Daniel's astro sign

DANIEL IS A MONKEY.. 2004 was the year of the monkey... chinese star sign...

The spunky Monkey is the original party animal! Charming and energetic, Monkeys crave fun, activity and stimulation. They truly know how to have a good time and can often be seen swinging from one group of friends to another, attracting a motley crew in the process. Always upbeat, they are considered minor celebrities in their circle thanks to their sparkling wit and that rapier-sharp mind. Perhaps surprisingly, Monkeys are also good listeners and tackle complicated situations with ease. This Sign's natural curiosity lends it the desire to become knowledgeable on a broad range of topics. Monkeys have a show-off side that loves nothing more than to dazzle their pals with all they know.

The Monkey tends to be rather accident-prone due to a certain lack of very high morals. This Sign's first interest is pursuing its own pleasure; this is not a malicious interest, it's just the way the Monkey is. However, this kind of carefree self-involvement can lead to all kinds of scrapes. In love, the Monkey makes a fun, exciting lover -- but one that may have the potential to stray romantically. The good news is, the Monkey�s glib manner and witty repartee can often get this Sign out of a scrape. Perhaps not everyone will be won over by the Monkey -- but do you think the Monkey really cares? The Monkey's world, full of devil-may-care energy and revelry, isn't for everyone. Remember, though, it's not that this Sign is mean; it might just be a bit too curious for its own good. Monkeys often feel the need to try everything at least once, which can make for a merry-go-round of relationships.

The Monkey's love of self-indulgence can also lead to other types of trouble. This Sign may have limited self-control concerning food, alcohol and other pleasurable activities. It's party time all the time for the Monkey, yet when it leads to a monster hangover or a shattered heart (generally someone else's, not theirs), this Sign might actually show a touch of remorse. They won't flat-out admit the error of their ways, but at least they'll pull back and try to tone things down -- for a while.

Monkeys must try to learn to think of others ahead of themselves, at least some of the time. This Sign's world will be more complete once it realizes the world doesn't revolve around it.

The most compatible match for a Monkey is the Rat or the Dragon.

The Cancer Child
June 21 - July 22

Symbol - The Crab
Ruling Planet - Moon
Birthstone- Ruby
Flower - Water Lily
Color - Green

The Cancer Personality

As Cancer Child (also known as Moon Child), he has a sentimental and versatile nature and a constructive imagination. Cancer is sympathetic and talkative, loves home and family, and has a tenacious memory -- especially for details and historical events. The Cancer child appreciates praise and is encouraged by kindness. This child will delight in beautiful scenery, romantic settings and new adventures.

Cancer children appear retiring but are really positive, tenacious and love to be noticed while appearing to be unassuming. They are not averse to fame, even though they can sometimes be shy.. Your Cancer child will be fond of older persons, ancient customs, and things connected with the past that have sentimental value. The Cancer child often has a bright, alert oval or round face.

These imaginative , impressionable children make many changes in their lives until they find the position or occupation where they feel self-assured, well integrated, and appreciated. Their greatest attribute is the love of their home. They can turn anything into a beautiful environment. They love to travel and are particularly fond of the sea...

Cancers are most compatible with Pisces and Scorpio.

Famous People Born Under the Cancer Sign:
Diana - Princess of Wales, Prince William, Duke of Windsor, Ringo Starr, Nelson Mandela, George Bush, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Giorgio Armani and many more!!!

Daniel's Astro Chart

Name: Daniel Coffey
June 27 2004
5:21 PM Time Zone is BST
Glasgow, UK

Rising Sign is in 14 Degrees Scorpio
You tend to be quiet, reserved, secretive and, at times, quite difficult to understand. Others notice your deep emotions and feelings and wonder how to draw you out. Stubborn and tough, you fight for any position you believe in. You are very resourceful and formidable when you become angered or upset about something. You enjoy living life at the cutting edge -- for you life must be experienced intensely and totally. Quite courageous, you are willing to take calculated risks. Easily hurt by others, you often strike back with bitter sarcasm. Sensitive and curious, you are concerned with the deeper mysteries of human psychology. Once you have become interested in any subject, you pursue it with total fanaticism.

