How To Be A Good Mother..

[IWantMyHatBack]

Getting in early with this one... anybody watching?

I took my DS to lots of baby swimming groups but nobody ever did a swim nappy inspection. How odd! I'm in her area too.

I'd like to meet her actually (Daria). I'd like to have a frank discussion with her on smuggery and assumptions about other people. She doesn't frighten me in the least.

Hm. The first one was obv a bit dim, and I just wondered what her husband did to fund the six kids, massive house and home ed. Plus fiddling around with stretch mark cream/pretend business. (7 ingredients - not that natural). BTW I have 4 kids, all by CS and its total genetics. I'm a size 8 with a flat tummy. Some people get lucky. I also have inherited hideous frizzy hair and a dry skin. So, not so great.

Elimination thing - so what.
Placenta thing - obv didn't warm to her given the CS comment
App lady - so what.
Pole dancer - good on her, single mum paying her way, kid was nice.
Mad dog step mother type - really liked her...

Presenter drove me nuts with all the crappy asides to the kids, like 'I'm so cool' - Let's pretend we saw a wood pigeon/ she wont come round; you can leave your house a mess etc.

WaterBabies are VERY strict on doubling up!

I have met one of those women.

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Do we have to guess kungfu? Do you have a dried umbilical cord mobile?

Is the one you've met a local loon mother, kungfu ?

I've not seen it yet btw.

presenter: RUDE! like a kid trying to get laughs out of the rest of the class by pulling faces behind the teacher's back. Disliked her more than any of the mums.

Home school mum: I envy her tummy and she and the kids seem happy, but I won't buy your cream love your tummy has nothing to do with your cream, that was luck n genes!

EC mum: Lighten up love! made some good points but they were lost in her total lack of humour and wierd intensity

Poledance mum: media whore, I've seen her on a couple of things, not just snog marry avoid! more interested in being next jodi marsh or katie price than talking about motherhood, presenter didn't really probe her about her parenting too deeply either just seemed interested in getting a peek at the backstage of the club!

Working mum: I don't know how anyone does it without lists! she was extreme but in the normal spectrum IMO

no! i loved the presenter. She, the stepmum, and the 'working mum with too many apps' were the only bearable women on the show.

oh yeah step mum. My DS was on a bike that did a 180 flip in the air with him in the baby seat and his helmet hit the road before anything else! He was fine, his helmet was not. I'm glad it wasn't his head and now children in child seats on bikes without helmets make me see red. handlebars-shmandlebars

Couldn't get past that to have an opinion on anything else she said

Ah, that's it then HelloShitty - we never did get to waterbabies (couldn't afford it). My DS is 3 and can swim underwater despite that though - Do I win a prize? :o

Anyway - off topic but I have never known of any child to poo while swimming - have you? I only ever used a pair of special swim pants things with DS - I never needed to use an extra swim nappy.

"Anyway - off topic but I have never known of any child to poo while swimming - have you?"

yes. The baby pool has to get closed every time one gets "let loose". Its a PITA and yuck for everyone! make sure the bums are well wraped PLEASE! (most pools ask for double dutch - swim nappy plus swim shorts)

Might be, Jenai.

She was nicer in real life, but not massively misrepresented on the programme. She also said on the show that she didn't agree with something that, if I remember correctly, she does actually do herself which I thought was odd.

No placenta mobile, Sparkling.....

Bit late to this, but placenta stuff- I just don't get it. Someone explain to me.....
It would seem to me that our bodies are v efficient and bodies do not waste. Anything we do expel is waste and/or toxic.. WHY eat placenta when your body voluntarily expels it as waste?

And is the placenta not a filter, cleaning the blood for the baby, filtering out nasty stuff, drugs, viruses etc. why eat it if it's full of nasty stuff?

And how do we know it's full of vitamins? Says who?

Am I wrong? Enlighten me please if I'm wrong. Load of crap if u ask me.

I also wonder about the hormones in the capsules. How are they still active and useful after being cooked then powdered?

OK I get how out in the wild it would make sense to eat your placenta, and fresh/raw placenta (like in the smoothy) might do you SOME good (not as much as she was saying IMO), but frozen for X amt of time, then steam cooked, then powdered and bottled.. really how much of that goodness would be left?

But why would u need these hormones? Your body says you don't need them.

I still say: our bodies waste very very little. I don't think it'd lose all these "valuable"(?) nutrients so easily if they were so valuable. So I question their value.

I've never had an instinct to eat my placentas. Don't know anyone who has. Maybe I'm just thick.

Going back to the cycle helmet thing - according to the book How to live dangerously, you are actually MORE likely to sustain serious head injury WITH one. Something to do with motorists driving closer to helmetted cyclists. In the event of cycle deaths when a cyclist is completely mangled, a helmet won't make a bit of difference.

Not sure where I stand on cycle helmets but I did like the stepmum. I feel like cheering anyone who puts 2 fingers up at all that health and safety rubbish....

Thank goodness. Thought I'd killed the thread.

I love aspects of attachement parenting - did loads of that stuff with DS. I just hate that whenever it's shown on TV they always pick the lunatics, every time.

Oh apart from that one with the 4 parenting styles: the continuum Mum was not made to look like a freakazoid -I was pregnant when it was shown - forget the name though.

I was very at the placenta woman's comments re. C-sections. However, I read on another parenting forum that she'd talked for an hour and they showed one line which was taken out of context.
Homeschooling woman - I can't believe she had so much energy. And that she was 26 with a 10-year-old. Not a big fan of the names, but each to their own...
The placenta just looked like raw meat (which I suppose it is).
Some people might come over more serious on TV as they're concentrating on the cameras - they might not be so in real-life. I'm quite interested in EC though I have never tried it.