up with a kick to the head.  Not impressed.  Woke up this morning almost in tears and thought "what the hell have I done having TWO of these".  I need my husband back!!!!     |  
 
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