Feb 08 - Lessons in Dressing An Octopus (Or Cooo-eeeee, We're Overe Here!)

[swottybetty]

New thread guys

Rozzy - I start back on Monday too, good luck and i'm sure all our nerves will disappear once we've had the excitement of being able to drink a whole cup of tea before it gets cold!!

Egg - so sorry to hear about ds2, must have been really horrible for you all but glad he seems to be on the mend and hope you're all feeling better soon x

Swotty - hope sleeping calms down. I remember when I was pg early on with ds2 and ds1 dropped his afternoon nap - I was devastated cause I really needed a nap myself!!

A million and one things to do here before monday morning. Wanted to get the place straight and sorted before going back to work plus my mum is having the boys on a tuesday at our place so feel a bit pressured. We're out at a party tomorrow morning and then a christening in he afternoon so time is running out!!!

So glad the person who went out on x factor went out (just in case noones watched it yet and waiting for the repeat, don't want to spoil it!!!)

Hello, yes i'm still around!

Not had computer on at all for over a week, Ds1 has had croup and ended up in hospital last week, he had steroids and is loads better now. It was so frightening he was coughing like a seal! and we couldn't get his temp below 40, i was worried sick in case ds2 got it but fingers crossed he's ok.

I've havent read back properly but Strawberry how is your ds? better now i hope, and Egg is your ds2 alright, gosh so many of our babies have been poorly, big hugs for all those who's lo's have been unwell and look forward to a healthy christmas

Ginger how are you now, has the bleeding stopped? thats so worrying, try and get your feet up if you can xx

Hi to our new ladies, you're very welcome here xx

You SOULD be hearing from me more this week because i'm off work, goodbye for now x

My god Leesmum - so many dc seem to be poorly at the moment. Hope ds1 is doing much better and agree on hoping for a healthy christmas for us all!!

Good luck to you too Count - I too wanted to have the house tidy/clean before I go back to work - dh thinks I'm mad and he's probably right since the house will be a tip again by the time I've finished my 3 days on Wednesday.

After being much better yesterday ds3 was up for ages during the night and is really grumpy today - I think they can sense when you're going back to work - can probably feel my agitation.

can't believe we've had so many babies hospitalised. Is this normal? All seems to be chest things - the time of year?

Egg and Leesmm - don't envy you your experiences as it sounds really scary. 76 breaths a minute is fast!

Good luck at work next week Rozzy. Normal to feel nervous I think - I certainly do!

Sarah have a great night out (or has it already happened?) Let's hope you manage to kick that virus with plenty of alcohol (and that it doesn't make things worse!)

Malc slept a couple of hours last night and then woke up and didn't get back to sleep till 2am. DP sat up with him and then woke up this morning with a cold so have had two to look after! Didn't get up to much at the weekend. Have been so stay-at-home recently, being domestic and getting fat. Seem to have lost the desire to do any exercise and developed an enormous appetite

Oh Egg - what an awful time you have all had! Lets hope you are all on the mend now.

Leesmum - horrid for you and LO too.

Count and Rozzy - good luck tomorrow!

Swotty - isn't it funny how they watch you eating naughty things? My DH keeps trying to give her chocolate and biscuits - I had this idea that she wouldn't eat any junk at all until 2 but that's already out the window thanks to DH!

Count and Rozzy, good luck. I will be thinking of you both tomorrow. Am sure it will be ok, first days are mostly about catching up with people and telling them your news really, in my experience

Egg, poor DS . It must have been really scary going in the ambulance. I'd not heard of that no. of breaths thing. That's really useful to know. I hope he's better now. My little DS has been in hospital again today. Since he stopped his antibiotics on Wednesday, he has slowly got worse and worse again. Took him back to A&E and they think that he's not redeveloped pneumonia but that the bronchiolitis has come back. They have put him back on the inhaler and upped the dose and we have just got home, avoided being admitted for the night by 20 minutes thank God. Its kind of strange that being told its bronchiolitis is good news

It certainly is the time of year for chest infections and viruses. I think my DS has been suseptible because he started nursery in October whereas by her first winter, DD had already been at nursery for 5 months and was that bit older. Also, DD brings home the bugs so I think she has given him the bronchiolitis, even though I kept him off nursery for most of last week.

Fingers crossed we all have happy healthy weeks next week. I'm off to bed now.

Hello just wanted to say am thinking of all the other sick babies. I did read the other day that it tends to be boys more than girls at this age with chest infections and I think it has only been boys on this thread (sorry if I am missing out someone's DD).

