MSE Parents Club Part 10

emlou2009

Aww Feelie, I would if I wasnt working that day! Have got time off booked the week after for Seths first birthday :eek: so I dont think they'd let me book that day off too, I can ask tomorrow though, if you dont ask you dont get! I think GISI is in Southampton

tiamai_d

Beckles, stand by with a load of buckets and mops just in case and let him try. Either he manages and you save some cash or he doesn't and you get a plumber anyway.

SugarSpun

emlou2009 wrote: »

while a few young ones may or may not have developed autism or anything else after having them, many many more will not have suffered any adverse effects at all, and the diseases they immunise against are well worth being immunised against.

The major problem is that the classic signs of autism are developmental, and the lack of them becomes apparent right around the time the MMR is administered. So there's clear correlation between the two: people notice that their child is not as interactive, maybe, as other children in the few weeks or months after MMR and because of the publicity from that dreadful, recanted, dismissed, flawed, performed-by-someone-working-for-an-anti-vaccine-organisation study they leapt to blame the vaccine. Correlation isn't the same thing as causation, though, and it's appalling that people like Jenny McCarthy can shout from the rooftops how dangerous something is and children die as a result.

There have been 497 preventable deaths from measles and mumps in children whose parents refused the vaccine, and over 50 000 unnecessary cases of the illnesses.

The chicken pox vaccine, I think is ridiculous. It's not 100% effective, and it gives no protection against shingles in adults. I'd much rather spend a week or two dunking my daughter in calamine lotion and oatmeal baths than have her catch shingles in adulthood, or have a hypothetical son end up sterile from it.

Like I said, I support people's right to make their own decisions for what's best for their babies - but only when their decisions are based on solid information and not hearsay.

pigpen

Tia.. !!!! off... lol It's a secret.. shush

tiamai_d

*lips are sealed*

*whistles*

pigpen

SugarSpun wrote: »

The chicken pox vaccine, I think is ridiculous. It's not 100% effective, and it gives no protection against shingles in adults. I'd much rather spend a week or two dunking my daughter in calamine lotion and oatmeal baths than have her catch shingles in adulthood, or have a hypothetical son end up sterile from it.

Not calamine lotion.. it only works while it is wet then it makes them even itchier!! It dries the spos too quickly and maks them uncomfy.

piriton works or any antihistamine

emlou2009

I didnt even know there was a chicken pox vaccine! How pointless! When Seth's a bit older he shall most definitely be going to chicken pox parties :rotfl:
My ex had shingles and I think it upset his swimmers somewhat. We were trying for a baby, and although I did eventually fall pregnant and have a miscarriage after about a year of trying, a couple of years later when with OH I was sick in the middle of the night having taken my pill before bed and didnt think anything more of it, and 9 months later out pops Seth! I like to think that means he has sluggish swimmers. Ha!

Isnt natural yoghurt meant to be good on chicken pox? When I had it it was the middle of summer, and my mum ran a bath in the morning and I spent all day jumping in and out of it cos the water soothed and cooled!

tiamai_d

Poor wee Chris has had the pox twice, possibly 3 times. Still wouldn't vaccinate against it though.

I just kept letting them play in baths (plain water), giving piriton and letting them get on with it. The worst thing was that DS1 got them on his willy so he needed some local anaesthetic from the chemist (the stuff they use to catheterise men) and DS2 had it where his nappy rubs as well as his willy. But once we got that stuff it wasn't a problem.

BeenieCat

SS thanks for that eBay link for the walnut one i think i love it now.. lol!!

As for staining, no chance. I've got the whole downstairs of my house to decorate before they'll let me move and it's a huge job for just little me So i won't be taking on any avoidable DIY jobs.

Anyway i'm glad to know there are bigger babies still in their cribs so i will just put some money aside and buy it when i can, i think?? I've added the walnut one to my watch list so it's either that or the oak one.

pigpen

DS3 had a massive sore chickenspot on the end of his foreskin.. it made him hop about while peeing... being mean I told him to shut up it didn't hurt that much!