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MSE Parents Club Part 10

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  • SusanC_2
    SusanC_2 Posts: 5,344 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    See Keira wears 4-5 knickers and 5-6 tights too, 1 of her coats is 18-24 months and drowns her still, she has a nice dressy purple coat, that's age 2-3 and still too big.

    I wish they'd all just make the clothes the same! I would buy her nice dresses and things off ebay but I couldn't be bothered with the hassle of sending it back, though dresses seem to be okay as they don't need a waist!

    So how tall is Alice? I really have no clue about percentiles! I rarely bothered to get Keira weighed :o:rotfl:

    She's 3ft 2" and well 2 stone 5. Bet the NHS bmi thing says she is fat, Im away to check lol
    Alice was 96cm (and 2 stone 2) last month so more or less the same.

    I find with dresses the key things are tightness aorund the chest (which affects the ability to actually get the dress on and off) and the length. Mainly Alice grows out of them lengthwise first so I check the length rather than the official age of dresses when buying on eBay. Unfortunately most people don't list the length so you have to ask a question and half the people don't reply and if you send too many messages eBay decides it is suspicious activity and locks your account.
    Any question, comment or opinion is not intended to be criticism of anyone else.
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  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    edited 24 February 2010 at 10:44PM
    Most restaurants I've been in seem to have a mix of those wooden ones you posted a picture of, and the more supported ones.

    No harm in phoning up and asking though :D


    That's great MM, I worry about my friends baby he is almost 1 and does nothing, he doesn't try and walk, or move, he won't roll but she BARELY puts him on his tummy as "he doesn't like it" well so what! She just leaves him in his walker all day and she went of her head when I told her that probably wasn't good.

    She also feeds him sausage rolls and baked beans for his supper, all the time. I've never given Keira a sausage roll and she is (almost)4, surely an 11month old doesn't need sozzie rolls! Oh yeah and she complains about when her baby comes back from her friends house (she has him overnight once a week for her my friends work) as his nappys are minging from all the spinach and veg she feeds him.

    WELL SO!!.......Poor kid!
  • Why didn't I think if that, MM?

    BM- One of the ladies at my baby group has a baby 2 weeks older than Henry (so 16 weeks now) and she gives her a Kit-Kat to suck on!!!!
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  • Is there anything wrong with him BM ?? Other than having a mother that clearly doent understand how to look after him I mean !!
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  • SusanC_2
    SusanC_2 Posts: 5,344 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Possible stupid Q- has anyone ever taken a highchair to a restaurant with them? We're going out for a meal for my Nana's 80th (which also happens to be Mother's Day and Benjamin's 1st) and want H to sit in a highchair so we don;t have to hold him the whole time. He is fine in a normal highchair with straps, or an Antilop, but not one of these Y814.jpg
    as he slides about to much. If the place has these, do you think they'd mind if we took ours? I'd check first, but wondered if it was a mad request:o?
    I'd just phone - I don't think it's weird.
    Any question, comment or opinion is not intended to be criticism of anyone else.
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    "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die"
  • fernliebee
    fernliebee Posts: 1,803 Forumite
    GISI- I was going to say the same, DD sat up fairly early so we would put her in a highchair when we went out, however like you say, small babies slip around too much in those chairs. I used to use my coat to pad out the edges or a blanket like MM suggests. Alternatively if you have the antilop kind, do you have the inflatable insert? You could just take that with you instead?
  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    Omg GISI. I am not a fab feeder by any rate myself, I let Keira have sweets and the occasional Mcdonalds but I literally can't bring myself to feed her processed crud like sausage rolls, burgers, cheap nasty sausages etc. Treat now and then is fine, but Keira would probably lamp me if I suggested she eat a burger :rotfl:

    I remember at that friends house she gave Keira dinner with the other kids and Keira shouts out WHATS THIS? It was some character shaped spaghetti things and my friend was like "She doesn't know what those are? HAHAHA POOR KID"

    Yes, my daughter is so hard done by that I don't feed her canned spaghettio's! I don't like them so I don't buy them :rotfl:

    16 weeks and a kitkat :eek: That's shocking. I remember my mum kept trying to get me to give Keira a white choccy button and then she did it and I was LIKE GADS, because she sucked it first and had probs just had a fag and I was like "SPEWWWWWWW" don't ever do that again!

    I mean I smoke, but in the kitchen, hanging out the window, I don't want a foosty smelling house and Keira knows not to come in when Im in there. I can't go outside because there is weirdos round here!!
  • SugarSpun
    SugarSpun Posts: 8,559 Forumite
    BM I'd be stuffing him full of veg too to make sure he got enough to last him till next time I saw him :)

    I've done the two big work things I needed to do tonight, a few little things I need to do and I can get to bed.
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  • Hope you get a better nights sleep SS xx
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  • Buttonmoons
    Buttonmoons Posts: 13,323 Forumite
    Is there anything wrong with him BM ?? Other than having a mother that clearly doent understand how to look after him I mean !!

    I don't think so, nothing has been diagnosed but it would be hard to tell because she spends 0 time with him for his milestones to be recognized.

    She bungs him in front of the cartoons with some rattles on his walker.

    Funny though when people come round she makes a huge dance and show about how great she is but she doesn't really care, she is very lucky that she lives with her mum and her mum looks after the baby a lot. I dread to think what would happen if she had him all the time!!

    She is one of those people who buys nike shoes etc, but doesn't actually bother with the kid.

    I bet it won't be long before Dylan is zooming round the house, and chasing after Jasmine.

    Is there anything noticeably wrong with Dylan? I remember you mentioned he needed pyshio (I know thats not the right spelling!) for his hands? Are they all good now?
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