MSE Parents Club Part 5

newmoneysaver_2

I forgot - MM congrats on getting 2 ready and out on time! Did you walk so Jas could push Dylan like a proper big sis?

ladybirdintheuk

redmel1621 wrote: »

dh suffers with sinusitis and was told by the doctor these stats and told the only way to relieve his suffering is to move a good distance away from this town!!

Anyway that turned into a bit of a rant didn't it, sorry:o

Oh and dh wants me to ask - Where is nice to live in Liverpool? It would save us a 40min journey each way;)

Had a bit of a wobble last night, thinking how am I ever gong to leave my baby with someone else...I have never wanted to have my kids 'raised' by someone else...but then looking at my course, I only have to actually attend for 8hrs a week (obviously will need home study time too) and the first yr that may be reduced to 5hrs, as I was told I 'may' be able to use some credit transfer from the Open University for the Literature side of the course:D

Mel - I had that wobble just before i went round visiting nurseries. I feel a lot better about leaving her now that I've found the perfect nursery, and I know she is going to be looked after and will be having a lot more fun than me. I kind of wish I could stay at nursery with her.

Now I'm worrying about the actual going back to work bit. Everything will have changed, and it will be like starting a new job. I'm used to knowing everything and being the one people come to with questions, and it won't be like that when I go back!

Oh, and don't worry about moving the kids to a different school - kids are resilliant. They will make new friends quickly, and it sounds like they might be better off somewhere else in the long run. Apart from anything else, if you and DH are not spending 40 mins each way travelling you will have more time for them

r.mac wrote: »

I haven't had a good start to the day. I've got to the stage where I feel constantly critiscised by DH. I'm not sure how much that is the case, and how much i'm just hearing it wrong. However, that doesn't change the way I see it and I can't get him to understand how he's making me feel. I have no idea how to make him listen -talking hasn't and my tantrum and tears had even less of an effect. I just felt like a naughty toddler and he still couldn't hear what I was saying. I don't like being me right now.

~hugs~ We went through this a few weeks ago. I still don't think he has got his head around the fact that I am off work to look after Izzy, and not to have his tea on the table when he comes home. But he has learnt not to raise the subject at least which makes life easier. I do make a point of telling him everything I have been doing, so he knows it's taken me an hour and a half to get Izzy down for a nap or whatever, rather than I've not done anything. Plus I tell him what housework I've been doing, as you don't notice housework that has been done, just all the things that haven't iyswim... he wouldn't know that I've cleaned the bathroom and emptied all the bins (or whatever) if I didn't point it out to him

Re the sleep, maybe you should make him wake up and get up every time you do in the night, and see how he feels in the morning :rotfl:.

And tell the ^&*( he can do his own ironing from now on!

elle_gee

feelinggood wrote: »

.. He is in his carseat blowing raspberries at me!

Awww, so cute! Rhys just screams at me while sat in his car seat (until I pick it up to go). Hope you enjoy your morning/day out

Better night's sleep here, thankfully. I was getting ratty that Rhys wasn't settling - after the nice awake time came the wittering once he was back in his crib - so OH told me to put him in the bouncy chair in the computer room, away from us both. I didn't think he liked the bouncy chair but it seems he does as he went straight off in it Managed to move him from there to the crib without any fuss, then got another few hours out of him before he woke at 4am, breastfed with minimal fuss, fell asleep on me and let me put him down then soothed him with the joyful sounds of the pump (welll, was awake so thought I'd make the effort!) He was awake again at 7am, OH put him down with me, fed for a while, then fast off again for another few hours.. I feel almost human!

I was thinking we might have missed the boat with getting a bouncy chair as the one we wanted was £80 so I held off getting it but it's now finally in the sale at £69. The one we have, that Rhys fell asleep in last night, is the travel one from Mum's which doesn't lie completely flat. If he's going to like it, I think we might get the M&P one after all so he can have daytime naps in that once the crib is in our room permanently. I think the problem we're going to have is that he'll be sitting up unaided way before he meets the weight limits so I'm thinking we won't get much use out of it

Grrrr at ungrateful hubbies! :mad: I agree with tia's suggestion of going out for the day and not making it easy for them As for ironing of shirts, why can't they do their own? You're busy bringing up their child FGS, least they can do it pick the iron up! :cool:

OH works 12 days then gets 2 off. I'm torn between letting him rest and chill completely on those two days off, or whether to make use of him and get him to do it all for at least one day/night so that I get a break too... As it's the BH and he's got three days off, I think I'm going for the latter option! It's that "Thursday before a weekend off point" (today) which is the most stressful for me so I'm thankful I got good sleep last night to be able to deal with today.

Today we've got Mum coming over (painting, I think), my Grandparents are visiting and then the usual visit for the jab from the comms nurses. We've had a student nurse do it (under supervision!) for the last two weeks and Rhys always goes really quiet when she approaches him

Sorry, end of essay.. I've run out of breakfast stuff (Tesco delivery coming tonight) so looks like it'll be choc digestives and tea for brekkie

money_maker_3

newmoneysaver wrote: »

I forgot - MM congrats on getting 2 ready and out on time! Did you walk so Jas could push Dylan like a proper big sis?

