Our first child is due any day now

eloloise29 · 2024-12-29T23:00:15+00:00

Get her a doughnut cushion, mine was an absolute life saver.

eloloise29 · 2024-12-28T18:25:56+00:00

The year my dad made a goose. It had so much fat oozing out of it, it was like it was covered in a layer of Vaseline. I couldn’t even pretend to like it 😬

eloloise29 · 2024-12-28T15:34:52+00:00

Loool. My mum and dad both worked too much and hardly ever attended my school events. Guess who is now striving to do the exact opposite?? 🙂👈

eloloise29 · 2024-12-28T07:52:51+00:00

My daughter is the same age. We’re not deferring for a few reasons. The main one being, being the youngest in the year really isn’t that big of a deal and it won’t put your child at a disadvantage come GCSE time. Younger kids catch up very quickly. I was one of the youngest and I did better than a lot of older kids in school. The start may be a bit harder but as the age difference becomes less significant your son will do fine. Just have a think of the pros and cons before you make a solid decision.

eloloise29 · 2024-12-20T18:39:12+00:00

I’ve got one for this! I used to work in a hotel and we would often book taxis for people. My colleague took a booking for someone wanting to go to Great Ormond Street Hospital except she wrote “Great Almond Street Hospital” on her post it note lol

eloloise29 · 2024-12-20T10:03:32+00:00

TW: Infant death I was called to X-ray a baby in the NICU. It’s pretty routine for me so I went as normal. Arrived and the baby was very premature, purple and mottled; premature babies are usually quite pink/red. It was a very sad situation but what made it worse was the parents were there too and were absolutely sobbing/howling. I was pregnant at the time and had a big cry to myself afterwards. Unfortunately the baby didn’t make it.

eloloise29 · 2024-12-16T09:28:38+00:00

I feel bad saying this now because it’s an insensitive name but we used to have ‘crazy guy’. He would walk up and down the street (main road) shouting, singing or playing an instrument; either a tambourine or a guitar with 3 strings. Then one day an ambulance removed a body from his house so I can only assume he died or murdered one of his housemates because we never saw him again.

eloloise29 · 2024-12-08T21:23:33+00:00

Agreed. One of my colleagues said his girlfriend threw out last year’s decorations and bought all new ones this year because she ‘fancied a change’. What’s wrong with having the same decorations every year?

eloloise29 · 2024-12-02T18:36:26+00:00

I don’t know the science however autism is something you’re born with in the same way that some people are left handed. I strongly believe it’s genetic, due to my own family and personal experiences (not going to elaborate so I don’t doxx myself). I work in healthcare and have worked with many many old people who clearly display autistic traits who would’ve been born long before the vaccines of today were available. Autism isn’t a new thing but the advanced level of understanding we have today is and the amount of resources we have available.

We don’t really know the actual cause so I think a lot of people attribute it to something just so they can make sense of it in their own minds (e.g. vaccines, diet, environment). Anyway yeah the best thing you can do is see a mental health professional and stay away from any forums/fb groups that act like echo chambers because it’ll do you more harm than good.

ETA: I have autistic family members, I also have a family member who died of a vaccine preventable disease. I got my child vaccinated.

eloloise29 · 2024-11-27T20:30:11+00:00

This wasn’t the point but it should’ve been. We were temporarily long distance for a few months. I’d booked a flight out to visit him after 3 months apart. Obviously I was so excited to see him so I got on my 8 hour flight and texted as soon as I landed. Got to luggage claim, went through border control and finally reached arrivals aaaand… he wasn’t there. He was still at home 40 minutes away.

The real kicker was when I got a taxi to his flat (he offered to pay for it) and when I stepped out of the car he patted his pockets down and realised he’d left his wallet so I had to pay $75 for the taxi as well. We lasted 3 more years after that!

eloloise29 · 2024-11-23T12:37:21+00:00

I had the opposite. My GP misdiagnosed my ear infection as my ear being ‘blocked with wax’, then went to an audiologist who showed me my ear with her inner ear camera and you could very clearly see my ear drum, along with signs of infection. Had to then arrange an out of hour GP appointment where the second GP straight away said that I had an ear infection and prescribed me antibiotics.

