MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

lazywife

Sounds unprofessional of the creche Lao-cat. My nursery knew we were going to send T there since August he's only just started settling in sessions this week), I'd not like to have to start looking for places again now if there was no room. Glad your work have been accommodating.
Had a better night last night, basically kept him up until he was visibly very tired (9.15) and he took a nice bf and was asleep in his cot for 9.25pm. Although far from ideal it was preferable to the previous night when I started bedtime at 7.45 and still only came down at 9.30.
We're off to a trade fair in London tomorrow. We've a 50 min drive to the train and a 50 min train journey to get to Kings Cross and then about 20 min tube transfer. Should be interesting with an 11 month old, we'll then just push him round in his buggy, we'll take the carrier too (we've a Stokke carrier and he's not bad front facing) to mix it up a bit and I'll just stop for a coffee at frequent intervals to give him a bit of a play, can mooch about around his pushchair (likes' walking round it, holding on!) and can nap on me when he needs (or in the chair). Should be an adventure.... fun or not we'll have to wait and see. Thankfully don't have to get up at 3.15am to get there CD!
L.xxx

continualdiamond

I don't think I'm going to respond. In the letter she did say she didn't want to discuss anything that she mentioned, she just felt she had to mention it.

OH and I are pretty sure it wasn't meant for us but just for him.

I had a good chat about it all when I went out for lunch with my friend today so that helped. Thank goodness it is Easter holidays so I was able to see her.

My natural reaction is to air it all out to my sister as I know she wouldn't say anything to our mum. We share a lot of things with each other when it comes to not wanting to tell our parents everything.

Lao-cat - did you have a contract? That is so wrong to suddenly say they no longer have a space. Though it is what frightens me with my child minders as it's all just verbal at the moment. I meet with them both on the 25th April and in away cannot wait as that's when a contract is agreed.

Have a nice time Lazywife. I'm in Nottingham so we had a bit of trek to get to the station to park (cockfosters) and our stop was Leicester square which was about 40 mins on the tube. We stopped twice though, once in a car park as LO was hungry and then another at a services for ourselves to get a drink and some breakfast. My LO was better than I thought she would be, she loved being in the carrier facing outwards looking at everything, if I tried to hold her hand she'd push me away so she clearly loved being nosey, hahaha.

Sparkles87

Sainsburys 25% starts on Tuesday, just seen it on my FB today

Weaning is tough and sleeping is too. Too tired to add anything else today, so sending hugs and sleepy baby thoughts x

Saffagal

Thanks for that Sparkles, I have been waiting for their sales - need to get some bits for A in the next size.

We had a better night last night, 7:30 to 6:30 this morning when I heard her playing in her cot until almost 7 when I went in.

CD it is very hard being far from your family. I am lucky that I get on well with my mil but in your shoes, I wouldn't go round for a bit. Send OH on his own and get him to tell them that you were both very hurt by the letter she left.

Lcat, can't believe the nursery did that!? Had you not paid a reservation fee? Are they refunding it?

Lazywife, enjoy London. I have to say I only ever take the sling when I go into London, just couldn't face the tube/trains with a buggy and A though I do tend to go in just the two of us when we go.

As for us, a quiet weekend planned, preparing the base for the shed. The shed means all the garden and camping stuff can be stored there and where we currently store it will become our study giving us extra room upstairs so I am quite excited about it

Enjoy the weekend everyone x

Gillyx

Just a quick one to say, first night without cot sides. Eeeeek. He went to bed as usual and the 3 (or 30 ) times I've checked on I him he's been in the same position. Seems so silly but 90% of the time has sleep has been top notch in the cot so I'm a bit apprehensive that it will all go to pot, but fingers crossed.

Bangton

CD gosh your mil sounds awful. How does your husband feel about the letter? I think your right to stay away. How awful that she thinks the relationship was 'doomed' because you had to stay with them when you moved over here! What a piece of work!

Regards the weaning I was giving lo 3 meals after 4 weeks of weaning. I started with tea time as that's our quietest period of the day. Then added lunch and then finally added breakfast but I had to get rid of the first bottle of the day because he's never that hungry on a morning. He only has about 5 teaspoons of breakfast and wont take milk as well.

We've gradually increased the amount he has at each meal and I've now finally (Thanks to the advice on here) had the guts to give him finger foods which I tend to do at lunch.

We've now moved onto normal meals (what we're eating) on the advice of the health visitor. so much easier!!!

lao_cat

CD Saf, we paid the first month as a reservation fee last September. The owner gave us a choice we can have a place starting in July and she will give us a month free or we can have our deposit back. I didn't exactly give my work a choice I explained that due to emergency I could come back as planned and as a result I have had all of my work reallocated and I will likely spend the next year being send to every out of hours and long distance meetings we have on, which is longer hours and loads of unpaid travel time so I wouldn't call it accommodating.

Hope everyone is doing well and babies are sleeping

continualdiamond

Bangton - I had always thought (clearly I was wrong) that we got on all right. I've always known we're not close but she isn't one for shopping trips or lunches out where as my mum is. I'd happily walk around chatting, window shopping and popping into a coffee shop with mum and sister. But my mil never asked me to do those things.

They couldn't bare us living with them and my fil would often get annoyed and give us like £20 to go out. We were then told after about 7-8mths living with them that we had to find our own place and whilst it's not a nice memory our 1st place of our own was a static caravan that we rented. We never got invited round for tea so that is then when the whole thing I guess started of not seeing them very much.

It's really got to me and it's all I can think about, well the choice of word 'doomed' is all I can think about. My husband said the letter didn't shock him, his choice of words were 'she has issues'.

I would tell my mum to get it off my chest but that will just open up a big can of worms in terms of them taking the approach of 'my daughter is half way round the world and this is how someone feels about her' etc etc.

On other news bumped into my TA manager whilst in town and she said she'd past my email on with me mentioning that I needed Mon-Wed work wise with having no childcare for the Fri, so fingers crossed. Even though I have got a back up option now at least I know it might still go the way I need it too.

sunshine_1988

Gillyx wrote: »

Just a quick one to say, first night without cot sides. Eeeeek. He went to bed as usual and the 3 (or 30 ) times I've checked on I him he's been in the same position. Seems so silly but 90% of the time has sleep has been top notch in the cot so I'm a bit apprehensive that it will all go to pot, but fingers crossed.

Hope it went well!! We have been in a bed for about a month now and he loooves it, sleeps loads better too. On occasion I have to wake him up, which is unheard of!

X

Gillyx

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

Hope it went well!! We have been in a bed for about a month now and he loooves it, sleeps loads better too. On occasion I have to wake him up, which is unheard of!

X

It went ok yes, he slept for the usual amount of time really, up at 8am as usual and didn't even come out to meet up, just shouted as normal, after climbing out the cot to come and get us previously grrrr. Looks like itl be ok though big change isn't it?


For everyone else, out shopping yesterday and H&M and Zara Kids have awesome stuff in, I didn't look at girls, only boys but they have beautiful things I bought quite a few bits for A.