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Hiya MrsW82, and welcome Samantha. What is it about our little ladies that make our nipples so sore. I was complaining on here last week about my cracked nipples, but somehow we seem to have gotten over it, but you're right labour is a doddle compared to sore nips.

Samantha is going for her first vaccinations tomorrow - BCG for TB as that is rife where we come from and we will visit 'home' again, sometime before she turns 21 because goodness knows how we will ever afford it.

Being able to survive of SMP is really difficult, but if it wasn't for MSE we would really be up the creek. I am quite enjoying 'cooking' again and I walk everywhere I can, to save on petrol as well as minimising running up the mileage so that when we sell our car in the future we can get a better price.

Becles, well done you !! What is it about having a baby that makes some of us go back to 'school'. I did this 8 years ago with DS1, and studied various courses for the next 5 years, but it was bloody hard work. I eventually gave up as I couldn't manage two children, studying and FT work.

Samantha was in contact with two children that have come down with chickenpox (we saw them the day before all their spots appears). Samantha is BF so what do you reckon the chances are of her coming down with it. If I recall the incubation correctly too, it should be just in time for Christmas.

purplepatch

Olivia caught chickenpox at her preschool christmas party (along with virtually everyone else who attended) which was around this time of year two years ago, her first spots appeared on christmas day!! Yes, I believe it is around 3 weeks incubation. Not sure re bf immunity, chickenpox is so contagious and the people you were in contact with would have been able to pass it on the day before spots appeared. I think the general rule if they get it when they are teeny tiny like Samantha is that they tend to get it pretty mildly. Have all the rest of you had it? I have never had it as far as either myself or my mum can recall, so I spent the best part of a month waiting to develop spots that never came :rotfl:

Snaggles

Your posts are saying much more about you than they are about Becles.

Reported YET again.... :mad:

(as the above poisonous and pathetic post will most likely be removed, I would just like to clarify that there was a troll post there, and this isn't aimed at Purplepatch....lol.....unless my post is removed too, in which case typing this was pointless......oh well....:o)

Violetta_2

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Don't forgt that calpol now do their own version of medised - they are marketing it in 2 different guises, Calcold and Calpol Night, both are identical products, just aimed at different situations (no doubt to reel us unsuspecting parents into buying both :mad:). My DD1 seems to find both calpol and calprofen utterly delicious :rolleyes: so I'm hoping that she'll like this new one. She finds medised completely disgusting and retches dramatically whenever she has to take it :rotfl:

PS congratulations Becles!!!

Hi never posted on this thread but do have a wee look now and again (your lo's are all gorgeous) anyhoo just wanted to add my dd who is 2 can't have medised as it gives her a terrible upset tum but is fine with the calcold, it does help when her cold is really bad, just in case anyone else has had this prob with medised. Hope you don't mind me butting in.

jenpoptab

hi guys

it's been ages since i've been on here.

Well done becles, you are amazing, don't know how you've managed it but well done.

Hope you are all looking forward to Christmas, we certainly are, but we have to get OH birthday out of the way tomorrow first.

Hayden is growing steadily and is now 16 lb 10 oz which is average for his age. However this week we have projectile vomitting a few times and we did start weaning three weeks ago but have pretty much given up to try to start again as Hayden is refusing anything besides boobie or formula, not sure if this is because he was sick or because he appears to be teething. Still no signs of sleeping through, last night was a bad night with he waking at 11pm 2.30am, 4.30am and 7am, he has been doing 11pm is until 4.30am ish but that is on a good night. At least I usually get a few solid hours sleep.

I saw the new calpol night advertised andpresumes it was like medised, Hayden hates medised too, thr flavour is foul so at least I know I can try something different the next time I need it.

Anyway better go, lots to do

Jen x

Snaggles

Thanks for that Violetta - you're not butting in, you're very welcome! I'm going to give the Calcold one a try when our bottle of Medised runs out.

Snaggles

Hi Jen, it sounds as though Haydn is doing really well, and I'm sure the weaning will happen when he's good and ready. His sleep might start to settle down a bit then too hopefully.

Natasha only weighs 14lb 4oz, the HV keeps commenting on it, but honestly, she is eating for England - she has 3 meals a day (plus 4 - 5 breastfeeds) and seems full by the end of them, plus rice cakes, cooked carrot sticks etc, but she is just soooo wriggly that she's burning it all off.

She obviously has my skinny gene.....(I wish).

purplepatch

Wouldn't you think that Medised would do some research and change the flavouring, does anyone's LO like the taste of it??! They might have to if we all switch to the calpol version. Don't forget that calpol night is exactly the same stuff as calcold, in case they only stock one or the other. I emailed them to ask what the difference was and they came back with a long convoluted reply saying no difference at all!

SusanCarter

I think if you've had chicken pox and you're breastfeeding, there's probably a lower chance of the baby getting chicken pox but no guarantee that they won't. I was reading stuff from the US Center for Disease Control recently and after they introduced the measles vaccine, the proportion of childrren getting measles changed so that proportionally more younger children were getting it because the mother's immunity was less strong (being from the vaccine rather than the disease) and therefore the immunity passed on by breastmilk was weaker.

ella_ella_ella

Hi Guys, hope you dont mind me popping in from the Pregnancy Thread but I have a bit of an embarrasing question which, as you have all had your baby's, you may be able to answer

Ok my lady bits look very very swollen, you could even say bulging - a tiny little bit like when the baby is about to be born if you know what i mean? Did anybody else have this and does it mean that the baby's head is fully engaged? Im half expecting her to be born early as it seems to be a trait in my family but i dont really want to ask the midwife if its nothing cos she may want a peek :eek: :rotfl:

This is my first baby and im a little clueless! Thanks