MSE Parents Club Part 9

Krystaltips

SM ^^ See above

tarajayne

Krystaltips wrote: »

Incidentally... I'm considering getting a poundshop pee stick next week...

:eek::T:D:D

SugarSpun

redmel1621 wrote: »

Mmmm smells nice SS:D My actual edd is now 29th June so I am just coming up for 18wks and yes fairly big bump. Kai seems great thanks for asking, he LOVES these anti-b's:p I am sure I will be hearing some lovely POSITIVE news from you very soon....does you OH want another baby (just being nosey here:o)

My statement from the beginning was that I wanted even numbers of children, and he says he's in for two or four or six, but if we have six we have to pick the four favourites to go to university and teach the others circus skills. He's delighted that we've given up the contraception again, not that it lasted more than a month...

I'm glad Kai's doing better, it's horrible to try and force medication on a pre-rational baby. Do you think he's put the nasty medicine and feeling better together? Molly either figured it out with baby Calpol or just got used to the taste because after three days of it with her sinus infection she was ganneting the Calpol and holding her mouth open like a baby bird :rotfl:How do you find having a smallish one and a bump? Are you uncomfortable yet? You said you think it's another boy, does it feel the same or are you assuming based on the older three?

[/shamelessly pumping for information] :rotfl:

annielove_3

Thanks MFD, got a Bumbo too but likes to arch his back in it and looks as though he going to fall out therfore never really used it. Hate hate hate my job customer service hence lots of abusive but the hours suit for me anyway Fri-Sun nightshift.

pinkpig08

Ooh, those of you who work in HR or related fields - I emailed my boss on 6th Jan asking to change my hours from 22.5 over 5 days to 20 over 4 days. I asked if she could get back to me as soon as she could as my childminder can offer the extra day to someone else if my request is granted. She emailed me back saying to leave it with her. What do you think is an ok amount of time before I ask her about the progress of it? I'm due back on 12th April. Also, my boss isn;t known for her speed in replying to requests. If we ever book annual leave, she very rarely gets back to us to confrim it - we just take the holiday if we haven't heard from her!

MadDogWoman_2

Mel - I swapped from a Graco Quattro to an ICandy Cherry for the parent facing option and it's only very rarely that it faces forward as we like to chat/sing songs to each other as we walk along.

SugarSpun

PP I'd call again on Monday. The childminder needs to know, which takes precedence over her need to be flaky.

Edit: I'm off to bed. Goodnight lovelies, be back tomorrow - or later, if Mistress Molly hoikes herself out of bed for a long night of playing again.

annielove_3

Pinkpig was a few years ago I done my change of shift through parental reasons but from memory a meeting was arranged within 14 days then am sure was 28 days for a yeah or neigh.

redmel1621

Oooh Krystal should we be keeping fingers crossed for +/-??

Tara - It does seem to be a bit bigger at the back than a lot i've seen but would probably just about fit the dog in there! I really don't know what to go for... I would have to be a bit older too as we wouldn't have £10 000 to spend on a car!! Maybe just stick with our estate and if we need to go anywhere all together dh will have to go on his motorbike!

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

Susan and Becles do you ever go to Eldon square? When I was little and lived in Wickham there were giant pencils to play on, like a sculpture. But actually your county is huge so it might be MILES from where you both are

I'm quite near to Durham so rarely go into Newcastle. (And I grew up on Teeside so didn't really go as a child.)

feelinggood wrote: »

Does anyone have opinions on baby floation devices? Me and LO are going swimming, and I'm thinking we'll just go 'au natural'? (no floats armbands, but with clothes! Funny story, I went to a nudist club once, to fufil my lifetime ambition of swimming nude).

You don't really need armbands or anything when they're small - we got one of those swim seat things but found it easier to not have Alice in it and then replaced with armbands which we used a little bit but not very much. Now she's bigger, we do use armbands in the big pool so that she doesn't have to be held all the time but when they're small you're going to hold onto them anyway. I reckon swimseats etc are probably more useful if you have older children to deal with as well as a baby but with just a baby you should be fine with just clothing.

MadDogWoman wrote: »

It has lasted with Katie she loves to clean, she has a cleaning trolley that is one of her favourite toys

Alice is mad about cleaning too - she was sweeping at my Auntie's today.

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

I'm avoiding peanuts, as I'm still BF. The advice has changed, to say you can eat them while BF unless you have allergies in the family (and depending on who you ask, if there is excema, asthma or hay fever in the family). We have all 4 in the family, and when I spoke to the doctor about it she said that the advice keeps changing so often she didn't know either, but it might be an idea to play it safe. I miss my peanuts though

We have all four of them between us (including peanut allergy) so I was avoiding them too. The advice was just that people with allergies should avoid them but they found that very few people actually took any notice and that people without allergies in the family (who weren't the target group) were just as likely to follow the advice as those with. I actually read the COT report and the reason they introduced the advice was because people seemed to react to peanut on what was supposed to be their first exposure so they thought that exposure through pregnancy and/or breastfeeding might be sensitising people. The research done since then (which is fairly limited in my opinion) doesn't seem to indicate any link between exposure during pregnancy/breastfeeding and peanut allergy (and there hasn't been a significant change in prevelance of the allergy since the advice was introduced) but they do now think that creams containing peanut oil could be a factor. If you're interested I can see if I've got a link somewhere for the COT report but wouldn't be until Monday.

searching_me wrote: »

did anyone see my ebay post earlier .. would anyone be able to answer x

I sometimes sell stuff but not a lot. Usually it's stuff we don't want which I think is worth selling. (I generally work this out by looking at completed listings to see if it usually goes for enough to be worth the effort.) The phones I'm currently selling I bought in Tesco to get the extra points. I looked at the trade in value and looked at eBay and figured the going rate on eBay was high enough to be worth selling them on there rather than just trading them in.