April 2004 Babies part nine - babes are nearly one!!

[Yorkiegirl]

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Argh

Accidentally od'd ds on paracetamol last night, but he's fine thank god

He's been really ill again though, was covered head to toe in squits when he woke up, and his bits are red raw No idea why, guess its the gastro, and they must have soaked in it... eww eww eww

He's feeling rather low, we cuddled in bed this morning and watched his beloved tweenies. He looked absolutely zonked after that, and went to bed at 8.40am, fast asleep as soon as his head touched the mattress :/

It's so horrible when they are sick...

How's dd2 Yorkiegirl?

Lunavix hope ds is okay. Dot - what's all this 'Cooking ds2 seemed to work'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You cooked him!?!

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Glad to hear dd is getting better YG - it must have been v. scary, her being hospitalised. lunavix - hope ds improves soon.
We have been suffering colds here. DD has had a high temp since Friday evening - today is the first day it has gone back to being within normal range. Hope your dd is ok MrsD (I wouldn't like to think we'd passed anything on on Thurs).

ssoooo glad 2 hear bee bees getting better !
ds waking every 2-3 hrs again and completely off his food , ( exept pizza crust ) bad mummy ! we think this is a sign of MORE teeth
seems v happy thpugh ! what is sex agin ?

goog morning how r we ?
am going to resign from my p/t job 2-day as woman is mean and time is 2 short and precious to be spent in an office with someone who makes me feel bad !

good on you dolbear
do you think you'll look for something else or just enjoy being at home with ds for a while?

success, success, success!!!! I was late for work today because ds2 slept until 7.10am - hurrah!!

When I say cooked him, I mean made him much warmer! Seems ds2 likes to be very toasty in his duvet, blanket, vest, pyjamas and heater in his room...! (mind you, I sleep with my electric blanket on all night so I might have known!!).

It's sooooooooo wonderful to be getting another hour's sleep a night

Go for it Dolbear - just in time to laze in the garden during the summer - sorry - I mean - not working will give time to have a spick and span house and home cooked meals!!!!

ds didn't wake at 12.30am last night so hopefully had just been a blip. But dh woke ds at 5.45 am as he was going into the shower, clicking the lights, blowing his nose, flushing the loo! Why are men soooo noisy!

dot1 - congrats!
YG - glad to hear she's eating again, it's a good step to being better.
dolbear - was this at the garage?

ds had a truly awful day yesterday, we spent the whole day cuddling on the sofa and watching tweenies. I tried playing with him a few times, his eyes just filled and he howled And while 8 hours of tweenies made me want to cry as well, I don't know what else to do with him when he's sick...

This morning he woke up a lot perkier, actually had a few smiles today. Thought I'd try him with a tiny bit of breakfast - and he projectile vomited all his milk and whatever else was sitting in his stomach up. Feel like we've gone backwards

poor luvanix - hugs to you both!

oh no Lunavix, hope ds gets well soon. Have a to cheer you up.

I wasn't going to post on here again but have been lurking a bit, and couldn't resist posting to help out when I saw your post Lunavix.

I am an expert at gastroenteritis. Dd had it about 6 / 7 times when aged between 6 months and 15 months and ds has had it about 4 times already (on the last but one occasion requiring hospitalisation for dehydration). The reason for all this gastronenteritis is that they attend a Day Nursery on a hospital site, and the clinical staff bring all the bugs with them when they go to collect their children. Unfortunately we've always got clostridium difficile or norwalk virus on the wards.

I can't remember if you are breast or bottlefeeding, but if the latter the best way to knock the bug on the head is to avoid formula milk for at least 24 hours. It really does feed the bug. When ds was hospitalised last time (after 5 days of vomiting)I had unwittingly made him worse by persisting with his formula milk even though he was vomiting it up consistently.

He recently fell ill again (vomited last Wednesday), I withdrew milk and he had perked up by Friday. I tend to give diarolyte mixed with fruit cordial (to make it more palatable) from a formula bottle during this period. Makes us look like chavs but never mind. He won't take diarolyte or water from a beaker except in small sips and becomes frustrated, whereas he considers a bottle of diarolyte to be a proper substitute for his milk.

One more point - they can suffer temporary lactose intolerance after a GI bug. Ds is in that situation now, although fully recovered from the bug he can't tolerate milk which immediately makes him sick, and yet he tucks into 3 hearty meals a day. Temporary lactose intolerance is a fairly common side effect of a GI bug and lasts for up to a week after the bug has got better. Basically the bug causes short term problems in the gut affecting the enzyme which helps with digesting lactose in milk...(at least having researched it a bit, I think thats what happens)

In short, avoid milk...

thanks peep
yes lunavix it is the garage , i get phrases like ' your not paid to think' at the age of 29 and the mother of 1 i am 2 old to be putting up with taht for a poxy p/t job
good luck with lo when ds is like that we just go with water , like u he jsut goes b/wards
HMC , nice to hear your voice again !I have no idea what those bugs you mentioned r , but they sound v icky

HMC - thanks for all that info - v impressive!
I shall note it for the future - I have been congratulating myself for ds being on the whole - healthy through the winter (bfing maybe helped) but now he's stopped it and I'm sure he'll catch everything going now.

We finally got the appointment through for dd's "6-9 month" developmental review yesterday. It's set for 31 March, so just a couple of weeks before she's 1 (!)

HD sounds familiar, we had ours last Thurs.

She broached MMR too but I don't think it will be discussed again with me.

Got my books, free toothbrush/toothpaste and height/weight info.

I saw you'd just had yours Chuffed.
Ooh, MMR! controversial subject alert!

I just said that as a girl mumps wouldn't do dd any harm it is most harmful for boys, and rubella was only needed at sometime before childbirthing age, I had mine at 11. So I felt measles was the most important.
It is just what I think, no controversy intended. She wasn't very happy with what I said though

Do you know I had never thought of it like that?

as we have a boy can't get away with it realy - but they say that the MMR cpould affect them more as well !! pants pants

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Is that what most people are doing? Single jabs?
I don't want to start a controversy, we're just undecided in this house - dp thinks its all just propoganda and thinks we should go for the three in one. I think we should go singles simply as it's a lot of drugs for a small baby. We know we need to decide soon too....

Also would have no idea where to go around here

hope all the sickly babies are a bit better.

HMC I am being nosy here but why weren't you going to post - have you been trying to leave mumsnet?

dolbear sorry to hear about the job, will you stay at home or look for another?

have never been involved in an mmr debate on mumsnet - but dd3 will have it.

but she hasn't had her 8 month check yet.

fennel - will look for another , but take my time a bit more as I think I jumped in too quick and took the 1st thing !
MMR mmmm I heard somewhere that ir was rapidly catching up with moving house an money causing the most rows/split-up in realtionships !
as a causulty - so to speak of the pill scare a while back I am v sus of all of these types of scares - bit of an xfiles junky ! there all out to get you !