November 2014 - The one where they outrun us!

[MrsAukerman]

New thread ladies.

It's not going well 😢

I ended up with dd in my bed last night I was just so tired and needed a whole nights sleep. She slept 8-7 in my bed and didnt wake up once. Wasn't even touching me most of the night so why can't she do that in her sodding cot 😠

Chicken pox has struck us . Poor DD is covered in the spots on her tummy, back, head but worse place is the nappy area - look really red and angry.
Am using cooling gel and bicarb in the bath. Any other good suggestions????

Oats in a muslin in the bath came highly recommended to us but she didn't have it that badly. We were prescribed antihistamine and it made all the difference I think. Hope she's better soon!

Oh ark how difficult. I guess you've tried all the stuff about making the her bed smell like you? Can you try gradual retreat by sleeping next to the cot?

havent calamine lotion worked wonders for dd. Dp got it over the counter at the pharmacy. Dds worst place was nappy area too, I just stripped her off and put towels everywhere!

ladydolly I think I'm going to have to. She's in my bed right now as I wanted to see what I could get away with. Im sitting on the floor and she's been Zonked in my bed for an hour! She's on a towel, im wondering if I could move her on said towel to her cot....

Haven't unsure if can use but virasoothe is amazing £11 tube but so worth it less icky than calamine especially in middle night. Antihistamines are great too but need prescription for under 2 most gp would do consult over phone.

Oats in muslin tied to tap while running bath these are great food excema too.

Also paracetamol is great just for the general unwell feeling.

half hope DD's hand is feeling better this morning? Did you take her to the doc's in the end?
havent chicken pox, oh dear :-( Am dreading that but at least it's ticked off the list...

Nothing much to report here. It's cold! DD is being very cute at the moment. We were at my parents on Monday and went shopping with mum, who gave her a tin of treacle to hold. DD pointed at the lion on the front of the tin and said "Ca!" (cat). I was well impressed :-D

I'm finding I'm missing her more on my work days now. Previously it was all fine and I actually enjoyed the child free time. But now she's doing so much more and is so much more interactive I do genuinely miss her :-( And am trying to cram fun things into the days we do have together. Oh well I'm sure she'll be annoying again soon and I'll be glad of the break!!

So jealous of those who's DC s are attempting to talk! Not a sausage here. Shouldn't he at least be starting to mimic sounds at 14 months? He's not even doing that.

What he is doing though is waking at 5.30 every day this week. We stay in bed and listen to him singing away until 6 am till he gets narky. At least he's sleeping through again, but God you never quite win with nights, do you? You'll be shafted one way or the other!

We don't really have words yet. Other than WOW. Everything is wooooow. It's quite amusing

DD is picking up with speech again now she's mastered walking (she really regressed over Xmas while she was working on that). Dp calls us Han Solo and Chewbacca because she waffles away nonsense and I know exactly what she's saying.

I've been teaching her where her eyes are, where her nose is etc and this morning DP was singing the postman pat theme to her and when he got to 'Everybody knows...' she pointed at her nose!! I was ridiculously excited - dp looked at me like I was mad. I was just proud.

anna I don't know, my nephew didn't make much attempt before 18months and at 3 he's quite chatty.

moggle that is impressive! dd points at pretty much any animal and says 'ca' :) I also miss dd more now, when I take her to sing and sign on Friday's I hate taking her back to the childminder, I just want to hang out with her all day.

How are you getting on ark? Did you stay by the cot all night?

Ds2 chatters away and points a lot mostly gibberish but some clear words. If stood at the coffee table he now side steps along it which is real improvement doesn't pull to stand still only to knees.

Just got him the joie stages to erf in my car which is our main car he goes 1mile a day in dh car to nursery so he has gone in ds1 old ff one in that car.

I am off work feeling like poop still

And ssshhhh after some more sleep regression ds2 slept all night 7.30-5.55!!!! We are not telling him though :)

Thanks for the chicken pox suggestions and tips everyone - am using Virasoothe eastmids and seems to be helping - she's not done too much scratching today. Do have calamine as well, but haven't used that yet as the cooling gel seems to be helping. Will see how it goes tomorrow and may try the oats in a muslin. Am giving her calpol as her temp has been 39+ and also tried Piriton syrup tonight...anything to help her have a better night's sleep than last night. The spots are still appearing, but some are scabbing over now...

