MSE Parents Club Part 3

Krystaltips

Just remember that they're only babies for a really short time... The housework will always be there! I'll cuddle Caitlyn for as long as she needs me to... I don't mind living in filth... And typing 1 handed!

MrsTinks

Housework? Hmmm the term seems familiar but I can't quite place it...

Seriously though, last night when DH got home for my own sanity I had a quick mini tidy in the kitchen - today he's working from home because I was ready to crack yesterday so he can mind bubba and I'll do a bit of washing, folding and tidying - maybe then I can see the filth :rotfl:

redmel1621

emlou2009 wrote: »

i've been doing it in the evening but i'm fed up of handing seth over to his daddy and then rushing round all evening while i cook and clean :rolleyes: where the flat is so small and the slightest noise wakes him up i dont bother when he's asleep, also i'm very bad and when he's asleep in the day i tend to just cuddle him cos he's terrible for not sleeping in the day otherwise and turns into a complete grot bag!

I tend to take him around with me in his bouncy chair:rolleyes: He was upstairs with me while I was having a big sort out in the boys room yesterday...which was like a tip:eek:

He is fine being left to be honest, so if I am just nipping to put away washing or another short job I just leave him swinging(in his swingy chair), and he is fine...but if I am going to be a little while I take him with me so we can chat;):D

He had his second lot of jabs today....he screamed so much he was nearly sick:(

Mel x

ladybirdintheuk

re housework, I do some while Izzy is sleeping, but do what I can while she is awake too. She will happily play under her babt gym, so long as I don't leave her for too long, or if I'm doing something in the same room. If I'm going to be longer she comes with me - sits in bouncy chair or high chair in the kitchen, bouncy chair in the bathroom.

In our room she will have a lovely long tummy time on our bed (it must be more comfy than the floor?) so long as we take toys with us, and in her room we have another baby gym thingy, or her cot

So long as I keep singing she is happy, but I normally get bored/run out of nursery rhymes, so I have to pop on a cd to sing along to or I start on the christmas songs as it is all I can think of! DH tells me off when I sing away in a manger to her. I should rename him GH for grumpy husbamd

emlou2009

right then i shall take your advices and attempt it with him in his bouncy chair! he doesnt tend to be a fan of it though, its been tucked under the coffee table unused for weeks now. he can only whinge :rolleyes:

oooh i've just found a royal mail slip by the letterbox for his bumbo :j a trip down the sorting office later is in order i feel! maybe he will prefer that to his bouncy chair. why dont they just knock if the doorbell doesnt work? grr.

feelinggood_2

Toby doesn't sleep during the day, so I do it when he is awake but happy (not hungry!). He is in his bouncy chair across the room now, shouting at me! Happy shouts though, he can 'coo' at quite a volume!

He is getting weighed at 12pm, then baby massage at 2pm.

He isn't quite so fussy this morning, although he did feed at 22:00, 02:30, 5:30, 8:30 and 9:30. He appears to be sucking quite a lot of the time, so I don't think he has got the hang of comfort nursing.

Lu_T

This reference was pages ago but I've only just remembered to reply. And I'm b0ggered if I can remember who put it,

"Beep bada beep beep, beep bada boo. Beep bada beep beep, beep beep you!

"And we all feel better for that!"

(You need to watch Milkshake if you're confused. The Beep Tree really is a cool invention, if a bit useless!)

Had a lovely lie-in this am. Imogen was up at 6, DH up at 6.30am, then I shipped her off to MIL at 8am and went back to bed until 9.40am :T MIL said I looked tired when I called her to check Imogen was okay and offered to have her again tomorrow. But we're going to story time at the library and then it's playgroup in the pm. I'm tempted, but don't feel that bad and really want to spend some quality time with her in these last few weeks before her world is turned upside down by the new baby.

Elle - Rhys looks miles better, glad he's fighting on. Quaker do some Oat So Simple flavoured porridge sachets which would be really easy for you to do at the hospital and would supplement the flapjacks. You empty the sachet into a bowl, fill the empty sachet with milk and microwave for c2mins. I love the apple and blueberry ones, but they also do golden syrup, raspberry and even plain I think.

Em - it was bouncy chair or playgym for me while Imogen was still needy. She did play by herself after a while. Would it help if you put the radio/a CD on so he didn't feel 'alone'? TBH, Imogen liked my mundane descriptions of what I was doing and, as she said her first consistent word at 9 months and first sentence at 15 months, it can't have done any harm!

Thanks for the replies re administration of juice. Let's just say I'm sticking to my story on that one :rotfl:

My_Fathers_Daughter

It's piddling it down :rolleyes: the Race for Life may well be a run for cover if it keeps going :rotfl:

Elle - rhys is looking fab! The difference is amazing

Benjamin slept 8pm til 5.20am, which was fantastic, but then he wouldn't go back down til 8.30am :rolleyes: so I am shattered.

Em - I do what I can whilst Benjamin is sleeping (although nothing noisy because he sleeps downstairs during the day) then I snatch moments when he is happy playing or watching tv. Sometimes I put his bouncy chair on the sofa so I can talk to him whilst I iron behind the sofa IYSWIM. I find that as long as I don't expect him to amuse himself for longer than 15 minutes he is fine.

feelinggood_2

My little breastfed baby is now 12lb 7.5oz! He has gained 13.5oz in a week, which HV is very pleased with. Nice to know he is getting enough from me.

searching_me

Jayden is offical :D:D all done x