Sorry I haven’t blogged in ages! I really would like to do it some more. Christmas was really nice, we all enjoyed ourselves with too much food and staying up too late. Tycho got lots of presents that he has enjoyed playing with.
This week however hasn’t been so much fun. Poor Tycho has had a stomach bug since Sunday, he spent Monday throwing up and producing nappy after nappy with watery stinks. Since Monday he also has been more or less refusing to eat. Even bottles are hard to get him to take, all he wants is to breastfeed. As I have only been breastfeeding him maybe twice aday since November but body got a bit of a shock, and I have been rather worn out.
I went to the GP yesterday as I had discovered a big lump on my neck. Thankfully it is only a swollen gland, as I have been fighting of some infections. Finding that lump kinda reminds you that just because you got MS doesn’t mean you are immune to other things either. I guess I have been a bit neurotic with things like that. Specially since a friend of my husband just died of complications of cancer and he was only 32.
Well I better be off to see what I can trick Tycho to eat for dinner, he has been refusing to be spoon-fed but I have had some luck with finger-food, so I thought I would make some homemade oven chips from a baking potato and see if he will go for that.
As a mum or I guess as a parent you end up whether you like it or not comparing your child to others. It start with those charts and graphs, then the other babies at the health centre, your own mother will tell you how you compared to your own baby and so on and so on. Tycho was very small for the first 4 months or so, but from 6 months he has grown and grown and grown. Now he is just about 8 months and he is already in 9-12 clothes. People keep on telling me he is huge. One other mother even referred to him as enormous, her own boy is about 4 months older than Tycho and is smaller. I still think Tycho is a lovely boy big or tiny. But there is some hidden or in some cases not very well hidden competitiveness in all babies do, weigh, eat etc etc.
of sleep is what Tycho had last night! Well at one point he woke up but went back to sleep as soon as Steve went upstairs and put his music box on. Hopefully he will start sleeping through the nights once again. He now has got two teeth in his bottom jaw, but I think one is on it’s way in the upper one too as he has been having teething pains all of today, but atleast it doesn’t keep him awake at night any longer.
When you have a hard night with no sleep, arm and leg feeling fizzy and you are so tired you hardly know your name, you may wonder why you wanted to have children in the first place. But only for a second or two, then you are reminded about why it is so amazing.
Hellie is a woman with MS who is expecting her first child in April. Here she blogs about what it is like living with MS whilst pregnant. All views and opinions expressed are her own and not those of the MS Trust.
But no flu symptoms or anything else, touch wood.
Hellie is a woman with MS who is expecting her first child in April. Here she blogs about what it is like living with MS whilst pregnant. All views and opinions expressed are her own and not those of the MS Trust.
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