Hayley, if you want to boost her gut flora via yoghurt, it has to be one that contains live cultures in it - like Vaalia or yakult. Any other yoghurt isn't worth a squirt for something like that - still good for you but they don't have live culture. I brought for Alister today some Brauer's Recovery tonic which should work the same as a probiotic. I also brought some probiotics for the older kids and a big tub of vaalia yoghurt LOL - I am so over all the lurgies in this house.
With MIL's I struck gold with mine - it's my own mum that I don't trust. She is an insulin dependent diabetic and can't even look after her own dietary needs properly let alone the kids. Although she has tried to give Alister stuff like chocolate earlier in the piece, I have told her she can't because of his eczema and she doesn't do it now - bit of a porkie but it worked LOL.
Clare, we aren't doing anything over the holidays - am looking forward to be blissfully casual for two weeks LOL. The only thing we have 'booked in' is on the last friday of the holidays, the older two are going to a craft thing at the Library doing decoupage.
I forgot to say earlier too, our library is starting a program called Baby Bounce - like a story time session for babies 12mths and under where you sing rhymes and read stories to them etc. You get a board book for them too and the Librarian said she is going to make up a folder with all the things we do at the sessions in it and you get a new one to add to it each week - sounds really good and it will fit in perfectly with Paige being at preschool on that day.
Rainy, I'm baaaa-ck! Haven't read all the way through the posts so i'm just dying to know what your news is...think i might have guessed ! OMG I'm soooo excited.
Noni, I just wanted to say, I know what that squalor smell is, i've smelt it before and it sticks to everything! It's the smell of really dank dirty energy. Anything you do that brings light and living energy into the house will help, also keep cleaning, open the windows for fresh air as much as you can. If you read up on "space clearing" that will give you some ideas on how to freshen it all up.
Ummm, can't remember anything else just yet, had a pretty good little mental holiday this week. Decided not to go with a baptism frock, bought a cotton bonnet (cute) and we'll also have a little satin stole as that is a catholic thing she can hand along. It's on Sunday, we're going to the snow tomorrow so it will be a big weekend for everyone.
OK - QE2 - amazing experience. Not sure if we've got the sleep thing sorted out but it turns out she had started to loose weight so was probably waking up hungry these last few weeks. I think I've been limiting feeds because of my nipple pain...so feeding more (when the boobies can handle it). Also got some good mental health strategies in place, starting with some regular counselling. I've realised I've got so much pain in my body (left over from the pregnancy) which needs to be processed and let go. Going to see my GP for a referral first because there is now a number of sessions available with a medicare rebate. When I arrived at QE2 I was in a flat panic about DH going away and I feel so much more confident about it all now.
Anyway, will post more as I catch up with personals etc. xxx Missed you all!
MD - We missed you as well! I am so happy that you are feeling much more confident for when your DH goes away. The regular counselling is a very good idea and will keep you on track when you are having a bad day (lets hope you dont have a bad day to begin with but we all have them dont we). I'm glad you've determined a reason for her waking up, it makes it so much easier when you know what you need to do. Have fun at the snow I am so jealous!
Sherie - Thanks I will get some Vaalia tomorrow, she loves it but we have run out. The brauers sounds good too. I guess I am getting it for her gut but I know myself when I go on antibiotics nasties like thrush seem to appear and thats the last thing she needs atm. Wow baby bounce sounds excellent, Alister will love that. I love your little white lie about chocolate flaring up excema, but unfortunately my MIL is a trained nurse & therefore 'knows it all'.
PS They are called ****tail frankfurts and are miniature frankfurts - saveloys are shorter and fatter than frankfurts and usually a much deeper colour red, like 'battered savs' at the fish and chip shop. Apparently it's a British thing.
DH had me confused for about a year when I first met him cos he kept talking about Cheerios and as far as I knew that was an American breakfast cereal LOL. He's from QLD and they also call them little boys up there.
ETA - that's weird about handing them out at the butchers!! When we were kids the butcher always gave us a big chunk of fritz. Don't get me started about how fritz is NOT the same as Devon (blergh)!
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Welcome back MD, glad that sleep school has helped.
In NZ we don't usually get frankfurters, mainly saveloys. If you were to get a battered sav at a fish and chip shop it would be a hot dog. I have had the same thing called a Pluto Pup in QLD
Last edited by Artechim; July 5th, 2008 at 08:12 AM.
*YAY*!!!!!! MD is back! So glad to hear that you did take something away from QE2 kwim? I really hope that the next step for you makes a huge difference for you. The bonnet sounds lovely. The Baptism we went to for our friends baby in May, she had a white cotton bonnet and this very simple long cotton smock over a long white jumpsuit and she just looked divine.
Hayley, the gut is the key to overall good health, so if your gut is unhealthy, then chances are the rest of you is too. 80% of the bodies bacteria lives in the gut, so you need to make sure it is in tip top order to have a good crack at fixing everything else. The problem with ABs is that they kill off everything - not just the nasties they are supposed to kill off, which is why you can be more susceptible to thrush after taking them or in kids they will have a lowered immunity to everything else going around. LOL at your MIL being a nurse - my Mum was a nurse too but you wouldn't think so now, she's a absolute shocker.
Arte, I love how the same thing can have different names in different areas - if you walked into a cafe here and asked for a pluto pup, dagwood dog or batter sav, you would get the same thing - a battered saveloy on a stick. If you asked for a hot dog you would get a frankfurt in a bun. One thing I do hate though and have been caught out with when on coastal areas, if you ask for a 'scallop' in a cafe you get those horrible little molluscs, so you have to ask for a potato cake LMAO. Our here you have to ask for a Tasmanian Scallop to get one of those and scallop gets you a potato cake - so confusing!
Lovely day here today - very brisk outside but the sun is out. Apparently we are gonig to be in for a lot of rain come Sunday night - like INCHES of rain. I hope not, we already have our dams full so it will all just flood and make a godawful mess everywhere. I know we need the rain and all, but not that much at once kwim? Mother nature just can't get it right lately.
Poor Alister has a sore bot-bot. He and the girls have had a pox virus for 2wks now (blistery pimple looking things) and the girls seem fine now, but Alisters bottom is red raw and I don't know what to do next because its a virus, so nothing will clear it. Apparently it can take up to 6mths to be fully rid of it depending on your immune systems reaction to it and the kids are already low. When I took them to the Dr he said you can only treat it with Iodine, but I'm not game to put it on with the skin so raw. hurts him to poo too, because as the skin stretches, it hurts him.
LOL Sherie, here a potato cake is a potato fritter (if you are talking about the slice of potato in batter) , a scallop will get you the shell fish. So funny how some things are called something different every where you go. Don't even get me started on Thongs (which are thin strapped underwear!!!!)
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! OMG I'm soooo excited.
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