MSE Parents Club Part 5

elle_gee

feelinggood wrote: »

Letter is all ready to go, just need to print. Have asked for the referal to go ahead straight away and for a letter about medication to be sent to my GP o I can start now. Then will see Pyschiatrist when it is all a bit sorted, she wasn't keen on me taking LO there.

Yay, sounds like progress :T

Are you keeping notes for MFD? I love your summing up posts, so clear and to the point.

I'll have to keep notes - I can usually do it from memory for a few days but not a week or more! :eek:

Shopping is here, yaty

Oh, hope you got lots of yummy things We're having Cornish pasties for lunch - my latest fad

Sami_Bee

WOW feelie! were you a bit bored lol
Lu has been on facebook over the weekend, wondering how much she'd get for a baby on ebay :rotfl:
I noticed sparkle has been AWOL for a bit too

I'm feeling OK as in not fab not crap, hubby is off to belfast this afternoon until thursday, then scotland on friday so I'm alone with the boys pretty much 24/7 this week. we're hoping to go away for a few days on oct or nov so hopefully if we'll get our spark back while away if it doesn't come before

I hope the CM is nice!

carlamagee

here we go - ive finally managed to capture 1/2 hour to myself to catch up (mind you, the cleaning has been delayed!!)....

Happy belated Birthday mfd!

How is Fergies bottom weezl!??

Hugs for Sami and Feelie and Fritha

Sami - im with redmel in the bit about "just doing it" - a nice warm bath, hair done, nice underwear and pjs on all helped me to get going at first.

Well done to Elijah for shoes and swimming

Well done to Chris for new food eating

Hooray for Glam and Jack back home!!

Becles -- i have one of those hoolder things from the ceiling too for Katies cuddlies -- what have you attched it to though!?? I hung it over her curtain pole, but is too heavy with all the cuddlies in it...!!!

Bruno - i know it must be crazily hard for you to understand your OHs thinkging at the minute, but i think you are doing an AMAZING job. I dont have any advice or anything, but on my own experience, when we had Katie (first child) i reckon looking back i did have a touch of PND, but when OH suggested it, iwent off into one and denied it, and that kinda made me more detemined to NOT have it, IFSWIM?? So then i wouldnt talk to HV/GP or even my family or friends, cos it was in my thinking that if if had PND i was a terrible mother....ridiculous i know, but thats wat i thought.
Hope you get something sorted out!

Hi workingmummy!!! congratulations on the birth of Alex!!!

i run out of multiquots and forgot anythig else i stored in my brain, hope i didnt miss anyone important!???

Sami_Bee

feelinggood wrote: »

Mums of older kids, when do they start noticing your body? When will I get the akward 'what is that Mummy' questions? Don't want to cover up completely and make LO thing bodies are something to be ashamed of and hide, but don't really want questions about various scars?

I'm not sure when it was, I think we told him things before he asked but a LO generally can't say "what's that?" for a good while yet.
Would you be ok with lying to him? maybe you could say you went on an adventure and wrestled a crocodile :cool: Kids are very matter of fact though, Chris just accepts when I told him Ed needed injections that would make him cry last week and just accepted that Ed was in mummy's tummy and now isn't

tiamai_d

Glamazon wrote: »

Jack and I are home again (he had to go back in on Saturday) - fortunatley his jaundice wasn't bad enough to need phototherapy and he is now feeding brillantly. I was cup feeding him but he takes a bottle so much better - can express a small amount from breasts but not enough for my little man!!

time for some newbie questions

changing

when it's just wet do u just change the nappy or use cotton wool like you do with a poo? This is what i'm doing now.

