MSE Parents Club Part 13

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uses ASDA's own brand of nightime stuff.

Guinea - any lucky with the rocking (or not rocking)

Tonight, I have fed Jack in his cot and after a little pat shush he is asleep. Oh and tonight is the first night of going cold turkey on the early hours bottle :eek: He's not had his bottle the last 2 mornings (6am) so I figured he's just used to the one at 3am. Gonna try and knock it on the head from tonight.

ManOnTheMoon

Replying on a phone, apologies if I make no sense

SugarSpun wrote: »

Oooooooooooooooh Husband just gave me my birthday present!

(yes my birthday was six weeks ago, what is your point?!)

It's tomorrow and I'm getting a facial and a body scrub and massage followed by a haircut at a lovely place

It's right as the spa opens with the haircut right after so I won't get to use the steam room etc but that is FINE BY ME :j

although a steam room would be nice at the moment to clear out my battered sinuses but I will survive without.

Have nice time. Will be worth the 6 week wait.

SusanC wrote: »

I think it is just shoe free not sock free although I read somewhere (possibly the "Birth to Five" NHS book) that badly fitting socks can cause problems too. Alice actually never had socks until she was about eighteen months and never seemed to suffer from the cold as a result. Having observed that in general infants seem to remove their socks I decided it wasn't worth bothering with them until such time as she needed them. Until she could walk she was always in the sling outside so didn't need socks and then she started walking at the start of summer so had sandals so it was only when we bought her shoes that she started wearing socks (and even then she always took them off when we took her shoes off because she wasn't used to the idea of wearing them all the time). I would still have expected her to need them indoors in the winter but she always had warm feet when I felt them (which was quite often because I kept feeling the need to confirm that she really was warm enough without socks). (But this is the child who sleeps with no duvet when I'm using two so she's probably atypical.)

Thought it was just shoe free, but this woman insisted it was
Sock free too. Annoying woman. We told her husband as he's a nice old chap from a couple of doors down who always has had time for the girls and sometimes pops around with chocolate for them (they call him adopted Grandad) But she's nosey and annoying.

Thanks for your help.

SusanC wrote: »

Everybody has no history of breastfeeding the first time. And it doesn't have to be one or the other - she could choose a combination if she wanted to breastfeed but wanted you and the girls to be able to feed too.

Didn't even consider doing both. May be an option if Lucy was tired at some point.

Evansangel

Apparently, the forehead thermometres only measure the skin temperature and not the actual body temp. I read that somewhere, i cant remember where though.

ladybirdintheuk

gill_81uk wrote: »

I want to write a letter to Mothercare praising her but I'm worried she might get into trouble for opening and letting me keep a thermometer!

I'm sure they will be much happier to have a happy customer than to have lost £10 profit, or whatever they make on a themometer. What a panic for you though. It isn't nice to have a screaming baby in the car when you are on your own at the best of times. Had the rash gone down again by bed time? I don't worry too much about rashes now - Izzy seems to develop them randomly. I get excema, so sometimes I think it is that, but she seems to get heat rash quite often at the moment too, and nappy rash. Poor girl can't win! I just cover rashes in moisturiser and see if that helps, and if not I put some hydrocortisone on instead.

ManOnTheMoon

SusanC wrote: »

I've got a list somewhere - I'll just go and find it...

Here it is although I wrote it a couple of years ago so not necessarily fully up to date (Sainsbury's has recently started a club for example and they probably give out slightly different free stuff now than they did then).

Baby Clubs

The most worthwhile club to join is the Boots one. After that it’s probably the baby food ones for the free spoons. The toys from the formula milk companies are nice but not necessarily that useful. Other than that, they are probably only worth joining if you are likely to use their coupons. (Also Bounty http://www.bounty.com/ and Emma’s Diary http://www.emmasdiary.co.uk/ do free sample packs which are worth getting although they can vary as to how worthwhile they are.) If you like a particular club and it allows more than one per household then it’s worth signing both of you up.

Boots: http://www.bootsparentingclub.com/
Join as early as possible. It is worth buying a pack of Huggies nappies to use the coupon for the free change bag. They send you coupons about every three months during pregnancy and the first year. Definitely worth joining.

Tesco: http://www.tesco.com/babyclub/
The coupons are only really worth it if you are buying stuff like nappies, wipes and baby food etc but they also send you a magazine which sometimes has the odd useful thing in it although the baby ones aren’t as good as the pregnancy ones.

Huggies: http://www.huggiesclub.com/uk/index.aspx
Send the occasional money off coupons. Only worth it if you will actually use the coupons.

Pampers: http://www.pampers.co.uk/growingyourfamily/en_GB/signup.do?location=pamp
Send coupons, free nappy samples and random DVDs about how babies develop. Only worth it if you will actually use the coupons/samples.

Cow and Gate: http://www.cowandgate.co.uk/en/beginQuickJoin.asp
We got a free cow but currently they are doing teddies (enter code PRB0308C when joining). They also send you coupons.

Aptimil: http://www.milupa-aptamil.co.uk/en/beginQuickJoin.asp
Cuddly polar bear and occasional coupons.

HiPP Organic: http://www.hippbabyclub.co.uk/index.php
Free weaning pack – some of it was not really much use but the spoons are good. Also send baby food samples and coupons which are probably useful if you use baby food (we didn’t).

Bebevita: http://www.bebivita.co.uk/register.html
Free spoons and coupons.

Wow. Thanks for that. I shall go through them all with Lucy tomorrow and we'll decide which ones to go for.

Sorry, can't shorten the quote on this phone as would take ages

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

My boobs barely grew at all throughout the whole nine months. I went up one back size right at the end but no massive pregnancy boobs here! I also like to think that they have not deteriorated through breastfeeding.

If Lucy would like to hear any pros and cons of BFing/FFing from 'real' mums rather than just medical/professional advice and views, I am sure lots of us on here would be willing to share the warts and all side of both! I know I would be happy to!

Lucy would appreciate it. Advice on anything will be passed on for us to discuss. Nothing that will make me feel queasy though please

SugarSpun wrote: »

In German, nipples are calles "breast warts". Just sayin'

And definitely. I am happy to offer any information I have that Lucy might want to know (I'd say the same for Mrs Bruno but I'm guessing she has BFing covered).

:rotfl: @ breast warts

Any advice you or anyone want to give about anything will be gratefully received. Lucy is very special and any help I can pass on to make this easier for her, from those who have physically been through it, will always be appreciated.

Mazcabs

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

Wow. Thanks for that. I shall go through them all with Lucy tomorrow and we'll decide which ones to go for.

Just join them all!!;) am sure we all did!!

Plus Asda and Sainsburys... (and if you can both register then twice the coupons!!!)

Millie's_Mum

gill_81uk wrote: »

I want to write a letter to Mothercare praising her but I'm worried she might get into trouble for opening and letting me keep a thermometer!

That must have been scary, I assume all is well now?

I had the same problem when Millie once broke an egg cup in Cath Kidston, the assistant was absolutely brilliant with millie (who was very upset) and refused to let me pay for the egg cup. I really wanted to write but wondered if she should have done that.

I suppose you could write a letter and just not mention that you took the thermometer home? Just say how good she was without being too specific?

Hang on, just had a thought, won't Somnium know how mothercare would react?

MOTM I would think before I joined Emmas Diary baby club again, the freebies weren't very good and i am still being bothered by telesales people who have bought my details from Emma's Diary. (i know because I always question exactly where they got my info from before I send them away with a flea in their ear)

emlou2009

salesshopper wrote: »

Never mind our breasts going south I've just seen a device to put your hips back to their pre preg size but it can only be worn upto 8 weeks post partum it woould be too late for me by the time I scraped the £50. http://www.thebabycatalogue.com/ShrinkxHips/productinfo/G699/
Wasn't worried about my hips being permantly enormous until now - will add it to my list of body parts to be concerned about lol.

ps Pevlic Floor Muscles or lack of them are still my number one concern:eek:

:eek::eek:
That device scares me a little - surely its asking for problems wearing something that is meant to unnaturally change your body shape? I dont think mine actually changed that much thinking about it.

Am I the only one thinking if you're less than double figures into a pregnancy its a bit early to be deciding whether to BF or not IMO its a decision you cant really make until the baby is born anyway, I was adamant that I would BF and even refused to buy any FF equipment, really regretted that on the first night home when S wouldnt feed and we were panicking about jaundice.

Next door are having a garden party. They are playing the Top Gun soundtrack at full blast. Its a Thursday. !!!!!!? To be fair its the first time we've heard them make any noise at all in the year we've been here, but its annoying

Evansangel

Em, when i had my booking in at 8 weeks the MW wanted to know if i was BF or FF.
At the time i was adament i was BF, and now we're FF. I tried it and it didn't work our for us, Lily is a fatty!

I will try with the next baby we have but if it doesn't work out i wont beat myself up over it again.

Im happy to give any FF advice if you want it. Also can happily say that even though Lily was huge, Labour was still ok and not as bad as i thought it would be. Infact i was over it within hours..

Peeing afterwards hurt like a b!tch though :rotfl:

ManOnTheMoon

tiamai_d wrote: »

Dare I say that in Lucy's situation, I would breastfeed just so I could keep baby to myself at times! In the nicest way, I would be...uhm... I think my mummy tigress instinct would kick in and probably the best way to mark your baby as your own is to be the only one to feed him or her. Actually I shold have put that in the BF questionnaire. I like BF cos my baby is ALL MINNNNEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

I have a kitchen to clean, washing to sort out, a house to hoover, a car to clean out and empty of wood, packing to do.... and I can't be arsed.

I got metunium (?) nappy rash stuff,it stinks and went everywhere! And it felt warm when I was putting it on? Went on the thoery that if sudocreme worked for DS1 but bapanthen worked for DS2 then Amber would need something different again.

EA, my new bed is still in boxes in the hall; and my new mattress is being used as a boucy wall!

But the loft is almost done. well, bedroom and stairs area is almost done, en suite will be left inside till after Christmas. So we have 1 ensuite wall to build, the storage area to plasterboard, a door to hang and then its onto plastering, painting, carpeting, decorating and finally..... building my bed and moving in!

Then carpet the kids rooms, box in the boiler,move them about, decorate the main stairs and hallway.... new kitchen, driveway, livingroom, bathroom... grow old and move to an old folks home.

I encourage bonding between Lucy and baby and if this is how she wants to do it, then great.

She is insistent that we all get involved as much as possible and we are a family, so the baby is part of all of us, only I have politely informed her I can't breast feed

I know she's scared I won't love the baby as much as I do my girls, but i think she knows i will. Natural to be scared.