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[broodytood]

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My friends boy is that size and she found something at BIG 5.

Oh good, there is one in Issaquah. I'll take a look. Sports Authority only goes that high on their website. We got lucky with his soccer cleats - they had a return from a web order at the local addidas outlet. We save any of our spare change in a piggy bank and open it when he needs shoes. Shoes that big are expensive! he went from size 11 to size 14 in a year or less! Now he's out of the 14. He wants a pair of cowboy boots! I'm going to get him sneakers or pull-on suede casual shoes. I don't need him towering over me any more than he is already. He must be 6'3" now as he recently grew taller than DH .... and he won't even be 13 until October!

WOW... how big was he when he was born? He still has growing to do. Might get passed 6'7". My litte(younger) Bro. grew 9" his freshman year of HS! Poor kid has stretch marks! Does your DS like basketball?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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My son sometimes gets that, usually along a toenail when his shoes get too tight and DS has had it on a fingernail like that before. We wash and soak for 20 min or so in very warm water, squish out the mayo, wash again, slather on manuka honey and wrap it good. 24 hours later when we unwrap, the finger or toe is fine. DS has had peeling skin in the area. Our pediatrician knows we do this and was good with it. DS once got another injury to his leg when I was treating his toe and had to go to the emergency room, the Dr. there was impressed at how quickly the honey worked.

Use neosporin if you don't have the honey. PM me your address and I will mail you some.

I just looked up infantigo and impetigo on the internet. That is not what my kids had and likely not what you have. Kids had infections along the edge of the nailbed and complained of soreness, not itchiness, and they did not have puss filled pimples in the area. In DD's case, she had a big splinter under her nail and it got infected. It looked like what you describe. In DS's case, he had an infection from his too tight, dirty shoes. Speaking of which I need to go somewhere and find him a pair of 14.5's or 15's ASAP as his only non sports specific shoes have split along the entire front where the leather attaches to the footbed. you can see the entire front of his foot as he steps and it looks like you are pulling a sandwich apart! I ordered him shoes online, but he can't go to school with these and he has no other shoes besides soccer cleats and sparkly neon blue and silver wrestling shoes! I don't know who would keep shoes that BIG in stock!

If you can get to a Nordstrom's Rack, they sometimes have very large mens sizes (they always have women's sizes up to 13, but they're not always *useful*) at a discount. Also, if he doesn't have an otherwise hard-to-fit foot, or if you know what brands fit him well, go to Amazon, punch in his size and the style of shoe you need and then search by price lowest to highest: I've got stupidly wide feet, and have had better luck finding shoes online than anywhere in this state. I just got a nifty pair of clogs from my favorite maker at about 40% retail.

 

[herbandteas]

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put neosporen on it

 

[Chicken Rustler]

OK I am gonna feed the dragon and get to bed.
Good night all and one final late Happy Mothers day to all the moms and moms to be.

 

[broodytood]

Please don't hate me for being a picture hound. I just love to put up baby pics! 2 day old Wheaten Marans chicks.

Feisty little buggers!

 

[herbandteas]

So cute

 

[Ogress]

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Oh good, there is one in Issaquah. I'll take a look. Sports Authority only goes that high on their website. We got lucky with his soccer cleats - they had a return from a web order at the local addidas outlet. We save any of our spare change in a piggy bank and open it when he needs shoes. Shoes that big are expensive! he went from size 11 to size 14 in a year or less! Now he's out of the 14. He wants a pair of cowboy boots! I'm going to get him sneakers or pull-on suede casual shoes. I don't need him towering over me any more than he is already. He must be 6'3" now as he recently grew taller than DH .... and he won't even be 13 until October!

WOW... how big was he when he was born? He still has growing to do. Might get passed 6'7". My litte(younger) Bro. grew 9" his freshman year of HS! Poor kid has stretch marks! Does your DS like basketball?

He was 9 lb 2 oz, but a pound of that was from my IV and bruising, and he lost that pound within 24 hrs. (I did 32 hrs labor, got an IV drip at noon, pushed 3+ hrs, and he was born emergency C at midnight because his head was too big! then they got him partway out and his shoulders got stuck and they had to cut some more!) Anyways, they kept pumping me full of drugs to raise my BP because anesthesia makes my heart-rate plummet dangerously low. This was the first time I'd ever had anesthesia, so we did not know. I was so swollen after with pitting edema that took more than a week to clear. I could not even get a pair of mule slippers on! Poor DS was big and round and RED - he looked like a tomato. Much of the swelling in him was gone by morning, but the poor kid was completely covered in bruises, especially his face, head and shoulders. Doc said he'd rarely seen such bad bruising in a newborn, and all that internal bleeding caused him to have jaundice. They brought a billibed to my house for him and 2 nurses would come check up on him and take blood samples twice a day. But after the jaundice, DS was very healthy and has always grown very quickly; by 6 months old his height was so far off the charts it would not even go on the paper! He tends to still do the grow out/gro up thing. The beginning of last month it seemed he put on a lot of weight very quickly, but he is now in another grow tall spurt! He had 38WX34L pants that were getting snug on him a month ago, he is now wearing 34W X 36L pants that are looking too short!

My sister and my sister-in-law each had boys that weighed over 10 pounds!!!! My SIL weighs all of maybe 90 lbs herself, and she said it was a painless birth and only 2 stitches needed! she later had a 6 pound baby boy, and that was a difficult labor with lots of stitches. Her 10 pound boy is now almost 17 and is about 6 feet and skinnnnny! Her 6 lb boy is 15, is on the shorter side and weighs only 80 pounds. (Both my brother and his wife are very thin).

My sisters 10.5 pound boy is in 4th grade, and he is the shortest kid in the class! So birth size seems to have no bearing on how tall and big they will be. With how broad Alex was, the perinatologist was expecting Olivia to be a big baby too, so he made a huge cut for the c-section so she would not get stuck. Well, Olivia was a premie. They thought she was 3 weeks early, but they did an exam after birth and said it was more like 5 weeks early. She was 20th percentile at birth, and dropped a pound in 3 days because she did not have a sucking reflex yet and took over a month to get back to her birth weight. She was nearly 3 years old before she took off and grew quickly!

None of their kids have the shoulders that my kids do. I have Huge shoulders, my sister has big shoulders, but not like mine. My brother has narrow shoulders. My husband and his entire family have big shoulders and huge, thick feet. My kids got them too

. Alex does not play basketball. He loves soccer and he liked wrestling too. Everyone is trying to talk him into playing football. His social studies teacher happedns to be the J.V. football coach at the H.S. Everyone is pushing him towards it but he won't do it because he is afraid he will get a head injury. People see him kick the ball in soccer and tell me I need to get him out of soccer and put him in place-kicking camp, they tell him he can have his college paid for! The older boys tell him he'd be able to date almost any girl in the school, but he is not interested. I think once his hormones kick in, he may change his mind. So far the only thing his hormones have done is give him zits on his forehead.

 

[Ogress]

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Soooo cute!!!! I want some! I tried candling eggs under the cochin tonight. I think I see veining, but not much. I don't think they are viable. She has only about a week to go and I think I would see something!

 

[broodytood]

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WOW... how big was he when he was born? He still has growing to do. Might get passed 6'7". My litte(younger) Bro. grew 9" his freshman year of HS! Poor kid has stretch marks! Does your DS like basketball?

He was 9 lb 2 oz, but a pound of that was from my IV and bruising, and he lost that pound within 24 hrs. (I did 32 hrs labor, got an IV drip at noon, pushed 3+ hrs, and he was born emergency C at midnight because his head was too big! then they got him partway out and his shoulders got stuck and they had to cut some more!) Anyways, they kept pumping me full of drugs to raise my BP because anesthesia makes my heart-rate plummet dangerously low. This was the first time I'd ever had anesthesia, so we did not know. I was so swollen after with pitting edema that took more than a week to clear. I could not even get a pair of mule slippers on! Poor DS was big and round and RED - he looked like a tomato. Much of the swelling in him was gone by morning, but the poor kid was completely covered in bruises, especially his face, head and shoulders. Doc said he'd rarely seen such bad bruising in a newborn, and all that internal bleeding caused him to have jaundice. They brought a billibed to my house for him and 2 nurses would come check up on him and take blood samples twice a day. But after the jaundice, DS was very healthy and has always grown very quickly; by 6 months old his height was so far off the charts it would not even go on the paper! He tends to still do the grow out/gro up thing. The beginning of last month it seemed he put on a lot of weight very quickly, but he is now in another grow tall spurt! He had 38WX34L pants that were getting snug on him a month ago, he is now wearing 34W X 36L pants that are looking too short!

My sister and my sister-in-law each had boys that weighed over 10 pounds!!!! My SIL weighs all of maybe 90 lbs herself, and she said it was a painless birth and only 2 stitches needed! she later had a 6 pound baby boy, and that was a difficult labor with lots of stitches. Her 10 pound boy is now almost 17 and is about 6 feet and skinnnnny! Her 6 lb boy is 15, is on the shorter side and weighs only 80 pounds. (Both my brother and his wife are very thin).

My sisters 10.5 pound boy is in 4th grade, and he is the shortest kid in the class! So birth size seems to have no bearing on how tall and big they will be. With how broad Alex was, the perinatologist was expecting Olivia to be a big baby too, so he made a huge cut for the c-section so she would not get stuck. Well, Olivia was a premie. They thought she was 3 weeks early, but they did an exam after birth and said it was more like 5 weeks early. She was 20th percentile at birth, and dropped a pound in 3 days because she did not have a sucking reflex yet and took over a month to get back to her birth weight. She was nearly 3 years old before she took off and grew quickly!

None of their kids have the shoulders that my kids do. I have Huge shoulders, my sister has big shoulders, but not like mine. My brother has narrow shoulders. My husband and his entire family have big shoulders and huge, thick feet. My kids got them too

. Alex does not play basketball. He loves soccer and he liked wrestling too. Everyone is trying to talk him into playing football. His social studies teacher happedns to be the J.V. football coach at the H.S. Everyone is pushing him towards it but he won't do it because he is afraid he will get a head injury. People see him kick the ball in soccer and tell me I need to get him out of soccer and put him in place-kicking camp, they tell him he can have his college paid for! The older boys tell him he'd be able to date almost any girl in the school, but he is not interested. I think once his hormones kick in, he may change his mind. So far the only thing his hormones have done is give him zits on his forehead.

I have the same problem with anesthesia. With my twins I had to have a C because they were transverse(side to side instead of up and down) Like you, it was my first surgery and my BP got down to 80/50. My temp got down to 95*. It was not fun! If I ever have to have surgery again, not sure what to do about the BP/anesthesia problem.

 

[broodytood]

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Soooo cute!!!! I want some! I tried candling eggs under the cochin tonight. I think I see veining, but not much. I don't think they are viable. She has only about a week to go and I think I would see something!

Has she been faithful on the nest? You should see something like a dark mass and some veining. Not quite filling up the whole space. What color are Cochin shells?