MSE Parent Club - Part 2

keelykat

Elliot' still ill, hes got gastro-thingy...sickness and the runs... rang nhs and ended up at emergency doctors very late last night. luckily he's not dehydrated but we were told to give him little milk and often, along with some powder stuff in some water (to rehydrate).

he's projectile vomited a lot yesterday, but its been better today but has the runs bad now. had to hold him under the shower earlier as there was a bigggggg leak!

i think i know who's hes got if off, my friends daughter who's 1. when i told her mom i'd taken elliot to doctors she said i was over reacting...only today her daughter was admitted to hospital for dehydration! so im glad we took him, id rather be safe then sorry.

just about coping with elliot being ill and my husband decorating!

keely.

purplepatch

Just thought I would update you on my DIY - we scored the border and soaked it and soaked it, but it was absolutely stuck fast. Goodness knows what the "handyman" who lived here before us put it up with, superglue I'll hazard a guess!! We had to use the wallpaper scraper thing and it literally came off in finger nail sized pieces and even then only after tons of scraping. Hubby and I have really sore hands and arms/shoulders now and he nearly managed to hack his finger off with the scraper to boot!

Still, it's done now, so hopefully we will get the majority of the painting done tomorrow.

Nightmare! But thanks all for the advice.

Lu_T

OMG I've only been away for 4 days and it's taken me hours to catch up! Am sat in our downstairs loo with laptop balanced on the (closed) toilet seat as OH is decorating and insisting on having the radio on via internet!!

We had a fab time at my bro's. Imogen had a long ride on the Shetland pony - no tears or tantrums like last year. She just kept wanting to do it again! Have some gorgeous pics which I'll try to post.

Bay - hope you get an answer soon & OH is okay. Big hugs. I took a supermarket test about 5 days before I was due and got a positive result, so you never know. Of course, you can get a false negative, but not a false positive IYSWIM.

On contraception, I've had an implant off & on for 5 years. It goes in your arm for up to 3 years at a time and nothing affects it. Mine was progesterone-only (Implanon) cos I'm not good with oestrogen. I think it's a bit less invasive than a coil (urggh to that thought!). It's only the size of a matchstick and goes in your arm. Once it's in you can't even tell it's there. HTH?

Some of you may remember the hoo-haa over our Easter egg ban. In the event it's gone surprisingly well. She got a lovely rabbit cuddly toy off MIL, a book about bunnies from SIL, a Makka-Pakka egg cup of other SIL with a small choc egg (no biggie), two sticker books, a make-your-own princess crown kit (which I LOVED!) and some Crayola magic colouring pens & book which we took in the car to bro's. They are ace - no colour in the pens, but it shows up in the special book = no pen on clothes :T She has also received about 4 eggs from people we forgot to tell - mainly random friends - which is fine. So hurrah! And I think people have actually realised Easter doesn't have to be about the chocolate :T We're going to make some thank you cards with a pic of her on the pony and make a big fuss about how much she lilked the stuff they bought. A battle worth fighting. :j

Lu_T

Know I've only just posted but this is classic. Heard odd banging noises coming from the front room where Imogen's playing, so I shouted, "Imogen, what are you doing?". "I'm not banging," comes the reply!! So I go in to ask her again "Were you banging?", "Nope." The first bare-faced lie she's ever told!! "Makka Pakka was banging," she says, with a plastic Makka Pakka in her hand!! Brilliant. So now we deal with fibs too - the joys of parenthood!

keelykat

Lu_T wrote: »

OMG I've only been away for 4 days and it's taken me hours to catch up! Am sat in our downstairs loo with laptop balanced on the (closed) toilet seat as OH is decorating and insisting on having the radio on via internet!!

We had a fab time at my bro's. Imogen had a long ride on the Shetland pony - no tears or tantrums like last year. She just kept wanting to do it again! Have some gorgeous pics which I'll try to post.

Bay - hope you get an answer soon & OH is okay. Big hugs. I took a supermarket test about 5 days before I was due and got a positive result, so you never know. Of course, you can get a false negative, but not a false positive IYSWIM.

On contraception, I've had an implant off & on for 5 years. It goes in your arm for up to 3 years at a time and nothing affects it. Mine was progesterone-only (Implanon) cos I'm not good with oestrogen. I think it's a bit less invasive than a coil (urggh to that thought!). It's only the size of a matchstick and goes in your arm. Once it's in you can't even tell it's there. HTH?

Some of you may remember the hoo-haa over our Easter egg ban. In the event it's gone surprisingly well. She got a lovely rabbit cuddly toy off MIL, a book about bunnies from SIL, a Makka-Pakka egg cup of other SIL with a small choc egg (no biggie), two sticker books, a make-your-own princess crown kit (which I LOVED!) and some Crayola magic colouring pens & book which we took in the car to bro's. They are ace - no colour in the pens, but it shows up in the special book = no pen on clothes :T She has also received about 4 eggs from people we forgot to tell - mainly random friends - which is fine. So hurrah! And I think people have actually realised Easter doesn't have to be about the chocolate :T We're going to make some thank you cards with a pic of her on the pony and make a big fuss about how much she lilked the stuff they bought. A battle worth fighting. :j

On the subject of the implant, I had a bad experience when i had mine. It doesn't agree with everyone. I had non stop bleeding, really bad period pains, bad pmt like moods etc. I had to beg to have it taken out, they gave me tablets to help with the period pains and bleeding but it didn't work. They kept telling me things would settle down but after three months of hell-i told them no, i want it out or i'll do it myself!! lol.

keely.

