MSE Parent Club - Part 2

Agutka

nadnad wrote: »

Sami Bee is your husband IN the cot?!! How on earth did he manage that!

I was just thinking that! Poor Chris doesn't look impressed though, all squished into a corner.

I am all grumbly today. My parents look after brother's little one all the time, he's there practically every day. My in-laws look after hubby's sister's little ones three days a week and some evenings.
But when we need someone to look after Joseph once in a blue moon then no one is very keen. Our son is the only one of his cousins who has to pay for childcare. I've got a complete stranger coming over on friday night to stay with him. Grrrrr.
Aaahh. That's better.

nadnad

Agutka wrote: »

I was just thinking that! Poor Chris doesn't look impressed though, all squished into a corner.

I am all grumbly today. My parents look after brother's little one all the time, he's there practically every day. My in-laws look after hubby's sister's little ones three days a week and some evenings.
But when we need someone to look after Joseph once in a blue moon then no one is very keen. Our son is the only one of his cousins who has to pay for childcare. I've got a complete stranger coming over on friday night to stay with him. Grrrrr.
Aaahh. That's better.

oh i'm with you there Agutka. When my sister had her daughter 4 years ago, my mum took the baby out for walks when she was very little to give my sis a break and then she took her every thursday for most of the day as this was the only day my sister worked during the daytime. My son is now 8 months old and she has yet to take him for a walk or babysit him - not even once!

My MIL looked after my SIL daughter all the time from she was a baby and she has never took Oz either. :mad:

It makes me so cross because even 1 hour a week would let me get things done i cant do otherwise. But i just bite my tongue.

lwcus78

Keely, how is Elliot getting on with the gaviscon. Hope he's better and hope u feeling ok too. x

Js_Other_Half

nadnad wrote: »

Is it dangerous to catch chicken pox - or be exposed to it when pregnant?

It can affect the unborn baby - I know of one child who was brain damaged because of it. Another friend caught it when heavily pregnant and was given some sort of anti viral medication to minimise the risks?

3KIDSNOMONEY

Js_Other_Half wrote: »

It can affect the unborn baby - I know of one child who was brain damaged because of it. Another friend caught it when heavily pregnant and was given some sort of anti viral medication to minimise the risks?

i read up on this when my son who was 4 at the time got chicken pox when i was in about 30 weeks pregnant. I was told by health professionals and from what i read that there is no risk to the unborn baby unless the mother hadn't already had chickenpox.

Keep lurking, hope everyone is OK. i could post a moan every day but trying not to. On the subject of family members and helping out/babysitting:mad: :mad:

Sami_Bee

Yes my hubby is IN the cot :rolleyes: he'd only just got in once Chris had woken up but sometime when he won't settle he gets in with him :eek: He's mad, says its soo comfy he wouldn't mind sleeping in there himself (yes all 6'2" of him!) at least I know that its a sturdy cotbed
I looked up Chicken pox on nhs site to see how long we needed to stay away from my friend and to check that it was dangerous to my bubs and was quite scared by what I read so I'm deffo staying away, if her youngest doesn't show signs either I'll be staying away for a full month coz once the eldest is over it it could be nearly 2 weeks before the youngest would show symptoms!
I'm not sure it would be a "good" time for Chris to have it even if I wasn't preg tho coz my dad isn't 100% recovered from his pneumonia and I couldn't face them not seeing each other for so long!

Oh and I cleverly produced the first Grandchild :cool: so I get 1st dibs on babysitters - in fact they fight over him but had to pay for childminder when I was working coz the grandparents are between 48 - 53 so all still working

Oh and how cute is this!! I found it on ebay and MIL has got it as Chris's b-day pressie for when we go round its soo cute and even I can sit on it comfortably - not that he would let me tho :rolleyes: thanks to your suggestions Chris now uses his name :T he was shoving us off his chair saying "Chrisofer sit down!"

Welshlassie

Even though I got the first Grandchild in, it hasn't stopped my parents almost completely ignoring Rhys. He's lucky if they see him an hour every fortnight (even t6hough they live 10 mins up the road). But because my sister is a single mother, her baby (who is a month younger than Rhys) with my sister are round there almost everyday and they babysit for her several times a month, she doesn't work either so its not like they are providing child care.

The 2 or 3 times I've asked them to babysit for us, once they agreed so we could go to a wedding, Mum said we had to be home by 11 at the latest becuase she was working the following day (even though I'd asked her to babysit 3 months before so could have requested her shifts so she wasn't working), and the other twice she agreed and then said she couldn't because she had my sisters baby.

It really upsets me as during our pregnancies my mum actually said she was having difficulty accepting my sisters child, but once he was born, you think it was Rhys who had been born out of wedlock and we were the ones living off the state because we can't be bothered to work (sister has actually said this).

Sorry rant over. We haven't really spoken for 2 years and the unfairness of the way we are treated really upsets me, and my parents think I'm the one in the wrong. Its got to the point I'm not even going to bother with them now unless I have to, to try and insulate myself a bit (not that it is really working as you might be able to tell).

Dh parents are fantastic even though they have a 2nd grandchild 3 and half month younger than Rhys.

Becles

I normally work mornings and my Mam takes Charlotte to a song and story group in our local school hall on a Friday morning and it sounds like loads of fun. I'm off work today and I've been looking forward to going to ages, but she's absolutely loaded with cold and coughing and sneezing everywhere, so we can't go. How unfair is that?!

The bairns got masses of sweets for Christmas and they've got a gift bag crammed full of stuff each up on top of the display cabinets in the dining room. Charlotte knows they are there and keeps pointing up at them and saying "mmmmm sweets, yes?" Doesn't take them long to learn about stuff like that

keelykat

lwcus78 wrote: »

Keely, how is Elliot getting on with the gaviscon. Hope he's better and hope u feeling ok too. x

Hi lwcus we've seen a massive improvement while using the gaviscon, he can still sick a little after his bottle but its nothing compared to what is was like before. i thought great can take his bibs off for once! but hes now dribbling and sucking on his sleeves and tops as hes teething lol! need to buy some nice bibs for when we're out to catch the dribble! :rotfl:

keely.

Agutka

Joseph said Daddy to OH! He's mumbled it lots before, but not directed at anyone, as with mama :rolleyes:. But last night OH came home and Joseph took one look at him and said Daddy! You should have seen hubby's face...
So that would be his second word after 'milk'.
So I guess he's kinda slow at talking, though he's getting the shouting perfected :rolleyes: