<<whispers>> Was there ever any clarification about whether the issue with GF was swearing on here?

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MN Towers, if you'd prefer it if this was deleted, please do so.

But I'm nosy. And I want to know. Please?

(I didn't swear in this, though I was tempted to...childish or what?!)

doh

If I preface it all with "I believe" as in "I believe that thousands of children are being subjected to extreme stress which might cause long-term mental ill health"

then would that be okay?

and i thought I killed this thread already already already already

shit I just took a massive swig of expressed breastmilk from a sippy cup

I thought it was water

must concentrate

no

You;d probably be OK with "I bleieve that..." or "In my opinion..." but I don't think you could use that to say, for example, "I believe that SoupDragon is an ignorant twunt who knows nothing about childcare" because that would be defamatory. Probably.

oh really soupy?

another thread I can't start

and yes I did just get a big mouthful of lukewarm breastmilk

hehehe.

Actually, ou probably could say that about me because I genuinely am clueless despite BabyDragon being my 3rd... Maybe not having children is in fact a great qualification for being a parenting guru - your brains haven't been mushed by pregnancy/birth/life with littlies.

haha

GF claims that she is a good guru because she has a "healthy detachment" towards the mother-baby relationship

healthy detachment? shurely shome mistake

I am clueless too with no. 2

I have no fcking idea what I'm doing

I'm proud to admit it

Oh I just realised, how awful for you WWW. What a bloody tangled mess. I don't know about not being able to control myself Bloss, but the whole protracted car crash is making me wonder things I wouldn't have before...is that libelous?

ewww at the sippy cup incident! I was going to say counter intuitive but someone got there before me, while I was away eating supper.

Well precisely MP, I made that observation. It's a perfectly valid one too, one I'd make when hiring a childminder or nanny for example. It's important. Once I didn't have children and used to get annoyed when babies cried on the bus - not I bloody well sympathise, empathise, offer my leaky beasts!!!

ROTFL! That's my best typo EVER!

MT: this beast you've offered me is useless, it's leaking all over the place

MT, don't worry, I'm fine. If I've got it right, Gina isn't taking action against individual posters (I think, although I can't find it now, did I imagine it, thought it was posted here?) so I think I can sleep better at night now. But it appears from another post below from mn that mumsnet are still being told legal action is going ahead against them. I think, eek!

MP, Soupy, that's because babies are individuals. Just as crap books like Men are From Mars, Women are from Venus will only ensure you never understand your partner because you're reading it rather than taking the same time to read them!

God yes I agree

That book is awful too - I found myself thinking "Aha! You're being a selfish shit because it says here on p. 81 that you are a caveman."

hmm

Actually it has taken my two babies to realise that they are individuals

It still hasn't sunk in

I thought I was having another one just the same

ha ha mp- that is so funny. My 3 could not be more different character wise. ALthough they looked spookily like identical triplets born at 3 year intervals at birth. We laughed when ds3 was born as he was another clone (in looks not personality!)

yes, my two, boy and girl, were tike clones once the nappy was on....and tey couldn't have been more different. Dd was always very serious, ds was a happy little chappy, always grinning. She had the tantrums, he couldn't be arsed!

The concept that one 'method' (any one btw) could suit them both is just silly IMHO!

soupy, surely you mean

"healthy detachment? shurely shome mishtake"

[moves back to her corner]

yes yes mine look identical at the same age!

I picked them up from nursery today and all day they had eaten:

dd1 (3 years and just under the Bloody Shortarse line on the centile charts): 1 spoonful of plain mashed potato

dd2 (7 months and on 91st centile): Milk - all: Spaghetti Carbonara (WTF? oh well) - all: apple puree - all.

i cannot believe this madness. it really is surreal. poor poor mn hq having to deal with all this stressful nonsense.
i am lawyer (but know nothing more than said in that q and a link about libel). do know about high ct procedure / case preperation / advicacy etc. am on sabbatical from 08/06.... so if im needed i will do all can to help for free.
come and have a go if you're hard enough. cant gf lawyers tell what we would be like to take on??? havent they heard of the glorious mclibel 2.... that did tons for maccie d's reputation, didnt it...?? they have gone from strngth to strength since then (not).
ooooh am hopping mad re this.

or was that MP