Advice: Whats your best, most memerable bits of advice off MN?

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I thought it would be nice to celebrate all the positive advice people have found useful from MN. I hope this thread will end up containing a summary of some of the best advice covering all topics.

At the moment I can remember (without looking)

Big knickers for after birth
Advice on SPD and my entitlement to physio
How to make play-dough
Whether to buy a bf bra before or after birth (seems silly but the things you get your knickers in a twist about when pg!)
Recipes to cook for freezer when pg
Maternity bag items
Lots of reassurance when I was due to be induced

errrrmmmmmm......wot about everyone else, i bet there are some corkers!!!!!

fabulous employment law advice :)

arnica for post c-section

and so much on sn topic would not even know where to start.

Book on discipline - 1,2,3 Magic - found this really worked for me. I used to just lose it and end up shouting and at times slapping DS - now this seems to keep ME calm.

Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe!!!

I am sure there is more!

"Babies are funny buggers" (c) Hunkermunker

Mooncup!!

Clean the bathroom while the kids are in the bath.

(on having another child) just presume you are going to have no life and then anything extra is a bonus (scummy I think)

bribe children to get dressed in morning with mini eggs

batters the one you are thinking of is to wear a pair of tights over your head when talking on the phone thus you do not have to hold the handset and can hoover or do other household chores at the same time. Pure gold.

Leaving your hands free to wear old socks to dust
pmsl!

bumperty bump

To be reassured just how hard it is to bf and lots of encouragement to get through the bad bits.

Lavender oil in your bath after birth.

dinner lady cook book
tweezerman tweezers

BH - have you seen the second Dinner Lady cookbook?

GHD straighteners

puff - i did have a look bit it was so expensive so am waiting for it to be reduced.
have just ordered the jamie oliver's dinner lady book and apparently the recipies are designed so the kids can help. Got it for £3.99!

The 1,2,3 Magic magic book for me aswell, been doing it for a week and the change in ds1 attitude is amazing ( or maybe magic ??!!)

That sounds good bh - where did you get it?

I do like the second one from Jeanette, more straightforward no nonsense recipes

puff - actually got it from ds's school's book club. They have books at a reduced cost.
I'll let you know once I get it what it's like.

Now you see I will get that 123 Magic Magic book and I've got this tip without reading eeeeeons of posts in relevant section! Thanks

That dinner lady coobook where they help sounds like a good idea too.......

I wished i made it on here when I was bf i think I might have kept going (switched to bottles after 4wks)

oliveoil recommended some trainers for me once

Suzywong's brownies recipe.

My best advice was 'You're her mother, of course she'll still love you.' which was given by someone (can't remember who) to Lizzer (anyone else remember her?) in ummm about 2001..it was a thread about leaving a toddler overnight with babysitters for the first time.
The words kept coming to me during lots of the more difficult times when ds was little.