MSE Parents Club Part 10

searching_me

currently waiting for philip to finish playing computer but as hes having fun dont think it will be for a while :undecided x

fernliebee

For the baby wearers who wonder about where to put baby- this sort of thing may be useful once they are a bit bigger.

http://www.totseat.com/

They look really easy to make too if you are skilled in the sewing department. TBH with DD I didn't have any probs, I would put her down on table/ chair until she could sit up at 4 months. She never really bothered much with rolling though as she could sit iyswim. I would just put her on floor then (I also don't really care about the germs! Ooops!) Most stuff though you soon get the hang of doing it 1 handed, and I never bother trying stuff on when in the shop I take it home to try!

elle_gee

Morning all..

Odd night with Rhys - he kept waking up, letting out a big cry and looking really scared Just putting his dummy back in would settle him again, but the scared look was a bit worrying Brought him into our bed for a while and he had five minutes of patting the duvet (odd things amuse him at 3am, clearly!) then went back to sleep and he's still asleep now (think we had one dummy reinsertion at 5am) *confused*

Weezl, hope your scan goes well and it turns out to be nothing
:T Fab news fairdawn for Oscar getting signed off by the hospital

Physio this afternoon for us, follwed by a trip into work and then back here to see FIL hopefully (if his meeting doesn't drag on)

Hope everyone has a good day xx

searching_me

grrr ths morning is p!ssing me off .. that alexandar burke is being made out to be a marta just because she went out to hati .. to look .. she didnt do anything she just looked .... holly saying well done you .. !!!!!! ..

sorry just a rant x

cazscoob

dining room and kitchen done! just everything else left to do! one of the girls i worked with text me yesterday and is coming over tom so i better have the house clean not that she would mind anyway as she lives in a caravan on a farm lol!

fern i bet that would be really easy to make and if you watch the demo then you can see all the parts lol! i may give it a go

searching_me

right had enough of waiting im kicking philip off the bloody xbox .. catch you all later ... thinking of you weezl xxxx

workinmummy

Good morning.

Sending Best Wishes to Weezl. And hugs to Caz.

SM you mood seems to have dipped some since last night. Sugar high worn off?

Am still well Peed off with OH. Major silent treatment going on in our house. Also pettily did washing yesterday, and didn't do his. He is off work today, but his work pants and shirts are all still at the bottom of the laundry basket . And i feel quite satisfied with myself.

Didn't sleep much last night, due to Alex's usual restlessness and my own due to having flipping Vampires and Werewolves running round in my head half the night. I am upto a very good part in "Eclipse" in the Twilight Saga. And my brain seemed to want to play out its own scenario of what would happen in the book. Thought reading before bed was supposed to be relaxing.

Mazcabs

Have some Lansinoh milk storage bags if anyone would fairies to deliver them, dont need them now FF William...PM me if you do

SusanC_2

mookiandco wrote: »

I am ashamed to say that I have today let Leila watch cartoons (well, CBeebies) for the first time in her little life. I realised the other day that she's 8 months old and has never seen a children's programme. I feel like I have deprived her! So I can give her a crash course in children's programmes, what programmes do your little ones like? She's currently watching 'I can cook'!!

The first time Alice watched TV she was a similar age. We sat and watched Bagpuss because she was ill but she wasn't that interested. I think she was around 18 months before she stopped just wandering away to play if I put something on. The only contemporary children's TV programme Alice has watched is Charlie and Lola which she loves and I can thoroughly recommend. I especially like the fact that it portrays a positive sibling relationship.

3onitsway wrote: »

It doesn't get any easier either. 9 year old girls are particularly horrible and when it's L's turn to be left out of something, it breaks my heart.

Is she in Year Four by any chance? Year Four girls are always the worst for that but it does improve.

SugarSpun

Krystaltips wrote: »

Mookie, did you know that breastfeeding a baby on take off is the best way to stop ears popping...

This is how we deal with the monster, and she hasn't made a peep on any of four flights. Actually she did make a couple of whinges on the first one, but we were stuck in a holding pattern at ear-popping level for ages and she was full of milk but still popping. Still the best behaved baby on that flight.

weezl74 wrote: »

I think the big thing for me was this perception that I now have that I am somehow not cut out for the real (often cut-throat) world of work. And so I was feeling like quite a failure.

Have managed to turn this around a bit now and am more thinking that I'm going to try to think of ways to help Fergie and Kester to have the idealism and optimism about life that DH and I have, but to make sure that they also learn good ways of dealing with it when life is not like that.

I have that feeling too Weezl, I think it's because of the massive shift in priorities that comes when you go back to work after having a baby and somehow you have to reconcile the old-work you with the new mummy-and-work you while everyone else is still their old selves and expecting you to be your old self. It's not necessarily that we're not cut out for it, I think (we know you're great at your job), but that things we used to take for granted are now grating because they seem so ridiculous and irrelevant but we still have to take them seriously. Departmental politics and work worries are huge and all-encompassing, but small and petty at the same time and it's hard to deal with.

I hope it gets easier for you, and you're clearly looking to make a positive lesson for your boys out of your experience so you're being a great mummy.

feelinggood wrote: »

Others' probably think it is a bit gross letting him go on the floor, but I've never been adverse to a few germs.

I think a free range baby is an excellent sort of baby to have. I've trapped Molly in her blue chair for a while because she just ganneted two full bowls of food and if she's allowed tummy time or bouncy time she'll throw it up, but I much prefer her to be on the floor. I think it's good for babies to have exposure to germs while their immune systems are still developing. I know a mummy who's constantly disinfecting stuff around her baby and the child has a perma-cold.

Slept through the first 20 minutes of a Skype meeting this morning, I'm going to start marking my early morning stuff on the calendar so OH doesn't let me sleep in. Very sweet of him but :eek: