MSE Parents Club Part 10

My_Fathers_Daughter

Morning all.

After a sh1tty day at work yesterday I didn't come on last night so I now have 14 pages to catch up on!!!

Will try and read as I work this morning.

Hope everyone is okay. Hope the scan goes well this morning elle. xx

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

<nerd>The trend continues all through royal families - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are both descended from the children of King Harold, who was killed by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. One of his daughters went off and married a Russian prince and produced a series of children who made political marriages and had children who made political marriages and so on and so on... </nerd>

Pesky cousins marrying each other make it very hard to draw the Royal Family Tree.

weezl74 wrote: »

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.

Just so you know, it's possible to hand express (as in without a pump) without touching your nipples. It's a very slow process though.

searching_me wrote: »

i know it just gets to me alittle that its only us he has no little friends or we have no family .. so although i know he wont remember it i will and i dont him having poo birthdays like his mummy x

We've always had Alice's birthdays with just me, OH and Alice by choice. If she decides when she's older she'd rather have friends, have a party or whatever than fine but at the moment we just pick something we know she'll enjoy and do it as a family. First year we went to a farm, last year was Beamish and this year we're planning to go to Seven Stories in Newcastle. As long as he knows he is loved by the people who are there (i.e. you, Phillip, Zoe), it doesn't matter whether there are extra people or not.

aless02 wrote: »

Sami, variety of reasons re: USA. Mostly economic and lack of social welfare like NHS and the like. Plus just don't feel like it's a nice place to be at the moment, hard to explain.

The medical thing is very scary. Since Medicare/Medicaid came in, apparently the cost of medical care has gone up loads. I've heard of people who have been widowed and left with nothing because all of the life insurance has had to go on the dead husband's medical fees. I also know someone who's Uncle was pretty much left to die by the hospital because he was unemployed. In the US they spend three times what Mexico spends per head but only have a life expectancy of three years more.

And based on the stories I've heard about public schools, it's no wonder homeschooling is so big there.

But I'm totally jealous of house prices over there - a friend was considering a huge five bedroom farmhouse with loads of land in Nebraska which cost the same as our little two bedroom ex-council semi.

SugarSpun wrote: »

I didn't want to add the religion bit knowing that there are some religious mummies on the thread and didn't want to offend, aless, but since you brought it up already the self-righteousness that goes along with the minority of religious people and yet pervades American culture is also a factor.

Is the extremism as bad in the north as it is in the south?

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

Just so you know, it's possible to hand express (as in without a pump) without touching your nipples. It's a very slow process though.


We've always had Alice's birthdays with just me, OH and Alice by choice. If she decides when she's older she'd rather have friends, have a party or whatever than fine but at the moment we just pick something we know she'll enjoy and do it as a family. First year we went to a farm, last year was Beamish and this year we're planning to go to Seven Stories in Newcastle. As long as he knows he is loved by the people who are there (i.e. you, Phillip, Zoe), it doesn't matter whether there are extra people or not.

Thank you, I shall look that up

Party-wise, our neighbour, mum of 3 has a really good 'rule' she has one friend per year of the child's life. 3 friends at your third birthday, 6 at your 6th etc... She found that other children she watched seemed to get too overwhelmed at numbers higher than that.

DH and I are thinking of adopting this idea

My mum and Dad will both come to tea on Fergie's birthday and my mum plans a cake, but we don't have much more of a plan

Susan thanks for the iron tips the other day, sami too

Must PM SJ re: birth pool....

My_Fathers_Daughter

3onitsway wrote: »

TC meet, i'm easy, as you may have heard!


And I asked a question this morning and forgot to bold it;

The communal MSE musical birthday bib is available for the fairies to take to whoever wants it next. It is modelled in my avvy, and was brought to us by some Scruffy Fairies.

Is it very girly? And did somebody already bag it? Who is 1 next? Is it Fergie?

weezl74 wrote: »

Party-wise, our neighbour, mum of 3 has a really good 'rule' she has one friend per year of the child's life. 3 friends at your third birthday, 6 at your 6th etc... She found that other children she watched seemed to get too overwhelmed at numbers higher than that.

What a good idea. We might have to do this. Although I was thinking of visiting the monkey forest so may just go there with DSS.

