MSE Parents Club Part 12

hammyhunter

I probably won't nap today. Mr Hammy is off today so we are going to Tintern Abbey for a day out and picnic

gill_81uk

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Anyone seen the Mother and Baby article furore http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/breast%20versus%20bottle%20the%20debate%20reignited/3694277. I think it's a pretty inflammatory article whichever side of the feeding fence you sit on, but it reeks of a publicity stunt to me......

That's the one that promoted the loose women debate. Linda Bellingham was not impressed. Some of the others said they could see where she was coming from :eek: As a new bfing mum who is just getting my confidence up with feeding in public all of this has made me feel a bit uncomfortable and nervous about it again.

I can never understand the feeding divide. I have chosen to breastfeed but certainly don't think anything less of anyone who has chosen not to.

CAFCGirl wrote: »

Evening all

Madwife came round today and was happy with us so she's given us over to HV who is coming over on wednesday. Was surprised the HV called within an hour of madwife leaving to introduce herself, say congratulations and arrange visit (and check pronounciation of Landen's name which I thought was sweet).

We've then registered him at the dr's, and then had our appointment to register his birth as well. We popped into council offices to update our housing benefit. Weirdly we lose housing benefit allowance, not much £2, but then we were only getting £22 a fortnight help anyway!
From what I could work out its because when we apply for child benefit, child tax credit and working tax credit it bumps our income up so much we go over a threshold for housing benefit.
All in all though we apparently end up £133 a week better off with all the credits etc..... so thats going to help us hugely.....

Was just wondering though if anyone knew much about the healthy start vouchers? I'm trying to work out if we would be able to claim for them.....

LOL - there cant be many ways to pronounce Landen!

You've been incredibly productive - took me ages to sort all that out.

Beenie *hugs* I'm totally shocked at the way they've dealt with this - ofcourse the neighbours will be quiet if they know someone is listening :eek:

SusanC_2

aless02 wrote: »

*hugs* not to offer her services without her being here, but I know Susan said if you ever need anyone, to contact her. May be short notice for her, not sure. Wish I could help from here, Beenie!

I am free on Wednesday.

SusanC_2

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

Anyone seen the Mother and Baby article furore http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/uk/breast%20versus%20bottle%20the%20debate%20reignited/3694277. I think it's a pretty inflammatory article whichever side of the feeding fence you sit on, but it reeks of a publicity stunt to me......

Yes - there's a Facebook group about it.

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

GISI I've been watching this with interest. On the one hand, she's free to make her own choices, but on the other I think it's irresponsible to call breastfeeding "creepy" when so few mothers in the UK do it; it's hardly encouraging them to think positively about it. But then again if her aim was to sell magazines and generate publicity she's done really well.

If they'd presented both viewpoints I wouldn't have issue with it. Obviously I totally disagree with what she said/thinks but as long as overall a balanced view is presented I don't have issue with her being allowed to say what she thinks. Maybe if it was soemthing of little cosequence it would be fine to present a biased viewpoint but on an issue like this and from such a magazine I would expect a bit of social responsibility.

Becles

Jakesmummy wrote: »

Becles think ive missed whats wrong with your doggy, hope he's ok now,

He had the snip yesterday! He's a bit brighter this morning and has eaten his breakfast, but he's still cross at the collar and trying to chew at the wound. He's wanting to chew a bone now, but can't hold it in his paws due to the collar - poor thing!

Krystaltips wrote: »

Becles, could you just take him on a walk round the streets and aviod the field for a couple of days? Hope he doesn't hold it against you

There's more fields than streets where I live I can't give him enough exercise walking him on a lead. When I let them off, we walk round the path, but they run hard up and down the hill and chasing through the undergrowth in the woods. It's about a mile long circuit that we walk, but the dogs are running most of the time.

This is where I live:


The red dot is our house, and we just turn out of the street and we're on that massive green area in the middle of the village. The area was heavily coal mined in the past, and the green bit is a big hill that used to be the pit heap. They can never build on there, so it's just a green open space and woods. Love walking round there.

Beenie - hope the tests go ok and you get someone to sit with you. If I didn't have work that has to be done on Wednesday, I would have come down and sat with you.

I would go to the docs and get the periods sorted out. I had problems with really heavy bleeding each month in the past and I was on tablets which made it lighter and less crampy. I can't remember what they were called though - sorry.

That bottle feeding article is awful. It's really rude and condescending.

SugarSpun

Ladies can I ask a favour please? I'm trying to get the contact number for Stokke in the UK, but the website keeps giving me a German phone number and I don't know whether it's actually a German number for the UK or if they're just kicking me over to the German number because they can see my IP address.

Can someone please go to Stokke.com for me, check the United Kingdom option and look at the contact page to see the number?

Beenie, I hope it goes well. Did anyone get back to you about your complaint?

Fitzio

SugarSpun wrote: »

Ladies can I ask a favour please? I'm trying to get the contact number for Stokke in the UK, but the website keeps giving me a German phone number and I don't know whether it's actually a German number for the UK or if they're just kicking me over to the German number because they can see my IP address.

Can someone please go to Stokke.com for me, check the United Kingdom option and look at the contact page to see the number?

Beenie, I hope it goes well. Did anyone get back to you about your complaint?

Sugar - it's still a German number and address
+49 7031 611 580

Hammy - have a lovely picnic out.

SusanC_2

MadDogWoman wrote: »

I've just read the article, it just make me that there is such a division over how a baby is fed. It's why when talking to other mums I never ask the question about how baby is fed.

Me too - I have a friend who had a baby in February and I don't know how she feeds him because I've never seen her actually feeding and I don't ask.

SugarSpun

Thanks Fitz, I was entirely bewildered

Hammy enjoy your picnic