TTC graduate sweep stake... Greedy or Honey next?!!

[fettleandbabyfettle]

as suggested by honey!!!

be thinking of you at 1.20pm greeds! my money is on you beating honey by the way!!

xxx

Anyone for some rescue remedy?

Fettle - I feel your pain! Just not what you need right now is it. Can you contact the previous owners and ask them? I can honestly say I have never had a hotwater cylinder serviced in my life! Like you say, surely they are just like a big kettle - why would you need it serviced?

My offer still stands if it helps

Other Bodkin news - just had a coil put in this morning - not too bad at all - just like a smear but with a tiny bit of an internal "twinge" as the coil actually went in the cervix. Took about 2 minutes. Will give it a couple of days to settle down, then DPs going to be one happy bunny!

Also, I received the most amazing box in the post yesterday, from my old mucker who loves to splash the cash (she's married to a banking type chap) She's got a DD who was born in January this year, so she's sent on all her outgrown baby clothes which are basically all Monsoon, John Lewis, Next, Gymboree etc.etc. and are blardy gorge. Plus 2 xmas pressies for the girls. That cheered me up I can tell you

thanks Bodders - Rescue remedy worked!!!

Would love to pop down to visit, but we busy next few weeks til Christmas and then we away for 2 weeks, so just need to get through next 3.5 weeks. Decided not to fight too hard, as I want it replaced as soon as possible. Our local heating man who was round yesterday servicing our boiler is disgusted with Ariston and is willing to ring them up threatening to put the work round all Wiltshire plumbers not use Ariston! Doubt he will, but at least he on side!!!

Maybe we'll arrange a visit after New Year - have to find half-way spot and see if it is feasible to meet up somewhere. A town on the A350 is probably a good bet?

anyway, apparently, it is a pressurised cylinder which is why it needs servicing (explains our wonderfully powerful showers!!), but is also why it had to switched off as once it leaks properly, water could explode out of it badly!

anyway, off out for lunch with a friend, so that will cheer me up. She had a really traumatic birth experience with her DD of 15 months and is now 6 months pg with her 2nd and terrified of giving birth, poor girl.

Great parcel, Bodders - sounds fantastic!

xxx

ohh fettle what a horrible situation!! not what you need with 2 littlies and coming up to xmas. i coudlnt get my head round why you would need it serviced either but being a pressurised one makes sense. we usually just go with a bog standard tank and attatch a pump onto the outside to get awesome showers. i hope you get it sorted soon atleast you have got the heating man on your side.

bodkin - congrats on the coil!! they always sound a bit painful to me. how lovely of your friend to send you all of them fab clothes!! so are you going to have an afternoon of dress up with isla?

im having a day today where i just cant get motivated its 2 o clock and i am not even dressed hence why this post is so brief - i just cant be arsed!! our budget for the house is spiralling out of control and with dp not working now so he can finish before oscar is born is starting to panick me a bit as we still have bills to pay and my income is crap being on matrnity leave, i hope it all muddles itself out soon.

might pop back later ladies xx

Hey ladies sorry for being away for a few days. Just so busy at the moment. Had a lovely time meeting up with some of the AN ladies on Tuesday evening in Glasgow we had so much to say in such a short period of time I also squeezed in a trip to Bravissimo to try out nursing bras and estimate the size I?ll be. They told me 34/36 J or K! how soon before your EDD did you buy a nursing bra? I might buy one at about 36 weeks so I have a just in case one and then order a couple more just before, what do you think? Had a bit of a scary appointment, not in a physical way don?t worry, yesterday. It was with the consultant anaesthetist about my options if things don?t go according to plan and I need a section either planned or emergency. With my blood condition, there are a few added dimensions that scared me to death. I am such a wooze I know Still better to know in advance and I left hoping (in the nicest possible way) that I wouldn?t be seeing the lovely Dr again!!

Hang in there Cityangel it is so hard in the early days but I am sending you good vibes. Sorry to hear about the moles that?s not nice.

