MSE Parent Club - Part 2

janey_uk

Some interesting facts from the campaign...

Did you know?

Government advice to turn your child forward facing at 9 months is putting their life at risk. In other European countries, children stay rear facing until they are 4 years old.
Did you know?

British child seat manufacturers are refusing to sell their safest products in the UK because they've decided that British parents don't want them. They export the seats to Scandinavia but will not make them available here.
Did you know?

Rear facing group 1 seats are 5 times safer in a frontal collision. They protect the neck and head by distributing the force along the back of the seat and are much more effective at protecting internal organs.

Mazcabs

Yippee its snowing !!

[Deleted User]

I'm having problems at the moment and feel like i am not coping again. All I seem to do is shout and lose my temper with the children, I seem to have little patience with them. I feel so angry at times and just lose it, many times throughout the day, its not even hormonal but its not right. I don't feel like myself.

Molly and I are clashing, she has a temper and little patience too and seems to cry and whinge at the slightest thing. We have daily battles over nappy changing, getting dressed, going in the buggy, ezcema cream, staying in the highchair for a extra minute whilst I get a cloth to clean up....oh the list is endless. Its draining and really getting me. OH noticed it this weekend and commented.

I feel like I don't want to get up in the mornings, the drudgery and sameness of it all seems never ending and I'm basically fed up, tired and want to walk out the door.

Then I feel guilty as I have what many people (including some close friends) cannot have. And I simply cannot lose my mummy tummy even though the rest of me is slim, that really gets to me and makes me feel crap. But truth be told, I haven't exactly tried that hard, it seems easier to moan about it.

Sorry this is a feeling sorry for myself post, i'll hopefully be better by tomorrow.

3KIDSNOMONEY

hi Bailey

Sorry to hear you are feeling bad at the mo. To be honest i feel very much the same - the sameness, the arguing/bickering/shouting etc. Being a parent is most definitely the hardest job in the world and kids would most definitely try the patience of a saint (which i am not).

I have read some of your posts in the past and like me you seem to have good days and bad days - so you know that a good day is hopefully on its way. At the moment i feel as though all i do is shout, moan and clean - and it doesn't feel like much of an existence. It is good to come on here and have a moan though, cos even that can make you/me feel a little bit better.

btw - i have a mummy tummy too - i know my tummy is never going to be flat, and i know i eat too much chocolate, far too much chocolate - maybe one day i will get round to exercising, but who has time for that with small children?

Hope tomorrow is a better day for you.x

Sami_Bee

Lu 1st place I go to find out about seats is here
Britax - Fit-Finder or Maxi-Cosi fit list
Our local council run an independent car seat fitting/checking/advice service which is really good so maybe yours does too? Ours told me that maxi cosi and britax are the best brands to buy in general I love my maxi cosi tobi but like you have a bit of a problem with chris's feet only he enjoys kicking the seat repeatedly when your in it! :rolleyes:

purplepatch

Lu_T wrote: »

That's so funny! OH is exactly like that with DD, but claims it's just cos she's his little princess. Glad to know it's the same with boys.

Need some advice on car seats please. OH has a Focus which we do all our family trips in. We have a car seat for Imogen which was given to us and is now about 7/8 yrs old. Would have been top of the range at the time, think it's a Britax.

Problem is it has quite a large base and that means the car seat is high up so Imogen's feet press on the back of the passenger seat, even with it pulled very far forward.

Imogen's 2 and approx 2 stone. We're thinking of getting another seat as if she were lower down she would have more room (due to the angle of the seat in front). Any ideas? Not really sure where to start without traipsing rounf Halfords, M'care etc and I haven't got the energy for that right now! Any advice gratefully received.

BTW Kiddicare have extended their sale so if anyone was thinking of making a purchase, now would be good (and don't forget the cashback :money: )

Lu, we've got the Maxi Cosi Priori XP which was highly recommended by Which at the time I bought it in 2005/6 ish. We've got a Focus too and it fits very securely. I certainly wouldn't hesitate to recommend it.

SusanC_2

We have the Maxi Cosi Priori because when we looked it was the best one in that group according to Which. It isn't on the fit finder for our car on the British site but it is on the Dutch one - the only way to know really is to try them as if they're not on the list it doesn't mean it doesn't fit it just means they haven't officially checked to see whther it does.

nadnad

Deleted_User wrote: »

I'm having problems at the moment and feel like i am not coping again. All I seem to do is shout and lose my temper with the children, I seem to have little patience with them. I feel so angry at times and just lose it, many times throughout the day, its not even hormonal but its not right. I don't feel like myself.

Molly and I are clashing, she has a temper and little patience too and seems to cry and whinge at the slightest thing. We have daily battles over nappy changing, getting dressed, going in the buggy, ezcema cream, staying in the highchair for a extra minute whilst I get a cloth to clean up....oh the list is endless. Its draining and really getting me. OH noticed it this weekend and commented.

I feel like I don't want to get up in the mornings, the drudgery and sameness of it all seems never ending and I'm basically fed up, tired and want to walk out the door.

Then I feel guilty as I have what many people (including some close friends) cannot have. And I simply cannot lose my mummy tummy even though the rest of me is slim, that really gets to me and makes me feel crap. But truth be told, I haven't exactly tried that hard, it seems easier to moan about it.

Sorry this is a feeling sorry for myself post, i'll hopefully be better by tomorrow.

bailey hope you're feeling a little better today. sometimes i feel like its neverending as well - i feel like i never get a minute - and I've only one baby! Oz can be difficult too, he's very demanding - like Molly he doesnt like to give me even a second to myself, rarely sits content unless i'm holding him or playing with him, which means i dont get chance to do anything. and I've a horrible mummy tummy too, which i try not to look at (not too far in the distant past i had a six pack!!) to be honest i've not really tried to get rid of it, cos when i do get a minute to myself i just want to sit down , relax and watch tv or come on here!

is there anyone who could take the kids for a while for you? to give you a morning off? or is there anything you can do to break the sameness?

chocaholic110

Another one here who never gets a minute. Tom likes you with him and follows you abou grabbing at your legs and whinging. Then when I pick im up he attempts to grope my bobs...constantly. It's very wearing! We all play a horrible game called "Fob Tom off onto someone else and escape for five minutes peace" but it helps that I have two older children and two nieces just a few doors away and I just say "Play with Tom ten minutes while I ..."

And do you ever lose your mummy tummy after two babies? I've still got mine from DD's birth 10 years ago!

Another Maxi Cosi Priori here...if Tom ever gets big enough to ride in it. He's still in his first stage one at one year old.

ladybirdintheuk

We have a Maxi Cosi something, but no idea what. It is a hand-me-down from our nephew, who is nearly 10 now!!!

I take it you lot are all being kept busy by snowy excitement today? I assume the local primary is closed today, as there was a massive snowball fight outside our flats earlier. Shame Izzy is too small to go join in really, but I think 2 and a bit weeks is pushing it a bit