MSE Parents Club Part 13

Glamazon

huge hugs CAFC. I really can sympathise, can you tell him how you feel? or does it go in one ear and out the other?

My OH wasn't working from June until December last year so was at home doing nothing for the first 3 months of Jack's life. He hardly did anything.

No night wake ups (he would moan if I left J to cry so I ended up on the sofa most nights)
No nappys
Sometimes one bottle a day
He did no housework either just spent his time on eBay.

So I cooked, cleaned, did everything for Jack, and even ended up packaging and sending his ebay parcels! Need MUG tattoo'd on my forehead I think.

It does get better when the babies get a bit more interesting, I have found within my circle of friends that Dads didn't get interested until the babies actually started doing things. OH is a lot better now he can throw Jack around and he's actually better at feeding him than I am so he generally gets this job now. :cool:

Is there anyway you can just leave him to get on with it one day?
When I had my appendix out in May OH finally realised how difficult it was and has been helping out more since then. He still doesn't do anywhere near as much as me but he never will.

Feel free to let it out on here, its what we are here for :grouphug:

SugarSpun

:j for sitting up Alfie! And for chatty Jack!

I'm just doing a Tesco shop for my friend to bring over when she comes, opening a new account to avoid using my mother's clubcard. The £10 off for new shoppers is of course just a bonus...

Also, M&S have some really nice baby/small children's books for £1 and free delivery if you're buying school uniform bits. I especially saw one with a dog called Dylan and fluffy ears that I thought might be nice for MM?

Edit: CAFC, I don't know how you bite your tongue. Even sick and shivery, Husband is lying on the couch minding Molly so I can get stuff done.

kindofagilr

Can someone help?

Ive just looked on mothercare's website and I think the following links are all the same car seat just different colours, but they are all different prices?

Other question is is it better to buy from store for them to fit it? just all of that car seat was £139 in store but there is one online for £89

I feel like it would be better to get it from instore so they can fit it?

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Maxim/dp/B0035A2OYM/sr=1-56/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_56/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Olivia/dp/B003VMYQL8/sr=1-44/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_44/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Felix/dp/B00359WNJ4/sr=1-38/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_38/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Olivia-Black/dp/B0035A4PRG/sr=1-27/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_27/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Seat/dp/B003089F5U/sr=1-10/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_10/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Micky/dp/B0035A0MNM/sr=1-8/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_8/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-139-99/dp/B003N1DN2A/sr=1-2/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_2/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

http://www.mothercare.com/Britax-First-Class-Plus-Nicolas/dp/B00379B6OK/sr=1-64/qid=1281257057/ref=sr_1_64/280-3567943-4697420?_encoding=UTF8&m=A2LBKNDJ2KZUGQ&n=44470031&mcb=core

Glamazon

Kindof - you can order online to deliver instore
The different colours are all different prices - I got the plain black as it was £90 online, the assistant ordered it online for me and got it delivered to the store and then they fitted it. I took it back to get turned forward facing. As long as you can prove you bought it from Mothercare whether in store or online they will fit it for you.

SS -I just wish the chattiness had a few more words in there!

CAFCGirl

awww thanks hun,
Sorry to hear you've had it so tough with yours as well...

Dont get me wrong DH can, at times, be perfect and I know he loves and dotes on L, but at other times he can be so selfish.
This morning whilst Im trying to wash and sterilise bottles and calm the dog down, L is crying out in his swing chair and DH just sits on the sofa, laptop on knees, just talking at him, so I tell DH he needs comforting, he clearly doesnt feel well (not eating/vomitting) and he's still sat there not moved an inch and L is still grizzling....

he just F*C*s me off with how unbelievably selfish he can be.....
I've tried telling him, and it was abundantly clear this morning just how annoyed with him I was....

I get that he feels rough, and I do try to be sympathetic but when he wont do anything to help himself, it really pushes me!

I would just take a day and leave him to it, but theres not exactly anywhere that I can spend a whole day where we live, and i dont drive, and we dont have a lot of money etc so cant really travel far....

oh well he wont be home till 10pm and its not fair to just sit here fuming over it when he's not even here, waste of my day and energy...... i really need to get on and do some hoovering ........ but the hoover sets the dog off (whose just laid down) and L is asleep in his swing chair, which i'd need to move.....

sitting in my backside it is then

kindofagilr

Hmm I just re-read the fit finder thing, they might not fit

http://www.britax.co.uk/car-seats/fit-finder/details.aspx

There was no green tick but an info box, which when you read it sounds like it would fit?

gill_81uk

Glam - it sounds as tho Jack is doing really well considering he's not even a year old yet! Boys are pretty much always slower than girls too. I'm resigned to the fact that my BM's baby girl (11 wks younger than T) will inevitably end up doing a lot of things 1st lol

gill_81uk

Kindof - just checking you have the 10% code for mothercare?

kindofagilr

Thanks Glam I am going to have to go to mothercare to see if it will fit in car, then order from home, if it doesnt fit in the car, I am considering getting a Maxi Cosi Pebble, then a Pearl (or the other way around I cant remember now lol) ILS want to give us some money for his new car seat so if we got the Maxi Cosi we would get the isofix base

kindofagilr

Gill I did have I used it yesterday though when we bought the stroller lol