Hello All,

Been very quiet in here this last week....Is everyone ok? I hope you are all just busy with running around after 18 month olds. I have sat down on more than one occasion to post this week only to have Mia wake up or DH need me or whatever......as soon as i sit at the computor i'm needed elsewhere.

Are you girls having or had your bubs 18 month chicken pox jabs done?? Mia is booked in for hers on Fri so i'm just curious to see how they coped. Mia went really well with all of her others but i have heard chicken pox can make them feel more off, I dont know if that is true so pls correct me if i'm wrong.

Well we have had a shocking long weekend as yet again Mia has been unwell. Not the usual cold though this time. She was 100% when i put her to bed on thur's night but when she got up Fri she sounded like she had a wheeze. By the time she got up from her lunch nap she was fighting to breathe and her lips where turning blue.....very scary. I rushed her to my local where she was seen to on arrival and put on a nebuliser and then given a dose of steroids. She perked up and was ok within an hour though still had the wheeze. They werent sure wether to keep her in for obs or to let her come home. Eventually we came home with steroids, antibiotics, ventalin etc and a nice $80 chemist bill (she is worth every cent but still hefty) and of course with me feeling very anxious of how she'd go through the night. She didnt go overly well we were up for 90% of it and living of the ventalin. By Sat arvo though it was as if there had been nothing wrong with her. I have her booked in with my GP this week to have her checked out again. I really hope she isnt asthmatic and allergy prone as i am and its not nice. We already know she has an egg allergy. The hosp thought this was an allergic reaction but i have no idea what would have triggered it.

jimsteph- congrats on your DS1 and the TT at least i will have someone to ask advice from when the time comes. It amazes me how many ppl think Mia should be starting just cos i have no 2 on the way

mum2cheekygirl- you sound ike your doing really well with the weight loss if we do meet up for a cuppa when u come to perth i will definately feel like a whale..lol. I wish i had some of your enthusiasm for the gym etc. I am hoping that after bub arrives i will be motivated with it been summer and been too hot to cover up! Shayla sounds like and angel bub i hope i am as blessed this time around i cetainly was with Mia, ppl use to tell me i didnt know i had a baby she slept through from a ridiculously young age too.

Everyone else- hope you are all keeping well and i look forward to reading what you have all been up to