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  • Child Dies From Holding In Vomit

    FOR YOUR INFORMATION

    A 16 year old boy recently died. He and his brother were sleeping in the same room. Late night he got up to vomit. His brother said he held his hand to his mouth and went to the bathroom. After vomiting, he complained of difficulty in breathing. Later died.

    Now it has been declared by Doctor that he held on to his vomit till he reached the toilet in order to not to spoil the bed or carpet, and that’s what choked him. The vomit went straight into his wind pipe & the breathing tract. …..

    So, we should let kids puke wherever they want, and then go to the bathroom. We should never force them to hold on to their vomit till they reach the bathroom.

    The carpet can always be washed, but we cannot get a child back.

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    It’s informative and It may save a life. (CTTO)

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  • Do Not Feed Horses Grass Cuttings

    DO NOT FEED HORSES GRASS CUTTINGS!!!

    This is horrendous and we’re all devastated. Our gorgeous, healthy, happy and much-loved family horse Boston has been killed by somebody feeding our horses a pile of grass cuttings last night. He was the best horse in the world and we can’t believe he’s gone.

    The worst part is knowing that this could have been prevented and our lovely Boston could be with us now if he hadn’t been fed accidentally and unknowingly this way. I understand that people who do not have horses will not understand the severity of this but I’m hoping I can reach a few by sharing our story.

    PLEASE DO NOT FEED HORSES GRASS CUTTINGS!!!

    I’ve been asked to expand on the reasoning for not feeding horses cut grass which I thought this was a good idea as I would like to possibly prevent something like this happening again with someone else, if I could:

    Because cut grass is much smaller than grass taken up by horses themselves, a horse eating cut grass wouldn’t chew it and would gorge themselves quickly on it. This would result in saliva not being added to the cut grass and “diluting” it before it reaches the stomach. Cut grass also ferments (which is why it can be warm to touch) and along with the saliva not being added, gives off gases inside the stomach.

    These gases cause the stomach to expand to the point of rupture in severe cases like ours with Boston, killing the horse. If the stomach doesn’t rupture due to not as much grass having been eaten, it would instead cause colic in the horse which is dreadful pain in the abdomen which could then lead to killing the horse later too however colic can be treatable.

    Horses also do not have a “vomit” reflex meaning they can’t take up the harmful substances once eaten. Another point would be if a horse has been given lawn mower cuttings. These cuttings may also have different plants in, other than grass which could lead to the horse eating kinds of plants that are commonly found but that are poisonous to them and would have otherwise been avoided by the horse due to not being able to take back up the substances.

    I hope this post spreads so people can understand how horrific this is. Thank you for reading.

    Credit Alana Lester

  • Aldi Complaint Who Is In The Right?

    Vicky Gordon’s complaint to Aldi uk has caused heated debates we would love to know if you agree with her treatment at Aldi or if she has the right to be upset.

    Gordon wrote “At approximately 11.30am, on the morning of Saturday 7th July 2018, I took my 5-year-old son into Aldi in Dartford. As we walked into the store, my son complained he felt unwell, and vomited on the floor of the first aisle. As I was trying to calm him down, a lady offered to get a member of staff for me to help us. The woman came back and said she had asked for a First Aider to come to help us.

    The woman, Andrea, came round from the tills with a kitchen roll and bag; she handed them to me, turned away and said “I don’t do sick”; and walked away. I was left standing with my son. I called after her “Could you please send a First Aider to us?” At which she replied “I’m busy on a till”; and walked away. Another customer said to me “I wouldn’t clean that up if I were you. Not after she shoved it at you and walked off like that”.

    I put the roll down and went to walk my son out of the store to get him some water, but I had to walk around to the exit, where the security guard (Collins) saw us and asked what was wrong with my son. I told him he had been sick on the floor and Andrea had just walked away from him with no regard for if he or I were okay. He told me to sit Oscar on the packing shelf and he would get us some water.

    I asked if he could also get a Manager or First Aider to come and see us. He returned and said there wasnt any bottles of water, but he would keep looking; and that a Manager was on her way. As he was about to go look for water, he pointed out the Manager Aneta. She approached another till member who was serving, and then appeared to get onto a newly opened till. I said “Excuse me, I’m waiting to speak to you”. She replied “You’ll have to wait, I need to serve”. I said “I’m sorry but my son has just been sick in your store, and your member of staff has just shoved tissue at me and walked away. I need some help with my son.” At which, she said “you’ll just have to wait, I’m busy”.

