December 2006 - Terrible Two's here we come!

[Olihan]

Here we go. I thought the title was apt as ds2 has morhed into a stroppy little horror overnight. His favourite expression at the moment is 'I cwoss with you, I sceam at you AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH' .

Happy Birthday ToddlerJabber and ToddlerEli .

DD is poorly again. I swear every bug in the vicinity has some kind of magnetic attraction to her . She has a bit of a temp, headache and earache today. I need to buy shares in Calpol and Medised I think.

Aoa, hotel is a very good idea - go for a posh one so you can have a vvvv hot, deep bath!

Eli.

I'm sorry to hear that Eli. even though she's reached such a grand age, it's still hard to take.

Eli thinking of you. Hope you and DD2 have a good night.

Have been reading ladies but very tired and got to do public feeding tomorrow out with PIL and unreasonably stressed about it. (Seems so silly in context of neighbours and relatives passing away) Will catch up properly over weekend.

margo and eli. Eli am I right in thinking that Sunday will be the start of critical period, you said 5-9 days afterwards?

congrats oli, that's fab! I could do with losing another . Snap on the day from hell with ds2 arggghhhh, that high pitched whine driving me barmy. Thank god he naps. Yet dp came home, said I'll deal with him and within minutes was yelling . Am such a saint really (smug emoticon)

DS1 home from school again, up screaming at 10 last night, so pale and exhausted yet somehow perky all day . Commented to dp tonight that he looks ethopian - skin & bone (ribs showing etc, knees bigger than thighs) and bulbous tummy. At 5, can this be right? Seeing endocrinologist at end of month, dp & i now thinking something must be physically wrong with him now..
On plus side, ds3 transformed by gaviscon, they are (almost) in a routine and nap together [drumroll] for hours! yayayayayay! Got to bake with ds1 for first time in 6 months, was so nice.

Lennied, do you know where you'll be going? Just make sure you choose the table/location etc it's important that you are comfortable, then youll be less stressed & ds won't fuss & pick up on that.God I remember being so hideously wound up about feeding in public (I did it once with ds1) my shoulders were near my ears.Good luck, just think calming thoughts and ignore anyone else but dd & ds!

Indith, how's sleeping going?

BP, how're you dealing with things?

No time to reply to all photo comments individually as dp has just announced PIL coming tomorrow so naturally feel urge to rush & tidy everything argggh. But thank you, I put them on there to make myself feel better about how blessed I am (not just the lo's but mum too, should put one I have of my sisters but youngest might not appreciated it!).

Oh Eli, I'm sorry. I don't think it matters what age someody reaches, if you love them you still don't want it to happen and it still hurts. Be kind to yourself, you've been through so much recently. Extra tight ((hugs)) for tonight.

LenniEd, as per the best laid plans I haven't managed to get to the PO yet but should manage tomorrow as DH is about. Try not to flap about the feeding tomorrow, it'll be much easier if you're relaxed . If the PILs are uncomfortable I'm sure they'll skedaddle pretty quick!

eli, I'm so sorry My 93 year old grandmother is in the hospital right now with pneumonia. I got the news today that they don't expect her to last the weekend.

AQ, I wonder if they will check your ds1 for coeliac disease? Just a thought considering his gut issues over the last year.

LenniEd, just whip out the boob and feed like there's nothing unusual at all. I look back in amazement at the places, times and people back in the bfing days of ds2.

Sorry for the brief post, I can't seem to get caught up on things.

Thanks. Jabber, I'm sorry to hear about your grandmother too...

LenniEd, tbh, I'd be more stressed about feeding with PIL (presumably them what say dd should be in pants ) than I am about my granny. Thats sad, but not stressful, and the focus thankfully is not on me! Good luck, and of course its not silly - one doth not eclipse the other.

My mum was surprisingly organized and calm. I forget she deals much better with real crises than with imagined problems.

dd woke in pain an hour after going to sleep, which had a silver lining: got milk and ABs down her hurrah, and painkillers ten mintues ago with her asleep (she'll probably be traumatised by having supps applied in her sleep, dreadful, but don't know what else to do and she barely notices) so am going to attempt sleep.

