MSE Parents Club Part 15

redstararnie76

weezl74 wrote: »

I know I am probably off the scale, so ignore me if you like:p, but my littlest has had maybe 6/7 baths ever and is 8 months now. His older brother has one once a weekish but sometimes fortnightly.

That's pretty much the same as my two . If they are not dirty, why stress?

gratefulforhelp_2

As babies, DD1 every day, she loved it, and DD2 rarely as she hated it. Now they are 7 and 3, every other day.

balletshoes

my DD has a bath 3 or 4 times a week, she's 9. when she was a baby/toddler, I did bathe her every day, as others have said, as part of her bedtime routine.

aless02

Aww, hope Katie feels better. How are our other poorlies today? K & T?

SkintGypsy

I bathed DD every day when she was a baby and then it became once a week. Now with new baby he gets a bath every day and she gets in with him.

aless02

Oh, also...

Do I remember correctly that general advice for a stubborn baby who won't eat much, not even his favourite foods is to just keep offering them normal food and they will eat again eventually?

MadDogWoman_2

Aless that what works with Katie, I also ignored her for a little bit she would then start eating as she wasn't getting the attention for not eating, that trick still works today

rosie-lee

To be honest, although I do hang my head in shame....
I'm a 'whenever they're dirty, have a bath' type too. Oh and a quick shampoo in the shower an odd morning to freshen them up.

OR when I just need 10 mins peace and quiet. Live in a bungalow and they're 9 & 4 so I can occasionally catch a bit of corrie with a nice bubble bath diversion!!

Krystaltips

Yeah pretty much the size of it Aless... No baby will intentionally starve itself

Weezl, love ya

I have no structure to my day... Apart from maybe meal times and nap times... But play is sporadic and spontaneous... We do a lot of boat rowing and pretending to eat each other at the moment... (although the latter may have to stop since she nipped my skin earlier whilst biting my pyjama top lol)

We do 2 groups routinely, Tuesday is toddler group at church... Mostly free play and an abundance of toast... Friday is rhythm and rhyme... Or mostly Mummy sits in the circle while Caitlyn wanders around doing her own thing...

Food is something which Hubby will buy on his way home from work... Cooking is something I mostly try and do from scratch with mediocre supermarket ingredients... But we have a fair few take aways and the odd yellow food day...

Cleaning is something that everyone waits for someone else to do in this house... It's generally tidier when I'm not pregnant... But not much

sassyblue

DS is 4 and we bath every evening, l get in and he gatecrashes mine! He doesn't get soaped down every night because he doesn't need it, perhaps every other night, we've always used the bath as a 'wind down' time.

He has a quick wash in the morning too.