No proper words here either yet: lots of da-da-da and ma-ma-ma but that's it. However, if I ask her "where's your sock?" she'll crawl off to the relevant room and bring it back to me , or if I say "shall mummy read you 'Meg & Mog'?" she'll go and get the book - it's amazing how much she understands really.

Haven't sounds like you are doing everything you can when ds1 had chicken pox couple years ago virasoothe had only been out a short while my manager had got given a tube by a rep the year before that and had said here take it you will use it at some point and obv I did and was amazed well I must have recommended to half nursery and the all childminders kids and loads family within a 3mth space not realising it was £11 a tube but everyone was amazed I should have been on commission guess reps and free samples really do bring companies in the money!!

Ds2 woke at 4.30 I think he has a milder version of what I have so dosed up p!us milk and back to bed he us off at nursery and I am still off work feeling pretty whacked really still congested and a nasty cough that hurtsbut do t think chest infection, everything is hard work and have no appetite (normalky greedy pig).

Hoping OK sat as driving just over an hr to meet my mumand sis for day shopping they are driving 2hrs I am taking the boys as dh is driving 4hrs to family to collect some furniture (its worth the journey apparently) and then 4hrs back he has hired a van - I don't ask anymore just let him do it!! :)

Am on my new antenatal thread and the memories it brings back! Everyone is freaking out about scans, forking out for private ones etc. OMG the deja vu!

Meanwhile DS has refused all dinner. He had a big lunch but now he won't even take a bloody Liga.

DD is still poorly. She had a temperature again yesterday, according to my mum who looked after her while I was at work, and she wouldn't be put down at bedtime. I got home after 9.30 and DH hadn't managed to get her in the cot. She coughed continuously until she was sick all over me, and barely slept all night even though I sat up and held her. She is still coughing most of time. Had to be out before 8 this morning to take DD1 to a hospital appointment, so couldn't get a GP appointment, because have to ring at 8am and they give you the next available appointment that day. You can't ask for it to be in the afternoon even though I explained why I needed it to be. We didn't get back from the hospital until after 12 and then I had to get DD1 back to school. I am exhausted and feel very guilty for leaving her and going to work yesterday even though I know she was ok with my mum. She has been ill for a long time for 'just a virus' which is what I thought was wrong.

Oh happy you poor thing. and poor DD. Everything you've done has been your only choice. So what's the plan? Call the docs now? out of hours apt tomorrow? I also thought I just had a virus I couldn't shake off and it turned out I had a residual chest infection so maybe it's that? pretends to be a doctor

The good better nights continue here, a banana right before bath/bed time seems to help. I think it keeps her full.

Baby discussion with DP, he wants to wait until we have bought the other half of our house, we can't do that until next September. It makes sense, we'd get a better mortgage with just 1 baby and me still full time at work and it will be easier to save the money now. And dd would be 3 by the time I was on mat leave so there's be some free childcare and at school by the time I went back to work and therefore only 1 to pay at childminder but... I'd be 38. And I am SO broody already. Head over heart/uterus I guess!

Oh happy...Really feel for you and dd. Our doctors is the same: you have to phone at 8 to be able to get an appointment that day, or get on the list for "urgent" cases. If you leave it until 8.10, all the appointments seem to have gone. I don't bother phoning anymore, I just turn up. And when the receptionist tells me there are no more appointments left, I just stand there and say "ok, what do you want me to do? She's x months old and XXX [explain what's wrong]". So far, they've always managed to magic an appointment from somewhere....worth a try?

The chicken pox seems to be at bay at the moment: haven't noticed any new spots appearing today and the existing ones are scabbing over. Temperature back to normal too. That virasoothe is brilliant eastmids well worth the £11!

PS Meant to ask, is it just my dd, or does everyone else have a limpet toddler at the moment? Literally can't do anything / go anywhere without her attached to my leg or wanting to be picked up or cuddled. Then when I do cuddle her, she immediately pulls away and yet 3 seconds later she's stretching out her arms to me again. Oh, and only I will do - dh just isn't good enough....

Thought it was due to being ill, but then realised it's been going on longer than the chicken pox...

