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MSE Parents Club Part 11

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  • kindofagilr
    kindofagilr Posts: 6,825 Forumite
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    Glam, can I ask another question about the comfort milk, you said to add it to hot water, then put in fridge and shake it when he wants it to mix it again and then warm it.

    Do I have to re-warm it? Just Elliot currently drinks cold milk, he doesnt have it warmed up (I didnt bother to warm it up as he drank ready made stuff at the hospital from them and they gave him it at room temp, and he is ok with that)

    Oh thanks for that with the teats, I did wonder about that, we have number 2's which I dont think are fast flow, but we have 2 variflows, so I can get 4 more (we currently use 6 bottles)

    Lush pic as well Glam

    Sorry you had a crap night Aless

    Well I feel quite refresed (sorry Aless), elliot had a feed at 9pm, took about an hour to settle him, then he didnt wake till 2am for a feed (OH was still up so I made him do it lol) then he woke at 5am, then we got up at 8.30 for another feed, and he's back asleep lol

    I am going to get dressed in a min and take Elliot to asda for some comfort milk and some new teats lol
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  • cazscoob
    cazscoob Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    Erin has started the strops too! if she wants something she will do all she can to get it lol! she even bullies Charlie into handing over whatever he has!
    not sure if it gets eaier MFD but you have more power as they listen and understand better that no means no!(with the exception of Charlie :P)

    Fitz im not sure who dave really is but my money would be on scruffy as BM said shes the plumber called Paul PMSL!!!!:D
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  • kindofagilr
    kindofagilr Posts: 6,825 Forumite
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    Anyone got any tips on how to shop in asda while pushing a pram, what on earth will I do with the basket?
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  • Glamazon
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    Glam, can I ask another question about the comfort milk, you said to add it to hot water, then put in fridge and shake it when he wants it to mix it again and then warm it.

    I make up my bottles for the next 24 hours so tonight I'll prepare 3 bottles. He'll have 1 straightaway & then the other 2 go in cold water for 5minutes then in the fridge until I need them the next day - 8am & 3pm. J wont have cold milk so I heat it up for him but only to room temp.

    Do I have to re-warm it? Just Elliot currently drinks cold milk, he doesnt have it warmed up (I didnt bother to warm it up as he drank ready made stuff at the hospital from them and they gave him it at room temp, and he is ok with that)
    Thats fine if thats what he likes :)

    Oh thanks for that with the teats, I did wonder about that, we have number 2's which I dont think are fast flow, but we have 2 variflows, so I can get 4 more (we currently use 6 bottles)

    2's are medium flow. have u tried him with the variflow before? I bought 6 TT vari-flows & Jack hated them as the teat was quite big - now I just buy 2 teats to try him with then more if he's ok with them.

    Lush pic as well Glam

    thanks :D:D:D:D
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • csh_2
    csh_2 Posts: 3,294 Forumite
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    Glam, can I ask another question about the comfort milk, you said to add it to hot water, then put in fridge and shake it when he wants it to mix it again and then warm it.

    Do I have to re-warm it? Just Elliot currently drinks cold milk, he doesnt have it warmed up (I didnt bother to warm it up as he drank ready made stuff at the hospital from them and they gave him it at room temp, and he is ok with that)


    Don't take this the wrong way but personally I'd try warming the milk he is on before trying him with other milks.
    Are you giving it straight from the fridge? I'd imagine chilled milk would sit heavy in a newborns stomach.
  • emlou2009
    emlou2009 Posts: 4,016 Forumite
    Evansangel wrote: »
    Its booooring :p I guess living in Portsmouth means i dont appriciate it much :rotfl: I also hate the beach lol.

    *snip*

    Me to! About 30mins on the train :D

    Why you talking about southampton anyway? :o
    I hate all the stuff in Portsmouth like the historic dockyard and the museums, its the most boring place in the world! But OH is from Bognor and loves it all? Its either cos we're not men or cos we live so close to it!
    MM asked Tara if Southampton was near where she lived, so I butted in ;)
    3onitsway wrote: »
    I've read back, and can only remember that Em's Seth has got soooo many teeth! We've got four properly through now, and I can see some lumps further back at the bottom gums.
    Apparantly I was the same, I had all my teeth by 15 months :eek: it looks like Seth might be going the same way. I wasnt quite as miserable with mine though apparantly.
    We are struggling slightly with stroppiness at the moment. Every time Benjamin doesn't get what he wants (which is usually climbing the stairs or playing outside) we are having tantrums :(

    I am trying to ignore him but he can sit and cry real tears for ages - I am sure he perforated my eardrum!!

