MSE Parents Club Part 9

Sami_Bee

MadDogWoman wrote: »

Mel - I swapped from a Graco Quattro to an ICandy Cherry for the parent facing option and it's only very rarely that it faces forward as we like to chat/sing songs to each other as we walk along.

ooh what do you think? is it heavy/bulky? how much was it? (stoopid icandy never put prices on the web!
Thnak you lovely x

Mell. was it the peach you like? I've just seen it on the site with 2 carry cots on it, I know you wouldn't have kai in a carry cot so doesnt really effect you but it looks cruel on the 'bottom' baby doesn't it

got-it-spend-it

3onitsway wrote: »

Krystal - My fairies have got some ebay testing strips. If you'd like them to pass a couple to your faries, send directions.

ETA: My curry has just arrived, i'm off to eat. If I don't come back, I hope everyone gets a good, full nights sleep. xx

I need a curry...I've just seen a friend post on FB about it, now you have tipped me over the edge, 3 .

elle_gee

Pinkpig, your boss has 28 days to respond (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Flexibleworking/DG_171775)

redmel1621

Thanks for the replies on parent facing etc...I currently have kai parent facing when walking, although I do have a little stroller in the boot which is forward facing. I always thought I wasn't too bothered which way he faced but tbh I much prefer being able to chat to him and see him while we are out and about. The dilemma I am having is the double I like will mean that Kai will go front facing (he'll be 15mths old) and baby will be facing me up until 8/9mths and will then go front facing for however long until Kai will be happy walking/buggy boarding. (he will be 2yrs at this point) ds1 walked everywhere from about 2yrs onwards and just jumped on the shopping basket standing up between the handles when he was tired.. ds2 also walked a fair amount from quite early on and I think I was buggy free by the time he was 2.5yrs. As soon as Kai is happy walking and boarding I will be able to have baby in single mode rear facing!!

Anyway the point of my ramble is that I don't know if I am choosing the right double and whether I should keep searching for rear facing options!!!

pinkpig08

I think I would love another baby, but finances at the moment wouldnt allow it - I would be working for nothing if I had to send 2 children to the childminder all week and we need my wage to pay the mortgage - DH's pays for everything else. Once we have finished paying various things such as the 2 loans we have and the CSA in 4 years time then it wouldn't be a problem - but DH will be almost 50, although I'll only be 35.

pinkpig08

elle_gee wrote: »

Pinkpig, your boss has 28 days to respond (http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Employees/Flexibleworking/DG_171775)

Ooh thanks for that elle - so what would happen if she didn't respond within 28 days? (And is that working days or every day?)

My_Fathers_Daughter

Benjamin loves calpol too - he sucks the syringe until it is all gone!! Shame I can't get him to suck on a straw!!



All this talk of new babies! I flit between not being able to imagine ever wanting another to not being able to imagine not having another if that makes any sense at all?


The fairies have a Tixylix basic monitor if anybody wants it. It was my brothers for his 2 boys and SIL sent it over to me this morning (not sure what she thinks I have been doing up to now LOL!).


Which reminds me, I think brother and SIL have joined MSE :eek: they have certainly both signed up for the email. Not that I particularly say anything that I wouldn't want somebody to read but I like the fact that RL and IL don't mix

redmel1621

Fingers crossed Krystal, for the best outcome for you....

Yeah Sami the Peach blossom. The carrycots do look a bit on top of each other, like you say I wouldn't have the two anyway...but then I am not keen on the baby in the eshopping basket effect of the P&T either...why can't someone invent me the perfect puschair!!!!

Kai loves calpol and nurofen, he loves this amoxicillin, yummy banana flavour, it was the disgusting penicillin he hated, it is an orangey colour and very bitter in taste. He has always taken meds from a spoon, I used to have a nightmare with the other two and had to use a baby syringe for ages with them both....With the squishing the cheeks trip too;)

MFD - I think benjamin would love a little brother or sister.

Like I say I am ver jealous of all of you who can think about having babies in the future...I am not long turned 30 so don't think I am old but it seems hard that I have to get used to not even considering anymore. Unless dh doesn't actually go through with the snip;)

elle_gee

pinkpig08 wrote: »

Ooh thanks for that elle - so what would happen if she didn't respond within 28 days? (And is that working days or every day?)

Doesn't say there, but my guess would be that they haven't kept to their side of the procedure it swings further in your favour if you have to take it higher later (assuming of course you've completely your side of the procedure properly too).

I'd send her an email at 20 days, reminding her of your application and that you know she has 28 days to response (quote the above link) and that you look forward to hearing from her soon...

BrunoM

Hi team! Just skim-read 16 pages on the trot so I hope I spotted all big news and interesting things but I am sure I missed bits

I hate when I see my favourite people saying that they're a bit put off from posting by x or y! So I hope no-one who was feeling guilty about not reading every post, or overwhelmed because soooooo many lovely people post here, really gets driven away because that would be hugely sad and you would be very missed.

Mel, we are so lucky to have had no serious 'illness' with Elijah yet that has necessitated antibiotics or anything like that. It must be really miserable for you and poor Kai with no idea when it will clear up and no way for him to communicate his discomfort!
We're really scared of the first time Elijah gets proper sick He actually is combining bad teething (must be one of the last couple molars? I think?) with a really snotty cold right now so he is a bit miserable but it's not at the level to make me worry about him, or prevent him from having any fun during the day.

Annielove, I bet your LO will adjust really fast. He will be just fine in his own room, probably tonight and definitely within a day or two, and as soon as you're used to it you will appreciate it too good luck.

There were some more interesting things people said but I am afraid I've forgotten them or lost track sorry.

weezl74 wrote: »

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I had a really funny dream the other day, where I'm on the tube with Fergie and Kester visiting my friend in London, and a woman calls 'Elijah!' in an american accent, and I look over and it's bruno and DW and E, and I go over and go 'hello I'm Weezl74' and bruno laughs.

And then I woke up :rotfl:

:eek: I am very impressed Weezl! And I hope if you had stayed asleep I would at least have been polite after laughing, I feel I was a little rude there. What a funny random dream

feelinggood wrote: »

More freecycle help, it is run on a Yahoo group, how do I edit to say it is taken?

Think someone said, but you can't/don't - just post a follow-up with the same name but TAKEN in the title.

feelinggood wrote: »

I've got all my fairy post things ready to go.

Does anyone have opinions on baby floation devices? Me and LO are going swimming, and I'm thinking we'll just go 'au natural'? (no floats armbands, but with clothes! Funny story, I went to a nudist club once, to fufil my lifetime ambition of swimming nude).

I have swum nudey in at least 3 countries I think 4 perhaps. In the sea, in a private swimming pool, in a mountain lake as a plunge-pool leaping straight from the wood-burning sauna... in the Norfolk broads :eek:

ETA And I am all in favour of taking Toby au naturel our swimming with E has all been thus.