Following on from my really rather popular previous tips on how to cope with three children under five and daily life with four children under six, I hereby present ‘Coping with four small children redux’. And if you don’t already have lots of small children, you’re certainly not going to want them after reading this.
There’s really [...]
Entries from January 18th, 2009
Coping with four children under six
January 18th, 2009 · 9 Comments · Tips
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A weekend of celebration
January 16th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Daily Life
Yay, we’re home!
And tomorrow we get to hold my eldest son’s seventh and third son’s third birthday party which we postponed last weekend – and were about to postpone again – because William was in hospital.
We’ll be back in hospital daily for the next few days/weeks but that is a hundred times better than another [...]
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Children’s hospital
January 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Daily Life
The children’s ward is a heartbreaking place. It is also a place where you want to throttle the noisy, recovering kids who keep everyone awake all night and who run around disrupting poorly patients all day. Discharge can’t come quick enough for these ones.
Across from William’s bed is a young teenager who is a long-term, [...]
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‘Flu season
January 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Daily Life
We’re waiting in the day unit of the hospital, sent up by our doctor, where we have to see the paediatrician about William’s urine and blood results. In the chair opposite sits a little boy who barely stirs in the six hours we are there, so poorly is he with ‘flu.
So it shouldn’t come as [...]
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Not responding
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · FSGS and Nephrotic Syndrome
William is still not responding to the drugs he is being given for the kidney problems he is experiencing. The doctors vary between mild concern about this and a ‘wait and see’ attitude which could be mistaken for mild indifference if you weren’t looking carefully. But you can’t complain that the paediatricians aren’t optimistic at [...]
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Nephrotic Syndrome
January 9th, 2009 · 7 Comments · All Gone Wrong, FSGS and Nephrotic Syndrome
My Second Son William is very poorly in hospital with kidney problems and nephrotic syndrome, neither of which are so far responding to treatment. I’m worried, Matthew is shattered (he’s doing nights in the hospital, where sleep is never allowed with all the coming and going), Harry is badly missing his best buddy and we [...]
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Pocket money, tooth fairy money, gift money: why the children are rich and I am poor.
January 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Parenting
William lost his first tooth on Boxing Day and was mostly concerned whether he would have another £1 from the tooth fairy to add to his stash of money received from various relatives over Christmas. That and how quickly he could get his next tooth to wobble and fall out to boost the coffers further.
I [...]
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Finding out about Santa
January 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Parenting
Despite all the sickness, Christmas was wonderful this year. At nearly seven, five and a half and nearly three, my big boys loved every minute of it. Harry vascillated between saying ‘I know that you fill the stockings, Mum’ and watching the skies for Father Christmas’s sleigh with uncontained excitement.
Even though he is on the [...]
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December tales
January 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Sleep
For the two and a half weeks leading up to Christmas I spent most nights sleeping (ha!) sitting upright in bed with my poorly, sick baby sprawled across my shoulder in an attempt to stop the cycle of coughing and vomiting that kept him awake whole nights. To say I am tired is an understatement. [...]
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