tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118700332009-10-18T10:52:31.578+10:00After a long journey to get here, our baby has finally arrived. My lack of sleep is bound to result in posts that make little to no sense and probably just lots of photos instead of actual writing!Mermaidgrrrlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14236621711615287305noreply@blogger.comBlogger307125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11870033.post-62633629674987778652008-08-17T20:46:00.000+10:002008-08-17T20:50:47.229+10:00

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Things here are quiet and smooth for the most part. My diet has been going OK and I've lost about 6 kilograms so far, but cheated last night and today. Damn you chocolate muffins and custard tarts!I pretty much lost my breastmilk over the Christmas period. Seth got more and more fussy at the breast and then just refused to latch basically. He is a little buggar with the feeding - if it's not

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Well we ended up going up north for 2 weeks instead of a few days. It was really a great time. My brothers house is a beautiful big high-set with tropical gardens and a salt water swimming pool. The drive up took two days and Seth was surprisingly good in the car. On all 4 days of driving it was just the last hour on the road that he became miserable an I would even say that he cried less while

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I had a most stressful day today getting everything finished up for X-Mas gifts. I say finished up, but I just mean for the interstate contingent. I had a "lightbulb moment" this afternoon as I struggled at the post office that Christmas is in fact not run by baby Jesus or some jolly guy in a res suit, but is in fact run by overworked, overstress, tired WOMEN. Young women in shiny office wear,

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Anyone remember Kwynne? God I loved her blog. I almost felt angry when she quit blogging after her little boy was born - didn't she know other butch mums and lesbian mums in general needed her? Now I understand. Bloody parenting takes up all your time! Well, it takes up all my time and energy. When I go back to work in March it will be like having a mini holiday for 2 days a week.Development-wise

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I'll start off by saying that I haven't sewn nearly enough stuff and it's looking unlikely that I'll have a market stall before Christmas. I'm disappointed in myself, but it's been very difficult with LM working some double shifts and Seth needing a lot of attention so that's just how it is. I'm shifting my focus on that to over Christmas when LM has 6 weeks holidays and I can sit down and get

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.... just sewing

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Click here to take my marketing survey please, pretty please!!!People are letting me know that question 6 presents oddly - you have to list in order of preference, not give each a score out of ten. I can't really change the way it's done. Sorry about that.You guys are totally awesome net-buddies. I'm loving reading the poll results and they are truly helping me get my shit together with the

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Please click here to take my online survey for my business researchIf you would rather not do the survey, then please answer in the comments box if you have time, but I tried to make the survey really easy. Even an answer to one question would really help me!Some questions for you...How much do you usually spend on a gift (for someone you like)?How much does packaging influence your purchase?

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This week has been one of rapid growth spurts in our household. Seth has started eating solids as of yesterday. I say solids, but really they're just liquids off a rubber spoon since rice cereal is impossibly watery when mixed with breast milk. He has had three meals of it now and he just loves it, chatting away and trying to stick his face straight into the bowl for maximum access. I posted a

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Well I took down a heap of posts that I'm not sure I want there any more and that's made me feel quite a bit better. I would like to switch to Wordpress for the PP posting option and the great commenting, but I'm put off by the fact you can't "pretty up" your site much (pathetic I know). It's a difficult thing really isn't it - even though I don't think I'm some huge role model or anything, I do

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I'm kind of having second thoughts about my blog. I've kind of sat somewhere between public and private on it. Several people in RL know about my blog but most don't. Because of the RL people I sometimes temper what I'm writing about on it, so it does take away from the "diary" aspect of my blog somewhat but that hasn't really bothered me too much. The main people who I don't want reading it are

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OMG - what a week! Seth had gained another 240 grams as of Monday - he's caught up now to the 20th percentile and I'm feeling much happier. He has a tiny bit of chub on his body, cute little rolls at the tops of his thighs and cheeks like an enthusiastic squirrel. Physically he's coming along in leaps and bounds now, rolling over without too many worries in both directions.On Thursday I took him

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Sorry that I've been so quiet the past week. Little Mister has just done 7 late shifts in a row, so since I have troubles falling asleep without her home and Seth is still having a couple of feeds at night I've been freakin exhausted. When does this night feeding end anyway? At the moment he eats at about 1am and 5 am and then wakes at 6am. I wish he would just sleep for one hour longer in the

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I love the comment about Jesus being a toddler in many of these pics - so true! Mary must have read the WHO guidelines about breastfeeding until the age of 3 ;-) I'll have to poke around, but I've definitely seen a picture where an adult man is drinking from Mary's breast too. Anyone else recalling this? Maybe he's some kind of saint? I've found the source of the yellow milk - vitamin B

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I'm till posting the Lactating Mary pics, cause I like them!Little Mister just had 3 days off and they were HEAVEN! On Wednesday and Thursday she got up with Seth (this is after she'd just done 7 early shifts in a row) and let me go back to sleep for a big sleep in. It was too lovely for words and it was nice for her too because he's such a lovely little guy in the mornings, laughing and

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Well todays weigh-in had a most excellent result! Seth has gained 200 grams in one week! I am so relieved and pleased. I'm still giving him EBM top-ups and the child health nurse said to continue that for another week then weigh him again to make sure we're back on track and for my peace of mind. She said she's so pleased with me for having persisted with it and doing the whole lot without

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Things are so much better in the boob department. Overnight they swelled up just like the first time my milk came in and Seth gulps away quite happily. His nappies are soaking and Little Mister commented that she can already see him chubbing up. I'm still pumping for top-ups, but I've bought a 20 pack of Medela freezer bags and I intend to fill the lot of them over the next few weeks so if my

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I'm getting my head shrunk tomorrow morning. Not literally of course, though that wouldn't hurt since it is kinda big. I'm having a psych assessment by my GP so I can get subsidised counselling through public health with a good counsellor. The thing about having this done is that when i asked her for the referral to be done I really felt like I needed help FAST! Of course now that things have

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I think things may be on the upswing. I've been taking lots of your suggestions and trying not to get too down about it all. It seems to be working already. These are the things I'm doing:ate oatmeal for breakfast this morning (blech)drinking Sustagen and milk at nighttaking lots of fenugreek capsulestaking lots of fish oil and evening primrose (hormone precursors)having naps with Seth during

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Today has not been an emotionally good day for me. It is so fucking hard to keep up this pumping/feeding/sleeping/eating/drinking thing when I have a baby who cries a lot, won't stay on the breast and won't take decent day time naps. It wasn't my finest moment today when I was trying to hold the pump on with one hand, settle my baby with the other hand and growling at the same time "Suck the

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Mary bore a mute Babethough in Him were hidden all our tongues. Joseph carried Him,yet hidden in Him was a silent nature older than everything.The Lofty One became like a little child, yet hidden in Him was a treasure of Wisdom that suffices for all. He was lofty but He sucked Mary's milk, and from His blessings all creation sucks.He is the Living Breast of living breath; by His life the dead

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Seth had lots of very wet nappies yesterday, so you would think that I would be satisfied about his intake right? Well when we got him up at 9:30 to eat and have his nappy done before retiring ourselves we changed him after giving him both breasts and found that his nappy was dry and promptly freaked out. Yeah he'd had about 6 wet nappies, but one dry one was enough that we stared at each other

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I'm regretting writing that cranky post, so I took it down. I'm not just regretting writing it cause LM read it and is (understandably) upset. It's cause I found this week really dreadful in all sorts of ways and I chose to just complain about my partner instead of dealing with things properly.I'm having a very hard time getting over Seth having lost weight and am wondering why I'm over-reacting

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We took Seth for his 4 months check-up at Child Health yesterday. I usually look forward to these appointments as it confirms that everything is going well and gives me confidence in what I'm doing. The appointment started badly because when we went in there was an older and chilly kind of nurse there who said to us "Didn't you get the message? We rang you to cancel because the nurse is off sick"

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