MSE Parents Club Part 5

MrsTinks

BTW just a quick note before I go muffin tray hunting - A HUGE thanks for the parcels to my friend in Afghanistan they've started arriving and will be handed out to the Mullah's to give to the women at Rhammedan (sp?) I'm sure there are still some in transit (they arrive in batches out there due to the location so no doubt she'll get buried in clothes come the next delivery too lol!) But she asked me to say a HUGE thanks for everything sent so far!

Krystaltips

Tine, they had some really deep ones in Ikea yesterday, I saw them and thought of you

Or the pound shop had some last time I was looking too... But I wanted a flan dish not muffins at the time... They didn't have any of those...

My_Fathers_Daughter

Asda had some fantastic sillicone (sp?) muffin trays MrsT - they are bright red!! I make yorkshire puds in mine


The dreamfeed didn't work last night. I fed Benjamin at 11.30pm (he had been asleep since 6.45pm) and he woke for a feed at 3.30am, then again at 5.45am and then 7.30am.


Does anyone have any exprience of adjusting babys bedtime? He sleeps so well in the evening and will generally sleep for 8 1/2 or 9 hours straight...it is just not the right time for me!!

If I could keep him awake til 8.30pm or even 9pm I would be happy - as long as that translates into waking later too!! It would also be much better when I go back to work.

workinmummy

Hiya,

Just popping over from Pregnancy thread for some advise, and opinions.
My C-section is booked for 14 September.

I am now thinking about this after pain bit. This is my second baby and i am told that they can be quite bad adn i'm a wimp. Don't remember having any with my first, but not sure if that was due to already being given pain relief, due to C-section. Can any one who had a C-Section with their second child please advise if they got these quite bad. I am thinking i may need to get some co-codamol in for when i get home.

Thanks

Lu_T

Hey workinmummy. I had a second c-section recently and did get afterpains but I think they just merged into the general pain. I was only taking co-codamol and managed to control the pain fine. I wasn't allowed any other painkillers due to the amount of blood I lost and was worried about this cos I had Diclofenac too last time, but it didn't seem to matter.

I stopped taking any painkillers after about 2.5 weeks. I reckon I've recovered quicker this time, even though I was 'opened up' twice this time.

I was worried about afterpains (which apparently you don't get with a first, only subsequent babies) but TBH I don't remember them causing me a particular problem. And they fade after a week or so anyway. HTH?

MrsTine wrote: »

BTW just a quick note before I go muffin tray hunting - A HUGE thanks for the parcels to my friend in Afghanistan they've started arriving and will be handed out to the Mullah's to give to the women at Rhammedan (sp?) I'm sure there are still some in transit (they arrive in batches out there due to the location so no doubt she'll get buried in clothes come the next delivery too lol!) But she asked me to say a HUGE thanks for everything sent so far!

Am soo not keeping up with this thread but happy to donate anything to a good cause. What do you need? Have some of my clothes and tons of Imogens which need a good home.

elle_gee

Lu_T wrote: »

.. Am soo not keeping up with this thread but happy to donate anything to a good cause. What do you need? Have some of my clothes and tons of Imogens which need a good home.

Info here

Buttonmoons

It's sooooo windy today, which is a shame because it's quite warm.

They are doing some sort of repairs to the building and have those lift things attached to the side right now, and the wire cables keep smashing off the side of the windows and building. It's freaking me out!

Was supposed to go to the Ashvale restaurant today with my mum, but we both ended up cancelling. I didn't get to sleep until well after 4am, OH was snoring his head off, and I kept getting these weird pains up my arms, it's not the first time it's happened. It's like an achy shooting burning feeling, and it's in both arms, sometimes it stops in one and gets worse in the other? I end up lying in bed thinking I've got athritus or a blood clot! Never heard of that before!

Went out to the garage and Keira fleeced me into buying her those kids magazines, since when did they become so expensive? I hate how they stick a tatty toy on the front aswell, they are always rubbish!

Buttonmoons

Oh yes and I'm STILL bleeding, it stops for a few hours, and then starts up again. Sick to death of it, the pill WAS stopping it for a while. I did phone up the surgery and explain, and said that it was really really getting me down, but nope they won't give me another app, must of got the b**** receptionist.

It's no wonder me and OH's reletionship is strained to the max, don't think we've had sex in months, because quite frankly, If I'm not bleeding, I just feel like pap and don't want too. I never used to be like this. I blame this effing thing.

I got it because I didn't want to fall pregnant (I'm a bit unreliable about taking the pill) but tbh falling pregnant wouldn't be the worst thing in the world right now, having this thing is though!

tiamai_d

workinmummy wrote: »

Hiya,

Just popping over from Pregnancy thread for some advise, and opinions.
My C-section is booked for 14 September.

I am now thinking about this after pain bit. This is my second baby and i am told that they can be quite bad adn i'm a wimp. Don't remember having any with my first, but not sure if that was due to already being given pain relief, due to C-section. Can any one who had a C-Section with their second child please advise if they got these quite bad. I am thinking i may need to get some co-codamol in for when i get home.

Thanks

They can be bad after a feed if you breast feed, I felt them more with DS2 on co-codomol. But they don't last long. I would feed him, stand up and lean on a chair (or a sink) and wait till it passed. Walking helps. Didn't get Diclofenac due to blood loss and severe anemia. Think it was more to do with the abruption (and blood loss and blood seepage into surrounding tissue) than with the section.

This time I was on Diclofenac (volterol), you take 3 a day every 8 hours and didn't feel anything more than menstral cramp type pain.

Both times I was doing a lot of walking to and from special care, so try and get up and walking about asap, and get dressed (it made me feel better being dressed). Do not drink raspberry leaf tea after a section, it hurt like hell!

They gave me Diclofenac home with me and the past week I've only been needing one about dinner time, this week I've been taking one in the morning mainly for the mastitis.

Amber will be 3 weeks on Thursday and I am completely pain free and driving and walking to and from school and up and down town and doing housework. All I get it a little tugging feeling if I've overdone it.

elle_gee

Oh, Volterol, that's what I had - had forgotten that one! I had that, plus paracetamol and codine and the odd shot of morphine thrown in for good measure! Was sent home with paracetamol and codine then told to stop the codine cos I was breastfeeding. I did get some mega afterpains and Rhys is my first