MSE Parents Club Part 3

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

SusanC I asked another question about your muslins as nappies tip over on the 50p thread.... not sure if you've popped back recently though, but it'd be cool to have your thoughts when you have chance! xxx

Have just replied over there.

Becles wrote: »

Just adding to the clothes discussion - does anyone find that clothes don't fit anymore?

I'm curvy and find that in trousers/shorts/skirts that if I try a size 16 on, it fits nice around my bum and hips, but there's yards of fabric standing off my waist and it looks stupid. If I get a size 14, then it sits lovely on my waist, but then the fabric is straining over my bum and hips and I get a camel toe which looks awful!

It seems that clothes are designed for straight up and down people now, and I find it really hard to find anything that fits me properly.

I want to try and loose weight from my bottom half to see if I can get more in proportion to buy clothes that fit.

I've always had that problem. I also find that because the zips on skirts are often not that long so that by the time I get to a size big enough to pull up over my hips it is far too big on the waist. That's why I usually prefer dresses as they tend to fit better but with breastfeeding I can't wear them. Am hoping my bust will shrink after I stop breastfeeding as my bust is currently two dress sizes bigger than the rest of me which makes for dresses looking like tents (or else being too tight round the chest to breathe).

emlou2009

weezl74 wrote: »

morning r.mac, sorry it's probably too late for this!

If it were me I'd hang in there with a dream feed, because LO's system will gradually accustom to getting enough calories at 10.30 and realise she doesn't need more at 4 in the morning!

Just my 2p tho, others may disagree! I'm a big fan of a dream feed , it seems to have really worked so far for fergus...:D

HTH

Weezl xxx

it doesnt work for us, typically :rolleyes: it just wakes seth up with wind if we leave him and then if we burp him he gets wide awake and very whingey! we've tried picking him up, doing it when he's in bed, nothing seems to agree. typical child!
however, i think his waking at 4am is due to the hot weather as we left the windows open last night and he woke with OH's alarm :T
i have just paid for the cool night of sleep with a massive spider :eek: hairy monster with tattoos, pint of stella, everything! it took spider raid, wasp raid, polish, bleach spray and carpet cleaner to do that one in - while OH laughed down the phone at me

Becles wrote: »

Just adding to the clothes discussion - does anyone find that clothes don't fit anymore?

I'm curvy and find that in trousers/shorts/skirts that if I try a size 16 on, it fits nice around my bum and hips, but there's yards of fabric standing off my waist and it looks stupid. If I get a size 14, then it sits lovely on my waist, but then the fabric is straining over my bum and hips and I get a camel toe which looks awful!

It seems that clothes are designed for straight up and down people now, and I find it really hard to find anything that fits me properly.

I want to try and loose weight from my bottom half to see if I can get more in proportion to buy clothes that fit.

YES - my problem is trousers. i either get them to fit round the waist and then i get a sexy camel toe or baggy round the waist and then i get a even sexier baggy crotch! dreading going back to work, living in stretch jeans at the moment!

emlou2009

SusanC wrote: »

Have just replied over there.


I've always had that problem. I also find that because the zips on skirts are often not that long so that by the time I get to a size big enough to pull up over my hips it is far too big on the waist. That's why I usually prefer dresses as they tend to fit better but with breastfeeding I can't wear them. Am hoping my bust will shrink after I stop breastfeeding as my bust is currently two dress sizes bigger than the rest of me which makes for dresses looking like tents (or else being too tight round the chest to breathe).

put a belt under your bust

cazscoob

hello ladies just quick note to say i went out and had a great time:j
lots of alcohol but no hangover at all:T i did drink a lot of juice too so think that helped!

lady i loved the pics:rotfl:

My_Fathers_Daughter

Becles wrote: »

Just adding to the clothes discussion - does anyone find that clothes don't fit anymore?

I'm curvy and find that in trousers/shorts/skirts that if I try a size 16 on, it fits nice around my bum and hips, but there's yards of fabric standing off my waist and it looks stupid. If I get a size 14, then it sits lovely on my waist, but then the fabric is straining over my bum and hips and I get a camel toe which looks awful!

It seems that clothes are designed for straight up and down people now, and I find it really hard to find anything that fits me properly.

I want to try and loose weight from my bottom half to see if I can get more in proportion to buy clothes that fit.

I was moaning about my new shape or should I say lack of shape yesterday. I seem to have gone the other way and I am now a bit straight up and down - I want my curves back :mad:


Fab photos of Izzy!!!



Well we had the first disrupted night since we started putting Benjamin in his own room. He's got a bit of a cold so I don't know if that is what caused it.

