MSE Parents Club Part 12

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

SusanC_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

Cafc, they're about a fiver a week and you get them if you get more than the basic level of ctc but not wtc... We're not elligible for them because of wtc... We don't get free school meals because of it too... A real case of giving it you with one hand and taking it away with the other!

It really annoys me that WTC disqualifies you because it means they are penalising you for actually earning your money. It works out that people with a higher income than us could qualify as long as they weren't actually working for their money. (I disagree with a lot of the way the system works but this one seems particularly strange.)

SusanC_2

BeenieCat wrote: »

I saw Susan's offer too and totally forgot to say thank you!! I imagine it'd be too late to get her onboard now but i will totally be taking up her offer if i'm forced into any dodgy meetings.

Not too late at all - if it's tomorrow I'm free.

aless02

SusanC wrote: »

Not too late at all - if it's tomorrow I'm free.

Beenie, I hope you will PM Susan the second you get on. I'm kicking you up the bum on this one!!! :j:j (they are kicking you, these smileys)

Not too bad for us - we are graduating from his modified/loose swaddle to hands-free so I did expect a little bit of up and down last night. Only 1 session, so not too shabby! Totally forgetting about the rain forecast, I did have an idea to go to the lido today, but I'm still toying with it as the rain has stopped and we are very quickly running out of chances before schools break up. Hmmmmm, questioning whether to chance the rain or not!

Becles, hope Jack's recovering well enough! Bless him, losing his manhood :rotfl:

Hammy, enjoy your day out! SUch lovely places you go to .

eta: Forgot to say well done Celia!! :T :T

redstararnie76

Just been reading back and wanted to say that last night's discussion regarding the breast feeding / formula feeding debate is why I love this thread, and this forum - you 'guys' are brilliant! I really love the fact that, despite that article none of you are judgemental. I read that article and felt really upset - I'm FFing and I feel constantly judged - by complete strangers as well as family and friends. My reasons have nothing to do with those in the article, and I'm getting fed-up with having to explain myself to complete strangers in the street who watch me with Freddie and feel it's ok to ask if I'm breast-feeding (what's it to them?!!). I think it's wonderful if people can breastfeed and are happy doing it, but why make other mothers feel like they are outcasts because they formula feed - does it really not occur to people that those same mums may already be struggling with guilt and other difficult feelings on the subject?
Anyway, just wanted to say that I think you are all wonderfull <sniff>, I love you!!!

3onitsway

Fritha wrote: »

Last night at the grand old age of one year, nine months and four days Celia SLEPT THROUGH THE NIGHT for the first time ever! (7.45 - 6.45!)

Well done Celia :T:T
Did Fritha manage to sleep through the night, or was she waking to see why Celia hadn't woken her?

SusanC wrote: »

It really annoys me that WTC disqualifies you because it means they are penalising you for actually earning your money. It works out that people with a higher income than us could qualify as long as they weren't actually working for their money. (I disagree with a lot of the way the system works but this one seems particularly strange.)

I think it's very wrong when you get more for not working than working.

When I was newly single and J & L were 4 and 1, I went throught all of the money side with the benefits agency. It worked out if I continued to work, i'd be doing so for less than £20 a month when you took into account all the little things like parking at work, CT & Housing benefits, free school meals and milk tokens (do you still get those?) - I felt like the BA staff were encouraging me not to work!?

I stayed at work, but often thought I was silly for doing so.

SusanC_2

CAFCGirl wrote: »

I read that article in pregnancy mag, and tbh I just thought it was a load of carp.... it's all just a bit "too posh to push" kinda thought process. And as someone who is FFeeding, I feel like it makes those who do formula feed sound really selfish. None of her "reasons" are applicable to me, so I'd hate to be tarred by the same brush, and be judged based on her whittlings.....
However any article which focuses on why one person chose one feed choice over another is always likely to offend/upset one side of the debate....so its a no win topic i guess....

I know I'm only one person but I would never assume that someone who was formula feeding had those views. I also wouldn't ask someone their reasons in case my asking made it seem like I was criticising/judging them.

SusanC_2

redstararnie76 wrote: »

does it really not occur to people that those same mums may already be struggling with guilt and other difficult feelings on the subject?

Exactly - that's why I would never ask.

I have a friend in Australia who was afraid to formula feed in public because she had people come up to her telling her that she shouldn't have had a baby if she didn't care about it to breastfeed. I might be pro breastfeeding and wish it was the norm and more widely acceptable but I certainly wouldn't want us to end up with people afraid to formula feed in public because of people being so militant about it.