MSE Parents Club Part 12

Becles

tiamai_d wrote: »

Question, where on the high street can I find plain cotton V neck tops? Not T shirts, the tight fitting ones. For me? Newlook used to do them but last time I looked they only had high neck ones and they make me look like flubber.

Primark had some plain cotton stretch tops in and I think they had a v-neck. They had a few different colours and they were about £2.50 each :money:

SusanC wrote: »

When Alice was born, lunch turned up just after she (finally) started feeding and then when the lunch lady turned up 45 minutes later she seemed to think it really strange that I hadn't eaten yet. Because I'm going to stop my newborn baby who took over 24 hours to start feeding just so I can eat my lunch.

When Josh was born, I'd just got to the dining room and sat down with my plate and a nurse came and said he'd just woken so I'd have to go and feed him. When he finished I went back to the dining room, but they'd cleared away and I was told it was tough. My Mam came in shortly afterwards and had to go and buy me a sandwich from the hospital shop, after she told the nurses off

Evansangel wrote: »

Just printed a spiderman pic to iron onto Lilys vest

Reminds me of the year that everytime people asked Craig what he wanted for Christmas, he said Postman Pat underpants. I bought some transfer paper and plain underpants and made some for him. His face was a picture when he opened them on Christmas Day :rotfl:

Tigsteroonie

Good Evening Ladies (and Bruno & MOTM) :hello:

I think Elle has let you know what's been going on and, more importantly, why I can't give any details yet. Let's just say that we are now home and the situation is improving. I promise I'll give full details later next week.

Thanks for all your best wishes, and also for the birthday messages. Hugs to you all.

redmel1621

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why do most mealtimes turn into world war 3!!!! I am so sick of it, it has been going on for years now ds2 just refuses to eat anything more than a bite or two of food and then dh starts yelling and I start yelling at dh, then ds1 gets involved and ends up getting yelled at......GRRRRRRR

I am sure I have read somewhere about letting kids eat until they are full, not forcing them to keep eating until they have eaten every scrap on the plate.....Although if ds2 is barely eating then surely we need to be strict and make him eat, he is a right bony skeleton child as it is!!! I really am getting to the end of my patience with it all!

Sorry to barge in and rant:(

SS Glad camera is over with and hubby is home now:)
Tara - Say hi to sacha and Popppie:) |Can't advise on wedding music as we didn't have any, or if we did it was some (Cypriot) stuff that was played, I really can't remember any though!!
Sami - Ed looks very grown up on the meet pics
Maz - I'm due to go to Asda over the weekend, or if not then Monday...what bra and what size are you after?

Mel x

SugarSpun

Not home yet Mel but we're working on it

I've no advice about the eating, but when I was a kid I got bored of eating and of food very quickly and my mother was a clean plate type. It caused lots of problems and I have lingering food issues to this day after years of yelling and of spending Sundays sitting over congealing meat, potatoes and gravy. Maybe have a snack box of healthy stuff that he can help himself to at will and make a rule that he has to eat 5 fruit/veg portions per day but when he eats them is up to him?

tiamai_d

Mel, same here. And as Christopher is clinically underweight it's a big issue. I tend to just let him eat what he eats. He does usually eat a huge breakfast, but you can tell when he isnt eating enough, like now. He is so sleepy and lethargic. But fighting over it doesn't help or change anything.

redmel1621

SugarSpun wrote: »

Not home yet Mel but we're working on it

I've no advice about the eating, but when I was a kid I got bored of eating and of food very quickly and my mother was a clean plate type. It caused lots of problems and I have lingering food issues to this day after years of yelling and of spending Sundays sitting over congealing meat, potatoes and gravy. Maybe have a snack box of healthy stuff that he can help himself to at will and make a rule that he has to eat 5 fruit/veg portions per day but when he eats them is up to him?

Oh sorry thought he was home....hope he gets home quickly:)

This is what I keep telling dh, he will traumatise them all and give them food issues! He doesn't believe me, and says I am too soft with them. I am happy for ds2 to eat as much as he can but as long as he eats 'other' healthy food throughout the day....with dh, he doesn't care what else has been eaten and still insists on empty plates. He claims I allow them too much chocolate and sweets and crap....which I don't. I just don't think they should be brought up like they are living in boot camp/poverty and be allowed nothing 'nice' (like he was, pudding to him was a jam butty)

redmel1621

tiamai_d wrote: »

Mel, same here. And as Christopher is clinically underweight it's a big issue. I tend to just let him eat what he eats. He does usually eat a huge breakfast, but you can tell when he isnt eating enough, like now. He is so sleepy and lethargic. But fighting over it doesn't help or change anything.

That's the thing...it doesn't really change anything apart from resulting in many tears and upset....I just don't see the point. I try to encourage him and offer pudding (yoghurt usually) if he eats xyz on the plate!! Dh just yells 'eat it' We have had so many argumaents over this in the many years it has been going on I just don't really know what else to do? I just end up giving him tiny portions to save the upset!

SugarSpun

Mel, what about a different food serving style, where all the food goes in serving bowls in the middle and everyone takes what they want - so long as they eat what they've taken?

csh_2

redmel1621 wrote: »

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Why do most mealtimes turn into world war 3!!!! I am so sick of it, it has been going on for years now ds2 just refuses to eat anything more than a bite or two of food and then dh starts yelling and I start yelling at dh, then ds1 gets involved and ends up getting yelled at......GRRRRRRR

I am sure I have read somewhere about letting kids eat until they are full, not forcing them to keep eating until they have eaten every scrap on the plate.....Although if ds2 is barely eating then surely we need to be strict and make him eat, he is a right bony skeleton child as it is!!! I really am getting to the end of my patience with it all!

Sorry to barge in and rant:(

SS Glad camera is over with and hubby is home now:)
Tara - Say hi to sacha and Popppie:) |Can't advise on wedding music as we didn't have any, or if we did it was some (Cypriot) stuff that was played, I really can't remember any though!!
Sami - Ed looks very grown up on the meet pics
Maz - I'm due to go to Asda over the weekend, or if not then Monday...what bra and what size are you after?

Mel x

Sorry just to barge in ladies! Mel: Is it DS2 that is dyspraxic?

redmel1621

SugarSpun wrote: »

Mel, what about a different food serving style, where all the food goes in serving bowls in the middle and everyone takes what they want - so long as they eat what they've taken?

That would be an option but we don't have a dining table. Also there is no way dh could eat if other people have been taking food from the same bowl, he has ocd and is paranoid about germs!! Nowhere near as bad as he was but he struggles at dinnertime, he also can't eat if people are talking to him, hence we have never used a dining table and just watch tv instead...he gets to stressed if trying to have a conversation while eating.

CSH - Yes...well undiagnosed but strongly suspected by his teachers(and me)...along with his dyslexia!!