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

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The doctor said exactly the same to us Hales. He said you can leave vomiting for 3 days and diarrhoea for 2-3weeks if they're eating and drinking and okay in themselves. Of course I smiled and nodded and thought there's no way I'd leave a baby that long without getting them checked out.

Glad DD liked ballet beasty. Keep your eye on A For any devil worship tendencies. Animal skulls always feature large in rituals (on the telly).

Fx for you Nutella, the market's gone crazy here. Everything we like has sold before I can ring to view. Houses are in the market for 2-3days before they are suddenly under offer.

J had a terrible night last night and is super restless now. He just flung himself off my bed in his sleep.

DP's gone out with his friends which I'm a bit about as he was out with his brother last night. I also know his boss' wife (also works with DP) asked to go out with them tonight and I'm super about that as it's "no girls allowed" and she's never met any of DP's friends who are out. I'll be absolutely if she went and even I'm not sure why. She and her Dh are having a trial separation and she's leaning on DP an awful awful lot. I am the least jealous person ever but I am distinctly uncomfortable about all this.

Funnily enough DH does jokingly describe A as evil (mainly sleeping related!)...

Please all watch out for dehydration. Not wanting to worry people but a friend's DS had bad diarrhoea, and the ooh Dr said he couldn't be dehydrated without sickness. Less than 24 hrs later she had him in A&E and he was there for a while.

The GP training in our area has been updated with him as a case study.

Oh The Little Mister has what I suspect is chicken pox. Marvellous.

Oh no FoD poor little DS. Do you have to do anything since you're pregnant?

Most sick here. All over his bedding he's in my bed laid on a towel now. Bloody jabs. Don't make them sick my eye!

Sorry to hear about poorly babies. Just getting ds over a bout of sickness before jabs and now worried about potential side effects.

Good luck with the house nutellaI

Feel for you and ds fod. Take care.

Goodness, I hope all babies make a quick recovery.

After having a cough for two weeks I've woken up with the most horrendous sore throat going up toy ears. Feeling very sorry for myself!

Oh dear, poor babies (and mummies). The sickness and diarrhoea sounds awful.
fod you should be ok as long as you've had the pox yourself. Better now than when the babe is a wee un I guess.
spotty horrendous throats are the worst. I get them sometimes and it's always torture. At least you're not pg or bf so my advice would be drugs drugs drugs! Send dp to a chemist for some throat spray, then send him out with the dc for the day.
It's a good job this girl is cute - another 5.30 start here. She better have a nap before we all go swimming this morning. Those wanting lots of babies be warned of crazy costs - £20 for a family swim, and that's with a free T! No wonder I need another a job!

I wish WL! None of the chemists round here are open I've got paracetamol so hopefully that'll help!

Swimming sounds lovely we must go somewhen. We're really trying to save money though. I'm making BBQ pulled pork for dinner yum!

Pulled pork? Yum! Hope you're feeling better soon spotty

Ds has been in with us for last hour. The bed is his playground and dp and I are the apparatus!

We had 20 wk scan on friday, I'm team yellow like with ds. Today we're off to buy a few bits for the newbie

Morning all. We've had some really awful nights recently, but I really feel I shouldn't complain - so many poorly mums and babies on here :(

DS has been teething, he's got one top tooth now, but it's to the side of the normal top two (which he still doesn't have) if that makes sense? He's got very lumpy looking top gums, so I'm hoping all this pain has brought them close too, and wasn't just for one little tooth. He's got a really sore bum though, his whole body was shaking with pain yesterday with just the lightest touch :(

Family swim here is £7, we'd usually go today, but I'm not sure about taking DS with his bum like it is? There's no broken skin, but it's obviously very sore.

We're hoping to sell/buy house in the summer, got quite a few jobs to do to this house before we can put on the market though. Really hope you get your dream house Nutella.

It's nearly £20 for us to go swimming plus £10 in petrol ridiculous.

Jealous of all those with houses. We'd barely get a shed round here with what we could get on a mortgage. Maybe a one bedroom flat

DS was sick in his bed and twice in ours. Last time was at 3am but he's not eaten since then so I don't think it's over yet. I'm afraid I just threw a towel over the last pile and we slept in our vomity clothes. I'm now throwing up so it must be a bug. Hungover DP has had to get up and look after DS but he has had an entirely child free weekend so it's his turn. I'm hoping for a little sleep.

spotty take ibuprofen too if you have any and gargle with salt water - it's a bit yuk but really does help.
willyou I just threw a towel over it last time T was sick and then added my sicky clothes to it each time so it was like a big sicky layer cake! No point trying to clear up at night, especially if you have a sad dc that needs cuddling.
stacks £7 for a family swim!! It was £6.50 each for dds to have a 30 min lesson! The local pool have cancelled Sunday lessons which is an arse as we can't really do any other day, hence stumping up for an exhorbitant family dip.
I'm watching/bidding on a tag a long for the bike so the summer can be full of bike rides and picnics - free fun - ace!

DP left, he loves me, not in love with me, yadda yadda yadda. Completely blindsided. Feeling like a bit of a dick too, this time last week we were planning a wedding. Thank fuck I didn't book it. Christ knows what'll happen with the house sale.

wtf WillYou I hope you're ok. Have you got someone you can call??

I know. I'm just so fucking sad, he's had a shit life and I think sometimes he just cuts and runs rather than working at things. I've just been so happy so I had no idea. and I can't really have anyone round as I have sickness and diarrhoea.

If I was your friend I honestly wouldn't care that you were ill, you really should call someone.

Has he given you a reason? Do you think it could be worked at?

He doesn't think we spend time as a couple. We're just mum and dad.

I text my mum, she and my dad are here sorting out my bedding and washing up. They're very very angry at him.

Willyou oh my fucking god! Where has he gone? He sounds like he needs a bit of a slap honestly. So sorry for you. So glad you have your parents there to take care of you.
Gosh, I don't know what to say. If you need anything please don't hesitate to ask!
Even if it's just a line of angry women to line up and give him a ack one by one, if be happy to help.
I really hope he just needs a bit of room and things calm down for you- if that's what you want.

I'm so sorry WillYou. Sometimes men just don't seem to think. My sisters boyfriend kicked her and the baby out of the house when my DN was a similar age, similar stupid reasons for it too. They separated for a while, but he saw sense and they got back together after a few months.

I think it was just a panic attack for him about the thought of life as a dad, what kind of dad he'd be etc. He had lots of problems with his family growing up, and as a grown up, and I guess just thought DSis and DN would be better off without him. He bottled things up until it became too much and he just had to leave. I'm sure from his POV it didn't seem sudden at all.

Ofc no idea if it's a similar thing for you guys. Your DH might not really realise he's blindsided you with this as much as he has. He's probably been thinking about it for a while, and maybe not realised you can't mind read.. I hope you get a chance to talk things through with him.

Exactly the same Stacks. My thread is here.

Thanks Nutella, that's the stance my mum is taking. She's ready to kick him in the balls.

Oh shit willyou! Hope things work out in the best way for you and pls don't get stressed.

do what you need to get through these first few days and take all the help you can get

He's back and sleeping in the spare bed (bare mattress and duvet cover as DS vomited on them - gave me some small satisfaction).

I asked to sleep at his mums after all but he then started with my vomiting bug and can't walk 2 yards without throwing up.

He's apologised for being fucking mental and not discussing this before just running off to mummy. He wants to try again but I'm not sure how/what that will mean in practice as I wasn't even aware anything was wrong. I can't ask him now as he's pooing while vomiting into a waste paper bin. .

Ill sit down for a long talk tomorrow with him and decide what I want. I'm not going to suck up and walk on eggshells in case he buggers off again. I'm worth more than that.

I'm off to bed, long horrific day and I'm totally scrambled.

So sorry about it all willyou. You sound a lot tougher than I would be! Your ds is clearly one lucky little boy. Posted about your dp on the other thread.