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Archive through October 26, 2004

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions ARCHIVES: 2004 Nov. - 2005 Jan.: Parenting Place {ARCHIVES}: New Parents to be........Tips and advice for us (ARCHIVES): Archive through October 26, 2004 users admin

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Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Thursday, September 30, 2004 - 6:29 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
That's what I say! 'cept it always takes me several paragraphs to express one idea.

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Friday, October 01, 2004 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wargod - sis is doing great. No more bleeding since those 2 days back at 13 weeks. She's 24 wks now and having a boy & a girl. Very exciting. She's as big, if not bigger than me and I'm 33 weeks now.
That approach of putting infants on the potty when you know they have to go is very well known in other countries. There's a book on it that I've seen. Who would want to do that? It's soooo time consuming! I guess they don't have easy access or $$ for diapers, etc. in these countries.


Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Friday, October 01, 2004 - 2:37 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ENB (aka Lisa), do you or your sister have names picked out?

Wargod
Moderator

07-16-2001

Friday, October 01, 2004 - 10:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Lisa, that's wonderful news about your sister! I'm glad to hear she is doing that well. It's also nice that you two will again have babies so close in age. My kids and their cousins are all fairly close in age and it's the best thing because they all get along so well and look forward to spending time with each other.

I'd never heard of potty training like that. All I knew was if we'd tried it with Kota, we'd have been in the bathroom 24 hours a day with her!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Friday, October 01, 2004 - 10:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I remember reading a baby book of an old boyfriend's dad. He was born somewhere in the early 40's I think. Anyways, this book had the typical baby book stuff, but it also had tips for new moms. In this book, they said to put a suppository (half of one) in the baby starting at 9 pm when the baby was just a few months old. I think it was 9 months and then hold them on the toilet. That was how you were supposed to potty train them. Uggh. Kinda sick if you ask me.

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Monday, October 04, 2004 - 12:27 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Very sick! Some names thrown out there but nothing concrete yet. Neil and I have a hard time naming a person. Nate wasn't named until he was 2 weeks old. Sis is going with Lauren & Logan for her twins, or that's how it's looking. Her daughter, Ava was named when sis was 4 months pg!! Had my 34wk check up today with u/s. Baby weighs between 5.5-5.8 1bs and is breech right now. All else is good. I gained 5.5 1bs in 2 weeks!!! Urghhh. Oh well - I'm at 30 now which is much better than the first go around. I'm soooo uncomfortable though. I think she's kicking down and I get stabbing pains and it hurts to stand up from a sitting position, then I hobble around like an old lady with this huge belly. Neil was making fun of me all weekend!

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 6:32 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
So I packed my bag today for the hospital... Definitely nesting. We are on strike at work this week - bad timing since this was supposed to be my last week, so I've been home on sick leave and able to start getting things done. Suddenly feeling very real that this is definitely happening. I have my check up next week to see if baby has turned. If not, I'm heading to the pool to do handstands (ha ha)!! Hope you're all doing well. :-)

Danzdol
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04-21-2001

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow ENB how exciting! I cannot believe nate's picture. Man they are soo big now!!!!!

Julie- that baby pic is hillarious....

Kimmo- sorry your inlaws have been pestering you. I hate that. When all is said and done, noone is going to remember who was potty trained first and who walked first, etc... I hate all of that unecessary pressure!!!!!!

Danzdol
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04-21-2001

Thursday, October 14, 2004 - 1:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
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Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 8:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Where's the photo Danz? It didn't work.

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 9:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here is a one month picture of Ella, my niece, who I will be watching full-time starting Monday...mo

Skootz
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07-23-2003

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 9:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Wow Julie what a cute cute baby.....it almost makes me want to have another (well not really

They are so adorable at this stage. thanks for sharing and I am sure you will just love looking after your precious niece.

Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 12:12 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julie, I can't believe I will have one of those 1-month olds in 4 months! :-)

Lisa, it must be getting very close....What is the due date? I hope everything goes smoothly. I just learned at my last checkup that I gained 14 lbs in one month-- They made me get on the scale two more times to make sure it wasn't broken! Ugh.

Since moving to the new house, Rowan is so good about going to bed and going potty-- At school yesterday, he apparently was so eager to go that he pulled his pants down BEFORE going into the bathroom and waited for someone to take the hint! :-( We always tell him to tell us when he needs to go, so I never imagined that happening.

So, now the next thing on the list is the bed-- I'm hoping to do that in November, or no later than his birthday in December.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 12:17 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Kimmo, what is your new house like?

Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 12:33 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
It's a 3-bedroom ranch house from 1969, with a living room and family room-- We used to be in a little 1940s 2-bedroom, which was half the size of the new house! I'm hoping we can do all the painting, etc before the baby is born.

