MSE Parents Club Part 5

elle_gee

Have you looked on eBay for a Swing? You can buy the personal part spares from here (thanks to caz for that link)

ETA: Oooohh, just clicked the link and realised it's half price!

fairydawn

DD is loving being a big sis, takes him for a walk, helps feed and change him is really being :A. DS1 lives about 30 miles away with his fiancee (sp) and works 6 days a week so don't see a lot of him anymore:rolleyes:, they all grow up so fast.
I am just at the stage where I think no-one else can look after him and he needs to be with mummy even though mummy is exhausted/in pain.
A few family members have offered to have him for the afternoon if I need it (more like when) and support workers and HV are trying to arrange for HomeStart to come in for an hour but we do not know how lolng it takes to set up.
Hopefully I will surprise everyone and cope wonderfully. My main concern at the moment is not being able to carry Oscar up and downstairs myself.

tiamai_d

For what they are going for on ebay I'd buy it from boots (to get the points).

Put a bid on a medela mini electric sow ill wait and see if I get that, remembering that I am tight

better go feed her again, she is cranky.

Krystaltips

Do you need to carry him up and downstairs? Even now, if my hubby is here I make him carry the baby upstairs for me... Something I also found really helpful in the early days was when hubby made his lunch up in the morning he used to make me one too so I literally didn't have to do anything but look after the baby... As long as I didn't look too closely at the mess around me

elle_gee

I'm contemplating sleeping at my parents one night in the week and one of the probs I'd thought of is carrying Rhys up the stairs. Only ever done it in the car seat!

fairydawn

Krystaltips wrote: »

Do you need to carry him up and downstairs?

Support workers are worried I will spend even more time alone in bedroom ''hideing'' and make myself worse especially if Oscar is having a bad day.

tiamai_d

Amber isn't hungry she just wants held.... And this link has just saved her life... off to try it out...

http://magiccityslingers.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/how-to-carry-a-baby-in-a-bed-sheet-or-shawl-or-rebozo-or-shorty/

tiamai_d

thats great, I have an improvised sling and no idea how to position a baby in a sling. I'm useless today, off to wail over my onions... well I would if I didn't have a crabbit baby screaming at me.

jillie1974

hi guys

just a quick question... we are looking to buy a bouncer chairs what ones do people have and/or have you any that you would recommend? we are looking to spend up to bout £40

thanks

tiamai_d

Jillie,

Suitable from birth, multi-position recliner, brightly coloured toy arch, rocker rather than bouncer unless it is battery operated to bounce.

I have this one and it's rubbish, glad I didn't pay full price. The electric bouncer is rubbish as is the music, it sits far too high so useless for a small baby and it doesn't clip together, the poles just push in so it feels flimsy.