MSE Parents Club Part 5

SusanC_2

Becles wrote: »

Durham hospital give you nothing.
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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

It must depend on who you get as we were at Durham hospital too. We (well OH - I couldn't walk for 7 hours due to the epidural) had to bath Alice ourselves as they all just went off and left us with Alice covered in blood and with blood matted hair. On the notes they had written something like "parents shown how to bath baby" but at the time I was more bothered about getting out of the place than arguing about details like that.

Krystaltips

Woohoo, my borrowed jumperoo is arriving this afternoon

Recon I could use it now? She goes in the door bouncer OK... I might sit her in it and see how she goes...

Also, does anyone (for some reason I'm thinking weezl) know how to get rid of those black mould spots that appear on fabric when it's been stored somewhere? The seat of the jumperoo has some, it's been washed and everything so I'm not worried about it, it just looks a bit dodgy... And it would be nice to give it back in better condition that I borrow it lol...

Just put Caitlyn in her swing and she was having a little whinge... Then stopped... She looks all spaced out now... Ah... Falling asleep... The swing and music seem to of hypnotised her... Now do I get on and tidy up... Or enjoy the last hour of my first peaceful day?

tarajayne

Afternoon ladies, I have absolutely no chance of catching up so if I missed anything important since Friday please tell me, other than that hope you all had a good weekend.

tiamai_d

Crosshouse provides cotton wool, formula, towels (not maternity towels, well down on labour ward but not the wards). Special care provides nappies, clothes everything.

One midwife spotted baby wipes in my bag and said 'you know we have to use cotton wool now? well when you get home nobody sees you not using cotton wool ', she also said it was policy for them to show me how to bath a baby and did I want her to mark down that she had done that or did I want her to actually do it? One was quite picky about nipple confusion on the morning just before Amber was taken to SCBU, we were giving her a BF and then a formula top up to keep her out but it didn't work, and she insisted on giving her cup feeds whereas another asked if I was bothered and she got a bottle feed.

But on the whole they were lovely especially the two main ones who took care of me and gave me cuddles when I finally hit my 'I want to go home!!' tearful day that co-incided with the beginings of mastitis :rolleyes: I actually ran out of SCBU in tears, away from DH the SC nurse and that midwife who eventually found me in the visitor loos trying to stop crying and wipe my face.

tarajayne

newmoneysaver wrote: »

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

At the bank I worked if you worked Mondays and were part-time when a bank holiday came up and you couldn't go in you owed hours so it was a nightmare!

tiamai_d

Do I go get Amber weighed and run the risk of feeling like crap if she hasn't gained?

Jvic28

Becles wrote: »

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.

That sounds awful. i had trouble with most of the midwifes too. Can i ask....how did u hold her wrong?? No one ever told me the 'right' way...

x

p.s I've just realised how far behind I am. I've given up on trying to catch up...sorry if I've missed anything important.

Krystaltips

Tia, if she's alert, happy and giving you plenty of wet and dirty nappies than I'd give it a miss this week...

Caitlyn hasn't been done for 7 weeks... Might take her down Thursday if I don't find anything better to do...

feelinggood_2

Jvic and tara, only thing you need to know is that I mentioned you just up there /\

LO wasn't bathed in hospital. They gave him to me all sticky, and stayed all sticky till about day 7 when Mum bathed him for me. The hospital didn't offer, and I didn't ask.

Jvic28

Buttonmoons wrote: »

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.

We got told off for changing Tom on the bed, even though one midwife said I could as I'd had a c-section. Also didn't get shown how to bath him until discharge day when he was 4 days old. I could go on forever complaining about them.

eg. The pads no where near absorbed enough blood and every time I stood up blood pouring everywhere (tmi..sorry). So not to get it on my nightie I'd sit in bed with it around my waist but our bleedin midwives wouldn't let us have the curtains shut so it was a nightmare trying to get out of bed with any dignity. :mad: Also had no help getting Tom in and out of his cot...took me ages to sit up and get out of bed after the section. Nightmare!

On the upside...I HAD COTTON WOOL!!! So couldn't get told off for that!;)