Looking for Good Luck in March - Sept 2007 - Page 3

[mrsb422]

Plaid at the breast size comment. These kids come out with the funniest stuff.
Katie at the carbs – I hear ya. I have GOT to stop eating with Marty or at least stop eating what he is eating because I’m never going to get over the pregnancy weight otherwise. NOT looking forward to losing that!! I understand what you’re saying about the patterns…I’m not familiar with the process.

I feel yucky today. I just want to puke. My tummy is so upset. I also pulled a muscle in my shoulder while trying to wipe my tush…yeah, I pregnancy. It’s funny and horrible all at once.

Marty is such a sweetie these days. He kisses my belly, unprompted, all the time. It makes my heart swell and I hope my boys are just as close when they’re both on the outside . Missing him so much today…work is taking forever

[Plaid Leopard]

Mrsb - I hope you are feeling better.

Katie - I hope all works out with the garage door.

Sabo - that's so nice of Aili to want to share your/her milk with you. Today Yann said my milk was good and tasted like cake. No wonder he wants to nurse round the clock.

I was looking in the freezer was trying to decide what to make for dinner tonight, and Yann saw a box of fish sticks and decided we should have that. He tried to eat a frozen one but I said we had to cook them.
Then he went and got 6 of of those plastic IKEA kid's plates and set them around the table. " Here mama place. Here Ezza place. Here Papa place...." For the whole fifteen minutes the fish sticks were in the oven he sat in fron tof his plate and said " I want fiss ticks! Why you haf cook dem? I want fiss ticks! Dey ready now! I want fiss ticks! Dey ready now?"

I should be asleep but I am hungry.

May you all have a lucky day tomorrow!

[*jeanine*]

[Sabo]

Oh, Katie, we all have moments like that. I hope that the repairs don't cost too much.
mrsb, ouch! Feel better. I know how work taking forever goes. It seems that I get home, eat dinner, and then it's Aili's bedtime.

fiss ticks!

This morning, when Aili woke up, I went in her room and she wanted some milka milk, so she nursed and then after she nursed for a while, she said, "Pee pee, Mama," but went right back to nursing. I asked if she needed to go potty and she didn't answer. I asked several times over the next couple of minutes and when she finally did pull off, she sat up in the bed and said, "Once upon a time, Mama loved pee pee potty."

[~Katie~]

That's adorable about fiss ticks and mama loved pee pee potty!

It's going to take a while to fix the door, in the meantime lets hope nobody steals anything out of my open garage. Liam is being a total monster today, he pushed Laine into the wall and made her hit her head. After I got her calmed down he did it again a little while later. She isn't sleeping because of teething, and I am a not a happy camper when I'm sleep deprived. And AF is here again I feel like all I ever do is complain but it just seems like life is getting worse and worse. At least by this time next month I'll have a husband again and he can handle the madness. I just need to mentally check-out for a while.

[nikkihoi]

Stopping by

Hi Everyone!!!
I can't believe how many of you are still here. How lovely!
Well, I haven't been to mdc in a long time but I recently had a reason to come back and join another DDC! Crazy! Not such a tight unit as I remember this group having so I thought of you and decided to check and see if you were still around. Glad to see that you are!

Life has been a blessing and a challenge with Marshall. He is quite spirited! And wonderful. However, we are still having sleep challenges that I'm praying will settle (they have to!) if this baby sticks.

Anyway, glad to see everyone is well.

Peace and
Nicole

[~Katie~]

Hey Nicole! Thanks for checking in with us and congratulations on your pregnancy! I know what you mean about the second DDC being a little different, but I've found a couple of women that I've gotten close with as time goes on. I think our group has gotten as close to best friends as people over the internet can get Keep in touch and let us know how you're doing, are you still blogging?

[SweetTexasgal]

Nicole and congratulations on the little one on the way!!

Oh Katie I hope this month passes quickly for you. Good sleep vibes for you and Miss Laine.


Heather-so glad to hear that Iain is back at home and healing. Hope your headache eased...I can only imagine it was the stress of the week catching up with you now that you all are back home.


