November 2008 - The Birthdays thread.

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As we will still be on this when the first birthdays roll round.

I'll try and find the list to remind us all.

right, off to watch telly; will catch up properly tomorrow.

Just popping in quickly as supposed to be working

congrats Yorky - what great news! I would love another and went all gooey over small babies when out shopping, but think J may be my one and only. Mind you, he's enough to cope with

off to read up on the rest now.....

Haey all

As usual tooo much to keep up on!

Very quickly...

Bloody hell Ceebs that is a situ and a half.. Can only agree with Pinky's comment.

DoctorsWife I remember all that about your SIL from last time, she sounds like she seriously needs professional help I'm afraid. Best to ignore her behaviour tho eh.

Back asap for another skim... (screaming wains in background!)

Waves to all!!

Congratulations Yorky. This is fab.
First Phee and now Yorky.
Who is next then ladies ?

Bookmarking Happy belated birthday to Choco's M hope he had a lovely day.
congratualtions yorky you are lucky I want another one but just couldnt go through another pregnancy!

ooh! How exciting for Yorky
That will be a really good age gap too, it was what we had hoped for but we got 2yrs and one month instead, which isn't half bad either
Hey has anyone heard from phee recently?
When is she due again?
Hope she is ok, she was saying that she was on the bones of her bum last time she was on. I hope all has improved for her.

I thought those were the stories DW. God she just sounds absolutely awful!!
So what kind of a do have you arranged for DD?

Oh ellie what happened in your pregnancy that would make you say never again?
Sorry I just have the worlds worst memory!

yorky. 18 months is a...cough...splutter...grins maniacally...fantastic age gap

sparkeltoes; good to see you.

Phee is posting the odd comment on FB so she is around. Must try and get a meet up sorted.

flipping heck Ceebee; your sister . Maybe Hamster's party is the best place, as everyone will need to be polite to each other so's not to spoil the occasion. It may just be the best way of breaking the ice. I hope it all works out for your sister though!

bumble still not great, but not bad iyswim...just missy and grizzly. He did seem better earlier today, but his temp spiked to 40 after teatime and he has just been coughing and coughing. He sounds like he smokes 40 woodbines a day, bless him. DD is coming down with it as well now and she is all croaky and gravelly too.

gtg....crimbo pressies to make

ceebee Dont you hate having to try and please everyone, I have people who dont speak and spent years stressing out over it, I got to the stage I invited all of them and told them to behave or leave, I know your situation is different but really feel for you.
twinks on retrospect (ooh get me with the big words) it wasnt so bad, nothing terrible, I had loads of bleeds, constipation, pelvis was playing up, got varicose veins that were sore, was aneamic and DH was away a month at a time oh and a 3 year old that kept me busy lol, but Millies birth was a breeze
daisy what are you making? Hope bumble and DD are better soon I have just felt better today after having a horrible cold that lasted 2 weeks.
Nice to see you back sparkle

Morning lovely laydeez

I need your expertise and opinions on J's potential allergy/intolerance/sensitivity to cows milk please.

He has had a bit of a snotty nose and cough for a week and took him to the Dr on Monday eve who just told me it was in his sinuses and to use steam etc and it would go. So I am doing all that but it is always worse at night when he lays down, so much so that I have raised his matress up at the end. That makes no difference to him as he just camps down the flat end on his tummy but I'm trying everything! For the last 2 nights he seems to get worse after his nightime bottle of milk. I have gone from formula to cows milk gradually and now it's just cows milk. BUT, when he's drunk it, about 15 mins later, he is coughing like a 40 a day smoker and has made himself sick a couple of times He sounds really wheezy and I queried asthma as it's in my family, but the Dr just said his chest was clear and he was fine you can even feel him 'crackling' when you hold him so I'm not convinced.

I am considering taking him back tonight when I get back from work, but would value your opinions/experiences greatly before I become neurotic-first-time-mother-with-pfb-at-dr's-again for the millionth time this year!

Sorry for the 'me' post, and I'll catch up with everyone soon.......

xx

Morning all,

Thanks for the welcome back! I hope to stay in contact more this time - honest!

Oh yeah wonder when Phee is due.. Will need to try looking her up on fb.

I always wanted a short-ish age gap and 2 years seemed right for us. My DH thinks in retrospect it was a bit too short LOL! But of course he wouldn't change it now Tiny is here. I have to say number 2 was a struggle at first I think the sleep deprivation completely clouded my judgement with TIny. However as soon as sleep got sorted (not that long ago haha) it was like a light came on and we all got our lives back and I love the fact that my boys will grow up together.

The one thing I really don't like about it is I feel I am always telling DS1 to be quiet, baby is sleeping or be quiet, Daddy is working (from home). I feel he is somehow missing out on just being a child as he is often told to sssshh! Does anyone else feel same or am I just being neurotic??

