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spongebrainbigpants · 31/01/2009 08:57

New home!

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poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:07

aww...going will find a link to the coat..

FiveGoMadInDorset · 11/02/2009 22:11

Ah, that one, read the OP and haven't been back, you all just need to stay away those thread need to come with a health warning.

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:11

going link to the worst buy of the last few months

grr just looking at it reminds me of the waste of cash it was..billowing fabric my arse

FiveGoMadInDorset · 11/02/2009 22:12

Sounds like a troll to me

goingtohaveagoodnightssleep · 11/02/2009 22:16

poppy| that coat is..erm..interesting.....

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:17

c'mon its rubbish.. god knows what possessed me

neenztwinz · 11/02/2009 22:17

It does look great Poppy

I keep writing your name as Poopy

goingtohaveagoodnightssleep · 11/02/2009 22:19

I found this pic www.baby-sling-experts.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=90 . I'm sure some one will buy it if you ebay it!

FiveGoMadInDorset · 11/02/2009 22:20

Sorry just going back to that thread now I have found it, yes there are a few militants on her and unfortunately they stand out but the majority are OK. I mad the decision that FF from the start was the best for me, my babies and my family and I have no guilt or qualms whatsoever about having made that decision, but I am not feeding my babies tinned junk, and I have the utmost respect for those who can and do BF.

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:22

that is better going...but then would fail dh test as would have to either 1.walk behind him 2. walk next to him and listen to comments re where are my pan pipes etc

and 5gomad you're right - my experience of motherhood definitely improved when I started ff and I'm sure its not coincidental.

Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:27

Poppy no, Iestyn hangs backwards too! A man in Sainsbury asked me whether it was ok for his head to be that way! I have a close baby carrier. (As modelled by aberdeen!)

I had other things to say but I had to read three pages due to a late night lecture.

Who was it on tripp trapp chairs now? I have one. Or rather Iestyn does. I like it, it's great, he seems to like it too. Downsides - he swings his head around and pretends to find v. interesting things behind him when he's (not) eating, and he could - and indeed has, whinegums - hit his head on the back of it. But he is particularly stumpy, like his mother.

Thermometers - interestingly (or not), I have just complained to Calpol because the refill covers for the digital ear thermometer don't fit in the slot provided. These things really matter to me. Sponge ffs don't get a thermometer, you'd be checking every half an hour, right? Apologies if I've misread you - I'm only being silly, promise. (And I will admit that I take Iestyn's temperature all the time when I'm going through one of my thermometer phases, and usually take my own one too.) The Calpol one is good and has a scary alarm when the temperature goes over 37.
With what to do, I did strip Iestyn down when he had a temp, and he was much happier for it. He stopped acting ill once we were at the out of hours gp, but he was in his nappy only the whole time.

There were other things and I now can't remember.

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:29

ah yes the wriggling high chair thing essie this is where I find sitting her in front of tv or wearing a hat (or a tea towel.. I'm not joking) tends to fix her attention.

spongebrainbigpants · 11/02/2009 22:32

poppy, PMSL at the panpipes - your dh could commando crawl behind you while checking for spies?!!

5, I so wish I could be as rational as you . I think part of my issue (and sorry for sounding like a stuck record) is that nothing about my baby's conception or birth was natural so I kind of put far too much store on the importance of bf to make me feel that I could succeed at something that my body was supposedly designed to do. When I failed at that too it felt (and still does sometimes) like the end of the world.

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Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:32

5GoMad that's a really healthy attitude.
Sponge, I'm playing psychologist again, but do you think you get upset because it wasn't your decision, you were forced into it due to circumstances? Anyway, you're doing the right thing! And I might have to start punishing you for too many faces when you're talking about ff.
btw, am I weird in being slightly that you've had a post withdrawn?

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:36

lol yes he could but he'd only want to be doing that with gadgets ...I could play him a nice tune on my pan pipes while he did it.

And sponge can completley see why the feeding thing is such an emotive issue for you but alex is great and you're a great mama. For example you don't waste pounds on useless coats..

Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:38

Ah, now, we're on the same wavelength (and x-posting) Sponge. Bossy non-psychologist now: you've not failed! At all! You have a baby and a healthy and totally normal one! That's a success. Your pregnancy was all you, right? Didn't grow him in a, dunno, grobag or anything? And what was not natural about the birth - did you push him out of your nose? Or unzip yourself or something? Remember that natural childbirth is pretty wasteful and half of us wouldn't be here now - I had an epidural (thank God), and was not opting for a natural childbirth which would involve giving birth squatting somewhere draughty with a large bosomed lady with unwashed hands giving me childbed fever and risk dying before the end of the labour. What is natural childbirth anyway?

God, I'm off on one again!

FiveGoMadInDorset · 11/02/2009 22:41

Now there you go I am artificial mother ff and 2 sections

Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:41

Actually can anyone tell me what is natural childbirth? It's a proper question, not hypothetical.

spongebrainbigpants · 11/02/2009 22:41

Lol Essie, we are an exclusive club you know! All you need to do is be really abusive to a smug patronising cow and 'voila' post withdrawn!

Tbh, I've seen worse than the comments I made and their posts have not been withdrawn - don't think it helped that my post appeared at the top of the thread when you opened it!

Don't think I'll stop feeling sad until I have my 2nd baby and bf that one - which I will do even if it kills me! (Although then I'll have to cope with the guilt of having bf-ed baby no 2 and not Alex! ).

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Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:42

Lol 'artificial' 5GoMad! All sorts of images here...

poppy34 · 11/02/2009 22:43

you have to be wearing that coat and playing panpipes in a cave to be natural childbirthing essie ..right think that is enough

FiveGoMadInDorset · 11/02/2009 22:43

Oh and happy for DC's to go to nursery so that's it on three counts.

Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:44

Don't start on that guilt, Sponge - I WILL punish!
I'm now going to worry about how bfing can kill you. I could have drowned yesterday! Think on that, Sponge!

PenguinProject · 11/02/2009 22:46

Opps, this has dropped off my threads I'm on. Sorry everyone, I'm having trouble keeping up.

Off to catch up as much as poss, but just to respond to the posts on this page:

Sorry Poppy, after looking at the pic you posted I was about to say the coat looked mad. Then I saw GoingTo's pic and changed my mind. Then again, I bought (and have never used) one of these. Just the name should have put me off!

Sponge - I've seen you and Alex together and you're the most natural Mum in the world.

Essie - Whenever I remember that we have a thermometer, which happens about once a month, I end up taking R's temperature. And then mine too.

Off to catch up now.

Essie3 · 11/02/2009 22:47

I'm obviously shunning the artificial 5GoMad. 'Dear Social Services, it has recently been brought to my attention that a certain woman in Dorset...'