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Dormouse

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Dormouse

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Dormouse, make sure you still get your BookStart Bag thingy as I was told my HV would bring it tomorrow. It would just bug me so much to miss out :D.

We got a Book Start bag thingy when Alex was tiny, when we went to register his birth. Is this another bag we can get? :j

Welshlassie

Hi all
Thought it was about time I showed my face here, DS is almost 10 months old and I've finally got to admit I'm now a parent and I think that means officially grown up.

I've had a read through the last few pages and recognise a lot of you from the PG thread from last year so feel at home already. Hope you'll all forgive my late arrival and let me join in?

Snaggles

Hi Welshlassie, welcome! :wave:

scruffy96uk

Welcome welshlassie glad you feel at home already

Snaggles yes it was a huge relief

Not sure if everyone is aware if you are on certain benefits you are entitled to healthy start vouchers. I only just realised so have applied for them now.
http://www.healthystart.nhs.uk/
Have a look and see if your entitled (if you are not already getting them)

Claire_Jones_3

Don't rely on the healthy start vouchers arriving very quickly though, I applied for them at beginning of april and still not getting them yet. Supposedly they are waiting for confirmation from HMRC that I receive a qualifying benefit (child tax credit - with household salary of under £15.5k)

[Deleted User]

Hi,

Thanks for missing me whoever said that, Michelle? Actually it was Izoomzoom, I just flicked back through the pages as Ian was curious too, he's just spend about half an hour with me on here listening to me babble away about the news!

Welcome to all the newbies, congratulations on your babies and to the mummies of older children, well you can provide us with invaluable advice and support on how to do it!!! Some of your may remember my name from the pregnancy thread 1st edition, I was the founder (not that that gives me any credibility) and Lu T had the brilliant idea of following up with the MSE parent thread. Where we progess from here I don't know. Maybe we should break it down into sections which could become Stickys :-

Pregnancy Thread
Parent Thread Birth to the Toddler Years (0-4)
Parent Thread Primary School Years
Parent Thread High School Years

That way we could more easily access the information we are looking for rather than trawling through hundreds of pages trying to keep up. If you have more than one child you could use more than one thread, depending on which child you were posting about. A lot of us post here for advice and support and if we are chatting with people of a similar age it would prevent the marriages,home and relationships board getting clogged up with lots of ramdon questions and situations. The only downside I can see is you wouldn't get as many responses to a post maybe.

Anway its just a suggestion what do other people think? I am just aware of this thread getting longer and longer, but we also don't want to lose the history we have here either. I'm not sure how long the original Pregnancy Thread was before it was cut to Part 2, but it would be nice to have a say in what happens to our thread, don't you think?

Edited to say that I have just checked my original MSE Pregnancy Thread and it went to 164 pages before it was cut to part 2. But have just checked Part 2 and its on 333 pages, so who knows if our thread will be cut? Still what do people think of my suggestion?


I've finally managed to catch up on the mountains of postings since I last read. Its so hard to get any net time at the moment, if I do log in, its to check emails and do our accounts, play time comes last.

Things are going well in our household, Ian has been back at work for 4 weeks now and I am managing the two children fine. My confidence is back, Molly is in a routine and Jack, well is Jack!

Molly is now 14 weeks and is doing well, she can do mini push ups on her tummy and today she tried to push herself on her side, she likes being on her front and she certainly has stronger neck and arm muscles than Jack at this age. She has also discovered her hands belong to her, I caught her examining them today, twisting and turning them, looking at them, interlocking them and them she stroked a cushion to see what it felt like. I wasn't close just watching without her realising, she isn't a newborn anymore.

Healthwise, she's just got over a chest infection which required antibiotics, last week was a nightmare until I took her to the docs, now she's finished the course she's a different babe. However she also has reflux, worse than Jack had it, but I'm trying to view it positively, as parents we know how to handle it and she's on poo juice like Jack was. As she's on the double dose Gaviscon we have an appointment with a paediatrician to see if she needs anything stronger. Its not for a fortnight, but we can muddle through until then. The amount of clothes, bibs, muslins and terries we are going through is unreal. I'd got so used to Jack not needing bibs and muslins, i'd forgotton how much washing they create. Not to be helped by the fact Molly needs two bibs at a time to help cope with the milk she sicks back. As I was getting her ready for bed this evening I had to wipe and cream her neck, jawline and shoulders three times before I could get her dressed and bibbed up..........Miss Pukey Pants at her best!!! She also had bad baby excema and thrush under her neck from all the sick and excema all over her body and that's with being on Nutramigen (hypoallergenic milk). However Jack had outgrown it all by 8-9 months, so hopefully she will too.