Lucy had her montessori interview today and Katie you were right....she suprised the heck out of me and took the teachers hand....waved and said "buh-bye Mama". I was able to peek on her from another room and was delighted to see her get busy working with the teachers. I was so proud and a bit sad at the same time....she looked like such a big girl.

[Plaid Leopard]

Hi Nicole! Congratulations on your pregnancy!!!

Michelle- Glad all went well at the Montessori interview. It is bittersweet how they grow and become more independent.

Katie- hugs to you. It will all be better soon.

Dh has a job interview next week (for the job in Cambridge). Keep your fingers crossed pleased.

[mommajb]

Just a fly-by to say that I will get the post card list out later today or at least that is the plan. If you haven't already please get me your address if you want in on it.

[*jeanine*]

I want in. PM'ing you here.

[mommajb]

postcards:

Plaid
Katie
jeanine
leanbh
sweetTXgal
FG

anyone else?

ETA

Jessica, did you send in your address? I had you on my mental list but I can't find you on the 'puter.

[mommajb]

I pm'd the post card list.

[~Katie~]

I should not have used ice cream as a bargaining chip last night when cutting Liam's hair. He's hyperactive today and woke up with eczema The digestive enzymes are clearly not doing their job. I am exhausted from being jumped on and yelled at all day. Is it bed time yet?

Better news is that Laine slept from about 11:30 until 8am. I woke up thinking my boobs were going to explode and was leaking everywhere. More sleep is definitely appreciated right now.

[mrsb422]

Plaid at Yann and the fish sticks. That’s too funny. Did he eat them once they were ready? Marty’s classic for demanding something weird and then refusing to eat it once it’s ready. for your DH’s interview

Sabo at Aili. Marty does the “Once upon a time…” thing all the time. I have no idea where he got that from. We don’t even have any books that start that way. He loves this stupid Clifford movie that’s on Netflix and he keeps going “Once upon a time there was Clifford.” Every time I put it on. Where do they get this stuff from??

Katie I hope once Andrew comes home you’re able to get the break you need. Readjusting won’t be easy for him either. I wish we were closer geographically…I think we’d all be pitching in right about now so you could have some R&R of your own. Yay for sleep but boo for eczema – I’m so sorry about that. It’s hard to see their skin flare up like that – it just looks painful. The hyperactivity is another lovely side effect. Marty does the same thing when he’s had too much food coloring, especially blue. Should be great today since we all know yellow and blue make green!! Grr.

Nikki Hello and congratulations!! IKWYM about the new DDC…I didn’t really click with mine either. It just isn’t the same as this one When are you due?

Michelle for you and Lucy on the Montessori interview. I’m so glad it went well. It is bittersweet to see them so grown-up and independent, but it means you’re doing a good job . That’s what I keep telling myself anyway

Mommajb I was planning on being in on the post cards. If I’m too late, that’s ok, I’m sure there will be a next time. If not too late, let me know and I’ll message you my address.

Having some major behavioral issues with DS and that’s resulting in some serious arguments with DH. He lectured me for about 30 minutes last night (and yes, I mean lecture – there was no back and forth, only me being “told”) about how I don’t discipline DS firmly enough. I went to pick him up at school and he took off across the playground and hid. It took 2 different teachers to get him out from where he was hiding and then I took TV away for the night which didn’t even seem to phase him. Last time he did this he was distraught over the TV, but this time he hardly even noticed . DH’s big solution? “Jess, you just need to give him a whack to let him know you mean business. Grab him, make him come with you and then whack him when you get home.” How is this ok?? How can he even be suggesting this? When I mentioned my temporary physical limitations right now he just looked at me like he couldn’t even believe I was “making excuses” and said “That’s only for another month, not forever.” No, it’s not forever. Forever I’ll have another child in tow and this is new behavior that needs to be taken care of now. Hitting is not an option. I refuse to do it. My poor baby boy. I don’t know what is going on or why he’s reacting so negatively toward me. Then this morning he didn’t want me to leave and they had to literally remove him from my body so I could go to work after 30 minutes of crying and “Mommy don’t leave!” This just sucks.

