MSE Parents Club Part 8

Sami_Bee

\i've not checke Krystal but will do

have you tried a dummy recently? Ed used one for about 2 weeks then he didn't want it any more he sucks his right index finger non stop now.

of to the land of nod now, just but the littlest man in the crib and little back back in his bed xx

Krystaltips

elle_gee wrote: »

Toy in the cot or a dummy, Krystal? But I'm guessing if you wanted either of those you'd have tried them by now... I'm only an amateur at this mummy lark!

She does have colonel giraffey in there... She cuddles him as she's dropping off if she goes down awake... And she just doesn't 'get' the dummy... She'll hold it and chew on it but that's about it... It seemed to make her scream more tonight when I tried her with it... But then she wouldn't entertain my finger when I tried to soothe her with it either...

Krystaltips

She also doesn't suck her fingers/thumb or comfort suck on me during the day apart from occasionally when we have a daytime nap together in bed...

I'm just so worried about ending up with another aimee... Especially after caitlyn slept so well in the beginning!

Anyway... Going to try and squeeze an hours sleep in... Night all xx

elle_gee

Sorry I meant more to play with than cuddle.. Rhys has this which he plays with as soon as he wakes and saves him from yelling out instantly. Sometimes I wake up in the night and he's awake happily playing with it, just smiling If Caitlyn's not wanting feeding mybe she's crying cos she wants to be entertained.. that's my thinking with Rhys and why he has the toy anyway

ETA: Putting the toy in the crib was the turning point for us from Rhys wittering all night and to only waking for feeds, bang on 3hrly, then he'd go back in his crib, play for a few minutes, then be straight off to sleep again, no fussing

weezl74

emlou2009 wrote: »

am i right in thinking you have a corsa too? thats given me something else to think about then, not necessarily needing one that does lots of reclining positions cos the seats are slanted anyway :think:

Yep, it's the littlest 1 litre one but with 5 doors he'll recline well if he's forward facing. I got the cheapy car seat from Argos

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Weezl - do you need anything special for photoshop? on the tv they always use a tablet but is a ouse ok? I'd love to be able to use it!

you can use a mouse just fine, but I do very detailed photoretouching so I use a mouse pen and tablet. Much easier for fixing images pixel by pixel

Kristal thanks loads for the offer of the book.I would love it if you didn't mind.

Everyone: I have a question that's been rattling away in my brain for a while, and wondered what you all think. I'm a bit concerned that we all might have quite different perceptions of this whole 'fairy post' idea, and that therefore we might get the etiquette for it wrong and offend each other by accident. I became most conscious of it after NMS left, which I think was in part caused by fairy post misunderstandings.

I for example feel that I haven't been a huge sender of stuff and have still only paid just under £20 in fairy postage . I know a lot of you send things much more often than me and are very generous. So I sometimes worry I'm that annoying person in the pub who never gets their round in!

Anyhow, I'd hate there to be any fairy post induced hurts or misunderstandings, so in the spirit of all staying a happy community, can someone: publish the rules of the fairy post;)/give me a kick up the bum if I do it wrong/say if they're hurt about it before it's too bad etc etc....

I shall go back to catching up now

redmel1621

weezl74 wrote: »

Yep, it's the littlest 1 litre one but with 5 doors he'll recline well if he's forward facing. I got the cheapy car seat from Argos

Morning

So did we:D:D Not sure if we got the same one, fab reviews it's got though. We paid £120 for ds1's car seat, and we much prefer this one:rolleyes:

Mel x

Pink_Princess_1

QUOTE=My Fathers Daughter;28008681] just been on Bizziebaby to look for the Chav Spoon review after Elle reminded me of it but I can't find it My chocolate review is there which I got after I turned the Chav Spoon away so I wonder what happened?[/QUOTE]


I had a sun suit in the summer and sent the review off in September. I just received an email saying they couldnt send me any more items as this review was still outstanding, it was still in my sent box so I just resent it.

SM I love your ideas for pressies - they look fab:T

I cant help on the sleeping front as we have a baby who sleeps with us every night so wont be passing on my (very useless) tips :rotfl:

We have snow here this morning Im so looking forward to going out in it - living by the beach we never get snow

harley1

searching_me wrote: »

can i ask you something .. just seen something on fb and philip doesnt understand why im angry ..

our mate texted me in october saying are thing tight for you for xmas so i said kinda she goes well they are for me so would you mind if we just got the kids and just chocolates for the adults .. ok fair enough ..
just seen on fb that shes gone and bought a person she says shes not really friends with supposibly a digital camera a little statue and a box of chocoate why did she lie all she had to say is i dont wanna get you 2 anything rather lie and ive gone through so much effort for her and her kids .. i mean im paying for her and her kids for zoes birthday im starting to think im being taken for a ride x

SM, I'm not sure I can add anything to what has been said since this post but I wanted to say that it sounds like you are being a real good friend (not to mention a lovely mummy) to pay for her daughter to go to the party and since it was at her request that Christmas be cheap this year then you make it cheap. Poundshop springs to mind. I do only know half the story but she doesn't sound like the sort of friend that you deserve, maybe leave her to philip in future and have as lilttle to do with her as possible.

