October 08 - New Year, New Thread.

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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
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) - 50ft - 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

Star, that sounds awful. I hope Q had a better night and is brighter this morning? Did you get any sleep?

CSWS, I didn't realise you'd reintroduced dairy. Is it just for you, or is D getting some in his food as well? Sadly I suppose that with the GD you can't enjoy a sneaky bar of chocolate? I've put on weight since I started eating dairy again . Sorry to hear D is grumpy, what teeth does he have to get - could it be molars? Dd was awful to be with when she was getting them. How is your dd now? Has she settled down - I remember you saying she was being hard work after you told her the news?

50ft, ouch. I suppose that you could just get an early night every third night . Not much help I admit, but I've no idea how you get them to sleep through, its been pure luck with both my two. Since I stopped bf M he has slept through . Sadly dd has started waking 2-3 times a night, grrrrrr! You just can't win.

My cm's son is ill so I can't offload my poor kids on her today. And dh didn't get home from work till 2am, but didn't answer my messages when I asked where he was, so I didn't get to sleep till he got in. Despite that I'm feeling much more awake than yesterday . Though I have the coffee on standby!

hmmm, in considering childminders, is that what's done if they or their kids are ill? Do they usually have emergency cover? Like a replacement or is it just like a snow day from school?

Star, to be honest, if they are dealing with working mums then they usually have some sort of emergency cover (at least all the ones round here do) but my agreement with our cm is that she shouldn't worry for me as I'm not working so my kids don't NEED to be there. Its just a luxury really to give me a day to be lazy get things done (well it will be when M is going there for a full day).

How did Q sleep? Have the abx kicked in?

My brother has just come home from visiting my SIL and her vile husband. He reports that SIL's husband is an arse, and my brother is the most objective person I know and definitely not prone to exaggerating things. My SIL is the only one of the two of them working however..... he does NOTHING to help around the house. He sits on his gargantuan arse all day playing Warcraft while my poor, now pregnant, SIL does the cooking, the cleaning, the shopping, the washing, the dishwasher, walks the dogs etc etc. Not only does he sit and do nothing, he also verbally abuses her and is shockingly rude to her too! DH doesn't know whether to mention something to his parents but seeing as they are the 'golden' couple in their eyes I doubt they'll believe it. My SIL lies to us that he helps out but her best buddies said the same after a visit to her last Christmas. I want to go and kick his backside but know it's not really any of my business. Gui if you're reading.... doesn't sound good does it?

Star - Soooo glad that Q is a little better today. Such a big relief for you. Hope the abs work their magic quickly & you get your little boy back soon.

Ekka - You're not the only one who's said that their baby slept through once they stopped bfing. MamaG said BabyG started sleeping through when he stopped. M seems to want to stop her evening feed, but then changes her mind t the last minute! She asks to go to bed rather than asking for milk, but then when I pick her up she starts desperately asking for milk. It's like she wants to stop but isn't quite ready to let it go.

I have stopped M eating dairy completely as her bottom is still very unpleasant. She's not currently teething so it's not that and dairy is the only thing I can think of. Unless of course she has my wheat issue too. Hrumph! Maybe I'll try her wheat free for a couple of weeks and see if that helps. Ahhh..... maybe she's having too much whole wheat. Since she turned one she has only been having whole wheat which, thinking about it, is probably too much for her little tummy. Oooops! Maybe I'll gswap some whole wheat for the processed shit stuff and see how we go.

M is currently standing in the window, dancing and trying to take her clothes off. It's just a good job that the red Christmas lights have been put away. I had such high hopes for her.......

LOL 50ft I also liked reading your conversastion with yourself about the dairy/wheat... you really talked yourself through that one nicely
Q didn't sleep so well last night but slept quite well this morning. He's up now and dancing to that lame cbeebies winter song.... It's taken a while for him to warm to it. Its the lamest one they've had yet. And winter is so long!! blah.
I'm happy Q is dancing, though, he keeps crawling into my lap and cuddling up but at least he'll play for a few minutes at a time.

Star. Sorry I missed the crisis yesterday. It sounds like you had a very good doctor at the hospital. I love doctors who ask for second opnions. It shows they arent arrogant pigs who think they know best.
50ft was right about the platelet count. I dont want to scare you further but it is also a marker for Leukemia. But dont worry because if there was even a small chance that Q had it then you would still be at the hospital. Doctors very rarely take chances with little ones.
How many times has Q had Tonsilitis now? Is it more than once? At least it sounds like he is a bit better today. Lots of fluids and cuddles.

50ft like daughter like mummy eh??? I would love to take you up on your offer. Maybe we should have a weekend in Brighton without the hangers on. Then we could get really drunk and have a full nights sleep, for the first time in I dont know how long.
(Double bagging. I would be using every contraceptive known to man)

Hmm P obviously enjoyed herself then! Go easy on yourself. Take each day as it comes and these weeks will fly by. Before you know it you will off to work each day without a care in the world. (maybe)

Right ladies I cant remember what was arranged in the end but I cant do this Sunday now. DD2 has had one of her gym coaching sessions rearranged for Sunday due to the snow. & I now have to pick up a whole herd of Brownies, including DD1, from Butlins where they are spending the weekend to celebrate the Centenary. The curse of a big car. Another reason not to have loads of kids.

So what other days were we looking at? Was it the 7th Feb?

