January 2014 -- the birthdays are coming!

[TobyLerone]

Just wrote a long message on the old thread only to have it not post because we'd filled it.

We really ought to do less chatting and more sleeping

M is currently asleep and cool to the touch. Hopefully she'll stay that way.

Nurse-kneecapping was actually the 3rd thing down on my to-do list for tomorrow, so if you could get on that you'd save me a job, book. Thanks for offering :O

I've been taking paracetamol and it's not really worth a wank, but I caved and took some ibuprofen which seems to have helped a bit. Time to man up tomorrow, I think. But I may lay it on a bit thick have a relapse on Christmas day, so that our guests bugger off as soon as they've eaten and leave us to our pjs, crap tv and the rapidly-diminishing tub of Roses.

Argh O has just woken up screaming. I don't think it's her teeth but wondering if she has a tummy ache. She is definitely full of wind! Dh has taken her back downstairs for a bit as she is so upset.

Felix don't know about 12 month regression but I remember reading an article that suggested there were a lot!

Nope it's those pesky molars making an appearance again

Have a great Christmas everyone. Can't believe it will be Olivia's first, I'm really excited

From the Facebook group it has been a busy day, for both good and not so good reasons.

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas with our just or nearly turned 1 babies.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you are all having a fantastic day and the babies are enjoying the wrapping paper.

Merry Christmas! Henry didn't care at all. He just enjoyed seeing ds1 open the presents

Hope everyone had a great day!

Merry Christmas! DH is being a nob and the dementors AKA PIL are about to arrive. I'm off for a passionfruit rum and grapefruit.....

Oh, puggle. That doesn't sound fun at all.

puggle good luck with the dementors and sorry your DH is being a pain again. Can you send him off with PIL and H to see a very important local landmark or have them get your messages while you get tanked prepare? I think the passionfruit rum is a great idea.

I bet H will be enjoying the attention.

N and I have been laid out with dodgy stomachs since christmas day. It is not fun.

Hope the weather hasn't been too awful for all of you.

How's it going puggle? I hope they are all behaving themselves.

Hope you and N are on the mend altered.

We had a quiet Christmas, just me, P, DH and my mum. P came down with a cough on Christmas Eve so wasn't her usual lovely self, but she enjoyed playing with all her new toys and eating everything in sight :) Since then her cough has got much worse, and I'm currently glued to the monitor hoping that she's okay upstairs. Bless her, she's still been sleeping well at night in spite of everything.

Now I have to start thinking about her birthday I suppose!

Glad that P had a good Christmas book. I hope her cough clears soon, N had a nasty cough and sore throat right before the diarrhoea. He seemed all right though, I hope P is too. Great work on the sleep! We are moving backwards, probably because we co sleep here at PIL because there is no room for a cot. Poor DD is on the floor.

N's birthday is on wednesday and I am feeling a bit blah about it. I wanted to celebrate at our flat but there has been family pressure to do it at a cousin's because everyone wants to go there for hogmanay. Now we are feeling so ill I am tempted to cancel it altogether. I would feel guilty though because I know N would really enjoy the attention.

altered go with the way you want to do it. He's your baby so do what you want to do for his first birthday!

S is ill with a bad cold again she was ill for a week then better for a week and now she's sick again. Feel bad for her as she's so snotty with a terrible cough. Drove down from Durham to home (2 hours drive) then down from home to my parents (another 2 hours as bad traffic and lots of snow!) and she slept the whole way.

Poor S. Hope she feels better soon! I am thoroughly sick of colds now, everyone seems to have one and they come one after another.

Re: Birthday, I think I would just like to sleep through it! Would be a shame for Nour though because we did a big 1st birthday for DD and I don't want him to have missed out.

I will be missing Henry's first birthday, my great grandma's funeral is on the same day. It means I travel up on the Wednesday, stay overnight and come back on the Friday. So I miss his birthday and 2 nights with him. I've never left him overnight. It's just sad

That is really sad million. I am sorry about your great grandmother and also about you missing such an important day with Henry and DS1.

Sorry your missing Henry's 1st birthday million.

Still don't know what we are doing for O's.

Had a great Christmas here. Just gearing up for New Year now as all my family are descending on us this year

Oh million im so sorry

I know this sounds callous, but she wasn't very nice. Really wasn't. But I'm more upset for my dad and grandpa. It's been stressful trying to arrange travel and accommodation for me while I'm there. I'm going to catch up with friends, but I just feel bad for missing his birthday. DH said that we're having the party on the Saturday he wouldn't know. But I'll know

Million that sucks and I totally get the "I will know" thing. I really feel for you. I am currently pinned on the sofa under a sleeping, feverish A. Seems his month long cold has finally got the better of him. He had a crap night and has been off his food and upset most of the day. He has a raised temp so going to monitor and give a dose of Calpol when he wakes up. First time he's been poorly enough to really affect him, he looked so sad earlier

Million, do you really have to go? Surely everyone would understand you not going in order not to miss your baby's first birthday?

M is still unwell :( She's had round 2 of the cold for over 2 weeks now, poor thing. I hate that her first Christmas was spent feeling crap :(

Sorry for all the other poorly babies. It's not fair.

I wouldn't go million, in fact I missed my uncle's funeral this month because I couldn't take P. I don't think anyone really expected me to be there either. If you had been especially close then that would be different, but surely people would understand that you need to stay at home?

toby I stalked you on fb earlier to see how M was. Poor thing :( Is she still croupy? I hope all the poorly ones are better soon.

P has had this cough since Christmas Eve now, and it is getting worse. I don't like going to the gp for something that I know they will tell me is viral, but she's not eating much now and we can't afford for her to lose any more weight. She lost some at the start of the month, and I'm meant to be getting her weighed again this week to make sure she's regained it but she'll probably have lost again. My poor little girl. She looks so tired and ill

M isn't so croupy any more, thanks for asking. I saw a total dickhead of a nurse last week who gave her an inhaler and said that it wasn't croup because she hadn't coughed once in her office
And then she told me that it sounded like the start of asthma (probably right). So I said "what about the barking noise she was making as she coughed last night?". Dickhead nurse told me that all asthmatics have a barking noise when they cough. I told her I don't, my older children don't, and nobody I've ever seen having an asthma attack did. She said I was wrong.

So I wasn't filled with confidence, but the noise has stopped when she coughs, so I'm just managing it as best I can. She won't have the mask for the spacer for her inhaler anywhere near her face without getting hysterical. But I think it's getting better...very slowly!

She spent yesterday whingeing for the ENTIRE DAY, and we've had a few prolonged screaming fits (her, not me, although it's been close!). And she's up every hour in the night. It's getting tiresome now, so I can only imagine how it is for her.

I'd take P to the GP if I were you, book. They can have a listen to her
chest and make sure it's not an infection. Poor thing :(
If dh is back at work this week, feel free to come and visit if you're fed up being nurse!

Poor P!

I have to go. My folks like abroad and my dad is flying back for the funeral, but my mom cant come. I'm going for my grandpa, and my dad. Half their family is bat shit crazy, so they could do with the support. The train tickets have been booked and paid for. So it's a done deal. Dh has promised me they wont have cake, of any description, while I'm away.

I know the right thing to do is to go, just the timing sucks