The CRESH Creche and Spa - What's your excuse for not going back to work?

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Liking maternity leave too much? Can't be arsed to go back to your old job? Why not get made redundant, set up a company, have another baybee or even fall off a horse? Anything to spend more time with our little darlings! And it's so naice here - pass the gin!

QUESTION:
If your baybee spits out his spag bol but eats his pud, does that make him spoilt?

ANSWER:
According to HI - YES

Give me strength.

Just a quicky as we are supposed to be having a date night tonight and I will get moaned at if I don't turn the laptop off soon. Alps thank you for your lovely words. I know you can't come to my do as it is JB's birthday.... but if you really hate him atm surely that is good excuse to come?!

Silv give him a slap. FFS! How about an ESH meet in Reading on Tues 27th Sept? Plenty of notice. Who is up for it?

Moo who on earth would defriend you?

For those suffering teething hell, try Camomilla 6c homeopathic stuff. You can get it in Boots, it is about £4.50. They are tiny little sugar drops, just pop them in child's mouth every 2 hours when things are bad. My acupuncturist suggested and we are trialling. I can't say for sure if it is working but after the first day of use, BB slept straight through for the first time in a month. Maybe she would have anyway... who knows. Anything is worth a try when you are that desperate!

I am feeling much more positive today (thanks Cos and Fanny, you are right, I should not put timescale in PND). Was helped by the fact I felt a bit slimmer when I woke this morning (like you do....) so I weighed myself and realised I'd lost 2lb without trying, huzzah! Will probably put it all back on again tonight what with the wine and the choclit that TG bought me.

Anyway, must go before I get moaned at. Smooches, headbutts and tequila slammers to all.

Moo you are none of those things btw. You are ace. And beautiful. And lovely. So there. Whoever has defriended you - their loss!

How rude moo!

Spot on alps I also think there is am element of preaching to the lowest common denominator. Also it tells you things like only having a meal shortly after a milk feed/ when your child is not hungry (as it doesn't matter if the actually eat anything). So then you won't get the kind of problems lights experienced (in theory) but yes must if it could have fit on two sides of a4.

meds never understood that eBay thing. I've seen second hand stuff go for more than the RRP so many times. People just dont do their research.

HI is being an eejit Silv - Buying your toddler a pony is spoilt, giving him pud after rejecting the main course is not.

Oh and yes to 27th Sept

Polly would this be daytime? That I would do, anytime after 6pm I turn into a pumpkin.

Sorry Moo it would have to be evening. Unless I skive off college on only my second week which is prolly not advisable. And all too reminiscent of me as a teen. I used to turn up to college around 10am (an hour late). Attend one lesson, yawn a lot, go to the pub as soon as opened for lunch, stay there until 5pm, get bus home and pretend to be sober, eat dinner, fall asleep/get changed, go back to pub. No wonder I never really got any qualifications. Ho hum. Must try better this time.

Oh oh oh... I completely forgot to share the news... SIL (she of the cunt-kicking) and her bloke are getting married as I may have told you. So in the middle of Boo's party she said she had something to ask me. I assumed she would ask about Boo being a bridesmaid, but oh no. She only asked me to be her maid of honour! I was rather shocked to say the least but decided to take it as an olive branch. She is not a bad person and cannot help being tactless in the extreme - it does run in the family unfortunately.

Yay to Clucks! I have no idea where we can meet as I have only ever visited the place for my interview. Can anyone (Silv?) suggest anywhere?

I can also do 27th Sept in the evening. I have no idea about Reading. Cluck is your gal there. she used to work there.

