Oct 2007; This Little Piggy Rolled & Crawled to Market, This Little Piggy Walked Home

[FloriaTosca]

I hope I manage to do this right...I'll kick everything off with a roll call if it does.

Just a quickie as no time to catch up properly but had torespond to you crochet...

Go to your doc. Get a referral to the breast clinic. It's probably nothing more than a blocked duct or an abscess which are both painful but nothing worse. It's very unlikely to be anything more serious especially if noone in your family has had breast cancer young (less than 50) but prompt treatment makes a MASSIVE difference so get your arse there honey!

Give me a call if you want to chat more about it - this is what I do all the time at work so very very happy to try and help if I can. WIll mail you my number (think you have it anyway).

Computer a bit temperamental since I spilled wine in it last night but will try to be back later to catch up with the rest of you....

Dal thinking of you and your fil too xxx

Dal thinking of you and your fil too xxx

Thank you all for your support - feel like such a fool - went to see GP this am, and it is a blocked duct ... ... bl00dy painful and such, but ultimately harmless - doc wants to see me again if it hasn't cleared up by Weds.

Thanks for all your advice - having friends like you makes things so much easier!

got to run - M has woken from her nap!

love to all.

xxxx

Glad it wasn't more serious and that you are getting some support from your GP!

Phew crochet was thinking of you today. Glad it was just a blockage but still painful none the less!

Well we had Ollie's sports day today and he did really well considering he wasn't well!! He did cry at the end of his race as I gave him a hug and he then wanted to stay with me...silly mummy! I then started crying as I couldn't see him so upset as I then wanted to hug him. Bit of a dilema as he's ill but I don't want to baby him. A fine line between the 2. Dh was trying to be a bit harsh with me but that really didn't help. Ollie didn't appear to 'need' me as a baby and now he does it feels like my heart is being torn out if I can't cuddle him when he needs it. I'm daft I know but I'm finding it a bit hard at the mo.

Stefka - great to see you back, are off to read your thread

see all later
x

Oh, forgot to say before, crochet - glad you know what the problem is now and it's nothing too serious, hope you're not in to much discomfort and it clears quickly.
Stefka - have read your other thread, poor you, please don't beat yourself up, you're a wonderful mummy! You are certainly not unfit by any stretch of the imagination, you care for your little boy very much. I think as the other people have said on there you should look in to getting some further help/support and not just let the doctor fob you off, I know you played it down but she/he still should have picked up that you're not happy with the eating thing and should have offered some kind of help with it. I think a lot of these things are to do with control, when we feel out of control in our lives we do things to try and get back in control to make ourselves feel better, so in your case you are controlling your food to make yourself feel you can succeed at that are are ok. I'm sure there will be some kind of help out there for you.
Don't be a stranger, please keep popping in, were here to support you and i'm sure you'll feel better reading that none of us are perfect anyway .
Well, i've got a headache cause i'v got 101 things to do before thurs when we drive down to kingswinford (nr Birmingham). Were having a surprise 30th on the thurs for my bro, then it's his fiancees hen night on the fri, then I have my bridesmaid fitting on the sat, then it's my bros stag night on the sat! Gonna be knackered! Haven't packed anything, got appointment with paediatrician (sp?) and paediactric diatician about Dylans weight tomorrow and i've decided i'm making cupcakes for the hen and stag before we all go out so thats another thing to do...
Oh, on that subject, anyone know how I would best pack the cupcakes so they don't get ruined on the way down in the car (it takes just over 5 hrs to get there).
Argh!
On a better note I lost another 3lb this week so am 11st 8lb now
Hi to everyone I haven't mentioned, chat soon x x x

Dal - so glad that everything's ok - hugs to you for having to go through the worry.

Crochet - same words for you!

Stefka - so glad to have you back - we were getting worried about you! Have posted on your other thread.

Muppet - poor you - it must be hard when you're being pulled between trying to encourage them to be independent and trying to look after and protect them too. Hope you got to give Ollie lots of cuddles later on.

Dal - wow what a weekend! Hope you have a great time. No idea about cupcakes. Fantastic news on the weight loss - well done! Hope appointments go well tomorrow.

Had a busy day today - dh had a migraine during the night so he's been wiped out today. I had a meeting this morning (compliance visit from my institute - complete waste of time as I won't be practising in 2 weeks time but there you go) - so Anya had to be in attendance too! Luckily she was very well behaved, smiled at the man, played with the zip on his computer bag and licked his shoes . Think I will take her to all important meetings in future .
Then went to new playgroup this afternoon - which from next week is changing into a keep fit session for mums! Can't keep up with all the different groups near us - they seem to change by the week!

