Evening
Pat, sorry to hear you are poorly. There is a sickness thing doing the rounds at our school at the moment as well. Re the meeting up, the 15th is dh's birthday so no good for me. Could do the 19th in theory, but would need enough notice for dh to book the day off. Where were we thinking of for this meet up?
Lenni - CATs? Nah prefer dogs meself. Sorry, yes I have set myself up for CATs, I think. Have discussed seeing the homeopath with DH, but will have to hang on for the end of Feb when he gets his quarterly bonus. In the meantime, I am trying to help myself more by getting out when I have the opportunity, trying to eat more healthily and checking myself when I am putting everyone else first unnecessarily. I am feeling better so far, lets hope I can keep it up.
Books, check you with your swanky new hardware! Dd seems to be improving. No tears at all today when Mum came to visit (although the boys were home as it was after school). I was able to leave the room to make the coffees and she pretty much played on the floor the whole time. Wooohhooooo!!!
She was also great at the other mum's house this morning. Quite happily cruised around the room taking toys up to the other two mums and chattering away to them. I'm quietly hopeful that we might be coming out of the velcro baby stage.
Another good thing is that my sister is coming to stay for the weekend as dh will be away at his black tie do. I'm hoping that her staying for a couple of days will help get dd used to her, as she is fantastic with and 'usually' universally loved by babies and toddlers.
Glad dd had a nice birthday. Cake photos please!
Grr to absent husbands. Must be something in the air. Dh is off again at the weekend and my DSD just text Mum to tell her he won't be home tomorrow as he has to fly to Germany with work for a few days. (He's never had to go abroad with work before, let alone for several days.)
My poor niece is in a bad way, turns out she had Strep B and that's why she was suffering a lot of low abdo an leg pain and total exhaustion during the later stages of her pregnancy. They completely missed it and kept giving her abs for water infections despite the tests coming back negative. She now has a bad infection in one breast, which was their prior to the birth (poor lass is determined to breastfeed, despite being only 18 and the only one of her friends who is) a uterine infection, infected stitches (episiotomy), Strep Throat and an ear infection and they STILL haven't swabbed the baby (he was born on the 14th)! Despite all that the midwife and hv have been non-existent and her partner is being a complete a*se, refusing to do any housework and won't cook so only buys takeaways which have given the baby colic. My heart goes out to the poor girl. She is such a good loving mum and is so young to be going through all this. I am going to visit on Thursday and will take a box of fruit, some healthy food, vits and minerals, tea tree oil and bath soak and some other goodies for her. Anyone got any other good ideas on what I could take. I'm hoping she'll let me have the baby for a couple of hours while she sleeps, she's exhausted poor thing.