He went down as normal at about 7.30pm (he was fighting it a bit whilst feeding which we haven't been having recently) but we could hear on the monitor that he was unsettled and he woke at about 10.30pm. I fed him and put him back down but he woke after 45 minutes (his normal daytime trick). So we brought him downstairs and decided that it wasn't worth fighting and he could sit up with us (it was 11.30pm or so by this time).

At 12.15am I took him upstairs with me to feed him in bed - normally a failsafe way of getting him off but he was wide-eyed and starey - quiet and calm but not wanting to close his eyes. So at 12.30am I just put him down in his cot and closed the doors. Didn't hear a peep from him!! He just went to sleep :T

But he was awake again at 4am so I brought him in with us and fed him and I let him sleep in our bed until he woke at 8am.

He has still got a sniffle and he's not really himself (although he is happily chatting to his teddy bear at the moment!) so I think we may be in for another disrupted night with him again tonight.

I had forgotten how wearing it is

Lu_T

I have a similar problem with trousers and skirts. I have what have previously been described (by middle-aged men who I wanted to slap) as "childbearing hips". I guess if you're middle-aged and making that comment to a 20-something it's a compliment :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Skirts are the worst, what with a small waist and being 5'3" it seems I'm doomed with high street clothes. So I use an alterations lady in our local town who is pretty good and pretty cheap. Trousers taken up and waists nipped in all in about 3 days. Not very MSE, but my sewing really is only good enough for the odd repair.

Imogen and Daddy have just gone off to a birthday party, leaving me to pack for her trip to my parents' tomorrow (5 days :T). I'll be having another nap shortly.

We bought her a Sleepy Bunny clock which is meant to show her when to go to sleep and when to wake up. For the past few mornings she's slept past 8am - nothing short of a miracle and way past when I'd set the clock to wake up. Then this morning she creeps into our room around 7.45 and whispers, "Mummy, the bunny hasn't woken up today," :rotfl: So I took her back in and said she had to read some books or play with her toys until the bunny woke up (it was set for 8am anyway). Just as I'd persuaded her to do this the bunny's eyes pop open and it's time to get up! I think she's getting the idea.

The funniest thing is that I've shortened her afternoon nap to an hour as she was staying up til nearly 9pm faffing and creating in her room, then getting up around 6am :eek: The bunny has an alarm which you can set to go off in addition to the 'eyes open, ears up' awake mode - but she sleeps through it :rotfl: Honestly, it was going off for 10 mins the other afternoon and when I went up to get her she was absolutely sound asleep. Same again yesterday. I'm hoping she'll get used to it and start waking up, but who knows?

Just ordered a Dora memory game as we've been playing pairs with some snap cards (about 16) and she just whizzes through them. I think she needs a bit more of a challenge. We've played with these at a friend's house and they have a lot more detail on and some are pretty similar, so I hope they will keep her attention a bit longer. I'm sick of getting beaten 7-1 by my 2 year old!

Fritha_2

emlou2009 wrote: »

i have just paid for the cool night of sleep with a massive spider :eek: hairy monster with tattoos, pint of stella, everything! it took spider raid, wasp raid, polish, bleach spray and carpet cleaner to do that one in - while OH laughed down the phone at me

:rotfl:

I know exactly what you mean! Have you seen Phill Jupitus Quadrophobia? Here it is on youtube, it's very very funny! WARNING: very bad language!

3onitsway

I'm the other way round with skirts and trousers. I have no waist. It something fits the waist, it has big spare bits where my hips should be. :mad: Also, i'm 5'7" but with long body and short legs! So where a dress has a waistband, its always sitting across my ribs, iykwim!
I think even Gok would struggle with me. :rotfl:

Glad you enjoyed your night out Caz - mine is planned for next Friday but we're still to arrange a babysitter as OH is also out. Currently begging my sister - but she doesn't really like children.

cazscoob

i hope you have a good time next week 3!
erin behaved herself but didnt really drink anything at all? i fed her quite a bit throughout the day though so that could have been what was up!

its my hips that are the problem the now and i have a big bum lol! so everything gapes above my bum but fits fine eveywhere else!
i have got a few pics so will try get them up, there is one of me my mum my little bro and sister was like a family outing lol!

ladybirdintheuk

Afternoon all. We laft Izzy with my Mum for 2.5 hours this morning while we went to the allotment. She wasn't on very good form before we left her, so it sounds like it didn't go too badly considering. We really do need to solve this "feeding to sleep" dilema at nap time though. (Mind you, even solving the "letting me put her down while napping" problem would be good ).