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Cass, bummer about the gastro. My words of wisdom are: if you are racing to the loo for the poo/spew double, make sure you sit on the toilet and spew on the floor, 'cos the other way around is just so much worse!
Isa, :hug:
MD, can you level with the IL's and just ask them to take the girls out to the park/zoo/pool/anywhere because you have an assignment due and need to get some study done? As for the pox, I am going to say (based on nothing) that because she got the rash after the vacc she will not get it now.
Well yesterday was a disaster! Got hit with a massive bout of MS, the all-day nausea where you just want to curl up and cry somewhere. I can't believe I lived like that every day for two months with W! DH was away hunting and I sent a heap of increasing desperate text messages to him, but by the time he received them at lunch time, he and his hunting buddy had split up with plans to return to the truck at 4pm so he couldn't come back. Then I sent a bunch of ...not very nice....messages at 5pm for not letting me know what was happening for tea etc, until he replied that it was only just 4pm and I had forgotten about daylight savings lol. Anyhow, DH got tea ready and did the night shift so I got a full night in my own bed. Feeling better today thankfully.
Now W has "poo farts", so I guess I will keep him home from kindy today.
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Morning Ladies ... Finally back!!! Will take me awhile to catch up, please bear with me :-)
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Hi Andie, welcome back! I used to live a suburb away from where you are when I was in Australia, now I am feeling nostalgic lol
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Thanks Arte - Congrats on DD & your 3rd pregnancy.
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WOW looks like congratulations are in order for you too Andie!!! How exciting!!!!
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Congrats on your number 3 as well! Not a single mum anymore?
W is sick. His poo-farts turned into a half hour stay on the toilet -thank goodness he wipes his own bum because the smell in there was making me gag!, and then he puked up (on the lino, bless him) and then went and got a towel to clean it up. Then he fell asleep on the couch.
I have no idea what to do with sick kids. We haven't had any sick here for over two years of the d & v variety, just a few runny noses and the pox. When do I take him to the Dr? He isn't hot at all, his cheeks are cold.
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Huge congrats Andie, I had wondered if you were rejoining us with some news.
Yucko at all the gastro going around.
Arte I would think just try and keep the fluids up and see how he is in a couple of days.
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Arte - yep just try to keep his fluids up and v basic food if he will eat. i reckon give it a couple of days... bith mine had it recently, and we didnt need to go to dr - just keep hydrated and rested... poor thing!
welcome back and congrats Andie
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hi girls!
Andie: great to see you again! and wow! big congrats in order!!!
Arte: well we are in the midst of the V and D tour in our house...and yes, i have (sorry for TMI) but mastered the art of bucket while on the toilet lol :tmi: i just bought those hydralyte icy-poles for us. i also have the drink, but leila wont have a bar of it, so the icy pole version wins :rolleyes:
and yeah, i second MP on the simple foods. no fat, dairy, nothing rich. leila has been surviving on crackers and leek and potato soup lol. DH just made a beautiful chicken broth to help get our energies back.
and all day nausea?? eepp! are you sure it's the MS?? could be the good ol' gastro bug....
can't stay on long as the gastro here is still really full on. and on top of that leila has also got a really bad headcold and is dealing with a temp of 40 (38.9 after panadol poor poppet).
today i got too dehydrated and had a bit of a crazy heart episode (i recognised it from when i was ill with the tonsilitis all that time ago), so went to the GP to be checked and yeah my poor ticker is taking a bit of a hammering :( . thankfully i have been able to keep sips of hydralyte down since then so am feeling less black-outy and dizzy. but it does make me worry what with the BF and all...i get so thirsty after them IYKWIM.
(sorry about the me post, can you tell i really really dislike being ill lol??!)
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Good lord Cass, that sounds horrible! It can't be a good thing that your poor heart is upset?
I am not a good sicko. Thankfully I don't get d&v very often and as long as I stay away from lentils I am fine.
I am pretty sure that it was MS, not unusual for me to feel sick all day, just not usually that bad this pregnancy. I suspect I was fighting something off, I tend to feel worse if I am tired or run down.
