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Meet In Glasgow Maybe?

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Kayleighx · 07/05/2009 22:41

Hi

Was wondering if any one else would like to get together one day and have a chat?

The more the merrier, everyone is always saying what is there for children to do, personally i hate going to soft play, swimming etc on my own. Think it may be an idea?

any one else with a suggestion?

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geordieminx · 06/08/2009 08:18

Giraffe saw this and thought you might be able to help

giraffesCanRunA10k · 06/08/2009 08:43

Replied GM

Wiggletastic · 06/08/2009 10:01

Afternoons next week good for me. May have my MIL with me as she will be visiting to babysit for us spend quality time with DD.

Pollok Park also good as close to us and the cakes in the Burrell Cafe are fab. (Extra one for you Giraffes for medicinal purposes! )

geordieminx · 06/08/2009 10:17

Monday pm would work for us too as we are away tues-thurs

midnightexpress · 06/08/2009 14:42

Yes, I think Monday pm should be good for me. If Geordie's going I'll be able to find you, otherwise I'll need some handy clues as I don't think I've met any of the rest of you before.

Depending on the time, I'll either have one red-haired ds1, or one of them and one blond-haired ds2. They're both welded to their bikes at the moment, so we should be easy to spot.

Just back from Pollok Park, actually. They have their family fun day this weekend - has anyone been before? Is it any good?

weegiemum · 06/08/2009 14:45

Monday pm then?

What time shall we say? In/just outside the entrance to the Burrell? 2pm?

I'm fairly easy to spot Midnight - large lady, with 3 dark haired kids, one of whom is in a disabled buggy. Other children possibly on bikes. Me looking frazzled!

weegiemum · 06/08/2009 14:46

BTW the family funday can be good but it can also be (in that great scottish term) hoochin'!

Wiggletastic · 06/08/2009 19:33

2pm at the Burrell is good for us. See you all then. (Fingers and everything else crossed for a nice day!)

Kaza1 · 06/08/2009 20:49

Thanks for the tutorial weggie. Monday at 2pm sounds good for me too I'll have my three monsters darlings. DD1 is a redhead (strawberry blonde if you ask her) DD2 is blonde and DD3 in her pram. Really looking forward to meeting you all. See you then

Nyx · 07/08/2009 17:25

Hello again everyone! Weegie, I'd love a chat about the gaelic school, thanks. Hopefully DD and I will make it on Monday afternoon - we have missed a couple now and I'm determined to meet everyone

giraffesCanRunA10k · 07/08/2009 18:10

Random question...are there any busses from Pollock park to Southern general?! Im a westender and am very confused. Probably can't come Mon as have to meet surgeon at 3.30 but just thought I would ask on off chance there is a very close bus that means could pop along. If not then I will deffo come next time

Nyx · 07/08/2009 18:17

Ooooh, I don't know, sorry...perhaps one of the others will know. I hope you can make it!

giraffesCanRunA10k · 07/08/2009 18:34

I'm not sure if the surgeon still wants to see me after the drunken stylee shite I was spouting to him ach well. Nyx is it you that lives near me? Near a very new Tesco petrol station?

sadie41 · 07/08/2009 19:51

giraffesCanRun you can get the train from central to Pollock Shaws South and it drops you off at the entrance. Or is it West? Oh, I'm not too sure but its one or the other. My friend lives next to it and we've got the train to her flat a few times.

Either way its really close.

Anyway, I'd love to come on Monday but I have stuff to do for work and I can't put it off any longer. But I hope you all have a lovely time and I'll make sure I'm at the next one.

Also, we had an NCT antenatal class today and the teacher has really put us off the Queen Mums. Did any of you lot have your wee ones there? And how did you find it?

giraffesCanRunA10k · 07/08/2009 23:26

I found the QMs FANTASTIC really wonderful.

sadie41 · 08/08/2009 09:55

Well thats what I thought. My mum has really nice memories of it as well. Hmm I wonder what the teacher has against it?

giraffesCanRunA10k · 08/08/2009 12:14

Strange. I was born there myself as well! They were fantastic to me really lovely. Only thing I have heard is that for a section the pain releif at the royal is better becuase they let you control it with the button thing.

