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April 2004 Babies - eight is great!!!

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Yorkiegirl · 31/01/2005 18:51

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Chuffed · 23/02/2005 11:15

The hitting on the table with the spoon sounds about right.

TracyK · 23/02/2005 11:21

although ds was helping me eat a packet of Skips yesterday and could get his little hand in and fetch out a crisp and eat it - looked just like a proper little boy - not a baby.

Chuffed · 23/02/2005 11:24

Is anybody else's dd/ds always trying to feed you too? dd loves the one bite for me one bite for you game.

TracyK · 23/02/2005 11:32

yes - ds does one for me, one for the dog game. but he doesn't offer it out long enough and she ends up nibbling fresh air - v. frustrating for her!
I also get him to do it if I've given him a biscuit and I don't want him to eat it all - so he'll offer it if I say 'bit for mummy' and then I bite a big bit.

handlemecarefully · 23/02/2005 12:07

Ds is a neanderthal when it comes to feeding

Spoons are for grabbing and waving around energetically before lobbing them on the floor.

The only way I can feed him is by serving food directly onto the table (we have a wipe clean waterproof tablecloth) because bowls get picked up and chucked.

Then, after a bit of picking at the food, he sweeps it onto the floor with a great flourish of his arm. The Nursery staff confirm that he is their messiest eater

TracyK · 23/02/2005 12:12

ds disintegrates into the same as yours HMC - thats why I have to be quick at the beginning to get as much in as poss before he becomes bored and starts chucking things around. Although he is good at the beginning.
I also just put things on the table in front of him as I've got the tripp trapp chair with no tray to use.

Fennel · 23/02/2005 12:26

dropping/throwing food is one of my pet hates. dniece still does it age 2.5. (but she doesn't dare at my house) I never pick it up or give it back - my dds have learnt to toe the line on this one pretty quickly. I just don't believe it's an accident even at this tender age.

we still live in total mess however, despite this.

handlemecarefully · 23/02/2005 12:40

It's almost become an obsession with me. When ds is not at Nursery I make every effort to go somewhere else for lunch (the bar at my gym, coffee shop at Debenhams etc) just to avoid it all! Yes perhaps I should get tougher on ds and not let him get away with it because he is a baby

MrsDoolittle · 23/02/2005 12:41

I'm with you there Fennel, although I am not sure whether it's due to my attitude or pure good luck. Having said that, dd drinks from her beaker herself but I am still feeding her. She's funny, she clenches her hands in the air beside her to eat. Dm says it's only because she is not feeing herself yet. When that starts all hell will break loose. Oh hell..........

MrsDoolittle · 23/02/2005 12:42

HMC, I have noticed you commenting on a controversial thread I'm too chicken

handlemecarefully · 23/02/2005 12:44

Well in the 'privacy of our own little thread' (ha ha - lets not fall into that trap), what do you think of the whole fiasco? Or would you rather not comment as walls have ears?

MrsDoolittle · 23/02/2005 12:54

Err walls have ears! I just hope that Bubbles isn't hurt by it. Frankly I feel that Bubbles will have enough of her own worries not to give a flying .
Fundamentally, we must all be affected by reading the tradegy of losing a baby. Everybody expresses it differently. Some people don't know what is appropriate and not appropritae to say. Horses for courses!
I just feel for the poor poor family.
Anyway, it's the same old arguement about cliqueness.

lunavix · 23/02/2005 13:15

Personally (gasp, walls have ears) I think the issue should be concentrated on people not attacking each other. Clique-ness is all good and well, but there is no password to get on a thread, and nothing saying you have to fulfill a criteria to contribute.

I think we are all nice and friendly here

LucyJones · 23/02/2005 16:52

We are definitely a friendly bunch on here. Thanks for all the support re resigning on Friday. I don't know why I feel guilty being a SAHM - I think it's because the majority do seem to work - like on this thread, on the board in general and in RL too. I don't know anyone who is a sahm atm

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Yorkiegirl · 23/02/2005 17:02

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LucyJones · 23/02/2005 17:03

Forgot to say good luck with ttc to Chuffed and Lunavix - sending you baby dust xxx

Fennel · 23/02/2005 17:15

where's the fiasco? what have i missed by being offline for a few hours?

I hang out a lot with SAHM friends on my days off. they don't seem to feel very guilty about being at home at all. lucyjones if you go to toddler groups there will be lots of SAHMs around, that's the sort of place they meet at.

Fennel · 23/02/2005 17:32

take pity on me and tell me! I just did a search on HMC and though I find her views all over the place on a variety of interesting topics I still can't find any fiasco today! nosiness is consuming me here... must get a life.

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Yorkiegirl · 23/02/2005 17:33

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LucyJones · 23/02/2005 18:49

Thanks Fennel - I really must pluck up the courage to go. Find the whole thing a bit daunting, silly isn't it?!!

Fennel · 23/02/2005 19:34

thanks yorkiegirl that was a very interesting thread but I'm not sure it's the one others are talking about - not much cliquiness at all.

lucyjones I got into toddler groups when dd1 was about 1 because she enjoyed them so much. all my dds adore such groups which makes it easier to put up with the irritating bits. though there is still something about singing "miss polly had a dolly" with a load of adults and toddlers which makes me want to work full time for evermore!

dolbear · 23/02/2005 19:37

good for you on the resgning thang , - if your not happy then it can not be a good thing !!

I think we r v friendly , though I say agin I could not even think about ttc already !!! one is enough for me until ds is at least 2 1/2, but G/Luck to you guys I hope it happens as you hope !!

ds has NO interest in holding his own bottle let alone his spoon , I should be grateful I guess

and after the baby with no nappy and slipping on something nasty in the bathroom and had to be pupt in a bath quick - will let the imagination do the rest!! VERY yukky but plenty of amo 4 g/friends later in life !

Fennel · 23/02/2005 20:03

oh, meant to say, sorry Sacha3taylor, welcome to the thread!

seems we have been so busy congratulating ourselves on being so friendly and non-cliquey we forgot to notice you there
we have several may mums here and march ones, we are not too fussy.

MrsDoolittle · 24/02/2005 10:19

No it's this one

Hi Ladies, we are just soooo lovely on here!!

Fennel · 24/02/2005 10:24

thanks Mrs D I did find it in the end. just another mumsnet hoohah really. It does remind me how public our cosy little ramblings on here are.

I preferred the HMC thread about SAHMs and what-if-he-leaves-you-scenario.

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