August-September 2010 Moms

Ladies I am feeling so exhausted.

I hate to complain, and I feel I have done a lot of that lately.
But my girl does not want to play on her own. I can only leave her doing something for 5 minutes max at a time and then she starts crying.
I do not get a chance to do anything during the day without having an unhappy girl and I hate to leave her when she's unhappy.

How am I ever meant to find a job or study like this? I have 3 assignments due in 2 weeks time and have only been through one chapter of one of the modules.

We took R20 000 out of our bond this month to cover expenses, and cannot really afford to do so - this is our savings money instead of retirement fund so all our hard earned money is disappearing fast so I need to find a job asap but wont do so if I cant even spend time applying for them.

Wow is me. I'm thinking of starting my anti depressants again, I am just feeling so overwhelmed by the stress of everything.

Kerry, Iz loves peekaboo! She now started giving us kisses when we ask! Is so cute!!!!! Sulke oopbek sop soene.

Today is the day I'm going to get sushi! Come hell or high water!

Hahaha I can just imagine your poor hubby fighting K off.

Iz is still on 180ml bottles???? She ate 2 happies of sweet potatoe yesterday!!! My girly is almost back!!!!!

She eventually ate at 12... with her feed before that being her 3:30a, morning feed... I don't know what it was but when i got home she was fine... hubby says she was looking for boobie on him and crying whe he wouldn't let her suckle!

Kaelyn also went for her 6 month checkup on tuesday, nothing to report though, all is well, she is still on her usual growth line on her chart Paediatrician is still outstadingly happy with her progress.

little one dropped most of her feeds now and only has 4 feeds a day, at 3am, then at 7:30, then 1:30 then bedtime (7ish) and we have two solid meals a dat one at 8:30 ish and one at 6pm



Shame Eileen it never ends does it - maybe your mom or dad could go with you?

Say have you girls tried peek-a-boo with baby yet? The last week or so Kaelyn and i have about a 20 minute session, it ellicits peals of delicious laughter from her and i just cant get enough of it! (apparently neither can she). So i told DH about it and he tried it yesterday morning with the same result. even when she was miserable!

Hi gals,

Its war zone in the Belcher household. I took Abigail to the doc, sinusitus, laringitus, middle ear infection and bronchitis. Lovely! They in the middle of exams! So I had to go the the school to make arrangements for her to write next week. Also no ballet, with SA champs 6 weeks away the ballet teacher was not very happy.

Iz is doing much better. She started coughing much more yesterday, and her antibiotics is finished so to rather be on the safe side I took her back to the paed this morning. He is very impressed. Stressed again how sick she really was on monday and that he should have admitted her, but we good parents for getting her through it. He did however send us for physio. Which my baby slept through .

Iz got her first purple bruise on her forehead last night! She now mastered the art of rolling at a speed that would make wonderwoman look like a snail. So she rolled into the TV cabinet head first.

Seems I'm now in line for this flu. Feeling very gaga. Been dosing myself with Vit C and Degorans.

DH phoned me this morning with some more bad news, however I'm in denial, I just don't have the strength to deal with the full effect of it yet. Maybe next week I will be strong enough to face it. You all know we going to the SA champs in Rustenburg from 8-17 April.....well, seems DH can't go with anymore. So I'll be facing SA Champs with 3 kids alone. About 800-900km from home.

I have to run, fetching Grace from hockey practice. I'll do personals a bit later.

Ciao

KerryA - I'm sure LO is fine... I would call though if you're worried. Maybe her gums are worrying her?

BabyKsmom - I am so glad everything is going well with John. I heard Dr L is brilliant. My friends LO goes to him. Evan is with Dr Vala also at olivedale. He is very sweet but a bit dotty I think. He always starts a sentence with "As I was saying..." He is very sweet though and Evan likes him. I wanted to change paeds and go to Dr Li because he is apparently excellent as well but DH said I should stay. We actually live around the corner from Olivedale so when i was about to pop I joked that if the traffic was bad I could walk there!

Sounds like John is doing very well! Evan also enjoys his solids. He has between 3 & 4 x 210ml bottles a day now. I have let him try small tastes of my food like a little piece of toast crust etc. When we drink or eat anything in front of him his mouth opens for a taste.

Eileen how's LO today?

Oh shame Kerry Maybe she is just not hungry? Poor K.
No I say phone your mil, you are her mom, you have a right to call as many times as you want to find out if she is drinking her bottle or not

Eileen, did you have sushi? I have been craving it so much too. Must get some soon....
Ja don't stress about the solids. First of all I've heard that most girls aren't ready for solids until 6 months anyways and also John's been on solids since 4 months and I am giving him more things as he indicates that he is hungry or curious or both. All babies are different, you're not doing anything wrong

We went to the paed for his 6-month check-up yesterday. All fine. He is more than happy with him. Says it doesn't matter that he is not rolling from back to tummy yet, that is apparently quite varied among babies.

And I can drop a milk feed now if he indicates that he doesn't want as much milk, since I'm giving him 3 solid meals a day. So the last few days he hasn't wanted to finish his mid morning or mid afternoon bottle so I thought I'd try from today. Incidentally he didn't finish his early morning bottle so I gave the rest of it (about 80ml) to him at about 11am and he was fine afterwards, didn't cry like he was hungry and now he has been napping for about 45 minutes. I will give him his fruit when he wakes and then we'll do afternoon bottle later and see - its a breastmilk bottle and will be about 180ml so he might drink the whole thing or leave some. He always finishes his evening bottle though.

My paed says I can start giving him yogurt, full cream, plain or the kiddies ones that are flavoured and also some soft cheese like laughing cow cheese or kiri cheese. I asked him if its ok to give that before a year since its cows milk but he said its not the same, its not pasteurised like cows milk so its ok to give to him.

I really like my paed, he is Dr Leschner at Olivedale. Does anyone else go to him?

See even the computer system thinks its quiet! It posted my message twice to try make up for it