W woke from his nap and now he is fine. Running around like he has had a jar of jellybeans! Is he alright to go to kindy tomorrow or do you keep them home for a safety day?
After all my effort yesterday not to spew, I lost out today from the various gastro smells lol
ETA, Cass, is hydralyte a Dr prescribed generic mix or a pre-packaged off the shelf deal? Most of the electrolyte replacement things are about twice as concentrated as you need. If they are making you thirsty then make up the amount with half the powder (or chase it with the same again of plain water).
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i've both i think. i got the tablet one that you pop into water, but i am guessing that the icy-pole one is probably super concentrated...:think:
as for kindy: i dont know! we got hit hard by it, so i will keep leila home once this passes for a day or two (more that her immune is shot right now), but i have zero idea how long gastro is contagious for??
man, i feel for you with the spewing...especially smelling that lovely aroma lol!
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Cass, I held it together well for the spew, but the diarrhea...the smell...poor kid, I couldn't go near him.
And to top it off, I wet my pants while I was puking. I love being pregnant.
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:grouphug: I couldn't read all that and not pop on to offer :grouphug:
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Arte, I thought my pelvic floor was going to completely give way while I was playing netball the other day LOL - the things we have to put up with hey? But I hope the both of you are over it. Personally, I would keep W home from Kindy for a day at least because he could still be contagious.
Cass, I hope the lurgy fairy buggers off for you two as well :hug:
Oh Andie!!!!!! Welcome back gorgeous! and massive congratulations to you as well!
I had L home today from school - he came down with a head cold/fever thingy and he's totally spent poor kid. Luckily there is no gastro. I think it's just hte crappy weather where it is cold one minute and hot the next. I think he should stay home tomorrow too but DH reckons he'd be right.
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well i'll tenatively say that i *think* the gastro (and pardon the pun) is passing! either that or its the high i've gotten from the maxalon still making me think life is rosy :rofl: (man, that stuff has really knocked me about lol).
Trill: ohhaaa i hope that L is better soon :hug: Leila was hit pretty hard by the one she has, but it was coming off the back of the gastro so i guess she was a bit compromised in the first place. it's the fever that is really yuk, it's high and persistent :wall:
if it's anything like the one that our L has, you'll need shares in a tissue factory lol!
Arte: oh yeah, the glamour the glamour! it's one thing that posh spice doesnt really mention about her pregnancies lol! it was funny because i was doing my pelvic floor exercises, but they just didnt seem to be as strong no matter what as they were the first time around.
MD: thanks for the hugs babe...just dont come too close bahahahaha! like in the words of that great muse Britney: "it's toxic" hahahahahahaha!
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Cass, he is still in bed asleep and has the box of tissues in there with him LOL. He woke up for all of 10 minutes this morning, could hardly talk because his nose was so blocked so I sent him back to bed. Re the pelvic floor, apparently kegels are no good for it as they make the problem worse in the long run. Squats are now the new kegels because they help lengthen the muscles and pull your sacrum into the right spot. If you think yours is bad after two - imagine what mine is like after 4 boofas!
And LOL at Posh Spice. I bet you'd never ever find out if she had a lovely bunch of grapes down there - not that she's ever been a vaginal birther anyway, but these things still happen during pg regardless of how they come out. It just has me stumped how her body can even sustain a pg with her being so underweight.
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so we should be doing squats? funnily enough i reckon that will be easier!
and yeah i was wondering that the impact on her body from growing the babies couldnt be healthy considering her really low weight, cause i am assuming that the babies will just take everything they need, leaving whatevers left for mum (if theres anything left IYKWIM). i know that this worried me when i was still recovering from the tonsilitis nightmare as my weight had plummeted to 43kgs and i was finding it really hard to get it back up (no worries now by the way :ROFL:)
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I have to come clean about something with you guys. I posted about it in the Easter egg thread and I thought I really should tell you all that we had all of the kids Baptised last August. it is a real sore point for me and something I disagreed with doing, but DH felt it was important to him to have them done despite not going to church himself. So we had them baptised into the Anglican church. I know I should have told you all earlier because I know you would have been there for me, but it was such a difficult thing for me to do that I didn't say anything to anyone about it online.
