June mummies '05 thread 8 -The one with where they get EVERYWHERE!

[katzg]

one new thread as requested

hope the title meants with approval

Oh Katz - quite agree with the others hv give advice out of their backsides at times...we had dd's 8 mth check last week and as we walked in she took one look at dd and said '...hmmm can see that your dd has no problems with weaning then!' cheeky madam, and then she suggested that I give up a milk feed to bring her weight down...well as she only has about 16oz in 3 bottles in a day I'm not about to do that, anyway ds lived on the 98th centile and dd's only on the 91st, so she's svelte when compared to her brother

hello all
quick look and lordy the HV's have done it again!
oh please that is just rubbish, what is it with them and bf? fundamentalist buggers either for or against and no sensible option in between.
honestly its an unhealthy obsession with our boobs!

hope you all ok

aint health visitors wonderful!!

they're all crazy crazy women, has anyone ever met a male health visitor?

hey tjis thread seemed to disappear
was you hiding from me?
anyway -- dd3 had her 8 month check . well saying that she had the part that the health visitor does and all is well . told her i was concerned that she wasnt crawling or shuffling or moving of any kind at the moment but she is very advanced at all other fine motor skills etc . so im not worried . (at pushy mummy)
dd1 has been ok just recently . had a chat with the health visitor when took dd3 and she told me to just be firm with her and not be so soft . i have been and things are getting better. i just thought that she was very vulnerable but i think she was playing on it alot.
dd2 is fine still having nose bleeds but is great in herself.

GOOD NEWS
i have got both dd1 and dd2 into a new school !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
its a catholic school and apparently it is really hard to get children into this particulary.
i am so excited for them and they are looking forward to it too . i went to see the headteacher today and expressed my concerns about there way of dealing with bullying . she was quick to let me know that they arent a perfect school and i told her that i was well aware but if she came across the same type of harassment we need to know that they will be behind her and sort things out . she assured me that if dd1 was to encounter bullying then they would deal with it immediately . i am so happy . lightened load and all .
have no knowledge of catholic religion but am interested and cant wait to learn with the girls about it all .

dp has had his op and is in a cast now ( did i mention that he was having an op last post ? )
anyway all went well he is having his stiches out a week on monday . he has been signed off work for 2 weeks and has a week left . it has been nice having him around and due to him not being able to do anything , he now realises what i do do round the house (thankgod!!!)
anyway think that is long nough

love me xxxxxxxxx

oh and dd3 is on the 25th centile and has been bottle fed since 3 months old.hth

Good news for you muma3, you must feel very relieved. Hope DP heals quickly.

Hectic week here, so tired because DS1 won't stay in his own bed, keeps getting into ours then wriggling around in the middle whilst we are clinging to the sides. Then last night he had a full-on temper tantrum at 3am because we wouldn't give him juice. Grrrrrrrrrrr.

Bloody health visitors - if it was mandatory in their job to come on Mumsnet they would be a lot more knowledgeable

Off to finish my well-earned glass of red then go to sleep.x

mrs wed
sorry to hear your night time dillema , how old is ds1? i never had this problem with my other two dd's so i cant help im afraid sorry.
hope you enjoyed your wine last night
thought this thread and disintergrated !!!
dp has his stitches out monday but he might have to have it put in cast again for another 2 weeks . dont know whether that is good or bad . 1. he can help more if he doesnt have another cast put on , but he will have to go back to work
2 if he has another cast he still wont be able to hold dd3 or change bums or bath etc but he will be off for abother 2 weeks

took dd1 and dd2 to their new school this morning . they stayed for an hour to meet teachers , classmates etc . dd2 settled right in and was very happy for us to go and leave her . dd1 was extremly shy and told me she wanted to come home with me . when i picked them both up neither one of them wanted to come home and as we got in the car they both said they wanted to start the school today !!1

so looking forward to them starting now , just have to get their new uniforms etc and that will be that problem solved . dont know what i will do when i just have dd3 at home . i have been so used to dd1 being here with me that i think i will feel abit lost .
anyway better go and do some housework . got the appointment at the family center tmw afternnon with dd1 so that should be eventful. not really lookin forward o it tbh .
soory bit long

love me xxxx

Just a quickie...

Muma - FAB news on the school, so glad to hear they both like it

Mrs W - know what you mean about clinging to the sides of the bed, we had the same thing with ds and seriously considered getting a kingsize bed as a solution . We just told ds when he came in with us that he could have a quick cuddle and then one of us put him back in his bed agian...needless to say we had to do this for a while before he stopped, we also tried heaping the praise big time whenever he did stay the whole night in his own bed. Worked for us coz ds is so keen to please, bless, hope it'll work for you too

MrsW, teabelly, I have one phrase for your older dses: "boarding school" However, they are both lovely really, I know this!

Now, just quickly. Full Junie meet-up thread for summer and Weekend meet-up for northerners and anyone else who cares to attend .

hello all

trib thanks for links

mrsW - i like the idea of kids popping in bed with us, not sure how long that one will last.

mumma- great that your dds like the new school, hope it works well for all. catholic schools do have a good reputation.
i am the product of a fine catholic education and to their credit i turned out a confirmed atheist
but really i have mostly great memories, some nuns were wonderful inspiring and empowering women who made sure we knew women could do anything they wanred, others were more suited to the job of chief torturer in hell.
i still love the smell of incense and holly oils along with the sound of latin... oh it takes me back.

feelin bit broody but i guess its bad form to show up at work in june already pregnant

fab thanks Trib - have posted on 'El Grande'

SFX - x-posts there - at 'broody' do you know what you're letting yourself in for having 2? haven't you read Mrs W/Katz/mine et al posts?

oh the spelling! the nuns would cane me

well tea i would like some of those troubles please, even dh has started talking about trying for baby 2, usually he would just go into stunned silence while keeping frozen smile on his face as if talking to a crazy person

Ah, sfx, I have been broody for no. 2 for a while already, it's mad, isn't it? I had a similar notion of not showing up already pregnant again; I have accrued an absolute shedload of leave whilst on mat leave - and it has to be taken by end March. So I do love the irony at least!

Fortunately I know that unlike all of our fellow Junies with two children, we would effortlessly cope with the horrors that would ensue

of course we would cope, without a doubt.
and of course at some point after birth we would have to change name and possibly move country

hello all

what a pretty day! been out for a walk with dd who kept babbling and waving non stop, quite funny.

glad weekend here and can have at least an extra hr sleep in the morning.
hope you all well take care.

oh yes and giddy & eym hope you both doing ok, you are missed, do post when feel up to it.
and skyler, probably too cold to move go on get broadband

lurking ... lurgies .. waking every hour at night ...teeth now coming, first arrived this afternoon ... exhausted! He's still gorgeous though, in fact more so than ever

Oh good KVG, I thought I was going to be all alone on the weekend thread forever - weep!

Afternoon mums hugssss

i have been lurkin sorry i havnt felt like posting

Hopefully feeling better now, the doc changed my tabs, was really bad a few weeeks ago wouldnt go out my door, then the week after wouldnt answer my phone, did the postnatal edinborough test got really low marks on it, i really couldnt understand why i was feeling so bad.

Anyway with the help of my HV who ive got to say has been brilliant, been to see me twice a week, and of course my hubby im geting better.

Well on valantines day its my second wedding anivarsary so my sis has william over nite for us, hubby taking me for ameal its lovely having a break,
hes bought me a fabrojai egg (glass) though gorgeus, and a dimond heart shaped necklace so lovely i cyed my eyes out.

Im so lucky to have such a supportive family

Well mums take care i can see your all doing well,
love to you all xxxxxxxxx

So, my turn to check DS weight's... Wish I didn't!!!
Not sure what has happened but according with the meassurements he didn't put an ounce or a mm since last month
Strangely did does conicide with me trying to reduce his milk feeding...
Guess what we have done this morning? nursedd, nurse, and nursed!!

KVG it does get better!

I said once before, number #2 is fantastic!

The curve's starting to flatten out now, Lua, plus our little ones are a lot more active now so maybe no weight gain isn't so much of a concern? (Although didn't your dd stop gaining at about 9 months?) Definitely can't help to increase his milk feeds though; as you know, we are making v slow progress with ds' weaning and he's still gaining at exactly the right rate, following the 60th centile. Possibly just a random coincidence plus the fact I get him weighed quite frequently!

Well, we're in for a fun day. Dh's pain has reached the stage of being intolerable, but of course there is no way of getting hold of anyone from the pain clinic today (and actually our SR is on a course all week). I've spoken to NHS Direct, a nurse and a GP this morning already. The first two were just annoying (insisting on going through a checklist of questions like "is he breathing? Has he been vomiting for more than 24 hours?"). I asked if I could just tell them what was wrong. Oh no. We have to do the questions, "for safety".

Then the GP called back. Is he on any pain medication? Yeah, just a bit. I listed out all of the meds, with Phil chipping in with the doseages where these have changed a lot recently. GP says to me "what is your relationship to the patient?". "I'm his wife". "Oh. You don't seem to know very much about his medications" WTF?

Then he cheerfully announces it's probably "just" morphine withdrawal, "you always get a bit of pain with that". I point out it is not a "bit" of pain. "Oh yes. Well, a lot of pain. But he'll just have to deal with it."

Now we have to go trailing off to some bloody clinic in Leeds solely so that they can cover their arses in case dh has appendicitis or something, so that they can examine him, announce there's nothing wrong and send us home.