Although - having just paid an obscene amount for a 10th birthday party for DSS Go-Karting with 9 of them I would suggest that you put a stop to it at some point (when they want to do expensive stuff!).

Although having said that, DSS has always been told that you only get a party when your birthday is in single figues and then at 'big' birthdays (13, 16, 18, 21) so this year he chose to have a party rather than a gift from his parents.
He asked for money for his birthday from friend and relatives and bought his own gift (a PSP) from that.

Mazcabs

kindofagilr wrote: »

Hey, just stepping in again

Did anyone here use a TENS machine when in labour, did you find it really effective???

I am considering on whether to get one?

Loved mine first time round, kept it on low setting all way through....just didnt have time with William though

Think William may have conjunctivitus...eyes were a bit sticky this morning... Would drs give you anything for a 2 month old?

searching_me

SusanC wrote: »

We've always had Alice's birthdays with just me, OH and Alice by choice. If she decides when she's older she'd rather have friends, have a party or whatever than fine but at the moment we just pick something we know she'll enjoy and do it as a family. First year we went to a farm, last year was Beamish and this year we're planning to go to Seven Stories in Newcastle. As long as he knows he is loved by the people who are there (i.e. you, Phillip, Zoe), it doesn't matter whether there are extra people or not.

i know i just get alittle pang of upset and alittle jealousy when i hear people having big family dos and knowing its something i'll never have til i have my own grandkids one day ..

right just stopping by as i need to get ready to meet my work mate i promised her chocolate cake so greggs it maybe :rotfl: .. so ((hugs)) and :coffee:'s all round ..

caz hope erin had a great birthday yesterday ..
glam glad jack seems to be sleep settling ...
mfd and mm to poopie work ..
weezl hope you fergie and kester are all ok ..
elle hope goes all ok for rhysy for his hospital appointment ..
beenie barclaycard are !!!!!! i have one and i cant wait to clear it ...
bm im glad you got your shop in the end and you deserve freebies with how pants they've been ..

and :hello: to aless, ss, XL and everyone else .. really must go now .. bye chucks hope you have a great day xxxxxx

sparkle03

Mazcabs wrote: »

Loved mine first time round, kept it on low setting all way through....just didnt have time with William though

Think William may have conjunctivitus...eyes were a bit sticky this morning... Would drs give you anything for a 2 month old?

I dont know if anything has changed since J is 7 next month but when he was 2 weeks old he got drops for conjunctivitus, poor baby Hope he feels better soon.

SugarSpun

SusanC wrote: »

But I'm totally jealous of house prices over there - a friend was considering a huge five bedroom farmhouse with loads of land in Nebraska which cost the same as our little two bedroom ex-council semi.


Is the extremism as bad in the north as it is in the south?

It can be - we'd be moving into a heavily conservative area in PA, which is a conservative outpost among the liberal north.

I remember doing a comparison - I took a million euro and looked at what I could buy with it. With the equivalent in dollars, I was looking at an 8-bed mansion with 3 acres of landscaped garden in Birmingham, Alabama, a 4-bed townhouse in Baltimore, a brownstone in Brooklyn ... and an ex-council house, two up two down, in a dodgy area of Dublin. In fact, here it is.

csh_2

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Quick Q- Henry still feeds pretty much every two hours through the day, although he generally sleeps ten hours at night. Is this excessive for a three month old BF baby?I just assumed he fed a lot in the day to make up for not feeding at night, but a mummy friend thought it was a lot.

K has never went more than 3 hrs for a bottle during the day. I'm sure he only has a 6oz stomach! I did try him on hungry baby milk but it just gave him terrible trapped wind then I decided I didn't want him to have that and if he wanted a bottle its because he needed it and I didn't want to force him into a 4 hr pattern


Hi Beenie! Nice to 'see' you

csh_2

Mazcabs wrote: »

Loved mine first time round, kept it on low setting all way through....just didnt have time with William though

Think William may have conjunctivitus...eyes were a bit sticky this morning... Would drs give you anything for a 2 month old?

When K had sticky eyes, I was cleaning them with cooled boiled water from the kettle and the HV said if that didn't clear it in 2-3 days then to go to docs
HTH