Yep and everyone stopped her tsee her new brother !! I was actually a bit jealous that I wasnt being told my son was beautiful, Jasmine was being told she had a lovely little brother and she looked so proud

Sami_Bee

With everything going on yesterday I didn't manage to tell you about Chris's 2.5yr check
He 'passed' with flying colours *beam* although made the nurse and I chuckle because he thought the photo of a bar of soap was a potato :rotfl: I had to point out that I don't think Chris has ever seen a bar of soap because no-one we know uses them
He is now 90cm tall, only the 3rd time he's been measured he's gone from 91st @birth, 75th @ 20wks to 25th centile at 2yrs 7mths now I'm not worried but I do hope he gets closer to that 91st one again when he's older.
He's 28lbs 3.5oz now so he's perfectly on the 25th centile for height and weight - lovely and dinky but not unusually so
no official people care about him now until his preschool jabs which will coincide with Christmas next year
She also said that 'they' say when we do potty training to put him straight into pants and not use pull ups and to ask him every 20mins if he needs to go, is that what everyone did?
She also said to wet comb his hair once a week when he starts nursery to prevent headlice so I'll get my 'script request for a nitty gritty next time I'm at the docs so I don't forget

Sami_Bee

elle_gee wrote: »

I was thinking we might have missed the boat with getting a bouncy chair as the one we wanted was £80 so I held off getting it but it's now finally in the sale at £69. The one we have, that Rhys fell asleep in last night, is the travel one from Mum's which doesn't lie completely flat. If he's going to like it, I think we might get the M&P one after all so he can have daytime naps in that once the crib is in our room permanently. I think the problem we're going to have is that he'll be sitting up unaided way before he meets the weight limits so I'm thinking we won't get much use out of it

The way I see it is we use the bouncy chair every single day until they sit up which for Chris as around 6mths old (though I have a feeling Rhys will be sooner ) so we got 180ish days of use from ours and the using it for Ed will hopefully be another 180ish so thats almost a year of using it everyday for us thats less than 7p per day of use pretty good IMHO (but your more expensive bouncer would be about 19p per day if used for 2 babies)

Glamazon

Hi ladies

We need some help!!!

My boobie MW told me to start hand expressing at 37 weeks in an attempt to 'get things going' (some of you know I might not be able to BF so I'm going to give it a try)

Anyhow, just been discussing this on preg thread and we've had this question

BeenieCat wrote: »

Re the hand expressing, won't that just get rid of the colostrum that comes first, before milk actually comes in? I thought colostrum was the most important part for newborn

Now, I thought that some people leaked colostrum during pregnancy anyway?

Any ideas?

elle_gee

Glam, I think it's that your actual milk doesn't come in until about three days after the birth - your body needs the signal from the placenta becoming detached that the pregnancy is over and "okay, we need the milk now!". While the placenta is still there and in tact, you are making colostrum continually so you can express some of that to practice and you won't be using up everything you've got as it's still being made cos the placenta is still there. Incidentially, it might take longer for milk to come in with a c-section because the placenta is removed quickly, rather than detaching gradually with a natural birth so it has longer to release the "I'm off now, milk in you come!" type messages..

Does that make any sense whatsoever?

MrsTinks

Right the lemon muffins are in the oven - I haven't done the lemon drizzle yet - not sure whether to or not as they're not supposed to have drizzle on them... i just like drizzle :rotfl:
Alexandra is sitting in her bouncy chair (free hand me down WTP one) at the moment gurgling away to herself... Later I am going to HAVE to brave putting her in the door bouncer - even if I nearly scalped her last time I tried :eek:
I did NO housework last night so have to at least get mums room ready if I do nothing else today... then there is the washing which is in the tumbledrier today because the weather can't make up it's mind here today grrrr And I'm not dashing in and out and in and out hang washing and taking it down if we get another deluge!
I worked out why my baby was so grouchy yesterday... like the Tia household madam apparently was a little constipated :rotfl: at about 7pm she managed to fill her nappy to the brim! :rotfl: and after that she was a lovely happy baby So far today she's been a little angel - watching mummy make muffins and everything!

Glamazon

elle_gee wrote: »

Glam, I think it's that your actual milk doesn't come in until about three days after the birth - your body needs the signal from the placenta becoming detached that the pregnancy is over and "okay, we need the milk now!". While the placenta is still there and in tact, you are making colostrum continually so you can express some of that to practice and you won't be using up everything you've got as it's still being made cos the placenta is still there. Incidentially, it might take longer for milk to come in with a c-section because the placenta is removed quickly, rather than detaching gradually with a natural birth so it has longer to release the "I'm off now, milk in you come!" type messages..

Does that make any sense whatsoever?

Perfect sense elle!!!

Thanks - love your avvy BTW!!

In fact I love all your baby related avvy's - can't wait to have my own :j