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mornin' ladies

and the conversation continues...

Oh ladymac

I know abolutley nothing of deafness, but it does sound like you are getting good treatment from your local NHS. Are there web sites available for parents with hearing impaired children who will be able to talk to you about your particular worries. (there must be - there are sites now for everything)

For the buggy, have a look here and here.

Adn jsut to cheer you up a very little bit - my birthday is May so you're younger than me!!

Thank you lilibet, you have cheered me up no end and made me feel positively youthful

Can you try your links again as they don't seem to be linking me to anything.

Am jsut dashing to school to try and sort out the ds2 problem, i put 'rear facing double buggy" in google and it brought up two mumsnet htreads!

sorry for crap typing!

Ds2 was innocent, the other boy is being excluded!

oh crikey lilibet! Excluded? Must have been some incident then.

Don't blame you for weeping my dear. I think we all get to the point where the strength we mustered from who knows where dissipates into the ether and we're left a weeping mess on the floor. I know, been there many a time. Doesn't help when it's fuelled by hormones either

On the positive side, Betsy is getting loads of help and is moving in the right direction. She's seemingly accepting of her hearing aids.

I think you've reached a cross roads where you've come to realise (and have to accept) that your child is different to others. Of course this isn't a bad thing but I think it's daunting at first (when you realise this, and that is what you're doing). Embrace it dear! Betsy is otherwise a lovely, clever, normal (if you like but I hate that word), little girl

Chin up chuck. Or in my case 'chins'

You're exactly right jw, I've been so positive about it all up till now but today I woke up and just wanted to stay in bed with the covers over my head. I wouldn't change her for the world and realise that the deafness has contributed to her lovely, funny, sunny personality but all of a sudden I'm having to change the way I'm talking to her and it just seems strange.

DH and I felt so proud of her yesterday at the assessment, she absolutely charmed the pants off the 3 therapists then kissed them all when it was time to go

ladymac - despite being upset about the implications of your LO's hearing probs, you took the time to recommend I take probiotics to counteract the antiobiotics - so I reckon you're going to be brilliant at multi-tasking the signing and talking and general encouragement for Elizabeth. I've seen friends go thru diagnoses of asperger's, dyslexia and autism with their kids and they have all had to become a weepy heap from time to time. Not because something is 'wrong' with their child but because they realise dc will have additional challenges and all we want is for them to sail thru life and be happy. Which even the healthiest babies don't always do...

And apparently we should all have been using rear-facing buggies, or so some survey on the Today prog said, so Elizabeth will grow up aware, confident and communicative while my dc, who had front-facing buggies, will be sociopathic hoodies hanging out in shopping centres...

Lilibet - thank goodness your dc isn't the excluded one! and since he wants to play footie tonight I'm hoping he's not too hurt/shaken up by the incident!

ladymac - despite being upset about the implications of your LO's hearing probs, you took the time to recommend I take probiotics to counteract the antiobiotics - so I reckon you're going to be brilliant at multi-tasking the signing and talking and general encouragement for Elizabeth. I've seen friends go thru diagnoses of asperger's, dyslexia and autism with their kids and they have all had to become a weepy heap from time to time. Not because something is 'wrong' with their child but because they realise dc will have additional challenges and all we want is for them to sail thru life and be happy. Which even the healthiest babies don't always do...

And apparently we should all have been using rear-facing buggies, or so some survey on the Today prog said, so Elizabeth will grow up aware, confident and communicative while my dc, who had front-facing buggies, will be sociopathic hoodies hanging out in shopping centres...

Lilibet - thank goodness your dc isn't the excluded one! and since he wants to play footie tonight I'm hoping he's not too hurt/shaken up by the incident!