Becles

Lu_T wrote: »

So now we deal with fibs too - the joys of parenthood!

I was round at my parents with Charlotte a couple of weeks ago, and she squashed a digestive biscuit on the coffee table. I said "who made all this mess?" and she said "Josh". He wasn't even there at the time as it was a school day!

Charlotte gpt some chocolate eggs and she keeps running all over the place shouting "eggs - yay" :rotfl:

Becles

keelykat wrote: »

On the subject of the implant, I had a bad experience when i had mine. It doesn't agree with everyone. I had non stop bleeding, really bad period pains, bad pmt like moods etc. I had to beg to have it taken out, they gave me tablets to help with the period pains and bleeding but it didn't work. They kept telling me things would settle down but after three months of hell-i told them no, i want it out or i'll do it myself!! lol.

I had a similar experience on the mini pill which ended up with a trip to A&E one weekend, when the bleeding got so heavy I was just soaking through thick night pads in less than an hour.

I've been ok on the combined pill though, but would be scared of prog only implants just in case.

Krystaltips

Aimee's first big lie was a classic, I'd left her eating her tea and she wanted some pudding... I told her to bring me her empty plate when she'd eated it all up... She bought me her empty plate alright... When I walked into the living room she'd tipped it all out onto the sofa!

Sami_Bee

Lu_T wrote: »

On contraception, I've had an implant off & on for 5 years. It goes in your arm for up to 3 years at a time and nothing affects it. Mine was progesterone-only (Implanon) cos I'm not good with oestrogen. I think it's a bit less invasive than a coil (urggh to that thought!). It's only the size of a matchstick and goes in your arm. Once it's in you can't even tell it's there. HTH?

Some of you may remember the hoo-haa over our Easter egg ban. In the event it's gone surprisingly well. She got a lovely rabbit cuddly toy off MIL, a book about bunnies from SIL, a Makka-Pakka egg cup of other SIL with a small choc egg (no biggie), two sticker books, a make-your-own princess crown kit (which I LOVED!) and some Crayola magic colouring pens & book which we took in the car to bro's. They are ace - no colour in the pens, but it shows up in the special book = no pen on clothes :T She has also received about 4 eggs from people we forgot to tell - mainly random friends - which is fine. So hurrah! And I think people have actually realised Easter doesn't have to be about the chocolate :T We're going to make some thank you cards with a pic of her on the pony and make a big fuss about how much she lilked the stuff they bought. A battle worth fighting. :j

:rotfl:ahh different stokes... the thought of the implant makes me feel sick and I wouldn't have it it a million years but I'll happily be having the 'coil' again
have to ask tho you said less invasive than coil ... how do they get the implant out?? do they cut your skin and fish it out?? _pale_
I see the coil as a bit like a tampon they just pull the little stringy bit and out it comes (unless the string has managed to disappear in through ur cervix like mine did:rolleyes:)

We had limited success with eggs.. seams I can't trust my mum to pass the message on! MIL got him a Mr Happy T-shirt, egg decorating set and grow a sunflower kit. I got him a tigger egg cup and cress seeds to grow a cress head;) money of one grandparent, clothes and an in the night garden egg n soldiers plate/eggcup set thing off my mum and about 5 eggs from everyone else:rolleyes:

Thing is its me n OH that eat the eggs and everyone seams to get cadbury's ones - I'm not a big cadbury's fan so OH gets most of them I think I'd care less if I liked them more :rotfl:I'll try harder next year because I'm sure at 3yo Chris will be taking much more notice of where the choccy eggs go!

Chris is such a little monkey/devil now :eek: he'll pick up something he knows he shouldn't and I'll say something like "Christopher put that back" and he'll just look at me, smile and carry on so I say "Christopher put it back NOW!" he'll look at me, smile again and then throw it!!:eek: or depending on what it is like sometimes if its small he'll scream NOOOOOOOO!! and try to hide it behind his back and run off from me!
Chris can now open the baby gate too - I'm soo not amused I can't keep him contained anywhere now and we've got a decorator coming to do the kitchen on Tuesday - Thursday so I'll be spending my time dragging him out of there all day coz I can't leave the house

Savvy_Sue

I fear that some of you need to get a grip on the way the mind of a child works. :rotfl:

Some of them are extremely logical. Charlotte was NOT banging, it WAS Makka Pakka making the noise. You told Aimee to bring you her empty plate: she brought you her empty plate. (Yes I know you said "when she'd eaten it all up", but what she heard was "bring empty plate." So she did.)

Blaming Josh for the squashed digestive mess was, I admit, a bare-faced lie, or rather an attempt to shift blame.

But having spent the last 20 years living with boys who take pedantry to an art form, I know to be very careful what I ask for ...

BTW, after first day at nursery, I asked DS1 if he'd made any friends. "No, because they did not give us anything to make friends with." :rotfl: You see how it started? Actually it started with potty training: I'd say "Pull up your trousers and pants when you have finished." "Pants first, mummy." Of course pants first ... :rotfl: