April 2009 - Chapter 6 - The one where Nutty reappears and the babies eat FOOD!

[Swaliswan]

I hope that this will do you all as the last thread ran out.

Let the fun and chocolate eating commence...

hello people
theyre taking our power out for a whole day tomorrow. However will I cope without the net (not to mention we dont have gas etc)

feier- good news that its something that can be sorted though cxrap shes suffered unnecessarily.

Hospital still hasn't rung so am going to set my gp on them as theyr emy point of contact. My aunt (was a nurse/sister ) for 35 years said I could set her on them if needs be. Its not getting bigger but is getting worse as its getting rubbed and caught and shes finding it sore. I'm seriously angry so will have to phone them tomorrow from my mobile (no phone of course)

Has anyone else not started weaning yet?

Hey this may sound familiar-

I ordered our new carpets, I paid for them from my own account. They arrive with everything labelled up for MR Bronze ahhh

Poor Nia, I hope your gp kicks some arse. Not on.

I haven't started weaning yet either. She's not showing any signs of being especially hungry. She does seem interested in us eating but then she seems interested in everything going on around her so i'm not sure it's significant. My baby is growing up too quickly as it is.

i've not started weaning.

and i'm sad tonight. H is still poorly, green napies till and when i weighed him today he hadn't put on any weight despite me feeding him every hour this week. He's started waking up in the night again screaming and refusing to be settled without milk. and because i'm so worried about him not getting enough to eat i can't refuse him. Have to go to work tommorow and have only managed to express 2 sodding feeds, so DP will have to give him formula and i feel so bad him having to have that before i can be sure he hasn't got a tummy infection. just fed him back to sleep the now, and the boob i wasn't feeding on started leaking. so i camr through to express, hopefully , but not a bloody drop in the bag

pah

Feeling alot perkier since the migraine thanks. Visited the Arabian wildlife centre yesterday, and M was really drawn to the lizards and the flamingos. Of course it was all for her benefit, watching DH feed the donkeys and camels in the children's petting zoo.

Frekkles, easy to say but try not to worry, has he been especially active this week? I find sometimes M's weight stays the same when she's been really busy.

Bronze, no I haven't started weaning yet either, though avidly reading everything blw related. Technically should start around 5 Oct I guess, though friends say what's a couple of weeks... Let me know when you start.
That's nothing, I get called Mrs Tony (DH's first name) or 'ma'am' whenever I call any service centre here. Never Jane, never Mrs surname. It's just a Philippino quirk that's stuck.

Gui gl at the weigh-in, and for the pumping. Maybe the change in nappy contents is just his gut adjusting to new textures? Avocado should make it more interetsing

Feier, hoorah for the diagnosis and ABs

Auld - Yes Dubai has pretty much everything, we have Carrefour, Geant, Auchan and Waitrose hypermarkets so lots of scrummy imported French comfort foods like confit de canard, comte, and sirop de grenadine, though I do miss the likes of chestnuts, blackcurrants and elderberries .
My food miles tally must be horrific, but I couldn't live on local produce alone - a diet of dates and tomatoes anyone???

Jumeira is a stretch of beach, next to which one of the 3 palms juts into the sea. It's a bit crowded for the number of millionaire's mansions there though, more fool those footballers who bought there. DH works as architect on one of the 5*+ hotels being built there. Where we live is much nicer

Don't even get me started on recycling - there is no national scheme, I feel guilty about every little bit of plastic, glass and paper that we chuck down the rubbish chute. Apart from re-usable jute bags in the supermarkets which I suspect is the French influence, it's just not in the collective concsiousness to take personal responsibility to be green.

I agree Auld, aren't these giggles fabulous, babies really share the joke now, and sometimes even start them

Can you tell I'm bored? Well no-one else was up to stop me boring entertaining you with my expat ramblings . See y'all later.

And still GRRRRRRRR at NHS delays for you Bronze.

Good morning everyone. Now how to get antibiotics into a baby who absolutely doesn't want them? We have a syringe but Hazel is very good at spitting it all out again

Oh Bronze how frustrating. Poor Nia. I hope your GP can kick some arse.

