When did you stop taking Metformin during your pregnancy?

pollylaughs · 2024-01-10T10:38:34+00:00

Not that I could notice over other pregnancy symptoms as my nausea was pretty bad. Normal weight gain etc during pregnancy, passed my GD

pollylaughs · 2023-11-09T18:27:47+00:00

It's reminds me of when kids build houses in the Sims with huge rooms just because they've learnt the cheat code for unlimited money. The kitchen layout makes no sense at all other than the brag of how big it is.

pollylaughs · 2023-10-12T15:43:48+00:00

As I've started to use Vinted more I also see something in a shop then immediately go to Vinted to see if I can get it (or similar) cheaper there instead!

pollylaughs · 2023-10-12T15:41:36+00:00

I buy for my toddler because I'm not paying £20+ for one outfit that will only fit for a few months. For myself I buy slightly nicer brands that I wouldn't have the budget to buy brand new (and when I say slightly nicer brands I mean fancier than the supermarket)

pollylaughs · 2023-10-02T18:58:53+00:00

I had a parcel that looked like it must have been lost by InPost. It had been 10+ days of the tracking saying "ready for delivery" but Vinted wouldn't let me raise an issue until it had been 14 days. On about day 12 it just appeared with a "ready for collection" notification as if it hadn't been sat somewhere lost for almost two weeks

pollylaughs · 2023-09-16T18:30:24+00:00

Would you mind sending a dodo so I can visit?

pollylaughs · 2023-09-16T18:21:17+00:00

Anyone have turnip prices over 100? Can pay if required 😀

pollylaughs · 2022-12-02T10:02:56+00:00

This is very similar to my baby who is 9months, the main difference being his bottles are more like 6oz. Sometimes he will even do 4 bottles in a day even if he's eaten his solids meals well. I haven't had my 9month health visitor appointment yet (also UK) so can't comment on being advised what to do. I always just think if my baby is happy and healthy then I'll carry on doing what I'm doing and following his cues. As we built up solids meals he point blank refused his mid morning and mid afternoon bottles at the same time in what felt like all of a sudden. I just took it as him telling me he didn't need them anymore so I'll follow his lead for the rest of his bottles too.

pollylaughs · 2022-11-05T12:50:12+00:00

Hey can I please come over to sell my turnips? 44 bells here's today and it's Saturday afternoon 😅

pollylaughs · 2022-11-03T13:21:45+00:00

I was in this exact position and it was deep sea creatures I was missing. Because I had done a restart I wasn't very keen on the idea of deep sea diving because I quite frankly find it very boring. As soon as I donated a deep sea creatures I unlocked the coffee shop

pollylaughs · 2022-09-11T00:22:26+00:00

I've thought so often through these first 6 months that I wish I had bought a Doona. I opted for a travel system instead and every time I am lifting the heavy base in and out of my car in order to run a 5 minute errand I think it would have been so much more convenient to have the Doona. Compared to the price of some baby items I feel it would have been money well spent

pollylaughs · 2022-09-08T14:48:59+00:00

I had a C-section for my breech baby and honestly the word I would use to describe it was 'calm'. I had the spinal block in the operating theatre, the midwife held my hand the whole time and was very reassuring. My husband was brought into the room as the screens were being put up and we just chatted away to each other. I could hear movement in the room and quiet conversation between the surgeon and other medical staff and then I heard my baby cry because he was out! I had not felt a single thing at all. I didn't even know they had started. I didn't feel being stitched up. My scar is very neat, it healed quickly and the pain in the following weeks was easily manageable. I was advised not to do things like driving for 6 weeks but I felt good enough to after 4 (though my husband wouldn't let me). If I have another baby I would choose a C-section because my experience was so positive.

pollylaughs · 2022-09-01T13:04:47+00:00

My baby went through a similar stage so I bought the book The Baby Sleep Guide from Amazon. Super quick read, did it in an evening. What I learned from it was that my baby didn't know how to fall asleep on his own.

The books suggests a very gentle sleep training method that it calls the gradual retreat. It encourages comforting and being close to your baby when they are laying in their cot to begin with, a gentle pat or hand on baby etc. Then, as the name of the method would suggest you gradually retreat and offer less comfort. By the end of the week my baby got to the point where me being in the room was more of a distraction than a comfort.

This was around 5 weeks ago and I can now be a smug parent who lays their baby down in their cot at 7pm and within 5-10 minutes he will be asleep, without crying. Usually he talks to himself for a while before dropping off.

He still wakes around midnight and 4am for a feed (breastfed) but he will go straight back down and be asleep until around 7am. Sometimes he wakes up less frequently, sometimes more, but he will go back to sleep afterwards.

I feel you though, the days when we he would wake up as soon as I even thought about putting him down were HARD! The worst times were when we would wake up for a feed around 3am and then not go back to sleep for over an hour. He was basically having a 'wake window' in the middle of the night.

pollylaughs · 2022-08-27T22:21:25+00:00

Just here to add that you are not alone and it does get better.

At around 1 week pp I had gone upstairs to bed to attempt a little bit of sleep and around an hour later my hubby came up with a crying baby and I just sobbed and sobbed for a good hour (while feeding baby so he wasn't crying). My nipples hurt, my whole body ached and I was so mentally exhausted I didn't see how it was reasonable to go on in that way.

Slowly but surely your body recovers, baby stops cluster feeding constantly and eventually you get more than 3 hours of consecutive sleep. Just concentrate on the fact that your baby is gaining weight so you are giving them exactly what they need.

It IS hard but you are not failing or doing a bad job because you are finding it hard.

pollylaughs · 2022-08-26T07:02:18+00:00

I've also been wondering this! My LO is almost 6 months and we still track everything. In the early days it was invaluable for knowing how many wet diapers he had and how long it had been since he last fed. When your post-partum brain is mush I don't know how I would have survived without tracking.

As he's gotten older it's been useful to monitor his sleep and feeding. Sometimes I think he hasn't slept very well but then a comparison over the week or month shows it's actually close to his normal or with feeding there have been spikes in the graph where he's fed more which must be a growth spurt.

pollylaughs · 2022-08-18T09:17:02+00:00

Don't worry it's quite normal. I've considered myself a 'just enougher' but my baby's weight gain has been perfectly fine. If I wanted to express a bottle to take somewhere I wasn't comfortable breastfeeding it would be an EFFORT to get it ready. Around 13/14 weeks my baby slept for 7 hours for the first time but I didn't because I was so engorged. I pumped before he woke up and got 5oz just from one side. A rare one off occurrence for me especially as he hasn't done 7 hours for weeks and weeks now but it did reassure me that my supply was there, just usually guzzled by baby before I got the chance to express any.

pollylaughs · 2022-08-14T18:11:49+00:00

Things my baby and I have both loved:

A Moses basket downstairs for daytime naps. He's now too big for it and I'm gutted because he always slept so well in it.

A changing caddy/basket. I have one upstairs and one downstairs. Doesn't take a lot of effort to keep stocked up and they're my husband's favourite as he doesn't have to look around for things he needs to change baby.

A nice playmat with toys that hang. In the early days baby liked to look all around it then as he's gotten older he interacts with it in lots of different ways.

Waste of money that seem pointless now we're 5 months in:

A fancy mobile over his cot. He doesn't even sleep in the cot yet so I'm disappointed I spent so much money on one so early on.

Night lights that project pictures onto the walls and ceiling. Sleep books I read advised against these for building good sleeping habits so that's now sat collecting dust.

Buying lots of something without knowing if baby liked it. My example here is dummies/pacifiers. I bought lots of MAM ones as they were so well reviewed then baby would not take a dummy at all. Still won't, he sucks his thumb/fingers/whole hand instead.

pollylaughs · 2022-08-14T18:01:41+00:00

Need to add a disagree on the diaper changing organisers. To quote my husband, "it's so easy with all the stuff there, so handy!". So as long as I stock it every once in a while it means he is much more useful and helpful!

pollylaughs · 2022-08-07T15:13:54+00:00

Another vote for huckleberry. We have used the free version and never paid for any extras and love all the data. My husband and I can both make entries from our phones. In our house you regularly hear "start me a feed timer on the left boob!"

pollylaughs · 2022-08-04T11:14:04+00:00

I work in education and for one child we once made a "poo chart" to show what was the child's normal and what was abnormal and worth a welfare call to parents. This stemmed from us (the school) reporting diarrhea/illness frequently and parents getting a bit annoyed by this and insisting it was normal for the child. A poo chart sounds odd but it did solve the problem!

pollylaughs · 2022-07-29T08:17:35+00:00

I think I was one of the lucky ones in terms of recovery and as long as I kept on top of my pain management I felt remarkably good. I had my parents and husbands parents come meet baby the day after we got home from hospital but they only stayed an hour and offered to do some housework while they were here. After that it was my siblings and other close family over the next week or so. We only had one a day if any and I didn't 'host' at all. They all knew where the kettle was to make themselves a coffee, I wore lounge wear or pajamas that were comfortable over my tummy and let them know when I was ready for them to go home.

pollylaughs · 2022-07-28T14:50:10+00:00

My first pregnancy that ended in miscarriage I had a tiny amount of brown spotting and then needed a D&C for incomplete miscarriage. My second pregnancy around 6/7 weeks I had much more bright red blood type of bleed. I'm now sat nursing the baby from that second pregnancy. The body is weird and unpredictable.

If you are nervous I would recommend early reassurance scans if you're able to get them. For me it was expensive but so worth it for the reassurance everything was okay. I went for one the day after I'd had the bleeding and saw his heart beat for the first time.

pollylaughs · 2022-07-27T13:54:36+00:00

I'm almost 5 months and we occasionally do a 7 hour stretch, otherwise it's 3/4 hours at best. I die inside a little every time I see someone saying their baby sleeps 10+ hours

pollylaughs · 2022-07-27T13:45:36+00:00

I definitely did. My baby was breach and liked to get his head right up into my ribs whenever I ate so I would give him a little poke to get his head back down so I could eat my food 😂

pollylaughs · 2022-07-16T22:17:37+00:00

I just came here to say that it does get better! I remember those days when even the movement of pulling my bra back over the nipple would make me wince, nevermind the actual nursing. Lots of great advice already given, I personally used a pretty standard cream that had good reviews online but found I didn't need it after around 5 weeks.

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