Ear Ear

My poor chunky is still ill. I thought that she had perked up and was almost back to normal on Wednesday and very happy yesterday.

I played out with work last night and joked that my perfect sleeper (please don't hate me) would probably wake up, clearly I did jinx myself. She woke up through the night and at a 3.30 wake up she was super hot, we had magic calpol and played and she chewed on her jigsaw pieces so I decided it was teething. She went back to bed and settled well until we got up for the day.

When she woke she was warm again but not too hot and she was happily playing and bouncing so gave her a bit of calpol just in case and off we went to nursery.

Cue the afternoon when I get a call from the nursery saying she has slept on and off for three hours, this is shocking to know those that know O as she doesn't really get the whole napping in the day, not that it bothers me as she sleeps amazingly at night. She refused water and then her temp soared over 40 so they stripped her down to her nappy and she just cuddled, again very odd as she would rather not cuddle and just watches to the world go by independently.

She was so pale and boiling and quite, not good signs. I rang the doctors without much hope of getting an appointment thinking I wouldn't get one calling so late in the day and they had a slot for 10 minutes later so off we scooted.

I think by just seeing the wonderful Dr Lee she felt better, she suddenly started paying attention and trying to grab his stethoscope and the BP machine. In the ten minutes her temp had dropped to 36.6 (typical. dr Lee looked at her and said he thought it was an infection but they just had to find out what one it was. After a few checks he looked in her right ear and spotted the infection.

She has got some antibiotics and calpol. She settled down to sleep really well but she is still boiling so we shall see how the night goes.

These babies are rather tricksy :)

Poor Baby

Well I thought this weekend would lead to all my washing being up-to-date but sadly this is not the case. My poor Oliviasaurus seems to have developed evening sickness so last night and tonight from tea time she has just sicked everywhere.

Last night I was alone as Tom went to a birthday party of Caz's 30th (it was superhero themed the pics look like muchos fun was had!) I was sadly home having to do numerous bed changes. I ran out of sheets for O and ended up putting one of our king size sheets in her cot. Thankfully with my new, fabulous washer dryer I cleaned and dried everything over night.

This morning she woke up fine and happy then around the same time as yesterday she got grouchy and whiny then cue scene similar to the exorcist! I was covered, she was covered, the stairs and floor at the bottom of the stairs were covered and the walls were covered, I just wanted to cry. She's been in bed for about 2 hours and all is calm, TOUCH WOOD!

I hope she is well enough for nursery tomorrow and shifts the bug soon and I manage to shift this stupid cough! There is only a week left until I start jury service and I don't want to be sitting their worrying about her.

On a note to me #amwriting and #amscared haha

Washing Machine happiness

Well I really don't seem to do much with my life these days so my biggest highlight is my new washing machine!

I've not actually washed any clothes in it yet as it's smells of new machine so it's having an empty wash.

I am sure that my washing will be up to date for the next few weeks until the novelty wears off :)

And that really is all I have to say, dull, dull, dull :)

LARD ARSE

I am never going to lose weight as I can't stop eating, tonight it is custard doughnuts, they are super tasty but now I am feeling a little guilty, I seriously need some motivation and will power to get fit and try and tone up a bit. Sadly (for my bum anyway) I would much rather sit and read a book and eat some cake, whoops.

Task for this week, eat more fruit! I feed Miss O plenty of fruit and veg but don't eat it myself, why? Weirdo!

I wish I had won the lotto tonight and could hire a cook to make nice, healthy, tasty food and I could have a gym in the house and I would have no excuse, as at the moment I am full of them :)

well this has been a dull post, I must lead a more thrilling life to make blogging worthwhile!

Tata

zzZZzz

I am soooo tired. I was fine back a work for the first couple of weeks but I am so exhausted now. I need to find a way to work 4 days per week or even just finishing at . Getting home at 6 is just hard as Olivia is so tired she just wants to have her bottle and get to bed. Ideally I would like a lotto win but the machine never seems to pick the right numbers.

Ooh this has started off as a moan!

Life is good in general. My little lovely is almost 1. How the hell did that happen? Time really does just seem to fly by.

As far as her eyes go there have been ups and downs but we seem to be fairly steady at the moment. Contact lenses are a big fail and the hospital don't seem to happy about that so we are waiting for the consultant to make a decision about what he wants to do. I am just going to keep saying leeeeave me be :) it is only for a year until they start the next round of operations.

Nothing much is happening really, I just seem to be living for the weekend when we get some nice time together although one day I need to just sleep for a day to catch up on myself so life gets easier, things are always easier after a good sleep. I might book a days holiday and spend most of it sleeping and then the afternoon with O! Sounds like plan actually.

I really should keep blogging and maybe even try to make it interesting.

Hoping and wishing and praying

Well things aren't going according to plan with Miss Olivia's eyes.

We went at the end of September and Mr Nayak said that her right eye wasn't doing too well and it may be worthwhile operating in November when they had planed to have another look under anaesthetic. I was OK with this as her left eye was compensating so I shouldn't have noticed a difference.

