MSE Parents Club Part 9

Pink_Princess_1

AF - DD2 dosnt sleep either and I dont think I could be a better parent to her We have to get her to sleep on our knee or in our bed and then put her in her own bed - she wakes about 1ish and gets back in with us till the morning. I havnt done anything different than I did with DD1 and she slept 12 hrs a night and a nap during the day ( she still sleeps alot now even at 16) some babies are just different so dont feel like its you that has done wrong.

Elle - Rhys sounds like he is doing really well - so pleased and I love the new pics of him on FB

workinmummy

Hi All. :hello:

Maternity leave officially over. I am currently sat at my desk at work. How can four months possibly go so fast. I was fine until i put Alex in the car this morning, then welled up with tears. Did not want to leave my little baby. He is at Nans (OH's Mum)today, childminder Tues, Wed and Fri and my mums on Thursday. Bit of a mixture, but it cuts the childcare cost down to three days only. And DS is back in afterschool club. School actually open, after being closed all last week.

Need to become mega organised, sort all things the night before, took me ages last night, kept rembering things and dashing up and down the stairs. OH did all the ironing yesterday (on his birthday -bless) whilst i sorted out the bedrooms. Pea and Ham soup cooked yesterday, to help with tonights meal. Will have to find something to cook tonight for tomorrow. Must pull out the slow cooker again.

Will finish posting now, my chip barm has just arrived on my desk thanks to nice colleague who had done the chippy run. Yum!

money_maker_3

SM I just blended blueberries and added them to natural youghart

money_maker_3

aww wm, hope your 1st day back goes OK

mookiandco

workinmummy wrote: »

Maternity leave officially over. I am currently sat at my desk at work. How can four months possibly go so fast. I was fine until i put Alex in the car this morning, then welled up with tears. Did not want to leave my little baby. He is at Nans (OH's Mum)today, childminder Tues, Wed and Fri and my mums on Thursday. Bit of a mixture, but it cuts the childcare cost down to three days only. And DS is back in afterschool club. School actually open, after being closed all last week.

I want to go back on maternity leave - I can only think of one way that would be possible though:whistle:

I find booking some annual leave helps as you have something to look forward to. I have 2 weeks off at the end of March to go on holiday and might take a day in February for a long weekend.

Its nice that Alex has a mixture of childcare, if I had family around i'd much prefer to [STRIKE]dump[/STRIKE] leave her with them!

My_Fathers_Daughter

Hi workinmummy - you are certainly living up to your name - HUGS xx

I keep saying that I will cook at night for the following day but it never works out. Both hubby and I eat late/big lunches now because we never eat before 8pm. By the time I have got Benjamin in bed and cooked it is the earliest we can do it, there is no way I am cooking in my hour or so before Benjamin goes to bed.

And then starts the run-around of getting all our stuff ready and laying it out for us to be up and out in the morning!

You have to be really organised don't you!

chopsticks

Fitz - hope the jabs went OK this morning and Holly isn't too upset

Elle - yay for a sleeping Rhys!!

PinkPig - cute pic. She looks very happy to be in there!

SusanC_2

feelinggood wrote: »

How can you tell if a baby doesn't like a food? LO pulls allsorts of faces, but never refuses (until he is full and doesn't want anything).

We knew because Alice refused to eat them. (Although they were also both things which OH had made and gone wrong with so we knew they weren't the nicest food anyway.)

SugarSpun

feelinggood wrote: »

How can you tell if a baby doesn't like a food? LO pulls allsorts of faces, but never refuses (until he is full and doesn't want anything).

With Molly she'll pull hilarious no, Mama, !!!!!! is that?! faces and consistently close her mouth against the spoon/push it away/start making tight-lipped I'm-not-happy Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm noises. But she'll launch herself at my boob and pull at my shirt trying to get at that instead.

I find it amazing that such a small person can be so communicative. She was whinging yesterday - Husband picked her up and sang a bit and she kept whinging. He sniffed her nappy region and she started smiling at him - he changed her and sure enough she was covered in poop. It really did look like she was rewarding him for understanding her.

Big hugs WM and Mooki - I know what you mean. I've been mostly working from home because although Husband is doing almost all the taking-care bit, I just can't find a way to be there and fit in all the stuff she needs, and I'm lucky enough that I don't need to be in the office every day. It's so horrible to leave her, though. I hope it gets easier for you both :grouphug:

searching_me

((hugs)) for being at work wm ..

an actual money saving question here :eek: :rotfl: ... the alliance and leicester preimer account switching thing has anyone done it .. was it worth it in the long run.. im thinking of switching my overdraft to it as its 0% up to 2k but im not sure x