MSE Parents Club Part 10

chopsticks

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Choppy - yay for 8 month checks. Benjamins was a 9 month check...maybe they don't expect them to point at 8 months
What a good idea to use a raisin to test pincer grip!!
Our next developmental check is at 2 and is done at home because babies are more likely to 'perform' at home apparently.
Are there concerns over the head measurements?

I don't know where our 2.5 year one is held. I never though to ask. Oh well, I'm sure they'll let me know when it's time.

No, no concerns over the head measurements. DH has quite a small head too although neither he or Caitlin look out of proportion. I am going to mention it to the Doctor when she has her follow-up appointment but hte HV didn't seem worried - just very surprised.


Elle - hugs to a poorly Rhys

SS - stupid Doctor. He sounds awful . You said yourself that Molly is happy and healthy, so just ignore him. Would you consider coming back to the UK for work, or is that a big no-no? I like the thought of a weekly to-do list. I might have to steal your idea.

SS and 3 - are you both only buying 12-18 month clothes for your little ones (ebay/Me Too ones, I mean)? I'm watching a few bits but none are 12-18 months.

MM - I'm glad Dylan is getting on OK, and that his legs and shoulders are doing well. It'll just take a bit more time for the rest of his little body to catch up.

Sparkle - well done to Lexi for walking skills.

Feely - yay to Toby's words :j.

Sami - hope Chris feels better soon. Well done to Edgar eating. Clever boy.

Claire - thank you for all the info. Poor Charlie, I'll definitely try the Soltan on Caitlin. Loving Charlie's vocab! The balloons sound like a job that I could delegate to my dad . Thanks for the advice, I think DIY is the way to go. I phoned Clinton Cards today and they do a bunch of three balloons for £3 but they'll only guarantee them for 12 hours, so we'd have to pick them up on the Sunday. They don't open until 10:30am and we have to be at the Church (25 minutes away) for 10:15 so it wouldn't work.

How are all the Christening preparations going? You're doing loads of baking!

Glam - I'm glad you got some decent sleep last night.

Aless - hope Finn sleeps better for you tonight.

Kindof - I thought my TENS was rubbish but I'm not sure I put it on early enough to be honest. I've since lent it to someone else and she said it was brilliant. Actually, I still need to get it back from her. She had her baby in September!

Re clothes, we've kept all of ours as we're planning more babies (well, only one more at the moment, but you never know). Like Glam, ours is all in vacuum bags.

OK, and now after all that, I'm off to bed as I have a KIT day tomorrow and there is now four inches of snow outside. Why does it always snow when I have KIT days? :mad:

weezl74

SugarSpun wrote: »

I think they might just hate you BM

Weezl, sorry if you've answered this, but did you try pumping? I find it doesn't hurt my nipples, although it does feel a bit weird.

i tried a gentle electric one on mildest setting with local anaesthetic cream smeared on the nipple. This achieved by dipping the boob in the jar cos I can't actually touch my own nipple I guess it's a bit like if you tried to make yourself touch your iris of your eye (although that's a rubbish analogy for contacts wearers!!!)

and a hand pump with same analgesia plus codeine. (plan was to get used to it with codeine, pump and dump, and then try properly). But all failed sadly.

I sat with 2 pyrex bowls under boobs for ages when at the niagara stage, just so I could tip a little bit into Fs bottles and (slightly gross but important to me) also squeezed out the cotton breast pads into his milk too.

xxx

Buttonmoons

Keira had her 8month check up at our house aswell as the toddler one.

Actually thinking about it now, I hope they didn't think I was neglecting her or something! Maybe cause I was a young mother and I had just moved to that surgery? Either way, I liked that HV, we were skint and she got us £50 towards Keira's Christmas from some nun charity that only gives money to people with BABY GIRLS. How sexist!

She moved though and no clue who my HV is right now.
Don't like the HV's there, look down on me because I'm young.


