November 09 babies are growing up quick, and mummy's getting used to getting covered in sick!

[PreggoK8]

Hope this has worked...

BBL I think the diagnosis for MS is based on ruling everything else out.

Beepbeep I too have 'mild' PND so am busy coping with my own issues as well as everyone else's. I have ups and downs: it seems to go in waves. It is hard with three but I am confident it will get easier. It must be doubly hard if your DS not walking yet. At least my older two are able to fend for themselves to various degrees (in fact DS1 is very good and helpful to me).

TOK so far he's just had a problem with one of his eyes and two brain scans, the first of which indicated a 50% likelyhood of MS and 'anomolies' in his brain, which is so vague I don't know what that means. BIL is a consultant himself (not neurology though: gastreo-thingy). I do understand why the PILs were quiet about it but they acted so happy, happy which being an emotional type myself I could not do in a million years. I ring my mum up in tears if I have a mouth ulcer! BIL kept all this to himself for 6 months: he didn't know what was wrong with him. I just want to drive up to Manchester and give him a big hug, and I hope he is going to be ok. DH is being very cool and calm about it (he's such a sold, stable person).

BBL sorry to hear about your bil, can't believe he kept it quiet for so long but at least now he can get the support he needs from his family.

Welcome back Beep Beep and hope you and Martha feel better soon.

pav poor Reuben, hope he feels better soon, how long has he had the cough? Sorry if you already said, my memory is not good at the mo! Hope the docs can sort him out quickly.

Still feeling rubbish here, but went to bed at 8.30pm last night so feel better for that! I have an eye infection on top of my cold, hope it goes by Friday as it's my friends wedding and I look shocking! Both eyes are bright red and blood shot and I can't wear any make-up!

Millie keeps waking in the night to be fed, are all the other babies still doing this? She was sleeping through but now is waking 2 or 3 times for a feed and I'm not sure why...

helips Rosa always wakes at least once in the night for a feed. She goes down between 7 and 8 and usually wakes sometime between 1.30 (bad night) and 4.30 (good night!) Oh, except last night when she woke at 1.30, 3.30, 4.30, 5.30 and 7.30 (AWFUL night). No idea why.

She's nearly 14 weeks so a bit younger than Hedy. Could it be a growth spurt/getting ready for solids? No idea, just guessing.

I thought Roo would be zonked yesterday after all our activity but no. So today just been pottering and she's finally just nodded off for her first nap (since half seven!). They're so unpredictable aren't they?

Sorry to hear about your BIL BBL. It's amazing he kept it to himself that long. To generalise, men are a lot more like that aren't they? Rarely visit the doctor etc etc

Nice to see you beepbeep! pav I have a hacking cough at the moment too so I sympathise with wee Reuben . Oops I just did a huge hack near the sleeping babe but she didn't wake up, wow, must be really asleep! Yay!

Nice to be back!!

BBL - mine also come in waves, somedays I think i'm having a good day and all it takes is one small thing to knock me right down, then other days I wake up low and that's me for the rest of the day - crying at the slightest thing and just not happy! Hopefully will sort soon.

Helips - even 4 months is quite young (in my experience!) to be expecting them to consistently sleep through (DD was about 6m & DS 12m -nightmare!), Martha is a bit hit and miss - she is capable of it, but often sticks in a 4am feed. We haven't been doing the '10pm' feed - found that she has never woken for it and if we woke he she then tended to have a more disrupted rest of the night.

Yes beepbeep we don't wake Rosa for a 10/11pm feed as she seems to wake the same time in the middle of the night anyway.

She's awake again now, by the way, grrr!

An update on Reuben. He is most likely teething early according to the gp , not sure about that. He also told me that cows milk is unlikely to pass into my breastmilk not sure about that either. He said either way it is unlikely to be a food allergy or intolerance as it would be more likely to show in his stools, ie very very runny, rather than making him mucousy not sure about that either. He said, it is either teething or he is suffering from pretty much a continuous cold due to being a winter baby and it knocking them for six as its their first winter and they are still very little . So why am i not getting these colds then? Seeing as he is breastfed, surely my immunity goes some way to protecting him? so he should at least not have a permanent cold? . He said, give him calpol if he is unsettled at night, as it will help dry out the mucous - so like every night then? and keep his room humid, yes we know that. So all in all a most unproductive trip to the gp, apart from the lovely receptionists cooing over him. In fact, he probably got another cold just by waiting in the germ filled waiting room for half hour.

lots of there

Hello all

Limited access to internet as at my Mum's but am trying to keep up with you all.

Lovely to meet you all in Bristol Ninja, Brood and Pav - was great to put faces to names.

Pav what a helpful gp DS1 had his first tooth at 4 months but I don't remember there being lots of mucous associated with it. More just lots of dribble!

Hope all those feeling poorly are better soon.

We still have a night feed here at around 4am after the bottle at 11pm. We had 2 night feeds from between 12 and 16 weeks so for those with more wakeful babies, maybe it's a spurt?

pav that GP is talking nonsense. Elements of cow's milk protein DO get into BM and that's what causes CMP allergy!!!! Try a different one? HV's might be able to recommend the 'right' one to see...

Pavlov some of those are symptoms of silent reflux. Toby is also mucussy all the time, snotty, coughing all the time. Worth a bit of research? He also fights at feeds sometimes, doesn't like lying on his back, sicks up watery sick sometimes, and seems quite horse sometimes. Dribbling is also a sign. My GP doesn't believe Toby has silent reflux so it is a battle we're having too.

PS My GP thinks it is asthma. I totally disagree with that! Just because he has eczema too.

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