Babies, biscuits, boobs and budgetting!

Burlesque_Babe

aaaaaaaaaaaw, fantastic photo.

immoral_angeluk

Aww what a lovely photo.

beanielou

Fab photo.

pandapaws

Aw, what a lovely photo! Just had a quick scan through while trying to catch up a bit on what everyone's been up to while I've been AWOL! Feel awful for you with the whole nursery business. Hope Natasha's bum has made a full recovery!

Wol2

Hi Snags

Sent you email reply this morning but seem to be having problem with my email account over last few days.

Hope you got it, if not please PM me and I'll re-send.

Good luck with the nursery and hope Natasha's bottom is getting better (so glad you didn;t send me the photos as well as the letter!!)

Hugs
Wol2
xxx

Snaggles

Hello!

Sorry it's been so long since I updated, I've hardly been able to get online recently apart from a quick visit to the Slimming World thread. Hope everyone is okay - have I missed anything? Thanks for the posts and messages I've received while I've been AWOL, I've been able to read them by logging on from my phone but it wont always let me post back.

Quick update then - money-wise things are okay, just sort of ticking over, but I haven't managed to pay anything else off the loan. I'm hoping to be able to soon though.

Natasha now has a place in the creche at work. She has had some settling in visits, and is due to start next Wednesday (if they will take her in her current 'state'....more about that in a sec). The bonus is that it is almost half the price of the old nursery!! :T I sent the letter asking for some money back to her previous nursery but haven't heard anything from them yet. I also sent a copy to Ofsted.


Work is going well - I've found some things quite difficult, but a lot of it came back fairly easily and I'm enjoying it.

So, back to Natasha....

Yesterday evening I was getting ready to go to work, and Stu had just popped into the kitchen to sort tea out, leaving Ryan and Natasha watching Spongebob. Next minute, we hear Natasha screaming, so Stu flew in from the kitchen and I ran downstairs. Natasha was on the floor, doubled over in pain. Ryan said he had cuddled her and thought he had done it a bit too hard, so we were terrified she had some internal injury. We rang NHS Direct, but as she was so distressed, ended up taking her straight to hospital by ambulance.

They checked her stomach an internal organs, said everything was fine, and we came back home.

We had only been home about half an hour when we decided to go back to the hospital again, because she was still sort of growling in pain, and wouldn't take any weight on her leg.

She had some x-rays done, and they found a small fracture, just above her ankle, so she had to have a cast put on. They just put a temporary cast on overnight, and we've been back to fracture clinic this morning for a proper cast to be put on (with dinosaur pattern!).

Ryan then told us that when he'd cuddled her, he put her down heavily and her leg was curled under her at a funny angle. Bless him, he is so devastated that he's hurt her. And she has completely forgiven him, because he was the only one who could get a smile out of her last night.

Here's the patient:



She's getting a bit frustrated with not being able to move properly, but it seems a lot less painful now the proper cast is on. She's going to be like that for 4 weeks though!! So I'm just hoping the nursery will still be okay to take her. I've already had to take one evening off work!

boredofbeingathome

Hope she feels better soon. she looks a bit more settled.
It is so frustrating when you go back to work and then everything happens like this.
xx

hypno06

Aww, bless! And poor Ryan too! It is a good thing that he is the one that has got a smile out of Natasha - proves to him that it is not *really* a problem and that she still loves him, which will be really important to him, I guess.

But, blimey, what a thing for you all to have to go through!

good news on the cost of the creche though :j ........every cloud, and all that!

Snaggles

Yes, Ryan was really angry with himself last night - we have to watch him because when he thinks he has done something wrong, he sometimes tries to hurt himself, by hitting himself or banging his head on something. He started to try to do it, but I managed to stop him and told him a story about how I once dropped him when he was a baby (he only rolled down my legs, but it made him feel better to know he's not the only one to have done something silly). I asked if he was cross with me for dropping him, and he said no, so I said 'Well, I'm not cross with you either, and neither are Daddy and Natasha'. He seems to have accepted that, thank goodness.

My little monkey is currently crawling round the living room, dragging her leg behind her....sigh......:rotfl:

jinky67

You can tell Ryan from me that all the babies in my extended family have been dropped at some point....usually by the same person..my Auntie the nurse:rolleyes: :rotfl:
DS(15) recently tried to pick up DD(6) and whacked her head off the floor
so maybe its universal:rolleyes:
Look on the bright side...it will slow Natasha down for a while;)
And :T :T :T on the creche fees