We went back mid October just to confirm whether they were going to were going to operate or not and in the couple of weeks her left eye had deteriorated and was now worse than the right eye. Cue me feeling awful as I just hadn't noticed that she might be struggling.

So we have one operation booked in for next week and the second needs to be done within a couple of weeks but there isn't any room in the lists so she needs to be shuffled in somewhere.

I'm not feeling to guilty now as it must have just been starting when we went as it is clear she is struggling. When she holds things close she goes all cross eyed bless her.

Now for the hoping, wishing and praying. I have a horrible chest cold with a cough that rattles everything it can. If O gets it then it means operations cancelled. This can not happen so come on wonderful antibodies in breast milk to fight off any nasties that may try to get her!

The added uncertainty means I now get a little longer on my maternity leave which is nice if I ignore the fact that I won't get paid :s ah well we will be fine. Well as long as they aren't cancelled!

The nursery have been just wonderful with us. I was worried that they might think I was messing them around as we keep changing the date and days she goes but the nursery manager has told me not to worry at all.

The nursery has been done up since we enrolled her and as of this week have a sensory room which will be brilliant for her, I am so happy with this nursery. It was initially are second choice but there is no way the other one would be this flexible with us.

I think all my gloom and stress lifted Monday afternoon and I relaxed Monday evening and got ill Monday night, I should maybe stress out again to get better? Although it has been lovely having two days were I haven't even got dressed hehe I only got dressed Wednesday because I felt guilty that O was stuck inside and I didn't have any chocolate in the house so I had to stock up :)

Weaning has turned into a bit of a chore, she's not keen on eating things even those that she previously liked although she guzzles the formula, typical. I am wondering if she is getting another tooth through or the one there is giving a bit of trouble. I must keep telling myself food is for fun until they are one and not stress out.

So that's all for now really. Can't think of anything else to say so better go get some fluids and watch Corrie :)

Three Months in one update

So here we are with an update. I haven’t been very good with blogging even though I downloaded an iPod app so that I could do during the many times I was pinned under Olivia feeding.

In fact the last person to blog on her was Olivia. I am trying my best to encourage her to stay on her stomach and she loves just hitting my iPod as it is bright and colourful so I put some baby apps on there and I think she somehow managed to post whilst I obviously wasn’t paying attention heh

So three months of goings on to update on!

23rd July Mia Rostance made her entrance into the world (I still have her present to post, whoops. I must put that on my to do list this week!!) I have seen Gem and Mia but brain like a sieve obviously. Mia is just gorgeous and Gem being Gem was back to looking fabulous in no time at all (biatch xx)

August was about hospitals. Olivia’s consultant had booked us in fro two weeks to get her operations done. We went in on the Monday and had some tests and I had explained that I forget she has poor sight as she focuses so well. Tuesday morning she went into her ops.

All was fine and she was nosing everywhere and enjoyed playing on the bed until they got the gas mask to send her to sleep. The anaesthetist told me not worry as children generally think it is a game but she really didn't like it and struggled and cried and as the anaesthetic was kicking in the cries and flailing just got sadder, cue lots of crying from me :s Thankfully Helen was on hand to spend some time with me and give me a hug or two.

She came back from theatre rather smiley but really groggy only to find that nothing has been done this time. When they got a good look in her eyes they decided at this time that the risks were greater than any benefit. Plan then was to have eye drops every morning to open the eye a bit so to do all our play and learning bits in the morning, 4 weekly reviews and we go back in November for another detailed look under anaesthetic. Although this may turn into actual ops as her left eye is now struggling and I am noticing it more and more now.

Is it wrong that I thought it was funny that she was rather hoarse and croaky after the op and when she babbled it was rather deep and she normally squeaks and squeals (Tom nicknames her squeak).

I can’t remember anything else from August, it was ages ago!

September was my birthday and it was lovely. Tom took the week off so we spent some fab quality time together just wandering around the city and visiting family and having friends over.

We stared weaning and the food is going down rather well but formula is very hit and miss. We had a two week long battle before she decided that she would actually drink a fair bit.

Did anything else happen in September? Oh this is terrible is my memory really this bad? At least it keeps a three month update shorter than it would have otherwise been.

Now we are in October and Olivia is coming along so fast, she decided to save things up and this week has learnt to sit up properly, had a good growth spurt and had her first tooth pop out.

It is Tom’s birthday on Monday. I have to say that inspiration was lacking on his birthday present. I better start thinking of Christmas presents now so that he can have something nice. Though to be fair if the man only has one hobbie (computers) there is little I can do :)

He also has the week off so Monday we are off out for lunch with the mothers and than have a lovely week off together and really enjoy the time together.

Then it is back to hospitals the week after, me and Olivia then a week of getting cup feeding down and then we either spend two days or two weeks at alder hey followed by nursery and work boooooooooooooooooooo.

Still a good while yet before that so just focus on the good and ignore the bad. Mind you, even when I go back to work it is only a few weeks until Christmas and Tom has the whole time off YAY

That will do for now I think, I have a cup of tea and biscuits waiting for me :)