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Happy New Years Eve everyone!

It's belated xmas eve in our household too so I'm just taking a qiuck breather from all the tidying while the babies nap before they leave and then family decends upon us :wacko: Should be fun combining new years with xmas though :)

Wishing everyone a happy, healthy 2011 :hugs:
 
Happy New Year to all Bumpkins & Babies xxxx
 
Morning all,

Oh dear, 2 days left, we really need to get out of these late lie in's! Well, new years day went off with a bang, literally :nope: Well, it was bedtime and I put Chloe down but she was past tired and refusing to go down. I had come down but she was screaming and I was just to go back up to her and *bang* We ran upstairs and I tried to open the door but unfortunately Chloe had fallen out of her cot and landed behind the door. I had to move her out the way with the door to go get her :cry: She had a few speckles where there were a few burst blood cells but no bump or big bruise, I put a cold compress on her and we took her downstairs to keep an eye on her, played with her and made sure she was okay. We checked NHS website but it was ridiculous, it said got to A&E but it also said you can try 'X,Y,Z' first - so what does that mean?! It totally contradicted itself! So we called them but got an automated message saying the que was 2 hours and if deemed unimportant they would call us back within 4 hours! That's just crazy!!!!! She sat in bed with us for a bit, hyper, beating up Nij (:haha: good girl!) and then I just kept on getting up and checking on her. Her bed was also lowered before she went back in it too!

Oh and we think MIL has gone haywire again too :rofl: She called up yesterday saying 'Happy New Year' which you would think is innocent enough but she never calls unless something is up, all she said was that and asked about how we were, Nij said and wished her HNY back. So then Nij contacted his Dad to say are they coming tomorrow and did he know MIL had called. FIL called up saying what did he say to MIL as she said 'not now after the way he has spoken to me' !!?!! I was there, it was a completely normal, very brief conversation. Apparently since she has been asleep and when Nij called up again this morning about 9 she still wasnt up. So yeah, that lasted long, I must of jinxed it!

Speaking of jinxes, I got a new watch! But I bought it myself with some Christmas money so I'm betting this one lasts a bit better than the others :haha:

Have a good day all :flower:
 
Happy new year! Well after another trip to the dr today James is on another course of antibiotics. He has an ear infection :( Went to the chemist and ended up with antibiotics, multivitamin stuff, calpol and anbusol. Gave him a bit of everything and the anbusol worked wonders! He has just eaten more than he has eaten in 4 days!
 
Happy New Year All!

Golly! I just don't know where to start or what to say. There's no way I could read all of what I missed... I hadn't realised how long it's been since I've been on here...

I hope everyone has had a reasonable time, all the LO are growing strong and are keeping you all on your toes...

CC is wonderful and has been walking for what feels like forever; Breast feeding weaning is still on going, talk about being a Madame!

OH & I are trying for another LO; slightly earlier than antisipated but all good plans are subject to change...
 
Hey Eswift :hugs: :wave: Welcome back, what a tease! good luck TTC whilst you are trying :flower: Hope your not away for as long this time, I've been checking you on FB (not a stalker! :blush): but its certainly nice to have you back in here chatting with the Bumpkins :flower:
 
Believe it or not I really have missed you all...

Not sure if I'll be able to explain how life has been; 1st word that springs out is CRAP! 2nd is challenging.

Now that I'm full of the dreaded lurgy and everything is starting to calm, it feels as though someone has released the pause button...

Lets see, since I was on here; OH Mum moved in, his sister passed away, is entire family seemed to fall to pieces (?!) I didn't return to work, choosing to take a career break to look after OH Mum, she has since left (only just) before Christmas. Social services are looking after her at the moment, trying to arrange carers etc; and hopefully get her in her own home.

There has been awful emotional tension within the families involved, I'm staying well out of it now, putting my own family 1st. They've taken a back seat for long enough. I've been so blessed that CC and DS are relatively laid back and have been so happy go lucky...

Live and learn...

So go on, fill in some of the gaps for me.

How have you all been? What was the 1st Birthday's like? 2nd Christmas?

Charlie's B'day kind of came and went, Christmas was so funny; she enjoyed opening presents and did a little jig with excitement when the items were shown... She is so funny and cheeky...

A right proper imp!
 
just a quick one as i'm on my phone but trying to get to sleep. kte, poor Chloe, hope she's ok, we converted sam's bed into the cotbed as he fell out his cot a while back and we could see it happening again. put pics of it on fb. was best thing we did and he loves it.
 
Quick hello as on my iPod but just wanted to say. Hey n hope u all had awesome Xmas days n celebrated the new year in style! We had a blast, but my dad just got taken into intensive care cox of heart n double pneumonia! Typical! Other than that all is fab here.will catch up properly when I charrge laptop up tomorrow. Happy 2011!!!
 
Just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year 2011

x
 
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Neon: Congrats, seen your 2nd ticker! :flower:

Flora: Sorry to hear about your Dad :hugs:

Jo: Thanks Jo. We hadn't lowered it before as she never really stood up in it, even up until now, so its only just been lowered . . . until she starts climbing!

Eswift: Sounds very hectic, I'm glad your able to put yourselves first now :hugs:
 
Good morning ladies!

How's everyone's 2011 going so far? ;) Back to work for me today and a new munchkin starts in daycare... Emma +3 other one year olds now = me losing my mind in 2011 :wacko: :haha: Had our belated xmas/new years celebrations on Friday night/Saturday. Hectic but good. Still need to put away a lot of our xmas decorations- I feel really behind on all that stuff this year.