Yes to limpet but only occasionally at the worst time like when you're trying to dry your hair not many proper words but a lot of 'nooo noooo nooo' with wagging finger and 'daaaaa daaaa daaaaa' for daddy. Comprehension is good but obedience is not!

Shit day dh in hospital choked on dinner last night unable to swallow inc own saliva they think something lodged low in oesophagus lots tests on ent but beyond the throat so passed their remit so admitted to assessment unit on a drip n drugged up umtyil tomorrow in the clothes he was wearing as I left him at 2 to get ds1 from school and then nothing before got ds2 from nursery at 5 even at 7 he was on a trolley in a treatment room but by 7.30 had decided to admit! He has had to turn phone off now to conserve battery.

Tomorrow I am driving with boys just over an hr to meet my mum for the day she is driving 2hrs dh told me to still go visiting hr is 2-3 and seems silly to hang around all day get stressed taking boys to hospital so will keep in touch as he knows anything as I am not to far away to get back if needed.

Ds1 upset as daddy went off to q at docs at 8.45 this morning and then he hasn't seen him.

eastmids sorry to hear about your DH. Hope they work out what is wrong with him and treat it soon. Hope you are ok too. It is hard when you have got the worry of DH in hospital but can't visit and you have to look after DC too.

lady thanks, and, yes you are right, there wasn't much choice. On Thursday I had childcare sorted so had to go to work. I don't know how many days off work with ill children I am entitled to, but need to save them for when there is no alternative. The Drs could only offer me an appointment at 5.40 on Monday, or we will take her to walk-in centre today if we are worried. It's only 9.30, but so far she seems better today, maybe because we both got some sleep. She slept in her cot (woke up a couple of times before we went to sleep) until 2.30, then slept next to me until 8. She has eaten breakfast and is playing and trying to take DD1's toys like normal, smiling and chatting. For the past week she has only wanted to sit on my lap and be cuddled.

DD is down with fever and pukes up the milk. We had to strip the bed twice last night. No point to go on about how tired I feel today. At least she seems to be better now and is completely flat out. Washing machine has been on for most of the night here. Thank goodness for the tumble drier or our house would look like a Chinese laundry with wet bits everywhere. DD needs a good wash herself but after all night being with 38,5C she doesn't look like somebody ready for bath yet.

ladydolly I think a lot what your DP says about waiting over with number two makes sense. It should be easier to deal with two when the oldest is three? 38 is not end of the world for having a second child. I was 37 when got pregnant with DD and on first midwife appointment I started up the age tune, but was very quickly told off for not being old to have a baby. You do can have a perfect pregnancy in 38 any twenty something year old would be jealous of :) but I understand it's difficult when your inner feeling says something else. I'm sure life will put everything in the right places and the nr2 will come when s/he has to.

Thanks dh still in no change having endoscopy tomorrow not seen him as didn't want boys to see him with drips and spaced out shall go tomorrow. Took boys out for day ds1 very upset and just wants to see his daddy he has spoken on phone to him.

Hope all the poorly babies are ok today!

eastmids best of luck for the scope today. How awful for you all.

We had a horrendous night here - DS was awake from 3.30 - 6. But in between lots of hysterics. First lot after I went in to relieve DH at 4.30 & after 10 mins had to dramatically dash to the loo to vomit. 2nd lot was at 5.15 when myself & DH had a furiously whispered argument "You go back to bed" "No YOU go" "NO, YOU!!!" He was all overtired and went absolutely mental at that.

So between exhaustion and pukeyness I rang work & took a day off. So relieved!

But at least I was the only one puking Strawberry !

anna at least you've got a nice reason for puking :) and your DH such a gentleman to send you to bed to have a rest, do it while you can! ;)

DD is pretty much over it, but now feels like I am going down with cold. After she had spent most of yesterday sleeping, last night she got up for the day at 3.30am and never went back to sleep till the nap at 9.30am. Around 4.30am we put her in the cot with iPad to rob some sleep. Just before 5.30am she was stud up shouting and pointing to the iPad. While messing around with settings she had switched the plane mode on and Dominic the donkey wouldn't play on YouTube. She has also worked out that icon with camera has a button pressing which the black screen flashes up. She can sit for ages doing flashes, another day I deleted over 200 black pictures.