And to show that you are not alone with odd friends, my very bestest friend (mother of my god daughter, with me at Kezias birth etc) sold the present I gave her last year on ebay. I was extremely hurt, didn't know how to bring it up as it would look like I was snooping (which I wasn't, honest) and as you can tell, I'm still a bit upset about it a year later.

But, apart from that, she is a fantastic friend and has lent me so much for Kezia this year, always includes me in things that involve family so I feel like an extra sister. I've decided to forgive - though I'm clearly not very good at forgetting - and this year have bought her something I know she'll love, spent quite a bit more than usual and am listing it as a combined Christmas and Thank You present for everthing she has done for us.

By that whole ramble I think I am trying to say that one upset can be forgiven but the way this girl treats you is really unfair and perhaps you should make your feelings known.

And I've still not put that very well, I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. xxxxx

Becles

3onitsway wrote: »

SM and any other creative ladies - where do you buy cellophane to wrap your hampers?
I got some bits for mum today, and a basket and popped them in - it looks really nice but needs wrapping.
OH has just decided that its a lovely present, and could 'we' do one for his mum too. :mad:

I got some from a florist on ebay, along with some pull bows. You know the really big bows you get on floral arrangements? If you buy pull bows, it's like a thick double piece of ribbon with two thin ribbons joined inside. You just pull hold one end and pull the thin ribbons and a beautiful bow appears - fantastic

I didn't know what to get my parents or Craig's grandparents, so I did hampers for both of them. Craig's grandparents one is all nice festive food with half sweet and half savoury as his Gran loves cakes and stuff, but his Grandad is diabetic! My parents one is similar but with nice wine and posh chocs in, and some crisps for my Dad. Long running family joke that my Dad is addicted to crisps

Had a good few inches of snow here and the bairns are excited about it. I've got to try and get out to work this morning and wondering if I'll get the car out of the street. Our cul-de-sac is on a slope and we were in bed last night and could hear someone reving like mad trying to get out. Out of the street that is, not out of our bed :rotfl:

SugarSpun

tarajayne wrote: »

When the others get older they will have less and once they have children, less again. Oh flippen eck, I don't know!

Tara, I suppose there's no way she'd stay with you all instead of with DD1?

I agree with you over less presents for older people, and again when they leave home. I've brought two extra gift recipients into the mix (well, one and a half at the moment) and don't expect my parents to go overboard. Although this year I very much have done because I expected this to be the last year I'd be at home celebrating, so what I suspect will happen is that I get a small present and everyone else will get a Mountain of Stuff

Hope DD1's ok after her fall and DD2's ok after her strop

SM, you don't know how she managed to acquire the digital camera or how her finances look. It seems to me that you're looking for a reason to have it out with her, because if you don't you'll just keep being stressed and angry.

weezl74 wrote: »

I for example feel that I haven't been a huge sender of stuff and have still only paid just under £20 in fairy postage . I know a lot of you send things much more often than me and are very generous. So I sometimes worry I'm that annoying person in the pub who never gets their round in!

Weezlie, as far as I'm concerned the rules of the fairy post are that you offer what you can afford to send and send it, if you receive it you thank the sender, and you bask in the glow of something you've used going to a baby you "know", IYKWIM. I've spent a fair amount on fairy post with things going out from Germany but I think the stuff we've been sent (thank you lovely people who sent it) plus being pleased that our unused stuff is going to good use evens it all out :cool:
I hope other people feel the same way - we've received some lovely stuff and I hope nobody feels taken advantage of

Forgot what else I wanted to say. Molly's been whinging all night so I finally got to sleep at 8am, and on the stroke of 10 my upstairs neighbour turned on Christmas carols. I hate him.

OHHHHH separation anxiety - it's a normal, PITA experience for little ones. It's the stage between recognising that Mummy/Daddy is the primary caregiver and the Most Important Person around and understanding that things don't stop existing because you can't see them any more. What happens inbetweentimes is that when you leave the room, as far as the baby's concerned you're gone forever and never coming back. The books say that you can deal with it by making sure that any babysitter's a familiar figure, but you could perhaps try recording your voice singing him songs and play that quietly on repeat all night? That way he can't see you but he has a tangible sign of your presence. Just an idea, and it might not work