Franny Had A Little Yam - 10/10 thingummies :o)

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For anyone who wants a boost to their general health. The suggested goals are:

EAT 10 PORTIONS OF FRUIT AND VEGETABLES EVERY DAY - if you don't usually eat much fruit and veg I would build up gradually or you could upset your digestion.

DO (AT LEAST) 10 MINUTES OF EXERCISE EVERY DAY - can be yoga, stretching or something more energetic. The plan is that the idea of doing 10 minutes is not too daunting, and having started you may well find you want to do more.

There are no restrictions on what you eat so long as you get your 10 fruit and veg as well. The focus is not on weight loss but on improving our energy levels and hopefully our general mood and well-being. Sign up below and post here to tell us how you're getting on and how you are feeling.

Basic guidance on what constitutes a portion of fruit and veg here and you can download more detailed information by following the link at the very bottom of the page.

Did anyone else used to have a 'what to do if the house is burning down and mummy and daddy haven't noticed / are still sleeping' plan as a nipper?

I did. Mum was most amused when I told her about the order of rescuing that would take place in such an event. I didn't understand why at the time.

Hello

DS is ill he has high temp and is flopping and dozing

We are going on holiday on Friday morning and I should be at work tying up ends, and of course have loads to do at home as well.

DH not able to come home at all today.

OB that sounds postive....di you get some kind of reassurance it won;t be happening again?

Boco, I feel suitably caged today.

Can;t even go outside really.

If you started a white dog poo thread I'd probably be first to post on it

at FMV. Not about feeling rubbish the next day though. I have to plan recovery time aorund going out now. Or else I just get exhausted and emotional.

Boco, can you not go to the coast with teh girls anyway?

I would be climbing the hedges too.

I can't get there.

Friend in Ufford has no car either so he can't even pick us up. We'll go at the weekend. And tomorrow my sister is taking us out for the day. We're lying on the rug outside and I'm doign sudoku and the girls are drawing and it's lovely, I shouldn't moan, I just crave traffic and people sometimes. Or maybe it's just having the option that I would like.

oh ds does that Boco! with him it is an insecurity / control thing
well I always suspected it was and then I was kind of proved to be right IMO, when me and ds2 got taken into hospital and his one bag of medical supplies escalated to 4 large carriers full of emergency equipment
if there's a nuclear war or similar I will be very glad of him I am sure
I expect he has a zombie plan also

midwife has been
ds2 has put on 9 oz over the 12 days he has been alive
considering 7 of those days were spent in hospital with feeding problems I think we have done Quite Well

midwife refused to look at my stitches, as usual
I have to go to doctor on Friday instead
great big HMM so big I can't fit it into a

Boco I wish we could spring you
where's the 10 / 10 helicopter when you need it?

God she sounds rubbish. I had to fight with my midwives to keep my pants on!

Hello all

Franny why wouldn't she look at your stitches? She sounds useless. Weight gain is FAB though, you must be pleased How are the nips now?

UR and FMV thank you! FMV you do indeed recognise the colours . It was surprisingly not too hard, although I had to go back and start again at one point as I had not understood the pattern. I feel your pain UR at undoing 5 hours work... but it is worth it if something is not quite right. I am a bit of a perfectionist and I can't carry on with something if there is a mistake. (I can send you the pattern if you like UR?)

I have had some lovely blueberries this morning

Oh dear FK, hope ds is better soon

Boco ds and I had a lovely afternoon out in the garden yesterday, lying on a rug underneath our 'tent' of two big umbrellas. Really made me want to go camping (somewhere with nice toilets )

oh FK, hope he's better soon.

dh came home earlier han usual and has taken ds1 to the summer party wih my banana and blueberry muffins (couldn't be doing with grating all that carrot). I just couldn't go. I am exhausted and ds2 has slept for about 15 mins today (not unusual when he is not in the sling. He has been in the sling, though, and not fallen asleep). Fortunately I have met the teachers and a lot of the parents already.

Shouted at ds1 today and feel really really shitty he cried for ages

and he was so LOVELY today.