Hi Dal -re the cupcakes we used plastic containers for my brother's wedding cake (cupcakes with white icing. St George?s red stripe on some with a red Canadian maple for the others. Looked really cool. I had to assemble it without getting the icing stuck to other cakes in the Park Lane Hilton's kitchen.) I wouldn't try and stack them as they might stick to each other.

Stefka - I can totally understand why you feel you?re letting you?re little one down, we have this idea of motherhood -how it will be and how it should be. We look at others and constantly compare ourselves always imagining they are somehow doing it better. Your lo loves you for who you are. If you look crap in the morning you?re still beautiful to him. If he's down and tired, yours arms are the best blanket he can ever have and if he's tired your voice singing his lullabies is the best soother to help him drift off to sleep. We worry about all the fluff, the 'best' toys to make them brainy, stimulating them enough and then worrying they are then over stimulated but really all they want from us is the simple stuff. Our arms, our voices and our love. You may be struggling at the mo and you need to go back to the Drs and get help before this take s a turn for the worse as you are at a pivotal point I think but your lo still thinks you are the greatest thing in the world. (which you are, he has good taste I bet he smiles when you go to him in the morning You are fab because you are there every day when it's easy and when it's not.

Come and talk to us more....

WWAJC -LOL re 'licking his shoes'
babies are fab aren't they

Crotchet;relieved for you..it must have been very scary.
Dal; glad all is ok with your fil too. Have a fab weekend, and well done with the weight loss.
Stefka;Muppet has said it all perfectly.We are all here for you whenever you need support.
WWAJC;lol!!!!!

Night all...

Thanks everyone for your kind support. I don't know why I stayed away from here really - embarrassed I suppose.

Does anyone else have a screaming baby? I don't mean crying he just makes a screaming noise to entertain himself. It's quite funny and sweet for the first five minutes then it drives me nuts!!

Hi Stefka - ohhh yes we have one of those at the mo. Loves the sound of his own screech voice. Am making him sit up with cushions now and he's beginning to get the idea!

screaming baby language is definitely funny for a while, but can get on your nerves after a bit!!

Is anyone else's baby not crawling/bum shuffling yet...??

Eren is now 9 months and has no intention of crawling, but strangely wants to stand up on his own, and pull himself up...

No teeth yet either... my baby is doomed to a life of a mouth like an old man!

mine - henry isn't even rolling at the mo!!!!
I am trying to make him sit up more by supporting him with cushions. He can sit a little on my lap with me holding the base of his back but when he leans and then falls either back or front he laughs and doesn't care really.

Inzi - for you at new laptop. about never ending colds...

Mine;Alex wouldnt crawl either...he started pulling himself up and cruising round furniture at 7mths and took his first steps at 8mths 1wk but at that point wouldnt roll and wouldnt even stay on his tum for more than 10 secs without having a hissy fit..within a week he was lurching forward from a sit onto all fours,and rolling all over the place in order to get to a sturdy enough piece of furniture to pull himself up on...the forward lurch is turning into a 2hands,1knee and 1foot crab-like crawl.

Muppet;I was talking to our vet this morning and he said his son didnt sit up or roll "on schedule" either...even when he did, the lazy little blighter(his words) would pull the rug full of toys towards himself rather than move himself to them! and eighteen years on he's still a lazy devil with straight As at A level and training to be a vet like his Dad!

Inzi; how frustrating for you....I hope the d!d thing gets fixed soon.

Not finished but got to go...Alexs swimming lesson...bye all

yes with the screaming baby! She thinks it's funny but it's really loud and piercing. She also does it when she wants her own way - she screamed at me the other day for trying to get a bag of potatoes off her .

Muppet - well done to H for learning to sit up. We're doing our exercises with Anya but nine times out of ten she won't co-operate (she actually has to push with one arm for it to work). She loves the standing up ones though!

Mine - no teeth here either. Some health person at a babygroup yesterday said that the babies who get teeth late tend to be the ones with less teeth problems later on (tooth decay etc) so hurrah!

Inzi - how annoying with the pc. Hope your flu is getting better - come back soon!

Just waiting for Anya to wake up then off for a walk in the sunshine .

Stefka - so glad to see you back - and muppetgirl really has said it all (muppetgirl, you really should write for a living, you write so well!) - don't stay away, we're here for each other!

Inzi - at laptop, at colds, and at weightloss! I weigh in tomorrow, am not expecting much - have eaten too much rubbish!

Dal, FT, WWAJC and everybody else - hiya!

Well, my lump has resolved itself - during the night feed last night, I felt a sort of flicking sensation inside my boob, then Mairwen got somewhat more milk than she bargained for! My boob is still very painful, feels bruised (not surprising really, I reckon the lump got to tennis ball proportions before it popped!) but it's a lot better!

