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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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divastrop · 30/07/2007 23:22

nappyaddict-i was going to say 'was the nanny SWMNBN?' but i didnt have the guts

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 23:24

well i very almost used the actual name as we can now, but i thought it might classed as slagging her off as opposed to asking advice about her methods so thought i had better use the "code".

mabelmurple · 30/07/2007 23:28

Nappyaddict, sounds like your brother went through a difficult time, tho' the doc's advice was still appalling - lots of other things he wouldn't have had to chew which would have actually contained some nutrition.

Of course you can say that my name is wonderful, Carmenere . Have been around for years with several different names.

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 23:31

he'd got an aversion to eating though you see. so i think the doc thought it better he eat something than nothing at all.

mumfor1standfinaltime · 30/07/2007 23:32

I found the programme quite judgemental to be honest. The safety issue with baby laying on the side of bed next to a carrier bag worried me more than anything.

Agree with many about the food, babies will feed differently in a strange surrounding. When I weaned ds at 6 months I had no idea what to do or how to do it - noone tells you what to do - I would cook veggies and mash with a fork. I would spoon some in and then let him 'play' with the food just to get used to it, at 10 months he was eating finger foods mainly. I was 28 at the time so I don't think age always comes into it, motherhood is something you learn as you go along.
It is bloody hard work at any age.
I am lucky to have a supportive Mum who is a trained Nursery Nurse. I do think a lot of these girls don't have a role model to follow.
As for the girl who feeds her little girl chocolate etc, well we can see the whole family is overweight so it is all she knows!

nappyaddict · 30/07/2007 23:33

didn't think courtney's mum was that big tbh.

NormaStanleyFletcher · 30/07/2007 23:35

my 11 month old doesn't go to bed at 7.

She goes to bed pretty much at 8 - 8.30 most nights

I am 37

FFS

mumfor1standfinaltime · 30/07/2007 23:37

Btw -I do noy think 25lb for age 13 months is heavy. Ds was 25.5 at this age, but he was 90cm tall. No mention of how tall this little girl is, she could be tall for her age.

evenhope · 31/07/2007 12:35

I thought the bedtime thing was OTT. If the mum has decided that she doesn't want the baby up at 7am and 10-10 suits both, why is it a problem? Where is it set in stone that a baby must sleep 7-7? I wish mine would- at 4 months she still won't go down until after 11 pm (and I'm 44 )

On the other hand I didn't agree with the 2 of them with/ expecting 2. If you can't cope with one how is having another going to help? .. as for her mother who said it was inevitable because she'd had one at 15- I wanted to shake her

I watched the programme with DD (21) and DS1 (almost 20). Both of them said if the girls hated the situation as much as it came across (partic the smoking girl) why on earth hadn't they given them up for adoption?

OrmIrian · 31/07/2007 12:53

If what nappyaddict descrines is BLW then that is what I did with my DD. I tried her on babyrice and pureed banana at 4 months (as was then recommended),took an hour to get about 5 teaspoons into her and then she'd puke it all up. She was being mixed fed at the time - bf weekends and evenings, ff at cms during the day. So after a few months I more or less left it until she was able to feed herself more solid food which she wanted and ate happily.

nappyaddict · 31/07/2007 20:57

because it is incredibly hard to put your own child up for adoption and you could tell they did really love their children. i had it suggested to me by someone i was seeing at the time that it wasn't too late to have ds adopted (he was 9 months at the time)

and guess what i am no longer seeing him!

ruddynorah · 31/07/2007 21:06

ooh this programme wound me up! i was so wanting that nanny to show the mum how to go about blw when her baby wouldn't be fed and the food was making her feel sick. would have been right up her street but oh no it was 'you must control the child, you must feed the child, you can't just let him feed himself he is only 10 months old.' hell fire my dd was having roast dinners at 7 months.

and as for 7 til 7.... my dd goes 6.30 til 8.30. grrr that nanny is awful. would she like to do a webchat thing on here some time?

3andnomore · 03/08/2007 00:57

to hertinessex or whatever...well, you may have offered pureed food by that age ( and dispite me being a great fan of BLW) I would have too...but if the child would take it is another story...I mean, if a child doesn't feel like eating it doesn't feel like eating...
at 10 month it's still early days though, really until a baby turns a year +- solid foods are testers not necessary for nutirtient as such....milk will be the main food, whihc suggest even smallest amounts of solids will be just fine....

3andnomore · 03/08/2007 01:01

lol...an as for bedtime...hohum...almost got it right for one child....well, he always goes to bed at 7pm...only he doesn't sleep till 7 earlier weake up call much more likely
And well..with es and ys I have just failed obviousdly...

Usborne · 20/08/2007 22:26

This programme is on now and that girl with the baby who wouldn't feed himself is the focus. It seems to me, that his mom was having a problem. She was feeding him and he wouldn't put the food in his mouth, She kept saying "I;m not putting it in your mouth." I wish someone had taken me away when I came home with my ds (6 years ago when I was 32) to teach me how to do things. I was stuck miles away from my family, on an army garrison while my husband went swanning off overseas!! Maybe I'd have been edited to be a really bad mother!!

MyMILisDoloresUmbridge · 20/08/2007 23:50

Ds3 goes to bed at 9 and wakes at 6.30 and insists on me reading Thomas the Tank Engine through bleary eyes and no glasses! 7 to 7 my arse!

choosyfloosy · 21/08/2007 22:17

Nappyaddict, I would love to see a programme where you and TNWNS (the nanny who never smiles) from this programme have to help 10 parents each. I bet I know which parents and babies would be looking happier at the end of the week - yours.

I thought this programe was horrible in every way and extremely redolent of tales of the old Mother and Baby Homes of the past.

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