MSE Parents Club Part 10

searching_me

mm thank you you just reminded me to email my boss i emailed him the other day about not going back til the 15th of march but he never got back to me.

awww choppy wish you were coming to .. where are you again? x

SusanC_2

aless02 wrote: »

Thanks Susan...he's doing it right now again but it's only been occasional so far. Oh also, can you not just get your rings re-sized? Or they sell those plastic inserts to make your rings fit smaller, I think. My thing with weight is I might be the same number, but I had quite a lot to lose before I even got pregnant, so I have to fight the same battle as everyone else!

I could get them resized but OH is convinced that at some point my fingers are suddenly going to balloon up to bigger than they were before. Also seems a bit pointless at this stage as we're hopefully TTC in the summer and if I get hyperemesis again then my fingers might get more thinner.

3onitsway wrote: »

Looking at the potential size of No.3, I can't say i'd look forward to it.

My little 6lb 12oz hurt enough thank you.

I have a friend who said that her friend who has had large and small babies said the smaller ones were worse than the bigger ones.

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

All men are smelly...Am I allowed to man bash? Well, i'm not smelly, I don't think :eek: but boys smell. I've been told this by my girls smell and suck :rotfl:

I heard OH talking to Alice this morning. She must have asked him something and I heard him say, "I'm concentrating at the moment - Daddys can't talk and concentrate at the same time." So I guess men are allowed to man bash.

Glamazon wrote: »

I think that my GD might have been undiagnosed IF I had had my GTT at 24 weeks like I was supposed to. I put it off til 30 weeks (1st July) cos I knew OH would have been on hols for the whole of June so didn't know if I'd be around. I was borderline at 30weeks but between 30w and 37w it got progressively worse.

Did they do anything about it? I had two GTTs and was borderline so they just told me to eat a low sugar diet (which if I'd followed what they suggested as low sugar would have actually been increasing my sugar intake). I was already getting growth scans (to make sure she wasn't too small) so if she'd been too big they would have picked it up from them anyway.

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

Even better, i'll just forget about it and continue to call it TOTM as it doesn't feel right. May try it on Lucy instead

IRL I've always heard of it as TOTM and never AF but online it always seems to be the other way round.

boogellyboo wrote: »

Sami I read it on here http://www.naturalmamas.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=39887

I joined when I was looking for a new sling, their quite pro BF/AP/EMC etc and when mardy bum wouldnt sleep last night I ended up reading most of the thread. Fritha's posted on it too IIRC.

What is EMC?

BrunoM wrote: »

Lovely pic Feely and Ladybird so sweet. Elijah pretty much never plays WITH other kids as such, need to get him started on it soon!

When you say he doesn't play WITH other kids, what do you mean? At that age Alice used to join in games by copying (e.g. if other children were playing tag, she would run round like a headless chicken yelling because that's what she thought they were doing) and she might have played with an older child (but more the way she would with an adult) but I'd say it was definitely after she turned two before she did more interactive playing with children of a similar age to her. I also think there is quite a wide variation as the main child her age she plays with at church is a few months younger than her but the two that are a few months older just don't play with her even if she tries.

emlou2009 wrote: »

I only just watched that GMTV clip about the BF-ing, and I didnt agree with anything either the midwife or the book writer said but I thought the mum came across well, which was lovely considering when they normally run these articles they tend to use complete hippies that come across totally insane :rotfl: IMO, they usually use rather odd people for these features which cant help people form opinions properly on the matter. They needed to use someone "normal" and they did, and she was the only one that came out of it with dignity IMO.

I was glad they'd chosen a fairly normal person too. The one against it was acting like people were going round constantly comfort feeding their older children every time they got a little bump which is totally not true. Maybe with a baby it might be one of the first options you try but when they get older it is more of a last resort option which is available rather than the default that you do every time.

Becles wrote: »

The skin stretched so much it was all dry and felt like it was splitting. It's never gone back to normal and I'm left with a horrid saggy pouch that hangs down over my lady bits. No amount of exercising will shift it as it's just saggy skin, and it makes buying knickers difficult as I need to wear big ones so I can tuck it in as low cut kickers chaff in the fold. I have to keep it well washed and dry as the skin gets sore in the fold. I really want a tummy tuck but I can't afford one.

