MSE Parents Club Part 7

Becles

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I hope the car is ok. have you checked to see if there's a council MOT place nearby? they don't do repairs so gain anything by failling you falsely - Martin recommends :money:

Never thought of that!

It's gone to a little garage in my nearest town, that I've never noticed was there before! It's behind the high street and the RAC recommended it.

BrunoM

tiamai_d wrote: »

I had Amber weighed and I'm feeling a bit upset.

So she is now on the 9th percentile (taking into account that she was born at 37 weeks). I feel like I am starving my baby!

We had similar plummeting weight issues (from 50th to 0.4th centile partly due to reflux) - HV advice to us was that if they seem healthy and happy, are eating(/drinking) when they want to, and are still "on the chart" somewhere, that's fine. The centile chart is made up of all the 'normal range', in theory - if they're anywhere on the chart, that's still normal. So don't worry too much!

Tigster, great pics must be lovely seeing him dressed up for the first time


Poor Elijah has had

6 separate bumps of his head leading to tears in the last 3 days (half of them leaving marks, he has been treating himself very roughly with his new-found trotting powers)

a nasty snotty cold all week

his first molar through today

his 12 month shots at lunchtime

:eek:

poor battered baby he seems on remarkably good form all things considered, still quite cheery and energetic.

They wanted to give him the MMR at the same time as the other shots because he's 7 weeks late in having got these shots as it is, but OH put her foot down and said he needed a couple of weeks to recover. So, no big deal putting shots off for a bit if baby is being fragile!

Those charts are interesting, thanks Weezl Elle, do bear in mind though that they are comparing on the basis of "standard portion" instead of weight (which I think is very annoying and potentially quite misleading). A lot of them are at least in "cups" though, so you're right, bananas are lighter than expected, etc!

Krystaltips

Tia, as Bruno said... As long as she's happy, healthy and filling her nappies then try not to get too hung up on the centiles charts... Maybe all her milk is going on her length rather than her weight...

Poor battered Elijah! Hope he has a calm and relaxed night and sleeps off all the injuries, teeth, jabs and snot!

I decided to pop along to the baby group this afternoon... Seeing as I had to go down to the school anyway, I figured I might aswell go for a free cuppa... It was OK... Then I took Aimee round to her friends to play and had a cuppa there... Aimee was annoyed though... Apparently it's not a real play date if Mummy stays... A real play date involves getting picked up by Daddy a long time after Mummy's gone home!

Tigsteroonie

elle_gee wrote: »

Lovely photos Tigs! What size are the clothes? How are things today? CPAP cycling going well?

I think that's a 3lb-vest, it's from the SCBU stockpile. They say that they'll dress him in their clothes until he reaches a more standard size (presumably needing 5lb items), so that we don't have the expense during those few short weeks.

Things are good today - at the moment, he's in a trial of a 10hr session off Cpap. He was on 0.05l O2 via nasal cannula this afternoon, except that he kept pulling them off and tucking them under his chin :rotfl: The first few times I put them back on him, then gave up because it wasn't making any difference to his SatO2 level, with or without the cannula he was varying between 90 and 100 with occasional dips to 85. Obviously his de-sats aren't caused by oxygen input, it's just a processing problem.

I got a long cuddle, he was awake and alert throughout, responding to us both. It was lovely and I feel all mushy now

redmel1621

elle_gee wrote: »

How was your first day at uni, Mel?

Thanks Elle - It was great...a long drive really and the M62 was awful getting off it into Livrpool...Might try the Runcorn bridge but then use the A roads in the morning and then the A41 and tunnels the next two days. I will find the best route!!
Kai LOVED the nursery...he was so excited when we went into the baby room and he saw the other babies and all the toys. He was grizzling a bit when I picked him up, but it was nap time so to be expected, and they were changing his wet (dribbled on ) clothes.
The older two had a good time at the breakfast club too, and Luca who didn't want to go, has now announced that "it is pretty good, ya know!"

It is pretty stressful getting myself, two kids and a baby all ready and out the house by 7.30am though!

Sami_Bee wrote: »

thanks

I hope the car is ok. have you checked to see if there's a council MOT place nearby? they don't do repairs so gain anything by failling you falsely - Martin recommends :money:

We tried to find where ours is not long ago... the council were a nightmare, I'm sure they didn't want to tell us!
We decided in the end just to go back to our previous regular garage, who is fantastic.....When we had our Citroen the suspension went and it would have cost hundreds to fix it, he cable tied it for free, and did the same again when that snapped after about 9mths...he is great:D

Mel x

tiamai_d

Mazcabs wrote: »

Will have a look, was gonna try and be good with this one and BF but you never know and I did buy a 3 pack in the MR T baby event just as back up.

I've found that Amber will only accept the TT ones and the way she drinks from them is very similar to the way she takes from the breast. Plus they are very good at not wasting any precious expressed milk because none gets stuck in the lip of the bottle

But the new BPA free ones look manky!! bleurgh!

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I can't resist posting a couple of today's photos ...





His first day in clothes! :j :j :j :j :j

Just cos I think his pics should be up again He is doing very well! Remember and grab that vest if it comes off with no bodily fluid stains and sniff it while expressing

Sami, I'd be the same, no jabs for a poorly baby!

Bruno, thansk for that, in my head I know not to worry, her daddy is tall and my family are tiny people and the boys were long and skinny but every time I go all I hear is 'keep feeding her, try and feed her, feed, feed, feed!' :rolleyes:and:mad:

tiamai_d

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

I think that's a 3lb-vest, it's from the SCBU stockpile. They say that they'll dress him in their clothes until he reaches a more standard size (presumably needing 5lb items), so that we don't have the expense during those few short weeks.

Things are good today - at the moment, he's in a trial of a 10hr session off Cpap. He was on 0.05l O2 via nasal cannula this afternoon, except that he kept pulling them off and tucking them under his chin :rotfl: The first few times I put them back on him, then gave up because it wasn't making any difference to his SatO2 level, with or without the cannula he was varying between 90 and 100 with occasional dips to 85. Obviously his de-sats aren't caused by oxygen input, it's just a processing problem.

I got a long cuddle, he was awake and alert throughout, responding to us both. It was lovely and I feel all mushy now

Is he wriggling when he de-stats? I was told that they ignore them if it's no lower than 80 when they are active, but then he was a lot bigger than Andrew so may be different.

Krystal, she is certainly long! Outgrown sleepsuits and an newborn thing with feet and a few dresses are now showing her bum

Tigsteroonie

tiamai_d wrote: »

Is he wriggling when he de-stats? I was told that they ignore them if it's no lower than 80 when they are active, but then he was a lot bigger than Andrew so may be different.

They pretty much ignore them all the time till below 80 - the alarm single-bongs a warning between 92 and 80, and double-bongs an alarm below 80. Nobody takes the blindest bit of notice of the warning bong, they never have!

Annoyingly, they also have a single-bong warning at 100% - which means whenever we hear it go off, we always have to look to see if it's a problem, or whether he's simply showing off.

Sami_Bee

Mel - from martin's MOT guide thing

Ellesmere Port & Neston, Rossfield Road, Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, CH6 3AW

0151 356 6548

cazscoob

can anyone help as im slowly loosing it! landlord has just text to say she is coming on wedd moring at 8.45 with someone to measure for a new kitchen and bathroom(rubbing it in or what???) can i refuse?? feel like she is taking the p*ss right now and we have enough on without her. can i tell her that we would prefer this all to be done once the keys have been handed over? or does she have the right to come in??