August 2008 : FPG - Rambler's Rest!

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Boo!

Mooncups are great fun because you spend your period with a smug, enigmatic smirk of 'I know something you don't know' combined with eco-piousness. Until you can't stand it any longer and have to tell someone you're wearing it. £20 in Boots I believe, you can always put it away if you don't get on with it and try it years later. Get the 'A for After childbirth' size - the difference is like 2mm but hey, nobody gets smaller and tighter as the years go on do they?

Hi Steaknife, tis indeed a great name. Gives me a cheery image of deliciousness whenever I read it. Thanks for the La Redoute code too.

Have kicked off a bit of a fight on the AIMBU forum. Funny how people forget that AIMBU is a question and assume it's an inflammatory attack. Really should have phrased the title better but was in a hurry and put grammar above vocab.

Buckets - it is quite funny reading the responses though. Some people can be so pretentious. 'exploration of death' good grief.

Ann - Buckets puts it very well, not sure I'd go so far as fun, though I did refrain from telling people when using one. Oh I lie, I told loads of people about it when I got one. I was working as a scuba diving instructor and was a godsend when on divesites with no facilities and I knew it would never end up floating around in the ocean like other things do. ick

As for the name, sorry not changing, while I do like a nice salad I like it on the side of a lovely steak.

Right - baby asleep DH and I off out. (we live with PILs so not abandoning her to be cared for by the cat)

T'ra ladies. I won't be around this weekend as off to Marseille with PILs for a family meet up. I had hoped to go to Toulouse with DH for a friends birthday but we couldn't get a car for ourselves so really 5 hours each way with LO for one night is a bit much.

Wish me and my bad French luck and have a bonne weekend.

have a bonne one steak

right, dp and me have decided we hate our maclaren techno xt, it feels cheap and jolts ds with every grain of grit on the pavement. Also, it does not fit in our boot without a struggle and last week it nearly broke my finger when adjusting the seat. We are thinking of getting a quinny buzz, does anyone have any experience of quinnys?

off to have a nose at buckets' fight

humpf can't believe some people are dissing Mamma Mia too, that was the first film I watched with my ds at Newbies: we loved it!

sambo I have buggy envy every ime someone talks bugies....

I know, I think you get that if the one you have is not totally right. Whereas I love my silver cross and think it's the best

took my moby today and would like to thank those of you who suggested manouvering ds lower - I did this and it was really comfy -his head was about 1 inch below my chin. I had to get him into it in front of the mirror though, so need a bit of practice over the weekend now Full steam ahead for Tuesday!

which sliver cross have you go?

we have the sleepover linear thingummy.... love it but obv not for bus (and now i keep dd's m and p pliko in car so don't have to keep disassembling silver cross).

miamla has the m and p luna and i loooooove it!!

for tuesday I'm taking the pliko but will take my Close carrier in case i need to be brutal with pushchair...... Ds is seriously too heavy for me to carry all day. I must be a weakling or something but within an hour i'm ready to shatter into loads of pieces

sambo I've got a quinny buzz - DS looks really comfy in it and I love it as I find it really easy to manoeuvre (sp?). However, it is quite big when collapsed (even with the wheels off (which is dead easy to do)) so not sure it would fit in your boot any better than the Maclaren. I use mine for endless walking in the park (still got daytime napping issues!) and it feels v. smooth but I think it would be a complete PITA on the bus / train as its quite bulky.

*skyblue( sympathy at your daytime napping issues - my dd only slept in pushchair til i bit the bullet at 13 months. Turned out it was my issue with not wanting her to confuse night and day with using cot for both - which i now see was total crap lol) and we got out of that habit...

Well I logged in last night to say how exciting it was that Toby had taken such an interest in food and had started weaning and found that all hell had broken loose. PF - your question was totally valid and some of the responses were really vile.

Still, in 30 years time, when some of these women suggest BLW at six months to their daughters and daughters-in-law they'll be patronised in their turn ('But MIL, you know in your heart you're wrong about that really don't you?')

Oh, and hello

albs I think that I have exactly the same issue - he's so good at night that I'm scared of ruining that.

When I say good at night I'm ignoring last night's teething nightmare which I'm hoping was just a one off

How did you get out of the habit?

VG and Steaknife you speak from the heart. I like how you both discussed the pressure issue. I came to MN in 2006 with a need for advice, talk from experience, and support. However sometimes what I read here in (not here, here in but MN here in) is CRAZY-ONEPOINTOFVIEW-MOMMY postings. And the typed-ATTACKS are shocking. It seems you give one person a little bit of knowledge and they are the end-all-be-all-expert and talk like they are a living TEXT BOOK (or think they are a text book) of whatever the subject may be. I value other's knowledge but not if it comes with a "you're an idiot if you don't subscribe to it" price. I felt bad for several of the posters on PF's thread yesterday. They were completely incapable of seeing any other viewpoint other than their own. Their RL must be very narrow or they've found a large group that thinks exactly as they do. And if so, good for them because I'd think it's a lonely place in a one-viewpoint world. I really like our group because it's that calm, "hey i tried this but it didn't work so i tried this and it did" style group. We research together. We cry together. We pat each other on the back. And more than anything we share the most amazing recipes together. On, now I'm hungry...who's cooking tonight?

