Gigi, I have treated ear infections with Chinese medicine, and greek wives cures I have a book of Chinese acupressure points for kids and have massaged Matilda's ears at 4am when she's woken up screaming in pain in her ears. 2 days later I took her to the Gp for something else & he asked what ab's she was on for her ears, I said none... he said she was recovering from an ear infection. I give them homeopathic immune boosters during winter and only take them to the GP if there are 2 or more definate signs of infections. I.e. high temps which don't go down with panadol or neurophen, red hot to touch ears, glands raised, etc. Yellow noses don't count, green only if it continues throughout the day etc. Certain infections, i.e Throat are hard to treat on younger bubs. They can't gargle betadine etc. So often they have to be treated. I usually buy those homeopathic lollypops first and have a go with them. Others like ears I try the home remedies first.
Vicky oh man You are such a caring generous woman, I'm sorry you have to go through this! If I had known I would have had more of a chat with you last night.
Jovie's not sleeping today I hate these days. I just want to rest!
We have been at a freinds all morning so both mine are passed out in bed!
Jols ive had a fissure since Chelsea's birth...its ok for a while then attacks..so i think its back again....never really goes....just lays dormant..LOL
My coloxyl has come out so hopefully will work soon enough.
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I GOT THE JOB!!!!!! i Start after i move in 2 to 3 weeks
Georgia is well now and back at daycare today she screamed when i left but i called them after i got back to my mum's and they said she was fine after about 5 mins when i left makes me feel bad leaving her like that it reminded me of the first time when i cried too but this time i didn't.
Im just about to go and pick her up from there so i hope she will be fine.
Iv been painting at mum's today im so over painting never doing it again!!!!
About that todler care for 2 hrs a week with mum / dad's what is that all about it sounds like a great idea and do they do them in NSW?
I thought Family daycare is they have a daycare at home and mum/ dad don't go well i might look in to it because Daycare is way to much at the moment Thanks for that
Yeah FDC is in a home, like day care but within another family environment and mum & dad don't stay. Both my girls have gone to it, if I didn't have to work we would be doing the kinder type thing that they have at the montessori which is with mum & dad for 2 hours 1-2 days a week.
Lea both my girls go to FDC...they love it....the career only has 3 kids under 5 when they go!
Well...today..NO one better talk to me....i have had the WORST night in history of ever having kids....
Never have i had Chelsea refuse to go to bed....NEVER. Even as newborns neither girls were as bad as Chelsea last night or even when sick for that matter
Was a bad night from the start....bed at 930....come 1030 she is still yelling.....1130....crying/screaming...get her up she is fine...wants to play.....back to bed after 10 mins. Midnight Craig and i go to bed....still screaming....so i bring her into our bed...lays there for 10 mins then starts jumping round....im so tired as is Craig...i begin crying and Chels is rubbing my head telling me 'Its ok Mummy'....still wont sleep...back the her cot....between 1230-2 she is in our bed or hers....then finally at 230 after me crying for the millionth time i do my dash and shove her in her bed for the final time.
3am...ASLEEP...and i nod off too.
8am she up and screaming again....nothing wrong....she just wants to play
I feel sooooo damn sorry for any parent who deals with non sleeping children ANY night....cos this was my first night....and probably not the last.
OH...and did i mention loud mouth woke Jasmine up too...so ALL 5 of us were awake most of the night!!
