January & February Mummies 2008

LB fantastic news!! I hope your doc appointment brings solutions! Sending healthy vibes to you...
Daniel generally wakes around 7.30/8.00 but Ashlee is between 5.30 and 7.30 I would love love love a sleep in.
We've got Daniel a two wheel mongoose bike for his birthday it is so cute!! I still can't believe it's been 2 years!!
Augh, bought some cheap nappies for Ashlee and they suck. She's wee'd through already... I think I'll just bin them.

First off - Happy Birthday to the gorgeous Olivia .
Good thing your ticker ticks back over tomorrow Freesia because sometimes I would have no problem believing Livvy was 3.

Freesia you and I sound so similar in our approaches to money. I find I have to stick to a budget or else the little bits here and there add up really quickly. But the lump sums I hold on to for dear life lol!

Hope your back comes right quickly too.

Janey I'm so sorry you don't have answers but I can't tell you how relieved I am you don't have cancer. I hope you feel better soon. It must be horrid not having an end in sight yet.

Liz the time between baby coming out and getting weighed etc and you being in recovery is only a matter of about 20minutes but you can also ask that DH does the skin to skin while you're on the table. He will be given baby anyway to hold so he can just pop him under his scrubs. And generally the C-sect is done at 37.5 weeks or a bit earlier so you aren't so likely to go into labour but I would also imagine that your MW would be monitoring you closely for any signs that you'll go early due to the fact you have to have a C. I know it's still worrying but I hope that makes you feel a little better.

KA I would say don't worry about whether or not you can have one because that is your call not the OB's. They may like you to trial labour but you can tell them to get stuffed. However, I would keep pestering them because you need the anesthesiology forms to fill out and send back.

Rowan turned into a tantruming 2 year old right on her second birthday - like someone flicked a switch. They're not too bad but she's started throwing dinner she doesn't care for on the floor, shrieking at us and occasionally throwing toys. But so far the 'time out' chair is working (though I think it will wear out fast). Reminds me I have to clean a tomato stain off the floor from last night

I'm having a good day here. I vacuumed the house this morning and both girls are asleep now. Just waiting for mum to arrive and I'll jump in the shower and then make an attempt on mopping the floors (if my enthusiasm doesn't wane)

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LB, thank goodness you came back clear for cancer. Now I just hope they can find out what's causing all this really soon.

OMG Bobbie, it's weird how you say Rowan turned into the tantruming 2 year old on her birthday. Livvy is literally crying herself to sleep at the moment. I have never let her do it before but she just starts up screaming again if I go into the room. She woke up pretty grumpy and cg must've tired her out but geese louise! She was really good yesterday and we had a great day and I was just starting to think that she was starting to settle down again after being away.

I didn't hold either bubba straight away after birth, Daddy did... first time around I was too shattered and couldn't move from the epi, and second time was shaking and in pain down below (like Verena) and couldn't hold myself up let alone bubba. Both times it took about 10-15 mins before I was ready to hold... in which time baby was held by Daddy, cord clamped, measured, weighed, wrapped etc. and then plonked on me. I got plenty of skin on skin later and both times they started suckling as soon as they were put on me

Thanks guys I'm so happy it's not cancer, obviously... cos I get to do midwifery this year among many other reasons, haha. I feel like they think I'm just being paranoid now, at the Dr, because I'm so over it. They don't really seem to care if it's anything other than cancer. Grr. Oh well I have a Dr appointment soon (but not with my normal Dr as she's on holiday) and we will see what she says about the test results. I have that pinprick rash now and my lower back is killing me today and there are some new lumps/lymph nodes down there now too. Who freaking knows what is going on. I feel a bit betrayed by my body to be honest I want a refund! Lol. I'm so over having a permanent fever.

Anyway better get Ollie ready to go next door while I'm at Dr's.

Gosh you all must be so sick of my whinging. I held out for months but now that I've let it all slip, I can't stop ranting

LB - you should have shared earlier! Keeping it all in is not good. If you can't rant here, where can you . I am so please that it is not cancer (especially with your family history) but it must suck to still not have any answers. Do you know of any other doctors down your way who may have other thoughts than the conventional? Some doctors seem to get so caught in in the *usual suspects* that they can not see anything else. Perhaps someone who thinks outside the square?

Happy Birthday Olivia! I hope you all have a super day and that the cake decorating goes well Looking forward to seeing the photos.

KA - good luck moving. I hope that you have lots of helpers and will just be able to sit back and supervise. We moved when I was 7months pg with Sophie and it was a relief when it was over!

39 weeks sounds like it's cutting it a bit close doesn't it? Hope you get the appointment soon so you know what to expect.

Just on quickly to post a picture of her cake she decorated. It's a real mess but she had fun eating all the lollies.

That looks like awesome fun, Freesia!

Josh was given lactulose at a&e when he was really little.

Hope you find out what is wrong soon LB - we dont mind your ranting or whinging we all do it from time to time.

Grr josh has the hose on again little brat is too strong for his own good hopefully he not flooding the tunnel house this time

WRXandJosh wrote: Hope you find out what is wrong soon LB - we dont mind your ranting or whinging we all do it from time to time.

Yeah... I just seem to be doing it ALL the time, lately. I'm so sorry! I don't want to turn our thread all negative

So....

Hehe.

Yeah, Ollie has duphalac which is lactulose for babies. You must be right about getting unblocked, Freesia, he has gone about 4 more times today since he got rid of that first blockage. Poor chap! I bet it was all the crackers Daddy gave him in the weekend that blocked him up... we get the wholegrain ones full of fibre and seeds and stuff, not plain crackers, but even that doesn't seem to help. Hmm, what else can we give him to munch on when we are out... any ideas?

I'm off to bed now, was sleeping but Ollie woke so I thought I would do my compulsory OB/FB check before I hit the hay again

Happy Birthday Harry! Hope you have a really great day today.

LB, when Livvy got badly constipated the dr put some lactulose 'up there' and that got rid of the blockage and once it was out, she was okay again (taking lactulose for a few weeks). I think we just gave Livvy those breadsticks or Kruskits when she was little and we went out but they could possibly bung Ollie up too. Somebody did post a recipe for homemade marmite breadsticks done in the microwave, that's another option because you could use wholemeal ones.

Hope your night wasn't too bad Charly. Was it you or Hannah?