MSE Parents Club Part 9

tiamai_d

csh wrote: »

One of these but used

http://www.hyundai.co.uk/newCars/santaFe/

Its fab, I love it and it was :money: Although I'm not loving the road tax of £215, my last car was £35!!!!

We got the trajet, which is the poor mans, non 4WD of that and it's a love-hate relationship. It's big and heavy and a drinker (plus the tax is a nightmare and up in Feb) but in the snow it is good. Nice and heavy on the wheels so its sticks to teh road better. And doesn't slide down hills... yet....

harley1 wrote: »

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Yeah, started a post then spilled milk on the laptop so wiped it and it posted.

ladybirdintheuk

Hiya... back from town. Lots of shopping to unload (don't worry, it's all boring stuff like cheese and baby wipes. I've not been to the sales!)

I will catch up properly in a bit, but I know AF asked about sleep just before I went out -my diary is here (I've not updated it about last night yet). It doesn't give much detail of what we were doing before, just what I'm changing, so general routine is:

bath with lots of splashing
feed while doing "this little piggie" and getting dried and dressed (just to make life difficult for Mummy ... she has to let go when I pull her vest over her head though )
back into the living room for a little play with Daddy, and a bit more food depending on how well she has eaten. How long we are in the LR for depends on how sleepy she is by this point. When she is getting tired, night night kiss for Daddy (and anyone else who is visiting!) wave night night and off into her bedroom.

I was then getting her into sleeping bag, turning off the lights and feeding to sleep. Now I am getting her into sleeping bag, a bit more milk, twinkle twinkle (with actions!) then light off and lie down with teddy bear. At the moment we have the matress on the floor, so I am lying down with her and rubbing her back/holding her down (gently! god that makes me sound a horrible mummy!) and shhhhing till she drops off.

Nap time again I was feeding her to sleep. Now I'm trying to separate it a bit, although she does still drift off when feeding, so if she is doing that then I stop the feed and take her into her room. Other than that I just look out for rubbing eyes and grumpiness and we go into her room, close curtains/blinds (if I've actually managed to open them yet ), lie down with bear and blanket and do the back rubbing/shhhing till she goes to sleep. Sometimes it works with nap time, and sometimes we give up and get up again - I need a bit more backbone when it comes to nap time I think

I think a lot of it is about having confidence in yourself that you can do it (and that being persistent will work - it just might take a few hours of being yelled at ), and that you aren't doing anything wrong doing it this way. Izzy is nearly 1 now (next week!), and really doesn't need to be feeding to sleep/feeding in the night, and when she cries at me I can tell it is just temper. It is no bad thing for her to learn that yelling doesn't mean she will get her own way

Oh, one other thing that is helping me - taking a week off! When you have to get up in the morning it is so hard to be persistent - you end up counting the hours sleep you are going to get before you have to drive the car safely, and function like a professional human being rather than a zombie, and you end up thinking in the short term. I've found that because I took the week off, and have been mentally gearing myself up for it, I am much more relaxed and able to be patient and not give up. I don't know if this is an option for you?

Fitzio

Jillie – the darkness seems to be enough for us too. Even if H is awake, 90% of the time, a simple night night and a kiss, then light out seems to be enough to tell her it’s bedtime (at the moment – but things could change!). We can do whatever we like before that – sometimes a bath, sometimes carrying on, sometimes a bottle etc. The cot mobile is normally on her big cot which is only used for cot top changer at the moment, and we used it to entertain and calm her if she had trapped wind whilst giving her nappy free time on the changer.
I certainly see no harm in doing other things that can be calming though as all babies are different. I am looking forward to cuddling up and reading her a story at bedtime.

Feelie – lovely picture of Toby.

Choppy – hope your dad makes a quick recovery.

MM – hope your bottom is ok!

harley1

great, thanks Fitzio and lol at Tia. Thats exactly the sort of thing I would do.

xxx

harley1

Has anyone actually used Metrosaver to buy from. A quick google search shows nothing except some travel pass information and I the site looks quite basic.

Thought I'd got caught out buying from Big Imagination before xmas, though it turned out they are just carp, but it's made me a lot more wary about where I put my creditcard number.

Thanks xxx

money_maker_3

it doesnt have the best reviews harley

money_maker_3

Right, Iam going to go to bed for a bit and see if that makes my bum fell a bit better !!

Catch you all later xx

harley1

hope you soon feel better mm. thanks for the info on Metrosaver. xxx

jillie1974

i'm looking forward to reading as well. at the moment we read a book in the afternoon but will have no hesitation in reading a bedtime story when the time comes.

angelfairy

for those with older children (capable of reaching for the book and wanting to put it in their mouths ) how do you go about reading to them? i know if i tried this LO would be diving for the book and trying to eat it with no interest in what i am reading to her