Sun is in 06 Degrees Cancer.
Very emotional and sensitive, you have an intuitive understanding of the "vibes" around you. You tend to be quite generous, giving, loving and caring, but only when your own needs for emotional support, love and security have been met. If they are not met, you tend to withdraw into yourself and become very insecure and selfish. Your home and family (especially your mother or the person who played that role for you early on) represent security for you and thus assume a larger-than-life importance. Very sentimental, you have vivid and long- enduring memories of the past. No matter how well adjusted you are, you will always need a secret quiet place of your own in order to feel at peace. Feeding others can give you great pleasure you would enjoy being part of a large family.

Moon is in 00 Degrees Scorpio.
Your feelings are very intense, never superficial. You tend to be either very angry or very sad or completely and totally happy. Your moods are deep, extreme and not always completely understood by yourself or by those with whom you have to deal. Emotionally, you tend to prefer to live at the cutting edge of life, pushing your reactions to the ultimate extremes, even if the results are dangerous or upsetting. You are easily jealous and very suspicious -- you require a great deal of emotional reassurance. A good detective, you are very curious about deep and mysterious things, especially human nature and motivations. Be careful not to be ruthless, tactless or too overly frank or you will meet with much resistance from others.

Mercury is in 16 Degrees Cancer.
Your emotions tend to rule your thought processes. You have difficulty seeing life objectively. You have an excellent memory, especially about things to which you have formed an emotional bond. You prefer ideas and thoughts that are known and familiar, and therefore tend to dislike fads or radical ideas. The beliefs and traditions of your family and culture are very important to you. Your thinking becomes quite unclear when you are emotionally shaken -- try not to make major decisions when you are upset. Let things calm down first.

Venus is in 09 Degrees Gemini.
You are friendly, warm, open and tolerant toward others. You love variety in relationships, indeed you may even prefer to maintain more than one relationship at a time! Very witty and humorous, you have the ability to amuse and please others. This makes you quite popular. You love to play the field and thus find it difficult to settle down and make any deep emotional commitments. Your innate charm and vivacity makes you welcome most everywhere you go.

Mars is in 02 Degrees Leo.
You are a very proud person. Strong, bold, courageous and self-possessed, you love to be the one to initiate significant actions. When people expect a lot of you, you respond positively and will work hard in order to maintain their respect. But when your dignity or pride is threatened, you tend to become sarcastic, arrogant and domineering. Try not to take any challenge or resistance that you meet as a personal affront. You are very stubborn about your right to live your life according to your own principles.

Jupiter is in 12 Degrees Virgo.
You feel most expansive and at ease with yourself when you are doing something that you consider to be practical or useful. You enjoy being dutiful and carrying out responsibilities. You gladly take on the little tasks that others seem to want to avoid. At times, you carry things to extremes and feel guilty anytime you do something that you consider to be self-indulgent. While it is appropriate for you to demand little for yourself in life, try to loosen up once in a while -- go out on a fling and enjoy yourself!

Saturn is in 15 Degrees Cancer.
The most important issue for you is emotional security. You have a deep and gnawing fear that those on whom you depend for emotional support will prove to be unreliable in the long run. When you are unloved and insecure, you distrust others and tend to feel isolated and lonely. Very cool, detached and objective, you can be counted on -- in situations that are inherently stressful or full of tension -- not to lose your self- control. That is a great and welcome gift at such times.

Uranus is in 06 Degrees Pisces.
You, and most of your peers, are extremely idealistic and want to change society by completely reorienting its highest religious goals and aspirations. Just be careful to make sure that your new goal structures are properly grounded in reality so that they have a chance of being accepted by the majority.

Neptune is in 14 Degrees Aquarius.
You, and your entire generation, will idealize and even venerate the ability to remain detached as well as the ability to objectively analyze any given situation. There will be a concerted effort on your part to cure the ills of society as a whole. But be very careful to continue to maintain and protect the rights of individuals in the midst of these potentially far-reaching changes.

Pluto is in 20 Degrees Sagittarius.
For your entire generation, society's cherished beliefs and totems will be radically changed. Many traditional concepts will be totally altered, if not completely destroyed. The rights of individuals to pursue their own course in life will be reasserted.

