Well, you all know the house moving non-news!
Today, SB went to nursery as usual, then i picked her up at 2 for her pre-school boosters. Now not to get into the whole vax or not debate, I have decided to vax, but am still worried about the sequelae of vax, so hate doing it. Made worse by the fact that I thought it was just the polio lot, but no, the MMR as well. SB was very brave and had her injection into each arm without any fuss at all, and now I will sit out the next 3 weeks hoping no probs – yes I know they are v rare!
Also concerned that she still has huge tonsils and lymph nodes -though undoubtedly not as bad as Merry’s. I’ve noticed she mostly has her mouth open and mouth breathes as well. She doesn’t complain of them though. Its a month since I last took her to GP with the same thing, so am I being a pest if I take her back again?? not sure what I am after. Prob some reassurance that it isn’t some lymphoid proliferation thing. [paranoid mother alert]. She is , however, full of energy and verve, no excess bruising, so can’t really be anything too horrendous.
Came home and did some Jump Ahead maths [maths] 5 more candles to get, but she hates playing that game, so we do all the others instead. Why am I so task oriented that i even contemplated getting candles for her so we can ‘finish’??
Lots of running about in our garden and next goor neighbours now some good weather. She also cycled all the way to nursery, so a healthy amount of physical exercise! [PE]
Other things we have done today are: glued socks – part of an m and s kit to decorate your own socks. They are ‘freestyle’! read a variety of books together [english]; read the whole Egyptian bit of usbourne time traveller [history]. We had a good discussion around the pictures, and agreed that we wouldn’t want to be in a battle in case they shot BB with an arrow – chris and I apparently will have to ring ahead when we visit the pyramids to make sure there are no battles – lol! I also got a bit lost in a metaphysical discussion about Jesus being in our hearts and telling if we do good, and what kind of window he looks through and where it might be. As an agnostic I think I am permanently wrong footed by this, as I walk a tightrope without the benefit of faith or conviction either way. [RE]
We had the left over roasted veg lasagne for tea [still yummy] and brocolli. SB fell asleep really quickly. Unfortunately BB has been really unsettled this evening. I think she must have a pain somewhere that wakes her. Got her to drink half ounce of EBM from a bottle [maybe thats the prob!]. If I can get it to 2 oz then I wont worry re nursery.
Doing a bit of ebaying as well, since failed so far to find black leggings for SB to wear to stagecoach, am looking for uniform or black leggings on ebay. Fingers crossed!
thought for the day: my carpe diem fight lost today, but will try and regain tomorrow.
Given my general paranoia (I can identify with the whole lymphoma concept – its one of my B list worries, but can become A list quite quickly if I’m bored), I’m remarkably un-fazed by immunisation. I did my research, looked at a lot of the original research papers, and had it done. Obviously don’t like the actual jabby bit, but I think it’s been one of my lesser angsts, thank goodness. Didn’t even make it onto the C list. Which is surprising really. For me. I hate unfinished games, undone pages in workbooks etc. I have been known to fill them in myself, just for a sense of completion. I think I may have a problem……
C has permanently huge tonsils. They don’t seem to bother her, and she;s only had tonsillitis once, on her second birthday, but they have been remarked on several times. Many, or even most young children, have huge tonsils quite a lot of the time. I’ve been telling people for years it’s common in the under 5s, but I may have to review that statement now C’s 6.
I read quite a lot of stuff about vaxing too, and got it all done. I was particularly relieved once they were vaxed against measles, as that is something that scares me quite a lot.
Thing is Jan, it is so reassuring for you to say that, I have all the textbooks one could desire, and *know* I’m being paranoid…. and yet…..
The vax only worries me for the textbook 1 in a millions, as not convinced on autism etc. i had measles at 16 and lost 20% hearing, but otherwise unscathed, and that hits home that is a serious disease even in healthy western near-adult.
i think it is ‘cos when SB was born I was having a rough time over a decision at work, and honestly assumed she would die as divine retribution, and I just can’t quite get over the background worry that there is something owing. I think I prob had PND at the time due to the situation as well as hormones.
Can’t decide whether to delete this or not. Delete! not!
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I still agonise over vaxes, as can be seen by the fact that Small is late for his MMR. Then again, when I tried to make an appt a few weeks ago, I was turned down on grounds he’d been exposed to chickenpox.
Must ring tomorrow.
Lije is due his pre-school jabs. I don’t have a problem with them, but I’m bloody sure he’s going to, it really puts me off making the appt. Poppy and Tilda have both been pretty horrendous – any tips?
I think it helped SB by BB having all hers recently [which I didn't worry about at all - hows that for consistency],so when I said it was her turn, she was all matter of fact, and considered returning to nursery afterwards. She didn’t cry, we talked about germs and she watched needle go inm, and we discussed that they were different colours, and one hurt more than the other.
great prog on mozart being repeated at the mo on 2, and BB finally settled down.
