MSE Parents Club Part 13

gill_81uk

Asda have changed the packaging/pack size and on their nappies and are selling the old ones off for £2 a pack. Asda in Warrington had loads of action fit and comfy dry but only in size 3. Trafford park had a few different sizes but I snapped them all up lol. I'm going to try T in the action fit size 4 as the size 3s were great at the leak but leaked up the back! The comfy dry (green packet) are great for bedtime (and contained the most horrendous number 2 this morning.....altho I did carry him flat on his back, as quickly as I could, from the bed to the nursery lol.

Sarah_Joanne

I won the shoes!!!!

SugarSpun

Fantastic, I was stalking the end of the auction and hoped that was you and you didn't have a co-sniper rotfl:

TBH, a pair of party shoes like that should never be set to end at this hour of a Sunday morning when the target market are mostly sleeping off Saturday night. It's just bad planning on the seller's part.

searching_me

ok just for bruno :rotfl: ..
Tarajayne..........Lyme Regis by car.
3 with V & L ......Wirral by car (4 spare seats if anyone wants a lift)
Jennynoo...........Train from London arriving at New Street station
Krystal, A&C......Train into New Street
keelykat........Metro into B-ham Snow Hill
Sarah Joanne & Alfie.. Leeds by car (3 spare seats if anyone wants a lift)
Hammy & David...... Train to New Street Station
sm & jayden ..... train to new street station x

Glamazon

Advice please!! Letter I propose to send in about fee increase. Need to bear in min its going to my employer rather than the creche

Is the proposed fee of £49-£51 acceptable for 2011/2012?

No, it is not. In fact the increase in fees due 1st September 2010 is also unacceptable. Whilst I can fully understand there will be no funding coming from both H**** PCT and K**** PCT, a £10 per day increase (rising by another £10) is not justified.
Whilst the staff that work at the crèche are absolutely fantastic and I am happy that my son is well cared for, there are a number of issues which contribute to the argument against raising the fees by so much.

• The crèche is housed in an old building which is not purpose built, on being shown around the crèche I was informed a new building would be started in 2011.
  
  
• The corridor leading to the crèche frequently floods during bouts of heavy rain. As well as being a serious Health and Safety risk, the corridor smells musty and damp for at least a week afterwards which is not very pleasant.
  
  
• The rooms and garden areas are quite small compared with other local nurseries.
  
  

Should a new purpose built crèche go ahead, then I feel the increased fee from September 2010 would be warranted, however the proposed increase from April 2011 will never be justified. Creches in London charge £60 per day which you would expect but for a crèche located in S***** £49-£51 a day is far too excessive.

Below are 8 different crèches/nurseries which are local to W**** Hospital, the average childcare cost is £33 per day (this does not take into account the weekly fee which is often discounted and reduces the daily costs). All of this information is readily available on the internet.



List of nurseries here



Raising the cost to £39 would make this crèche the most expensive in the area, it seems unfair to hit those people who have just had their pay frozen for 2 years and are at risk of loosing jobs with the demise of the PCT’s and cutbacks everywhere else.

I trust you will take the above into consideration when applying the next pay increase.



Thanks in Advance

SugarSpun

It looks good Glam, but it's losing rather than loosing

BrunoM

Mention that it's a 66% price increase in 12 months (or whatever it is), while other creche alternatives have no such intentions.
Put the list of things that are not great about the current one at the end or otherwise rephrase to make clear that they're not the main point of your argument. The main point is that the creche will end up dramatically uncompetitive in its pricing, your side point is that to justify such a thing they'd have to have incredible facilities when in fact they're only average at best.

BrunoM

Aless, are you around again yet after your 4am postings?

Evansangel

Morning everyone,

The shopping is coming today! :j I forgot to buy cereal though and i just ate the last of the shreddies

Bit of a small rant, i've been informed that some people in my family and extended family think im under the thumb! :mad:
Only because i wont do things for them and they think DH is controlling me. I dont think they understand that its me that chose not to do certain things and DH has nothing to do with it. Grr grr grr. :mad:
Small rant over

CAFCGirl wrote: »

Hopefully noone takes my posts the wrong way, I wouldnt try to convince anyone against the choices theyve made, so Im not trying to preach my way or the high way, was just curious about people's experiences when theyve refused them...

Im not taking it the wrong way, even though Lily was vaccinated im always curious about why people choose not to and i understand why.

Im in the middle camp, im not for vaccinations but im also not against them. All i know is they hurt and they make Lily ill a few days later

I dont like how she spoke to you though, b!tch... :rotfl:

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

But wanted to ask in case I forgot (and sorry if you've already said) but EA how is your dad today?

Thanks for asking I haven't spoke to him, but i sent him a text to let him know my phone is back and im available for chats. I also got him a gift yesterday.
Its a Superman T-Shirt that says "My dad is the best" or something similar to that

Kindof, i love the pics of E! Lily also feeds herself now, i feel like im obviosuly not doing a good enough job :rotfl: Then she gets lazy and lets the bottle drop so i have to carry on for her :rollsyes:

SJ, woohoo for winning the shoes! Was it the green spotty ones? They were lush

CAFCGirl

£39 a day!?

My god....
Sorry I know nothing about childcare and creches etc..... but if it was likely to cost me that much per day they'd be no point in me going back to the kind of work I have experience in.....

Therefore I salute any mums/dads who do go back to work and deal with all this additional stress of nurseries etc

Thanks to all for the post re immunisations.
If anyone is interested in learning more (no preaching I promise) theres a great book called The Sanctity of Human Blood. Used to read it at work LOL

Nice to hear people havent been hassled when declining. I think maybe I'd just irritated our HV, so her back was up etc.... I do find some of her answers quite comical but if thats the information she's given, then thats all she can relay to others, which is a shame really...Anyway Im ready for the battle (should it happen) but Im not gonna go looking for one, hopefully my decision will be politely accepted

Had an ok night last night. L is doing quite well in his cot and he's accepted the sleeping bag now as well. We've also moved up to size 3 nappies at 6 weeks LOL what a little fatty I have.... He went to bed at 8:45 (i got into bed at 9pm) woke at 2, went back to sleep at 2:30am and then woke up again at 5am, and the slept till 7:45am.... he was very whingey late afternoon/evening, so I think he might be setting up for another growth spurt. Was only quiet when with me, but didnt want feeding/winding.....
Lets see what today brings us