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November 08 - Say it LOUD.......We're shades of GINGER and PROUD :0)

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LackaDAISYcal · 11/02/2009 21:06

This do??????

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LackaDAISYcal · 05/03/2009 21:36

ceebee, hopefully I'll get a date tomorrow, and it could be as early as next week anyway. I'll see how things go over the weekend. I managed to eat some chicken and veg for tea tonight...yay

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LadyBuzz · 05/03/2009 21:59

Good Luck Daisy hope you get it sorted soon.

Vbab ask away I don't think you are being nosey I'm coping on my own at the moment,bath and bed times can be hard but i'm getting through it. DH is being a bit of an arse about the kids, he will come and visit them but not have them himself and its starting to annoy me. I told him I needed space and he had to have them on Saturday!
He is still very upset and I feel so awful for making him like that, BUT I can't stay with him just because I feel sorry for him. I have been doing alot of thinking but I'm not quite there just yet. I'm at the docs on Monday so will see what that brings.

Twinkle anytime just shout the soft play place is great and very close to me, you have my number use it if you need to.

SausageRoleModel · 05/03/2009 23:36

thanks fudge/hana/daisy/jaunitad for the breast to bottle advice. may try that facing away thing and/or get dh to do it. he has tried before, but never out of sight/smell of me.

twinkle - brave girl! that would freak me out!

pinkglow and merry - my dad was a minister too - church of scotland. sadly he died suddenly when i was 13 weeks pg, so never got to meet Wee T (though he did see first scan). i still get misty eyed thinking its so sad she will never know her grandpa, but there you go. life's rich tapestry or some such bollocks.

Ceebee74 · 06/03/2009 08:41

sausage how about your father.

LB I do bathtimes/bedtimes by myself 2 or 3 nights a week and the key is definitely to get into a routine and try and get as much stuff ready as possoble (eg. I make Sam's bottle up before we go upstairs for bath so I can just pick it up as soon as we get downstairs, try and get the beds/pj's ready earlier in the day, make sure the towels are in the bathroom and so on) I can't believe you DH is being like that - surely he knows he needs to have the boys regularly. Do you think he is deliberately being like this to 'punish' you?

Is anyone else's babys hair falling out? Sam's is coming out in handfuls and there are huge patches of scalp showing through now. Am also sick of finding tiny black hairs EVERYWHERE!!

Oblomov · 06/03/2009 09:30

LadyBuzz what is happening with your old friend ? - sorry can we call him something else ? 'old friend' doesn't seem quite right. what shall we call him ? anyway, how are things with him ? what does he want ? what is he 'saying' at the moment ?
twinkle, godness, I don't know how you manage, with your dh away.
*Vbab8, I list all the things I have done. Dh says in a loving way, "whta did you get up to today" and I give him an account, as if to say, 'yeah , like I had a spare 5 minutes ". I say "well, after dropping ds at school and then getting home and bf ds2, I put the washing on, played with ds2, had a cup of tea, and then it was ........ and then as soon as he woke up, and had bf, I rushed to pick up ds1 and then prepared dinner and then .....
Its as if I need to justify my time to him. A if I don't think he understands that between dropping off and picking up, aapart from bf, there is little time for anything else.
And its not as if he ever actually accuses me of being sat on my asss all day MN'ing, but I feelI need to justify it anyway. vey odd. my own paranoia, I assume ?
And, I don't need 5 minutes peace. I need a 2 week break on a desert island ? ON MY OWN thats what I need. Ha ha.

coolkat · 06/03/2009 09:39

Becca's hair is not falling out but mine is by the hand full! Soon gonna have none left!

Twinkle must be hard with DH going away, you nd the kiddies must miss him terribly. Good job were all here at the touch of a button

Ladybuzz will he not have the LO's on his own as perhaps he wants to see you as well? Perhaps he should have the LO's in the house whilst you go out? You know how hard it is when you go out and all the stuff you need to take. Being at home with LO's is much easier. Its a very difficult situation you both must be hurting. Sorry if I spoke out of turn. X

Hi to everyone else. My DH is away this weekend helping his brother, dreading saturday as DD1 got horse riding and then a party and going to have to take Becca to all of these things! Rahhh

Vbab hope you are having a more chilled day. X

Lacks hope your feeling better. x

Pinky how nice that FIL sent the day with you, you must have a lovely relationship. X

Dozymare · 06/03/2009 10:04

obs coming to that desert island with you.....

Just bookmarking ladies, got choc coming over for a playdate...she is 3 mins late

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MerryMarigold · 06/03/2009 10:36

I thought choc was a 3mins EARLY kinda gal !

