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Graduated elderberries - 30+ and looking forward to DC1! (Thread 6)

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HazleNutt · 20/07/2013 16:52

Oh, looks like I wrote the last post! So new thread here where we will see more berry babies and hopefully loads more graduates as well.

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Are your children’s vaccines up to date?

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Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 12:46

Mother, comfort yourself with the thought that even if it takes until 2016 it will still probably be completed before my bloody attic.

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HazleNutt · 02/08/2013 12:56

Go Elodie!

Tried expressing and bottle, as a friend said it took them a month(!) to get their baby to take the bottle. Vic luckily didn't have any issues.

However, I was just reading how much milk you would need of you plan to be away for a day. Apparently 600-900 ml. That's almost a liter! I buy cow's milk in 1 liter cartons..
So to build up a supply I would need to be pretty much attached to the pump the whole day, lovely.

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Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 13:46

Hazle - get yourself some ice cube trays or breast milk storage bags. That way you can express small amounts and freeze and build up a store. I measured how much each ice cube holds (mine are about 1oz each cube) that way your DH knows to just defrost 3 ice cubes per feed or however much yours eats. It lasts in the freezer for 6 months so it's just already there as and when you need it without you needing to make a mammoth effort to express loads in one day.

Alexandra6 · 02/08/2013 13:49

That's so much milk!! Do you know, despite the fact several very good friends have had babies, it's only now I'm realising how often they get fed, nappies changed, their sleep patterns. Maybe I just didn't absorb it before but if you'd asked me a year ago, I would have guessed they maybe feed three times a day, one or two nappy changes and sleep for at least 6 straight hours each night if not more with lots of good naps in between! Now I get why new mums are so tired!

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HazleNutt · 02/08/2013 13:54

I have the storage bags, but even then it takes a lot of expressing to build up enough for even a couple of days..

Yes alex I'm afraid that perception might have been just a tad unrealistic
I can't say I'm that tired though, if you're lucky and get a good sleeper, the rest is not really that much trouble.

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Quodlibet · 02/08/2013 13:58

Ooh Mother, good score. We need a new kitchen at some point and will never have several £ks to do it 'properly' so I am always on the lookout for that kind of tip.

Great to hear of your scan Merkin, and that Elodie's tongue snip has helped. On the bed question, my sister used the carrycot on her pram instead of a Moses basket for a while, they could let the baby fall asleep in it in the lounge and then take her up with them and put the carrycot in the proper cot IYSWIM.

So we have pram dilemma. Sister has offered me her pram (Babysomething Oyster) and DP's mum's friend has offered us the IpOp. Neither is perfect for what I think we need - should we just opt for one and use it until I do work out if I need something else? Oyster doesn't have suspension and isn't that easy to collapse, IpOp is heavy...

Alexandra6 · 02/08/2013 14:29

Ooh I'd be tempted to make do quod and see how you get on, think of the money you'll save there. Also I guess it's hard to say until you're actually using it, you might end up liking one. Having said that, you will prob use it a lot so need to be happy with it. I'd prob give it a few weeks and see?

So sounds like cosleeper isn't essential from the general consensus unless baby doesn't like the Moses/carrycot. Again I might see how I get on for the first few weeks. I though if I put the Moses right next to my bed, it's really close to me anyway so kind of the same thing as cosleeper?

Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 14:43

Lucy is happily napping on a changing mat slung on the lounge floor with a Muslin over it at the moment because I couldn't be bothered to go upstairs and fetch the Moses basket my point being that in my opinion babies will make do with whatever you give them!

Re: prams, lifting a heavy pram in and out of the boot of your car is a total pita. Speaking from bitter experience.

Quodlibet · 02/08/2013 15:40

Yeah we don't have a car - so it's going to be lugging heavy pram onto the bus/up and down stairs at the station etc. Which I am not anticipating to be fun! I did a show a few months ago where we used 5 different prams and really put them through their paces, and it is amazing how much of a PiTA some of them can be compared to others.

Alexandra6 · 02/08/2013 15:47

I guess then if you do splash out on a new lighter pram quod you don't then need to buy all the travel system/car seat stuff so it would just be the price of the pram itself?

I'm going pram shopping tomorrow morning with DH and getting a few other bits like a changing mat, weirdly excited about our first baby shopping trip together! DH hates shopping though so planning to leave him in a coffee shop if it gets too much for him!

Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 16:39

I have to say, apart from as a makeshift bed, the proper changing mat we bought never gets used, we always use the fold up mat that came with the free from Boots changing bag. Just something to consider - I suppose if you've got a changing unit you might use a proper mat but we just change her on the sofa or bed so don't need it.

