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.

hi all- cannot believe how much illness is around again:) we too had our fair share again- spent hours in A and E yesterday with Harry- he had an asthma attack :( never had any probs before so he was frightened to death! poor lad- we were heading home only for him to have another one resulting in us ending up on the childrens ward! got home very late last night! am shattered but he is much better today on steroids and an inhaler :(

other news Elliott fell and head butted a wall yesterday too he has a fantastic bruise! lol

DD is being a pita as usual- we are also back to see her consultant on tues as she has started limping again (scared) we are going to face more surgery i will keep you all posted)

I am fine, not sure how i keep it all together but i do! :) so glad i am a coper, other wise life could be pretty bad!

my bro and his gf have moved into their first home together today- very excited for them

hi to you all- chink or with u all x sorry for lack of shout outs x spk soon x get well everyone x

Pixie no diagnosis before, he had an inhaler aged 1 as he had a bit of trouble with perisiant cough, but nothing since! will check out the thread thanks

Meant to say hope all of the weddings go well this weekend for all the MMMs going to weddings (especially RKD the bridesmaid).

Siamese gorgeous dress! bet you looked lovely. I saw the picture of your DD on FB and she looked well cute on her christening. How cool that your DH got baptised too. I also heart Monty Don big time, am v glad he's back on gardener's world.

Sarah how scary about Harry . I'm glad you're a coper too, but my god you deal with what life throws at you so well. Hope harry is OK and that you get some good tips from the thread Pixie linked too.

sarah how scary for you/Harry and really hope DD doesn't have to face more surgery. You may be, as you say, a coper - but do lean on others every now and then.

pixie Thank you. I'm offloading far more here than is usual for me, so if it all steps up gear you my regret telling me to PM you!

siamese It is a very nice dress! I know wht you mean about wearing something that isn't really 'you' and everyone seeming to like it!

(speaking of dresses, I am wearing a different one to the 'dreary' one today - I needed to go a bit more glam, I think. I don't want pitying 'oh, she's obviously depressed and so wearing brown to a wedding...' looks. I reckon I've gone too far the other way, in my choice, but what the heck. I'm just gonna go with it (also I am wearing a wrap/pashmina too so it's not as 'exposed' as it looks. Dress here In addition, I went to the hairdressers this morning. Had about five inches cut off but it's still long so shows how desperately it was needed!)

bluey Rather you than me running the marathon - I can barely run for the bus! Lots of good luck (although I realise it's more about a good training program rather than luck! You suitably confident you're 'prepared'?) Have I missed that you're running for 'a cause'? If so, do you have a Just Giving page?

Poogate - well, we had a very full nappy yesterday that was, uh, semi solid. Not quite semi solid, actually. But an improvement over liquid. Please, please, it's a corner turned!

Have slept probably about two hours total last night; James constantly latching on (awful, but so nice for him to have a squidgy wet nappy come the morning rather than the bone dry ones of late) and my mind just...wouldn't let me switch off. DP also tossed and turned all night - he gave up about five am and got up. I'm quite sure the events across the road affected us both quite a bit more than I'd have ever imagined.

A van turned up with a photographer/tripod/equipment that the police ushered in, closely followed by two plain clothes officers who donned gloves, took clear bags in and eventually emerged with what looked like bags of rubbish. They all eventually left about 4pm. The parents haven't returned (which my logic says 'baby resuscitated, they've stayed at the hospital' or, 'the poor mite didn't make it and they can't face returning there'). I feel kinda ghoulish in a) wanting to know what has happened and b) feeling a need to talk about it - I'm usually utterly uninterested in 'gossip' (I know this isn't, exactly). Why am I all 'out of character'?

I wonder if bluey has finished yet?
(excited)

Evening all, juts popping in to say hello. Hope all poorly babies/children/mums are on the mend.

bluey well done on the marathon! You must feel amazing. I have decided that I might like to try running a marathon by the time I'm 40, and a half before I'm 35. Ran 8 miles the morning and my trainers broke

Manda How was the wedding? Hope you had a lovely day, and I bet you looked stunning.

Who else was going to a wedding? Were Melk and RKD both being bridesmaids, or am I misremembering? Hope good times were had all round.

Siamese, I can imagine that dress suiting you, actually (having met you twice and therefore knowing your style exactly, obviously ).

squiggley, how is Sofya doing? I hope she turned a corner and you didn't need to get antibiotics. Either way, hope she's feeling better now.

sarah sorry you've had such a stressful time, and I think I saw on FB that you're coming down with something too :( Look after yourself xx

It's going to be weird having DH back at work tomorrow, after him being off sick all last week. Two 4-day weekends to look forward to though, and after that we're off on holiday to Montenegro. Staying with DH's parents too, so we should be able to relax a bit.

