MSE Parents Club Part 5

redmel1621

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Mel how short was the list back then!!! It must be 3 times that these days!

I know.......


Well I have been busy for hours trying to work out how much money we will have to actually live on, and believe it or not, we are going to be far better off financially than we have ever been It is crazy...not that i'm complaining of course:p If me and dh both worked full-time we probably wouldn't earn as much as we will be getting and then we are getting 85% of our childcare costs paid on top of that, whereas they would have to come out of our meagre salaries:rolleyes:

money_maker_3

Just read the 1st line of this post and imagine it ever being said now !!!!!!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=16170693&postcount=2852

chopsticks

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Everyone is welcome!!! East mids as in Lincs or Notts? I am Derbyshire originally - Chesterfield

Krystaltips wrote: »

Oh yeah, chopsticks of course you're welcome!

Thanks guys

I'm south East Mids - Northants. I don't think anyone else is near to me.

ChrisCobra

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Welcome Chris! Do we have another Daddy in the ranks? Are you a brit aboard?

Ladies: I fear we may soon have to talk about lady problems else where :eek: :rotfl:

Jock in Sweden aye.

Krystaltips

Ooh, I used to do mortgages and life insurance for a lot of folks in Northants... In my previous life...

cazscoob

hi chopsticks and chris!

well i have made a very late dinner tonight and it was my first ever HM veggie dinner! it was so good at work i bought everything to make it at home lol! OH looked disgusted as there was no meat and luckily he didnt want any dinner but the kids loved it!!
am off to see if i can find my first post lol!

tiamai_d

SusanC wrote: »

I think it's very impressive that you've continued through all of that. I've never had mastitis but I gather it's very bad and I can imagine having your child in special care and knowing that just switching to formula would get her out must make it very tempting to switch. I was so close to giving up without all of those added difficulties.

I gave up with the boys to get them out special care (amongst other things) and this time I had decided that I wouldn't do that. By the time I had the first bout of mastitis and been given an antibiotic I had become quite stubborn about it, I'd gone through the worst of it and would be damned if I was giving up. Plus I was in hospital and between a lovely midwife on the ward, the lovely nurses at special care and the lovely doctor who saw me about it (she kept popping in to see me as my room was right at the staff station) I got through it. Special care gave me my little medela harmony pump which got me through, if I hadn't got that I would have given up, I am pretty sure it was the electric pump that triggered the mastitis, and a nursing bra that was a strange fit (now lised on ebay) DH wanted me to go onto formula to get her out too, so it was stressful but he supported me when I said no.
Plus, I can appreciate just how easy BF is at night.
But then I'm not confident enough to feed in public yet so have to express before we go out (not even in our own coffee shop, but I am very uptight about 'personal' things).

Poor wee Amber has a stuffy nose and has been feeding most of the night, wanting foremilk I think. She goes on, guzzles (and sniffs) then wants the other side. I need to go bogie picking with some cotton buds... which I find strangely enjoyable!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Sami_Bee

ChrisCobra wrote: »

Jock in Sweden aye.

ooh we have a few scots in here!
We usually ask newbies a few questions to get to know you

How many kids, ages, how are they doing with pooping/toilet training, how do they sleep

money_maker_3

tiamai_d wrote: »

I need to go bogie picking with some cotton buds... which I find strangely enjoyable!! :rotfl::rotfl:

me too :rotfl: dont think Dylan is as keen though :rolleyes:

ChrisCobra

Elle , im quite educated , im a proper dad , i seen all the blood guts and gore and screams and appreciated my girlfriends pain and effort.

And tiami , if people do any funny look in Sweden because of you BF in public , they would get jumped on and arrested , i sheeeet u not.