Kte- that must have been scary! I'm glad to hear Chloe is okay though :hugs: How's the new watch holding up? :haha:

LK- Hope James is feeling better :hugs:

Flora- Hope your dad makes a swift recovery :hugs:

Neon- Congrats on baby #2!

eswift- Good to see you back!

Need more :coffee: Emma's cutting her second molar and it's waking her up a lot at night (and me too!). The first one cut through when she was in hospital and all drugged up so she didn't really notice it.
 
Morning gals. Gosh, I feel like I've missed a lot. Can't believe you all got time to come online during the hols. Ours was eventful, but not in the same way some of yours have been. Mainly we had a lovely time. Will chat properly later but for now just wanted to send out some thoughts ... Kaites, I am sooo sorry you ended up in hosp for Xmas. Was it Kawasaki disease? And is that the end of it, or is it something for life, and if so is it something that can be kept in check with no problems? I send you loads of :hugs:

FloraBean, I hope your dad gets better ASAP. Does he have a heart prob usually, or is this something new? Sorry this has happened over the hols. :hugs: Nice to know the rest of your Xmas was good though. Does this mean you and OH are now happy again? (I know you had some 'issues' before.)

Sorry this is short, will be back later I hope. Oh, by the way, any of my fellow BFers thinking of weaning off the final remaining feeds soon? I am half-heartedly considering it. Part of my wants to, the other half of me doesn't want to. But anyway, I wouldn't mind some suggestions just in case we do start weaning soon so feel free to read this: https://www.babyandbump.com/toddler-pre-school/500092-weaning-toddler-breast-cup.html#post8470614

Bye for now xxx
 
Colsy- They aren't a 100% sure it was Kawasaki's now- basically to be classified as KD, she needed to fit 5 of the 6 criteria and she did, but somewhat loosely. Because she was getting worse when we arrived at hospital, they thought that she was at the start of KD's progression and they recommended we have the IVIG treatment since it's kind of like a booster shot for the immune system anyway and wouldn't necessarily hurt her if it wasn't KD so we went ahead with it (after a bit of debate since immunoglobulin is still a blood product with all those risks). The next day she had a raging rash on her right arm- a new infection :( - and that became the new problem. They also got back some swabs/bloodwork and it showed that she had a bit of strep too (wasn't a lot of it and didn't seem bothered by her throat though) and that she was slightly anemic. We also had a bunch of other tests because of the KD and her prenatal hydrops (EKG, ECG, chest x-ray, ultrasounds just to name a few) and that showed that she still has a slight pericardial effusion. Anyhooo... the end result is that she's on ASA treatment for 6 weeks because of the IVIG, iron supplements for 3 months because of the anemia and antibiotics because of the slight case of strep and we still don't know for 100% certain what caused all this :wacko: We are supposed to have another ECG in about 6 weeks as a KD follow up and I'm interested to see if she still has the pericardial effusion. In the back of my mind, I'm always going to wonder if this is somehow related to all the problems we had during pregnancy since we never knew why she had the pleural and pericardial effusions :shrug: But yeah, after the ASA, that's supposed to be the end of the KD, no lifelong effects since she had treatment (without there is a 20% chance of anneurysms)

Good luck with the weaning :flower: I honestly can say that I can't see Emma dropping the boob anytime soon, lol! That being said, if I'm not around, she'll happily do without so clearly it's just a habit at this point rather than an actual "need".
 
Florabean ~ Hope you get some really good news very soon about your Dad.

CC is slowly getting use to a bottle and not me, we're struggling with the own room and own bed. I think we're expecting too much too soon, bed time changing from 11pm until 7pm, own room and not ours... Such a lot to do... Woke her up this morning at 7am, totally unheard of as she's normally nowhere near awake until 10am... Maybe she'll be so tired she'll not keep her eyes open tonight...

Love to you all...
 
hey all =) havent been on for such a long time

Hope you all had a fab year, xmas and newyears eve! =]

Just wanted to ask.. proberly far fetched but has anyone been dignoised with postnatal depression from the october bumpkins? x
 
Kaites: Sorry, meant to ask how your New Year went! :hugs: How was Emma with all the family about? :flower:

:haha: Yep the watch still works, so doing well! I nearly got paint on the white strap yesterday but I got it off phew!!

Colsy: Glad you had a nice one :flower:

TM: :wave: Hope you did too. Nope, sorry I can't help you with that one (endless other things!) but not PND. Hope your okay :flower:

Chloe was certainly not impressed with being woken up at 6.30 this morning. Yesterday I got her up at 7:30 but the day before that we slept in past 8 when ideally I wanted to ease her back into the early mornings. She has been getting up at 8/8:30 of late, think we had a 9 one day! Then again, her bed times have been 8/8:30 rather than 7/7:30 but last night I hoped that having her up at 7:30 would mean she would go to bed normal time, er :nope:. In the end I had to lie next to the cot with my hand through the bars stroking her tummy to calm her down until she drifted off which thankfully didn't take too long. I'm sure she has forgiven me for the early start since she has realised it was a nursery day!
 
hey all =) havent been on for such a long time

Hope you all had a fab year, xmas and newyears eve! =]

Just wanted to ask.. proberly far fetched but has anyone been dignoised with postnatal depression from the october bumpkins? x


I was... I was also told at the time you can still be diagnoised up to 18 months after the baby's been born...
 

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