I'm very bad and use wipes But for teh first couple of weeks I did use cotton wool and yes, a wee wipe with the wet cotton wool is what I did (nappy rash is caused by urine reacting with faeces) and I don't change it unless it is very wet, she only actually gets changed 7am, 5pm and 11pm, I don't see the point in wasting a nappy when it's barely wet, it doesn't do any harm.

sterilising

i have the TT CTN electric steriliser - I sterilise before each bottle (obviously) but say I'm going out and need to take a bootle. Do I sterilise bottle and take a carton of formula? or do I need to try and sterilise when out

I use powder so I boil the kettle and fill it up it up when it's hot and keep it in that handy thermal bit of the boots changing bag, stays red hot for 3 hours that I know of, powder in a dispenser. Otherwise just take it out the steriliser and seal it up.

breast pump

anyone got the TT CTN manual pump?
tried to use it last night I can get the milk into the ribbed bit put it won't go thru the valve into the bottle. Not sure if it's because i can only manage to express 2 or 3 ml at a time or if I'm doing something wrong.

Get yourself a medela harmony if you want a hand pump, £25 boots it is so much better than the TT one. Massage your boobs before expresing too. And pump slowly, I find I get more that way (I get a whole 1 oz from both sides :rolleyes: with the TT I get nothing exceot very sore boobs)

massive thanks to Sami, MM, Elle, NMS & Krystal - u r all angels :A

And hiya, hows your sugars?? :rotfl:

Is that what the tongs are for, putting bottles together?? :rolleyes: Yeah I don't do that...

Feely, nope, Amber is pink coloured now! :D:D

Sami_Bee

tiamai_d wrote: »

Is that what the tongs are for, putting bottles together?? :rolleyes: Yeah I don't do that...

yep, for pulling the teat through the ring bit, I did it once realised it was well pants never did it again

newmoneysaver_2

Aw Hugs to Sami - must be hard with OH going away

Glam - i think your q's have been covered

MrsT - Yep, easy digest does cause more wind - Liam trumps like a trooper!

newmoneysaver_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

yep, for pulling the teat through the ring bit, I did it once realised it was well pants never did it again

Yep, I did that too the first few times, but realised it was pointless once I had man handled the teat to test get a few drops to test the temp :rolleyes:

elle_gee

I never did it in the first place - even with Rhys being a bit delicate, OH was determined we weren't going to protect him from every germ. As long as we're doing it all with clean (just washed was Carex AntiBac stylee) hands, that's good enough for us

Rhys is lying on the floor making lots of noise - mostly donkey eeee-ooorrr kinda sounds! He's been smiling lots today for a change (usually it's only when he's sleepy) and I think I caught him attempting to laugh again too

ladybirdintheuk

Congratulations Glaz! Everyone has answered your questions already, but I will be ready for the next lot

feelinggood wrote: »

The 12th call was the lucky one! She can do a few hours once a week, off to meet her on Thursday night. She sounds lovely and is within walking distance. Now to compose a list of questions and work out how to get Toby fed if I decide she is good enough to look after him.

Feelie I have the list of questions I asked nurseries if you want me to PM them over? probably not all relevant for a CM, and some of them are relevant to Izzy, but probably not to Toby IYSWIM, but it might help?

and yes you are doing the right thing

Our settling in session was fun. Today was for Izzy to play while I went through paperwork/questions (I keep thinking of extra "tired" signals I didn't mention and whatnot, but never mind, as long as I remember to say tomorrow!) it turns out that for the time being she will be the only baby on Mondays, so she will get to go in with the slightly older ones until she has a friend to join in with. I suppose lots of part time people get out of working Mondays Not a disaster though - they were all very interested in her and she in them (Wednesdays there will be 5 of them in the baby room - it is quite a small nursery!)

Tomorrow and Wednesday we go back again and this time I stay with her for 15 mins or so, then go off upstairs for a cup of tea. Am going to take the laptop and get on with job application forms while I'm there. Then 9I think) the same again wednesday. Then Next week she starts properly, and the week after I'm back to work. Eeeep!

That means I only have a week to get lables ironed onto everything. I wonder if I can still remember how the iron works? :rotfl: