Dec 08 ladies getting re-clackered, with tantrums from toddlers we're sure to be knackered

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Loved your title rubs
Never started a thread before so hope this works...can anybody find it?
hello....

Spot that's great news. Just to clarify I think Mom meant her LO-(lovely one) not LO -low down in utero.

Avo that's sad about the flight. Are they saying they will refund both tickets. We still haven't been refunded for the flight to Budapest, apparently they have one more month to get the money back to us.

Beans & Rubs I had things to say to you but can't remember what???

Spot the goose bumps are the bodys response to being cooled down, he is trying to warm himself up. As has been said tepid bath, a fan in his room but not positioned directly at him and strip down but place a light blanket or even a sheet over him. Even though his core temp is high if his skin temp goes too low his body will still try to warm itself up therefore increasing his core temp further. Your doing all the right things basically, esp with the alternating the drugs and lots of water. As Rubs says max dose on the box however for the calpol no more than 4 doses a day and if you can limit the ibuprofen/neurofen/calpufen dose to 3 a day it would be good. Also make sure he has something in his tummy for the ibubrofen dose, even if it's just a bit of milk or yoghurt. Poor little man, I hope you don't catch it too.

Hooray spot that is great news! Hope T gets on okay at the Dr's.

rubes glad your DB has come to his senses.

avo that is crap about your flights. What are you going to do?

Mom hello! Good to hear from you .

I have a really bad headache. I only had one glass of cheerfulness last night (admitedly it was probably a 1/3 of the bottle). I know I haven't drunk for a week or so but if my head is like this now I will be bedridden on my weekend away! Still my non drinking has meant I have lost 5lb these past 2 weeks. Still need to lose moreif I am going to crowbar myself into the dress I bought for friends wedding!

I am very excited now and can almost smell my 2 nights of freedom. So avo I feel your pain if you can't get away.

Oh and mom I'm not sure what I think of Maude, however I had the same feeling when a friend told me she was naming her DD Martha. Now I love the name and it really suits her little DD. So I think go for it, if DH doesn't like it, just wait til a few moments after the birth and demand that's the name then. He can't really complain after what you've just done.

Beans I always think your meals sound amazing, you are a great cook! I hope your DH is grateful.

Ha ha - Thanks for clarifying that Veggie. Nope, I haven't a clue where the newbie is floating around right now. But whereever it is, I feel like it is a girl.

Yes, I think Maude is a bit of a divisive name, but I want something a bit different. Just have to decide if it is so "different" that any future DD will hate me for it! Of course it may be another DS, in which case we have lots of other names we agree on.

All this talk of food is making me hungry. Must head out for lunch.

Daisy Enjoy your nights away!

mom forgot to say when i first read 'Maude' I was a little but the more I it I really like it! Different like you say but when whenyou imagine a baby girl I think its quite pretty.

Just to add I also love the name Betsy (I know Denise Van Outen called her baby girl the same), so if any ofyou are struggling with ideas...

arrggghhh feckin' space bar...this laptop is going back!

Beans and Rubes you do make me chuckle with your food chat. I only wish I could say I was pregnant then it would slightly excuse what I have eaten this morning. A belguim Waffle with nutella and a can of fat coke for breakfast

Oh and AVO what a bugger about your flight. I have to say as an ex prof nanny am slightly well actually more than slightly at your nanny charging an hourly rate. I used to do loads of weekends and overnights and it was always always done on a flat rate. Personally I think she is being ruddy cheeky asking for an hourly rate.

Katie fanbloodytastic on your houses.

Oh and also meant to say Georgia, lovley name, and if anyone is in need of a couple of other names that I love you may borrow. Iris & Ted.

Jam - if we have a boy (which I'm sure we are!), we're going for Edwards, but Ted for short - cool eh?! Hurrah! If a girl, then Prudence. We both love it.

I love Betsy too. And Elsie. So many gorgeous names out there! And Iris is so pretty. One of my friends has just called her little girl Edie. I'm still not 100% sure about it. Sometimes I think it's gorgeous and others I just imagine it as an old lady for some reason.

