MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

*Nutella*

Morning all

Miss Bunbury, so pleased for you! How did the doctor react when you told him you hadn't followed his 'advice'?

I'm sat in Costa with a giant coffee and trying not to worry about my little girl. We ended up co-sleeping from around midnight, and she practically slept ON me all night... She's always loved her cuddles, but she's not usually that clingy I left after she'd had her breakfast at nursery - I had to feed her as she was crying when her key person tried, so we figured it was better that I did it so at least she wasn't hungry. And guess what she ate? Her first ever Weetabix! She finished it off, so she obviously liked it. Amazingly, she didn't cry when I left, but we'll see how it goes... They're going to call me after a couple of hours to let me know how she's getting on, I'm keeping everything crossed.

Turtle, hope your nursery viewing goes well today.

Have a good day all

moneypenny21

Hope things go well with your little girl nutella! Glad she enjoyed her weetabix!!!

Fluff - thanks for the post and your replies I'm grateful. The bottle is for going out really rather than freedom - I haven't mastered feeding without pillows or anything other than the rugby ball successfully. She has had a bottle before but not been sick with it nor did she cry for more but is sick more often than not with a bottle. Decided to try and master positioning and sort this latch out So breast feeding support people are coming out tomorrow & hopefully they will help. I do think she either doesn't realise she has been fed or guzzles so fast her brain doesn't register that she has had any food so cries for more. I've got a cover for feeding out in public so it's not that which bothers me its the positioning issue.!

Marta- thanks for reply about teat size. If I don't Sort the positioning out I'll try a bigger teat or indeed Medela calma I didn't realise Mimicked the breast. Thank you. Sorry about your parents how much longer are they here for? Does the sling not hurt your back with the baby in it so much?!

Miss Bunbury - hurrah for you & your little one well done for judging your instincts. Shame she didn't blow a raspberry at the doctor!! !

fluffnutter

moneypenny21 wrote: »

Fluff - thanks for the post and your replies I'm grateful. The bottle is for going out really rather than freedom - I haven't mastered feeding without pillows or anything other than the rugby ball successfully. She has had a bottle before but not been sick with it nor did she cry for more but is sick more often than not with a bottle. Decided to try and master positioning and sort this latch out So breast feeding support people are coming out tomorrow & hopefully they will help. I do think she either doesn't realise she has been fed or guzzles so fast her brain doesn't register that she has had any food so cries for more. I've got a cover for feeding out in public so it's not that which bothers me its the positioning issue.!

I know precisely how you feel. For the first couple of months, feeding was like a military operation. I'd have to be sitting just so, with two muslins positioned like this, with my feeding cushion round my waist like that, then I'd have to lie Freddie just here and so on. Even then it still looked like I was murdering rather than feeding him. It was mental!

Once they're bigger and you can hold them without the cushion it's soooo much easier. Freddie finds his own way onto the boob now. But then I guess he will be 16 next week

fluffnutter

Just been to the recently opened leisure centre. Hmmm. In these family-forward times why build somewhere so un-buggy-friendly? There's just nowhere to put them. Do they think six month old babies walk to the leisure centre? Perhaps they think everyone comes by car and can carry their baby inside.

I ended up sticking it by the side of the pool. No doubt they'll be a big sign there soon saying 'no buggies' because it's a trip hazard.

And what perverse person designed the family changing cubicles with bigger doors (ostensibly for buggies I guess) but then failed to check whether they were indeed wide enough! Me and two other mums spent a fun five minutes all trying to get our buggies through the doors but all failed miserably so I know it's not that mine's particularly wide.

I ended up sneaking into the disabled cubicle to change me and Freddie but there's no changing table so he had to lie on the wet floor for a while.

All that palaver for only 10 minutes in the poxy pool because Freddie started going purple.

dizziblonde

Ours you have to leave the buggy in the stairwell downstairs and carry babies up the stairs to the pool area... oh and it's no shoes in the changing areas at all so then you have to balance on one foot while holding the baby and flip the shoe off with the toe of your other foot, repeat and then put the shoes in the shoe rack... or wrangle a walking baby from going headfirst down the stairs you've just come up.

That's reason number 1 I did half our aquababies course and stopped going

Reason 2 - the rebooking system with designated weeks and days you needed to come in and book the next course that I couldn't understand with a flipping degree

Reason 3 - they were right cliquey gits

Reason 4 - the class started immediately after a school swimming lesson which always was 10 minutes late getting out of the pool and then you'd have a bunch of 9 year old lads gawking, giggling and making comments at everyone in their swimming costumes... now I've taken school swimming trips to the baths in question and I would have gone absolutely apocalyptic if any of my lot had started with the behaviour we were having to put up with!

Ours do let you take carseats to the poolside though which works as a semi-decent method of baby containment - and have playpen baby jail things all over the place for quick pop downs.

Sammie_03

Just popping on to say I hope your little one has a better day today nutella. X

Sunshine - hope you are all ok.

Fluff - I hate the changing rooms at our local leisure centre too. We have nowhere to put buggies and it is a nightmare teying to get changed whilst watching baby. Have they got coat hooks on the back of the doors in the disabled cubicle? Maybe hang Freddie off there?
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Sammie_03

Dizzi - my 9 year son old has started a swimming course at our local swimming centre with the school. I don't think you live near me otherwise I would let you know the times so you can keep well away.

fluffnutter

Sammie_03 wrote: »

Have they got coat hooks on the back of the doors in the disabled cubicle? Maybe hang Freddie off there?

Oh God, that's proper made me LOL :T:

dizziblonde

Sammie_03 wrote: »

Dizzi - my 9 year son old has started a swimming course at our local swimming centre with the school. I don't think you live near me otherwise I would let you know the times so you can keep well away.

Hah! Like I say - this lot wouldn't have gotten away with half of what they were doing if I was the teacher taking them!

By the way - if you leave a pee sample in the boot of a car on a freezing cold day after doing it in the hospital loos earlier that day while waiting for a GTT to be done - it goes a very amusing pinky colour you can baffle the midwife with! Think she was sending it into the lab just for the colour of it!

katiechoc_2

Our swimming pool is pretty good really, although could do with some of the playpen things as the fold down changing mat is nowhere near secure enough to leave George now he's so wriggly. They have these weird little fold down wall mounted chair things too - looked about as flimsy as a bit of cereal box pritt sticked to the wall!

Have been to the docs with G, he reckons the dodgy eye, tummy rash and cough are all down to a virus which will sort itself out in time. Glad I went anyway, it hasn't occurred to me they could be all related!

Bad mummy alert - just gave him his dinner, later as we were out and I'm knackered so bunged a potato waffle in the toaster and gave him a bit - I've never seen anything disappear down that boys neck so fast! Absolutely no waste, which is more than can be said for the bit of avocado I gave him for puds. Note to self: fruit and then junk food in future