MSE Parents Club Part 12

Sarah_Joanne

Fritha wrote: »

*wanders in looking refreshed* Do you remember I said everyone would know when Celia finally slept through well:


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!)

:T Well done Celia!

Good sleep for Caitlyn too, good girl

Good night here also so I feel refreshed too today. Don't have to be out early to the hospital with grandma today either. There was a discrepancy with some measurements on the mask so she had to have another scan yesterday, dr is checking it all today then back tomorrow.

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.)

Yes that does seem strange. I think it will be a good thing if this government can sort out the benefits system. I'm absolutely all for helping people who need it, but don't see why so many people get money they don't need or aren't really entitled to.

Still raining here which is a shame as DH is away all day visiting a friend and is taking the car. Not sure if i want to go out in the rain but don't want to be stuck in the house all day either.

Glamazon

I have formula fed Jack from very young and it was the best thing I did!
I know my situation is different but trying so hard to BF and then expressing took such a toll on the first few days and resulted in Jack being admitted for feeding problems If I could go back then I would just FF from the minute he was born.

Future babes will be FF straightaway so I don't have the worry
I am a proud FF! :D:D:D

Is it bad that I've almost decided on next one's name???? :o
James Tyler or Joshua Tyler - not that OH knows!!

Beenie - definitely take Susan up on the offer

!!!!!!!g work have paid me the bottom of the band :mad: I'm a band 6 and each band has pay points, I'm about 4 points up but I've lost £100 this month due to their mistake. Little fluckers! They are arguing that working in GP practice doesn't count towards continuous service but I have a letter from HR with my starting salary on it!

gill_81uk

Ladies (and man!) I could do with some advice on getting a young baby to nap. Night time is fab - he goes to sleep at 8.45 (bedtime routine starts at 7.15 with a loooong bath and then boob) sleeps till 3/4 is up for approx 45mins - 1 hour feeding (should be less but I usually dose off and wake up to find him asleep with his head on my boob lol) then goes back down until 7-7.30am.

He just will not nap through the day unless he falls asleep on me after a feed (wakes if I try to move him) or goes out in the pram, inwhich case he'll sleep the whole time we're out. I thought part of the problem might be that it's too bright and loud in the living room now that he's older so I've left his basket upstairs. I put him in it and tucked him in then came down (like I do at bedtime) He whinged for a bit but then just got louder and louder so after 10 mins I went to get him. There were no tears, just whinging . I cuddled him to calm him down then put him in his swing. This seemed to be doing the trick but I could see him fighting it, eventually he started whinging again. I turned it off and sat on the floor and pushed it myself (like I did yesterday when it had no batteries) and he was asleep in less than a minute! He's obviously tired and needs the nap but now I'm stuck downstairs with the swing when all my jobs are upstairs! Also I don't really want to be reliant on swinging to get to sleep. Any advice/tips on what you did with yours?

My_Fathers_Daughter

Forgot what I was going to say.

Big meeting here at 10am - my year of work-related trauma may be over today....although that could well end up with me out of a job in 3 months time, I wouldn't even care about that at this point, I just want it to be over.

Sarah_Joanne

Glam I'm no expert but if you have a letter from HR with a starting salaray on I'm absolutely sure they have to honour it!

Meant to say earlier, Becles, looks like you live in a lovely part of the world!

gill_81uk

Glamazon wrote: »

I have formula fed Jack from very young and it was the best thing I did!
I know my situation is different but trying so hard to BF and then expressing took such a toll on the first few days and resulted in Jack being admitted for feeding problems If I could go back then I would just FF from the minute he was born.

Future babes will be FF straightaway so I don't have the worry
I am a proud FF! :D:D:D

Is it bad that I've almost decided on next one's name???? :o
James Tyler or Joshua Tyler - not that OH knows!!

Beenie - definitely take Susan up on the offer

!!!!!!!g work have paid me the bottom of the band :mad: I'm a band 6 and each band has pay points, I'm about 4 points up but I've lost £100 this month due to their mistake. Little fluckers! They are arguing that working in GP practice doesn't count towards continuous service but I have a letter from HR with my starting salary on it!

I have my next baby's name picked out too! Daniel Simon (feel like I have to have Simon as it's FIL's name and we used my dad's name as Thomas's middle name) I would like Daniel James (my grandad's name) but I think he would get laughed at for being a DJ! Likewise DH doesn't know - I think he'd think I was crackers!

ETA after seeing it written down I don't like Daniel Simon lol....oh well guess I've got a few years to come up with something else

Hope you get your salary sorted :mad:

MFD - hope it goes ok for you and you get a definitive answer one way or other

Sarah_Joanne

Hope it goes well for you MFD. You sounded fed up in your post and I don't blame you.

SugarSpun

Good luck MFD, I hope whatever happens is the best thing for you and yours. Also, I called the Stokke people this morning and they're sending me a widget :j

YAY Celia!!!! This gives me hope - last night Molly slept all night in her cot for the first time, but we still had a 3am feed. Still, 9:30-3 and 3:30-7 is more than I was expecting when I optimistically put her down last night so I'm happy. AND we got to celebrate our new bed for the first tme

Susan, you're such a lovely person. I'm so touched that you'd go help Beenie.

Krystaltips

It's toddlers this morning and I was in 2 minds whether to go or not but since I just wheeled the maclaren through a dogs nest on the grass by next door's in a mission to get a wheely bin (might be mine, might not... Couldn't care less!) I think I'll go and try and walk it off... Much rather walk for half an hour than scrape dog !!!!!! off a pushchair wheel!

I've also had to leave it outside due to the stink and daren't leave it there too long, it's too pretty for the chav scum to resist robbing it...

My_Fathers_Daughter

Ah - now I remember what I was fed up about...

Glam used to say that she was going to call her next baby Benjamin



Yay for widgets SS :T