MSE Parents Club Part 10

searching_me

god my house is a zoo ... but zoes now in her room ... jaydens having a milky .. philips watching something on youtube and the dog is laying down (for once)..

i have wine for later and a gu something or other philip treated me to (but didnt know ) x

SusanC_2

angelfairy wrote: »

what do you use in the car to keep them amused??? the toys that you get to hang off the handles of the car seat are no good now. i am at a loss as to what to get to keep her occupied/stimulated in the car

I used to attach a toy to the strap (one of those dangly toys with a loop with velcro on) and later on we had a buggy buddies book hanging from the handle on the ceiling. Music/story tapes/chatting worked for us too.

Glamazon

elle_gee wrote: »

MM confirms tara is indeed not a builder called Dave

Phew!

Just cooking tea then gonna do same routine with Jack as last night cos he only woke up once :j

cazscoob

money still not sorted but i think that with the help of my sisters milk tokens and £20 i should manage until tuesday! dinners will be exciting and strange to use up what we already have and a friend has said he can get me 24 eggs for £2.00 although they are not happy eggs needs must right now! so that should help with baking, breakfasts and snacks. typically i have run everything down so i could do a big shop so theres very little variety, the M&S vouchers couldnt have come at a better time and have kept us going with bung it in the oven meals for the past few days. im going to list on ebay and gumtree tonight once i get the cling on into bed. is any one else having problems with little ones that just dont want to be put down???

pinkpig08

Right SM it's completely your fault that I've just spent £10 at Bodyshop

DH is on call all weekend and is now on his way to Leeds Going to mum and dads in a bit to get out the house

Caitlyn wasn't very impressed at the CMs, she's going again on Tues so will hopefully be better.

tiamai_d

SusanC wrote: »

Just because a baby needs resusitation to start breathing after the cord is cut doesn't automatically mean that the cord cutting has been harmful but just that once they have cut the cord, they are on a much shorter time scale to get the baby breathing before harm occurs so it is more risky.

If the placenta is detached already then (as with cord prolapse) that lifeline has already been severed and the baby needs to be born and breathing ASAP (which is why cord prolapse is an emergency CS if birth is not imminent). In this case cord clamping/cutting is probably pretty irrelevent since the cord/placenta are no longer functioning normally anyway.

Once the baby has already started breathing then cord clamping/cutting is not going to cut off their oxygen supply so it is just a case of slightly reduced blood volume if cord clamping/cutting is not delayed.

I've looked in my bookmarks and I have two articles about cord clamping which may be of interest.
http://onyx-ii.com/birthsong/page.cfm?cord The writer is an Australian GP IIRC and a little bit "hippy"-ish.
http://whale.to/a/morley1.html The writer is a retired obstetritian with a whole website full of information on cord clamping.

Thank you! With DS2 the whole issue is irrelevant anyway, just the fact that he did come back and stayed here is more than enough. Possibly it could have been beneficial to DS1 (but his blood o2 levels were dropping before his head was delivered which is why he was vontused out) but he has suffered no lasting damage so it is just idle curiosity really.

Read a few that I found earlier on, but will be interested in the findings of that study I linked to earlier (which I now know is not completed). I did see some good points about blood volume differences in cutting vs delayed cutting. And I'm wondering if the reports of the newborn being contented and easy to care for in the first few days after delayed cord cutting is somehow pre-programming so that mum has the best chance to recover from the birth. Or is it just coincidence and most babies are easy to care for in the first few days because they are also recovering?

And I have far too much time on my hands since I've been taking mental notes on how to write it up as a report, but may do it anyway and stash it for when I'm at college. Would be good practice

searching_me

sorry pp ...

hope next time at the CM goes better x

elle_gee

Am intrigued to find out where OH is.. he went out to the tip ages ago and then to Tesco. I txt him 90mins ago with something else for the shopping list, thinking he'd been out so long already he was probably on his way home already, but he's still not home... :cool:

ETA: Pah, he's just walked in the door! Haircut...

BrunoM

SugarSpun wrote: »

Duration and elimination I'm guessing - is there anything your OH and Elijah have eaten that you haven't? How long have the symptoms lasted?

Or you could call NHS Direct

I'd also offer a heads up to the guests just in case.

SusanC wrote: »

Is norovirus not a form of food poisoning? I thought it was based on this?

Thanks all. We did indeed NHS Direct, who referred us to get an emergency app at our GPs, where we went and got diarolyte and some anti-sickness pills. Can't rule out food poisoning but virus seems most likely thing and we have cancelled our engagements

Norovirus apparently is not necessarily food poisoning but either way is a bad thing as it turns out!

Really hoping I don't catch it too now...

Congrats on car Glam , yay for Feely and Ladybird touristing cathedrals, and ack for Sugar's banking! Hopefully just a day's delay or so?

redmel1621

Oh Bruno, hope it doesn't last long for them and that you don't get it too.

I finally have a bit of peace and quiet....K is in bed, J is in bed watching a film, L is sat next to me playing a game on the PS3 and dh is in the bedroom on the PC....I think we are going to 'try' and keep K and (T?) in the same room, especially over the summer hols! If it doesn't work out, i.e if they constantly wake each other up and won't re-settle quickly, then we will move K into the big room with L&J:)

I am shattered after last nights fun and games so am not doing anything this evening, I will get dh to wash the bottles and do the dishwasher.....