MSE Parents Club Part 12

Squishy

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Squishy - remind us how old LO is? And does she take a bottle at all?

Yes, she has no problems with a bottle - we have used one on and off since she was born. She is 6 and 1/2 months old.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Krystaltips wrote: »

Caitlyn's just discovered her clap she's been sat clapping to herself for ages... Very cute!! She's also walking a bit more this morning... Must be a bit easier to do without a big sister to trip over all the time...

There's a couple of bits of pork left over from yesterdays dinner and all I can think about is putting them on a butty... Is it lunchtime yet?!

Mfd, if you're around? I discovered your text at bedtime, thought it would be a bit late to reply then, but will do now...

I am starving too!! I have steak in the fridge at home which will be dinner tonight and I am already thinking about how I will cook it....it could well be a long day!


Yay for clapping babies :T:T and getting better with walking! Maybe Benjamin inspired her :cool: He tends not to walk as much at his CM as he does for us at home and I think it is because the girls run around him or crowd him and it is just quicker for him to get down and crawl! This morning he was walking all over her living room kicking a ball and picking it up (from standing ) but as soon as the girls came downstairs he dropped down and crawled.


fernlie - glad it isn't just me! I might try him with a blow of a cool hairdryer tonight.



Benjamin woke up with dried blood around his nostrils this morning *shrugs* not sure if he had had a nosebleed or if he had stuck a sharp fingernail up there... Have asked the CM to keep an eye on him.


Got your text Krystal xxx

My_Fathers_Daughter

Squishy wrote: »

Yes, she has no problems with a bottle - we have used one on and off since she was born. She is 6 and 1/2 months old.

Hmm - do you plan on stopping BF altogether?

I would try a few different formulas and see how she goes with them. You could buy the cartons and see which she takes but the 'problem' is that the cartons don't taste the same as the powder (apparently!!) so you could really do with trying powder versions.

Do you have any friends who use different brands of milk who would let you have a bottles worth of powder?

Other than that, perseverance!! And maybe somebody else giving the bottle so that she can't smell your milk.

newbie_maz

Hi all!

Evie's sleep is fixed!! Saw HV on Friday & she suggested the problem was she had forgotten how to go to sleep on her own which was causing the bedtime problems & meaning she wanted comforting back to sleep when she moved to light sleep in the night.

So from Friday we tried putting her down in her crib after bath, last feed story & song, rather than trying to make her sleepy or get her to sleep before putting her down, then staying with her & holding her hand but no eye contact until she falls asleep.

I thought it was gonna be an ordeal with lots of crying (especially cos she'd had her jabs that day & had been a bit crabby anyway) but it was fine & she was asleep in 30 mins & has been every night since. Plus immediately it went back to one wake in night for feed then straight back in crib, rather than waking every 2-3 hours and only going back to sleep eventually in our bed.

And then last night, she went down about 8:30pm and next thing i knew it was 6:30am! So she slept 10 hours straight through :j :T :j

Plus no more jabs for 8 months :j

Anyway, hope everyone is ok, doubt i'll have chance to catch up but will try a couple of pages.

Ooh, and Som - the fairies delivered the other day, thank you very much

xx

workinmummy

Happy Birthday to Beenies DS Cameron

Alex actually motivated himself last night and rolled from back to front. :T

Krystaltips

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

Benjamin woke up with dried blood around his nostrils this morning *shrugs* not sure if he had had a nosebleed or if he had stuck a sharp fingernail up there... Have asked the CM to keep an eye on him.

When Aimee was 11 mnths old, I went to fetch her out of the cot one morning and found her with her face completely covered in blood, and two patches in the cot about the size of side plates, along with other smaller patches and some smeared up the cot bars...

I rang my Mum to tell her and she asked me if I'd panicked... But I was not at all concerned... She was stood with her normal morning "hello Mummy" grin so I figured she was OK and just stuck her in the bath... I might have panicked if she'd have been lying in the cot all lethargic like lol...

She carried on having nose bleeds quite regularly until she was about 4 and just has occasional ones now... But she just goes off and gets a tissue now so I rarely know unless there's a crusty ring around her nostril lol... I just always kept things low key in a 'oh dear, lets get a tissue' kind of a way rather than making a fuss and she never had issues with them...

Of course, if she didn't spend so much time rooting around in there, maybe she wouldn't have had a problem

Krystaltips

workinmummy wrote: »

Alex actually motivated himself last night and rolled from back to front. :T

:T:T Well done Alex!!

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

We're all on MSE for our own money saving reasons. It seems to be that IRL people say that children get very expensive as they grow up. How much does everyone feel this HAS to be the case?