    Last night he sat by the patio doors crying for ten minutes because I had closed the door (he had come inside by himself). I tried to distract him with grapes but then he started all over again because I wouldn't let him eat more than 8 *rolleyes*
    :rotfl: we are going through exactly the same thing! Seth's fascination is with shoes while attached to our feet, and the TV unit with the magnetic glass doors on. He likes to pop them open and play at bashing them back onto the magnet, cos its springy (one of those ones you press and the door kind of pops back to you IYSWIM?) anyway for obvious reasons I wont have him playing with it, and have taped it up from the back so he cant open it, but OH keeps taking it off to get to his ridiculous xbox games and if he forgets to tape it up again we have massive tantrums. He also bashes the cats and throws tantrums when I tell him not to. He doesnt understand "gently!" yet and one of the kitties swiped him on the arm the other day and my poor babies skin was broken :o

    Scruffy, hope everything is OK and you talked xx

    I am fuming at OH. He very rarely goes out cos most of his friends live about 40 minutes down the motorway, but last night he went out for a meal with his work. I didnt begrudge him one bit actually going out, I was looking forward to going to bed with a glass of wine and a book, in peace, without getting sexually harassed! But then Seth was a nightmare and put paid to that...
    Anyway, it got to just gone midnight and I was stuck under a dozing baby that screamed everytime I tried to move, so I text him asking how long he was likely to be, to see if it was worth trying to properly move Seth or not, he ignored me and text me at 2am to say he had been to hospital "wont be long now, had a small incident with broken toes and a ship load of blood!" didnt say anything else! Kept trying to ring him but he ignored me again, phone was on though, despite being supposedly in hospital??
    I took Seth up to bed and sat on his floor while he kept his beady eyes on me so I couldnt move til gone 3am when OH finally rolled through the door, totally pished, STINKING of smoke, not limping so I assume if any toes were broken they werent him, had a go at me for "letting Seth cry so much he puked" - er, he was crying DADADADA and wouldnt be settled, hardly my fault he wanted his daddy?! As soon as he got in I changed and went to bed, he then took our brand new duvet that wasnt even out of the wrapper yet and slept on Seth's floor, and I assume the pair of them are still asleep up there as they arent down here yet!
    My living room stinks of smoke cos of his coat, and if my boy and brand new duvet stink I'll go absolutely mental!
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    DS (born March 2009)

    DD (born January 2012)
  • cazscoob
    cazscoob Posts: 4,990 Forumite
    put him in a trolly or put the car seat in the trolly KOAG!
    What's for you won't go past you
  • Glamazon
    Glamazon Posts: 8,401 Forumite
    Anyone got any tips on how to shop in asda while pushing a pram, what on earth will I do with the basket?

    either

    push pram with 1 hand and carry basket
    balance basket on top of pram (as long as its not too heavy!)
    Use basket underneath pram rather than ASDA basket.

    I tend to load J up with stuff in the pushchair :rotfl:
    A very busy Yummy Mummy to a 1 year old gorgeous boy :smileyhea

    Where does the time go? :think:
  • aless02
    aless02 Posts: 5,119 Forumite
    errr if you're driving, you can just pop the carseat on one of those special trolleys.

    if you have to take the pram, I just hook the basket on the handles - quite awkward but it works in a pinch. Or if I only have a couple of things, I just set them on top.

    of course, the BEST solution is to buy a sling and ditch the pram! ;);)
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  • I am not sure if ignoring him is the right thing or if I should be distracting him because he is too young to understand yet IYSWIM. CM is definitely a distracter but I am a bit more lazy than that!! That's why she is a CM and I am a slack mummy ;)

    He is just really loud these days :rotfl:

    He does listen when I say no, well sometimes! - when I use my 'really mean it' voice. And he knows that 'ah ah' means 'don't touch that' - he says 'ah ah' back and then either stops or laughs at me and carries on regardless!!



    kindof - use the car seat trolleys...or are you walking to asda?
    r.mac wrote: »
    please listen to MFD - she is a wise woman :D
    Proud Mummy to the gorgeous Benjamin John born 14 March 2009, 8lbs 14oz
    A new little seedling on the way, due 30 September 2012
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