MSE Parents Club Part 15

aless02

Am contemplating making up a fake interview offer just so I can have the rec con make this company give me an answer, one way or the other. If they think other companies are interested in me, maybe they'll get their butts in gear - I don't honestly see why they shouldn't be able to tell me today if that other applicant was interviewed on Friday. Takes 10 min to make a decision.

Just did a cleaning blitz, so now CBA to hang up the washing which just finished . Just taking a small break, but I'm borrrrrrrrrrrrred.

hammyhunter

SugarSpun wrote: »

I agree Ladybird - I'm sure it's a bit more work to edit rather than just delete but it seems to make more sense that way.

Still, the link is available on FB and hopefully it was just moved to the Vote For Me thread on the comps board rather than just deleted. That would have been a bit more ... courteous.

Thanks SS. I have never noticed the referral board before

Glad, thanks for the explanation.

Aless, I posted the link on FB this morning.

Kitkat, it sounds like *hugs* are needed. Have you discussed his eczema with anyone yet?

I feel so sick The positive side is that D is down for his 2nd nap of the day - unheard of in this house :eek: so I guess he is still feeling poorly too. I think we must have been lucky to get such a lovely photo of him yesterday!

tiamai_d

SusanC wrote: »

I tend to figure they'll eat what they need. If Alice is ill I'll give her more options and let her eat something else without finishing what she's already had but I figure if she's not eating she probably doesn't need to. Although last time Alice was ill, OH made such a big deal o the fact she was drinking lots and not eating that I told her she had to have three bites of dinner before she could have her third drink. Then that evening she was sick. She made up for it afterwards though - she was almost eating a day's worth of food each meal the following week.

I agree with all of this.

They really do eat enough for them to get by. No use forcing them because it will just prolong the illness and may set up unwanted food issues later on.

I always know when mine are over an illness, they eat like mad!



Glad, we're just feeling a little picked on recently. Others can say whatever they want about the PT and get away with it and we're expected to just keep quiet? So it does come over as both, MSE in general is anti-parents (you just have to look at some of the things people can write on other areas) and that certain people can get away with much more than others.

Krystaltips

SusanC wrote: »

I don't like avaocados

Thought I was the only one!

3onitsway wrote: »

Bit late like, but our cbeebies via virgin went blank this morning around 8.30. I'm not at home so don't know if it came back.

SS. Food wastage. V was very quiet this morning so I wondered what she was up to...she had got the bananas from the kitchen where they're out of her reach, opened all 7, bit some of them and tried to feed the dog some. My dog doesn't like bananas funnily enough!

Ours is on now, don't know if it was off this morning though... And Caitlyn did something similar the other day... She took a bite out of every plum in the punnet and left them all lined up by the cat's bowls!

SusanC wrote: »

The thing I find most annoying is that some of my friends still keep asking if Alice can have a biscuit or a chocolate or a sweet even though they know I don't let her have them. I don't try to pressure them into changing what snacks they give their children and the only reason attention is still drawn to what I'm doing is because they keep on bringing it up by offering things.

The thing that annoys me the most is when people say right in front of Aimee "Can she have a <whatever>?" Because then I have to be the mean one to say no, when they could have just said nothing at all... Although I tend to be a lot more relaxed about things now...

Hubby did annoy me by giving Caitlyn a jelly baby yesterday though... Like she needs a jelly baby... And my Mum gave her a piece of millionaires shortbread last week despite the fact I was stood right next to her saying "don't give her that" What is it with people?!

Anyway, thanks for the good wishes, scan went well... I'm assuming... The sonographer didn't say either way, and it was the same ignorant one that did my Mid T with Caitlyn and had her head in the way of the screen the whole time... We're in a new part of the hospital now though so she couldn't do that this time... She did print off about the crappiest picture she could have chosen... But hey ho... Back at the hospital Friday to see the consultant which is really annoying, they've moved the entrance to a different road and no bus goes past so it's a 20min walk from the bus stop... And the antenatal is now upstairs and only one lift was working today and some stoopid cleaner woman got in and blocked the doors with her cleaning machine, couldn't possibly get out and back in so I could get out on my floor... No, I had to go up 2 floors so she could get out and come back down again...

I think I'm in a bit of a bad mood actually... There were half a dozen other things I wanted to rant on about, but I'll stop there for fear of boring everyone....

jillie1974

Krystal- sorry the sonographer was the quiet type. and what a rude cleaner. i thought they would have service lifts for them?

SugarSpun

:eek: Millionaires shortbread is enough to have me climbing the walls from the sugar rush, I can't imagine what it does to a small one.

Feeling a bit cranky myself this morning Krystal, although I would probably have shoved the cleaning trolley out myself. Hospital lifts should all be big enough to fit a bed and 4-6 staff around it so a cleaning trolley is fair game IMO. I'm glad the scan went ok but :mad: at your sonographer.

gill_81uk

redstararnie76 wrote: »

SJ - Sounds like a difficult weekend, hope you feel better soon.
I agree with you about the thread - I think of this as my support network and, like real life, sometimes I feel a little paranoid - like everyone's ignoring me, I'm irritating people etc, but that says a lot more about me than it does anyone else. When I need help, encouragement, sympathy or just somewhere to rant, I find this thread so supportive. It makes me sad that people seem to feel that we need censoring, or find us cliquey.

I could have written this Redstar! How's Freddie getting on with his weaning? Is he sitting on his own yet? T has got the strength but not the balance bless him. I'll be glad when he can coz he doesn't like being lain on the floor anymore!

SJ - I know you said there was no need but it sounds as though you need some *hugs* anyway

Sami_Bee

Sugar - I tend to eat left overs but then I tend to forget to make b'fast and lunch for myself too I do NEED a dog tho I hate the amount of food I throw away that could satisfy a mutt nicely.

Michelle - Avacados taste like soap _pale_ bleugh!
Glad you are ok after last nights scary car incident!

EA- mangoes, I'm a bit crazy I just peel them with a normal peeler or a sharp knife then hack off all the nice flesh soo much easier than faffing with the hedgehog stuff IMO top tip is if its very ripe squeeze the stone in your hands over a bowl you should get lots of lovely smushy stuff that you can give Lily straight away off a spoon

I have a headache waaah!

oh and last night I was watching Nigella on the iplayer (I really want to try grasshopper pie now!) and I re-remembered her son is called Bruno which kicked off a "famous Bruno's discussion" turns out after a google; most famous Bruno's are not nice people or actors that played not nice people LOL

Sami_Bee

oh and Krystal Glad everything appears to be ok with belly baby
Jillie - you are married there is no yours/mine any more! If my OH did that I would have gone and hidden all the cans, and poured the open one down the sink. not that I'm stroppy or anything

ETA - I got a thing from tesco today saying they are changing the clubcard deal, from 6th Dec the 4x deals will be 3x so you'll need more points to get them

redstararnie76

gill_81uk wrote: »

I could have written this Redstar! How's Freddie getting on with his weaning? Is he sitting on his own yet? T has got the strength but not the balance bless him. I'll be glad when he can coz he doesn't like being lain on the floor anymore!

Hi Gill, it sounds like they're at quite a similar stage. Freddie isn't sitting yet, he just gradually falls over or ends up eating his foot! He's pretty strong, so I think it's just a matter of time. He's enjoying the weaning and his sleeping's really improved - I think the food's helped. He's now getting really hungry and he'll cry if I'm not quick enough at giving him a spoonful - greedy little monkey
How arre you getting on?