March 2010 - Babies: "Climbing like an evil genius". Mummies: "Avoiding the Shred DVD"

[Arcadie]

Welcome to those with a March 2010.
Happy Easter from me....
Unwrap it quick!..

Oh, it's a new thread. I was hoping for chocolate.

Oh no :(

I'm so, so sorry Rinders, but I'm glad he was at home with you and his children and that he went peacefully. You've coped with so much this year and you've done it with such grace. You're an inspiration to us all. Sending you love and strength xx

Oh, what awful news from Rinders. And so soon after he came home. Although how wonderful that he was home.

Rinders, if you read this, I'll just reiterate what Arcadie said: you're always welcome here whenever you want whatever your mood. It's your place just as much as anyone else's.

Glad for the more encouraging news from your sister, Arcadie.

And I hope everyone is feeling better in the MissP household and everywhere else the stomach and/or snot bugs have struck recently.

Rinders I'm so sorry.
As MissP said: You're an inspiration to us all.

So, so sorry Rinders I cannot begin to imagine. No small mercy you were at his side and that he knew all of his babies were close by. As already mentioned, we're here if and when.

So much sadness these last few weeks.

(James still has explosive watery diarreah, and I had a day of stomach cramps/running to the toilet yesterday. So we're yet to fully recover)

Rinders I'm so sorry.

Rinders it's such very sad news . Thank god Richard was home with those he loved the most around him when he passed. As others have said, we're here for you always. I hugged my own little Richard harder tonight when I read your news. While he doesn't know why his mum was crying, it reminded me so much of my own father (also called Richard) dying when I was a child. I know it doesn't sound like much, but myself and my siblings have always taken comfort from the fact that our mum was with our dad when he died. I hope your girls and step son will also take some future comfort from the knowledge that their dad also had his family around him at the end. My thoughts are with you at this very sad time.

Pixie I know that this thread has been sad recently, but it's life...there are amazing times and exciting times and depressing times and heart-breakingly sad times...and the most wonderful thing about this thread is that we're here for each other through it all.

Rinders, so sorry for your loss

manda, have been thinking of you

pixie thats what i thought when i came on to this thread, that its all sadness, and lately i haven't been coping with sad news, thats why i haven't been here as much as i used to be,but as Flip says, it is life and unfortunately there are bad times as well,

shout outs to everybody and i will be visiting your beautiful London tomorrow, its a pity i can't meet any one of you.

Flip what you said your very sweet : "the most wonderful thing about this thread is that we're here for each other through it all"
it made me cry ... it has been (another) emotional

Love to everyone and hope all babies and mummies will have a good night sleep.

Oh Rinders so so sorry to hear your news x

this had slipped off my active convos as I've been lurking and not posting.
I am so truly sorry to hear rinders news
and in the same breath delighted to hear rkd sister's twin news
DD2 has had terrible explosive weird coloured/consistency nappies and needing lots of cuddles and off her food but is now over the worst and compared to many of the other MMM gang seems to have had a light dose of whatever this nasty bug is.
Waves magic poo/spew wand and hope poorly babies/mummies/daddies get better immediately.

< evitas asks PD to prescribe something to eliminate this nasty D&V bug on MMM>

evitas you mean my magic wand is not enough ?

Smac I just want to make sure we get all we need to kill the bug :o

This is such a rollercoaster of a thread.

Arcadie Wonderful news about your sister's twins. I am so pleased that your prayers have been answered.

Thinking of Rinders and family tonight. So, so sad. After the joy at getting him home at last, and then to have such a short time together :(

okay waves magic poo/spew wand again followed by some Anti-bac spray and sits on bench patiently waiting with evitas for pacific to come back and save us all .... again

Oh Rinders I'm so so sorry to hear that Richard isn't with you all at home now, but as others said so glad he was there with you all at the last. I know you'll find the strength to get through this.

Rinders - So so sorry to hear your wonderful husband has passed away I echo what everyone else says, we're all always here for you, anytime. I too admire your strength through it all, although there are no rules so you don't have to be strong if you don't feel like it. I feel for you so so much. I'm glad the children were there and he was home with you all. ((hugs))

Afternoon all. Hope everyone's doing well. Isobel and I are mostly recovered from our bug and DH is getting there too. Isobel is so hungry though, she just wants to eat constantly, as if to catch up on all the food she missed the past few days. I'm trying desperately not to put back on the 5lbs I lost (although about 3lbs seems to have gone back overnight ). This afternoon I'm being measured for a bridesmaid dress, so my slightly-smaller tummy is very welcome, although I wouldn't wish for a repeat of the illness, it was not fun.

