MSE Parents Club Part 4

SeptemberBaby_2

We have this sit in walker and these two push alongs click click

Personally, my decision was to limit time in the sit in walker but both Poppy and Jamie have loved whizzing around the living room in it!

Poppy preferred the wooden stand up walker as the plastic one went to fast for her to keep up!

xx

Buttonmoons

Gosh that sit in walker is fancy I think Keira's one was about 7th hand, was the most basic widest thing ever. Can't even remember who gave me it, or what I done with it, I suspect bin, which is a shame, probably vintage.

Sami_Bee

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

We have this sit in walker and these two push alongs click click

Personally, my decision was to limit time in the sit in walker but both Poppy and Jamie have loved whizzing around the living room in it!

Poppy preferred the wooden stand up walker as the plastic one went to fast for her to keep up!

xx

ooh SB ours is the older version of that one and I was just gonna say I might get a wooden one with the rubber tyre bits as Chris has the vtech one and it goes too fast, he was always falling flat on his face so I had to hold it and walk with him

chopsticks

Urgh, all the posts that I'd multi-quoted have disappeared, so I'll have to try and remember what I put.

I wanted to say thank you to everyone who gave me advice about my LO on Friday night.

The nights are a little better now. She'll sleep from about 11:15 to 3:00 which gives me a few hours of uninterrupted sleep but then is awake from 3am to anything between 4am and 5am. She just won't settle back down after a feed and nappy change. I keep all the lights low and keep talking to a minimum) but she's just wants to be awake. I can normally get her back off to sleep about 5am but then she's awake again at 6am!

Unfortunately, although Saturday was great nap-wise (she slept for about 2hrs in her bouncer), since then she has hardly slept in the day at all. Today she just won't let me put her down. I've tried her in her bouncer, her swing and her pram and the most she's been quiet for is 5mins. I leave her if she's just wingeing(sp?) but she goes into full blown hysterical crying really quickly and I just can't leave her when she's like that.

She will fall asleep in my arms (she was asleep when I was typing my mega post earlier) but as soon as I move her to her pram she wakes up. If I just sat with her in my arms, she would sleep for ages, but I don't want to get her in the habit of being used to that, as it might cause problems with her needing that to fall asleep, plus I need to get some jobs done round the house and I can't do that if she's in my arms.

I also really need to wash my hair today but don't like to do that unless she's sound asleep in case she wakes up whilst the water is running and I can't hear her. Normally I wash it at night but last night I fell asleep on the sofa

I'm taking her to the Drs this afternoon as she has had her sticky eye for 5 weeks now. The HV said to get the Dr to swap it if it hadn't cleared up by her 6wk check. Unfortunately, the soonest they can fit us in for the 6wk check is when she's 10.5wks old

It's really annoying, If you want to pre-book an appointment the next appt is in 5 wks time, yet when I rang up this morning to say about her eye, they could fit me in at 5pm today to see a locum. The HV is coming on Thurs to do her bits for the 6wk check then I think I might ring the Drs every morning from then on to see if I can have an appt that day for the 6wk check. Waiting another 4 weeks is ridiculous.

Elle was asking about routines. As you can tell by my posts, Caitlin isn't exactly what you'd call a settled baby, but for what it's worth (not a lot probably!) our night-time routine is: 6pm bath, then a feed (daddy gives bottle if I've had chance to express in the day, or I BF) then bed, which is moses basket in the lounge. If she wakes needing a feed, I BF then she goes back down again. About 10:30ish, we take her upstairs, change nappy and then she'll have a FF before going to sleep.

Hi Weezl. Glad you had a good holiday.

Congrats to SS.

I can't remember what else I wrote earlier.

Buttonmoons

Oh no not the vtech thing!!

I have a wee clip of Keira walking with that thing, love how they walk when they first learn, no knee bending whatsoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWsU-mRbOyw

Hello puppy calling do you want to play with me? Let's have fun together while we learn our ABC's. Really hated that thing lmao, I can still remember all the noises bangs and whistles it made.

chopsticks

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Oh no not the vtech thing!!

I have a wee clip of Keira walking with that thing, love how they walk when they first learn, no knee bending whatsoever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWsU-mRbOyw

Hello puppy calling do you want to play with me? Let's have fun together while we learn our ABC's. Really hated that thing lmao, I can still remember all the noises bangs and whistles it made.

Bless, she looks so cute

Sami_Bee

choppy - just to let you know that when they swab LO's eye there needs to be some wet gunk for them to get IYKWIM. Doc couldn't do Eds because the gunk he had was dry by his appointment so she let my take the swab home to do myself and drop back in.

also did you tell the receptionist that you needed the appointment for 6wk check? we had an issue over Eds jabs because he hadn't had his check they wouldn't do his jabs (thankfully the check was later the same day so they squeezed him in later)

Sami_Bee

ooh just had a phone call from Emma Jeyne asking if I was still BFing, they're gonna send me something :T

chopsticks

Sami_Bee wrote: »

choppy - just to let you know that when they swab LO's eye there needs to be some wet gunk for them to get IYKWIM. Doc couldn't do Eds because the gunk he had was dry by his appointment so she let my take the swab home to do myself and drop back in.

also did you tell the receptionist that you needed the appointment for 6wk check? we had an issue over Eds jabs because he hadn't had his check they wouldn't do his jabs (thankfully the check was later the same day so they squeezed him in later)

Thanks Sami. I'll make sure she's got some wet gunk (sounds lovely )

Yep, I told the receptionist and she just said there was nothing she could do due to it being holiday season :mad:

That's interesting what you said about Ed's jabs though, as I wondered about that. Caitlin was 6wks yesterday, so is due her jabs in a couple of weeks, although I haven't had the appointment through yet.

Last week a community nurse came to weigh Caitlin as the HV was too busy :rolleyes: and I asked whether it would be a problem having the jabs done beforehandn and she said no. I think I'd better check when I go to the Drs this afternoon.

chopsticks

Am the only mummy in the world whose baby has singing, flashing, vibrating bouncing chair but will only settle if I bloomin bounce it?!?

I'm sat here now rockingit (with my fingers feeling funny as the vibrate is also switched on) and she's half asleep but everytime I stop rocking it, she protests. Will keep going in the hope I might send her off to sleep and I can wash my hair before going to the Drs!

Oh, I forgot to say, in my moaning/desperate posts on Fri night, I mentioned my DH's blood tests were due back today. They are back and are all clear. We're a bit torn, as it's obviously good nothing has shown up but, on the other hand, he's been feeling so rough that we think there must be something wrong.