December 2011 babies

Summer and butterflies sounds like a great theme. I've decided that we are also going to have a very merry unbirthday for her on the 9th December. Might just have it as a family dinner but Alice in wonderland(disney cartoon version) theme. Might draw a little bit of that influence in for her real birthday.

Solids is a really interesting thing to see when babies are ready, we weren't expecting her to be ready this early. I'm nowhere near ready to start weaning her yet though, still enjoying BFing, so still keeping on with the demand feeding but once a day will give her a top up with some solids, really just to get her taste buds familiar with different tastes and textures. We have found she really loves the Only Organic Banana and Apple. I have made up some homemade stuff but don't think I have it smooth enough so going to wait till she is a little bigger to try her on that.

We just had a great day of gardening. It's been on the cards for ages but the weather and timing hasn't been great for my IL's to come over to help. But they were free today, so out they cam with the trailer and the mulcher, We completely hacked(I mean "pruned" )back a bunch of trees along the fence to let a lot more light in and to tidy them up, and also almost completely got rid of the Oliander(sp?) since it is poisonous and Lexie is making her way towards crawling pretty soon and my nephew Lucas is almost at the walking unsupported stage, we don't really want it in the garden.
But we now have a lovely thick layer of mulch under the trees and they took away all the trimmings from the pomegranate tree(which if anyone would like to know has horrid spikes on it). Now all we need to do is finish getting rid of the cabbage tree leaves and we will have a lovely backyard again.
It did make today interesting though cause we did so much work and it felt a lot later than what it was, got to love daylight savings.

Hi guys just thought I would drop in and let you know that I am FINALLY pregnant again. After months and months of let downs I got a positive test last week. Have done antenatal bloods and everything. Unfortunately I have an infection again which is what caused my pre-term labour with Olympus so hopefully we have caught it early enough that it won't cause any problems this time. Hope all your babies are well and that you are enjoying it...I'm due December 8th this time so only 20days earlier than I was due with Olympus :D

Great news Tanithe, congratulations on the pregnancy. I will lurk in the december 2012 thread now.

OMGosh Tanithe!! I have tears for you :D Big huge congrats!! I hope this time around goes a lot smoother for you

Yay for Payton!
We had ours last Wed, Lexie 61cm, 6.97kg and HC 41.
Our nurse was impressed with the 2 teeth and how well she is hitting milestones. Next appointment not till she is 10 months!!!! So a while to wait, She'll definitely be crawling by then, she isn't quite there yet, she doesn't mind being on her tummy but doesn't quite get her knees under her yet, but hey she isn't doing to bad and she'll get there, I have a feeling she just wants to learn to walk and by pass the crawling stage.

My little sister had her baby last Wed too, which was super exciting, gorgeous little girl, who is only 7cm shorter than Lexie!!! poor thing has really dry skin though, I have given my sister the made for baby massage oil and botty cream, too see if that helps but does anyone else have any good ideas on what will work? Hoping for something on the more natural side of things, I worry it might develop into eczema or similar so don't want anything that might aggravate it.

Or almond oil, we use it in every bath and sometimes on her skin if needed.

Hi Ladies.
Not sure who is on here and not on our FB page so will post here too, Leixe is up for baby of the day today. Could you all vote for her please

I may be biased but I do believe she is the cutest We took the photo in Jan when she had just started doing big smiles and getting close to giggling. This photo was taken with her being silly with my mum and I happened to pop a wet wipe(water wipes) on her head, she thought it was really funny. I don't think we had laughed so much in ages.

So please please vote for her

Thank you

Yay congratulations Tanithe!!! fingers crossed xox

Hello all lovely ladies! I can't believe that in a week we'll be celebrating the first of the 1st birthdays!!!

How is everyone getting on with their growing bundles?

It just so exciting how much they have changed. I'm getting very excited for Lexie's birthday. Strangely enough I'm looking forward to her talking, mainly so I can know why she is crying lol