January 08 shiny new - year babies, " Food, glorious food...there's nothing quite like it!"

[lilyloo]

Well done Filly

Madmouse
Lucky agree you probably need to find some time together again (easier said than done i know)
Simpson glad you got ds something
Well just spent £95 on my next card and didn't get anything for christening got loads for dd's , a couple tops for me, some jeans for dp and couple tops for ds not bad i suppose but can't really afford it so some of it will have to go back
Well off to hairdressers too today Kelix can't wait but think will have to take dd so hope she behaves!

Madmouse
Lucky agree you probably need to find some time together again (easier said than done i know)
Simpson glad you got ds something
Well just spent £95 on my next card and didn't get anything for christening got loads for dd's , a couple tops for me, some jeans for dp and couple tops for ds not bad i suppose but can't really afford it so some of it will have to go back
Well off to hairdressers too today Kelix can't wait but think will have to take dd so hope she behaves!

sorry!

Lol lillyloo.
Sorry for no personals today but my mind isn't realy up to it. Busy busy busy here at the moment. Think Im having a testosarone over load. From 14 year old strops to 20 month old tantrums to tearful hungry babys. Aaaaagghhhh........
Dh went to his docs yesterday for his blood test results. Turns out he has high cholestarol. So that means when I go to mine tomorrow I'll probably have the same thing. Time to clear out the cupboards and have a re think.
Got a letter from ds3's school today giving us the starting date for him to start reception. Can't wait to buy his new uniform
ds5 is eating us out of house and home. Tried him with a rice cake yesterday. He wasn't impressed. Lots of gagging and choking then crying. Think well stick to rusks. Maybe a bit messier but he gets on a bit better with those.
Going to Chessington Saturday. My sil and her family and Dh's mate and his son are all coming along. Just pray for good weather (well dry at least).
Might be buying a wii today. Dh's gp was telling him he has to do atleast 20 mins of excersise a day so we thought we'd get one with wii fit if its in stock.
Well the little ones are having their naps, the big ones are on various games consoles and the middle one is at nursery. Ah a bit of peace.
Have a good day all xxx

Hi girls,

missed too much to catch up I'm afraid - can someone let me know if there is anything major I have missed with an old-school Mrs McJnr catch up.

Things have been pretty hairy with me. At the end of our holiday I became very ill. At first I thought it was the recurrent UTI i've had ever since the c-section but usual drugs didn't touch it (I now think it wasn't ever a UTI but grumbling gall stones). I saw a doctor who gave a tentative diagnosis of gall bladder disease. Seriously never felt pain like it - the last stages of being induced without pain relief were comparable but this lasted 3 days! We came back from the Isle of Wight in what felt like the longest journey of my life. We'd called my parents who came to us and so DH could look after lo and they took me into Casualty. Everyone started taking me very seriously when the fisrt set of bloods came back as it turned out I had developed acute pancreatitis and they seemed genuinely concerned as to whether I would survive. I was a bit out of it by now but folks and DH have had the biggest scare of their lives. DH has just about stopped choking up when he sees me looking well now. After horse syringes of antibiotics and some amazing hospital care I am now so much better and home and recovering. I have to go back to hsp in a couple of months to have my gall bladder out (Didn't Naetha have this when pregnant? Any info gratefully received) and in the meantime I'm being very careful with food (Didn't eat for 7 days and when started to eat again couldn't finish an apple!!) as I really do not want that pain back again.

Anyway in the midst of all of this Cerys has sailed through - think it really helped I was back to work as it didn't seem such a drastic cut off from me - she was able to be spoiled by Granny and Grandpa and she came to see me for a few hours every afternoon in hospital. She's loving solids - haven't found anything she doesn't like, and although I was a bit anal about home-cooked food the last couple of weeks have blown that out of the window. We love Ella's pouches after gingeme's recommendations but everything goes down with enthusiasm. She has started at nursery and seems to be happy there tho' is so jiggered at the end of a day. I've been picking her up earlier as my energy has increased so we have spent more time together which has been a silver lining. And with solids we dropped the dream feed and she goes 7-7 without waking now - an absolute little trooper!

Anyway - hope you are all ok and no similar disasters occurring!
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Barristermum glad to see you thank God you are alive! Glad your little big girl sailed through so well. Must have been traumatic

Ginge have you not told dh that the best form of exercise is hoovering and doing the shopping on foot carrying everything back , and washing windows, doing the garden...apologies to dh if he does all that already

Barristermum - gosh that must have been so scary. Hope you have a good recovery - take it easy.
xxx

Hello everyone else...

