MSE Parents Club Part 9

Buttonmoons

Im not sure how long CB comes through, few weeks? It's backdated though!

Keira just had to be born on a Tuesday, so I missed a week of it, HMMPH! Could of used it aswell being stuck in the minging hozzie for about a decade.

Yeah Sami, it's a con that, if he ever breaks his leg or something he's being told to go into the NHS hospital and then he can claim £100 a day off the insurance because he didn't use the private hospital :rotfl: I'm gonna push him down the stairs!!

My sister had the dentist yesterday to get a retainer, as she got her train tracks off, she hated her "new teeth" as she was born without some front teeth so always had big spacey gaps, so all her teeth was pushed together and looked a bit funny and there was spaces, anyhow she got her dentures and she is soooo happy with them, it's the first time ever she's had proper looking teeth. Bless.

I got a retainer when I was 7 :rotfl: That's how bad my teeth were! One of my front teeth was right back and the other stuck forward! I also had to get 6 teeth removed at 7 because I grew too many! That's probably why my teeth were squiffy. You think they would gimmie 1 back since I'm missing one now?

and I didn't stop wearing a brace until 17, though I had tracks by then. Then I didn't sleep with my retainer in so one tooth has went back slightly. Hey ho, my teeth are crud anyways.

I met a mum at the bus stop earlier, her kid goes to the morning nursery though, anyways, he is away to start school in Sep (Poor Keira all her friends are going to school *sob*) and his mum STILL pushes him in a buggy, EVERYTIME I SEE HER HE IS IN A BUGGY, dummy in his mouth and a blanket rubbing off his face!!

The reason he is like that is cause she is a fat lazy slob! ANd obv doent wanna run after him. When I say fat, I don't mean just fat, I mean like morbidly obese fat, she has a bum cliff!

newbie_maz

BeenieCat wrote: »

Hi always, good to see you back i was wondering where you'd got to.

Think a few of us are having the same issues with crying babies on an evening - me and Aless are gonna try some gripe water today to see if that helps!

Hi all,

Was just catching up & saw this. We bought some gripe water yesterday cos LO's been terrible in the evenings. She's tended to be awake from 4/5pm until midnight/1am crying apart from when feeding or in the bath. We'd tried extending bath time cos she seems to calm down loads then but there's only so long you I make bath time last!

So we used the gripe water last night - little bit less than 5ml as it says 5ml from 1 month & she's just under - with 2 of evening feeds & IT WORKED!! She was lovely apart from about an hour between about 10pm & 11pm when was still unsettled (but still not the screaming we'd had the last few nights).

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

angelfairy

newbie_maz wrote: »

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

ohhhh, that's interesting. we have the glow worm (they just aren't the same as when i was little) and i was only saying last night that the songs do not play for very long.

might look at the seahorse. i just assumed it did the same thing as the glow warm.

harley1

jillie1974 wrote: »

hi harley!

did you get the learn and groove centre put together?
does kezia like it??

Hey Jillie,

Sorry, I'm watching Fools Gold so only popping on every so often.

Not got it together yet, might try tomorrow but got a feeling I'll need another pair of hands so will have to wait til next week for Dad to come up. Going down there on Sunday but think it will be too big for car once it's put together judging by size of box.

Dropped some major hints about Kezia trying out my mates jumperoo a couple of days ago but think I was a bit too subtle cos she didn't seem to pick up on it. Either that or she thought she'd shared with us enough

xxxx

BeenieCat

Always, CB sent the birth certificate back to me after a week, but i've had no money yet, i posted mine on 13th. Although i did get my DS's money as usual on 19th, so not sure if it's different. I'm assuming i'll get Ambers CB in with DS next payment.

got-it-spend-it

Always- ours was pretty quick. I think it took about 10 days after we sent the form off, and as has been said it is back dated so you will probably get about 7 weeks worth or so when it is paid.

Newbie Maz- I like the look of that sea horse. I might get one for LO as he loves musical things at the moment but none of them seem to last more than 30 seconds or so.

BeenieCat

jillie1974 wrote: »

our CB took 3 weeks from what i remember. its backdated to the moday after LO is born

Aw really? Amber was born on a Monday so i lose a week? Not fair

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Don't know how he thinks we can afford a flippin' car though. Ignoring the initial outlay for a car, what's the costs per year?