Strawberry so sorry your DS ended up back in hospital. Is it more or less scary the second time? While we were on our way home I thought of you and even more so gingermumi who had your boys in overnight (I think ginger's DS was in four 4 or so nights!) and I can't imagine how bad they must have been to be kept in. My DS2 seemed bad enough and he was allowed home after 5 hours! Saying that I think he was just lucky and responded well to the drugs etc. He is having to have the inhaler quite a lot and we were up with him a few times last night when he was feeling rough.

They didn't say for us that it was anything specific, just RSV in general as far as I know. DS2 has finished his course of steroids and is still not 100%. Have kept him home from nursery.

As strawberry said, I am sure mine are only ill like this because of nursery. DS1 had tons of coughs in his first winter but was never hospitalised. He didn't start nursery until he was 18 months though. Although mine started in April they have certainly not become immune yet!

Leesmum so sorry poor Lee has been ill too. How is he now? Has James managed to avoid it? It was croup I thought DD had last week as she was barking when she coughed but it seems that is just her style of coughing sometimes! She has (touch wood) recovered well and not succumbed like DS2. She is crawling a bit more now (Betty my DD will definitely still win last crawler as she is nearly two months older than yours! She has made it to 11 months before she can actually move forward!).

Gill we also seem to stay at home a lot more. I don't like it. I have even got out of the habit of getting them all ready to go out. We all went into town yesterday (babies first time outside since last Monday) and it took forever. Because I have the doula here twice a week I am going out with DS1 but poor DTs get stuck inside a lot. Prob best when it is this cold though.

Strawberry I read than number of breaths thing on some web page or other when I was looking up bronchiolitis. Also when DD was first ill the doc said listen to her breathing when she is asleep, if it is very rapid and shallow then she is prob struggling. DS2 is almost consistently over 60 per minute still but he is obviously a lot better and only struggles occasionally.

Hospital again strawb - poor little thing. I hope the antibiotics work this time - have you got different ones or the same?

We just had a mammoth struggle getting down for morning nap - 1.5 hours! Am worried that she is trying to drop it like Esther - I love the morning nap! (finally asleep now) phew

I am half dreading and half looking forward to DTs dropping morning nap. For now I hope they keep it up, but in the spring when the weather improves it will be so nice to be able to all go out without worrying that they wont sleep.

Thought I would link to info about bronchiolitis so everyone knows what to look out for! Strawb it says on there (and on another web I looked at) that ABs dont help bronchiolitis but do help things that result from it like the pneumonia that your DS had.

Egg thanks for the link, it looks like lee had croup after all but he's gone in school today, i can't keep him off just because he has a cough, James appears to be fine for now, but i am well stocked up on baby vapour rub, olbas oil, Medised and Nurofen...[leesmum rolling up her sleeves in anticipation!!!]

And my James has finally started crawling!! he's making up for lost time and can go from 0-60 in 5 sec's.

If any of you have a spare 5 min you might want to have a go on this www.elfyourselves.com tis very funny!

Count and Rozzy hope today has been ok for you both xx

oh my goodness, i havent been on since sat night and two babies been in hospital and strawb's lo back in too . i am glad everyone sounds like they are on the mend. i wonder why it is re boys at this age.

esther has been to her first xmas party and her first birthday party this weekend. xmas party was lovely, i managed to put foot in mouth at birthday party ... just posted about it on AIBU and just got a resounding yes IABU .... still having lots of trouble sleeping here, but it really helped having dh about and just having him see how hard it is sometimes.

gill i do not envy you having a sick dp... i hope he is a grin and bare it type of invalid!

hoping everyone's little ones are better or at least on the mend now, you poor, poor things.
DS is feeling horrid but we think just teeth. Tho at 3am i was convinvced he was just refusing to go to sleep becasue i was so tired! He was sat up in our bed crying his little eyes out and waving at the bedroom door in between sobs (his newest skill!!) i had to laugh!
Off this week so will probably be on here less than when i'm at work !

DS has been ok today. V chesty and we had one projectile vomiting incident but does still seem to be bronchiolitis not pneumonia again. We don't actually have abs, I think dr gave them last time to stave off another infection. The main treatment we have seems to be the inhaler. Its funny how its the boys, isn't it. Men are such delicate flowers aren't they. I guess this is the precurser to man flu .

Hope everyone's first days at work were not too traumatic. Hope we all get a good night's sleep.

Good news re my party dilemma - one has been rearranged. Am so relieved!!!!

Swotty, just looked at your pink cake thread. Am v by what people have said. I kind of thought it was funny, can definitely hear myself saying something similar. At worst, it hardly matters, the boys would have had cake. I positively encourage the blue/pink gender stereotyping in our house .

[off to consider how I must have also offended people at DD's party. Should I not have done princess for girls/pirates for boys party bags??!!....]

hiya all.