No weaning here either. Hazel is only 5 months after all.

Oh Bronze how frustrating. Poor Nia. I hope your GP can kick some arse.

No weaning here either. Hazel is only 5 months after all.

Does anyone else's baby sing? H is next door in her cot and sounds like a budgie

Felix sings. He has done so since about 3 months. It's really sweet! Very tuneless though.

Frekkles, can I tentatively suggest a teensy bit of baby rice or baby porridge mixed with EBM, to see what happens to your little man? It shouldn't do too much damage even if his tummy is a smidgin upset (which is unlikely with a bf baby, tbh). But from what you're describing it sounds like he's hungry! (Made this mistake with Felix - ignored the signs). The WHO things are just a guide, and the most important indicator is your baby's behaviour, I reckon.

Feier, so glad a paed saw H. Very relieved you got proper medical advice at last. GPs aren't perfect!

All, do you think it would be silly to give Felix yet another name as a baptismal name? There's a family one that needs using up, so to speak, but I am aware he is already over-named, somewhat. That having been said, there is the Hungarian proverb that a child with lots of names is greatly loved ....

Frekkles - da Boff's advice sounds good to me. Worth a try?

WFH - do you use baby porridge for Orbit, or just share the grown-up stuff with him?

When would a baptismal name be used?
In Nigeria, everyone (friends, family etc) gives new babies a name each, so people end up with dozens of names!

Apologies for lack of clarity. Brain ache.

Also, random question for speakers of other languages. When a non-native speaker gets their der/die/das le/la etc wrong, how does it sound? I mean, does it actually make little difference to the sense? Is it funny? Does it sometimes change meaning entirely?

Gui - it still makes sense, but does sound funny. Back at school I had a friend whose mum was English. Her pronunciation was perfect, her grammar was perfect most of them time but occasionally she'd get the gender wrong. It really outed her as a non native speaker!

So guess what - now I have got this skin infection as well. Only one nasty boil so far, which has burst, but my god it's painful and unpleasant. The skin around it is hot and red and I'm now on the same ABs as Hazel. Poor thing. I now know how she must be feeling. It's amazing she's stayed so cheerful! Just wondering how I can prevent the rest of the family from getting it.

Frekkles, have you not had the results of H's sample back?

Feier, it sounds positively medieval in your house, all these pustules and so on!

I am told I sound quite posh in German but get small things wrong, so strangers just think I am a bit fick, and my family just clutch their sides and snort with laughter.

My most frequent error is to describe warm, rather close weather as being homosexual. Oh how I laugh when I realise I have done this yet again.

It's a minefield. Now I just pretend I am not German at all but just a truly clever English person who learned German at school.

I also:

Describe people who have come to a sorry end whilst at sea as being drunk rather than drowned.

Call storms "ThunderLightenings"

And very many other apparently hilarious verbal tics as well.

However in revenge I do enjoy trying to get German family members saying things like "Squirrel" which is so funny to listen to you would almost die laughing.

Ah Boff, those mistakes are easily made . DH can't hear the difference between u and ue.

Rather worryingly, when dd1 speaks German, she does so with an English accent. She's got particular trouble with the German R. Auld, any similar observations with ds1?

Boff... can you say Streichholzschaechtelchen?

Feier - you probably need to do all the stuff like not sharing any towels with the rest of the family etc, keeping any bed linen/ clothes from the infectees separate etc.

Oh yes, and you need to paint a big red cross on your front door

But dd1 comes into our bed in the morning? It is truly medieval Boff, I agree. Like having the Plague!

Ha ha.

Also, shall we do secret santa? Is anyone keen? Is anyone horribly averse?

NotNecessarilyVolunteeringToOrganiseGui xx

I'm thinking that assuming it's a staphylococcal infection, like impetigo, it is horribly contagious! Have a Google of infection-control measures.

Thing is, H has had it for 3 weeks (I believe) and we haven't all caught it so far.

Off to do a 90 degree wash...

Good point!

Perhaps yours purely coincidence?