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

turtlemoose

I play words with friends delain

Sammie £65!! Eek-!!

Peanut2013

I would love to be losing weight! I've never been this big, none of the pregnancy weight has gone

Thank god OH still finds me attractive (well he says he does, I wonder if he's gone blind, lol) or I'd just hide in the corner and cry!

BadlyWrittenPoem

pukka I don't have any experience but it sounds awful - I hope it improves.

Cake4brains wrote: »

My brother is having the girls for the first time tomorrow morning. My SIL is working so he is having them on his own too :T. He did make me laugh bless him.... apparently he has charged his camera so he can take lots of pics of them in cute outfits (budding photographer that he is). I don't think he has even thought about all the outfit changes he will have to do :rotfl:. I've just been ordered to have some outfits ready. I'd better get the iron out in the morning then :eek:

That's really sweet of him although I am also a bit :rotfl: at the idea of him looking after them single handedly *and* taking lot sof photos at the same time. Presumably they aren't mobile yet otheriwse it certainly would be a challenge to get photos.

BadlyWrittenPoem

Peanut2013 wrote: »

I would love to be losing weight! I've never been this big, none of the pregnancy weight has gone

Thank god OH still finds me attractive (well he says he does, I wonder if he's gone blind, lol) or I'd just hide in the corner and cry!

I wish we could all average out or something so that nobody gained or lost too much.

Cake4brains

BadlyWrittenPoem wrote: »

pukka I don't have any experience but it sounds awful - I hope it improves.


That's really sweet of him although I am also a bit :rotfl: at the idea of him looking after them single handedly *and* taking lot sof photos at the same time. Presumably they aren't mobile yet otheriwse it certainly would be a challenge to get photos.

They're not mobile yet luckily for him! Mollie does go through on average 4 outfit changes in a day anyway cos she is sick so much, so I have visions of him just getting her into a nice outfit and her throwing up all over it

I cant wait to read the text messages from him tomorrow. I wonder how long it will be til he asks if they can come home :rotfl:

I also cant decide what culinary delights to send through with them for their lunch. Most of it ended up on their forehead and him the first and last time he attempted feeding them the other day :T

mlbarrett

Bamama wrote: »

Hey mlbarrett. Was wondering where you'd gone all good here! How you doing?

Hi Bamama

Everything is fabulous thanks! Loving being a mum and finally passed my doctoral viva on Thursday so a huge weight has been lifted. Have been diagnosed with PND but it's being dealt with as I've had brilliant support from my hv, doc and Sure Start centre.

How's things with you and Dewi?

Bamama

Ooo congrats! Sorry to hear about the PND. Very glad that you have a good support system behind you

We're great thanks. He's just so amazing... I'm already dying to have more. He did wake at 3am and has been very unsettled but nights like that are few and far between so I don't mind ^^

DayDreamBeliever_2

Hi ladies, hope you're all well and enjoying the rare sunshine we're having!
I've got a bit of an 'issue' I hope someone can help with, it's a bit of an odd situation so please bear with me:

My middle brother and his wife lost their baby girl when his wife was 8 months pregnant, the cord had sadly got wrapped around her neck and tbf my brother hasn't ever been 'right' since. This happened on 4th December 2002 and they've gone on to have 3 boys since, in the mean time my eldest brother has had a son (already had a daughter) and my younger brother also has a son.
So, I got pregnant with a due date of 4th December, found out I was having a girl at my 20 week scan and since this point my brother has been 'weird'. I understood the significance of the date and also it was the first girl born in the family since what happened so didn't say anything about how he was freaking me out figuring it would get better but it's getting worse! Everytime I visit my mum he happens to be visiting (despite living over an hour away) and just stares at my lil lady the whole time, even to the point of literally following me round the house as I'm carrying her, he messages me every single day asking for updates/pictures via text or facebook which I ignore more often then not now and now his wife (who I haven't spoken a word to or seen in over 8 years!) Has started messaging me about how I'm upsetting him by not keeping him 'up-to-date' and I'm selfish because he just cares etc.
I've asked my mum to stop telling him when I'm coming as I don't feel like i can relax at all when he's around and now she's gone off on one about me being selfish too - am I really being out of order? My bf doesn't like the feeling or vibe there is when my brother is around her so I know its not just me but getting hassle off my mum has made me really cross! argh, sorry I needed to vent.

martafdz

Sorry DayDreamBeliever, I don't really know what to say, such a difficult and weird situation. I guess he's living it as if there was more than just a coincidence, as if his little girl somehow is represented in your lo, and seeing your daughter grow gives him the illusion of seeing his. Of course, she's your daughter and that's that, but maybe he's found a way to heal through your daughter. I don't really know what to suggest, I guess this would be better seen from someone who had lost also a baby so late in pregnancy, and see how they felt / how they healed.

I'm trying to figure out car seats and again I'm dead confused. I want something that stays in the car and most of all very easy to use. I want to sit my lo and have her ready within seconds. I hate my infant car seat because it's so annoying to have to put the seat belt around, get the right inclination, fasten her with the little belt inside... It takes us a few minutes before she's ready, and by that time she's usually complaining. Would an isofix be easier? Or a belted base? Or belted seat? I want rear face for as long as possible.

Also, why are cot bumpers not popular? How do you stop your lo from putting their legs between the bars and hurt themselves twisting? My lo woke up screaming because she did this a couple of days ago. Now she wakes up every hour because she has rolled onto her tummy and still does not know how to roll back!!

Bamama

DDB, have you tried speaking to your brother? Explain that you know he means well but he's being a bit full on.