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Nov 2006 - Part 2 Beaming simles Pelvic floors!

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Charleesunnysunsun · 02/01/2007 17:58

I started a new thread now we have all arrived! I hope nobody minds!

Harry is 7 weeks now and we are getting some cracking smiles!
He has really settled this week and is loving his cot with a musical mobile above it he goes down like a dream!

Im am ok doing my pelvic floors for all im worth i don't want to suffer post natal incontinence! (sp?)
Im feeling a whole lot better now thje anti d's have had a chance to kick in!.

I hope your all well and enjoying your babies

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NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 11:04

Morning all

Yes Stacey, DH is treating me, I started looking a cheap week self catering somewhere, and he managed to convince me we deserved the break! And as for paying for it, that is yet to come!!

Welcome to the two newbies It is nice to still have people wanting to join in with all of us weirdos!!

George's teeth are no where near ready to come through yet, but there is definate movement, also got the dribbling and tounge sucking, I found a teether is Tesco the other day, it looks like a dummy (i.e. they don't have to hold in it their hands to chomp on it) but the bit that goes in the mouth is shaped to their gums, also great for putting a bit of bonjela on instead of trying to put it straight in their mouths, I thought it was a fantastic idea. Would be great if I could actually find it, it has just dissapeared into thin air. I suspect DS1 was playing shops with it and it has dissapeared into his dump of a bedroom!!

DS1 has gone back to school, he had his half term week before last, went back to school Monday morning, full of calpol, Monday lunch time the school rang, could I go and get him he wasn't well, got home with him and he was sick everywhere, and he had been laid up on the sofa all last week again, he seems a lot better in the day now, but still coughing like mad at night, I've had to give him his puffer which he hasn't had for months and months, I don't like it when he is ill. George had a bit of a sniffle and a cough but no sickness or temperature. DH is just about over his man flu, strangly enough booking the holiday made him feel much better

Right I am off for a date with the polish and duster, I have an exciting life don't I?

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 11:43

quik... click on my name and look at my new photo's!

podglet · 26/02/2007 12:18

Morning!

Saralou - they are lovely, you have 2 v cute boys! We are having some taken next week.

NJ - what a lovely holiday you have booked! We are going to Spain in June to PIL's villa with the PIL for a week. can't wait have already bought DS a swimsuit / sunsuit and am going to place an order for some Babybanz and swim nappies!

Hi to Nellyfin

DS has found his legs, he loves "standing" on our laps - laughs his head off he's getting so strong! He was on his playmat this morning and the rabbit dared to come out and sniff his feet - promptly got kicked in the head and is now sulking in his hutch - I PMSL

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 12:39

Sara, the pictures are lovely

Podglet LOL at the rabbit, our cat will sneak up to George, have a bit of a sniff but as soon as he moves (even if he is asleep and just opens his hand or something) she runs a mile, it is as though she is desperate to have a look, but she knows she isn't really supposed to be near him! Though she has no qualms what so ever of jumping in his car seat or bouncer when he isn't in it, no matter how many times we chuck her out of them, we have learnt to keep them out of her way when he isn't there 'guarding' them!! I daren't buy him any clothes for the holiday yet, the rate he is going he could be in bloody mens clothes by then!! Though I am looking for a cheap stroller, there is no way the luggage handlers are chucking my pram about!!

All this talk of holidays, and I don't even know how the hell we are going to get to the airport, there is no way we will be able to fit our three big suitcases and all of us in the car, we can't get a taxi/bus because of the car seats, I don't fancy trying to pull a suitcase and push a buggy so trains are out of the question.... Oh the dilemas....!!

Does anyone have one of the baby carrier things that will still be Ok to use when the baby is 8 months (and older)? I wonder if we would be better with one them?

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 13:16

nat, i believe most baby carrier things will last till toddlerdom. could any one drive all your suitcases for you? or get dp to drive the kiddies and you get a taxi with the suitcases? lol at the mens clothes... have you weighed him lately? go on, how much now?

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 14:00

We will probably have to do something like that, except then we will be paying for the taxi (god only knows how much that would cost) plus £70 odd to park the car for the two weeks, but we have to get us all there somehow!

I haven't had him weighed since last time and I think he was 15lb 4 then, he is still having the baby rice in the evenings, but he has started waking in the night again, not sure if I should give him baby rice for lunch as well as tea (along with his normal breast feed - he still has never dropped a feed!) or if two lots of 'real' food a day is pushing it! He is already starting to get tight in his 6-9 month clothes... when will he stop growing so quickly???!!!

