April 2007 - If you go down to the chemist today .........................

[JoMa]

you're sure of an outburst from kneehigh

Taxis are exempt from the car seat law, you can get in with baby in arms. Might not be all that safe but I've done it in London from King's Cross to my sister's house.

I am addicted to Jojomamanbebe . A load of sale stuff arrived today, all next year's sizes bacuase I've already got too many clothes in 2-3 for dd already. Girls are such fun to dress..... although left to her own devices dd would be head to toe in bright pink every day. She keeps asking to wear pants but have had a couple of goes at potty training and pooing in the potty remains a mystery to her!

CD, now I'm confused - it's always been black cabs that I've taken and it was over a year ago.

Maybe take to car seat to be on the safe side, Maveta.

oh man. Ok I´ll call easyjet and see if we can check in the car seat as a piece of luggage. Thing is, the flight arrives at 11.30pm and the next trains are 12.20am (possible but a bit tight) or 01.05am which is really starting to push it with a small baby.. besides, that only gets us to East Croydon at which point we STILL have to get a taxi too my sisters house in Crystal Palace (no trains all the way there until 3am!). Really the best option sounds like taking the car seat and my sis picking us up... will call them now..

Congrats KHIN on the house! Sounds like you will indeed be very busy!

hello everyone, i think that in black cabs you can just wheel baby on in a pushchair. i've done it before in town BUT i believe that was before the new law.

I know you can take the car seat on the plane. would assume it costs extra, worth checking with the airline. wouldn't you need it anyway to get to the graduation?

since ds found out he could roll over it's not stopped but he doesn't mind being in his bouncy chair so when i've had enough of the crying coz he's on his tummy and can't move he goes in there!

back on my diet today i cannot stay this size much longer. i look like a whale in pictures and have therefore not got any nice ones of me and ds yet if anyone catches me with chocolate please shout at me

Morning all! Lovely and sunny here. Off to the MIL this afternoon as we have been invited for tea. Not my favourite place but it does mean I dont have to cook!!

Maveta, I remember when my friend took her two children on holiday she used to take 2 car seats for the hire car the other side. Never got charged extra to take them either. Hope you sort something out.

KHIN, good luck with the move. I absolutely loathe moving house although I would do it if I could afford my dream home!!

Eddas, I really need to start a diet but just have no motivation whatsoever. I am acutally a bit lighter now than I was before being pregnant with dd but was too big then anyway IYKWIM!

Well i don´t need it at the other end cos we´ll just get the tube but I think it´s going to be the best option. Have emailed easyjet - trying to speak to a human on the phone is apparently impossible!

I still have about half a stone, give or take, to lose and I really wish I could be motivated to do it as I´m getting really sick of being limited in what I can wear. I have so many clothes I am still miles from getting into. On my list of things to do this week is finding out about the gym..

KHIN, I believe lillaura on May 2007 thread (and others of a more controversial nature!) lives in Bicester.

Maveta, don't know about getting an airport cab with car seats, a problem I'm going to have to look into soon. You can book airport pickups in advance and I've found it worked out much cheaper than getting a cab there, plus I would think some of these pickup firms probably can organise a seat, they must get customers with kids.

I'm going to venture out to try out a "Jolly Babies" drop in, I'm quite nervous. I'd like to get out to more local things for mums and babies. I have to make contact with the NCT properly - thinking of joining - but it's much more active on the other side of the borough. I really like the others in my NCT post-natal group and we're meeting up on Wednesday for the 3rd time in 4 weeks, and again, they all live over the other side of the borough. The more local postnatal class ends on Thursday, and there were hopes that a mum and baby group we could all join was about to start but it doesn't seem to be happening.

thanks Mav and CD - I wasn't posting on here at the time, and I don't think I've mentioned it on mumsnet much at all - except once, inadvisably, on one of those "I hate my MIL" threads that often seem so popular in Relationships, to the effect of "stop being so petty, you're lucky you even have a MIL!". Embarrassing .

elkiedee - good luck at Jolly Babies. I've just joined the NCT and am looking at going along to a "Bumps and Babies" meeting this week. I'm nervous about it too - I've become a bit of a hermit since I sprogged - but hopefully will be OK. I've heard that NCT types are sometimes a bit judgemental and earth-mothery; as I formula feed, for example, I'm worried I'll get some funny looks. Still, worth a go.

at you necessary weight loss maveta, I wish!!

Nice to know i'm not alone in being unmotivated, i just can't be arsed!

I'm having a funny old day. Keep thinking about odd things. I've so far asked dh if he wants more kids, he wants to know why i asked! and i keep thinking it'd be kinda nice to move to somewhere else in the country. I have had enough of my dh having to work so much and scrapping by. I'd love to spend more time just me, dh and the dcs. Is it just pipe dreams or could it happen by moving elsewhere in the country? If dh could move within his company to another branch they would have to keep his salary the same(i think) as we're in the south east i'd imagine he's well paid compared to other places in the country also IF we did move then we'd be better off selling up and renting for a bit. We could always move back here if we hated it.

We have spoken before about uping and moving. We both come from here, so do our families. Never lived elsewhere and i've never wanted to move. But with my family spreading themselves here and there i don't think i'd see them any less. DH doesn't see his family as he's always at work,lol.

would be very mad if we did it[scared emticon]

Off to make a cuppa and have chocolate,i know on a diet but in this mood maybe it'll help

Lol Eddas - well I´m not really the one to ask seeing as I upped sticks and moved to Spain! lol

Obviously you want something to change, thinking about more kids, moving house etc. I don´t see how there´s any harm in looking into it more seriously and finding out exactly what the situation with his work/pay would be. I am a big believer in ´change is as good as a rest´ and you know, too many people are scared of the big old ´what if´. Nothing you do is permanent, it might be a hassle but you COULD always move back again. Maybe you could look into renting your house out and then after a certain period, if you decided you weren´t likely to return, sell it?

