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izoomzoom

Someone has a £5 bumbo seat for sale, and I don't know whether I should grab it or not.

Samantha is almost sitting on her own (she can for about 10 seconds), and she is quite big - probably 17lbs now. How long do you think it will last her for ?, and what can I use it for ?

I know it is only £5 but I really don't want to waste any money.

daphne_descends

I wouldn't bother at this stage... I sat Elliot in a friend's recently and he is really big in it, and when he arched his back he almost came out :eek:

SusanC_2

izoomzoom wrote: »

Someone has a £5 bumbo seat for sale, and I don't know whether I should grab it or not.

Samantha is almost sitting on her own (she can for about 10 seconds), and she is quite big - probably 17lbs now. How long do you think it will last her for ?, and what can I use it for ?

I know it is only £5 but I really don't want to waste any money.

Alice sat up at five months but we used the Bumbo till about ten months as it was useful to contain her if we didn't want her to get about (and to stop her egtting kjnocked over by visiting children!)

Becles

I've never bothered with a Bumbo seat. I just propped them up with cushions at first until they could sit unaided.

I got my blood test results back this afternoon. My fasting blood sugar was sky high too. I have to watch my diet for a few weeks and have another fasting test on the 9th May.

SeptemberBaby_2

Aww, thanks everyone! I'm yo-yoing between YAY we're going to have another baby to OMG we're going to have another baby :rotfl:

Fingers and toes crossed that all is well and I'm going to beg for an early scan as I did with Poppy.

Maz, I too am happily enjoying DD but we decided to ttc now due to my age (I'm 34 now) but didn't think it would happen so soon!

Sarah, Poppy is doing really well. She is almost sitting up and fights me if I try to hold her 'like a baby' to sit upright on my lap! No sign of movement here either but she has rolled on to her side on the playgym but not mastered the whole roll over business yet. Rowan sounds so sweet! Blowing kisses? That would just melt my heart!

Zoom, we have a Bumbo and Poppy loves it. We take it when we are off visting as its very portable. We also bought the tray that sits on top and give her carrot batons or toys to play with. I would say it was well worth £5 (I paid around £28 for mine ).

Hope all the poorly babies get better soon.

xxx

SeptemberBaby_2

Becles, hope everything is OK? x

Becles

Thanks SB.

Been unwell for a few months now and I've been pretty down due to it. Feel brighter now they are trying to find out what is wrong though.

I just feel so knackered all the time. I'm young and I should be full of beans! Some days I literally drag myself round the field with the dog forcing my legs to go on as I'm so tired and my legs feel so heavy. It's just not like me as I've always had dogs, so I've always been a good walker.

Still got this bad tooth causing pain too, but I'm at the dental specialist on Monday so I'm hoping that can be sorted soon.

Agutka

Big hug for you Becles, hope it all gets sorted - to see a bright side, you will appreciate it sooo much more, just being normal and pain free. I hope you get there really soon.

SB - :eek: OMG, I told OH (this girl on MSE blah blah) and we both crossed our legs! I hope it all goes fantastically easy for you:T.
I thought about it myself - just to get it over and done with, this family building business - but realistically I am nowhere near back to normal yet, fat reserves still plentiful, BP not down yet, aches and pains still bothering me. And I really don't believe the ceasarian scar won't just burst open!:rolleyes:

Little J hates his bumbo - he'll sit in it for minutes and has enough. But this week he's got soooo close to sitting on his own. He can hold it for minutes sometimes. Such a big boy :T

tsstss7

Hi all

feeling lovely and well rested this morning dispite lo being up half the night - oh got up with him for a change ;0) what a difference it makes getting more than 3 hrs in a row!!

LO has a intermittant cold that doesn't bother him much during the day but flares up around bedtime - I think that perhaps he has developed the bedtime aversion somehow! Doesn't help that oh eventually gives up and brings him downstairs dispite what I tell him. Leaving me only too happy to let him deal with the fall out for once!:D

AM being nice and letting him sleep in though - my first girls night out in god knows how long tonight - don't need a grumpy daddy then.

Can't comment much on bumbo's I'm afraid as I don't have one and prob wont bother getting one as lo is rolling around alot now (first began at two months can you believe) so I'm pretty sure he wouldn't get much use from it. However IZOOM i beieive they have a reasonable resale value (ebay or nct) so you would prob recoup your 5 quid if you did buy.

I'm with mazcabs etc on painkillers etc - never take them unless I reallly need to - not because of possible lessening of effect though (although the theory makes perfect sense to me) just because I've never been one for pill popping really. I got sent home from the hospital with lots of painkillers etc that I didn't use as a result - shame I can't give them back really seems such a waste.

tsstss7

Becles - hope you start feeling better soon - my mum got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes recently from a high blood sugar level and it really hit her for 6. It took them 5 years to get around to telling her about it though so she probably could have avoided the drugs etc if she had being diagnosed earlier - hopefully them sorting you out now means an early intervention (if indeed it is that) as that makes all the difference.