MSE Parent Club - Part 2

cazscoob

well my lot are joining in now lol! have 2 with upset stomachs and 1 with a bad cough. they dont half pick their times to get ill eh!

rosies_mum

Count me in for the lottery club! This thread is NOT cursed, come on everyone, I'm waving a "healthy" wand over you all to get rid of the bugs and nasties asap I won't be wishing a happy christmas, but a healthy one!

I hope I'm not jinxing my lot but so far, (she says fingers and toes crossed) we've escaped most of the germs and bugs!

DH thought he was getting the flu the other day but got off lightly with just a bit of a cold.

After hearing Dr Hilary on GMTV saying about how the "germs" love warm, crowded places (like shopping queues!), I'm now really paranoid about going to MILs on Christmas afternoon as its normally jam packed with family and really hot - I will probably be forcing people to use anti-bac hand gel before being allowed to cuddle Matthew :rotfl: (if I had my way, I'd be a bit like old wacko jacko and have face masks, or even better a nice little oxygen tent that we could both sit in :T )

Sami_bee you make me feel really old, just worked out I'm a whole 10 years older than you :eek: !

lwcus78 - we used infacol with Rosie as even when breastfed, she was really windy. We also thought it may help as she had bad reflux but it didn't really make much difference to that. We did find that she would bring up burps which smelt of infacol so perhaps it made things a little better on that front! We continued using it til she was well onto solids.

Keely - hope you are feeling better and less sleepy soon too. Poor Elliot, I hope his sleeps settle down soon, you really are wishing for some "silent nights" then this christmas :rotfl: I can't believe he is teething already, it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was following your story on the pregnancy thread, how times flies eh!

Sami_Bee

If it helps I feel older than I am most of my friends are my sisters age (26) so most people assume I'm the same age as them, I only have 2 mummy friends that are the same age as me. I find it funny that there are so few peeps my age with kids, when my mum had my sister she was a good 5 yrs older than the other 1st time mums on the maternity ward and she was 27 - its mad that 20ish yrs ago it was the norm to have your 1st around 18-22 and now people look down on you if you have LO at that age

Savvy_Sue

Agutka wrote: »

I spoke to a doctor this morning and asked about how I need to do Christmas with an inflamed gallbladder. He used words like 'bad timing' and 'unfortunate' and ... eugh... 'moderation'. This should be fun, hmmm Christmas without fat... oh dear.

It could be worse. You could be Jewish. My Jewish friend describes Hannukah as the Jewish Festival of Fried Food. :rotfl: (Because they are celebrating God's miraculous provision of oil for lamps when they rededicated the Temple, everything has to be fried!)

So, some other suggestions. In my youth, we traditionally had Jelly as well as Christmas Pudding. And now we always have to have ice cream for the fusspot who doesn't like Christmas Pudding. So maybe some of that Swedish stuff? Hope you can get some in time ... What about sorbets, are they OK? I think of them as really decadent.

izoomzoom

Sami_Bee wrote: »

If it helps I feel older than I am most of my friends are my sisters age (26) so most people assume I'm the same age as them, I only have 2 mummy friends that are the same age as me. I find it funny that there are so few peeps my age with kids, when my mum had my sister she was a good 5 yrs older than the other 1st time mums on the maternity ward and she was 27 - its mad that 20ish yrs ago it was the norm to have your 1st around 18-22 and now people look down on you if you have LO at that age

Yeah you are right, 10 years ago when I had my first, I was 24 and definitely one of the youngest in my gang of new mums.

Sadly I am no longer the youngest :rolleyes:

Agutka

Sami-Bee, yes he did mention turkey, unfortunately the bird of choice this year is goose. There is a good reason why roast potatoes do really well in the same roasting tin :rolleyes:

Savvy-Sue - in that case if I was Jewish then I would have had them out months ago!

I feel a niggling pain again - could be the tiny amount of butter I had on the potatoes, or could be the gallon of orange juice I have drunk (my cravings know no limits) or the fact that I haven't had any chocolate since Thursday!!!! :eek: I feel faint just thinking about that .

Ooh, somebody ask me why oh why I'm up this late. Well, my darling son was very upset this evening and kept waking from his sleep in tears. In the end we decided to call it 'teething' and gave him Calpol. Hey presto happy baby. Put him back in bed and listened to the monkey for a full hour playing and chatting in his cot. Then I thought I'd pay him a visit and let him out to play, so I could finish his packing. I hadn't seen him so happy and chatty for days! Except this was two hours ago and he's only just fallen asleep. At this rate I'll be taking him to midnight mass tomorrow.

Well, better go, I have a healthy _pale_ couscous salad to prepare in the morning and then it's off to London for Xmas. Whoohoo.

Ooh, SB - good luck!

Becles

Sami_Bee wrote: »

its mad that 20ish yrs ago it was the norm to have your 1st around 18-22 and now people look down on you if you have LO at that age

Joshua was born in 1996. I was 21 and had been married since I was 18, but I look younger so I was assumed to be a gymslip Mam :rolleyes:

I'm now 33 but most people assume I'm early 20's. When I was expecting Charlotte and when she was newborn, people would ask if she was my first, then look totally shocked when I said she was my third!

Hope everyone is feeling better this morning.

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you have a lovely peaceful day xx

Who am I kidding?! Hope you have a day packed with fun filled chaos with hyper babies/toddlers, and wrapping paper and packaging scattered everywhere

nadnad

well christmas is cancelled. we are still sick and no improvement at all. was debating whether to take baby to GP but he doesnt have a temperature or anything so they'll prob not be able to do anything. he's constantly crying and moaning and had a bad night last night not sleeping properly and now this morning is of course shattered and even more grumpy.

OH is in a complete strop - not used to getting sick he cant seem to handle it like the 6ft2 man he actually is and is instead moaning and groaning louder than the baby.

I felt a bit better yesterday so ran about delivering pressies and finishing stuff off only to take a turn for the worse last night and what with no sleep i feel utterly awful.

im so sad, its babies first christmas and i was so looking forward to it.

keelykat

rosies_mum wrote: »

Keely - hope you are feeling better and less sleepy soon too. Poor Elliot, I hope his sleeps settle down soon, you really are wishing for some "silent nights" then this christmas :rotfl: I can't believe he is teething already, it doesn't seem like that long ago that I was following your story on the pregnancy thread, how times flies eh!

Time has flown by!

Elliot laughed properly for the first time yesterday! a proper dirty chuckle, its wonderfull!!

Sami_bee, i'm one of the first within my group of friends to have a baby, i had turned 24 not long before i gave birth to Elliot I was the first to get married too, only one more has married since then.

I hope all you poorly people feel better ASAP! We were both ill last year, and didnt go out for a week or anything (although along came Elliot so we must have been well enough as some point lol).

keely.

izoomzoom

Right DS1 has now come down with high temp. He is 9, and he woke all scared and shaky last night and coughing and coughing. Gave him some meds during the night and we were okay until at 0530 hours. He wants to be sick ..... argh, exactly what I had last Thursday / Friday morning. Gave him some nurofen and he feels better, but again hallucinating this afternoon, so he has been dosed again.

I have 3 children who don't want to eat. DS2 and DD haven't eaten more than a 1/2t since Sun and Mon respectively ....

Of goodness I hope they are well enough cos we have to fetch DH from airport 2.5h away at the crack of drawn tomorrow _pale_ .

Suppose to got to SIL for Xmas lunch when we get back but I think'll be lucky if we just eat and duck back home. And I am incredibly cold this evening