Blog- Just Bring the Chocolate

Critical Tiredness

Published on 23rd Sep 2010 by Renata

I’m sure all of my friends who are parents, and quite a few who are still energetic enough to enjoy nightlife away from the television will know what I am talking about when I say that I think I have hit critical tiredness. For those duvet obsessives who have never sacrificed a night’s sleep to wipe a child’s bottom or to stagger home as dawn is breaking, cast your mind to one of those big budget disaster movies. Picture the scenario: the hero, who also happens to be the captain of the ship, has valiantly battled on through adversity to ...

The Evolutionary Swamp that is the NHS

Published on 17th Sep 2010 by Renata

Whilst I appreciate the rich variety of people that I am privileged enough to encounter courtesy of the NHS, I really wish you could wing it so there are slightly more sane people in my vicinity, rather than the collection of prehistoric flubber that has currently taken to lurking outside my bedroom door swearing at their velour clad offspring.

The Mother of Optimism

Published on 3rd Sep 2010 by Renata

We have a plan (I have an overwhelming urge to say Batman after that, but have resisted the temptation in order to maintain at least a visage of sanity at this juncture of our incarceration). To catch you up since our last entry we have excelled at defining the 'quo' in status. We have tried doing nothing, changing nothing, just giving the boy tiiiiiiimmmmme. In response to this reasonable approach, the unreasonable gastric losses decided to creep a little higher. So, as next strategic move to counter this rather unexpected turn of events, we decided to try going down on ...

Towel-gate

Published on 22nd Aug 2010 by Renata

I've come here a few times to update since last week and then, like a teenager refusing to acknowledge that there is life outside the duvet, thought better of it and disappeared back under the covers. Not, of course, because I have any type of warm, cocooned feeling from our hospital room that I'm reluctant to leave, but because I've just had nothing positive to share with the world outside. There is just a whole load of nothingness. Nothing has happened, nothing has changed and whilst nothing to some people is a good thing, as far as getting Dominic home ...

Other People’s Children

Published on 14th Aug 2010 by Renata

there will be some respite this coming week from OPC (Other People’s Children). For people who haven’t encountered OPC in a hospital, imagine the most precocious, insistent, nosey, slightly unwashed looking, is there something crawling in their hair kind of child who has a habit of grabbing whatever your child’s favourite toy is and skipping merrily out of the room with a sweet smile on their face. Of course, selfishly the OPC serves a great purpose when your other children are around as it’s an instant friend for them to disappear into the playroom with. However the OPC doesn’t limit their presence to convenient hours in which your children are present and wanting to be amused, they want to be your best friend too. The OPC thinks you want nothing more than their company, even if your door is shut and you’ve wedged a chair behind it.