Hello Seaside all good with you?

Bodders ? sorry to hear that things are tough I never know what to say to you and the other Mummies when things are hard with your LOs as I have no experience but I do read it all and think about you all (and try and store the info in my head for when my time comes!) I guess all these little people have to be got to known sounds like a really good CO session! LOL love the child packaging! hope the coil works well for you and what a lovely box you got from your friend!!

Fettle hello! Hope Toby is better along with all the others in your house! So sorry to hear about the hot water, and those stitches, ow, ow, ow that is crazy about the warranty, threaten them with Watchdog, shout and scream ? that is just NOT on!!

Honeyapple thanks for the reassurance re the doula. Sometimes I think I am really hard on my DH hope Dex is ok must have been very worrying!

Greedy ? LOL my DH definitely has pregnancy hormones doesn?t he! He watched a 2 day old bubba being bathed at Dads 2 B on Monday night and melted again! Bet Marcy is just so gorgeous!

Thanks Firsty how?s you?

That?s fab Rainbowdays are you still on the road?

Chooster see you later!!!

Iampg ? how are you keeping?

hi everyone,

well i've had a horrible few days... the HV told me to take Dex to the GP, then the GP told me to take him to hospital... which is when the whole thing snowballed .

he was admitted on tues night with bronchilitis. He had to have an IV drip put in through his hand and had oxygen thingy taped to his face and a heart/breathing monitor wired upto him. It was really traumatic. He was x rayed which showed he had this bronchilitis, hence his breathing difficulties. So they gave him antibiotics through the IV and paracetamol as he had quite a high temperature by the time I got him to hospital. He was discharged this afternoon, so I have spent 2 nights in the ward with him. They took him off the drip last night because I was managing to feed him, although one doctor had said she wanted to put a feeding tube in... which fortunatley I said I didnt want and was able to prove that he was feeding ok from me. Then this morning they took his oxygen off and he was able to keep his oxygen saturation level up on his own, so finally they said we could go home .

The bad thing is DR said Dex might now be prone to more chest problems and possibly asthma.. so I am going to be paranoid now about anyone with a cold, or if he gets snuffly . But he seems pretty ok now, have got oral antibiotics for him to take. But was quite scary and I just cried all evening when I got to hospital and they started sticking things in him. I had no idea that was going to happen, which I think is why i was so shocked and upset. GP and sent me to hopsital to get him a chest x-ray- and then it all went a bit mad. Of course I am glad I did take him, as who knows how ill he might have got if I hadn't.

Going to try and keep him indoors now for the next week.

Oh honey - you poor poor girl and poor little Dexter. How scary - but thank goodness you did take him to hospital and that he is home safely now again. Puts my moans about my hot water into perspective - what's more important than our children's health - you take care of yourselves! Big hugs. xxxxx

We've got somewhere with our hot water - Ariston have agreed to send out an engineer free of charge. If he agrees the cylinder would have been ok if it had been serviced then no luck to us, if he thinks the cylinder was flawed and even servicing wouldn't have prevented this problem,t hey will provide the cylinder free of charge, but we have to pay for fitting. So now just have to hope the engineer takes pity on me - have to make Toby look as cute as possible!

Big hugs to all - DD's supper is beeping!
xxx

Oh Honey how scary! poor you and poor Dex sending huge hugs.

Fettle - result!

honey - how scarey for you. poor little dex. thank god you did take him to the gp hey? i know its prob no consolation, but we had a similar thing with ds when he was little ( he was 5 months though, not a few weeks) and he was in hospital with bronchiolitis. he was given one of those inhalers to bring home, but he hasn't really had too many problems since and doesn't seem asthmatic at all. fettles right though (as usual!!) it does put everything into perspective doesnt it?

ds had a big day yesterday! found out what class he will be in from january when he goes into reception..................can't believe my baby is starting school!!! made me cry needless to say!!!

