MSE Parents Club Part 16

CL

I agree that sugar is better than artificial sweeteners. I never buy sugar free stuff unless it is an all natural product sweetened with concentrated fruit juice.

delain

pigpen wrote: »

But it was alternative ways of getting milk down their necks we were discussing ..

I don't buy sugar free anything it is usually full of artificial sugars
which cause more problems than they solve. They actual increase the likelihood of the child becoming obese as the body reacts to fake sugars by grabbing evey bit of sugar it can find and storing it as fat because it is promised sugar and gets none.. so it looks for it.. At least real sugars can be broken down and made into important things your body needs instead of fat... yes I am this nutty

I don't like sugar free things because they have a strange taste there is so much diabetes in my family I am going to be screwed when it hits me because I don't like the taste of aspartame

I was told by a HV when the twins were being really rigid about food to 'hide' things, so I can see the milk jelly (although made like that sounds rank to me - but I did say I was strange about food ) working that way. I've never had the milk problem, mine will all drink gallons of it.

Nephthys

Evening all!

Delain - my mum used to make the jelly/evap milk dessert. Very popular in the 70s/80s I think. In our house it is known as fluff and is still a favourite dessert!:j I really want some now and yes it makes me feel 5 too! LO doesn't really like jelly either but he's only tried it once.

CL - not sure what to suggest as we gave Chunky bottles of expressed milk from 4 weeks. He has now stopped bottles (hurrah!) as I am no longer producing enough milk to make expressing worthwhile. He has Tommee Tippee cups for water at meal times and 4 BFs from me during the day. He loves yoghurt so I make sure he has some every day and I give him cheese when he fancies it. Like me he prefers it melted on toast! Cereal is made with whole milk.

Had his 6-9 month review today. Had to complete a home safety questionnaire but it was fairly quick and painless.

Childrens toys should not be manufactured without volume control and an accessible off switch! :mad: I now know all tunes on every toy the child owns!

gizmodo_2

rach wrote: »

SE and London ladies giz, mi3, sir m, mv, jennynoo (anyone i've missed?) do you fancy a meet at some point? was thinking clapham junction are could be quite easy for most of us to get to and we can pretend to be yummy mummies? Sir M, Mi3 and I are meeting tomorrow i think so perhaps we can chat about it?

I would love to, but not sure I'd have the guts to go through with it. Am very very shy.

MERFE wrote: »

Hope the dentists not too bad giz x

I need 2 fillings. I think that's pretty good considering I've not been in 13 years. I am a bit annoyed though with my dentist from when I was a kid. It was him who put me off going once I was old enough to make my own decisions. Everytime I went I had fillings and if I didn't have new fillings he drilled out old fillings and put new ones in. The injections were agony, having my teeth cleaned hurt. It was just horrible and put me off dentists for life. I went this time because being the tight person I am I thought if I'm going to go I may as well go now while it's free.

Anyway, the dentist was lovely. She was so understanding. She's told me she's very good at giving the injections to numb so hopefully it won't be as bad as I remember. I go back next week for the fillings and a clean. I'm quite nervous, but I'm going to try and use some hypnobirthing techniques

madnessandmayhem wrote: »

Where is everyone else from?? I see a few from the London area-I'm in Gloucestershire.

I'm in Surrey.

Oh I forgot to mention earlier...DD had her first night in her cotbed last night No problems.

CL

Oh, teeth came up 7 shades whiter! And no they weren't brown to begin with!

rach

delain/nepthys - I remember that dessert as a kid too, one of my mum's friends used to make it, jelly fluff we called it!

giz - of course you can, we'd so love to meet you. i've made such a fab friend in sir m by having the guts to go and meet up when we were on the pg thread you never know what might happen!

CL - great about the teeth, lots of smiles now! re the milk, I bet she'll take more from dh when you're away. L went through a phase on holiday of not drinking enough, fontanelle got quite sunken one day, it was the royal wedding day and he'd hardly fed and it was warm - he gets so distracted out and about and it was a nightmare. he woke up crying about 10pm and we brought him down as i wanted to watch the wedding highlihgts on tv, dh stroked his head and said 'he's got a massive hole in his head'...he didn't even know they had a soft spot! Anwyay, he guzzled down a bf and then 7oz formula in a bottle. He's currently refusing bottles but i expect he'd take one if i was away long enough.

re the bus...is it the little people one? how do you make it swear? my neice has one, i almost threw it out of the window at christmas!

