Complaint

Well Walt and I are in the process of writing our formal letter of complaint to the hospital that ruined my birth experiences with BOTH of our children. First there was Kimi who was never going to get out without hurting herself or her mummy, but the dr's wouldn't listen and I ended up with an emergency section. Then 16 months later JJ. I'm not going to tell the whole story, but lets just say that things were done to me that no woman in labor should have to go through. I should've had another section, I begged for one, but the jr Dr (SHO) didn't believe in sections unless a life is at risk. So instead butchered me and gave me a spinal that didn't work and was manhandling me all over the place. I'm still recovering almost 4 months later, where as a section scar would have healed by now.

Anyways, the letter is started, and we are pulling no punches at all. We have stated what our problems are, and what we want done about it. All we need to do now is call my health visitor and figure out how to get the actual name of the SHO (it's one of those foreign names that no-one can spell OR pronounce..lol) as all my notes are at the hospital. Then we can rewrite it and send it off. I would have printed it, but my printer is on the blink and can't afford to fix it.

Oh Joy!

I need sleeeeeeep!

Urgh. I need sleep! Poor Kimi has been teething for what seems an eternity, she had 5 coming through but then she got better and we figured that was it, and the two days that she didn't wake every hour, JJ thought it would be cool to take over her role! And then Kimi took over again after that... I'm used to having such good babies. Both of them started sleeping through at 5 weeks, and we're talking 10 hours, not the 5-6 hours the health professionals tell you about. I figured I deserved good babies after the pregnancies I had. If hyperemesis wasn't enough, I also had SPD (Symphisis Pubis Dysfunction) where your pelvis seperates too much during pregnancy and grates and wobbles causing extreme pain when you try to walk, move etc... Anyways, I got the good babies, but the teething bit sure sucks!If you look at the picture, you can see her new teeth (and her feeling sorry for herself) they are the molars each side and the incisor on our left (her right). There is also 2 other molars coming through, on the top, but you can't see them on the pic.

And feeling very sorry for herself

Christmas 2006

Christmas came and went without any hitches this year, and woohoooo! I'm not pregnant this christmas either!! ;)

The girls got spoilt, not only by us, but all our family and friends, so big thanks to all who sent presents. Kimi got lots of toys that make noise (Daddy's idea, of course it was, he isn't HERE all day listening to them!!) She also got her faves, Peppa pig, Noddy, Thomas the tank engine, as well as a chicco star kitchen, she has been cooking dinner for us every day.... 10 times a day!

JJ got the baby Einstein activity center, she is a little small for it at the moment (although if you pack her in with a pillow, she's ok) but she loves it. She's also got a whole bunch of teethers and rattles etc... She also got lots of clothes, which was good because all the 6-9 month clothes Kimi had were summer clothes, so we didn't have too many warm clothes... Now we do, and she looks sooooo cute!

Boxing day we all went to mums, and ate a lot. Alan and Rachel were there with Gracie and we tried to get a decent pic of the 3 girls, but cousin Gracie bashed JJ and in the end all 3 of them were crying, so we gave up! Here are some of the xmas pics.