MSE Parents Club Part 12

My_Fathers_Daughter

Hiya pinkpig - I really feel for you. Have you thought about trying her in a nursery? All the other kids may be what she needs to distract her in a non-home environment??? *clutches at straws*


I stopped feeding Benjamin in the night before I stopped feeding IYSWIM. I just stopped offering it (because it is the easy option LOL) and started cuddling/rocking/shushing/dummy and elephant applying/generally doing things the hard way for a while. He soon got the idea.

I have never given him a bottle in the night.

And if you sleep nudey-buff like me it is helpful to wear a top so babba can't just help themselves

jillie1974

pinkpig- second MFD, nursery with other children may be a solution or worth trying.

csh_2

Glamazon wrote: »

Youll probably need a receipt. I asked them if they provided replacement parts for Silver Cross 3d Prams as they have them in stock but she said they could only do it if I could prove I bought it there (and not got it free on Freecycle!). I was asking about buying them but it was still a no.

If its a MC branded product you should be OK without a receipt.
SX you can buy lots of places which is prob why MC not forthcoming on that one.

Som should be able to tell you


I've just been spinally (sp) adjusted :eek:!! Scareist part was paying! My spine is 'a mess' aparently! I knew that before I went lol

Looks like the best part of £400 to get me back to normalish, not very :money: in the slightest

tarajayne

I don't feed at night either, haven't since she was 8wks. I would offer water but never really felt the need to. X

SusanC_2

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Random but I've not been vaccinated against whooping cough because a friend of the family is severely disabled due to the vaccine so my mum had a (possible?) knee jerk reaction to not let my sister and I have it. I hope my Aunty & Uncle didn't bring any germs with them last week when they visited from Durham.

Someone at church heard Alice coughing and said that her daughter had had the same cough and had ended up being referred to an athma specialist who said it was whooping cough. Based on when they were last up here and when Alice first had symptoms, that's almost certainly how Alice got it.

Apparently the were issues with the old "whole cell" vaccine which used up to around the mid eighties. There was a big scare about it in the seventies and a big resurgence in whooping cough because so many people didn't vaccinate.

pinkpig08 wrote: »

Got a meeting with my manager tomorrow. Still no further on with C so we need to discuss options. Apparently parental leave can only be taken in 4 week blocks - so it looks like my only other option is a career break. I'm trying not to let it bother me but it's getting tiring now. I want to be back at work - as much as I love being with C and don't want anyone else to have her - I need that bit of a break from being a mummy 24/7

I'd have to go and look it up but I'm fairly sure that your employer can choose to be as flexible as they like but if they won't then they can limit it to no more than four weeks in a year and insist it is taken in full one week blocks. I'll go see if I can find some links.

tarajayne

I remember that scare, was going on with DD1 and 2, some thought I was mad getting them vaccinated.

Seems crazy that it was still a problem in the late 80's though when quite clearly it was a different vaccine.

Jakesmummy

Krystaltips wrote: »

Oh go on, what happened?!

Well when jasmine was first born we got the bounty vouchers and i bought a set of 3 sessions from pixi foto so i could get some pics of both of them together (siblings cant go on the bounty ones),

anyway used the 6-12 month voucher in march before she turned one and someone rang me last week asking if i wanted to use 1 of the sessions ive got left in the ones that ive paid for, said yes confirmed kids names ect ect, anyway turn up this morning to be told jasmine cant be in the complimentry pic?? apparantly cos its been less than 3 month since her last 'shoot', what annoyed me is they rang me!!! and why couldnt they have told me this before i trapsed into town!!! which was stressful with jake! argh anyway told them to forget it and asked for head office details, rang em and the area manager is apparantly calling me tomo. they could have just used their discretion and let them both be in the pic... but no, they are a set of morons!! oh and its only a matter of days before its the 3 month mark anyway!!! i was only gonna get the free pic cos im mega skint this month, but i've already paid for the shoot in advance a year ago so i'd like my pic but want both my kids on!! i think they do it to try n make me buy one with em both on, but they wont get a penny out of me again!!

...and then jakes been moaning all afternoon cos he was looking forward to his 'photo shoot' lol !

SusanC_2

Here you are:

• limit an employee to no more than four weeks' parental leave per year - see the page in this guide on when parental leave can be taken and for how long
• permit an employee to take leave only in blocks of one week (individual days if the child is disabled) - see the page in this guide on when parental leave can be taken and for how long

Taken from businesslink.gov.uk.

But they are allowed to be as flexible as they like which would surely be in their intersts if it means you can return rather than them having to hire someone else. I wonder if perhaps they are misunderstanding the guidelines?

jillie1974

jm- what a 'mare.

pinkpig08

Thanks Susan It was my boss who suggested the career break option (well - HR told her), which I think would be a better option than parental leave anyway.

How is it that my baby can't bear to be parted from me but can crawl off whilst my back's turned and make her way out the back door???

We went to a play-centre today and I was sat with her in the baby/toddler bit. She LOVED the other children - but she is liable to scratch them and pull herself up on them so I have to keep bringing her back which she doesn't like. I might look into the nursery option. Do they do settling in sessions?