Have you asked whether you can get one on the NHS? My cousin (who had lost lots of weight) got one at Dryburn on the NHS.

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

On the birth discussions -MOTM and Bruno- if either of you are around, I'm really interested to know how men are affected by the whole labour/birth experience and whether it stays with you in the same way.

Not quite the same but since I go on about birth so much, my OH tells them off in films for making people give birth on their backs and says things like, "I wonder if she's going to go for a VBAC" when we hear of someone who has had a CS being pregnant.

jennynoo

hammyhunter wrote: »

Thanks Jenny, I had a telephone consultation yesterday - my GP doesn't believe in thrush in the breast

I am such a bad Mummy - I have given David my cold and he obviously has a sore throat and is struggling to breathe with his blocked nose . I am still going out tonight with RL Mummy friends though to celebrate my birthday this weekend :j

That can't be right, my sister was given cream to put on her nipples for thrush. The only problem with it is that you have to wash it off before you breastfeed so a bit faffy.

Beenie, I have a babasling which is a pouch sling. Erin never liked being put in it horizontally and she always looked scrunched up but as soon as we got out the house she would be asleep Now I just use it when I need to do something quickly in the flat and put her in sitting up. The rest of the time I use my wrap sling which is much more comfy for us both but a faff to put on.

Emlou - no worries, I thought it was either our crappy post down here or that you were ill.

Erin loves eating her Sophie (the giraff, not her cousin) but I have to hold it for her as she still isn't using her hands yet.

3onitsway

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

On the birth discussions -MOTM and Bruno- if either of you are around, I'm really interested to know how men are affected by the whole labour/birth experience and whether it stays with you in the same way.

Good question GISI.

A friend of mine is married to a man who had been married before and had a daughter.
His first marriage broke down after the birth of their daughter, because he couldn't go near 'down there' after seeing the birth.

When he married my friend and they went on to have two sons, he was outside in the waiting room when they were born.

I think he's the most extreme example and thankfully not all men would feel that way about it. But, when I had mine, I warned OH to stay up near my head and not even glance down there.

Funnily enough he is a long serving police officer and he said his first childs birth was far worse than any RTA or incident he'd attended! :eek:

csh_2

jennynoo wrote: »

Erin loves eating her Sophie (the giraff, not her cousin) but I have to hold it for her as she still isn't using her hands yet.

Speaking of hands, how early is the left/right handed thing apparent from?? I think Tigs mentioned it before but I can't recall what was said.
K favours his left which I think is quite cool cos we are all rightys

jillie1974

Just back from asda... mini shop before we do a big shop later.
anyway... the vouchers dont exclude formula (£50 get £5 off)
got overcharged on some spoons i bought K .but we got the difference back and £2 voucher. so i'll be getting loads of money off later.
only had 3 highchairs left so i hope,hope they are still there later.

searching_me

csh zoe used both from about 10months til about 2-3 years nows shes right handed x

pinkpig08

Sorry if it's been posted, but has anyone seen this?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/complaints-over-gmtv-breastfeeding-debate-comments-1883168.html

csh_2

3onitsway wrote: »

I think he's the most extreme example and thankfully not all men would feel that way about it. But, when I had mine, I warned OH to stay up near my head and not even glance down there.

OH watched it all! He was and still is fascinated by the way the babys skull bones crunch up as they squeeze out, he was on a high for a good few weeks after the birth and took great delight in telling everyone that came to see the baby how fantastic I was for giving birth and how amazing watching a birth was.

He wasn't put off me by it either :cool:

got-it-spend-it

3onitsway wrote: »

Good question GISI.

A friend of mine is married to a man who had been married before and had a daughter.
His first marriage broke down after the birth of their daughter, because he couldn't go near 'down there' after seeing the birth.

When he married my friend and they went on to have two sons, he was outside in the waiting room when they were born.

I think he's the most extreme example and thankfully not all men would feel that way about it. But, when I had mine, I warned OH to stay up near my head and not even glance down there.

Funnily enough he is a long serving police officer and he said his first childs birth was far worse than any RTA or incident he'd attended! :eek:

Before I had Henry, I said to OH that if he didn't want to be in the room for the actual birth I would understand as he's a bit squeamish. He then pointed out to me that he attends RTAs, dead bodies etc on a daily basis . I forget what he does when he's not at home with me.:rotfl: