MSE Parents Club Part 5

ladybirdintheuk

I've made an important discovery - prunes are now a good finger food I wasn't sure they would work, as I can't imagine eating them without teeth, but sucking and gumming at them seems to do the trick.

I'm trying to work out what questions I need to ask the nursery when we go in for our "getting used to it" sessions the week after next. I'm going to ask what I need to take in (I know I need to leave them with bibs/food/nappies etc, but I'm sure there will be something I forget about!) and what the procedure is with milk. Some places we looked at were happy for you to just leave them with a tub of formula and whatever baby likes to drink out of, some wanted X bottles of boiled and cooled water for them to use to make up milk... Which would be a pain, seeing as we don't use bottles, so I gave away the unopened pack of bottles I had away to the womens refuge the other week. What else should I be asking?

ManOnTheMoon

SugarSpun wrote: »

MOTM, on the special occasions board there's a thread about money making for Christmas - they're all aiming to be money neutral (so spend equals money made). It might be worth having a look over there if some of the girls want expensive gifts?

Thank you. May take a look. There are boards everywhere around here. I only found this thread by recommendation! I make it sound like I am poor when my p/t job from home is quite well paid and I have my own home that was left to me, but parenting isn't cheap. We survive and I am extra careful and don't spend on myself hardly at all. I just like spoiling them even more on special occasions and make up for absent mothers.

elle_gee wrote: »

OH is being irritating.. keeps sending me txt msgs one sentence at a time - something about a job offer for a week in Saudi He'll be home soon.

Tell him off for not being money saving

Sami_Bee

feely - maybe print out some info for the GP to see?
THIS site says is a very common problem but often mis diagnosed

searching_me

motm this is the thread i meant

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=532039

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pinkpig08

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Some places we looked at were happy for you to just leave them with a tub of formula and whatever baby likes to drink out of, some wanted X bottles of boiled and cooled water for them to use to make up milk...

The midwife on the GMTV debate the other day said that the boiled water needs to be 70 degrees to kill any bacteria in the formula. Thinking about it I suppose that's more for the newborns That was one of the things they said mums weren't told in hospital.

ladybirdintheuk

I've just measured how tall Izzy is - 67cm, so she is still bang on the 75th centile. (she was bang on the 50th for weight last week, so she will be tall and skinny if she carrys on like this). If she follows along the curve she will end up 5 foot 9. I will have to start wearing heels

Sami_Bee

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

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I'm trying to work out what questions I need to ask the nursery when we go in for our "getting used to it" sessions the week after next. I'm going to ask what I need to take in (I know I need to leave them with bibs/food/nappies etc, but I'm sure there will be something I forget about!) and what the procedure is with milk. Some places we looked at were happy for you to just leave them with a tub of formula and whatever baby likes to drink out of, some wanted X bottles of boiled and cooled water for them to use to make up milk... Which would be a pain, seeing as we don't use bottles, so I gave away the unopened pack of bottles I had away to the womens refuge the other week. What else should I be asking?

I'd just ask them "what do I need to provide?":D
What have you been sending her to your mum's with?

ManOnTheMoon wrote: »

I only found this thread by recommendation!

ooh who was it? (I bet you won't tell )

ManOnTheMoon

Well, some good news.

16yo went to local shop and they said as they've known us for a few years and she is a friendly girl, she can have the 8 hours one week, 12 hours the next on a trial basis until after Christmas, then they shall review it. Plus if they get any sickness or holidays they may ask her if she fancies some extra work.

It's only on minimum wage (£3.53 for 16yo), but it gets her used to working and earning a little bit. She starts September 1st

She still wants to look at other things. Someone PM'd about EMA, so need to look into that a bit more and next week at adult learning. She's also seen a course at college that runs from mid September until Christmas, just one morning a week, which is a taster into mentoring which apparently includes mentoring children with and without learning disabilities as a long term goal. A way of testing without commiting.

The volunteering service will see us next week too, so it will be interesting as to what they say.

I don't want her to do too much too soon, although she is used to School days, or was.

The next connundrum will be whether to ask her to pay her way in a small amount. If she is earning £28 one week and £42 the next, we'll have to find a fair way. She was the one who brought it up, which i'm impressed with. She has no more child benefit, so 14yo will become the higher rate, but will lose one lower rate. I don't want to be unfair and it's not about the money, but about her learning. She won't be going down the 'why should I pay' route of her pathetic mother, but still should see a good amount of her wages.

Well it was thunder and heavy rain earlier, then the sun came out, now it's dull again So we shall not be going out.

We are making cakes again No, my children are not obese We are going to try the chocolate chip in flour trick as suggested by chopsticks, then failing that, will check the link she gave for advice. Just not the advice that Sami Bee pointed out

Hope everyone has a great rest of the day

ladybirdintheuk

pinkpig08 wrote: »

The midwife on the GMTV debate the other day said that the boiled water needs to be 70 degrees to kill any bacteria in the formula. Thinking about it I suppose that's more for the newborns That was one of the things they said mums weren't told in hospital.

That's why I thought it was odd... It would make more sense to me if the nursery just boiled the kettle and made up the milk themselves as and when. But one of the others we visited wanted you to bring in your own water too... very odd.

ManOnTheMoon

searching_me wrote: »

motm this is the thread i meant

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=532039

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Thanks Do you know much about them? Good quality?

Sami_Bee wrote: »

ooh who was it? (I bet you won't tell )

Kathy Bates


No, it was LouBlue