Jan '07 part 12: FORE she's a jolly good fellow!

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In your honour, IYKWIM

Good luck today DH, hope the weather's better than it is here!

Thanks DH. I think I'll carry on giving F milk after meals for the moment. Glad to hear the Christening went so well

Urrrrr.... 20 to 11 and no posts this morning? Where are you all??? Whats happened to all the chat recently?

Have you all started another thread and not told me about it....

think they have Shimmer. either that or they have REAL LIVES!!

Nope, I'm here. Up to my eyeballs in sick and diahorrea (sp?) nappies. JJ appears to have contracted some kind of frigging stomach bug. Never rains but it pours eh!!!! I have produced a sickly child!!

He was bouncing around in his door bounder yesterday whilst I emailed EAH and suddenly I noticed yellow diahorrea shooting out the side of his nappy and onto my cream carpet where he started paddling in it NICE!!!

So that is my life today. Have asked MIl to come over the afternoon for a bit to break up the day as I daren't go out anywhere cos he is pooing for england (sorry to offend anyone, that should be the UK!! )

The joys of parenthood eh.

Shimmer - I mix J's milk into his food where possible and give him separate bottles but that is only because he won't take his milk if solids are on offer!!!

DH - glad the christening went well. I dreamt J's was a disaster last night and no one came and Rev Vino was awful and forgot all the words. The font was bright pink too!!

MrsGP - it could be teething, have you tried him on some powder?

why do they get a dodgy tummy with their teeth anyway? how does that work?

MrsGp- they can also be prone to stomach upsets after Ab's as it kills all the good bacteria in the gut as well.

I always take pro-biotics afterwards (Gp recommended this too) and you can get ABC acidophollus for babies, sprinkle it in their milk or water to try and replace the beneficial bowel flora.

It sounds worse than teething runs to me, although I'm not sure why it causes that either. I always thought it was to do with the excess saliva? Mine definitely used to get sore bottoms with a new tooth.

MrsC - that would make sense actually cos he started with this about 3 days after finishing the ABs. It has just got progressively worse. Where can I get the ABC stuff you mentioned? I will nip out when MIL gets here.

PCF - sympathies totally about getting lonely. I only have my BF in Lincoln who I see once or twice a week - if I didn't have her I would be so unhappy.

UD - don't think the prob is just teething. Have checked his gums thoroughly but there is abslutely no sign of anything going on in there.

How is the weather where you all are? It was abysmal here yesterday which means (hurrah) DH's competition he was meant to be playing in tomorrow is cancelled so he gets the day to spend with me and J

infohere

Probably need to get it from a health shop, do you have one locally?

lincolnhollandandbarrat could ring them to see if they stock it

or one of these is certain to

list of health stores in lincoln

If you still can't get any I will send you some. It is very good.

Is it safe to give him now in whilst he has D&V - don't want to make it worse and thanks for the links xx

Ahem that is my other pseudoynm!! Not very good at this covert business am I!!

Would you believe none of them stock the bloody stuff!!!!!

really?

"What to do
If antibiotics have been prescribed, you will need to rebuild the good gut bacteria that aid the digestion and absorption of nutrients by supplementing the diet with a good quality probiotic. For 0-4 years, use Solgar's ABC Dophilus powder which costs £13.85 for 49.6g. For local stockists, call 01442-890355. For older kids use the new Advanced Acidophilus Plus (60 veggies capsules cost £7.95) - Solgar's new generation probiotic made from two new strains of bacteria; Lactobacillus acidophilus LA5 and Bifidobacterium Lactus BB12."

try this, if not, I'll post you some

evening all - quiet on here today

Not much happening here Ellie had fab day at preschool (came home with 5 painting, 2 glue and stick pictures plus a paper tree with stick on fruit!!)

Hattie being a royal pita and so overtired its unbelievable.

Quick hello, hope to be back later. We're all fine here for a change lol, crappy weather mostly rain but no flooding. Had some bad nights with Ethan, him going to sleep late, waking for a while in the night(on top of the usual 4ish feeds a night) and also early mornings so I've been more tired than usual.

I've been thinking about doing a breastfeeding cousellor course and have asked for some info so that will come soon hopefully. I think it lasts for a year but will know for sure when the info turns up.

Bye for now and hope you're all well.

Morning all, sorry I've been AWOL again, we're having mega probs with our new ISP (Changed to wireless broadband with BT but can only connect up with someone else's - don't know who's - connection, so not good! BT and PCWorld keep passing us from pillar to post, so the upshot is the laptops going back tomorrow to be looked at. If it still won't work then we KNOW it's BT's problem.....