ALBS > Well done on the new thread!

Right- confession time.

Last night when I was changing DD2 after she'd woken for the 5th or six time at 12:30. I was still up doing computer stuff for DH and I brought her downstairs to see if I could work out better what the problem was. I'd had a blocked duct all day and so she'd been feeding on milk that seemed to be upsetting her. I changed her nappy and chatted to her and she looked so adorable in her flowery grobag, I took her hands and pulled her up for a kiss, dislocating her elbow in the process.

I am traumatised, but never mind me, the poor thing! I am so pathological about safety I drive everyone mad. I am always really careful not to pull her up by her hands alone. She was holding my thumbs and I was supporting her lower arms and elbows with the rest of my hand underneath. Or at least that was what I was trying to do. But as I pulled her up I knew my left hand was in the wrong place, under her arm but not reaching her elbow. I'd done the thing right a few seconds before but I'd moved a bit to the side and, of course she wasn't awake in a daytime way and didn't brace herself at all so she shot up, there was a hideous pop-pop-pop and I knew straight away what I'd done.

She cried for a minute or two and was fine, but her arm was floppy and when she was more awake she wasn't moving it to pick things up. I took her into the emergency doc and he was so kind. It was just slightly dislodged(?) and he clicked it back into place in a second. The very worst bit was when he did it and she looked at me as if to say, 'Mom, he did this bad thing to me!' And it was my fault.

I'm so upset that I could have hurt my dotey girl. She is fine now - not a bother on her but AAGGGH! A bad mum day.

skybluebelle Basically I decided that it was killing me walking round the park (and more) every day (by then she was down to one nap, but til 11 months it was twice a bloomin day) so I figured there was no harm trying to put her in her cot one day. And she just went down fine.

She was a brilliant night sleeper so I guess it was like you, being willing to have ishoos in the day rather than risk messing up nights).

Ds I was determined would nap in his cot. And he does. Admittedly he has to be cuddled/fed to sleep but at the moment I'm reasonably ok about that as long as i get those times he's aslepp to do jobs and Mn and drink HOT tea!

With dd most of the time I was able to bring her home once she's gone off and she would mostly stay asleep but I dreaded the doorbell waking her (buggy by doorbell in hall) or the lodger would sometimes be home in the day and i'd dread her shutting a door too loudly or something.

Ds can sleep in the pushchair and sometimes cn have a good long nap in there but other times he will wake as we come over the threshhold. Or as soon as i get inot a cafe and sit down with my cofe, ping those eyes open!

sibh you poor thing. Loads and loads of hugs
xxx

{{{HUGS}}}} Sibh. I closed DD1's finger in a closet door when she was first walking. Felt EXACTLY the same way since I too am a SAFETY COP in our house. DD1 has no recall of it so don't worry. Time will erase the moment (for her at least.)

Oh golly Sibh, poor you. How awful. I had no idea that was so easy to do but the way you describe it makes sense.

Aww Sibh poor you and poor DD2 Lots of kisses and cuddles will soon fix that (now that she's seen the doctor).

Interesting discussion re. pressure...I do think that us new parents are always ready to put it on ourselves even when it's not meant by other people. Take the classic question "Does s/he sleep well? Is s/he sleeping at night?" Clearly we've all heard it many, many times and some of those times it will provoke anxiety or defensiveness on our part. But often I think people just say that shit for something to say - it's like the other completely unanswerable meaningless classic, "Is s/he good?" People just say it for something to say. Yet we jump at another chance to berate and worry ourselves.

Been a packed day today - met four of my NCT friends at a local ceramic-painting cafe and spent two hours printing baby feet onto plates and mugs. Fun, but bloody hard work! Joe was okay with his feet being printed but when I tried the hand...no dice.

You poor thing sibh! Scary to realise how easy it is to do. A colleague of mine did this to her son.

sambo - We have a Quinny Buzz and I'm desperate to dump it for a new McLaren! Swap?! We were given the Quinny combo for DD1 and, to be fair used it a lot and it was good. However, I didn't have a car (or a toddler) then so walked everywhere. Now the thought of hauling it into and out of the car constantly is just awful, so I've just used the sling. We dumped the Quinny for a McLaren when DD1 was about 1 but it's now knackered (well, rain cover broken and encrusted in banana and other miscellaneous toddler grot ) and can't wait to get another.

TS - I couldn't agree more about MN at the moment. I 'discovered' it when I was looking for info on baby food in Italy and have learned so much about so much conception/baby/child related stuff. However, it all seems so polarised at the moment. SO pleased to have found you ladies though.

I think it is so interesting that we've found one another - a real symptom of our times (though not in an illness sense ). From what I've gathered, it seems that the one thing we all have in common (other than a baby born in Aug 08!) is that we don't have our whole family and oldest friends living round the corner. We're getting that day-in, day-out support from one another when once our Mum/sister/friends/Granny would have given it. TBH, think I prefer it this way!

She has a Gregg's sausage roll clutched in her paw as we speak Sazzles. Bless.