MSE Parents Club Part 4

chopsticks

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggh. I just wrote a massive post (one-handed) and lost it. :mad:

Will try and put LO down then will be back to re-write.

Becles

3onitsway wrote: »

Then we were one of the first to get a video, not sure when it was, but my uncle borrowed a pirate copy of ET for us - anyone know what year that would have been.

My Mam's neighbour was one of the first to get a video. She used to loan it to us when she went on holiday in return for looking after her cats. It was a huge top loader thingy and it sounded like a jet engine when you had to rewind stuff. We used to go to the video hire shop in the local shopping centre and then walk round for ages posing with our hired videos :rotfl:

Also had a huge brick sized walkman. Well it was a red Bush one, not a proper walkman. It had huge orange headphones, and it would only fast forward and not rewind, you if you wanted to listen to a song again you had to turn the cassette over, fast forward a bit and then turn it back over to see if you'd forwarded enough :rotfl:

Sami_Bee wrote: »

aww how sweet that she wanted to snuggle up with big bro but what did almost teenager think of it?

He didn't seem to mind to be honest. Both the boys are really good with her and look after her.

weezl74 wrote: »

Do you all have those baby activity walkers on wheels? If so how useful do you find them and from what age?

If you mean the ones where it's like a frame and the baby sits in a sort of big pair of knickers attached to it, that's a big can of worms!

Some say that it hinders development as baby can learn to walk on their tip toes or the sides of their feet, as the knicker bit is supporting all their weight. Then when they come to walk, they're not walking correctly which causes problems and shoes wear quicker. Others say they are fine and don't cause any problems at all.

It's probably best if you scout around the net and read all the positive and negative opinions of them, and make up your own mind as to how you feel.

I'm in the negative camp as my Mam was a Clarks fitter and so she's seen the damage to feet they can cause.

MrsTinks

Right - the munchkin is asleep (hooray!) in her swing, mummy has a pizza in the oven for lunch. My new mobile has arrived and I am going to get stuff done today! I AM I AM I AM!
I want to send off the form for joint bank account with hubby (he's filled it in at last ), get Alexandra's passport sorted now THAT's all filled in correctly, put some cheques in the allotment bank account and send of a parcel for something I sold on Ebay.
I AM going to start sorting things for a carboot this weekend - hubby has agreed to do one with me so we can do a massive clearout to make some room and reduce the infernal clutter in this house...

SusanC_2

money_maker wrote: »

I never had the half pence Think youre showing your age a bit there SB :rotfl:

I remember the 1/2p and I was only 4 when they got rid of them. When I was in reception they took them all out of the play money.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

The TV that I took with me to Uni was a B&W portable...you know the ones with a dial to tune it in with?

So was mine (although it was antiquated at the time). I used to have a list of all the frequencies for the different channels.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

can I ask those that bought 2nd hand bumbos how much they paid? they're reduced to £27 in mothercare at the mo so I'm wondering what the saving is...

£7.99 but it was spelled bumbu

Sami_Bee wrote: »

ooh remember when you used to get shopping stuff from lots of places not the supermarket? just image our kids faces when we say milk was left on the door step in a glass bottle you rinsed out and left out for them to take back and there was also a veg man, a pop man and if you were lucky a video man!

We still do (or did before we moved - haven't sorted one out here yet).

weezl74 wrote: »

Amazingly all in the car, with brother carrying the food we've been thinking of not upsizing our car actually, even if/when we are lucky enough to have other children, since it seems to make more sense at the moment to keep a cheaper run-around that doesn't gas-guzzle for most of the year, but then just rent a zaphira a few times a year to go away for a longer time....

any thoughts anyone?

I said to OH that it would be cheaper to take the car and van on holiday than to have a bigger car but I reckon by the time we've upgraded to one big enough for more carseats (currently have a 3 door micra) we'll probably be able to manage for holidays (possibly by using a roof rack).

Glad the girlfriend was nice - was wondering how the holiday went.

weezl74

thanks becles, I'll certainly go and do a bit of research- I'm pretty unclued up about these things!

Did you buy anything else as an alternative for your 3?

ETA thanks susan crossed posts!

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

I did see the cube-thanks sami, another ace project! Erm, why do we hide walkers with wheels from them, is it badness?



Amazingly all in the car, with brother carrying the food we've been thinking of not upsizing our car actually, even if/when we are lucky enough to have other children, since it seems to make more sense at the moment to keep a cheaper run-around that doesn't gas-guzzle for most of the year, but then just rent a zaphira a few times a year to go away for a longer time....

any thoughts anyone?

ps elle, I chucked the bottom part of that baby gym you've got in a quick 40 degree wash with no ill effects...:)

Well the reasons against walkers are many
The fact that often parents forget that when in a walker baby can reach things such as hot drinks on a low table, the drawer with dangerous things in etc
they shouldn't be used near stairs in case they go down them in it (my sister did this twice, my mum is obviously a bad parent :rotfl:)
also the affect on walking that becles explained, I read that the people who are pro walkers say they are ok if they can put their feet flat on the floor (that it was only if baby was too short that the tippy te thing happened) and that they shouldn't be in them for more than about 20mins a day.

so I decided that as we'd been given ours for fee, that using it for about 30mins the once a week we we're at MIL was ok provided we made sure his feet we're flat on the floor or waaay off it

I agree on the car, ours is a squeeze at the moment but in a year or so Chris can go into a less imposing car seat as will Edgar and I won't be lugging the massive pram around so it'll be fine, I'm willing to have a bit of faff for another few months over paying out £200 a month again (we've just finished paying back MIL for our last car 'loan')

SusanC_2

We have a push along baby walker like this.

I believe ROSPA say that the other kind of baby walker are a major cause of accidents.

MrsTinks

Typical - in the space of 2 minutes I managed to knock over my diet caffeine free can of coke AND a bottle of leftover red wine in the kitchen which went all down my trousers and socks... DRAT! BLAST! FUDGE!
*sigh* deep breath and caaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalm... now... can I find enough change to park in town? Hmmmm need minimum 60p... problem is... I haven't had any change for days lol!
I know I can "pay by mobile" but i recent having to pay 20 p to do it... better than a parking ticket tho... grrrrr
Right new trousers... MrsT leaving the house take 2...

Buttonmoons

Keira loved her baby walker! She was always in it, she loved being able to follow you, though it was so wide it got wedged between doors!

We had one that lowered so you could make it low enough that her whole foot touched the ground, and not just her tippy toes, though I'm sure she used that too.

Never did her any harm, she was cruising by 9months and walking by 11months, I always thought she was able too walk that quickly because she strengthened her legs by pushing herself around in the walker. Plus, it's a good place to plop them and you know they can't get into mischief (well you could't in my pokey flat!) just stick a bunch of rattles/toys on the plastic tray, stick them at the entrance to the kitchen and get on with your chores. Stopping every 2mins to pick said rattles back up

Buttonmoons

Oh and she doesn't have gammy feet either, just one foot half a size bigger than the other