Hello Mudduh Hello Fadduh: ILX Rolling Parenting Thread

I just found this blog, good reading: http://moxie.blogs.com/askmo

Good reading, yes,but I'm hesitant to take her advice because, well, she's not an expert. I dislike the Q&A format because it still, despite her warnings, gives the impression she's an expert. So I'll opt out of it.

As much as I'm a proponent of breastfeeding, I'm now much less an advocate of it. I don't mean I'm against it, QUITE the contrary, but I respect mothers who do not wish to breastfeed. I mean, they have a choice and if they don't feel like breastfeeding it doesn't make them a bad parent, y'know.

Spanking, classic or dud?

Completely UTTERLY dud. But, ah, in some cases I can understand you sort of lose your mind, so to speak, and slap the child. My cousin was an extremely difficult child. I never spanked him, but I could understand that his parents did occasionally. Still, it's completely utterly dud. I hope I will never lay a hand on my child EVER. Really. I just find it so wrong. I've seen child abuse and what it can do. And yes I realize that there's *lighter* forms of physical punishment.

me and the beb on the cellphone cam.

Spanking... I'm going to say dud, although it's tricky. We always swore we would never resort to it and the fact is that we have, on occasion. But there are so many better things to try...

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And haha sunny, I somehow KNEW you were actually preggers and not just showing a healthy interest :)
Hope your sickness stops soon.

I just put in five loads of laundry stained with various effluences emitted by the sick pewees this weekend. But the one who got sick on Saturday is better now, and the one who got sick last night seems in relatively good shape.

Super congrats Sunny!

haha no but she wishes, everyone wants to be down with the badgerz

Michael, I'm thinking of you and Pam. Hope all ends well.

archel, seriously, with the 10,000 questions i asked, i kept expecting you to bust me any minute.

haikunym, no wisconsin for years now :( gotta keep the kid near its grandparents for babysitting duty. how else will i jet off to cabo whenever i feel like it? ok, im dreaming. I STILL LOVE YOU WISCONSIN.

sam, i love the south. i just long for the snows and the cows, ya know?

puke report: nothing since saturday night.

good luck to michael.

this seems to have happened immediately after his second month of vaccinations (we are splitting them up and getting them every month rather than getting four at a time every two months).

that sucks about the crying during the day though...but nights are okay? Mine was definitely fussy the day after vaccinations but it was just the day. If he's truly inconsolable I'd call the doc.

I bought a sitting chair (with a bump between the legs so they can't fall) but she frigging HATES it and starts screaming hysterically. So much for trying to get her to sit more. :-( She knows how to sit but doesn't really want to: so she just goes into crawl mode or something. Ah well.

She's been handing over things for some time now. It's the cutest thing EVAH (for now). "Can I have this?" and reach out my hand and she PUTS IT IN MY HAND. Oh damn she makes my day...

I'm going to order that Raymond Scott and also a lullaby CD (babified classical music) cause, well, I want my baby to enjoy music. She clearly loves the other one (we got for free from a friend).

I need some music tips, I think. We have a CD from the Early Learning Centre, which has all your favourites on it, but they are presented in a cheapo one-synth style, like the kiddy equivalent of the early days of digital dancehall. It gets on my wick after a while, although it is worth it to see Edith doing Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes. In the wrong order, of course.

1. Laughing policeman - Penrose, Charles
2. Ugly duckling - Kaye, Danny
3. Robin Hood - James, Dick
4. Right said Fred - Cribbins, Bernard
5. Hippopotamus song - Wallace, Ian
6. Banana boat song (Day O) - Freberg, Stan
7. Goodness gracious me - Sellers, Peter & Sophia Loren
8. Bee song - Askey, Arthur
9. Who's afraid of the big bad wolf - Pinky & Perky
10. I know an old lady - Ives, Burl
11. My boomerang won't come back - Drake, Charlie
12. Teddy bears' picnic - Hall, Henry
13. Nellie the elephant - Miller, Mandy
14. Sparky's magic piano - Blair, Henry & Ray Turner
15. Owl and the pussycat - Hayes, Elton
16. Ernie (the fastest milkman in the West) - Hill, Benny
17. Buckingham Palace - Stephens, Anne
18. Windmill in old Amsterdam - Hilton, Ronnie
19. Grandad - Dunn, Clive
20. My brother - Scott, Terry
21. Morningtown ride - Seekers
22. Gnu song - Flanders & Swann
23. Two little boys - Harris, Rolf
24. Runaway train - Holliday, Michael

A couple of quid from their Easy Listening section. Half great, half horrendous. That version of Nellie the Elephant is awesome and you can't beat a bit of Arthur Askey. Bill's favourite song though is the Pinky & Perky one and that one in particular does my fucking head in.

!!

Punk Rock standards done in a lullaby style:
http://punkrockbaby.com/punkrockbabycd.html
(80s, rock, hip hop, country also available)

i had pinky and perky records when i was a kid.

http://www.trunkrecords.com/turntable/fuzzy_felt.shtml

there are plenty of cows here in TX but the snow. . . can't help you there.

my friends have just put out a great kid's record. designed not to make parents want to gouge out their ears:
http://www.asylumstreetspankers.com/

http://www.coloursarebrighter.com/site/

Half Man Half Biscuit FOR KIDS! (plus other stuff)

(actually nearly everything else posted looks great too)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/music/10/142010.jpg

Wow, it's Flexi Sex in a digipack - the first Trunk digipack ever! And what an album, total and utter filth from start to finish. To cut a long story short, this is a collection of all the Flexi Discs issued by those naughty top shelf titles "Rustler" and "Whitehouse" in the late seventies and early eighties. There are nine treats in all on the CD - including the bonus lavatory festival that is Mary Millington. Also included are Tantalising Tina, Rosey and Nobby, Sonias Sex Diary, Folky Fenella from Dorset whose real name is Eydie and so much more besides. Each dirty girls has a 5 to 6 minute filthy monologue, the like of which you may well have never heard before. The idea was the reader would buy his mag, take it home, then play the flexi disc while ogling the dirty pictures. Truly a magical experience then, and an even more magical one now.

I could not find Fuzzy Felt Folk, so I got Gather In The Mushrooms instead. I am not entirely convinced of its suitability as a children's album.

Teacher = not amused. Rest of class = in hysterics.

I wonder how Michael and Pam are doing.

Perhaps Mike will tell us.

Last meeting with senior consultant and her fancy high-end ultrasonograph was very encouraging - contrary to all previous indications, she didn't think the pyelectasis was any cause for concern, she thought the bloodflow was fine and, though the baby is small, she didn't think required intervention either. Yay!

So, Pam's going to see the doc today and having another Big Scan next Thursday, but it looks like she may be able to carry to term after all! No more daily hospital monitoring either.

(At 33 weeks, Foetus Part Deux: The Carnage Continues is 3lb 5oz [1500g], which is just below the 10th percentile; its body size is quite a bit smaller than that though. Looks like a birth weight very similar to Ava's).

Still don't know the sex.

I have another scan in two weeks, just a final look at what is going on with baby's cleft lip, although we're not expecting to learn anything new really. But it's nice to be given another chance to say hello to her :)