April 2007 - where Ellie has mouse guests, SOKL talks poo, Eddas wears leia bunches, and bodysuits Dippy won't do!

[EllieK]

i really do need to get a life

hey ellie! I'd been thinking we should do our own little norfolk meet up too!! Sounds good. Was thinking we could find somewhere halfway so it's not too far for either of us?? Wondered about Thetford??

are you mad woman?
thetford is the sort of place 'normal' people rarely leave alive....... or with their handbag

apols to anyone with rellies in thetford

Evening ladies. Massive catch up there reading all the posts! Katy - sorry to hear about the car crash - how frightening for you. Lovely pictures Nutty - she is a cutie. Hello to everyone else as can't remember anything except trival stuff like Ellie's DS wear nappies sized 6!

Just for the record as Sienna is 6 weeks and going through some sort of growth spurt thing...I have Bfed in the following places today outside of home:
In the office at a meeting in front of the accountant.
On a wall outside M&S - lots of smiles from the old folk!
In the park on the way home.
Outside DS classroom at hometime.
At DS Beavers introduction evening in front of Beavers leader - he was
At the swimming pool watching DD
and finally while reading DS bedtime story where she threw everything up she had drunk today it seemed - pints of the stuff and without breaking her stride latched straight back on to the boob and continued sucking

No idea how much she weighs since last weighed at Day 3 - must get to clinic sometime but she is 62cm long - was 56 at birth so is definitely growing!

ROFL!!!! Ok, well, compared to where I am Thetford looks like a metropolis full of globally aware civilians! HAHAHA!!!! Any other suggestions for halfway?? Or if you fancy a drive would love you to come over, I reckon we're about an hour from you.

KL is indeed about an hour, and i'm more than happy to come to you tho i'll be needing extremely detailed directions

Abbey Farm estate in thetford is like inner london at it's worst

ok lovely will e-mail you and we'll sort times etc.

hi zazas

So much to remember!!!

Tesco nappies ar definitly best here, pampers rubbed his thighs and just not very soft, huggies nice and soft but made his bum sore, not absorbent enough, Tescos have best of both and less than half the price!!

Ellie - nathan is also still in nappies at night and will be 4 in august. But starting school in september and I feel if he's at school he shouldnt be in nappies but he just sleeps so deep he doesnt wake up for it.
Other worry I have actually is he doesnt wipe his own bum when he poos (sorry, tmi!) and im not sure id trust him to but hows that gonna work when he goes school, do they do that? He seems too young to go school he still seems such a toddler not a little boy IYKWIM

Cant remember anything else although I know there was lots i wanted to say. Should really go bed too, dylan been asleep on my new breast feeding cushion since 9 love my mummy for buying me magic sleep cushion

And now he's waking up!

they won't do it for him i don't think Pesha

i taught matthew with the wet wipes

my nephew is still in nappies at night and he's past 4, starts school in sep. think it's quite common tbh

On nappies I was feeling guilty as I didn't feel I could face reusables - I have a new age traveller cousin who recommended Tushies which are meant to be biodegradable (though you're only meant to try if it's just pee apparently). That point about the nappy sacks is a good one though.

There are two brands which are meant to be better for babies as well as environment, because many contain gels which probably aren't especially good for babies' bits - Tushies is one.

They're hard to buy though, I ordered a box of 4 packs online with postage on top of the price, then discovered that the shop, Green Baby, is actually very near dp's work, though they only have 3 other branches in the country. The drawback of this is that Mike's taken to baby shopaholic tendencies, and keeps bringing back lovely little things but that we probably don't need. And Green Baby's a rather expensive place to send someone who always buys other stuff on impulse too.

Ironing, dunno what that is! Certainly wouldn't bother with baby clothes.

Today has been a rather traumatic day with me ending up in a&e on my own account this morning after collapsing at 8 am, will try and post more details later, or tomorrow, depending, but have to try and express now.

Sorry to hear about katy's accident and the problems others are having.

ah elkie, i have learnt the art of expressing whilst mning, is how i'm here so mch

sorry to hear you've had a bad day x

Read thread while pumping & brain has promptly emptied itself. Did LOL @ Zazas feeding escapades ..... esp the throwing up massively & then latching straight back on to continue feeding ..... sounds like just my little Milk Monster!!

Right, pumping is complete so I'm hitting the hay ....

me too, can't bear to sit here knowing the mice are so close

Oh Elkie hon - what happened!!!? {{{hugs}}}

Yeah i think h could but he's a little sod! And sometimes he's fine but other times he goes kind of manic and does things very quickly and haphazardly and just dont think he'd do it very well and sometimes probably wouldnt bother at all. this is what i mean about him being like a toddler, he still needs monitoring iykwim, he doesnt have calm and common sense really and finds it very hard still to control his emotions, if he feels something it comes right on out straight away. He's absolutely nothing like dd at his age. He's intelligent and has amazing patience and concentration at times if something really interests him. And has incredible empathy and understanding of other people's feelings for a child his age and always has, apparently at playschool another child was playing on his own and nath said 'if ozzy plays on his own he wont have any friends, it makes me sad when ozzy plays on his own'. But then next thing he's gone mad and is all over the place.

