MSE Parents Club Part 16

pigpen

LOL... Mine are very well trained.. they say this hurts.. I say not as much as mine!! OR.. not as much as your arris will if you dont behave yourself! lol...

Even my boys know better than to moan.. last time DS3 was wittering on and on and on about something hurting because DS2 had a massive infection in a joint and was back and forth to hospital with it.. I said oh you best have some of this medicine then and gave him a spoonful of lemon juice.. he never complained again lol

koalamummy

Not been around much today as our house is in uproar with sick children as a result of all of the new germs with the return to school and nursery. Pigpen I have always used the calpol 6+ melt lets for my oldest son for fevers but I saw that your daughter suffers from growing pains which my oldest gets quite regularly as he goes through sudden rapid growth spurts and our gp prescribed childrens ibuprofen which is a strawberry flavoured liquid. This can also be bought over the counter no problems as I have done a few times since being told that there was nothing actually wrong with him that I needed to worry about.

pigpen

She has a permanent rapid growth at the moment.. she has gone from growing less than 1cm a year to about 14cm.. it does settle after about 8 months going by DS2 who had GHR as well.. she wont have anything other than the pink calpol.. we have tried others and she just refuses to take it. It has to be pink .. We have real issues with it.. the medised is clear and blackcurrant, the ibuprofen is orange flavour and white and the tixylix is apple flavour and clear.. she refuses them all..

do the melts work though koala? Are they trully sickable?

Molly41

Melts work for my youngest DS, who is 15 I hasten to add, and who always gags swallowing pills x

madnessandmayhem

Pigpen, not tried the calpol melts on mine, but the nurofen for kids comes in strawberry flavour as well as orange-dont know if it would be pink though????

Becles

Morning

Nice sunny day here and I've got to go to work - boo!

You could ask in the chemist and see if you can get pink brufen. I'm sure they get questions like that all the time. Another thought: can she use the brufen gel you rub onto the skin, or other treatments like tiger balm? I get pain in my shoulder sometimes and the tiger balm is good, but it stinks!

Have a good day all xx

koalamummy

Meltlets definitely work for fever but am not too are about their pain relieving abilities as my boys seem to have inherited the insensitivity to pain that runs in my mothers family. We only know there is a problem with either of them when we see that they are not moving the affected area in a normal or appropriate way as the surrounding muscles have contracted to protect the injury. My big boys growing pains usually present with an inability to stand properly. I always get the strawberry ibuprofen not the orange flavoured kids nurofen as it seems to work better. It is a white colour but not sure if you could add some natural food colouring of some sort to make it pink?

delain

Twin2 had strawberry brufen (fenpead) from the hospital when she broke her arm... It didn't taste anything like pink calpol though.

Hopefully PP as she gets older she'll realise it's better to take a different med than to be in pain!

Well it's rainy and miserable here today, and I don't know what got into my lot yesterday and today but they are being toerags... Last night they threw my folded washing off the arm of the sofa to sit there and watch TV (when I say threw I mean it - it was strewn accross the floor and I only went to the loo!) when they know not to sit on the arm of the sofa anyway. Then we had tempers at bedtime so in the end when they wouldn't calm down I turned all the upstairs lights off at the fuse box so they'd figure there was no point messing about in the dark.

And the constant whining - and fighting - is getting to me now, plus the backchat with the twins, where when you tell them to stop doing something they will just poke their tongue out at you... and DD1 is being a total pain in the backside and then expecting to have treats... there has been a lot of counting to ten done this last week!

I am thinking next holiday to cut down the time they spend with relatives as I'm 99% sure it's down to what they're eating, I know the family are trying to do me a favour sometimes but they then eat a lot of sugar and play right up when they get home

Certainly the twins tongue poking out is a bad food thing... They're much easier to discipline when they've not been eating junk.

Plus this rain better be gone by Tuesday, as our bus issue still hasn't been sorted out, I'm not walking 2 miles in pouring rain, or sitting outside school for an hour and the twins won't like being late *sigh*

wendz86

Sounds like your lot are being a bit of a pain Delain! Bet you are looking forward to them going back to school.

Poppys sleeping has definately improved a bit from last week, still waking but not half as much and she settles so much easier now i got her a sleeping bag.

tsstss7

Delain - know what you mean - have been on verge of falling out with some members of my family due to what they feed ds who then becomes not only completely hyper but also then refuses any "real" food later as he gets used to being fed sugary snacks. Have got OH finally to see how damaging it has been as even only seeing them twice a week with the money given for sweets as well they can make sure LO eats practically nothing mosts days except biccies and sweets. I've finally got OH to realise so we can now both say no instead of me being the joykiller and ignored !!!! LO is gradually getting better now he realises there won't be trips to nans later when he can fill up with alternate food! He ate cottage pie the other day and is now regularly eating fish so I'm feeling lots more positive that he wont grow up a food faddy.

On the other hand baby is a joy lol. Has learned how to breastfeed now and is practically sleeping throught the night at 12 weeks.....