    I walked towards her, feeling rather upset and angry at how my son had been ignored; and asked her to please come over and get me some water for my son. I said that I couldn’t believe that as a Manager, after hearing she has a child that is ill in her store, has decided to serve customers is more important than checking he is okay. I asked for her name and for her colleague’s name, and said that I would be contacting Head Office. Her reply was simply “And??”.

    I went back to my son, thanked the security guard for his help in the situation, and left the store. As we walked out, my son said to me “Can we please not go in Aldi anymore”, I said “Dont worry, we wont be”. I walked into Poundworld next door to get my son some water. I called a cab for us to go to my parents home. While there, my son was clearly still ill, so I took him home.

    Later that afternoon, I contacted Aldi Customer Service and spoke to a lady called Kelly. She was utterly appalled at the situation, and actions of the staff and Manager. She apologised and said that she would escalate it to the Area Manager Daniel on Monday. She said I would get a phone call from him within a couple of days, once he had reviewed the complaint properly. Monday (9th July 2018); I got a call from Kelly at 11.15am. She said that my complaint had been passed on to Daniel and that he had asked her to send me an apology, and a £10 voucher as a gesture of goodwill. I said that no amount of money was going to make me want to go back in the store, it wasnt about the money.

    I asked for her to get the Area Manager to contact me directly, once he had reviewed the CCTV footage, and decided on a course of action. She said it would probably take a few days as he would need to speak to the staff involved etc. I said I was happy to wait. At approximately 1pm on the same day, I received another call from a different member of Customer Service, saying that the complaint had been passed on to him and that he would like to send me a letter of apology in the post. Again, I said that I would like to speak to the Area Manager once he had reviewed the footage and had a course of action. I was then told that this could take a while for that to happen, but if I was happy to wait, then he would put my request in place. I explained to him that I was going to post my complaint publicly.

    2 days after this incident, my son is still unwell. The staff had no idea whether he was severely unwell, or not. It was on one of the hottest days of the year, and all they were worried about was serving customers. To not even offer him a cup of water, is an absolute disgrace.

    I am absolutely disgusted that anyone could ignore a sick child, least of all when that child is in a shop you work in. I will not be returning to Aldi, and intend to spread our experience far and wide”.

    Vicky and her son didn’t get much sympathy on her complaint post, many people stating it is not the stores responsibility to care for a child who has vomited, what are your views?

  • I Make My Partner Sleep At His Parents Once A Month

    I am a mum to two children Charlie who is 3 and Robbie who is 11 weeks old.

    I am in a very happy relationship with my partner of 5 years my wonderful boyfriend Jamie he is a wonderful boyfriend and a fantastic father barring his drinking.

    No he isn’t an alcoholic or abusive but once a month he goes out with his mates he crawls home in the early hours and ends up vomiting in the house, urinating on himself or on one occasion mistaking the airing cupboard for a toilet and weeing in it, he never makes it to the bedroom and I often find him asleep on the landing or even on my children’s bedroom floor.

    Since Robbie was born I have banned him from coming home when he has had a drink, he knows he has to go and stay at his friend’s house or go to his parents home which is 3 streets down from ours.

    Last weekend he went out and got very drunk but went to his mums house, the next morning his mother phoned me and called me a psycho for banning her son from coming back to his own house, he works hard and should be able to go out and have a drink and return home without any repercussions or rules in place, she even said it’s not like he’s abusive or violent when he drinks and is a happy drunk.

    I will be sticking to this rule though I do not want my children to witness their loving father asleep in his own vomit or urine or my partner to ruin our lovely home.

    Please tell me I’m not the only woman in the world who makes their partner do this, it’s not like I’m stopping him from seeing his friends I understand he needs his time and to go out and enjoy himself and I will not stop him but I sure as hell will stop my kid growing up thinking this is the norm.

     

  • Before I Had Children

    Now you’ve all heard the saying before I had children, I never stopped to smell  flowers, I never pulled over to look at horses…

    But we have compiled the real version… the version no one tells you about  before you have children the truth .