I've been trying to wean Isobel off bottles of and onto sippy cups, but it's really interfering with her naps, so I've back-peddalled a bit. She still won't drink as much cow's milk as she would formula either, so I'm doing a mixture of the two.

Anyone got any plans for the bank holiday weekends?

this morning, not the morning, even.

Just caught up.

Rinders thinking of you. I'm so glad you were with DH at the end.

manda sounds awful across the road. squiggley that is so sad. We are all so lucky indeed.

No news here, enjoying the weather with a lovely picnic by the river today. DD is as, ahem, spirited as ever, but adorable.

Warning, me bit first: I did it! 4hours 29 minutes and 33 seconds. Thank you all for your support. I've raised about £3k for Cancer Research. Manda, I'll PM you my fundraising page (the link has my RL name in it). The atmosphere was incredible! It was so sad putting together the roll of honour though, there were far too many name on it and I realised as I went round I'd forgotten a few . But Rinder's DH was on there.

It sounds like everyone's had a horrible few days. Manda, the whole thing with your neighbours sounds awful, are you ok? Ditto Sarah, are you ok after all the Harry traumas? Fingers crossed DD is ok.

I can't believe how poorly everyone seems to have been. Alex and DD had the D&V bug that's been doing the rounds, took DD ages to recover. Now it looks like Alex has either got chicken pox or hand foot and mouth, probably chicken pox as he was so itchy tonight he couldn't stay asleep. He's currently crashed out on me having only had an hour's sleep since 3 pm yesterday. Not what any of us needed but hey ho, at least he's asleep.

Siamese, no more cats? how sad for you, the house must feel weird. Was the one just not happy on her own when the boy went?

Iwcas, your photos are beautiful! When do you hope to get your business going?

Flip, where will you keep your bees?

MissP at breaking your trainers.

Somebody's just done/is doing their theory test. Can't remember who, sorry, but hope it went well.

And Pixie I knew what you meant about so much sadness on this thread. It is very sad, but that's what we're here for.

WD Bluey x what an amazing acompilishment x hope illness escapes u house in the very near future too!

Thanks for all the well wishes harry is absolutly fine now - got appointment with the gp tomorrow to get inhalers on repeat prescription etc

i am full of cold again and raging sore throat- i refus to give in i do not have time to be ill! :) (th\anks for thinking of me miss p)

Bottles- Elliott wil drink cows milk no problem- but he likes it from his bottle at bed time so atm were doing that, he had a beaker thru the day with water juice, or a fruit shoot if he can steal it off one of the others.,

hope all the weddings went well ladies x

Bloody well done, bluey

Parents still not been back cross the way, and a friend of a friend of mine who I presume must know the family had a RIP status directed at the baby and offering support to the parents (although odd to do it on a fb status? She is only about 20 though, so perhaps not au fait with how things ought to be). My initial shock/horror/paranoia has dulled to an intense sadness. Saturday morning DP witnessed what was likely a fatal road accident too so it's really feeling like there's far too much of that kinda thing around us. Really hope that's our quota for a long, long time.

I've been taking pregnancy tests to be sure I return to BFN (ie to be sure I'm not retaining anything) - today it's the faintest hint of a barely there line. One of those ones that when you're hoping for a bfp you kinda know it's there but convince yourself it might not be, or might be an evap. So very nearly there in terms of being back to 'normal' physically (whatever normal is ) Feeling ok about it - DP is worried a stark bfn is going to upset me as then it will be well and truly over but I just need the reassurance it's properly heading that way. I guess I can be on the look out for signs of O'ing soon then...

James didn't poop on Saturday (but was a terror all day - I didn't see any of the ceremony as he was screaming/wanting to get down to run around so I took him into the grounds. Before the ceremony ended his linen suit had two grassy green knees ) which was a blessed relief. Then did four tiny rabbit poops yesterday. So we've gone from one extreme to the other! He's deigned to eat something other than porridge, too, so definitely on the up. DD has it now though! DS1 the only one to escape thus far.

sarah Get well soon!

Don't think I know anyone who has broken trainers before, MissP so that's quite an accomplishment!

Oh, do any of you have any experience of the Atkins? DP been on it for a week now and he's really not his usual self - low, snappy (but TWELVE pounds lighter after 6 days ) We're not sure if it's the diet or 'everything' that's affecting him so much. Maybe a bit of both. But he's determined to look great when we go away (I'm sure the weight loss will low but at this rate he'll be skin and bone!).

IWCAS Just to chime in that I agree your photos have a lovely quality. I still haven't had any taken of James Maybe I should take a trip up to you to remedy that!

Manda, promise I will PM you - the page is open for 3 months which should give me time to get my ass in gear give plenty of time.

for your entertainment and to put things and worries in perspective:

it's on my "to do" list after finishing this never ending thesis' first draft
waves to everyone

Bluey well done!

I've seen that film evitas, I thought it would be cutesy and boring (it's made by Disney) but it was actually quite compelling, and interesting to see how the babies are brought up in different cultures.

By which I don't mean my nipples. I'm wearing a bra.

As you were.

I see you're still trying to take the lead in the posting league.

I've not seen the trailer for Babies before, just read something recently about how the film may have broken strict child labour laws (specifically those pertaining to filming). But as it's technically a documentary I think they have easily swerved the laws and used the controversy for the PR machine.

Did I tell you all that James and I were on set a few weeks ago? Probably didn't as it was the Tuesday we went for 'The' scan. We had a lovely day (even had our own trailer marked 'Zombie baby and mum' ) They bought me sandwiches and cake for hours, then James did his bit for about half an hour, then we were gone. He bagged £100 for it too!

My dear friend James Moran has a film in production called Zombies vs Cockneys (as he joked to me, yes, they're hoping for a BAFTA) and asked if I'd let my James take the role of 'Zombie Baby'. Naturally, I said yes. I can't give away any spoilers but I can tell you that at one point James was having a little cry so Michelle Ryan (of Eastenders and Bionic Woman remake 'fame') picked a dandelion and was tossing it about saying 'pretty flower, look!' trying to distract him - at which point I just shoved my boob in his mouth telling her 'He's breast fed, this usually works'. She quickly turned away, blushing (hee hee) and DP, no word of a lie, said to her 'You should have put your tit in his mouth' POor woman looked mortified. Probably not used to having people say such things to her, especially after her stint in La-La land.

Am a few days behind here?

MissP Beans are fine I think, although I?ve stopped giving them to DD because they create the most horrendous bean-nappies afterwards I can?t stand beans myself, so won?t be too sorry to see them go.
Manda How sad for your neighbours. I think the police presence is standard though just in case there has been anything untoward going on, because of the time it can take to reach SIDS as the cause of death :(
Squiggley :( for your friend too. Strange how things work out isn?t it, with you sending the email and then seeing her. I?m sure that talking about her beloved child will have helped.
Hope DD is better soon.
Flip Glad the return to work has gone well :)
Siamese loving the pit-of-despair-turning-into-paradise updates on FB. The pile of Doom is now vastly reduced here as I have bagged most of it up (despite DH insisting that it all has to be in tiny pieces otherwise the bags rip and it will take FOREVER for me to do?two days and six rolls of parcel tape later there?s a huge amount done ) Loved C?s bonnet. What did DH wear? He should have had a bonnet too Your dress is lovely.
I don?t monitor DDs salt intake at all, or in fact any kind of intake. Then again, the lack of any sort of monitoring is why I am now bigger than I have ever been before or ever wanted to be. Time to open the Shred DVD I think. Tomorrow (when DH is at work and only me and DD are about!)
Will post again in a bit ? DD?s about to go to bed.

Bluey WELL DONE on completing the Marathon! Put your feet up woman! Think it was IWCAS doing her theory test.

MissP The trainers breaking is an omen. I wholeheartedly believe that exercise is bad for you (meaning anyone, not you especially!) and it appears that even sports shoes agree with me. Hope it wasn?t too strange with DH at work. I gave DD milk in a sippy cup earlier on but she seemed to prefer blowing bubbles in it (which she doesn?t do with water) so I went back on to a bottle for her nap.

Sarah Argh at being ill! Glad Harry?s ok though. How?s your hand (it was your hand that was broken/nearly broken wasn?t it?)

Manda PMSL at DH?s comment to Michelle Ryan Bless her for trying to console DS though, many would probably have just buggered off at the first sign of tears!

Had a fabulous morning with my older mindee today (no baby mindee in half term) ? and was the first day I worked in a week. And no work again until next week. Lovely having time off, crap not getting paid!

Fliss- Hand is fine thanks - no idea what i did to it ! feeling snotty but ok in my self- worring about dd's appointment tomorrow, althought have spoken to the gp about her xray and the left hip appears to ok- (the one that was operated on last year) however he has concerns for the right hip- it will be looked into further tomorrow :( really hope all is well and she wont have to go thru more surgery and months in plaster!

Missp Your posts made me chuckle!

Manda- very exciting to read about u and james being on set [grin[ at your dh though! poor girl! hahahahaha!

will be back tomorrow to keep u updated on Rosie night all

waves to all lurkers x

Hi - tired and it's DH's bday tomorrow so must go to bed to be up and fresh for lie in duty tomorrow.

Wedding good. not bridesmaid but was leaving all three DCs in care of gps for a weekend so was fretting as though I'd had some major rolwe to play in wedding. All went very well.

More soon