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Bluebozzy said:
Congratulations mate, you'll soon see many of the parental things you didn't think you would do will become broken promises :D
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I've just become an absolute grub. Finishing off their food, eating from the floor. I hate seeing food go to waste. Nibbling on their toes (pretty tasty albeit a little cheesy at times), having them rub their permanently snotty noses on you etc.

Kids are disgusting and they bring you down to their level. You give up on worrying about stains and your clothes being dirty or trying to keep your nice ones nice.
 
Junglist said:
Though, when my friend told me he had never been as ill as when his kids started nursery I realise he was not playing about. Hand Foot and Mouth was the highlight for me.
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I discovered this a year ago when he was 6 months old. Hadn’t even heard of it till then, and thought the OH was talking about the thing that cows get! Spent a week eating very little and a month picking the skin off my hands and feet (some very thick stuff on the heels :D)

The best part? Didn’t even get it from him! About a week before the symptoms started, we’d taken him to Bristol Aquarium, and our best guess is that I picked it up from some stray poo on the changing table there as it’s the most contagious way of catching it…

I isolated from them for a week and somehow neither of them got it, but knowing my luck a different strain will catch me in the future when he started nursery!
 
Junglist said:
Oh that’s annoying. What’s even more annoying is how bad Bristol Aquarium is!! Such a rip off considering how small it is
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We took both our girls there for their 1st birthdays, agreed it’s a bit basic compared to other aquariums especially considering the cost and fairly short time it takes to go round.

Having said that both our girls were in absolute awe, we went in September for our youngests bday with the elder now being almost 3, she was still a massive fan (and had to grab every dang toy in their bloody shop!!)
 
TommyV said:
We took both our girls there for their 1st birthdays, agreed it’s a bit basic compared to other aquariums especially considering the cost and fairly short time it takes to go round.

Having said that both our girls were in absolute awe, we went in September for our youngests bday with the elder now being almost 3, she was still a massive fan (and had to grab every dang toy in their bloody shop!!)
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That was the kicker. You can walk through quite quickly and you get to the end like "Oh.. that was it?" Keep meaning to take ours to the @Bristol part or whatever it's called these days! Also want to go to Techniquest in Cardiff.

We took her to the Sea Life centre in London a couple of weeks back and she absolutely loved it. So I'll like to take her to the one in Birmingham as that's also quite good. Then when we can face the longer drive I'd like to go down to the national marine aquarium in Plymouth.
 
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Junglist said:
That was the kicker. You can walk through quite quickly and you get to the end like "Oh.. that was it?" Keep meaning to take ours to the @Bristol part or whatever it's called these days! Also want to go to Techniquest in Cardiff.

We took her to the Sea Life centre in London a couple of weeks back and she absolutely loved it. So I'll like to take her to the one in Birmingham as that's also quite good. Then when we can face the longer drive I'd like to go down to the national marine aquarium in Plymouth.
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There's one up near Chester called blue planet or something similar that's supposed to be really good, I want to take ours there at some point.
 
Junglist said:
Oh that’s annoying. What’s even more annoying is how bad Bristol Aquarium is!! Such a rip off considering how small it is
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Brighton Aquarium is just as ****, after one loop I was just sort of wondering if I'd missed the sign for us to go to another floor - but nope - it's 25 quid PER person for a 10 minute walk past sad looking fish.
 
I do love a good aquarium. Feels like its largely wasted on ours currently but eventually I will get them into weird looking fish.
 
We took her to the Bristol one when she was 18 months/2 years old or so and she didn't really care about it. It felt better just going to the local garden centre and looking at the marine fish there for free :D We did have a yearly pass to our local Zoo and that was worth its weight in gold. Whenever we ran out of ideas to do it was easy to just go see some giraffes and bears and it didn't matter if you were there for half an hour or so.
 
fez said:
I do love a good aquarium. Feels like its largely wasted on ours currently but eventually I will get them into weird looking fish.
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Put a new pegboard in for my daughter's room after weeks of putting it off, and absolutely knackered my shoulders in the process.

Now to see if she notices or cares!
 
Exam season (high school) for our eldest. She last week received the Academic Outstanding Excellence award for her entire year, is a great student who we're super proud of, and these are her first real/important exams. It's difficult to navigate how to support her as she goes through these and I've relied on the 'pep talks' we use before each of her football games (she's a great goalkeeper) which boil down to "You've got this, you're good at this, concentrate, and have fun".

Not looking for advice really, just thinking out loud. Good support is a difficult thing to give and perhaps harder to receive.
 
Well, 1 week in and it’s been fun! Spent the first two days in hospital for monitoring and feeding issues, followed by two nights of cluster feeding so very little sleep, but the last couple of nights have been ok. She’s managing about 3 hours between feeds at night so I think that’s pretty good!
 
Maccy said:
Well, 1 week in and it’s been fun! Spent the first two days in hospital for monitoring and feeding issues, followed by two nights of cluster feeding so very little sleep, but the last couple of nights have been ok. She’s managing about 3 hours between feeds at night so I think that’s pretty good!
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You're bringing back bad memories of 3hr sleeps to me.
 
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Maccy said:
Well, 1 week in and it’s been fun! Spent the first two days in hospital for monitoring and feeding issues, followed by two nights of cluster feeding so very little sleep, but the last couple of nights have been ok. She’s managing about 3 hours between feeds at night so I think that’s pretty good!
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First couple of weeks are a shock to the system, especially with those initial hospital stays but you’ll get into a routine and figure it out soon.

Is she sleeping in her bed between feeds? If so, that’s a bloody good result.

My little one has what they think is a bit of reflux so wants held upright all the time, we do 3 hour rotations during the night and lucky if she sleeps in her pram for more than an hour. The ‘next to me’ bed has been a no go so far. It’s been an exhausting few weeks but slowly getting better.
 
Maccy said:
Well, 1 week in and it’s been fun! Spent the first two days in hospital for monitoring and feeding issues, followed by two nights of cluster feeding so very little sleep, but the last couple of nights have been ok. She’s managing about 3 hours between feeds at night so I think that’s pretty good!
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That sounds like a result! Glad to hear it’s going well.

Remember than no matter how tough it may seem at times, it will bit by bit get a little easier each and every day.
 
shifty_uk said:
First couple of weeks are a shock to the system, especially with those initial hospital stays but you’ll get into a routine and figure it out soon.

Is she sleeping in her bed between feeds? If so, that’s a bloody good result.

My little one has what they think is a bit of reflux so wants held upright all the time, we do 3 hour rotations during the night and lucky if she sleeps in her pram for more than an hour. The ‘next to me’ bed has been a no go so far. It’s been an exhausting few weeks but slowly getting better.
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Yeh my mrs has managed to get her to sleep in the next to me crib between feeds by putting her down very slowly and putting her in her sleeping bag before putting her down!
 
So we have a bit of a dilemma. Yesterday my daughter (11) had a couple of her school friends round for the first time. They were playing on the sofa and one of their phones fell into a gap. My daughter couldn't reach it and decided to recline the seat to get it out but that wedged it in more. The screen is now cracked, with only about 10% useable (I think a new screen is all that's needed). I don't know if it was already cracked, or if it cracked when it fell, then reclining made it worse. We've chatted to the mum, but we're thinking of offering a token amount (say 50 quid) as she had said she was getting a new phone for Christmas, but is now without one. I couldn't say what phone it is as they all look similar. Does that sound like a reasonable gesture?
 
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