MSE Parents Club Part 9

weezl74 wrote: »

'cute solemn alien'- love it!

Congrats Bruno

So does this mean that fergie's grow up and become daddies?

Me no likey. Fergies need to be little and innocent forever!

Hope OH is feeling better and less overwhelmed

Do you know what I mean though? I think newborns tend to be either red and rumpled and shouty and wrinkled up, or solemn and huge-eyed and starey

Nope actually, no daddy Fergie - it's the other one!

OH seems better and calmed down for the moment, fingers crossed.

How are things, does your Fergie pay any attention to your growing bump? Is sleep any better yet? Still lots of erratically-timed posts from you :rolleyes:

elle_gee wrote: »

Becles, I have a question for you please.. (and anyone else who's parents look after their LOs while they work). Did you write down / agree any rules for childcare before your mum started looking after LO?

No I didn't write anything down, but I did explain her routine to my Mam and have told her things as we go along. For example, she's not potty trained yet, but Mam knows she is at the stage where she keeps wanting to try, so my Mam bought a potty and some cheap knickers in case she wants a try at their house.

It has caused friction at times when my Mam has gone against what I've asked her to do. At first I used to let it go and then get upset at home, so I've had to be firm with her and state stuff, which still feels a bit weird to do. Things like feeding her loads of sweet stuff at lunchtime, so she was bouncing off the walls all afternoon and then horrid at tea time, whereas if she has a low sugar lunch, she'll have her nap and be happy when she gets up. Mam never saw the hyper then tantrum bit and didn't think she was doing any harm.

Overall it's been good for Charlotte though and the best bit is I can leave her there when she is sick, but you can't usually do that with nursery or childminders. Mam also has the older two in the school holidays. My Dad has really enjoyed having her. He had a job with long hours (teacher) when we were little and when my boys were little, but he's retired from teaching now and has a part time afternoon job. He's really enjoyed seeing Charlotte grow and develop and he's seen loads of little things he missed out on with us and my boys.

*hugs* Beanie Cat. Hope you get something sorted out. I would get onto environmental health and your local councillor and MP, to see if there is anything that can be done. Keep a diary of events such as noise, door knocking and any confrontation. That will help build a case against the neighbours.

I've got the Mousey Brown song stuck in my head. It's Charlotte's favourite and she sings it over and over. She also likes Lady Gaga and runs round yelling "ra ra ra raaa". I was being silly with the boys one day and sang "caught in Craig's underpants" rather than "caught in a bad romance". She overhead and thinks that is the name of the song now, and keeps saying "want to listen to Craig's underpants" :rotfl:

and morning Becles

BeenieCat wrote: »

Omfg. So they finally ground me down enough to make me knock on their door at midnight. I've been going insane and really really upset about my noisy neighbours, but the council said not to bother approaching them anymore and to do it the official way only from now on.

:grouphug:

Buttonmoons wrote: »

WHY DO I ALWAYS FEEL BAD? I think it's because she is like OH DONT LEAVE ME!

Alice keeps saying don't leave me at the moment (or rather, "Don't left me.") This morning she got upset because I set off downstairs while she was picking up her teddy bears.

weezl74 wrote: »

I don't think you've ever said about needing to do any top ups with formula for Alice, but if you did, or did with baby number 2 do you think you would buy organic formula?

We did give Alice 7oz of formula spread between two bottles on night 3 and one on night 4 when I was so sore I couldn't face feeding. It was Cow and Gate because OH went to get it from 24hr Tesco in the middle of the night and he chose it because they had given us a free toy cow. I'm thinking that next time it won't be as bad because I'm more prepared for what it will be like. (It was made much more stressful by the fact that all the leaflets tell you that it only hurts if you are doing it wrong which is a complete lie.) However, I am saving a small amount of breastmilk just in case I do feel in need of a break from the pain in the first few days. I realise you are not supposed to keep breastmilk that long but if I used it I would make sure it was well heated through first (and obviously cooled afterwards).

weezl74 wrote: »

ps mm feel free to ignore this question: if Halifax mortgages have made an error and sent a scary letter on the basis of it implying I would receive charges, is there any point writing to complain, or is it better to just stick with ringing call centres and asking for things to be corrected and to keep trying to be sweet and nice about it?

When I have trouble with companies I usually start by phoning and then if it drags on without being resolved I just write to someone like the chief executive or managing director.

who was it that wanted a loola? I might be able to get hold of one for free so it'll only cost postage

will read back now