December 2012: 1st birthdays and 1st/2nd Christmasses

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Hales watch out for dehydration, and if you're worried she's showing symptoms don't let them tell you that she can't be suffering from dehydration without being sick.

I was out on site this morning- a 4 mile walk on rough ground, up hill and in the snow. I'm shattered.

Dd2 is getting her revenge for zoo-gate - she just told me that I'm really old now and will die soon. Then daddy will have to be the mummy too. I'm 37!

Ds is driving me mad. He will not go to sleep. He's only slept an hour today and that was at 8:30 this morning.

hales he is having settling in sessions now with the childminder; but if we say yes to renting the little house we have seen then we will move to a totally different area and will need to find a new childminder
I hope that H gets better soon. DS seems to always be shouting for food! Can you not even give her things like bananas and apples?

willyou I hope DS's cough gets better quick.

beasty that walk makes me tired just reading about it!

DS had his jabs this morning. Here they do the chicken pox one as standard. I hadn't realised and so by the time they were doing it I was just thinking "hmmm does he need a vaccination against chicken pox?" Oh well.
He didn't really cry either. Honestly he has just made more fuss about having to get dressed after his bath right now than he did about the jabs this morning! Oh, and he slept for an hour this morning - unheard of for him! But this afternoon he only slept for half an hour .... He is asleep now. Fingers crossed for a long long sleep for him and us!

Hi everyone.

Terrible evening here. J's been fine all day but had a distended tummy at bedtime and through his bottle and supper up all over the upstairs landing. I'm now plowing my way through the ridiculous amount of washing he's generated. Any ideas what it could be? Would a UTI do this? He's not weeing much.

In other news we sold our house today, can't find anything to buy though.

Bloody phone just lost a long post.
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hales how's H? I thought apples had something in them that's good for poorly tummies. Poor baby.
spotty hope ds is ok and a good long peaceful sleep sets him right!
willyou don't like the sound of a distended tummy. Wouldn't have thought uti would do that. Has he been pooing ok?

DH just asked why Ts room stinks. That would be because she regularly wee's and vomits on the carpet. When she's potty trained we'll get a new one!
In contrast to last nights imaginary zoo-gate (dd1 has asked me twice today if she's allowed to come now!) there were hysterics as we played guess the tune I'm raspberry ing on your neck at bedtime.
Just been reading the pfb thread - I was SO pfb with dd1 but tbh still am a bit precious with all of them because afterall, they are precious!

Great news on house selling willyou. Hope a goodun comes up soon.
I'm waiting for my neighbour to put her house back on the market so hopefully my pal can buy it. Awesome!

He's pooing fine. I think he just has a vomity reaction to jabs. He spewed up for a couple of days after all his teeny tiny baby ones.

Sorry for the meneme post in advance but O got better after 24 hours being seriously off colour, and then was very sick again but one off in the middle of the night, fine during today, and sick again tonight. I'm starting to get really worried about what's causing it, we've tried giving water not milk, less milk, and no obvious reason. I have been trying to settle him since he was sick tonight at 3.45, (don't dare give milk but he doesn't seem keen on water,) and now dh has taken over but no idea. I'm worried about the regularity this week causing damage to his throat. Going to speak to the doctor asap anyway, but anyone else had this?

Sorry utopian no idea. Hope the dr can help and you're not fobbed off.

WillYou I wouldn't think uti either. Congratulations on the house sale.

I just asked dd what she's going to do at my step mums today, her response: 'I'm going to celebrate Chinese new year' my step mum isn't Chinese btw!

Oh and I woke up this morning to hear, over the monitor, dd and ds having a good chat

That's exactly what's happening to J Utopian. He ate all his meals yesterday but threw his milk up everywhere. He cried for a bottle at 1 and then threw it up again. I'm taking him to the doctors today as I'm really worried. He's just necked a full cup of water as he's so thirsty.

I'll swap notes with you then willyou. Our surgery doesn't open till 8.30..

Diagnosis: viral. Keep feeding him if he'll eat and loads of fluids. Fuck all work getting done here today

Willyou and Utopian i hope J and O are feeling better soon.