Honey - poor you, what a time you've had of it. Hope Dex is starting to recover now. Well done for managing to keep feeding him while in hospital - not easy to do when medical professionals are suggesting otherwise, so hats off to you. Hope you can get a couple of days snuggled up with your little chap in bed - I bet you're wiped out with the stress of it all.

I tried to fob Isla off without a feed last night when she woke at 12.50am (I would have fed her if it had been later, but I knew at that time it would just mean another waking at 5ish) Well, I patted her a bit, and she cried a bit, but not really "feed me now" crying for about 20 mins. Then she stopped and went back to sleep for about 10 mins and I was just about to do the hallelujah chorus when she started up again, but still quite subdued crying, so I left her a bit longer.. anyway, I won't bore you all with it anymore, but suffice to say after an hour and 10 mins of her crying a bit then snoozing a bit, I got bored and knackered and fed her. Then she threw up. GRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!! Still, on the plus side, she did then sleep through until 6.30 and would probably have gone longer had DD1 not come stampeding down the corridor like a herd of elephants...

Chooster - has Theo done any more all-nighters yet? Give me some hope that it is possible!

Fettle - that sounds hopeful on the boiler front.

MrsMc - I didn't even know there was a size J!!!! Have you posted any pics of you and your bump on your profile? Hang on, i'll go and have a look...

Will put the latest Isla pic up too

thanks everybody

Dex seems a much happier chap today, although still wanting a lot of cuddles- which is fine by me! I am still in my nightie and dressing gown and have just been sitting on the sofa cuddling and feeding him as he likes .

Bodders- hope you arent too tired today after Isla's night time antics. I dont blame you for giving in and feeding her, it's so easy to do when you are BF. I think I did that with my DS until he was at least 9 mths. And I dont think he slept through the night until he was about 3!

Think I better start some proper xmas shopping and DD birthday shopping- ahhh thats next friday... cant go out so need to do it all online. Getting her a bike for bday- but got no clue about xmas for either DS1 or DD- they are rubbish and just shrug when I ask them what they want... and then show me some piece of plastic junk in the argos catalogue... and I'm like- 'how long will you play with that?'... DS1 says...'5 minutes!' and then laughs! ANyone got any suggestions for me? What are you getting DC or nieces/nephews?

Great! Dexter has just fallen asleep under his baby gym .

Greedy- thanks for info about your DS and his run in with bronchiolitis. There were about 4 babies in at the same time as Dex with it. Apparently it is quite common at this time of year and they get a rush of kids being admitted. There was a baby in the room next to me... the mum left it on it's own overnight and it cried all night .

Oh Honey that's a bit sad for the poor baby next door to you. makes me feel a bit better about leaving Isla to cry last night though

On the pressie front, DP has worn me down, and we're getting DD the playmobil Hospital. bloody expensive, but it's the only thing she has repeatedly asked for, and her birthday is early jan, so it's a joint birthday and chrimbo pressie. I am secretly very excited about it I know she would also like a musical jewellery box (you know the sort, with the dancing ballerina - didn't we all want one of those at age 4 ) but that'll have to wait I think. From everyone else, we've asked for books and DVDs for her, to minimise the tidal wave of plastic crap.

Hi, oh thats awful Honey - How is Dex today? That must have been such a worry for you all. Hopefully he'll be 100% very soon ...

Run out of time to post - all well here... I'd love to say that Theo has done another all nighter Bodkin - but sadly no.... He's awake either once or twice still... Grrrr

Bodders- I love playmobil... bought my DS the farm and all the animals when he was little, was expensive at the time, but they both still play with it now. We have quite a collection of playmobil- but not the hospital! Have got the emergency helicopter though- complete with injured passenger- bloke with black eye and 5 o'clock shadow .

Hi chooster- yes Dex is good today thanks... he's been asleep for ages... think I better go wake him up ...