It is Nathan's 10th birthday today. I can't believe he is ten. Its odd, because I'm feeling rather reflective. I am remembering the whole experience - last night ten years ago, i was in pain, alone and afraid. He wasn't supposed to be coming yet. Having not experienced labour with Laura, I didn't know what was going on. at 4.30am I rang my mum. She came around. I rang Nathan's dad at 5am. He was on night shift, and because his shift finished in an hour, decided to finish his shift. (Never mind that I had been in pain that was getting increasingly worse all night!!! and that he had an hour to travel home, and then another half hour to get to the hospital!!) I was in denial the whole night, and then the trip to the hospital - even though the pain was intense, and not going away. It took a while for us to walk from the carpark to the hospital - with me apologising all the way! When we got into the birthing suite, I was examined and was in labour, and had started to dilate. They decided to give me a shot of pethadine to see if it would bring things to a halt. Yeah right! exH fell asleep, and all I wanted to do was get up and walk around - which I didn't because I had the monitor on. 4hours later, they examine me again, and I have continued to dilate. I had expressed that there was a particular area on my belly that was very sore. The head OB comes in and explains that because labour hadn't stopped, and that I had an area that was tender, they were concerned that the placenta had started to come away - and that in 20% of cases, bleeding stayed internal... My head was spinning. Within minutes of him examining me, I was being prep for the c-section. Having a spinal block while having contractions is highly unpleasent (my hat goes off to all of you that have had epidurals while in labour!!) Then Nathan was born. The whole thing is so vague in my memory from here on in. His apgar scores were good to begin with, but while I was in recovery, and he was being taken to special care nursery he went into respirotary distress. By the time I was wheeled to my room, he was in a humdicrib on oxygen.... not that I saw him. The midwife looking after me, was too busy to wheel my bed to the special care nursery. I held onto a poloroid photo of him for ten hours. I missed out on Laura meeting her baby brother for the first time. His blood sugar levels started to drop, and they wanted to give him formula via the nasal gastro tube that had been put in. I said I want to breast feed!! I had to argue with the special care nurse, so they allowed me to express some colostrum off, and i demanded it be added to the formula. whether that happened or not is anyone's guess because I still hadn't seen him! or even had a cuddle. At ten o'clock that night - ten hours after he was born, I finally got to hold my son for the first time, and give him a feed.
Its amazing that ten years on, that whole experience still hurts.
Happy 10th Birthday Nathan V..hope you have a lovely day with your gorgeous boy..did he go to school?
Kim
not much happening here, DF and i are going away for the weekend so cant wait for that, its only for one night but still cant wait!! my mum is having the kids..lucky her!
oh Kim, i hope you have a better night lol oh i know what it's like...poor bugger. as for your fissure, have you given it a name? sometimes that helps.
Vicky - hope you and your big man had a wonderful day
evie just walked into the bathroom tonight, sat on her potty and did a wee. woot!!! she's also started calling chino 'chi-chi' instead of bubba. and she carries her baby around in a little sling too. lol soooooooooooo glad things are happy in our house again...weep weep, tears of joy
As for a name.....fissure is know as 'that pr!ck'....LOL...original huh!
Chels better sleep tonight...im so damn tired and i have to be up early tmrw to get to the hospital at 9am....might sound *late* but if any of you (bar Jols) have heard of the Monash....then its hell at that time of the morning and mayhem heading to the hossy...and getting there on time!
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Vicky - birthdays do make people very reflective, i do that same thing.
i feel your pain, not being able to see Nathan for ten hours, that must have seemed like ten years (at the time).
Taralee - congrats to Evie on her potty achievement, that's so cute her called Chino "chi chi"! tha'ts lovely! I just ordered bilby some "dolly MCN" to put on dolls, when she gets to that stage. Does Evie have a toy sling? or has she commandeered one of yours?
Blanche - enjoy your time away, hope you and dh have great cuddles.
Kim - welcome to teh no sleep club, fun hey? not!!!!
I was on the phone to Centrelink this afternoon, feelign so frustrated, of course bilby was whingy and acting up cos i was on the phone, the person told me some confusing info - if she's right, could cause us lots of $$$$$ stress, so i burst into tears adn bilby went HYSTERICAL. I think it's oly the 2nd time she's seen me cry.
DH got a backpayment for six years of not being paid correctly for lunchbreaks, and it's going to have all sorts of ramifications for me - i will be feeling sick with dread until the paperwork is done. Six years of records for Centrelink to go thru, that will take months. I won't rest easy until i know the outcome. So frightened of ending up with some horrible debt.
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Kim.
I have a book of Chinese acupressure points for kids and have massaged Matilda's ears at 4am when she's woken up screaming in pain in her ears. 2 days later I took her to the Gp for something else & he asked what ab's she was on for her ears, I said none... he said she was recovering from an ear infection.
I give them homeopathic immune boosters during winter and only take them to the GP if there are 2 or more definate signs of infections. I.e. high temps which don't go down with panadol or neurophen, red hot to touch ears, glands raised, etc. Yellow noses don't count, green only if it continues throughout the day etc. Certain infections, i.e Throat are hard to treat on younger bubs. They can't gargle betadine etc. So often they have to be treated. I usually buy those homeopathic lollypops first and have a go with them. Others like ears I try the home remedies first.
I hate these days. I just want to rest!
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