MSE Parents Club Part 16

delain

*BigBird* wrote: »

Do you find the straps twist on your Matrix? I hate ours with a passion as they are always getting twisted at Joe's shoulders and then get stuck when you try to loosen or tighten them. And it doesn't help that the button you push to loosen them is by his feet - as soon as he sees me reach for it, he starts kicking my fingers, so getting him out of the seat is a real battle! I'll be glad when he's properly grown out of it and it can be consigned to the loft.

And I'm forever crashing our Slalom too. I'm glad it's not just me

I almost sunk it down the side of a bus last week trying to get on it with a massive coffee and a buggy and holding my bus card :rotfl:

But yes I am forever just crahing into things, I have been known to knock over whole shop displays.

Squeak seems to be able to wriggle the straps off her shoulders of the car seat, they're either so tight you can't do them up and she's squashed, or she has too much room and doesn't seem secure.

I find with the actual buggy, one of the straps just sits in the buggy behind her? Does yours do that or did I just put mine together wrong? Anyway that annoys me sometimes but overal I'm happy with it.

I wanted to get a stroller but there's no point now as we'll need a double before christmas.

pigpen

delain wrote: »

I only ever get to see my own doctor by ringing and asking her to call me back and she books me in herself... otherwise she has a 3-5 week waiting list at least. Luckily all the doctors I've seen are lovely. I should really call them because I've had weird stuff going on, I thought it was because I was anemic but apparently I'm not now, so that leaves it unexplained, but I hate feeling like I'm a paranoid cow wasting the doctors time, even though they never imply that, it's just me!

I have 2 that I will see for me.. I have decided the one who decided I had to have this baby is not one of them! We can't book appointments in advance you have to ring at 8am.. though 8:05 is the earliest I have known them all be gone!!!

I don't go for me I've been about 5 times in the last 5 years.. a miscarriage, 2 pregnancies and 2 for contraception which was refused! Oh, and I went 3 times in 2 weeks 2 years ago when I had tonisillitis, glandular fever and a kidney infection.. all at once! I am hardly abusing their services! I think my kidneys are playing up again already given the back pain and urine issues I am having This doesn't bode well! It didn't get too bad until about 32 weeks with Squeak..

And 9pm last night the 3 girls decided they all had to go to school in Edwardian clothes today... yeah, that's gonna happen.. NOT!

sweaty_betty

Hello there - I'm mainly a lurker here, but was wondering if I could ask for some advice on car seats?
As I understand it, the first car seats (group 0?) are OK as a rule up to about 13kg weight, with the next size up (group 1?) being OK from 9kg upwards. So there's an overlap of about 4kg where they could go in either.
How did you all decide to move up to the next level? My LO is just 9kg, but quite tall and looks quite cramped in his seat, but I don't want to change him over to the next seat too soon if this one is safer...

Thanks

delain

pigpen wrote: »

I have 2 that I will see for me.. I have decided the one who decided I had to have this baby is not one of them! We can't book appointments in advance you have to ring at 8am.. though 8:05 is the earliest I have known them all be gone!!!

I don't go for me I've been about 5 times in the last 5 years.. a miscarriage, 2 pregnancies and 2 for contraception which was refused! Oh, and I went 3 times in 2 weeks 2 years ago when I had tonisillitis, glandular fever and a kidney infection.. all at once! I am hardly abusing their services! I think my kidneys are playing up again already given the back pain and urine issues I am having This doesn't bode well! It didn't get too bad until about 32 weeks with Squeak..

And 9pm last night the 3 girls decided they all had to go to school in Edwardian clothes today... yeah, that's gonna happen.. NOT!

I've been more times than I could count, along with 2 emergency A&E admissions lol.

I did faithfully promise my doctor I'd make an appointment to come and see her in three weeks... four months ago

You should see one of them if you think the kidney troubles might be starting

wendz86

gizmodo wrote: »

OMG just been to the nursery - it's great and I wouldn't hesitate to send DD there, but the cost...:eek:

£660 a month for 2 days a week. Ouch.

We've booked in to see another one that is £20 a day cheaper to see what the difference is.

ouch! I thought our local one was expensive at 900 a month fulltime!