Anyway, I hope you all escaped the floods - we did but only just, the estate was like a swimmimg pool and on the next street they were pumping houses out. Ours is slightly higher up thank God.

We started weaning Ben last week (23 weeks old). I'm a bit disappointed we didnt make it to 6 months but really there was never much chance we would as he was nearly 19lbs when we had him weighed last week so really he's done well to last this long. We're doing a sort of combination between BLW and spoon feeding. He loves carrots and peas

That's all really, he's rolling over now but doesn't like tummy time so we have to roll him back again pronto!

Hope everyone else is well, I'll try and keep up a bit more often when the laptop is back (2-3 weeks )

See you soon!

Loubie xx

My Ethan was 19lbs when I had him weighed at 20 weeks and 4 days lol, god knows what he weighs now hehe. He's doing ok on just milk but he's 24 weeks this week so am thinking of starting soonish as he's ready really and had already been nicking food from me

GPW (or should that be MAFM??? ) - hope the tummy bug settles soon
DH - glad the christening went well, despite the weather
Shimmer - woohoo! Go Freddie-cot-boy!
PCF - I really hope the weather is better for you next week for DP's week off - or perhaps you'd rather it rained so that you could get more decorating done (or is that just a code - DP and I re "decorating" this week, and are hoping for a BFP a couple of weeks later, hmm, hmm, is it, is it?? (Still desperate for the thread's first sibling!! ))
Jodie - who's the bfeeding course with? I'm doing one with SureStart at the mo, but it's only a 6 week course. I'm enjoying it though.
Loubie - hope the computer prob gets fixed. BT were crap when we had a prob with our internet in the last house we were in - kept saying it wasn't their problem it was because the owner (it was rented) had put some funny line in that wasn't BTs so not up to them to fix. Funnily enough though, a few months later after some gales brought the phone line down, when BT repaired that the internet worked perfectly

Off to clinic this morning to get ds2 weighed. I'm hoping he's had his 20w growth spurt because his weight gain has been falling off a bit. I know that's normal for a bfed baby at this age, but even plotting his weight on the soley-bfed charts it's still falling off. If it's still going I'm going to have to start waking us both up at night to feed him, urgh. Never had this problem with 98th-centile ds1 (but there again I didn't get him weighed as often - maybe it's best not to know ).

Hope everyone is well and not flooded out of their houses. We had sun yesterday afternoon and ds1 and I even ate supper outside, but it's back to rain this morning. Remember this time last year, pregnant, posting how sick we were of the heat?!

2happy- I've asked for info from the ABM www.abm.me.uk/ I think you have to do a longer course than 6 weeks to be an actual breastfeeding cousellor. The first module of the course I hope to do is a mother's help one and then if you get on with that you go on to do the more in depth one.

Ah, their "mother supporters" sound like what the surestart programme is for - to be a peer supporter. Looks good.

well we started weaning yesterday - he tried broccoli, green beans, some raw carrot sticks, cucumber and apple. think he liked the broccoli the best as he nom nom-ed it quite thoroughly and also rubbed quite a bit on the sofa! i was wondering if any had actually gone down, but it definitely did cause he had the worst nappy ever this morning! just cooking some sweet potato which he can have with some more broccoli and green beans!

Well, little man is currently asleep on our bed on his side with the reddest, sore bum stuck in the air. Bless him. HAve laid him on one of those bedwetting sheets so his bottom can get some air. He ha 12 dirty diahorrea nappies yesterday and four so far today. He is just drinking half strngth milk although he has also had a rusk to suck on and a crunchy carrot thing to squish into the settee.

UD - cool that you have started weaning - it's incredible that LOs like broccoli is you consider how strong tasting it is!!

Has anyone done a baby first aid course out of interest? Thinking of doing one.

Aaah Mrsg poor j hope he is loads better soon. Iv emailed some pics to you.

Urban fab that z is being weaned sounds like he is going to love mums food.

Dont really have that much to say im mega fed up with the weather its Aidans birthday 2 weeks on friday and it has always been lovely not sure I hold out much hope this year, and thats typical because we have got him a bike my mil has bought him a junior swing and my mum and dad have got him a sandpit. Little lauren has been ill with cold cough ect but think it might be teeth but you never know with these babies . Take care chat soon

piccies of today's weaning experience on profile...

Hee hee so cute urban I love the bowl

That is a great bowl

MrsGP- Any luck with the stuff, I'm more than happy to send it to you, I have an unopened bottle...