MN Little Italy 10

[francagoestohollywood]

Welcome, ciao, hello

I'm so tempted to write on the bath-rinse thread as it's so but I better do a Odysseous and tye myself instead .

only started watching it when DS was born, so never seen Drew (btw, if you want an update, Libby's back, due to marry real hunk, unless he gets killed in bike race with his brother/rival in love today, and Toadie nearly married Steph)

Sputnik, an African neighbour where I once lived told me she could tell by the spasm in the baby's thighs when she was carryong them. She never had a pooey sling, so it must have worked. I'm not sure I'd be able to tell if DD's thighs did spasm.

Who do you want to provoke?

It does make sense and I am sure babies are more capable of doing things and learning that's given credit. I am not sure I will be so capable, patient and calm and selfless to sacrify the little time I've got to watch her face.

Thanks sunflower !

I was going to add to that thread, but souldn't be bothered. Maybe we should start one about weird British habits but in the living overseas sections, so we won't get the wrath of the whole of mumsnet descend on us [coward emoticon].

No, are you kidding Brange???

What about "AIBU to not want to shap my new man because he doesn't have a bidet and might have smelly bits"? Or is that too radical?

"...and not only that, but when he does wash them, he doesn't rinse!"....

Maybe if I lived s.where hot and didn't have to think about DS I'd try it.....

My friend kept hers in a nappy, just ended up not using it most of the time IYKWIM.

You are naughty Brangelina. Very.

brange

can someone pls tell me where the thread about bathing is? i've looked but cannot find it!

I haven't read the calcutta chromosome, no, is it any good? will put in on my list! next on my list is the MN book of the month, the enchanted april i think? i always try to read the MN book club books but invariably i can never join the actual discussion. used to have a book club in RL, but that's all gone out of the window post babies...

being back at work is... well actually i am not too happy. i am very very tired from waking up loads in the night, have a new job, feel incompetent and tired and my hear's just not in it. i gave my career a massive push before going on ML last year, worked my butt off and came to the conclusion that the only way to do well at work is to give it my all, but i can't and don't want to do that right now. so what's the point of working half- a**, 3 days a week?

on the plus side, today i finally plucked up the courage to introduce myself to a woman i meet every single morning while i drop dd1 off at nursery, she has two little boys, and turns out the oldest goes the the RC school i want to send dd1 to. so finally i know someone who goes there, and she said they're very happy with it. yupppiiee!!!

I've kept away from the rinsing thread!

brange I was going to write smthing like that for real... but better not. must go see to my dds who are starting to feel neglected and I promised dd1 we play cards.
a dopo.

link?

BS- hope things improve at work

btw Pippi- good luck at the hairdresser, and i am sure you will enjoy it!!!

BS I came to that comnclusion too. when I went back after first pg I knew the career I thought I was going to have had gone out of the window. it is hard being p/t as no matter what you cannot keep up and the f/t look at you as if your skiving. sorry to be negative but I was very frustrated that I couldn;t give as much as I used to. maybe now I have given up an that idea and a new job will be taken on those basis, family first, job second.

yuk bath thread.

Calcutta Chromosone is very strange, it's the only thing of his I've read though, so can't compare.

I have to say I have lost enthusiasm for work since DCs. I have been trying to work today actually, but they are both at home and even with DS asleep I am struggling to have a coherent thought and organise myself enough to do anything at all. Working from home does not help either.

I find that too Sputnik, even though DD is not here. I just can't be efficient and business like at home, I just keep loungiing around and getting things from the fridge, as well as spending an awful lot of time on here.

I was qute releived to go back to work when the time came - I could actually go to the loo by myself at last - but it's so true, I have lost most if not all of my drive. Fortunately in Italy you get time off for allattamento up to you child's 1st birthday, so at least the first 3 months I was part time.

Now I'm in a job where I'm supposed to be a "self-starter" lol, it's hard enough for me to start getting dressed in the mornings, let alone anything else!

oh I'd love the free time and the possibility of thinking just for yourself and the illusion that you can still think about yourself... problem is it is just an illusion and the fact that while you work you have to think of what to have for dnner, what's in the fridge, whether the washing have been hung or they are still ammuffiti in the wm etc, plus forgetting work when/if children are ill.