MSE Parents Club Part 8

Glamazon

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

Not really on here tonight (enjoying the peace & quiet of Andrew sleeping upstairs for the second time!) but just wanted to send Feely some hugs, I think you need them Personally I think you've done a wonderful job so far and you're just having a confidence crisis - but Toby won't notice this and will still carry on being a charming little devil all the same I haven't gone to any baby groups yet and I'm not sure I will, as I'm not into group stuff (witness my trying to back out of the Trafford meet!), and it's Marley that makes us go out most days as he's going mad being at home!

aw dont back out! it will be fun

tiamai_d wrote: »

Yeah... I woulda chickened out too.

I did however have a high and mighty snide comment to a neddy mum in Game. Walking about with the baby in the car seat on one of those pram things that the car seat clips into, and she says to her neddy boyf, that 'he has been crabbit since we got in the town before lunch (it was about 4.30pm) whits up wae im?'. I couldn't help it, I said 'maybe he's been stuck in his car seat too long? I hate seeing little babies sat in car seats all the time!' and then I legged it!

when me & my friends went shopping on tuesday all 3 of the babies were in car seats from 11am until at least 5pm, they only took them out to feed them even though we sat down for ages!I took my joey and Jack stayed on my lap the whole time we were in the food hall - they wondered why he was so alert all the time :rolleyes: dont get me wrong Jack goes in the car seat around ASDA but for long car journeys I always stop after 2.5hrs.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Anyone want a free recipe book all about peas http://www.peas.org/contactYP.php

I'm off to bed now all on my lonesome coz OH is in sarf end trapped in the hotel coz it's a scary place after dark

Its a bit dodgy round there - all them arcades and freaky adventure parks and he might run into my bro phished as a fart roaming the streets :rotfl:

can someone tell me why my 11 week old baby is only happy if he's standing up with me supporting him? :eek:

Tia - thanks for tampon question i was wondering the same myself having just finished my 2nd period and HATING pads althou apparently I'm weird cos my 3 friends only wear pads!

Jillie - where did u suggest meeting on Tuesday? Is it the food court bit where Gok does his parade at the end of his show?

tarajayne

Thanks Tia, very exciting here, the fairies just unwrapped my new huge fridge freezer!

Woah Feelie, mega post, very impressive. X

SusanC_2

I think I've been really fortunate on the mother/mother in law front as neither of mine interfere at all. I don't think my mum even realised that I didn't wean till seven months and all MIL said when we were explaining about taking Alice to the potty when she was six months (because she was baby sitting and sometimes Alice would wake up needing the potty) was, "It seems a bit young to me but whatever you want."

Feelie I never went to any baby groups either.

If the straps aren't small enough in the pushchairs and they are supposed to be suitable from birth then it is probably worth writing a letter complaining about it. If they get enough people complaining then they are more likely to improve when they bring out new models.

Claire_Jones wrote: »

Damn bank have declined my credit card at Amazon. I've been doing a load of ordering for christmas from them as I was offered free prime trial for a month so was abusing the priviledge. It'll take me to call them to sort it out !!!!!! - why they can't be bothered to contact me asap once they refer my card annoys me!

I don't accept phone calls from the bank for security reasons - I'll only talk to them if I've called them.

tarajayne wrote: »

I've tried telling her and suggesting other things, like this week I asked for a drink of squash and she said she doesn't do squash as it's full of sugar. I asked her what she gives her stepchildren as they spend half the week with them so she said fruit juice, eek! When I said how bad it was for their teeth she said rubbish!

We always had fruit juice rather than squash grwoing up but it was always diluted.

Buttonmoons wrote: »

She slept in her car seat at nights until she was about 5/6 months, and last time I checked her head wasn't flat. She wouldn't sleep lying down so was the only option.

Midwife never told me off for it, and I really couldn't give a flying cahoot what people think about it either. Was that or no sleep.

I'm not criticising you because I know you did what you thought was best based on the information you had at the time and obviously Keira was fine but just in case anyone else is considering doing the same, I feel I ought to point out that there is a possible link between sleeping for extended periods in a carseat and cot death.

http://www.carseatinfo.co.uk/index.cfm?sid=19086&pid=292366

http://www.thebabywebsite.com/article.652.Baby_Car_Seat_Cot_Death_Concern.htm

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2279503.ece (This one is about a little girl who died earlier this year.)

cazscoob

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH am due to get my depo tom and guess what arrived this morning? am so fed up another huge argument errupted last night and it all started over a bloody fish supper? thngs might have blown up a bit too much and now he is looking for somewhere else to live. i just feel like giving up i really have had enough now

searching_me

awwwwwwwwww so cute pookie ... feelie thats one hell of a post .. my mates just p!ssing me off as i not sure how long i can bite my teeth for .... oh poo driving instructors here gotta go x

tarajayne

Aww Pookie, they're lovely. I resized in photobucket before I put them on. X

cazscoob

i dont think the straps are meant to be tight on a baby as they are not being restrained. a baby will also not move around as much as a toddler and cannot escape so they dont need to be in tight. my other prams have had carry cots so i have never needed to strap them in and the phil and teds i have never had a prob with the straps??

Glamazon

pookie5488 wrote: »

Sorry did not mean for the photos to be so blooming massive !!!
How on earth do you resize them??

leave them big!!! I would say deffo not wind must upload my piccie of my little smiler!

feelie - great post! Jack's not too snotty today and has gone back to waking up just once in the night but won't go down to sleep before 10pm.

OH having an ebay day so off to help him in a bit

tarajayne

cazscoob wrote: »

i dont think the straps are meant to be tight on a baby as they are not being restrained. a baby will also not move around as much as a toddler and cannot escape so they dont need to be in tight. my other prams have had carry cots so i have never needed to strap them in and the phil and teds i have never had a prob with the straps??

If I hadn't tightened Maddys straps as I left home yesterday she would have come out when it tipped in the playground. As it was she didn't even wake. :cool:

SugarSpun

Sami_Bee wrote: »

teabags??
lalalala

Is that weird? They're lovely smelling teabags and I'm sending them to people on a different website I go to. Everyone puts up small Christmas wishes and the ones you can grant, you do, and everyone does the same. I'm sending out the maps I picked up in Paris, teabags, a bag of garam masala and a spare lip balm, and I'm receiving a bunch of lowish fat recipes, a burn of a DVD I've wanted forever and a step by step on removing the bug infestation in our apartment.

feelinggood wrote: »

SugarSpun - Yay for hubby coming home! Hope he recovers quickly and things get back to normal for you. Hope the growth spurt is over quick. Toby had dozens of them. I don't think she can be overweight at this age, you can't overfeed a breastfed baby!

I stick peas in everything ... curry, soup, casserole, stew. Anything! Mmmm peas. About Nan's, mine asked why do I cuddle LO much, she used to leave Dad in his pram in the garage!

I love your mammoth posts, and thank you for the good wishes. It's not possible to overfeed a breastfed baby, my doctor just believes all babies MUST stay on the percentile they were born on or else something is wrong.

And I like you a lot, Feelie, but peas in curry is so wrong as to give me the shudders.