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Thanks so much everyone!! Kiernan doesn't have a card from London yet, so that would be great. It certainly will be fun for him to see the cards arrive.

Elizabeth,

How wondeful to hear from you! Just yesterday I stopped by Samantha's Closet and Katie Rose's site (both of which need updating!). I would LOVE to see a photo of your precious little a ...

My 9 year old son Kiernan (KJ) is trying to collect postcards from all over the world and I thought perhaps the wonderful people here could help him! He is just starting out so would appreciate all th ...

I think the only genuinely local food here is of the indigenous variety: wallaby stew, lovely marinated roo steaks, croc or emu pie. Not the sort of tucker that you will find in restaurants for the m ...

Sounds like she's doing great!

A belated welcome!!

Soooo, I take it you have a round adobe house. How wonderful. I have friends here in Australia who are nearly finisheed building an adobe style house- looks fantastic and sooo ...

Gianna and one of my other children only pooed once every 4-5 days. Both were breast-fed. Boy did you have to hope you were home when the poo finally came because it would be everywhere!!

IQ of 85???? That is higher than my MIL!!!! Abby will soar!! Mind you when Gianna turns 4 she will start pre-school just 2 days a week, and won't do more than that til she is 6! I couldn't imagin ...

Like everyone else, there is no way I would want to change my daughter's beautiful eyes!

From a different perspective however, I have a neice Lauren with Sotos Syndrome. She is eighteen, of normal ...

Hopefully this will work!! I'm new to video links!

http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=14adcb5ef7c64f7e9851e6&skin_id=0&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Hi Leah,

Having a big family is WONDERFUL! I'm sure I would have had more if I had started a bit earlier! There are several others here who have had to deal with Hirschprungs, so I'm sure you'll ...

How wonderful!! There is nothing like hearing that little cackle for the first time. It somehow gives the reassurance that everything really is going to be OK. Now you'll be able to spend hours a ...

We didn't plan to have another one after Gianna, but we were delighted anyway when Sienna turned up! There is 2 years between them and I can say with out a doubt now that having Sienna was THE best ...

Welcome!! I think we have someone on here from all the Australian states now. I'm glad you found us! This is a fantastic forum, always very active and lots of wise and wonderful people with a wealt ...

I thought those with younger children might find it encouraging to see this clip of Gianna reading taken recently. (3 years 8 months). The sentence is made up from a selection of the 40 words that sh ...

Welcome Danni and Paige!!

I am another Aussie, in NSW. I have good friends who lived in Bacchus Marsh. What is the population there??

Ruby's mum- I hadn't noticed before that you were from ...

A big hug Helen. Having read your posts these last 3 years I know how well Matt was doing- he was certainly one of the ones on here that I avoided reading the brags because I didn't want to know tha ...

Gianna is WAY shorter than my other children, and most of them are not particularly tall. At 3 1/2 she is still shorter than most of the others were at 2. She has just gone into size 2 jeans (18-24 ...

Gianna also got a trike for her third birthday. Her OT supplied us with an attachment that goes on the pedals and keeps her foot from slipping forward and also straps on with velcro so that she both ...

For future reference eucalyptus oil works well.

My kids have all had viruses where they have had fevers for over a week, but they were all med to high grade fevers which are more indicative of an acute infection. They usually say that if the child ...

We started teaching Gianna to read when she was 2 1/2 but she although she picked up the words easily enough she really didn't like doing it and so we stopped and just started again about 2 months ago ...

I hadn't heard anything about it but I am assuming it is in Sydney. It is always hard for us to come to Sydney because there are too many of us to squeeze into someone elses house!! Are you going?

Have you tried giving him a mirror to look at while he is on his tummy?

I think there is a special place in our hearts on this board for the adoptive parents of children with DS. Thank you so much for giving Artie a loving home. You have received the greatest gift poss ...

Hello and welcome!!

I am Nicola as well and I also have a little girl with DS. Whats more, my husband is also from Yorkshire- Middlesbrough! I'm sure you'll love this site!

http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l146/laurenhuy/Cooper.jpg

(I just used the url that you had and clicked on the IMG tag on the form for posting before and after the url address. You might like to ...

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Poor boy- its just horrible. My Lachie has just got over them and I am waiting for Gianna and Sienna to get them. Not looking forward to it.

We moved Gianna into a twin bed just before she turned 3. It was important for me to have her into a normal bed by three because I didn't want to still be treating her like a baby when she was not. ...

I have a first cousin also who is 39 and was institutionalised and never brought home basically as soon as he was born. My aunty has always told people that she has 3 children when in fact she has 4. ...

I have someone in my home 27 hours a week and although it isn't classed as respite care it amounts to the same thing. Jo has been coming since just before Gianna was born and is there to help with al ...

My heart goes out to you. If I thought there was any way I could help I would pop down to that cold part of the state and help you! Poor Talitha. I hope she recovers quickly. What did they think c ...

Sienna turned up by surprise two years after Gianna (DS) and although it was not in our plans we can see now that having Sienna is THE best thing we could have done for Gianna. At 18 months and 3 1/2 ...

So how come the states are marked in the USA but not Australian states????

Prayers for you, Blake and the surgeons. Are they sending you to Melbourne Children's?? My nephew has had two lots of heart surgery there- he is 9 months old. If that is where you are going I'm sure ...

Wow, what a well written article.

I get so frustrated with people who talk of the womans "right to choose", when they don't see that the rights must not take precedence over someone elses ...