MSE Parents Club Part 12

3onitsway

Ooops, I forgot. Glam I'm glad to see you're home. I hope you're taking it easy - make the most of it.

Krystaltips wrote: »

Thanks Tsstss... We think she might have just rehomed herself, she had a very funny temperament... She wouldn't come in the house half the time... I'm sure she's happy wherever she is anyway, cats are very good at looking after themselves...

Krystal Did your cat disappear when Caitlyn arrived? We used to have a cat, and when I brought J home from hospital it came in and had a look/sniff at the baby, then scarpered, never to return. We did see it about occasionally looking very well fed - we think it moved in with the old cat lady up the road.


:j:j For Christoper and his big boy pants. :j:j

Thanks Aless.

Krystaltips

3, you put the details in here but it's a £4 charge for the land registry details...

Yay for big boy pants and fish gutting grandads... And I hope there's a better German hospital for Mr SS!

And it's my experience that every child is different and for the most part changeable... Eg: Aimee never slept more than 20mins in the day, dropped naps by 18months and wouldn't sleep longer than 90-120mins in a stretch at night until she was past 3... By 4 was sleeping straight through but even now she gets sent to bed at 7/7:30 and can be heard wandering around until well after 9, is usually up by 6:30...

Caitlyn: Always had epic naps >4hours twice a day as a tiny baby and slept brilliantly at night... At about 6-9 months went through a phase of 3x20min naps during the day and waking 4/5 times a night, then settled back into longer naps and better nights, waking only once or twice... Now she's nearly 1 <sob> she generally goes down between 7:30 and 9 and mostly sleeps until 5:30, feeds and goes back off until 7:30 with the odd night waking before 5:30 (no feed, drink of water, back patting to settle) and sometimes has a feed but wants to get up at 5:30 (usually when it's DH's lie in day...)

I think you find what works best for you and tweak it around your circumstances...

Krystaltips

BeenieCat wrote: »

Seriously though, i was wondering if you can fold it down with the wheels and seat unit attached? If not then i'll deffo stop lusting

I'm pretty sure, if it's rear facing, you have to remove the seat to fold... When I was looking, the Oyster was the only one that could be folded with the seat unit parent facing...

3onitsway wrote: »

Krystal Did your cat disappear when Caitlyn arrived? We used to have a cat, and when I brought J home from hospital it came in and had a look/sniff at the baby, then scarpered, never to return. We did see it about occasionally looking very well fed - we think it moved in with the old cat lady up the road.

Erm, it was a few months after... She went really funny with Mr Tabson when he came back from the RSPCA, and they'd previously got on brilliantly... and then she stopped coming in at night... Like a gradual withdrawl lol...

I actually have a bad track record with cats... The ginger tom I moved here with can often be seen looking very dirty and ragtag... He went ferral on me! And I've had 3 others just leave home and not come back... and 1 got run over right outside my house... I have 2 now, 1 is completely antisocial and semi agoraphobic and I think that's whats kept her here 5 years and Mr Tabson is microchipped so he should (in theory) always come back lol...

SugarSpun

aless02 wrote: »

I also don't understand people who swear that BF poo doesn't stain...

SS, sorry to hear hubby is poorly again. Oh and looks like we wouldn't be able to make that Saturday in late May as DH only gets 1 Sat off a month and he needs a different one for something else. Sowwwwwy Could still do a Sunday, but I think you had something else planned?

BF poo DOES stain. I have a collection of stained nappies to prove it!

Sorry we'll miss you, we have friends coming to see us on that Sunday Maybe another time?

aless02

SugarSpun wrote: »

BF poo DOES stain. I have a collection of stained nappies to prove it!

Sorry we'll miss you, we have friends coming to see us on that Sunday Maybe another time?

Yes, hopefully!

Also, I tried the whole bleach-with-the-sun trick and stains didn't budge. Wonder if my milk is somehow stain-inducing? :rotfl:

3, what Krystal said...that's the only way DH knows (he doesn't know a free way).

Beenie - we put a disposie on him when he goes to bed (6:30-7pm) and it gets changed first thing in the morning (6-7am). He's never had any complaints and never any nappy rash (watch, I'll jinx myself now...). Very rarely he will do a poo overnight so it obviously gets changed then, but I think it's only happened like twice ever (due to his low-poo status ).

Krystaltips

Aless, all my size 1s got stained... I found Asda own brand washing tablets got them the cleanest... But I shamefully wash them on a 60º wash too... Some of my flat terry still have ghosts of Aimee poops on them too lol... I tend to use those for floor cloths since I have a pile of tots bots rainbows now though...

BrunoM

Becles wrote: »

I said this morning that we're going to the shops at the weekend, so they need to try on their shorts and swimming trunks this week in case they need new ones for our hols. Josh said he needs new swimming trunks, and then followed up proudly with "me c0ck and balls have grown a lot since last year" - woah, too much information there :rotfl:

Good lord :eek:
I think I might have preferred to die than say something like that to my mum at the age of 13 perhaps I was very repressed! It must have been hard not to laugh (which would no doubt have scarred him )
(also I don't know if I would've given much thought to growing of the latter... focus largely on the former... :A)

I wish all you ladies would stop having sleep troubles not only do I feel great sympathy for your broken nights, but it also causes me to re-live our recent history of troubled nights and become depressed at the thought of going through it again (only with added toddler input) with baby02 :eek:
I do love hearing about the success methods though so many things can work but as someone said one of the more consistent ones is the routine-slowly-retreating stuff...

SusanC_2

SugarSpun wrote: »

If I'm at home I'm almost exclusively in my undies or less

How hot do you have your heating? And doesn't that mean you have to keep the curtains shut and quickly get dressed when someone knocks at the door?

BrunoM

SusanC wrote: »

How hot do you have your heating? And doesn't that mean you have to keep the curtains shut and quickly get dressed when someone knocks at the door?

Am I TMIing if I say that I am usually nekkid or boxered when working at home or otherwise lounging? We have slatted slanted blinds, and if someone knocks on the door I put on my dressing-gown and have no additional shame.

aless02

It's not for me, but I don't think it's that unusual to sit around in the buff/undies when alone at home...I know of other people that do it (not first-hand! :rotfl: they've told me) and DH would lounge around in his undies if I let him . Some people just like the comfort!

Weather looks much improved today - think a mission to the park this arvo is in order.