Due in June, I am going to start charging you rent soon, you little *****er

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oops home NOT hame

Holly has Alice swallowed a hair slide? i've not caught up with everything yet1

Hope your dd is ok. Was it a bad bash?

She swallowed a clip last night and I am waiting for it to reappear!

her head looks like she has got a gobstopper stuck to it - even after smothering it in arnica cream and putting ice on it

sorry Derlor have to laugh because when you said "egg on her head" i truly imagined a huge fried egg. Oh dear. TG this pg thing will be over soon and my brain can begin to recover...!

BTW if anyone's watching the May thread, LG&T's waters broke so she's off to hospital... !

LOL re Cath delivery times. Too true...

Holly, is it a metal one? have you had her x-rayed?

Ow! Poor lamb! Hope her bump goes down soon.

It was a metal one, but it was quite small and she isn't showing any after effects. If it doesn't appear by tomorrow I'll take her to get x-rayed just to make sure.

shit derlor! I'd be fuming too!

Oooo can't believe May babies are coming! I wonder if any of us pop before your cs!

BUT its good when the bump comes up straightaway apparently.

Holly - don't mean to panic you but have just found your post about your DD and i strongly advise you to have her x-rayed. something like that can seem fine but actually be lodged in her windpipe if this is the case when she eats if it moves positon it could close her windpipe off causing her serious breathing difficulties - sorry if i seem like i'm over reacting but i have seen this happen and it can be very dangerous - i urge you to get her x-rayed. if you go to A&E she will be sen very quickly as this can be so dangerous - especially in a LO. x

OK, my irrational worry for today.

I'm panicking about how I'm not going to turn into a milky, stinky, greasy, unwashed slob when this baby gets here. At the moment I'm told I'm "blooming" (DS1 nearly went to school without a full lunchbox today as I was putting my lippy on and ran out of time) and I'm enjoying feeling good about myself.

It sounds incredibly vain, I know, but its important to me that not only do I cope with 4 kids, but I appear to the outside world to be coping! Probably because I get so much shock and horror from complete strangers its even more pressure. Albeit unnecessary.

Tea time is NOT the time to airing my worries, is it?

yes Foxy it is OK when bump comes out into gobstopper shape - it is serious when indentation appears - i'm such a nurse today!!

shit Holly! are you going to go?

sorry for going on about myself, x-posted.

it is lovely when you get told how good you look at this stage of pg isn't it - i've had a couple of "oh you look fab" comments recently and it really makes me too - Foxy you are obviously a supermum 3 LO's already and looking fab - you go girl!!

I don't know now. My mum is coming to get us in a bit so I'll see what she says. Last time we went to a&e Alice had a seriously burnt hand, it had blistered up really big and she was in pain. We didn't get seen for 3 hours even though it wasn't that busy! She was about 11 months as she had just started walking, I was that we were made to wait for so long and weren't seen as a priority. We were then made to feel as if we had done something wrong and we were child abusers. We were told social services would be involved etc. I was terrified and really upset! All she had done was put her hand onto a hot radiator. I don't think they believed us. It was a highly traumatic experience and has really put me off going to the hospital with her.

Social services didn't get involved and all that happened was a community nurse came round to change the dressing. She said children burn themselves on radiators all the time!

Bloody hell! I would have been like Holly - I didn't realise it could be so dangerous, TG we have our own HV!

Derlor! your poor DD! for you! Absoultely right to be fuming, how on earth could she not know where she was?

You can air your worries anytime you like Foxy. I have started to worry about that aspect of the early days - last time cos it wasn't summer and it was just me and DD - I could shut myself away until I felt reasonably presentable - but the thought of going anywhere and looking alrighty with two feels me with dread! So I can imagine how you feel!

Holly, why don't you give NHS Direct a call if you are in two minds still?

Ok Holly i understand your fears but then let me advise - if she appears to be
*)breathing any differently from normal
*)her voice sounds different
*)or she makes any strange noises
*)or if she starts to cough and doesn't stop
then PLEASE take her to A&E or call 999 immediately.
i'm sorry for nagging but i'm just worried things can get lodged "safely" for days then suddenly move and she could deteriorate very quickly - I hope i'm over reacting and she poos it out soon

Sounds a bit superficial of me, but I'm not, really. Am probably just focusing my fears on one thing.

Good idea foxy. I might just do that. I am scared of a&e!

I'll speak to you chicks this evening, my mum is coming to get us in a minute. I'll let you know what happens with hairclip-gate!

Thanks derlor! Nice of you to put your nurse's hat on for us!