MSE Parents Club Part 9

ladybirdintheuk

Choppy have you found a nursery yet? It is worth starting to get Caitlin settled in to nursery a few weeks early - makes it easier when you know that she will be having fun without you. Izzy is fine when I drop her at nursery now (especially since she has breakfast there, so when I leave she has already started eating ), and she has a book where they record how many nappies/food etc, but also what she has been playing with and doing all day. It just makes me jelous that I had to go to work and miss out on all the fun!

angela6834

Hi everyone....havent read back, had an early night last night as i was shattered and there is far too many pages and i found thats why i havent kept up in the past. By the time id been reading back everything had been discussed and wasnt relevant by the time i caught up.

Im off to work today to see if my proposed hours when i return look favourable and have my SIL coming this afternoon. I'll read back the last few pages and hope everything went okay for everyone yesterday. I did see Fergie had another tooth!!

Happy Birthday Izzy. Hope you have a lovely 1st birthday!!

angela6834

searching_me wrote: »

sami jayden like to scrape his nails across .. everything ... and no matter how much i cut them it still hurts like hell x

OOh Rose does this but not to me but accross objects. I think she likes the sound it makes. On her car seat, cot, the sofa....really anywhere she can. It goes right through me sometimes!

SusanC_2

elle_gee wrote: »

Talking of car seats.. is a rear facing next stage car seat going to be a real pain in a three door car? :cool:

We've got a rear facing Gp1 car seat in a three door Micra (the previous type of Micra - not the current type). We actually find it much easier than the forward facing one as Alice can get into it herself (because the "floor" in front of her seat is the regular seat of the car rather than the actual floor of the car) whereas we had to lift her in with the forward facing one. We had to put ours in front of the passenger seat rather than the driver's seat because the seat in front has to go quite far forward so wouldn't be safe to put it behind the driver's seat.

redmel1621 wrote: »

I don't get it, why does everyone feel or go :eek: when they say they have given their baby a dummy There is nothing wrong with them, and is apparantly proven to reduce the risk of cot death if you do give your baby a dummy while they fall asleep.

We used a dummy with Alice when she was very small. It was just one of those things we tried if she wasn't sleeping and we'd already tried feeding/winding/toilet. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't so then we would try the sling. Once she started sucking her thumb she always rejected it as if she wanted to suck something, she would have already been sucking her thumb. I imagine that people probably feel /:eek: because some people do end up with problems with dummy use and also "they" say you shouldn't use them because it will totally mess up breastfeeding. If she hadn't started rejecting it anyway, I would have wanted to get her off it by about four months because I wanted to avoid any dependency but that was just my choice just the same as breastfeeding, BLW, EC etc. are my choice - obviously I think the way I am doing things is the best way otherwise I wouldn't be doing it but I know that everyone else is doing what they think is best and we are not all the same so what is best for one family is not necessarily best for another family. (That was a ridiculously long sentence but never mind.)

ladybirdintheuk

chopsticks wrote: »

Ladybird, yes, we've signed up to the one we saw on Monday. Her first day isn't until 21st April and the manager just said they'd contact us at the beginning of April to arrange a couple of settling in sessions. Does that sound normal.

They showed us the day book that they fill in too, which looks good. Am impressed that they include all nappies, wipes, sudocrem and formula milk in the price.

Right, off to get dressed.

xxxx

That's good - saves you another few things to get organised in the mornings as well. That reminds me - need to get some more formula while we are in town. I might start a list. Formula, nappy bin refills, rice cakes, and cadbury fingers (as a birthday treat - was just going to get cake at lunchtime, but I know the other babies will want to share ).

We had 3 settling in sessions - first one we both went along, second one I stayed for a bit then went upstairs and sat in the staff room. third one I dropped her off and went straight upstairs. She was having so much fun she didn't notice when I came back down, so I knew she would be ok The do events where parents can come along too every so often as well, so we went to one of those a week or so before. Tea and then we went in and had a play afterwards for a bit as well.

ladybirdintheuk

My only problem with dummies is that I've known a few kids still using them at old enough that you have to ask them to take the dummy out of their mouth so you can understand what they are saying :eek:. But I don't mind them for littlies - whatever works for you

Izzy refused a dummy when we tried one on her (she refused bottles too, so maybe it is the taste/texture she doesn't like?), but if she hadn't I wouldn't have been devastated. I think with a dummy you are in control, and can take them away when you decide enough is enough. It is the same as everything else really - have to remember that you are the parent and are in charge (some of the time at least ) and that you CAN take them away even if baby doesn't want you to! Same as I'm having to do with the feeding to sleep/milk at night thing.

searching_me

well another hit for my household this morning .. oh and morning BTW ...philip ony got paid £92 we think he got emergency taxed so if he has gotta sort that out which im not sure how .. anything else to go wrong??? ..

happy birthday izzy x

ladybirdintheuk

Searching - has he got his payslip - if so what tax code have they put him on?

FWIW, emergency tax is "normal tax" - code should be 647L, which means he only gets taxed on what he earns over 6479 a year (so that would be divided by 2 to get a weekly figure, or 12 to get a monthly one). If his tax code shows BR then he would have been taxed 20% on the lot. They should ony have used BR if he didn't gove them a p45 ot fill out a p46 to say it was his only job.

Send me a PM if you need a hand!

Millie's_Mum

Morning all, Happy Birthday Izzy! Gorgeous photos

Sb & MFD re India, we went to Sri Lanka when Millie was 3 and I was really uncomfortable with it for the first few days but its such an experience so far outside anything I'd seen before. The people there really want tourism, nearly every sri lankan we met who asked us to tell people back in england to come and visit. We also took pencils and exercise books for the kids and toiletries for the adults and we left all the clothes we had taken for Millie for our roomboy to share between the hotel staffs kids. I'd go back tomorrow if I could.

searching_me

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Searching - has he got his payslip - if so what tax code have they put him on?

FWIW, emergency tax is "normal tax" - code should be 647L, which means he only gets taxed on what he earns over 6479 a year (so that would be divided by 2 to get a weekly figure, or 12 to get a monthly one). If his tax code shows BR then he would have been taxed 20% on the lot. They should ony have used BR if he didn't gove them a p45 ot fill out a p46 to say it was his only job.

Send me a PM if you need a hand!

hes never worked so he did a p46 .. so does that mean he got taxed 20% .. should he speak to his work? ... no payslip yet and doubt he will for a couple of days x