Tink poor dd. They do get so tired when they first start school. Were you intending to drive up and stay over at ILs or try and get there and back in a day? We do 4 and a half hours to my sister's house and back in the same day occasionally, but it is exhausting and even though the dcs all sleep in the car it takes them a good few days to get over it.
The problem is, if you go the first weekend she will overtired and depleted to start with (although she would have the rest of the week to recover) and if you go later in the week after she's had time to rest, she'll be exhausted again before she goes back to school.
To be honest, thinking back to my boys first term at school and how tired they were, I would tend towards the first half term holiday being a quiet restful time at home, an opportunity to recharge batteries and fill up on Mummy time. As I remember it, both my boys were so relieved to be home with me all day and not have to get up go to school every day.
MissJ congratulations on the job. Dd still feeds pretty much every three hours as well, occasionally four, but we only get a four hour gap once a day generally speaking. Does he take both sides? If not, you could feed him off one side and then express off the other? If you start expressing at a regular time which you think will be possible to keep up when you are working now, your milk supply will adjust and you should be fine to leave him a bottle every day. Dd doesn't take anything but water from a cup yet, but she does take the occasional bottle of ebm.
As long as you pack the frozen ebm in a cool box with plenty of ice blocks and keep it away from the heater in the car you should be fine taking it with you. If you are worried, you can buy cool boxes from camping shops that you can plug into the lighter socket on your car, so they are actively kept cool as well.
Gumps sorry you are still ill. Are the antibiotics for a chest infection? I'm starting to think ds1 might need some to see of the horrible cough he has. Could you possibly reduce the night feed by dropping half an ounce/an ounce a night so that he needs less and less to settle him? At least that way it would be a gradual change rather than a sudden loss of comfort.
I have just come back from my ultrasound appointment where I was told I definitely have gallstones. I now have to do some research on gallbladder removal ops and decide if I want to go ahead. The consultant said in 99% of cases they advise removal if they find gallstones via ultrasound. I am seeing the consultant again on 24 November so have a bit of time to weigh it all up.
I have also just had to book ds2 into the eye hospital as he isn't producing enough tears again and is complaining of sore eyes. Insterestingly, it was the same time last year that we had these problems and I'm wondering if when the heating gets switched on in the Autumn, it causes the few tears he has to dry up.
The problem is, last year they wanted him to have the fake teardrops put in every 2-3 hours which means me going down to the school every lunch time to do it. We come home from the hospital appointments with a carrier bag literally full of boxes of drops and last time he ended up having 10 drops per eye a day, plus false tears in both eyes every 2-3 hours. Its a nightmare, because he really hates having eye drops put in. I had to tell them I simply couldn't do it last year as being heavily pregnant I physically couldn't wrestle with him while I got them in. If we don't do it though the lack of tears means that his eyelids scrape the sclera of the eye and this could cause permanent scarring and seriously damage his eyesight. He already has sort of dimples/pits in the slera that none of the specialists have been able to explain, their best 'guess' is that it might have been caused by a virus at some point.