November 2012 - Will the Easter Bunny visit our babies?

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1707618-November-2012-The-thread-where-it-all-starts-to-get-easier-Pretty-please

Ow. Yes thank you.

Ugh, I feel like I've completely forgotten how to put my baby to bed and get her to sleep

Right I've just caught up. No clue what to say to anybody though!

vq get your leg seen to!
pass loving the summaries!

I am currently holed up in my bedroom. My daughter is at MILs and son is at my mums. He has been screaming as he seems to do when I'm not there. I'm not sure what I can do about it though. He can't really be here as I'm gettin living room decorated so there's nowhere for him to be. I've told my mum if she's really struggling I will go collect them and we can spend the day upstairs. Not ideal but better than j crying all day!

Still having a nightmare at bedtime. DH was going to do the feeds before 2am but last night j went mental when he tried. I think the fact the light has to be switched on for DH to organise bottle doesn't help things as j wakes up more. He was screaming for ages, took 3oz and then I went downstairs to see what was going on. He fed a bit from me too then went down. Waking twice after that! I need sleep! Tempted to lie down and sleep while decorator is downstairs!!

My boobs are going to explode. F last fed off my right boob at 7.30pm LAST NIGHT. She's been asleep for 3 hours this morning. Probably because she didn't sleep at all yesterday. 2nd jabs today so just going to roll with it...until boob pops. May have to intervene at that point.

Izzy hope you decided to sleep!

izzy go the fuck to sleep x

PR I very nearly joked yesterday about you possibly dropping her on the head again, but thought better as I was concerned you might take it to heart. It seems you came to that conclusion yourself anyway. If it were linked it would have happened much earlier. She was checked and deemed fine. It is an infection, not a leak of cerebral spinal fluid. Please do not worry or blame yourself. A cold could have easily caused this as there is a little tube linking the inner ear to the oral cavity. She is getting treatment, being monitored by a paed and a fabulous mummy, and will be ok.

PR you are crazy, looking for more guilt

VQ good luck. I'm already imagining the GP Quaking in his/her boots!

Izzy no question, GO TO SLEEP!

Just dragged DS and DD out in the rain so I can feel better about spending the rest of the day in front of tv I want to watch Ben and Holly. We might bake some cakes too.

Also, in amazingly boring news, I just made a perfect cheese omlette for DD and I for lunch. Who knew the secret to omlette success was a genuinely non-stick pan?

*for DD and me, FFS.

Stunt your night sound very much like mine. Do you use a dummy? After 16 weeks of resistance by me I'm wondering if it might help?

stunt we have original Star Wars videos too. I very much doubt they are worth anything. Get rid.

pr you are a wealth of knowledge, advice and sympathy to others on this thread. If somebody else had posted that you would be one of the first to say how daft it is to believe that anything you have done has caused that. Perhaps you need to listen to your own advice lovely.

bplp job done

blonder oops, sorry I cannot for the life of me remember your new name but your post made me giggle. Loving the Pom poms

Please don't worry I wasn't on a guilt trip I was just wondering if it was a possibility as someone put the idea in my head.

Right I will go to sleep then. I just wasn't sure if that would be ok given there is a man downstairs. I've told him to shout me if he needs me I have not told him I'm going to sleep! and as I am a lot sleeper I should jump up when he shouts. As far as he and everyone else thinks I am upstairs on the net!

DD1 has just shat in my bed again. She's fine most of the time, then gets a little tearful as she needs to go, poosplosion, then she's fine again. Sleeping now on lovely clean sheets. Has a good appetite, eating normally, no fever. Three bouts of diarrea in three days. Drinking fine too. And it's not proper diarrea as ot's just once or twice a day as she normally goes. No-one else ill.

VQ forgot to say each time I leave the paed's office she shouts "try not to drop the baby" after me as I go. Better to laugh than cry, it's so common. There was a thread a couple of days ago. People in the waiting room are always a bit though :o

*light!

pr at Paeds. Poor DD1. Would it be an idea to put two nappies on her to try to contain things?

J asleep, then feed, then off to clinic we go. I promise not to get angry or assault any HCPs, although the bitch on reception best tread carefully!

Good luck VQ!

