MSE Parents Club Part 11

newbie_maz

EA - as Glam said, its 6-8 week check. Think Evie was about 7-8 weeks & I booked her 8-week jabs while i was there for the following week.

Good luck SM!

Evie has had an hours nap this morning which is good for her. Albeit with me holding her (hence me being on here rather than doing the million and one things i have to do!)

Last night was ok. Took her for bath at half 6 and started trying to get her to sleep just after 7 and she finally went just after 8. Then she woke up at 1:45am & i took her in our bed to feed and did that on & off through the night til 7:30am. I find it a bit uncomfy when she's in our bed for so long but was good to not have a long wakeful period for either of us. She was sick a bit when she got up so think she'd been greedy having it on tap and over-guzzled!

Put her in her door bouncer this morning - she loved it!

Hope poorly babies feeling better

x

Fitzio

EA - as Glam says, there is leeway on appts and jags, they are not always at precisely the same time for everyone. And H and I had our check up at the same time, there wasn't 2 separate appts so that's probably the same for you by the sound of it. It's good Lily's milia is clearing up. Holly had it and it took us weeks to get a decent photo of her poor thing. She has lovely skin now and lots of people comment on it.

MFD - hope your meeting goes well and you feel better later.

PP - Well done Caitlyn (hopes spelling is right!)

SM - Good luck for your test, just chill out for the moment.

Som - Have you tried cherry dummies rather than the orthodontic ones? I think a lot of people find that baby prefers the shape. Holly will take a cherry dummy if she is at a sleepy stage and it helps her nod off, but there is no way she would take one if she was crying. My friend's baby takes one if he is crying (which he does a lot) though which is strange to me! I don't know how she gets him to keep it in his mouth!

Sami_Bee

Becles wrote: »

Best of luck with the test today SM.

Has anyone else got a toddler going through a defiant stage? I feel like everytime I tell Charlotte to do something she either ignores me or says no. It's really irritating

I do! I swear I could strangle him sometimes!! He has driven me to tears over stupid things like constantly eating paper and cardboard :mad: he just rips up books and puzzle boxes. When I say no/stop etc he just smiles and shoves it in his gob anyway

I decided this morning to go buy a cheap cot for Ed so I looked on my spreadsheet that I did before he was born where I compared cost of a new cot for him against a new bed for Chris (who's in the cotbed) well the cheaped cot then was the Ikea gulliver so I go on to ikea website and it's now 1yr on and nearly £25 more just for the cot! :eek:

pinkpig08

gym - I used to get told that I ought to put her on formula (mainly by MIL). Sometimes I thought it might be easier, but looking back I think it's easier (for me) to BF. I don't have to sterilise anything and it's easier at night. It's up to YOU how you feed your baby, no-one else. If you decide to go with formula then do it because YOU want to, and not because you feel pressurised.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Fitzio wrote: »

Som - Have you tried cherry dummies rather than the orthodontic ones? I think a lot of people find that baby prefers the shape. Holly will take a cherry dummy if she is at a sleepy stage and it helps her nod off, but there is no way she would take one if she was crying. My friend's baby takes one if he is crying (which he does a lot) though which is strange to me! I don't know how she gets him to keep it in his mouth!

We are cherry dummies here too! Only the pirate ones, no others will do! Although he didn't take one at all (unless you held it in for him LOL) until 12 weeks.

Now when Benjamin is crying I take his dummy out of his mouth and pop it back in which prompts him to suck on it...and hence stop crying!

That is another battle we need to tackle - stopping him having a dummy when he isn't tired. He mostly only has them for sleeping but he seems to hide them all over the place so he disappears under the dining table (or wherever) and comes back with one in his mouth!!


This morning he sat in his cot with his dalmation shouting 'woof, woof, woof' how cute!!

Somnium

EA - yeay for acne clearing, am sure T's is gettin worse it's looks so horrid when she gets upset but after Reading up on it now know this is normal.

Gym - boo at the lack of RL support, I've been surprised with the support I got from both sides of our families as I'm the first to bf for ages and thought they'd persaud me to swap to formula when I was having a rough time.

WM - do you find Alex has a fave sleeping bag?

Fitzio - might bee worth trying thanks only tried orthodontic so far, tho she was really upset yesterday when I was trying to give her the dummy so could have been that.

Well havin a good morning as T has been asleep on her gym on and off so managed to shower and do my hair then legs and dress and she still hasn't fussed

aless02

LOL, we're the opposite! Finn loves his orthodontic one (I should buy more because we only have one and every time we lose it, there are many tears to be had until it's found!) and spits the cherry ones out in 2 seconds!

Evansangel

I have 6 dummys for L now as we keep losing them. We have 1 in pram, 2 in bedroom and 3 in the living room just incase
And they are all exactly the same ones so she cant reject them

workinmummy

Somnium wrote: »

WM - do you find Alex has a fave sleeping bag?

Fitzio - might bee worth trying thanks only tried orthodontic so far, tho she was really upset yesterday when I was trying to give her the dummy so could have been that.

No Som. Any one will do. Thank god he's not fussy about those. But only MAM dummies will do! And with Joe it was the cherry ones only.

got-it-spend-it

Hello all :hello:

Happy Birthday Katie :j and Good Luck SM :j

Gymfiend- I can't imagine how hard it must be not to have any real-life support. have you found a booby club near you? That might be a good place for some RL support. What does your OH think about it? Maybe if you explain to him how important it is to you, then he can field some of the negative comments from family members. Please remember we are all here for you.


Speaking of supportive OHs, has anyone found that their OH has got less supportive of BFing as baby grows up? Mine was awesome at first, but now H is a bit older he doesn't like me feeding in public and is just generally much less helpful when I am feeding. When I told his the HV said I should be proud of myself, he was really sarcastic. He now says he was joking, but I don't think he was....