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Thanks so much every one. Sometimes I just have the I'm a bad mommy moments. Alot more since IBS. Thanks for all your support.
Well we made it to the apple orchard.  I even did the hayride. I am feeling better only mild tummy cramps. I am just realy tired. I still don't feel the greatest and that field trip took most of my energy. When I get done on here I am hitting the couch. I also relized I am three days away from my monthly friend. Just shoot me! 
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Yeah... Heather... you made it!! Now, you go grab that heating pad or whatever you have, some tea, and go rest....I think the couch is calling you right now.....
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#107933 - 09/23/04 01:28 PM
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Thanks Shell
I am feeling like a great mom right now. The couch is screaming for me. I wish i had a maid. My house is such a wreck. 
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#107934 - 09/23/04 01:31 PM
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Your welcome Heather! 
I wish I had a maid too..... I think that should be a condition of IBS, don't ya think? hehehe
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Yep If you have IBS you get one Maid for life. Since we are day dreaming lets add a nanny and a cook. There you go life would be so much simpler if someone else did everything for me LOL
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Amen sister!!
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Heather, I haven't read the other replies so if I'm repeating something someone else said, forgive me.
I grew up with a "sick mommy". My mom had IBS (no one knew what it was then) and suffered from clinical depression. She spent one entire winter in bed with a sinus infection (I'm exaggerating of course, but not much!). Sure, there were somethings we didn't get to do. But she was also the sweetest, most fun mommy you could want. She did lots of things with us. She read to us, she sang us lullabies at night. We dyed Easter eggs. We had beautiful Christmas trees. We went to the lake to go swimming. I saw her once at our grade school. She was bringing cupcakes to my little brother's kindergarten class. I was so happy to see my "pretty mommy" there unexpectedly and went running up to her for a hug! When she was sick, we'd bring her Cokes and milk toast (when we got old enough to use the stove). And when we were sick, she'd hold our hair back while we threw up, she'd bring us gingerale floats when we had sore throats, she'd check our fever and say "poor baby."
She taught us to love, she taught us to appreciate art and music and beauty. She taught us how to be strong and gentle at the same time. She taught us that when you're sick, you can't help it, and it's okay.
Now she's 78 and I'm 51 and I love her SO MUCH. I am so proud to be her daughter. I'm teary just writing this. It absolutely does not matter that she was sick so much when we were growing up. We got what we needed. Kids are resilient. They remember things you thought were nothing and they forget things that you thought were a big deal.
So don't worry, Heather. Just love her. Nothing else matters.
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Thank you so much. I realy needed that. I am tearing up myself right now. It is so hard to be a mom. I am always worring wether I am doing a good job or not. From the moment she came home from the hospital, I started feeling like I was not good enough for her. I had gotten much better about it. But with everthing that is going on now it has reared it ugely head again.
Thank you so much for sharing that with me.
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Heather,
I am glad to hear that you got to go on the field trip. I have been very frustrated by the effect of IBS on my social life. It can be really hard. I think you should give yourself more credit as a mother. The simple fact that you are worried about the effect on your daughter of missing days like this tells me that you are a good mom. I also know that you are doing a lot of things to get better. There will be many days that you will be feeling great and able to go with your daughter to a lot of wonderful places. Just be patient and hang in there.
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Thank you for posting your experience. It's nice to know that when we can't do things because we are sick they will be fine.
Heather,
Thank you for posting. I remember feeling just like you and forcing myself to go after taking imudium. I would be so tense the entire time and try to enjoy myself at the same time. I tend to let my frustration out on the girls if they get a little crazy and then I feel worse. I have learned not tell the girls anything a head of time, if I can help it, because then if we don't go they aren't upset. I find most of the time they don't care if they stay home. They have become used to it.
I actually found myself getting nervous this morning about the baby coming. My IBS has been pretty good during this pregnancy and I have been getting used to cheating on some things. I am afraid if I don't watch it I will have a major attack and the thought of getting the girls on the bus and taking care of a baby is scaring me. I know it will all work out but you know how it is with the unknown. Oh well, one day at a time and sometimes one minute at a time.
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