MSE Parents Club Part 7

searching_me

depends jillie 2 weeks usually but with the strike who knows x

Sami_Bee

I'm to lazy for clothing bargins now. My sis n I used to hit the trafford centre at sale time and get about £400 worth of stuff for about £150 each but its just too much effort these days


I'm loving THESE trumpettes for the man in your life :rotfl:

Glamazon

grr hit enter and my post got posted before I'd finished!

Got some advice on feeding - typical that while I fed him at clinic he fed fine!!!

And guess who's having lunch?!! Jack screamed when I put him in bouncy chair, I left him to it, went upstairs and he suddenly stopped :eek: Panic stations so ran down but no he's fine and actually seems to be enjoying the chair - success at last :j

oh and I had brekkie! My stomach won't know what's hit it!!!

Got half an hour before my Drs appt so will let u know how it goes!

searching_me

BIG ((HUG)) nicki x

Becles

BrunoM wrote: »

What's reasonable/practical as an approach to get toddlers (say 1-2 yr olds) to take their naps? When they're clearly tired and need to.

Controlled crying stuff is cruel too young, and ineffective too old... when do people feel it's OK to leave baby in their cot crying because they should be asleep?

Charlotte likes me to get into bed with her for a few minutes. I was saying "budge up" to get her to move over to make room for me, so now she says "want Mammy to come in for a budge up" :rotfl:

It's just those few moments of cuddling her in bed seem to make her realise it's time for sleep and she needs to stay there. On the odd occasions when she plays up and won't go to sleep, I just keep going in and firmly telling her to go to sleep and putting her back into bed if she's got up. It's a bit tiresome at times, but the important part is not to give in and not to give any nice attention so there is no attraction in crying for you to come back.

I'm getting a pop CD for Charlotte to test from BizzieBaby. I had a look at the track listing on play.com and it's got Pokerface by Lady Gaga and Shake It by Metro Station which are two of her favourite songs, so she'll be thrilled with it.

searching_me

if i go shopping sami i leave the kids at home (with philip of course ) so im on my own or zoe at school or her aunts .. hell of alot easier ... im looking forward to london on saturday ive missed my old bargain stores x

Sami_Bee

Nicki do you think he is hungry/windy when crying? or are you clueless to the cause?
I hope things get easier for you soon, How are you coping? have you managed to escape pnd this time? xxx

carlamagee

hi nicki.
sorry to hear things arent going well for you and little edward!! here are some *puttng on weight vibes*....im not great with words either im afriad.
xx

Glamazon

Charlotte is such a character!!

Nicki - Big hugs hun! I have no experience of this but like em said someone else might be along in a bit who does.

Well, as I was posting earlier Jack started screaming but I left him and he stopped again and now is dozing off in his chair but keeps making himself jump! :rotfl:

Tucking into some Cadburys Clusters now - yum!!

keelykat

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.

Got no advice, but hope your LO puts on some weight for you