My hair has gone very curly, but it fell out with ds1 (I was more stressed).

I've got what mothers do from when I had ds1,but never managed to finish it. Like most books, it was a little polarised for me to feel comfortable even though it was closer to my 'mothering style' than some others. I start getting all confused and unconfident when I read books!

Lovely and sunny here to. Babies got their first jabs later . HV was not happy with me, but they have either been ill, or surgery so full we had to wait over a month for an appointment, so it's not all my fault, have been trying to get it done since early Jan.

MerryMarigold · 06/03/2009 10:38

sorry sausage, meant to say so sorry about your Dad. I would be gutted if that was my Dad. He's such a kind and lovely man, I'm sure yours was too - these men of God!

cricri · 06/03/2009 10:39

Can I come to the desert island too Could really do with it! E is still feeding loads during the night - I lost count last night! She had her third set of jabs yesterday morning and is being even more clingy than normal.
Sausage Sorry to hear you lost your dad last year It must be a difficult anniversary coming up for you soon. I lost my dad 4 and a half years ago and I'm so sad E will never know her granddad. In fact she has no grandfathers as DH's dad died 2 and a half years ago too. I try not to dwell on it too much and just show her pictures of them and tell her about them so that she'll be aware of them as she grows up.
Twinkle I also don't know how you manage with DH away. My DH works shifts and I struggle enough with just one DC in the evenings sometimes, never mind 3!
Off for an NCT meet-up shortly - one of the girls is Egyptian and is cooking us some yummy food for lunch

LolaBella · 06/03/2009 11:06

My hair is falling out too read somewhere that it was normal after giving birth but it's still worrying. Oscar's has certainly thined on top since his birth. But maybe he is just taking after his father

Sausage Very sorry to hear about your father. I'm sure he would be very proud though. I'v also had major problems with Oscar taking bottle but last week i went to work for a keeping in touch day and left O with his grandma. Health visitor advised me to go out the house when dp etc was trying to give a bottle. I was really worried but he took two 6oz bottles with much perseverance from grandma but since then i'v had no problems whatsoever. Yesterday he even took a 6oz bottle from me withou so much as a bat of the eyelid. Strange these babies

Twinkle gosh. Well done you. I find it bloody hard work when there are two of us and only one baby sometimes! Good to hear that Jack is being co-operative too

Oscar taken to waking several times a night again and not wanting to go back to sleep cue a v tired mummy over here. Hope it passes soon

Oblomov · 06/03/2009 11:06

Laugh at Book Hana. Laugh more that you have it and haven't had time to read it. That is like me. I said to dh last night. "And I haven't done anything". " I have all that stuff to e-bay and I just haven't .... sob sob"

With ds1 , my mum offered to have him so that I could go out for the afternoon. I think he was probably under a month old. And I started sobbing, and told her I didn't need an afternoon off. I needed a week.

Looking back with hindsight and having a little giggle to myself.

Making list of DI bookers - it will be like Mn and not a desert island at all, at this rate

Ceebee74 · 06/03/2009 11:54

Lol - this desert island isn't going to be very deserted is it??

My hair is falling out lots too - so between me and Sam, there are dark hairs all over the house! I remember it happening with DS1 and I nearly booked an appointment with the doctor as I was so worried I was going to go bald - until I read that it is perfectly normal

LackaDAISYcal · 06/03/2009 13:47

oooh, can i come to the desert island too? we can take over a wee archipelago so we have our own islands but are in visiting distance when we are lonely

not got time to post much but wanyted to say sorry about your dad sausage . I lost my dad nearly four years ago and my mum last . the photo of her and dd on my profile is one i cherish. it's sad bthat dd and bumble wont have any memories of their gps. one thing my mum said before she died was that there would be another baby before the year was out and we all agreed with her, but laughed about it after and blamed it on her cancer (which had sadly spread to her brain). She also said the baby would be a boy and was to be called Lawrence after my Dad and that she ahd spoken to Dad and he was fine with it (he was adamant when he was alive that none of his grandsons would be lawrence!!). Anyway when I found out i was pregnant a month and a hlaf after she died, it was a real spine tingling moment. so bumble has lawrence as his middle name.

