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

sunshine_1988

Haha...what a funny photo cake!! Cheeky little monkeys
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Bangton

cake I love that photo! It looks like they are up to no good. . brilliant!

There must be something about OHs and telly. mine can't function without it and it sends me potty. He does watch LO pretty well to be fair but I am not really much of a tv watcher and after a while it just annoys me being on! Also he'll watch a lot of catch up or have a film on in background and I've had to point out that lots of what he watches is full of swear words. He took it well to be fair but I feel like a bossy mum to him too and I don't know why a 31 year old father wouldn't consider that for himself!

Anyway I feel a bit mean dissing him as he's been golden for the last fortnight. I've told him to his face his telly annoys me though so at least I've called him to his face too!!!

wanted to take lo to the park today to go on the baby swings but it's raining so that's ruined that!

Can I ask people with non walkers. . What do you do as a family on a weekend? We tend to have walls/go to the park etc. We used to be big on lunch and coffee out but lo gets too bored now and I'm a bit stuck.

I saw princc George at the zoo and he looked so giddy that's definitely on our list as LO is very inquisitive now I think he'll enjoy it.

I'm fine in the week with playdates/baby groups etc but at the weekend we get a bit stuck!

CD I'd say nursery 2 as well. It sounds similar to the place my lo will be attending. mine is a bit of a hybrid between childminder and nursery as it's basically 3 minders looking after children/babies in a huge converted house. I only visited this one place but I was lucky. . my brother did some work for them and they were so chuffed with it when he was flagging my garden the husband (an electrician) fitted lights in our flags for free! so I knew they were lovely people and when I actually got there I just loved the staff/the house/the garden/the little extras that I snapped up the place.


I'm being made redundant but it could be up to a year away. . or less. I'd hoped I wouldn't need childcare at all and that my job would end before I was due back but that's not happening and whilst I was really pigged off about it I'm now so happy with my childcare I'm quite looking forward to going back (my work have been great about going back too and let me start back part time for a while)!

Anyway I'm just waffling on now! Have a nice weekend everyone xx

Saffagal

Morning ladies

Hope you're all well.

A year ago, now, my labour kicked off and by 14:25 I had my precious little girl (emcs)! I can scarcely believe she is 1 today and feel so blessed to have her.

She was so cute opening her present this morning (thank you for the recommendation Nutella) And has already been happily playing with her leapfrog Discovery House

Nap time now so I can blitz the house ready for her party this afternoon; just family today. Am going to try and get another nap in before her party so she is in a good mood for it

Have a lovely day all x

Saffagal

Cake, I Love the picture! Your girls have spirit

tranmereforever

Hello all,

I am a dad of a beautiful 10 month old baby girl

I have a question about baby groups, my wife goes once every couple of weeks to a baby group with her but to be honest she does not like them all that much ( she finds them a bit competitive )

She is going back to work next month part time whereby she will be put into a nursery for 2 days a week and so will be mixing with other babies there and we have a number of friends who have babies of similar ages who she sees quite often

The issue is that my mum is concerned that she should be doing more baby groups and integrating more but I do not want to put pressure on my wife to attend more if she is not enjoying them

Just wondering if anyone else does not like them or did not use them or whether its just something with my OH

*Nutella*

Personally I avoided baby groups as I don't like small talk and organised 'fun' with a bunch of strangers. I did a baby massage course and a postnatal exercise class and took LO swimming once a week (I much prefer an actual activity) and have a couple of friends with similar aged babies, so we used to meet up most weeks whilst we were all on maternity leave. LO started nursery three days a week when she was 8 and a half months and she was absolutely fine. A bit clingy at first, but I think that's to be expected irrespective of how much interaction they've had with other babies, as it's still a new environment and a new routine away from parents and familiar toys. She loves the nursery and I really don't think the lack of baby group attendance did any harm.

*Nutella*

Happy birthday mini-Saf! Glad she likes her Discovery House - hope you all have a lovely afternoon x

BeNiceToMySelf

Happy Birthday to Saffa's LO!

Cake that's a brill piccy!

Bangton glad you are happy with OH. LO stays in most of the weekend with occasional trips out because I get the most help from OH at the weekend. We went to cannon hall farm and he seemed to enjoy looking at the animals.

tranmere I used to go to lots of baby groups but that was more for my sanity as LO used to cry all the time and I needed things to structure my day for survival! LO has been poorly the last week and we've stayed and I've really enjoyed the time at home as he's a lot happier now. He's also a lot easier to manage at home. Now I've been to baby groups and made friends I'm finding playdates better for LO as he's calmer and they are free! I guess if your OH doesn't like playgroups then trips to park, shopping and playdates could be an enjoyable alternative. Also as maternity pay runs thin, free stuff like putting some kiddie songs on and singing becomes more appealing.

*Nutella*

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

Any news on your move Nutella?X

Thanks for asking The saga continues - as some of you know, our sellers pulled out on the day of exchange, so we had to find somewhere else to buy. Everything is fine with the house we're now buying, we've got the mortgage offer and the survey report and all that, but our seller's seller is yet to find somewhere to buy, so we're stuck in a chain and have no idea how much longer we'll have to wait. This caused our buyers to pull out last week, and I don't blame them. We now need new buyers and had six people view our flat this morning and also have an offer from someone who viewed it on Thursday, so we should have something confirmed on Monday. I'm tired and broke and I want my house!

continualdiamond

Oh no Nutella. Got my fingers crossed for you on Monday.

Love the photo cake4brains.

Re baby groups. I go to a few but that's mainly for me as majority of my friends I met at work so of course cannot see them during the day and I have no family in this country so if I didn't attend any I'd just be at home all day with never anyone to talk too. I was hoping to make some friends from them but I only have 5 weeks left of my maternity leave and am yet to see anyone outside of the groups as understandably people don't go every week so you don't build up that relationship with people.

I took LO to baby massage but that was only a 3 week course and whilst I also took LO to baby yoga on two occasions (as in 2 lots of solid blocks) she was the youngest in the 1st group so all the other 7 babies/mums moved to the next class and we stayed so again missed out on forming friendships.

I tend to go to the same ones as LO has now become comfortable with those surroundings. LO enjoys them as it's different toys and she also likes interacting with the other babies now.

Thanks for the replies again re the nurseries. I caught up with my friend for coffee yesterday after she finished work and she asked how the search was going for nursery or child minder. When I mentioned that we liked nursery 2 she pulled a right face, so I asked what the matter was and she went on to tell me that she worked for them etc etc (was a long time ago though as I've been at the school for 10 years so she's easily been working for them 11 or 12 years now).

It's made me doubt myself now which is just silly as the manager wasn't even working at the nursery when my friend worked for them. She went on to tell me they insist all the children take a nap after lunch and she didn't like that. I saw that for myself though as the manager said they put little mats on for the children to lay on. Though I'm sure if a child won't nap you'd just encourage them to lay down and relax as of course if they're not tired they're not going to sleep obviously.

Re weekends Bangton, I'm a bit different in that my husband works on a Saturday so that's the hardest day for me knowing I don't have any groups I could pop along too if I needed it. I tend to get out in the morning even if it just for a drive and a nice walk around town.

This morning I went for a drive to find a nursery my friend from Friday mentioned. I had no idea where it was so decided to find out. Had a nosey through the windows, lol and won't be visiting it. Then just went into town and got a few pieces I needed.

Sunday morning I'm always on skype to my family in Australia so we tend to just go for a nice Sunday walk in the afternoon.