MSE Parents Club Part 4

cazscoob

oh tia you need to get the chocolate fudge cake from the fridge in asda, it was bought for OH birthday and was soooo good that i ate most of it lol! OH said he couldnt eat it as it was too chocolatey have you ever heard of such a thing:D

searching_me

Buttonmoons wrote: »

My mum is weird, OH thinks so too, says she is scum, which is probably true, she's done LOADS of things to me over the years, suprised I'm not in therapy, but I don't live with her now so get along better, but she won't take an active role in anything, she'd rather sit on her laptop and let the other kids get on with it, DON'T ANNOY ME! But when something serious happens (like last night) she will act the worried/upset parent, naturally she IS, but those times are the only times I've seen her look like a "proper" parent.

When I got mugged, you'd of thought SHE got mugged the way she was carrying on.

Got I should be on Jeremy Kyle with this lol, dysfunctional familys.

Glad I'm not like her, that's all I can say!

sounds like my mother she's a serious gambler... money and men came before me she actually called the JK show and i politely say no thank you to the producer and stronger words to her

astonsmummy wrote: »

I dont bother shutting the door these days, much to OH's discust lol

depends what im doing as no one needs the smell :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

scruffy96uk wrote: »

Honest I'm sure I'm not going loopy but I'm hearing things!!! I could have sworn i heard Katies rattle (El fave toy in her cot) went thru to pick her up as I presumed she was sitting up playing with her after her nap but she is still soundo with Katie at the opposite end of the cot!!!

ghost :eek::eek::eek: :rotfl:



had a good day i got 6 hours soild sleep and my hair wash cut and blow dryed for £25 so happy and starting to feel myself again ... im getting there.. although zoe was with me and decided she need the toilet so the nice man showed her the way ... 10mins later no zoe goes to look for her as im starting to panic alittle she only filled the sink with water and playing with it :rolleyes: kids x

emlou2009

weezl74 wrote: »

MFD, I thought benjamin was actually eating the brocolli and stuff on his antilop! Feel more reassured now about my uninterested baby. He also shows absolutely no inclination to roll :eek:. All of yours seem to have been doing this for ages :rotfl:

emlou how's the cot transfer situation now?

seth did roll, but now he's decided to give up :rolleyes: he has started grabbing his toes and toppling over to the side when he does it now bless him! cot is going ok, we have it pushed against our bed with the side off at the moment but over the weekend the side is going back on, cos he has started to wiggle round in full 360's on the floor and i'm not happy with the 2 inch gap!!
how long are you going away for? this speed catch-up i'm doing means i'm even more forgetful than normal


sami, thanks for looking out the instructions for that bouncer for me, my lappy wouldnt load them? i think seth is destined to not bounce *sigh* never mind, OH's parents still have a dreaded walker from when DSD was little, might have to give it a clean and let him touch his little feeties in that.

MrsTine wrote: »

Am I the only one then who doesn't get that "this is what I was meant to do with my life" feeling??? :confusing:
Don't get me wrong I love and adore Alexandra (especially when she's sleeping like is is right now :rotfl:) but I am very much still "me" and I still have ambitions for my professional life that I want to acchieve... Alexandra is always going to be the most important thing in my life, but I just don't get that "Now my life has meaning" feeling... It always had meaning and I don't feel any different about that now

Oh probably just me being extreemly odd again

not odd at all, i feel exactly the same except minus the professional bit. i do miss being "me" and i find it quite hard having seth all the time with no breaks, OH and i have discussed him staying at home and me going back to work cos while i do want to go back to work i dont want seth with a childminder all day every day cos it will feel like someone else is bringing him up. last week when we were moving he went to my nans for most of the week and he wouldnt settle for either me or OH for a few days after or in the evenings after we'd collected him, and then when i went round there again he was instantly all smiles. that was hard enough, i dont want someone else getting in on the act!

searching_me wrote: »

i do 20hours a week but as my job is crap i really need a new one i really dont want to go back to this one x

i dont think mine are planning to take me back :rolleyes: i popped in and they have taken on 3 new people since i left, and since i told them when i left that i wont be going back full time, they know that and are planning to be able to say "sorry, full time or nothing!" knowing full well i'll go for the nothing...


