October 08 - "I said no!"

[KSal]

it appears I posted the last post... so here's a new thread

I've got a "thinking table" too. I might need a little thinking spot at home soon.

Good luck tomorrow CSWS!

We just sit him in the very small hallway between kitchen and living room. He can see what he's missing (toys in the living room), but has to think and say sorry for what he's done. I make him come up with why he's sorry, too. And I will try not to do it again.
So it's something like
Sorry mommy
Me: Sorry for?
Sorry for 'itting you.
Me: (wait)
'itting not nice. I not do it 'gain. Need a 'ug mommy
:)

Oh he sounds very sweet star. I don't think I do very well with discipline.

Am just waiting to go down for op now. Am first so they thought about 8.30, but they are obv running a bit late.

Lurking to see if CSWS is OK.

Me too. Any word? Anyone?

She's posted on fb that she's not great and that was all, so i hope she's got home and gone straight to bed with a hefty dose of painkillers, and all children are successfully fed and sleeping peacefully.
That's what I hope, somehow suspect that's not the case poor thing .
How are you today star - did you ever get any answers to your dizzy/nausea thing that they tested for?

I hope she's ok.

No, pepper. Got caught up in DH's accident, then Q was a bit ill recently. Tonight he's been having really runny poos (???)I just haven't had time. But I still feel on and off nauseous and dizzy at times. I'm willing to bet I just need more iron. Just need to get some spatone, probably.

Q is regressing with potty training because of these poos (he doesn't know when they are coming like a normal one). Over the past few days, he'll say at some points in the day, after successfully weeing on the potty earlier, mind you, he'll say "I need a wee.... I want to do it in your pants". Then he'll look down... and wee in his pants! NO idea what to do. Then he says "I need new pants!" and goes ballistic if we don't change him.

CSWS's DH Here

She has had the op, but did not go all according to plan. During the op her heart started racing (has had SVT in the past, maybe connected). it was controlled with drugs, but the op took a lot longer than expected. Was still done via keyhole, but she said that the consultant almost went for opening her up, which would not have been great.

She is not home, still on the ward and was v sleepy when i saw her at 6, but had perked up when i went back at 7.30 (had to go home to pick up the breast pump that i forgot - duh!). has been told that not able to breastfeed till 2.30 tomorrow afternoon due to the drugs she was given. hoping she will be back tomorrow, but some chance she will be in another night :(

Better news is that the kids are all fine, all kids fed and J has taken his first expressed milk from a bottle with great gusto. all sleeping well now. hoping the night will be ok! expressed milk at the ready.

i know it sounds not good, but the stones are out and the pain was not too bad when i saw her. hopefully she will be able to post tomorrow with better news.

Typical I come on to double check when CSWS op is and it's today.

CSWS. I hope you are up and about soon. At least the stones are out that is the most important thing. The boys will survive for 12 hours without being fed. Whether your boobs will is another thing

MYJOB. I think that is a much better plan. The midwifery course is tough. I think that you will be in a much better place when N has gone to school and you are all settled. As a young one you have years on your side. I rememeber when I was training the people who had been working on the wards had a massive advantage over the rest of us.

Nice beds Pistachio.
CF, get ont he phone and harrass the hospital. Get written confimation of any blood results and appointments. I am very pleased that someone elses boy is causing trouble. So far I haven't had the raised eyebrow at school but I do spend most of my day telling W to not run over the cats on his bike or spitting or hitting his sisters! Nightmare.
Hello everyone else. I have forgotten all the news. I will catch up I promise.

I have to say sorry for not being on much. Life seems to be getting in my way of Mumsnetting. I am missing out on loads of stuff.
W not sleeping again, DD1 passed her entrance exams to a lovely school, DD2 had her gym hours increased, I am helping my sis organise her weddding and also helping dh best friend's bride-to-be with hers!

I didnt get the job I went for. Over qualified apparently. Never mind. Hours where going to be difficult anyway.

Off to bed for my hours sleep before the boy wakes me up again.

I should have said.
Nice work MRCSWS.

Thanks for keeping us up to speed MR CSWS. I really hope she's made it home today and is doing better than before.

Ronshar - Clever DD. Well done! Sounds like you're really busy.

