MSE Parents Club Part 16

ethelsmum

Mornin'

E is back to sleeping 7-7 now we've started her on solids :j. She's still in our room at the minute as I need to sort dd1's bedroom out (and I'm putting it off as long as possible as I don't know where to start ).

Nothing much planned here today - bit of housework and must go to the shops.

tiamai_d

My hospital isn't that bad. They will bring you some pale toast and a drink of diluting juice. Parents have a sitting room where you can make tea/coffee. Which is great and all, but I couldn't eve go to the ensuite loo without DD screaming! And I didn't see the point in getting DH up the next day for him to sit and worry (and he makes me worse) so had to wait till she fell asleep to get breakfast. Which happened about 11am. Severe cafeine withdrawl headache by that point, so I may add pro plus to my bag.

delain

elainec wrote: »

Thats just awful and really what you need after just giving birth- a husband about to pass out through hunger and dehydration!

at mine the visitors werent allowed to have a cup of tea etc from the trolley in hall- when my mum went to make me a cup she got told off!

I got told (firmly) by a HCA that this 'is a hospital not a hotel, you get your own breakfast' when I had a pair of crutches by my bed and could barely shuffle along with the baby cot and not walk unaided at all :eek: she did not ask or care what the crutches were for:mad:

so I just went without breakfast for two days (unable to 'get my own') and when a different HCA on the Tuesday cheerfully asked if I'd had any breakfast and did I need help I explained to her I couldn't walk and she was mortified she hadn't been told as she'd have seen me earlier if she'd known, and I explained what I'd been told by the other one and after making me some breakfast she went off to complain that I'd been spoken to rudely and left hungry.

To be fair this was in the postnatal ward, and everyone on ante natal was lovely, but then I had no cot to push and they could see me having to lean on the wall for support :rotfl:

There's always one with a bad attitude. I've had four children at that hospital and stayed in three weeks all told and she was the only one I've had trouble with!

OH bought me some of my favourite perfume for valentines day and it arrived today :j it's a huge bottle as well in a gift set. I really don't deserve that I've been really snippy with him lately.

Well we'll be off to see the house soon. I'm praying we get it.

I think I have an admirer he's very nice if slightly mental, but really just not for me, an alcoholic, epileptic, who suffers with kidney, bladder and liver issues OH has nothing to worry about :rotfl:

Bless him he looked upset when I said that I might not be on the bus every day any more He's been making little hints for a while.


I get all the mad ones, me.

Glad people are getting more sleep

Should get squeaks highchair today :T OH got the owl one I wanted from selling bits of our broken car on ebay :rotfl:

Claire_Jones_3

redmel1621 wrote: »

I forgot how close in age Reece is to my ds3..he was March 2009:D

How is he getting on??

Reece is a little monster into everything! Charlie was a goody two shoes baby and didn't go up stairs/open cupboards etc. Reece however climbs on the dinning room table and into the bay window if you let him! We've got tooth no 14 coming through now so getting there. He not had any new ones for months and then two almost at once and another two with white dots on his gums.

Becles wrote: »

Good to see you back Claire. Is Charlie at nursery yet? Charlotte was born in May 07 and started last September and she loves it.

Yes Charlie does mornings at nursery which is based in the local school so he already wears the uniform. But we've got to wait until April before we know if he has a place at the school for reception. As he's the oldest we don't get in under siblings so have to wait for proximity to school instead. His teacher told me this morning that another school is about 30 places over their numbers for reception in sept 2011 so it'll be a battle but we'll see.

SugarSpun wrote: »

Evening all

Hello Claire how's you?
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[EMAIL="!!!!"]a[/EMAIL] bit pants if I'm honest, still got ongoing problems with our car and a local car garage which might end up in small claims court to get sorted out. Hubby's hours and pay was cut after christmas and I was made redundant in the new yr. We're about £700 per mth down on our income which is making a hell of an impact for us as we were only bringing in £21k between the two of us anyway. I'm trying to lose weight and only shifted 6lb so far, I comfort eat! But on the up side I have two cute little babies who make me smile and raise my spirits a lot.

Becles

Good to have you back leopardlady xx

The hospital was good when James was admitted when he was 2. I was stressed and once he got settled on the ward, the nurse said I looked like I could do with a cuppa. She came back with a coffee and some toast for me as it was late evening and I'd nothing to eat since lunchtime.

Charlie's nursery sounds the same as Charlotte's. It's attached to the school and she has to wear uniform, but she goes in the afternoons. We're in the same boat waiting until April as the boys have both left primary now, so she doesn't have a sibling link and we're not Catholic. Hoping to get in, as once all the Catholics have been admitted, it goes on distance and we live just a couple of hundred yards from the school gate. She'll be really upset if she doesn't get in, so fingers crossed!

BrunoM

It's not the same or as extreme, but when I had to take my son to A&E the other week, after we'd seen the doctor and got the glue stitches on his head, we then had to take a ten minute walk to find a cash machine before I could get my car out of the car park...!

tiamai_d

Bruno, thats why I am so glad we don't pay for parking! Mine was dumped when she got transfered to a different hospital. Dread to think what that would have cost!

aless02

SusanC wrote: »

I felt really sorry for the husbands of the women unexpectedly in hospital on Boxing Day at our hospital. The canteen was shut and because it had been shut the previous day all the vending machines were empty too. One poor chap had been phoned first thing and told his wife was having an em CS (for pre-eclampsia) within half an hour. They were then waiting till after lunch and staff wouldn't even give him a cup of coffee as they said there were vending machines.

Hmmmmmmm this sounds familiar!! Even worse was the hospital was under massive refurbishment so there was literally nothing. DH had to trek across the the road to one of those random snack vans to procure a much-needed bacon butty (pale tea & toast was not doing it for me...neither was living off the cereal bars I'd packed, LOL).

Make-it-3

I know its not healthy to be obsessed by the scales but I have found my weight gain during pregnancy and loss after completely bizarre.

I had normal BMI at booking in, but only gained 12lbs in total by full term, so was utterly surprised to have a 8lb 6oz baby. Out of curiosity I got on the scales when I got home from hospital expecting to be at least that much lighter and had only lost 4 lb.

Now today, I am weighing in at 2lbs less than my booking in weight - like how is that possible when I have been chomping away on all the biscuits that are meant for our visitors and still look 5 months pregnant?

SugarSpun

Bodies are remarkably weird and freaky things MI3 I regularly fluctuate 2-3lbs over the course of a day.

Big hugs and re-welcomes all round. I had something to talk about but I've forgotten it

But the German hospital system for feeding visitors is pretty cool. I had a family room with DH and Miss M after she was born and DH was fully catered for by the hospital - actually, he was overcatered to the point where he was squirrelling away breadrolls and taking them home *rollseyes* They refused to feed him till I got to 4cm though because I hadn't been properly admitted up till then, and once I did get to 4cm things went wrong very quickly so he didn't get anything except a few cereal bars from 8am to 7am the following morning. I didn't either though so I don't feel too bad for him