MSE Parents Club Part 5

Sami_Bee

Mell twin peaks was early nineties

redmel1621

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Mell twin peaks was early nineties

Hehe was just googling
Apparantly first aired April 8th 1990 I would have been 10

cazscoob

hello all just on for a quick 5 mins!
Motm hope you daughter had a great birthday and i bet she was over the moon with all her presents! abi will be 4 on tuesday and im feeling guilty as i dont get paid until tom so will have to send her to nursery on tues and then go pick her present up:( i know she wont be bothered i just wish we were more orgainsed and had more money lol!

anyway its been all fun and games here OH was up all last night itching, i thought it was the new bubble bath but have come home to find him head to toe in a viral rash and temp? he is refusing to go to the docs so i made him take antihistimines but it was yucky liquid so dont think hes talking to me lol!
Erins 2nd tooth is through and she has been showing me by biting?
and lewis decided that he would ignore his time to come in and turn up 2 1/2 hours late!

scruffy hope your knees ok
beccles its crap that people dont bother and can just drive away!
and love and hugs to all

chopsticks

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

As posted a couple of pages ago (easily missed as this thread moves ffaaaaaaaaaaaaassst!)

Well, we made the cakes and the flour seemed to work a little, thanks chopsticks. Some still sank, but a few ended in the middle. Not bad for a first attempt under the new regime!

My 11yo went 'Daaaaad, look, the chocolate chips are not all at the bottom, that woman on the internet was right' so you have a fan chopsticks
:D

Sorry MOTM, I missed your original post. Glad they semi-worked for you.

Hope 15 has had a great birthday.

MrsTine wrote: »

Well Alexandra is tucked up in her "big kid" bed in her own room and it's before 9pm! :eek:
we were wondering if she's waking herself up moving round in the basket as she'll settle down in our bed fine so maybe her cotbed will have the same effect fingers crossed! I could do with a full night! Last night was 3:30am wake up again and then wouldn't settle back down grrrr
I've given her a bottle of extra hungry readymade milk too to see if that might help... I'm ever hopeful!

I don't know if you saw my post last week but we put Caitlin in her cot in her own room just over a week ago when she was just under 7 weeks old. It was the best thing for her. She has slept so much better. We have a video monitor and sometimes I sit and watch her when she's asleep. She sleeps like a starfish (apart from her legs won't go too starfish like as she's in a sleeping bag ) and when she was in her moses basket, everytime she touched the side, she'd wake up but she doesn't have that problem in her cot. Last night she slept 7:15-3:30 then 4:30-6:45. The nights aren't always quite as good as that but they are definitely a huge improvement compared to her being in the moses basket.

MrsTine wrote: »

Oh oh oh oh my neighbours are horrid! I'm trying to loose weight so what do they show me? A book called 1 mix, 50 muffins - so one basic recipe and then you just add extras to make 50 different kids of muffins! I hate them! I now need to buy said book!
Apparently on offer in WHSmith but as I never get in there I might have to go on Amazon

Ohhh it's less than £4 at amazon... I might just...

Oooh, that is sooo tempting. I might have to get it.

weezl74

Thanks for the lurve MFD and Sami, right back atcha! :D

Mel, Thanks,:D I think the cooking and costing up is just another channel for my geeky brain But it's really helped us with our finances, and I met some lovely friends on MSE through my mad challenge! Did I say on here that we had a little meet up of the stalwarts from the 50p a day thread, it was in cardiff a couple of weeks ago. Lovely to finally meet in particular a lady called shaz mum of two, who I've known on here for 2 and a half years

Maybe some of the folk who've shared their hard birth stories would like this website. The charity was set up for women who've had traumatic births. They are doing some research about how people in relationships go about supporting each other after a traumatic birth, might be interesting to share your stories

chopsticks

Oooh forgot to say, I've signed up to Bizzie Babies today. Hope I get something good!

feelinggood_2

Made some tentative steps towards making a Mummy friend today. She is a lady I chat to on another website, who has a baby a little younger than Toby. She is weaning, and I have a baby/toddler nutrition book that I dropped off for her. Didn't speak to her as she isn't well today, but I know where she lives now and will try and meet up. She is quite young, but seems nice, and it'll be interesting to see if I get on with her. All the NCT ladies are 30+.

I vacuumed today, and put things in the bin (outside!) by myself. All good things! Doctors and clinic on Tuesday, and maybe a coffee afterwards.

MrsTinks

I've just done my first Bizzie review for the milkies - took me a while as I was trying to justify the low marks I gave it in several areas... oh well wouldn't bother buying one if I had to pay for it!

elle_gee

weezl74 wrote: »

I've spoken to a few medics about the swiftness of consent for crash sections. They are usually very ethical people, who've struggled with how little you can say, because every second counts. They mostly seem to err on the side of, 'I tried not to throw you or worry you or provoke more discussion at a time when you just needed me to act, and darned quickly'.

I think it's a shame it's like this, but I kind of understand where they are coming from. If my recommendation for those extra NICE guidelines is taken up, maybe I'll say more about consenting for crash sections!:D (any member of the public can make suggestions to the NICE committee, I'm not secretly in charge of the NHS or anything

Incidentally elle, I think that if you want to, there are ways of being clearer about whether the VP could recur in a subsequent pregnancy. My understanding is that some of the triggers are things which just as easily can happen to Jane up the road who's never had it before in her second pregnancy, and other triggers are to do with things which are true of second pregnancies as well. But you would be able to work that out and weigh up the relative risks yourself.

I hope I haven't overstepped a line in saying that to you. I just want you to have as many facts as you need and want to be able to make your decision. I offer you these thoughts gently, and with lots of love and respect.:o

Thankyou weezl - I totally take what you said as how you meant it

But.. there are triggers?! :eek: I was told it was "just one of those things" ETA: Rhys was a result of my second pregnancy - I had a miscarriage at 9wks about three months before getting pregnant with Rhys. Don't know if that makes a difference.

I can honestly say I've barely read anything about it since it happened. I've just learnt what I know from the doctors and midwives who treated/looked after me and their diagrams, photos and descriptions.

I did type "vasa previa" into Google about a week after it happened actually to see what info came up first - more to see what my friends would have found out about it if they'd done the same (good ol' Google! :rolleyes:). I swiftly read a few websites, including one which said the maternal mortality rate was over 50% and the infant mortality rate was as high as 90% and stopped about there!

I always thought I would look more into it when it came up, if or when. My time since, research-wise, has been spent looking up what we might be facing in the future - looking forward rather than looking back, as it were. Right now, I don't want to be reminded about what could have been - we've come this far, so let's just see what the future holds.. That's my mindset for now

MrsTinks

Right... weaning question for ya all...
Alexandra is 13 weeks and all the books and packets say 4+ months... but... she's seriously trying to grab any food we have if she's sat on our laps etc... She has a really good head control and can manage to control it in her bouncer (one of them door jobbies) - soooo.... do you think she'd be able to have a tiny bit of baby porridge? Not talking a full on meal here, just trying her with a bit of different texture more than replacing any of her milk meals