Jan 2010: Weaning, sleeping crawling too...at least we've moved on from discussing poo

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Have uploaded 3 more photos - take a peek !

Beautiful photos x x

Added some more of Jacob too

Awwwww sweet little babies!

very cute

yancy That sounds like hard work. How is he getting on with his CP physio? He is quite young isn't he?

I have a cousin with CP and I remember her physio as a child. I remember her lying on the floor with sand bag type things on her legs and lifting them. She looked in alot of pain. It must be hard for you too.

My cousin is ok, walking is getting harder now as she has put on alot of weight recently but she did improve dramatically from a child to adulthood. She is now 38 with a son of her own. He is 15 and 6'2 to her 5ft!

Well done verycherry! I've still got about stone and half to go. Interesting about the 6 mths breastfeeding and weightloss, mine was really slow to start with but has picked up last 2 weeks, I can really feel am losing it now, DD almost 5 mths. I bought a new muffin top blasting DVD today! DS (3.11) joined in, hilarious!
Weekend sounds lovely yangy. I take DD pretty much everywhere too, making the most of it, such a flexible age. Think I will not be returning to work, it's really hitting me now as was around this age with DS that I started stressing about going back. Feel relieved and lucky, but also a bit daunting leaving my career, but it's the right thing to do for us as a family.

yay, baby pictures, they are both gorgeous,

ali you wouldn't think looking at him, how poorly he's been, how is he doing at the mo?

cant the 3 blond ones are yours and the three dark haired are you dsc, is that right?? Olivia look beautiful on her christening day.

verycherry you sound like your doing a fantastic job with ds, it must be hard to be so patient all the time, but I'm sure your hard work will pay off

wmdo you'd better cheer up, I look forward to your posts making me laugh, I don't really leave the house much either, but I have so much to do that I find after my morning nap with erin i then spend the afternoon cleaning etc. so Its times like now that I'm bored but I really should just go to bed.

well done to those of you sticking with the diets, it will pay off in the end and you'll all look fab on the beach, I on the other hand will be harpooned and sold to some country for soup??? I've put 10lbs ON and am back to 11st. We've told everyone now as we couldn't really hide it any longer my belly is huge, I will get dd to take pic to show you all

Have put some pics on of erin X

Hello, I know i am computer illiterate, but I put aload of pics on but have namechanged that many times I can't find them, any one any idea what i should do??

Party - 2 blond ones and baby mine and the three older ones (2 dark and one copper) are DScs.

Go to your profile, click on "photos" and "upload more"...

HTH

superparty at being harpooned, I may be more or less back to my normal size but some serious toning is required, actually just totally can not be arsed with it! No exercise dvd's here maygirl big respect to you!

Erin is utterly gorgeous, do all your lot look like each other? my Ds 1,3 and 4 look alike ish but Ds2 is quite different (very dark to their blonde/blue eyes)

Thanks for your kind words re:Ds3 and you wmdo think you meant me not yangy! Not sure I am either fantastic or patient but am trying!

He is particularly hard work atm being 2 and all that, he is also extremely active despite not walking and climbs everything, he is into everything too and likes hiding and posting things like keys... oh and he does'nt stop talking, will repeat himself over and over and over until I acknowledge him aaargggh.

He does really well with all interventions, he loves his physiotherapist and is very compliant with all things like splints, using sticks, various examinations etc etc.

He is incredibly determined which bodes really well for his walking (but not so good for my mental health )and he happily does his physio. What age was your cousin when she walked? What form of CP does she have? If you don't mind me asking?

He took 5 steps a few weeks ago then got new splints that have set him back, he won't be walking for quite a long time despite his very best efforts bless him.

cant Olivia looked beautiful, in fact all your dc's and sdc's did, you must be v proud.

Sorry verycherry, Blame the tyroid - I do all the time now !

The details are sketchy but what for what I remember>
My cousin was born at 26 weeks gestation and was very touch and go for months.

They then thought she was fine until she still wasn't walking at over 2 (don't know exact details). They then realised something was wrong with her legs but didn't know what exactly.