Jack is running around like his life depended on it, babbling away like I should understand him. He's at the pre-speech stage, some words he sayd but the rest is totally a toddler language. He had his friends around this afternoon and they were all chatting away to each other in their language and us Mummy's were chatting away in ours. We wondered if they understood each other, or if each child's speech was alien. He understands EVERYTHING I say now and can follow simple instructions, I just have to watch what I say as he has no concept of time. I was talking to my friends and the word "park" was mentioned, he immediately went to the back gate trying to get out into the park/football pitch.

He's also showing signs of potty training, he knows what a wee wee is and where is comes from and how to do it, but he's not quite got where he should do it, on Sunday when his Dad is around i'm going to get him to pee in the potty for Jack to see, he just loves to copy. If he doesn't get it still, so be it, he's not ready, but we'll wait and see, he's nearly there. I'm also not convinced he knows the signal for when he wants to wee, it still comes as a surprise to him. My HV today said its to do with nerve endings, he knows how to do it, but maybe not just beforehand and until he knows that and can ask for potty or toilet, its pointless trying.

Not sure if i mentioned that Molly has been sleeping through since 10 weeks, which makes life so much easier, from 7.30 until sometime around 6-7am. I don't get up until just before 7am, so I may do a dummy run between 6 and half past, but i don't mind that. Even then she may not get her milk until 7.30am, but she's happy to watch Jack run around the play, whilst I get Ian organised to leave at 8am.

Life is good, I'm starting to savour Molly being little rather than wish it away like I was with Jack and her early days. I know she is my last baby, so I am really trying to make the most of each little thing she does. In a year or so, they'll both be little Mr and Miss Independant (to an extent) and not be my little babies anymore.

Oooh another long post, well it may be a while before I log in again.

Take care all,

Love Bay
x

daphne_descends

Oh Bailey I know I don't know you very well but you sound so chilled out and positive in your post, that was really lovely to read, thank you for making the time

Molly is 14 weeks? :eek: seriously where has that time gone! Sorry to hear she has had an infection, poor little mite, they are so fragile aren't they. Ohhh I'm getting broody, this is no good!

It's wonderful to hear you say you have your confidence back and are managing the children fine, but I hope you do get the odd bit of time to yourself as well!

Speaking for myself I don't get nearly enough and I find myself getting really stressed at times, I just want to breathe. I feel very claustrophobic and have no interest in OH, but I'm not sure whether I feel sorry for him or not. But t hat's a whole other thread I suppose :rotfl:

SeptemberBaby_2

Hi Welshlassie! Nice to have you on board! Hope you and Rhys are well xx

Glad all is going so well, Bailey! xx

Fac, hope you are ok. I know that if my Mum didn't have Poppy twice a week then I would be climbing the walls! I look forward to the me time but do miss her when she has gone. DH and I have decided to do more together, even if its just little things like we had a BBQ in the garden for tea. Often when I put Poppy to bed in our room I would get into bed myself and read/surf for a few hours so we were not spending enough time with each other. So now she is her own room I come straight down and we watch a movie or something. Hope you feel a bit brighter soon xx

SeptemberBaby_2

Dormouse wrote: »

We got a Book Start bag thingy when Alex was tiny, when we went to register his birth. Is this another bag we can get? :j

Sorry to disappoint but I think its the same one!

http://www.bookstart.co.uk/Parents-and-carers/Packs

The cloth bag is fab and the two books are lovely...I was quite happy with my lot until the HV said they also used to contain a toothbrush and beaker before funds were cut! :rolleyes:

Glad to report that everything is as it should be and the only test she did was to see how Poppy picked up a building block. Apparently she should be using her finger and thumb which she did instead of just grabbing. Can honestly say I never noticed this progression before...such a bad mum! :rotfl:. She just took my word on all the other questions .