So good I said it twice. Dunno what happened there

echo...oo..ooo..oooooo

Blimey - lots of chat today.

ladymac Wow - I think you're more than entitiled to a few wobbly tears. It must be very daunting and challenging, but you're a woman up to the job Plus, I think it'll be challenging and stimulating too. You'll also develop such a close relationship with Betsy through all this and it sounds to me as though her personality will carry her through it all admirably. She will also be able to mix confidently within two worlds - the hearing and the non/partial hearing.....a bit like being bi-lingual. Chances are she'll be terribly adept at taking things on without batting an eyelid. Of course - I was forgetting - she's a ginger - a 'chosen' one. She'll be fine and so will you x

ladymac Phil and Teds really aren't all they're cracked up to be. I should have gone for a side by side buggy. I don't like my P&T - There, I've said it! I've spotted one on the Mothercare website called First Wheels City Twin Pushchair and it can face forward, rear or one forward one rear. I'd definately have given this a test drive. P&T are too heavy - impossible to push wih one hand - dangerous when you take out the heavy child at the front - we've tipped over so many times - and bloody uncomfy, with thin little straps I loved the Bugaboo and am getting a standing-board for Iris for when the weather is nice.

lilibet gosh - getting stuck in the car! Pleased that your DC wasn't the culprit!

ermintrude Ouch! That sounds nasty - tooth pain is the devil's invention

tee well done on the duvet - am

MrB I LOVE a good, green poo with plenty of fart'age' for good measure

jw what can I say...you have a wet room?! POSH!!

Had Iris's friends over - they reaked havoc while us mums drank tea. If I'd been a good parent I'd have done something exciting with some bananas like ladymac although I thought of making them cake - but decided against it

JJ wondered where you'd been hiding all day and now we know....letting Iris run around the house with her maties, no doubt shouting 'boobies!' so the neighbours could hear Wonderful.

Aye, we got a wet room put in and then 2 months later I found out I was pregnant! Hah! We're ok with K though as we stick her in the mop bucket with an extra blast of Vim. I love all things scandinavian and wet rooms do fit the bill.

Talking of scand, I saw these today and want one.

Forgot to put the link in and now I've lost the link addy. Duh!

I'll have to keep you all in suspenders until later.

jw no BOOBIES today - just lots of the word Rainbow

This morning I let her run around with no nappy on (we've got temporary painted chipboard flooring - so no carpet worries) and she stood infront of the tv - peed - looked at it in surprise and said "OOooo, look.....water" and walked off

Ah - Scandinavia - they're a bonkers bunch. Went on a press trip to Finland once for a fashion fair. (This is the trip where I took my top off on the plane by mistake to reveal my Wonderbra to the business man sat next to me) Anyway - in the evening we ate reindeer, blinis and had lashings of vodka and afterwards we all had a sauna, where old hags whipped the air with birch twigs and then we were marched out onto a pontoon and jumped into an icy lake Oh - those crazy guys know how to entertain

JJ how the heck do you take your top off 'by mistake?' Was it at least a nice wonderbra?

JJ sounds like a normal night out to me! hahahahaha

Seriously, they love their vodka. In Sweden you're only allowed a measly litre of vodka a week as all alcohol is regulated by the government (sounds good to me). So they all go on booze cruises over the water to Denmark. Woot! Come back dry husks where they've been pickled from the inside out.

Talking of which, the supermarkets are selling alcohol at ridiculous prices. It's cheaper than milk! No wonder we've got a reputation as a nation of binge drinkers and yobs.

Just filled out my polling card for the vote on congestion charge in Manchester. I must say I've put a 'for' in my box. Peak times in Manchester inner/outer city is madness, chaos and at the best of times, down right dangerous.

Off to TK Maxx this morning to see what nice scand baby clothes they have for me today. Doing a massive Ebay clear out this weekend of K's clothes. She's out grown so many. Ergo buy more Also it's free listing weekend (but don't let that fool you as the final value fees are crippling).

Morning ladies.

Well, tee it was a very nice Wonderbra! Basically I had two tops on as part of a set. There was a dark grey, zip-down top with short sleeves and a matching long sleeve jacket with hood on top. Got on plane, took off long sleeve one and forgetten I'd done that. I then got very hot - looked down and thought 'huh- thought I'd taken that off?' so proceeded to take off top I sat there, black bra, peanuts and a drink, while my mate was bashing her head laughing against the window...tee hee.

Oooo Vodka - my fave At least in Scandinavia it's the real Mccoy. In Russia when you buy vodka in the shops you have to search through all the bottles looking for the ones that aren't blue or grey as there are so many contaminated fakes with branded labels on them

No TK Maxx here - probably a good thing.

