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SusanC_2

cha97michelle wrote: »

He likes laying on his belly with his knees tucked up underneath him though

Alice sleeps in that position too - I would've thought it would be uncomfortable. I read somewhere that if they can climb out of the cot you should switch to a bed as it's safer to fall out of a bed then off the top of a cot but other than that it's just up to your own preference.
Obviously I haven't tried it yet but tips I've read are:
- put rolled up blankets under the sheet at the edge to make it harder to fall out.
- put a duvet or the cot mattress on the floor by the bed so if they do fall out they have a soft landing.

Alice is nearly one but I wouldn't fancy trying her in a bed as sometimes she has dents on her forehead because she's been sleeping right against the bars. I think it would probably be fine once she went to sleep but she moves around a lot first.

Snaggles

SusanC wrote: »

Alice is nearly one but I wouldn't fancy trying her in a bed as sometimes she has dents on her forehead because she's been sleeping right against the bars. I think it would probably be fine once she went to sleep but she moves around a lot first.

A few days after I brought my son home from hospital, I lifted him out of his moses basket and almost screamed in terror because his forehead was covered in weird little lines and bumps. I thought he has some sort of Klingon disease, and that I was going to have to rush him to hospital. It took me a good few minutes to realise it was because he had slept with his face pressed against the side of the moses basket, and the lumps had just been made by his skin pressing on the broderie anglais cover...

Dormouse

LOL at the Klingon disease :rotfl:

I had a similar embarrassing first-time mum moment when DS1 was kicking about with his nappy off and peed upwards, soaking his forehead. :eek: I thought he had a terrible fever and it was sweat dripping from his head...

Snaggles

Dormouse wrote: »

LOL at the Klingon disease :rotfl:

I had a similar embarrassing first-time mum moment when DS1 was kicking about with his nappy off and peed upwards, soaking his forehead. :eek: I thought he had a terrible fever and it was sweat dripping from his head...

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Js_Other_Half

In case anyone is looking at buying car seats from toys r us, there is a £5 off voucher for any over £60. It is in the Babies r us magazine, which is normally 75p, or free when you sign up for a Gold card (a loyalty card scheme).

Apparently you also get some vouchers for your child around their birthday if you have a gold card - the staff said it's usually around a fiver.

purplepatch

Izzy managed to attack my desk today - climbed up on the chair and got hold of a pen. Scribbled over £195 pounds worth of tesco clubcard deal voucher for our eurotunnel crossing this summer that I was about to send off. On the back of the vouchers it says that they will not be accepted if altered, damaged or defaced. Nor can you get the vouchers resent.

Grrrrrr..... kids eh. Keep your fingers crossed for me that eurotunnel will accept them. All is still legible, just quite a bit of wispy scribbles. I put a covering note apologising for my toddler's handiwork, hopefully they will see the funny side.

Plus to cap it all, she scribbled all over the chair's fabric seat pad as well.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: *Sigh*

Snaggles

Oh no PP - little monkey!

I hope they will accept them - surely they wouldn't be so mean as to refuse. Fingers crossed for you.

Dormouse

purplepatch wrote: »

Izzy managed to attack my desk today - climbed up on the chair and got hold of a pen. Scribbled over £195 pounds worth of tesco clubcard deal voucher for our eurotunnel crossing this summer that I was about to send off. On the back of the vouchers it says that they will not be accepted if altered, damaged or defaced. Nor can you get the vouchers resent.

Grrrrrr..... kids eh. Keep your fingers crossed for me that eurotunnel will accept them. All is still legible, just quite a bit of wispy scribbles. I put a covering note apologising for my toddler's handiwork, hopefully they will see the funny side.

Plus to cap it all, she scribbled all over the chair's fabric seat pad as well.

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes: *Sigh*

:eek: :eek: :eek: Oh no... Hope it will be okay though - it would be very horrible of them not to accept them.

I'm sure I'll be in that situation at some point as well - I keep all my Tesco vouchers and everything else next to the computer, and often have to rescue things from inquisitive little hands. You'd think I'd get more organised but... :rotfl:

cha97michelle

having a day and a half here again.

Woke up and DS had been sick all over in his cot, goodness knows when, but he didn't cry or anything so the poor mite was just laid in it probably since last night, I remember hearing him cough over the baby monitor, and then he said mammy but then was quiet again, and that was when desperate housewives was on.

So, lots of extra work, plus i had a dentist appointment to get to and as it takes a month to get an appointment, had to make it today or not at all until baby here. Thankfully my sister was able to watch him for that hour for me.

hopefully not the start of the dreaded stomach bug again. We have also had a couple of nasty nappies so i think he will be off tomorrow as well, and then it will be a case of see how he is as we are all supposed to be at a wedding on Saturday, and DH at least will have to go as he is best man.

No sense of timing these children.

Thanks for all the tips about the beds. I appreciate it. One less thing to stress about.

Michelle, x

Miss_Kitty_Fantastico

I thought I would introduce myself as I have been reading the posts for a little while but have been too ‘shy’ to post.

My name is Nic and I am a first time Mum to dd (6 weeks old) – I am suffering quite badly from pnd so this forum is brilliant as I realise im not alone.

My OH was lucky enough to be at home for first 3 weeks and then ½ days but has now gone back to work which is hard.

I don’t have any family close by which makes getting support hard and I only have 1 friend that I made through work (she doesn’t have any kids).

Hope I can join in the posting and continue to enjoy the ‘chat’

Nic x