Oct 08 - It's all about weeeeee!!! Hopefully in potties but who knows!

[50ftQueenie]

Hello! It's me. I thought I'd start a thread which is VERY cheeky for someone who's not been around for AGES!

Hat or one of those fascinator things.

Love strawberry picking. We should be weighed in and out due to the amount of strawberries we eat.

oh that's right - I had forgotten that people are supposed to wear hats to weddings in England. I have no ideas. But you'll look amazing in that dress and those shoes!

Pistachio. I am very jealous. Almost child free when you have three is as good as it gets Happy anniversary.

Next weekend I get a bit of child free time. No children at the wedding. Purple I know you dont agree, but child free weddings are sooo much better. You can wear lovely dresses without worrying about getting snot all down them.

I have a theory about children at weddings - everyone takes them to the first one cos they think it'll be lovely, then every subsequent wedding you do your damndest to go alone!
One of my very best friends is getting married in Sept, Brompton Oratory followed by St Pancras rennaisance hotel she asked if we wnated to bring all 3....... I had to decline! i can't imagine anything worse. Shall also be having a hat/frock crisis nearer the time.
Tomorrow i have a consultants appt for my wrist. After 2 years of it strapped up - currently in a fixed splint - and it hurting all the time, I'm going to have to go for the op I think. I've got to the stage where I can't pick up things like jars, pour the kettle, carry trays, or even pull up the duvet in bed with my right hand because it's so painful. I've perfected a sort of hoick, for DD where she rests her underarm on the splint and we swing her up to my left hip! She and I are very used to this and don't even think about it but I do see some people obviously convinced I'm going to drop her .
Anyway, feeling a bit sorry for myself, as it'll mean 6 weeks apparently without the use of my hand at all - at least I can MN work at the moment.
And don't even get me started on next weekends trip to the in-laws to sleep in the barn with 9 children.....

Oh no, pepper :( I hope you can get the op soon. That doesn't sound nice.

You're sleeping in that damn barn, again??
I think you need to start coughing right now and feigning severe illness so you need to stay home all by yourself while the rest of the family go.

Just a quickie, had a shite few days, DS has been crying non-stop, we think he has colic as well as reflux, the reflux meds aren't working. He is at least sleeping well but the ADs are making me tired, poor Poppy is getting no attention, I'm at the end of my tether.

I still have a pinkish area on my boob, altho it's not as sore, had a bath with DS feeding today and have been feeding loads yesterday and today and still there, not feeling flu-ey though.

Has anyone had a LO with colic? I'm giving him gripe water at the moment and will move onto infacol if no signs of improvement after a couple of days, then back to the docs for him.

Actually I've made such a fuss already that DH has offered to go alone, but i couldn't do that to my babies! DH is obviously lovely, but his family drink like fish moderately and the thought of drunk DH plus 9 children in a barn without me to keep control the peace is just not happening.
And the is no way on earth that I'm giving step-MIL the moral high ground by not turning up.
So there.

Oh HMM, can't offer advice with colic but anyway for having a shite time. At least you know it does get better.
Only time I had pink patch on boos it was full on mastitis so can't help there either
Is DH there to help?

sigh.
That would be boob not boos.

Ronshar fab dress and shoes. How about a fascinator instead of a hat? I'm not very good a visualising but would a bold colour like a dark pink go? Or lots of people at yesterdays wedding had peacock feather fascinators which looked amazing. I was like the Samantha Cameron of the guests and didn't wear the appropriate head gear, no hat or fascinator. Wasn't bothered until one of my FIL friends asked me where my hat was And despite my moans I loved not getting food/snot/dribble down me and being able to stay out late for once

Coconut Feet I forgot to say yes I am still in Nursery. I really like early years but am ready for a change from Nursery now, I'd love to teach Reception to see the next stage. However I've found out I'm in Nursery again next year because no one else will do it I'm experienced. Fingers crossed I'll be released back into the land of the main school and dry pants/knickers for Sept 2012.

HMM Really sorry to hear you are having a tough time. Ds didn't have colic but I vaguely remember a massage the Health Visitor showed me in case he did or something (sorry think I seem to have lost all memories of his first few months, possibly my body's way of trying to convince me it's time for #2) Googled and looks familiar. My SIL suspects my three week old niece has colic, it's not been diagnosed but she is using infacol with each feed which she thinks is helping.

Pepper hope the appt goes well tomo it sounds very painful.

what is shred? Googled and I got a link to shreddies. Is it something secret? Or have I misread posts?

Thanks Pistachio, I can go to bed now my nosiness is complete

HMM, like purple I've only got vague memories of ds's colic but I seem to remember Colief being quite helpful. We did spend hours jiggling him up and down in the hall in the evenings which must be awful when you've got another to get to bed as well.

Ronshar - Those shoes are amazing. I'm confused about the dress, is it the one with the bow on the front? If so, I think you need something quite simple on your head so it doesn't distract from the dress as it's gorgeous.