Rinders if you're reading, you and the girls are in my thoughts.

to everyone else :)

P.S. It's ok to give baked beans to a 13mo, right? I wouldn't give her them often, as I know they're quite high in salt and sugar, but I was having some, so gave Izzy some with her toast. She seems to be enjoying them (and has a fetching orange beard and moustache now).

Beanz iz Charlottes favourite :) you can get reduced sugar and salt ones. Wouldn't eat them myself, they are foul!

MissP I've given James a few spoons of baked beans a several times, but I do partially mash them. Mostly because thanks to their 'skin' they go through undigested otherwise (which to me defeats the object of giving them!)

We are still getting over this damned illness. James still has pretty bad diarrhea and won't eat anything other than smooth porridge. I tried him with a spoon of something with tiny little bits of potato in it which he gagged on and threw up copiously (although not since, so must have been the gag reflex rather than the illness getting worse). Not going to force the issue, he seems ok in himself most of the time (I'm still giving him diorlyte too. From a syringe. He just mucks about with a sippy cup) just wish he'd get over pools of liquid nappies and his appetite reappear. We'll go to the gp on monday if still no improvement by then. I still feel 'off', stomach crampy with nausea here and there. DP has been feeling crap last couple of days with some 'loose motions' too. Luckily my older too have completely avoided, so far. Probably because they don't really pick up James very much.

Had a VERY wobbly morning, lots of crying. Which then turned into a different type of tears by late morning - DP and I became aware of a woman wailing outside. He said 'She sounds like a mother that's lost it's kid'. She had someone with her so we decided against going out to nose see if we could help. But within moments a rapid response and ambulance pulled up and rushed in as she screamed 'Please help!' at them. I turned to DP, my heart sinking and said I thought he was closer to the mark than he'd like to be. Sure enough, 20 minutes later they bought a baby out they were actively trying to resuscitate and sped off. Lots of police have arrived. Before they left, the teen from next door went out and spoke to the woman who was with the crying woman and she told us that the baby was 'basically dead, they have five more minutes to try and bring it back'. Police are still outside two hours later so not sure what that means? As much as I can't bear the thought of a cot death/illness/natural cause, I think if they're guarding a 'crime scene' it's somehow how worse. Of course, I'm surmising; maybe it's standard procedure.

I need something good to happen.

Sof's had beans a few times too - I must remember to buy the low sugar/salt variety. TBH if she has something with more sugar or salt in than I usually allow I just adjust her diet for the next few meals to balance it out

I'm so sorry Manda that James isn't better and that there's something horrible happening with your neighbours. Something happening than close always makes you feel terrible yourself. Fingers crossed that the baby is ok.

Not a good day here either. Sof's temp has gone way up again and I think she's going to need antibiotics - it is not ok to have such a high temp and be so poorly for so long and I'm going to stop being fobbed off. She's stopped eating solids and drinking water but will happily breastfeed. Still not really sleeping and still miserable after a couple of days in which I thought she was getting better. DH away until Sunday having been away last Friday to Sunday.

I didn't mention before, but a friend of mine had a stillborn baby a few weeks ago (at 38 weeks). She wanted to be left alone for a while but last night I wrote her an email the upshot of which was that I know most people can't really talk about this, but I am happy to hear all about the baby's birth, how you really are etc. Today I was pushing Sof around in the pram and I bumped in to her - weird as she doesn't live round here. I was so glad I'd sent that email as it meant nothing was awkward and she felt able to talk. She told me her little one's birth story and I tried very hard not to cry. I didn't totally manage it and at one point she wiped a tear away for me and we hugged. I think it helped her alot to have her birth validated and her child acknowledged but bloody hell I found it very hard.

Ach - wine is definitely calling me tonight. But only a glass as if Sof's temp goes above 40 again I'm taking her to A and E.

So sorry to hear of poorly babies - really hope Squiggly's DD and all other poorly babies are on the mend soon.

Squiggly hope your DD's temp drops soon. Well done for acknowledging your friend's birth (awful and tragic as it was ). I can't imagine how hard it must be to go through something like that, but not being able to talk about it would only make it worse. I've been thinking about still birth a bit this week because of that report that was on the news, and the horrifying statistic that 17 babies are still born every day in the UK . I heard on the radio that you're 5 times more likely to suffer a still birth than a cot death. Definitely makes me count my blessings a lot.

Manda hope everything works out for your neighbour (though it must have been horrible for you and your DP to witness ). I'm so glad you've booked a holiday for soon, as you truly definitely absolutely deserve some good times soon.