I am thankful for my.boys, DH and patents but I am extending sweary Wednesday. gps are a waste of fucking time and I will kill the next one who says "I'm trying to remember what Dr x the paediatrician said when she came to give a talk" . I am sure nystatin will clear the thrush that it has failed to.clear for the last two months and yes we should just see how the reflux goes in the next four weeks without medication. yes it is a shame that y won't take a bottle so you cannot give him gaviscon. stupid cunt.

sarcastic thanks to my boss who bought baby grows in the sale at mothercare ad a gift for Y which then shrunk and now I can only get back half the cost of a pack of babygrows so I am now three babygrows down. I know I should be grateful for the.gift but when I think if the gifts I gave her for her baby it pissed me off.

I am sorry for the self indulgent rant and sorry to any doctors here but I have had a shitty day. big hugs to all who need it.

It would be an idea but I doubt she will let me as she is going through a I don't want to wear a nappy at all phase. Which will no doubt end when we start toilet training in a couple of weeks :o

Bloody ear drops. She's supposed to have one, but I can never tell if onenhas gone in or not. Not having much luck with treating this ear infection. But she is eating much better today at least. Seems to be in pain occasionally so popping in a paracetamol once or twice a day, which is puch better than the 3or 4 times a day earlier in the week.

DH just popped home as he is going to pre op dr appointments today with the cardio and anaesthetist people. As he came in I was hosing down showering DD1 and the house stank of shit, I had cut her out of her tee shirt so there were shitty scissors on the table, bits of clothes nearby, also covered in shit of course.

He went into the bedroom to be greeted by shitty sheets.

Mwah ha ha ha ha. If ever he needed convincing that he is better off working than I am at home that was the moment. :o

It's so glamourous beingna SAHM.

pr having to cut clothes off is a sign of true disaster.

brockle is the nystatin for you or ds? Daktarin oral gel zapped thrush in this house within days - it is a different antifungal agent. If nystatin hasn't worked yet then it won't. You can buy daktarin (say it's for you and you've used it before) if you don't want to do battle over that. I would make another appointment, with someone else if necessary, re: reflux and demand treatment. Being bf is not an excuse to do nothing.

I don't understand why more doctors don't specialise in paeds and do something like practice from GP surgeries. Over here you hardly ever take a child to a GP until puberty. It makes so much more sense to have a specialist follow what is in essence a speciality. GPs are in the main very good doctors but surely the whole range of stuff they see is too much? Couldn't some of them do part of their training in a paed ward and be the practice's specialist?

Nt everything is better over here but I have much more confidence in my kids' doctor than any of you seem to have in your GP/HV combo.

My GP as a child took a year to refer me to a paediatrician as he couldn't find the cause of my persistent tummy pain. It took one visit to get a diagnosis, which was right (it was psychosomatic caused by stress, not that anythingnwas done about it, but it was such a release for me to talk to a doctor who just got it) but as great as my GP was he couldn't read the other signals which I was evidently giving off as he wasn't a children's doctor.

Rant over.

Daktarin worked for us too. I put it on DD1's dummy (and sterilise any dummies as thrush is a persistent bugger). Keep using it for several days after the sytoms have gone - same reason, tis persistent.

I am thankful that my babies are healthy & happy little creatures.

That DP is a good father and our relationship is back to where it was pre-babies.

I am thankful that I am getting a massage tonight from DP as a birthday treat, it is much needed.

I am also very thankful that I may not have to return to work!

^^ what pr said about keeping on using Daktarin. Took 2 weeks of use to finally stop bastarding thrush from returning.

I remember being told during training that there are 4 types of doctors.

1. Ones that know everything, and know they know everything (theoretical type of dr as obviously no such thing)
2. Ones that think they know everything but don't (twats)
3. Ones that don't know everything, and know they don't know everything (best kind, by and large commonest kind)
4. Ones that know nothing but think they know everything (dangerous, killer kind)

There should also be 5. the dr for whom financial pressures are weighing heavy thus influencing threshold to refer to specialist (suspect this is a common trait amongst some gps)

I have just eaten the last slice of chocolate cake. I am thankful for chocolate cake, and thankful that I have now managed to successfully bake it but I have a feeling my waistline won't be thankful several cakes along.

I am thankful that DH is having the snip.

I am thankful that none on my pets have vomited in the house today.

so I can buy dactarin gel over the counter? thanks bp . I was a bit shocked to be so fobbed off and wished I'd stood my ground. he had no idea what to do but then I don't know if anyone in the surgery does. a friend got rubbish advice for her child's lactose intolerance from a diff Dr. I am going to attempt to get gaviscon down him via a syringe and see what happend. thanks xx