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Feb 06 - ......Meh.

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Phoenix · 12/11/2008 22:42

Grin
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Jas · 12/11/2008 22:43
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Phoenix · 12/11/2008 22:45

My laptop is so slow tonight

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Flamesparrow · 12/11/2008 22:45
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Phoenix · 12/11/2008 22:48

Is this the shortest title we've ever had?

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EachPeachPearMum · 12/11/2008 23:00

pmsl! Dearie me....

Jas · 12/11/2008 23:01

There.

A thread that makes us all

What more could you ask?

I'm off to bed now.
NN

EachPeachPearMum · 12/11/2008 23:04

nn... am off myself too.

EachPeachPearMum · 12/11/2008 23:06

Oh... meant to ask CSWS how you are getting gaviscon in ds?

CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 07:24

Am going to start a thread asking for tips EPPM! Been using NCT 'babydose syringe' (without the teat part which has gone walkabout again), but sometimes he spits out more than he swallows. Have ordered one of those dummy style dispensers now too, but ds hasn't had a dummy before, so no idea how that will go down.

Flamesparrow · 13/11/2008 13:24

probably go down over his chin, chest etc

I hate giving babies meds. Tis always hell.

CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 14:04

Fuck - just got phone call from dh to say that his contract is ending in December, so we'll go from well off to having no income overnight. Just what we need having extended our mortgage to pay for building works, and with a huge tax bill to pay at the end of Jan.

Jas · 13/11/2008 14:31

Oooh. Scary. Do you have reserves tucked away to keep you going until he gets something else?

CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 14:47

Reserves are simply that we always overpay our mortgage, and it's a flexible one so we can take it back out again. That's how we always pay the taxman, and how we've funded the building works, so our mortgage is already at its highest level for years.

Dh should be able to get more work I imagine, but at a considerably lower rate, and may involve even more travel.

Flamesparrow · 13/11/2008 17:07

CSWS

EachPeachPearMum · 13/11/2008 20:06

CSWS- so sorry to hear this. I think many people are going to be in similar positions though- think this 'recession' is going to be quite severe.
What does he consult on? (I know it's IT, but what area?)

re gaviscon- we used syringes from the chemist (and they could be sterilised) and just sort of squirted it down the inside of her cheek, but yes lots does come back.

You mean you aren't putting in in the babby's bottle?
Ah, you wanna put rusk in there, that'll keep his milk down.

Phoenix · 13/11/2008 20:11

Csws.

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CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 20:26

EPPM - GP asked if I'd tried changing his milk. Obv didn't occur to her that I might be breastfeeding, even though I'd already told her that I'd given up dairy to ease his milk intolerance . She then referred to it as lactose intolerance (a particular bugbear of mine when it's almost always the milk protein that's the problem, and not the lactose), so when she asked if I'd tried infacol for the reflux I inwardly rolled my eyes.

Dh was a SunSystems consultant (not to be confused with Sun Microsystems) - financial software, but has been working on an Oracle project for the last few years. Basically he's a technical consultant for accounting software, but has also done some web development, database admin etc etc. He reckons he'll prob go back to being a Sun consultant, as with that he's a big fish in a small pond.

EachPeachPearMum · 13/11/2008 20:54

Ah, I see why he has been finished so soon then, I assume that finance sector are already battening down the hatches.

Infacol is crap, does nothing... but why for reflux????

mustrunmore · 13/11/2008 21:04

omg csws

CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 21:13

Pharmaceutical industry that he's been working in though EPPM.

Exactly re doctor - numpty!

Jas · 13/11/2008 21:24

DP has one day work tomorrow (The first paid work in a fortnight)

Mr csws will find something else before this job finishes, hopefully. He still has a while.

CantSleepWontSleep · 13/11/2008 21:40

One of my friends suggested that I go back to work and let dh have the children, so that he can see how hard it is .

Yay for dp's day's work Jas.
I do appreciate that any financial woes we have are on an entirely different scale to many .

Flamesparrow · 13/11/2008 21:41

Does he go all twitchy if you people say microsystems?

Do you think the dr thought you were being all nice and doing sympathetic cutting out of dairy??? I do have this really freaky image in my head now of your eyes rolling back into your head.

yay for mrJas paid work!

I have had a few hours at school over the last couple of weeks - unfortunately I won't see the money until after xmas

EachPeachPearMum · 13/11/2008 21:43

Ummmm, CSWS- but think of all that expressing.....

Jas- sorry- I have no idea what your DP does- what is it? (Have I asked before? the filing system in my head isn't at it's best at the moment)

Flamesparrow · 13/11/2008 21:44

Tis all relative - worrying about money is worrying about money regardless. If anything it is worse for you - we're all used to being in sh*t