MSE Parents Club Part 5

SugarSpun

Sami_Bee wrote: »

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Sugar - did the doc think it was pseudo-menstruation? (does he speak english?)

He does think it's pseudomenstruation, especially since both times it's happened it's been in the evening after a day of feeding more than normal so she's had a higher dose of my hormones at the same time. Plus the poor little thing has a couple of spots on her face which suggests hormones too - I was hoping my body would take its time getting back to normal but it looks like my ovaries are raring to go for the next one!

He doesn't speak English, but Husband's German is fluent and if the doctor uses the Latin words for diseases rather than the German ones I can generally figure it out. There's also an element of interpretive dance but I'm used to that :rotfl:

feelinggood wrote: »

Sugar - yay for curly hair! Toby had a baldy bit at the front for ages! Well done on weight gain and so glad nappy is okay. Its good you have a helpful doctor.

Husband and I both have curly/unmanageable hair, and it was so weird seeing the baby's soft fine straight hair that was neither black (him) nor red (me). I'm hoping the baby hair falls out and it comes back in red

The doctor's great, and it helps that his office is directly under our flat!

I'm glad you're home Glam - I'm also using wipes rather than cotton wool as the cotton fibres were sticking in her interesting bits and causing more interference than she needed.

Sami_Bee

Well I've just got a leaflet about the asda baby event (15th - 27th September) so to remind everyone
Red Kite pebble highchair £25
Pampers baby dry Mega box (99-144 nappies per box) £12 - Bargain!
Pampers sensitive wipes box of 12 packs £9
TT CTN micro steriliser £10
TT CTN hand pump £10
Graco Junior carseat £25
Red kite travel cot £25
Cow n Gate twin pack cereals £2
Johnsons baby box (white) £10
Hauck pushchair £25
George bodysuits 7pk £5
Rusks £1
TT plastic bibs, cups, spoons £1
Johnsons baby shampoo £1


Small print: Majority of Stores, Available while stocks last. Online prices may vary from those instore. Offers available from 8am Tuesday 15th Sept 09.

SusanC_2

Becles wrote: »

I got told off for using Huggies pure wipes in hospital. I got told you must only use cotton wool and water, but I didn't have any cotton wool with me. After arguing that I couldn't manage to magic cotton wool out of thin air, so I was going to continue using wipes, the dragon midwife returned with a single cotton wool ball. Yes, because that really goes a long way with those first tar like welded on poo's :rolleyes:

We were expected to use wipes. When the doctor checked Alice over and she'd done a poo, she asked us for wipes. There wasn't anything provided for putting the water in (the hospital lists said cotton wool but didn't say to bring a tub) so we used the cardboard sick bowls.

money_maker wrote: »

English hospitals are starting to sound a bit stingy !! We get given nappies, cotton wool and have our bottles steralised for us here

Lucky you. My mum said when I was born they provided everything except plastic pants while you were in hospital. They even provided nappy pins which you got to keep (I even used them on Alice). She said you had to bring your own nappy and clothes to take the baby home but that was it.

Becles

Durham hospital give you nothing.

Charlotte was premature and I went into labour during the night, so I packed the bag between contractions while Craig ran up and down the stairs in his underpants panicking :rolleyes: It's a wonder it was only the cotton wool that I forgot!

It was a long labour and I was tired before I started due to all the complications so they kept telling me Charlotte should be bottle fed and I really wanted her formula fed. They insisted taking her to the nursery when she was born as I needed to rest and she was given formula in there after I'd specifically said I wanted to be woken up to feed her :mad:

She seemed hungry and I was going to pop her on the boob, but they were in and out all the time and faffing about with her and me and told me to wait with the feed. Then midwife wanted to bath her and said they had to do the first bath, even though she's my third so I'm sure I could have bathed her myself, but she ended up screaming because she was hungry. They wanted to give her another bottle then, but I yelled at them all to get out and leave me alone

Then the dragon one said I wasn't producing any milk (I was!) and she wanted me on a pump to get my supply going. At this point my Mam arrived with the boys, and I said I wasn't going to sit with a pump on while the boys were there, so she wanted to send them away! I lost my temper then and my Mam joined in, and she left us alone. After the boys went, she came back in and said I was holding Charlotte wrong as guidelines had changed between having her and the boys. I just wanted to hold her how I felt comfortable doing it, not how some current fad says you should.

I asked to be moved at that point as I was still on the labour ward and I was just getting stressed and angry with this midwife.

Got moved to the post-natal ward and was looked after by two lovely ladies who just let me get on with it, and we had no problems with breast feeding after that. They were pleased with her feeding so they let us out the next morning.

