MSE Parents Club Part 3

Sami_Bee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

One last thing before I go to bed - the pens that you use to write on CD's / DVD's are great for writing on Milk Storage Bags (I struggled with biros etc for ages!)

Also - if you put the bag against the sharp corner of a worktop to squeeze all the air out it is really easy to do!



Night all!

MFD xxx

or you could write on the before you put the milk in that's what I do with freezer bags :whistle:

weezl74 wrote: »

oops! I should've done more research before the car boooty SB! Erm, what's better with a 5 point harness, is it better for safety when they can climb out? :D

because 5 point holds them more securely not just to stop climbing but if they're a bit wibberly

Becles wrote: »

Was he awake when he was standing there? I wonder if he's going to be a sleepwalker. James is and it goes through phases but he's never done anything serious. One night I was going to bed and he was standing leaning over the railing on the landing but he was still asleep. I did ask what he was doing and he said he was fishing, so I said all the fish had gone to bed and perhaps he should too, and off he went. He had no recollection of that happening the next day. Othertimes he's just got up and wandered about for a bit and then gone back to bed.

well his eyes were open do they open eyes when sleep walking? he does sleep talk a lot are they linked?

feelinggood wrote: »

Talking of sleeping, OH was telling his friend that DS sleeps through the night. I explained to him that he doesn't, he just manages to sleep through the baby waking up!

:rotfl:typical!:rolleyes:

Sami_Bee

Lu - I'll join you in being mad with OH! Mine has been working 'darn sarf' since Tuesday but phoned this morning to say the lads from work are going out on the pish tonight so he might stay at his mum's - oh yeah lovely you spend 3 nights in a nice hotel then go out, get drunk and have your brekkie made by mummy while I get 5hrs sleep a night looking after 2 children!

carlamagee

hi girls. im not a regular on here, but would come and lurk now and again.
just need to vent a bit right now about how strange my DD is!! lol.

she is a genuinely great eater - but does not like saucey-based stuff and recently i have been struggling as to hwat to give her for lunch. she is 19 months. she will not eat sandwiches or toasties for me, even though she loves toast.
Today i gave her a cracker, as she would not touch mine with some butter on it - because she could see it. Then i got sneaky and put some butter on and another cracker on top. ate it no problem. even, much to my distaste, started licking the butter off the cracker. So then i got even more sneaky - i sliced some cheese really fine and put that in between the crackers and she ate that no problem, except for when she broke the cracker and a piece of cheese feell out onto the floor. she handed it to me and said "yuk". i put her ccracker sandwich back together and she continued to eat it without a problem. can anyone make any sense of this? or have a DD or DS that is a bit of a weirdo like mine!?? lol

Also - what else do you feed your little ones for lunch? I dont want to make her sick of pasta, sausages, noodles, toast etc

My_Fathers_Daughter

Claire_Jones wrote: »

MFD check they still have your bank details. I've got an ICICI savings account and when I tried to move some money they said because I hadn't put any money in or out within the last few months they delete your bank details (to transfer to/from) for data protection. Just send them an email from your account and they will re-instate it.

Thanks for that - I managed to wipe my password (baby brain) and don't even know my account number...just the number that you use to log-in. I have been trying to get a new password issued for months and months but they managed to wipe my address from their system and all kinds of shennaigens :rolleyes:

3onitsway wrote: »

Lol :rotfl:Sounds like my OH. Someone in work asked him how he was coping with the sleepless nights (when Violet was about a month old!) - he said he's absolutely fine, she sleeps really well. :rolleyes:

But now, she's slept for three nights running, from 7pm ish until between 6 and 6.30. :j

Yay Violet!!

Benjamin is still waking between 4 and 4.30am but he hardly wants to feed and goes back down pretty quickly - I think the birds are waking him :rolleyes:

cazscoob wrote: »

have thought about giving erin baby rice this W/E as she has started to watch us eat and moves her mouth like she is chewing lol! she had a little suck on a piece of cold apple yesterday and was very impressed with it!

You've got a busy day planned Caz!! I bought baby rice the other day (although still not sure that I will use it if I decide to go completely BLW) and I couldn't believe the amount of additives in some of them :eek:

Managed to buy one which only has 1 additive in the end (think it was thiamin??)

We have been giving Benjamin a whole carrot (peeled and out of the fridge) to suck on / play with whilst we eat - he seems to enjoy being part of the action!!


Sami - I do write on them first...but you can't write on them in biro (not the tesco ones anyway)

My_Fathers_Daughter

Just some info on Pumping and Dumping (which I hadn't heard until Krystal mentioned it last week)

Do I have to pump and dump after drinking an alcoholic beverage?