Pistachio - I must tell you. Do you remember ages ago we had a conversation about veggie stock/sauces etc and how to make them rich and three dimensional? Anyway, in my Ottolenghi book he said that the trick is to add prunes. I've not tried it yet but I thought I would pass that little gem on.

How is Q now Star?

Well the hospital called me and asked me to come in again. My hormone levels are dropping (so no ectopic) but very slowly so they want to monitor me. I've only seen the nurse not the doctor so I don't know whether this is significant. I do know it's a pain in the arse and I want it over with.

Been busy cooking today making food to take to a friend who recently had twins (and has a toddler already!). Made a chicken pie and a veggie lasagne. I haven't cooked the pie and was planning on taking it as it is in case she wants to freeze it. Do you think I should cook it?

Thank you mrcsws. I hope she's home soon! The fb photo put me off food all day

Cf how awful. I hope it's all over quickly for you.
Ronshar congrats! Sounds busy at yours, but all good things :)
Myjob Shhhhhh the babies aren't 2.6 yet. 18 days for N is still a long way away from now

Q seems a bit better but says "my tummy 'urts mommy" sometimes still :( had a solid poo last night so very confused as to what is going on. He's on and off with food. I had conferences with parents all day at school today so couldn't be home and dh was doing a presentation for colleagues. Turns out he had a great day anyway.

Yesterday, He told us ALL about a (nonexistent) trip to the beach he took that day with cm... Even saw sharks, built a sand castle...etc!

I'm home :). But sore :(.

Glad you're back home CSWS. Hope you're able to get some rest.

Star - that is very sweet.

How are you feeling today CSWS?

A little better thank you pepper. I've managed with just 2 paracetamol and an ibuprofen today, and I can do things tonight that I couldn't do this morning or even this afternoon. It's just tough not being able to do stuff with the kids. J is upset every time he sees me because he wants and expects me to pick him up and cuddle him, and doesn't understand that I can't :(. And dh cannot get him to bed at all. He was difficult even for me the night before the op, but at least i did manage in the end, but dh just cannot settle him. I ended up cosleeping with my arm round him for most of last night, as I had to lie fairly motionless on my back anyway. Tonight I fed him to sleep 40 mins ago, but dh is still trying to get him in his cot.
Mum and dad are leaving once the kids are in bed so then it's down to dh to do everything until more help arrives on sunday night. Although the big two are off out with friends from 10:45 until bedtime tomorrow.

Hopefully it's upwards from here CSWS.

Pistachio - If I made a veggie lasange, I just throw in onions and garlic (cook first), celery, carrot, pepper, mushroom etc with a tin of tomatoes and some tomato puree along with a splash of balsamic and some bay leaves/herbs. I have seen some more interesting recipes along the way though, so I'll see what I can find. Will also report back on the prunes...

I've had a pretty mixed day today. Went over to see my friend's teeny tiny twins which was lovely. One was so small and swamped in blankets I didn't even realise at first that he was in his pram. I also went to the GP to ask her to refer me to the recurrent miscarriage clinic at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington (very good reputation apparently), only to discover that I'm too old for NHS treatment(cut off is 42). Then I got a call from the hospital letting me know the results of my latest round of blood tests. Pregnancy hormones are dropping very very slowly and I've got to go in to see the consultant next week. I think the fear (again) is that something's been left behind and was missed in my last scan.

:( sounds very difficult cf. ((((hug))))
Would/could you pay for treatment privately?

Csws glad you're feeling better. Good that you can get some rest tomorrow, too. I hope it keeps getting better for you.

Oh cf :(.

Hi all, CSWS I'm glad to hear you're on the mend. CF what a nightmare for you, I hope it turns out to be nothing. Myjob, your career decision sounds very sensible and exciting!

I'm 38+3 and as you can see the pregnancy insomnia is alive and well! I feel so uncomfortable, just feel like there is no more room in there! He's only barely 4/5 engaged which apparently is common with second. Went to midwife appt the other day and realised partway through that the midwife was the one I had in the nightmare first part of my labour, she was a student at the time (despite birth plan request), it took DH and I a while afterwards to decide it was definitely her. She wasn't so bad, it was the other bitch one that was making the decisions. DH told me yesterday I called her a "f*ing bitch" during the labour (the bitch, not the student!) I really need to keep a handle on my temper this time to keep my BP down. Ommmm ...