I have a sore throat, which makes a mockery of trying to protect dd2 from germs...

Eli and Jabber...sorry for your sad times.x

Aww, jabber, I'm so sorry.
V. that your gm lasting to 93 and eli's to 101, wow! What a life .Still miss mine to this day, she died 12 years ago.
why am I up???

oh, yes jabber, am going to push for ruling out coeliac as the symptoms are matching quite a bit. Should have been ruled out 6 months ago at least according to my dad with the growth issue & bowel probs. DP woke me up last night with list from internet so i could spend another hour worrying about him
Eli, hoping that dd had a more settled night. You're just tired, sore throat might go away tomorrow (hopeful emoticon).
I did enjoy my hot x buns (bfeeding calories, yay) but really must go back to bed now.

Aw Jabber. Keeping my fingers crossed for your GM.

Buns?? Easter come early this year? quite right AQ, I feasted on those with dd1, I seem to remember....lashed with butter, a la Enid Blyton (showing my age now). dh's aunt phoned to see how dd was today, and advised me to eat a Mars Bar daily to cope I am a chocolate fiend, but even I would find that hard going....

Sore throat sadly definite, accompanied by burnt mouth 'cos I had a jacket potato just after hearing about gm, and wasn't feeling/thinking

dd had much better day, eating more, playing, etc - lovely! Am expecting worse again before final healing, as warned, but nice to get a break

Eli - not sure I would find a Mars Bar a day hard going right now! Not that I am a fan of Mars Bars but give me the equivalent calories in straightforward chocolate and I'm there. I really have to do something about my intake of sugar right now am constantly craving sweet things, and have noticed DH's waistline is looking a little thicker as result of all the junk I keep buying!

Glad DD2 had a better day and seems to be apnoea free and eating, both excellent but esp the eating... I can't eat anything when my tonsils are inflammed so eating when they've just been removed is fantastic. Hope you are better soon too.

Jabber - also got fingers crossed and thoughts with you here.

Oli - 2.5 stone WOW!! That really is very impressive, well done you. And don't worry a bit about not making it to PO... whenever is fine, am in no rush.

Public feeding went ok today, DS was a little star! I went and sat in the lounge bit of the restaurant as table was tiny so we were all elbow to elbow and I felt a bit uncomfortable as was sat right in the middle of one side between MIL and DD and directly opposite one of FIL's male friends. Not how it was meant to work out but space for pram was there and think everyone assumed I'd want to sit next to it - hey ho. So took him out to a nice comfy chair in corner of the dimly lit lounge and he pretty much got himself on, fed really quickly without coming off once and then slept for 3 hours afterwards Will never go that well again I know, but felt very proud of us both for surviving it and DH and I suddenly planning lots of trips out

Hope sleeping better Indith and AQ.

Well grandmother passed on last night. I was really prepared for it and for now am feeling OK. It's so different when someone has had a rich and full life compared to the accident our friends had in November iykwim.

eli and AQ, hope you both start feeling better soon.

AQ, I'm glad your dad agrees that they need to rule out coeliac. It does sound suspicious. And now there are lots of gluten-free foods available so the diet is much easier to deal with.

well done on the feeding LenniEd!

Indith, how are nights going?

Jabber, sorry about Grandma, God bless and rest her soul.x. Am very sad for you all...My Grandma was very young when she died(64)and I still miss her so much almost 30 years on...

Jabber, also sorry to hear about yor DGM. Glad you feel at peace with it though, as much as you can do anyway.

My DGM is 96 and I say 'goodbye' mentally everytime I see her just in case (which isn't as often as I'd like) feels very but she isn't entirely with us anymore iyswim which is hard.

Sorry to hear about both of your DGM's Jabber/Eli.

Jabber, I'm sorry, and at the same time I know what you mean about the full life. Its very different to when dh's brother died (46) or various friends over the years - no trauma involved, just natural loss.

LenniEd, well done! Sounds like you're moving on to the next phase of courageous mum-of-two adventurousness (?!)....

Solo 64 is WAY too young.

dd in acute pain today, as warned - her ears are hurting so much she can't swallow, bit worried about drinking. Its the scabs coming loose...does mean she's healing and bang on target, but poor thing, its horrid.

