I am the person the midges love. They just can't help themselves! My mum loved camping because they all ate me and not her. I still have scars from the midge bites on that holiday. When I got home I looked like I had chicken pox, literally!
I am the person the midges love. They just can't help themselves! My mum loved camping because they all ate me and not her. I still have scars from the midge bites on that holiday. When I got home I looked like I had chicken pox, literally!
I am definately NOT an outdoors person.
Oh dear! You have my sympathy, we watched my mother get eaten alive by midges for years, ah the memories...
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We want to get married in a castle lol
The National Trust hires out several of their castles and houses, if you go to their (Scottish) site, you can find out about fees, they start at around £500 if i remember right :)
18.11 28.4 6.5 22.31
My heart just needs his smile, that i can't forget, like so melancholy a kiss.
that actually isn't bad.... i was imagining thousands rather than hundreds of pounds... mmm.
Chloe was just having cuddles with uncle mark and she just kept kissing him. Everyone else has to ask for kisses and might possibly get one, she just kept doing it though! mand x
Mand, South Wales, Full-time working, single mother to 2 scarily independent girls.
I AM A PROUD PLUMERIA SISTER
Just a quick question if you don't mind....
I work as a nanny and was wondering if I could have a couple of mum's thoughts please.
I care for three kids and the two youngest children are 13 months and 29 months. I have major issues with their diets. Both babies are being fed at least 36ozs of milk every night by the parents. Then another 4ozs around about 8am. I only give them one bottle during the day at nap time but I have concerns about the amount they are drinking outwith my working hours. I've tried making jokey remarks to the parents about the amount and even stated that I believed the amount they were drinking to be the reason for both babies having very hard painful stools and the older one having skin problems.
Would it be wrong for me to say anything more about this? Of course it's their children and they have every right to choose how they raise them but it's alarming to me and they think nothing of the fact that they have to buy 3 litres of milk every single day.
As mothers would you be offended if your child carer raised this with you?
I've been looking after this family's children for nearly 2 years so I know them well.
I've just re-read my message and realised it sounds a bit daft but I'm just looking for some input...
Thanks.
from weaning up until 12 months a baby needs 500-600mls of milk a day. After that, i believe if using cows milk, the child needs a fairly iron rich diet or use growing up milk with the younger one. (500mls a day) the older one should be completley weaned and off bottles. The younger one should not be using bottles either.
maybe ask to go along to the next health visitor/jabs appointment - say you want to hear their reccomendations so you can implement them and bring it up with the health visitor. let them deal with the mother.
the youngest one should have jabs soon, mand x
Mand, South Wales, Full-time working, single mother to 2 scarily independent girls.
I AM A PROUD PLUMERIA SISTER
helena, eat marmite every day. it worked for me. it reverses the 'sweet skinned' effect. mand x
Brilliant!! You're a genius! I will do that! I love marmite anyway I will start eating it everyday in the lead up to summer. I even get bitten down here in the south!
I love the idea of getting married in a castle! Sounds fab!
I think that is too much milk... but I wouldn't know what I'd do if someone told me so, if it was me that was the mother. I might be a bit offended.
I'm currently reducing the amount of milk my daughter (21 months) drinks because she has very RUNNY poo! She was having about 4 6oz bottles a day, and now she's getting three 4oz bottles - it's made a very noticeable difference to her poo. We're soon going to be stopping the bottles altogether at night (we're tired! wish us luck!) and just giving her milk in the day if she wants it, and in a beaker!
I'm puzzled when you say they have solid poos, because my daughters are so soft? That's just my experience though, maybe everyone's body deals differently with milk? Do they get plenty of fruit? Grapes are good for loosening poo.
I've never done measurements (Oliver's always been breastfed) so I have no idea about mls/ozs and how much they should be having, are they being given the milk in bottles? Maybe you could mention reading some research on tooth decay and falling asleep with a bottle, and discuss giving it in a beaker instead? Still not ideal but it would be a start. Is all the milk given at once or are they waking up for it several times in the night?
