UK vs US

[hungary97]

I call lunch both lunch and dinner and tea both dinner and tea. Biscuits are hard whilst cookies are soft. There are big regional differences in uk I'm from the east living in the west and sometimes I have to translate lol my oh calls a light meal at end of day supper

 

[helensamantha]

Are there any guidelines in the UK about how long a baby can stay in his carseat? Here in the US I can see a lot of moms going for a walk with a car seat attached to the stroller. It is actually considered more safe. I was never advised against it or told not to use a carseat longer than a certain period of time a day. In my home country however everybody thinks that a baby should be put flat in a pram, and the carseat is only for the car. So I am the only person with a pram in my neighborhood, and everybody knows that I'm a foreigner

I think here in the Uk they recommend no longer than 2 hours in a car seat at any one time as baby isn't lying flat. I remember being told that when I was pregnant but can't remember by who!

 

[CoffeePuffin]

Both me and OH are from the UK but he is a Yorkshire man and I'm originally from London. I say breakfast, lunch, dinner but he says breakfast, dinner, tea. So when I ask him what he wants for dinner, I get "I've already had dinner, what you on about woman?!"

 

[devon_91x]

I've always seen pictures of babies in the US with massive green dummies in their mouth which take up half their face! Do you get given these in hospital? Why are they so big?!! I've found a Picture on google ill attach it so you know what I mean..

 

[maidelyn]

Yeah 2 hours in a car seat as it's not good for their back apparently. My american friends love it when I call cigarettes fags (particularly the gay men) so I try to use it as much as possible!

 

[winegums]

I've always seen pictures of babies in the US with massive green dummies in their mouth which take up half their face! Do you get given these in hospital? Why are they so big?!! I've found a Picture on google ill attach it so you know what I mean..

I've never seen a dummy like that before! how strange

 

[mrsbeano]

This is more of a north/south thing than a uk/us thing but re meal names what did you call the money that you took in for your school meals? We called it dinner money. I think I vary what I call meal times because I'm in the midlands haha. Sometimes I call it breakfast/dinner/tea and sometimes I call it breakfast/lunch/dinner or to really confuse matters breakfast/lunch/tea.

There's also supper which some people would call dinner but for me, thats an extra meal if you'd had an early or small evening meal and you're being greedy. Quinn has a supper because at nursery they eat lunch at 11 and tea at 3 but thats more of an afternoon tea than a full meal.

Very confusing haha.

I had the same midwife for all antenatal appointments and she signed me off of the midwife services after I had him. I saw quite a few midwifes at my house after he was born but it was just whoever was on call to weigh etc and give me some anti clotting injection. I also had 2 midwives during labour which is quite impressive during a one hour hospital stay before he arrived!

For the UK/US thing, we call a freeway a motorway. When I was in America they couldn't understand us when we asked for water and thought we were Australian.

 

[CoffeePuffin]

I've always seen pictures of babies in the US with massive green dummies in their mouth which take up half their face! Do you get given these in hospital? Why are they so big?!! I've found a Picture on google ill attach it so you know what I mean..

I've always wondered about those too!

 

[Button#]

I call lunch both lunch and dinner and tea both dinner and tea. Biscuits are hard whilst cookies are soft. There are big regional differences in uk I'm from the east living in the west and sometimes I have to translate lol my oh calls a light meal at end of day supper

I do the same with meals as I'm from Devon and now living in London. Supper to me is a cereal or some toast or something before bed but my OH grew up calling his main evening meal supper.

 

[LittleBean19]

yes I was given those pacifiers/dummies in the hospital! I'm not sure why they are so big but I know many people who say its the only pacifier their baby will take! Its all one piece so there's no risk of the nipple coming off. My LO won't take any pacifier though and we've tried about 8 brands haha.

oh I thought of another one!
jabs=shots

 

[Noodlebear]

My brain just committed suicide it's insane, we all speak the same language why can't manufacturers etc just give everything the same damn names?! Lol.

I live right down on the south coast (Weymouth) so even some of the northern UK names for things make me think 'eh?' haha

 

[winegums]

My brain just committed suicide it's insane, we all speak the same language why can't manufacturers etc just give everything the same damn names?! Lol.

I agree, medications confuse me - like our syntocinon is pitocin in the US, and misoprostol is cytotec in the US - which we use for termination or to deliver babies who have died in utero, but I think in the US they use it to start inductions like how we use prostin?

I was also reading a stephen King book recently and it took me nearly to the end of the book to realise when he was saying 'turn signals' he meant the car indicators LOL

 

[ChimChims]

Oh for Heaven's sake. I was on the US/UK thread in the pregnancy forum and it still somehow took me this long to differentiate what is the difference between a vest and a baby grow! lol So let me see if I've got this straight:

vest UK = onesie US
babygrow UK = sleeper US

Right? lol

And this is going to probably sound mortifying or stupid, but the concept of your HV's scares me. ONLY because in the US if the gov't is sending people to your house they are waay interfering, and it could be a social worker. (Which can be a good thing, but has a bad rap as the people who take children away.) That said, the kids that get removed are generally from rough homes. Still, every time I hear that the HV is showing up at people's houses I freak a little mentally. lol

We had our OB/GYN for all of the pregnancy through generally 6 weeks after the birth (your last pap smear and vag exam). The pediatritian is supposed to be set up and on call for the birth so they can visit the baby at the hospital. Then you take the baby in for 1 week, 1 month, 2 month, 4 month, 6 month, 9 month and so on to get the well-baby check up and keep up on vaccinations. They are who we pester with calls about all of the little things, too. I'm sure they just love that! Although you can get a midwife and doula if you're taking that route, and La Leche League is there for breastfeeding support if you contact them for it. Other than that nobody comes to your house but family and friends.

 

[ChimChims]

Just curious, what do you call creepers in the UK? Here they look like a somewhat more decorative onesie. They mostly come without sleeves, or have a little ruffle at the shoulder and snap at the crotch w/no legs. Theyare hands-down my favorite summer garment for babies.

Also, I'm pretty sure I have the stroller thing down, so thanks for that!

 

[mrsbeano]

That would be a romper which is a fab word!

 

[Noelle610]

I've always seen pictures of babies in the US with massive green dummies in their mouth which take up half their face! Do you get given these in hospital? Why are they so big?!! I've found a Picture on google ill attach it so you know what I mean..

This made me laugh My daughter was given one of these in the hospital - I think they are supposed to be best for breastfed babies? I really don't remember. Aren't they awful? I was so happy when she started to prefer the Nuk pacifiers. I saw an older baby with one of those the other day and it looked so ridiculous!

 

[Noelle610]

For some reason, I find the term "nappies" hilarious

 

[ChimChims]

For some reason, I find the term "nappies" hilarious

Me too! I think only because I relate it to the term 'nap', so I feel like those must be sleep diapers. lol Like the night time pull-ups or something.

 

[mellyboo]

My brain just committed suicide it's insane, we all speak the same language why can't manufacturers etc just give everything the same damn names?! Lol.

I agree, medications confuse me - like our syntocinon is pitocin in the US, and misoprostol is cytotec in the US - which we use for termination or to deliver babies who have died in utero, but I think in the US they use it to start inductions like how we use prostin?

I was also reading a stephen King book recently and it took me nearly to the end of the book to realise when he was saying 'turn signals' he meant the car indicators LOL

In Canada we call it misoprostol I've had to take it before my first failed pregnancy. One person About ped we always see our gd you have to be referred to a ped

 

[Seity]

I'm in the US and have no idea where people get those massive pacifiers from. I think they look ridiculous, but then I'm lucky enough that baby #2 doesn't use one at all. My first needed one, but I just bought a standard looking NUK one at the store.

Acetaminophen is the drug under the brand name Tylenol here in the US. In the UK you call it paracetamol or calpol.