MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

missbunbury

Morning all!

Who was after an umbrella-fold buggy recently? There's a Chicco one going for fifty quid on zulilly today, no idea whether it'd be any good as I have banned myself from EVER reading a buggy review again after getting a bit obsessed when I was pregnant

Exciting plans for me and A today, hopefully off to a slingmeet in a special kiddie cafe, am v.excited, we are going on the train and also going to pop into my office to show off the baby.

katiechoc_2

Thanks Miss Bunbury, it was me looking for a pram. I'm not a member of zulily and it says if someone invites me and I order something that person will get a voucher of something, so if anyone wants to inbox me with an invite feel free!

The cold I was worried about never materialised, have decided to go cold turkey on the dummy starting now - he's screeching in his cot as I type

martafdz

I need some honest advice, I cannot make my mind up
My supervisor at uni has asked me to supply for her three Mondays after Easter at one of her lectures one hour. Maybe also at the seminars that follow, two hours on top. I said yes at a heartbeat because I think it would look good on my CV, I've done the seminars before but not the lecture. However, the closer it gets, the more I feel sad and panic about leaving my lo at nursery/childminder so soon.
The only positive thing I can think of is that it will help me build my CV, but I wonder if I'm giving it too much credit to supplying three days. Negatives are : money will barely or just cover the childcare and transport, I feel it's too early for her (she will be 4 months and a half), I don't know if the nursery would accept her for only three days in April/May, I don't know any childminder around, I'm scared of leaving her with strangers so soon, I don't have family or friends around that could look after her.
Question is: am I finding negatives just because I'm scared of leaving her or is it really too soon? Do nurseries accept children for just a few days? Is it really worth just for the sake of building up my CV? Would three days really make any difference? Chances are I'd be given other courses in the next couple of years anyway. I'm very conflicted. I don't know if I'm being reasonable or overprotective. I should let them know now if I'm not doing it, they are preparing the contracts.
Btw, I don't have a job to return to after the maternity allowance.

*Nutella*

Katie, good luck with dummy cold turkey - I know what you mean about being up as many times as when you were feeding him, same thing happening here. I think she's starting to appreciate the dummies attached to her comforter though and sometimes manages to settle herself back to sleep, so I'm sticking to it for the time being. Had to nurofen her back to sleep at 1am this morning and then put her in my bed, her cold was really bothering her. She cried when I left the nursery this morning

turtlemoose

Marta I had to leave Reuben when he was 14 weeks old, for a week, 7-5:30 every day, while I went to an employment tribunal. I used a childminder. I couldn't find a nursery who would do a short booking like that. I met several childminders, went to their homes, checked their crb, looked at their last inspection report, looked at their references, googled them etc. it wasn't great to be away from him but it wasn't as awful as I thought it would be. If it needs doing, well then it needs doing. It won't be for long and think of all the lovely cuddles you can have when you get back home to bubba

aventurine

Hi ladies

I really want to find the time to post much more regularly on this thread, but I get so caught up with 'stuff' that I don't seem to get the chance! I guess that comes with having 3 kids, a dog, a big 3-storey house and an OH that even his family says is my 4th child!!!

Sadly the breastfeeding didn't work out here, I just couldn't get the support either publicly or privately, despite my best efforts . I was in so much pain, plus LO was so hungry and windy that she is now on formula. She seems to be thriving though, she weighs at least 12lbs (will try to get her formally weighed tomorrow) and currently wearing an outfit in 3-6 months which fits almost perfectly, despite being only 6 weeks old!!

We had our 6 week check yesterday, which was a total waste of time as the doctor didn't seem like he knew what to do! I was hoping to get her weighed then, but no, I thought he would check to make sure my uterus had gone back, etc.. but very little was done. Oh well, at least I didn't get any intrusive questions about contraception. At my (ancient) age, and after 3 kids, I feel a little awkward being asked lol.

Yay!! Just received my delivery of Ewan the Dreamsheep! I'm hoping for amazing things after reading all the reviews on Amazon, and the recommendations on this thread. LO is very unsettled after her 7/8pm bottle, and generally won't go in her cot until she's had another feed at 10/11pm, so I'm hoping Ewan will help her get into the habit of going to bed at a more reasonable hour

I have an 'eater' on my hands too - she is currently draining 6oz bottles, so I've had to put them up another ounce today, plus she's having 7 feeds in 24 hours rather than 6. At this rate, there's NO WAY she'll last until 6 months before having solids. The health visitor is coming to the house next week, so I'll be interested in what she has to say about my little milk monster!!

Just waiting for her to have another feed before nipping off to the supermarket. DS2 has cookery class tomorrow, so I have to get the ingredients plus more formula, and take back 2 packs of size 2 nappies which LO has well and truly outgrown.

fluffnutter

What.An.Idiot.

dizziblonde

That's pretty much a daily event in our house - you can actually use the angle Erin's got herself round to in the cot as a handy sundial-esqe way of telling the time (or how rough a night you're in for - 45 degree turn by 9pm = you ain't getting sleep today mate).

Still - considering my younger brother slept for about 3 years with his head on the floor and legs up on the bed when he got set free from the cot - only a 90 degree spin, or the odd 180 degree one is fairly good by my family's standards.

And we are having a blissfully long afternoon nap - she went down late cos we were down at SureStart this morning and came back via Tesco to restock the emergency babyfood jars supply (for if grannies end up looking after her since I'm only 4 weeks away from the point labour started last time), so she was about a good half-hour or so late going down for a nap - she's been asleep a good couple of hours now and is about to be rudely awakened since I need to get her fed and nappied in time to go and pick up daddy from work - I can't walk again so he'll be going to Tesco solo tonight.

Sammie_03

Fluff - bless little Freddie, he is soooo adorable I want to squeeze him!
I like seeing pics of your [STRIKE]idiot[/STRIKE] little man!!
Xx

moneypenny21

Aventurine - sorry to hear you couldn't get any support for BF but sounds like you have a hungry horace on your hands. I was 10 weeks when I was on bits of baby rusk so my Mother in law is already talking about our baby having solids! We won't be changing things until she becomes unsettled though! I'm not sure she will last until 6 months either but at 6 weeks she seems ok with milk!

fluff - he is too cute!!

Well we have just trialled another bottle! So far so good! She was really hungry so I thought she would guzzle it and I think she did - 4oz in about 7 minutes - is that fast or normal?

We tried the MAM Anti-colic teat 1 which is what we had in (after our mixed attempts with the avent) - is size 1 the right size for a 6 week old? She didn't seem to be sucking her cheeks in as though she was struggling to get any milk. She looked confused at first and squealed as if to say " i don't want a dummy" then looked more confused when milk came out of the supposed dummy! I made her stop each ounce just for 20 seconds or so which she cried about the whole time, as the last drop of milk was about to go down her neck she decided she had had enough which was a good job as it had taken over an hour to express 4oz so I would have had to put her back on the boob thereby defeating the point of trying the bottle. She hasn't been sick yet! Fingers crossed it stays down!

marta - how long and how much milk does your little one have? i know she is a similar age to mine and just wondered as I have no idea how fast babies drink or how much they drink when bottle fed.