MSE Parents Club Part 15

MadDogWoman_2

KitKat don't worry too much about bathing T, he won't get horribly dirty, topping and tailing will be enough, when Katie was tiny I think she was bathed weekly.

Krystal - there's uproar in my local paper today, the council have changed the lane layout of a roundabout to match the Highway Code, right hand lane for 3rd exit, when the driving instructors have been teaching left lane for 3rd exit on this particular roundabout, it has meant the roundabout has been removed from the test route.

smartie12

Daisy has a bath about twice a week. She loves them so maybe when she's a little older (able to sit) she'll have them more often to help with the bedtime process

workinmummy

Alex has a new word. Tracy (Tray Ceeee). That would be the childminder, that he loves ever so much. But what about mama (WM runs away sobbing)

MadDogWoman_2

Hugs WM, for the longest time Katie would only say Daddy.

gill_81uk

There may or may not be a new post on the fairy exchange about Peacocks and Bonmarche vouchers

aless02

awww, wm, he'll get there!! Our favorite sound here is "da da daaa" which of course DH loves...:p

I'm so lazy and don't give Finn many baths myself, so I wait for the days that DH is home in the evenings and let him do it . So roughly 2-3x/week. I'll do it if he's REALLY grubby from something, though.

Kitkat, don't worry too much about poops if he's not uncomfy. If he starts acting constipated, try the usual cooled boiled water trick and tummy massage/legs bicycling.

ladybirdintheuk

Afternoon all. Mornings being busy has been busy. I've done loads of stuff, but it is all filing and stuff, so it doesn't feel very much tidier in here. A bit tidier (noticably less piles of paper lying about for a start!), but not whole-mornings-rushing-about tidy iyswim. But that is the point of today - getting all those kind of jobs done, so that is ok.

I've had a really scrummy lunch too

Anyway, best get my nose back to the grind-stone. I expect I'll be back on afer my appointment this afternoon. Have a good afternoon everyone

SusanC_2

weezl74 wrote: »

thank you r.mac, she sounds like a good friend and I think that is true. I think my biggest self-criticism is that I'm very aware I get a lot of help and STILL don't feel I'm coping well. Which makes me worry why I have such different resources to other mums.

Are you worried that you actually aren't managing or that you feel like you aren't managing? And is it that you feel like you are doing badly or that you feel like you should do better? If it's any help, people I know IRL who have had children close together generally seem to say that when the children were very young they felt they just about scraped through and that it was a struggle but that as the children got a bit older and more independent things got a bit easier.

redmel1621 wrote: »

I came on yesterday looking for sympathy but got none:( Anyway, babies are still poorly resulting in another bad night last night:(

I'm sorry you felt like you got no sympathy. Just so you know, I deliberately thanked your post att he time as a way of showing sympathy as I didn't feel like I had any useful words to say.

r.mac wrote: »

First of all there were only 2 hairy builders there. Ambers Daddy and Molly's Daddy

Alice said they were "the pirate" and "the normal daddy".

BrunoM wrote: »

Weezl, I do not like to hear that you are all worn out and anxious you must take better care of yourself and remember how incredibly awesome you are and how many people who have never even met you physically are constantly basking in the reflected glory of just knowing you a tiny little virtual bit. Being a mum is not easy but you are doing a good job so you can afford to take a tiny bit of slack for yourself maybe, too.

I just quoted this because it is class.

twoflower169 wrote: »

MW been out to me today, all ok. Today feels like an ok day, it has however been exactly a month today, which just feels like crazy, I have lived 31days of my life already without my dh, it feels like an awful thing to do, live on without him, they are all days that he hasn't been here, he doesn't know about, he doesn't know he was going to be an uncle again as my sil is pregnant, its just weird, it also feels so selfish to go forward without him.

I don't know if this is helpful and I know it is easy for me to say but would it help to think of how you would feel if it were the other way round? I'm sure you would not want him to feel that he was selfish just for living if you weren't and it is not selfish for you to be alive when he isn't.

SugarSpun wrote: »

It was lovely to meet some of you yesterday - but I was horribly ill in the evening, has anyone else been feeling grotty? I felt wrecked, a friend I've not seen for a few years is in Edinburgh and invited us for dinner, she'd barely started cooking and I was locked in her bathroom dry heaving

I was a bit funny att he other end this morning but think it must be coincidence as the only thing I had yesterday which Alice didn't was a hot chocolate at the station while we were waiting for our train and she seems fine.

CAFCGirl wrote: »

im not sure if she could argue she was told she couldnt by jobbies.... she could ring and ask.... but otherwise i think it's too late

I have a friend who had her JSA application cancelled because she hadn't provided all the information in time. The reason was that she had been mistakenly told she needed evidence of her student loans and she had not been able to get hold of this in time. I went into the Job Centre with her about it and we managed to get a particularly good persom who said she should write a letter in about it and say she had been misadvised. She said it was particularly important to use the word "misadvised".

workinmummy wrote: »

Alex has a new word. Tracy (Tray Ceeee). That would be the childminder, that he loves ever so much. But what about mama (WM runs away sobbing)

:grouphug:

kitkat5566

delain wrote: »

KK I'm 25 and feel like an old lady too Been having unexplained stumbles the last few days but got Physio tomorrow so hopefully she will put my mind at rest instead of sending me back to the neurologist :eek:

OH takes Squeaks in the shower with him, he holds, I wash lol would that work for you guys?

Glad I am not the only one feeling older than my time! How are things with you at the moment, I am sure it was you who had some problems towards the end of your pregnancy? (forgive me if i am wrong!) Taking him in the shower may be an idea although I dont know how much he would like it!

Constipation problem has gone! But oh my, the smell!!

Thanks everyone for the advice about bathing him, I dont really enjoy bathing him as when I do get around to it he doesnt particularly enjoy them and when drying him it often results in a crying fit

*HUGS* WM, I am sure he will say mummy soon

I feel a bit confused about my mum.. she was supposed to come over today,and I just phoned her and she said she wasnt coming over due to her cold (thanks for letting me know!!) and then I just said its a shame as I need to do some shopping and its way too cold to take T out. Then she started going on about how she is cooking a lunch for my dad who is off sick, and said I should have gone across to her for cooked lunch, I said 'well i thought the reason i wasn't seeing you was because u are full of cold' and she replied 'o yeh'.... maybe she doesn't wana c us And now I am annoyed I have stayed in all day waiting for her to come, I dont wana go out now as T is having his afternoon nap so again I wont get chance, argh!!!

ladybirdintheuk

I'm baaack. Getting a coil fitted blimmin hurts. It doesn't take long to do, but ouch! I was good though, and didn't swear or anything Now on the sofa with my wheat bag and the internet. I was right in guessing I wouldn't get much done this afternoon.

Kitkat how annoying. It is one thing to not come over, but not telling you is just rude I'm sure she didn't mean to come accross like she doesn't want to see you though.