Lilyloo - i love next and will be popping on sat - knowing my luck it will be all the crap left when I get there.

madmouse - would love a b'ham meet up, but can do any day except Tue and Fri

Amani if nothing there best popping in on the day they allow returns

Barristermum that must have been v scary glad you ok and hoping you getting lots of pampering Not missed anything major i don't think

Gingeme we have a wii fit and with all the best intentions it got used for first couple weeks now it's collecting dust cheaper to do what mm said

Well back from hairdressers and i love my hair but don't think i will be taking dd again in a hurry

Hi all

Have not been able to get online all day as DH had to take laptop to work. Grrr. I was lost without it!!

Well DD has had some carrot today. I tried her at lunch time and she was not having any of it so tried again this evening just before her bottle and she loved it!! I know you are not supposed to try new foods in the eve but she is in a much better mood then. She will have parsnip tomorrow.

DS is very excited about his fancy dress party at playgroup tomorrow. There might be a battle to stop him wearing it to bed!!

Sorry to hear you have been through an awful time Barrister mum. Very scary for you and your family.

Got busy day tomorrow, am meeting with one of the mums from DS's playgroup to get LO's weighed. Her LO is 8 mths. Then back home for lunch, then out into town to get DS some new trainers.

Forgot to ask, when does the next sale officially start in the shops?

Simpson 5 am Sat morn
Hope ds has lovely day.
By the way saw Awen on another thread seems lo is doing well asked her to pop back if she get's a min. Often wonder how some off the pg thread are doing Mrs Mc etc. seems ages ago now!

Barristermum - omg, what an awful time for you, dh and family. I have heard of a few people who have suffered from gall bladder probs, a friend had a terrible pg (sick ALL the time and in agony) she had to have it removed asap after she had the baby. at the time i did some research and there is a link between first pgs and gall bladder issues (can't remember if they know why). and gall bladder removal is v common after 1st pgs. in fact in the states they remove it during pg, which would have made my friend v happy!
are you still on lots of abs now? and how's the eating going?
(silver lining...how's the weight loss?! sorry!)
i'd be tempted to round up the last few weeks but brain is too mushy and time is too precious!!

lucky - so glad you had a good time but sorry to hear about your feelings on return. is it just post-holiday blues? i def get those!
hope you can sort out your feelings re ex and dp....

madmouse - sooo sad about your colleague. it is def our worst nightmare isn't it? i mean if ds1 sleeps longer than usual in the morning there is still a bit of me that worries....so it never goes. well not till they're teenagers and sleep till lunchtime i guess.
hope you can speak to her and be of some help. tho i wouldn't know what to say at all. i just don't know how someone functions in that situation.

ange - glad ds is slowing down on the weight gain.
i can never express myself when angry, i just cry

lilyloo - glad you enjoyed the haircut, can't imagine going with kids at all. have found a lady here who does home visits, and can do evenings post-bedtime if needed. need to get her round again soon. she has her own dcs so is chilled about family stuff if you want to do daytimes.
we want a fit, have the main bit, tho i don't use it much, dh loves it. i fancy the hula hooping and the yoga

gingeme - 14 year old strops! crikey, can you do the walk away while they throw themselves on the floor trick with them?!?
have you tried those benecol-type yoghurts/drinks/margarine?

simpson - the builder outfit sounds fab think the sale starts sat. i may have to wait till next tues and go with just ds2. too much on this weekend to get there i think.

totally lost it with ds1 after lunch when he wouldn't sleep and i was desperate for a nap. ended up plonking him in front of cbeebies and sitting the kitchen having a cry it's my own fault, not enough sleep last night (well partly my fault (late night), partly ds2's (2 feeds) and partly the blardy cat (mouse at 2am)).
anyway all ok now...
tomorrow messy play and friends round.
sat a fire station visit
sun my nct lot from ds1 days are all coming round.

have to inflate the bouncy castle i bought tho the weather forecast looks bad

right, dinner time, hi everyone i've missed

JKS - Hope you get a better nights sleep tonight. Let me know how easy it was to inflate bouncy castle, have to do ours next w/end?!

Lilyloo- Cheers for info on next. I can't get there till Wed so I guess most stuff will have gone. Wanted to get DS a smart outfit for DD's christening and also an outfit for DD to wear after actual ceremony. Is wearing old family christening gown obviously don't want to feed her in it etc. Can you order online if you don't have account with next?

No time for a real post, but...

Barristermum....crikey!! You don't do things by halves, do you?! My aunt has had the same thing recently and it seems to be taking a while to recover - my sister (GP) has warned her not to rush things - so the same goes for you! As you say, at least you get some extra time with Cerys Will try to give you a call tomorrow

Madmouse - how awful My worst nightmare...am actually trying hard not to think about it too much

JKS - better luck tonight...just repeat to yourself 'this too shall pass' ad nauseam!