Have been up since 5 am grr. She went to sleep about half 10 butwoke up half hour later and wouldn't go back to sleep till 12. Then awake at 5 and wouldn't sleep everytime i put her back in her basket. OH was moaning about her making noise and then had a lie in till half 11 grr.

delain

sweaty_betty wrote: »

Hello there - I'm mainly a lurker here, but was wondering if I could ask for some advice on car seats?
As I understand it, the first car seats (group 0?) are OK as a rule up to about 13kg weight, with the next size up (group 1?) being OK from 9kg upwards. So there's an overlap of about 4kg where they could go in either.
How did you all decide to move up to the next level? My LO is just 9kg, but quite tall and looks quite cramped in his seat, but I don't want to change him over to the next seat too soon if this one is safer...

Thanks

Apparently the longer they are rear facing the better

sweaty_betty

delain wrote: »

Apparently the longer they are rear facing the better

Thanks, in that case we'll try to make it to 13kg

pigpen

delain wrote: »

I've been more times than I could count, along with 2 emergency A&E admissions lol.

I did faithfully promise my doctor I'd make an appointment to come and see her in three weeks... four months ago

You should see one of them if you think the kidney troubles might be starting

They wouldn't listen, they never do. It wasn't until my life was in danger they took any notice last time.

I don't do A&E either I was 13 last time I went there for me and that was 3 weeks after I had fractured my wrist and it was all but healed already.

sweaty_betty wrote: »

Hello there - I'm mainly a lurker here, but was wondering if I could ask for some advice on car seats?
As I understand it, the first car seats (group 0?) are OK as a rule up to about 13kg weight, with the next size up (group 1?) being OK from 9kg upwards. So there's an overlap of about 4kg where they could go in either.
How did you all decide to move up to the next level? My LO is just 9kg, but quite tall and looks quite cramped in his seat, but I don't want to change him over to the next seat too soon if this one is safer...

Thanks

They are safer rear facing until their heads are vaguely proportional to their body size.. which is about 5/6.

*BigBird*

delain wrote: »

I find with the actual buggy, one of the straps just sits in the buggy behind her? Does yours do that or did I just put mine together wrong? Anyway that annoys me sometimes but overal I'm happy with it.

I wanted to get a stroller but there's no point now as we'll need a double before christmas.

Is the Slalom pro the slightly older version that only faces forwards? I don't have that problem with our Slalom, but we've got the newer one with the reversible seat. However I don't think the straps fit nearly as well in our Carrera pro (the older version of the current Solo), so they must have improved the straps on the newer ones.

We were out at the weekend with some friends and they've just got a stroller for their LO. It's very tempting, but I think we'll just make do with the Carrera for when we want something nippy and light - that was an eBay cheapy I got as the Slalom won't fit in the Mini boot.

Wow, that does sound expensive, giz. From September we'll be paying a total of £600 per month for Joe to have 1 day at nursery and 3 with the childminder.

Joe is going to school today CM's youngest and another little girl she looks after both start school in September and are going in for a school lunch taster session. So CM will be taking Joe along too. Knowing him, he's probably been shouting his head off and getting into everything :rotfl:

delain

*BigBird* wrote: »

Is the Slalom pro the slightly older version that only faces forwards? I don't have that problem with our Slalom, but we've got the newer one with the reversible seat. However I don't think the straps fit nearly as well in our Carrera pro (the older version of the current Solo), so they must have improved the straps on the newer ones.

We were out at the weekend with some friends and they've just got a stroller for their LO. It's very tempting, but I think we'll just make do with the Carrera for when we want something nippy and light - that was an eBay cheapy I got as the Slalom won't fit in the Mini boot.

Yes, the reversible one came out not long after we got ours (although ours was an ebay special) and the straps on it are a total pain in the bum.

I was after a stroller because they are smaller and obviously better for the bus, but whatever double we get it's not going to be smaller than the Jane so I may as well not bother

A girl from here has got a graco tandem, admittedly it looks like it would survive a nuclear blast but boy does it look clumsy and awkward to push. I'm glad I don't have one. Basket is massive though.

I liked my double urban detour (similar to the nipper) but I'm not sure how we'd fare on the buses with one now, short of trying to borrow one off someone to see lol.