MSE Parents Club Part 11

Krystaltips

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

I've got one that's not plugged in at either end... Does that count?

Evansangel

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

I wasn't going to get one but my dad ended buying one for me for like £100 :eek:
He loves gadgets and this one had more gadgets than the £40 one.

But hey, im not complaining

Fitzio

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

Aless, I have a BT monitor but it's not a breathing one. I wouldn't bother with that as it's not something I worry about to be honest. My brother and his GF don't have one as they stay in a flat and their logic says they would hear the baby crying as the rooms are quite near. I mainly use mine when I am in the shower or drying my hair and Holly is sleeping, so even in a flat, I would find it handy. She is still sleeping in our room though so will obviously have it on during the night when she goes into her own room. Don't think I will ever be obsessive about it though.

Holly has taken to impersonating a variety of birds I think. It is currently varying between a pigeon cooing and some kind of tropical bird squawking. With a bit of singing thrown in for good measure! She is very noisy!

SugarSpun

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

We have one in my parents' house, which was mostly used to stage conversations at the upstairs end for the people at the downstairs end to think they were overhearing. Here we don't have one at all - since I can hear Molly do just about anything from farting onwards from the other end of the apartment we found it unnecessary to bring it back.

Fitzio wrote: »

SS - Molly must have given you a fright! Babies breathing is funny isn't it? Sometimes their chests are rising and falling so dramatically that it doesn't look normal and then the opposite happens too and they don't look like they are breathing at all. I just put a finger under Holly's nose to feel her breath and tickle it if I can't feel anything, until she reacts! Will you be able to catch up on some sleep today? Maybe Molly was punishing you for getting a longer sleep at the weekend!

Rotter baby :rotfl: I gave her a gentle shake and her fingers curled up, but I couldn't feel the breathing and freaked out that she'd been screaming from something Seriously Wrong instead of just being overtired and my lacksadaisical parenting methods were Just Not Good Enough. Plus OH thought she was teething and did the whisky on the gums trick and I was then utterly paranoid that the police would come and find a baby reeking of single malt

elle_gee

:grouphug: Sugar
Hands up all those who went to check on their sleeping baby just then.. Rhys' chest isn't moving much but I could hear him snoring before I got close enough to see that! :cool:

Incidentially, how do you know the difference between just a cold and subsequent cough and a chest infection? One of the girls at Boogie Babies held Rhys for a while last Thursday and he was a bit raspy/rattly which I'd just put down to the end of his cold and cough but she asked if he had had a chest infection

PP, we're seeing friends tomorrow, Rhys is going to Mum's on Wednesday and usual on Thursday and Friday and a friend visiting us on Saturday. No danger of getting bored

Becles, *hugs* Please don't stay away for long. We're always here to listen/read and can keep our comment (but not our hugs) to ourselves if you'd prefer to just get it all off your chest xxx

aless02

yeah, our flat's small enough that I can pretty much hear everything just checking I wasn't a complete loon, LOL. I would have one if we had an upstairs or long distance between the bedroom/lounge or whatever, but just didn't see the point in our flat.

csh_2

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

I only use my monitor as a breathing alarm. I don't have the other end on as I can hear the alarm from the unit up the stairs all over the house.
I don't need to hear every shuffle and fart, just need to know his chest is still rising and falling!

If I didn't want a breathing one i wouldn't have one at all IYKWIM?

got-it-spend-it

kindofagilr wrote: »

Thats like if you are up north though, I will be known as mam and mammy and you cant get cards that say that at all, I think Tesco might have done a range last year but can'r swear by it. I mean it cant be hard for card makers to add mam and mammy their cards surely!

Aless come and join me in the civil service you will be hated by many on this board though lol

3onitsway - thanks for asking, I was just very quiet yesterday, had only had one hour sleep and I was in a lot of pain yesterday (my ribs are killing me for some reason?) and just feeling fed up and I didnt want to come on and whinge some more cos I worry you will all be getting sick of me and I am not even meant to be on this thread yet

Tia that floor plan is ace, I deffo think it would work, even think you could get a little en suite in the master bedroom in the bottom right hand corner

Awww Weezl no dont worry about it I was just in a right mood yesterday, turns out my mate didnt go into labour lol

Angelfairy are the games in the right folder in the window of the micro sd card? I think they need to be in a folder called games? (I cnat remember off the top of my head) but I can porbs do a screen print of what the info looks like on my sd card?

Awww OH has just woke up and wanted me to go back to bed, but I am getting cramps in my belly and back and they will only keep me awake, I will attempt to snooze through them on sofa, I dont like going back to bed if I am not 100% sure I will get to sleep cos I dont want to wake OH when he has work

So yeah I am getting period pain cramps again and sore back again but I am not even getting my hopes up lol

I am at MW on tues for a sweep (which I really didnt want to have ) so I will just see what happens there.

I am going to attempt to snooze on sofa once i've taken some painkllers

Have you taken paracetamol, hun? Would be worth taking some if not. Also a hot water bottle is always good.

You know you don't have to have the sweep if you don't want to? It's totally up to you. The MW should be able to let you know what your cervix is doing though, so at least you will know how things are going. Hugs to you, I know it is so miserable and part of me is a bit sad that the last two miserable weeks have jaded my view of my otherwise straight-forward pregnancy but hopefully I will get over that in time.......sorry, bit of a tangent there!

aless02 wrote: »

am I the only one without any sort of baby monitor?

We have a BT150 but not a breathing or movement one or anything. As he's still in our room I'm happy as we are at the moment.

Hugs SS, that must have been so scary for you, but I'm sure Krystal is right.

elle_gee wrote: »

:grouphug: Sugar
Hands up all those who went to check on their sleeping baby just then.. Rhys' chest isn't moving much but I could hear him snoring before I got close enough to see that! :cool:

Incidentially, how do you know the difference between just a cold and subsequent cough and a chest infection? One of the girls at Boogie Babies held Rhys for a while last Thursday and he was a bit raspy/rattly which I'd just put down to the end of his cold and cough but she asked if he had had a chest infection

PP, we're seeing friends tomorrow, Rhys is going to Mum's on Wednesday and usual on Thursday and Friday and a friend visiting us on Saturday. No danger of getting bored

Becles, *hugs* Please don't stay away for long. We're always here to listen/read and can keep our comment (but not our hugs) to ourselves if you'd prefer to just get it all off your chest xxx

Elle- Henry is exactly the same at the moment but I'm pretty sure it is just the end of a coughy cold rather than anything more sinister.

I need to get my butt in gear, I have people coming to collect Freecycle things at 10 and it would be good if I was dressed.

kindofagilr

Been to hosp, contrcgtions were resally painful and strong, but I am only 2cms so sent home, told to go back when they are stronger, they !!!!ing kill I must be a wuss, I am so tired as well but cant sleep, well I can but then a contraction wakes me up

SugarSpun

KOAG how exciting it's actually happening now!!!

Take some paracetamol and try to doze between contractions. And if you can manage to eat something light, this is a good time - think of all the work you'll be doing later. Just nothing eggy or oniony or garlicky (unless your midwife is mean and you want to trump at her a lot :rotfl:).