SS - They probably hate me now with all my moaning, no doubt will ban me :rotfl:

Turns out the last guy I spoke too was speaking out his bum and didn't even call the delivery driver, so it wasn't 5minutes! They will be here within half an hour, but IM TELLING YA, the delivery was SUPPOSED to be between 7-9.

It's just aswell I have no life, cause Id be super mega barbara streisand !!!!ed right about now.

money_maker_3

weezl74 wrote: »

nothing through yet mm. Bit tricksome cos he's on so much lactulose now that they'll only give enough repeats (ie one script) to last him 8 days so we're at the GP nearly once a week til he sees paeds. Just remembering how many appointments we had when F was born, I can't figure out how we'll manage to remember all the jabs/checks HV malarkey with both of them :rotfl:

How's work? Is it ok to be back or horrid?

xxx

You will be surprised at how easy you will find it !! You wont feelt he need to go the the HV as often with the 2nd as you did with the 1st and the HV arent useually as bothered with 2nd time mums unless there are any problems, so you wont have much to do with Kester !!

Being back at work is nasty and I want it to go away :rotfl:
Its actually OK. I do not feel as though I have never been away though, I am perfectly aware of the fact I have been off for the last 9 months
It will be better when I get my travelling out of the way !!

cazscoob

oh oh oh i have just bought a coachbuilt pram for £45!!!!!! she has taken the ad off so i cant give you a link. its a white body with blue hood and covers looks exactly like a SX but is a marmet it just came on gumtree and she said first come first served, couldnt give her my bank details quick enough and i pick it up tom!

SugarSpun

3onitsway wrote: »

But if you've nothing to compare him with, you wouldn't know he was crap!

I knew my first boyfriend was crap - it was painful and awkward and he was always the only one to enjoy it.

chopsticks wrote: »

SS - stupid Doctor. He sounds awful . You said yourself that Molly is happy and healthy, so just ignore him. Would you consider coming back to the UK for work, or is that a big no-no? I like the thought of a weekly to-do list. I might have to steal your idea.

SS and 3 - are you both only buying 12-18 month clothes for your little ones (ebay/Me Too ones, I mean)? I'm watching a few bits but none are 12-18 months.

It's a balance of the convenience of living right on top of him and having someone I trust. Luckily she's healthy, but if she had any serious problems I'd get a different doctor.

Re coming back to the UK - I would in theory but the job situation is so dire at the moment that it's unlikely I'd get anywhere.

I'm also bidding on a 9-12 month dress but not terribly fussed if I don't get it I might change my mind though if the others I'm looking at get sniped (3 I'm looking at you )

Edit: Weezl how frustrating that you've tried so hard and it didn't work out the way you wanted. But it doesn't seem to have made a difference to Fergie's health or the bond between you (I well up when I think of the head-touching).

Buttonmoons

Tens machines are horrible, they were electrocuting me and it ripped loads of my back hairys off (It's clearly where Keira gets this hairy back of hers!)

Weezl I did reply about the onion tart, and I don't like quiche or anything remotely quinchy (tis what I call quiche)

Will give the Scotch eggs a go though, OH likes them. Keeps asking me to make egg cutlets, never ever heard of them. Do you know what they are?

aless02

anyone want a baby that just refuses to sleep? it's been about 2 wks now of this and the only thing to shut him up is to shove a nipple in his mouth

3onitsway

Weezl Totally off subject but is Mr Weezl about? L has been down crying with a sore mouth - not toothache, more throbby pain. She showed me where it hurts. Its the one behind the fang where she still has a baby tooth, and there is a big tooth growing in front of it!

If we go to the dentist, will he whip out the baby tooth?, or leave it to come out on its own. It doesn't feel wobbly.

money_maker_3

Mine was like that 3, and I didnt go tot he dentist because I thought they would pull my toth out, and my tooth is now about 5 mm above the rest of my teeth in my gum