June mummies '05 thread 12 - the one where they aren't babies anymore!

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Congrats Jonah

Giddy I'm not doing it, just thinking positive thoughts (I suspect this alone will not work)

oh dear am not that late probably just change of seasons is all

about doing it these days that i go to bed earlier, dd sleeps with us and has been waking up loads, i organise guerrilla strikes on dh, he thinks its spontaneous, i time it to fertility clockwhen i can be bothered

hugs to you giddy, hope the stress of the work situation is not taking too much of a toll

I don't even make it look spontaneous with dh, I give him his schedule a week in advance (well, sort of - I forecast which weekend will coincide with ovulation - this weekend in fact!).

ds had his MMR this avo, coped with it brilliantly well given he was tired and teething. Thank god that's over with!

since i am queen of too much info today let me share this
just after her bath dd started projectile vomiting 5 times and counting she is now sleeping but i don't think it is the end of the story, poor pet.
it is the first time she has ever brrn sick so we already called all the medical personal i the family who told us to stop being silly

ooh, that sounds nasty. Ds is a puker so we tend to shrug our shoulders and crack out the muslins when he has an episode, but 5 times is a lot. I'm sure she'll be fine, but I suspect you are in for a bit of a night. As I'm sure you know, the main thing is to try and get some water into her; she'll be fine without food but not without water. When ds is having a real fit of the vomits he insists on it being me he throws up on - I'm sure I should view it as some kind of validation of me as a mother but instead I just make sure I have a pile of t-shirts handy!

yes i think so trib and it continues not much out and she has slept bits on off looks perkier dad reading her stories,parenthood i guess. my sister tells me you have seen nothing until you get it in stereo as siblings seem to get it at the same time apparently

night night all

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Oh Giddy it never rains its pours, here's hoping for a break in the cloud soon.

SFX - we had the projectile vomiting bug about a month ago, DD2 first then DD1 then DH then Me, it was not nice but it only lasted 24hours in total, from top to bottom IYSWIM!

New job manic! now trying to do 2 at once, the old one to get the work finished and the new one to get it started!! all fun!

Good luck with all the baby making, my DH is very clucky at the mo, but NO WAY!! 2 is enough for now! please remind me anytime i come on here and sound slightly tempted how ill i was during the Pregnancy and tired i am now with 2 and a job etc

Oh giddy that hospital is shocking! Can you make a complaint? Dd1 should be prioritised and her special needs looked after.

sfx, hope your night wasn't too bad.

hello ladies, thanks for the concern and tales of puking. it is very comforting

things eased up at around 2am, she seems better this morning or at least a lot more enegetic than we are.

katz - i guess it helps you like the job,hope it gets less demanding soon, but then again what are the chances of that? everywhere it seems is work more not much more pay.

giddy in my experience hospitals are not geared up, or can be bothered, dealig with 'difference' they are clearly failing in their duty of care and i would bring it up to their attention in writing, like an informal complaint or comment.
they are obliged to meet the needs of the users, sometimes it is just ignorance but that is not really an excuse. i have in the past taken it to inquest stage due to shocking treatment of terminal patient with LD, its worth letting them know - sorry about long post, it was always a never ending issue with me.
on the positive side i must say there are wonderful people out there who no matter how over worked always go the extra mile

hope you all ok, my plan for today is to nap as much as possible

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that is really awful giddyi do think it is often out of sheer lazyness.
one of my sisters is a nurse and although he is always super busy she does say some staff just don't give a fig, it is sad. you really should complain it is not fair, why must it always be so traumatic? bloody useless people

It's completely out of order. This is not how a vulnerable girl, never mind her family, should be treated! You really must complain, giddy, these people have a duty of care to your dd1.

Btw, on a rather more trivial note, I had some friends round for lunch today, it was a rehearsal Xmas dinner as I am cooking this year and wanted to make sure I had a reasonable clue what I was doing - roasts do not often feature chez trib. One of my friends didn't show up; I texted him and he had completely forgotten. This is despite me sending him a meeting request (we work together so this is not as mad as it sounds!). He is v apologetic but clearly felt it was my job to have reminded him in the week. This would be in all my spare time, I assume

hello we all caught dd's tummy bugPJ miserable day hope tomorror we will be on recovey.
dd's cold is better i am glad to report shame`she isstill too young to look after the old folk.

trib - how is your ds coping with mmr? don't get your mate if rosties are promised`i can go quite far