Also, I only told her this morning, so no time to think about it overlymuch
Mine are both fully vaxed. When Davies was due his first MMR was when all the real fuss was being made which made it a real toughie and we wavered for a while. In the end I spoke to the doctor who had been great throughout my pregnancy and Davies’ first year and knowing he had a DD a bit older than D asked him if his daughter had had it. She had and I decided that if he knowing what he would know decided to do it that was good enough for me. Thankfully no ill effects suffered in either of ours. Julie has not vaxed the twins against anything and is keen to expose them to as many illnesses as possible (she leapt at the chance to give them pox! and even talks about measles parties) we have not talked about it as we clearly have very opposing views.
and he got a pressie of a doctors play set with its own injection etc, last years he happened to be at with a couple of his friends also having it done so 4 yo boy I’m the bravest took place and they were charging around the waiting room within moments of having it done! Not sure that approach works with every child – I probably won’t give S so much notice as she is more inclined just to refuse to go at all if I try to prepare her for it!
Davies has had 2 jabs he has been old enough to be aware of – the hib booster when he was about 3 and the MMR booster last year – both times I told him the day before and explained that he was going to have an injection and it might hurt a bit, it was a way of giving him some special medicine to make sure he didn’t get poorly in the future and although I knew he was a big brave boy it was ok to be a bit scared and cry a bit if it hurt.
The first one he was so prepared for he was telling the nurse what she was doing
Oh and not delete. Ady did tell me that during both pregnancies he has struck up some sort of ‘deal’ with a God he doesn’t believe in to do ‘certain specified things’ if the baby is born okay and healthy. Both are so he is keeping his half of the bargain…
We vaxed too (and also have a Julie type friend or two) after a lot of consideration, reading research, asking the consultant who was in charge of F’s case etc. All the ‘hard’ information was overwhelmingly pro, as far as we could see, so we went ahead.
Oh yes, deals with believed/unbelieved in Gods, guilty paranoia, divine retribution etc. Got that here, comes and goes in waves.
And task orientedness/completing ‘work’ too – LOL, am fighting that one on every front at the moment. So inspired by autonomous approach but the inner workbook keeps peeking out.
Hannah is frighteningly matter of fact about having medical stuff done. She does her hypnosis, and then just closes her eyes and says “do it but don’t let me see it or tell me what you are doing”, and then puts her face in my neck till its over. However, I did ask her this morning if she had any tips, and her view was that you HAD to scream about something, so she made a fuss about hair combing, and maybe other children did it about jags. I’m not sure I quite follow her logic. But she does scream every morning when she gets her hair combed, accompanied by cries of “mummy mummy, please stop, don’t do it to me again, I can’t bear it”, at full volume, and usually near an open window.
helen btw.
LOL re hair brushing. though I can remeber me and my sister having a veruca, and getting the stuff out on, and then mumscraped it and dead skin off with a knife. I remember it being not painful, but my sister always screamed at her loudest ‘don#t do it mummy, not the knife, please’ and various other knife related screamings!
I got bored with my veruca in the end, and cut it out with razor blade – nor that *did* hurt!
C has had the full schedule (inc. BCG, though I couldn’t persuade them to let her have HepB (my major paranoia since I’m a non responder and was exposed to lots of blood in East London) that was when she was going to go to nursery full time at 3 months old and I was really worried about TB & HepB) – it isn’t something that I’ve agonised over, I am sure she’s safer vaxed. C hasn’t minded any of them – she had a HIb booster last year & knows that she’s due the MMR booster soon.
I have a horrible fear about an un-vaxed baby catching measles from older un-vaxed kids. Measles encephalitis terrifies me, SSPE is the stuff of nightmares.
C has had the full schedule (inc. BCG, though I couldn’t persuade them to let her have HepB (my major paranoia since I’m a non responder and was exposed to lots of blood in East London) that was when she was going to go to nursery full time at 3 months old and I was really worried about TB & HepB) – it isn’t something that I’ve agonised over, I am sure she’s safer vaxed. C hasn’t minded any of them – she had a HIb booster last year & knows that she’s due the MMR booster soon.
I have a horrible fear about an un-vaxed baby catching measles from older un-vaxed kids. Measles encephalitis terrifies me, SSPE is the stuff of nightmares.
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I wonder if I made you register at ours, then took Lije along to see C get hers done, if that would work?
Honestly, Poppy and Tilda, though seemingly ok about it beforehand, were awful. They’ve both seen me have blood taken millions of times and seen little sibs get jabbed no problem. Poppy threw a complete mental at her pre-school one, I just had to hold her arm still in the end whilst she screamed – and then admitted immediately afterwards that it hadn’t hurt at all. Tilda got through the jabs, and then went ape at the bloody polio drops! (Just looked that up on my blog actually, and I wrote “next time I’ll take my own sugar lumps” – someone remind me!)
I have gone before for the ‘informed consent’ route – the ‘ignorance is bliss’ option is appealing – take him in, in the summer perferably so he’s only in a T shirt and just get jabbed before he knows what’s going on – only drawback is the second one, lol! And of course the fact that he would then hate me …
Keep meaning to go and give blood again too, maybe that would help as well?
polio now a jab rather than sugar lumps as no longer a live vaccine [i think!]
i was surprised by just hiow well sb took it though
Tilda got drops about a year ago. She had 2 jabs anwyay for the preschool thing, does the polio go in one of them then?
yeah, think its stuffed in with diptheria pertusis one