No, I think you are completely in your rights to ask. Its your holidays and your holiday pay so why shouldn't you have a Thursday off? No harm in trying!
Aurora has been given another prescription that i have to collect today to try and help with her reflux. The health visitor finally saw the pain she is in an hour after feeding and went back and spoke to a gp to get the prescription for her. We have to keep an eye on her rash as well, cos it seems to come up whereever her sick come into contact with -/
You said she reacted worse when you ate a lot of dairy have you tried her on a different formula as formulas are cows milk based you can get soy ones too that might be easier on her tummy. Or if that doesn't help hydrolysed forumlas.
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
I have been told to keep her on the one I was using at the moment and monitor her for a week until her next visit. She is on Sma comfort milk at the moment, which is supposed to be easier for her to digest. I wish she could just tell me what's wrong, her crying all the time is so draining for me and I almost want to go back to work already for a break, and I hated my job!!
As I expected work are being funny about me taking Thursdays off. They're saying its too short notice for teaching cover. I've been pregnant 8 months so its not that short notice as it should have been sorted by now. I'm really annoyed. I've asked nothing of them and done a lot in return yet now I really need this time off I can't. Well unless they sort something out soon I'm going to have to take early maternity leave. I can barely walk with my hips and back and I'm totally exhausted. I know I'm being a moaning Minnie but I don't care!!
Get a note from your gp/midwife saying you need to drop some hours or finish now, give yourself lots of time to look after you and spend time with your family before the new addition. My maternity leave happened at 22 weeks due to spd and hernia issues.
Mand, South Wales, Full-time working, single mother to 2 scarily independent girls.
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It's spd that I have and it's getting bloody excruciating. Wouldn't mind so much if I was on office based duties but they've still got me out seeing people all over. I see my midwife tomorrow so might ask her about it.
Been to midwife today. She wants me to go to drs and get signed off sick. She said the combo of SPD, carpel tunnel and low iron means if I don't by the time I come to labour ill be exhausted. I'm torn because I think if I get signed off work now ill automatically get started on my maternity leave which I don't want. Hopefully though even the threat of this will be enough to make my employers reconsider my holidays. Surely I'm better there on the wrong days than not there at all?
That's brilliant news, Sam! Hopefully it'll help you a little but if you still feel like its too much then please get a sick note and get signed off xx
Well it means ill only be working Tuesday, Wednesday and 5 hours on a Friday now so not so bad at all really. Plus I still have 4 days holiday if I need them towards the end. Feel like a weight has been lifted now.
I took Aurora back to the doctors today (3 doctors appointments in 37days!!) cos her face and chest broke out in bumps and looked really red and angry. The doctor thinks its eczema and gave me 2 creams to use on her, which she hates!
Last night she slept for 7 hours! She woke up so close to A getting up for work that I was able to kick him out of bed to go get her changed and give her her medicine :) those extra 5 minutes were bliss!
Wow 7 hours is fab. Elliot has ezcema and since we switched from johnsons products and changed washing powder he very rarely gets a flair up.
This baby is due in less than 8 weeks and I'm so unprepared its hilarious. I've not done my hospital bag, haven't got anywhere for baby to sleep in our room and just generally haven't thought about it much at all since washing Elliot's old clothes. Haha I'm hoping to be more organised once he's born.
She made up for the 7 hours by waking after 3 the next night! The creams seem to be helping, and she seems a bit happier again now :)
I didn't pack my hospital bag until 39 weeks when I went for a scan to see why the head wasnt engaged. I had a feeling i wouldn't be going into labour! We weren't very organised until I was actually on maternity leave, we had no time or energy to do anything to prepare for baby after a day at work
Does anyone use cloth nappies? I need some advice and recommendations because I might seriously have to give them a go. We just moved into a new house with one of those tiny bins and it is only collected fortnightly so even with recycling it is going to get full fast with nappies especially when I start child minding in January!
You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are.
I don't but I know a few friends IRL who do. One of them used to be part of a nappy club thing. If you needed any specific advice I can always ask them.
Also, Katy, would it perhaps be worth asking your council for a bigger bin come January as you'll be child minding?
We don't recycle (bad I know) and our bin fills up quickly, but we are also in an area where there are numerous of flats so we just use everyone else's bins lol
We have cloth nappies, but they are too big for Aurora around the legs so they leak terribly! We got a package of one size nappies from bambooty.co.uk, and we got 20 nappies. Hopefully we can get her into them soon though! If you are interested I can give you the discount code we got when we ordered, it might still work :)
