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MSE Parents Club Part 11

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  • BeenieCat
    BeenieCat Posts: 6,567 Forumite
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    aless02 wrote: »
    Beenie, hope you have Calpol. Finn got pretty poorly after his :(.
    Yeah they gave me some after her first ones but i never needed it.

    How long after jabs was it before he got poorly?

    I got her weighed too, she's 15 weeks and 13lb 10oz, following 50th centile from birth. Little Miss Average lol.
  • cazscoob
    cazscoob Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    thanks everyone i think it just made me feel worse that i dont really see/speak to my mum and she would have done anything to have her mum here. The funeral is on friday and im not good with funerals so might nip in afterwards for some support and make a donation to her charity.

    on a better note im sure Erin can say Charlie! well it definatly sounded like it and she looked at me and laughed afterwards!
    I also sold my trumpettes on ebay, they look so tiny so i now need something to replace them with :D

    eta sister just phoned they are eventually after much pushing going to admit my nephew!!!! he was weighed today and is under 18lbs at a year old. fingers crossed they get to the bottom of it all!
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  • kindofagilr
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    Probably not MDW, I think it's a normal thing you'd want to experience, going through all the motions before having your baby.

    Did you have a planned C section?

    I can honestly say if I DO have another baby, I am demanding an elective C section. I never want to go through an experience like that AGAIN. Traumatised!! This is why I smoke (not really but sssssh!)

    I feel the same as you, from what you described you had it way worse than me lol but if you've read my birth story you'll know I had a crappy labour too, so right now IF and its a big IF I have more kids (cos its honestly terrified me now) I think I want a c section, I think I will be too scared to have another baby naturally

    Thank you MFD :)

    Well I have nothing planned for today, I might pick up my cross stitch again

    I have a question I love Buffy the Vampire slayer and have all the episodes on DVD and I can stick them on and watch them all day, now obv it deosnt matter if Elliot sees them cos he doesnt know whats going on, but when should I stop watching them when he is around? or would you not stop watching them? cos you know some episodes are scary lol
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  • r.mac_2
    r.mac_2 Posts: 4,746 Forumite
    hi caz - cake business is alright - but things are uiet now the easter orders have been done. My business partner has just moved so that situation may be changing a little!!!

    Hi and waves to jillie, ss, beanie and SM too :D

    3 - talking - it's so funny and cracks me up. Ananbel says 'hi there' and 'bu bye' evereytime she sees someone/enters/leaves a room. She particularly likes old people in the supermarket ;) She knows how to play to the crowd, even at 13 months :D She also says dodard (yogurt), shoes, ooce (juice - although that's water in our house, poor deprived child), yum, daddy and has just started saying mumma this week.

    I fed her HM cheese scones at lunchtime today and she kept saying yum yum to me and wrinkling her nose up with a smile. It made me so warm and fuzzy - can you tell I'm a very proud mummy who obviously doesn't do enough with her life so can only spout about how she loves her DD so much!!!!

    saying that I'm looking at going to an evening salsacise class with a friend after easter and making more of an effort to get out and about with hubby as a couple - even if our babysitters have fallen through a few times - at least we are trying!

    How are things with you being a SAHM thesedays - still enjoying it?

    MFD - glad i've not put my foot in it and you are still working! I hope you enjoyed your holibobs to the sunshine. Your pics were lovely - how alike Benjamin and his daddy are :D
    aless02 wrote: »
    r.mac, you are so wise and wonderful, that post was lovely and so insightful!
    I can't promise that all my replies will illicit this response :p
  • r.mac_2
    r.mac_2 Posts: 4,746 Forumite
    buttons (may I say you are looking rather hot in your avatar! hello and big waves to keira) and kindofagilr (hello we've not 'met' yet!) I'm sorry to hear about your yucky birth stories, but I do have a cautionary tale re: c-sections. I am the first to admit that if i ever have another baby then it'll be by c-section. I had an emergency c-section with Annabel - she was very ill during a long labour and they took the decision to move fast - I have no problems with what they did at all. The unfortunate thing was that I lost a huge amount of blood from the operation, took longer to stitch me up because of complications and so husband was left with a very ill baby in sspecial care and a very ill wife in high dependency! We were both fine in the end - but it's definately not the easy option - I promise - now lecture over I promise!!!!
    aless02 wrote: »
    r.mac, you are so wise and wonderful, that post was lovely and so insightful!
    I can't promise that all my replies will illicit this response :p
  • aless02
    aless02 Posts: 5,119 Forumite
    Beenie, hmmm. He had his jabbies at 3:30pm and wouldn't go to sleep at his usual bedtime of 7:30, but I reckon we really noticed him being really feverish & clammy around about 9-10pm. Gave him some Calpol around about 10pm and I think the fever finally broke around about 3am, though I was not totally coherent do timings are less than accurate :D.

    oo-er, my baby's heavier than yours (14lbs 1)! LOL, but he's a boy :D

    kindof - I really think it doesn't matter! DH plays his video games with Finn there and we watch whatever we want on TV. We also still swear but that's going to stop soon :o
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  • 3onitsway wrote: »
    The talking reminded me.
    Apart from Mumma, Dadda and DoDo (Jojo), she said this morning 'DET DOW' whilst wagging her finger at the dog. I obviously spend too much time telling the dog to get down. We'll have to work on a name for Liv now before she starts to feel left out - but I think L is quite a hard sound for little ones. :( She'll probably end up being Wiv.

    I thought that the J sound would be a problem but clever V clearly got around that one - hoping Benjamin can do the same for DSS (although I have primed him that he may not get a proper name for a while).


    Situation clarified - primed my assistant with some choice questions and she went into her interview and said 'look, I am blonde - you will have to spell out exactly what I am getting' :rotfl: We get a weeks full-salary notice for every full year we have worked and then a week statutory redundancy for every full year we have worked - which is much more appealing.

    Still doesn't change the fact that I may or may not have a job in 4 weeks time but it will tide me over for a while if I do end up unemployed.



    Kindof - I would say once he is noticing the TV then I would restrict to more child-friendly viewing. But then again it is only Buffy - they probably see worse stuff on Jeremy Kyle!!
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
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  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    Ladies, I'm watching last week's OBEM and need someone to tell me the babies will be ok.
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  • Sami_Bee
    Sami_Bee Posts: 14,555 Forumite
    I feel the same as you, from what you described you had it way worse than me lol but if you've read my birth story you'll know I had a crappy labour too, so right now IF and its a big IF I have more kids (cos its honestly terrified me now) I think I want a c section, I think I will be too scared to have another baby naturally

    Thank you MFD :)

    Well I have nothing planned for today, I might pick up my cross stitch again

    I have a question I love Buffy the Vampire slayer and have all the episodes on DVD and I can stick them on and watch them all day, now obv it deosnt matter if Elliot sees them cos he doesnt know whats going on, but when should I stop watching them when he is around? or would you not stop watching them? cos you know some episodes are scary lol
    I'd say you've got about 9mth of buffy watching left, then you'll be watching cbeebies like it or not :p scary stuff is banned here and has been since Chris showed an interest in what was on tv.

    Just remember peeps that c/s are definitely not without risks, do use your hosps after thoughts service to discuss your birth and find out why things happened and how likely they are to happen again :)
    The very best is sometimes what nature gives us for free.
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I think Sami is right, as always!
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