Am sorry to say I am about early potty training. anyone who saw the state I ended up in when my mother kept on going on about how TT needed to be potty trained and OH and I ended up at each other's throats about it while on holiday will realise all things come to toddlers who have made up their minds about it. We agreed to back off, and one day TT told me she was a big girl and didn't need nappies. She never needed them again, and I wish I had known that she would make the decision so easily for herself - would have saved me a lot of bother. I had lunch with a friend of mine today. Her daughter made the statement at pre-school "my mummy is holding me back!' wrt to potty training. She had been weeing her pants up till the day before that.

box, I don't know about light but I don't view what I am doing with Squeaks as potty training. It's not about her telling me she needs to go, she can do that in her own time. No, it's about getting her used to the on-potty position, saving a few nappies, and taking advantage of how bloody regular she is. i only do it once a day, and wouldn't ask nursery to try it too.

i'm lying in bed and praying she stays down after I spent about 3 hours in a right state overnight. D&V and belly in agony. Somehow I think my dinner was being rejected. Bloody leftovers.

pollytits You do realise you're going to end up punching in the face on the day right? She will say something hideous, because that's just the way she rolls. Well done you though for being the bigger and better person and agreeing to be her right hand woman.

curls Poor you. :( On the bright side, think of the weight loss!

I'm supposed to be doing a 15 mile ride to the pub today which will be my last "long" ride until March (at the very earliest) and it's pissing down. :( Not really what I had in mind.

boxer I'm sorry your mum made you feel like shit about the whole toilet training thing. I think we all need (first time around) a large dose of being able to scream stfu when some twat criticises us!

(Not saying your mum's a twat - but I certainly felt that way about the nobs who go on and on about bf.)

Sorry about d&v curly. That is just not needed.

Yeah, I'm like you Curls. It's no biggie, but if Squib can pick up a bit of a routine and save me a bob or 2 on nappies, then it's all good. I'm trying to just make it another part of playing after the meal and before naptime. My Mum's long gone, and MIL's speaks forrin so I can easily intentionally miss any sly criticisms of my parenting skills, so the potty thing is entirely my own idea. Everyone I talk to about it thinks I'm crackers. I think bright kids - like Box's clearly is , will usually want to get out of the nappy themselves, trouble is you might get a stubborn one or whatever. I'm a school governor and the head says she regularly gets kids turning up for year one still in nappies. Which is a bit above and beyone what a primary school teacher should be having to deal with...

Polly that means you get to wear a peach dress, and organise the hen night too, right? Sounds like a fun job. Does this woman really hate you?!?

And Curls, would you like me to stroke your hear while you talk to the big white telephone?

Oh lord, don't say that Alps. P'raps I'd better stay off the booze on the big day. I guess it is not really the done thing for the maid of honour to get wankered anyway. Or hit the bride. Harrumph, weddings are no fun unless you can get shitfaced on free booze

Oh ghostlyone you poor thing. I do hope Squeaks gives you a break today. Is SFF away this weekend? What shitty timing. (no pun intended!) Have you got anyone close who could come and take Squeaks off your hands for a bit? I'd come if I was closer.

So who is doing what this weekend? We have the hell that is a child's birthday party tomorrow so we have to go and buy a pressie today. And I need to buy a tent as Boo and I are going to a BBQ next weekend for a mate's 40th/daughter's first birthday. Should be fun! It is the lovely friend with the livery yard. If only she wasn't an hours drive away. Oh that reminds me, one of our neighbours is away and has asked me to go and see to their nag this weekend. I get to play ponieez, woop woop! Enjoy your pub ride Alps, hope the rain stays away.

hear = hair. Sausage fingers.

Really feeling the love from these virtual hairstrokes! We'll, thankfully it seems to have been just the one meal that disagreed with me. My god, though, did I think I was dying. I was actually comparing to the stomach craps to labour and weighing up which was worse And I was terrified of A) being alone with Squeaks in that state and B) Squeaks having it too if it was a bug. I nearly called SFF while he wants on nights to plead for him to come had. Glad I didn't because once it was over, I went back to sleep and I'm just a bit achey and hungry now. Dropped 3 lbs though alps!

Now I just have to find the energy to walk the mutt with Squeaks in tow. That can wait until nap time is over. Meanwhile I have a and trashy telly

I didn't introduce a potty till I embraced the whole potty training thing. I didn't want mini to get complacent about it having had it around for so long. He was so excited about using the potty and wearing big boy pants we never really looked back. Horses for courses and all that. He was 2.6. We have the odd accident still now but never a poo accident, just the odd random wee.

Moo I was messing about with FB last night in the cab on the way home pissed. Was it me?

This weekend I will be mainly dealing with in laws. I am going to practice my delegating skills.

