Not so hot… 22, June 2009
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, Mini Me, Small Scale Disasters, baby stuff.Tags: children and colds, colds, ill kid etiquette, ill kids, looking after children
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Wee man has a cold. He’s had them before but this one is a real humdinger. He is awash with snot which is a first he threw off flu in a day. Last night he woke at 8, 10, 11.45, 12.45, 2.35, 5.00 and 6.30. Even though we took it in turns I have never been so knackered in all my life.
I have put olbas oil round his bed, a pillow under the matress one end – fairly pointless though because he sleeps as if he’s been thrown in, rather than traditionally with his head at the head end and his feet pointing towards the bottom. It takes about an hour and a half for his nose to fill up and then he starts to cough and wakes yelling.
He’s eating very little.
Poor little soul.
Not sure what else I can do. Giving him paracetamol for kids to bring his temperature down and we had a nice hot bath before bed – nothing like steam to sooth the sinuses. Tonight, so far, he’s woken at 8 so I guess he’s on the same programme. Currently breathing down the monitor like Darth Vader.
Cancelled his music class for tomorrow. There seem to be two schools of thought on ill kids. The first is take them anywhere because if you kept them at home when they were ill you’d never leave the house. The second is that it’s rude to give your germs to every one else. I’m with group two but then I’m a stay at home mum, I’m not sending my child to nursery which seems to be a very efficient way of ensuring your child suffers from every single possible illness it can have, back to back.
Ah well, at least now I understand why the wee lad who gave it to him – who I thought seemed a bit whingy – was… well… a bit whingy! Mini BC is a cheery little chap but even he seems to be feeling a bit sorry for himself. Let’s hope he throws it off fast!
Ah the joys of motherhood.
I’m still alive… 19, June 2009
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, Mini Me, baby stuff.Tags: being a mum, being knackered, motherhood
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But man, I am shattered. Wee man is now one year old. Where in the name of heaven did the time go? He is an absolute scream, full of energy and always laughing – except when he’s having a tantrum because I’ve said no to him or taken him away from something he wants (electrical cables, the DVD player, that kind of thing)! I love that he never stops even if, sometimes, I wish he would stay in the same place for say… five seconds. So I could have a rest. I spend most of the day trotting after him and distracting/moving him when he gets somewhere dangerous. When I pick him up the legs are still going.
He crawls around back arched, head and shulders up, smacking his hands down on the floor like a minature silverback gorilla. It makes me chuckle.
Being a Mum is brilliant but I am completely knackered. You may not hear from me for years!
Amazing News… 13, May 2009
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering.Tags: bbc news, big ben, childish pleasures, rare happenings, synchronise watches
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At the beginning of Radio 4 news we hear a recording (?) or live feed (?) of Big Ben.
Right now this is perfectly in sync with my watch… or do I mean my watch is perfectly in sync with Big Ben.
Every time I hear the news I get a childish pleasure of looking at my watch as the chime begins and watching as the second hand hits minute and the minute hand hits the hour at the precise same moment I hear that first Bong…
Ah the thrill, the illicit OCD pleasure! My watch is in tune with Big Ben… and the pips… although of course, after the next 30 day month this is unlikely to happen again.
I’ll have to change the date which is on the same knob as the time and everything’ll stop while I do it. I can’t see myself actually doing this by design… ever!
Are you a lonely mum? You can end the drought… 1, May 2009
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, Life and living, Mini Me, baby stuff, handy hints.Tags: coping with motherhood, loneliness of parenthood, lonely mothers, mother alone
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My poor brain has been an arid place recently. On the whole, being a full time Mum is good but intellectual stimulation is thin on the ground, conversations tend to be interrupted and mostly revolve around mini BC. This is natural and picking other people’s brains, discovering how they cope with phase x, y or z is how I find my way through the maze of motherhood.
The way to cope is to make sure you go out a lot, make lots of phone calls to people on speakerphone, keep the e-mails coming etc…
A few weeks ago, though, it got me down. I was very lonely. My mobile was broken which made communication tricky, most trysts are arranged by text. None were getting to me. The hormones, the knee and the SPD were tricky – still too much relaxin in the system – and I was blue. In the company of my small companion all day, I felt strangely isolated.
“Radio 4.” Said my Mum. “Seriously, you won’t believe the difference it makes.”
It’s good, I know. It’s always been on in the background at home but it’s always distracted me from the conversation or from writing so I’ve always turned it off. What can I lose if I try it?
In my precious spare minutes I research digital radios on the web. They are all very small or very expensive. I narrow it down to two, both about £70, a Roberts solar powered one or a Freeplay. Eventually I find the Freeplay one for £65 (with the postage and VAT in) and plump for that on the grounds that on Amazon, it is mentioned as having slightly better sound quality than the Roberts one.
Today, charged and ready, I switch it on. I listen to a history of thalidimide, an interview with a successful and very interesting TV producer, a report into whether or not Olympic Committee officials should have a special lane to themselves in 2012 and a little bit of news.
It is like oxygen. It is like water. My parched brain thirstily drinks in the information as if it had been dying. I hadn’t realised how starved of stimulation it was until now. I feel different, lighter, happier and a lot less boring, I have things to talk about now which are not small, blonde and very cute… I feel normal, in a very good way.
Yeh. Radio 4. I recommend it.
The Joys of Motherhood… 24, April 2009
Posted by babychaos in General Wittering, baby stuff.Tags: boys, children, joys of motherhood, kids, lively children
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Today, mini me has mostly been eating; catkins, aphids, beech leaves, dirt, rocks and twigs. Or at least, these are the things I have actually retrieved from his mouth.
Time to see if he will eat food now.
