Just Being a Mum

Why So Many?

The little man is going through the Why stage, he is close to 3 1/2 and I have been waiting for it to happen.  But I don’t think that we were really that ready for it, as now it is here I am going crazy.

“Why are you doing that?”
“What is that for?”
“How come those are there?”
“Why can’t I?”

My favourite ” Why haft I?”

Why so many questions for the same problem. One why would surely be enough? do we really need to ask why 4 or 5 times, it is the same answer you are going to get all 4 or 5 times.

I don’t have an issue answering the

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Am I being selfish, when sometimes I sit and play with the children, but in the back of my mind, I am thinking how nice it would be to have some time to myself. Even just a few hours, one day a week.

Now don’t get me wrong, I LOVE my children very much, and I LOVE being a stay home Mum, but you are always going to have one of those days. My children are my life and my world, but sometimes, just sometimes it would be nice to have some time out.

They grow so fast, and I enjoy every minute with them, just watching them grow. I should enjoy

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Swimming Lessons

The Little Man goes to swimming lessons once a week, but as it was school holidays this week so we booked him in for a full week of lessons, half an hour each day.  As we have a pool at home, we think that it is important that he can at least get himself back to the edge if he falls in.

I think that it made a big difference to his swimming this time. It has taken him months to get him to put his face and head in the water, but all of a sudden it has just happened.

I was starting to get a bit worried about it, 

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Change in a Childs Behavior

There is a lot of talk about how some foods can change a childs behavior, our naturopath often mentions this, but when they are so young, you are unable to fully explain to them why they can’t eat or drink something, it becomes very difficult on both of you.

The naturopath often gives me a list of things that he should and shouldn’t eat, but I find it really difficult to stick to it.  Some times the list consists of all the foods that he will only eat, what is he suppose to eat then.

I have however noticed a difference with sugary foods, so this week I

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Behavior Changes When Either Bored, Tired or Hungry

The Little Man seems to have a bit of an issue with behavior changes, especially when he is either bored, hungry or tired.  There are things that you notice and that you can do to help the situation.

Being his Mum I am able to see these changes instantly and have now worked out which one is the problem. Sometimes I am able to fix it, but sometimes when it goes to far it is much harder.

Some things that I notice with the different situations

Bored

Symptom
Seems to always be getting in trouble - don’t do this, don’t do that, He is just trying to

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The Little Man is Not Well

I really don’t like it when your children are sick, I feel helpless, and just wish that I could make them all better in a flash. Unfortunately it doesn’t always work that way.  Sometimes a kiss will make it all better but other times it just won’t work.

Well the poor little man had a temperature above 38℃ for a couple of days, he was really not feeling well at all, he had gone off his food, and was extremely lethargic. I took him off to the doctors on the 3rd day, and the doctor said that he had all the signs of the Chicken Pox.

Aghhh,

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Today was just one of those days…

Have you ever had one of those days, when you just want it to finish, go to bed, wake up and start a new day all fresh. Hoping that everyone else in the house does the same thing so that you wake up all happy and yesterday never happened.

Well today was one of those days. I just wanted the ground to open up and swallow me. The little Man was just having a day, where everything was wrong, he didn’t want to do that, or this, or anything that you suggested at all. He felt the need to punish his sister by pushing her

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I just love watching my children play in the park. You can just see their imagination grow while they are playing.

Just the excitement in their faces as they play and make up things, makes it worth while taking them there.

I do however wonder what is going through their heads, when they are unable to explain it or to young to talk, like little miss, they just can’t tell you. Little miss was sitting there putting her hands in and out of the sand, just wonder what she thought of it, what did it feel like?.

I just love how their imagination works, you can just see the little minds working at

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This is Our Story So Far - Part 1 - Little Man

Then we come to Little Miss, she is another story all together. Again we had to take the magic pills to conceive, but at least we knew what we were dealing with this time. We are one of the lucky ones to have one of each, we was sure through the whole pregnancy that it was going to be another boy, but I was mistaken. J was blown away, he was kissing the mid wife he was so happy.

I really wanted to breast feed but I am sorry to say that I didn’t even attempt it this time around.

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I have put together this blog while my children are small, you will be able to watch us grow, hopefully helping you out on the way with some tips and tricks that we find out.  But I thought that we should really start at the beginning so that you know what we have come through to get us to this point. I have written 2 parts as it is a bit long, I hope that you will hang in there and read it all.

It took us several months to conceive, after finding out that I had hyperprolactinaemia and wasn’t able to ovulate, as my body was producing very high levels

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