On the job front it looks like they do want me and are not going to get rid. I had already starting spending the redundancy money though

I wondered the same thing fanny. Although in her defence, she always thought we were close (hide of a rhino) as I never told her how much/how often she upset me - I knew it wouldn't be worth it as she just wouldn't get it. She would cry and cry and say how she never meant it and would act like she was the 'victim' and it would have made things very awkward for the whole family. And I just couldn't be arsed. I am hoping that now we've both had our children any comments about her amazing fertility versus my lack of will be forgotten and there will be nothing else for us to fall out over. (Naive, me?!) We did always get on well BC, but then I'd never been on the receiving end of her thoughtlessness. We'll see.... Good luck with the viewing Fans, glad to hear it is all going through ok. I still have serious house envy.

Have one of these too Casp Glad you are recovering quickly and well done on the weight loss!

I couldn't bloody well sleep last night. BB had me up at 3.30am and wouldn't settle for ages. Dozy mare kept rolling around and whacking her head on the bars. When she did settle I couldn't sleep - got myself into a right state about my pension age 40th do - I pictured the rain pouring and me standing out there on my own, billy-no-mates with a whole pig to eat. Seriously though, I have ordered a pig that will feed around 100, I've invited about 140 people and so far around 70 have accepted. I think there are still about 30 people that I haven't heard from, including most of our bloody neighbours, grrr. And what if half the people who have said they are coming don't actually come! Gah!

Must get off my arse and get in the shower. Oh just a quicky... any of those on ADs - have you had problems with sweating? I am sooooo hot (no not like that you dirty mares), I'm not just talking about needing more Sure - I'm talking full body sweats. Or maybe I am going through the menopause?

Morning all. I am having a peaceful cup of tea by myself as TBG has taken the small one out for a walk. I had been promised a lie in and he was out drinking until gone midnight last night so I thought "bollocks, that's not going to happen then". But true to his word he took her after this morning feed and I went back to sleep.

This weekend is going to be another round of "get the flat ready to sell" coupled with a bit of baby proofing. This baby just does not stay in one place anymore and there are too many things around that she really shouldn't be able to roll into. The manic "get the flat ready to sell" is directly related to the baby proofing. I need space!

ShinyNorks your birthday party will be amaze. I am gutted to be missing it. But as it ought to mean a life free from listening to TBG snore these things must be done.

Glad the d&v was short lived curliwurli that really would not have been fair!

pol I think it's far more likely all 130 people will come and will be fighting over the trotters :o not to worry you further or anything.

Good luck with the baby proofing muse

We are doing sweet fa this weekend, pretty much the same as all week. A real waste of TBs annual leave tbh but at least we have all hung out together. Had another rubbish night last night, poor Sprout was obviously very uncomfortable. Poo came this morning and she crashed out so hoping tonight will be better. TB is going out to watch the footie* later this avo so if I want some kip I'd better do it now.

*Start of another season already, joy

WTF happened last night then? OH and I went to the pub with our neighbours and had the bog-standard red wine. We drank a fair old bit, but not a hugely unreasonable amount, and this morning have heads like you would not believe. OH got up early with the kids while I laid in bed, then when I got up he went back to bed and lay there groaning for about 2 hours. I have not felt so rough in years and years and years. I know I have not been drinking lots in recent times, but OH has been making up for it and is plenty capable of drinking a bucketful of wine without getting a head like this.

Pol your party sounds like it's going to be a good one!

Arse. Having only slept in his pushchair before, in the last few days, Squib seems to have decided that he will now only sleep in the dark in his cot. His dad just did 10 circuits round the park and he was too interested in staring around at the birdies to lie back and go to sleep. What to do? May have to persevere and let him get really tired one day so that he eventually conks out...otherwise I can't do anything...

Get a snooze shade for the pram. Or clip a blanket to it. No distracting birdies!

I am failing to do anything yet - even get dressed - and am mostly wondering about buying myself a new mei tai for winter. I love my Babyhawk now and I want a minkee lined one for winter. But I can't bloody well find any in stock so have been arsing around designing my own on the Babyhawk website. Which I can't actually afford to buy.