MSE Parents Club Part 4

pinkpig08

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Pink - standing up?!?! How on earth did you do that? I'm amazed!

I can feed her standing up ok, I can't be doing with cushions! But doing the both together was hard - if I felt her slippng I had to hoist her back up with one hand, but that then flicked the boob out of her mouth! I'm not that well endowed in the chest department so not much leeway!

Think I'll have to wait till she's on a good long sleep before I try again. Not even dressed yet and I still need to hoover up cos I didn't do it yesterday. I have a dog who maults so need to do it every day otherwise my carpet looks black! Mind you it does send her to sleep if I hoover whilst holding her!

pinkpig08

What a good idea for the velcro! Might have stopped Josh sneaking an onion into his bedroom this morning and cutting it up! (Don't ask :rolleyes:)

MrsTinks

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Mrs T - just a thought -is this address just for the next 6 weeks, or I can I use it when she grows out of the current stuff too?

Sadly just for the next 3 weeks or so (she's out there for another 6 but the speed of mail is intermittent! Depends on the fighting etc...)

If possible I'll see if she can get details of someone else out there to send stuff to - it has to be to a named personnel or it won't get through (security because it's front lines...)

elle_gee

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

.. How is the building work going Elle?

Well the builders have shown up today, so that's a start! Can hear them drilling but I'm not sure what - not going to investigate just yet, still in my PJs! Hopefully we might have a window by the end of the week.

My_Fathers_Daughter

r.mac wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl:

Nope - It is a bad word in my family too. If I was to say around my mum (even now) I would risk having my mouth washed out with soap and a clip round the ear :eek: It's an acceptable word in DH's family though even though his mum disapproves of swearing etc.

Glad it is not just me

MFD - I keep meaning to ask, where is Benjamin's elephant from? Annabel got one from tescos as a gift (it's pink, but I know they did a blue one too) I ahd to buy a second last week - the lady said they were being discontinure:eek::eek: and I got the last pink one for washing and/or emergencies - she's quite attached to hers when sleeping in her pram.

I think I know the one you mean (with a small blanket for a body?) Benjamin does have 2 of those but that is not the one! It's the one on the left here:


I did buy another on Saturday though and he doesn't know the difference Thank you for thinking of me.


Sami - did Edgar like the blue tesco elephant? If so I know someone who has one unused one going spare.

r.mac wrote: »

I want one

They do the swings in pink too

r.mac wrote: »

LO sleeping much better. I'm putting her down for naps during the day and being more structred with her and I am sure that's what's made the difference - along with a break from teething.

:T Yay baby MacSmiler!

feeling a bit sad. I love being a SAHM and wouldn't change my LO for the world. I love her so much, but it's had such a huge and negative effect on my relationship with DH. I know we need to do something about it, but not sure what. decided to take a big step and tell my mum how upset I am. I feel disloyal to DH doing it, but I have to talk to someone....

At the risk of repeating myself I think it is really important to make time to be adults and to remember that without our gorgeous husbands we would not have made such gorgeous babies. We go out as often as we can and we take Benjamin to the local for a couple of early evening (5.30pm!) drinks too...we used to go there to chat about works stuff etc before we had Benjamin.
I also make sure that daddy and baby have lots of 'dad and lad' time without mummy interfering!! Minimum of 45 minutes a day when I do not interfere, whatever happens



I know I harp on about it but I have learnt the lessons of my husbands past....he split up with his ex-wife when DSS was 2 and one of the reasons for that was because their relationship was put on the backburner when DSS was born. I WILL NOT make the same mistakes...I love Benjamin to pieces but he is only here because of the love I have for hubby.

And here endeth my sermon - sorry ladies

Sami_Bee

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Sami - did Edgar like the blue tesco elephant? If so I know someone who has one unused one going spare.
At the risk of repeating myself I think it is really important to make time to be adults and to remember that without our gorgeous husbands we would not have made such gorgeous babies. We go out as often as we can and we take Benjamin to the local for a couple of early evening (5.30pm!) drinks too...we used to go there to chat about works stuff etc before we had Benjamin.
I also make sure that daddy and baby have lots of 'dad and lad' time without mummy interfering!! Minimum of 45 minutes a day when I do not interfere, whatever happens

I know I harp on about it but I have learnt the lessons of my husbands past....he split up with his ex-wife when DSS was 2 and one of the reasons for that was because their relationship was put on the backburner when DSS was born. I WILL NOT make the same mistakes...I love Benjamin to pieces but he is only here because of the love I have for hubby.

