Babies Born ~ September 2007 #54

[MamaPan]

hi everyone
MD - maybe the lack of af is a chemo related thing? your bosy has been through so much babe.. hope you are enjoying your well deserved massage - i am jealous!
Arte - that is sooo funny. gosh they come out with hilarious things! how did the check up go?
Oz - hoep you are enjoying your time with your mum. or that you are in immense pain right now...
MM - when do you go to bali? YAY! btw looking at the pics of M she doesnt look chubba to me, so i hope you arent still worried about that?
Noni - allok babe?
Kate - glad things are ok with ypu and Rory - is the counsellinghelping? LOL at the c/s cake!
Ange - hope Lu is OK
Clare - enjoy the last few days - have gelato, shop and eat... dotn envy your moving when you get back but soon you will be in your new house. YAY!
better go - am surpirsing muself with loads of housework today... on a bit of a roll so off i go to do some more.. and then to take J to the nruse for a head measurement

[MamaPan]

Gosh girls we are losing our mojo - we neverhave new posts!!!
Took J to the nurse - head is measuring well, been growing which is a good thing. was a nice nirse this time who made me feel i was doing everything right! love those ones! he has put on heaps of weight (is about 6.5kg now - cant believe it - over 2 times birth weight) so that's good.
His excema is quite bad, and i ordered some moo goo excema cream and the moisture cream so hoping that arrives soon and makes an improvement. she did mention that certain things in my diet can cause a flare up (it has def flared up in last few days) - tomatoe being one.. interesting as on my new diet i am eating lots more salad (mainly tomatoe and cucumber...). hmmmm. anyone know anything about this. she said strawbs may also cause it which is a bummer as they are v low ww points and i just bought 2 punnets!

[Junglemum]

MP- we have eczema issues too. Strawbs and toms are a trigger here, as well as soy and dairy. It is such a pita. Sas has eczema on her chin, shoulders, knees and elbows atm, so i am off everything as of today.

How was the massage MD? I am hanging for one, but dad is sailing in the world masters games so no such luck this week.

[MamaPan]

Oh Ange that's interesting - so do you just cut them out when she has a flare up? I think I will give toms a miss for a bit and see how we go. I havent had more dairy than usual but toms I def have...
I guess i should also cut out strawbs as they would have similar effect to toms. what a bummer!

[Junglemum]

Yeah, i do notice it is better when i avoid all those things. Strawbs were a big issue for Lu, i found out a large % of kids have allergies to strawbs. So we are just avoiding them as a precaution this time around. Ideally i wouldn;t have those things at all, but sometimes i have a binge, then por Sassy pays for it.

[Marydean]

MP - I've noticed Missy E goes a bit pink sometimes around the mouth after strawbs so I'm not surprised if they might set off ecxsema (sp?)...and tomatoes too (they set me off sometimes or if I have a lot of food high in food chemicals, eg spag bol one night followed by pizza the next and a packet of cheezels in there somewhere) so wouldn't be surprised. I wouldn't think cucumbers would be a prob tho, there's lots of nice salad veg without toms - just use pickled veg or gherkins if you want some tang in your salad instead.

Ange - I'm sorry I've missed the connection between your dad and massages...? Is he your personal masseuse...??? Is that weird or is it just me? Anyway the massage was FANTASTIC, totally went to the bliss zone, she had to tickle my feet to get me back again LOL. I see the same lady each time and it just gets better and better.

Arte - LOL at the messy house. That boy sure knows how to the air the laundry doesn't he

Just to clarify re the menopause thing - it's poss the chemo has switched off my ovaries (I've had a few other weird symptoms) which can either be temporary or permanent - hopefully temporary. In any case they'll put me on tamoxifen which creates an artificial menopause - but it's not always permanent either. I watched this thing on Oprah a few months ago where they showed that the main thing that makes women attractive to men is when they are fertile (ie OESTROGEN) and since the hormone replacement path is lost to me forever, I'm hoping for the sake of my DH that I've got a few years of fertility in me yet, despite all of that. I'm not ready to enter my crone years yet . It's hard enough losing a boob without losing your mojo permanently as well.

