Poison Vitamins and New Nappies

[ailbhe]

Don't Take The Little Brown Ones

Yesterday I left my pillbox on the dining table and this morning Rob yelled for me to come NOW, so I did, and he had Linnea upside-down. "Your red pills, your red ones, what are they? Is there anything in her mouth? Has she swallowed it?"

The reddish-brown pills are Pregnacare, and she hadn't swallowed much of it; she'd gnawed about a tenth of it off. I shall have to start keeping the box on a high shelf in the kitchen and hope I don't forget to take them. We called NHS Direct and they looked it up in their database and said that she'll probably survive.

Rob may be coming down from the adrenaline rush about now.

Kittikins

Anna-who-is-Tiggsybabes alerted me to Kittikins who have an introductory sample pack of nappies, available in three sizes, for roughtly the amount the council will give you back if you buy cloth nappies. So I ordered some. They arrived today.

All three kinds of nappies are shaped inners that fasten, and then need a wrap fastened over them. I already know that for Linnea I prefer a prefold inner, as then I can just place it in the wrap and put one thing on the baby, which is much easier for me than two. However, I may find that these ones are more absorbent and less leaky, which would be nice. We've been using disposables at night for a while.

She is currently in a Motherease nappy and wrap; they are lovely and soft and fluffy and seemed to fit well, though she is clearly at the upper limit, sizewise, for the Large size nappies. It's because she inherited my thighs, always disproportionately large on me - but very useful for walking, cycling, swimming etc.

I'm going to use the Tots Bots one tonight to see how it copes with the overnight wetness. I've heard good things. We do have an additional silk liner, somewhere, that wouldn't fit in with the prefolds... Oh yes! The shaped ones aren't nearly as bulky as prefolds, on first impressions, so it should become easier to buy clothes if this works.

When she wakes from her nap I plan to go see my friend who is due tomorrow. Assuming my friend isn't napping, of course.

Comments

[datagoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing Linnea probably wasn't too happy about being upside down, as well as picking up on Rob's panic. I'm glad it was just a vitamin (I'm assuming Pregnacare is a pre-natal vitamin), even though adult vitamins can be toxic for kids, too. Some kids are just too bright and curious for their own good! :-)

[rrc.livejournal.com]

I was doing something in the kitchen, and when I looked round into the dining room she had the pill dispenser in her hand, open. I confiscated the two yellow pills in her hand and then checked the next days dosage to see if I was missing anything else - two yellow pills and a pink one. No monday pink pill in sight - Picked Linnea up, turned her over, and tried to look in her mouth whilst calling for Ailbhe.

We eventually spotted the partially chewed up pink pregnacare pill under the table.

[(Anonymous)]

eeek!

and it's not as if you even give her sweeties ;-)

Oliver is fascinated by tablets - my Femulen, Rob's hayfever pills, the Fisherman's Friends I keep in the special tin by the bed... fortunately they are all morning or bedtime events so live in the bedroom, in which he is invariably supervised (until he starts *not* wanting me the moment he wakes up, of course). He did try putting a FF in his mouth once, but it came out again quite quickly!

Julie paradox

[annburlingham.livejournal.com]

Rob may be coming down from the adrenaline rush about now.

I have a card in the Rolodex now for Poison Control. It includes the date I added it; the day last year when Henry *maybe* ate a seed from our Chinese lanterns (hm, just coming ripe again - it must have been just a year ago, in fact). They didn't think it would kill him.

I think "first call to poison control" is a milestone event of childhood.

Learning Swedish

[(Anonymous)]

Dear Ailbhe,

Is this a blog? Cool, never been to one before, but interesting to read of nappies and little hands getting hold of tablets!

My name is Conrad Shields and my wife and I also live in Reading. I am looking to "learn Swedish in Berkshire" and your webpage popped up. We are visiting friends in Stockholm in February and would like to learn Swedish pronounciation so I can read to the toddlers (at the moment I sound very German, as I can speak this language and Swedish looks "Germanic").

Is there anyone you can recommend for a couple of hours private tuition? I do not want to go down the linguaphone route as the parents are English-fluent.

Kind regards,
Conrad

cshields@wynns.uk.com