Wish I'd complained about the care at the time, as that one woman really spoiled the first day with Charlotte.

Jvic28

Sami_Bee wrote: »

poo poo poo

I was just thinking this morning that I should remind anyone that uses formula to make bottles up in mls not oz do you do that?
The boxes tell you to use (for example) 5oz/150ml water and 5 scoops but 5oz is actually only 142ml so if you make them up in oz's you're actually making it up too concentrated.

Please anyone doing them in oz don't feel bad, I did it too and its all the stupid formula companies fault for even putting oz on their packaging!!

Gd Afternoon everyone,
i used to do it in ml but my hv told me to do it in oz. not constipated tho, except when we tried hungrier baby food (bad mistake).

elle_gee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Well I've just got a leaflet about the asda baby event (15th - 27th September) so to remind everyone...

WHAT?! No Lindum door bouncer?! *sobs*

(Ta for the list tho! )

I've just sorted out OH's clothes into work tshirts, things I like (aka everything I've bought him in the last two years) and other stuff.. Hmmm, hope he doesn't want to do the same to my clothes!

Buttonmoons

I felt like such a t*t when I gave birth, my mum had only had my sister 2years before that and at that time you weren't allowed to bring anything of your own in except a leaving the hospital outfit, baby wore lovely NHS SCOTLAND printed babygro's.

Anyhow, so me not checking up on it and being 18, just took my mums word for it, DOH, they lent me a babygrow and a vest though. Mum brought the stuff in for me later that day, they lent me cotton wool, I remember them telling me off for changing her on the bed, well that's just tough because it's hard to change a baby inside that plastic thingy, plus my back was sore, so PHHHHTH. Also took them 3 days to show me how to bath Keira.

Jesus went by Spar, they want £3.75 for a box of 20 tampons, I about died in the aisle. Also wanted £2 for a bottle of diet coke. Don't think so. So just went to Lidl on the way back too, tampons - £1.29 for 35, and they have diet pepsi (which I don't really like but it will do) for 50p. So saved some dough....

In spar they had pasties and pies reduced to 15p!! I don't eat crap like that but OH does, handy for cooking in the oven the night before and he brings them into work for lunch, so my my freezer is full of 15p pies and pasties, also got a pack of turkey escalopes, from £2.99 for 50p. I'm totally find loads of reduced bargainlicious things lately. Gonna keep doing that.....but my freezer IS bursting. Need a chest one now. I LOVE FOOD!

Feelie - I'm booking my smear on Wed, when I go into get the devil stick removed from my arm. So you go book yours too!

Boiler is all fixed, feel a bit bad, the council got loads of complaints as no-one had any hot water for 3hours, as they had to cut everyone off to fix mine. Lmaaaaao.

Hope the b**** below had to have a freezing cold bath muhahahaha!

Off to peel spuds for roast lamb dinner tonight

newmoneysaver_2

money_maker wrote: »

works different for part timers in a bank and having Monday as your day off is best, as we get all bank holidays on top of our normal holidays, and those who have Monday as their day off, get a day off in liu of it, so extra holidays !!

Same at our place - part-timers get pro-rata AL & bank hols, it doesn't matter if they work Mondays or not. In fact, if Monday was one of their normal working days, they would be entitled to all the bank holidays, but wouldn't be able to work on the days the office is closed IYSWIM

Mazcabs

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Maz!!! I've just spotted it's another boy
Were you hoping for another?
I not so secretly wanted a girl but I'm still happy with my 2 boys

Guess a girl would've been nice but as I say more MSE to have a boy. Thats really the only reason we found out so I could dither pack away LO's clothes and ask my sister for her girls stuff or just keep boys things out. We have only told my parents and sister and you lot, gonna tell MIL at weekend, she'll be gutted not to knit pink things now!!

Mind you annoyed with OH as he told someone the other day and said but you told your mum ....derr but thats all we were gonna tell.

carlamagee

money_maker wrote: »

English hospitals are starting to sound a bit stingy !! We get given nappies, cotton wool and have our bottles steralised for us here

you beat me to it MM! Although, down here we gtta bring our own nappies - although m sure if i had asked i could have had a couple.

im feeling a bit stressed today. children are taking it in turns to scream and it is slowly draining me. only reason im here is cos christopher is chgugging on his dummy (bad mummy!) and katie is eating some lunch while watching big cook little cook!

BUT i have cleaning to do, wahsing to do, dinner to prepare, gotta go to housing executive, post letters, phone mothercare as i still havent heard from last week (def have to make a complaint letter!!! ) and probably a few more things added on there and to be honest i cant be bothered doing anything. but knowing i need to do it is making me feel worseeee!!

yuck. i wanna be supermummy!!!!! :mad: