Not having a good run..

Ok so first I had that damn cold/ flu thing that just hung around and around...
Then Friday I was trimming all the fat off our roast lamb and skinned a deep flap off my right index finger. Probably should have gotten a stitch, it bled all night and I went through a tonne of bandaides. Eventually it was stemmed with steristrips which is likely what they would have done in hospy anyway.

Saturday morning I woke at 4am with a rumbly tummy....GASTRO!! Can you believe it?? None of the kids have it, not even Miss vomit-a-lotta or Mark who usually catches it if someone in the suburb has it. I *never* get it, usually am nursing everyone else through it and have only had it one other time since the kids were born. Just goes to show the good hygiene of a mother :P Got it from a very sweet innocent looking 4 month old. My own fault really, his family has all recovered recently from it and stupid me popped his dummy in not thinking to wash my hands after. Rule number one of nursing!

So enough bad health luck for one poor woman?? Ah no...would you believe it I have developed mastitis??!! First time ever on my 10 month old third child. I have been feeding for almost 5 years straight, never had anything like this. Came on like a steam train this afternoon after I spent the day ignoring a sore left boob (put it down to a feeding machine who hasn't let me have a decent nights sleep in a few weeks) and when Mark got home I felt like vomiting it was that painful. I finally smothered it in arnica, took some panadol, gritted my teeth and just fed him and funnily enough it is a little better. Still oh so sore and I feel like I have a achy flu but hoping we can manage it at home with feeding, poultices and probiotics. Oh and sleep, every search I've done says take your baby to bed for the day. Yeah right, this boy likes to feed whilst standing up so he can dance at the same time. And just discovered tonight while I was nearly passing out with the pain that it makes a really funny sound if he hits his forehead with mine in just the right spot. I'm just grateful he unlatched before attempting this feat, not sure my poor nipple would have survived being dragged to my forehead.

Anyway, my finger seems to be healing alright, got my wound expert friend to look at it today and she thinks more of the flap will take. The gastro was gone by Sunday although I was still feeling seedy and have missed out on about $600 as I haven't been permanent long enough for sick leave. And this mastitis...well GO AWAY!!!!
Please let this be the last thing!

updating a bit

Been a while since I've done a family type post...
We are just getting totally over that cold finally, I have had it since the princess's birthday. She is still coughing up a lung every night. Little one still has a green nose. But despite all that,I'm declaring the cold over! The best thing is I can finally taste and smell again!! I didn't think it'd bother me that much but I was in tears the other night wanting to smell my baby :( I really missed that snuggly baby smell most of all :(

We got some wonderful news the other day, Mark's sister and family have sold their house and ore off on their trip around Australia for a few years. The best part of that is that they will be here for a while over Christmas :) We're all very excited, especially the kids!

In other awesome news...I found rainbow tights!!!! Seriously!! I squealed out loud in Kmart today, I'm sure the woman pushing her trolley next to me nearly had a heart attack :P I bought.....umm.......7 pairs lol! Not alllll for us and a couple are for friends little ones. Sadly they were all baby sized bar a pair for the princess but still :)

Sad news we got today..Mark's Nana passed away this morning. She was in her 90's and had been unwell for a long time. Still sad and it means a trip to Brisbane for Mark next week...

Ok too tired to type anymore!

Leave it alone!!

I have always been very vocally anti circumcision. You could say it's a soapbox issue of mine (one of many!). Anyway this came up in a thread. Funny, and a good way to bring up the issue I guess.
It's a regular shitfight thread on essential baby, which I mostly stay clear of since it's always the same people fighting about the same thing.. It's one issue I really don't get tbh. I mean I don't understand the choice to artificially feed a baby or to have a baby extracted by elective cesaerian but I do understand the social pressures and lack of support that lead to that decision.
But this? Now why on earth would a person choose to remove a functioning part of their sons' genetalia?? Why on earth does our society give them that choice? IT'S NOT THEIR PENIS!!! That is the answer to any stupid arguments anyone comes up with...
'But I want him to look like Daddy'. Seriously WFT??? That is kind of sick! He might have blonde hair and Daddy had black hair, shall we dye it? Will he be lining his penis up next to Daddy's at Christmas dinners when he's 35? I don't think so! Plus it's not your penis!!
'they might have to get it removed later when it gets infected and it'll hurt more then'. Now there are a few things wrong with that. Well he might need his tonsils out later. In fact how about on the way out we remove his tonsils, adenoids, wisdom teeth, appendix...oh how about nails, hang nails are really annoying and can get infected! What about potential skin cancer? Shall we remove all his skin? I could go on.... I love the good old newborns don't feel pain argument. Sorry but if you think that for a second you are a moron. As for remembering it, well my 4 year old remembers his vacuum extraction so there blows that theory. Plus it's not you penis!! (are you seeing a theme?)
'it'll prevent HIV' A new argument that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Actually it won't prevent HIV although it will decrease the chance of getting it. Doesn't decrease the chance of getting the chick pregnant. And nothing prevents HIV like a condom! I'll spend my efforts on teaching safe sex rather that hacking off a body part thanks! It also is thought to decrease penile cancer which is pretty bloody rare anyway. But yet again, not mine, not my decision to make!
Now this is my favourite stupid reason to mutilate your sons...'he'll play with himself less' ROFLMAO!!! I nearly wet my pants when I read that argument on a forum. Firstly, is it your role to stop your son masturbating? Secondly even if it is, why are you losing sleep over it?? why would you even care. Not like my uncircumcised boys walk about with their hands down their pants or anything. Actually I'd really like to see a controlled randomised trial on this topic. Let me predict 100% of both groups will be at themselves :P It's what boys do! Actually my girl is pretty good at it as well, shall I look into having her clitoris removed? Ah don't think so, NOT MINE!!
Then of course there is the religious reasons. I used to sympathise with them..well they have no choice right? Ah wrong! Of course they do. It's still a crap reason, for some fictitious 'god'? WTF does their son's foreskin have to do with their religious beliefs? (can you tell I'm in a atheist phase? Blame Mark, he's always trying to convince me :P). If your son wants to remove his foreskin to appease some fairy tale character well he is well within his rights, because it's HIS PENIS!

You know in the future I really believe they will talk of this mutilation as the abuse we thrust upon our sons. Holding my baby I can truly not understand how someone can see a sweet defenceless boy and think his body is anything less than absolutely perfect.
So anyhow if you are thinking about doing this to your boy just don't!!! It's not your to do anything with, leave it alone!!

we have a toddler!! and other important announcements...

Sadly it's true. My littlest one, my baby, is walking. Still tentative but determined. Actually started a week or so ago, but he's trying all the time now. So not ready, suddenly feeling all clucky for new babies which is soooo not going to happen for a long time yet!
Still on Atti news, he's teething resulting in lots of wakeful nights. Top tooth is soooo close to breaking through but has been for at least a week now. Just break through damn it!!! :P

We got another 3 chickens the other day thanks to the Hows. Battery hens, so was hoping that they would show my lazy girls how to 'back one out' as Mark so eloquently puts it. We thought they'd take the 3 weeks everyone tells you it take to settle them in, but we had an egg the next morning...and three since then!! Yay!! The downside is it turns our our old hens are a pack of bitches and they mercilessly bully the new ones. To the point were a new chook is now blind in one eye! Hoping to calms down soon, half expect to one find half a carcass down there one morning...

Today was the kinder info session for our local waldorf school. It's very exciting, our big boy is starting next year and it the whole reason we moved to the hills. So good to have one thing sorted, the more we hear and learn of this type of education the more sure we are of how well it will suit our family :) Next week is our family interview to see if we suit the school, that should be fine I think...and then a final interview going through our big boy's early childhood. Not so looking forward to that and going through his traumatic birth which he distinctly remembers :( Oh well surely they wouldn't exclude us for making crap birthing choices before he was even born?!