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WorkingMummy

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  1. You cannot timetable an infant's hunger or (more accurately) need to nurse, UncleBen. But even if you could, why should you? Why should mothers and babies be rushing out during the two or three hours between feeds in order to prevent the "baby is sucking" thought going through your head. I'd breast feed a baby anywhere where I am permitted to take a baby, using a nursing shawl (which means you don't see anything. In fact, even without a shawl, you won 't see anything unless you bend over the woman's shoulder. Is anyone here actually claiming to have seen the exposed breast of a nursing mother in public? Because I have only seen that in rural Tanzania.) I'd certainly breastfeed in Brick Lane (why not?) just as I have in church (sister's wedding, baby 9 days old, which means a feed lasts about 45 minutes and you have about one hour, 75 minutes tops between feeds. Also Southwark Cathedral one Christmas Eve, baby about 10 weeks.)
  2. I found being heavily pregnant with a 3 yo and 18 month old (not walking) and lots of stairs in the house way harder than I find having 3. I didn't suffer to the degree Pickle did, but always found pregnancy exhausting and hard (with the odd kidney stone and multiple migraine to deal with) and recognise what she says about "doing" another pregnancy to my existing children, let alone myself. Will definitely stick. But am savouring every single moment with my all-still-tiny children knowing - this is it now. A part of me would always say yes to one more, but I certainly feel like we've completed the family now. Did not feel that after having 2nd.
  3. Thinking of taking the kids over to Crystal Palace tomorrow to see the dinosaurs etc. Anyone know what parking is like? Am a new car owner and have never paid any attention to parking facilities before.
  4. Fuschia, hat off to you. You have a huge heart. Even if I could transport the skills and experience I've built up over the last four and a half years back into my pre-motherhood brain, I'd be seriously daunted by the prospect of twins alone. The capacity which lots of people have for love and perspective in a very full parenthood like yours is a very reassuring sign about our species. And makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I have definitely hit my limit. I think.
  5. I'm like a Bird - Nelly Furtado
  6. I have never heard of these but would love tips on what and where to buy. My 2 year old loves building but Lego a bit fiddly for her and duplo frustrates her as whatever she makes just falls to bits.
  7. So happy to hear your news Midivydale. Very warming on an ever so slightly snowy Easter weekend. Best wishes!
  8. Paradise - Sade
  9. Yes but Louisa, smoking on the bus risks giving other people cancer. There is a difference between that and applying moisturiser. Can you not see that you are trying to be prescriptive about what are only your tastes? And it's not moral or physical health which is at stake here. Just look away. Goodness, you don't even use the bus! You may want to rethink what you say about alcohol in restaurants.
  10. Ok, not sure the dog poo and spit comparisons of yours are out of context, and you joined this thread and took the side of an OP with that title, but I'm happy to add to the examples of general misanthropy your suggestion that people who apply makeup in public are necessarily bad, immoral people and that we should impose heavy financial penalties on bus users who comit such social crimes as using moisturiser or talking loudly whist in transit. Fairer?
  11. PaulK, sweetie, people on this thread have been calling other people "gross women" and likening their personal habits to dog poo and spit and you think I - by giving their humanity the benefit of the doubt and thinking they might be pulling our legs - am putting the boot in?
  12. Just checking into this funny thread while searing the lamb. See that Louisa has issued a "sense of humour alert" to DJKQ. So am now firmly concluding - on a topic on which I was previously undecided - that Louisa is not a post feminist comic. And is in fact for real.
  13. Riiiiight, ok. (Moving to a different part of the bus myself now.)
  14. Semester, I was just thinking the exact same thing. Move the OP to the "irrational rage" thread and I'd actually sympathise with it. Not that applying make up bugs me personally at all - just that we all have things we know shouldn't get to us but we can't help it. But constructing a whole world view around irrational anger is, as DHKQ says, odd.
  15. PS And in deference to StraferJack - and because I only brought up breast feeding to illustrate how silly you are being, Louisa, not to high jack the thread - I'm not going to spend long on the ridiculous notion that society is worse off now more women are confident enough to breast feed in public. (Or the notion that such women are forcing others to "partake" of their boobs.)