[Sabo]

Nicole!
Katie, so sorry about Liam being so hard to handle yesterday. I hope that he has settled into a happy calm today. I wonder if Aili is having some dietary issues lately. She won't sleep. I'm not talking about napping. I'm talking about nightime sleep. She had been consistently sleeping through the night for months and going to bed well but recently she's been very difficult about going to sleep and has been waking twice a night, staying awake for over an hour for each of those sessions. I am a good mother, but at 4 in the morning, I am not a very good mother. I actually had a temper tantrum when I tried to sneak out of the room at 4:40 and she called me back (yes, you read that right; I had a stomping, screeching moment ) Dh relieved me then, but she's not even tired the next day after this kind of night. I would just fall asleep in her room, but I can't do it. Saturday mornings, I can doze in there, but at 4, I just lay awake waiting to go back to bed. So frustrating and exhausting.

mrsb, I share some of the same kinds of difficulties as you do with my dh. The other night he asked when she was old enough to spank her for lying. I try to explain to him that we don't get spanked for lying and if we want to teach her that hitting people is wrong, spanking her would not further that message. Besides that, when Aili does lie, she immediately admits that it was a lie. She likes to say that she has to go potty after going to bed so that she can leave the bedroom. Like I said before, so frustrating and exhausting.

[Plaid Leopard]

ugh! Remember that neighbour I was talking about who was telling "stories"?
She called me up this morning to politely tell me that she felt I was manipulative and abusing her hospitality. Manipulative, because my son called her last Thursday to see if her son was going to Ping Pong (she always gives DS a ride too) and then he called again on Friday to see if they were free to get together.
I am abusing her hospitality because we usually go to her house and I don't invite them around here. I have had them over, and I have had just her kids over a few times, but lately we have just been going to their house because well, she keeps inviting us - of her own accord. Plus, there is only the living room for the 7 kids to play in here (The three older kids share a bedroom and there is barely room to walk in there, then there is our bedroom, and the third room is the office/schoolroom), and the weather has been too nasty for them to play in the muddy back yard. I always take a homemade cake or cookies when we go there if I can, or other storebought stuff if I don't have time to bake. The phone call ended on a fairly positive note. I apologized for stuff I felt I should apologize for and defended myself on accusations I felt were out of order. Oh well, now that the weather is better and the yard is drying out I can have her kids over from time to time. Not sure I'll be pursuing this "friendship" with her, though.

[Plaid Leopard]

Mrsb and Sabo I understand about partners not being on the same discipline page. Fortunately Dh does not believe in spanking though.
Dinner is burning. Must go.

[sanguine_speed]

Ahem...

Hi all!

What a wonderfully tight group you've remained. I'm sorry I haven't been able to keep up.

But I suppose circumstances find me back here to catch up because I'm living a bit of a 'deja vu'.

You might recall my son was born in July 2007, at 34 weeks after my water broke at 33 weeks. He was breech. I fought for, and 'won' a vaginal breech birth.

Here I am again, mamas. 35 weeks now, however, with no signs of labour yet. But with another breech.

I gained so much strength from your support back then, and I am so grateful.

The birthing climate has changed a bit and in 2009, the professional association of OBGYNs in Canada issued new guidelines for breech that make it easier for me to access a qualified and willing catcher. My midwife is extremely supportive and has been assisting in breech births at her affiliate hospital, where I will have to go to deliver.

Mourning the loss of a home birth (thought this would finally be it), and the long travel to this hospital (I pass 4 others to get there, and depending on time of day could be 1 1/2 hours to get there IN LABOUR. I went from 4cm to fully dilated in one hour last time.

Just like last time, I know this baby isn't interested in turning. I will attempt a version Monday, but otherwise I think I am facing another breech hospital birth, hopefully in a less hostile environment than last time.

Midwives in Ontario are not allowed to attend breech births at home, and it is illegal to attend births if not a registered midwife, so it's UC or hospital.

I guess what I'm asking for is your positive thoughts and wishes as they were so very helpful last time.

Thanks

(yah, it's 4am and I've been up for hours. There is so much processing going on here).

[mommajb]

sanguine I hope your processing and the better climate makes for a pleasnt birth experience.

As a mother that has had very similar worries surrounding precipitous labors, stay very in tune to your body. You may get signals that aren't textbook or you didn't recgnize last time. Dh was able to help me with this in that he could see what I couldn't.