MSE Parents Club Part 12

SusanC_2

Krystaltips wrote: »

My ironing has not "all been done" in probably well over a year...

My ironing is always all done - I just don't do any. I haven't ironed since we moved house.

tiamai_d

Hope Alice gets better soon. I had it when I was about 3/4, don't remember a thing.

Glamazon

Squishy - I wouldn't worry too much about the milk or the naps.
When Jack is home he will only go to sleep on me or after some serious pushing in pushchair - at creche he goes off the minute he's put in the pram *rollseyes*
He used to have a bottle first thing, then around 4pm and then at bed-time but for the 2 weeks he's been at creche he's refused his milk. They've tried it at different times, different temps, in different positions and I've even tried giving it to him when I get there but he refuses it point blank. It does now mean he has a bottle as soon as he gets in from creche at 6pm instead of at bedtime and another at around 12am-2am *yawn* but I don't mind cos he goes straight back off afterwards.

My friends LO refused forumla so the HV suggested he had cows milk - he has it along with some vitamins that she buys from the chemist. He's a week younger than Jack.

I've not really baby proofed our house - I just tend to distract Jack before he gets anywhere near anything he shouldn't. He's never left in a room on his own so I don't see it as a problem, he quite often just follows me round downstairs while I'm tidying up. The only thing we have is a stairgate at the top of the stairs

I don't iron but think I'll have to start cos my work shirts all look crap after being washed!

Honey - Jack's not had it cos we don't have any in the house Simples!!

I've not been sterilising Jack's bottles for about the last week - he puts my flip flops in his mouth so I figure my foot crud and the !!!!!! off the roads will do him more harm than a few bacteria

Go, go Molly :T:T

Susan - get well soon vibes coming for Alice. Poor thing.

EA - that picture is lovely

Still no tax credit form! Keeping hearing the adverts about getting it sent back but I've not even had it yet!

Is that scrabble game a FB thing?

My_Fathers_Daughter

It is glam - maybe Jack should get an account seeing as you won't


I still sterilise bottles - although it doesn't worry me if he has a few unsterilised ones. Two reasons: I am rubbish at cleaning the bottles out straight away so they are often left to fester; and milk bacteria worries me more than 'normal' germs because it can do real damage if they get a poorly tummy (I think anyway - another thing I think I picked up here!)

Also - it is somewhere to keep clean bottles


I keep meaning to ask - is there a reason that I still boil the kettle to make Benjamins nighttime bottle? I don't bother following the other instructions but I do always make it with a freshly boiled kettle.

Glamazon

I would have thought the water needed to be hot to mix properly and I would always use hot water rather than cold, I quite often re-boil the kettle if it's been more than an hour. :silenced:

I don't clean the bottles out straightaway either!
My hot water tap is almost like boiling water so I figure I'm using really hot water and WUL with a bottle brush it should get rid of any nasties lurking in the bottle. His bedtime bottle is made up fresh then I make the 2am and 6am bottles at 10pm so they aren't sitting in the bottle for long.

Also, I think with a lot of things 'they' say, they probably add a few months on to recommended ages 'just to be on the safe side'.

tiamai_d

MFD, habit? If your not bothered, don't change.

I have now stopped sterilising bottles but I rinse them with boiling water. DH still sterilises them however.

Amber can crawl backwards and bum shuffle forwards, does that count? She did it just to show Molly lol! A lot of grunting going on with her attempts at forward crawling though. Oh and she has totally mastered sitting up, now she is working on standing up by pulling herself up on the sofa. It's funny, she tries standing up, gets bored, tries crawling, gets bored, goes back to standing, moves in a circle, looks at me and squeaks, tries crawling repeat X50. Nap time now.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Benjamin has cows milk for his daytime bottles so I only make his nighttime one up. It is SO much easier when they have cows milk LOL! Although yesterday I got his bottles ready about 6pm and left them in the fridge and at about 6.45pm Benjamin went and got them out of the fridge and brought them to me to tell me it was bedtime :T He is such a cheeky so-and-so!

When I dropped him at the CM's this morning I went in and was having a chat with the CM as usual and Benjamin wandered to the door and stood there waving as if he was telling me to leave now :rotfl::rotfl:



Edit - go Amber - won't be long now!!

Glamazon

Jack cried when I left this morning - it could have been because of the rather anaemic looking piece of toast they were trying to give him! Actually it was probably because they were in the breakfast room rather than the baby room!

I can't wait for the cows milk stage! I've already started giving him his formula at a cooler temp i.e. just enough in MW to take the chill off. He prefers his water ice cold so I'm hoping it shouldn't be too much of a problem.

He's in the Pampers Active Fit for the first time today - usually just have Baby Dry but stocks were running low so I've decided to try these during the day now.

Tia - That drives me crazy! Jack's like a little Jack in the box - he sits, crawls, sits, pulls himself up, drops on bum, pulls himself up, drops on bum, crawls, sits, crawls - repeat all day long! He's started really stropping as well and arching his back when I try to hold him. Oh and nothing I do keeps hims till longer enough for me to change a nappy! I end up with Sudocrem bum prints everywhere :rotfl:

aless02

Fitzio wrote: »

I am still lurking sometimes but not got much to say. Thanks for asking after me Aless. Happy Anniversary! Whereabouts in Scotland did you get married?

Gretna Green, along with about half this thread, it seems

Went to baby group after all, I'm trying to stop being so lazy! Now a certain someone didn't want to go down for an afternoon nap, so I'm hoping some noisy playtime will tire him out shortly.

Well done Molly!!

wm, lovely photo

redmel1621

Yay Molly and Amber:T:T

Yay Mr and Mrs Bruno on telling people irl, very exciting:j

Sterilising - That's a big benefit of K not having bottles anymore, his cups just go in the dishwasher:D Oh well, not long and I have to go through the whole sterilising and making bottles up again:cool: