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Posted by carrick-bend (U2288869) on Friday, 17th December 2010
Is this seen as "normal behaviour" for a 7-months pregnant woman who presumably intends to breastfeed (the consensus, including my opinion, is that it isn't - that sterilising units are large, expensive bits of kit that someone in Helens situation could well not use anyway), in which case was the purchase of something which turned out to be integral to a SL typical of the research which will follow in the whole of the "pregnancy and childbirth" story, or is it intended to be symbolic of Helen's particular "I must have everything I might remotely need - Now" attitude?
Tayler, I'm not being nit-picking, but would like to be able to trust the SWs, and be able to attribute significance to things which don't come within the range of "normal".
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Posted by Sixties Relic SAVE ML (U13777237) on Friday, 17th December 2010
Request seconded.
What a daft thing to buy.
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Why not? I assume she'll need one for cleaning the bottles she will need when she returns to work so that her child care provider can feed the baby her expressed milk. And the earlier you start expressing milk the easier it is.
Now that's got me thinking about who will be providing the child care....
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She'd gone Christmas shopping, hadn't she, and seen the steriliser on sale at half price so bought it. It's the sort of impulse purchase I've been known to make (not a steriliser, natch, but a Bargain that I don't really need until I see it).
The SL demanded she should buy something bulky and it seemed quite reasonable to me.
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And the earlier you start expressing milk the easier it is.Â
Before you've built up a reasonable supply? Not in my experience - I've known women who've had tube-fed babies, who have had to start from scratch with expressing, and that hasn't been easy, whereas later on, it's often just a bit tedious.
Apologies, I digress and you might well know more than me about expressing milk.
What my OP asked was why she felt she had to buy one now, not just before she'd thought about returning to work, leaving behind the baby early and for long enough that it needed to be bottle-fed by someone else (can't quite see it myself) but before she'd even HAD said baby and brought it back from the hospital.
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>What my OP asked was why she felt she had to buy one now, not just before she'd thought about returning to work, leaving behind the baby early and for long enough that it needed to be bottle-fed by someone else (can't quite see it myself) but before she'd even HAD said baby and brought it back from the hospital.<
Maybe, assuming she will have a healthy baby and that she will return to work before it's weaned (both of which assumptions may be wrong of course), she'd decided to buy a steriliser at some point but, seeing a half price steriliser she thought, hey, that steriliser is cheap - I don't need it yet but if I wait until I do need it then it'll be more than twice the price, what with VAT going up from January so I'll bag myself a bargain now.
I think Helen behaves very strangely a lot of the time but I don't think buying a half price steriliser is one of her wilder actions - it seemed quite reasonable to me.
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I'd missed the fact that the sterilising unit was half-price -
I think Helen behaves very strangely a lot of the time but I don't think buying a half price steriliser is one of her wilder actions - it seemed quite reasonable to meÂ
makes sort-of sense now. (NFH - normal for Helen?)
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Posted by Tayler Cresswell - Host (U14232848) on Sunday, 19th December 2010
Hi carrick
Hope the above conversation has answered your question : )
Tayler
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Yes, thanks, Tayler - I'd missed the vital information that the unit was half-price and therefore irresistible to the poor, (especially if she keeps buying "bargains" she doesn't really need!), deluded woman.
It makes enough sense now to have been a reasonable plot device.
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If she has any milk to spare perhaps she can make some cheese.
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Posted by stolenkisses (U6230663) on Monday, 27th December 2010
I think Helen bought hers in Underwoods, but funnily enough they really were half price in Boots last week. I bought one for when my son visits with his daughters. I have to say it was not specially bulky, but I suppose having the bump would make it harder to carry.
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Posted by Garde_Champetre (U14354428) on Wednesday, 29th December 2010
1) the half-price thing, qv
2) don't forget that new-parents-to-be often buy stuff they may not really need. Scaring said parents is what fuels most of the baby-gubbins-selling market (and I should know, I was that parent not so long ago. Anyone want to buy a baby monitor? Hardly used).
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