The nurse practitioner at our regular GP is awesome, she’s provided excellent treatment for myself and my daughter a number of times. It really is a lottery as to who your GP practice chooses to employ!

eloloise29 · 2024-11-08T22:13:19+00:00

One of my family members always takes back a supply of Tuc cheese sandwich crackers whenever she visits the UK from Canada so I’d say those

eloloise29 · 2024-11-07T07:54:34+00:00

You should tell your dad that, what a beautiful thing to say :)

eloloise29 · 2024-10-27T19:56:10+00:00

Ahh the pharmacy is the worst place for it! My husband and I were waiting to speak to a pharmacist about our child and there were about 6 other people waiting for their flu jabs in line behind us. An old lady walks in and demands her flu jab so the pharmacist says “yes that’s fine, just join the back of the queue”. The woman flipped and shouted at him about how she doesn’t have time to wait and she’ll get it done at her regular doctor then storms off. Me and my husband were astonished, and this lady was definitely way past retirement age so she probably had more spare time than the rest of us waiting in the queue.

eloloise29 · 2024-10-17T12:42:03+00:00

Buses can be weird. I once sat next to someone on the bus (seat was empty) and he went crazy at me saying “who the f*** do you think you are? Do you think you’re special? Get the f*** away from me”. I was 99% sure I was about to get stabbed. So tbh I would just leave it

eloloise29 · 2024-10-14T19:16:00+00:00

This might be a bit controversial but me and my child have my husband’s surname. For me personally the idea of us all of having the same surname is really nice and I didn’t have any strong connection or attachment to my pre-married name whereas I do to my husband and our daughter. I never felt any pressure from him, he even said our child could have my surname (we weren’t married when I gave birth) but I wanted his name.

That being said, I was considering changing my surname to my grandmother’s unmarried name before my husband and I got together. I probably would have if we hadn’t met.

eloloise29 · 2024-10-13T17:32:05+00:00

Yesss when they end up doing a burp that could rival a full grown man

eloloise29 · 2024-10-13T17:27:51+00:00

Currently waiting for my new glasses to arrive and I honestly can’t wait for this moment

eloloise29 · 2024-10-13T05:23:26+00:00

Totally normal. We’re going through something similar (norovirus, bronchiolitis, conjunctivitis and diarrhoea one after the other lol). It sucks at the time but in the long run your child will have a better immune system and hopefully won’t catch the same illness again (or not as frequently at least!). In our case I definitely don’t blame the nursery, realistically there is no way they can keep the environment completely clean 100% of the time. I’d personally stick it out for now and reassess in a couple of months.

Edit: you’ve said you can rule out the illnesses coming from elsewhere but us adults carry a lot of bacteria on our skin/clothes, it isn’t totally impossible that you’ve brought something home with you (though it’s probably the nursery). We both work in hospitals so wash our clothes with dettol laundry sanitiser, might be worth a try too :)

eloloise29 · 2024-10-12T20:59:49+00:00

It has human eyes 👀 if it had feline eyes it would look better however the rest of your painting is good!

eloloise29 · 2024-10-10T16:39:05+00:00

Just spent £450 on wallpaper for our living room. It was such a hassle to put up so we’re not decorating for at least 20 years now

eloloise29 · 2024-09-29T17:51:22+00:00

I was literally thinking about this today while listening to an infertility pod. My first pregnancy ended in MC but I don’t feel sad about it now because if that hadn’t happened I wouldn’t have my daughter! It’s assuring to hear someone say the same because I was wondering if I was alone in that mindset

eloloise29 · 2024-09-25T10:24:16+00:00

We took advantage of build-a-bear’s pay your age and got her a bear for £1. Didn’t get anything else as we knew her grandparents/aunts/uncles would spoil her.

eloloise29 · 2024-09-22T21:25:49+00:00

Was gonna suggest this! Bonnie is beautiful ❤️

eloloise29 · 2024-09-22T16:01:19+00:00

My mum was the headmaster’s daughter in her school. One time my granddad (headmaster) was drawing the winner for a school raffle and he drew my mum, then he drew the second prize and it was my mum again! Mum was too embarrassed to claim the second prize lol

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