A Truely Sad Story

Breastfeeding With Cancer

Follow this amazing story... I for one will be expressing milk for this insperational mumma

The last thing we wanted...

Axel and Cammy are both sick at the moment.... Cammy's started out as a Sinus Infection {he gets these a couple of times a year}, but is now also a Throat Infection... and Axel has a Throat Infection also...

Cammy is easy treated, Antibiotics straight away for him, and withing 24hrs he was back to his normal self...

Axel - however, is a different story...

You see, I've omitted to tell you all, that Axel has a Dialated Kidney... It was discovered at a pregnancy scan when I was 25 weeks... I was scanned a few more times after that, and each time, the dialation was still there.  As a result of this, he was prescribed antibiotics at birth... that he has to take for a year... he had a renal scan at 4 weeks old, and the dialation was still there {it can correct itself with hormones during birth and the following 1-2 weeks}... I don't know much about this condition... but I do know that, Axel is not allowed to get high temperatures... and if his temp raises, it's straight to dr's or A&E...

Last night, Axel started crying, a weird pained cry that we haven't heard before... he woke a few times during the night, each crying that weird pained cry... when we woke this morning, I thought he felt a bit warm... but silly me - my ear thermometer is broken and I don't have a back up, so I took him to my mums... her thermometer is at the caravan... and he felt hotter again by now... So I called the doctors, no appointments... asked to speak to a nurse, and it appears that when she entered Axel's name into the computer, a little box popped up explaining that he is an Urgent Patient, and must be seen whenever I ring :) bonus for us {gee I love my doctor}... so off we went to the docs... and sure enough, Axel was sporting a temp...

So now, no only does he have to take the antibiotic for his kidneys, he is also on another antibiotic for his Throat Infection AND Pamol every 3-4hrs for fever {and pain, cause his throat is clearly hurting him}... AND I've not yet mentioned that he has REFLUX so is on Omeprazole also... thats 4 meds daily I am having to pump into him at the moment... :(

And the little mite just takes it all... he hates the Omeprazole... loves the Amoxicillin {which is the AB for his Throat}... the Cefaclor for his kidneys, he is used to, and just takes without a fuss... and he is getting used to the thickness of the Pamol... bless him...

Family Fun Day

On Sunday just been, we decided we wanted to do something different with the kids... My sister wanted to join us also, as she was gonna be stuck at home with my niece for the day... and it was a pretty miserable day...

We decided that a train ride into the city for lunch would be fun :)

Followed by a walk up Queen Street {Well - some of us walked}

Then we had a lovely, delicious lunch at Rebo, Sky City {sorry no lunch pictures}

Let the kids have a play on this thing outside the ASB building in Town

There are no photos of the Walk back down Queen St to get the train station, but I can tell you that we ran the last 3mins as I looked at my watch and realised the train was due to depart in 4mins haha

But we made it:

We had such a GREAT day!

The search is over...

for so long now, I have been searching for a toy storage device {and soon to be Axel's} bedroom... I wanted something that made toy access easy, and the clean up just as easy.  BUT - any old thing wouldn't do... no, I've been searching for something that I could paint to match the "jungle" theme, or was already themed to match...

Over the weekend, my search came to end... and boy oh boy am I happy with my purchase:

Isn't it awesome?... Now to sort the toys out into it.... *sigh*

The New Caravan...

We finally took possession of our new caravan over Queens Birthday Weekend... We were so comfy in it... We LOVE the extra space...

a New Fav...

They are just soooo yummy and addictive.... the downside - there is only 8 in a pack and I HAVE to share with Ian...

The old girl is up for sale...

After 12 wonderful summers in her, it's time to move on...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=382793680

a lifetime together...

Yesterday was my grandparents 60th Wedding Anniversay {also my mum and step-dads 26th}

We had a lovely surprise afternoon tea for them.  The day was a happy occassion, marked with a little sadness as my nana has been diagnosed with Cancer and is too frail to fight it... This is most likely their last wedding anniversary...

I know my grandparents love each other very much... my grandad hates leaving the house without nana for fear she will have a fall or a bad turn while he is out... it breaks my heart to see his heart breaking...

I can only hope that me and Ian can be as happy together in our 80's as my grandparents are...

What have I got myself into...?

I am insane... I'm sure of it...

Axel has just gone 9 weeks old, and I am looking after a 6mth old girl for 6-7 weeks while her mum returns to work temporarily... normally this sort of work is right up my alley... but normally I wouldn't have two babies at the same time... I could NEVER have coped with Twins... and take my hat off to anyone who does have them...

The problem is, is that this darling little girl is breastfed and flat out REFUSES to take the bottle.. which is causing, me and her mum both some stress... she has breakfast and then refuses to eat anything else during the day also... so come 2pm-ish she is a mess... she is hungry, and wont take anything... by the time her dad picks her up at 5.30ish she is a right-off... and to be honest, so am I...

I have yet to make a single dinner since taking on this job... I'm too busy during the day, and too stressed by evening... I just want to crawl under a rock by the time Ian gets home from work...

I'm not even sure I have the strength to continue looking after her for the rest of the time... *sigh* what to do, what to do...

plunket update

Had a plunket visit today...

Axel is 9 weeks 3 days old, and now weighs 6.16kgs {75th percentile} and is 61 cms long {91st percentile}... Cammy sat on and still sits on the 50th percentile, and Paris never made it there lol... yup, Axel is a bigun :)