Lucky - I know you don't like confrontation but maybe you should sit dh down and have a firm chat with him? Not about the ex (natch!) but about how it wasn't nice to come home to that sort of reception, the house in a mess etc. Maybe point out that if he wants to make such a fuss about you going away in the first place (and wants to have more dcs with you) then he needs to prove its because he likes being with you and misses you, not because you're a glorified housekeeper? Its back to the same thing you said last time, isn't it - if he can't pull his weight around the home (and in the relationship) and behaves like a child himself, then he needs to pull his socks up! Say it nicely, of course!

Knackered now, so going to cook dinner. Took the dcs to the local fair this afternoon - I thought it was going to be a bit of a 'mare (suspected ds would get whingey about the rides or dd would yell or something) but both kids behaved amazingly well, ds went on lots of rides with his friends but was fine with being told 'enough now' and was generally lovely this evening despite being exhausted and an hour late for dinner due to awful traffic on our way home. And he went on a properly scary adult ride with me and one of his friends - it went very very fast and very very high and his friend was utterly terrified, crying and screaming (and it was very worrying feeling responsible for him at that height and speed - I thought he might try to wiggle out of the restrainer) but ds just went very quiet and held my hand and wasn't even green afterwards!! I actually told the ride man that he shouldn't be letting 2 year olds on...!!! We hadn't seen it in action or I would never have taken the kids - I'm a fairground fanatic and I found it very full on!!! Was terrified it was going to put him off rides for life...Ds admitted tonight that he thought it was scary but it was also fun...hurrah!

OK, time to step away from the 'puter...

having a bit of a strange evening

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Madmouse - have posted on your other thread too. Do you think this might have been triggered by your work collegues loss? Making us realise how fragile life is and how ill Nathan was when first born. Sorry if I am speaking out of turn, but just a thought... Sorry you are so down hun. You have been so stong, emotions have to come out at some point.

Thank you simpson, I was just thinking the same. What i was so afraid of has happened to her, and completely unexpectedly.

Guess I am a real mum, while my dh and the cosultant were talking about development and disabilities I was only interested in the question whether I would get to keep him.Not that dh is not a real dad, but he had things more together that that point.

Oh dear mm
Barriestermum what you playing at woman? so glad your on the mend. Was a bit worried about you love
Have played bowling and tennis on the Wii so far. Very good. Have handed it over to the big boys now. As for walking away from 14 year old tantrums I wish
What do the Benecol products do exactly justkeepswimming?
Well off for another game of tennis. Phew!!

Madmouse - I think men are better at keeping emotions in check tbh.Your poor work colleague has suffered the worst possible loss and you got a small glimpse of that when Nathan was so ill but have come through the other side.Yes he may/maynot have problems later on epilepsy etc but the immediate fear is over and think work colleagues loss has brought old feelings back. Glad Nathan doing well, as I said on other thread he does FAR more than my DD. She can FINALLY roll onto her side and back!! Does he have any appts coming up? Could you mention how you feel then?

Waves at Gingeme - hope you are enjoying having all your boys around.

Gingeme you got tennis shoulder yet

Madm replied on your other thread , big to you yyou have done amazingly well coping with this as well as ds.

Simpson sorry don't know if you can order without account maybe just try it as they had lovely little cream linen jacket and trousers but too small for my ds!

Filly well that was a baptism of fire ds obviously a bit of a dare devil

JKS fingers crossed it stays dry for you is it too big to have indoors ?

Lilyloo - think it is probably the same cream linen jacket and trousers we bought ( full price obviously) when I got married. DS was 11 mths then and he wore it to his 1st birthday party too. he looked lovely.

Would like to say, today is the first time in months that DD2 skin has felt nice and soft with just a few eczema patches on her legs and under her neck... and yesterday she went most of the day without wearing her gloves......

Oh and also hello ladies........feeling so coooooollllldddd today, got my winter cardi on...

Quick catch up to say hello - my internet connection here is not as good as I thought it was so have only been able to scan posts and I was so hoping I'd be able to spend some time catching up.

Madmouse - so sorry to hear about your work colleague, I had a colleague also due a month before me and reading your post has me thinking about her a lot, I must catch up when I'm back in the UK. I remember following Nathan's story in the early days, I thought you were amazingly strong then and made all our little worries seem exactly that - "little". Like Simpson said, you've been so strong.

Barristermum - glad to hear you're OK. How awful for you and