MSE Parents Club Part 10

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

Susan, did you make an announcement that I missed?

No - am just planning in advance in case I am as ill next time as I was this time.

And on a related note, after saying that Alice hadn't breastfed since Monday, she had a ten minute feed this morning.

emlou2009

I'm furious.

CM rang me at 1pm to say there had been a poopsplosion and said she had called NHS direct on my behalf who advised he needed to go straight to the docs. I disagreed cos he is absolutely fine, he just isnt eating enough to properly solidify the poop yet so its like early weaning poops at the moment.
I asked if she wanted me to go and get him or not, and she said to wait and see. Less than 5 minutes later she rang me back to say he was upset and clearly ill so I should go and get him. I left work straight away and went to get him, to find that he had only eaten half his breakfast at 9.30am and she hadnt given him a yoghurt with it, then cos he was so hungry he had downed a 4oz bottle at 10.30am. He then slept for a hour and the poopsplosion happened, and then she decided he didnt want to give him his lunch.
He had at that point had practically nothing to eat all day!! I brought him home, he cried all the way down the road which he never does while the buggys moving, he downed a 9oz bottle, a weetabix and two yoghurts, and was still opening his mouth for more. So basically, I've lost half a days pay cos she didnt feed him lunch, and took it upon herself to meddle in his medical details! NO WONDER HE WAS CRYING!!
I rang the doctors and they agreed there is no need for me to take him whatsoever.

I cant believe I had to pay the woman for a full days work, when the only reason I had to go and get him was cos she didnt want to feed him his lunch! To top it off, she had a bunch of friends sat round drinking coffee with the kids playing in the middle, fine, its up to her what she does with her days as long as my son is properly cared for, but today he wasnt properly cared for, he was f**king starving!

Oh, and work had already submitted my absence on friday to payroll as sick, so Friday cost me over £150. F**king fantastic. I am now going to have to work OH's day off on Thursday to make up for today, which means apart from when we were ill last week we last spent a day together as a family the week after xmas!

tiamai_d

Hello girlies (and honorary girlies), how you all doing?

Sami, you were correct on percentiles, 25th for weight, 91st for height and the D word was indeed mentioned. :cool:

I need to keep a diary of the night time vomiting also, finally someone took it serius! :j To try and make sure he is eating enough, bulk food out with high calorie stuff and what not. But he is doing very well. Actually he's not, I just try to look on the bright side, he is way behind on speech (consultant expressed doubts about his speech, he may never speak clearly) and the toilet issues are worrying. She tried to suggest that I try toilet training him again, I said no, not yet, too stressful for both of us and I know he is not ready. And she agrees that he needs a placement in the learning support unit so will write her letter to the EP accordingly. I also told her that if he doesn't get a place he will be deferred a year. But the rest of it he is doing good for a child who wasn't going to walk

Amber has a bad cold the wee mite, she's got snot! But is very amused with DS1 who jumps like a frog to make her roar with laughter!

SusanC_2

Glamazon wrote: »

how much ginger would u use for a whole sweet potato?

Not sure - I just do it to taste and at the moment I've got a load of pickled ginger so it might not be the same.

workinmummy

Glamazon wrote: »

WM - I'll start a few weeks before I go back - no point now he just wouldn't do it! I'll probably get OH to do the bottles, I'll use my slow cooker so cooking tea will just involve making rice/pasta/mash/roasties.
I'll try & blitz one room a night then Saturday morning hoover while OH is in bed :cool:

Excellent plan.
It doesn't help that i am totally unorganised and we all eat different things. (I am mega fussy). It helps that Alex falls asleep in the car on the way home, so usually have about 20 mins to hoover /brush up (have to do this everyday, due to dog hairs) and wash the bottles and start sterelizing.

Then the evening just disappears in feeds, packing bags, homework, story and bed for Joe and any necessary ironing. Haven't managed to see full episodes of Emmerdale, Corrie or Eastenders since i started back at work. These are all on whilst i'm doing my whirlwind act. Do manage to sit down at about 9pm in time for what evers on, Law & order, Survivors, Silent Witness etc, whilst giving Alex his nightime bottle.

So remember having an excellent routine with Joe. Probably when he was about one. He used to watch Bear in the Big Blue House, 64 zoo lane, then the mole sang the bedtime story on playhouse disney and he then knew it was bed time. And off we went. Bottle, down awake, asleep. Then is was tea/ dinner for mummy and daddy and we has the evenings to ourself. Really hope i can start to get something similar happening with Alex.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Em ((HUGS)) hun.

How are you going to deal with the CM? Once you have calmed down you need to tackle it really, don't envy you at all.

Hope Seth is okay. If he is hungry keep feeding him, poor mite xx

Is there any way you can appeal against work marking you down as sick?

elle_gee

Oh Em, that's truly crap! :grouphug: How is Seth now? Sleeping off his mega lunch? You're probably not in the mood right now, but I'd challenge the decision to mark you down as sick - like csh said yesterday, you weren't the one who was sick :cool:


Well done Christopher for doing so well and well done Tia for being a fab mummy (must be a day for PITA medical people :cool:) Hope Amber is better soon!

tiamai_d

em, don't know what happened at work, but can you ask them to alter it as it was their mistake?

The child minder, I'd write a letter detailing that he was not ill. His stools were soft due to a mainly liquid diet and he was infact very hungry due to the lack of a full breakfast and her refusal to feed him.

Stupid woman!

tiamai_d

Thanks Elle, just read about your lovely nurse (you should get her chocolate, the laxative stuff would be nice then she can have proper dire-rear as welll as the verbal kind). I'd be inclined to tell her that if she was unwilling to treat my child in the caring maner he is entitled too, she can park her !!!! elsewhere and find someone else who would.

searching_me

:mad: at your cm em ...

susan you're super organised i admire that ...

just had a lovely nomnom dinner i wondered why i was extra hungry and realised i hadnt eaten all day oops! at least i had a nice filling dinner and pudding in about an hour x