As alcohol leaves the bloodstream, it leaves the breastmilk. Since alcohol is not "trapped" in breastmilk (it returns to the bloodstream as mother's blood alcohol level declines), pumping and dumping will not remove it. Pumping and dumping, drinking a lot of water, resting, or drinking coffee will not speed up the rate of the elimination of alcohol from your body.



So if I do pump whilst I am away for the night I will need to dump it but if I don't I will be fine to feed in the morning (or when the alcohol has left my system)


...might not fit my boobs in the car though :rotfl:

Sami_Bee

carlamagee wrote: »

hi girls. im not a regular on here, but would come and lurk now and again.
just need to vent a bit right now about how strange my DD is!! lol.

she is a genuinely great eater - but does not like saucey-based stuff and recently i have been struggling as to hwat to give her for lunch. she is 19 months. she will not eat sandwiches or toasties for me, even though she loves toast.
Today i gave her a cracker, as she would not touch mine with some butter on it - because she could see it. Then i got sneaky and put some butter on and another cracker on top. ate it no problem. even, much to my distaste, started licking the butter off the cracker. So then i got even more sneaky - i sliced some cheese really fine and put that in between the crackers and she ate that no problem, except for when she broke the cracker and a piece of cheese feell out onto the floor. she handed it to me and said "yuk". i put her ccracker sandwich back together and she continued to eat it without a problem. can anyone make any sense of this? or have a DD or DS that is a bit of a weirdo like mine!?? lol

Also - what else do you feed your little ones for lunch? I dont want to make her sick of pasta, sausages, noodles, toast etc

Chris does things like that he says yuk or bleugh then shoves it in his mouth:rolleyes: he likes phili cheese on crakers/toast/french stick/tortillias

have you ever put a bit of cheese maybe some ham or tomato too in a torlilia and dry fry it so it melts?(they're called quesadilla) chris loves them even tho he's fussy about normal toasties
http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-make-a-quesadilla

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

You've got a busy day planned Caz!! I bought baby rice the other day (although still not sure that I will use it if I decide to go completely BLW) and I couldn't believe the amount of additives in some of them :eek:

Managed to buy one which only has 1 additive in the end (think it was thiamin??)

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isn't thiamin a B vitamin?

edit yeah I'm right

wikipeidia wrote:

Thiamine, or thiamin, sometimes called aneurin, is a water-soluble vitamin of the B complex (vitamin B1), whose phosphate derivatives are involved in many cellular processes. The best characterized form is thiamine diphosphate (ThDP), a coenzyme in the catabolism of sugars and amino acids

Fritha_2

MFD, Kellymom says that generally if you're sober enough to drive then you're sober enough to breastfeed, so unless you're planning on getting completely clattered... ;-)

Fritha_2

Carla, Celia's not really big enough to be crazy in that respect but she dairy/tomato intolerant so I've got to be inventive with food!


Cous cous (make it with stock so it tastes nicer then you can add veg)
Crumpets (crumpet pizzas are nice and she could help you make them which might encourage her to eat them!)
Jacket potato
Houmous (smeared on anything that'll stay still long enough!)
Quinoa (you can make it with a stock cube and veg, it's very good for you!)

weezl74

MFD I bought baby rice even tho I'm going to try BLW, this is after talking to MIL, who tells me that DH was such a lazy eater that the only way she could introduce solids at 10 months was to but baby rice in the bottle with the milk and stick a pin in the teat to make it suckable!

So if fergie takes afetr his dad I'll just have to shove it all in the bottle! Carrot smoothie darling?

:rotfl:

Krystaltips

Fritha wrote: »

Carla, Celia's not really big enough to be crazy in that respect but she dairy/tomato intolerant so I've got to be inventive with food!


Cous cous (make it with stock so it tastes nicer then you can add veg)
Crumpets (crumpet pizzas are nice and she could help you make them which might encourage her to eat them!)
Jacket potato
Houmous (smeared on anything that'll stay still long enough!)
Quinoa (you can make it with a stock cube and veg, it's very good for you!)

I just discovered Aimee likes houmous (can't stand it myself) might treat her to a pot and some dipping vegetables next week for her school lunch... She only takes half a sandwich, a vegetable and 2 fruit but for the last week has been leaving her fruit... I either need to get inventive... Or it's the heat that's stopping her eating... I'll find out later...

Argh, Caitlyn just projectiled the entire contents of her stomach all over the swing...