To give our little man a treat on the weekend for being good while I studied, we gave him an ice cream from Maccas. The worst mistake we could have made. About an hour later he was off the walls and we wondered why. Well when we looked at the ingredients list it was packed with nasties not good for children.
We have cut most preservatives out of our little man's diet, you would think an ice cream would not set off hyperactivity... well we were mistaken. I will be making sure he doesn't have that again... I think we may get our ice creams else where.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
what to put in the lunch box??? Help needed
I'm throwing the door wide open...
I need help with what to put in the lunch box
HELP!!!!!!!!
I need help with what to put in the lunch box
HELP!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
What to do when you don't agree with advice of "professionals"
This story is from a mum I worked with a few years ago I'm going to write this as a scenario that puts you in the shoes of the mum:
This is about an infant child who hasn't eaten in 3 days, they are taking fluids but not eating. But today he hasn't drunk much at all. You ring a "professional" nursing hotline which shall remain nameless for the purposes of this blog we will call them the parents hotline. So you've rung the nursing hotline to ask what to do for a feverish child who just wont eat? Now for the big question... do you take him to the hospital...
So now you ring the hotline for some advice as to whether or not you should go to hospital. Trusting the hotline to give you the right advice....
The advice she was given was give him red cordial it will perk him up... ok this is where I blow up while she is talking... W.WWWWHAT!!!! This would have to be the most preposterous advice I have ever heard... give a sick infant red cordial are you insane? I mean you could give him hydrolite or something else but red cordial... that's just absurd. (Mind you this mum told me he had been on hydrolite and the nurse knew this). Ok time to get a real professionals advice.
Right so this isn't helping... time to call in a locum (good call mum). Thank goodness for bulk billing locums in Australia... it's a godsend. so now you tell the locum what you had been told... the locum himself goes ballistic he asks. Hesitantly you give them the number of the nursing hotline and blew up at them... this was after the locum had rung an ambulance... your little boy has some thing major wrong with him... he is running a fever and needed urgent attention.
The hospital also asks you for the number of the nursing hotline and blasts them too. This hotline had trained nurses who should know better...
Moral of this story: If in doubt please follow your gut, and get a second opinion. It saved this little boys life.
This is about an infant child who hasn't eaten in 3 days, they are taking fluids but not eating. But today he hasn't drunk much at all. You ring a "professional" nursing hotline which shall remain nameless for the purposes of this blog we will call them the parents hotline. So you've rung the nursing hotline to ask what to do for a feverish child who just wont eat? Now for the big question... do you take him to the hospital...
So now you ring the hotline for some advice as to whether or not you should go to hospital. Trusting the hotline to give you the right advice....
The advice she was given was give him red cordial it will perk him up... ok this is where I blow up while she is talking... W.WWWWHAT!!!! This would have to be the most preposterous advice I have ever heard... give a sick infant red cordial are you insane? I mean you could give him hydrolite or something else but red cordial... that's just absurd. (Mind you this mum told me he had been on hydrolite and the nurse knew this). Ok time to get a real professionals advice.
Right so this isn't helping... time to call in a locum (good call mum). Thank goodness for bulk billing locums in Australia... it's a godsend. so now you tell the locum what you had been told... the locum himself goes ballistic he asks. Hesitantly you give them the number of the nursing hotline and blew up at them... this was after the locum had rung an ambulance... your little boy has some thing major wrong with him... he is running a fever and needed urgent attention.
The hospital also asks you for the number of the nursing hotline and blasts them too. This hotline had trained nurses who should know better...
Moral of this story: If in doubt please follow your gut, and get a second opinion. It saved this little boys life.
Sunday, 7 October 2012
Battle of the Lunch box part2
With school starting back tomorrow the gloves are out for our battle.
The foods of choice for tomorrow are:
A sandwich with meat (much preferred to spreads)
A piece of carrot cake.
An apple and / or a banana
A fruit bar
A fruitbox
and a bottle of water.
Lets see if it gets eaten... stay tuned stay tuned to see if we are on a winner.
The foods of choice for tomorrow are:
A sandwich with meat (much preferred to spreads)
A piece of carrot cake.
An apple and / or a banana
A fruit bar
A fruitbox
and a bottle of water.
Lets see if it gets eaten... stay tuned stay tuned to see if we are on a winner.
Thursday, 4 October 2012
What do you do when you go out?
We were out to dinner one night when the little man decided to dig his heals in about what he was having for dinner even though he had decided what to eat himself (what was on mummy and daddy's plate looked nicer), so what do you do?
You have a two year old who is about to have a major meltdown in the middle of the restaurant. The next step we make is critical... do we give in? No, because next time he will think he can get away with it... so how do you stop the tantrum and get him to eat with out screaming the place down?
We learned this one the hard way...
On this occasion we gave no alternatives. We took him out of the restaurant to have the tantrum in the car park near our car, this showed him that if he kept it up we would go home no ice cream or treats after the meal. We got down onto his level and said calmly "you chose what is on your plate, you like what you have got. You need to eat it, if you are not going to do the right thing we will go home, but we will be bringing your dinner with us".
We returned to the restaurant, dinner was eaten with the bottom lip firmly out. There was minimal fuss had.
At that point we were left wishing he was still bottle eating... No cold dinner for us... the joys of being a parent. You begin to get used to eating your dinner cold.
You have a two year old who is about to have a major meltdown in the middle of the restaurant. The next step we make is critical... do we give in? No, because next time he will think he can get away with it... so how do you stop the tantrum and get him to eat with out screaming the place down?
We learned this one the hard way...
On this occasion we gave no alternatives. We took him out of the restaurant to have the tantrum in the car park near our car, this showed him that if he kept it up we would go home no ice cream or treats after the meal. We got down onto his level and said calmly "you chose what is on your plate, you like what you have got. You need to eat it, if you are not going to do the right thing we will go home, but we will be bringing your dinner with us".
We returned to the restaurant, dinner was eaten with the bottom lip firmly out. There was minimal fuss had.
At that point we were left wishing he was still bottle eating... No cold dinner for us... the joys of being a parent. You begin to get used to eating your dinner cold.
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