About Me

About me

My name is Nik and I am Mum to two small boys called Sam and Oliver and partner to the long suffering Ali and we are based in Devon, England.

My blog is about my journey though life, the highs, the lows and all the fun and messy bits in-between.

It is a personal blog that is written by me and only features my opinions. I do work on behalf of businesses and companies, writing posts and reviews but I will only give you my honest thoughts, if I love it or hate it I will tell you.

If you would like to get in touch with me or my mini monsters please contact me at
themummymonster1@gmail.com





Thursday 28 December 2017

Spots

This is my face this evening, this is the reality of having spots at 37 years old!! Yes I’m 37 and I still get spots!!
How is that fair?? Surely I should have been done with them in my teens??
I normally get one massive lump of a thing and the only thing I use on it is toothpaste. I swear by it. I put it on before bed and by morning the redness has gone and it’s dried up.
This time I have been plagued by the tiny horrid little pinheads known as blackheads!! They are stubborn little buggers who refuse to move so I have taken action and applied the seaweed face mask. I just hope it works!!
Any other hints and tips for this spot ridden mummy??
#spots #blackheads #toothpaste #themummymonster #blog


Feeding Oliver!!

Feeding Oliver!!

Trying to feed Oliver is a complete nightmare. I thought having an allergy child would be the hardest thing I would have to face in the feeding world but oh no, feeding Oliver is completely different kettle of fish!! (Sorry, excuse the pun!!)
I am used to feeding strapping lads, who are hungry after every meal that I have just severed them and I have empty cupboards because they have been raided again!!
Oliver lost weight when he was born and was diagnosed with Group B Strep and was hospitalised for three extremely long days. We were so worried about him. He was pumped full of extremely strong antibiotics to kill off any signs of the infection and slowly over the next few months he started to gain weight.
However I started to notice that he was never hungry for his milk, I would often have to set an alarm to remind myself that he needing feeding ad then when he did have his milk, he was never really hungry for it and often leave some.
At Oliver’s 12 months check, it was noticed that he had dropped several centiles again and wasn’t growing either so the Health Visitor wanted him placed on weight check ups every two weeks. So this meant getting to our Children’s Centre every two weeks, he became a bit of a regular. The receptionist knew our names and Sam knew what he was going to play with before we even got there!
Oliver still failed to put on weight and so was finally referred to the Hospital. The hospital couldn’t find a reason why he is failing but decided to run some blood tests in the meantime and told me to put him on a high calorie diet.
Now a high calorie diet sounds like the ultimate life goal doesn’t it? If you fancy something you can eat it!! If he fancies chocolate, he can have it, if he wants a biscuit I am to give it to him, however Oliver just isn’t interested. People on the street must think I am nuts when I am trying to feed him wherever I go, but he is just not interested!!
There are some days where he will completely fool us and eat a full dinner but then he will go back to only living on enough to keep a gnat alive. I used to cook him separate meals, things I thought I could tempt him with.
It was almost the longer I spent preparing and cooking a meal, the less he would eat, so I gave up and started serving him any dinners that I cooked for Ali and I. Occasionally he would surprise me and eat a bowl of Coq au vin or chicken and mushroom risotto, however 99% of the time he wouldn’t eat them.
He is also still not interested in his milk either so often goes to bed on an empty tummy, meaning that he would wake up hungry but still wouldn’t take any milk.
Ali and I are still so frustrated in trying to make him eat that we are just at our wits end.
The blood tests have finally been returned to say that he has an abnormal thyroid function. I guess this explains some of it but it still doesn’t take away the frustration when you know he is running on empty. I just don’t know where he gets all his energy from.
He has now had some more blood tests which we are waiting the results of but for now, we will continue to offer food just in case he eats it and keep feeding him high calorie treats but has anyone been through anything similar??
Any advice or tips??

#food #feedingboys #normallyhaveemptycupboards #thyroid #justwonteat #highcaloriediet #calories #notinterested #frustrated #themummymonster

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