I think Rowan likes how it's spread out more, so that the bedroom is very far away from the living areas; maybe it makes going to sleep seem more regimented.

Julieboo
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02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 12:41 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Sounds nice. Good luck with getting the painting done. I'm sure Rowan would love to help!

Kimmo
Member

05-02-2003

Tuesday, October 19, 2004 - 12:51 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks, Julie-- It is nice, we had been wanting something older but we couldn't afford the size we wanted in the neighborhood we liked. Hopefully we'll be able to move up to that. :-)

Rowan does want to help-- We're doing bedrooms last, so I have a little time to figure out how to decorate around his requested purple walls!

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Julieboo - Ella is sooo sweet!!! You'll be looking after her full time at 1 month?? Her poor mommy! I couldn't imagine having to return to work that soon.
Kimmo - glad to hear all is well with the new house and Rowan. How old is he now? Are you due in February? 14 1bs in 1 month! Wow! I've gained 30 1bs in 37 wks so I'm happy with that. I gained 54 1bs with Nate!!!
I'm 3 weeks away but I think I'll go early this time. Due date is Nov.17th. Baby was breech but I went in last Thursday and Dr. felt belly and thought baby had turned. She's scheduled me for a "version" this Friday which is them manually trying to turn baby if she's not heads down. Keeping my fingers crossed she is.
I'm feeling great still but lots of pressure when she moves around, which is a lot! I think she'll be born a bit early and be at least 8 1bs. Guess we'll have to wait and see. My last day at work was last Thursday and now I'm off for 1 year paid. Soooo lucky to work for the Canadian government I must say!

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I had to share this latest gem I just discovered with Nate who's 26 months. He's a great sleeper and sleeps at least 11 hrs each night. He used to wake up around 7-7:15 am every day, but for the past 3 weeks he's been waking up around 6:00 am. It drives us nuts since we're just not early risers. He'll yell Mommy/Daddy at the top of his lungs until we get him and bring him to our bed, where he'll then play or watch TV - he'll never go back to sleep. So I was reading in my "sleep bible" (Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child) about early wakings and I tried what it said to do. It worked like a charm!!!

I got a cute alarm clock, and set it to 7:00 am. At bedtime, I explained to Nate that I would not come to his room in the morning until 7:00 am, when the alarm goes off. I then played him the alarm so he knows what it sounds like, and drew a big clock with crayon that said 7:00 (face of a clock). I hung that on his bookshelf under his clock. The next morning he woke at 6:15 am. I heard him playing and sometimes he would call us but not real loud like usual. We left him. At 7:00 am the alarm went off and he got so excited, yelling "mommy alarm". So I went in and made a huge deal about the alarm going off, how he had waited for it, etc. Then brought him to our bed. The 2nd morning he woke up at 6:55 am, played for 5 minutes until the alarm went off, same deal as day before. 3rd day the alarm WOKE HIM UP!!! I couldn't believe it! 4th day I set it for 7:15 am and he woke up at 7:10 am and waited for alarm to go off. Today the alarm went of at 7:15 and he slept through it until 7:20!!! Woo hoo. I am so excited....

Now the clocks go back 1 hour on Sunday so hopefully it doesn't screw the whole thing up.


Enbwife
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:48 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's a great recent photo of Nate and Neil with Nate's new trike he got for his 2 yr b-day.

nate

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:49 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow that is an awesome idea, I may try that

I know that we have face clocks in the girls rooms and I have put a "hand" for minute and second hand with a little piece of paper and tape and put it to show 7am and they can come out of their room when the time is the same as the pieces of paper on the clock

Enbwife
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08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:54 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was so surprised at how quickly it worked. Within a matter of days he's sleeping an extra hour. It's really amazing!

Enbwife
Member

08-14-2000

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 6:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Here's 1 more pic of me and Nate on the same day, then I'll stop all these messages (ha ha).
nate

Skootz
Member

07-23-2003

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 7:07 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
wow thanks Enbwife..what great pictures. You look awesome too!

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, October 26, 2004 - 8:58 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yep, Ella's poor mommy is having a VERY hard time of it... Ella is so tiny and she was almost 5 weeks premature. S-I-L is back to work at 6 weeks. Very weepy. Poor thing. I am keeping a "book of ella" for her and yesterday I wrote three pages of ella's day. Not gonna do that every day though. But i will keep track of diapers and how much she eats...

Ella's mom (my sil) is a good "Cow" so to speak and already has tons of milk pumped for Ella.

Anyone one know why Ella's belly button seems to be very far pushed out, like from the inside? Should we be concerned? Almost looks like a littel penis!