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OMG Judging opportunity Teenage Mothers on ITV now

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Carmenere · 30/07/2007 22:14

Poor babies

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Carmenere · 30/07/2007 22:17

The mums do love their babies but they just don't have a freaking clue
One young girl was saying her baby boy of about 8 months old was lazy because he never did anything and she is pregnant again and has already split up with the dad and she was smoking!!What the Fuck has her mother taught her??

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nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:18

ok i havent seen anything awful yet.what have you seen that is so bad?

they have tried to make out not bathing the baby is bad - loads of mums bath their kids like once a week.

they have tried to say its bad cos one of them went to bed at 10. my little boy sleeps 10 - 10 cos it works for us. he doesnt go to nursery we dont need to be up in the mornings. 7-7 is not the only time babies sleep.

ok the lying on the edge of the bed thing is not good but i would leave ds on the bed cos i knew he couldnt roll that far in the time i turned my back but i put him in the middle.

programmes like this make my blood boil. they always edit it to make them look bad when they aren't.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:19

giving up smoking his hard. how do you know she hasn't cut down from 80 a day?

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Carmenere · 30/07/2007 22:21

I'm sorry but constantly feeding a 13mnth old chocolate and the things I've said below are not the god parenting that a child deserves. I know you are only 18 but I am not commenting on your experience so don't take it personally.

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nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:21

i dont agree with giving them lots of sweets and stuff but my mum does i and shes 50. sees it as a grandma's right

and wtf. not wiping the milk from the babies mouth is a terrible sin is it? wot planet are those psycholocgist women on?

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Carmenere · 30/07/2007 22:21

I'm not blaming those kids who have had babies but their parents

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Carmenere · 30/07/2007 22:22

Seriously, napyaddict these kids need to be taught how to parent and that is the idea behind the programme which is a good thing.

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nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:28

wow if i was on this programme i'd be feeling mightily pissed off. i don't consider my self a terrible mum yet i do a lot of the things they think are so awful. wots wrong with leaving a baby to feed themselves? my ds wouldn't feed himself til he was 10 months so he had only milk til he was 10 months. its not such a huge crime. and also the change will have probably affecteccd the bcabcy and not made him want to eat. i have days where im upset and dont want to eat. why are babies so different. i dont get this we have to force food down their throats regime.

Wilkie · 30/07/2007 22:30

Confused - baby feed themselves?? How does that work then?

nutcracker · 30/07/2007 22:31

I agree it is the teenagers parents that should face the blame too.

I was a teenage mum but had enough help and input from my mum to learn how to bring up my kids.

The one mum even said that because she was 15 when she had her first baby, that she expected at least one of her kids to follow and apparently thats life.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:31

you dump food on the tray, they pick it up, put it in their cmouths, chew and swallow. pretty much the same as you and i but without cutlery.

Wilkie · 30/07/2007 22:32

And you didn't feed your baby solids till 10 months cos he couldn't feed himself??

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:34

nope he just had milk. at every meal time from 6 months i would put some of my food on his tray. until he was 10 months he messed with it, played with it, picked it up and threw it on the floor and then finally ate it.

EricGallagher · 30/07/2007 22:34

BLW for beginners "you dump food on the tray, they pick it up, put it in their cmouths, chew and swallow. pretty much the same as you and i but without cutlery"

Aitch will be pleased

Wilkie · 30/07/2007 22:35
hertsnessex · 30/07/2007 22:35

"he wouldnt feed himself - so you only gave him milk til 10mths" - or am i getting the wrong end of the stick?

the one with the two girls needs help for sure.

Dinosaur · 30/07/2007 22:35

Eric, that is exactly what I just thought, you beat me to posting it though!

hertsnessex · 30/07/2007 22:36

oops - same post as wilkie. leaving this thread now.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:37

in an essence yes. i didn't see it as he wouldn't feed, more that he wasn't ready to. so i waited until he was. if you didn't want to eat would you be happy about someone ramming it down your throat cos they thought you should?

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:38

and milk is still food remember i didn't starve him!

hertsnessex · 30/07/2007 22:39

BLW doesnt work for everyone - nor every baby - i would have pureed some fruit/veg and spoon fed. really must go now.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:41

no it doesn't work for everyone - not saying that. but i don't think the nanny woman or whoever she was should have looked down on the girl so much for saying he normally feeds himself at home and if he can do it himself why should she do it, he obviously just didn't feel like eating that day.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 22:42

and some babies do close their mouths as soon as spoon goes near them. mine does. and there's no way if he didn't eat anything i could get it in there short of holding him down, and squeezing his mouth open and then he'd just ry and spit it all out anyway.

hertsnessex · 30/07/2007 22:43

she should try, and encourage him because she is his mother FFS.

MadEyeMisdee · 30/07/2007 22:45

i didnt see it all.

whats wrong with BLW? food doesnt have to be pureed and s[pooned in.

dd3 did some BLW, she was mainly breastfed till well past 6months, and had finger foods as was easier. she did get some purees, but i preferred it when she fed herself.