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heather38

isn't it great that we can act like children again?!
kennedy and i dance around the living room, but she doesn't like to be carried upstairs, she can climb them herself now so has to do it herself. it takes an age.

cha97michelle

charlie can climb up but he gets distracted and turns around and then tries to jump down them. It really leaves your heart in your mouth.

thankfully he isn't too independent yet and is happy to be carried up for the time being, if only for the speed aspect

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Stangely enough I was only thinking this morning that Jack feels heavier, he must have had a growth spurt as suddenly his 9-12 clothes seem too small (except trousers, his legs need to catch up) and its always the arms that go first. So last week when we moved him into his new room I took the opportunity to sort through his clothes. The HV is coming around on Friday to weigh him for me.

Jack loves the stairs and climbs them quite quickly, he'll let me carry him up if its night time or we are rushing, but if its bathtime or he is going upstairs to "find daddy" he crawls. I have to remind him to "slow down" as he thinks we are chasing him and stumbles to get up even quicker.

He did 7pm to 6am last night, he woke and cried, found his dummy and layed there making intermittant noises until 6.15am, then decided Mummy really had better get up "I'm bored". I think that its better, yes 7am or even 6.30am would be lovely, but that was 11 hours and he had 3.5 during the day. So he's doing what he's supposed too. But for how long........?

I ended up back in Brighton hospital Friday night, with the return of "those pains". I was in agony. It started at 1pm and wasn't too bad, by 4-5pm I was uncomfortable and asked DH if he could leave work half hour earlier. Managed to get get Jack ready for bed downstairs but couldn't have him on my lap for milk. Fortunately DH arrived home at 6.30pm with me and Jack on the sofa and me trying not to cry. I rang the hospital and we agreed I'd take paracetamol and see how I am in an hour. I lasted till 7.15pm and said to DH its doing nothing and now I am not coping. So we left for Brighton. That was a horrible journey, travelling in the car for half hour was excruitating, I was trying to do labour breathing to cope and had tears streaming down my face. Poor DH just drove as fast and safely as he could, I felt sorry for him as its not easy seeing the one you love in so much pain.

Brighton were great they assessed me but took over half an our to give me pethadine which I was hoping they would do. Then they gave me a drip, took bloods, monitored the baby and admitted me overnight to the antenatal ward for monitoring and a rest. I told DH to go home at 11pm but he stayed another half hour, he said he wanted to know exactly where I was going to be for the morning. At least it wasn't 2am like last time.

I had a uncomfortable night as the canula dug in my hand and the drip wasn't working properly, I forgot to take my wedgie cushion so had no support for the bump. The canula fell out thankfully at 4am, which meant I could roll over easier.

I came home lunch time yesterday and tried to take it easy, but managed ok with paracetamol 4 hourly and today I am back to normal again. They said the pains are being caused by adhesions from an operation and stretching scar tissue. The baby was fine, which is what we thought as there was no bleeding, closed cervix and no tightenings showing. The worrying thing is it could happen again in the next few weeks. We'll have to make sure we go whilst I can travel more comfortably rather than leaving it longer.

So an eventful weekend and we managed to decorate our bedroom, I started the friday morning and Ian finished it yesterday whilst Jack was sleeping.

I'm currently cooking the xmas turkey, I have 11 for dinner and I don't want to spend all morning in the kitchen. So i'm going to carve it, freeze it and warm it through with gravy on xmas day.

Ooops mammoth post, I must go I have loads to do today still.

Lu_T

Bailey - you MUST take is easier, naughty girl! I hope you're able to have a steadier weekend, and no more bloomin decorating!

Seriously, hope you are able to get some R&R, sounds like you could be in for a rough ride for the rest of your pregnancy so do take it steady won't you?

And thanks for the support on my weightloss girls. I'm touched you all commented. It's 3lb and counting so far. I only need 4.5lb to get that stone off, so I'm keeping everything crossed. It took 26 weeks to get my first half stone (phew!) so it'd be nice to get this one a little quicker.

Better go, got the house to clean before we put the Xmas tree up, hurrah!!

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I'm sorry LuT, I forgot to mention your weight loss I am in a hurry today and info isn't sticking in my head. Your at the other end of the scale to me, I am desperately trying to gain the weight for this one and doing ok, but hit a plateau. Its just as annoying for me as it must be for you. Although I don't how I shall go when its time to lose it again, hope its not too difficult. But anyway well done for your progress.....hurrah! I can imagine dieting is never easy with a baby in tow.

I am going to take it easier once I get stuff done, Jack is with Ian's parents today to give me a break and I do have some things I have to do, like clear our bedroom, otherwise we can't get into our bed tonight. DH is doing boyz toyz today and i'm planning on a snooze in about an hour.

Becles

Take care of yourself bailey. You must get as much rest as possible, otherwise you'll have a gang of angry mothers on here after you

sarahh112

Hi this is my first post since "graduating" from the pudding club thread.

