Having a baby Old Style???

SomersetPrincess

jellyhead wrote:

here's a moneysaving tip - don't buy farleys rusks. everyone i know says their husbands sneakily eat them.

Think my other half is secertly looking forward to the Rusks too (am only 18 weeks pregnant so he has a way to go yet hehe)

ivyleaf

SomersetPrincess wrote:

Think my other half is secertly looking forward to the Rusks too (am only 18 weeks pregnant so he has a way to go yet hehe)

My DD is 18 weeks pregnant herself and has gone mad on Farley's Rusks, not having eating them since she was a toddler she's currently eating four a day! I think she's making up for the fact that she hardly ate anything when she was feeling sick all day. I dread to think how much sugar's in them, but of course the "reduced-sugar" rusks are disgusting. :rolleyes:

starlite_2

hahahhaaa

so funny as just tody I bought boots orgnic strwberry rusks for my baby..and tried one to find they tast just like jammy dodgers..
i ate half the pack

SomersetPrincess

starlite wrote:

hahahhaaa

so funny as just tody I bought boots orgnic strwberry rusks for my baby..and tried one to find they tast just like jammy dodgers..
i ate half the pack

Ooo feel a trip to Boots coming on :-)

starlite_2

hahhaa..
as they are 'no dded sugr' tc i guess they are healthier than th real thing..but won't bother checking the stats to make sur..

poor baby..they'll be all gone within an hour I swear..

pickle

For those interested - Morrisons have car window sunscreens in a cat face design for 99p (2 in pack). Better than £7-8 which I've seen elsewhere!

jellyhead

i took a packet of mini rusks out at the weekend (swimming pool party), there are 6 in a pack. they are probably quite expensive compared full size rusks (i break a full size rusk into half or quarters for the baby, and i put the other bits back into the packet for later if my husband isn't around lol!) but if people are pinching them the mini ones might be a better option if people are eating a whole full size one. i think it was £1.55 for 4 packets, 6 in a packet. when i got out the packet of mini rusks all the fathers eyes lit up and the whole packet went in seconds :rotfl:

Loadsabob

Hello,

I just wanted to share with you all how thrilled my best friend is with the re-usable nappies she's using on her two month old.

She's a very impatient person who I would have suspected may have switched to disposables if the going got tough, but she's done herself proud, and says they have been a total breeze to use.

She lives in Falmouth, Cornwall, and has been in touch with the Cornish Real Nappy Project who guided her through the minefield of choice with reusables. They let you choose some before the birth but encourage parents to come back after the birth with thebaby and try them on to see what will work best for them.

My friend has gone for the shaped stuffable nappies, inserting folded pieces of towel or similar into them. She says they're fantastically easy to use, and that when the padding is soaking wet, the nappy isn't at all. The fleece material its made from is machine washable and she says they're dry about half an hour after coming out of the machin, just hanging in the house.

So - it's possible that re-usables can be a very easy alternative to disposables.

(She does seem to have turned into a Supermum, actually. The baby has a routine already, sleeping from 10.30pm to 7.30 am, with two naps in the day. Sleeping in his own room, in the dark with no problems. I'm totally impressed! And she's not using ANY petroleum products or chemicals at all. Quite an OS baby!)

atrebor

WOW what a big thread!

My second daughter is just 3 weeks old, and another girl means I can reuse all of my firsts stuff - although i suspect that everything would have been put in to the washer with a blue dye if i'd had a boy.

I only spent 150 quid in setting up for my first - but grandparents did buy the pushchair and car seat. which I am now reusing.

Make sure you get everything you are entitled to from the inland rev... child benefit can go a long way! also tax credits and they used to do a baby grant to help with the cost of setting things up - not sure if they still do though, it was quite alot about
500 quid.

Also don't buy too much before they baby arrives as you may well not need it. The first size baby grows only fit for a few weeks - my second DD has just grown out of them at 3 weeks. You can always send DH out shopping if you really need anything in the early days after the birth.

Borrow what you can - moses baskets

the supermarket own brands are great value for baby grows, urp cloths etc.

We're also using washables nappies, and they a really aren't that much of a chore and Norfolk County Council gave us 30 pounds off.

Buy the full size baby bottles not the half size ones as again they are useless after about 3 months.

DO ask people for things you actually want - or you'll end up with a load of soft toys and natty little outfits that take hours to put on and off.

Get granny (or anyone) knitting. Our hand knitted baby blankets are beautiful and much admired.

Check out freecycle

Get the freezer full of some meals that DH can shove in the oven
and buy a few nice bottles of wine!

Good luck and enjoy the ride.

Karnam

oh wow this seems like the place to ask this rather than marriages etc. board

i have annabel karmel's books and i wanna make my own rusks. she says to use brown bread, and bake it with a marmite/water mix. what brown breadshould i use? should i make my own? i looked at rusks but am horrified at how much sugar is in them! bad enough uncles give baby ice cream.