I came in from the kitchen wearlier to find him sitting with ds2 holding my full-music woolly-liberal-high-church-Anglican hymnal and singing to ds2 and when we were baking he started taking all his cooking stuff off his toy oven (in the kitchen) and saying 'I'm rearranging - look, I've rearranged everything, so I can have a bowl'

avi will try best later am fairly stumped though

guess who just rang me
the infant feeding co-ordinator from the hosp
"oh we know you have been discharged now and we know it was actually 10 days ago you asked for help and we know your breastfeeding has almost undoubtedly gone down the pan by now unless of course you found someone else out there to help you from the goodness of their hearts or managed somehow to muddle on by yourself"

(oh ok they didn't SAY that bit)

"but would you like any advice over the phone? as we are here for you"

my face will stick like this soon

hmm, sounds like an almighty feeble attempot to cover their sorry arses....

How odd, to refuse to look at your stitches - can only assume Handsome Tom has told her to say that so you have to go back to him

I fainted at work today and I'd only had a banana and some raisins, fruit wise. Usually by that point I'd have troughed at least 3 other pieces of fruit, so I MUST be a beter member of 10/10!

Franny you do seem to be on the receiving end of some v ery odd and dubious "services" i must say.

What MW would not look at stitches, fgs? I couldn't keep mine away from inspecting mine everytime she called.

It was just as well because I refused to look at the time, in case it was awful.

Boco glad you can get away at the weekend, and hope you have a good day tomorrow.

DS seems brighter tonight. He even refused to go to bed, so that was reassuring , and he ate two jam sandwiches which was an improvement on eating nothing.

Oh MamaG hope you are OK?

MamaG, are you ok? Hope you feel better Bero. I feel awful today too but not sure why. It's like that feeling when you have drunk too much but it isn't funny any more - all naseous, dizzy and like I am about to fall asleep. I felt like this is the early weeks of pg too. But I am definitely not. And I slept funny last night and think i have sprained my wrist

Well done on letting go, OB. I need to learn to do that. And well done to TF for remembering lunch. And to Franny for feeding DS2 so well that he is even huger than before.

Hope DS feels better soon, FK.

White dog poos, wow. I am going to email my Dad - he will be happy to hear that. He is quite fond of poo, especially white dog turds. I once had a job that required me to crumble up poos.

Hello to everyone else. Where's Lully?

oh UR, dp just remembered and went and got the parcel that came this morning - what beautiful knitting - I love the colours - and so soft
thank you so much, ds2 is spoilt to bits with all these glorious presents

midwife is odd isn't she
she definitely has aversion to looking at my stitches - has done so once since he was born and I had to really pester her
something is not right with them so will go to gp tomorrow
can't face Tom again

hope MamaG and UR and Bero feel better

hope you're OK, MamaG. Sorry you're feeling yuck too, UR.

ds2 still awake . He slept for maybe 20 mins this afternoon. Have not yet had dinner.

Is it actually normal for a 10mo to sleep little (he seems to be sleeping less and less atm), really like weight-bearing and being on his feet but not be at all eager to cruise, and often (incl in sling, which he generally tolerates likes) throw his head back/arch his back? He seems developmentally OK - commando crawls/scrambles, pulls himself up, babbles, is alert and often happy, very responsive to stuff. I don't think he is refluxy. He eats some solids, not a lot tbh, but IMO enough atm (we are being careful about introducing because of allergies in the family). The back-arching thing does make me wonder sometimes.

dh doesn't like one of the kindergarten teachers . I was actually a little bit taken aback by her at first, as she was somehow so un-kindergarteny - older and very calm and almost a little stiff and formal - but after spending a bit of time with her I found I liked her.

Oh, he doesn't sit on people's laps. Not for long, anyway. He doesn't sit up reliably yet, but ds1 was quite late at that too. When I'm somewhere with him and have to hold him on my lap for a while he pushes up and arches his back and wants to stand/be turned round, and often then he starts tzrying to climb up me. I often feel I've ben 10 rounds afrer holding him (awake) sitting down for half an hour. He is very 'strong'. Every doctor he's seen, since birth, has commented on his 'strength'.