Autumn my sister has had an intolerance to cow's milk all her life and it showed itself mainly in her skin (she has eczema and it seemed to worsen it). As your DS has a cold and as milk is a mucus forming food it is probable that it is exacerbating his symptoms a bit? I wouldn't worry about intolerance based on this alone but I am unaware of any other potential symptoms he is experiencing... All in all the symptoms he is experiencing sound like a cold to me (crackling in chest etc). If you are worried about the length of time he has had this and feel it is getting worse I would go back to the doctor in case he needs antibiotics.

Incidentally I often cut down on night time milk a bit when mine have a bad cold as it seems to have a tendency to make them sick!

Hi everyone
yorky huge congratulations. What lovely news. How are you keeping?
choco happy birthday to M for yesterday.
autumnlady I would go back to drs if you are worried, agree with sparkle that it might be the milk exacerbating J's cold but never any harm done by getting dr to listen to his chest again.

DS is full of the cold today so just having a lazy day in house.

Ooh just realised it's almost 11.......

Hi everyone, great to see Sparkle on here

autumn no experience of allergies etc but I hope you crack it. My DD gets really congested when she is teething and she "crackles" too. I raced off to the doc and mine too said the chest was clear, the noise comes from the back of the throat where snot is running down collecting as baby's dont know to cough to clear it, so often they are sick instead! Im not saying thats what J has but just to reassure you that my DD has very similar symptoms but a tooth always appears days after so not to panic xx

Sparks funny because I think, in hindsight, that a 2 year age gap was too long!! If I knew then what I know now, I think we would have started trying a year earlier and gone for a 15/16 month age gap. I think DS1 would have dealt with it SO much better when he was younger (because he wouldn't have been as aware of what was going on iyswim) plus he would still have been having consistent (long) afternoon naps aswell, wouldn't have had to deal with potty training whilst Hamster was a baby etc.

As for telling the older one to shhhh, I think that too sometimes but always try to occupy DS1 when Hamster is asleep (telly baking, colouring, jigsaws etc) to keep him away from upstairs.

Autumn sorry, no advice on the cows milk but maybe wait until J has got over his cold and then see what happens. I reckon I have got enough powder/cartons left for this week then Hamster will be moving lock, stock and barrel onto cows milk!!

choc hope your DS is better soon

Thanks everyone!

DW - I have had that happen in the past and a tooth has popped through, but last night was so much worse than that. It looked as though he was really struggling to breathe for a bit but then it all calmed down. Thanks for answering and hope you're OK

Sparkle - thanks fo telling me that, I really didn't want to jump to conclusions but there seemed to be a link - or I'm clutching at straws more likely - but think you're right about it just exacerbating his condition. He doesn't have any other symptoms luckily.

Thanks to Choc and Ceebee too and think I shall go back to formula until he's a bit better. Have put his immunisations on hold until he's better too.

Gah, I'm rubbish at all this and spend my time at work worrying rather than working

Haey!

Long time no see DocWife!

and daisy

Waves to all my new FB buddies too!!

Really? Ceebee??? Too long?! I think it is prob about right for me really but it is getting easier as DS1 gets older. He can understand/cope with being told he has to be quieter! I do all the baking/colouring/reading stuff when DS2 has his pm nap but it does sometimes feel that I am always telling DS1 to ssshh! I guess tho DS2 will grow out of naps too and I'll still be telling them to sssh!! (for different reasons!).

I have always thought tho that there are reasons for and against any age gap! Two is def much harder than one tho!! That much is true. Is lovely when they play together tho . Then I feel very lucky to have them..

Autumn you are completely normal, worrying comes with the territory and does not mean you are rubbish at all! Hope your baba gets better soon. (fwiw food allergies/intolerances rarely seem to manifest themselves in the patient being immediately sick. More likely to exacerbate another prob i.e. exczema or cause persistent weight loss/pale and offensive bowel motions etc. If he is otherwise thriving I wouldn't worry too much but as his mum you will know if something isn't quite right.) Tinytoes is immediately sick if he eats strawberries or oranges but think they are just too acidic for him just now.

Hello

We have the dreaded Swine Flu here. JOY. Just sent DH to get DS's prescription- the centres to collect it from are not exactly local.

aGE GAPS. Well they are kind of what they are, pros and cons to each. Just under 18 months between my first two, 2 years between the girls. I started too late for big age gaps. I don't regret it I'm finding §things much easier now. Especiallly now my standards are sufficiently low!

Oh no Pinky, hope he gets well very soon xx

Sending get well wishes to the pinky household.
I got my SF jab on Monday after much thought.

Have dosed DS up with calpol and got the olbas oil ready. Fingers crossed for tonight!

for the swine flu pinky.

What are the symptoms? maybe that's what's wrong with bumble? He is still spiking a temp of 39.5 which we are barely managing to keep down with calpol and ibuprofen. Wondering whether he needs the doc again? He was eating well until today, but has been off his food since lunchtime...which is definately NOT like him

We'll see how he is in the morning, as his cough seems a bit better and he isn't quite as rattly as he was.

