November 2012 - Babies are getting busy, busy, busy

[StuntNun]

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/1858262-November-2012-In-which-the-babies-start-to-reach-their-first-birthdays

I have an avent cup with a valve in but I can' theme to tighten other top up and get the handles in the right place in relation to the spout, then the milk comes out of the sides. Do you know what I am doing wrong. I have had these cups before with no problem have they changed them or have I had a lobotomy?

Can't seem. Wtf.

Same issue here sophia. Tommee tippee one? If you tighten it really tightly then it does eventually work - we threw ours out actually because it was rubbish

sophia I have the same problem with my oak table. However it was me with the tablecloth aversion. But looking at it now I have relented and come to the decision that its time for a tablecloth before my lovely table is ruined forever. Just got to find one I like now! E too likes to pour her water everywhere.

H still drinks out of a bottle

And he broke his water cup yesterday by smashing it on the floor

O still has a bottle at bed time, though he only takes about half of it so I am beginning to give him the other half in a beaker. ( can one actually say beAker now without smirking?)

There is some good oilcloth companies online eliza with some nice designs. Laura Ashley do it too. I plan to get one and keep it' s roll so I can roll it up when DH is here and have it on in the day. I see the point, I did get annoyed when we stayed in the cottage before moving in here every time DS1 climbed up to the table half the cloth got pulled off.

His did the parcel go down mm?

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LO drinks out of a bottle. DD1 still has her milk in a bottle - it's a comfort thing I think.

Well. I opted for a portion of homemade chilli, some not so homemade thai chicken soup, banana milk and a bar of posh bannoffee chocolate. And some biscuits for the boys. It went down well enough I was able to broach buying a new car without getting < this face! (This week alone the front windows, central locking, keyless system, horn and a possible wheel bearing have all broken on my car - there is a car alarm going off outside just now too and I have a very sneaking suspicion it is mine )

I hate waiting. I really want to know one way or another. Argh. I have convinced myself I don't have it as they were interviewing so many for so few jobs, and I really did fuck up my second presentation. I just want to know so I can start my post grad application!!

Aluminium ingested over the lifetime is linked to Alzheimer's but I agree with PR I'm more concerned about the plastic packaging of baby food (and adult food!) there seems to be strong evidence that this is carcinogenic. I think we're going to realise that older packaging methods - glass bottles, wax paper etc should be adopted again.

Pennie is the formula milk over there expensive because its imported? I lived there when the melamine FF poisoning scandal was at its height. Horrible.

Sorry to be Cassandra but I don't support PR's faith in food regulators though - they're far too close to industry so I don't trust them - read up about the Chernobyl milk scandal if you think I'm being paranoid. It was deemed unfit for human consumption and turned into - you guessed it - FM. Nice. Why I believe FM shouldn't be made 'for profit'. It's too important.

Oh, and the tommy tippee beaker is the perfect thing for dropping on Aulay's head. Apparently.

MM start the application that'll guarantee you the job!

Beaker-gate has made R4 woman's hour!

Brilliant. I only caught the end today so will be listening shortly over lunch!

Bugger iS not there yet.

Just in from town. My Gregg's pasty and Mars bar made me heave!

I spotted an epic Dad on the way home. One-handedly pushing a stroller laden with shopping and a snoozing preschooler whilst carrying a toddler on his shoulders and not missing a beat in a rousing rendition of 'The wheels on the bus' with said toddler. That's a real man - you can keep your action heroes and bad boys.

yw I didn't say i trust the regulators. I don't. But they are all we have unfortunately. And you know that when they do get involved there may be a very good reason rather than just newspaper scaremongering..

I agree in principle that ff should be profit free. But government cuts etc may stop them from being able to afford the best research, staff, facilities etc. And governments elsewhere may not have the same standards.

It's a tough one. But I don't trust the state as it is currently run any more than a private company. Which is really sad.

I agree PR state owned would equally be a disaster these days as few go into the civil service for noble reasons anymore . There needs to be a FM cooperative / social enterprise.

Sadly the Chernobyl milk scandal wasn't newspaper scaremongering. It was a Nestle and Milupia business practice buying unsellable European milk for pennies - their target market - consumers in the third world. Because selling radioactive FM to rich babies would apparently be unethical . I went to a v. feminist college at Oxford and was fascinated by 'The politics of breastfeeding' whilst revising in the library and seeking distraction activities it was one of the articles in there that made me .

I haven't followed your link to the Chernobyl thing - I was thinking more along the lines of the regular articles in the press saying that this or that is bad for you according to unamed "studies" - but now you've explained it I remember reading about that somewhere. Could even have been in the Politics of Breastfeeding.

Am not defending ff companies' shoddy practices. But I wouldn't trust the state with feeding our babies either. Look at how disgusting school dinners are - bad taste, questionable contents, badly worked out nutritional value and some schools don't give enough to get through the day.

Though they have outsourced all that now so we're supposed to blame the private companies who work to such a tight budget imposed on them by local councils. But every group in society, babies, children, disabled, elderly, they all get shafted.

Uh oh, I'm talking myself into a downer.

Hmm.