MSE Parents Club Part 4

3onitsway

SusanC wrote: »

:rotfl: We got the seat which the bike shop recommended. You also need a cycle helmet for the child. Our shed is so full that I can't get the bike out at the moment but I only go along quiet roads in the village and along old railway lines (there's loads round here because it's a former mining area) - I don't go on any busy roads.

Is it a back seat or front?

I was thinking only back ones were available, but then went to Amsterdam and there are people with children hanging off all corners of their bikes! :eek:
Been looking at the Bobike ones on ebay - they sit on the handlebars so are supposed to be more stable, but i'm not so sure!

Sami_Bee

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ladybirdintheuk

Morning all. We are having a wonky day here. We were up at 5:30, had some milk in the hopes of more sleep, but it was not to be. Took DH to the bus at 7 then came home for breakfast, but she wouldn't eat anything she was so tired. Put her down for a nap, then had my breakfast and sorted a few bits out before going for a nap myself at 8:30, and we didn't get up till 10:30. Izzy has eaten a whole half a pot of yoghurt, so now I've given her some bread to play with in the hopes that some of it will go down the chute!

Off to the supermarket once I've got the washing out, then will be spending the rest of the day in the kitchen if I can get away with it. We dug up lots of things at the allotment yesterday, so I have beetroot to cook and chutney to make, and I need to wash up before I can do any of that, and I could do with making some baby food up too! At least, while beetroot and chutney take ages to cook, they don't need much actual taking care of, so I can do other things once I've got them started! I wonder how much of my grand plan madam will let me do. She will normally sit in the kitchen and [strike]snack[/strike] watch me for a bit, and roll around on the living room floor on her own for a bit, but I doubt I'll get away with all afternoon. I suppose there is always cbeebies if I'm at a vital step!

money_maker_3

Hello all :hello:

well it wasnt a one off He slept 7 hours straight again last night :j:j
I am feeling well rested for a change and am now just going to go for my shower, and then to the physio
Hope you are all doing well

Buttonmoons

I'd like the bike also so we could all go out as a family for bike rides, around the beach and parks etc. Be quite nice!

The road to her nursery is pretty much a main road, though I'd cycle on the pavement, don't care if it's against the law, so is maniacs in the bus lane at lunch time!

I think we'd both wear a helmet, I haven't ridden a bike that wasn't stationary (exercise - shudder) in years!

You think it's something you'd be able to get from freecycle?

Sami_Bee

Buttonmoons wrote: »

I'd like the bike also so we could all go out as a family for bike rides, around the beach and parks etc. Be quite nice!

The road to her nursery is pretty much a main road, though I'd cycle on the pavement, don't care if it's against the law, so is maniacs in the bus lane at lunch time!

I think we'd both wear a helmet, I haven't ridden a bike that wasn't stationary (exercise - shudder) in years!

You think it's something you'd be able to get from freecycle?

if you don't ask you won't get

searching_me

morning ... ive had a great nights sleep buba slept from 8pm-4am ... we're getting better but i didnt get out of bed til about 15mins ago i was gonna pop down town but i cant be bothered my feet are firmly up ... how is everyone today? x

Sami_Bee

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exciting post for us today 2 bras to test for emmajayne :T and a prescription for eye drops for bubba Ed so hopefully his eye will be sorted soon!

honeypop

Hi ladies, just after a bit of info from you please... my boy is now 7 weeks old and I wondered what other peoples daily routine or activites consisted of around this time.

I took 5 weeks to recover from the birth during which time I couldn't pick him up, carry him round or even hold him for longer than about 5 minutes, due to getting an infection inside from the caesarian op and also the cut got infected and I lost a lot of blood during the op so I could barely move myself nevermind do anything for the baby. My husband had to take the 5 weeks off work and did literally everything for us, although handing him to me for breastfeeding as I was determined to be able to do that one thing for him.

So anyway, I feel I missed out a lot on the first few weeks of playing around with the baby, although we bonded well in spite of everything, and now it's just me and him all day for the past couple of weeks, I'm not sure I am doing enough with him. He only sleeps in the day for 30-45 mins at a time and does this 2-3 times so that is a lot of awake time.

Currently, he wakes around 5am (not for feeding, I think he's just had enough by then), we go downstairs so daddy can sleep a bit longer before work, we have cuddles and pull faces and smiles until feeding at approx 6-6.30am. Then he feeds every 3 hours or so for 30-40 mins a time. In the time in between I amuse him or he lays looking around on his playmat, baby gym or bouncy chair, I talk to him all the time (basically running commentary on what I'm doing - I know he doesn't understand yet!), or have snuggles with a few songs. I take him out for a walk for about an hour if it's not raining then he sits in his chair in the kitchen watching me prepare dinner and OH's lunch for the following day around late afternoon. OH comes home around 7pm, they have some time together before we eat dinner, then 8.30pm he gets bathed/washed, bottle of expressed milk fed by OH, then a cuddle and story by one of us before being put down and he's asleep at 9pm. He won't last any longer than this at
the moment, although I'd like him to go down later to try and go through the night or just wake up later in the morning, currently he wakes anywhere between 1.30-3.30am for a feed then goes back to sleep. Hopefully when he starts napping more during the day, he would stay up a little later at night.

He has colic and a lot of awake time is spent crying, I have very little family nearby and no-one really available in the daytime to take him for an hour or so as I'd love to nap if I could, or at least get a break from the crying although he does seem to be getting better.

One day we go to an under one's session then breastfeeding club but there's nothing on the other days that I can get to at the moment.

Realising this is very long and you've probably skipped past by now, but can you share with me a typical day with your baby when aged 7 weeks or so?

Sami_Bee

ooh the abuse button is now bigger, looks like i'll be clicking that accidentally even more often now :rolleyes: