MSE Parents Club Part 11

BeenieCat

Gisi that's good to know then. Amber is good on a night too, although with the lack of pattern it could be anything from 9pm - 12am that she actually goes to sleep, but once she does she stays there til anything between 7am - 10am.

Re. ironing, some round here do a bin bag full for £20. I saw a poster in the chippy and they charged per lb but i can't remember how much. (i'm so helpful haha)

csh_2

tiamai_d wrote: »

csh, yay for teeth! Was he bothered by it or not?

Not overly, not keen on napping and quite clingy and also shouted maaaaammmmmmmmaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmm when I went out the room, but all in all he was OK!

EA: Kieren never went more than 3 hrs between food!

Ironing: A few different services up here but most charge per black bag. Some are hourly, some per item but a bag seems the most popular.

Sami_Bee

BeenieCat wrote: »

I need words with Amber, she's still feeding all the time, like every 2 hours i reckon lol. But i do offer it to her everytime she whines, and i keep thinking, if i had to make a bottle everytime she whined then i'd be making sure there was a good gap between feeds by now. I don't even see any pattern in it. Maybe i should try writing it down or something, cos there's zero patttern to sleep too.

Ed was the same, he still has random little feeds, the problem I have mostly is if Chris distracts him past halfway through I can't get him to finish, he wants to go play with C then is hungry after an hour :rolleyes:

3onitsway wrote: »

Just to be nosey, and because it's something I could do (because I obviously haven't got enough ironing of my own!), I've found this one local to me:

Our Prices
20 Items £15.00 and 0.75p thereafter for each item.
Bedding single to double counts as 2 items.
King size bedding counts as 3 items.

I could easily do 20 items in an hour. £15 an hour sounds a good wage.
But 20 baby items would take a lot less time than 20 shirts!?!

but I wouldn't be sending baby stuff when mummy does them for free:p
but I do see the point, I remember seeing an ad that had seperate price for shirts and trousers that required a crease

SusanC_2

Evansangel wrote: »

eta: 3onitsway - Yeah, espcially as im bf during the day it does seem she is on my boob all the time lol. She can be there for upto an hour at times. The bf counseller told me to take her off after an hour.

Alice averaged around 40 minutes in the first few months and 50-70 minute feeds were fairly common. At one point she was averaging four hours a day. The only time I ever stopped a feed was if she was feeding and sicking and had fed for over fifty minutes.

SugarSpun

3, I'd probably say that baby items count as 0.5 - and actually I'd probably sneak my way ahead of the competition by offering a special rate for school uniforms - say school uniform shirt and trousers/skirt count as one item.
But then I would never volunteer to iron and have been known to attempt to press a formal dress in a trouser press rather than brave the actual iron.

tiamai_d

SugarSpun wrote: »

... have been known to attempt to press a formal dress in a trouser press rather than brave the actual iron.

did it work?;)

Sami_Bee

newmoneysaver wrote: »

Sami - which size do you have?

I've just found these - the 4mnth one are 2 for £1!!! The 6month+ are still full price. I was thinking of trying them and ebaying if they are too small
Jenny you may be interested in these too

I think ours are the ones called small on the bibetta site, we've got one drk blue hawaiian and one light blue hawaiian. if that site is real (not look around it yet) then thats amazing value!!

EA - I missed your edit, I wouldn't take her off the boob ever if she is actually sucking properly at the time, The way I knew if Ed was feeding in the early days was simple, pop him off and if he still wanted more he'd root for the nipple, if not he'd do the content face and nod off

workinmummy

Runs in.....

Alex slept from 8pm until 6.15am. First time in 6 months and 18 days.
Woo hoo!:T

I am loving the Hazelwood necklace. Put it on him on Friday. And since Saturday he has been a different baby. Lovely, happy, smiley, pleasant. May be a coincidence, but I'm going with it. :j

Away to try and catch up from Friday.

SugarSpun

angelfairy wrote: »

thanks again everyone. i feel a bit silly feeling like this as so many others are going through worse things than me, but i struggle very badly with the guilt of not living in the same country as my family.

I lost this quote earlier on - AF I feel much the same way, it's heartbreaking to know that your family misses out on you and the baby when you live far away, but the people who love you want what's best for you - and if that is living far away then they and we have to find ways to cope with it. For us it's Skype and I record giggling Molly and send them MP3s.

Also, since my Very Best Friend is pregnant (I'm so excited) I'm planning on sacrificing her baby as a surrogate on the altar of my mother's need to have a local grandchild. That baby's going to have three overbearing grandmothers :rotfl:

tiamai_d wrote: »

did it work?;)

In a manner of speaking. OH was so horrified with me that he took it and ironed it for me.

weezl74

newmoneysaver wrote: »

Sami - which size do you have?

I've just found these - the 4mnth one are 2 for £1!!! The 6month+ are still full price. I was thinking of trying them and ebaying if they are too small
Jenny you may be interested in these too

hello NMS, this is nowt to do with what you've just written but I keep forgetting half way through a post that I want to ask you something :rotfl:

it's about the fairy exchange. I feel bad that I don't give away as much as others, mostly because I pretty quickly knew I'd need it all again for Kester but I do really want to be generous to my friends on here as you all have been to me. So I've been thinking about it, and realised that I've done photo retouching for people, and I know that's been helpful to different people on here. So I wondered if I could please offer that? I know it's a bit odd, but when you have a baby family really love to get photos but then it's really gutting if they have red-eye or a bogey or leftover weetabix :rotfl:

Anyway please have a think if a 'skills swap' could be counted as a part of it. Don't worry if not, I don't want to stretch things so far that it stops being what it's meant to be

Thanks lovely