Due April 2009: Episode 17 - We're off of work and ready to push, time for DH's to attend to that bush!!

[BabyBolat]

Inspired by our Smutty x

Bad mother alert...
Yesterday at lunchtime I was crossing the road holding DS1's hand (he is 2), and he did that thing where he picks his feet off the ground and dangles. He did it a few times and then got upset and held his arm. We got home, I fed him lunch, he had a nap and a play date, was completely himself but wasn't using his arm at all. 6 hours later (!) I called the doctor, who fitted me in even though the surgery was closed, and advised me to go to A&E. At 9pm we were seen, doctor said I'd dislocated his elbow and would pop it back in then and there. He did, much crying from DS1 (and me), and 10 minutes later was using his arm again as if nothing happened! I left him 9 hours with a dislocated elbow!!! Felt so bad.

Is there something you can get for washing machines that will thoroughly clean out the drawer and the innards, like dishwasher cleaner? I've tried manual labour and elbow grease, but it's not really helping.

(Woke up in night with stomach pains, realised that were I to go into labour nothing is ready, so decided to wash nappies etc today, but then decided washing machine needed cleaning before washing precious baby's nappies!!).

Don't feel bad. At least you held his arm. When I was wee, my Mum turned to grab my brother by the hand and I promptly ran across the road and got hit by a car (which may explain a lot....)

Thats not bad mother. especially if he was the one lifting his feet up. theres nothing else you could have done oh except let go on the road which I would consider much more bad mother.
Don't feel bad you weren't to know it was dislocated.

My brother aged about 18 hurt his foot while playing footie with a tin can. three days later he finally said to my mum you know my foot still hurts. turned out he had broken bones in it. He was 18 and able to know for him,self but didn't, its not your body in this case so you're even less likely to suspect.

Ju do a hot wash with vinegar, it will do the inners. Take the drawer out to clean it

Removed drawer and soaked with vinegar, but will not come up clean. Am just running it through empty on hot wash, but may do vinegar next. I love a bit of vinegar for cleaning. DH hates it when he comes home to find bathroom sparkling but reeking of vinegar!

My DH hates my love of vinegar too, he hates tea tree even more. TOUGH!

I would use a toothbrush on it and not worry about the colour just that its not too gunked up. Afterall who looks in your washing machine drawer

Hey congratulations to Kazkiss! That was quick dying to hear more news!

My tea slave is upstairs in bed with the man flu - I have been making him tea this morning in between scrubbing DD's old cot and putting yet another load of washing on. Off to have lunch with a friend now.

Hopefully we'll here from Barbarelly soon and Nutty, hope you're feeling okay! x

Bronze - what do you use tea tree oil for?

Who's excited about this afternoon? I AM!! Because I'm booked in for the first of my reflexology sessions - and she's throwing in a back & neck massage as well! I'm going to be a happy yummy mummy later...

I used to use it for the nappy bin but now dry pail. Cleaning cuts erm I also used to use it to mop the floor (diluted obviously) but though I've persevered with the vinegar I gave in on the tea tree and don't tend to use it now.

Just set dd (2) to take all the washing out of the machine and put it in the basket hehe

Ooh thanks for that, my drawer is gunked up too.

B52's - Don't feel bad. How could you have known?

Is anyone else getting leg cramps at night? What can I do to ease them?

OMG babies!!! That is so exciting - they're about 6 weeks early aren't they which hopefully wont be too bad - really lovely names, can't wait to hear more! (Note I am ok with you multiples going early - you have a VALID reason, the rest of you still need to keep them inside for a little bit longer!!) hopefully it wasn't too traumatic and rushed and she can enjoy her LO's!!!

B52 - that is not that bad really - my mum left me with a broken arm for 5 days because 1. She didn't believe me that it hurt so much (I had many a broken bone when I was younger as I was always doing stupid things like rolling off of bunk beds and roller blading over speed humps!!) and 2. My sister had just come out of cast the week before!!! You got him in there the same day and dislocations are forgotten in a few minutes (although they do hurt a lot when they first happen! -sorry that was not helpful!)

Can't remember who said about nappies but I got in a right flap because I read too much in to what was best and what wasn't and in the end have gone with ones that I like the best and think suit my lifestyle the most so sure they will be fine!

I packed the baby bag at the weekend for hospital and will be doing mine and DH's this weekend - it is all feeling very real at the moment isn't it!

Schulte / Kitty - sounds like you have a lovely day planned. Enjoy.

I do puzzle. I cant stretch my legs with pointed toes in bed as if I do I get cramp. I have no idea how to stop it and its horrible if you wake up mid cramp. Normally wake DH up searing.

Puzzle, do you massage cream into your legs before you go to bed and when you wake up? quite deep massage should do the trick x

I'm exactly the same as Bronze. If I wake up half way through a stretch, have to immediately pull pointy toes back (naughty toes??), or agonsing cramp ensues. Have almost trained myself out of pointy-toed stretching now, I think.

if you massage downwards pushing the bloodflow to your feet), depending on where the cramp is either start at your thigh down or calf down and literally push the skin towards your toes to get fresh blood flow!)

If cramp does hit, usually just have to get DH to re-flex my foot for me, and it usually goes immediately.

I can get rid of it once I get it. Plenty of movement and rubbing but I wish there was something I could take to prevent it.

Moment I come home after baby, pate on toast and a good stretch

I know what you mean about the toe pointing. Thanks BB, I'll give the pre bed time massage a go.

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm pate.

You have to be quite rigorous - I do it every night and it hurts but then cramps have not been back since!

oooh so jealous of those that can now eat pate....

Mmmmm. Pate. I had a small amount of pate at a friend's wedding when I was about 6 weeks. I concluded it was fine, because the pate thing is all about Vitamin A, and as long as I didn't eat all the pate in the room, would not cause a problem. Plus, all was still secret at that stage, and not eating the pate would have been a dead giveaway.

Farm shop over the road has a delicious pate with mushrooms in it. Yum.

Moooorning!

Am just about to catch up, but woke in the middle of the night with a question that's been bugging me out of sheer curiosity & need to know the answer to! (It's really not very important, but it seems strange that I wouldn't know by now!)

You know how you have all the post-natal bleeding? The lochia, or whatever it is? Well do you still get that if you have a CS? Because I can see that it's less traumatic to certain parts of you to have the CS, but we have periods every month without any sort of trauma, just because the lining of the uterus is replaced - so surely that'd still be the case for a CS anyway? The womb still needs a good clear out, right?