Jan/Feb/Mrch 2012 Momies to Be

It been a very long time since I've posted. Life has been very hectic.

Glad to hear that all the babies are doing well.

Taylin is 11 weeks weighing 4.5kg. I am still breastfeeding doing much better than with Zaylee. She is such cutie pie and a real mommies girl, she cries when people take her to hold her. I'm also back at work but I bring her with me.

I just have Question for the ladies that are pumping. I'm 100% sure how to start. Could please give me some advice on how you pump and breastfeed, I'm worried that if I pump I wont have enough milk for the next feed. How often do you pump?

Simone - You have gorgeous kids. I also dont receive email anymore.

Took the girls this morning for their injections. Really not fun having 2 of them having them at the same time.

Here are the kids



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It been a very long time since I've posted. Life has been very hectic.

Glad to hear that all the babies are doing well.

Taylin is 11 weeks weighing 4.5kg. I am still breastfeeding doing much better than with Zaylee. She is such cutie pie and a real mommies girl, she cries when people take her to hold her. I'm also back at work but I bring her with me.

I just have Question for the ladies that are pumping. I'm 100% sure how to start. Could please give me some advice on how you pump and breastfeed, I'm worried that if I pump I wont have enough milk for the next feed. How often do you pump?

Simone - You have gorgeous kids. I also dont receive email anymore.

Took the girls this morning for their injections. Really not fun having 2 of them having them at the same time.

Here are the kids



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It been a very long time since I've posted. Life has been very hectic.

Glad to hear that all the babies are doing well.

Taylin is 11 weeks weighing 4.5kg. I am still breastfeeding doing much better than with Zaylee. She is such cutie pie and a real mommies girl, she cries when people take her to hold her. I'm also back at work but I bring her with me.

I just have Question for the ladies that are pumping. I'm 100% sure how to start. Could please give me some advice on how you pump and breastfeed, I'm worried that if I pump I wont have enough milk for the next feed. How often do you pump?

Simone - You have gorgeous kids. I also dont receive email anymore.

Took the girls this morning for their injections. Really not fun having 2 of them having them at the same time.

Hi ladies

For some reason I dont get email notifications anymore....so assumed Moomie was dead!! lol...until I eventually came to check for myself.

Cookie Monster...wow...people think Josh is big (he is!) and he was 7kgs @ 14 weeks. I remember when i took him for 6 week shots I saw a baby there also probably for 6 weeks shots...she was TINY, but Josh already looked like 2-3 months.lol. Our big boys! How do you manage with pumping at work? My pump is so loud...I sit in office feeling so embarrassed....lol.

Juandre Addison was also a tummy sleeper. JOsh prefers back though...but ya you have monitor and all that...so peace of mind:) Nice weight gain!

Amanda...lovely post:) How is little Vica doing?

Lumine so glad you found out about the formula...shame man...poor thing. hope she's doing better since swopping formula?? I was looking at the pics of Tallulah with her big sisters...you have a beautiful family:)

Jolene...lol @ having condensed milk! So glad breast feeding is going well.

Seems a lot of the moms are BF their kiddies here:) I read somebody said they had a nice cover for BF? But I cant see who it was now.... wish i bought that sooner...not sure how long I will BF. Its crazy pumping at work.... I may BF another 2-4 months though...maybe still worth it to get the cover i wonder??

Welcome Miss Kay:)

I cant seem to open the pics:( Can you guys not click 'insert' when you upload pics, then I'll be able to view directly in post..... Really wanna see the cute pics of the little ones!!

Carlene...lol re: smiles. Addison was the same...mense she could dish out dirty looks though!!! Joshua?? TOTAL opposite...will smile and walk away with kidnappers! lol.

I'm well. Had gallbladder removed like 3 weeks ago...recovered well luckily:)

My kids are great...Addison was so worried when i returned to work on Monday: 'who will look after my blover??? I wont go to school so I can look after him!' (crying!). Her dad had to reassure her the nanny would look after him just as she looked after her.

Joshua is a JOY! He USED to sleep soooo well..8pm-6am. But as murphy would have it, since I'm back at work this week...he has been waking at 12 for a feed! EISH! Starting him on cereal this weekend...my friend says he is a big boy so perhaps he is hungrier....so we'll see how it goes. He'll be 4 months tomorrow.

Otherwise the happiest most joyful baby. Not needy at all...he sits in his bumbo or lies laughing at the sky! No crying unless u've gone way passed his feeding or sleep time..and I assure u he will still smile at some point during the crying:) He is a real light in my life...along with Addison of course....and hubby!

My husband is AMAZING! He still gets up at night this week now that Josh wakes for a feed...after my op he let me rest for 2 weeks...he did everything for the kids and me...even cleaned my cuts every night:) I dont know what i did to deserve such a good man.

Here are some pics of my 2.

Good morning,

And I'm back at work as of yesterday NOT COOL. But ja i need the money for these two monkeys of mine.
Wow i am tired today, didnt think working and having 2 babies would be this much work.

Work called me on Thursday and asked if i am willing to come back earlier, told them its fine as long as i work half days till my maternity leave is up.

Juandre, Keira is such a gorgeous little baby and she is growing and picking up weight nice and fast.