N. Node is in 09 Degrees Taurus.
It's not in your nature to seek out many casual acquaintances in your daily round of activities. You feel much more comfortable with a small, close-knit group of people -- those with whom you can relax and work toward known and clearly defined goals. Your loyalty to a person or group, once given, is forever -- you'll expend all of your quite considerable energy in seeing that the group stays together and prospers. You choose your partners and relationships so carefully that you're bound to gain certain advantages from them, including those of a material nature. Be careful though not to let mere self-service be your motivation in establishing your connections -- make sure that there's an even give-and-take!

Daniel is here - first two months !

Daniel was born on Sunday, 27th June 2004 in the Princess Royal Hospital in Glasgow. He was very chubby baby and I weighed 8lb 15oz (4.07 kg)... What a big boy!

When Daniel was born he was a very sleepy baby. He never cried and fed little and therefore lost almost 10% of his birthweight(no wonder he lost all that weight). All the babies in the ward cried constantly he looked so contented and happy just sleeping. I worried that he wasn't been fed and was given what I know is wrong advice 'let the baby sleep'. At that early age when they are tiny they need to feed little and often and to get the breast feeding off to a good start it is important they are woken up every three hours or so but poor Daniel just slept there was a day when he only fed once in the morning and once in the evening.

On day 3 during our hospital stay (30th June) we got moved to a private room as I found the general ward so noisy and I had been in the hospital since Friday 25th June that I just felt so tearful and sensitive and a nice midwife suggested that a single room might be more suitable which it really was, had more privacy and also being able to sleep better at night. At this point Daniel became more alert and started to cry a bit more. I also had a crisis point with breast feeding as he wasn't very keen to latch on. I cried several times together with him I was so worried about not being able to breast feed him. It is really important to me that I do as I feel the bond when breast feeding is incredible between mother and child. At this point my breasts started to feel full and I was told that milk was on the way. Daniel seemed to reluctantly feed and at one point I had to give him formula as he wouldn't take the breast milk for hours. The midwifes weren't keen on me giving him formula but I felt he was going without food for so many hours that it was best to give him something even though it wasn't breast milk.

On Thursday, 1st July we were leaving the hospital. Daniel had a blood test to check on the level of jaundice as he has been jaundiced since he was born and the level was below the treatment level and he was weighed and although he lost 10% of his birth weight he had started to gain it slightly - I think he gained 30gms at that point. They were happy for us to take him home.

Alan arrived about 1:30pm with the car seat and Daniel's 'No 1 Footie Fan' leaving outfit and Daniel proceeded to cry.

He quickly settled though and had his eyes tightly closed on the way home. It was very strange being at home - everything felt different - I got used to the hospital system of changing his nappies and putting his to bed in his clear glass crib. I also felt very protective of Daniel and kept Maja (our cat) well away. Alan's Mum and his Nana also came to visit us and Daniel was OK, not too fussy or anything.

On Saturday, 3rd July we took Daniel for a walk to Sam and Karen's birthday BBQ. Here is a picture of Daniel in his pushchair and I can honestly say that he seemed very contented to be taken out although I think he was really petrified of the big wide world so kept his eyes tightly shut !

The next day it seems that Daniel really woke up properly, has a good look around and proceeds to tell us that he actually is a rather unsettled newborn baby and starts demanding frequent feeding. I was a breast on demand (all the time) and all he did was be attached to me and not sleep any long periods of time. I found this exhausting. This went on for a few days and a healthy visitor came to visit me and she suggested that I should rest more and get some help. I asked Alan's Mum to help and she came on Wednesday, 7th July and looked after Daniel while I had lunch. I also asked her to cook me a home made soup as I was getting fed up with eating sandwiches all the time which she did for me!

Breastfeeding has been a real challenge. Daniel seems to feed all the time and I felt really worn out. A health visitor came and suggested we occasionally supplemented with formula to give myself a little rest which is what we started to do. But now he fusses at the breast so obviously is getting too used to formula. It's so difficult as I am so tired with constant feeding but on the other hand you know that breast is best. We'll stick with breastfeeding.

A health visitor came to see Daniel on Thursday, 15th July and he got weighed and he has gained a pound since last visit which was 7 days ago. So I must be doing something right if he is gaining weight. He is now 9lb 14 oz which is nearly 10 pounds.

