http://mumkim.mumspace.net Blogging when baby lets me Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:23:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have been trying to do baby sign with Natalya but it is harder than I thought it would be. Try signing to a baby while you are holding her! Try remembering to sign when you have been getting up to a baby all night! The one sign I have been fairly ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/06/19/natalya-signed-her-first-word-on-saturday/ Yesterday morning both Natalya and I woke up with coughs. It was annoying but not too bad. Then last night about 10ish Natalya's cough got really bad and had a very disturbing pitch. My husband Haydon is a registered nurse. In fact he has spent the last few days manning the ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/06/13/natalyas-first-trip-to-the-emergency-department/ She is not letting me have a night off to sleep. I keep having to hold her both during the day for her to sleep and often at night too. Last night she actually slept in her cot but I still had to get up umteen times to feed her ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/06/11/please-baby-just-let-me-sleep/ My washing machine is home again after it's third trip to the repairers this month! Well actually it started at the end of April just before I had to go to Perth to help my brother look after his kids while his wife went away. The washing machine stopped pumping the water ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/05/18/my-washing-machine-is-home-again/ I've just been puked on, pooped on, sucked on, and screamed at. Now she is finally asleep! Ain't motherhood grand! I walked down  the hill to town today for the first time since before Natalya was born. By the time I got there the shop I wanted was closed (closed at ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/04/21/ive-just-been-puked-on/ I have been blogging on Minti  but now I want to blog here and set up a feed to Minti. If I understand it right by putting MumKim.minti.com in the first few lines of this blog it should help the process. Wish me luck! http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/04/20/trying-to-set-up-a-blog-feed-to-minti/ I finally arrived home three weeks ago. Since then I have been trying to catch up with everything. It took me nearly two weeks to unload the cases. I could only do it when Natalya was asleep and since she sleeps in our room I couldn't put my clothes away ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/04/20/back-home-and-kind-of-getting-organised/ I still haven't got home again but I am back in Oz. We went to New Zealand to introduce Natalya to Haydons family. We got back to Perth on Wednesday night. Natalya and I met Wildrose from Minti for lunch on Thursday. It was the first time we have actually met face ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/03/27/im-back-sort-of/ Last night I paid the price for bragging about Natalya sleeping through (before last night she had slept through for 6 of the last 7 nights. Last night she woke me up every two hours of so. It was the first night since she was born that she hasn't given ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/02/26/i-spoke-too-soon/ Natalya was very unsettled last night. She fed and she screamed. I had to hold her and pat her back the whole time. At one stage the phone rang and even with it right up to my ear I could barely hear the person on the other end over the ... http://mumkim.mumspace.net/2007/02/22/it%e2%80%99s-ok-darling-you-don%e2%80%99t-need-to-pat-me/