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liltdiddylilt

^ I often have that very scenario... with disposables :rotfl:

Levi-

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HarrysMummy

Hehe I love cloth nappies. My initial idea was to save money. Very mse not buying disposables every week right?

But then..... I found pretty prints, this has been my downfall. I have enough nappies to comfortably last a over a week without washing, and i was every 2-3 days cos they'd stink if not!!

I find them so easy. OH won't touch them, nursery have challenges on who can fit them best. They have come home from nursery and I've thought how on earth has that caught anything, but he very rarely comes home in his spare clothes due to a nappy leak so we're all happy.

October_Starter

I might have to look into that if I have children.

How are things going HM? Are you having a good week?

October xx

HarrysMummy

I would certainly recommend them October, dude gets such a sore bottom if we have to use disposables and literally a few hours in cloth and he's back to normal.

Anyway enough nappy talk, I could carry on forever. I've already converted about 4 people. Including a nursery mum who walked up to me for the first time and said "you're son has a big bum, I want to know about it" haha I was like err what, she did then go on to say she'd seen his cloth and wanted to try and her term big bum was meant in a good way!

Everything ok here. Just need to go get a bit of a food shop later. Made shepherds pie ready for tea and a portion (minus mash) ready for the freezer.

I thought the MBNA card payment had gone out so sent an overpayment. Then the minimum payment went out a day later duh! So probably no more payments till after payday. Still got a little left in my account, this will cover NW card payment so all good, just need to make sure I don't spend anything else. Hairdresser tomorrow but money already out for that. Get paid on 15th so not long left.

Really bad night with dude last night so been up and snoozing on sofa since 12.30am. So pretty tired now.

HarrysMummy

So bit ir shopping done in sainsbugs, I know people say its expensive I. There but I really find it quite good. Such as basics tea bags. Somebody in here suggested and i thought I would try. I LOVE ❤ tea. Pg tips girl all the way here. But I honestly like the basics tea! 40 bags for 20p I've tries other cheap brands and nearly barf, so this is a revelation.

Anyway ermmm couple of yellow stickers, cheesecake was one and chocolate mousse things for dude was the other. Oh and a tray of cat food cos the packaging had ripped ( it was a tray of tins so nothing actually wrong with them!)

Came home, had tea followed by above cheesecake and choco things. Bathed a chocolate covered dude and tucked him up in bed. He's asleep but for how long?

So I am now snuggled in bed trying to switch off (aka on mse forums on my phone) hoping to get some much needed sleep.

While I'm here seen as a few of you guys reading have little ones, any advice on ditching the dummy? Dude will not sleep without it or if he's upset wants it etc. I want to get rid sooner rather than later cos it dies my head in scrambling round in the dark for it in the middle of the night!!

Right off to the land of nod, hopefully ....

liltdiddylilt

Firstly on the dummies issue... jelly has dummies only at night, and ours are.... glow in the dark :o:o

Secondly, I am currently building her up to the ****BIRTHDAY FAIRYYYYYYY**** who we are going to wrap up her dummies in pretty paper for on the night before her birthday and put them in a special place where the fairy can swap them for a BIKE :rotfl:

I've been building her up to this for absolutely weeks now. She is 3 in April and I have had enough of the damn things. And MiL wanting to give her them all of the time. And her calling them 'diddy' when Jelly calls them 'Tummies' so neither of them know what the other is on about and hence Jelly ends up with them clamped in her mouth all of the day when she is with MiL to keep her *happy* :mad: - I started sending her stuff in plastic bags marked *daytime* and *nighttime* in big black permanent marker. pyjamas, teddy and dummy x1 in that bag lol. That worked as far as I know but I just want them gone. I never intended for her to have them, let alone be reliant on them.

