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June mummies '05 thread 11 - the one with the Zoo!

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katzg · 02/07/2006 21:14

new thread for all

got excited because i have ordered my days out vouchers from tesco, £10 of clubcard vouchers = £40 of days out vouchers which can be used to gain entry to london zoo

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bubbaloo · 03/08/2006 07:33

Giddy-Oscar had his MMR nearly 5 weeks ago and hasn't had any side effects.He went off his food for about a week afterwards but that was probably due to the weather and teething.I'm sure Jess will be fine.

giddy1 · 03/08/2006 11:15

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bubbaloo · 03/08/2006 11:44

Giddy-He looks so diferent now,with lots of curly hair.He's had one haircut and is going for another next week,hee hee.

giddy1 · 04/08/2006 08:53

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tribpot · 04/08/2006 09:05

I don't think that's cowardly, giddy, I think that's perfectly sensible. For the sake of a month, there's no point risking dd2 needing nursing whilst dd1 is at home, it's just not practical.

The worry about autism is there for us all, but of course infinitely more so for you - have you talked to the hv / GP about it? Would dd2's small size be a reason to delay in any case?

2Happy · 04/08/2006 09:12

I can't possibly know what it's like for you, giddy, but I share your feeling of knowing it's the right thing to do for ds, but being a little scared all the same. I agree with trib, though, what you said about trying to look after dd2 after the injection while dd1 is at home. My dsis's dd was feverish and rashy for a week after her mmr.
ds is nearly 14m now, but since he didn't have his 8m check until he was 12m I'm not holding my breath for an mmr appointment any time soon...
Talking of ds, that's him crashing away upstairs, refusing his morning nap again . Doesn't matter so much today as I'd have had to wake him up to take him to the health centre this am anyway (got my 16w scan), but he keeps doing it. Maybe he's trying to drop it, but it doesn't half make him grumpy if he doesn't sleep in the morning. Grrr.

giddy1 · 04/08/2006 09:57

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lua · 04/08/2006 11:47

Hi all!

Giddy - I haven't given DS the mmr either. I have no reason for, but I am not in a hurry either.... So don't feel selfish for delaying for a month!

2 happy - How are you getting along? 16 week scan already?! wow! time flies! BTW, is it actually advisable to have mmr when you are pregnant? I thought there was something about it, but I might be confusing with something else...

Katz - how is the job hunting? any leads?

So I am scared stiff, I terrified I might have an accident on its way.... it is almost totally impossible! yet... period is late.... Please would you all keep your fingers crossed that is just some weirdness?!?!
Anyone had periods being irregular while breastefeeding?

lummox · 04/08/2006 12:06

lua and 2happy - I asked my GP about mmr whilst pregnant. I think that there is a small chance that babies will suffer from very mild measles, rubella or mumps after having the jab.

I think I had rubella as a child, and I definitely had a vaccination for it, but I wouldn't knowingly go near anyone with rubella at the moment, obviously.

GP said that if I was concerned, I could wait until I was six months preg (which is two months away). At that point the risk of damage if i was exposed to rubella and didn't have immunity would be very low, and so the potential downside of leaving ds unvaccinated would outweigh the risk of harm to the baby.

to say that i was relieved to put the whole thing off. i just can't help being worried about it, even though i don't think i have any good reason.

hope everyone else is ok.

tribpot · 04/08/2006 13:24

lua - heck, fingers crossed for you

giddy - no idea if size is important, worth asking, esp now you have a bit of time?

No sign of ds' MMR invitation, quite pleased as it means I can delay the decision a while longer.

giddy1 · 04/08/2006 14:40

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2Happy · 04/08/2006 14:45

Well at least your lot seem a bit better informed, lummox, thanks for the info. I did ask my hv (at ds's 8m check) whether it was safe for him to have mmr while I was pg. She just blustered and muttered and eventually said "I think it's just the old polio vaccine that you had to avoid", but said she would look it up to be sure, never heard anything back from her. But, as I say, they are a little slow so I may well be 6m by the time ds gets his mmr!
The scan was fine, and they offered me a free 20w scan (in Scotland you're only entitled to one scan, at 16w, and it's not an anomaly scan), so naturally I said yes, so I'll see the baby again in a month. Just as well, dh managed to run away from work (boss was on a day off) but arrived too late for the scan, and the picture's a bit crappy. It was being shy - maybe it's a girl, lol!