Ahhh. just found another spare 5 mins... . Theo has been sleeping for ages and I keep waiting for him to wake up, normally he sleeps between 30 and 45 mins but he's gone over an hour this time... he is snotty though poo wee chap - the amount that came out his nose this morning was obscene .

So, hows that coil bodkin - nice and snug . i've never had one myself, not really sure i like the idea of it but dont really know why . It would be easier than most other methods. I had my pill prescription in my purse for about 9 weeks until I finally got it done at the chemist - now the pills are just sitting in my bathroom - haven't bothered starting them yet. Its right what they say, the longer you dont have sex the less you want to have it - at least thats the case with me . Oooh, playmobil hospital - it looks FAB!!!! Max has got the playmobil airport, plane and truck that loads bags - I've tried to go for a theme and get everyone to buy into that. Its still wont stop the waves of other tat that will come into the house though.

Brrrr, no hot water fettle - thats horible at this time of year isn't it. How are you getting on? It would never have crossed my mind to ask for servicing paperwork when buying a house. How was DD's gym class?

Right, I'd better go and nudge that boy awake... We need to go soon as Max is meeting some pals at soft play. Then I'm going out tonight for a dinner with some local mums. I know one of them hence the invite and there'll be about 8 in total. I'm really looking forward to it... All the women have a child around the same age as Max too (he knows quite a few of the kids from nursery) so it'll be good all round .

it just feels wrong to wake theo up though!!!! Why couldn't he have done this on one of Max's nursery days so I could have slept with him ?????????

Crossed with you Honey - very glad that Dex is much better today - good luck waking up your boy .

Meant to say that max is getting the plane and airport for xmas this year, he doesn;t already have it - they are in the cupbaord just waiting to be wrapped .

Hi all

glad little Dexter is better today Honey - can't believe that mother left her baby. I assume she had no choice and had to go home to other littlies? I couldn't have left Toby on his own in hospital.

We're getting DD a kid's digital camera, bit pricey, but I know she will love it and it will stop her taking phots with our expensive one, which I'm terrified of her breaking all the time!. Got it from Argos, as it is by the far the cheapest from there.

No sign of this engineer to check our boiler yet, was supposed to be 24 hours from 12pm yesterday, so Ariston have given the job to another man who is supposed to call between 3.30 and 4pm, so we'll wait and see! Coping ok without hot water, as have kettles, but could really do with a nice hot shower (we're all going to a friend's in the morning for baths and showers!). It's the washing machine I'm missing the most, the only cycle I can use the handwash cold, which is so gentle, short and cold that nothing is coming clean - so hope Toby doesn't do a poo explosion!!!

Better go, calpol-dosed, snotty, tempy, minxy DD is running riot and Toby is crying! It's not quiet here this afternoon!!

take care all
xxx

bodders - my dd wants a ballerina jewellery box too!!! its all she keeps asking for!!!! i am TRYING to persuade her and ds that they REALLY REALLY want a playhouse seeing as we have already spent over £300 on one!!! i think the playmobil hospital looks FAB! we have said no big presents (sizewise!) this year, but i cant imagine anyone sticking to it!!!.............obviously the playhouse doesnt count cos its for the garden!!! i did have to tell my mum to send back the 10ft trampoline that she had ordered for them both though!!! not sure where she thought we would be able to put it!!!
ds is getting the vtech vsmile thing from my parents now and dd1 is getting a bike! not sure about little ol' marcy cos i keep telling everyone she doesn't need anything (which is obviously true, but i do feel a bit mean even if she will only be 12 weeks!)

i am not saying ANYTHING about marcy's sleeping at night cos i dont want to tempt fate. i think even typing that might have tempted fate too much! we will see tonight!!

honey - that poor baby next to you. did none of the staff or anything try to stop it from crying? and why did the mum leave it? did she have a good reason or was she just a heartless old witch!?

bodders - what are you doing for dd1's bday then? its a pain being so close to xmas isnt it. i think marcy was concieved on that date last year (actually its still this year isn't it?) and its my dd1s bday too, so a pretty special day!!!

