MSE Parents Club Part 12

Glamazon

3onitsway wrote: »

Awww Tia Your baby boy is getting all growed up! Will he have teeny-tiny school uniform when he starts?

Glam :wave: Fritha popped on yesterday with the date for the next meet. Friday 7th May, usual place. Will you still be off work then?
How is the sleeping going - or should I not ask?

Beenie What a bloody idiot! Complain. :mad:

Unfortunately I have the IL's here!
Back in work on 24th May

Don't ask! We had a great night Saturday so I thought we'd cracked it but still waking up and proper screaming

Fitzio wrote: »

Glam - Is it today your visit from the nursery nurse re sleeping? Let us know how you get on or if she hasn't been yet. For some reason I have in my head that it was a Wednesday.

It was supposed to be yesterday but I cancelled it - not sure if she can really help much but going to reschedule it when I can fit it in.

I have the busiest 3 weeks coming up and I'm supposed to be taking it easy before goling back to work!

SugarSpun

Thanks Boo, it'll get sorted

I completely forgot about my SUPER BARGAIN in all of the drama - I scored a 30l Brabantia wastebin reduced from €150 to €90 to €45!!! Husband was horrified that I spent €45 on a bin, but I think he should be delighted that I saved us €105.

tiamai_d

MFD, I know it doesn't feel like it, but your hubby does have the right idea. Treat them as very much a non event. They don't really mean anything, he's just at the brat age, they all go through it. Even the ones who say theirs don't, they will. It doesn't really get better, but you just get used to it and they don't seem such a big deal.

He sounds like he is getting them out of his system quickly, which is good.

Of course, when I'm on here in tears because Amber has hit her brat age, you do feel free to tell me to just shrug it off!

Boogelly, I love that outfit! She would so clash with my zebra print cosy toe! lol!

SusanC_2

tiamai_d wrote: »

Hold on, is Susan pregnant?

boogellyboo wrote: »

Nope, she's mega organised in preparing TTC no2

I'm sure we had this conversation a couple of months ago too. I promise that you all will be the first to know (aside from OH obviously).

tiamai_d

Sorry Susan, I've just been missing a lot of hot gossip and my nose was itchin'me

I better go do some housework I suppose.

tiamai_d

someone was supposed to say 'oh just leave the housework tia and have another coffee'. You disappoint me guys

boogellyboo

tiamai_d wrote: »

Boogelly, I love that outfit! She would so clash with my zebra print cosy toe! lol!

Ambertronic would be needing this one then

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

susan another thought, bump size tends to be bigger with PG 2 (well it was for sami and me ) so possibly if you're thinking of using the same clothes as before, maybe get some things that are a bit bigger than the biggest things you wore last time.

I hadn't thought of that. Most of the stuff I had last time was borrowed (and I was five to six months pregnant when I started wearing it) but I've bought six size 12/14 maternity dresses on eBay and I'm 10/12 and have also got a coat I bought in a sale which isn't a maternity coat but it's a relatively large size and the right cut to accomodate a bump. If stuff did get too small, it wouldn't be too bad having to get bigger stuff as it would be nearer the end and I wasn't quite so bad later on.

weezl74 wrote: »

Also a belly band was v useful with PG 2 but I didn't need it at all with pg 1. You can use it to hold a hot waterbottle on your lower back.
...
I have a belly band here and a vid of PG yoga if useful at any point . Also a labour tens machine.

Thanks - mental note made. (Should I admit that I've started doing some of the exercises from Janet Balaskas' book?)

weezl74 wrote: »

Also would it be worth getting any HB stuff ready or at least a list of what to assemble so you can just give it to OH if you're too shattered to think of it at the time?

That probably is a good idea - I did start looking into birth pools but should get a bit more organised.

weezl74 wrote: »

nope! I think you and me are normal and the other 6.9 billion people on the planet are crazy weirdos

:rotfl: *whispers* But I would say 6.9 milliard.

weezl74 wrote: »

Can I help with a homebirth kit list?

Yes please!

My_Fathers_Daughter

tiamai_d wrote: »

MFD, I know it doesn't feel like it, but your hubby does have the right idea. Treat them as very much a non event. They don't really mean anything, he's just at the brat age, they all go through it. Even the ones who say theirs don't, they will. It doesn't really get better, but you just get used to it and they don't seem such a big deal.

He sounds like he is getting them out of his system quickly, which is good.

Of course, when I'm on here in tears because Amber has hit her brat age, you do feel free to tell me to just shrug it off!

I know! Just a hangover from my childhood when dad sighing and looking pee'd off meant that things were going to go flying very soon. My dad had a nervous breakdown when I was a kid and as a family we tiptoed around him even after he was on the mend...we still do to a large extent.


You don't hear of nervous breakdowns these days...what do they call them now?

SugarSpun

We still call them nervous breakdowns, MFD - you hear less about them because fewer of them happen with better outreach programs, better medication and various other factors.

<geek hat>Mental illness has trends like anything else, and at the moment somatoform disorders are replacing nervous breakdowns as signs that something is seriously wrong - medically unexplained pain is the new nervous breakdown, if you like. That's a very simplistic way of putting it, but think historically, at the start of the 20th century everyone had hysteria and needed psychoanalysis, now people have chronic medically unexplainable pain and get extended time off work. What's also interesting is that in the UK backache is the most common expression of MUP whereas in continental Europe MUP tends to be abdominal.
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