MSE Parents Club Part 10

Buttonmoons

That's good to know SS! I probably was feeling paranoid, I did feel like that around that group of people I hung around with for a bit. I felt like they were !!!!!in about me (turned out to be true though haha!)

My dad used to smoke weed now and then because of the bad arthritus he has in his knees (had it since 21!) anyways he had a heart attack and thought it was just bad indigestion, wasn't until the next day when it hadn't went away that he went to the doctors!

Sami_Bee

feelinggood wrote: »

You can just be like me and carry on feeding till they go off to college!

I wonder when Toby will stop - he is still very, very breastfed at 10 months. I reckon he'll be 3 or 4 when he stops. My plan after 18 months old is to not offer and not refuse. At the moment I still offer cos he hasn't figured out how to ask. I can tell he needs feeding but he doesn't realise, but when he gets the first mouthful he sighs and his eyes brighten, as if he is saying 'Oh gosh, I needed this'.

lol, I took a photo of Ed feeding last night because he just looked so blissful. I'm struggling at the moment to get Ed to have a bottle, I'm in a funny 'place' right now and don't have Hubby to help me, he's the only person that could help. so just the thought of thinking about wether to let him self wean or not is too much.
I'm glad you sound brighter now did seeing your Mummy help you? xx

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Sami - I just have never really been around drugs like that before, bit of hash and maybe an E (Not me!) but Cocaine, I always thought of a serious drug like Heroin!

I have smoked weed before, I'm sure most people have. It just makes me paranoid though.

Think I need to open my eyes a bit more lol.

I don't go out like clubbing or anything, never have but it's like everyone is at it here :eek: I spot people clearly (to me) high almost every time I leave the house.

mfd you mean you don't want to join us at Show me show me live then?

chugga chugga chugga...

aless02

Sami_Bee wrote: »

You don't have to be rough to do coke, my entire department at work bar me and BMF did it, one of them even offered it to BMF when she was pg, when she said no the offerer said "oh yeah it might do something to the baby" BMF was like yeah coz otherwise I dive right in, NOT!!!
These were all profession peeps not scummy chavs, coke is a major problem these day

I feel better about telling the story about my DH having to find a new job after being at his last one for 4 days. On Day 3, he was brought upstairs for what he thought was going to be his formal induction - only to find the MD and the branch boss sitting a table with 2 lines of coke on it, which they offered to him as his "welcome present". He of course refused and went back downstairs, only to be told that the MD was insulted his "gift" had been not taken. Then the next day he was told the customary Friday night all-night bender was mandatory and people who don't socialise "don't last very long". He walked out - needless to say everyone in the office was single and couldn't understand the position of a married man with a new baby! :eek: :eek:

DH is also a professional who wears a suit & tie every day to work. Coke, I think, is the new high class drug. Ugh, I told him to phone Crimestoppers and get the whole office busted!!

(interesting topics now...cocaine & marijuana on the parenting thread! )

Becles

angela6834 wrote: »

Becles, I hope you are feeling a little better too and have managed to make arrangements/ decisions regarding uni and OH x

I did go to the tutorial and my tutor is a lovely man. He's going to help me as much as he can. I've been posting stuff on the uni forum and he's praised some of the things I've written which has given me my confidence back.

I did a course two years ago and part of it was a group activity writing a wiki about the stuff we were learning about. There were two women and a man in my group with me. The two women were not very nice. We have a course calendar that we are supposed to follow but they both work way ahead of it, so I found it hard as when I got to a bit of text that said "put your repsonses in the wiki" or similar, they'd both already been there and discussed the point to death. I managed to put some points in, but the man didn't put anything into it.

At the end of the wiki project, it needed tidying up ready for submission, but at the same time my Gran died and James friend died - both unexpectidly so it was a huge shock and my mind was all over the place. I explained what was going on to the two women, then I got a nasty email back saying that I wasn't to touch the wiki anymore and they would sort it. When I read the final wiki after it was submitted, they had deleted everything I'd written out of it and said that me and the man hadn't done anywork.

I also had to write a personal critique of the process, so I put in that I felt I'd been bullied and was left disappointed that all my work had been deleted. My tutor said afterwards if I'd said something at the time, she could have helped more, but she understood what I'd been through.

Anyway, the two women are on this course and we have more group work to do. They were making their mouths go at the tutorial as they think they are so superior to the group and they look down on everyone else.

The tutor said we could sort the groups out now even though the group work isn't until June so we can get to know the people in our groups to make it easier to work together. I've managed to get myself in a group without them so I feel much happier. The tutor also asked me to be group leader, and the other two that I met said they felt happy with that as neither has done a group project before. I feel much happier now I'm not worrying about being stuck with the two horrid women. I was getting quite chewed about that.

When we left the tutorial, the car park was locked so some of the group were hanging around waiting to be let into the car park. A number of other people were !!!!!ing about the two ladies, so at least it's not just me that feels intimidated by them.

