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Oh dear Scout, I hope he is o.k.

Yeah, he's eating a lot of snot. [blurgh] He keeps coming to me asking for tissues.

Poor TS.

I must make myself do some more jobs --but don't feel like it--

ive done diddly squat
feeling really low today and cant get going

carrotsi dont know what to say lovely.men can be unbelievably thoughtless-
perhaps he thought your e baying would pay for clothes and he deserved a treat

big,big bosies

I can feel Toddler's temperature rising. I've just put him in lightweight pajamas, dosed him with calpol and gave him a big bottle (spot-cap bottle, not baby's bottle before anyone judges -- lol) of watered down squash and a snack while we watch yet another B&H episode.

It's all abit crap when they do that, isn't it. DH tried to do that once, wanted to buy stuff when we had a debt that his bonus could clear and leave a bit left over. I just told him straight out that he needed to clear the debt first, then save up for his 'toys'. Not a happy bunny, but he was also playing golf at that time so he knew how much he was spending there too..... Never asked, don't want to know!!! Carrots I think you did the right thing to tell him stright out.

if hes poorly who are we to judge even if he had a babys bottle.comfort is the best thing for them in whatever form that takes

Thanks zoo. I'm a bit sensitive regarding the breast/bottle feeding debate. And I live in a very interesting area with a high teen pregnancy rate where I've seen some pretty shocking displays of parenting.

me too....i saw a baby drinking what looked like coke through a bottle the other day

i thought tea was the norm round here.....

oh and another sucking on a ring donught covered in sugar..his mum was "proudly" telling her friend hed hve to "suck in ta def as ent go nah teef yet"

id ask why,but whats the point?

Zoo I don't know if this will work, the last one didn't

(PM conversation going on about profiles )

how was ds at school today cats?
did he have a good day/is he tired?

since dd2 birthday she has developed attitude overnight
no fun!

Can you see it now zoo?

When Toddler was weaning (he was on little lumps, so about 7-8 months I think?) I went to McDonalds because I was seriously craving it and I had his little pot of homemade because I was that uptight at the time chicken & veg mash which he was gobbling with gusto. In comes a girl who couldn't have been more than 14-15 with a baby in one of those big pram type things. The baby couldn't even sit on it's own without being propped up (and kept sliding so maybe 4 months old) and the mum kept shoving McDonald's fries into her hands and trying to make her eat and saying things like "why won't you eat your chip?"

ARGH! Yes, I fear my judgy pants were hiked up pretty high that day.

I had really wanted to feed until a year but then I found out about the blood thing. I made it to six months exclusive then weaned/mixed fed for 4-6 weeks (so I could start treatments sooner rather than later). I never wanted TS on a bottle but he wasn't confident enough with a spounty cup when I started weaning so he went onto a bottle. I did, however, unknowingly, wean him off bottles (though not milk in any form!) around 10 1/2 months. He's been an able hand at open cups for months but in the living room I give him a sport cap bottle in case there's spillage.

Toddler fed. He's really struggling to stay upright. I'm going to put him down for very early bed tonight (5:30/6:00) instead of his usual 7-ish.

see you now cats

scout maybe i should stop hoiking up my judgy pants so high or i may give myself a wedgie!

i BF all mine and they went from me to spout cups

i just dont understand why you would want to give something so precious total junk

No, I don't judge bottle or breast either. I figure I don't know what drove people to do what they're doing and that often things are not as black-and-white as they seem. It's the stupid things, like McDonald's fries to a baby that can't even sit up on her own, that wind me up. I quite like my wedgy some days.

Toddler's in bed and I bet if I went up and he'd be asleep. I'm making dinner then will crack on with the jobs I had wanted to do earlier (the ones that don't involve leaving home, that is).

TMI alert!

Pasta sauce colored phlegm vomit is not a nice color or look. [serious blurgh] At least I managed to catch it on a muslin cloth before it got all over Toddler and his bedding.

Dh's dmum gave my dsil Irn Bru(think Scottish version of coke if you don't know what it is) in her bottle. She had no front teeth until she got her adult ones because they rotted away.

I love her dearly but sometimes I like my wedgie too.

She used to dip dh's dummy (pacifier) in jam so that he would suck it even when he didn't want to.

She thinks I am a total loon worrying about feeding my dcs a reasonably healthy diet (most of the time) and making sure they get exercise and cuddles etc.

She did raise them in a different age though and in different circumstances (my fil is no longer in our family but when he was he was a "wanderer" and dh has several half siblings he doesn't know) so our situations are not comparable (I hope).

Ds is totally starving tonight.

He has eaten:

1 traybake thing in cafe
3 banana muffins
3 waffles, beans and a veg sausage

He is currently waiting for more waffles to cook.

He is really, really grumpy as well and whingy and whiney too.

I don't know if he is tired, hungry or ill or all three.

I went up to check on Toddler and he was awake. I've just calpoled him again, given him a fresh diaper, another drink and a cuddle. I hope he goes to sleep soon. I hear him cough every now again and don't feel like I can go into the kitchen (where I'm furthest from him) to iron until I know he's asleep.

aw.hugs for TS

carrots my dp mum thinks im a crazy hippy earth mother cause i BF my rabble!

she also thinks i should be giving them liver every week and adding raw eggs to ds milk to "fatten him up"

another "gem" is loosening milk teeth with fudge/toffee when they start to wobble.....

she doesnt agree vegetarians either-although is into organic

I have just put DD up to bed half an hour earlier than normal. I'm sure she can't be getting enough sleep as she wakes us up in the early hours and takes a long time to settle again. She has no daytime nap either. I am beginning to wonder if this is normal.
I have reached the so tired I could cry stage. I think I must go to bed at 9.00 tonight.