Strawberry and egg - hope your lo's keep getting better. I think pretty much all of ds1's class at school have been off with the cold/coughing thing and thats where ds3 got it from but I can imagine how easy it must be for lo's to catch things at nursery. I remember ds2 got far more coughs and bugs than ds1 when he was tiny because he was exposed to his big brother who was going to playgroup with other kids.

Well I survived my first day at work. Apart from the initial tears this morning (me not the boys) it was ok. I'm really lucky that I just leave the kids with dh and they were all absolutely fine. Strangely it was ds1 who seemed most bothered and he's at school most of the day anyway. It's the first day I haven't wanted them to go to bed at 7! My temp cover is staying on until March to help me get back into the swing of things which is good and I found out we're getting an M & S hamper from work for christmas so that cheered me up.

Swotty - just read your pink cake thread - really funny. That's the sort of joke I used to make before I realised that ds1 was very sensitive and would cry if you said things like that. Unlike ds2 who wouldn't even have heard your comment because he would have been so focused on getting his hands on one of the cakes!!

Anyway have spent far too much time looking at computer screens today so off to give my eyes a break.

lol at precurser to man flu. glad party has been rearranged strawb.

wd rozzy for getting thru today. two more days til your weekend starts.

blondie - thats so cute re the waving between sobs. i think dd's teeth might be the prob this end too. last night i was having a horrible tossy and turny night and had decamped to spareroom. she woke up at maybe 1am and started to get v upset and my heart sank cause its taking forever to settle her again at night. but dh swished in, sent me back to bed and next thing i knew all was quiet. this morning i asked him what he'd done and he'd just brought her into bed with him. i've ended up doing that a few times, but never him on his own. twas sweet and i'm gutted i didnt get to see them both snoozing.

leesmum- i am confused by your link! am i missing something?bible lessons and elf misc??

thank you strawb and rozzy for nice pink cake words. i am a tad psycho today and have been beating myself up about it. should def not have posted on AIBU tho' , but then who is ever being reasonable on AIBU? to be worked up enough to ask the MN jury, you're invariably being at least a leeetle bit hormonal mental.

Rozzy, glad your day wasn't too bad. The hamper sounds cool, my work have been mysteriously silent about Xmas gifts this year....

www.elfyourself.com ha ha sorry, try this instead!

just lost my long post

to summarise, man flu is confirmed.

thinking of all the poorly babies and hope they're all well again soon

and Malc being very cute at the mo although he did get to sleep at 9.30 tonight

Theres so many poorly babies ata the moment. Hope there all better soon and in time for xmas.

Egg i was shocked to read about your DS. Hope he's getting better now.

Henley was up most of last night, coughing and being sick. I had to change his cot sheets 4 times . In the end i put him in bed with me and DP. He's not too bad today. Still coughing and sneezing but no sick so far (touch wood).

We put our xmas tree up at the weekend and it looks lovely. Weve gone for a fake on this yr as i didnt want Henley picking up the fallen pines and putting them in his mouth. Im actually quite suprised that he's not all that bothered in the tree. I thought that he would have pulled it over a fair few times bay now but he doesnt seem interested.

How is everyone working out their LOs age. I was going in weeks i.e. he was 43w yesterday. So at 44w he's 11 months & at 48w he's 12 months. So what happens to the other 4w of the yr. If i do it by months, he will be 10 months on Thurs. I only ask because his prescriptions say that he's still 9 months . And if i go by months, he took his 1st steps at 8.5 months. How is everyone else doing it.

Will try and get some new pics on later. Have put them on FaxeBook but they wont upload on here for some reason.

Missnat I just go by the month and not weeks, so my DS is 10 months and was born 31st Jan. My ds doesn't seem bothered about the tree either

Swotty - I dont think you said anything wrong either. I defo think pink is for girls and blue is for boys!!!

Leesmum! I spent an hour elfing myself (well Malcolm actually) and got to bed at 12.30!!! The results are very scary indeed. Surprised I didn't have nightmares!

hi all,

how are all the porrly lo's?

we are all still full of cough and cold here but everyone seems happy!!!!

DS is counting down til santa he is so excited, xxxx however he seems to think santa is bringing a new scooter as the bob the bulider one he has is for babies!!! oh dear i hope the bike will be good enough for him(if not a scooter on his bday i think in jan!!!!)

hope all well with u guys returning to work, i have been working for nearly 7 months now just 3 hrs a nite and love it, however i have today had a return to work interview after being off with flu- apparently working for the nhs u r not allowed to be ill!!!!lol

nite nite all-

ps- sat night was really good, and swotty i drank sambuka for u!!!!!

Hello. All quiet here tonight. Hoping DS is ok tonight. Off to give him inhaler and then to bed. Day off tomorrow - yay