MSE Parents Club Part 9

BeenieCat

newbie_maz wrote: »

Hi all,

Was just catching up & saw this. We bought some gripe water yesterday cos LO's been terrible in the evenings. She's tended to be awake from 4/5pm until midnight/1am crying apart from when feeding or in the bath. We'd tried extending bath time cos she seems to calm down loads then but there's only so long you I make bath time last!

So we used the gripe water last night - little bit less than 5ml as it says 5ml from 1 month & she's just under - with 2 of evening feeds & IT WORKED!! She was lovely apart from about an hour between about 10pm & 11pm when was still unsettled (but still not the screaming we'd had the last few nights).

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

Ooh that's good to know, i'm strangely excited about trying it but trying not to assume it'll work straight away in case i'm disappointed :rotfl:

How much was the seahorse? Amber loves lights but i only have a mobile and it doesn't last long so i get sick of winding it up, so i've been looking for something like that.

edit - AF we have the glow worm too but like you say doesn't last long and i get bored of holding it up lol

3onitsway

We have the glow worm too, and my moan is that it only plays for a few seconds at a time!

I can recommend http://community.leapfrog.com/t5/My-Pals-Scout-and-Violet/bd-p/580005666.

We obviously got the Violet one.

You plug it into the lappy and download your own choice of tunes, and babies name etc.

It has buttons on its paws for daytime fun music, games and one for bedtime music. You can get two, five or ten minutes of bedtime music. V doesn't usually get to hear the end of ten minutes worth.

got-it-spend-it

I only booked my hair appointment as I couldn't stand the thought of spending 8 hours stuck at home with the in-laws, but I do desperately need it!

House cleaning is slow going. I've managed to blitz the bathroom then had to come downstairs and settle Henry and have somehow ended up on here!

BeenieCat

Susan i think someone on another forum asked for a photo of me so i sent him that one instead of a real one

My_Fathers_Daughter

weezl74 wrote: »

how have work treated the taxable benefits before MFD? Have they been deducting more via PAYE in the past?
some medical benefits aren't taxable though:

has the package that work provide for you changed?

xxx

Nothing has changed as far as I am aware...will get the accountant to have a look at it when I visit him to set up my business *crosses fingers*

Mazcabs wrote: »

Feel 100% now FF and my attitude is he has had 6 weeks which is better than nothing...just need to sort sleeping now

6 weeks is great Maz, especially as you have had a tough time of it. I for one don't think I would have stuck it so long if I had struggled with it!!

angelfairy wrote: »

oh did you do the curry how it was recommend by glam and sorry can't remember who else

not sure about eating it, is it chicken? if so maybe i wouldn't but if lamb or beef might be okay??

It's pork! It wasn't to a recipe other than a chuck it in and see recipe!! Pork, onions, peppers, 1 tin toms, 1 carton passata, a heap of rogan josh powder, some garam masala and some stock. Maybe I will heat it up and see if it is nice before I decide to eat it or not!! My kitchen is quite cool so it is not like it has been sat in the sun!


Just been to boots and bought a stash of Moxi Designer Tampons in cute little tins reduced to 50p for 16. I also bought the 32 boudoir boxes for 75p. An absolute bargain if anyone uses applicator free tampons. Looked like they were end of line stock.

Sami_Bee

Mazcabs wrote: »

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Initial check up as havent been for a year and my dentist has retired... need a couple of fillings (lost part of a tooth the other day) and a good clean, she also took some xrays... thank heavens for the Mat Exemption card:money:.... DONT FORGET TO GO TO DENTIST WHILST YOU HAVE THIS !!!

Have you taken CHris yet ? I think its when they are 3 isnt it?

Feel 100% now FF and my attitude is he has had 6 weeks which is better than nothing...just need to sort sleeping now

Hairdressers is my next treat for myself - might even have it coloured !!!

I need to go to the dentist, I misssed both mine n Chris's because we were due when Ed was due to arrive and I never got around to making a new app I gota reminder this morning, Chris has been going ever since he got teeth though:cool:
I agree any breast milk is a benefit, well done you for going so long, I know it's not been easy for you :T

Buttonmoons wrote: »

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I met a mum at the bus stop earlier, her kid goes to the morning nursery though, anyways, he is away to start school in Sep (Poor Keira all her friends are going to school *sob*) and his mum STILL pushes him in a buggy, EVERYTIME I SEE HER HE IS IN A BUGGY, dummy in his mouth and a blanket rubbing off his face!!

The reason he is like that is cause she is a fat lazy slob! ANd obv doent wanna run after him. When I say fat, I don't mean just fat, I mean like morbidly obese fat, she has a bum cliff!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I've alway tried to find a way to decribe what I call a stuck on bum but your way is fab!!

got-it-spend-it

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Just been to boots and bought a stash of Moxi Designer Tampons in cute little tins reduced to 50p for 16. I also bought the 32 boudoir boxes for 75p. An absolute bargain if anyone uses applicator free tampons. Looked like they were end of line stock.

Is it wrong that I was totally excited about this and planning a trip to Boots when I have a stash of about four boxes of tampons and haven't had a period for a year?!

BeenieCat

I keep wondering when i should be expecting a period, is it true that bf'ing delays it?

I stopped bleeding completely when she was 2 weeks old, and it was v.light throughout - not how i remembered it being after DS :eek:

pinkpig08

You've probably already done it but have you flicked the switch in the back of the glow worm? It makes the songs play a little bit longer and the light on the face fades out.

Sami_Bee

Mazcabs wrote: »

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Originally Posted by Sami_Bee
hope the dentist isn't something bad! You sound nice and positive I used to make my bottles for the next day up before bed then stick them in the fridge and microwave them as needed - this is not how 'they' say you should but I'd be doing this for Ed if he was on formula You mean just the water in a bottle ready to add formula?
I've not been to a hairdresser for over a year :eek: I sereiously look like a tramp :cool:

sorry missed the red before. no actual made up milk.
I used to wash and sterilise 6 bottles then put the hot water and powder in, shake 'em up and stick them in the fridge, I think Glam cools hers in a sink of cold water before putting the fridge but I didn't