D'y ever wonder what would happen if you never changed your pants?

[shabster]

Get your bums over here ladies xx

FG - sympathise with you re the house - I am past caring with building work going on (shhhh but I do have a cleaner once a week....).

Infact I am a bit annoyed by my builder who made a comment to one of his mates about "she doesnt do her own cleaning and she doesnt do her own shopping either!".

Ahem - I do do my own shopping - I just happen to do it online so I can keep my sanity, I also wash, iron, cook, look after 3 children, tidy, work 3 full days a week and study. I think they were trying to say I am lazy. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Funnily enough just watched 2 back to back episodes of "How clean is your house" It made me feel sooo much better. Though I did run upstairs and scrub the toilet in case of galloping pseudowhatsumicallit biting me on the bum. The bits of hay and straw up the stairs are reducing slowly as I'm not allowed to do any mucking out. Must clean tomorrow as HTB home on Friday (he's half German too so they like things clean and orderly-not 2 things that really describe me or my home!)

ps Glad you liked the boys names-they would be Zak and Ozzie for short.I'm not really very cool but I have a quite cool first name myself and thank my parents for it even if no-one outside Spain can spell it or say it.

Thanks for the ideas people. We had a break through today - tinned sketty and a bread roll with cow cheese in it. For brekkie he had 1/2 portion of baby porridge and some banana. He ate nothing for evening meal - even refusing yoghurt - and took no milk at bedtime. He is quite constipated as he wont drink hardly anything. Tried giving him apple juice in a bottle (dont tell HV, his teeth will fall out) but not interested. Wont take water either and I've tried any type of cup there is. Poor Thomas, he just gets left to get on with it and generally will eat just about anything. Does anyone know if littlies can get IBS? When he does poo it is slimy.
Re the nerd thingy. I think a nerd is anyone who wont follow the crowd by being a sheep and having 'the hoody' and the correct brand/colour/style of clothes to fit in coz they havent got the balls to have their own identity. I was a nerd. I used to wear boys shoes to secondary school and a sheepskin coat and flat cap. Withing about 6 months everyone else was doing the same.

Hello, sorry for being away so long - honestly haven't turned comp on since i last posted! lol. I don't think i've ever been so tired in my life! Even in the early days with triplets... haha, that has to say a lot!

SO anyway... Dtrd1's doing ok. We transferred to a main ward last weds . Hoping to transfer to local hosp end of this week/early next week depending on how she's doing. Fingers crossed.

Other kids are doing ok too. Dtrd2 has calmed down a lot and is getting used to her sis being away at last.

I'm too tired to know how I am. Think I'm doing ok too though.

Anyway, i will catch up someday, lol. Sorry this is so brief, I'm so busy and tired I can hardly think to type.

Hope your all ok!

xx

T&T - Good to see things are getting better.

Merly, how is he generally in himself? Has the no eating thing been going on long? Does he ever vomit but show no other symptoms of a tummy bug? You almost certainly just have a fussy baby (!) who over the course of a week is taking in enough calories, but just doesn't seem to eat very much on a day to day basis. But the slimy poo reference does ring a quiet warning bell for me. You could be looking at some sort of intolerance - slimy poo can indicate a lactose intolerance (I believe) and is certainly one of the tell-tale signs of coeliac disease in children (this is what DD1 has). If his disinterest in food and lack of weight gain continues, you might want to get the GP to refer him for tests.

I hope I'm not worrying you unduly - I hate posting things like this when all you've asked about is how to get him to eat more, but equally, I'd feel awful if it turned out in a few months that he did have a problem and I hadn't said anything.

T&T, good to hear things are improving for DTrD1. Hope you manage to get some sort of rest soon.

Just watching Elbow performing their latest album on BBCi - blooming brilliant. Particularly this track which always cheers me up .

He is going to the docs tomorrow re the pooing thing so, no I would rather you did post this sort of thing. We are a family (my side anyway) of gut problems. OH's is blessed with skin alergies etc. Poor chap already had excema so we've no doubt hexed him between us. LOL. Night x

Merly - hope you all get some answers from the Doc's tomorrow...

T&T - wonderful news about your DD - hope she goes from strength to strength.

Talked to Tomster tonight about the fact that he has been 'tagged' in a picture as a Nerd. He just turned from the computer and said 'Oh dont worry mum I got voted as a Nerd by somebody else today!!!' I said 'What do you think a Nerd is?' Oh thank you God, his reply was 'A really clever bloke () who people would secretly love to be like!' He said 'It's kind of like Clarke Kent and Superman - one of the lads in my class was voted as a Geek and he said how much he would love to be a Nerd!!'

This is such a difficult, horrible age for boys and girls.

