Fess up! Who does things with their DC that go against all the guidelines?

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I have to confess to making up DD's night feeds in advance and storing them in the fridge I know I'm not surpose to but I can barely manage to locate the correct screaming DC at 3 in the morning nevermind make up a bottle of formula!

I love this thread!

-My kids watch far too much telly
-They have a 20p mix every Friday
-Both weaned at 16 weeks
-DS2 started nursery at 12 weeks old (1 day a week)
-Also did the milk prep and microwave thing - but advice was different 3.5 yrs ago
-Both had dummies (DS1 till 12months and DS2 till 2yrs)

And would definitely do it all again if we have DC3.

Heated up formula in the microwave all the time.
Tonight for dinner 20 month old dd had a bit of baguette in the supermarket (I was looking out for purplepeony all the while) and some Burger King chips with ketchup. In my defence, she did have a bit of banana later.
I don?t mind if dd drops her food on the floor and then picks it up and eats it. It?s a waste otherwise, isn?t it! As long as it?s my dirty floor or another person?s house.
Sometimes dd doesn?t have a bath for 4 days.
DD as her dummy clipped to her pyjamas under her sleeping bag so she doesn?t lose it.

What is too much telly?

This is the best thread ever. I always end up feeling inadequate after too much mumsnet but maybe I am not such a loser/failure/lazy bum of a mum after all. I do loads of the above and I never even knew it was bad to do the night feeds-fridge thing. What else have I done to add to this list:

• make many threats that I never follow through on
• start yelling instead of kneeling down to their level and calmly explaining how their behaviour (and not them) is inappropriate.
• bribe, bribe and bribe again especially with unpaid for goods in the supermarket
• have never introduced a daytime routine for naps but grab every chance to cuddle up to sleep with them in the afternoon in my bed with the cats as well.

I do all of Emily's too.

No routine, none, ready meals, empty threats and capitulation in marks and spencers.

oh, and v occasional bathing (a lot of wiping on the run}

lastly, almost constant charlie and lola.

Goodness, How very conservative you all are!
Sweets, tv, microwaved milk....omg

I did the fridge feeds thing back in the day, and wouldn't do it differently now. I was a wuss who didn't microwave though, but in hindsight I was an idiot.

The petrol paying thing is daft- it's a calculated risk, surely? I think it's less safe to drag them across a forecourt, tbh. There are always horror stories though, but they are horror stories because they are rare.

My babies had their own room from very early on too- I would get no sleep just because I could hear every snuffle otherwise.

I ditched the monitors too- if they weren't crying loudly enough for me to hear them, they would probably go back to sleep anyway.

Wow - feeling way better about my bottle fed (warmed in the microwaved), abandoned to her own room very early on, junk food loving, square eyed, smarty-pants four year old now!

Thanks all!

am feeling like a terrible mother as none of this has made me even raise an eyebrow

i used to leave dd with the webcam trained on her while on msn chat to my friend and leave the room/go upstairs to do stuff with my friend under instruction to 'nudge' me if dd moved. we called it websitting

would walk (literally other side of road) to the shop if dd was in her cot sleeping

LOL, I'm so relieved to read all of these 'confessions' because as mum's we are constantly being told the way we 'should' be doing things and are made to feel guilty if we dare to do otherwise!
here goes:

• I sometimes leave the kids in the house whilst I nip to the shop (lit. outside my front door - no road, nothing)
• have left them both alone in the bath since they were around 2 and 3 yrs old - make far too much noise for me to worry
• prepared milk in advance and left in the fridge to be reheated by microwave
• co-slept with both until approx 8 months. They still come into our bed now EVERY night!
• Weaned them both at 4 months despite advice changing from one to the next
• I work full time
• Sometimes leave kids in the car whilst I nip into a shop....and do so every time I pay for petrol....

Whew, confession is certainly good for the soul

I can't see how you would actually keep to the guidelines on the side of the formula tin without being psychic, "boil a kettle and leave for half an hour" "do not make feeds in advance" yer right.

So you would either be using boiling water to make feeds (does anyone know if there is a problem with this?) or you would make them in advance. Atm I make one or two bottles up as per instructions and leave in the fridge, which I see as a fair compromise between the 6 bottles I used to make up for dd and current guidelines .

I also use floor food (is there any other kind?) for ds1, I have also been know to pick up dropped muffins from the street and just break off mucky pieces

They both watch too much TV, but then again so do I.

Dd has too much computer time, again so do I lol.

I don't play with toys with them most of the time. I will fix bits or help, but refuse to sit and play with cars etc. I will play pretend games which don't involve me sitting on the floor andallowmetomumsnet, in my defence we love to play physical games. Lots of tickles and climbing etc.

I shout too much, for all the good it bloody does.

Oh yes and I also once fell asleep when I was supposed to be collecting dd from school. Ds1 was about 1 I think and I just nodded off whilst he was having his nap. I woke about 3.15 when dd was supposed to be collected and had to run about in a mad panic, chucking clothes on ds and ringing the scool. Think I arrived about 3:50 after getting the bus and literally running to the school. Was shit, really not proud of that one, although they were lovely about it.

My paranoid inner voice gives that one mark to social services who are just around the corner ready to pounce on my kids .

Both Dc's slept on their fronts. Will think of more I'm sure.

Put brandy in DS 's milk to help him sleep and with colic on my staunch methodist Gran's advice

At weekends they go to sleep with a video.

I don't nag my DS about wearing the same clothes for several days.

If they fight about wearing coats, they don't wear them...they'll learn. (or they HAVE learnt)

I lied today about going to the doctors, I had already been, took them to their Dad's who was having them while I went to docs and went swimming by myself.

I stopped breastfeeding years ago but a friend who is currently doign it says that the new WHO 'guidelines' suggest that only one 50th of alcohol gets into the bloodstream and the best time so have a sup is actaully when the baby is on the boob! Now that is the kind of guideline I like!

Too much tv/computer/DS time for us.
Microwaved everythign and stopped sterlizing very early.
DS loved milky tea (baby tea)

O! and drugs . Medised made for a very happy household when my two were little (and still on long haul flights now!) I wanted to stock up when I was back in the UK and nearly got into a fist fight with the nazi Medised police behind the pharmacists counter. Why do they say over 6 now when the bottle clearly says 2 (at least I think it is two). I missed that whole thing. WTF is that all about? Medised is my friend, my lovely, lovely friend!

And another - DH ignored the guidelines on out Phil and Ted buggy and put the biggest in the bottom (DS used to lick the wheels if he was down there). He then lifted the little one out while the big one was climbing out and she crashed forward and knocked out one of her front teeth at 2 years old. She still has no front teeth

Here goes;
Ds, now 2.2 years old, was in own cot in own room from 9 weeks, weaned at 20 weeks, I went back to work one day a week when he was three months old, he started nursery 2.5 days a week from six months, he has watched the gruffalo about 20 times since Christmas so I can get some housework done. Yesterday he had a scone and some grapes for his tea....there are many many more.....

Half of the things people boast on here are not against the guidelines, though, i.e. alcohol and breastfeeding and finger foods. Nothing rebellious about that.

Depends on which guidelines you look at, of course.

Yawn. Was waiting for this. This thread was much more fun last night