She had physio throughout her childhood and I remember them braking her legs in hospital and putting them in plaster to straighten them more (very childlike description ). I just remember the excitement of having 2 plasters to scribble on!

She walks unaided (sometimes in heels but shouldn't)! You can see her legs are both twisted out from the knee down but apart from that, she lives a full life.

The next bit will amaze you.

At a recent appointment the doctor said

"with your Cerebal Paulsy" (sorry if spelt wrong)

That was the first time they told anyone!!

Nobody had told her parents or her what she had, they thought she was just born with 'bad legs'- she is 38!!
Apparently it was just like that in those days - hard to believe eh.

So as for what type, I wouldn't know.

Your son is at a hard age anyway so both combined will be tough.

My DS is driving me nuts with the repeating and talking constantly.
I sometimes hear the words 'shut up' screaming inside my head and on the odd occasion - it has slipped out [bad mummy]

Lovely pics super, she is so cute.

'what for i remember' It's the thyroid, honest.

and 'tyroid', you must have all been thinking 'who he'?

who's he

, where is that coffee I made earlier

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee wmdo you never fail to cheer me up! for your cousin! Bad legs!! Is probably actually easier to think of it like that.

Not sure the medical profession has moved on that far since your cousin, a friends DD has CP also but is profoundly affected, the first time they heard her condition being referred to as cerebral palsy was when she was about 3 - scandalous.

It sounds as if your cousin and DS have the same form (spastic diplegia) he is just affected in terms of his gross motor. I asked his paed a year ago if she thought it was CP, she utterly dismissed it, gave me a simplistic explanation that CP can ONLY affect one side of the body utter rot of course. And as for his first physio, well words fail me re: her attitude towards me.

I knew something was not right from birth and thought it was CP when he was about a year. He was formally diagnosed 3 months after the paed told he could'nt possibly have it!

I hope DS will do as well as your cousin - but would rather he did'nt wear heels!

Now, have you found your coffee???

oh and shut up has also slipped out her too (bad bad mummy)

here

Think I need coffee too

Oh an interesting that your cousin was born at 26 wks as makes it likely she had something called PVL which is a clear cause of SDCP. It appears DS had PVL too following a big bleed at 26 wks but he was full term.

Oh an also ouch at her legs being broken, DS may need major hip surgery am only just beginning to get my head around that one.

Ha ha very, yes if he ends up in heels that really will be a blow.

Dragged my sorry ass out today. First to the chemist to get DD lactulose as she has been passing very painful stools for days.
They shut for lunch - bastards.

Walked for 40 mins with DS on buggy board, well more on off on off on off on off.

Then I went to visit my gran who just irritated the hell out of me with her adversion to breast feeding.

Again i got
"oh are you still giving her that" (contorted face of disgust).

"yes gran, of course I am"

"OH" (which usually I ignore but today I thought, fuck it, im up for a row with an 87 yr old woman, bring it on)

"so gran, when you bottle fed your 5 did you just stop giving them milk at 6 months"

Some mad mumbling and managed to make out<

"in my day it was just laziness"

"what was laziness gran"?

"that" >points to dd feeding

"what"?

"these lazy woman who used to just do that instead of giving them proper food"

"but she does get proper food, I make her food and she eats it everyday"

"so why are you doing that"

"it's milk gran, babies need it for things like, bones and teeth and lil things like that".

"hmmm" stares out of window from weird grandaughter and her hippy ways.

Thing is, im not a pro breast feeder, I bottle fed DS from 5 months and I hate those pains in the ass who ramn BF in peoples faces but that was just embarassing to sit through.

Im just going to stay in and be grumpy, it works for me!!

yangy your DSS sounds amazing, what treatment did they use? We are open to anything that can help him.

wmdo I have a granny JUST like that, she is 92 next week and was totally bamboozled by me feeding ds3 til he was one, she also kept saying 'so you're still doing that then?' this time round she has'nt said a thing apart from to ask if he is sleeping through.

Last time she asked I gave her such a murderous look she has'nt asked again (that or she can't even remember she asked....)