And Georgia! Love that too!

Hi all, feeling very emotional so please forgive the 'me' post.
The removal has started at my parents house today and I popped in this morning to see if I could help, but had to leave pronto after watching 5 burly removals men stripping the house bare. I have been n floods of tears all morning and just can't believe that after this weekend I will never see the inside of my family home of 24 years again. It's feels like a death in the family (I told you I was over-emotional). I think it's affecting me badly as I am a army brat and until we moved there I had moved every two years, so this really was the first 'home' I ever knew. Anyway, time to move on I guess.
The assessment was fine yesterday although I won't get the findings for a bit yet, but they don't think it's dyspraxia, rather a problem with his motor skills resulting from perceptors in the brain (or something). Strangely enough she linked it back to his birth, which was pretty horrific and resulted in shoulder problems. She also thinks his food fussiness is as a result of his early feeding problems, he could only feed on one side due to the shoulder problems. It's awful how we fuck them up from day 1 isn't it?!
Must dash, have to take DS for a hearing test to rule that out as a problem as well.

Oh Katie - so sad to see your house being packed up. I remember when we moved from up north to down south, I was totally gutted. We'd only lived there for 11 years, but it was my whole life and I loved it there. I still feel nostalgic about it. In fact, got a lot of friends who still live near it and went to see the house a couple of years ago and cried! It's perfectly normal to feel bereft. But you'll always have the memories. Thinking of you.

Re DS - glad it's not dyspraxia, how many tests will the do to find out what it is? x

Does anyone else ever read those AIBU talks on MN? I have to say, I've been pretty shocked by how vicious some people are on here. Makes me all the happier about how totally accepting and nice we all are on this thread!!!! Sometimes, though, they do quite amuse me.

Katie when my mum sold the only home I had ever known when I was 19 I was devastated, I didn't realise until the day the keys were handed over and that was it, it was no longer somewhere I was allowed to go into. I felt the same after my nan died a few years ago and her home of 60 years was sold. Gosh there is so much going on in your life at the moment. Also that I'd interesting about the feeding and also I'm sure for many of us that I (we) did have some part to play managed to fuck up DS1's feeding. I have to say though I feel his school has done well to flag this up and not put it down to just boy behavioural, or body clumsiness. I have 2 friends whose boys are having trouble at school with things that I think need referring but the schools are saying it's behavioural.

katie I don't think your over-emotional at all. It must be so hard saying goodbye to a place with such wonderful memories.

OH blimey have I got Katie mixed up with someone else? Katie am so sorry you feel sad about your house. I completely understand. You have every right to be upset. But are you buying the cottages?? thats what my earleir hurrah was for.

doesnt take much TBH.

hmmm not sure about Prudence - it's a grower I think. I'm almost coming around to Maude now already! Lots of people love it I know. Love Edie and Elsie but might be more little baby only sounding? I like Eden though and Edie for short / nn I guess

Beans, can be viscous out there for sure - remember Poonami-gate - strewth!

Chin up Katie - it's the start of a great new chapter with wonderful memories to make! Change is a good thing.

Avo - where are you? What's the plan?

I'm off to review the name threads

Love Maud(e), Prudence, Iris and Georgia! Re Edie, I think of it as short for Edith, which I really like (Piaf).

Sorry you're feeling low Katie. I would be in bits if my parents sold their house, I was born after they moved there.

The other name I love at the mo is Catherine shortened to Kitty.

DIS

Kayz rarely posts on here anymore. Please dont be offended if we ask you to take your disagreement elsewhere.

I appreciate its difficult DIS, am sorry you are feeling

Would be nice to see you back here soon. BTW followed your hair thread the other wk. Loving the new do.

Ooh, ooh, I just thought of Meg as a girl's name while at midwife - I think it's gorgeous.

oh and Hazel. Love that too. Although DH says it reminds him of Hazel Blears which is a shame!