August 2008: Crap, how did THAT happen?

[CrispyTheCrisp]

Loti - Sorry to hear that, such heartbreaking news

Ooops - hopefully wont be too long for you - when is baby due ?

I went home to DH & DD3 yesterday, the were really poorly. Feeling slightly better today, I now feel like I'm coming down with it.

DD3 is coming along with her words - she's getting quite a collection now but not onto sentences just yet

Quote of the week from ChildCrisp:

'It was the toothbrush's fault'

I'm sure it was Crispy Those pesky toothbrushes can't be trusted y'know...

DD has just given me the following commentary on her activities... "You're [she does mean herself not me!] didding a poo... poo landed!" As you say,

loti sorry to hear of your friends' sad news, and sorry to hear that your 'holiday' was neither use nor ornament.

Was chuckling at the dizzy/Crispy axis of cheating, since Cavey and I have already been there, done that (She started it, of course!)

Also glad to hear of your sudden escape to friends and fun, Crisp Perhaps the thing I find hardest about parenthood is the inability to just spontaneously bugger off and do something, so it's inspiring to see that it can be possible sometimes.

poppy as you've described it, I think I would take the job, although I second everything lwfh (and Red, and the Lady) had to say about working around the needs of small children. My only real study time at home is during DS's naps and once he's asleep, and I am always knackered/unmotivated/brain-numbed. Once I get going, it's all good and I love it...but then I resent being interrupted when he wakes. And then I feel guilty. Ah, motherhood!

LadyG glad to hear DS2 seems on the mend. J apparently has scorching nappy rash - DP did nappies last night/this morning so I haven't seen it, but I heard the banshee screaming during change time Thankfully no sickness though...

Am so busy with work/life stuff atm but hoping June will be a wee bit easier. DS's sleep continues to be rubbish - as well as battling bedtime with all his might, he's been waking up for a grumble at midnight every night this week, which last night turned into an hour of inconsolable screaming Then up for the day at 5am I'm afraid the last two mornings we have simply returned his dummy/monkey and gone back to bed until 6am - at least in the mornings he sounds merely indignant, not possessed.

But he is just so deliciously cute, lots of new words and stuff happening all the time We had our first please this morning, or rather 'phlee' He copies everything that's prefaced with 'Can you say...'

Hi all.
loti such sad news. Hope your friends are bearing up ok.
oops good luck to you too. I had reflexology with S, and we all know how that turned out. She kept saying he'd be out inside a week

Still so so sick here. Got ketones in urine again so that means another trip to hospital. Going to try keep down some liquids today and if that doesn't work I'll head back tomorrow.

LOL Pert, i'm not even sure what the toothbrush did. I believe it caused DD2 to hit her head on the sink. Obviously nothing to do with DD1 . Loving the 'poo landed' . DD2 now says need a poo, goes off and tries to sit on the loo. If i do take her nappy off though there is nothing forthcoming so i am ignoring for now

cyteen i have always been pretty impulsive (once jumped on a plane to Dubai for the weekend to see a friend at v short notice, necessitating a drive from York to Heathrow on a very busy Fri afternoon ) and do miss it badly too. Not having any family close makes it so much harder too. Having said that, my CM was fab yesterday and said of course she would have DD2 and would take DD1 if i couldn't get her a lift to preschool (she would just ask her assistant to come over for a bit). I took her a little orchid to say 'thankyou for being so flexible and helpful' and she told me off and said 'that's what we are here for'. So lovely

Sorry to hear nights are still pants, just keep chanting , whilst rocking slowly in the corner

Qod is there anything you can keep down? Have you tried the dioralyte sachets with ribena to replace salts and stuff? Or the isotonic type drinks - Lucozade etc? Have the hospital given you many ideas of things to try?

LOTI for your friends, were they IVF babies? Re your situation, why not give him a deadline of DD2's birthday to improve things or move out? Then at least he knows where he stands and how serious you are but has that last chance, with cards on the table, everything spoken out loud, to save his marriage. Perhaps if nothing else, doing the maths of divorce might kick him up the arse.

crisp I'm actually keeping down lucozade, but only if I have very tiny sips very occasionally. I can't drink enough to stop being thirsty or up it all comes again. So that's not likely to stop the dehydration situation really.

Mum's gone off to tesco to get some GF bread. SHe's been gone over an hour now. Starting to worry and have no way to call her as she doesn't have a mobile.

oh and the hospital didn't give any tips or anything. If I do end up back in there I'll be making sure I come out with some kind of coping strategy in place this time.

QoD if you haven't already, why not ask on here about coping strategies? Loads of MNers have had hyperemesis, you might get some good tips.

Have they given you medication QoD. I agree with Cyteen, start a thread on here and ask for tips plus ask others who have been through it what you should be requesting from the hospital in terms of meds/support/food & drink etc

Hope your mum is back soon

Afternoon

QOD - Sorry to hear you are still being so sick. Hope you mum is back soon.

LOTI - news for your friends - I seemed to have missed it this morning.

