MSE Parents Club Part 6

keelykat

Happy Birthday to my little man! thanks for the birthday wishes!

(funny enough he woke up just before the time he was born early this morning!)

xxxx

astonsmummy

Happy birthday elliot.

OH and I have been quite 'strict' with Ry-Ry's routine, we had a little blip when OH left but it's all ironed out now.
We kept him awake as much as possible during the day from birth and have never had a sleepless night apart from when he was ill for about 5 days.
He is very predictable in his eat/sleep pattern, and is totally adaptable when we go out, he will still come home and settle straight down no matter what time it is, I'm so glad because I had real bad problems with lack of sleep with Aston, it pushed me over the edge.

I cant be doing with the whole rocking to sleep business either, it just doesn't happen, saying that though it may of been a different story if I was on me own lol

money_maker_3

Morning
I had a great nights sleep, neither child woke me !!!! So I slept from 1am till 4.30 when I woke up as I hadnt been woke up IYKWIM and checked on them both, all was well and then back to sleep till 7.20am this morning !!!!!

That is the most sleep I have had in ages Happy contented mummy this morning

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELLIOT

hope everyone else is doing well

astonsmummy

Oooh I forgotto say that I think my life is made easier by having the worlds most placid baby, I have no idea where he gets it from cos me and OH are chicken oriental!

weezl74

Mazcabs wrote: »

For mums with slightly older LO's have any of them got pillows yet ? he was much better when leaning on OH's pillow......

Hiya Maz,

I thought the risk with pillows was of suffocation, so when fergie can't breathe we prop up the end of his mattress from underneath IYSWIM?

Happy birthday Elliot

emlou2009

HypnoNu wrote: »

Hey,
I've finally decided it's time to brave the parent thread!

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....

:hello: hello!

seth has reflux and we use gaviscon for him, at first it didnt really do a lot other than stop the constant flow that would come from his mouth when we laid him down :eek: but as he has got older it has got a lot better. i do think he should have had something more for it but the doctor was an !!!! about it and told me the nhs dont prescribe drugs to help with an overflowing laundry basket, but thats another story :rolleyes:
anyway, once he had been on it for 6 weeks, he had jumped from low down on the 25th percentile to the middle of the 75th so it must have worked quite well
just keep an eye on LO's weight and if you dont see an increase in it then go back to the doc and dig your heels in, mummy knows best

lil_miss_06 wrote: »

she's gorgeous! almost makes me miss my tiny baby... almost :rotfl:

weezl74 wrote: »

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! i would advise any new mum to do that, and if i ever had another i definitely would. the MWs and HVs kept telling us we should but we never did, and we have had SO many problems with seths sleeping and self settling

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:i have 2 fringes!! my normal one and a tiny one!! :eek:

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! when seth had his cold we had to syringe feed him i never want him to be ill again, none of us slept for 3 days and i dont know who cried more, me or seth

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:jhate to break this to you weezl, but mine lasted all of 3 weeks :rotfl:

seth didnt sleep too bad last night, two feeds but dropped straight off after its OH's snoring thats keeping me awake!!

going to ring round nurseries today going to see if theres one that will take seth one day a week :eek: i'm going to go back 3 days a week, OH will have seth one day, MIL will have him another day and then he can have nursery one day. i can cope with that, he gets some interaction with other children that way, and a little educational care, and i still get to spend over half the week with my little man. the other option is to work both OHs days off, but i think family time is important so i wont do that unless i absolutely have to.

oh, and i've just ordered some magic knickers from the m&s sale :rotfl: bridget jones eat your heart out!!!

emlou2009

happy birthday elliot!!!

:beer: <- milk, obviously :rotfl:

3onitsway

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

3 :eek: Ironing things on 1 side only :eek: I bet you only do that for towels, tea towels and muslins

And socks and undercrackers! (I see the cheeky one is back!) :rotfl:

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Benjamin will crawl the length of the room for his shoes (he loves them!!) but will look at me and laugh for some other things :rolleyes:

Violets favorite thing to chew/crawl to is also shoes, anyones! I just thought it was a girl thing!

weezl74 wrote: »

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:

Weezl x

And thats why we all love Weezl!

Happy birthday Elliot. :T

Hope you have no hangover Bruno.

Lil Miss - She's beautiful.

emlou2009

oh i forgot to say - we used the baby whisperer, a special angel fairy winged it to me we used it for about a week and it worked really well, but all went out the window when we started weaning. for that week he was lovely and relaxed and it cut the endless crying we'd had before that right down

the fairies would be happy to pass it on if someone was in need :A

weezl74

Lol at mythical magical trimester susan I'm sure online you can stream bible stories being narrated... would Alice like those to save you reading endless chapters?

sorry yours was short emlou! I suspect it won't be as I hope, but a girl can dream eh?

Awww 3 I love you too