Nyx · 08/08/2009 18:14

Hello again. I tried to post to this last night from my phone but it wouldn't let me - grrr. Sadie, I had dd at the QM as well and they were wonderful - short labour, monitored because dd was in distress, epidural as soon as I asked for it because the gas & air were not agreeing with me (and that was the point my waters chose to break properly - WHILE the epidural was being put in - argh); emergency section etc etc, and I never worried at any point - because they were all professional, competent and kind! I'd recommend it to anyone. In bed after the section, I was able to control the pain relief with a button myself, so that was ok too.

Giraffe - yes, I'm about 4 minutes walk from that tesco. Is it open yet?? I usually go the other way - to Morrisons in Partick!

I have discovered that I will be child-free on Monday - perhaps I will actually be able to chat with folk this time instead of chasing round the place after DD

prettybird · 09/08/2009 00:11

I had ds at the QM's - albeit now nearly 9 years ago - and I also thought they were fantastic.

The only complaint I would have is that with hindsight I had a long transition phase and was pushing during it so I ended up exhausted (snoring during contractions ) and so had to have mid-cavity forceps and stitches. But I blame my second midwife for that (I'd been in labour for a long time and the first midwife was lovely but had gone off shift) - but she was a community midwife doing a hospital shift for her CPD, so nto really the QM's fault.

I got loads of support with breast feeding - and ongoing support too, which meant that I could avoid HVs (which from the horror stories that I have read was probably just as well as ds' weight dropped dramatically and then only gained slowly but was a "non-failure to thrive" baby who just happened not to follow the standard growth charts).

I even had to go back in again when ds was just over 2 weeks old as I got a nasty infection (from one of the cats, we think )and was on IV antiobiotic for a week and they were great then as well.

giraffesCanRunA10k · 09/08/2009 01:13

Nyx yes opened last Thursday, its quite good. I usually go to Morrisons too but the ques are mad and I don't drive so Tescos is a good plan and cheaper than that wee Lidl. I live about 4 min away from it as well!

sadie41 · 09/08/2009 14:37

Thats strange, I wonder why the lady at the NCT class was so against the QM's. She said the place is under staffed and the level of care is dreadful, but maybe this has got more to do with the place clossing down rather than the staff being a horrible bunch.

Also it sounds like the aftercare is excellent and it'd be good to have a team willing to help with breastfeeding.

Altho the pain releif at the royal sounds rather nice

sadie41 · 09/08/2009 14:41

Also prettybird do you think you got the infection from one of the cats? Thats a scary thought, we have a huge black tom we'll need to watch out for.

prettybird · 09/08/2009 14:59

sadie41 - it is very rare - the microbiologists who came to see dh and me were very excited! I had a lovely relaxing time in the "bugs" room - ie an isolation room with its own loo. It's where the celebs stayed when they had their babies (eg Carol Smillie, Anna Ryder-Richardson) - but I don't think they knew its "real" purpose

We think it was from one of the cats - but only becasue she had some sort of bite (we think from a squirrel)just before I got out of hospital and dh wasn't very good at remembering to give her her antibiotics, so I ended up giving them to her. So we think she got the infection from the rat/squirrel that had bitten her and then because I'd been in close contact with her saliva, had somehow transferred it to me.

geordieminx · 10/08/2009 09:50

Hey ladies, not sure whether I will make it this afternoon, its a bit of a hike just to sit in a cafe, as you all knoow ds is too keen on being retrained strapped into highchair, and its not looking like park weather...

Have a nice time!

Nyx · 10/08/2009 11:15

I think it might clear up - the sun is peeking out now!

I am child-free at the moment, DD is being taken to Edinburgh Zoo by SIL and I have just tidied the house ...actually, what am I doing wasting good alone time tidying the house??

I should make it, might have a friend and her DS with me too. Hopefully see you this afternoon!

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