2Happy · 04/08/2006 14:48

Oh, sorry, yes Lua, meant to say, I can't really offer advice about cycle and bfing, since I only ever had one period and then got pg (sorry if TMI), but I did ask other people's advice about how their cycle was when bfing and a few people said that their cycle was sometimes disrupted. So I hope it's just that for you [fingers crossed]

lummox · 04/08/2006 15:34

doh - lua - sorry - must read more carefully, thought you were saying you were preg . fingerse crossed all is as you want it to be.

am in similar position to 2happy - although had 2 cycles rather than one. but i am sure that bfing can affect timing. as can the stress of thinking you might be preg of course!

lua · 04/08/2006 15:42

Thanks guys! I feel like a teenager!
The funny thing is that I have never worried in the past. I always thought: - oh well, if I get pregnant is Ok! But now, I am a basket case!
I put the children in the car, and panick that there will never be space for a third car seat! Never mind that there is no space in the house or in my head for a third child!
I couldn't resist and did a test today, is negative! phew! but I still feel funny!
Pleeeeaze let it just be anxiety, holding auntie flo back !!

So how are you doing Lummox? Do you know what flavour you are having?

sfxmum · 04/08/2006 16:42

hello all
i run away from work early

lua - hope all is as you wish, i am still bf and periods super regular since dd was 6m very strange since before baby i was very irregular.
we are however trying for a baby again

giddy - MMR, not given yet postponing for reasons given by lummox, just in case, but will eventually give it or bite the bullet and do it if it takes too long to conceive.
i can understand your reasons too

eym - hope MRI had good results

2happy& lummox hope you doing well, so so broody i am.
one of my best friends and one of my staff are pregnant too. so are 3 other colleagues, actually one of them gave birth this week, its babies every where

lua · 04/08/2006 21:42

oh, sfx - I hope I haven't been insensitive! Keeping my fingers crossed for you!

sfxmum · 05/08/2006 10:57

of course not different stages is all

hope you all have a nice weekend, i have monday off too lovely

lummox · 07/08/2006 18:36

The thread's been very quiet over the weekend. hope everyone's being doing fun stuff.

All is well here, although i am feeling very exhausted almost all the time. No change really, i suppose, but seems a bit worse.

ds has noticed the bump, and keeps pointing at it, but since his ability to point and grunt far outstrips his 4 word vocabulary there's not much i can do to try to prepare him at this stage, i don't think?

still not waling unaided, although he will walk a long way (about quarter of a mile yesterday) if he can hol your hand. am getting a lot of incredulous french women saying 'he can't walk? at fourteen months?'

yesterday someone asked me if i was sure that he couldn't walk (trib - is your health visitor on holiday in france by any chance?). wasn't really sure what i could say to that. my french isn't up to saying that whilst it's possible that he gets out of his cot at night, walks around, then zips himself back up in his grobag and tucks himself in ready for me in the morning, i think it's unlikely.

hope everyone else is well. 2happy - how did the scan go? did you find out the sex? i won't know until my 20 week, which isn't until the beginning of september. am quite enjoying speculating though.

lummox · 07/08/2006 18:38

doh - walking unaided (he's been able to wail unaided from a very early age).

and hold your hand.

and meant to say EYM - hope your stuff went well.

tribpot · 07/08/2006 18:42

lummox, sounds like my hv is def on hols in France, I shall present myself at baby clinic forthwith

If only one could be as sarky in foreign languages: "I'm not sure whether he can walk, how would you define 'walk' exactly? We don't have walking in the UK".

lua · 07/08/2006 21:07

Hi everybody!

Ds is becoming a M-A-N all of a sudden! He still don't say a word, but he is clearly demanding things all the time! Not only he screams at the top of his lungs unintelligible things, but now (for example) shoves the toy watering can in my hand and proceeds to pulls or push me toward the garden spout while making mad faces due to my lack of cooperation!

bubbaloo · 07/08/2006 21:49

Lua-Oscar also doesn't say anything.He started saying dadda and mumma ages ago but since we've been trying to get him to say mummy and daddy instead,he's stopped even saying that.He has started taking tiny little steps now which is brilliant and so lovely to see,especially as he has problems with his feet and still wearing his special little boots.

Hope everyone is well.Sorry for not posting much-we're so busy,but I am lurking.

eastyorksmum · 08/08/2006 08:49

Hi mum hugsssss morning

sorry havnt posted much lately im afraid my head is full what ifs ?

MMR well i took william for his yesterday, after a lot of soul searching we decided he was a very good boy to, the nurse told me re action can be up to 2 weeks phew its not that we watch our babies enough mums.

Giddy hunny i cant tell you enough, how much you helped me the other day, made me feel a lot better, and your so right right about my work prospects, ive dedcided as soon as as im more settled on the meds to go back to colege do some more studying and probably go work in schools.

Happy, Lummox keep well in this hot weather, its so lovely the first scan of your babies good luck mums hugs.

katz good luck at the job hunting

Muma 3 william is the same hes doesnt want a morning nap anymore he rather have a nap in the afternoon, maybe that what your little one needs, they change so much after the first year.