MSE Parents Club Part 8

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

no can do on the KIT days, but another (less lucrative but ok) solution has been offered and agreed. It just means I get 10 months off with new baby instead of 12. I might ask them for a months unpaid parental leave to attempt to reimburse what I've lost. Fergie's good, excema still sore, but socks on hands at night, sudo and steroids are helping
boo to eczema, Chris's is just coming back now, I think it's having the heating on all the time that's done it


We've avoided the row so far! It usually involves my anxiety about DHs parents. They are very hard to plan with and predict. One year they arrived 1 hr 45 mins late for a christmas dinner I'd cooked for 14 of us.
How rude! no arguments here, we do breakfast & presents here, lunch & presents at mum's, dinner & presents at MILs with granddad too, we stay over at MILs on Christmas night because she does a buffet lunch that her MIL comes round for. NYE is at my sisters, next year I'll go to midnight mass with mum too I've not been since just before Chris was born for various child related reasons.


What's costco pizza like sami, any good?
probably full of crap, slightly expensive but very tasty
can anyone help with a shopping question... Have you ever seen a hot water bottle that's kind of on a belt so you can walk around with it on the small of your back? I get some relief from thermacare wraps but at £3 a day I think the next 20 weeks will be costly!

TIA for any help

ta da http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reusable-Cold-Heat-Compress-Therapy/dp/B000LN75B8/ref=pd_sim_d_1

HypnoNu wrote: »

Sami- My hubby got a letter from the docs offering him a swine flu jab but i didn't get offered one, i was a bit put out really as i thought i'd rank higher somehow being a mum with a young baby?
oh and thankyou about the tip about the maxi cosi seat, Austin hates his and i was wishing i could take out the wedge!

Oh and i can't remember now what i actually came on to post about....

oh and, did any of you get your period while still exclusively breastfeeding? I am now on my second one!

only adults with underlying health conditions are entitled to the jab, even my dad who had double pneumonia last year isn't allowed it and your welcome.

I'm exclusively BFing, my cycle is back but no bleeding yet, it is normal though. obv if worried see GP

feelinggood_2

Hypno, how long does LO go between feeds? Do you give EBM in a bottle, a dummy, water, any solids or formula? What about co-sleeping and baby-wearing?

weezl74

Sami_Bee wrote: »

ta da http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reusable-Cold-Heat-Compress-Therapy/dp/B000LN75B8/ref=pd_sim_d_1


only adults with underlying health conditions are entitled to the jab, even my dad who had double pneumonia last year isn't allowed it and your welcome.

I'm exclusively BFing, my cycle is back but no bleeding yet, it is normal though. obv if worried see GP

thanks for the linkie wiki_bee_dia ;)

Preggie ladies get the piggie jab too, I'm having it tomorrow

DH (works in a hospital) had his on tuesday and had a yucky night's sleep cos it bruised his upper arm on the side he sleeps on!

feelinggood_2

Sami - how do you know your cycle is back with no bleeding? I take the odd Ovulation testing strip, but no sign of ovulation, but I don't think I ovulate every cycle either. I ovulate without bleeding, but bleed without ovulating too. Confusing!

weezl74

sami your christmas day sounds like a right food fest! can I come

HypnoNu

Weezl - £90 a month is still VERY impressive! I've lost track of our budget a bit recently and i really need to get back on track before we suddenly run out of money! The reflux has been a nightmare but we're on top of it now and the breastfeeding has been a nightmare too at times because he fights when feeding a lot because i think he's associated feeding with pain, os we do have to battle through with feeding but I'm only planning on doing it to 6 months so only 2.5months of fights to go!

Feelie: I very rarely give EBM (only if i'm on a night out and i've always expressed my milk to balance it) probably only 4 times since he was born (15wks tomorrow), no solids, water or formula , he does have a dummy but only when he's falling asleep and he spits it out once asleep. He goes 3 hours between feeds in the day, he was going longer but seems to have gone back to 3 hours, but he does do 10/11 hours at night between feeds 8pm to 6/7am so i think that might have been a factor but this is my second period , i had my first when he was 9/10 weeks...

Claire_Jones_3

No period for me yet either and Reece is 6 mths now! Although i've got the implant now

feelinggood_2

HypnoNu wrote: »

Feelie: I very rarely give EBM (only if i'm on a night out and i've always expressed my milk to balance it) probably only 4 times since he was born (15wks tomorrow), no solids, water or formula , he does have a dummy but only when he's falling asleep and he spits it out once asleep. He goes 3 hours between feeds in the day, he was going longer but seems to have gone back to 3 hours, but he does do 10/11 hours at night between feeds 8pm to 6/7am so i think that might have been a factor but this is my second period , i had my first when he was 9/10 weeks...

Aww, how annoying that you do all that and then still get a period! Poor you

I read that 6 hours is often the magic number, my LO has only gone more than 6 hours a handful of times.

10/11 hours at night is fab!

HypnoNu

It is fab, and I'm so proud of him! We do a ramp up feed at 6pm and then a bedtime feed at 7.30 and after that he goes down and just sleeps, he dropped his midnight/1am feed at about 9 weeks and was going to 4am and then it just steadily got longer and longer and he's done a few 7am's now although its mostly 6am...but the best bit is he feeds and then goes back to sleep till about 8.30/9am...it's like a daily lie in...for all the frustrating things he does this makes it all worthwhile!

Buttonmoons

£90 a month for 3 is amazing Weezl. I do a £100 shop when OH gets paid and I'm back in Lidl 3 days later....!

I just never know what to buy, though I have the added expense of 2 cats, and Keira's fussyness, so plenty of eggs and yoghurts and weetabix must be bought!