Sept 08: last year they were cute little bundles that smelt of milk and vanilla, but now they've been replaced with a babyzilla!

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A new thread for us as the last one was running low.

Jesus Christ Sunshine I hope that you've been very happy with the care he's been getting, that's extortionate! I have a little boy I've been looking after for 12h a day 5 times a week and I've been charging £200 a week so that'd still be cheaper than your bill!

Luckily I'm extremely happy with it. It's a brilliant nursery and the kids both love it. When I talk to friends abut their nurseries I always come to the conclusion that, while it's expensive, our nursery is very worth it. Everyone else always seems to have at least one aspect they're not happy with but there isn't anything at our place.

Bookmarking - have been stupidy busy but I have been reading the thread

Woohoo, our holiday is booked. Shame we've got to wait 5 months for it though. Going to a gite in the Loire with the in-laws for 2 weeks in July.

And I finally have proper internet connection . Using the mobile phone dongle was soooooooo slow but talktalk have finally connected us. Can't get the desktop connected though as the phone point is in the living room and the computer is in the loft and it won't connect with an extension cable. Luckily though I can still pick it up on the work laptop though.

debi We had this problem but solved it thus: Do you have a wifi modem? If so that gets plugged in to the downstairs connection. Then you can buy a little wifi receptor to plug into the desktop upstairs. Doesn't cost much.

Ah, thanks pony. In theory the desktop should work with wireless but it doesn't so I will try that. Thanks. Sounds much cheaper than getting another phone point put in upstairs.

I've kind of caught up with you all - M is in bed 7.30ish to 6.30 ish, but has only actually slept through once or twice and I still feed her at night .

Away on holiday, because she was in the same room as us and there were other people in the apartment she wanted to feed for 30 mins at a time 2 or 3 times a night so I think I'll have my work cut out over the next couple of weeks. Bulgaria is 2 hours aheeda so she woke up at 5am (but was so sleepy that she dozed on me while feeding for a couple of hours).

Snow was great and DD1's skiing was amazing. M went into a creche quite a lot. It was a lovely creche and she seemed happy to go tjhere but I felt awful putting her in it while on holiday. It wasn't the kind of place that you could just pop out for a ski or swap childcare half way through the day though and it was good for DD1 to have so much attention.

Got piles of washing now and a christening followed by a birthday party to go to today. I'll be glad to be abck at work for a rest topmorrow!

Morning!

I am, astoundingly, still ill. It's really getting quite impressive now. I managed to hold it together long enough to spend a lovely afternoon with Splishsplosh and her gorgeous DDs on Friday. T was fortunately not too shameful in his behaviour, but I think it's safe to say that Splish copes better with two than I will!

So, over the past 2 weeks I have had:

• A flu like thing (temperature, lethargy, shivers, achey etc)
• A horrific ear infection (no sleep for 3 nights till antibiotics kicked in)
• Possible gastric flu (vomiting, temperature, shivers, segueing nicely into diaorrhea today)

Also T has been teething and had an ear infection.

I mean really! Did I run over lots of bunny rabbits in a past life or something? Or is there someone out there with a voodoo doll with my name on it? It's getting on for 3 weeks since I've been able to work at all, so the finances are looking fairly shite too.

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I feel your pain my love

Toby is ill AGAIN (I mean, seriously this is gettign ridiculous!) with an ear infection/throat infection/cough thing. On ABs again.

I have had a persistent cough since about nov which the docs now think is asthma...sigh. I just dont need it, so you know what I mean????

You must be so run down, hopefully. Have you tried probiotics (to sort your gut out after the ABs) and maybe an iron/vitamin tonic to boost you up a bit????

Toby and I are usually ill at the same time, it must be said

Dh away with work this week so no doubt ds1 will succumb too...ugh.

Oh ffs, I just wrote a huge post and the site crashed - gaaahhh

I think I was going to say something like this:

Welcome back Ninja, it sounds like you had a lovely time. DH is a devoted boarder and can't wait to take ds.

