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Oh audit. That's awful. Moving might not be an option as you will need to pay it but you current company might let you switch deals to a better rate with them?

Oh audit thats bloody awful. What where they thinking putting your dd down so it didn't cover the bill?? Do you have a smart meter? It sounds a bit fishy really, and utterly crap if you had earmarked money for bunk beds. It took me two years to save for kitchen worktops as 'unexpected Bill' kept on bloody visiting and taking my bit of stashed money.

em you sound very sensible! I found some midwives very helpful in establishing feeding, some, not so much! I do sometimes wish I'd mixed fed, but I had bottle, dummy and general comfort refusers! By dd3 I didn't even try to mix, and just got on with it. Little beast got hooked on a bottle after I'd weaned her thanks Grandma which lasted until she was 5!

Audit that's really crap

£137.77 for my share of JUST THE ACCOMMODATION for my friends hen do 😭 also need to add in drinks and food for two night and a day, brunch, some kind of pampering like a manicure (don't think they've decided yet) and goodness knows what else. All of her friends are successful city girls and I'm a lowly country bumpkin with no money

Audit that's awful. Hope you can speak to them and sort something out.

Hope you are feeling better for a duvet day, creme.

Back to infant feeding, having done both I don't think formula feeding is the easy option at all. It requires far more organization with sterilizing, getting ready to go out etc and in the early days I got a bit obsessed about how much they were taking which didn't occur to me at all with DD1. A friend of mine is doing a mixture, she breastfeeds but her DH give a bottle at bedtime so she can have a break and if she wants to go out she can leave the baby with him. It works brilliantly.

Well, I am due back about £260 on our cash back plan for the dental and eye services. That will help. We don't have a smart meter. We just run too many electrical items, and not necessarily new, energy efficient ones.

I have also just done a balance transfer on my credit card, so although I will have extra to pay on that, at least there will be no interest on it. This is why I need to be here.

I can stay where I am and fix until August 2019, or I can save £400 next year and fix for one year rather than 2. Although I'd need to cover the £550 now to move (although they are going to take £334.18 at the end of the week and the meter read was last week, so that £551 will be £220). Although I prefer a long fix, I think I'll go for one year, and also risk the supplier with the lowest rate although their costumer service isn't showing as great (but very small sample)

That truly is rubbish audit . I wish companies would get their act together

That sounds very spendy wreck . I assume you want to go and you will enjoy it? If you don't want to go then don't. Otherwise treat yourself for once, you deserve it

Long time lurker jumping to just say to Em that if you know you're going back to work it's definitely worth getting baby used to a bottle from the beginning, even if you use breast milk in it (and it's only one bottle a day). But keep it up! I went back to work when my eldest was four months (teaching three days a week) and he had to go to nursery so I needed him to take a bottle. Turned out he was only on bottles by then anyway as I'd had so many issues trying to breastfeed. Anyway, the reason I say this is because my friend had done this the year before but hadn't kept the bottle feed going, so when she went back to work her little boy wouldn't take a bottle at all and she had to leave school in free periods and lunch to rush to his nursery to breastfeed!

Do what's right for you, but be prepared for everyone to have an opinion, about everything! Xx

I couldn't bf DS because he was emergency section and in an incubator. He was formula fed and is fine. DD was also section but not emergency. Bf for 3 weeks the dried up. Also fine.
However making bottles up for DM to feed when I went back to work was a nightmare. But today you can get little cartons ready mixed. Expensive but great.
Having twins is challenge enough, twins and a toddler like Snuggly is scary enough without even thinking about bf.
Oh Creme, I think in your situation I would also have stayed in bed all day. Probably all week.
Welcome theboy.
Bloody hell Adora, that is a lot of fuel. Is it dual fuel?

em, when you have a baby it's easy to tie yourself up in knots trying to do it 'right'. After all, we spend hours before we have our first DC reading and preparing and waiting for this big day. But in reality, the right thing is what is right for YOU, but I think you get that already. Feeding yourself might work great, so might bottle, as might a combo. You won't really know until you meet him

I do agree with Fluffy's point though, made in jest. The issues I made in my DC's early years were the ones I made myself. The more stressed about being a parent you are, the harder the parenting is, to a degree. Easier said than done to figure it out yourself though

Had a lovely day shopping with DD. Having a close relationship with my DD is something wonderful to me, as my own relationship with my DM is so skewed. DD has introduced me to vintage and 'restyled' clothing today

Had dinner out too, just to finish off the BH with the family.

