Would you leave your baby in a cot all by itself?

[Rhubarb]

Even worse, in a room all by itself! Because of some of the threads on Mumsnet I'm wondering if I'm being a really bad mother letting ds sleep all by himself in a cot in another room - I mean, what if the room spontaneously exploded???? Perhaps I should gaffa tape him to me all the time, just to be on the safe side?

I went into town this morning and DS took his shoes and socks off without me noticing, he now has pneumonia.

Quite pleased really as its taught me a valuable lesson. I will NEVER go outside with him again just in case.

YEs, that's why I keep my dog in my bed (and DS, of course), so he doesn't feel out of the spotlight or feel anxious about being left on his own. I have to kick my husband out of the bedroom though, we didn't fit on the bed and the offspring comes first.

Well my dd is at her fathers tonight, was very worried, I mean who knows what could happen without my constant supervision??

Crisis averted, have set up webcam so now can monitor her at all times. Phew.

Chandra - did your friend have kids?

I'm fascinated by hardcore attachment parenting (which no-prams is part of), but I've not really known anyone who did it all the way. Actually, I've not known anyone who did without nappies or prams.

(And there are so many things we do, that no other creatures do - no other creatures give their children cooked food. So that's a bad thing to do, too.)

Caligula - you give your children cooked food? I'm sorry and no offence, but that's child abuse and you should be locked up.

at this thread

I'm going to say this very very quietly - someone has told some working mummies that I am a childminder. Now, every morning, I come downstairs to find lots and lots of other people's children waiting by my front door. I just have to bring them indoors, there's no-one else there! Should I report these mummies to SS? The mummies do eventually come back, but they sometimes look jolly harrassed. The thing is, sometimes the mummies

ROFL at this thread. Thank you all for being so sane!!
Prisoner, I hope you are feeding them all laudaunum (sp?) and teaspoons full of gin if they get restless.

Take the money and run Prisoner!

Tonight my angelic beauties had homemade pasta bolognese. They ate up every bit and because it was homemade with love in every stir, absolutely none ended up on clothes, socks, faces highchair tables or floor.

Tomorrow is lazy Friday though and I thought they might have frozen Fish Fingers, set on a timer in the oven. I read about them once, people said they were a secret godsend. I'm gona do it, I'm gona!!

Have some homemade juice in a Tesco Canti bottle chilling in the fridge, just off to see if it has reached the perfect temperature for maximum enjoyment.

Yeah, and I have my strap ons on.

Thats three strap on portable CCTV monitors, three strap on heart monitors linked by radiowave, and three remote smoke detectors for cigarette detection (well they are 4.5 and two at 1.2).

I'm shocked . How can you possibly succeed with Elimination Communication if you use a cot - you could undo the principle of it in such a short moment of inattention.

I wanted to share with you a marvellous device I've just bought online to help the kids out on schooldays.

They take with them to school a small box, no larger than a matchbox, with a red button on it. If they feel upset, or fall over, or are hurt in any way, shape or form (even if they just feel mildly irritated) all they have to do is press the red button and it links directly to a sensor which is velcroed around my neck.
I will, in turn, receive a small electric shock (nothing major - though I wouldn't want to be holding a hot cup of tea at the time) which enables me to feel their pain.

It means I can care, even at a distance.

NotQuiteCockney, yes, he has a child a few weeks older than mine. She refused to use one until her back was killing her (at 5m old) until then she did not even use a commercial sling but just some sort of a scarf the size of a pashmina, and her baby was wearing a Che Guevara bib! (don't take me wrong, I very much respect old Che, but having grown up in Latin America and knowing what some political causes have entailed, I'm strongly against using children of any age for any kind of political propaganda, more so a baby). She had also VERY strong feelings about using disposable nappies and breastfeeding which is not bad but she even questioned people rudely about their choices. However, she was famous through out the new mums comunity as the mother of the hungry and always ill baby who wailed incesantly while his mother paid her respects to mother Earth.

Obviously after being constantly questioned about my anti ecological efforts to rise a child I decided that enough was enough and told DH that if he invited them again I would take the ecological step of planting her down in the garden and donating a big bucket of highly ecological manure...

Spidermama, you send your kids to school??!! Surely all truly loving parents home educate, so they don't miss a single moment of their precious one's development?!!

Interesting you should mention that frog ...

I once changed ds' nappy at a zoo. The "changing area" was a filthy, filthy torn change mat in the corner of a toilet that stank and had a once weekly cleaning rota! BUT the wall was smothered with posters containing anti-disposable-nappy propaganda and ecological claptrap. I'll stick to disposables and well hygiene thanks. I may not be saving the planet but my son doesn't have tetanus either.

no, i always make sure i am in the cot with him
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in fact, i am in with him right now. he's a bit squashed... but them's the breaks!

An all time classic

(and I really wish I had something witty to add.)

But quite clearly don't.

this thread has really cheered me up, although ds1 & ds2 were disturbed by my laughter (they're sleeping in my arms, obviously)

Chandra, I'm impressed by your friend not using a pram (although I've not heard of people refusing to use a sling, either. Makes sense, though. But how is the pashmina less of an artifact than a pram?), but she uses nappies? Of any sort? Aren't they artifacts, too?

I think some people just like making things hard for themselves. If they weren't making things hard for themselves with kids, it'd be something else. (I have a friend who home-educates, but finds spending all day with her kids stressful and difficult.)

That locked car thread was scary! I wish I had read this one afterwards not before, then I would still be laughing, and not feeling deeply depressed. Why are so many people so paranoid? I find it very worrying, if I seriously thought that my children were constantly on the verge of being kidnapped, choking (I have a 6 and 5 year old, I can't remember them ever choking in a way that caused me concern) having cars explode or crash, getting trapped in windows, in cars that were out of control etc I would never be able to relax and enjoy them. Children should have space and not have constant supervision, which I am sure must be damaging. At what age is it OK to think that they can have a life of their own? Playing hide and seek must be a major risk...

I've lately been concerned my DTs weren't getting enough skin to skin, having to share me and all that. I am feeling rather smug and pleased with myself though for tonight I have carefully peeled my top layer skin off and have managed to sew it around an old jumpsuit of mine that had been lurking in the back of the wardrobe using up space. Imagine their delight tomorrow when they can have simultaneous skin to skin!

pmsl