nappy and changing bag obsessed February mums thread!

[starlover]

thought i would do the honours!
was going to call it the exhausted and turning to alcohol feb mums thread
but thought i'd be a bit more upbeat! lol

SL - the other thing I do is Jo Jingles which is a music thing and its franchised round the country. They do it in Crawley. Its not a cheap thing (like playgroups) but I really enjoy it (and think dd does too !). Here's the website
Jo Jingles . You can go along for a free trial session first.

ahhh lots of good ideas! I think I need to just try lots of places out really...

I may go along at the end of bumps and babes tomorrow and see if I can't organise a few things/steal some ideas etc

aww you're all so kind listneing to me moan on and on... and coming up with endless solutions for me!

I think i will make a list of potential things to do and then make sure i go through and do them all! lol

roosmum... that's why i became a consultant... get 30% off! lol

i LOVE my album of Linus.. it's really great (even if i do say so myself)

oooh our jo jingles is run by a jane fuller... there was a jane fuller on my college course... wouldn't it be weird if it was the same one!

so SL how much do you reckon you've spent on the whole kit for album/cutter etc??

oh god i don't even wanna think about it!
the cutters and things are expensive, but then you do get a lot of use out of them.
probably around £70 for the one album

when i first started, my friend and I bought different things so that we could borrow each others and not have to buy the whole lot!

ok, expensive i guess...but it's a timeless thing which shd be lovely to look back on?? my friend is doing hers a a gift to her dd for when she's older

yeah definitely! and subsequent albums will be cheaper because i will still have all the cutters etc

you can buy more packs of pages to add to the albums as well... i am on my second pack already! lol
I think this album will go up to his first year and then i will slow down a bit!

Although the albums are expensive I think if you crop your pictures carefully you can generally fit about 4 or 5 on a page... so you're getting more photos into it than in a regular album

Oh wow I have missed loads - I was busy watching the prog on Take That!

And oh my god - I cannot believe the Bham connection - I was there too - 93-96. And at the risk of outing my RL self... did Chemistry, was in Wydd. Knew and still know a lot of medics (spent far too many nights in the med bar)

Ooh Bil - What a coincidence !! I knew someone who did Chemistry then too - should we mention people by full name on sites ?! His first name was Ian....and he was very welsh !

and SL - came back on to say, the good thing about Jo Jingles and the like are that it doens't matter if no one talks to you because you do things with your baby in a circle but of course, you have the possibility that you might meet someone you get on with too but you don't feel a lemon if you don't !

We should probably use the CAT feature (never tried it before) about folk we might know in common

Good grief, just one or two messages there!! Was busy watching Take That last night . What are the chances of 3 of you being at the same uni too - small world!

SL, sorry to hear you'd been feeling a bit low. Motherhood is such a full on experience and there are so many expectations of what it's supposed to be like, it can feel pretty isolating. FWIW I've always struggled to make friends, am quite shy and tend to assume that people won't like me - have only really managed to get to grips with that side of my personality in my 30s and force myself to be proactive in making friends. It has paid off though.

We're mainly over our bugs here, dd no longer testing her nappies to the limit! She's still not quite going forwards yet - keeps getting on her hands & knees and rocking back and forth looking puzzled! She still manages to zip around backwards pretty fast on the wooden floors so having to really keep an eye on her. She keeps cying in the night so either about to produce more teeth or getting cold.

wow, i cannot believe you were all at, birmingham uni all at the same time!!! anyone heard of Hugh Montefiore?

all go on here last night

roosmum - so glad about your nipples feeling a bit better

starlover - the album thingy sounds lovely, wish i'd done something like that for leon now, so wonderful to look back on

starlover - FWIW i don't think any person worth being friends with would look at your scars and think you're a bad mother, at baby swimming they'd probably be too busy gazing at their babes anyways! also, due to tv coverage etc people do understand about it a bit more than perhaps when you were younger? big cuddles for you anyways; am trying to think of other things for you to do to meet a mum or two, i know what you mean about there being nothing for the inbetween time!

we're having a right time of it chez leon, up at midnight, and 4am everynight to feed, what's that all about? any pointers?

xx

ooh i feel all left out... i haven't even been to uni!

actualyl i had a place last year, but then got pregnant with Linus... I think I chose the right one though!!!

Will definitely look into Jo JIngles hazellnut, and may see if i can save enough money for tumbletots as well!!!

thank you for the kind words nik and gossifer. I am the same nik... assume that people won't/don't like me before I've even spoken to them. I guess I just need to bite the bullet!

starlover, i'd love to meet you!

lol! i;d love to meet everyone on this thread!

me too
but then reckon you b'ham lot prob already know one another!

& thank you all for your kind concern for my nips, they're feeling like virtual celebrities atm!

just typing that put a grin on my face! hope you're feeling ok SL. if you do get out to any new groups i think it helps to try & findone hwere you think you might find people of similar mindset - eg baby yoga, full of right-on organic eating, cloth nappying, bf-ing blah blah, which is right up my street iykwim. would have thought nct b&b wd be a bit like that.
after our chatting last night, saw a cute kit for scrapbooking in the argos catalogue of all places. album plus lots of bit & pieces for getting going for £25. i thought it looked good & quite similar to the creative mem stuff i've seen. might try it out, as i'm struggling for stuff to have as a christmas pressie from family, i could suggest that... i love crafty stuff, love making cards etc, so think i'd actually really enjoy putting an album together, plus it'll be lovely to keep for roo.

Amazingly the nct bumps and babes group is totally the opposite!

i am the only one using cloth, despite the woman from the council coming round to hand out FREE nappies!!!!!

I am also the only one who cooks totally organis and from scratch!

i think it's the area i am in... chav central! all the toddler groups are full of teenagers with their 5 kids, or 40 yr olds trying to look like teenagers. there are far too many gold clown necklaces round here for my liking!!!

this afternoon we are going over to the brand new leisure centre which opened on monday. going to see about joining the gym there. the old leisure centre used to have some soft play type things for littlies i think... so going to see if they have anything similar

ooooooh that sounds good SL, i went to something like that with my sister and her dd, you've reminded me i might try that, remember last time meeting lots of mums and i didn't even have a chid! (was v. preggers though)

would love to hear how it goes!

child!

ps, where are you, i know its by the coast, is it near crawley??