November 2012 - Spring is here, time to get our babies out and about.

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Apart from the 'down under' contingent anyway!

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2011361-November-2012-Walking-or-not-walking-talking-or-not-talking-any-other-skillz

Yy to a&e picnic! A colleagues dn had an anaphylactic reaction to milk when she was looking after him for the first time and he had his first bottle of formula. Scary biscuits.

Glad work went well Chasing

I also need to work, but do love love love my days off with F. Although today was a challenge due to high levels of velcro. Sometimes I think she would only truly be happy if she could climb back up inside ow

The doctor told me to just try O with peanuts, despite XP being allergic. I'm tempted to do that outside A&E.

I did peanut butter woth a fully loaded syringe of piriton, my shoes on and car keys in front of me

It doesn't make sense to me that they can't test him for it. I don't know much about allergies etc, but peanuts could kill XP - why on earth would I take such a risk with O. I'm scared to even try him with strawberries - which is my allergy - and that only causes a rash.

An NSPCC advert during OBEM - tear-fest double whammy!

Just to offer some reassurance, DH is allergic to peanuts and neither DD1 or E have picked up the allergy.

Right before I drive myself and DH mad with Dr Google, has anyone heard of Eosinophilic esophagitis or had it mentioned to them in their various dealings with gp/paeds etc.

I'm starting to wish that E did have an endoscopy when we were in hosp so I could be sure it was ruled out. All her symptoms seem to match.

flouncy Didn't your J have trouble with solids? And vqs J? Have you come across this in your investigations?

It's mainly due to her inability to handle lumps that I've come to this conclusion. It's like it gets stuck and then comes back up as she does chew ok and does swallow. I don't know whether to try and push this with the GP but obviously don't want her to undergo any unnecessary procedures due to the fact her mother is barking mad. Perhaps I'll stick with the simpler dairy trials and see how we go from there doesn't solve the dysphagia issues though. .

Eliza I haven't heard of that. Yes J had issues with solids, he would refuse completely though. He just wouldn't open his mouth at all, just clamped shut, so it wasn't an issue with swallowing. His was likely to be due to the silent reflux burning his throat for so long so he didn't want to eat. Sorry that won't help you much will it?

Good morning. Gosh these early mornings are tough. A has been gibbering away for over an hour. I'll remind him of this when he is a teenager and won't get out of bed before 12.

Morning. S decided 4:30 was a good time to start the day today. She is full of beans this morning, me not so much.
I had the strangest dream last night, it had pr , kyz and my old boss in it. pr owed my boss 3 staplers and kyz owed her the staples. Very strange indeed

That is a strange dream fruit :o

J was a complete nightmare last night. Not really sure what was up. I still feel awful so Mil is taking them again. E is at nursery 9-4 anyway so don't feel too bad but I honestly couldn't watch them. I can barely get out of bed. My sis keeps going on and on that I'm so lucky cos everyone else would need to power through and it's just a sniffle apparently. I've not felt this ill for a long time. I'm also very aware we're incredibly lucky to have willing family to help. However I can't help being ill and I honestly wish she would just shut the fuck up!

Sorry for that.

Hugs flouncy your sis should be trying to make you feel better not worse.

Your sis sounds bloody rude izzy you should tell her to shut up. Seriously. Yes you are lucky to have family to help but no-one should make you feel bad about it and there are different levels of colds. Some are just sniffles and some feel almost as bad as flu, and if you're down and stressed like you have been this last year then you will feel it even more.

Is she at your home? At your mum's? Why is she talking to you so much?

I have to admit that I used to be very unsympathetic (but secretly) to people complaining about colds and I think it was because I only very rarely got them back then and when I did I shook them off. Then in the last three years they have been horrendous. So maybe she just doesn't get it? No excuse though for being a twat.

My ex was even worse. I was properly ill twice with him. The first time was with glandular fever and he was convinced I was lying and just being lazy, and shouted at me the entire time he was in the hosue to get out of bed and do something. The second time was with flu, proper flu, I thought I was dying type flu. I stayed home from work and he got back one day and laid into me for not going to see his mum in hospital, a 40 minute train ride away on a cancer ward full of people who were immuno compromised. After two days of bullying I ended up dragging myself in just to shut him up.

SO I have been both the unsympathetic and the victim of lack of sympathy and having been a twat who was never told she was a twat and having been the victim of a twat who I never told was a twat I advie you to tell your sister to shut up and stop being a twat.