  16. I think the link between applying make up on the bus - I cannot believe I am writing this - and being rude, or not picking up litter, or not opening doors for people who need help with that, etc, is non existent. Unless you believe it really is possible to judge a person's morals by their habits a la toilette. ???? It is people who are in the habit of thinking that, just because you are on the bus, everyone else within your field of vision should give excessive attention to your sensitivities over, at worst, harmless activity from which you are free and able simply to look away... who.... are..... selfish.
  17. Grating to you StaferJack, but if you look at what Louisa was posting as you were writing your post, you'll see, the comparison was actually pretty sound. If you'll seriously get that annoyed (as in "it's like dog poo") over makeup, you'll get that annoyed over anything.
  18. Sorry, Louisa, you are funny. In these " intimate activities" do you include breast feeding? That is, feeding a baby, using real as opposed to simulated boobs.
  19. If only one could adjust the clock on the baby, as one does with the heating...
  20. drusky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We need to know who has access to > children, the regulatory processes in place, the > accountability procedures, how people and > organisations who make key decisions about > children are themselves subject to a > responsibility framework, reporting and feedback > mechanisms and, most importantly, clear lines of > sight across the whole matter so that everything > is transparent to those who are active > participants in society. Is this your prescription for encouraging a healthy, integrated, balanced, comfortable attitude towards sex in young people? Regulation?????? Or are you saying (on the very narrow topic of child abuse)"we should have a sex offenders register and all who work with children should be CRB checked first". Cos dude, we have that. As for Freud, didn't he hypothesise that women who remember that they were abused by their fathers when very young, are actually remembering that as children they sexually desired their fathers, and project this as a false memory of crime on them by their dads, out of guilt? Which is an absolutely hideous piece of shite to peddle. Seriously, you haven't made a single good point, nor any logically pro-censorship or anti-wholistic sex education point.
  21. It is actually impossible to work out who on this thread is playing for laughs. Like UncleBen's 1950's girls' magazine-worthy "tardy and sloppy" comment. Is that satire? And the "what next/intimate activity" rhetoric. Is that a send-up of the slippery slope, "let them apply eyeliner today, they'll be shaving their legs tomorrow, and pretty soon we'll have coitus on the no 42" mentality? I've never applied makeup on a bus/train. But I have breastfed a baby on both, lots of times. Would love to know what kind of woman the OP'er thinks that makes me. Or are you advocating a strict nipples out/eyeliner in policy?
  22. I agree, DJKillaQueen. A lot of misanthropy in this thread. "And as for people who APPLY MAKE UP in public they are gross like dog poo and spitting" kinda misanthropy.
  23. The Swiss Easter bunny hides chocolate in children's shoes and all around the garden. Then roast lamb with beans and a chocolate cake with hundreds of eggs on top.
  24. Whether you share the OP's perspective or not, let's all agree not to behead proven child rapists. Indeterminate terms of imprisonment for public protection quite enough. DJKillaQueen is right that this thread has now narrowed to a fairly well trodden area about pornography and sexual abuse, where the OP is about (or could be about) something slightly more subtle and a lot more ubiquitous. Children and young people's (the OP would say, girls') "sexualisation". I'm still of the view that de-mystifying any topic is the best way to enable children and young adults to develop their own positive attitude to it and, therefore, to reduce their vulnerability to being exploited (including by their peers). I really think they need to be equipped to look after themselves, and then granted a degree of privacy and trusted to get on with it. Pre-pubescent education - at 10 or 11 - informing kids what changes to expect, informing them that sex can be pleasurable and acknowledging that they might want to start experimenting at some point in their teens, but giving them some pointers about how to look after themselves, would not be a bad start. (Rather than teaching about sex primarily in the context of biology/reproduction and basically advising the kids they have to wait until they are 16.)
  25. Aaagggghhhhhh! It's a holiday weekend. The sun is out - a bit - for the first time in months. So, enter stage left: - Another vomiting bug for four year old - What I think is a urinary tract infection for two year old (seeing celdoc at 1.30) - The mother of all conjunctivitis for baby (caused, again, by constant cold he's had practically all his life). Poor darlings. V bad luck on them all as we had a lovely outing with their cousins planned.
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