MSE Parents Club Part 7

cazscoob

thanks sami, no breezes in this house its the warmest house i have ever lived in! i think i must have lay funny but my god it hurts! told OH i would rather be in labour lol! ill try the compresses too but i hate the cold ones

erin is tucking into a cut up pear at the moment smacking her lips together lol!

Sami_Bee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I find Benjamin gets really sweaty in his fleecy suit

he was hot, put less underneath layers on, derr ;)
ooh I'm feeling cheeky today

Jvic - hope you don't mind me being nosey but why Tomos and not Thomas?

Jvic28

i wanted to name him after my grandfather thomas but tomos is the welsh variation. just a bit different, and he is welsh after all.

Sami_Bee

Glamazon wrote: »

Sami - what would docs do about my wrist? I already have it in a support with a metal bar in it and will just take painkillers (when I find them!)

I have problems with my left wrist anyway from a car accident I had years ago - I pulled the steering wheel really hard to avoid a car flipping over on the motorway and strained it quite badly. I get the odd twinges now and then but can see why it's bad now - I always carry Jack in my left arm and use my right for doing everything else.

give you painkillers/anti-inflams and a wrist support :rotfl: you're obviously prepared :cool:

cazscoob wrote: »

thanks sami, no breezes in this house its the warmest house i have ever lived in! i think i must have lay funny but my god it hurts! told OH i would rather be in labour lol! ill try the compresses too but i hate the cold ones

erin is tucking into a cut up pear at the moment smacking her lips together lol!

I wish my house was toasty! I know what you mean with the cold ones lol

Glamazon

I always say Tomos in a Valley accent!

Sami_Bee

Jvic28 wrote: »

i wanted to name him after my grandfather thomas but tomos is the welsh variation. just a bit different, and he is welsh after all.

ahh I see, good reasons

SusanC_2

feelinggood wrote: »

Thanks for all the hugs last night. OH didn't talk to me much this morning, just got up and went to work. To be honest, I was pretty shocked last night - things have been really nice for ages. He spends lots more time with Toby, and with me. We went out for a walk yesterday, and the path was really bumpy and he worried about LO getting bounced about too much, so he carried him. Then to come home and tell me that he wonders every day if we'd be better off apart.

Don't really know what to say so have a hug: :grouphug:

feelinggood wrote: »

If anyone else is wanting on the graph, let me know. Older kiddies welcome too if you can dig out weights.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoTDsqSJaVbCdDBuRC1XMS04ZXpuVVM5eW54M2pDdUE&hl=en

Oooh I want to join in!
weeks/kg
1.5 3.78
2 4.06
6 4.8
10 5.7
15 6.8
20 7.4
22 7.5
25 8.2
29 8.3
33.5 8.6
36 8.6
40 8.7
43 9.0
47 9.1
49 9.3
52 9.4

Sami_Bee wrote: »

If you were brave enough to click on the link for the Stokke Xplory the package with carrycot plus allsorts of bits and bobs is over £900

I don't follow all this pushchair/pram stuff. We've been lent a pram (which I love because it's a really old one and looks like what I think prams should look like) which I used to use for a walk during Alice's third nap of the day (so about four or five months) and given a pushchair (which my brother got for us from a friend who was given too many) which we used to use a seat in the kitchen before the highchair and also as a seat in the garden before she was walking.

ETA: Now I know where all these huge figures for the cost of a child's first year come from.

Sami_Bee

Glamazon wrote: »

I always say Tomos in a Valley accent!

I so didn't just do that :whistle:

Hedgehog28

Hope that all goes well for Rhys' scan today...I'd never really considered how difficult it must be to do a scan of a baby when they don't understand that they have to stay still!

Thanks for adding Hugh to the graph Feelie...I hope that you are feeling better today. I used to cry quite a bit; it was overtiredness in my case....I'm someone who needs her sleep, so only getting 3 hours of sleep per day was a shock that no-one could prepare me for!

We have just had our wills rewritten (waiting for them to arrive in the post so we can sign them) to have one of my sisters as Hugh's guardian. We chose her because she is married, so would have the extra support (obviously we checked with them that this would be okay!) and she also has a regular hours job in one place, whereas my other sister and SIL both have demanding jobs where they travel around a lot and work long hours...so much harder for them...and also my first sister adores children and is very good with them :T.

wow Hugh's weight increased quickly!

Yes, he got off to a slow start, but the midwife gave me some advice about how to get him to feed better (mostly this was how to get him to stay awake long enough to eat properly)...the next time she weighed him (4 days later) he'd gained 200g! I think that he was just making up for the growth opportunities he lost by being a bit early and also having my body constantly trying to kick him out becaue of a fibroid on my uterus . Anyway, he seems to be slowing down now that he is nearly at the 50th percentile for weight. The doctor reckons he won't need weaning until about 6 months, so we plan to start at the beginning of December, to give us plenty of time before we have the extra disruption of travelling to the UK for Christmas...and all the excitement that that brings (for his mother, anyway :rolleyes:).

ETA: Sorry, I don't know how to do the quote thing properly, and get the "Originally posted by xxx" thing...any tips please?!

Jvic28

Glamazon wrote: »

I always say Tomos in a Valley accent!

me too...but i say everything in a valleys accent