Sorry having a worried mummy moment!

Sorry x posted, took ages to write cos got myself thinking and worrying! And dylan is still asleep So why arent I?!

Elkie hope all is ok now

try not to worry Pesha
what do nursery say about it?

Had parents evening last week actually.His key worker is great and the way she talks about him you can tell she's really got a soft spot for him which is great. She's commented on his sensitivity and empathy and about how sometimes he'll spend ages on just one task as good things. We talked loads about his impulsiveness and how he goes so quickly from happy to angry to sad or whatever and how they're working on that and on getting him to talk to them and tell them what he wants rather than just sulking or taking! she said in a way its a shame cos they're trying to change a part of who he is but to get on at school he needs to. The only area he's slightly behind in is handwriting which covers all writing drawing etc but she said thats really cos he's not interested and doesnt often do any which is typical boy!

Thats a good point actually Ellie they dont seem particularly worried and they after all know what he's like in a similar setting whereas i just see him with me when he's prob very different. So if they're not worried then I shouldnt be should I.
We have morning at 'big school' to meet teacher and play in classroom on 20th so will be able to talk to teacher then which should help me stop worrying hopefully.

i would say that no, if they're not worried then neither should you be

they tend to be pretty good in nurseries now, picking up any problems early as they know that they can be solved if caught early

you could try asking for ideas on ways to improve the things you're worried about?

I came round at c 8.30 am in an ambulance outside my house, being told by a stranger that I had collapsed.

Mike was waiting in with Danny for my dad to come round as they didn't think adult hospital ward a suitable environment for him (presumably infections etc). Then I was told he would follow us. Luckily my dad only lives half an hour's walk away and is a very healthy, active retired person who is delighted to be able to spend more time with his grandson than he did with his own kids.

The last thing I remember this morning before incident is coming downstairs from the bath - fortunately, my routine involves having a bath before Mike needs to leave for work and I'd got dressed as well.

Mike asked where his keys were, as it happened I thought I'd moved them to place them with his laptop, which he takes with him for work. I went to where I'd last seen them and fell, hitting my head on a table and went into convulsions, ie a first ever epileptic type seizure.

At the hospital I was offered toast and coffee, and waited around for most of the tests after Mike had arrived. In another lucky coincidence, my mum was in London for a conference, she cancelled going to the second day and travelled across north London to the hospital instead. They did various blood tests and took me for a CT scan as I'd hit my head, all the results came back normal and in just over 4 hours, much to my relief, I was allowed to come home to Danny and lunch. Once my parents had both left, Mikey and I dozed for the rest of the afternoon, and then had tea, caught up with emails, had a long phone conversation and relaxed a bit.

Another nice thing was that concerned neighbours who'd seen the ambulance and knew we'd just had a baby came to see if we were ok, and they - 50 something mum and grown up daughter - live round the corner and two doors down - the older woman said she would be happy to help out any way she could. I've been really touched by neighbours' kindness, we've had presents from next door and from our weekend newsagent, and a card from the woman over the road whose late cat Mike used to feed. Honestly, I'm appreciating the area I live in so many ways I didn't before after baby.

Hopefully I'm ok now, and will have recovered a bit before my next appointment wtih the health services for Danny - I'm going to see the health visitor at the centre where she's based on 15 June.

go elkie - glad it all worked out ok but that must have been scary.

oh elkie must have been so scary for you
Do they know what could have caused it?

eca, thanks for being so worried, as you can imagine i was hysterical at the time but we are both fine. I'm taking him to baby clinic this afternoon just for another check, but HV said from what I'd told her she was sure he was fine.

ellie, how are the mice? Do they keep you awake at night scratching?

Oh Elkie - How frightening hon. {{{hugs}}}

Elkie, how scary for you. Glad the scan etc was Ok and that you have such lovely neighbours.

Hope you're feeling better after your shunt, too Katy.

Still cloudy here but had a good night - ds changed from waking twice at midnight and 4.30 to just once - hooray! Hope it's a new pattern and not a blip. DH is on late shifts this week but so far dd has been unusually good and non-whingy around bed-time so have been coping better than I thought. Off to my parents again this weekend and it's my nephew's 2nd birthday party on monday.

Enjoyed the nappy chat last night. If I don't manage to get dd potty-trained this summer I may be "forced" to buy some more reusables .

i'm going to get a reputation as a nosey neighbour
When t wants entertaining, his favourite thing is staring out of the front window at the neighbours