MSE Parents Club Part 12

My_Fathers_Daughter

It is glam - maybe Jack should get an account seeing as you won't


I still sterilise bottles - although it doesn't worry me if he has a few unsterilised ones. Two reasons: I am rubbish at cleaning the bottles out straight away so they are often left to fester; and milk bacteria worries me more than 'normal' germs because it can do real damage if they get a poorly tummy (I think anyway - another thing I think I picked up here!)

Also - it is somewhere to keep clean bottles


I keep meaning to ask - is there a reason that I still boil the kettle to make Benjamins nighttime bottle? I don't bother following the other instructions but I do always make it with a freshly boiled kettle.

Glamazon

I would have thought the water needed to be hot to mix properly and I would always use hot water rather than cold, I quite often re-boil the kettle if it's been more than an hour. :silenced:

I don't clean the bottles out straightaway either!
My hot water tap is almost like boiling water so I figure I'm using really hot water and WUL with a bottle brush it should get rid of any nasties lurking in the bottle. His bedtime bottle is made up fresh then I make the 2am and 6am bottles at 10pm so they aren't sitting in the bottle for long.

Also, I think with a lot of things 'they' say, they probably add a few months on to recommended ages 'just to be on the safe side'.

tiamai_d

MFD, habit? If your not bothered, don't change.

I have now stopped sterilising bottles but I rinse them with boiling water. DH still sterilises them however.

Amber can crawl backwards and bum shuffle forwards, does that count? She did it just to show Molly lol! A lot of grunting going on with her attempts at forward crawling though. Oh and she has totally mastered sitting up, now she is working on standing up by pulling herself up on the sofa. It's funny, she tries standing up, gets bored, tries crawling, gets bored, goes back to standing, moves in a circle, looks at me and squeaks, tries crawling repeat X50. Nap time now.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Benjamin has cows milk for his daytime bottles so I only make his nighttime one up. It is SO much easier when they have cows milk LOL! Although yesterday I got his bottles ready about 6pm and left them in the fridge and at about 6.45pm Benjamin went and got them out of the fridge and brought them to me to tell me it was bedtime :T He is such a cheeky so-and-so!

When I dropped him at the CM's this morning I went in and was having a chat with the CM as usual and Benjamin wandered to the door and stood there waving as if he was telling me to leave now :rotfl::rotfl:



Edit - go Amber - won't be long now!!

Glamazon

Jack cried when I left this morning - it could have been because of the rather anaemic looking piece of toast they were trying to give him! Actually it was probably because they were in the breakfast room rather than the baby room!

I can't wait for the cows milk stage! I've already started giving him his formula at a cooler temp i.e. just enough in MW to take the chill off. He prefers his water ice cold so I'm hoping it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

He's in the Pampers Active Fit for the first time today - usually just have Baby Dry but stocks were running low so I've decided to try these during the day now.

Tia - That drives me crazy! Jack's like a little Jack in the box - he sits, crawls, sits, pulls himself up, drops on bum, pulls himself up, drops on bum, crawls, sits, crawls - repeat all day long! He's started really stropping as well and arching his back when I try to hold him. Oh and nothing I do keeps hims till longer enough for me to change a nappy! I end up with Sudocrem bum prints everywhere :rotfl:

aless02

Fitzio wrote: »

I am still lurking sometimes but not got much to say. Thanks for asking after me Aless. Happy Anniversary! Whereabouts in Scotland did you get married?

Gretna Green, along with about half this thread, it seems

Went to baby group after all, I'm trying to stop being so lazy! Now a certain someone didn't want to go down for an afternoon nap, so I'm hoping some noisy playtime will tire him out shortly.

Well done Molly!!

wm, lovely photo

redmel1621

Yay Molly and Amber:T:T

Yay Mr and Mrs Bruno on telling people irl, very exciting:j

Sterilising - That's a big benefit of K not having bottles anymore, his cups just go in the dishwasher:D Oh well, not long and I have to go through the whole sterilising and making bottles up again:cool:

workinmummy

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

When I dropped him at the CM's this morning I went in and was having a chat with the CM as usual and Benjamin wandered to the door and stood there waving as if he was telling me to leave now :rotfl::rotfl:

Ahh Bless him. Joe was like this. Always felt that he loved CM more than me. Loved being there and she tendered to his ever whim. Think Alex will be the same. Was dropping him off last week and she moved out of his field of vision and he cried, even though he could see me. I did not pout and sulk honest! It is Joe all over again, don't want mummy want Tracy. But at least I know that even at such a young age, he is happy being cared for by her.

Currently consuming chips and have a flake for afters. Hopefully that will calm the PMT.

Sami_Bee

SusanC wrote: »

Alice probably has whooping cough - not asthma. Unfortunately it could last another couple of months and there's nothing they can do about it. The sleep disturbance is worse than having a newborn (or at least worse than Alice ever was).

Poor Alice, I hope she's not too distressed and that it passes quickly for all of your sakes.

Random but I've not been vaccinated against whooping cough because a friend of the family is severely disabled due to the vaccine so my mum had a (possible?) knee jerk reaction to not let my sister and I have it. I hope my Aunty & Uncle didn't bring any germs with them last week when they visited from Durham.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

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Flawed / Knee Jerk research in this country???? NEVER!!!
Next you will be telling me that 'they' make things up


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When we pulled into the CM's drive this morning Benjamin started shouting and clapping and was generally very excited to be there. Poor mummy is deep-down very happy that he loves it at the CM but he could make a bit of an effort to pretend he was gonna miss me

lol I suppose some may argue that only 6 babies have been affected is proof that the ban works but - meh Doesn't matter now anyway

I was always happy that Chris liked the CM's house too, lets face it having other children to play with has to be more fun that being at home with mummy

Squishy wrote: »

I was hoping this! We're using the premade cartons, as she flatout refused to take the powdered stuff. I have no problems with feeding her morning and night (and she still feeds during the night!), I'm just concerned she might get upset if she can't feed during the day, iykwim? I'm sure she'll get used to it though!

For those who bf over 6 months: I was told by the health visitor that if I continued to feed over this point, either bubs or I would have to go on vitamins - anyone else get told this? I'm also concerned about iron intake (so have been interested in the conversation on this recently!) as none of the baby vitamins contain iron, and I can't take iron tablets with my underactive thyroid.

I have no research etc to back it up but I think the vitamins thing is b0llocks lets face it humans have been having babies and breastfeeding them past 6months for thousands of years and there were no such things as vitamins for most of this time, we didn't die out so it can't be 'that' important surely?;) That goes for the iron store theory too! I heard somewhere that babies only use the iron store for just a few months and by the time it runs out (assuming nothing like anaemia, early cord clamping etc has affected the transfer) their body is capable of processing it's dietary iron so the iron in breastmilk is being used/stored by them before solids are introduced.

EA what you described sounds just like my eczema, see your HV or GP and be careful what products you use on her skin/in her bath in case it's a reaction, I'd probably put a natural oil (olive/sunflower/coconut) or vaseline on it for now to try to soften/moisturise it otherwise it will probably crack and be sore maybe bleed.

ETA - forgot to add Happy Anniversary Aless! x

My_Fathers_Daughter

Oh WM - I think I will cry if Benjamin starts with that, although I am quite prepared for it having seen enough kids go through it with my mum when I was growing up (she was a CM). ATM he loves going there and gets very excited but he is still a big-mummies-boy!! He knows that once I go he gets his breakfast :rotfl::rotfl:

Glam - hope Jack crying didn't upset you.