That sounds like a lovely day out need
audit that's a nightmare, good luck trying to sort it out
lovea it's an electronic scale and body fat monitor that the personal trainer has. Thanks for the words of encouragement everyone. I'm on a very long road, but I know I'll get there.
Em as need says, you'll figure out what's best for you & baby when he's here. Be open to all possibilities and you'll be fine. I breast fed both of mine for 6 months & then did work as a peer supporter for the Breast Feeding Network. Their philosophy was very much to support mums to breast feed as little or as much as they were able or wanted to, not to make anyone feel guilty or uncomfortable for not exclusively breast feeding.
Our only spends today were £50 on tea out at a local pizzeria, a treat postponed from when dh & ds were ill. Also £8 on a prescription for dh. It's for eye drops as he has a likely corneal ulcer which can be really serious. It appeared really suddenly this morning but he couldn't get into the urgent care centre until 6.30pm. He has to put the eye drops in every hour overnight & then attend the eye ward first thing in the morning, so fingers crossed he'll be okay.

Maybe I will make it all week, Copper. Ha! Ha!
I got up for a few minutes to wash up and wipe the kitchen surfaces and made sure downstairs was tidy, mind.

North, hope your DH will be ok. Sounds nasty.

Glad you had a good day out, Need.

Sounds like a lovely day need.
Work today, kids going to holiday club but already paid for from vouchers.
Probably need a few bits of fruit but there is aldi near the post office. Posting Lego cards today so however much that will be

£20 on bike lock, £7 on toilet button, £7 on head and shoulders 1 litre, £40 Lidl.

Have been swimming with DD over BH which was nice. Off to big woodland park today.

DD2 stayed in bed until 6.45! I was already awake though due to hay fever sneezing

My missing Amazon order turned up, it was on the doorstep of my neighbours who are on a long holiday so I hadn't looked there . Amazon have let me keep my refund and my nappies so saved £8

No idea what today's plans are. Maybe the park so hopefully LSD. DP is at work.

North That sounds awful, he must be in so much pain.

Morning everyone. I've been away over the bank hol weekend so just caught up on the thread. Hope everyone had a good one.

Bad house news here - the one I was buying fell through last week 😔 Feeling calmer than I thought I would be in this situation but a bit worried all the same. So frustrating. Also trying not to think about the money wasted on solicitors' fees and surveys. Nothing I can do about that now.

I'm totally open to all possibilities. I'm fairly practical I think. I'm not planning a specific birth as I know that things can go wrong/not always go to plan. The plan is go to hospital come home with baby.

Friends have asked whether I'm planning a section or natural birth. As much as I like the idea of having a set planned date for the birth with a section, major surgery when it potentially could be unnecessary??? Nope.

Obviously I won't rule it out and if that's how it has to be that's fine. All that matters is that baby is ok (and so am I).

We'll work it out mostly by winging it. Apparently that's how must people do it. No plans just see what happens. We've been winging it for most of our lives so that seems to work for us.

Back to work today. Planned spends: no more than £25 in boots (I've had a play online and can get everything I need for about £23). And a couple of bras.

Parenting class tonight. Should be interesting.

You don't need any maternity stuff for boots do you Em, to get your beauty box?

Ouch North, that sounds really painful. Hope your DH is okay this morning.

Oh, Holly that's crap about the house. The whole buying and selling thing England is such a ridiculous process. All that money you've spent for nothing, they really need to look at it.

Thanks, we had a lovely day. DS is topped up for holiday now and DD only needs a Primark 'hit'.

I got a vintage black pleated maxi skirt for £16, which will get tons of use.

I'm only working one day this week. Bliss. I like working but being off is nice too

We're off geocaching today, which is free. Nice weather again.

lazy day here.
North, poor DH. It sounds like agony. Hope he's ok.
Hoping for NSD

How's the foot Creme?

Where's meadow?

I got a bra and knickers set from Primark for a fiver yesterday, courtesy of having no boobs I can wear stuff like that. Also got a couple of unworn Hollister things on DS's to sell today.

I can walk inside now. I'll test it outside later and report back.

Need meadows grandad passed away while she was doing her exams think she's gone to funeral.

My au pair is gone bonkers this morning - she came back from dropping ds to school says good morning what are you having for breakfast I said I'm not having anything pulled up my blind & took away my two pint glasses & left the door open & is now after calling up mammy your breakfast is ready please come downstairs now! Like she was talking to a child.

need stop it.... I have a list.... I want the beauty box

I'm currently waiting in the phone store. My phones playing up and my datas all gone. Not sure how or why. Sigh. I'm tempted to upgrade my contract by £5 to get 5 times more data. Seems worth it.

Waiting to be seen. I am being held in a queue.

Em, there's (all full size), S&G hand cream, a foot cream, a No 7 full size eye cream, a full size Mark Hill spray. A No 7 lipstick.

Do you need sun cream?

Bad need

£10 DS hair.