And for all of you baby poo addicts, I have never ever ever changed a bum as messy as the one I just did, it was all over his vest and trousers, up his back, round the sides of his nappy... it was honestly as though he didn't have a nappy on at all the amount that escaped! I didn't even know it was possible for boys to get poo on their willys....how on earth did he manage it???

mygirllolipop · 26/02/2007 14:33

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nellyfin · 26/02/2007 14:48

ah, i was way out at 28 teeth then! sorry! nataliejane, my ds was always huge for his age too, always way over the 100 centile on those charts, there was talk about testing him for giantism at one point!! (i turned down the testing, knew he was just a big boy). he is now 3.5 and wearing age 6 - 7 clothes! hope my little girl doesnt go the same way tho, one thing to have a big boy, not sure if i want the same for dd!

staceym11 · 26/02/2007 15:22

oh keiran always manages to get his poo on his willy!!! and hes not even breast fed (so his poo is supposed to be more solid, which its not!)

my auntie was saying the other day she didnt want the poo to leak out of her foster childs nappy so she didnt have to throw her vest away again, i was shocked i just wash mine! she said that the stain wouldnt come out so you couldnt use it again! helloooo?? its a vest noone sees it!!!!!

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 15:36

Mygirl, I have never heard of taxi's bring child seats! I have obviously led a very sheltered life!! At least it gives us an option!!!

It wouldn't matter how heavy the carrier thing would work out, DH would be doing all the carrying!! No seriously, I'm not sure it would be practical anyway, in that sort of heat carrying the weight and just being that close to someone else would be awful!

I am still deciding on the rice, it isn't as though he is starving all day, and so is looking for more, but obviously the bulk of the rice did make a difference at night time... ah decisions decisions!

Georges poo is normally very well contained, but I did use to throw DS1's vests away when they got covered in poo. It wouldn't be an option with George, by the time he gets through wearing the dozen or so vests I get when he changes size, he is changing size again so he doesn't have to wear the same ones twice (well at least it seems like it!)

Has anyone got an age old answer for cradle cap? George has it really badly, the shampoos barely touch it, it isn't bothering him, but it looks awful I've tried a prescribed cream the HV gave him, Johnsons, detenox, olive oil, not washing, just wetting, nothing is helping him. What actually causes it? Is there anything I can do to stop it happening?

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 15:38

Actually might open that last question to MN as a whole, might get a few different things to try.

staceym11 · 26/02/2007 15:42

NJ, i put baby oil on ds before i put him in the bath, wash his hair as normal and when he gets out i brush his head (not hair) with a soft baby hairbrush, sort of against the cradle cap so it pulls it off, works for me everytime!

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 15:47

I will give that a go, thanks Stacey, DS1 never had it, so I've no idea about it.

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 15:51

ooh, i used to love picking ds1's cradle cap! i know i know, i'm sick i did the same as stacey... i don't think their is an instant cure for it, it just gets better over time.. so far so good with ds2!

mygirl, well done to your dh! exams are the worst!

i keep the vests that poo gets on until ds has grown out of them, then if their stained i get rid... but then i'm not having any more babies, so no need to keep them and i can't give stained ones to charity shops!

staceym11 · 26/02/2007 16:01

yeah i keep till they'r outgrown then put them in the clothes recycling bank!

dd didnt have it either had to research it for ds! his is bad coz he doesnt always manage a bath each week ! i know i know bad mummy alert. hes clean and washed but doesnt always manage a proper bath!

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 16:09

I put George in the bath every day, not because he needs it as such, but he absolutely loves his baths and I love watching him cooing and laughing I find because I am breast feeding, when I go near him he just searches for food, even when he has just been fed, he will lay on his dad and coo and laugh and fall asleep, but he has never done that with me, he does sometimes fall asleep when he is feeding but other than that he has never fallen asleep on me. So I do his bath so I don't just feel like a feeding machine! Plus DS1 needs a bath everyday because he gets filthy, so I stick them in together.

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 16:09

Oh and Sara, I must admit to a bit of picking myself, we can be gross together

staceym11 · 26/02/2007 16:17

ok as we'r all admitting i pick too! think its just a bit of a compulsion!

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 16:46

love it!!!

how can you not pick... it's too tempting!!

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 16:52

Urgh!!!! You two are disgusting, fancy picking it?

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 16:55

i pick and i'm proud of it!

(We're still talking about cradle cap aren't we????!!!!)

lol

NatalieJane · 26/02/2007 16:59

PMSL

Well the answer seems to be to shave his head Not sure I could do it, what if his hair grew back funny? Or something else as obviously life destroying....

My DH says I am drama queen, do you think he is right? LOL

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 17:04

noooooooo don't shave his head!

what if he lost all his magical powers?

saralou100 · 26/02/2007 17:07

(wanders off to find a 'is nj in labour' thread, to respond to question is she a drama queen)

pmsl