Having a bit if a day of it here. I'm thankfully feeling much better as bumble has been up screaming since 5 this morning. I got an emergencty appointment at the docs and he has an ear infection. He only stops crying for half an hour after calpol is administered, and I'm now resorting to nurofen as i daren't give him any more calpol. Poor wee scone. can't put hiom down hance dodgy typing.

got a date for my operation...next thursday . so have been desperately trying to soort out hire of a breast pump so I can store some ebm for DH.

hope those on their own are doing ok.....thank goodness, as someone else said, there's usually someone here at the press of a button. I certainly don't know how I'd have coped without MN when DH was working away over the last couple of years.

right......babies to cuddle to sleep.

laters xx

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LackaDAISYcal · 06/03/2009 13:50

oh, and my head hair is starting to come out now.....it's my lady garden that looks like it's been attacked by a blind beauty therapist

and that was meant to read lost my mum last January

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AFingerofFudge · 06/03/2009 14:34

sausage and lacks sorry to hear about your parents. My parents died when I was young and to be honest, I had kind of got used to them not being there...until I had kids and then I missed them so much, and grieved for the fact that they would never see my DS's.

obs I am exactly the same in the way I reel off to DH when he comes home from work what I've been doing. I go through all the minor details in the same "justifying" kind of way. He starts to glaze after a while but I still carry on!!
Funnily enough, have just been to my postnatal exercise class where they have a library of baby books you can borrow. Had never heard of it before, but just brought home with me that "what mothers do" book!! Not sure I'll have time either to read it!!

Rosa · 06/03/2009 15:14

Oh Daisy next thurs ...positive vibes for a nice quiet realxing time when you can get lots of EBM ..
I have cooked like a mad woman whilst babes asleep and will be doing more this pm .. DH is on sandwich making duty ( only thing I can trust him with ) Party tom eeeek.
We were talking about FIl last night who died a month before I got pg as dd has abook to do for school where we have to put pics in of the family , the grandparents etc and we were wondering about what we could put in for FIL .
I am not yet loosing hair but I did after 4 mths with dd1 so I wait and see..
I have apile of books to read the only one I leaf through with propped up eyes is a baby massage one.. I really want to find a class for minirosa but it has to be mornings !
Minirosa has been doing some really green acid poos with what looks like mucus in them she doesn't have a cold ( I do ) its wierd ..any ideas ?

twinkle183 · 06/03/2009 15:44

Thanks guys for all your supporting words... am really trying to find time for myself and sometimes it is hard!! But have booked a weekend away for me and dh when he gets back!! No DC's.... So at least I have something to look forward to....

Am so sorry to hear about your parents lacks and sausage my dh lost his mum in 05 and she only met ds1... I am gutted that she will never meet the other two...

Feeling extremely exhausted today mentally and physically - I wish the doctor would get his finger out and give me the correct medication!!!

It really is lovely to be back on her - I missed it so much but now Jack has settled in to his routine I managed to steal a few moments to get on here now...

Thanks again girls - don't know what I would do without you all..... xxxx

LackaDAISYcal · 06/03/2009 16:36

mucousy poos can be a sign of diahorrea in BF babies Rosa, but the odd one or two isn't that unusual in itself and can be the result of teething amongst other things. If it hasn't stopped after a couple of days, I'd get her to the doc for a checkup. Check out kellymom for the normal course of pooing for BF babies.

bumble is finally asleep and not screaming. He's had two lots of calpol and two of nurofen, plus his antibiotics and looks sooooo pale.

I'm picking up my milking machine breast pump tomorrow.

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Rosa · 06/03/2009 17:01

Thanks Daisy ..Rosa trots off to Kelly mum.. She has just had another one so thats 1 last night and 2 today. She is feeding ok and seems quite happy - she did have the longest afternoon sleep ever this pm that could be a sign . She has jabs on Monday but if it carries on will call the on call paed that we have here over the w / end ( on positive thing about the medical service here)
Will you change you name to Dasiy the milk maid ????

LadyBuzz · 06/03/2009 18:12

Hi all,
Coolkat you didn't speak out of turn you are proabably right, either that or he thinks I will take the first opportunity to see

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chocolategal · 06/03/2009 18:26

hi all

Just bookmarking really, The Killers were FAB!!
E did fine at MIL, think they both had a lovely time so i shouldn't have worried!

hana have you tried topshop jeans? i really like the baxter style, straight leg so not so good with heels but good for wearing with flip flops and pumps.

hope your poorly babies are better soon rosa and daisy

ChocOrange05 · 06/03/2009 19:32

Gotta go - DH and I going out for dinner, tapas YUM and taking M in his car seat so fingers crossed he will sleep. I just had to respond - I AM a 3 minutes early kinda gal but London Buses are not!!

Lovely to see Dozy, Tiger and her DS2 today - what a yummy scrummy bunch she has! Night all. x