Cant believe how fast our babies are growing. Logan will be 3 months on the 30 Jan

AFU: Logan went for his 10week injections last week, and he weighs a wooping 7.01kg and is 68cm tall. Lol the nurse thought he was 6months when she saw him. Her face was priceless when i said he is coming for his 10 week injections. Logan and Zelmari are both at the same daymother half day at the moment, and i have notice Zelmari becoming even more clingy. I feel so bad for her, even though she gets a lot more attention than Logan does.

Logan is such a honey, he doesnt like to be held and if you do hold him it must be so that he can see the world. So i just put him in his car seat and i carry on playing with Z and cleaning the house. He will only moan if something is bothering him. He struggles with winds still and throws up alot of milk. When does the stage end.

i am still breastfeeding, Yippee for me and will carry on for as long as my poor boobs can handle that breast pump. Expressing milk is no easy task at work. i can only express enough for one feed here. The other bottle is a formula bottle.

Anyway its very quiet on the thread but i take it everyone is enjoying their little bundles of joy.

Chat again soon

Heather

Hi Ladies,

Just a quick post as Keira will be waking for a feed soon.

SHe is now 4.1kg, that is 1.2kg in a month so proud of her!!! She groans alot especially in her sleep and seems uncomfortable. So yesterday I took her to a Body Stress Release Practitioner and she slept so quietly last night. The treatment is very similar to a Chiro but they treat baby whilst baby is on your chest.
Regarding sleeping positions- all my girls have slept on their tummy's. They seems most comfortable like that. I have an angel care monitor with sensor pad so it makes me feel a little better about it. My clinic sister said 2 of her 4 kids were tummy sleepers and she doesnt have a problem with it.

I will post again soon... keep well moomies

Saw this online, so nice:

I copied and pasted. The original link is at the bottom.


Good moms vaccinate their kids. Good moms don't vaccinate their kids.

Good moms breastfeed. And yes, good moms formula feed.

Good moms home school their children. And good moms send their kids to public or private school.

Good moms tend to their babies every cry. And good moms wait a moment to see if baby will soothe itself instead.

Good moms co-sleep. And good moms use cribs. A lot of good moms do a bit of both.

Good moms have hospital births. Good moms have home births. And some good moms have side-of-the-highway, back-of-the-car births!

Good moms adopt too.

Good moms have natural births. Good moms have epidurals. Good moms have cesareans.

Good moms have 10 kids. Good moms have one.


Good moms use cloth diapers. Good moms use disposable diapers.

I think you get my drift.

There are a lot of good moms out there. I know because I meet them nearly everywhere I go. Moms who are sacrificing themselves every day for their children. Sacrificing themselves in tiny ways that mean nothing to the world and everything to their child. Nurturing and nourishing their families. Making hard decisions, weighing the latest facts and traditional wisdom through their own lens of hopes and fears and experiences.

And sometimes, yes, doing things differently from you and I.

I see moms tearing each other down over these things. I've even participated in it. And it's wretched. Throughout history woman have learned how to mother from other moms. And today, instead, we seem more bent on teaching each other how not to parent. That isn't the same thing.

Here are some things I've discovered while observing these "mommy-wars."

1. Doing things differently from you is not a comment on your parenting. I made this mistake. I teased and discouraged a dear friend for choosing a home birth because I thought that all her reasons and evidence and facts and resources were meant as an attack on my decision for a hospital birth. Afterwards I realized that she was sharingher reasons, not trying to influence mine. I selfishly berated a good friend when I should have been cheering her on.

I'm sorry, friend.

2. An intelligent, loving mother can consider the same facts as you and still come to a different conclusion. I've been on the receiving end of this one many times. Some people assume that because I haven't made the same decision as them I must be stupid or evil. They think they are being charitable by assuming it's the first of the two and try to change my mind by telling me facts I've already heard and read in a condescending and demeaning tone.

Let's not assume that if somebody has come to a different conclusion from us that they have not examined the facts.

3. What is best for the family is often best for the baby. I believe that cloth diapers are best. I think they are best for baby, best for the environment, and sometimes better on the pocket book. Plus, they are so darn cute! We used them with our first two children. But our community has time-of-use pricing for electricity, meaning that I only have a few waking hours each day in which I can do laundry and with 5 kids I have a lot of laundry. So for our family it made more sense for us to use disposable diapers (even though I consider them inferior). Trust me, the time I spend sleeping instead of laundering is best for everybody in the house. It's a give and take. I had to choose what was best for the whole family.

Just to be clear, there are some issues where we do need to draw clear lines in the sand. For example, abuse is always wrong. Formula feeding isn't.

4. These are important topics, worth discussing. That is exactly why we need to choose our words carefully. Moms should gather together to discuss the risks and rewards of immunizations or the best way to potty train. But polarizing the issue and shaming the other side doesn't encourage conversation, it destroys it. Let's keep the conversation going by asking questions and sharing experiences instead of condemning and criticizing!



Motherhood is hard. Our children require more from us that we ever knew we could give. They rely on us for safety, turn to us for answers, long for our nurturing touch even when our bodies are exhausted and our hearts are weary. Mother hood is really really hard...



...and amazing.

Let's not make it any harder for each other than it needs to be. And if you have a friend who is a good mama, make sure you tell her that you think so. I bet you it's exactly what she needs to hear.


Thank you for letting me share my two cents. What are your thoughts on the "mommy wars"? Have you been wounded by well-meaning moms with different opinions?

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