How did they react when you brought it up in a jokey way? My gut reaction would be to be offended if somebody told me I was doing something wrong, but then I would look into it later and it might change my ways, so if you believe it's negatively affecting the children's health it's worth bringing it up. Sorry, I'd write more but I'm trying to feed a very wriggly toddler at the same time and he's going to slip off my knee!
That is alot of milk to be having a night, Fin's 21 months and has a cup of milk available at night and rarely finishes it. The only time that LO's that age generally drink that much milk, at odd hours too, is if they're ill. Could you seek advice from a local Health Visitor?
18.11 28.4 6.5 22.31
My heart just needs his smile, that i can't forget, like so melancholy a kiss.
berni, jamie wanted to get married in a castle too. this is the one he wanted http://travel.webshots.com/photo/223...02879121vtwOmr apparently you can book it during the day but there are no overnight stays so that poses a problem, for me as well as for you. so i reckon we will find somewhere else. it was a nice thought though.
"When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you" - Dr Samuel Loomis
Stace - totally delayed post (sorry peeps!) but you aren't going mad RE: the hauntings/weird things going on. I think everyones beliefs always alter how we think, for instance, if you're always being told not to be so silly and that they don't believe in such "goings on" you'll begin to question yourself, do you know what i mean??
Have you ever had any psychic readings done? Just out of curiosity!
Hope you and Freyja are ok! Love the pics on the pic board hun, she's SO adorable, makes me want Freyja cuddles! lol! EEE the chubby cheeks get me everytime! :P xxxx
yeah i know what you mean i havent had any psychic readings done no...it has always interested me but i have never been for one...suppose its money! i think they quite expensive?
freyja is still recovering from some viral infection/cold/cough but shes happy enough. my head is near exploding as the council have fcked me over big time. they awarded me local housing allowance and council tax benefit in december to help me pay my rent, they even backdated it to may. i phoned soon after and asked if i moved to a bigger place, which i need, would it affect my benefit. they said no, payments will not go up, just stay the same. i thought i could just about manage it so have taken on a bigger place which i move into next week. but i havent had a payment since the first one and when i queried it they said it was a one off payment and i wasnt entitled to any more. i challenged it and we discovered they had jamies earnings wrong. so i had to mess around getting proof of earnings sent in and that. called today to find out the progress to be told im still not entitled. so i am not completely up ***** creek as from beginning of april i will be paying out an extra £225 a month which i just dont have. i was crying all morning because i really cant bear to go back to my job, it made me ill. i pulled myself together, sorted a cv, applied for a job, spent the day jobhunting. but im really going to have to look at all options, if i will be better off working part time/full time or staying at home, once i take the cost of childcare into consideration. sorry that turned into a big long spiel there, i am just out of my mind with worry now!!!!!!
freyja is so cute, she does keep me going with her cheeky little smile but at the same time today she was driving me nuts as she was into everything and i was trying my best to get my life back on track...difficult when you are trying to look after a 9 month old too.
"When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you" - Dr Samuel Loomis
Stace, can you go in and speak to a housing officer? They should have a discretionary fund, but more than that, they can go through options for financial support too, in terms of housing. Are you getting the Child/Working Tax Credit you're entitled too?
18.11 28.4 6.5 22.31
My heart just needs his smile, that i can't forget, like so melancholy a kiss.
i could go speak to a housing officer but im not sure of how much they can help as i am privately renting. and i have just taken on a 12 month lease. i googled the discretionary fund but edinburgh doesnt appear to have one either??? lots of other places like glasgow came up but no edinburgh, and when i searched the council website i couldnt find anything.
i am getting my child tax and working tax credits yeah. i have had a look at my expenditure and its just about viable. going by jamies income and my tax credits, once we have paid all of our bills etc, we will have £40 left over a week. that will be to feed us all, clothe freyja, and put nappies on her bum. just seems so unfair. especially given she goes through a tub of formula a week, at around £8.
"When I want your opinion, I'll beat it out of you" - Dr Samuel Loomis
I will start eating it everyday in the lead up to summer. I even get bitten down here in the south! 