The illnesses in our house seem to be going on forever too. I knew this winter would be bad because ds would pick up loads of things and pass them to us, but I didn't think it would be this rubbish.

I second taking acidophilus and a iron and multivit (Floradix is a miracle in a bottle). Infact I think I need to take my own advice and nip to the health food shop tomorrow

thank you so much for your message on my ante-natal thread moveit. Really touched you were looking out for me.

back again, I keep losing this thread.

Sorry you're permanently ill hopefully. It's nearly spring so I'm hoping the bugs all go in the next couple of weeks. I'm pumping myself full of multi-vits, echinachea, ginseng and acidophilus. The DC's have got vits too, heaven knows how much I've spent on them all. My appetite has gone as I seem to either have a D+V bug or a rotten cold, roll on summer and full health .

We managed to get to the park today. It was empty in the play area (except for some harmless 'Emo' kids) so DD got to have a toddle and play on the swing and DS was happy climbing up the slide.

Sorry to hear there's loads of illness about still. There's a chicken pox epidemic at nursery at the mo so think it's only time before DD succumbs.

We had an eventful morning. We were all in bed together and DS and DD were sitting on my tummy to do 'row row'. DD suddenly flings herself backwards and busts poor DS's nose. Blood everywhere. It's still quite swollen but we don't think broken, and still keeps leeding periodically. We're expecting him to get black eyes and look like a properly abused child

We have also been struck down with some dreadful lurgy.
DS came back in his taxi without reaching school on Friday as he was sick twice. He then spent the rest of the day throwing up and with quite yucky diarrhea (sp)
On Saturday all the sickness had gone but he was still unwell. By Saturday night |Robyn threw up on me in bed and then spent the next 7 hours throwing up. We stayed up until 12.30 watching the olympics before giving in and going to bed on towels with lots of spare clothes. It was 4am before she stopped throwing up. She id most of it in her sleep. I'd hear her coughing sit her up, she'd be sick then she would flop back down. (sorry TMI)
Dp also had the worst of it and slept downstairs. He was so sick his sides ached the next day.
DD1 got away with it as she spent most of the weekend away and I got terrible nausea and back pain.
Still all better now, apparently the 24-48 hour bug is rife at DS's school.

robyn has started saying 'no' to everything it is quite cute as you can hear how her voice is going to sound but really annoying as we get no to everything we ask her

Oh no I'm so sorry about all the illness!

I've been reading but not had much time to post as parents are visiting. Saturday night was my birthday party which was great, and today we've been out at The Deep all day (in Hull) which the dcs thought was absolutely brilliant. Tonight is my 'posh' birthday meal out with the parents and tomorrow which is The Day DH has booked us breakfast at a nice hotel so we get a fry-up without having to cook or washup!

I was hoping that my best birthday present would be a bfp but its not to be AF came today, two days late, so I'd been getting hopeful all weekend. This is the first month we've tried, and we dont have a good history of getting pregnant, but I really really thought we'd done it this month, I 'felt' pregnant last week. I'm also convinced I've got endometriosis (google has a lot to answer for) as I've been getting mid-cycle cramping and terrible bloatedness, and last month I bled for 8 days (sorry TMI). Another friend found out last week she's pg with her third, and I was so excited about the idea of us being pg together again, as we were with our ds's, now I'm quite jealous I'm getting so worried that something serious is wrong and it'll take forever to conceive, and as we have such a small age gap between dd and ds I don't want a massive gap before the next one and its already going to be well over 2 years. I can't believe how quickly I went from 'i'm not ready' to 'i'm so incredibly desperate for this'. Very weird.

Sorry that turned into a more epic whinge than I had intended.

Tomorrow I intend to have fun and wine and forget about ttc, nothing will get me down!

Ugh debs that sounds awful you poor thing!

Have got to go and have chest x rays and spirography(sp?) as they think I may have asthma....sigh. Honestly, I am very close to getting fed up with all this.

Toby now has blister type things on his tongue which make it painful for him to eat and drink. Doc has basically said he cant do anyhting but has given us some daktarin gel to put on his tongue (yeah, right you first doc!) Has anyones else's LO had this????