Daniel has started to smile more and more, I thought it was just wind but his eyes and corners of the mouth move when he looks at me and I just melt - he really is the cutest baby and we are so lucky!!!

Also, noticed that he can roll more easily if left on the sofa so must be more careful with him as he is moving more and more (getting stronger). Also, his neck is being supported a lot more, it used to be when you hold him to your chest but now he seems to move his neck almost all the time. He was never too floppy a baby but now he is definitely more in control. Can't believe how quickly he is growing... He will be three weeks tomorrow (18th July)...

We went to the Baby Clinic on 21st July as he has been crying quite a lot (colic) and to have him weighed. He has put on more weight and weighs 10.4lb now. The doctor said I need to give up all diary as this could be the reason that he's got colic.

Friday, 6th August - Daniel got weighed yesterday and he is 12 pounds !!! What a big boy - he is growing so much. Also seems extra unsettled at the moment I breast fed him this morning almost constantly and he wouldn't settle down and sleep - eventually I gave him 2 oz of formula and he managed to fall asleep. Constant feeding and holding is really hard - I just managed to have some lunch and check e-mail and come here. He is still asleep in his basket now I hope for a while.

Night sleeping is a big problem. We can't settle him in the evening until about 11pm - every night it's the same I start feeding him and he cries on and off and then Alan takes him and tries to soothe him. He either has a bath or shower with Alan - he loves water but I have a feeling that it might actually stimulate him rather than make him sleepy as he seems happy at the time but afterwards cries and this goes on and off. Then we try to give him a final feed, breast than formula about 10pm and eventually he falls asleep on Alan's chest when we can take him into his basket. He sleeps until about 2:30 then wakes up and I feed him and try to settle him in the basket - it works occasionally but most times he ends up coming into bed and then he would feed and fall asleep. He usually doesn't wake up until about 7am when he doesn't do anything apart from making some strange noises.

And then another day begins where I feed, hold and try to get him to sleep...

On the other hand, when he is happy and he is happy a lot, he smiles and laughs and we 'talk' to each other, he mimics what I say - he likes when I say 'Dobro Jutro' which is good morning in Croatian and he is trying to roll his 'rrrrs' and it's so much fun. He really does melt your heart when you are with him... He is such a cutie and I love him to bits even though he is such a demanding baby sometimes...

Daniel had his 6 weekly checkup yesterday (11th August 04) and everything is great. He was 12.5 lb or 5.68 kg and looking healthy. The doctor said he was a big baby too... Daniel is growing too quickly.

The weather in Scotland this week has been awful - constant rain so we have done nothing - been house bound which is boring for mummy as well as Daniel! Hopefully we'll be able to do something soon.

Friday, 20th August - we have booked our ticket to Croatia, we leave on 10th September for a week so three weeks to go until Daniel meets his Croatian family. I wonder if he will laugh at everyone, whenever I say 'Dobro Jutro' (good morning) he cracks up laughing! The last couple of days Daniel seems more hungry perhaps he has a growth spurt (again). Still isn't too keen on his pushchair - this morning we went for a walk and I ended up carrying him (he is heavy!) as he was crying and not feeling too happy. His daddy is off to Northern Ireland (Belfast) for a hockey tour tomorrow so I have a busy weekend on my own. Janice and Judi who I used to work with at Standard Life Investments are coming to visit as well which I'm looking forward to... Another thing is that he is outgrowing his Moses basket and I wonder where he will sleep now. We don't want to put him into his own room but not sure if his cotbed will fit into the bedroom.

Friday, 27th August - Daniel is two months today. He got weighed on Wednesday 25th Aug and was nearly 14 pounds. Can't believe how quickly he is growing - he seems to be really long. The last three days he seems to be extra hungry and eats like a horse. He's been a bit fussy, crying a bit more in the evenings so probably going through a growth spurt. But apart from that he is 'talking' more and more and making funny sounds - it seemed he said 'hercule' the other day - I don't know why but he sounds almost French! We are off to Croatia in two weeks time. Hopefully he will be OK and will not be going through any growth spurt then as it's impossible to do anything but nurse him - I feel like a milking cow!!!