MSE Parents Club Part 7

3onitsway

Caz - just a thought - did he take a phone charger with him? Could his phone battery have run out?
I would imagine if he stayed at a strange house outside Manchester, he'd have been up early to get car sorted/travel home? How long will it take him to get from Manchester to Fife?
I'd start worrying when the time has passed that he could be home by. Then when he gets home, give him a good telling off for being a man and not finding a payphone to contact you!

Buttonmoons

Morning everyone!

I can still say morning as it isn't 12 yet, not lazy honest! I woke up at 5am having lovely orange coloured sick, but on the upside, no hangover!

Think me and Keira are going to make some yummy vegetable soup later for dinner, soup and sandwich for tea. Gourmet or what! Hope she eats some.

Caz - Haven't read back, but is it your OH who hasn't got back in touch? He'll waltz through the door before you know it and you can throw a phone book at him for making you worry!

I never used muslins, I'm embarrassed to say, I got them in a baby box full of things from my mums friend and I had no idea what the hell they were! I unfolded them and they were thin and massive and I was like !!!!!! DO I DO WITH THIS? So they never got used! Just bibs! But I did FF so not sure if that makes a difference at all. Though Keira never was sick so it was mainly drool the bibs were covered in!

SugarSpun

3, I was about to say that. Phone batteries seem to know when it would be most inconvenient for them to die, and then they die.

Caz, I'm sure everything's fine but I'm thinking about you just the same.

Weezl, I'm glad it turned up - we're hearing horror stories about the post in the UK and I had visions of some nefarious postie using the sling to carry the letters around

Becles

Hope he gets in touch soon Caz. I worry about mine when he's away but sometimes he just forgets to contact me and then doesn't realise how worried I get.

Here's a pic of the puppies to cheer you up!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v196/becles/289473.jpg

I'll probably pick one of the boys, so I need to think of a name for him. I quite like Edward but Craig wants to call him Bruce.

Thanks for the comments on the top. Charlotte is such a messy girl so I begrudge buying anything expensive.

I told my Mam this morning about the puppy, and she took it much better than I thought she would, so I feel bad for thinking the worst now I think I'm looking at everything too negative at the moment as I still haven't got over this flu bug and the antibiotics I'm on are making me feel sickly. I've had the sinus pain for three weeks now and it's driving me mad.

cazscoob

thanks ladies i had phoned RAC but they didnt have any record of him phoning(i ended up crying on the phone?) then i phone my dad who is in southampton in a panic, they were all saying to phone the police. just as i found the number he text to say he couldnt get a signal at all and had fell asleep at 9 last night and he has been fixing the car all morning and is back on the road.
he got a telling off for not phoning and obviously couldnt understand why i was so worried, might have to thow something at him BM!
think i might put the LO's down for a nap and climb into bed for an hour im exhausted now!

cazscoob

they are soooo cute beccles! i like the name edward and my boss name is bruce lol!!! hope you feel better soon x

My_Fathers_Daughter

Edit - glad hubby is safe Caz, even if he is a wally!

weezl74 wrote: »

and on the topic of locomotion...

I'm very impressed with Benjamin

Fergus has mangaged to occasionally fluke about an inch of forward movement, but nothing more. He still also rarely rolls over, less than once a week.

I'm not worried yet, and in lots of ways it's really good cos it would be harder with the PG if he was super sprinter

The only thing I feel sad about is that MFD gets kisses and I don't

But lots of nice smiles which makes my day

Aw bless - you must get lots of time to interract with Fergie which I don't get! As soon as I puck Benjamin up he is shoving my head out of the way to get to something or throwing himself at the floor because he wants to be off on another adventure! I would love a baby that I could talk and sing to without having to pin down
You can have all of Benjamins snotty kisses if you'd like

weezl74 wrote: »

Indeedy! or share my mum's on the 11th, mine on the 23rd or be a little late and share my dad's on 2nd April

March is a costly month here!

Actually Em number 2 is more likely to be early than late cos of the closeness of dates thingie, so you could well be right!

My song that always makes me think of the day Fergus came has been Elbow, 'one day like this'.

Ironically: "Throw those curtains wide, one day like this a year'd see me right" is proving pretty accurate prediction for me!

Did anyone else have a song that they associate with their feelings about their child's birth?

OMG - that song made me cry all the way through my pregnancy!! I used to have to switch it off in the car for fear of causing an M6 pileup through my tears (I still cried from singing it in my head sometimes )


The song which reminds me of my birth has got to be 'Why Are We Waiting' (a la playground stylee!!)

In all seriousness there are a few - we were there for so long that we played lots of CDs - Jack Johnson 'Better Together', Del Amitri 'Nothing Ever Happens' (I kept singing this) and Travis 'Flowers in the Window'


The song that reminds me of Benjamin being very, very tiny is 'You Are So Beautiful' by Joe Cocker...I used to try and sing it to him but always ended up blubbing....still do actually

tiamai_d

Hello! What have I missed? I see vomit drama for Bruno and Sami is back (also with vomit drama) but I'm too lazy to read back, sorry.

I was out all weekend, visiting a friend, shopping, having fun. Was good after a week of being lazy at home. Got so much to do today though. Kids are back to school tomorrow.

chopsticks

Girls, just a quicky if any of you are there....

Is it normal for a baby to be asleep then wake up screaming, then after about 10 seconds and some cheek stroking and shushing, go back to sleep? Then the same happen 5mins later and keep happening?

chopsticks

Just to carry on from my other post...

It's almost like she's having a bad dream or is in pain then the pain subsides and she can go back to sleep.

I don't know if she's got something wrong with her mouth (and after moaning about my mum in an earlier post, worried that mum is right when she said something's not right).

She's had another full-blown crying fit this morning and it took me ages to settle her. She wouldn't take her dummy for ages, so I wonder if it's something to do with her mouth. However, although she slept well in the night, she only slept for 10mins at the most between 7:15 and 11:15, so would have been tired. I don't know if these crying fits are just her fighting sleep or whether they are something more.

Before I went on holiday, I said Caitlin had a white lump on her gum (but not at the front) and the HV said it looked like a tooth and she was also showing signs of teething. Well, that has disappeared completely (although the drooling is still here) and then last Thursday she got another white lump on her gum on the other side. Again, I thought maybe it was a tooth, but I've tried to look this morning and although I'm not 100% sure it looks like it has disappeared.

I'm now worried she has thrush or something and has had it three weeks and I've not done anything about it. I haven't got thrush on my nipple though and I can't see any other white spots.

I'm going to get her weighed this afternoon so will ask then but each time I mention her crying or anything else I'm worried about I get "babies cry, that's what they do".