I sound like a tonsillectomy blog, eh?! Sorry, will be moving on in a week or so

Jabber - sorry about your Grandma

Eli - not nice that she is in pain but good that she is textbook.

Sorry for your losses Eli and Jabber.

Eli glad dd is on track for healing, huge hugs to her going through it all and to you too.

AQ great about the sleep and settled twins but very for ds1. I really hope you manage to figure things out soon.

Lennied I keep meaning to say I'm glad you are doing well and enjoying the feeding. Well done for your public ventures, you'll be getting your norks out eveywhere soon!

Dd is actually a bit of a pain for public feeding as she can be very fussy. She really struggles with the let down and spends the first part coughing and spluttering and gulping then she needs to belch like crazy before she will finally, if I'm luck, settle down. At home it is fine I sit with my norks out, a muslin tucked under them to catch the worst of it and she feeds pretty well but tryng to flash a little less flesh while out is trickier and I end up looking like I'm trying to force feed and screaming baby.

Ds seems to be settling down again at night. The past few nights have been better anyway with shorter terrors and last night he slept all night! Dd is doing ok. I have to keep reminding myself that she is doing very well for a not quite 4 week old. She has a cold so last night was very bitty with lots of little feeds but she took them all snuggled up and lying down and fell asleep again as soon as she was done (wouldn't let me roll her back to her bit of the bed though she had to sleep right against me) Otherwise she has been waking anywhere between 11.30 and 1.30 and then around 3. Trouble is she is wide awake after the first feed and can take a couple of hours to fall asleep again then the second one marks the start of her asleep but unsettled period where she needs very frequent shushing before falling abck into proper sleep about when dh's alarm goes off! Still, she is 4 weeks old and at this point with ds I was feeding a gazillion times a night, he would only ever sleep on one of us and I was a zombie surviving on bugger all sleep. Still slightly zombie like though

Indith what are you implying??

Eli - also glad she is textbook, but must be hard to watch and for DD to go through. Not long now though and she'll be through the worst.

Lennied & Indith, sound like good little feeders there! Glad bf in public went well, lennied & that ds is having better nights, indith long may they continue.

Eli, your poor brave little dd but it is so fab that you're seeing results already! Was thinking today that hadn't seen a photo of dd2 now she's a toddler, are you on fb yet?

Have come to conclusion eating so much sugar it was making me low as I stopped entirely when I got sick on Tuesday & feel so much better The dt's seem to be on some sort of mission to feed me into the ground though JUST as I wrote a routine for them argggghh. I think they're admonishing me for using formula quite freely (about 80-90% bf at the moment but I could quite happily bf dd all the time). Wore a glam underwire proper bra out to dinner with dp last night, bliss.

Glad you got a bit more sleep, Indith...zombie-hood is not as cool as its cracked up to be.

AQ, Indith and LenniEd: you all deserve super-glam bras, in recognition, for supplying all that food for those good feeders of yours

Got v upset seeing dd in the bath tonight. She is so, so thin [sob] dh keeps reminding me she will start eating again in a few days, but somehow I've lost trust. She's stopped drinking milk, and that was keeping her going. She's also been in more pain tonight, crying and clutching her ears (its the healing process, but ouch) and is asleep on the sofa. She hates going to bed now.

Sorry, had to get that out, it does get to me

I will upload on FB, AQ, yes have been on for ages but never get on there, IYSWIM...soon, soon.

I keep telling dd1 its all going to be better around here in a few days, so it has to be, right?!

Can totally understand why you would be upset, eli, all we ever want for them is to be happy and healthy and now she's thin & ill . Would love to see photos of your dd's though. From what you said, by Thursday she should be vastly improved and there's no reason to think there's a reaction or anything at this stage is there? Can you plan a family outing/holiday for when she's likely to be better, something for you all to think/talk about (thinking of dd1 here too).

I think I'm going to look at last summer's photos of ds1 to see if he was as thin then, even my mum was shocked when he took his top off yesterday night, his arms are quite wasted away. Asking about a blood test tomorrow hopefully.

Off to slouch in chair reading a lovely bit of rubbish pity I ate all the hot x buns