Wow I get ranty when I am on my laptop with a proper keyboard.

Eliza I have never heard of that, and am not going to Google it either. J had issues with solids full stop. He cannot tolerate lumps when unwell - I have to resort to baby jars, which I hate. However, when he is well, and his reflux is under control, he can eat big lumps with no problem whatsoever. I guess it is similar to when we have a sore throat, we would rather have something like jelly or ice cream rather than lumpy stuff that would scratch and hurt on the way down. I think it is worth asking the question though. They may be able to reassure you, and would only so investigations if there was a good clinical reason to do so.

Izzy, that is only something a sister would say. I am so glad I only have brothers!yes, some folk do have to push through it, but if you don't have to, then why be a martyr?

vq your comment has just made me laugh, re sisters :o

Izzy I wonder if he's got your bug? Even now Jonas' reflux flares up sometimes when he's ill. I'm guessing your sister doesn't have kids - remind her of this when she does

Right playgroup then off to my sisters. Fish pie is already cooked for tea, the washbin is no longer Himalayan in altitude so we can have a nice lazy day. Last day of BF . His morning feed tomorrow before nursery will be his last (assuming all is well with the scan - am still nervous as I barely have any pregnancy symptoms and it feels too easy am worrying about an MMC or blighted ovum until I see the scan).

No, dont Google it. But it does make interesting reading. A lot of babies who have reflux also have EE. But once the reflux is treated the EE sort of fixes it. It's basically scaring of the esophagus. It's not a scary condition, the only problem is diagnosis is only possible through an endoscopy. She very nearly had one in hospital but after she had the ph prob they didn't bother. I was glad at the time but now I feel like she should of had one. But I remember how desperate I was to get out of there. Anyway, I'll stop dwelling. E is much better today and has eaten all her breakfast and drank all her milk for the first time in about a week so I'll just concentrate on the dairy trial. I think it was because it was round this time last year that we got out of hospital so it's just all coming back to me.

flouncy Sorry your sis has upset you. I hope she didn't mean to say such an unthought full thing. I remember once texting my sister basically telling her to man up after she had a cold. I felt so guilty as it came across harsher than I intended so I immediately apologised. She didn't take it badly, but we have a very close relationship now.

Is your scan tomorrow yw ? Are you already at 12w? I'm guessing a girl with no symptoms. I had nothing but tiredness in both my full term pregnancies, and a bit of backache in the last trimester with LO. They were about as easy as could be despite the scary start to LO's. I had quite a bit of nausea before my MMC which was apparently a boy. That was before the next 2 pgs and I understand where you are coming from with the worry about the lack of symptoms. It's a shame as the worry ruins what should be a happy time.

YW holding your hand for tomorrow. I look forward to seeing the quintuplets in the scan Today you are pregnant, and you are going to enjoy it

PR am I right about the sisters comment then?

YW when is your scan? When I was pregnant with C I was convinced the sonographer was going to tell me I wasn't pregnant at all because I had no symptoms apart from a slightly bloated stomach.

DP is fast asleep on the sofa despite being due to start work at 12. Might have to wake him.

Morning quiche,

O is not herself. She had a proper meltdown yesterday, 3 hour screamathlon. She slept ok but was up once or twice and this morning she was in an awful mood. She seems constantly very tired which reminds me to do her blood check. We went to see a nursery, going to see the second one on Thursday. Both have place for her from August and both are within 15 min walk. Decisions, decisions.

ywgood luck with the scan

vq Well I am sure that some sisters are like that. Of course my own sisters are practically perfect in every way. As indeed I am a practically perfect sister in every way.

I am going sooooo slowly through this translation this morning. Geez. Afternoon already. I expected to have finished it in an hour but I keep getting distracted. Will be done in 10 minutes though. We're having a car nightmare so need to look at different solutions.

I actually want to snarl at my DH's car every time I walk past it I resent it being such an expensive pita. Am worried if I did the neighbours would think I am weird and they already dislike me enough

PR I was outside at 6.30am in Pjs and wellies with L in pjs and wellies splashing in puddles trying to stop a huge screamathon. My neighbours think i am barking and they would be right.

YW big hugs. I was convinced my 12week with L would be a disaster. As VQ said, right now you are pregnant and therefore enjoy it.