ETA - Kate meant to say good to hear from you, sweetie. Sounds like you're doing a good job of getting DP onto the same page as you.

Arte if you type montessori site:.bellybelly.com.au into your google search bar it will spit out a list of all the threads on BB about Montessori and save you trawling through the forum looking for them.

Clare hope you sucking all the juice out of your last few days in Bella Italia...so exciting that you'll be moving when you get home, big job but nothing like moving back into your very own special place called HOME!!!!

[Trillian]

Hey MD the weird AF thing could be because the chemo stops cell growth too, so you wouldn't have built up much of a lining to shed in the first place kwim? So you can't do HRT because of the tamoxifen? I hope that everything is all just temporary. I am jealous of your massage though

Ange, Alister can have strawberries, but not a lot of tomato or otherwise he flares up too.

Kate I can't wait to see it - your birthday cake was a doozy! I'm glad that you and DH are talking things through

Arte, so do you still have the new pets? That's great that he is sleeping so well now for you.

MP great to hear that his noggin is growing as it should be he sure is getting so big now! When Alisters eczema was realy bad as a baby he got prescribed Celestone M cream and it really did the trick. I persevered with all the natural alternatives first but it got to the point where they just weren't making a difference when it was at it's worst. I've had to start using it again on him actually. I think all the pollen about has made it flare up as he seems to get a bit of hayfever.

I have been about the place but just not much time to post. We are all well though. Erin's 7th birthday is thursday and I had to go to wagga for a dermo appt that day - wanted wednesday but realised the receptionist wrote thursday instead so its a good thing I checked the apointment card! Anyway we decided that I would take the girls with me and have a girls day out for her birthday and take her shopping for her present (ipod - which is also why I wanted it the day before so I could buy it) and then have a nice lunch. Also ordered a cake at Michels pastisserie because I dont' have time to make one for her.

Had to go into town today to pick up MIL who took their car to be serviced and made a quick trip into target and had to buy one of those Santa chocolates - you know the ones, like the cadbury easter rabbits? Because the little bugger opened it, but I caught him in time and put it back and the checkout lady and I were joking about it and then I looked around and here he is with the same one again biting the top off it!!! Lucky they don't cost much LOL. Then when I dropped MIL off at home the older three wanted to stay so they had the afternoon there and FIL dropped them off at 5! so I was nearly all day without them. Not that I got much done that I was supposed to do Oh and I'm a bit excited because I laybyed a timber cubby house for the girls and Alister for Christmas for only $599 down from $1099!!! it was at climbingframes (google it) and I just couldnt' pass it up at that price. Plus they deliver out here too!

[Junglemum]

MD- Dad is a massage therapist, has been for about 20 years! So yep my own personal massuer.

[~Kate~]

Which cubby did you get Trill? They look awesome and great prices as well!

[Cassius2]

hello girls!

MP: wow, that is great news about Js head doing some growing. must be relieving, and to top it off having a good MACH nurse on your side. and 6.5kgs! WTG!!

MD: yeah, in my totally non research opinion (always the best ) i vote that it is a side effect of the chemo...what sherie said seems to have some sway...hmmmmm...

ange: oooohhhh i wish i had a family member who was a massuese! THAT IS AWESOME.

sherie: te he he on the chocolate monster! i can soo relate. leila is a chupa chup thief...

that sounds like a good price for the cubby. i really want to get one for leila...but will have to wait and see how the garden works first in the new house.

Arte: ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! your boy is a crack up!!!

AFM: all good here. the last 3 days have been fun! although the night ended with me going psycho at DHs brother. like massive. oh well.
has been storming massive here as well. loads of lightening and some flooding. so exciting. especially because MIL lives in a mountain village so we get to live in a cloud! so cool.
leila is having a ball, she just loves italy and all the food. not to mention all the italian boys . she has made a few boy friends while she has been here LOL!

