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I don't blame you and your OH for being annoyed, after all you did say to look after it. Have you let her know you are not best pleased or did you just hide your feelings?

I am unsure if you would be able to get a replacement for it, as baby manufacturers seem to update their stock/colours each year, just so its "New" I suppose. Unless you try on ebay, you may get lucky there.

Are you pregnant again? If so, congratulations and welcome to the club!!

Have you considered another style, make of buggy which is similar? I think maybe you should talk to your sister (at a wise moment) and point out you will need to replace this at cost to you and would she be able to make a few installments over the next few months, that way she hasn't got a large sum to find? I certainly don't think you should just let her off, as she will see you as a walk over and think its ok to not take care of your stuff, family or otherwise its not acceptable. Be careful what you lend her next though, or not as the case may be.

Btw, I have just put "Graco Quattro travel system" into search ebay and it came up with 35 items currently on auction, some new some not. Maybe a quick browse through there might be helpful?

Lu_T

Or perhaps Gracco do spares to replace the wheel and basket? I know M&P do them. Just phone their customer service people 08444 121 196 (I got the number from Mothercare.com, hope it's right!)

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We've all been very quiet these last few days, is everyone feeling ok?

SusanCarter

Hi all, we've just got back from a mini holiday so am catching up with all the posts. Unfortunately with Alice having a cold last week (which she kindly shared with me :mad: ) we didn't get a chance to get her used to the travel cot beforehand so we ended up really tired as we lost so much sleep the first couple of nights. :eek: (It was still a nice holiday though just more tiring than we intended.)

We put Alice in her own room after about two weeks I think it was. I just found she disturbed me all the time making noise. We just put a monitor on so that we could hear when she woke up and cried but didn't hear every little movement.

We counted sleeping through as being from after her ten o'clock feed until we woke her up in the morning so about 11-7.

Mazcabs

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We've all been very quiet these last few days, is everyone feeling ok?

I know what you mean..somehow never seem to get chance to come online during the day as Henry vary rarely sleeps at during the day and tend to forget at night as catching up with things.

Been into work today for a chat with my bosses and they have agreed for me to have an extra month maternity leave and then work two days at home and three in the office when I start back so thats really pleased me.. Now I just need to crack the sleeping through the night and in his room and I'll be sorted !!

ella_ella_ella

Hi

Just popping in from the pregnancy club for a little advice about making up bottles please. I am bottle feeding Natasha for various reasons and am at a bit of a loss

Obviously i know how to make a bottle but i was hoping you could let me know how you did/do/would go about making bottles up in advance for during the night (and/or day). I have read so many different ways i was just hoping to get your opinions....

We only came home last night so everything is up in the air at the minute - I will pop back and introduce myself properly once i have had some sleep!!

cha97michelle

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We've all been very quiet these last few days, is everyone feeling ok?

You still around bailey? I keep expecting to see you have had the baby every time i remember to pop on the thread.


I have had such a busy week at work. I've written two schemes of work for two topics, had a formal lesson observation, had a meeting which confirmed i have had my hours at work reduced for when i go back after maternity leave to 60%, and it will also be actually 3 proper days rather than all over the place like now, when i am in most of the time but only 80%. Plus, as i worked out that it is still 32 hours of work minimum if in 8 to 4:30, so will be 24 hours, which i may actually cope with.

I also had the midwife on wednesday who i am coming to the conclusion is useless, as i was saying how tired i felt and ill all the time, and she looked at my iron levels from last time which were pretty good, but as that was 10 weeks ago and i have had so much nausea, i think should get tested again to at least check that isn't the reason, but she wasn't going to. Even DH thinks it has been shoddy this time - no mention of birth plans or how i will feed baby, or chance for me to talk about things concerning me, as if oh, you've done it once so you must be fine. Is it just me or have any of you found that in later pregnancies????


I've also been struggling with my sinuses and feeling really fluey this week. I probably shouldn't have gone into work but i don't want to get behind as i will never catch up in the time i have left.

hopefully i will be able to get a bit of rest this weekend, but it will depend on how good DS is as DH is away working now until Sunday afternoon.

I must look really awful today as i have had people commenting to me about how pale and ill i am looking, ranging from people at work to the woman who served me at the petrol station. :rolleyes: Not so much of the blooming here.


anyway, enough of my feeling a bit sorry for myself.
susan - glad you had a nice break. know what you mean though about feeling tireder after the holiday. Not quite the same as before kids but nice anyway.

ella i found the best way for me was for sterilising bottles in the evening while doing washing up/kitchen clean up after dinner, then putting boiled water in the number of bottles needed for the following day. I also had two of the containers which hold the milk powder, so i would fill them up with the required number of scoops ready to go. the bottles were then left on the side ready to grab when needed, and this worked well for us.

gosh, that might be me again in a few months, so i am glad i can remember. :rotfl:

have a nice weekend everyone, whatever your plans. I think we might go and feed the ducks and catch up with family
Michelle, x

heather38

all ok here. kennedy has another molar through so that's 10 teeth now and i and see another couple under the gums as well.
she is a monkey. she got in the cupboard under the sink today and decided to eat the shoe polish! all ok, nhs direct said not to worry, just keep an eye on her as it's fairly inert, mainly oils. she was covered in the stuff, all her teeth were black!

Becles

Sorry but that made me laugh. I'm pleased she is ok though, and hope the black wears off her teeth soon.

Charlotte has got a cloth book about football. On one page the man says "where are my shorts?" and there's a tiny pair of shorts stuck on the page with velcro. Everytime we turn onto that page, she grabs the shorts and tries to stuff them in her mouth! I'm tempted to sew the shorts in the book to stop her

SusanCarter

cha97michelle wrote: »

I also had the midwife on wednesday who i am coming to the conclusion is useless, as i was saying how tired i felt and ill all the time, and she looked at my iron levels from last time which were pretty good, but as that was 10 weeks ago and i have had so much nausea, i think should get tested again to at least check that isn't the reason, but she wasn't going to. Even DH thinks it has been shoddy this time - no mention of birth plans or how i will feed baby, or chance for me to talk about things concerning me, as if oh, you've done it once so you must be fine. Is it just me or have any of you found that in later pregnancies????

I was ill and tired and they didn't actually bother to pass on the information or contact me when I got a low iron result. (Fortunately I looked so bad when I went for a glucose tolerance test that the midwife doing it went to check my results as she was so concerned.) I had an extra test early on as I went to see my GP so you could always just make a Drs appointment. My birth plan wasn't done till about 36 weeks. Midwife said it was all fine but then when I was in the middle of labour I had a Doctor come in to debate with me about cord cutting/clamping and they ignored lots of it anyway. (I'm planning to have next birth plan written before I'm pregnant and take it to the booking appointment as that was the only time my midwife seemed to have time for questions/discussion.)