Ronshar - He's only had tonsillitis this once. Before it was a "chest infection" which they later told me was pneumonia but caught early enough to be treated properly without hospital . Before that no serious sickness. He's having explosive Diarrhoea today At least it all stays in his nappy. But you can hear it from across the room iyswim.
He's playing now after sleeping a few hours this morning. He's much more "himself" just a bit fussier and cuddlier than usual... I love the cuddles

7th feb is good for me

Ok, ladies I need some help from those of you with older children. Dd 2 1/2 is now refusing to wear nappies. BUT, even after a week of wearing 'big-girl pants' she is just not using the potty unless I either tell her to, see her clutching her bottom and get her there in time or remind her every 5 mins (and even then she often doesn't go, but then wees in her pants).
Before Xmas she was getting good at taking herself to the potty at least for poos and probably 50% of the time for wees as well, but she got a tummy bug at the start of Dec and we had to stop as she had such a runny tummy that she didn't have much control (sorry way tmi ) But its all settled down now. Sadly she seems to have lost all sense of when she needs to go.
I'm at my wits end and getting really frustrated now (though I'm obviously doing my best not to show it). Any ideas? Nappies are almost impossible to get her into, and pull-ups can only be managed when we go out with the threat that if she doesn't put them on she can't go out.... We've tried stickers, but though she likes having them they don't seem to be enough of an incentive.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHH

Oh Ekka, sounds like dd is being a right pickle. Luckily my eldest is a boy and never put up a fight about wearing nappies. In fact he didn't want to give them up. He eventually potty trained himself a week before his third birthday. Potty training is a nightmare which is one of the reasons why M will stay in nappies until they stop fitting.

Star - The abs will make Q's tummy a bit wobbly for a couple of weeks and his bottom will probably be unpleasant. It's so lovely when they start to get their personalities back after being ill.

Ronshar - I love it when you tell me I'm right. We will have to go out for a boozy, ladies only meet-up in Spring. Hopefully M will be sleeping better by then.

Heard some sad news today. A friend's brother has been killed in action in Afghanistan. I don't know much about him but it looks like he had a young dc. What a waste of life.

50ft. That is so sad. Your poor friend.

Ekka. I have never used a potty. Couldnt be bothered to teach the same thing twice[lazy face]
We have always just gone straight to the toilet. With a step and a seat insert. I have always made a really big fuss about how the girls are being all grownup and going to the toilet like mummy. Unfortunately it also involved lots of close inspection of my own toileting.
DH is going to be in for a shock when it comes to W toilet training.
Maybe try this as a different approach. It may be that she has reached the wall, so to speak.

Ronshar, you may be right, though dd will happily use the toilet as well as the potty. The only downside we ran into was that our downstairs toilet is really small, so its tricky being in there to help (especially when M wants to join us ). However its got to be worth a try - anything is!

Oh, 50ft, thats awful. Your poor friend and that poor young child.

What exactly does 'close inspection of your own toileting' entail ronshar?!

I know it's not ideal weather for it at the moment Ekka, but is she able to be naked from the waist down at home for the time being? And does she have a friend who is potty training at the moment too? It was a big thing for dd because she and a couple of her friends trained around the same time (I think dd was marginally later because we waited for school hols) so they all enjoyed sitting on potties together!

How awful for your friend 50ft .

Glad that Q is a little brighter today star.

Not really CSWS, our house isn't warm enough. To be honest the trousers are a help as they soak it up so it doesn't make a mess all over the floor, she isn't having accidents because it takes her too long to pull down her trousers, she only thinks about going to the potty when she's already wet. I was going to type but I'm not really, just frustrated at the moment. None of her friends are training at the moment, tbh we wouldn't be if she wasn't refusing to wear nappies!

On a lighter note, I did biscuit decorating with the kids today and my hand slipped a bit when I added food dye to brighten up the icing. I've put a pic on fb of the results when M got going .

. I stupidly dropped all the colourings in before stirring them in, so I didn't realise my mistake till too late. They only got to eat 1 biscuit, but they are now on a major sugar (and E-numbers?) high.

Star, I'm glad Q is feeling more himself now. You must be feeling so relieved.

I forgot to answer your question about dairy Ekka. Started off with me having a bit, but have been giving to ds too the last week and a bit (I think). Unfortunately we think he still has a problem with it, although less severe than previously, as it hasn't made him vomit. He does seem to like quiche . And the filled pasta which he had for tea tonight. But his nappies have been getting more and more peculiar over the last few days .

I forgot that I wanted to share this with all of you.
At the A&E last night, we had entered and you have to fill out this form. I had Q in my arms, totally listless and eyes rolling back to sleep then jerking awake, then sleeping... etc - he's not exactly tiny... and his bag and coat. I give the lady he letter from my GP who had sent me and she says "you have to fill out this form" I look at her like how?? But I manage to balance Q on one knee as I stand like a ballerina and fill out the form with quite messy writing. Anyway I understand it needs to be done, so I do it. She watches me the whole time... does nothing else. Just watches me struggle.

A few minutes later another lady comes in... same thing. Her baby is really tiny, so she has to be extra careful as her baby won't "hang on" to her like Q did a bit. (Q's head was falling back and I had to catch it every now and then, but not like a tiny baby). She watches as the lady struggles.

A few minutes later a man arrives carrying a baby (I'm guessing about 6 months) in his arms, looking frazzled and worried. Baby wasn't crying, but he had the same difficulty the lady before and I had... The lady hands him the clipboard with the form and then says immediately, "would it be easier if I filled this out for you? You just tell me the information and I'll write it down" The man graciously accepted, of course.

The lady with the newborn and I just exchanged looks. Ridiculous.

Oh and Ronshar or anyone who knows... Q had the meningitis vaccination as a newborn... so, this is making me wonder why this was even a worry last night!?!?! Are there different types of meningitis or does the vaccine not work?

I also saw a baby with suspected measles... with oxygen mask and very very poorly I am definitely giving Q the jab. I'd rather have an autistic boy than a dead boy.

Grr star.

There's more than one type of meningitis.

Well then why isn't there a vaccine for all of them?

That's a bit like asking why there isn't a cure for cancer star .