chooster - is theo really a 'poo wee chap'!!! or a poor wee chap?!!! made me laugh!!! we get loads of tat too!!! sounds so ungrateful doesn't it, but i know EXACTLY what you mean!!

well, we have the grand switching on of the lights in sawbridgeworth tonight!!! dh PROMISED he would be home in time to take the big two, but i think he is going to let me down and i am going to have to drag poor marcy along too. dont think she is going to gain much from it really and i am sure she would rather be at home in bed. i will TRY not to be too annoyed with dh!!

well, do you know how dense i am ladies? i was getting real cramps in my tummy yesterday and i thought it was still an after effect of giving birth.......how stupid am i? then today i started feeling really 'squeezy' (cant explain that one really, but i just get this urge to squeeze and hug my kids really tight...........bit worrying for marcy!)..........but anyway, i ALWAYS felt like this when i was premenstrual and i suddenly realised today that must be why i had cramps yesterday!!! i am going to look back and check how long ago i told you lot i had EWCM, but i reckon it was prob 2 weeks ago and the dreaded AF is returning!!! i HAVE NOT missed her!!!

fettle - my ds wants that camera too .............drop drop drop!!! thats what he keeps saying!!! (might be a good idea actually, cos he did drop my camera the other day and broke it!.......easily fixed though!!)

well! dh let me down!!! no surprises there then!!! he was supposed to be home at 5.15 so he could take ellis and kiki round to the high street to see the lights being turned on. its a small village but they make a big thing of it.......santa comes to turn them on and everyone sings carols before hand and drinks mulled wine etc, and then they have the school xmas fayre straight afterwards. ellis goes to the nursery attached to the school so obviously was desperate to go to the fayre and kiki was desperate to do the countdown for the lights being turned on (she has just mastered counting backwards from ten and is very pleased with herself!!) ANYWAY!!! a promise is a promise, so i HAD to take them!!! first dh told me he would make it, then about 5 mins before he was due to be home suddenly rang and said he was nowhere near!!! he has NO IDEA about anything!!! i was in the middle of feeding marcy, so i had to stop that get shoes and coats on everyone, do the quick toilet visits and throw everyone in the car! poor marcy got the rest of her milk in the car as i was driving!! not v. safe i know, but its only round the corner on little roads! it was drizzling with rain and i forgot marcy's raincover so she also got drizzled all over....................she is such a superstar though she was completely unfazed by having her feed disrupted and getting dragged around and rained all over, and she has just gone straight to bed with no fuss bless her. i felt really sorry for her though!

ANYWAY!!!!! the moral of my (rather lengthy) story is to all you first time mums and mums to be...............................MAKE THE MOST OF IT when you only have the one baby!!! second and third babies really tend to get dragged around everywhere with you and you dont get half as much time for nice relaxing feeds and cuddles on the sofa.

OMG - arsey marcy 7 chins sleeps from 7-7 doesn't she?!!!! I'm jealous so I'm going to jinx it for you, Greedy!!!! [hope I don't really, as I'd hate anyone to jinx my little one's ability to self-settle!!

He's just done it again! So off to bed now, in the hope he goes a good stretch tonight (I can hope! - had good nights and not so good nights recently - no pattern whatsoever, but we're not really ina routine, just going with the flow as that is what is working for us at the moment. Definitely much more relaxed about everything this time around!)

Glad lights were fun, greedy - we had ours last Saturday evening and all 3 of my children (inc DH!) loved it! Keep forgetting to tell you Greeds, that DH and I actually met in Harlow. We were both working for pharmaceutical companies there while in our 3rd year at respective universities! Nearly moved to Sawbridgeworth to move out of the YWCA in Harlow, which is where all us "sandwich students" were put, but couldn't be bothered in the end.

Chooster - sorry to hear about your snotty boy - hope he is better soon. Poor DD is very snotty and chesty at the moment.