Have fun thinking about it anyway, sometimes just day dreaming about how you can change your life is enough, and you end up happier that you thought you were with your own life!

and chocolate in times of doubt or crisis is definitely exempt from any and all diet rules! lol

hmm think you're right maveta, something just isn't right at the moment! I have had a short chat with dh(he's working as per usual!) and am now thinking that me working fulltime is an option. He hates his job and TBH would make a much better househusband than I do housewife,lol! I could earn just as much as him, always a did pre dc's. I had not been considering this on the gorunds that ML doesn't finish til end Nov, but TBH is it worth hanging about when it's such a small amount of money we're talking about! an dh would happliy get an old job(supermarket, diy shop etc) to earn the few quid I get when part time working. I do actually get a good pt wage BUT after childcare it's not a lot so if he worked around my hours then we'd be childcare free! DH's hours currently mean that me working when he isn't means alot of work for us both. He works 7.30 to 5 everyday and a lot of sats 8.30-12.30. I know some peopla work more but when i could earn the same working mon-fri 9-5 it takes the piss a little. plus his company aren't good and atm are looking at redundancies. Hmmm wonder if we could play the old voluntary redundnacy thing to wangle some cash off of 'em? hmmm something else to hit dh with later Poor bloke

Hi everyone
Maveta, can your SIL not borrow a car seat from a friend to pick you up? or would you need it while here, sorry if I've misunderstood.
lazyemma, our NCT group doesn't seem too judgemental (tho it is a bit earth mothery) plenty of disposable nappies and ff going on!
Hope everyone's ok, my interview went as well as i could expect, were a few questions I hadn't prepared for so don't think I'll get it. DH and T enjoyed baby massage

Hi ladies

Lazyemma, very sorry to hear about your mil.

Eddas, I feel like I am at the same place as you. I don't feel fully happy with things, and have been thinking along the lines of perhaps I should go back to a ft job, and dh cut back his hours etc. No sure it will happen, but feeling a bit bored I think. I told dh that I was bored, and he said that he was just as bored going to work. But, he just doesn't get it. I think he wears rose coloured specs a lot.

We shall see.

Kat, hope you get the job hun.

Hope everyone is having a good day.

Mine started with a phone call to the incompetent passport office. A neighbour (he is number 1, we are number 10) came to the door yesterday. He had a letter addressed to me, but to his house. He had opened it without realising, and it was Katies bloody birth certificate. Fortunately, as she was born at home, our address is on there. He also said that they had tried to deliver her passport at his address and he had refused to sign for it (at the time he didn't have the Birth Certificate, and therefore didn't realise it was for us iyswim). So basically, because they left the zero off the address, the passport has been sent back.

Hopeless!!!

Rant over. Need to give madame a bottle.

xx

That's ridiculous!

Afternoon all,

Lazyemma - sorry about your MIL.

SOL - grrr to passport office

Katy - hope you get the job even tho some of the questions weren't what you expected

Maveta - agree with katy that maybe your sis could borrow a car seat from someone...you could try asking on MN!!!

Eddas - it does seem silly your dh working such long hours when you could be earning the same for less hours. I know what you mean about dh would make a better hosehusband than me a housewife too

Erin is currently sitting in her boucy chair with her mouth as wide open as she can get it trying to talk it's very funny!

THINK! New Child Car Seat Regulations: FAQs

2. Are there any exemptions?

There are a few specific exceptions:

A. in a licensed taxi/private hire vehicle, if the right child restraint is not available
It is impracticable to expect the right child seat or booster to be available in a taxi unless a parent or carer has brought it with them. There is therefore a qualified exception which says that, if child restraints are not available in a licensed taxi or licensed private hire vehicle:
a child under 3 years old may travel unrestrained but in the rear only - this is the only exemption for a child under 3 years old;
a child aged 3 years and above must use an adult belt in the rear seat only.

Remember that any child up to 135 cms in a front seat of any vehicle must use the correct child seat or booster.

The driver of the vehicle is responsible for ensuring that children under 14 years use the seat belts or child restraints available (except in a taxi with a fixed partition).

so as long as you sit in the back of the car it IS legal for you to take N in the tax without a seat.

that is from the Department for Transport website.

And for those of you who were on msn last night helping me to top up my phone....the bloody useless lot still hadn't topped it up today...have finally figured out how to log in online...no record of the request so have topped up online

you need to check whether they take the money from you norma, o2 did it to me and had taken the money but not given me credit.

Eddas, I know what you mean.. we're constantly playing with numbers to see if dh can do part time once I am back full time as I think he'd do the whole house husband thing much better!

Katy - I don't think my sister knows anyone with children! (except me of course) Actually kind of doubting the whole trip now.. adding up flights and trains and taxis and rah rah rah seems pretty expensive for a sudden short trip. Just annoyed lsis didn't tell me about it before so I could have planned it better i.e. not booked to go over in september which is already done and dusted.

Hope you get the job btw! Unexpected questions notwithstanding..

ooh just saw your post JoMa - thanks for that!

ooh yeah, will have to keep my eye on that......

How did you get on with the nursery fees?

it is really good to know that I am not alone in my thinkings!

Maveta, could you try to change the flights you already have booked? and TBH I really wnated to go to my Borther graduation and although it was a nice day and i wanted to be there for him, i'm not sure i'd be rushing back to one in a hurry! you have the perfect excuses not to go, new baby, live in spain etc etc. but i guess like me you feel a kind a of duty to be there.