[Ginger]

hi everyone

trill- lewis has done the 'bite the chocolate in the shop' thing to me so many times it's not even funny! yesterday i was in the kidswear shop 'gumboots' and he quickly grabbed and bit into something that looked like one of those ferrero rocher chocolares, you know with the gold wrapping? well turns out it was actually a lipgloss wrapped like a ferrero rocher! he was not impressed, i ended up buying him an ice cream to help get the taste out of his mouth
i must go check out those cubbies

md- you are one hot mumma who will always have mojo even when you are toothless and 90

ange- hmmm you failed to mention that 10 hours sleep when i spoke to you last, probably cos you knew i would start crying!!!!

ooohhh bbl, j crying xoxo

[Junglemum]

Don't worry G- it didn't happen again.

TRILLIAN- OMG i only just realised you changed my av to 2 bewdiful gals. Thanks so much. MWAH. Got to love being friend with people in high places. I didn't even have to tell you! Thanks. x

[Leemar]

Hi Hot Mumma's

Trill- Livi loves chocolate here too..lol cubby sounds great
Clare- glad your having a fun
Ange- you lucky girl I could sure do with a massage right now.
MD I agree with Ginger your a hot mumma
OZ- Hummmm wonder if there is any news yet

AFM- We are off down the coast next weekend and spending a kid free weekend at the
casino.... how romantic well not really we are going with my cousin Sandy and her DH for the Indy... Whilst the boys are playing Sandy and I will be shopping and playin the pokies. lol DH leaves tomorrow for Perth and will be home on Saturday sometime. Kids are all good Livi is talking up a storm and the boys are ok. Jordy has been a little blocked up again in poo situation so had him back at the pedatrician back on the movicol and has had some major explosions so blockage seems to be disappearing.

Hello to everyone and have a wonderful day

[Trillian]

G! That would have been so funny! Well not for L I suppose but some of them do look good enough to eat LOL.

Kate, it is the Selwood adventure cubby.

LOL Ange, you're more than welcome.

Clare, Alister loves chuppa chups too and it is either those or the chocolate. At least with the chuppa chups he makes sure he gets one for all of us LOL.

Leanne have a great time and I hope the kids stay well.

Is anyone else having their head done in by the constant "Why?" it's driving me mental, but terribly cute at the same time LOL. Now when I ask him 'why' he answers 'because!' because I often say in reply to his why, "because I said so"

[MamaPan]

LOL Trill that is soooo funny... I dont get why but i get 'what does this do, MUMMY' all the time. and 'what is X doing MUMMY'. also 'where has X gone MUMMY'. Hilarious. he hs also started to call me 'Ima' (mum in hebrew" when he realy wants ti get my attention - in a special whiney voice that I thinnk my mum taught him. i am v impressed he has worked out the rleationships in our family - ie Booba (grandma) in mummy's mum. uncle muchael is Daddy's brother... pretty clever if you ask me!
Leeanne - enjoy your girly time.. shopping!!! love it..
Clare - lol at the boyfriends... does she take after mummy??? the idea of the big strms in the moutain village sound gorgeous. are yo bringing excess baggage home?
Off to WW today, wonder if i have lost anything.. i am not sure... (think i may have cheated a bit and could do with more exercise)
Poor J kept waking last night, thik his excema was bothering him so i moistursed finally at 5am.. and he went back to sleep. that moo goo cant arrive soon enough.
I just ordered a play ring for J - never had one for N but J seems to love sitting up... hope it arrives in time to take it to the coast.
Am lookin for a car tpy for N - anyone have anything good?

[Trillian]

LOL PP, I bet it was your Mum. Erin always preferred to be sitting upright as she was such a stickybeak as a baby and had to be able to see everything that was going on. I did want to get one of those ring things but could never convince DH it was a good idea. We just have small board books in the car for Alister because anything that makes noise drives me mental when I'm driving. They came in a little bag and I can sling it over the arms of his maxi rider so he can put them in and out himself and he reads and chatters away.

[Isadora]

Its a GIRL!!!!!

Little baby 'Zoe' arrived at 5.35am this morning, after a 3.5 hour labour. 7lb 13oz & 56cm long. Katie had a bit of bleeding so will be staying overnight, otherwise all is fine.

YAYYYYY CONGRATULATIONS Katie & well done on the 3.5 hour labour!!!

[MamaPan]

YAY! Soooo exciting!
Congrats Katie and welcome to the world Zoe!
I cant wait to hear more....
Our little family is growing again! xxxxxxxxxx