MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

delain

Usually 2 loads, sometimes I get behind with it and spend all weekend doing it!

Oooh chippy! I'm coming to yours for tea

My calorie counter says I've burned 2,523 calories already :j can't wait for school to be back in now the weather's better. I'm starting to enjoy the walking now.

Well even after that massive walk by bigger 3 have all disappeared up to the park :eek:

Gillyx

I do around 2 loads a day too, but small quick loads. So one clothes airer for each load. I need to do it or I get a bit lazy and I'm left with loads of washing and nowhere to dry it I love when summer comes though, I open all the windows and a load is dry in 6 hours or so :j I've got nappies to do too, but they get done every second day at night.

There are only 3 of us so I have no idea how we end up with as much washing!

delain

I hang mine out on the line when its nice but its been so cold up to now none of it has been drying so we've had the tumbler on a lot, which I hate doing.

I'd do a lot more washing if it wasnt for the machine, It's an 8kg one and I do far far less loads than I used to!

Gillyx

I long for the day when I have a line and can hang my washing and nappies out :j

What a sad life I lead...

Sammie_03

I'm the same Gilly

Many a time I have been caught with a cup of tea in my hand admiring the washing being dried by the sunshine. :cool:

I have an 8kg washing machine too. I can fit the boys single duvets in there which I find helpful. I have been very good and not used my tumble dryer for a few months, I just hang the washing on an airer in my bedroom as we get a lot of sun through the window.

I've just been to the Asda baby event and stocked up on some bits. They had long sleeved bibs for £2.50ish so picked a couple of those up too.

fluffnutter

Gillyx wrote: »

I'm so jealous of you all with Kiddicare, We don't have one here and delivery costs £7.95 for EACH box. For that reason alone I boycott them, like I do any company that charges more to send to here, we're still the UK!

I'll let you into a secret... I'm not actually that fussed about kiddicare. I'll have a look for sure but the main reason I'm going to Hedge End is so I can meet up with Sammie and katiechoc. Kiddicare is owned by Morrisons and everyone knows I'm a Waitrose girl

Sammie_03

Ahh fluff I feel very privileged now.

I've never shopped at waitrose, however my step mum bought a cake from there and it was amazing. It would be worth a trip just to buy that. Ill have to ask her what cake it was next time I see her.

dizziblonde

Went to the docs this morning about what I'm 99% sure is Robyn's reflux - limited in help (but more than the health visitor who just said "Oooh you're probably right - we'll wait and see")... basically started taking the line of "oh we don't do anything if they're still gaining weight" until I played a combination of the premature baby card, and reeling off a list of the things going on that had made me strongly suspect that's what's what (it's flipping wrong I should have had to do that and google the snot outta the issue to be confident of getting any sense) - otherwise he would have quite happily just left us to it as long as she was gaining weight - fine if you're happy to leave a baby in discomfort and pain for a good 4-5 months or so, fine if you're happy to leave a family changing sheets and baby 3-4 times a night with the ensuing stress levels and consequences of that - not flipping fine if it's MY family you're messing with and planning on doing that to, and yes, on such occasions I WILL pull the premature baby card out of the pack and play it as it gets doctors paying a bit more attention rather than mentally zoning out and assuming it's just another stressy new mother!

Anyway - got thickener to try - after an epic trek around half of the local area trying to find the next stage up teats to use with thickened milk (MAM stage 2 teats seem to be on more of a shortage than any baby milk!) we tried her with the first feed about an hour ago - it's not reappeared as of yet and she seems more comfortable - just waiting to find out what the consequences are at the other end so to speak! Also took much more milk generally before going into her usual milk-induced drunken old man-esque zonk out sleep so I think that just generally the stage 1 teats were being too slow a flow for her a bit. We shall see - I'd quite like her to be able to settle to sleep without me holding her upright for an hour, or holding her all night long so she's not flat and I can wake up without frozen shoulder from lying there motionless all night!

BadlyWrittenPoem

savageHK wrote: »

I've not heard this - what link?

I'm a bit hazy but I'll try to give a brief summary of what I remember and can post links later if you want them.

Viruses need cells in order to be grown as they are not independent cells. Some vaccines use animal cells (e.g. polio uses monkey kidney cells) but others use human cells. The cells have been cultured over many years but originally came from aborted babies. From memory there are two main cell lines used (known as "human diploid cell lines") one of which I think is called MRC5 and I forget the other. One of measles and mumps (I think it is measles) has a version which uses a human diploid cell line to grow the virus and one that doesn't. I *think* the other doesn't usually use them but as I say I'm a bit hazy.

With rubella the strain of the virus used came from an aborted baby. It is known as RA27/3 because it came from the third sample from the 27th aborted baby they used. I think this was some time in the sixties when lots of people had abortions just in case because they had had rubella. This strain is used worldwide except for in Japan where they just swabbed the mouth of a child who had rubella. I don't know whether they use human diploid cell lines to produce the rubella vaccine as the source of the strain ruled it (and the combined MMR) out automatically.

moneypenny21

dizzi - I picked up size 2 teats in a fairly large Boots. They also had some on Amazon Glad you got some help at least. I think I am so lucky with my Dr he is young and has a young family so I think he always listens to my pregnancy/post-natal/child woes sympathetically and does something about them rather than the rest of the faffers!