MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

mozzyc

I've actually got the Davina post natal and pre natal workout dvd. Should really stick it in and have a go, but when????????? During naps, i'm usually doing housework/having a bath/having a bowl of cereal............

*Nutella*

Newborn Thread Baby List

Janninew - Poppy - 24th November 2011 (3 months prem) :female:
Crabapple - Naomi - 14th January 2012 :female:
Mozzyc - Charlie - 17th February 2012 :male:
Sunshine_1988 - Aiden - 11th March 2012 :male:
Katiechoc - George - 5th May 2012 :male:
Nutella - Selma - 11th May 2012 :female:

*Nutella*

Sleep - will definitely be getting one of those comforter things; my LO can't really hold onto anything yet, so probably a bit early, but I'm keeping an eye out for nice and gender neutral (not keen on everything for girls being pink!) ones. Saw one today that I might buy. Good to know that other LOs have grown out of the napping on people phase - we're now able to put our little girl in her basket awake but drowsy in the evening and during the night (post-feeding); with a bit of singing and patting and stroking of hair she drifts off reasonably quickly (most of the time...) so here's hoping she'll start doing that during the day too.

Tummy - all is can say is arrgh! I have a c-section muffin top overhang just above my scar and I hate it. AND I have stretch marks. I religiously covered my tummy in oil morning and evening throughout my pregnancy and didn't get a single stretch mark... until AFTER I'd given birth when my tummy hadn't seen any cream or oil for a couple of weeks due to everything being sore. So very wrong - no one tells you that can happen!... Starting a postnatal exercise class next month though, so hoping that will help - it's a five-minute walk from my house and babies are welcome to come along and stay in their prams, so I have no excuses not to go and I'm hoping it'll help.

*Nutella*

mozzyc wrote: »

I've actually got the Davina post natal and pre natal workout dvd. Should really stick it in and have a go, but when????????? During naps, i'm usually doing housework/having a bath/having a bowl of cereal............

I'm afraid I find Davina so annoying I don't think I'd be able to face it... How about developing your own routine of milk bottle shaking, baby lifting and pram walking (complete with pelvic floor exercises and tummy squeezing as you power walk)? In fact, I think we should develop an MSE post natal workout for the real world

PS: I'm going to stop posting now before I out-post Mozzy's marathon from yesterday!

dizsiebubba

Just popping in to ask you lovely ladies a question...

Has anybody seen anywhere that sells vests with collars so that they look like polo tops tucked into jeans?

I can find them on ralph lauren etc but I was thinking more like 5 for £10-£12 not 1 for £35 ish lol... preferably in bright primary colours or blue and green

(Have also posted this on the pregnancy thread so sorry if you read both!)

sunshine_1988

Know what you mean Mozzy about having no time, when its nap time here is when I eat, clean, wash and iron!!

Nutella, your class sounds really good - I dont think my area do anything like that, let us know how it is?

Well, big news here, I have just put Aiden down for a nap in his cot for the first time in his basket this morning he was kicking about and he just looked to big and didnt have any room to strecth or try and roll. It took a while to get him to settle, and in the process of wheeling the chair in from the study for me to sit on I scraped the side of his wall :eek: OH spent weeks doing his nursery so I'm going to sneak in the garage and see if there is any left over paint to cover the black mark...anyway, he is now asleep in his cot. I've got the video monitors on and I can see him, he keeps moving though bless him. Feels werid that he isnt next to me, but its nice to type on here and not have to be so quiet...I'll report back later how long he lasts in there, its actually quite bright in there as his curtains are a little thin, maybe I should get a blackout liner.

Right, off to try and tidy up Oh and I used palmers cocoa butter throughout my preg and I still got stretch marks

xxx

sunshine_1988

dizsiebubba wrote: »

Just popping in to ask you lovely ladies a question...

Has anybody seen anywhere that sells vests with collars so that they look like polo tops tucked into jeans?

I can find them on ralph lauren etc but I was thinking more like 5 for £10-£12 not 1 for £35 ish lol... preferably in bright primary colours or blue and green

(Have also posted this on the pregnancy thread so sorry if you read both!)

Hello, I had dome for Aiden, two were from mothercare and one from George at asda...will try and find links, hang on....

sunshine_1988

Right, no collar but I have these

http://www.mothercare.com/Boys-Stripe-Bodysuits---2Pk/LV7128,default,pd.html?cm_sp=ProductFeatures-_-Category%2520landing-_-Boys%2520Stripe%2520Bodysuits%2520-%25202Pk

Collar

http://www.next.co.uk/g372638s3#802186g37

http://www.next.co.uk/g372638s4#827593g37

http://www.next.co.uk/x49898s3#816075x49

Quite a few on next, cant find the asda one sorry hun.

x

dizziblonde

Newborn Thread Baby List

Janninew - Poppy - 24th November 2011 (3 months prem) :female:
Crabapple - Naomi - 14th January 2012 :female:
Mozzyc - Charlie - 17th February 2012 :male:
Sunshine_1988 - Aiden - 11th March 2012 :male:
Dizziblonde - Erin 9th April 2012 :female: (7weeks prem)
Katiechoc - George - 5th May 2012 :male:
Nutella - Selma - 11th May 2012 :female:


Just back from baby clinic (oh joy) and I am distinctly irked and upset. AFTER she'd peed all over me, to add to the vomit highlights my outfit was already sporting, I asked about her belly button as it's distinctly not right. I get the whole "bad parent" tone of voice from the woman - have I not had her seen by a doctor (yeah - the entire time she was in hospital, her 6 week check, appointments for various other things - all of which seem to necessitate getting her kit off in ways only generally seen in page 3 stars' diaries), have I not had her seen by health visitors (I'm down there every flipping week most of the time getting her weighed to keep an eye on if she's catching up at all!) etc etc - you know that tone of voice that makes you feel like absolute garbage. So Miss Clueless (we've had fun with her before not knowing how to do Erin's charts because of her prematurity) goes and asks her buddy to talk to us - turns out she has a hernia, they tend to leave them but may need an operation in years to come. Oh and she does what I like to descibe as the "PND scrutiny concerned stare" throughout (the one that always makes me feel soooo flipping uneasy even though I'm fine) because I'd been sat happily miles away zoned out while waiting to be called).

So the word "operation" immediately equates in my mind to "you'll have to go back to that hellhole hospital" as well as the utter terror factor generally - which is upsetting enough - but the way she'd spoken to me had me in tears as I left... went to the docs to book an appointment to get it all monitored... and then decided - stuff this, I am NOT being made to feel like that by her - and went back up to challenge it and mention how she'd made me feel. At least got an apology for that one - but have probably triggered a note on my file that I'm a raging fruitloop... thing is - it's the health services' behaviour that has GOT me to the distrustful panic stage anyway! Apart from having to deal with the fallout from the crap they've pulled - I'm loving having the baby!

sunshine_1988

Oh dizzi, poor you - what an awful woman. Have you considered making a complaint? I would, its tough enough being a new mummy but coupled with everything that you went through its even more difficult. How ridiculous they never picked that up before and have explained it to you like that, hugs.

Is your GP nice? Could you speak to them? Or how about going to a diff baby clinci to get her weighed etc and speaking to a diff HV? If I have any questions which I think my normal HV might turn her nose up at, as mine can be a bit of an old witch, I'll go to a diff clinic where I know there is a lovely HV. I generally only speak to my actual HV when I go for Aidens jabs, as I get him weighed just round the corner as its more convienient.

Good luck hun xxx