MSE Parents Club Part 10

jennynoo

SugarSpun wrote: »

This was also part of his birthday present IYSWIM - we're gone over his birthday weekend, although I also have some little presents for him too.

Why does there need to be a shingles vaccine when we can just let kids have chicken pox and get natural immunity? I'm not in favour of unnecessary suffering but it does seem to be a bit ridiculous. In general I'm pro-modern medicine but not when it goes so, so far.

I had ten things on my weekend to-do list and nine of them are done. The last one can't be done till tomorrow so this is prime Sitting Time. Hurrah!

I had shingles when 7 (can't remember if I had chicken pox before) and have been told I can still get it.

tiamai_d

Thanks jillie

I'm off for a sleep... well, to lie down.

feelinggood_2

jillie1974 wrote: »

anyone done anything they said they never would with LO's??

Used a dummy and a bottle at first, although that feels like a life time ago!

I thought I wouldn't co-sleep, I wanted to but didn't feel it safe because of my weight. Glad I researched it further though!

I've been a bit more relaxed about food than I thought I would be - LO has had the occasional sip of juice, and plain sponge cake.

redmel1621

jillie1974 wrote: »

anyone done anything they said they never would with LO's??

for me its using a soother. always said i never would but after wasting b/milk to help him sleep i gave in. (i refuse to call it anything else but a soother as well)

No, because I don't think I have ever said 'I will never do this or that' I am a see how it is at the time sort of person!!
I may have said I would prefer not to do this or that but find that I feel I have let myself/child down if I put restrictions on things then go back on it iykwim.

btw nothing wrong with using a soother:)

ds1&3 have both had them, in different capacities, ds1 was permanently attached to his, ds3 only really has it if upset or going off to sleep.....(ds2 wouldn't take one at all)

jennynoo

I bought a maclaren triumph on ebay for holiday. The advert specified suitable from 6 months but the maclaren website says from 3 months so I thought it would be ok for E (4 months) but it's not , she slips through the shoulder straps. anything I can do?

jillie1974

soothers- i realise now they are fab!! my dislike of them stems from seeing older toddlers with them and those that clip to clothes. or babies that always have a soother in their mouth. K only has his to sleep.

redmel1621

jillie1974 wrote: »

soothers- i realise now they are fab!! my dislike of them stems from seeing older toddlers with them and those that clip to clothes. or babies that always have a soother in their mouth. K only has his to sleep.

I agree about the older kids with them! A friend of mine still used to give her daughter one when she started school.....she used to take it off her at the gate and give it her back when she came out at the end of day!!!

K has been having his a fair bit last few days as his teeth are really aggrevating him and not much else will settle him:( But I don't mind, I am also a big fan of them and will 'encourage':p baby 4 to have one too

Nicki

jillie1974 wrote: »

anyone done anything they said they never would with LO's??

for me its using a soother. always said i never would but after wasting b/milk to help him sleep i gave in. (i refuse to call it anything else but a soother as well)

It's the soother for me too. First two never had one and I didn't expect Edward to have one either, but he cried so much that they suggested we try him with one when he was in hospital. Now that he's home, I almost never use it with him, but his dad and big brother do, and I still can't get used to seeing him with one in. As its usually me looking after him though, I can't see him getting so attached to it that he'll still be using it when he starts school (:eek: at the idea!)

Other than that, mixed feeding, and early weaning. Even though both of the first two were given bottles of formula in hospital after they were born, and were also weaned at 4 months as was the advice then.

Still none of it seems to have done the young man any harm.

tiamai_d

Jenny try a seat pad for starters, Even just a few blankets can lift the child up a bit enough for the straps to fit. If that doesn't work does it have D rings to use your own harness?

pigpen

tiamai_d wrote: »

and am I the only one who thinks viruses are just so cool? Biologically speaking.

no, they are amazing.. somewhere between living creature and not, yet adapt to their environment, ability to attack one type of cells.. amazing!!

jillie1974 wrote: »

when i had chicken pox....i went to school. only had a few spots. didnt want to stay at home (such a geek)

Mine went to school too.. by the time I noticed they had it half the class were already brewing it. Though I did make sure none were immuno compromised.. I'd have felt terrible otherwise.

stuff we would never do

I said I'd never breastfeed then bf for 12 years (not one child I might add!)
I said I'd never use cloth nappies then LOVED them
I said no dummies but 3/8 had them.. from 3 weeks, 8 months and 6 weeks respectively.. DD5 had hers until she was almost 5 as well..they then started splitting on her teeth so she ran out. Though I have found 4 in the last month lol