So glad I have got a Nerd and not an obnoxious little bullying git

Morning girls. Everybody happy?

Well, yes -still pregnant! One of the ladies on my "Baby due in Sept. 09" thread had a scan and they didn't find a heartbeat-so she's waiting to mc.Life is s**t sometimes.I feel like Ben Nevis (the horse that won the Grand National at the age of 16 with the Jockey with Cancer, not the mountain). All the odds are against me !) Over 40, prev.mc, bleeds,twins and also just for good measure Rhesus negative.
I like a challenge-but this is quite a big one.

Morning!
Tr&Ts so glad that DTRD is better and making her way through the hospital to the front door and car ride home!

FG - love the shirley Valentine - PMSL. I don;t know how many times a day I feel like that. I'm with you on the cleaning front. Just gone back to work PT and still the housework is lurking there for me every day. It doesn't seem to matter how many times I hoover and mop, It still looks a pit. I don't think there's any point in getting a cleaner as a) it messes up again so quickly and b) our house is the size of a postage stamp.

Shabs - I married Clarke Kent! He even has the glasses. TOm sounds lovely and perfectly well grounded. That's all your fine doing. I hope I don't screw up my kids. HOw do you what bit is wrong? Does the guilt ever stop? Tell me it does!

Neddie - Another week of burrowing! It sounds like all is ok so far. WEll done! Love the supper! My two have had cottage pie which they used to love for 2 days in a row before I gave up. They are still young tho'.

Trips, I hope heating gets sorted today.

We've booked a holiday to Egypt. Hoorah! However, came back down to earth as hadn't thought about immunisations so having meeting with nurse this am. I hope I dont end up giving them some lurgy!

Neddie - did the hospital give you the printed sheet with the 'down side' of having a baby when you are older? My first ante-natal appointment when I was having Tom was just after my 40th birthday - they presented me with the reading matter I ended up making a paper aeroplane with it Trips - think that Neddie could do with your words of wisdom - Trips story is amazing Neddie

Tsleep - sorry love but NO the guilt never ends - you just learn to live with it Tom now has two votes for the nerd of year 7 - three girls ran to catch up with him this morning. As they passed me (hovering on the corner, nervously watching him walk up on his own) one of them said 'Awwww lets catch up with Tom, he is so cute....awww look how little he is ' They ran up the hill and he looked at them and grinned and walked the rest of the way with them.

well, the lady that gave me my first notes when I had the emergency scan told me that it was early days (ie don't get too excited)etc because of......(see list)
Mind you I was really fit when I fell pregnant and the doctor looked at me as though I was mad to think i'd get pregnant straight away. i only seemed to hang my underpants up next to my partners and bingo. They just right you off like you are some old banger.

ps have put pics of me and little and large on the my pics bit of my profile- managed to find a picture of Philippa with teeth (she normally has at least 4 missing at any one time).

Great pictures my love!!! LOL at 'old banger' know that feeling so well. Ha Ha Ha you will be the same age as me when these twins go to High School Its great fun

Did a shudder when I noseyed through your details - I remember having to read Silas Marner for O Level English Lit.....

Oh no I love it it's beautiful- though he'd be locked up as a paedo nowadays. Unconditional love is worth all the tea in China. I know-my eldest is living with her father and things have been strained between us because I think she secretly wants us back together. I haven't told either of my children that I am getting married or having twins yet.I'll let you know how that one goes-must fly little one turning into a prune in upstairs bathroom. Tonight I thought I'd do haddock fillets in a white sauce with smash and beans. My mother was a professional chef and really despairs at my cooking, luckily both DXH and HTB were and are excellent cooks so I'm sorted.

Hi girls,
I am being a slummy mummy
On the sofa, using the abandoned lap -top, H horizontal on the other sofa, kids ............er somewhere. I feel alot better today, throat and cold better and IBS loads better. H is much the same, but I treated myself to a morning out to Dover(dump) but managed to get pressies for my Mums b/day this Frid, so she`s sorted! Oh,good good news from British Gas. The engineer brought a manager along with him and both inspected my flue( and said it was rubbish to say it was not safe, it needed a new collar and three new rivets and that was that! He was very apologetic, and I was hugely relieved! So now we can concentrate on getting a new shower fitted, hooray! Suppose I had better go find some supper, H will only have soup, but at least that is something. Anyone recommend a mixer shower? Back later hopefully

Hiya Trips - love the fact that they inspected your flue LOL LOL

Have been having a 'word' with our Matthews to sort stuff out for you - they never let us down do they

Trollop!

Looks like I might be visiting you soon trollop! My end of Feb client is having a c-birth on Tuesday.