FESH spa and creche: Is anyone thinking of the children yet?

[SkiHorseWonAWean]

New Fred. Apologies for dullness of title - we need curly for witticisms.

eek I have to go to bed - hope all ok sliver - if you manage to get onto t'other place I can access in the small hours from my phone if I'm woken awake.

sil sitting here wondering what's wrong :(

Spent ages writing sling post 1-handed then saw yours. Really hope you're ok :(

Will log on tmw to t'other place to share.

All is ok with me. Head is in a bit of a mess at news received.

rots I fully expect him to be obese, stupid and sickly. But seriously, as I think perhaps a more realistic interpretation of said figures - I'd like to know the socio-economic background and educational levels of these families. It is my opinion that the majority of these cases are brought about because mum "cannae be arsed" with breastfeeding. Same parenting skills will lead to mum "cannae be arsed" cooking a normal, healthy family dinner. Iceland will parent the children. So once again, not (IMO) a one-size-fits-all theory.

cossie I too thought you were talking about furry, stripy Artie and I was very confused! Poor Welly - do you think it's just temporary or is this a total shift in life plan for him?

Please humour me gals. Did I read somewhere that they have a growth spurt at 13 weeks? I'm really praying this is the case and this is why he woke me up at least 20 times between midnight and 5. :( Unless he's simply "'avin' a larf". :( I wanted to walk the dogs, ride the horse, bake a chicken & leek pie and do my gym class today. Instead I might just sit on the sofa gurning & drooling.

silver I hope you're OK, will pop over to the other place. Wrt the harness - I used it on him from about a week. The start weight was 3kg and he was a touch under that the first time we used it but I figured what the hell is 4oz difference going to make? The biggest problem at first was that we were both absolutely terrified we were going to fall over and crush him. Because obviously grown-ups fall over a lot right? Another problem I had - I'm guessing all have this ishoo though is that when you bend over to clip the dog's lead on you need to make sure the baybee doesn't fly out the top!

Thanks for replies about noisy child being normal. It is was very cute, but it can be somewhat annoying. Especially as she really got going at bedtime last night. Grrrrrrrrrrr. Might try a better video...

rots lovely pics from the Christening. You all look very happy.

That bottle feeding~obesity story - I caught it on (for shame) Daybreak yesterday and actually thought they handled the story well. They never said formula feeding, just bottle feeding - because it's about the method, not the content, and the fact that you can shove more in with a bottle, whether EBM or FF. But the reporter (male) was also sure to include a line about about how important bottles are for women who find themselves unable to BF. It's just a new angle on the whole "don't twist it" story AFAIC.

Gosh curly, that is positive (re: daybreak which I've never heard of so no judgement here! ).

Noisy baybees? Right, mine has just yelled like a banshee whilst out walking the dogs around the park. Popped him in his chair whilst I prepared a bottle for his obesity aspirations - he is snoozing in a contented manner.

Tuesday I am stalking you on FB - profile pic is k9!

I con sider myself successfully stalked!

are you ok silver?

Hope you're ok silver??

Oh my lordy there are some impressive farts going on here today!

cossie Farts from you or Artie?

Lets just say he takes after his mother

Birthday cake (with dinosaur topping) made - check
6 birthday candles and holders - check
Fairy cakes made and topped with dinos and sprinkes - check
367 egg sarnies and cheese sarnies made - check
Cocktail sausies packed - check
Mini cakes packed - check
Gluten-free cakes packed for coeliac child - check
Politically correct mini tomatoes - check
Cordial and cups packed - check
Magician confirmed - check
Balloons packed - check
Pass the parcel packed - check
Prize for musical chairs - check
Party bags packed - check
REMEMBER ICE CREAM note on door - check
MIL bringing jelly - check

So what am I missing?

Durr... gin for mummy of course!

cheese and pineapple on stix? My fave omnomnom

Gosh darn it, the gin, that was it!

And one little boy of course :)

He's really excited. YOB's tasked with going out tomorrow to get an "I am 6" badge. Believe me, ladies, it will come round soooo fast :(

Cheese and pineapple on sticks? Oh remember those hedgehogs people made by sticking them onto grapefruit! Sadly only one lady in my ante-natal class would know what that was about - all the others were born in the 1980s!!!

curls thanks - the christening was lovely :) It's not my thing - that's YOB - but actually the service was really lovely thanks to our lovely vicar who is also a friend.

