October 08 - Toddling round the Christmas tree & Ooooing at the lights!

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10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz
28th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

Oh no Myjob! Do you think it's the winter vomiting bug that's going round? Some friends of ours all spent Christmas together and they all went down with it except one.

Oh dear, it does sound like a bug is going round your household myjob. Fingers crossed that you and dh manage to escape it.

Has anyone got exciting plans for new year btw?

Typical I miss an evening and you spend it talking about my favourite thing. FOOD.

Myjob have you ever been tested for a wheat intolerance? Or Ceoliacs? You describing how pasta etc made you feel rang a few bells in my long redundant brain.

I bet you would all struggle to cook for my lot.
The girls will not eat;
Mince, Tomatoes, Onions, Mushrooms, Steak, Chicken Thighs, sauce of any kind including gravy(H), Spicy (any strong flavour G), Pulses, Brown pasta/rice,DH, Lentils Me, wind issues, Mash Potato.

A normal dinner in the Ronshar house will include home made chips cooked in oven with Olive oil, Lamb chops, Pork chops, fish either boiled or breaded by me, roast pots of varing sizes, Lamb Shanks are a favourite of all of us. I cook, shepard pie/Bolognaise as a separate meal for DH & myself as well.
Luckily we all eat alot of fruit and the girls will eat most veg. W is easy, put food in front of him and he will eat it.

Thats why I hate cooking in this house. They are all boring!!

The 17th of January. OOO go on Jenwa. Its not that far really. Just to the very edge of the country
Pistachio can you give us some notice when you are next down for a NCT thingy and we will come to you.

Bollocks. You see I should have picked up on that too Ronshar. I know a fair bit about wheat intolerance (but not Celiac disease so much) but it didn't click. I don't feel sick when I have wheat (after avoiding it, I tend to build up an immunity & a huge gut when I eat it regularly) but I do get horribly painful stomach craps, terrible wind and a runny bottom. I am aware that people with Celiac disease suffer from malabsorption of nutrients and significant weight loss if they eat gluten but that's all I know.

Myjob - It might be worth seeing a nutritionist.

I love brown rice with soup. Yummy! I don't like bread much but will occasionally eat a sandwich (and no, it's not about carbohydrates... I eat plenty of carbs).
Definitely see a nutritionist, myjob. Your GP can refer you, I think. I used to have quite serious eating issues and seeing a nutritionist is quite helpful. It doesn't solve anything, of course, but it helps to get some advice as well as diagnose anything like ronshar suggests with wheat intolerance.
My computer has a nasty virus I'm on DH@s computer while he sleeps. Need to get that sorted today. yuck.

A friend of mine has recently been diagnosed with Ceoliacs (sp?). She was feeling dreadful for ages beforehand and had terrible, terrible skin that was itching and breaking out so she looked like she'd got really bad sunburn. She was in hospital for a week because she lost so much weight. But she's been feeling generally unwell and had skin problems pretty much since I've known her. Definitely worth getting checked out Myjob. Even if it's just to rule anything out, as you've not been well a lot recently have you.

Ronshar - I'm so glad I don't have to cook in your house. It sounds like nightmare trying to accommodate everyone.

DP was a very fussy eater when I first met him. His mum has a very difficult relationship with food, and hates cooking so he'd grown up eating a narrow variety of meals and being scared of certain foods (e.g strawberries!). He's much much better now, and cooks quite a lot but it's taken a long time.

No plans for tonight. I think we've still got the ingredients for martinis in the cupboard from last year , so may well have a couple of those, Otherwise I think it'll be light the fire and watch a dvd. Rock and roll.

watch out for apc protect. If it comes up on your computer it claims to be an antivirus programme. It's not. It's a rogue av programme that just keeps getting worse! I ignored it and it just kept invading... and now I think I've got it under control but who knows. ugh. I have Mcafee, too.

Sorry about the illness, myjob. Sounds awful.

