MSE Parents Club Part 7

Sami_Bee

Caz i missed what she has for supper? I'd go for something that should take a while to digest like oaty porridge if you're not already or a dream feed?

Maz - I forgot you in my big post the link for thebaby weights doesn't change so just search for posts by feely containing google and it should come up

Buttonmoons

No way Em lol, I had bought one bag ages ago before we got Archie, for Clio as the vet scared me into it with threats of cystitus and other indoor cat related afflictions. Anyhow, I have a quality street plastic tub and i mix all the cat biccies in those, so I'd bung a few handfuls of the posh biccies in with the Tiger biscuits, Go cat, Whiskas, Tesco crunchies whatever I have in or was on offer, that way it lasts a million times longer, it's cheaper and erm they get some good stuff too!

I wouldn't mind paying £12 if it lasted a month for both of them and they ate nowt else, but they demand meat, the kitten not so much, but the older one is a blob, I put out about 3 packets of wet a day, so they get about 1 1/2 each, but it doesnt really work like that cause the kittne only eats a few bites (he's always first! the other one just sits and waits or if she's real hungry, they both eat out the same bowl at the same time) so anyways the fat cat gets about 3/4 of the packet!

Greedy sods cost me a fortune every week in wet food!

elle_gee

Oh heck.. I've just brushed Rhys' hair/head (for the first time ) and some of his lil tufts of hair have come out! :eek:

emlou2009

does anyone have that government childcare link where you can choose nurserys, childminders etc and search for the ones in your area? i thought it was www.childcarelink.gov.uk but it shows the orange directgov website instead
meant to be ringing round today :doh:

Mazcabs

mookiandco wrote: »

Come join me and Bruno in London. I promise to look after you x

I'm in outer London as well

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Anyhoo, last night/this morning was fun!

Sounds like you have had a great day so far Sami.... big hugs.xx

tiamai_d

sparkle03 wrote: »

Anyone with older children, do you have any experience of sleepwalking? Joshua has done it about three times in the last 2 months. Last night he did it, went to the bathroom and did a wee ON the toilet - he didnt lift the lid. I came upstairs just as he walked out of the bathroom and wasnt sure what to do. I have never encountered it before (always his dad) and it freaked me out a little bit He even washed his hands just didnt dry them ....
Im even more worried as he goes away with school next week for the night. Anyone know what I should be doing?

Stay calm, talk to him quietly and gently take him back to his bedroom and settle him in bed. Make sure your main doors are locked and keys put up out his reach when he goes to bed. Stick a few nightlights in dark halls etc so that he can see (you do still see during sleepwalking you just don't realise that you are awake, it's strange) and you can see. If it continues take him to see your GP.

DS1 is a sleepwalker and he also has night terrors. I am still a sleepwalker and used to be so bad that I did go wandering down the street, get dressed and go to school, go visiting friends etc if I could get the front door open (it was an old chib lock so my mum and dad had to put a bolt across the top of the door). Even now I will suddenly wonder why I am standing in the kitchen or sitting somewhere. Luckily I'm old enough that I either wake up myself eventually or climb back into bed without ever knowing that I did it. If DH has folk in at night when I go to bed I have to wear big jammies incase I end up downstairs! :rotfl:I usually sleep in the buffski.

Nicki wrote: »

:hello: Can I peek my head in and say hello? I know that I know quite a few of you from the pregnancy thread at earlier times. Not sure I can keep up with this thread though which seems to move even faster than the pregnancy one did!

My little man is 12 days old today, and feels like he's been part of the family forever! He's been home for a week now. Our only issues with him are that as of Sunday he still hadn't regained his birth weight (in fact hadn't put on any weight since leaving hospital on day 4) despite the fact that he feeds for a large part of every day (and night!), and that he's hard to settle at night after a feed, though not during the day. Feeling slightly beleagured by the Community Midwives who won't discharge us due to the weight thing, and all have different advice as to how we should and shouldn't be feeding him (he's fully bf atm). The last one through the door told me I needed to feed him every 2 hours religiously day and night, even though he feeds for an hour continuously at a time and takes both sides :eek:. Up until that point I'd been feeding 7-8 hours a day (which the first CMW had said was good for a baby of his age), but having had 2 days of trying to up that to 10 hours a day, my bleeding became twice as heavy as it had been and my pain levels from my c section rocketed up from mild to severe, so I don't think that's sustainable for us.

Any advice from any of the bf gurus would be most welcome. He hasn't gone below the magic 10% and he isn't still losing weight, nor does he look in any way dehydrated or unhappy with life in general. All of his nappies just about are dirty so hard to see how much he is weeing as well, but there are at least 10 dirty ones a day, so we haven't moved on to re-usables yet! My instincts having bf two before him are that everything is fine and the CMWs are being over cautious, but other opinions would be most welcome.

Nicki your a clever woman, you know he is fine and they are just being overcautous. Just don't let them guilt trip you into supplimenting or anything else if it's not what you want. I'm there with Amber feeding mostly formula because in my head I think breast milk isn't enough, which rational me knows is rubbish but worried mother to tiny baby fully beleives.

Don't feed him every 2 hours if it is harming your health, he and they rest of the family need a happy healthy mummy, not a baby that is putting on weight exactly like 'they' think he should.

As Krystal pointed out to me (thanks Krystal) is he getting longer? He may just be stretching legnthways rather than putting on weight?

We really do expec a lot from babies don't we?

Better go collect 1of 3 from school

searching_me

em when istarted college surestart had a list of childminders try them x

Sami_Bee

searching_me wrote: »

elle when it comes to food i will try anything honestly im not fussed ...
sami what a day would you like some of my ferro there yummmy x

ooh my fave!!

Em I get CM/nursery info via my local council's website

searching_me

sami ive had a box for about 2-3 weeks only had 6 out of it ...... dont know what wrong with me :rotfl: x

Sami_Bee

Em http://childcarefinder.direct.gov.uk/childcarefinder click on the link at the bottom
ETA: sorry I was looking at 2 diff things then! That link explains why you can't find it!
SM - my mum has a box in the cupboard that's been there for months