Bodders - forgot to say well done on the coil. Which did you go for hormone or normal? Still don't think it is for me, I just couldn't stand it being inserted or checking for the strings. Dr suggested the implants for me, but I'm not so sure. I'm with Chooster, the longer we put it off the less appealing the whole idea is, but that's not fair on DH. Just wish my wound would heal, started bleeding again today.

Better go - DD has just had a really bad coughing fit and is crying now!

xxx

So lots more bleeding and red at that. Doctor sent us to A&E. Amazingly the early scan showed 6 week + heartbeat intact obviously early days but fingers crossed. They can see the bleed too which hopefully will stop soon. Someway towards ubeing re-assured for now.

I was sure it had gone so a bit shocked really. One happy dh too so fingers crossed our luck holds out.

I hope you guys are ok. Thanks for all your kind messages. Your story made me Lol Greedy I want lots to drag around I hope you all have a great weekend

Cityangel- poor you, what a fight, but FANTASTIC news that you saw a little heart beat. It's amazing isnt it! Fingers still tightly crossed that it will all be plain sailing from now on.

Well my other SIL had her baby this morning - another wee man- she lives in Austria, so unfortunatley we wont be meeting him for a while. I think she is planning on coming here early next year with him.

Fettle- sorry to hear you are still suffering down below . I had another bit of bleeding today too, getting really bored of it now. Will probably go back to GP and ask for a scan to check for any retained products still lurking. I would love to get frisky with DP but this bleeding is putting both of us off. HV suggested I take the mini pill- but I'm not keen really. Dont fancy the coil either. Need to talk to DP about it really.

Greedy- poor you and AF returning. But fab about Marcy sleeping so well. The lights are being turned on tommorrow night here, there is a procession with Father Christmas... Barney from Cbbc is turning the lights on ????? I think he must be in the local panto... which one is he anyway??

Re that baby- the mum was a bit of a witch I reckon- she was there with her DP and then they both just left the baby... surely he could have looked after any other kids? Also she didnt turn up the next day until about 11am. A nurse did eventually try to settle the baby, but they had been too busy with some emergencies...

I didnt tell you, but a 9 day old baby was also admitted on the night Dex was, but it died. I was really shocked and upset. I cant imagine anything worse to happen. To all of you- if you think your baby is unwell, or just not right, dont wait- take it to the doctors. Apparently the baby had been brought in with diarrhea- but as it was so little, it just couldnt cope. I dont know if there was anything else wrong with it. Awful.

Anyway, hope all your babies are happy and well and getting lots of cuddles .

sorry cityangel- I meant 'what a FRIGHT'

Thanks Honeyapple. Sorry to hear you have bleeding too. Congratulations for your SIL. It will be really nice when you get to see the baby

oh cityangel - what a horrible fright? So pleased you saw a little heartbeat - how's the bleeding now, settled down? Keeping everything crossed that everything goes smoothly for you now!

Honey - that's awful about that 9-day old baby. They are so very vunerable at this small age aren't they? Very good advice to err on the side of caution if you're at all worried. It is easy though to feel you are wasting the doctor's time, but I've never ever actually been made to feel that I am a time-waster when I've taken either of my children in when I've been worried about something.

Anyway, tired tonight. Think party was a success, but didn't actually speak to anyone for very long. Have loads of food left over and buckets of non-alcoholic festive punch. Most of the mulled wine was gone though - shame as I could do with a glass now!!

Very sad actually, one of our neighbours didn't come as she had a mc on Friday night. Her baby was due to April/May so that must be quite a late mc, isn't it? Brain too tired to work it out accurately. Just so sad - just reminds you how hard it is having these little babies. Although i've had 2 mcs, mine were both before 12 weeks and I hate to think that seeing little Toby will be hard for her as well - must get her a card tomorrow, just to let her know that i'm thinking of her.

Anyway, on that somber note, I'd better leave you all - sleep well all and i hope you all have good weeks.
xxx

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