He was so cute today. He came over to the mountain of sarnies - I'd made egg on brown and cheese on white. He peered at them and said, "are they cheese sandwichies on white bread?", "Yes", I answered. "And are those egg sandwiches on brown bread?", "Yes", I answered.

Bottom lip quivers.

"But Mummy, that means I can't have any sandwiches".

"Why?" Mummy asks.

"Because I can't eat egg and I'm not allowed white bread!"

(Egg is one of those things he's boringly intolerant of and in fact has always despised in all forms).

I said he could have white bread, just as it was his birthday.

Bless.

Where's VAG?

haha cossie farts? I don't believe it!

We had a pleasant evening here, I sacked off my gym class because , I'd barely slept the night before and had ridden quite hard yesterday afternoon. Bear was a very angry (tired) little boy last night and by the time he'd screamed through his bath we were already to hit the sack, so everyone was in bed by 8pm UK time. He woke up at 3:30 our time which meant everyone's had 6 hours uninterrupted sleep. Phew! Jailbait got up to get to him and trod in dog poo... someone is soooo in the dog house. :(

Was supposed to be going to the ODE today that I'd wanted to ride in this year... but it's a bloody monsoon outside and I've got a brand new 'normous TV and the eventing stage of the World Equestrian Games from Kentucky is on... I had tickets 4 years ago for the eventing in Aachen (which Zara Philips took gold for). My arsehole "mates" had all booked tickets months previously - actually, I'd given Dagmar the cash as she booked them all. They were going to watch the Grand Prix dressage on the weds and we were all going to the x-country on the saturday - anyway, the fuckers told me on the thursday that they'd not actually booked tickets for themselves in the end. :( Put me on a real downer (had depression at the time) so I didn't go anyway. Silly caaaah...

carrots The party will be brilliant fun and LC will have a whale of a time!

VAAA-ag Where are you?

I'm amazed you have a kid that goes to sleep at 8pm. Ours goes on through till 11, with minimal nappage during the day...

Yes, where is vag? I'm on tenterhooks, whatever they are.

Party started at 11am. At 11.15 I realised that the children's entertainer hadn't turned up, we'd forgotten the pass the parcel and the CD player kept stopping which was confusing during musical chairs.

So one lovely parent took over while I phoned the entertainer (he arrived 5 mins later - had had a crisis). I left him to get on with it (peace descended fast - he was good!) and everything else went ok.

Top party tip - ALWAYS have spare party bags made up. You'll always forget an invitee and siblings may turn up. I ended up needing 3 spares! Which I had. Oh and make the damned things up in advance as in the confusion of people leaving that's tough to do!

Am popping out for a bottle of wine - warm the jacuzzi up for me .

Well done rots.

alps I have just settled down to watch cross country WEG too. Have had a terrible morning - my first migraine for over a year. MrP worked some wonder taking care of both kids while I went off into la-la land in a darkened bedroom to recover. A bit wobbly now but think I can cope with watching - OMG Dieterman fell off at the last fence!

I know, poor girl - mind you, did you see the south african girl yesterday do her dressage test? She didn't get funding and had to pay 20k herself to get it shipped over... and the 4-legged git was giving it "lions & tigers & bears" at every corner :(. We ended up going to the ODE today and got pissed on. Saw some very good riders & horses, sat on a bench & fed him which made all the people walking the course go "awwwww". He slept through everything except bottle. Now we're home he's staring at the telly! Maybe thinking "hmm, sounds familiar somehow"!

rots You do realise your bags will be getting dissected, or maybe it's not so bad where you live - but I think in West London the bag has to have a certain monetary value (and poncieness) else your name is M.U.D!

I have had no news from VAG...

Oooh she's done it! She's laid a boy! A massive one!

alpine I know ;-) They're really hard to do! We put in a notebook, pencil and rubber, balloon and cake. 1/2 will appreciate the no crappy toy and the other half will think it's poncy ;-)

fans miz :(

Yay to Vag! Did it go ok? Is she still in de nile?