scruffy, loving the sunshine room! the wallpaper is lovely!


buttons, i'm glad your sister is ok xx


sami, simply dry are fine, they feel a bit thin and not great at night but fine through the day and better than "own brand" nappies

tiamai_d

cazscoob wrote: »

oh tia you need to get the chocolate fudge cake from the fridge in asda, it was bought for OH birthday and was soooo good that i ate most of it lol! OH said he couldnt eat it as it was too chocolatey have you ever heard of such a thing:D

Will send DH to get me it and I'm going to eat it till I barf!! LOL!! The sugar rush will no doubt send me a bit scatty, maybe I should hold off till I'm home and wanting to do a bit of cleaning or am too tired to think straight? :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I think it's time for my boys to go watch a DVD in their pigsty so I can watch ugly betty in peace. I'm fed up with Power Rangers!!!! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

elle_gee

Okay, I took this..

MrsTine wrote:

When you're only expressing though you might find it easier to up your milk amount by expressing every 2 hours for a while... it's hard work but it does increase your supply quite quickly

..as applying to me as I am the only one who is "only expressing". I'm sorry if that's not what you meant, but that's how I took it, and I didn't take kindly (as you can probably tell) to your suggestions for increasing my supply when I hadn't asked for help and, having spent eight weeks on a neonatal unit having "you must express for the health of your baby - all formula is like poison to him" drummed into me, I had unsurprisingly tried expressing every few hours.

I've mentioned it before, as have a lot of others here, we all have feelings of being a "bad mum".. totally unfounded and probably irrational every time, myself included (whatever has happened, there's nothing we can do about it now, we just have to move on and carry on.. as I have to keep telling myself!).

Like rmac (and MFD) suggests, group hug and virtual biscuits all round?

searching_me

emlou they have to give you either part time or a full writen reason to why not it is a legal to say full time or not to a parent of a child under 5 x

emlou2009

i bought this from toys r us today, and seth absolutely LOVES it! his little eyes lit up and he gave me a gorgeous smile as soon as i gave it to him, he's never done that with a toy before

ETA i also bought this but i dont know what its like yet! now seth is too big for his little bath we are putting him in the big bath but its cripping trying to hold him up and i thought it was pointless buying a support now, it would only last him a little while

pinkpig08

HA! HV just been and weighed Caitlyn - she's 8lb 4.5oz so has put on 6.5 oz in a week hurray! DH can go and tell his mother THAT! When we were there at h
the weekend and Caitlyn was fussing alll the time she said 'Oh get her on the bottle' and 'all mine were bottle fed'. Even last night DH said he doesn't think she's getting enough. I told HV what they'd said so she made a point of writing in the red book that she's got a healthy weight gain and that she is breastfeeding well and said 'you can show them that!' Sorry if I sound awful but they seem to think they all know what's best for my baby. DH's mum also told him I should put her in the cot. His dad asked me if I nursed her (he means hold and rock) so I said yes. 'Ah, you should put her down'. !!!!!!??!! She's 3 weeks old!

On a good note - my childminder rang earlier and said she'll be able to fill my place from around October to January which means I won't have to pay her for that time More in my pocket for clothes and toys lol!

Off to catch up now!

emlou2009

searching_me wrote: »

emlou they have to give you either part time or a full writen reason to why not it is a legal to say full time or not to a parent of a child under 5 x

thats what i thought, but apparantly having too many staff is a valid reason to not let me go back part time, they only have to allow me to go back full time :rolleyes:

i think i want a new job anyway though, if i get away from sales and go back to admin theres plenty of jobs in the council for part time and more money than i was getting full time! just a case of actually bothering to apply...

My_Fathers_Daughter

MrsTine wrote: »

You're doing fine with Rhys and I can't attempt to imagine what any of what you have been through is like and the worries you had and must still have - same as I can't explain the excrutiating pain of thrush and trying through tears to feed your child because initially you haven't got a clue why they won't latch properly and why it hurts you so badly you just want to scream in pain as soon as something touches you let alone is desperate for food that they can only get from you... and you convince yourself you're a bad mum because you can't get them to latch on properly to feed so you suffer in silence for weeks before the pain gets so bad you finally realise something is wrong...

MrsT - are you okay hun? Have you thought about having a talk to someone?