Not fair - I realised what Bodkin name was in the shower this morning, but DH wouldn't let me come on the puter this morning to let you know as we were packing for holiday prior to going to the hospital - was reading an article about Flora Macdonald this morning and suddenly thought - aha!!!!! PinkB is welcome to the prize though - we're an Olivio family!
Sorry to hear your DD is not well Greedy - our DD was suddenly violently sick last night, which isn't that unusual for her, but the amount that came out of her was shocking - thank goodness we've trained her to run to the loo now, so it all went down there, with no cleaning up necessary - not bad for a 3 year old, but when she's sick at least once per week, we had to do something about it!!!
Bodkin - my friend at work's DS who is 3.3 too, still bites - mainly his elder brother and friends, but he still does it - she doesn't seem too bothered about it, but I'm sure it is probably just boredom or frustration about something - is there any pattern, or sharing issue that you could watch out for and stop the situation arising in the first place, thereby stopping the incident before she even thinks about it? Toddler Taming man is all for stopping the situation where bad behaviour occurs, rather than pure discipline - although this obviously has its place - help I'm going to stop - I'm starting to sound like some awful self-help boook myself!!!
Anyway, my consultant's appointment - what a waste of time was that - we spent 10 mins discussing (heatedly) how I disagreed with my moved due date and trying to explain that my last period was 21/10/06, which they just couldn't handle, even though I'd had a mc before now and then. Why do these experts not realise that some of us know our bodies and when we ovulate? The midwife even said it is impossible to pinpoint when you ovulate? Hasn't she read Taking Charge of your Fertility?!!! We could teach her a thing or two!!
Anyway, upshot is they are going on the very early scan I had at 6+3, which was spot on with my dates, but still seem to have moved my due date to 29th Sept, but as this is only 4 days, I'm not complaining.
When I said that I wasn't happy with the new date given by the sonographer as that was a week earlier than my thoughts, because as I was induced at 36 weeks with DD, if they induced me at 36 with this one, it would actually be 35 weeks - I was told I'm obviously a pessimist if I'm thinking I'm going to get obstetric cholestasis again - this was by the midwife who was in the appointment too! I was quite taken aback - I've been told I have a 50:50 chance of getting it again, so surely being prepared is the best way to be!
Anyway, while the consultant seemed to get confused with his computer, I had my blood pressure taken and tummy felt and baby's heart beat heard by the midwife and that was it - appointment over. No questions on either side - they will see me in 16 weeks time, when i'm 30 weeks and that's it! Felt a complete waste of my time, their time and NHS resources - why was the consultant there, if the midwife was just going to do everything?
Anyway, rant over - sorry just had to get it off my chest - going to make appointment with midwife for 2 weeks time as asked and hopefully have better luck with her!
At least we heard a really strong heart beat (should have seen the smile on DD's face when she realised what she was hearing!!). This makes me feel more confident as we are off tomorrow to my parent's house in the French Alps, where I miscarried at Christmas, so feel a little bit unsure about going - but realistically I know that I am way past mc time now that I'm 14 weeks and seen and heard a heartbeat.
Sorry girls, thanks for listening, if you're still there! - going to leave you now. Have to hang up some washing in the hope that it is dry by tonight to finish packing - how I'm going to cope without you all for a week. Have to sneak on to Dad's computer while I'm away.
take care
xxx