MSE Parents Club Part 7

Fitzio

Sami - did you get Buble tickets? I had doctors at 9am and have missed the boat! They seem sold out all over the UK. Gutted.

Got to go for an ultrasound next week as may have gallstones . I was never ill before pregnancy!!

MFD - you have my sympathies. OHs are incapable of following instructions but they muddle through!

ETA - I quite like Kate!!

keelykat

I am going to cut some wires before tomorrow evening - our buzzer is so loud it scares elliot even now. So i can sympathise with others with same problem. Only problem with our apartments-theres no off button for the buzzer. I do not like the naughty kids around here! Off to find hose, and aim it out of window lol!!

Glamazon

elle_gee wrote: »

Glam, Jumperoo plus box pic

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=9454855&l=efeab09616&id=723825074

ETA: Thicker milk took forever (well okay 45minutes for 100ml) to go down but it's keeping him quieter for longer

Wicked thanks very much - me thinks I'll get one next week!

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I LOVE Graham on corrie! :rotfl:

Me too!!!

Just trying to get housework done now both Jack and I are washed and dressed. Just wanted to say he has drained EVERY bottle since 2pm yesterday and went 7hrs last night (well, 6hrs sleep!!!)

Will try and finish off catching up if I can get house sorted before IL's get here"

Hope everyone's OK

Krystaltips

Sami, didn't really mean to spend that much no... The big problem is that she really does love her toys and she's always playing with them... And Hubby loves to buy her things too, so even though weeks ago I said we didn't need to buy anything else, he still picks her things up... Also I start buying things in the spring to spread the cost so it's not until I sit and add it all up I realise how much it's cost...

Here's her list:
cool cardz £15.00
Puppy in my pocket £2.00
Books £1.00
E Lamb £2.00
Mini playsets £6.00
Sylvanian treehouse £56.00
Tree house furniture £20.00
2 families £25.00
Gogo Hamster £9.99
Princess Hopscotch £6.00
Care Bear £8.00
Snuggle Pet £15.00

£ 165.99

The cool cardz, hubby bought for her last year but I didn't think she was old enough so I've made him wait a year to give it her, that and the hamster which he bought her the other day are the only things we've paid full price for... And the snuggle pets, I'm trying to convince him we should give them to Caitlyn to bulk out her present pile... It's not like Aimee wouldn't get to pay with them anyway...

weezl74

3onitsway wrote: »

It hasn't Sami. It has two holes at the back of the seat, that the straps come through - but just one either side that go around the waist. I could get reigns and somehow attach them through the holes maybe?

Or I could superglue her bottom to the seat!

3 thanks for the advanced warning. DH was convinced fergie wouldn't be able to get out so I was pleased to have such concrete evidence!;)

DH is going to drill more holes and we'll attach another harness.

I'll post how we've managed in case anyone else wants to do likewise

Bails: 60p a day and ensuring you meet the rquirements for PG/breastfeeding. I'd say definately yes, and there are 2 routes:

the hard way: work out the nutrition of all meals and the cheapest ways to do them involving lots of shopping around and going to muliple shops per week (60p a day is hard work and involves making everything from scratch, so quite hard with a newborn!)


the slightly easier way: Buy a pregnancy/lactation multivitamin (1.2p per tablet at the moment in asda) and then you've only got the cost to worry about!

But I still think it would be tough. During pregnancy I found it very difficult to sustain my 70p a day previous budget. I found that I would be overwhelmingly hungry at the wrong times for the wrong things (ie things we didn't have already made up in batches) it was almost impossible to eat what I didn't fancy, but allowing myself to get more hungry resulted in vomiting and headaches.

Also your sense of smell can be super high and make cooking somethings quite nauseating ...

sorry this is a bit gloomy! But I have succesfully lived on 50p a day for a year, so I know I personally can do it. I also know that I personally can't do it with morning sickness or a newborn. Sorry

Love Weezl x

SugarSpun

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

I got back and baby is in bed, not changed - not even his dirty nappy, still in his pumpkin outfit that he wore to go out in, no pudding, and no sleeping bag :mad:

Hubby is all smiles saying 'have I done something wrong?'

So, being hungry, cold and dirty I spent over 2 hours awake with Benjamin in the night :mad:

:mad::mad: for you MFD.

Did you leave explicit instructions? I find that if I don't, things don't get done. Of course, Husband insisted on changing wet, not poopy Molly overnight (I never do because it only wakes her up and then she wants to play) and then wondered why she refused to go tamely back to sleep and insisted on endless repetitions of the "blowing in the face" game and "drop a dishtowel on the baby". I was on the sofa away from the noise on the grounds that she'd woken her so she was his responsibility :rotfl:

Krystaltips

Ooh Glam.. Here's a couple of pics of Caitlyn enjoying the jumperoo...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4154496&l=db438e61cd&id=540180659
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4060536&l=8b15e59997&id=540180659

She was in it from about 4m... As soon as she could hol her head steady...

Glamazon

Krystaltips wrote: »

Ooh Glam.. Here's a couple of pics of Caitlyn enjoying the jumperoo...
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4154496&l=db438e61cd&id=540180659
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4060536&l=8b15e59997&id=540180659

She was in it from about 4m... As soon as she could hol her head steady...

ace! thanks - does she still enjoy it?

grr clingy baby & housework dont go!

Krystaltips

Glamazon wrote: »

ace! thanks - does she still enjoy it?

grr clingy baby & housework dont go!

Yeah she loves it! She'll spend a good hour in it now, spinning herself round and messing with all the little toys around the outside... Of all the things we've bought for her... The borrowed jumperoo is the biggest success!

Just ignore the housework... Spend the day cuddling the baby

My_Fathers_Daughter

SugarSpun wrote: »

:mad::mad: for you MFD.

Did you leave explicit instructions? I find that if I don't, things don't get done.

I didn't write it down! But I did tell him twice

- the baby needs a pudding - and put it on the kitchen side...complete with spoon on top.
- the baby's nightclothes are here (on back of sofa) with a night-time nappy and a sleeping bag)
- I have left 2 bottles - big one to feed before bed, small one in case he wakes.

He did manage the bottle AND used the right one!

To be fair, Benjamin was in a fleecy pumpkin sleepsuit so it wasn't like he put him to bed in shorts and a t-shirt...but not changing his bum :rolleyes:



See - I am glad I ranted now. I was ready to strangle him earlier and there was no way in this world I was ever leaving Benjamin with him again...now I just think I should lower my expectations.