Rowan is now 2 months old and taking up all of our time so my main pregnancy hobby of reading the MSE forums has had to fall by the wayside until now.

I was wondering if anyone has much experience with babies who posset and cry alot. I have spoken to my health visitor but she is a bit useless and all she can say is that he wouldnt be putting on weight if he didnt get enough food - which would be a fair comment if he wasnt throwing up what seems to be a whole bottle at a time and he is always restless and spends most of his day screaming his head off.

We have tried pretty much everything - infacol, gripe water, coliac and even a couple of different types of milk and nothing seems to work.

I wondered if anyone had any ideas before I contact the doctor and get treated as one of those mothers who worries too much and doesnt know one end of a baby from the other :-(

Snaggles

Becles and Bailey - awwww, look at your new avatar pictures!!! They made me feel all mushy - I love seeing updated photos of everyones babies.

Bailey, please try to take things easy - I hope the rest of your pregnancy goes more smoothly. xxx

I have just had some brilliant news - my sister is officially 1 day pregnant!

She's been having fertility treatment because she had cancer as a teenager, and the treatment she had for that meant she would almost certainly never conceive naturally. The first course of fertility treatment failed (in fact it failed so badly they basically told her there was no point trying again, as they didn't manage to harvest even one viable egg). But she's had another try, with double doses of the drugs, and this time they harvested 5, of which they managed to fertilise 2. She had them implanted yesterday.

So it's just a case of waiting to see if it works now - I am hoping and praying that it does. She is sore and anxious, but really happy too, because she thought it could never happen. And even if it doesn't work this time, she knows she CAN produce eggs, so she can try again. I feel like it's a sort of miracle! :A

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Ok Ok, I'll try to do less, but you all know how it is. I like seeing updated pics too snaggles.

Sarah, welcome and Hi! Your baby sounds like he may have reflux. That was exactly how Jack was and I had him diagnosed about 4-5 weeks old. The doc prescribed gaviscon sachets which I put in his milk, it helped a bit but I found we had to do it with every bottle, not just the twice a day they first recommended. It can bung them up a bit so we offered him plain water and eventually put a little bit of prune juice (we called it poo juice) in his night bottle. This kept him from being bunged up. Another baby I know had the condition much worse and was on all sorts of medication under a paedatrician, but your GP would have to refer you if all else fails.

With regard to milk, we went through the whole chemist, Breastmilk, SMA, Cow and Gate, Comfort, Wysoy and by 11 weeks old the poor chap had drunk 7 different milks. Then I saw the most experienced HV in my area and she put him on Nutramigen combined with Gaviscon and we didn't look back, but his system I am sure had matured a bit by then. By the time he was 6 months old and sitting up it had improved and by 7 months we were off the gaviscon completely. By 8 months he had decided Nutramigen was truely awful and wasn't going to drink it anymore (I have to agree its foul) and we went onto Aptamil, which he loved with no further problems. Then I bought SMA progress 2 weeks before I weaned him onto cows milk, as it was on offer, he drank that too. So the long and short of it is don't be fobbed off, if you have a sensible HV or GP, they should be able to see that a 8 week old baby is uncomfortable and hopefullyl prescribe Gaviscon.

HTH.

Google Infant reflux if you want more info.

purplepatch

Hi everyone.

I've just had an eventful evening. Izzy's first trip to casualty.

I'd put the christmas tree up, left the empty box in the hallway hoping DH would get the hint and take it back out to the garage. Izzy decided the box looked very enticing, stuck her hand in the box and somehow managed to get it trapped, but unfortunately wedged up against the radiator which was on to the max, absolutely scalding hot. We were only sitting in the living room, but by the time she realised it was hurting, started screaming frantically enough for us to know it was something major, her hand and back of her wrist had been touching the rad for best part of 10 seconds, enough for a big bubble of a blister to form, half of which immediately broke open. I plunged it in a bowl of cold water for about 10 minutes, then rang nhs direct who said that as it was open and weeping, I needed to take her to hospital to have it dressed.

Fortunately we got seen pretty quickly and she now has a bandage and a follow up appointment booked for Tuesday morning, for them to check it is healing ok. It is important to keep it covered to prevent infection.

Anyway, she's fine, doesn't seem to be in much pain with it. She screamed for about 5 minutes when she first did it, but when she was sitting in the kitchen with her hand in the water, she managed to grab an apple from the fruit bowl and that dried the tears up immediately and she hasn't seemed bothered since. We got home about 9ish and she went to bed fine, so hoping that she will sleep soundly until morning (ha ha) and that she will leave the bandage alone, otherwise I've got to go back to get it redressed.

So girls, moral of the story, don't leave things next to hot radiators, I must admit I never would have anticipated something like that happening. I've always thought that when they discover radiators get hot, they'll quickly take their hand away and learn not to touch again. Didn't bank on her getting trapped against one. Feel like a terrible mum tonight :o:o