And here endeth my sermon - sorry ladies

thanks for thinking of us he's not fussed tho, his only comforter is a living breathing person he's not fussy which one as long as they're warm and snuggly. I can't decide if its a good or bad thing that my boys don't have comforters??
(although Chris is attached to his dummy now, he wasn't always, its been a very recent thing:rolleyes:)
I have a feeling id Ed is going to be attached to anything it will be a muslin, which suits me

I hope you don't mind me saying I did wonder if you felt pressure to keep hubby in the loop because of something that has happened in previous marriage, I hope its not too hard for you? xxx

OMG it is freezing here, I can't beleive I'm gonna go put the heating on in August!!

astonsmummy

MrsTine wrote: »

Ladies and Bruno... I have a very cheeky request to make...

As some of you might recall I have a friend (in fact my maid of honour!) who is currently stationed in Afghanistan as part of the British presence there. She's not part fo the fighting troops per say, but is there to try and improve the relations between the locals and the UK forces and her task has been building schools and hospitals and helping the women in particular...
They've built basic hospitals, they've built schools etc but the local women are struggling for a lot of things for obvious reasons...

So she's got about 6 weeks left of her tour and she's given up on the official channels including the big charities to get some help out there for things that are not classed as "vital" for the locals...

She's asked me to send every thing I can and to ask if anyone could help too...

This is what they need:
baby clothes - used is absolutely fine, ideally without angels on or anything that could be seen as "heathen" to them. The women are more open minded but obviously there are still some extreemists out there At least a lot of women realise that keeping their baby warm is more important than anything!
Adult clothes - simple things - if you HAVE any maternity clothes that you don't think are worth Ebaying then these would be perfect, ditto breast feeding tops etc.

If you think you could help please PM me... I will let you have her direct address out there and the best thing is that so long as your parcel under 2kg it's FREE to post it out there as it's front line troops BFOP so Royal mail carry it for free to the army who then ship it out And even better... so long as the parcels are under 2 kg you can send as many as you like!

Other things if you have them spare is nappies, terry cloths, wipes... well anything baby based!
If you feel like sending anything else then you're more than welcome but try to avoid anything that will melt (like chocolate sadly!) nothing like fizzy drinks and definitely no alcohol!

I'm going to post this on the charity boards too but I thought I'd ask you nice ladies and Bruno here first
It doesn't have to be new things, so long as it's not falling apart or really stained then it would be very welcome!

Thank you

I'm just off out, but i have a big load of baby cliothes that could be put on ebaby but i cant be bothered to sort through it all, so I will donate it all for this.
I'll send you a PM later x

MrsTinks

Thanks AM! You're all stars!

MFD - I now what you mean about keeping daddy in the loop so to speak. DH had a crap dad - wasn't there for them and basically !!!!!!ed off when he was still young. He turned up again when DH was about 17/18 and was told that if he ever tried to contact DH or his sister again it would be the last thing he ever did by DH...
And it's really important to hubby to be everything his father never was for him - so he has lots of daddy time. Now he's less worried about doing things wrong after our talk last week he's been enjoying being even more hands on with Alexandra. I think it's really important to let daddies have daddy time with the little munchkins - they need to bond as much as mummies do and it honestly shocked me when at New Parents group several other mums were saying their OHs hadn't even changed a nappy yet! :eek: Euan changed Alexandras nappy before I did!

My_Fathers_Daughter

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I have a feeling id Ed is going to be attached to anything it will be a muslin, which suits me

I hope you don't mind me saying I did wonder if you felt pressure to keep hubby in the loop because of something that has happened in previous marriage, I hope its not too hard for you? xxx

OMG it is freezing here, I can't beleive I'm gonna go put the heating on in August!!

My mum used to look after a boy who took a muslin to school with him!!!

It's not hard for me at all! The ex made hubby feel like parenting was her responsibility and he was just there to earn money etc. Every time he did something with DSS it was wrong (;) we all think it!!!) and he resented that. So I learned to chill - hubby has as much right to care for Benjamin how he wants to as I do to care for him how I want to....and Benjamin will be much more balanced for having input from both of us.
Makes my life much easier too!!

elle_gee

Oh, strike that, ONE builder is here. He's had a row with the other one (his son) who he's left at home today to "contemplate his future".. basically "Do you want a job and a roof over your head, or not, sonny jim?"

Tax credits forms have arrived.. Best brace myself with a cuppa before tackling them.

When you go up a size in nappies, does the first one of the new size always look massive on your LOs? Rhys had a very baffling wet patch on the back on his sleepsuit this morning, although his vest was dryer and his nappy didn't look like it'd leaked, but all the same I've tried him in the next size nappy - Pampers Newborn Size 1! - and it looks massive on him, bless him!