MSE Parents Club Part 6

Buttonmoons

I've not caught up today, but hope everyone is doing okay.

Not done much today at all, haven't really felt 100% and I have a sore knee somehow, and it keeps clicking and everytime it does it makes feel sick!

Keira has been in a pain in the bum, she's right crabby after nursery every day!

I'm going to visit my friend in Edinburgh next Saturday for a p!ss up, should be good fun! The train home on the Sunday, will not!

Quitting smoking isn't going so good, I hate the gum, it burns my mouth, going to swap it for the inhaler I think, cause then it at least feels like I'm getting a cig!

Still haven't done a Tesco shop, which is good, because I'm having to use up the stuff in the freezer. Also still need to get something to wear to that celidah but really cannot be bothered raking in town for clothes, the mirrors in the changing rooms make me cry. You think black trousers, nice top and heels would do? Might get some false lashes.

Will probably put in my clip in hair extensions as wanted to tie my hair back but my ponytail is just pathetic and thin, it's as fine and thin as a babys hair.

SusanC_2

elle_gee wrote: »

He's staring into the webcam on the laptop.. I think he was actually looking at the moving smilies!

Alice likes these ones: :j:j:j She says, "Jumping. Jumping all together."

Jakesmummy wrote: »

can i just ask a quick question about baby sleeping bags, is 2.5tog the highest tog they do? winter quilts seem to be about 13tog seems a big difference!

I think it's different because they're wearing it.

SugarSpun

Morning all...

Some muppet called my mobile three times in the last half hour - wrong number each time. Then some other muppet rang our doorbell (at 8:30am) telling us he needed to come in and service our gas boiler. German law requires a month's notice for landlords to make appointments that require their tenants to be present. Ours never does, and besides our boiler was serviced two months ago.

This after the monster went to sleep just after 1am, was up for an hour at 3 and then again at 6:30. I'm going out today and would have liked a spot of alertness. Ho hum.

Stick with it Button, you're doing great.

Oh, that was what I wanted to talk about. My friend's 5 months pregnant and doesnt want her partner with her in the delivery room. She asked if I'd consider maybe being her birth partner. Awesome, no? But has anyone done this? How do you reconcile being on call for the potential-birth period with work and other commitments and your own kid?

csh_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Keira has been in a pain in the bum, she's right crabby after nursery every day!

She may be getting dehyrated with all the running about and general excitment? My DD was like this crabbit as hell for no obvious reason. I started taking a wee drink with me to pick her up, noticed a change almost immediately. :beer: (<don't give her beer tho lol)

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

Oh, that was what I wanted to talk about. My friend's 5 months pregnant and doesnt want her partner with her in the delivery room. She asked if I'd consider maybe being her birth partner. Awesome, no? But has anyone done this? How do you reconcile being on call for the potential-birth period with work and other commitments and your own kid?

Am I right in thinking your baby would be about five months old at that stage? If so, how are you feeding her/how do you expect to be feeding her at that point? If you're still breastfeeding at that point, I would think it would be fairly difficult as you would potentially be leaving her for 24 hours and you wouldn't exactly have opportunities to express so would become rather painful over that length of time. If you weren't breastfeeding I would say it was feasible but would depend on whether you had someone you could leave her with and she would need to have been left a few times before so that it wasn't a complete shock.

elle_gee

Morning all,

I slept 10pm to 1am, then was awake on and off 'til 4am with grouchy Rhys (but didn't seem to mind ). OH woke up at 4am and offered to try walking the hallway with Rhys for a bit so I dozed off again and slept 'til 7am - turns out Rhys had fallen asleep on OH's shoulder so he stayed on the sofa with him (if i'd have known that, I'd have stretched out in the bed! ).

We're at the hospital this morning then (assuming that goes okay) we're going into town to meet my mum and nan for tea and brunch at M&S

Hope everyone has a nice day xx

chopsticks

Jakesmummy...I found the following info online about sleeping bags, because I was thinking the same as you:

Between 16 and 18 degrees Celsius is considered the optimum temperature for healthy sleep for babies – you may be surprised at how cold this feels to many adults. We are used to our over-heated homes, especially in the winter, but babies apparently thrive in a cooler environment.

Summer months (20-24 C) – Your baby can wear a vest and use a 1 – 1.5 tog sleeping bag.
Very hot weather (25 C plus) – Your baby can sleep in a vest alone, or a thin (0.5 tog) sleeping bag and just a nappy.

Winter/Cooler nights (16-19 C) – Your baby can wear a long-sleeved sleep-suit and a 2 – 2.5 tog sleeping bag.

Very cold weather (minus 16 C) – Your baby can wear a vest underneath his sleep-suit, and use a 2.5 tog sleeping bag.

If the thermometer is right in Caitlin's room, it's about 16-17C at the moment, but I've been putting her in a short sleeved vest, a sleepsuit and a 2.5tog sleeping bag. Up until this week, she was just in a sleepsuit and a sleeping bag. According to the guidelines above, she should still just be in a sleepsuit and sleeping bag.

There is some more info here, which is from another forum, and lists what different mums tend to do.

We've been brought a couple of cheaper sleeping bags (one is from Primark) and the problem we have is that they don't say the tog on them. I know the official gro-bags only have three togs, but I don't know whether these ones are the same. We are using the Primark one at the moment (we've guessed it's a 2.5 tog one) and it washes really well, so if you don't mind not having the togs listed, I'd deffo recommend.

xxx

searching_me

SS i was my sisters birthing partner (as well as my BIL) but she was there for the birth of zoe as well ...... its was just the rule we had with each other .... i just sat with her, got her anything she wanted and let her squish my hand as hard she wanted ... im not sure how it would work if you have work but if you tell them exactly whats happening im sure they'd be ok with it x

3onitsway

SugarSpun wrote: »

Morning all...

Oh, that was what I wanted to talk about. My friend's 5 months pregnant and doesnt want her partner with her in the delivery room. She asked if I'd consider maybe being her birth partner. Awesome, no? But has anyone done this? How do you reconcile being on call for the potential-birth period with work and other commitments and your own kid?

Morning Ladies & Bruno (wheres MOTM lately?).

I'd love to be someones birth partner - to see it from the other side so to speak!

Could you just have a plan in place if you should need to go early hours or during the day! Maybe warn work (& OH's work) that you may need to take a days leave at short notice. Then you can go and be the birth partner, and OH can be there for your monster?

Or tell your friend that you will be her birth partner, but only if she goes into labour at 7pm, and has the baby in her arms by 10pm on a certain date. :rotfl:

Tigsteroonie

Morning Ladies :hello:

Good luck at the hospital Elle. We're seeing Andrew's NN consultant tomorrow, hopefully it's just for an update and not any real news.

I've got three babba sleeping bags in the cupboard here, all 2.5tog, bought in anticipation of Andrew being a winter birth - but I suspect he's not going to be large enough to use them this winter due to his wee size, and then he'll be too big next year! Ho hum, I should probably pack them away neatly and eBay them next autumn.