It's STILL tough and not getting better - so how are we coping?

seasalt_2

Pitlanepiglet, I am so sorry about your friend.

Sammy, that's an amazing story.

charlies-aunt

DD2 was very hungry baby (no change since!) and after the first few months I used to add baby rice to her evening bottle and used a teat with an enlarged hole. It was kept a secret though from my health visitor as it very frowned on by them as was putting honey on her dummy!

Neither of these illict practices did her any harm so, personally, I think you have got to go with your motherly instinct as the professionals many know it all about babies in general but as a mum - you are the number one expert on your own individual child

God bless the humble yogurt and the ever popular fromage frais too! My children loved them and would always eat them even if they won't tackle anything else

Pitlanepiglet

Rummer wrote: »

So sorry to hear your news, things like that really do put things into perspective.

Thanks Rummer, it really does doesn't it? I've been wailing a lot about my work problems and the likely loss of my job. My friends were just getting on top of life again as she is now 7 years on from her cancer and now this. It's horrid and I feel so sorry for them.

Rummer

Pitlanepiglet wrote: »

Thanks Rummer, it really does doesn't it? I've been wailing a lot about my work problems and the likely loss of my job. My friends were just getting on top of life again as she is now 7 years on from her cancer and now this. It's horrid and I feel so sorry for them.

I had been wallowing in self pity today and thinking I was hard done to but your post made me realise how much I truly have.

Pitlanepiglet

Rummer wrote: »

I had been wallowing in self pity today and thinking I was hard done to but your post made me realise how much I truly have.

I think my friends would be the first to say that it's OK to moan about our lot and that these things do matter to those of us going through them...BUT it does make you realise that things might be bad but there are worse things in the world that could happen to us x

gailey_2

well worst fears by 7pm gave up hope then gone 8 got mail back.

shopping overran hubbys changed his mind no longer want to veiw or buy buggy so yet another weekend messed about by someone off netmums.
Putting in on ebay tommrow least i spent hour cleaning it and pumping up tyres feel bit mad to be honest.

was going to play wi sport but disc scratched and wont play.
no choccy in house.

just running hubby bath b4 I try find something on sky plus box that might cheer me up.

least girls are asleep.

just hate being let down happens a lot on netmums.
got another stroppy letter from barclaycard this mornings so need to sort that out next week.

Feel like its constant battle money wise atm.

MummyOfTwo

god its really winter now isnt it?!!!

had my daughters 7th birthday party today, not joking there we invited 20 kids, 12 turned up, no rsvp's or anything from the no-shows, is it just me or is that REALLY rude!!!!!

the balance was restored by a trip to asda, got baguettes and packets of lovely crusty rolls for 5p each, and package of 4 chicken pies for 9p. bunged them in the freezer for the chilly days to come.

katholicos

PLP, so sorry to read about your friend and the struggles they have fought/are battling. As terribly sad as you must be for them, i'm sure that you give them both a lot of encouragement and support. I'm not glad that your friends are suffereing, but i am glad you shared about their suffering, because sometimes it takes a stark reminder like that for those of us with lesser problems, to appreciate that we are not so badly off as we may have thought ourselves to be.

sammy_kaye18

the balance was restored by a trip to asda, got baguettes and packets of lovely crusty rolls for 5p each, and package of 4 chicken pies for 9p. bunged them in the freezer for the chilly days to come.

I think it is quite rude to not RSVP to a birthday invitation or give no reason for not turning up. That's why Ben has never had a birthday party yet - Id be scared no one would come. I would rather invite a few of his friends out to a cinema and dinner (macdonalds or something similiar)

I am looking on line at the minute for healthy hot dinners I can make Owen that I can either make more portions of to freeze etc or that are microwavable for him to take to work - its getting bloody cold here and Im worrying that he'll get ill when hes in work as the heating in the building is shoddy so he'd only have when hes in the cars to stay warm. He told me last night he was going to take a BIG :eek: mug (it was a free gift when I ordered with sports direct) to work with him to have his coffee in, and I said but he doesn't drink coffee and he said he does in work to keep him warm because its so cold. He even mentioned my mother (who works in the office of his building) has taken to taking in a small electric heater and an old hot water bottle with her and her bottom draw on her desk is filled with tinned and packet soups. :eek::eek::eek: ok she is only 47 (this November) but she suffers really badly in the winter and I hate the thought of her freezing.

So far OWen has asked me to get more of the Iceland microwave lasagnes (I cant make it at all!) and they are £1 but a portion that fills him up so I don't mind getting them but want to get him a few more bits like stew, curry, shepherds pie, pasta ---- think I really just need to have a cooking session and run the freezer down as much as I can - only problem is my freezer is tiny! so although it doesn't take long to run it down, it fills up really easily.

ceridwen

As you know - I've not had any children myself - but my inclinations would be to "do a Mardatha" - try them on something soft and see if they took it.

But - hey - whadda I know? I've got a mother who outraged her health visitor when I was a baby because the woman had come in to find the baby (me) sitting there "gumming" my way through a bar of chocolate. my mother duly got told off and responded with "But she LIKES it.....". Knowing my mother - she probably went ahead and gave me whatever she thought she would and just didnt tell the health visitor.....and took the view "What the eye doesnt see - the (health visitors) heart doesnt grieve over"...

I'd be inclined to take the view "Make it healthier than a bar of chocolate forgawdssakes - but at a couple of months old...here ya' go ..try a mouthful of my porridge for a start and we'll take it from there...."