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[HazleNutt]

It's time to move to Post-Natal clubs.

And hi lily, hope you're ok x

Alex how big? Try googling uric crystals baby

That sounds like the sort of thing it could be but too big?! It's about 1cm across if not a bit more, so surely can't have come out of her urethra? So weird. Hopefully nothing bad but am just confused!

Oh and by the way, does anyone else find it hard to relax in the evening when your baby has gone to bed? S is still in the front room with us until we all go to bed (in her sleepyhead pillow) but I find myself creeping round so I don't make a sound and just keep wondering why I'm not in bed yet, so I don't wake her and so I can get maximum sleep! Wish I could just enjoy having an evening!

Oh and by the way, does anyone else find it hard to relax in the evening when your baby has gone to bed? S is still in the front room with us until we all go to bed (in her sleepyhead pillow) but I find myself creeping round so I don't make a sound and just keep wondering why I'm not in bed yet, so I don't wake her and so I can get maximum sleep! Wish I could just enjoy having an evening!

Argh what if it's a kidney stone?!

Oh FFS, after spending well over an hour googling, really freaking out, examining and at one point even licking the "kidney stone" in my panic to try and work out what it is I now think it might be a little bit of crayfish that could have fallen down her vest from my lunch [shame] I'm still not 100% but am praying it is and desperately trying to ignore the fact that motherhood has turned me into a crazy, anxious weirdo

Sorry for the multiple posts! [shame]

And I can't even work out bloody emoticons

I bet it's crayfish and the image of you licking it is bloody hilarious
If you find a brown pebble, it may or may not be chocolate.

V usually has his best sleep in the first part of night, so it's quite relaxing and no I'm not constantly keeping an eye on monitor and checking up on him, no, not at all

If it was a kidney stone Alex you'd have known about it. I remember a girl at my school in Canterbury having one and she broke her front tooth in half biting the side of her stretcher as she was taken away by ambulance folk... She was screaming a lot even before the tooth broke..

Sorry Alex but really laughing about the crayfish. I'm a terrible friend I know! Have some and relax x

Hazle laughing so much at your chocolate comment!

The more I look at it, I'm sure it's crayfish thank god though, I'm so relieved. Suppose I'd better fess up to these people oops www.mumsnet.com/Talk/childrens_health/2021673-Kidney-stone-in-babys-nappy?msgid=45653603#45653603

Alex that is hilarious! And if you do find a brown pebble in S's nappy I dare you to lick that.

I do enjoy my evenings but there is always an underlying sense of thinking I should be in bed shortly after E to get maximum sleep. I just need some wine downtime though and we don't tend to go to bed that late these days so we're semi-sensible.

E's had a runny nose for the last few days, which I had attributed to teething, but her second tooth is through now and she's turned into a full-blown snot monster today so I think we have a cold going on here also. Yet another shit night on the cards then

Still laughing so much Alex! Imagine if you had rung 111?! please say you did

haha, well that went from worrying to amusing quite quickly hazel your chocolate comment made me chuckle hope you're feeling more chilled alex.

Thanks for the back up earlier too about my OH being a bit of a numpty, I spoke to him about it and he apologised. Cav I agree I have certainly mumbled some obsenities when H has had his 'up every frickin 40 mins' nights, but that is more at the situation rather than at H, my OH was actually pissed off at H for not sleeping. Plus when I told him I'd been up twice too he had no idea, how on earth he he sleeps through it I have no idea.

In other news we are getting our kitchen plastered and retiled this week by a friends fella, my ocd is already troubling me. We have 6 wall cupboards, plus their contents and things from the worktops like coffee machines, toasters, bread bins, kettles etc all in the front room. Its a bloody nightmare. It was meant to be done by Thurs latest but now he is now saying he might need to come back at the weekend to tile, which means my units wont be back up till next week. I am gutted and am hoping I can piss and whinge enough to change his mind My oh is away fri noon till sun afternoon so ideally I'd like it all done before he goes so I have my house back!

sorry Alex but that really did give me a much needed laugh!

Alex

Brilliant. Thank god for a nappy ending!

Am sat here with a poorly bear, temp again well into the 39s (over 40 if you add 1 to the armpit reading)

Unbelievably, this spell appears to have triggered some kind of 'good guy' switch in DP... we put H in his pram (tilted) in our room and he went to him voluntarily while I dozed (hoping he'd go back down) #badmother

In other news, nipgate trundles on. Have managed to feed H a few times off that side today using rugby ball hold and gritted teeth

Still hurts A LOT but is on the mend I think. At least the cat's been having fun while I've hand expressed into the sink like an experimenting teenager.

Poor brave, hope you feel better soon.

DH (who was out at a client dinner yesterday evening) thought crayfish-gate was very funny when he got home and had to do silent laughter in bed! I made him examine it this morning too, to make sure, but don't worry I didn't make him lick it

Alex!
L's cold is very nasty now and last night she would only sleep on me! So I have basically cuddled her for the last 24 hours. Her cough is horrible and her chest is very wheezy. I'm worried it's getting worse and considering taking her to emergent gp to check it out.
Plus she has not eaten a thing - just boob- do you all think it's a problem? She's upset as it is and I didn't want to force any good down her throat!

poor babies! lol I don't think it's a problem that she's not eating, as long as she's bf'ing enough and gets her liquids. If she seems to be getting worse though, probably good to go get her checked out.

Crayfish-gate is hilarious. A consequence of your one-hand noodle eating yesterday?

So I lay awake last night for 2 hours next to a sleeping baby worrying about the flat patch on the back of her head . I don't think I've been doing enough tummy time with her so that's the first plan of action, plus trying to sling her rather than have her in the buggy where possible. Yet another thing to feel guilty about.

Oh Lol that sounds horrid. I'm sure she's getting what she needs from the boob. I'd be tempted to take her to the GP if she is wheezy too.

lol get her checked out, better to be safe, plus best for you to put your mind at rest. Hope its just a cold or worst case a chest infection and not the same as H has!!

quod try putting her down for naps on her side, it seems to have worked for us.

Oh an lol, H was hardly taking any milk at all, the doctor at the hospital said its quite usual, and perfectly fine for them to only take a third of what they usually would.

me self soothing wonderful napper of a child has become a sleep fighter who gets overtired and horrible a friend told me to put a muslin or cellular blanket over his face so he cant see. The 'over his face' scared me but I put him down in his pram and put a muslin over the top so he cant see and voila, the child he sleeps