Going to eat tea now - have just come back from taking Rhydian to karaté - he did his first grading, and got a gold star (they get effort grades as well as their belts, a nice touch!) He's now absolutely buzzing, and I am a very proud mammy!

Not got long but just popped in to say we saw the paediatrician and paediatric dietician about Dylans slow weigt gain today. The doctor said he looked fine and like a healthy little chap and he wasn't concerned about him, said he was all in proportion and following the bottom centile nicely so he didn't feel the need to do any further tests at the moment and said he woud see him agian in 3 months . The dietician said he was fine but could do with being a little heavier as his length is on the 9th centile and weight on the 0.4th so ideally they'd lke him to be on 2nd-9th centile for weight. She looked at his food diary and said was all fine and that the amount of milk he's taking is good so she has prescrubed some high energy/calorie formula to build him up a bit, just a short term thing to see if we can get his weight matching his length. She also gave me a few more tips on how to make his food more calorific eg making him cereal with the high energy milk and mashed potato etc.
As you can imagine, we are relieved that he is ok, even though we suspected that was the case this is a huge weight off our minds
Sorry can't stick around, got to go make a quiz for the hen night.
Be back soon though, hi to everyone!!!

Great news about Dylan!

Mine Dareh doesn't crawl either - he rolls a lot though. He also has no teeth yet. His sleep is also still crap but I am pretty much used to that now!

Got the HV coming out to -bully- support me tomorrow. The Dr told her what was going on which I am not best pleased with as I don't like my HV all that much.

fab new Dal !!!
Stefka - just block out the HV, pretend she isn;t there if you can.
You're both doing the right, and best thing for your little ones.

I took DS to a soft play centre today.. might not sound like much, but i tend to avoid these places as i'm not too keen on the big crowds of kids runnung around without much supervision (ds got squashed by a hyper 5 year old in the baby biy last time!)
He really loved it, was a bit scared at first mostly of all the shouting and screaming, but got used to it.

We're doing trial at Tumble Tots on friday... anyone else been to these at all...??

Hi all

Dal-hurrah for Dylan being ok, I?m glad you feel better over it 

Stefka-can you change your HV? I agree that Muppet has more or less said it all, we are here to support each other, just wished we all lived closer, but then we?d probably do each others heads in! ;)
Shannon is also a screechy baby, especially when I?m driving grrrr.

No teeth here, but plenty of crawling in a snake like way, kind of like out of a horror film lol

Awww Inzi!!! Stupid bloody laptop!! Hope you get it sorted son.

Crochet-glad you got the lump sorted, poor you!

Dal-glad fil seems ok 

Mine-well done you for going to one of those places, I only like it when the adults are allowed on the slides, and then the kids don?t get a look in ;)

Wwajc-pmsl at the shoe licking, Shannon does stuff like that, strange babies.

Hi FT, Alice, and anyone else I?ve missed.

I?ve not been around so much as I?ve been contemplating getting a boob job, to cut a long story short, I went to see a consultant yesterday, and he basically said across my breast is still a D/DD but the volume inside the breast is less than a C, so I need an implant and a bit of a lift, he?ll cut a bit of the skin off and reposition my nipple, the price they quoted was too expensive though, so I decided to wait a bit longer, however, the woman rung me today, and said she?ll do it for the price I was expecting, if I book it tomorrow. I feel like I need to go to talk to the surgeon again, but really really don?t want to have to go back to Leeds (nearly crashed yesterday, cos I nearly got lost and was shaking so much, and changed lanes without looking properly) because I hate driving there. What does everyone think??

oh them stupid numbers after some of the sentences are meant to be smiles because i wrote it in word first!

J20;Alice is the best person to advise you on this...not that I was looking but I didnt notice any "lack" in that deparment when we met....but I thought (please correct me if I'm wrong)it took boobs over 12 months to recover after pg/bf before they reclaimed their lost fat deposits? If that is true then surely less than 9 months is a bit soon to be thinking of surgery?...From a personal stand point, there are times when I have contemplated plastic surgery (esp when I was 35 and lost 4st 7lb and despite tons of exersise really needed a tummy tuck to get rid of the excess skin)but that was before I met dh and had the possibility of having a baby, and I am now grateful that I didnt get it done as I have regained so much of the weight while ttc/pg that all that money would have been wasted...My advice would be that as you are still very young (excuse me if I sound condecending but everyone on here is in comparison to me) save your money and wait a bit..they might fill out on their own in time..you might meet your soulmate(if you havent already) and want more children ... anything could happen.... you can always get it done another time if you are truly unhappy.

sorry cant stop just now...got to see dh off to kent..back later