    Sometimes with bare hands
    Or talking dogs or creatures in the night garden
    We all need chocolate
    I’m sorry for being such a bad child
    Ok maybe not
    God damn you tiny creatures
    Every bump, every cough
    Sniff test
    They weren’t really friends anyway
    My child loses a shoe every morning
    Especially if you have more than one child
    They do hold in the tummy though
    About everything!!!!
    Trampolines are a no go
    PACK IT IN!!!
    So tired!!!
    Constantly
    Please let me sleep
    Yep that’s poop
    Well a lot more often than I do now
    Boys have terrible aim
    Please baby stay on your back
    More than once

    Finger painting
    Sometimes on purpose

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  • Having a baby is meant to be the best feeling in the world

    HAVING A BABY IS THE BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD…. 
    I remember been told this whilst pregnant with Riley 5 years ago. He was my first baby and like all first time mummy’s I was overjoyed that it was finally happening to me.

     I was going to be the best mum in the world with so many intentions, ‘what I will and won’t be doing ‘ I was so certain I was so in control … I mean come one i had 3 nieces and 1 nephew, most friends had small children and babies, I had this in the bag ….easy peasy!!
    2nd march 2012 at Saturday 3.49am my beautiful Riley p arrived at 36 weeks. He was the most precious beautiful thing I had ever seen and couldn’t quite believe I had pushed him out and he was mine… I mean really??? Within 3 hours of him been born he’d been changed twice (bearing in mind it took me about 10mins per outfit as he looked so small I didn’t want to break his little chicken legs ).laid there like a skinned rabbit I noticed he was uncomfortable.

    I was no expert mummy just yet but this boy laid here projectile vomiting every bottle I had given him. Reassured by midwifes he was fine, just keep him full of milk to get his sugars right up so we can go home. 
    Yes home, couldn’t wait to get home, my adrenaline was pumping, and my boy was beautiful. My whole life had begun, the happiest day of my life soon turned into me living a life that was very different to what I was told or I’d seen.
    REFLUX!!! Yes fuck you reflux!! 
    It took away the first year of what should have been the happiest year of my life. It made my boy miserable, but strong, and days tried to smile through it like me. It made his mummy and daddy question our parental skills and our love for one another !!! It scared me like nothing has ever scared me before. 

    My boy was poked prodded and told he had colic, 

    I was looked down on, made to feel I was making most of it up and told I was a fussy mum. I couldn’t just go out incase he was in pain and screamed the place down and when I did go out I soon left in tears before anyone saw me and asked

     “is he ok”

    “Don’t worry it’s only abit of sick, all babies are sick ”

    “Give him some infacol ”

    “Have you tried a different teat”

    “Aww yeah my baby was a little sicky too”

    “He’ll be fine he’ll grow out of it by the time he’s 12mths old” 

    These now still make me want to rip out their eyes!! 

    So it wasn’t the happiest year by far, and swore I couldn’t ever go through it again. He was given medicines special milk and I looked like I had walked through a rave with everyone taking a whitey I was that covered in sick 24/7. 
    6months old unexpectedly we found out Archie p was going to be arriving with us in 9mths time.. 

    “What?? “I said to the nurse?? “No no no not a chance, nope I think your mistaken ”
    Fears all the way through of going through it all again were getting stronger everyday. I’d speak to other reflux mummy’s and some would say you’ll be fine you’ve done it before but I’m sure he will be ok… little did we know Archie was a whole new ball game, bringing new and even worse obstacles for us to tackle. REFLUX, ALLERGIES, TONGUETIE . This boy was trouble from the word go. My life was a complete whirlwind. 

    I forgot who I was, my life was finding a solution to help my boys, my life, was making my boys happy and totally neglected myself and Alex. 

    Only 15mth age gap I lived for coffee and Alex coming home from work to take over so I could go outside to let out a scream i had kept in all day. I wanted so much to be like other mums, happy , playing , play dates but instead my pjs and CBeebies were what I rocked at 33!! 
    Now , aged 4 and nearly 3 they are the strongest most happiest boys ever. Ballbags at times ??? Absolutely!! But strong ballbags with amazing hearts. And I love them with my life for making me into this strong mummy that can take on anything.

     So thankyou REFLUX and whatever else you threw at us, you pushed my family together when It could so easily have been ripped apart. 
    So NO, having my babies wasn’t the best feeling in the world, looking at how they’ve grown IS 😘

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