Sounds like possible hand, foot and mouth...? bec

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Sorry to hear all about the illnesses guys. Spring is on its way soon.
becaroo ds2 has what I call a reptile toungue. White and scaly! I always thought it was thrush though I suppose coulb be blisters. We use that gel in an orange tube.
Back from our weekend in Edinburgh. It was fab! We ate sooo much. A chinese banquet, 2 full cooked, havey nics go sushi and a mussel and steak bar. I feel so fat now We drank, slept, swan, shopped and sight seed. Pleased to report that ds slept 13 hours straight no problem for my folks. They actually requested if they can have the dc for a whole weekend again soon ed. Boobs still work as before , ds still wanting boobs . I had lots of baby making discussions with my dh. We both thought we wanted another but We have decided to not ttc for a while or maybe never . We have decided that we are actually in a nice place at the moment. DS 5 is very independant now. Ds2 is quite an easy baby. We are enjoying our family and our time together as a couple. My folks wanting the boys more has strengthened this.
Happy Birthday carrie Is it the Big 30?? Enjoy tomorrow. xxjmnj

sorry to hear about all the illness. We're just all v tired after our hols, but can't complain.

M bit a little girl on the head at a party yesterday , the chilminder told me that when she saw her today she pointed at her head and said 'ow'! - I didn't know whether to be proud or ,

sounds like a great weekend mama

Ugg at illnesses! DD's cold is all I can cope with atm.

Help please! SHOES! DD still doesn't have any proper shoes. She is tearing around like crazy walking and sometimes even running, but is still only wearing her soft soled Robeez. The reason is, when we took her to Clarks to be measured her feet are actually really small (3 - 3.5). They didn't have anything in walking shoes that small apart from some really silly patent leather party shoes! We have searched on line and can't seem to find anything either. (I should mention that DH can't stand OTT pink sparkly princess stuff, and 'town' shoes would be ridiculous around here.) She just needs something like some trainers so that she can walk outside and play in the playground. Why is this so difficult?

Questions:

1. Should I buy size 4? I am so worried about putting her in the wrong size, but figure bigger is better than smaller.
2. Should I just get some wellies or sheepskin type boots to start with, so she can at least get outside to play?
3. Can anyone suggest where to find some trainers in this size, i.e. 3.5?
4. I am worried about buying on line. The Clarks sizing was really specific with half sizes and height measurement for the instep, but the on line shops only seem to sell whole sizes with no other size info. Is this bad? How specific does the sizing really need to be? Are Clarks just frightening a mother of a PFB or do I need to worry about this?

Sorry, but it just seems insane not to be able to find some simple shoes to fit my daughter!

ponymum I would assume that the soft soled cruising shoes will do fine for now. My DD still has the soft soled shoes and she's been toddling for a few months. She even has 'neglected second born' hand-me down shoes for the garden (her step cousin is a bit older but the same width so passes on shoes as she grows out of them). The cheaper clarks Doodles summer shoes will be out soon and hopefully not too 'princessy' .

ponymum have you got an independent shoe shop near you, the european shoes start smaller. My friend's DD is not even size 2 (although I think she ended up with a 2!).

I think kickers do smaller ones if you look online and you can probably get smaller ones from someone like mothercare

I have no idea about shoe sizes, but I suspect T has enormous feet and will be in school shoes by the time he starts walking . To be fair, he is cruising loads now, and really only needs to steady himself with a hand when he's standing, so possibly he'll walk one day...

We've chosen a house! For anyone paying attention, it was house 3 from my last post, but I went back to see it and really liked that it was nice and big and airy, landlady has promised to put a shed in the garden for storage (as there's no garage), and there's plenty of room for veg growing as well as space for T to play in the garden. Bathroom on ground floor, which is irritating, but we have that now and TBH it's not really a huge problem, brand new kitchen, carpets, windows etc, so even though it's a victorian terrace it's pretty nice. I cannot tell you how much I am looking forward to leaving the current 20-year-old washing machine behind