Craig looked after the children while I was out and he put a load of washing the machine.

Charlotte seems to like all the TV programmes with irritating tunes that get stuck in your head. I find myself wandering round on my own singing "show me show me" and stuff

pinkpig08

Hi all

Sami - I'm in a similar boat to you regarding BF. I want there to be a time when I can leave her for while, go out, let someone else feed her etc. But I want to carry on feeding her too. At the moment she sleeps in bed with us, I take her up between 8.30 - 9pm and feed her in bed. She stays asleep for a couple of hours, sometimes stirs before in which case I go back up. Then DH and I go to bed, she may stir or she may not, then through the night if she stirs we just swap sides and I feed her and she's back asleep. Half of the time she doesn't even feed, I think it's more of a comfort. But I never have to get up with her in the night, she never cries in the night and it's working for us. So I kind of dread the time when I stop feeding her because she's been so good for us so far! I kind of think 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.

And drugs - no-one I know has taken them, and the only time I've seen them is when the police used to come into school to give us a talk on them!

Sarah_Joanne

Hi all! All good here, Alfie is nicely sleeping 4 hours at a time and I managed 10 hours sleep last night!! Broken up, a lot, for feeding Alfie and feeding me, but was nice none the less! He is an absolute dream and I'm so very happy!!

Bless DH had got us the M&S meal thing and made that for my tea - I even had a glass of bubbly rose!!

weezl74 wrote: »

PS
SJ I've congratulated you on the recipe testing thread but I'd like to do it here too. He is lovely, and you, young miss, look absolutely amazing and have pinged back to a beautiful shape very quickly!

*slight jealous twinge!*

Thanks very much! Didn't see the congrats on your thread as struggling to keep up online with so many visitors etc in RL!! MIL was impressed yesterday that I was back in my normal jeans! :cool:

Fattybooboo thanks and no worries on the FB add.

I accepted someone else on FB initials JH but I'm not sure who you are!!!

Have a busy week with visits from friends this week, none of them have been yet as been busy with family. Looking forward to showing Alfie off to everyone!!

Will try and kind of keep up on here but please forgive me if I miss anything important! I'm sure you will all understand!

SusanC_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

lol, I took a photo of Ed feeding last night because he just looked so blissful. I'm struggling at the moment to get Ed to have a bottle, I'm in a funny 'place' right now and don't have Hubby to help me, he's the only person that could help. so just the thought of thinking about wether to let him self wean or not is too much.

You don't have to make a commitment now about whether to let him self wean or not. You can always set yourself rolling target dates such as I'll keep going till ten months and then decide then whether to keep going longer and then say twelve months. That way you're not commiting either way and you're giving yourself acheivable short term targets rather than the very indeterminate/daunting see how long it goes on for.

Becles wrote: »

Craig looked after the children while I was out and he put a load of washing the machine.

I am so glad to hear that. (And glad you're not in a group with nasty people.)

Glamazon

Becles wrote: »

Craig looked after the children while I was out and he put a load of washing the machine.

Charlotte seems to like all the TV programmes with irritating tunes that get stuck in your head. I find myself wandering round on my own singing "show me show me" and stuff

This stood out the most to me :T:T:T Baby steps, you're getting somewhere!

Just had lunch and half an easter egg (must stop buying them!) polishing it off with a bottle of Coke Zero! 40p in B&M (dated Feb 2010) :money:

Very constructive day - just going to finish off building my new DVD stand while Jack's asleep then nipping out

SusanC_2

pinkpig08 wrote: »

And drugs - no-one I know has taken them, and the only time I've seen them is when the police used to come into school to give us a talk on them!

Really? Are you sure it's not just that you didn't know about it? I'd have thought it almost impossible to not come across people who took drugs at school.

feelinggood_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

lol, I took a photo of Ed feeding last night because he just looked so blissful. I'm struggling at the moment to get Ed to have a bottle, I'm in a funny 'place' right now and don't have Hubby to help me, he's the only person that could help. so just the thought of thinking about wether to let him self wean or not is too much.
I'm glad you sound brighter now did seeing your Mummy help you? xx

Toby had a clingy weekend so didn't get a chance to have a long hot bath, but we ate lots of nice things (including a giant French Fancy cake!) and we went on the swings! Was tiring going up and down on one weekend, total of 10 hours travelling, and 8 trains!

Off to meet a lady I met on Netmums for coffee shortly.

I go through phases of wishing Toby took a bottle or went longer between feeds (or was totally weaned). It can be demanding. Thing is, that it wouldn't solve any problem for us, it is me LO wants, and even if he would take a bottle, he'd still want to see me. I find things like co-sleeping means I get more sleep, using the sling keeps him happy.

I think you mentioned swallowing didn't you? Toby is starting to swallow more now.