Hello

Giddy - It is dreadful what you all go through at that hospital. You poor things, you must all be exhausted and emotionally overraught (sp?). Awful. Look after yourselves.
SFX - You look after yourselves too. Sickness bugs are the pits. I do have sympathy.
Trib - Sorry you mate is bloody rude. I would never miss a free feed. It is the remainder of my student habits. I am trying to stop eating as though I don't know where my next meal is coming from as I have decided this is not an attractive trait .
We are all fine. I have nearly finished my Xmas shopping. My theme for this year is magazine subscriptions. I have Olive for my stepmum, Runners World for my BIL and Esquire for my bro. All ordered this evening. It is the kind of shopping I like. I used mysupermarket.co.uk this week too and not only saved a fortune on my shopping but had it all delivered to my door by a very cute chap and then took my girls to the park. Much more civilised than dragging them round Asda or the Co-op.
I have had more issues with poo this week, dog and human (not our dog but all my humans) and feel there really should be more to my life. Went shopping ALL day on Sat with my SIL though as a special treat. Coach trip to McArthur Glen. Was lovely and I felt so civilised sitting having coffee without worrying about small children. I missed them though, but was a lovely day. We are going to book the Clothes show too so that will be a real treat too. Right have to go to bed now or I will be stuffed for the rest of the week. Take care all. xxxxx

No time to chat properly - so to everyone

Giddy - just quickly re DD2's nappy rash - we had one from hell a couple of months ago...turned out to be thrush combined with teething nappy rash - poor DD's nether regions were literally red raw and bleeding...we got a 'caneston' type cream on prescription for the thrush and my mum suggested germoline for the other redness - this was the best piece of advice I've had from mum regarding DD , the cream has a anesthetic property to it so it numbed the pain for her aswell as being a barrier cream. The worst of it cleared up within a day or two (and she'd had a week of increasing redness by then as I'd worked my way through the usual suspects for nappy rash...) hope this may help x

A most amusing paragraph from an email from my SIL in China that's just arrived! She is on maternity leave and attempting to get into the ex-pat wife lifestyle of daily pedicures etc.

"I'm still desperately busy all day doing nothing. Today was a trying round of shopping in the fabric market, followed by tennis, followed by play-date (aka: spending 2 hours stopping your kid killing or seriously injuring guest-kid in tussle over toy/snack/scooter/DVD/whatever). Play-dates are, I have discovered, the hidden cost of being a stay-at-home-mother. Quite ghastly, stressful experiences for everyone involved, but absolutely required for your beloved offspring to cut it on the social scene. Not sure whether the constant whingeing ("He's got my cutlass!"), or the competitive cookie-baking is worse."

as a sahm i have discovered i have to maintain a circle of local acquaintances for coffeee and play dates, this is all most unlike me but apparently it is the done thing not yet sure why

This is why it's better if dad stays at home; he is excused from play-dates and cookie-baking!

Evening all.
Giddy - that's terrible. I second what the others have said: compain!! Hope the nappy rash improves too. I've found ds often gets it on a wednesday (when I work a long day) - I love my CM to bits, but this is the one area I'm not happy with. However, I've invested in some metanium, and hope it's as good as everyone on MN says it is.
BTW, does anyone else's Junie seem to like twirling round and round like a whirling dervish (?sp) apparently with the sole intention of getting so dizzy that he falls over giggling helplessly??! ds is a nutter...!
Hope the sfx family feels better.

2Happy - ds isn't sure enough on his feet for whirling dervishes, but he loves being spun round on the chair until he's dizzy do you think your CM doesn't change your little one often enough? I think I would say something if I were you - my CM normally presents ds home with a clean nappy on even if he hasn't done anything really requiring it, because she knows he generally goes straight off to sleep when he's home.

Hello
Metanium is great. I have used Canesten HC a lot with the dd's too. Both of them had dreadful teething nappy rash. Thankfully it stopped as soon as they stopped teething. DD2's teeth came so early that we were over the rash stage much sooner. There was some pay off. Hugs to you Giddy.
Trib - Lol at your SIL's email. I am so glad I am not the only one disliking playdates. I do them out of duty but don't encourage them as much as I should . Something always gets broken or trashed and other people's children don't behave the same way as mine . I only enjoy them when I love the Mum...and the Mum stays. Oh I am tired....
Hi Tea!
DH has just said that my MN name sounds like a porn star!

2Happy-Oscar has spun around for about the last 3 weeks.Last week he had two episodes,one where he got so dizzt he fell into in the corner of the radiator cover and two,where he fell into the tiled wall in the kitchen.He has two almighty bumps and bruises on his forehead to prove it and if it wasn't such a cruel thing to do,I'd even post a picture for you.

We also have a new word-"narnar"(banana),although my mum is convinced it's nanna instead.

Hi Bubb
HAve just remembered dd2's first sentence to share with you. She doesn't say much but when I went to pick her up to carry her down the stairs and she wanted to come down on her bottom she shook her finger at me and said 'Don't do that!' Hmmm where has she got that from. Oh dear.