October 2013 Babies Club

Aw thats lovely nikpmup but I really hear what your saying about needing to win the lotto! I just dont want to leave her from seven to six five days a week.
Im fully back the end of next week but im doing a full childcare trial up until then just to prepare us both. Im finding it much harder than I thought I would.

Did people say things like id say you are delighted to be back? That will push my limits.
an acquaintance lets call her who is a stay at home mam is obsessed with my return to work date and keeps making snidey remarks and telling me I will have it easy being gone for the day. It really grates on me.

Ugh. Babs has hand foot and mouth disease. He was like a bag of cats yesterday, really high temp and just wanted to be in my arms, crying all day. He was awake every 20/30 minutes for the whole of tuesday night, and every hour or so last night. He's better today, but is covered in spots

Night three of zero sleep. I actually burst into tears at 4.45am! I have to get some sleep soon. OH is doing a four week course which is fairly intensive so he really can't help out. I hope he sleeps tonight - I've two 13 hour shifts at the weekend.

Ouch nikpmup, that sounds rough. The poor little man. How long do the symptoms usually last. Very hard seeing them sick especially when you are operating on no sleep.

On a completely seperate note, I can't drink anymore. Was out last night to dinner and a concert for my birthday and had 2 glasses of wine and a beer over the course of about 5 hours. Am really feeling it today! Luckily himself had a holiday day booked anyway.

How's your little guy nikpump? Arw you working over the weekend?

Why thank you baby, getting your mother up at 5.50 instead of 7.30 is a lovely way to start the day. The layer of poo from your knees to your belly button was an extra special flourish. Ah well, the extra early start gives me a chance to make blueberry pancakes for Father's Day I suppose.

Hope the wee man is on the up and up nikpmup.

lolademmers wrote: »

Knees to belly button? :-O
Daddy having a lie on here already gave him his presents yesterday evening. I'm useless at keeping things like that!
Thank god it's the weekend having being having a couple of really rotten weeks in work and feeling very isolated from my friends. You know when they meet up and never tell you? Ugh horrible I was so hurt. They are all either still on maternity leave or on holidays from work but still met up at the weekend. I think it was a miscommunication they all thought someone else had asked me along. Q
So that together with a very busy working OH I've been very lonely lately.

Yep, pretty much knees to belly button ! Now it's porridge from her chin to her eyebrows. Pre-loaded spoons not their usual success this morning

I was starting to feel a bit isolated myself the last few weeks too so I went to a couple of classes with Olivia and thankfully this week I just happened to have three different social things so it knocked a bit of the funk out of me. All my friends are working and the only other person I know on mat leave at the moment is my husbands friends wife and she's a bit of a competitive mammy, always comparing our two!! The people meeting up without you is hard alright whether intentionally or not. Happened to me a few times when I was pregnant. Would you try and organise something?

Sadly can't wait for himself to get up so we can give presents!

lolademmers wrote: »

I must try arrange something. Just with working full time I want to spend my free time with little man but if I organised a lunch in my house they could brings their babies. I can sense the madness of all the babies together already!
Is this your first Father's Day?

Yep, first Father's Day. I'm like a child when I have presents to give to someone though, especially if it's something I really think they'd like.

A nightmare weekend of crying,feel so bad for the poor little thing.
Im noticing her gums are sharp now,can ye remember how long from sharp gums to a tooth? Shes in herendous form,no sleep and dreading work.

Nope no teeth here yet!
I can feel sharp gums on the top and the bottom,3 for definite that I can see white and its edgy. Todays definately been toughest day,had to break out the calpol,teetha gel or sachet both did nothing to sooth her.

lolademmers wrote: »

Has she any teeth? If it's sharp maybe the tooth has broken through? We are waiting on teeth 5 and 6 and it looks like they have broken through.
Imagine the pain aaaggghhh!!

Yeah, we all bang on about teething, but when you actually think about it - if I had something pointy slowly piercing my gum over the course of weeks, I'd be going to the dental hospital howling! My lad's 6th cut a few days ago.

Little man seems to be a lot more settled tonight. The rash doesn't look as angry and it's cooler as well which helps! I really need a night of unbroken sleep!

So, I randomly vomited this morning :0

I think it'd be nigh on impossible for me to be pregnant. I'm nowhere near due yet, I'll wait till closer to the time. I reckon it may the the hand foot and mouth, I got a few spots and a bit of a temp/headache; perhaps it makes you pukey too. My face is now covered in bright red dots - I'd forgotten about them; they're broken capillaries, I had them for months when I was pukey at the start of pregnancy!

It's not serious, it's a viral infection. Few days of high temp and feeling sick followed by spots and blisters on, er, hands, feet and mouth! It's ridiculously contagious. Tends to fly through creches and schools.

I'm heading to bed now, little man is sound asleep so I'm taking advantage and gonna try to catch up. I've been so tired the last few days, dizzy and sick feeling from it.