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There's a StarFruit waiting in the Pie.......10/10

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TinyBlueFeather · 30/01/2009 13:03

Original post by the lovely FrannyandZooey

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OP posts:
stuffitllama · 01/02/2009 12:56

As far as I know the OPV (sugar lump) is the one that has live vaccine which is shed. The IPV which is given by injection is an inactive one. I've just been told by a doctor that it doesn't actually stop you getting polio but it limits the effects.

stuffitllama · 01/02/2009 12:57

Sorry so that means if you had the injection it's not shed. If they don't do the sugar lump/drops in the UK any more then it won't be being shed.

MamaG · 01/02/2009 13:03

mollyroger at your new dishwasher

Mine packed up months ago and i haven't replaced it yet

I have GOOD NEWS! 12 weeks on from BabyG's birth I have finally remembered the first time I held him

I cried

stuffitllama · 01/02/2009 13:03

have just bought the Floral Dance on itunes and am listening

dadaadadddaddaaaaadaddidida

hassled suggested it as a way to get teenagers out of bed in the morning with the volume on loud

if I don't appear tomorrow I may have suffered grievous bodily harm at the hands of my children

stuffitllama · 01/02/2009 13:04

oh mamag that's just perfect

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:15

I am v. interested in Stuffit finding it harder than she thought and want to know ALL about it, but perhaps this has been done and I just missed it?

I think it's quite natural actually at 11, I don't think it's media related. It's a stage of development I think - they often seem to 'act out' the stage before they do the next stage for real. I think 2 y-olds do this, so do 7 y-olds. It's uncomfortable to think of 11 y-olds being sexual - we prefer to think they are not - and they aren't really, but they sort of are. I reckon nobody wants to go out with your ds1 because he's still into Lego, and isn't at the 'acting out' stage yet. It's one of those things they do, without really knowing what they are doing, and is totally different to how they might do this at 15. That's what I think anyway. I'd like to cite ds1's mutant mating story as my reference.

Is cold here today. DS1 and DD are making cakes.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 13:16

Stuffit! Hello.

How are you, dinner sounds lovely, esp homemade custard. How do you like the food out there?

I have had a fishfinger sandwich with beetroot and raw carrots, plus half an apple, how crap is that.

DD and DS are not eating anything much, and I keep trying to tempt them and failing. DD has refused ice cream, choc, hot choc, custard, biscuits, homemade pancakes w maple syrup, and any savoury suggestion inc cheese, she is just sipping water, and a little fruit juice or milk occasionally. DS just wants milk. DD is worrying me, she is tiny thing anyway, and any hint of baby plumpness has melted away in 3 days. Her stoach is perfectly flat, and her ribs are showing.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:19

How old is she Wombling? There's a good thread on here somewhere about feeding up dc after they have been ill. I remember using it as mine show their ribs even when not ill, they are practically hollow. Unlike me. You might need to wait until she is better though? Thin children who won't eat are a worry though, I know how you feel.

My un 10/10 suggestion is a - probably dreadful - tonic which I've used in the past. It says it 'builds them up fast' on the bottle, and by god it does.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:21

re the 11 y-o thing - I'm always convinced too when gay men write about knowing they were gay at 7 or 8 or 11. I think the same works for heterosexuals, it's just they get to 'act out' what that might mean within what should be the safe confines of Y6 whereas gay children don't, which highlights that feeling of being different.

stuffitllama · 01/02/2009 13:23

hi womble
is it a stomach bug or cold? if they are still ill then not eating may be helping? can you put some dioralyte in ribena to keep their salts up?
actually your lunch sounds quite good, and anyway am beetroot fan
100 I was rubbish at being here ..that's about it really

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:27

But it's a big thing to be there stuffit. Homesickness vastly underrated affliction imo.

mollyroger · 01/02/2009 13:29

stuffit. sorry but lololol at the floral dance blaring out

littlerach · 01/02/2009 13:29

Dh has made enchiladas for lunch so:
carrots
red peppers
yellow peppers
mange tout
baby corn
tomatoes
mushrooms

We are off to a children's birthday party later so will have party food I guess.

