MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

*Ro*

Morning all

Currently trying to express my 10ml of BM oh well

Hope those who are a bit down have a better day

Scott was up early this morning and took awhile to sleep, knew he needed more food, hubby too tight with the formula :eek:

Carmilla- love the EASY thing never heard if it! Tc if you still feel tired might be worth getting level checked as I am being treated and my iron was 10. Hubby got routine dentist next week he now thinks he has toothache !

:coffee: for those that want one, mines got to be a hot chocolate though

Sorry green room don't know answer to your q

Carmilla

Greenroom - I've been having period pains but no blood, it feels like Im due on for a few days. I'm combination feeding and it will be 12 weeks on Tuesday since Sebs birth, I'm presuming it's due to breastfeeding and lower iron levels than I'm used too.

*Ro*

Those looking for cheap travel cot
The following is £49.99 plus delivery but can be pricematched to asda at £25 and asda has there's back in stock

If you price match it you pay £25 plus £4.95 delivery
And you get a £10 voucher !!!!!!!

This has been mentioned by another op before but asda only now back instock be quick if you need a cheap one.

You can ring the pricematch helpline and they will do the order there and then.
http://www.mothercare.com/Red-Kite-Sleep-Tight-Travel/dp/B004ITQM8S?ie=UTF8&ref=sr_1_1&nodeId=42764041&sr=1-
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http://direct.asda.com/Red-Kite-Sleeptight-Travel-Cot---Black/002641074,default,pd.html

Aimless

Not clicked the link to check it's the same, but we have the 25 quid Asda one, and it's great for the money. We use it every time we go to Daddy's.

Rescheduled jabs today. Though I know realistically the chance of serious side effects is low, I'm still not keen. My stupid surgery only does them on Friday afternoons, so if you do need to see someone later, you're stuck with a ten mile drive to the out of hours people with your sick baby. *end rant*

Aimless

Oh, on the iron front, they were pushing really hard for me to have an iron infusion pre birth, which I refused. Since the birth, no-one has bothered to check it! I feel ok though so won't volunteer for a test.

dizziblonde

STILL no transitional care worker...

Farcical night - when they DID have one on she was really creepy and stank of cigarettes. Every time I went to feed baby she had burnt up so much of her last feed that testing her stomach contents to make sure her feeding tube was still in place was coming up empty - so I kept having to buzz for help. Now I've always been told nothing above 5.0 PH is acceptable - but this woman was telling me that the strip coming up almost black was ok to feed her on (when I could SEE the tube had come out slightly) and wasn't happy when I said I wasn't comfortable feeding her with that tube since I wasn't confident it was sited properly.

So that was tube number one fitted.

Next feed - it had come out (was never properly fitted anyway)

Next feed - again - couldn't get a good aspiration to check her stomach - call for help, midwife comes and tries and can't - so says she has to re-site the tube again... tube number 3. She still can't get some stomach contents (again, I'm fairly sure she's running on empty by feed time - but what do my instincts and knowledge of my child count for?)... so says to start feeding her and she'll ring for advice "because I don't know much about these transition children"... so I start on her bottle while she rings neo-natal... and I get an utterly hysterically loud (no privacy or confidentiality here) "Ok I'll run and go and try and stop mum" - so now I feel like I've possibly broken my baby and caused permanent damage... we have to go down to neo-natal for someone down there to fit ANOTHER tube... what number are we on to now?

And then I get to glance at Erin's notes - and it's a litany of griping about mum whining on about this damned nasal tube.

I'm actually worried they'll kill her with incompetence over this tube soon - especially with NO staff member on with a real knowledge of these transitional care babies again.

Waiting for the pediatrician to come around whenever he does - to see what he says - but she's still not taking full feeds away from the tube so I'm very unsure if he tries to pull it out - especially with no transitional support staff on to offer guidance, proper guidance from this century, about how to proceed and adapt her feeds in the light of it all.

janninew

Dizzi, sorry yo are still struggling.

Sorry if you've already covered this, but why is Erin not being cared for on the Neo-Natal Unit? The staff on the Neo-Natal Unit where Poppy was cared for (Nurses in particular are wonderful) I wouldn't have a bad word to say about them. My stay on the Maternity Unit was a different experience altogether and I ended up discharging myself after 6 days.

Is Erin's tube down her nose, or through her mouth? As they get stronger they do start to pull them out, at one point Poppy was having a new one put down her nose at every feed! You say her stomach is empty as your not getting any aspirates back, have often is she being fed and how much?

If you are really worried, you should ask to speak to a Consultant Paediatrician and tell them your worried. In my experience the Paediatrician's who do Ward Rounds on the Maternity Units are not the Consultants, but the Registrar's and they are not as qualified as the Consultants.

Really hope things get better for you.

xx

*Ro*

Dizzi - really hope paed can help sort things out x

happydays77_2

That's just awful dizzi. I really hope you manage to speak to someone who can help you out. You shouldn't have to be going through this. Is your OH with you today or is he back at work? Maybe he could go and make someone listen to him.
X

*Ro*

Hello all x

Off to mils tomorrow :eek: I haven't seen her in a while.

Had fish & chips for t with mum, cue Scott having a massive snooze and not wanting to play, did eventually wake.mum mentioned that Dylan has a new habit of blowing bubbles in his water bowl :eek: will look forward to that one then :rotfl:

Tc all

Ro x