MSE Parents Club Part 5

Buttonmoons

Yes I did thanks MotM. Not sure if her teeth right now will alter, but it shouldn't effect her adult teeth (she was just at the dentist 1week ago, so surely if there was something majorly wrong he'd of said!), theres no saying they won't grow in squint or gammy (mine did!) but at least it won't be because of the dummy....:D

Just adds a little quirk to her having a hula hoop shape in her mouth

ManOnTheMoon

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Yes I did thanks MotM. Not sure if her teeth right now will alter, but it shouldn't effect her adult teeth, theres no saying they won't grow in squint or gammy (mine did!) but at least it won't be because of the dummy....:D

Just adds a little quirk to her having a hula hoop shape in her mouth

Caught it before I switched off...

Well, it seems you are more positive than when you first posted your concerns, which is good to hear. Hopefully all will be good in the long run for her.

Buttonmoons

Yeah I hope so, she's only 3, so I doubt permanent damage by it is likely, and you know braces are marvellous things, and very cute! Well I think so.....

Have a good night MotM

weezl74

Yawns,

morning all, just caught up I'm glad I know you all on the internet or we'd never get to chat, I seem to fade out just as you're all getting going for an evening's nattering :rotfl:

elle_gee wrote: »

LOL, my friend's son was 63cm at birth! She thinks Rhys is like a doll compared to her DS!

:eek: I always said my baby could be as long as he wanted. Just with a teeny tiny little head

Becles wrote: »

I think I'm anaemic again too which doesn't help. My "normal" iron levels wobble in and out of the normal range.
...Craig's Gran still has cancer left in her breast. She has to go back in and have the whole breast off and her lymph glands out, then a bone scan to make sure it hasn't spread further. She seems a bit down, so I've ordered a basket of flowers to be delivered tomorrow to cheer her up.

becles sorry to hear that news about craig's Gran, hope you're all ok (under the circs)

I've been taking the sachets of spatone iron that they do in mothercare. They are a little pricey, but the only ones I've found that don't bung you up!

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I used to do this with the MW - she asked howI was and I said 'fine thanks' and then she thought everything was okay :rolleyes: for weeks I kept waiting for her to ask me how my pregnancy was going

That's hilarious!:rotfl:But good though, she should have been more clear in her question, sometimes health professionals do talk as if we are totally consumed by our incubator role! One MW at the hospital when I was 20 weeks pg with fergus, greeted me with '...and how's mum?' I feigned naivity and said, 'my mum's fine thanks, yours?'. Let's hope that put her off! Evil laugh Mwahhahahahaha!

Drat, run out of multi quote

Susan, cream cheese jackets sound lovely too, I'm guessing you use lemon to split your milk then? Bought rennets can achieve a cottage cheese type seperation. But probably not worth it, cos the amount of milk you'd need to make a 250g tub of cottage cheese would be nearly double the price of the cottage cheese!

MFD, I thought your quotes suggestion was very wise. It made me wonder if there are other ways the thread needs to be less daunting for newbies.... or perhaps even a new 'brand new parents thread part xxxvi' etc... for all the new graduates from the pg thread.

On second thoughts, scrap that, we wouldn't get to see piccies of all da ickle babies, so that would be bad!:o

keelykat

Hello, could everyone send me positive vibes please...I'm going to see the nurse today to get my bp checked again (going once a month at mo) and need it to be ok so i can stop on the pill (have just a month's trial). Obviously want it to be normal so i'm healthy too lol. But my periods have been hell recently and the pill helps loads so really want to stop on it.

So calm happy thoughts..........

keely.x

SusanC_2

I'm feeding Alice while I read and she keeps saying, "I see baby", "I see sheeps", "I see dogs" because of all the avatars.

Becles wrote: »

I think I'm anaemic again too which doesn't help. My "normal" iron levels wobble in and out of the normal range.

I have that problem (it's always low when it's tested but not low enough for them to do anything). One thing I've started doing is putting liver in stuff. I don't like liver as liver but what I do is saute chopped liver then blend it in the food processor until it looks a bit like mince and add it to mince dishes like spaghetti bolognaise or chilli.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I was talking to a lady on Sunday who thought (but clearly found out differently) that she could look after her daughter whilst 'working' at home and was outraged that her boss had 'had a quiet word' - the bl00dy cheek of it - I would sack her in a second if it were me...how the f00k can you be working if you have a baby at home!!!!!

It's beyond me how anyone could do (paid) work while looking after a baby (unless it was very small hours or done in the evenings or was the sort of thing which is flexible where you can do bits here and there) but in America some people actually take their baby with them to work. :eek:

elle_gee wrote: »

Does anyone else ever fit in a nap during the day? I don't know where the day goes but I've certainly never got time for a nap!

I don't any more (although could if I wanted to) but did for the first two months until Alice started sleeping through. For the morning and first afternoon nap I used to have a list of jobs I would do when she went to bed and then I had a minimum of 20 mins nap in the morning and 30 mins in the afternoon which I would take regardless of whether I'd got everything done I wanted (although I always got the essentials done because of the order of the list). But since OH had been doing everything (and I'd been doing nothing) before Alice was born, OH was used to doing all the jobs so anything which I did (and therefore he didn't have to do) he thought was a bonus.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I am terrified that my milk is slowing down...for the last few nights I have only been able to express 4oz, rather than the 6oz I was getting, no change in circs.

My expressed milk gradually dwindled - I figured that a) Alice was probably taking more so less was left for expressing and b) expressing isn't as powerful so it probably would dwindle over time anyway.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

He is not feeding as often and when he does there are far more interesting things than boobies going on

I am obsessed with when will I finish at the moment (I can't imagine ever saying no) and I think that my bonkers-ness may be due to the fact that I think he won't need/care for boobies much longer

Alice went through phases of not feeding for as long. Some were just for a few days (e.g. when she was 9 months we had a few days of 10 minute feeds) and others were a more permanent drop in the time spent feeding (presumably because she either got more powerful at sucking and/or was getting more from solids so didn't need as much).

weezl74 wrote: »

Susan, cream cheese jackets sound lovely too, I'm guessing you use lemon to split your milk then? Bought rennets can achieve a cottage cheese type seperation. But probably not worth it, cos the amount of milk you'd need to make a 250g tub of cottage cheese would be nearly double the price of the cottage cheese!

I make my own yoghurt and then strain it to make cream cheese and whey. I use the whey for soaking grains/legumes and use it for plant food if I have too much.

Becles

elle_gee wrote: »

Does anyone else ever fit in a nap during the day? I don't know where the day goes but I've certainly never got time for a nap! :cool:

I barely have time to sit down, never mind a nap

SusanC wrote: »

I have that problem (it's always low when it's tested but not low enough for them to do anything). One thing I've started doing is putting liver in stuff. I don't like liver as liver but what I do is saute chopped liver then blend it in the food processor until it looks a bit like mince and add it to mince dishes like spaghetti bolognaise or chilli.

I don't like liver, but that's a good idea and I'll try that. I know there's iron in leafy greens like spinach and I've taken iron tablets before, but both are IBS triggers and set the symptoms off. I sound like I'm dropping to bits here

It's beyond me how anyone could do (paid) work while looking after a baby (unless it was very small hours or done in the evenings or was the sort of thing which is flexible where you can do bits here and there) but in America some people actually take their baby with them to work. :eek:

I've tried doing work during the day when Charlotte is around but it is impossible to do. I ended up doing my calls on a morning while she's at my Mam's and then typing everything up after 8pm when she's gone to bed.

chopsticks

Morning all.
Just caught up with last night's posts. Hope everyone is OK and had a good night's sleep.

LO here went from 7:45 to 1:30. DH put dummy back in her mouth at 1:30, then she went back to sleep for another hour, when I gave her a formula feed (technically the last one of day but she's started sleeping through that now she's in her cot and not her moses basket). She then had us up and down until 4:30 but then fell back to sleep until 7am.

Because she didn't wake for a booby feed in the night (she usually does), I had big boobs this morning. She fed on and off for about 40mins (a record for her) and she fell back to sleep about half an hour ago on the bed next to me.

I really should get up and dressed before she wakes up. Need to go to Tesco today, plus Argos to pick up a present I've reserved for a friend's son's birthday. I'm then meeting my friend for lunch at 1pm. Hmm, think I'd better get a move on!

Have a good day everyone!

chopsticks

Urgh, I'm still here. I'm never going to get ready if I don't get a shifty on. Really am going now, should be back later on.

xxx

SugarSpun

The monster slept from 1am to 6am!!! She then fed for almost two hours, on and off, and then refused to sleep. I just put her back on the boob because she was so grizzly and she went at it like a pack of hungry wolves. I don't get it.