Womble, hope they are better soon.

Molly, I overheard dd1 (8) telling her friend that she thought XX in their class was nice as he is kind. This is the first time ever that I have heard her speak of a boy in a favourable way.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 13:29

She is 4 100. The sicknes ans sore tmmy seems to have abated, she is just complaining of a sore mouth, and lookng pale. What sort of tonic was it 100?

DD 4 and DS 1 weigh the same when she is wel, and eating normally. She is as light as a feather now, it is concerning me though, people always comment on her size, and she is even thinner now.

mollyroger · 01/02/2009 13:30

100 you are right. As usual....

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:34

My favourite sentence Moll

Here it's this one Wombling tonic - I am 100% sure that someone clever and sensible like Avi will come along and say 'omg, but that's full of xyz'. I suspect there is a lot of sugar! I have never read the contents list, but I have administered to my weakling children - and it has worked.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 13:35

Hello Molly, Thanks Rach, enchiladas yum!

100, book looks fab, have pre-ordered on Amazon. Looking forward to reading it.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:40

Thank you Wombling, that's really kind.

DS1 and DD both tiny and skinny, ds2 seems a bit more 'normal'.

It is AWFUL, I know how you feel, mine both look like they've been kept in the poor house. But I think we have to trust they are developing as they should, that they eat well and have a balanced diet - when healthy?

We were at the swimming pool the other day, and I bumped into a friend who is a GP. And I said 'look! look! they shouldn't look like that!' and she was v. nice and said they should look like that, it's just that children don't anymore which is why they seem the freaks.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:48

Oh and wombling, my final word on this - I have gone into all this in neurotic detail, can you tell - is that they are fine but if they are always tired, I mean really listless, if they are always ill, if they don't have enough vim and go when well, then there might be a problem. Otherwise, normal.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 13:50

Kindness shmindness, it looks good, and I want to read it!

Thanks for Tonic info, I will try it. It is awful, I/she was watched like a hawk when she was a baby due to slow weight gain and general tinyness, and the GP still says never refuse her food etc. V good point about kids today, not usually being skinny, tho.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 13:53

She is the opposite of listless and has enough vim for all the vimto in England normally, but is poorly right now, however has just requested cheerios, so maybe her appetite is improving.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:53

Hmm yes ds1 was watched for similar reasons. It's hard to keep the not refusing to sensible and healthy foods though. Perhaps my neuroticism set in at day one then? I wouldn't be surprised. I still send him off to bed with hot milk or ovaltine when I can. He'll probably turn 14 and shoot up and be VAST and I'll be on here moaning about how huge he is. I sort of hope I will be.

ahundredtimes · 01/02/2009 13:55

Get the tonic, quick. Before anyone comes and tells us it is full of aspamartine or something. Vim is good. Actually, I'm just realizing that eleven years is a long time to be neurotic about weight gain isn't it? Jeez. I'd better find something else I think.

BBBee · 01/02/2009 13:57

well I did banana milkshake to build DS up after an ear infection - which is probably more hellish than that sllimfast tonic.

How are you womble? you must be exhausted - it is tiring all the nursing and worrying and stuff. I think you should have a galaxy and a stiff gin.

Oh dear - I am not being very 10/10 am I. I did do the 10 today as I took DD out on her bike and I ran (well, kind of).

Bugger it is cold. I am glad to be home.

100 - book looks very good and kind of cleverish - I showed my mum who reads loads and she said it looked really interesting. Hurrah.

womblingalong · 01/02/2009 14:00

Don't hope for VAST, 100, that is exactly what happened to me. I was the skinniest thing, and my mum encouraged me to stuff myself and snack all the time. Those bad habit have stayed with me however my levels of activity are non-existent now, so I am vast now. I remember as a v skinny teenager telling my mum that if I got to 37 and I was as fat as her (size 14)I would kill myself! God I was horrible to her.