MSE Pregnancy Club IX

Glamazon

What a beautiful day! Spent 3hrs in the sun this morning and another 30mins just now - my garden is a lovely little sun trap so been sitting on my sun lounger, catching some rays and reading a book!
So warm, I used sun screen, had my Victoria Beckham massive sunnies on and my little arms have a bit of colour for a change.

Got a lovely joint of beef in the oven and it smells delish - will be ready in time for the end of the very exciting Everton game.

Good news about AM - lets hope we hear some news soon!

Labour vibes to anyone else that needs them

No horrible symptoms this weekend - just a few days of chilling out and doing not a lot!! Feel fab actually!

Glamazon

re nursery furniture - we will have cot/cotbed, changing unit and a wardrobe that the previous owners left for us which was their daughters.
It's the box room so not much room or anything else.

OH has said he would like 4 kids and I didn't disagree - could this be the start of something?!!!

elle_gee

Glam, if you've gone out for a drive, would you have looked like your avatar?

Glamazon

elle_gee wrote: »

Glam, if you've gone out for a drive, would you have looked like your avatar?

yeah, but my biatch would have been doing the driving for me!!
My hair is all swept back today as I've washed it and left it :cool:

Fitzio

Thanks for the feedback on the nursery furniture everyone. Off out to Ikea to have a look at what they have got so will report back later. Hope we will have some news on AM!!! Come on SLS, you need to catch up!

x

searching_me

yay! the neighbours finally give up on the nosie x

searching_me

ok ive done my back in on my left side ... as always.. why always the left side x

emlou2009

Sami_Bee wrote: »

emlou my friends LO had what that sounds like (it was a fungal infection and appeared as if from nowhere), I'd bathe it in salt water if its not too sore and put sudacrem on it to help it heal try to keep it as dry as poss and try NHS direct they will tell you if it can wait to be seen or not and get him registered at GPs this week its just a form you fill in and they take a copy of birth cert x

thats what i've been doing :j yay i used my brain lol. it seems to be less sore today, it looks less red anyway, still crusting somewhat though. havent called nhs direct though as it doesnt seem to be causing him any trouble, gonna get straight on the phone to the doctors tuesday morning though. that'll be fun after 4 days closed :rolleyes:

elle_gee wrote: »

Oh, meant to say this the other day.. There was a notice up in our doctors saying that the local hospital was stopping providing anything for bottlefeeding mums from 1st April. You've now got to take your own bottles, formula, bottle brush and steriliser stuff (microwave bags for ease?). They used to provide the SMA readymade bottles - presumably they still have them for if you go in with the intention of breastfeeding then have problems..

and where exactly are you supposed to plug in your steriliser and wash your bottles etc? when i was in we had to trundle the babies up and down the corridor in their cot with us whenever we did anything other than go to the loo so that would have meant we had to take the baby in a cot to the kitchen every time, not a hassle at all when you've just passed a baby through what is normally a very small hole and you're waddling around even more than you were before!! and am i right in thinking you're not meant to plug in non-PAT tested items in hospitals as well? honestly...
its annoying me more and more with everyone i speak to, i know breast is best but i feel like i've been treated almost like a petty criminal by people like the health visitor for switching to formula. the first time she came round i was still breastfeeding and she was here for about half an hour, well over half of the visit was spent lecturing me on how wonderful it was, i said i was struggling and she checked the position etc and it was all fine, weighed him, visit done. OH was here and even he commented on how full on she was about it. i took seth to be weighed last week and she started lecturing again as i was undressing him, i told her i'd had to give it up and she looked at me like i was a terrible evil person and barely said a word after that! it hasnt even just been her, people have been passing comments about it like its their business when it really isnt!!
seth was good at first, sleeping for about 3-4 hours a night in his first week, then he gradually got worse and it got to the point where he would wake for a feed every hour and a half, sometimes even every hour. that lasted 2 long weeks, too long to be a growth spurt which i thought it was at first. i was completely exhausted so OH banned me from getting up one night so i could get some sleep and fed him formula. he slept for 4 and a half hours straight away! it was no contest for us after that, IMHO its better for him (and both of us) that i'm in a frame of mind where i can actually cope with looking after him than to have a exhausted, stressed, ratty mum and breast milk. i guess what i'm trying to say is that i wish the health "professionals" would see it from both points of view, some people it simply does not work for, and in the fragile hormonal state you're in (well at least the one i've been in!!) after giving birth the last thing you need is to be made to feel like you're a bad mum cos its not working out for you!

hmm that turned into a bit of a rant lol

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Hi ladies, I've not caught up or anything just had to pop in and tell you..
I've had a text of Astonsmummy saying she's at hosp in labour!!
She said she'll txt me again when he's here

yay! quick easy just-slip-out labour vibes!!

emlou2009

elle_gee wrote: »

How about this? No experience though.. I just found it whilst browsing after Sami mentioned tallboys. I had a tallboy at home, but it was a cupboard with two doors and a shelf in the middle with two full width drawers underneath - no hanging rail.

i like that, tis nice! i had something like that when i was little, but it was a tall wardrobe with a flip door shelf thing in the top and shelves on the bottom inside the main doors and no drawers.

loopylass81

Congratulations Newmum Come on AM