Reflexology was lovely and Ihaven't felt so blissfully spaced out for years. She didn't do any baby evicting moves today but did wonderfully work on my SPD - franky I don't care what she worked on it it was heaven and I came home via a posh sarnie shop and sat in bed eating, reading then napping only to wake up to the phone ringing, seeing it was DH's office and thinking he was ringing me onlyh for them to say he was downstairs in our kitchen- which for some reason freaked me out. He then gave me a lecture on locking doors when I go up for a nap and security (my payinging in book was on the car front seat and the car was unlocked which has kinda spoilt the mood! He has gone back to work and I am being harrassed by a cat who wants cheese.

QOD - Sorry you are still so poorly - hopefully you get it under control soon

Ooops - Glad you enjoyed the reflexology, sounds like bliss Oh and blame the lack of security on pregnancy brain, I still do now and Im not even pg again

QoD Try my patented morning sickness programme, worked for me anyway. Before each 'meal' take a sacrificial pint of water to the loo and down it, then let it all come up again. Next down a pint of sugary Hi Juice squash (no artificial sweeteners) and let that come up. Probability suggests that some of that one will stay down and as it has calories in, it should stabilise you just long enough to try some solids (buy flapjacks for longer lasting energy). I managed to do this even whilst camping in a field with hole-in-the-floor hay loos! I could write a book about all the different places I have vomited.

Sorry but I am LOL'ing about a sacrificial glass of water . Anything sounds like it is worth a go

oops sorry about my comment this morning about you labouring today. I read your post wrong in that you were the last day childfree as in baby free as Hectorina was clearly on the way . Blame my (i thought excellent ) ability to skim read

Foggy are you off work today with the illing people? Or illing yourself?

Yes you have to offer up a sacrifice to the goddess Nausea. It really works! I used to empty my stomach before every meal and then I'd know most of the meal would stay down (this kept it to 3 vomits a day with DD).

Speaking of whom, am feeling Albs's pain today as DD has been a fruitcake all afternoon (DH brought her home from school with a twisted ankle) and I feel like I've gone through a mincer in the last 5hours. Am really not liking her very much at the moment - awful think to say but true and she is probably just starting to worry about our holiday without them next week, hence acting up more. So, am sucking up all my adultness and planning to take her out for a cream tea on Saturday to spend some quality time together.

It's fine Crispy - I knda wish I was as I have got to the so excited I could pop stage suddenly. DH sneaked away from work early and we headed out to a new little winebar/bistro plac for a drink before DD came home and got a call half way through asking where we were as they were at our waiting for us. We told them the side gate was open and there were chairs and toys around the back, we would be back soon. When we got back DD asked me to 'skin a rabbit' which means strip her naked and she promptly smiled at MIL and parked a giant poo at her feet, smiled and before I could reach her she wiped he fingers in her bottom and offered them to MIL. It took all I had not to wet myself sit giggling. Instead DH grabbed the wipes and we cleaned her up. Ils went home rather rapidly and we have been in the gaarden since.

GB - ((HUGS))

FHLH - Sorry I ignored your question - according to my original dates I am due tomorrow/Saturday but they changed it to next Friday by the power of being a Registrar who can't read. At least it takes the induction pressure off a little.

Evening all . Poor little O is covered in a rash that looks so much like chicken pox its untrue. Mum took him to the chemist to get the pharmacist to have a look but she reckons the spots are too close together. wtf?! Has the woman never searched on google images? . I'll eat my own arse if that isn't chicken pox. Tom hasn't had it yet either, so by my reckoning he shoud break out in spots just exactly as half term starts. poor thing!!

off to catch up on thread...x

oops your daughter is a genius lol-ing at the image of parking a poo

loti such sad news for your friends , life is shit sometimes isn't it

QoD hoping you are soon over your hyperemesis

Buckets hoping your dd is feeling calmer soon, you too!

and sazz I wasn't ignoring your text re the pub quiz - I didn't pick it up til the next day.

Dh and I are off to the pub soon whilst grandma is here . Firstly I need to pile on some slap to hide the boils spots on my face-that-thinks-its-still-a-teenager

ah Cece - poor boys remember the tea tree antiseptic cream for the spots and just does them up I say

Oops, I can't wait to meet Poppy, I've got my PIL coming this weekend so if you could pop her up please - I'll send her back in tip top form, promise

QofD - sorry to hear of continuing ails - lucky you to have your mum at hand

LOTI - how awful for your poor friend, utterly heartbreaking indeed I'm a great believer in things happening for a reason but sometimes there just doesn't seem to be a way to justify the heartache of such a loss

hot hot hot up here today, 21 according to me, 26 according to the car. As you can imagine my heat rash is faring beautifully in that so I'm about demented - anti histamen doesn't seem to be touching it
DH melted in his chemical suit on his course today but it now home, slightly pinker and all mine till next Thurs (ignoring the inlaws ) I love having him at home. We're going on a road trip to Edinburgh tomorrow and he's promised to let me loose in Waitrose

Don't forget the caramalised onion marmalade dizz and lovely that you have DH home . DH due back tomorrow some point so hopefully we can have a lovely weekend relaxing in the sunshine

cece poor O . Chickenpox is going round at DD1's preschool and although i would quite like to get it out of the way, i would also like just a very mild dose

tis on the list already Crispy - that and some bottom butter

damn volcano hasn't worked its magic this week and apparently flights are still on from Belfast