Alexandra6 · 02/08/2013 16:47

I've seen one in john Lewis, only about £6 and great reviews so think I'm going to get that tomorrow.

CatsCantFlyFast · 02/08/2013 18:03

Question... Have just read a study that compared side of placenta to baby's sex, which had an incredibly high (95%) correlation. I won't post which side is which on here for those who don't want to know. But, do you know which side your placenta was on? Believe an abdominal ultrasound pic is mirrored (ie if on the right when looking at the pic its actually the left)

MotherOfCleo · 02/08/2013 19:08

purple I also have the boots freebie changing bag I signed up for all the freebies and have so many trial packs of stuff now.

We have a changing mat to go on the changing unit in the nursery, my mum bought it for us as it went with the colour scheme, shes a very practical soul.

Merkin I have no idea at all which side my placenta is on?? Our sonographer scanned from both sides an the bottom so don't know how we would find out either.

Cavort · 02/08/2013 20:24

Alex I don't have to get out of bed to get Elodie in and out of our moses basket.

Merk my placenta was posterior and no idea if it was slightly to one side so can't see if your study works for me, which is frustrating as I love that kind of thing and spent ages trying to work out the sex by the nub and skull theories which were both wrong.

We took Elodie to the cinema this afternoon. Well, we went to the cinema so she obviously had to come along - I don't think she paid much attention to the film. Apart from a few hairy moments where I thought she might start, she was very good and happily BF through most of it which pissed on the chips of the couple next to us who pulled a cats bum face when they saw we had a baby in the cinema.

Cavort · 02/08/2013 20:43

And I am going to have my first glass of wine in 43 weeks tonight. Just the one but I am so looking forward to it... I am going to gaze lovingly at the glass and tell it how much I have missed it. I have 13oz of expressed on standby which I think should cover me. I will probably feel quite pissed after all this time on the wagon so DH is sole carer tonight.

Alexandra6 · 02/08/2013 20:45

You took her to the cinema cavort?! I'm so impressed! Isn't that one of the things people bang on about you never get to do when you have a baby! I would have been scared of tears!

janey1234 · 02/08/2013 20:56

Oh cavort you put me to shame. I've been having a glass every other night. Can you tell I missed booze?!

Tonight we're celebrating Miles' 5 week birthday with a bottle of veuve and a kebab. I am all class!!

Impressive re cinema, and good news re scan

Cavort · 02/08/2013 21:25

Alex I checked on Vue's FAQ's and it said you can take babies but they request you step outside if they cry, which is fair enough I thought, but also you can only take them to age appropriate films, which I find bizarre as she's hardly going to get cortupted by swearing/violence/sex at 4 weeks.

Janey I would have been straight on it after the birth but I had to wait to get the expressing cracked and check she would take a bottle before I indulged. Thank fuck she will, it's bern a long 10 months! How long after a glass of wine do you leave it before BF again? And happy 5 week birthday Miles, definitely a Veuve occasion!

Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 22:53

I'm on the beer but I'd rather be having a glass of Veuve! I read that if you're only having one drink if you feed baby first it's then approx 3 or 4 hours before you need to feed again which gives it enough time for the alcohol levels to drop and then it's fine to feed as normal.

Purplemonster · 02/08/2013 22:59

Umm I realised that 'on the beer' makes it sound like I'm having a party, I'm only having one!

Also...do you think the pregnant berries are going to throw things at us or chuck us off the thread in disgust for talking about drinking when they're probably teetotalling it? Although I did have the odd glass of low alcohol wine when i was pregnant before my liver broke. Oh gawd, I'm making myself sound like a right alcoholic aren't I...

MotherOfCleo · 02/08/2013 23:03

I dont mind please can someone have an ice cold strawberry and lime cider for me! I really want one.

Cavort · 02/08/2013 23:27

I promised myself I would just have one but I don't think the size of the one glass I poured myself constitutes just one drink it was brimming over the edge. I think DH can give her expressed for the next feed and I will BF her after that. My boobs are full already, I think I will have to pump and dump. So much for booze affecting supply!

CatsCantFlyFast · 03/08/2013 10:28

You can happily keep your wine! I am rolling around groaning at feeling absolutely minging and its the absolute last thing i fancy! Cant believe i have another 6 weeks of this (excessive moaning due to fear of feeling/being sick)

Cavort · 03/08/2013 11:36

Err yeah Merk, terrible MS does make becoming teetotal that bit easier.

Mixed results on the drinking front... I thoroughly enjoyed a lovely large glass of Shiraz, but having missed a BF I woke up after 6 hours in loads of pain with boobs like Jordan. Ouch! They looked impressive though.

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