MSE Parents Club Part 7

Sami_Bee

carlamagee wrote: »

no SM!!!! dont burst my little bubble. lol

ETA: Im currently toying with the idea of spending £85 on a pair of boots from R.Island, altho if i ask my firendm she can get me discount!!! would bring it down to £60...but still not sure if i can justofy spending that on a pair of boots, let alont for myself!!!!!

just be honest with yourself, can u afford them? will you actually wear them? will they still be wearable/stylish next A/W too? if no to any of those then don't buy

searching_me

sami im a bargain shopper back in the day when i was unbelieveably broke philip would save £30-40 for me to buy clothes and id be able to get at least 2 outfits and underwear ... and if i could really strech it a pair of shoes ... i love the hunt of a bargain x

carlamagee

Sami_Bee wrote: »

just be honest with yourself, can u afford them?
not this week....but possibly the week after

will you actually wear them?

most definitely!

will they still be wearable/stylish next A/W too?
yeah....they are quite plain....im not one to stick to "trends", just wear what i like!!

if no to any of those then don't buy

is that my answer then ?? hehe.
Im waiting on some back-payment, so with that im doing Christmas shoppng. I think in reality if there happens to be a few pound (to the tune of sixty) then they will be mine!!!!! mwah-ha-ha-ha!!

ooohhh....just had a thought!!!!! Its my birthday in less than a month!!!!!

ETA: I need you to come shopping with me SM!!!!! I NEVER get bargains!!

jillie1974

i'm a [STRIKE]bargain[/STRIKE] cheapskate with shopping for clothes...

and when i do have the spare cash to buy a few things i never find anything i like...

Nicki

Haven't been on for ages, so no chance of catching up.

Have been having a stressful time of it. The CMW phoned last Friday and cancelled our scheduled home visit because they were short staffed. My FiL took the call as I was upstairs still feeding Edward and didn't object. When I came down to find out who was on the phone, I hit the roof, and phoned to complain about it being cancelled when there were concerns about his weight gain. It took 6 phone calls to different people before they finally told me to take him in to my doctor's surgery where the midwife doing the antenatal clinic would weigh him.

I took a sample of the yucky stuff I had been passing in too, and the midwife confirmed that it did seem to be part of the placenta which had been left behind. Edward had lost 60 of the 100g weight gain he'd made last week, so was still well under birth weight. We were sent as an emergency case to the local hospital, where he was admitted and we were kept in for 5 days.

He has now put on a very small amount of weight (about 50g) and has been sent home, pending the outcome of the tests which they have run (which apparently take up to 2 weeks to get the results back) and a sweat test to rule out Cystic Fibrosis. He needs to be weighed at least twice a week and taken back into hospital again if his weight gain stalls again or if he loses weight again, but I have been finding it very difficult to persuade the local HV to do this (even the hospital who phoned and told her she needed to be doing this described her as "obstructive", and told her she must be spending time on lots of babies who didn't need her, if she was too overworked to find two slots a week for a baby who clearly did!)

The Breastfeeding support people have been fantastic though, and have been to see me twice while we were in hospital and given me some tips to try to make sure he takes in the maximum amount of milk per feed. Counterintuitively the advice has been to feed him less frequently and for less time than I had been doing, and whilst on one level this comes as something of a relief, he is very hard to settle between feeds and cries inconsolably.

searching_me

when you lived on nothing carla you have no choice ... well you do but its cold in the nuddy in winter :rotfl: ... the only time i got new clothes was at special occassions x

jillie1974

can i ask... how long does it take for the tax credits award notice take to arrive??

i need to know for our DMP and have till monday to tell them.

jillie1974

Nicki wrote: »

Haven't been on for ages, so no chance of catching up.

Have been having a stressful time of it. The CMW phoned last Friday and cancelled our scheduled home visit because they were short staffed. My FiL took the call as I was upstairs still feeding Edward and didn't object. When I came down to find out who was on the phone, I hit the roof, and phoned to complain about it being cancelled when there were concerns about his weight gain. It took 6 phone calls to different people before they finally told me to take him in to my doctor's surgery where the midwife doing the antenatal clinic would weigh him.

I took a sample of the yucky stuff I had been passing in too, and the midwife confirmed that it did seem to be part of the placenta which had been left behind. Edward had lost 60 of the 100g weight gain he'd made last week, so was still well under birth weight. We were sent as an emergency case to the local hospital, where he was admitted and we were kept in for 5 days.

He has now put on a very small amount of weight (about 50g) and has been sent home, pending the outcome of the tests which they have run (which apparently take up to 2 weeks to get the results back) and a sweat test to rule out Cystic Fibrosis. He needs to be weighed at least twice a week and taken back into hospital again if his weight gain stalls again or if he loses weight again, but I have been finding it very difficult to persuade the local HV to do this (even the hospital who phoned and told her she needed to be doing this described her as "obstructive", and told her she must be spending time on lots of babies who didn't need her, if she was too overworked to find two slots a week for a baby who clearly did!)

The Breastfeeding support people have been fantastic though, and have been to see me twice while we were in hospital and given me some tips to try to make sure he takes in the maximum amount of milk per feed. Counterintuitively the advice has been to feed him less frequently and for less time than I had been doing, and whilst on one level this comes as something of a relief, he is very hard to settle between feeds and cries inconsolably.

sorry to hear Edward had to be admitted. Has he just come home?
hopefully he will start to put some weight on.

emlou2009

oh nicki, it doesnt sound like you're having much of a fun time at the moment ((((((hugs)))))))
i dont know what to say except i hope LO starts putting on weight soon and the test results come back good. your HV sounds like a din!!

i'm sure someone will come along in a minute that is actually good with words and advice and sympathy

Glamazon

jillie1974 wrote: »

good night again last night. Kian fell asleep after his last feed at 11.30 woke at 4.30 for change and feed then woke again at 8.30.

hubby keeps picking up though everytime he's awake or cries a litle, i'm trying to get hm used to settling himself and not being picked up all the time.

Sounds like my night! But I went back to bed til 10.30am then watched Flashforward on Five on Demand

Sami_Bee wrote: »

In the past I would spend it without a second thought but now I'm much better I have a capsule wardrobe that OH laughs at; 3 pairs of jeans and about 10 t-shirts and thats all I wear day to day

Just like me!
Never spend money on clothes althou I will be treating myself to a new wardrobe for work when I go back!

Well, my chunky boy is now 9lb 11oz!! So 3lb 8oz put on in 8 weeks!