November 2012 - We want rattles and we want them now

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1671393-November-2012-Vent-chat-or-brag

Has GT confirmed?

Wowee GT you crazy lady!

Detective I use SockOns when we're going out somewhere, especially if using the sling. I don't bother with them in the house as VQ said they cut off the blood supply. J has huge feet though, he's already in 6-12 month socks from John Lewis.

My mum keeps talking about weaning ffs. I thought she was going to offer J a piece of banana today. He's only 11 weeks! She's very against the idea of weaning at 6 months for some reason. I'll have to watch out for her in case she sneaks some baby rice into him when I'm not looking

Ah stunt my sister is the same, I. Have to watch her like a hawk with J, she's desperate to give him a milky bar

GT has not denied it, and from her posts I would bet money on it being positive. Rather you than me honey x

M keeps grabbing at her ear. Not sure if its because she's trying to play with her hair, she's just discovered she has ears, a tired thing or if she has earache

fatima check her temperature. Usually an infection would have a high temp.

GT?! Confirm or deny! YOUR QUICHE NEEDS TO KNOW!

Really GT?!? Actual really? OMG!

In other MUCH less exciting news P had jags today. Cried a bit but pretty brave really. GP not keen on weaning early when I said that the docs at hospital had mentioned it he screwed his nose up. Fine with me

Have a horrid dry cough which keeps waking P up. Might have to hide in the kitchen

Omg gt??!! Seriously could not imagine only having a year apart??!! Mind you, you sounded like you wanted another so congrats!!

Det - yes just started using sock ons. Love them. No lost socks, no blood supply issues.

Vq - get well soon. You defo need tonic :) btw my link kept working fine!!

Proper full on blizzard here. Typical now lambings started. First two both look like they'll be bottle fed. Still at least they were live and properly formed!! Been worried about schmallenberg.

Ah Milky Bar, the classic weaning food!? Is your sister a bit mad Tits?

Pass - it's odd isn't it? Some advise is wean early for reflux and cmpi yet others hold out.

I have no intention on weaning earlier than I need!! I can't believe some people start at 15 weeks?! That's like Saturday??

Blizzard has stopped, in case you were wondering :) that was shot lived!

Fingers crossed the virus passes you by horsey

My sister was obsessed with feeding my dd1 milk bar too, in fact she did when she looked after her for an hour.

Gt where you going back to work?!

Oh poor lambs. That said I used to love bottle feeding them when I was a child. Mlk was made up in empty wine bottles with teats attached. So cute, until the buggers got big enough to push me over.

Another one counting down the days until snip snip here, especially since I stopped the blood pill.

Vq - seriously hope so. The advise was if the ram went in later (so sept/oct) they seemed to hope lambs wouldn't be affected. He went in late august/early sept so we've been hoping!!

Pr - yeah this is the one sheep we were worried about. She's lame and has been laying down a lot. She's still laying down. We got one lamb on and sucking but the other one was bottle fed. If the lamb still with her feeds off her happily well leave her in, if not then it'll have the bottle.

I haven't got a thermometer! It's on my list to buy
We have a lloyds chemist down the road, will they sell them?

I go out for a few hours and come back to a bombshell - congratulations GT if what we suspect is true. I would do childbirth again, this bit again. But pregnancy - no thankyou, not just yet. I need more time to pass and my rose tinted specs to get more rosy!

Yes Fatima the pharmacy should sell them.

12 cm of snow predicted here in the next 24 hours.

LO temp not gone up again since the dose of paracetamol at 7 this morning. I bet it will go up again this evening, but she hasn't needed another dose in the last 10 hours so I think she is OK. Possibly fighting something off.

DD1 isn't brilliant this afternoon. Vry clingy, and when she was entertaining herself as I looked after LO occasionally she was looking over at me sadly, and then looking away as soon as she realised I had seen her. Bit jealous I think.

PR it's so sad when they do that. DSD is usually v affectionate towards me, but when LO was 5 or 6 weeks old, and had been v demanding with feeding etc one weekend, DSD went around giving everyone loads of kisses, then just gave me one and informed me it was because she only loved me one today . I think that was around the time I decided the sling would be a good idea!

Congrats gt if you are indeed updiffed! Very brave lady!

I have a new cheapy thermometer, seems to work and LO has no fever yet, he seems quite well so far, just a little clingy at first bless him!

Re: weaning, I've had to make clear to my mum I don't want to wean yet, I was started at 8 weeks and the latest any of us had baby rice was 12 weeks I think, and with E being 13 weeks she's keen to get a milky bar into him. I just keep saying his milk is fine for him and she appears to have gotten the hint :) she means well but had me at 16 and her gran taught her everything she knows about babies and I think it was quite the done thing to wean early? Her gran had 13 kids and being only 16 she did as told. She didn't think bumbos looked any use either but e has one, a m & p type one. She does mostly let me get on with it and despite some things like early weaning etc she is a fountain of useful info!