We took Emanuel in for his shots on Wednesday and the nurse about jumped down my throat about him not being on solids yet – he is JUST 6 months and our pediatrician said no worries GO SLOW! She was talking like he was going to keel over the next minute. It was all I could do to NOT wind up and smack her. All the advice she gave was counter our wonderful pediatrician so I help my tongue and vented to Ken. GRRRR
He was a trooper and feeling better today, the twins sat like angels. We go back at 1 yr. Hopefully to a DIFFERENT nurse. I totally respect and appreciate nurses and what they do for us but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE listen to me, especially when I say my pediatrician says something. She said he was chubby and looking great in the same breath where she was bemoaning a possible lack of iron and wasting away.. good grief. Even friends with preemies waited til almost a year. When Emanuel tells me he is ready I will give him solids – I know the signs – look at the twins, I think I know what I am doing. They did not have solids til a year.
The van is acting up now – so Ken is pushing up the search and talking about maybe taking a job at night after the boys are in bed to off set the cost of leasing if it is too high. The problem is they are on the cusp of a raise … so it would be temporary … but we do need a safe vehicle. This does not mean our trip to the city and shopping is not going to happen on Saturday. We will just be aware of the van needing to be babied.
There was a plot to blow up planes foiled today in Britain so the regulations are tightened big time – at least for now… We have decided to go and buy a flimsy umbrella stroller as we do not want to risk losing the big nice one to security. No butt cream on the flight since all gels and liquids are banned for the foreseable future. I will have to call before I pack and double check where they are at with rules and such. Thank goodness I have a loving helpful step-mom who is on top of all this for me. They picked up a stroller/carseat combo this week so I do not have to fly with the seat. One less thing to worry about. I will have to label my luggage with some sort of address label besides the one they give you to put on. Packing tape and a recipe card I guess. Just when they were losening up and going to allow nailclippers again they take away everything cosemtic and toiletry… some flights in the UK are not allowing carry ons for now either! YIKES.
Well it is late and I am tired and tomorrow the twins will be wide awake so off I go…