Becles

JadeOrchid wrote: »

:wave: Hi all
Just checking in to share my moment of madness/genius.:p
Those plastic toys with the music that is just that eeking bit too loud, with NO blinking volume control but they love so much so you can't remove batteries. Found the speaker hole, stuck sellotape/masking tape over it = lower volume = Sanity for mummy! :j:j:j:j

The boys had a really loud clock that played irritating tunes and generally drove me up the wall. It accidentally got put to the back of the cupboard out the way, and then got donated to the charity shop because they hadn't played with for ages....

I'm in County Durham so miles away from you lot

Pleased things seem to be picking up for you m&m :cool:

Good news about the teeth CL. It's something I've often wondered if it really works.

I try and buy sugar squash rather than sugar free. It's difficult though as sugar free seems to be a lot more popular.

Mine tend to prefer drinking milk or pure fruit juices. We seem to get through gallons of it.

delain

CL wrote: »

Oh, teeth came up 7 shades whiter! And no they weren't brown to begin with!

Wow I want that done!

Rach it is a Vtech one - might well be little people.

You do the settings so it does phonetic letters and press certain buttons.

Seriously they used to drive me nuts. The one that's not in the loft is currently missing batteries :rotfl:

When I lived with KH the kids all had soo many noisy plastic things it was untrue. We must have had about three big toyboxes full (his mum would get really carried away)

Squeak has her animal train and a Vtech sit to stand thingy and a talking Lau Lau, that's it. She has lots of books though which she really loves.

Oh and on a carp ex mil note again, she's been giving them back toys and things left at KH's (he would never give me anything back, I left with what I could carry more or less) and apparently twin2 (being very sweet imo) Said to ex-mil:

'Can I take this home for my baby sister because she would really love it'

And she was told '

no, Squeak can't have it and she's not to be allowed near anything from Daddy's that you take home and anyway she's not your sister she's only your half sister' :mad::mad::eek::eek:

Twin2 was quite upset and I was livid, we don't need stuff from hers anyway, loads of it is crap but I just can't believe ex mil told her she can't even share her own toys with her sister :(

pigpen

Delain.. I wouldn't be letting them go.. they aways seem to come back upset!!

I have cankles!! lol... gorgeous I am.. no wonder OH is less than impressed with me Is it too much to ask for a bit of affection now and again? and I can't remember last time anyone said they love me..

I am sad tonight.. I think Squeak might actually have whooping cough.. after me saying she didn't .. ok so it was one of the first things I thought but I didn't want it to be that so convinved myself it isn't. .. DD1 is having a selfish b!tch moment so is going to be incredibly humiliated in front of her friends at college tomorrow.. when I turn up there.. or possibly send the police to check on her..

I am taking my misery to bed.. Squeak has aready set the movement monitor off twice tonight so I can see I need an early night I look forward to my 2 hours broken sleep.

rach

oh pigpen we love you! hope squeak did get some sleep and that you get to see someone about the possible whooping cough soon. I remember my sister having it. I did google and find a walk in centre in your city but i'm sure you're capable of doing that yourself. i only knew they existed cos of my mum!

L cried at 6am (happy with that as he went to sleep at 7pm, this is a miracle stretch compared with a few weeks ago!) but then he quietened himself down and seems to be just chatting so i'm keeping out of there just yet as i figure the earlier i go in the earlier he'll wake!

we have the bf training this morning which means leavin home about 8.30 for me. We're not going to manage meeting MI3 today as seems a bit much for the boys after a morning stuck in the training, we will sort out a date soon and let everyone else who is local know and we can all pretend to be yummy mummies!

not sure if i mentioned but we're also house hunting. dh has phoned a mortgage broker and we can borrow just about enough without my salary (not that i currently have one) so we're hoping to get something before stamp duty kicks back in. we're at the v bottom end of what's available house wise in the area we want as property is so pricey here, and we don't want a flat.