So.. if you can wait a month, I will tell you how she dealt with it with the incentive in mind. I think there will still be tears, etc, but I have also been going in and removing it from her mouth after she is asleep

Saw you were up most of the night. I joined the club last night. If Him tries to let her into my bed again tonight I will be kicking them both out to sleep in her cotbed :rotfl:

And.. also a PG tips girl here I love the Mr A's chosen by you ones now though. I will try the basics ones, but I can't get it out of my head that it is the tea dust swept off the floor after the branded, then supermarket brand teabags have been made. Am I crazy? :rotfl: x

Ammeretto

Hi HarrysMummy

HAve you been on the site called wee notions yet? http://www.weenotions.co.uk/ :T
OMG their nappies are amazing. You an even design them yourself.

DS2 had a welsh dragon one, a lovely red one with the chinese symbol for Happy on it, one that said Captain DS with a scull & crossbones, one with flames and a few more.
The nursery loved the nappies too.

I wouldn't worry too much about the dummies. When DS1 was little he went everywhere with his, he usually had one in his mouth and one in each hand to go to bed with. When we decided enough was enough the fairy came on his 3rd Birthday and took them away.
I think we had one night where he was unsettled and then he was absolutely fine. Shocked us as we thought he would really create.
DS2 never had a dummie. He just kept spitting them out and wasn't interested.

Levi-

Argh what is it with me lately and losing posts I've just spent ages writing out :mad: Annoying!
Hope you get some good quality kip tonight.. I can't wait to go to bed, lol.. it's not even 10pm and I'll be going soon.. so I'm utterly rock and roll right there with ya
Sounds like you had some good finds on the yellow label stuff. :money: Good work. I always feel quite smug getting something from there which I was going to be buying anywhere and has very little wrong with it - the cat food sounds like a proper result

Forgive me for not knowing the exact age of the Dude but I can weigh in a little bit on the dummy issue.. LL was 4 in December but until last summer he had it all the time, combined with an awful lot of thumbsucking - and then from January of this year it was put on bedtime only status.. which I thought was gonna cause major drama but as he still had his trusty thumb, he was OK with it.
Now kind of more relevant to what you have mentioned I am trying to get him to give it up entirely at night and I'm afraid I'm not doing too well with it. The health visitor didn't have much advice other than to not rush things too much and accept that I have a "child with high levels of insecurity" (oh good ) so then I started to feel extra bad about trying to take away items that (comfort him) but I really do want to see the back of the thing. One thing that helps is when I put him to bed if he is extra tired, and is happy to just go straight for his thumb and is asleep straight away. If he is in one of his up/down/get out of bed/ make a fuss/ ask for stuff modes, the dummy is always the first request and any attempts to ask him to try and go without it are met with massive tantrum results which nobody wants at that time. What I do though is when he is asleep I take it and find that he no longer scrabbles around in the bed looking for it if he wakes up - he goes back to his thumb more easily. Does Dude like his thumb? I think this is helpful but as you can see, not THAT helpful either as you can see, LL still wants both. I am hoping to move toward more reward based system like if you can go 3 nights with out then you get A, or 7 nights without it, you get B.. etc etc. It's not like I'm gonna chop his thumb off so he should COPE. And I probably need to be less soft. Also distractions when I put him to bed - he likes to play on my iPhone or a while, also has a story read to him - but for both of those he associates having the dummy. So it's quite catch 22 in places. I've probably not helped at all and made you feel worse. Maybe you can advise ME!

Lilt's ideas are great and also looking forward to seeing how that works out with Jellytot! :T Maybe something more 'ceremonial' like that is what is needed for them in their minds to really close the door on it.
Let us know how everything goes & sleep well!
Levi..x

liltdiddylilt

Levi I am frightened to death of Jelly finding her thumb. The reason she had a dummy was because when she was about 7 months old she started sucking her thumb one day and quite liked it. Boom, there was mummy with a dummy. Why you ask? Well... how do you remove a THUMB?!?! :eek:

Secondly... I am 29 years old in April... and I still suck my thumb :o:o