Ronshar how do you deal with all of those dietary needs/dislikes??

we have no plans for tonight. We watched inkheart last night because it was 1 pound in the family section of blockbuster - Q LOVES blockbuster . It was surprisingly OK.

I made some chocolate no bake cookies after trying them a few weeks ago. Basically oats sugar and cocoa. Not healthy inthe slightest but they are yummy and I made them very small. They are not for Q. he has organix animal biscuits. oh yeah, and choc coins when he can find them!

I thought cheese was good for kids?? No?? (if not dairy free kids of course!)

Did someone say that cheese wasn't good for them star? It's high in salt, but other than that fairly good (as long as they aren't overweight kids obv, as it's also high in fat).

You should get a mac - virtually no viruses try to infect them .

I would like a mac. I have a mac at work, but can't afford one at home at the moment. They are SO MUCH BETTER than my stupid dell!

I just thought it was odd that cheese seemed to be something that was sort of avoided when I was quickly reading this morning.

Q had a toasted cheese and spinach sandwich for lunch yesterday

He is a chubby, but does like cheese. Actually he pudged right out when we gave him "growing up milk" for a week and slimmed down a bit (well, for him...) when we stopped giving him that. interesting.

Why star? That sounds like a well balanced lunch - carbs, protein, and a very good veg . As well as being easy to make, which gives it bonus points! You know I've never thought to put spinach in a cheese toastie - I'm going to try ds with that once he can have cheese himself. Do you put it in raw or cook it first?

That sounds like a great lunch to me Star. S won't eat spinach. He just lets it drop out of his mouth in disgust.

Children need a lot more fat than we do. It sounds like you're feeding Q a very balanced diet.

The daughter of a very good friend of mine was severely anorexic to the extent that she was living in a centre for children with anorexia for a couple of years, on and off. It was very interesting to hear the centre director's views on the "good" food vs "bad" food and body image imposed on children by us adults. Of course, so much of anorexia is not really about the food at all, but other underlying issues, but it was very interesting nonetheless.

Bugger - ds woke up v early (for him) this morning, and has now woken from his nap after less than an hour, and obviously still tired, but we're struggling to resettle him properly (have even fed him!). We NEED him to sleep more or plans for tonight will be ruined! We're doing the grown up dinner at the time that he normally goes to bed, so we need him to stay up later and cheerfully!

Myjob - Happily she is now a well-balanced young woman. She still careful about what she eats- and I think that may stay with her for ever- but thanks to the treatment she received and the monumental efforts of her mum, she seems very happy now.

Great news about ds. You definitely sound like you need a few things to cheer you up.

lol - I was wondering why your dh has a GirlFriend then myjob, before I worked out that you meant grandfather!

Well done B. P has been practising her writing a lot lately - she managed to sign her and ds' name in some cards this other day, with me only doing the U in ds' for her. I was also very proud .

Just briefly commenting but haven't read through properly... at self.

Star - I said I avoid cheese for M as even that seems to give her bottom issues now! Nothing wrong with it for normal toddlers.

Aubergenie - Anorexia never goes, it is always there in the back of your mind. Some former anorexics end up overeating as the relationship with food isn't fixed, just the control is broken down. Only a tiny percentage of the young girls who have suffered from eating disorders go on to have a healthy relationship with food. It's not fun, I have no idea what a normal person eats in a day & have no idea how people let their guard down at Christmas then get on with life the next day. For me it is either a disaster and I spend the rest of the Christmas period barely eating and feeling really guilty, or I see it as a huge failure & stuff my face as I don't deserve to be happy. Ah, such fun! I will do everything I can to hide all this from M as I want her to have a healthy relationship with food, like her father.

Pistachio - I think that my issues stem from my best friend's issues when we were at school. I spent most of my teenage years being told I was fat and hideous by my best friend so I doubt it's a surprise that I have food and self esteem issues. Ho hum. I ahve always thought that my family back ground had nothing to do with my eating problems but my brother is very skinny and tries very hard to stay that way.