MSE Parent Club - Part 2

nadnad

SusanC wrote: »

I would have thought it more likely than a Caesarean as surely the major abdominal surgery bit would make it hard to get back to it in the first few weeks?

i had a section but i healed really well quickly. hence the jiggy jiggy :beer:

keelykat

took us three months before doing 'it' lol. but my poor bits were sore from all the stitches and the thought scared me!

Becles

Charlotte likes sitting at my desk and playing with the mouse and keyboard. I sometimes but the CBeebies website on for her, but she hasn't understood how to work the mouse yet. I have to put her hand on and then mine over the top.

I get really bad chapped lips, and I've got a pot of Vaseline on my desk. She normally opens that and rubs some on her lips

Didn't get jiggy jiggy too soon after the birth of any of mine. I had bad tears each time which stung and didn't fancy it when the lochia was still there. Sorry if TMI

Took all of mine to a museum this morning, and then we had some lunch in a cafe. A lady from another table came over when we were eating and said it was lovely to see such well behaved bairns with excellent table manners and I should be proud of myself. So I'm walking round with a rather large head now

chocaholic110

Sami_Bee wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek:
they can't have had "normal" births surely?? I wasn't comfortable when we attempted to resume normal service after 4mths and put it off until Chris was 6months!
I just can't under stand why u would be getting jiggy so soon, did they have a nanny or something, My mind is boggled:rotfl:

Lol, I did say something along that lines to one of them and she said "We were 21 and in love". I couldn't have even contemplated it!

ladybirdintheuk

DH won't be getting near ME for a good while yet I can tell you!

I'm starting to begin to think that maybe I could manage to do it again, but not for a good while yet. There is the financial side as we would need to move to a 3 bed place first, as no way we could manage to afford it after, and there is no guarantee number 2 would be same flavour. It wouldn't be a problem for first few years to have a boy and girl sharing, but it would be later on... that and a 2 bed 3rd floor flat with 2 little'uns would be tricky! That and the financial worry that there would be no point me going back to work if I was going to have to pay for childcare for 2 kids - I just don't earn that much money! We need to win the lottery or for one of us to get a massive payrise/promotion or something!

Plus I was on crutches for half of my pregnancy, and am likely to be next time as well. I think it would be easier to wait until Izzy is a) not in the pushchair and preferably b) not needing lifting up all the time/quite so much!

Of course if I discovered I was pregnant earlier than fits in with our plans we will just have to cope, but I shouldn't think it's going to be physically possible for a good few months yet!

Savvy_Sue

SusanC wrote: »

Forgive me if this is a dumb question but how do you like cook and stuff? Do you do it all when she's in bed or something? I have Alice with me on principle so that she can learn how to do things (on Wednesday she managed to fetch the salami and tomato puree for me out of the fridge and she helps with washing up and laundry) which I realise most people probably don't do but I just can't understand how you can get things done without letting her in there.

I varied. If I didn't want them under my feet, I'd put the stairgate on, and they would either play happily or hang onto it and howl. I would keep up a running commentary on what I was doing and what I needed to do before we could be re-united.

I didn't like them in the kitchen when the oven was on, because the oven door was a pull-down one. But as the house we were living in when DS1 was born had the kitchen off the dining/living room, I realised I wanted that arrangement in any future house. It means you can see what they are up to and vice versa.

BTW, although I am sure that children as young as 7 CAN be taught to iron if you are so minded (on the grounds that it's something Cubs and Brownies used to HAVE TO do at that age), DS1 saw a toy iron at nursery and thought it was a boat. :rotfl: Not the most commonly used 'weapon' in our house!

SusanC_2

My mum hardly ever irons because she hates it but she said the toy iron and ironing board was one of the most popular toys with all four of us. I ironed something once for brownies for badge but she had the iron set up left handed so she didn't normally have me do any.

Sami_Bee

chocaholic110 wrote: »

Lol, I did say something along that lines to one of them and she said "We were 21 and in love". I couldn't have even contemplated it!

bless! I was also 21 and in love but my lady bits weren't:rotfl:

nadnad

Becles wrote: »

Took all of mine to a museum this morning, and then we had some lunch in a cafe. A lady from another table came over when we were eating and said it was lovely to see such well behaved bairns with excellent table manners and I should be proud of myself. So I'm walking round with a rather large head now

isnt it lovely when someone take sthe time to comment like this - it really makes your day. and i love that word "bairns" thats used in the north of england mostly isnt it?

Becles

It did make my day

Yes - bairns in a northern word! I say it all the time because I really can't stand them being called kids. Dunno why - just hate the word