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lourhys

Hi all i'm mainly a lurker on MSE, Martin's saved me a fortune over the years! :money:
Anyway i stumbled across the parent club and being like most mammys a total pramaholic................I have the phil &teds sport but MUST have the new Vibe (sorry martin) anyway i 'won' one ebay.com but they want $200 to send it to uk. Any help from anyone...i have not paid yet because $200 makes it not very worthwhile
Louise x

Becles

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Finding things difficult at the minute - it's just a culmination (??) of everything getting on top of me, plus i have OCD which makes this time of year with my kids particularly hard for various reasons. Plus the house is a tip and i can't see any way of ever getting things mended, decorated, cleaned, etc.

That's what was contributing to me feeling down.

I've been making the effort to do bits and bobs when I can. It's amazing what you can get done in 15-20 minute bursts! If you have just one tidy corner or fixed thing, it spurs you on to do more.

The other day Charlotte was playing happy with her brothers, so I managed to get the baby bath and other tiny baby bits up the loft as I was sick of tripping over them.

I was sick of washing up and looking out at an overgrown flower bed opposite the window, so I popped Charlotte in the travel cot out on the lawn one afternoon, and tidied it up while she played and "chatted" to me.

I tidied out a drawer full of junk and found a small drawstring bag, which is just the right size to put Charlotte's bricks in to keep them tidy. Two birds with one stone there!

I'm making myself spend 10-15 minutes every evening sorting out whatever came in the post and emails during the day. Then I'm not ending up with a paperwork and email mountain where I loose important things or forget to do them.

I've also been working on other things that were bothering me. I've had my hair highlighted and I love it, and I've got contact lenses for occasional wear. I've bought a few new clothes, which has made me feel better about my appearance. Not spent a lot - sitting here in £8 jeans and a £6 top from Asda! That's given me more confidence in myself and I've been out socialising a few times, which I wouldn't have done a few months ago.

Hope that gives you a bit of inspiration to get some small bits done, and maybe that will make you feel brighter. Take care xx

Lovely photographs Snaggles. She looks like she had a lovely day.

SusanC_2

Good news on the wedding front. My cousin replied saying she didn't know what I was expecting but she had thought Alice would just sit at the table to eat. It hadn't occurred to me that someone would not realise I meant breastfeeding when I asked about somewhere to feed a 13 month old.

Sarahsaver

Susan C i got a really nice scarf from Primark, quite big with stars all over it. I am wearing it now but when little saver is born I will use it to cover babe and me up when I am feeding. some people object but also there are a few pervy men who stop and stare.
If they dont like it they have a problem. they would not like to eat their dinner in a toilet!
OH and I got invited to a wedding once MINUS the kids. I SO did not want to go.

izoomzoom

Snaggles, Natasha is just boooootiful.

lourhys, hi and welcome. perhaps you should ask on the ebay/carboot pages - they are bril about anything ebay there.

Becles, good idea about sorting our one drawer at a time. I am still just trying to flyby cleaning one room at a time, but it more often than not fizzles out come the end of the week. Thank goodness my kitchen gets a clean each Monday and most times my lounge ea Tuesday. Come Wed things start to lag a bit.

LuT, that was a luck break you had something on that you can fix. I am lucky if I can keep DH in his suit longer than the wedding vows :mad: .

I finally put my birthpool into ebay and it sold over the weekend, for almost twice what I was sort of expecting. When I failed to give birth it in in Nov, I looked at the prices pools were going on on ebay and was vvvvvery disappointed £40-60 so I though I would hang onto it a bit longer. Seems the current price is £60-80, but I got over £100 !!!! :j :j I reckon I have made my money back because I coudn't sell the liner or hose pipe (DH left them outside) but then ebay pulled my listing (after it had finished) because I had breached some copyright blabla:o , but luckily my buyer had already paid (and I shipped) so the deal seems to carried on, despite ebay (and I don't have to pay their fees :j ). Anyone have a pool to sell, now is definitely the right time. I had 40 watchers too.:money:

3KIDSNOMONEY

aww septemberbaby you took me off the given birth list on pregnancy thread:embarasse ! Hope your little bump is coming along nicely and you are feeling well.

can't believe i am getting broody already! someone slap me. I hated being pregnant with my 4th baby and no way ever am i having any more but these bloomin hormones are driving me mad.

hi Becles - keep trying to tackle jobs around the house but just the day to day stuff (with 4 kids) seems to take up any time i have. Would just love to be able to take kids to school and not feel like the house needs and industrial clean and tidy. Everywhere seems to need painting and OH is so useless at doing these things, that is when he bothers attempting them.

Dormouse

Great pics, Snaggles - looks like a great party! :j

I'm another one totally stressed out with housework . I have days when I just feel like giving up - the second I've cleaned one corner I turn around to see a huge mess the two monkeys have made somewhere else. :rolleyes: It's never ending. :mad:

I have total respect for you girls with 3 or 4 kids - honestly, I don't know how you do it. :A

And with the beautiful weather we're having, cleaning is the last thing I want to do! At least I've been walking with the pram a lot, and even walking DS1 to nursery (he takes his bike ), which is a one-hour round trip, so hopefully I should be getting fitter, even though my house is a pigsty.

hobo123

Hi there wondering if anyone could offer some advice, my little girl is 22 weeks and I started weaning at 17 weeks as she was always very sick with her formula and was advised that hopefully moving her on to solids would help her sickness and colic, I am just so confused as to what she should be eating and drinking daily.
I was told by the HV that she should still be taking around 30ozs formula a day until 6 months but that I should still be increasing amount of solids she takes and number of feeds she takes solids at, she seems to have lost a lot of interest in the bottle since starting taking food off of a spoon and it is very difficult to get her to take it.
Also when should she be drinking out of a cup? what should she be drinking?

I'm sorry for all the questions but can't seem to find the answers I'm looking for anywhere so any help is very much appreciated.

izoomzoom

Hi hobo123, can I ask, was your DD not gaining weight through sickness, or did the HV tell you to put her onto solids to help because of the sickness.

My DD started on solids recently, and she has always been a very sickie baby - vomits regularly and she lives in a bib (even overnight) and soaks about 4 terry square nappies a day too (from sickness) BUT she has consistently gained weight, which is why I only really started weaning from 24+ weeks.

Even on solids now, she still vomits for Africa and my HV's said that this can go for almost a year

hobo123

Hi
No she has always gained weight but was being extremely sick and was having a lot of problems with her stomach so that is why they recommended starting to wean her at 17 weeks - being a first time mother I followed their advice hoping it would help but as you said she is still being extremely sick just a lot more disgusting now! but it has really helped her stomach no 3 hours of evening crying to contend with!