Pepper - I hadn't realised quite how bad your wrist was. It does sound like the op's your only option. Will it give you normal use of your wrist back once it's done? It'll be worth it if you've been suffering so much for that long, but what a pain it's going to be having 6 weeks out of action.

I've got the day off today. A payback for an extra day I worked ages ago. S is at nursery. It's ridiculous because it's all above board but I feel a bit guilty.

Well, I'm back from the hospital and have a result... I need a new MRI scan, then depending what that shows i either need a wrist arthroscopy and abradement (sp?) or (look away now star..) I need to have the ulna shortened. Yes, they plan to chop part of my bone off......
I think OUCH will cover that.
HMM, how are you doing today?
CF - hurray for a day off!!! I know what you mean about the guilt though
pistachio - LOL at the Thorntons
Waves (one handed) to everyone else!

sorry i haven't been on, busy weekend with going to see the lush Thomas , friends over and a christening and then have been prepping for a work meeting i have tomo with a director about a potential job for when i return from ML in July

hmm F had colic, you have my sympathy, it feels like it lasts for ever when you;re going thru it . we followed the methods in 'the happiest baby on the block' book/dvd which were the only thing that helped whatsoever (gripe water, infacol etc didn't)

both of mine also had reflux (F had the sick type and A had the non-sick 'silent' kind. with A we didn't medicate her but did give her a dummy, NEVER laid her flat (always on a wedge or propped up) and also made changes to how i bf her to reduce my flow/let-down. she was like a different baby after that.

pepper your DS's french lessons really made me laugh is he going to continue with them?

....but your poor wrist

Hmm - I'm like a broken record I'm afraid, but he's seemingly had a bad few days since you started back on dairy....
(it is thought to be the cause of around 80% of colic btw)

Eek for wrist stuff pepper. Do you have a timescale for the op?

Ooh is it strawberry picking time already? We left it too late last year. Might go in half term if it is.

I'm also unclear on which dress it is ronshar. Is it this one?

Amazing shoes PP. What a shame they would all almost certainly be too narrow for me (have ENORMOUSLY wide feet).

I need to do the shred. I just can't get the energy. too much work to be done at home after Q in bed for school right now. Maybe summer. I feel an ok weight and have lost some excess fat recently but would like some toning. No thin straps until I do it.

I agree with csws re the dairy, HMM.

How was Thomas, cake?

I should do shred too star. I think I might be starting to gain weight a little, prob because J is feeding a weeny bit less, and I really can't afford to gain more. But I also struggle with finding time/motivation/energy in the evenings.

I have an ear infection at the moment, so would rather lie on my side with drops in to try and kill it off quickly (remember that my last ear infection last year went on for months and required 3 hospital visits).

I hope your night was ok, pistachio. I hope she doesn't have colic. She's far to adorable in your photos for me to imagine her crying at all.

We are moving forward with the house move. :) Quinlan will have his own room at some point this summer (if solicitors move quickly enough). Hooray! I am so grateful.

Colic. AAARRRGGG. You have my every sympathy. DD1 cried from 6.30pm until she went to bed about 11ish for 6 months. DD2 did the same. W wasnt too bad but I had dicovered the wonders of Mumsnet by then and realised that I had been trying to poison my poor babies for years previously. Dairy. Nasty stuff. I have cut it out again and I feel loads better already.
Pepper. Oh dear. If the do chop off some off your bones can I come to watch??
Cakes. A job, like in the real world. I admire your strength. I take my hat off to anyone who works with more than one child. I dropped out when DD2 was three. I admit I couldn't cope.

I am so busy at the moment. Weddings Open Uni course hanging over my head like a pile of bricks. Sister Hen & wedding coming up. It all too much.

Yes it is that dress CSWS. I have bought a pink thing for my head. I shall post some pics to FB in the evening if I am sober enough to get some one do it.

Things a tiny bit stressy in the pepper house this evening.
Today, I got to work and was doing my usual log on, drink tea, wake up, read email thing, made some calls etc. Then realise there's a conference call we alll have to dial in to - compulsory redundancy announcement.
2 hours of everyone looking a bit traumatised, then our team leader is allowed to tell us that we're not effected as 2 people have taken voluntary redundancy. Phew.
then call from nursery - DD droopy, not happy and with a pink weepy eye. can we pick her up. So I have to communicate this to DH at home without it making me look like "the one with the kids who doesn't pull her weight on her one day in the office" Perfect on a day they're looking for heads to roll.
Also DH has a largish lump on his back which I suddenly spotted on Monday and has to go to the docs tomorrow to check it out, and I have to pack for us to go stay on the A303 in the barn for the sodding weekend.

My only hope - bear with me ladies - is that DD is too poorly to go to Devon, I get to stay here with her and DH takes the boys....

ronshar - you are most welcome to come watch them remove some of my bone as long as I don't have to!
star - how exciting about the move - so glad you'll finally get some more space for another baby
CSWS - how's your ear today??
pistachio and HMM how are your babies!
cakes - this is probably very late- but i loved that link to those shoes - they were lush (in a way that Thomas isn't !)
waves to everyone else esp myjob