Off to dye some sofa covers - wish me luck that they don't turn into a 70s tie-dyed nightmare

Sofa covers are now brown. Not choccy brown like it says on the tin - but a soft, mink'esque' brown. I'm thrilled! I think I've peaked for today

Ooooer, just ventured into the weaning boards (I know, I know, I knew what to expect) and blimey O'Rielly, they don't half beat people up for not going down the Baby Led Weaning Route. Someone has started a nice thread on purees, to add your recipe ideas etc....and the BLW banditos are there at every turn harping on about "if they can't eat a whole bit of food by picking it up and feeding themselves then they're not ready to wean....!!" TOSH!! Poor Iris would have waited till gone a year! GGGrrrrrrrr...I do wonder if the powers-that-be up at MN towers shouldn't try to curb the aggression sometimes...I mean these people are very aggresive and they're certainly not medically trained...

If I had the nerve I'd tell them that one of my good friends is a maxio-facial surgeon and he told me the belief is that kissing came from weaning - when we chewed up for for babies and passed it on. He also said that hard chewing without teeth - or lack of back ones can force pressure on some jaws, influencing a disortion of the shape of the jaw So BAH! to them all.

*trotts off to look at nice banana and sultana loaf that's just come out of the oven. I shall pass it round when it's cooled down - in about 20 mins!

Poor DS2 is quite upset, it's sounds like it was quite nasty. He's a very confident little boy, on the rugby and football teams so used to confrontation, but this was a Y9 who towered over him. He was very shaken by it all last night. He went to a very small and freindly primary school and his high school is quite large and a bit more 'mixed'. DD was all for digging out her old uniform and going in to see this lad, and even ds1 was nice to him (brotherly love isn't shown much chez moi), the main thing with him being the injustice of the size and age gap. If it had been another Y7er he wouldn't have felt so strongly about it.

Anyhow, its his birthday today so he is all smiles.

JJ I took my top off on my driving test and passed

yummy - I'll put the kettle on JJ

So, this baby led weaning business giving them bits of food to gnaw on sounds fab as an adjunct to actually getting some food down them and getting them used to eating properly but but but - how are you supposed to get lots of different things down them? How are you going to sneak healthy things into their diet that they don't like? Surely any baby worth its salt would refuse the bits of carrot and eat only the chips?

JJ I have heard that about weaning too. I think that BLW is a fad to be honest, who really wants a baby eating spag bol with its' fists? I've seen the pictures on that board and they ain't pretty. I always went along the lines of giving them a bit of something in their hand to hold like a bit of crust while I shovelled the mush in with a spoon. Ahhh - those were the days!

The bleeding discharge is still going - 4 weeks and counting . I asked and was told that average is 3 - 4 weeks, so I suppose that some lucky sod has had it for a week or a fortnight and I'm making up for it at the other end.

johnworf do you sell aftershave?

lilibet I most certainly do. Not all aftershaves I hasten to add but I do have a veritable selection

FYI

"25% off Isabella Oliver maternity clothing today, 20% tomorrow, 15% on Sunday and 10% on Monday. Enter code 'FESTIVE' at checkout"

Yes jw where do we find your website? Then we could buy stuff and you could use the profits to buy clothes for your growing girl

lilibet your poor ds. I hate nasty big boys. Poor you too with the bleeding. It does sound like you got somebody else's allocation. Happy birthday to your ds.

Just back from Brent Cross shopping centre where I could only manage to buy Elizabeth 2 tops using the 30% off Gap voucher. Grace made the most of the 20% Early Learning Centre one by buying E's christmas presents - an apron and oven gloves to go with the cooker we've bought her from Letterbox.

No time to bake today so I bought an iced banana cake from Waitrose. Feeling much better, like a different person. Think it must have been the hormones that made me so weepy. Seriously, I just couldn't stop crying

ladymac if you google the words interstellar and perfume you will find me. However, if you're looking for something in particular, ask me first and I'll let you know if it's in stock as things seem to be flying off the shelves at the mo (i.e. might have to order it in if the supplier hasn't already run out of it!).

The stuff we sell is exactly the same as John Lewis', Debenhams, Tesco et al. I know this as I've seen their invoices when I've been noseying at the suppliers offices. hehe. Anyhoo we're cheaper than them (obviously).

We've also got a few gift sets in that aren't on the website but are on my ebay shop. tonnesofstuff4u.

There. Said it now