I don't want fergie or kessie to be bullied in school for not having the right things, but I also don't want to have to get branded goods all the time just at the whim of a 10 year old in fergies class with more money than sense. Does this make any sense?

I'm wanting to decide to drop our income, but I don't want to risk fergie's happiness by not having essential cash...

I think this probably depends a lot on what sort of people they hang around with and come into contact with at school and how they respond to peer pressure and marketing. I think every child is going to have a natural predisposition (so for example I have never really been into "stuff" or significantly influenced by peer pressure/marketing and my mum says when I was little other children would reel off huge lists when asked what they wanted for Christmas and I would say, "I don't know.") but how you raise your child will have an effect too. I think it is important that they understand that their value does not come from externals like clothes and other "stuff" but that who they are as a person is more important. I'm not saying it's wrong to follow trends etc. or that it's a good idea to deliberately make your child "different" but that it's good to help them to have a balanced view of fashions and material things. I also think that as they get older getting them to make choices so that they learn about the value of things (like Becles did with the choice between the branded jacket or the fake one plus some T-shirts) is helpful. As adults we have to make choices as to what we want to spend our money on and can't necessarily have everything we want and it is important that children learn this lesson.

JAM1376 wrote: »

Quick question - for my friends little girl's first birthday next month - Aqua draw (on MFD's recommendation from the pic a while back) or Mega blocks??

Or any other good ideas? Spend of 10-15 pound (but got a code for £25 off £50 at Great Universal so maybe buy 2 aquadraw and save one for C?)

Alice has some Aqua draw things and I think they are rubbish. She gets far more play value out of her Duplo/Mega Blocks and I would definitely recommend them as an excellent choice.

searching_me wrote: »

http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/d171.htm

do you think i could do this .. the more im thinking about counselling the more im liking it .. but id like to do a small course and see how it goes x

Sounds good - even if you don't go into that area, having done the course shows initiative etc. and gives you a wider range of skills so it will be helpful even if you don't end up using it directly. It's also the sort of thing that is probably a useful thing to have studied regardless of whether you have used it professionally (like I find my PGCE useful in my everyday life even though I am not working as a teacher).

pigpen wrote: »

I decided a good few years ago I don't do presents or cards for adults.. I will text them a happy b-day but cannot afford to be laying out cash.. and if they don't like it... tough.. I will have 9 children this christmas plus DGS and DIL so I think i buy for more than enough people!

I would love to switch to only doing presents for children but we are the only people with a child so it would be rather unfair.

My_Fathers_Daughter wrote: »

A question for those of you with babies with hair:

If you bathe babba at bedtime how do you dry their hair? At the moment I just rub Benjamin's with a towel but as his hair is getting thicker it is still a bit damp after his bottle and then he gets bed-hair LOL

We wash Alice's hair first when she goes in the bath and then dry it with a towel straight away so it has plenty of time to dry. When I do it, I will rub it with the towel then brush it and then run my fingers through it to separate it out a bit so that it will air dry more easily. I then leave it for a while and repeat once or twice during the bath so by the time she gets out it is more or less dry. When she only had short hair I still used to rub it with a towel straight away but just to stop her getting cold - not because it was necssary in order to get it dry before bed.

3onitsway wrote: »

I have a gross/embarrasing story i'd like to share.
I went for a wee in the early hours, and thought i'd empty/clean the mooncup while I was there.
Except, I dropped it down the toilet. I didn't want to fish it out of mucky toilet water, so thought i'd flush the dirty water away, then fish it out. But, the flush managed to take the mooncup away too.

When I did that I shouted, "Oh no!", jumped up and grabbed it out and then rinsed it very thoroughly.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Yay - go Alex :T


I need to steal some of his motivation, this report will just not write itself, no matter how often I wish it would!!


Krystal that sounds scary!! I have to say I didn't even check his cot to see if there was any blood in there (bad mummy). I can't have nosebleeds so I do find them a bit scary if I am honest...but I am not generally a panicker so I just cleaned him up a bit and told the CM to keep an eye on him

I did say to him 'I am going to clean your nose up now and you are not going to like it' and he started crying before I got anywhere near him :rotfl::rotfl: He is starting to understand so much!!

3onitsway

SusanC wrote: »

When I did that I shouted, "Oh no!", jumped up and grabbed it out and then rinsed it very thoroughly.

Krystaltips wrote: »

That was a pretty gross tale... But I would have just fished it out... I got soap by the sink...

My mooncup is all uncomforatble since Caitlyn was born... I wonder if she did something to my cervix?

It must just be me that is scared to put my hand in the toilet then!


:T For clapping & walking Caitlyn and rolling Alex.

V is driving me insane, wanting to walk around the house holding onto one finger, but will not go alone! And she's quite happy to go to the middle of the room and stand herself up to dance an clap.