I never went to work last night as H wasn't right she was starving and kept taking me into the kitchen and trying to open the cupboards and fridge. Also when food came on TV she rubbed her belly and said yum i felt so guilty. However she had her last case of diarrhoea at 11:30am yesterday. I finally got her to sleep at 10:30pm last night and despite wanting to come downstairs at 10am this morning, shes still sleeping now she seems quite lethargic. She refused her toast but has drank her 1st bottle of milk. I can't afford to stay off tonight so i'm hoping she picks up abit soon.

Poor babies (and mummies). Glad H seems a little better, hope they all follow suit and are back on top form asap.

So I just read that it's now the law in UAE that mothers have to bf for 2 years! Crazy world.

It's horrible WL. The men will sue their wives if they don't do it I'm so glad I don't live in such a disgusting country where women are treated as second class citizens.

Yeah and if you can't fb for some reason, they will supply a wet nurse! How utterly heartbreaking that would be.

Shes just had Diarrhoea again

WL i'd hate that i breastfed for 4.5 months and after struggling with mastitis and blocked ducts enough was enough. It was definitely the right time for me to quit. I can't imagine someone forcing me to do it longer. Plus the guilt i had for quitting then even though i knew it was right for us well i imagine that must be much more magnified after 2 years.

Oh poor H hales and poor you.

If we'd had to bf j would have ended up back I. Hospital as he simply couldn't latch due to his tongue tie.

J had a 3/30am poo (bug or mmr?) and is still up arsing about, thinking it's hilarious. I'm at the end of my tether today. He's repeatedly head butted me, is pulling out my hair by the handful and I had a glass of wine before bed so I have a 5am hangover. I have had 2.5h sleep and it's not looking good for any more unless I hit one of us with a mallet. Im leaning towards me right now.

Hope your asleep now Willyou. Its probably his jabs although i do think its weird how most of the babies on this thread, sleeps seemed to have changed pattern at about 12-13 months.

We have just woke up to H having yet more explosive Diarrhoea. Which meant all her clothes off and a wash. I'm not sure what to do now. Do i ring ooh or take her the walk in or ride it out till monday and take her the GP?

Took H to the on call GP and she said that the diarrhoea can last upto 3 weeks. Today H has managed to poo three times till it leaked out of her nappy. Once on my sisters bed, once on my dads bed and once in my dads arms. He was covered in poo obviously i thought that was hilarious

hales three weeks?! Good lord! Is there nothing they can do for her? Did they recommend anything? I would have been at the dr's too if I were you. Poor little thing, how is H otherwise? I would laugh if DS pooed on a relative

We have been busy looking at houses - they are all rentals; because here if you buy a place it costs an awful lot in taxes. And as the buyer you pay the estate agent - how mad is that?! So if you want to buy you should plan to live in bye he place for ten years. At the moment we can't commit to ten years in Hannover. The thought of being stuck here makes me very unhappy (think ugly, soulless, industrial town with grey weather and rude miserable inhabitants).

Anyway, we have found a lovely place which we really really want. So please everyone cross your fingers for us!

We also have the task of picking a new company car for DH. So this weekend we are test driving a VW Sharan. It is huge and is very nice! But it might be too expensive for us. Driving a nice car that you probably can't afford is a bit pants.

DS is fine, his molars seem to be giving him gip again and his sleep has been... Different... And he seems to develop a terrible wheeze with his teething sometimes which makes me really worry about asthma. I hope it's just PFB nerves.

Hope you're all having lovely a lovely weekend.

Oh Hales fx it's over before then.

And the other ill babies!

A keeps trying to shut us in the lounge, behind the stair gate, then on into the kitchen where he shuts the door and giggles.

He was fascinated by what looked like a goat's skull on the wall in the pub this afternoon. He kept wanting to feel the horns. Odd child!

DD had her first ballet lesson this morning. She loved it. And it gave me a short while with A after the farmer's market.

We're all off to my dad's tomorrow, which will be stressful. His girlfriend really has no memory of what having a baby is like, despite a granddaughter a few months younger than A.

And SIL should be there, who was due on Thursday. She had a great Facebook status saying that eviction notice was served and action would be taken in 14 days. Can't wait for a new little niece or nephew.