Thank You, mumsnet (not aibu)! who else has a story?

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i just wanted to take the time to say (very seasonally) how grateful i am for mumsnet. i come here quite often for advice andentertainment, and i think that the mumsnet community has really affected me as a fresh mum and woman in a very positive way.

but here are the two things i am most grateful for:

1. Thank You mumsnet for helping me make good medical decisions based on the wisdom of the mumsnet crowd:

my two month old DD2 just contracted bronchiolitis from her older sister, and after two fair enough days, she started to have difficulties feeding, but her doctor told me to continue with the inhalations and not to go to the ER yet. throughout the third evening i felt that she became more and more inconsolable and uncomfortable and that her breathing was quite rapid, but again, my husband thought it would be better to try and avoid the ER as its full of nasty viruses at this time of the year, and. wait till the morning to visit our doctor. i cant explain it but i felt quite uneasy though. so i looked through the mumsnet archives and found a quite lively thread about when to go to hospital with a child with bronchiolitis, exactly the question i was asking! what i read on that thread alerted me to some signs of breathing difficulties, and in the middle of the night yesterday i packed up my little one and drove her to hospital, where she had some bad cough attacks that left her purple and had nurses and emergency doctors all over her...we were kept close to emergency care for twelve hours and her condition was taken very seriously by the staff, and we are now staying here until the weekend with infusion and oxygen tent...i cannot even imagine if shed have had those cough attacks and choking on her phlegm at home.

1. Thank You mumsnet for being real about all the ups and downs being a wife and mother and human being entails. i have high expectations of myself that i often dont live up to, but reading other peoples honest and frank accounts of experience gives me so much confidence to not even fake it in real life, and come right out with whats going on inside, even if its not really the way its done in my environment. I am not ashamed to name the ups and the downs and the lefts and the rights,and i think its made me appreciate and LIVE the experience of being someones mother so much more....

sooo....anonymous mumsnetters, i owe you one!

anyone else has happy christmassy mumsnet stories?

Thank-you Mumsnet for making me laugh like a loony on AIBU.

There's some right nutters out there, and it makes me realise I'm actually pretty sane and a good Mother after all.

im sure you are!! this shit is really tough, and as long as we manage to turn out some cute, lovely little humans all's fair, and by that i mean ...

Fwiw, you should thank your mother instincts.

You were nit happy and you searched for how to help your child.

Next time you are worried try NHS direct as they always err on the caution side.

DS had several bouts of bronchiolitis and ended up in hospital a few times. Thankfully it was just overnight.

The first time I had to alert the nurses/doctors because he had got a lot worse while waiting, because he seemed fine to the triage nurse when we got in.
They change so quickly.

Anyway, thank you MN for all the relationship advice. Very enlightening.

extrastrong

Any chance you could do me a link to the bronchiolitis thread please?
My DS was diagnosed with it on Monday and I'm pretty worried about him. He's still been feeding ok, but been a bit cranky and I noticed through the night that his cough seems to be getting worse. So many people ive spoke to have said their DC have ended up in hospital so im panicking now that he's going to get worse. Would be great to get some further advice.
I hope your DD is on the mend now

TIA

ooh I hope your little one is getting stronger x

what a lovely post

I mean the thanks to mumsnet, not about a sick child

methinks I got up too early today.......

Thank you for being here when my DS wouldn't sleep. He sleeps now thankfully. Thank you you were no help other than wasting my hours away in the daytime and he is now 8 years old so sleeps more

YANBU !!!

Thank you all just for being my friends. :)

Thank you MumsNet for our utterly BRILLIANT new staff member.

We were chatting about random stuff and the subject came up about how she needed a job and we needed someone just like her.
Two interviews and some training later, she is a superstar.

There are LOTS of other reasons to thank MN, and I am grateful every single day that it exists, but that is my favorite one this year.

hi just checking in, going to get an hour sleep between my two babies...

2lazyboys, type "bronchiolitis" as a search term in the talk search and there is a thread with the name "when to go to hospital" or something in the first page of results, there is also a post about three signs of respiratory distress (bobbing head, heaving chest, flayling nostrils) and other good stuff! how old is your little one? bronchiolitis is most dangerous when their young, so if he/shes a little older, you need to weigh the risk of exposing them to so many germs and illnesses against the benefits of constant monitoring (thats mostly what the hospital can do: monitoring oxygen levels, pulse, and inhalations...)

my DD2 is still in the locker, apparently she caught it quite bad and well probably stay into the next week even.

lueji i second your thank you to mumsnet for the relationship advice, it just gives you so much strength to know that certain behaviours are NOT ok, and for you to push back against it instead of slowly giving in, as us girls so often do...i think its a good sign for mumsnet that men hate it so...

mumsnet is my favourite crowdsurf! i think its revolutionary.

Ok, thank you extrastrong, there seems to be quite a lot of useful stuff there, I will havd a good read at everything.

DS is 5m, he seems not too bad today actually so fingers crossed he won't get any worse.

Sorry for thread hijack btw..

Thank you mumsnet for being there for me in the wee small hours when my insomniac brain won't let me sleep and for all the info/ threads about EA that made me realise that it wasn't all in my head!

Yes indeed, it makes me laugh out loud so much, and knowing about and being part of the Woolly Hugs Blankets, and being so AGHAST sometimes about the highly judgemental middle class views, the great feeling of helping someone with a reply to a post, whiling away the hours with a houseful of ill children and still feeling to connected, knowing we all face the same things, after all where else at 11pm at night can you get advice about shifiting DS aged 10 enourmous stuck poo from the loo!?!

Thank you Mumsnet for educating me about posterior tongue tie! Still BFing DS at 14wks. I had given up in bleeding, weeping agony at about 6 weeks with DD2 who in retrospect we think had tongue tie (she still has a lisp).

Thank you Mumsnet for the SN forum having worries about your child and feeling like nobody else understands is such a lonely place the SN forum gives me an outlet and fab advice.

Thank you (as a fairly new poster) for making me realise that there are other people out there with similar and sometimes even harder lives then me! and for making me appreciate that.

I think mumnset is the virtual equivalant of sitting by the window of a crowded coffee shop people watching.....

I think that also clumsy when I first came here, erm..8 years ago I just sat and stared and conversations, I literally had never seen anything like it, I was a bit scared to join in so started with a few on threads,then it got all addictive!! Had some fantastically funny times on here if I am honest!

Thankyou MN for giving me some of my favourite phrases such as woof to you too lady

When I am in dire need of distraction from RL, the Classics section is invaluable.

To anyone who has not experienced the joy of this one, may I wish you a Happy Christmas

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/252806-is-this-the-worst-and-most-selfabsorbed-piece-of-journalism

Thanks for the link Montage. It is as funny now as when I read I first time.

Thank you Mumsnet for making me both laugh and cry and learn so much about the world and the people in it. The advice has been invaluable as my DD approaches her first Christmas.

On the other hand I can no longer walk past a Greggs without thinking of sausage rolls and fruit shoots and I frame questions to myself in terms of AIBU.