MSE Parent Club - Part 2

Sami_Bee

Lu - I hope you're not feeling too bad, my Granddad was terribly ill for weeks when he had shingles (tho I presume u are much healthier than a 75yo!)

Caz - I hope the kids haven't been passing it around by kissing! :eek:

I'm actually really relieved I've got boys , recently I've found girl stuff really scary! I watched some of the Tonight show and they showed photos of 14yo girls in their normal everyday 'looks' and loads of young men thought they were between 18 and 25 :eek: I wouldn't want my 14yo daughter being mistaken for a grown woman!
Have to say tho the girls were wearing tonnes of make up and short skirts to school etc - If I turned up to my high school like that I would have been sent home to get washed and changed!

cazscoob

i saw that too sami and it was scarey! i have 3 girls to wory about!

I have just had email from emma jane asking for my sizes!! oh am all excited but it said i am a 38 DD/E and thats not what im wearing lol! i thought i was smaller!

Lu_T

Thanks all, I feel fine but will take it easy.

Emma Jane haven't asked me for my saizes :-( but I'm only a 36DD - although got measured at the weekend and they thought I was a 34D. Couldn't get one on in that size though - knew it was too small!

We had a bumbo and Imogen really liked it. She couldn't sit on her own for quite a while, but could manage to sit up when supported in the seat. No scary attempts to break free here though! We also got it off ebay and I think I sold it again too. Will prob buy another one for this bubba and then get rid (as they are quite big to store).

redmel1621

Oh wow, how stressful, my thoughts are with elle and her OH and baby Rhys.


I have a sick child off school today too. ds1, he was being sick until late Saturday night and was wiped out yesterday...so although he seems 'himself' today, I thought it best not to rush him back.

Caz - Sorry to hear about you having to re-home your doggy. We had to do the same about 4yrs ago, it was heartbreaking. I am glad you have had good reports back and she is settling in with her new owners ok.

Mel x

Sami_Bee

The Emma Jane sizes are really random! I got an email from them asking for my measurements/sizes and according to them I'm a 36B, but I'm wearing a 36D at the mo and it definitely fits correctly!

Dormouse

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

I need to ask some advice from you lot - I've decided to tackle the "puting baby down awake" thing soon. We're off to a wedding weekend after next, so I think it will be best to get that out of the way first. (It will be a "put her in sleeping bag at normal time and see if she will fall asleep on me so we can stay a bit later" job I think!) So my target to start is 1st June.

I'm having a read up on different techniques at the moment. We have a bedtime routie anyway (bath, masage, bit of baby yoga if she's not too tired, into sleeping bag, cuddle with Daddy, book, feed) She normally falls asleep on my while she is feeding, and then I try and gently transfer her into the cot without waking her up. If she wakes up I try sshhhhh! and if that doesn't work then a bit more food and we try again.

I'm thinking of waking her up after the feed, having a proper burp (I stop while she is feeding at bedtime, but having one at the end instead would be a good way to wake her!) then doing a story then instead. Then put her down awake. I'm thinking leave her to it to start with, and then come back and sit next to her with a book and some shhhhing if it seems necessary. Does that sound realistic?

Sometimes she goes into a massive deep sleep when I'm feeding her, so if there is no waking her up she will have to go down asleep, but that is fine by me

Then I'll have to do the same at the nighttime feed (but without the story) and put up with being tired for a few nights till she gets the hang of it.


I'm going to try and put her down awake for naps now though, when I can get away with it. Again, she normally falls asleep on me, and I try and transfer her to the cot without waking her. I will instead try and wake her a little bit as I transfer her, then she can drift off again once in the cot. At the moment I won't worry about putting her down for a nap when it's not just after a feed - she is feeding often enough that she will wake up hungry too soon if I don't Once we are a bit further along with weaning, and she is having less milk we will have to work on this bit I expect.

Does this all sound realistic or am I barking? Any other ideas?

I found with both of mine that they always fell asleep on the boob at the bedtime feed, at least until about 6-7 months. And even later, they usually nodded off while feeding, at least half the time. I think it's just very natural for BFed babies to fall asleep while feeding, it must be so cosy and comforting for them.

What I did, probably at the same age as your LO is now, is not massively wake them up after the last feed, but not totally tiptoe around them either, if that makes sense? So I would burp them, but I never read them books or anything after the feed, as I thought that would be too stimulating. I usually aimed for that cute and fuzzy "sleepy but not asleep" stage for putting them down, and I have to say it worked brilliantly for us. I would then leave them, and if they didn't settle I would come back and do a bit of shhhhing, but they were usually fine.

Even when I stopped BFing them at 1, they were totally fine with going to bed without the booby feed, so the gradual approach worked well for us.

Sami_Bee

Not sure if this link will work because its for 'my' store but Lidl have lots of baby stuff and some nursing bras coming in
http://www.lidl.co.uk/uk/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090526.index.ar7

My_Fathers_Daughter

Has anyone else got a 'snacky' baby?

During the day Benjamin seems to be wanting to feed every hour ATM. I don't mind as long as he keeps it during the day (we still get over 6 hours from him at night) but I do wonder if it is a bad habit to get into...although what I can do about it if that is what he wants I don't know.

He is otherwise happy so I really shouldn't moan - I just feel really conscious that I am constantly feeding him when there are other people around.


Edit: Sorry, I forgot to say that feeding so often means he is getting lots of infacol and I worry that that could be what is affecting his bowels (poo'd today, first one since Thursday).

BrunoM

MFD, Elijah was the same for most of the time for months, didn't stop til maybe 5+ months. OH got a bit tired of it/sore-nippled but it was basically OK usually and would still do a few hours a time at night.

We have a bumbo, not got much use out of it as the poor boy just looks confused when we sit him in it and starts wriggling in attempts to escape to each, their own. He is much happier in a little rocking-chair we have which was part of an electric swing chair originally.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Benjamin is not a big fan of his bouncy chair, he tolerates it, but if I sit him up leaning against pillows etc he is very happy (obv I don't leave him) so I am going to get a bumbo sooner rather than later.

McSmiler, the cheapest I have found is £28.99 delivered, I think I will buy new then ebay after Benjamin has used it for some reason I don't fancy a second hand one

I have had other things second hand...I am not usually funny about it