MSE Parents Club Part 6

elle_gee

Don't mind me.. just sat here peering down my jeans.. :rotfl:

Mine's fading.. The sore bit is the side that they started on I think.. :cool:

Night night MM xx

Sami_Bee

Elle I got ed an inflatable thing that rolls to encourage crawling in the asda baby event in march it was about£5 I think just in case u wanna check it out.
I noticed my boobs in the mirror tonight and had a little moment of mourning for the perky ones I used to have

elle_gee

Oh I remember the one.. Going to Asda tomorrow with my sis so will check out what they have this time then too

I'm still avoiding all mirrors but I suspect my boobs are suffering with the expressing..

SugarSpun

Morning all!

I hope Rhys's new meds work wonders, elle - I hope you've recovered from the shock

Beautiful pictures!

My scar has no feeling around it either, but at the edges of where there's no feeling it's sometimes very sore. Apparently it's ok, I had my six-week check up on Monday and it's fine.

Husband was up three nights straight with the monster - the first because I was so tired he felt sorry for me, the second because he couldn't sleep and the third because I had an important meeting yesterday morning. Every night of it she was cranky and wouldn't settle. Last night he crashed at 10pm. The monster fed around 10:30 and was asleep in the crib by 11. She woke again at 3:30, fed and then I wrapped her in her blanket and she slept on my chest. We both stayed asleep till Husband woke me at 7, but she slept on till 8!!!

He's outraged that my duty night was so peaceful, hehehe. But it was a nice night, we went back to the restaurant where we got together and had dinner. This time though there weren't 40 of our closest friends there.

chopsticks

Hi Hypno :wave: Welcome

Happy 1st birthday to Elliot!!!!!!!!!!!

Lil Miss - Taija is so cute

MFD - I can't view your hol pics Is it because we're not FB friends?

Sounds like you had a good night SS

astonsmummy

weezl74 wrote: »

To be sung to the tune of american pie chorus:

Oh Ry-ry’s got a poor poorly eye
But then sami told his mummy ‘rub his nose, worth a try!’
And the good little boy- he’ll be fine by and by
We’re singin ‘It’ll all be ok little Ry
It’ll all be ok little Ry…’


I'll get my coat

:rotfl::T:T:T:T:T

Fritha_2

Happy 1st Birthday Elliot!

SusanC_2

skintchick wrote: »

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?

No, it does not involve leaving them to cry. I used the CLB routines with Alice (although I didn't do everything the same as she recommends) and I thought it was a bad day if Alice cried for as much as an hour a day. Alice didn't like lying down so the majority of her crying was due to objecting to lying down (which was mainly on the change mat) - she was like one of those dolls that opens/shuts their eyes when you lie them down/put them upright except that with her it would stop/start her crying.

If you read the full book, you will find that she says many times that a young baby should never be left to cry and that a crying baby should always be fed if there is any question that they could be hungry.

To be honest, Alice just fell into routine at 10 days. We had always woken her to deed if it was more than 3 1/2 hours in the day and 4 1/2 hours in the night since she had last had a feed. On day 9 she had an evening feed about the suggested time in the routine so from then I offered feeds at the suggested times (and put her to bed atthe suggested times). Although of course there were sometimes blips where she didn't sleep or was hungry early, it just seemed to work. If Alice was hungry "early" I would either just give her the full feed (if it wasn't that long till it was "due") or give her a snack feed (if it was very early) and then give her the regular feed as normal.

I would never suggest that it is the only/best way to do things but it has certainly worked well for us.

astonsmummy

skintchick wrote: »

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?

If your thinking about books apparently the baby whisperer- tracy hogg is a good one, less rigid than Gina x

weezl74

3onitsway wrote: »

We had a Sky man call earlier, to try and convince me we'd be better of with them rather than Virgin who we're with now.
Strangely enough, I happened to have been comparing them last week and had made a spreadsheet. I invited Sky man in and showed him my calculations - and he left, saying yes, i'm better off with Virgin! :rotfl:Who cares if he now thinks i'm a crazy spreadsheet lady! :rotfl:

ooooh 3 this happens to me! When I'm on the phone to my energy suppliers they say we have an estimated reading on july 20th of: and I go 'i'll just call up my spreadsheet' and correct them :rotfl:

skintchick wrote: »

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?

We did a book very similar to Gina, quite a rigid routine. It worked really well, but I think that's a combination of my personality and fergus' temperament. In the womb he was very high in 'rhythmicity' (psychologist word for babies doing things at the same times each day) and I am too, so it worked really well. Days 1-4 he fed 4 hourly, and then days 4 to 3.5 weeks 3 and a half hourly then 4 hourly til 5 and a half months when solids changed things a bit.

Probably the bit of advice in baby whisperer that seemed to help us the most was that we used to deliberately put Fergus down awake at night, with dummy. If he then woke, he could resettle cos it wasn't an unfamiliar environment. I know this doesn't work for some babies but it did for him, and if I hadn't read that I would probably have let him drift off on us, gently transferred him, and made a bit of a rod for my back!

He still naps for exactly 45 mins or an hour and a half if I do 'wake to sleep'.

HTH Oh and I've never left him to cry. We tried it once for 8 minutes holding each other's hands, both crying. It was torture!

3onitsway wrote: »

Mine too! Although the falling out isn't so bad now, but I have 1" long new hair growth right around my hairline. :mad:
I did have a one length short bob, but had to get a fringe added and change the direction of my parting when I went last week, because I looked like a naughty little girl who'd found the scissors.

I have a teeny 1 cm patch of this at my hair-line, but I think this is because I nipped the hair loss in the bud by getting PG again when it was just starting to fall! Oh my word, next may I'm gonna look like a dominican monk! :rotfl:

Big congrats to your OH 3! Sorry I meant to say that yesterday

Fergus has a cold and was really struggling in the night He's also finding milk difficult cos he can't breathe through his nose! So he has to feed in teeny mouthfuls sat upright!

Oh and I am 10 days away from the start of magic timester2! You know the one where you stop falling asleep stood up, feeling pukey and suddenly look beautiful with boundless energy? Bring it on! :j:j:j

Love to all,

Weezl x