MSE Parents Club Part 7

BrunoM

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

They've pulled forward his MRI scan for his cranial bleed from the end of the month to today :eek: And we've been told that we have to be there

Tigster - that must be horribly stressful but it is maybe a good thing to get it done sooner rather than later? Both for peace of mind, getting it out of the way, and in case they do see anything that can then be addressed.... good good luck, fingers all crossed.

On the bright side, he is still making awesome weight gains! I weigh a LOT less than a hundred times his weight now ;p which makes me happy

Tigsteroonie

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Good luck Tigster - I'm sure he (and you!) will be fine. Do they tell you the results straight away?

Not really, because they're not sure what they'll see so it has to go to a Consultant for interpretation. Basically they want to know whether the cranial bleed was skull-side or brain-side and, if the latter, whether there is any underlying brain damage.

I am glad they've pulled this forward, it's just a little stressing as I'm sure you all understand. If it had happened at the end of the month as planned, he'd be a bit heavier plus I might have established feeding so I could comfort him better.

Mazcabs

money_maker wrote: »

Maz, its Baby Weight Shifting Club

Doh... good job I read that after eating my Sausage and egg sarnie .... didnt realise there was one on here... may join after bump arrives....mind you quite resolved to the fact that will never be a size 12 again!!

3onitsway

Tigs – Hugs for Andrew! :grouphug: If there is a Brightside – at least you don’t have to worry about it until the end of the month. And i’m sure it will be worse for you than it is for Andrew.
Hi – Bruno :wave:– we missed you! We don’t have clear words at 8 months, just lots of sounds. One sounds a bit like mum, but her favourite is Bob, whoever he is?
Feelie if you're lurking, we miss you too. Hope you're ok.
I went to bed at 7.30 last night, up at midnight to collect Sis and b/f from Manchester Airport, back in bed for 2am – and feel remarkably fine this morning.
Looks like I didn’t miss much last night – its very quite this week for some reason.
I’ve just had a difficult conversation with the dippy Mum down the road (mum of the strange child!). I mentioned about visiting nursery for DD2 and going back to work. She said, ‘don’t be silly paying for nursery, i’ll look after her for you’.:eek:
How do you say ‘are you having a laugh, I wouldn’t trust you with my dog, never mind my precious daughter’ without sounding rude. :rotfl:

elle_gee

Morning all.. We've had another lie in

BrunoM wrote: »

.. I must admit to sometimes feeling baffled that I am really in a very well paid job and yet I can't afford anything much certainly no fitted kitchens (but we rent anyway of course because I am nowhere near affording a house).

Cos you live in the most expensive place in the country and I live in the cheapest, just about Hope Elijah is better soon

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Morning All :hello:

Another 112g in 3 days for Andrew, he's now 3lb 14oz :j :j :j

They've pulled forward his MRI scan for his cranial bleed from the end of the month to today :eek: And we've been told that we have to be there

Hurrah for weight gain and :grouphug: for scan
You having to be there might be some accompanying him cos he's only little kind of thing. I should think they only mean you have to go to the door and not stay in the room (like I stupidly did ). Let us know how it goes xx More *hugs*.

SugarSpun

3onitsway wrote: »

How do you say ‘are you having a laugh, I wouldn’t trust you with my dog, never mind my precious daughter’ without sounding rude. :rotfl:

Say you're only going to use professional babysitters, or that you already have care arranged?

Edit:

Morning all

Ferociously tired here. I had Molly all night again, Husband went off to sleep on the sofa and the two of us had the bed till about 7 or 8am. Husband claims to have had her since 4am. He is annoying the pants back onto me, having already annoyed them off me, but now it's too late for me to get any sleep he's taken her out.

When they come back I'm taking Molly and meeting a friend for lunch then dropping Molly off again and heading over to the hospital to visit my friend. I'm more worried about her than it seems politic to show. I'd stay all afternoon but I have a paper deadline for tomorrow and a bunch of stuff left to do. Grrr.

On the weight discussion - I'm 5'1 and a bit and weigh 55kg currently, which is an allegedly healthy weight but feels uncomfortable to me because it's 8kg over my pre-baby weight. I'm working on losing it but it's going so slowly.

Fitzio

Morning folks,

Good luck to Tigs and Andrew with his scan. Hope it goes ok. And well done on the weight gain!

MM - hope physio goes well for Dylan.

Hello to everyone else. Nice to see you seeming a bit more chirpy Weezl. Hope you manage to sort out your work stuff and finances. I am sure you will manage. x

Holly was good again and slept from midnight until about 6.30am when DH woke her for a feed before he went to work. However, he had a headache and decided that it was too early after all, so he is still here!! He is on flexi time so it's not too bad, but I don't know what to do about feeding her.
Should we wake her for a feed or just let her sleep as long as she wants? 6 and a half hours seems quite long for a 4 week old baby to go without food, so don't like leaving her any longer, but then again is there any point in forcing it on her when DH could sleep longer?!

Mazcabs

Right bought 'Sisters are good' bag for birthday next week and managed to get Cricket book on Bangzo for my dad which will either come for Christmas if I pick him or his birthday... Yippee... which reminds me must get my mum to do the pressie draw this weekend so I can work out who I'm buying for...

r.mac_2

Fitzio wrote: »

RMac - How do you like the Baby Sensory classes? Thinking of taking my baby, but is it worth it at such an early age or better to leave it until they are slightly older?

Hi there - we love the classes. The 'teacher' is really great and every week is different. We have bene going since LO was about 10 weeks old and are continueing until christmas time - they can't go once they are 1 here Here we pay £8 a class, which I think is a lot. But it's the best class we have been to by far

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

I thought of a question (anyone shocked?!!) - What ages are babies meant to have checks? I know they have a 6/7 weeek check, but then what happens after that? I thought there was a 9 month one, or maybe an 8 month one, have I got it wrong? I've not heard anything from the surgery. I suppose I should call them and ask really, but they're not open and I will forget in the morning!

We had a 6 1/2 month check and then don't have another until she's 12 months/next injection time (but then we live in a land far away! it may still be the NHS, but a very different one sometimes).

re: babbling I read about it on babycentre yesterday. At 8-9 months babies are likely to be babbling where they make the mamama dadadad noises and usually say it at the parents. by 9-10 months they should be being more specific and saying mamama to mum and dadada to dad etc. However, please remember that all babies learn things at different stages and can only concentrate on one thing at a time, so if they are moving lots, it's unlikely they'll also be talking and vice versa

right - off to sing some songs and generally look silly

Buttonmoons

Dunno if I could blab for 14hours a day, I like to sleep for at least 8! Does moaning qualify? That must be the reason Keira is like a waif!

I took a picture of her at the pub the other day, she was sitting on some tiny tots car thing, and she looked just like me as a kid! I was chubby as a kid and she looks it in the pic, but it's because she has big chubby cheeks and was wearing a big thick coat, but it's creepy how alike to me she was, even got the straight heavy naff fringe