The one where they put their best feet forward

[Soph73]

There you go Ellie

Hey all -busy yesterday and people were very selfish in demanding my time and interrupting my MNing!

sal - how's R's rash? If he doesn't seem to bad is probably post viral - does it blanch when pressed? Does it look like tiny tiny red spots?

soph - sorry to hear you have such a dilemma. Do you and your DH speak spanish well? Can Sam be brought up speaking Spanish, maybe attend Spanish-speaking school if you want to stay there?

Ladybee thank you ever somuch for the book, will havea leaf through later but looks great- very much appreciated!

Manicday here- dh's birthday (his Mum remembered! [shock- £20 annd a card! I knew he was underestimating her (*), our anniversary and this morning we went to look at the new schoo: only 10 kids ina class, Harry will love it. Had coffee at the celtic manor afterwards, and maybe lunch but some prat hit DH's car at work (3 in as many months,they enver tell so CCTV and police getting involved now) so he'srunning it over for a quote.

DH's dad did forget his birthday- can I add him to the knobber men list please? Ta

Happy birthday Mr Peachy!

Happy Bday to Mr Peachy, its my baby sisters birthday too (19, grrrrr)

Got Mimi weighed today she is 21.9lbs and 78cms high. Eeeek. She so beautiful

IKWYM about the day time one - yes its 5 hours from Mimi extra but its day so i still get my evenings and she wont even care anyway, will she??? plus i get a lunchbreak

didn't do painting last night. had discussion chat with dh about our new sofa which the KNOBBER measured wrong and now its going to overhang our radiator by about 2 inches. i am fucked off as it will now have to stick out past it and its just as you come in the room. hoping maybe the cushion will squash up or summit. I checked it last night - i knew i should have measured it, but, no Knobbers reign. Knobber

Just quickly to say, had the cvs, it was horrid! All done now but up to 3 week wait for results pls keep yopur fingers crossed for me. Had the most amazing scan prior to the cvs and now I feel so sad it may not happen . Positive thinking tho! So bloody painful, I would never recommend. Sorry gardbled message but at work. Just didn't want u thinking i was dead when i saw my name mentiomned!

paranoid - glad scan was good. Why mioght it not happen? You had an alive baby thats great! I guess because you are worried about some issues arent you. Heres to keeping our fingers crossed!

YEAH ONLY COS OF TJHE TEST RESULTS PLUS THE PROCEDURE CAN CAUSE A MISCARRIAGE. i JUST SO PRAY RESULTS ARE GOOD.
oopsy caps!
sorry I know I sound down and i'm really really not! Just nervy nervous!!! Plus its killing me not telling people.
PS. didn't go to my usual hosp after how shit they have been in the past. Went to UCH and may I just say I would recommend a billion times over. They were sensational! Now there's a word I don't use very often!

help me, I'm dying

ok, slightly melodramatic but I've been laid up with diarrhoea all day and right now have horrible cramping stomach. Have just taken two immodium, the leaflet said not to if breastfeeding, but I couldn't feed DS properly before bed as I think I'm a bit dehydrated, DP ended up having to make him a bottle which he devoured. If I can get some rest tonight hopefully it'll have left my system by the morning.
Anyone got any great tips? This morning before it came on all I could think was 'goodness, I feel pregnant' as the queasiness was exactly the same as morning sickness...then it hit me that being pregnant with another baby is not going to be a box of birds, so kudos again to all your mummies who have already done it.

Paranoid - fingers crossed about the procedure and the results, just try to take it one day at a time and those three weeks will pass.

Ladybee you need some dioralyte too

paranoid mummy

Ladybee you need some dioralyte too

Peachy, do you know where I'd find that website which can give you an indicator of whether your child has ASD? You know the one where you fill out an online questionaire? SIL just rang me to say that one of her ds's teachers thinks he might have Aspergers or something similar and tbh I have often thought the same myself about her ds but didn't say anything as I knew he had had Ed Psych assessments in the past. But the assessments seem to have been very hit and miss and I know that my own ds1 was initially misdiagnosed through the system here.

EdPSychs are often crap.

the test here

beware; it does seem to flag up autism but the severity is hit and miss:I probably do have some level of AS but test indicates I have quite severe disability and tbh, you'd think i'd have noticed by now LOL

It is a good indiocator though

Oh poor ladybee - no suggestions apart from take sips of water, little and often. Also - coke (full fat) is good for replacing lost fluids. They say to let it go flat but I drink it fizzy, through a straw, whenever I have a gippy tummy and it works a treat.

paranoidmummy - will be keeping my fingers crossed for you too x

peachy did that test on what I knew of my Dad (you can't answer some of them for someone else so erred on side of caution) - he scored 40. Hmmm. There are levels of 'function' though aren't there - I know there would be no point to a diagnosis for him, or even raising it as an issue, but I do think if someone had done it as a child, and he and others around him had been aware of it throughout his life he could have been really helped. Poor Dad. Am glad I am moving downstairs from him so I can make sure no one else takes him for a ride as he gets older.

'Lo everyone.

Ladybee, I'm always going for the flat Coke (if I feel really really bad, add quarter teaspoon salt to Coke) and dry toast with very thin Bovril on it. I remember one very unfortunate day in France over Christmas, when both dh and myself had it at the same time - feeling that we can't even get up on our own, never mind deal with a little one! So all my sympathies!

Roelof's rash worse today - he's very red all over. I'm slightly panicking that it might be measles. Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning.

Actually, I now think it's this.

My brother had that when he was little. Poor child used to catch everything going! But IIRC he was only ill for a couple of days

Thanks for that Peachy!

That's good to hear. I'm so tired of all this - I swear Roelof catches every single illness going. Can't even remember when last he was not ill for longer than a week at a time...

Sal i'd like to say it gets better, but 7 years on and DD1 still gets everything going.

Oh no Denny, really?? I don't know whether I can do another child just yet (as in this century), this is so hard sometimes. I'm sure this is supposed to be a picnic, surely.

i think you just get used to it, DD1 was a definate shock to the system for us but you r just more resigned to it the next time. Plus your working quite a few hours which always makes sick children more stressful as you then hav to worry about childcare and missing time off work.

am off 4 a bath and bed, night

Thanks for kind words Denny. Feeling a little tearful tonight. Silly, I know.

Good night.

Another poorly baby here.
Panda is soo ill.
Huge temp, has been vomiting everything except breastmilk up for the last three days, and now is bringing that up too.
His whole body is convulsing
Off to doc soon.