DW on the asthma, I've had moments where I thought mine were bad but was told they were fine. Also, in little ones it tends to present as a really dry cough (especially at night) rather than a wheezy rattle that you would get in older children.

he is off to bed wearing a new fleece nappy cover....pic on profile; tis very cute

sorry for missing anyone....

What is that you're knitting daisy
I have put J into a disana wool wrap and it is just fab!
I want more, but I want to make my own cos a tenner a pop is pricey I think?

I think I may have been a bit bad.
DH and I are struggling this month cos the month his colegue died DH couldn't do any overtime. This is the month that that awful wage is hitting us hard.
I have been chasing someone for a long time for some money she was due me, through her aunt.
It was a bodyshop party were I ordered something but I never got it. Christmas special, £16 worth of cream.
I met her in the street not long after to be scowled at and told that the item was out f stock. I asked her if she would let me know when it came back in stock.
Months and months passed so I asked her aunt, she said she would check. Yet more months passed so I said lets see if it comes in this christmas.
Heard not a word.
Got preggers with DS and it went out of my mind.
The lady got married and got pregnant herself.
So here we are nearly 2yrs later. I am skint and I think hang on a mo, she can't just think ach, it has been so long I won't bother anymore.
Putting me of and putting me of.
So I popped a note on bebo, to her aunt, saing that I never did get my money and I wonder if the cream is on special this christmas.
She, the aunt, turned up at my door today with an envelope.
I said that her niece must be bad mouthing me, she said 'ach, I wouldn't worry'

Now I feel like I shouldn't have done it.
I like the aunt and the girls mum, but, you know, I just felt that the daughter was taking the mickey.
It was an impulse to put it on public comment on bebo cos I was fed up with getting nothing out of doing it on the quiet.

Was I a prize twit!?

At the minute I'm knitting some longies but am stuck on the gusset/starting the legs. I have a thread and everything! But, I think I have figured it out now. Whether it will look any good once finished is another story though

Can't tell you what else I'm making for crimbo though

Absolutely not Twinks! She sounds like a total twunt.

So envious of the knitters.. must re-learn that skill!

Hey all,
pinky hope your DS is better soon.
chocgal when did you get it and has anyone had any side effects?? Just wondering as I want to get mine next week?
Yorky I havent had an email to say who to buy for yet, I had a conformation email from Mr Yorky but nothing else yet I didnt want to bug you yesterday with your lovely newshope your feeling well.
twinks no not a twit why should someone think its ok to take money?
I have 7 sleeps till DH is home I cant wait!

meant to say good for you twinks. Now if only I had the bottle to keep pestering my DB for the £400 he borrowed from me five years ago and still hasn't paid back . I only ask him for it a couple of times a year!

yorky big congrats to you and your family. How are you feeling? when is your due date??
dw sorry, it may have been said already, haven't had time to read everything, but the reaction to the milk - could it be a reaction to having the cold rather than a general reaction? I know you're supposed reduce the amount of milky things you give to kids of any age if they have a bad cold as it just gets caught in the phlegm(sorry!!) and congests them up even more.
twinks it's a pet hate of mine to be in debt to someone else or them to me. I hate it because it can cause all sorts of bad feelings and guilt for mentioning it etc etc. But I totally agree you were right to do it, you cant just "forget" a debt, because chances are, noone actually does forget.

Sympathies too to chocgal daisy and everyone else with DC's with colds etc. I am especially sympathetic tonight as M has come down with his first proper cold. I know I'm lucky to get this far with him, but he was off form yesterday evening and so I knew something was up, although he had no temperature and was eating etc. Anyway, this morning he seemed ok but I'm not joking he must have sneezed about 40 times during the course of the morning. He went for a nap around 11.30, but woke after only and hour, he normally would have 2 hours or so. So I sat him up for his dinner, as I did so, he did the most enormous SNEEZE and these two HUUUUUUUUGE candlesticks of snot (sorry again!!) appeared out of his nose.
Cue lots of crying (from him obviously, not me)and since then he has been snotting and whingeing and sneezing and crying ever since. Gaaahh! I know I'm not going to get much sleep tonight. I haven't given him any Calpol yet, as he doesn't seem to be hot, but he is clearly suffering. Oh well, hopefully it will pass quickly.

Sorry, don't know why I did that graphic account of M's cold as though i'm the only parent who has had a child with a cold oops!!

Should be labelling stuff for our local NCT sale on Saturday really. Toys and equipment. Can't be bothered to do the labelling though. I have it all out on the rug ready to do, it's been there for the last hour. The thing is, I got it all out last night too, it sat there until 11.30pm untouched, and then I put it back in the bags again. Can't do the same tonight!!!

Oh, just though, sorry to go on about ityorky, but I still have heard nothing about the SS.

Right. hi to all. Am off to label (yeah right)
xx