MSE Parents Club Part 6

skintchick

Oh yeah, and I started reading a copy of *whispers* The Contented little Baby Book I found in a charity shop cos I was curious and I am still none the wiser about our Gina cos she doesn;t explain HOW you get them to do spaced-out feeds or go to sleep. I guess she assumes you will leave them to cry?

Does anyone do Gina? How do you do it?

Not that I want a routine, per se, but I'm curious since I met a mum who does it. Mind you, her baby was the most placid, non-alert baby I've ever seen and Lilia is a VERY alert baby who won;t stand for any nonsense!

But does it involve leaving them to cry?

money_maker_3

My HV and a MW that I know both said not to read that book as it causes more women to get PND than anything else as it is very do it this way or you are wrong !!
Not that I know as I have never read it !!

cazscoob

3 that is a spaceage iron lol! i think ill just send you my ironing!
lol at crazy spreadsheet lady!

money_maker_3

SM, Skys net doesnt have a big enough download limit for Chris' games

searching_me

really coz we only get 4mb and we run 2 xbox 360, 3 lappys and a wii and no problems x

HypnoNu

Hey,
I've finally decided it's time to brave the parent thread! I had my little boy Austin on the 07/08/09 and he'll be 6 weeks on Friday, it's been a challenging few weeks and he has reflux so we're trying to get to grip with that too. On the whole i think we're doing pretty well, we're just getting the hang of a proper routine and he understands night from day, so at night will go down at 7pm and then feed and then sleep throughout the night, we're just about getting to 3 hour feeds in the day and slightly longer at night, and considering that he spews such a lof of feed he's putting on weight at an incredible rate, he put on 16oz last week and 14oz the week before, i must be producing lard i think!

Has anyone got any experience of reflux, we're on baby gaviscon at the moment but I'm not sure how much good its doing....

I will try and keep up but i never managed it on the parenting thread so i can't promise i will manage it now! Hope you're all doing ok with your bundles, there's a lot of names i recognise on this thread so it's not quite to scary coming to introduce myself!

skintchick

money_maker wrote: »

My HV and a MW that I know both said not to read that book as it causes more women to get PND than anything else as it is very do it this way or you are wrong !!
Not that I know as I have never read it !!

That's why I bought it - I had never read it yet had strong views on it which is a bit nonsensical, but now I've read it she doesn;t explain how you make it happen andI can only assume it is by leaving them to cry, which seems deperately cruel.

It isn;t actually the massive pile of tosh I expected, but it only makes surface-sense, as she doesn;t explain how to do it and is also really anti having baby in your room, or using slings, and even says newborns can have a routine which seems crazy to me.

Oh yeah, and she is childless so not actually qualified to speak! Being a nanny is NOT the same at all IMO.

scruffy96uk

Bm you been on freecycle someone is offering a caravan holiday!!!

keelykat

Elliot's present are all wrapped up, banner up and balloon all ready for the morning I think I may cry....can't believe it's been a whole year. This time last year, not realising i'd be going into labour just before midnight! Such an emotional time for me right now. xx

keelykat

HypnoNu wrote: »

Hey,
I've finally decided it's time to brave the parent thread! I had my little boy Austin on the 07/08/09 and he'll be 6 weeks on Friday, it's been a challenging few weeks and he has reflux so we're trying to get to grip with that too. On the whole i think we're doing pretty well, we're just getting the hang of a proper routine and he understands night from day, so at night will go down at 7pm and then feed and then sleep throughout the night, we're just about getting to 3 hour feeds in the day and slightly longer at night, and considering that he spews such a lof of feed he's putting on weight at an incredible rate, he put on 16oz last week and 14oz the week before, i must be producing lard i think!

Has anyone got any experience of reflux, we're on baby gaviscon at the moment but I'm not sure how much good its doing....

I will try and keep up but i never managed it on the parenting thread so i can't promise i will manage it now! Hope you're all doing ok with your bundles, there's a lot of names i recognise on this thread so it's not quite to scary coming to introduce myself!

Welcome

keely.

ps-my son has reflux too, although almost cleared up now as he's older.