MSE Parents Club Part 3

SeptemberBaby_2

Fritha wrote: »

Singing: We're big fans of Nelly The Elephant in this house!

Funny you should mention Nelly as I started to randomly sing that when Poppy wouldn't keep still on the changing mat this morning! I could only remember the chorus but she kept saying 'again' every time I stopped! :rolleyes:. Must google the words...

Is Celia feeling any better?

xx

elle_gee

Hi all..

MFD, love that fruit display!! Unfortunately I don't think they'll deliver to here but I showed my mum and she suggested having a bash at making one for Rhys' coming home party

Nothing much to report on Rhys today.. he's having a chilled out day with no tests for a change. Apparently he was awake most of the night, just grumbling to himself so have left him to sleep for this afternoon and I'll go back early evening and hope he's awake again then. Tried him on a bottle again today but he didn't seem too keen - then spent all the time I was tube feeding him sucking on his dummy perfectly.. little tyke! :rolleyes: Have got speech and language specialists coming tomorrow to show me some exercises (stroking his cheek, basically) I can do to encourage and strengthen his suck. I know the docs were talking to the kidney specialists again today as his blood test results, which previously showed high levels of phosphates, are now returning to normal a lot quicker than they thought they would and now that's a cause for concern! :cool:

On an MSE note, I've been to Sainsburys today to get nappies, wipes and other bits and pieces (inc gripe water! ) in their 1/3 off baby things offer (last day today), and I'm going to Boots for more tomorrow; they have triple points if you spend over £25 on baby things from 1-28 July

elle_gee

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Hello, CG! Hope you had a lovely time.

There are a few other ladies MIA - Agutka, lwcus? Where are you?? Hope all is well.

xx

And nadnad - hope you're getting on okay with your new job

Sami_Bee

r.mac wrote: »

thanks sami Having a look now

MFD - nottingham and I'm in edinburgh!!! Oh well...hopefully someone will want it. Anything we can recoup would be great. I'm thinking of starting and ebay/SAHM fund for myself think I'll go scour the ebay board for ideas and tips. I buy often but I'm a bit of a novice at selling.

MM - forgot to say congratulations

Why not join the baby fund club http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1596437

3onitsway wrote: »

Blame Sami and MFD - its now gone exactly the same as it was when they were on the Preg. thread!

How vary dare you! I was posting on here when it moved slowly so its not my fault :A

3onitsway wrote: »

Spare dummies, mobile, muslins and a big long sausage dog type, squashy teddy from Ikea who she likes to grab onto and beat up!

Speaking of cots - I know that they are supposed sleep feet to foot and on their backs - but what do you do when they start moving and when I go up to check on her she's the other way around and lying on her tummy with bum in the air! She definately prefers to sleep on her front. :mad:

You only need to put them in feet to foot, its ok if they move is she in a sleeping bag because it doesn't matter at all if she is

I put Edgar in his Moses on his side because he sleeps better like that *naughty me!*

on cots.. Chris had just one little teddy while he was little, bumper until about 18mths, now he has; tigger, baby tigger, pooh, eeyore, monkey, elephant, mickey mouse and the little teddy only just enough room for him but if I try to remove any he goes mental!!

redmel1621

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

I always wash the babies clothes separately - don't ask me why, I've just always done it that way! And I wash whites and colours together (gasp) using 'Colour Catchers'. What an absolutely fantastic invention! :j


xx

I have always washed baby clothes separately too. I use fairy non-bio for baby clothes, up to about 1yr...then they get mingled with the rest of ours, using either Persil or Ariel colour (depends which one is on offer). I also don't separate colours and whites, I just bung it all together!!!

MM - Great news for you:)

Mel x

Sami_Bee

I use colour catchers too but I still seperate everything coz I'm anal like that.
My mum washes the kids stuff because I'm allergic to ironing and she says she couldn't bear it if they looked 'like a bag of rags'

Its not as hot today but for some reason Edgar is more sweaty and unsettled today than he has been

MrsTinks

scruffy96uk wrote: »

I ended up buying blocks so she slept on her side until she grew out the blocks!!

:eek: you can buy blocks??? WHERE???? NEED!!! Alexandra hates sleeping on her back and when I really can't get her off i let her nod off on her side then try to turn her

Sami_Bee

MrsTine wrote: »

:eek: you can buy blocks??? WHERE???? NEED!!! Alexandra hates sleeping on her back and when I really can't get her off i let her nod off on her side then try to turn her

I think something like this would work

http://www.thebabycatalogue.com/Head--Back-Support/productinfo/J0071/

MrsTinks

r.mac wrote: »

I know she would be much more comfortable on her tummy (as I am), but I'm terrified to try that :rolleyes:

*cough* my mum pointed out to me that when I was born it was actually thought to be bad to let babies sleep on their backs (flat head syndrome ) and it was the safe thing to do to let them sleep on their tummies You got a verbal smacking if you didn't make them sleep on their tummies... Apparently enough babies survived into adulthood to have caused an ever increasing population

Lu_T

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

r.mac - On our farm there are lions and crocodiles and emus... it's all very eclectic. There might have been kangaroos (they go boing) once too. The one that works every time is wheels on the bus (so we have grannys knitting, grandads snoring, teenagers snogging.... everything I can think of until I have to start over... ). Galumph goes the little green frog works a treat too

What's the action for that?!

Can't possibly catch up with all those pages and I've only been gone a day!

MM - I gather Dylan might be coming home? That's fab news :T
Elle - glad Rhys is still doing okay.

Have seen the MW this afternoon who won't give me a sweep until next week :-( and also thinks I'll go past my date because of what happened with Imogen. Not sure what that means or why (and am not quick enough of brain right now to ask at the time) but it's a scary thought.

Have been browsing www.notonthehightstreet.co.uk for something lovely for my mum's b'day and have inadvertently created a lovely wish list of things for me too! Decided last night I wanted a chalk board for the kitchen and the one I want is £25 :eek: Will have to see if I can find something similar for less - not very MSE.

Imogen's cot only ever had one teddy and her in it, plus a mobile. I'm also a fan of cots being for sleeping. As she's got older she seems to have "acquired" more things, so the soft toy count is about 8 (including her Oopsy Daisy which she WONT sleep without). Babe's cot will start with just the one special teddy again and we won't be adding to that until he/she's much older!

Re sleeping on side/back. My MW was of the opinion that if that's what helps them sleep, then okay. Once they roll themselves there's not much you can do (although Imogen used to wake up in the night crying when she could roll from back to front but not the other way. That was a difficult stage :mad:). I guess the advice is to put them on their backs, but at the end of the day if they want to sleep differently then there's actually very little you can do about it.

Right, DH isn't home yet. Better think about some tea. Have only managed to do 2 loads of washing today. Haven't even cleaned the kitchen. Ah well, I am meant to be resting!