Basing it on a crappy 1.2 litre or something.

Road tax, Insurance and ermmmm M.O.T, is that every year costs? NOt forgetting the petrol. But then he'd be able to do overtime if he had a car, so it would pay for the petrol at least.

I usually budget around £1000 per year for our car (2002 1L Micra) excluding petrol. This then covers insurance (£200-300), MOT (£40), Car tax (£120), Service (£200-300 depending on how major it is) and then the rest is for odd repairs/replacements such as things which come up in service/MOT, replacement wiper blades etc. Our actual average spend in the last four years has been £890 assuming we spend another £180 this financial year (it's budgetted in case we need it). The first year I had it my insurance was £1000 probably because I was under 25 and had an accident six weeks earlier and it was a brand new car. My brother had extra lessons and did a "Pass Plus" test after he'd passed his driving test to make his insurance cheaper which may be worth looking into as being young, male and a new driver your OH will automatically be high risk for car insurance.

BeenieCat wrote: »

I also hate hate hate (with a PASSION) clothes shopping. So even when i could spare the cash to buy myself clothes, i tend to make do with what i've got rather than shop lol.

I don't like clothes shopping either (although possibly not as strongly as you). I find there's such a small percentage of clothing in the shops I like and then such a small percentage of what I try on that fits that it is a very time inefficient job.

SugarSpun wrote: »

GRrrr I'm reading the money for wedding presents thread and someone's just said that their kids and them are a package and must all be invited together all the time.

It's just ridiculous - sometimes kids aren't welcome to things. Like hen parties, or stag parties, or Ann Summers parties, or quiz night at the pub. And sometimes adults aren't welcome to things, like school, or sleepovers. What sort of message does it send a kid if the parent insists they all go everywhere together all the time?

I can see how people want kids at weddings because it is a family event, but it's not the place of a guest to make that decision. And when a kids' meal costs £30 for upmarket chicken nuggets and chips I can see how a couple might not want to do that for 30+ children of their extended family, you know?

Alice has been invited to all the weddings we have been invited to since she was born. I'm not sure how practical it would have been to go if she hadn't as all of them were at a distance so we were away staying in a hotel except for one which we went to on the way home from OH's parents (who are about 250 miles away). I certainly wouldn't be offended but probably wouldn't attend if only one of us could go unless it was local. When we got married, we had a limit on the number of people we could have (which was based on how many people could fit in the chapel) and we just worked through our list of priorities of who we wanted until we had reached the limit. If a friend was married with three children then we just counted them as five people.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I've not been to a hairdresser for over a year :eek: I sereiously look like a tramp :cool:

I've not been to a hairdresser forever. (And I don't think I look like a tramp.)

weezl74 wrote: »

awwww 3, poor you! I think it's cos DH walks or cycles to work on 2-3 days a week, and work is only a 5 mile round trip (not the day he walks! that's half a mile!)
so really it's just that plus a bit of supermarket shopping on the weekend for us

Our car isn't used for OH's work and we spend about £800/year on petrol. Although £100 of that is our holiday and another £100 is visiting OH's parents. (And I've just worked out another £100 is going to church and back twice on a Sunday - who'd have thought it.)

BeenieCat wrote: »

lol i dunno who it is, i think i googled ugly woman a while ago and had it saved to my lappy for some reason :rotfl:

Why? (insert confused smiley)

fattybooboo

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

I've booked a hair apt for 2:45 so I can escape and they can have some quality time with Henry and DH. I cannot wait as my hair is so messy at the moment. I last had it cut 6 weeks before Henry's EDD, so 17 weeks ago :eek: <- that is my hair atm.

just catching up, hi all!! gisi, thats exactly how long my hair hasnt had a cut for either, im hating it!!

Buttonmoons

I used to hate clothes shopping, now I love it, probably because I'm not limited to Evans anymore!

I just worked out I've bought 5 dresses, 2 vests, 2 pairs of leggings, socks, a bra, a coat for me, and 3 pairs of pyjamas, pair of jeans, 3 dresses, pair of shoes for Keira. Since OH's last pay. Do you think I am a spendaholic?

To be fair, twas all in the sales therefore It's okay.