Rinders I'm thinking of you and your family a lot and hope you're finding the strength to get through these days.

Arcadie hope your DSis and the twins are doing OK.

Pixie also hope you and your dtwins and dbump and the rest of your brood are doing well too.

Pacific hope you had a fun time skiing!

Bluey good luck for the marathon! I think it's very special that you're doing it and that you'll have the roll of honour you mentioned on Rinders' thread.

On the giving up solids when sick front we had this back in Feb when DS spent about a week with a v high temp. Wouldn't really take anything except milk. Once he was back to himself he definitely went though a phase of eating a comedy amount to catch up (myself and DH would be stuffed and groaning and he'd still be shoving forkfuls of food in his mouth!). It lasted maybe a week or so and he was back to normal.

On the beans/salt & sugar front, I also take the same approach as Squiggly in that if DS has a bit of salt or whatever I just adjust his diet a little. I view it as 14g over the course of a week rather than strictly 2g a day (but overall I do watch the salt relatively strictly). On the sugar front, I have an awful sweet tooth (have I told you about the beekeeping course I've been doing? All part of my lifelong dream of keeping bees...in order to have a cupboard full of honey to keep my sweet tooth happy!), and have been letting DS have a bit more in the way of sweet stuff. Not sweets mind, but he had a bit of icecream the other day (a big hit) and has cake when I have it. And maple syrup or honey on pancakes. And the odd bit of jam (hmm maybe he has more sugar than I thought!). Am also planning on getting him a little easter egg and am v much looking forward to watching him smear himself in chocolate eat it.

Had my first proper week at work this week, as the MC meant I had random days off here and there, and am busted tired! But, surprisingly, it's "good" tired. I must say I have enjoyed the return to work more than I expected. I had forgotten that I quite enjoy my job (and some of my colleagues) and that I'm quite good at it. And DS seems to really like nursery, which makes the whole thing a lot easier.

Right, there's a big glass of with my name on it so laters lovely ladies [clinks glasses with anyone else who's having wine'o'clock]

hello. Grabbing some MN time while DH watches Gardeners World and pretends he's Monty Don which he does every spring and then loses interest.. Our garden landscaping project has come on in leaps and bounds over the last week - and while Im not completely convinced about all aspects of it, anything is better than what was there - the Pit of Despair! Lovely to see fliss's garden coming on too on fb.

So sorry to hear of all this sadness. I really hope May turns out to be a happier month. But like flip said - we are here for better for worse, in sickness and health.. yes, we're married to each other!! Seriously though, sometimes I picture us all like that old Unison advert - having lots of people (women) behind us, supporting us individually and as a whole, through everything. (disclaimer - I have had some )

pixie how are things? Have you seen this? I think is must be so cool to have a twin language :) How are G and O doing with their sleeping?

pacific hope you had a great time away - did you take any DC?

Sickness - C still has a cough (6wks!) and has been issued with an inhaler. Cant convince her to take it, so have to sneak in when shes asleep. Im not sure its doing anything. Took her back to Dr this week but they couldnt hear anything so I guess we'll just wait it out. She also has been off her food and has a weird rash but Dr wasnt concerned about that either, and DD seems happy enough.

On Sunday it was DD's christening, and it was beautiful weather. I bought a traditional christening gown from eBay which came with a delicious bonnet, so I made her wear it :) she did look cute (but daft). The service was lovely, and DH was baptised too, which probably meant a bit more than it did to DD. If youre interested, I wore this which is not very me, but got lots of compliments.

ICWAS Im so excited about your photgraphy - you certainly have the natural talent.

bluey good luck with your marathon, Im with you every step of the way, eating your share of phish food and drinking your share of the wine. Someone has to do it!

Smac I forgot to say ages ago - well done on the natural weaning. and have a and a badge for going so long. Ive no idea what to do - we're down to two feeds - first and last thing, and Id love to stop, but Ive no idea how. I guess I could easily stop the morning feed if I could be arsed to get out of bed I wanted, but by the end of the day, shes still climbing into my clothes, and i cant refuse.. actually it came in handy today when she fell face forward into the fireplace and her front tooth started bleeding (Im trying to ignore that this may mean a black tooth) and she would only settle with a feed. I would at this point tell you about the tooth I had removed myself this week but Im aware this is a massive post so Ill just to everyone inc Melk, sariska, squiggly, sarah, dizzi, afri, blessed, manda and arcadie and realise Ive forgotten at least 10 others!