What made you smile today?

[Selina27]

you 2 make me feel ashamed of moaning about Molly's silly foibles.

Don't be, we all do it! And anyway Molly is perfect as far as I can see

working on their issues brings us so close,

It does though doesn't it, believe me I work hard on the dreaded poo eating -- employing every game I can think of to distract her, more than I would otherwise I'm sure.

 

[Ashley]

I put the go pro on quinn the other day to capture her morning (and test out the harness again). OH was watching the video and called me over because Quinn jumped on someone and I hadn’t noticed! The little devil...she never jumps and it’s not good but I can’t help laughing at how it looks from a dog per perspective!

 

[Hollysdad]

Holly @Hollysdad might be a prefect dog. Cassie wouldn't be! She'd be inciting some sort of riot at the back of the class

Lets get this straight. You think Holly would be the one to instill order and discipline? I think she's more likely just to sit back and enjoy the chaos!

 

[Selina27]

Lets get this straight. You think Holly would be the one to instill order and discipline? I think she's more likely just to sit back and enjoy the chaos!

 

[Jen]

I’ve put Rory on a new milk.

He’s had 4 massive poo’s and this is the most settled I’ve seen him in weeks. Hopefully it’s not just coincidence & we might start seeing an improvement

 

[snowbunny]

Dog owners and mothers - coming together in the shared appreciation of a good poo

 

[Jen]

Dog owners and mothers - coming together in the shared appreciation of a good poo

Spend my entire life inspecting and counting poos

 

[kateincornwall]

Hoping the milk change does the trick @Jen , bless him x

 

[Jacqui-S]

I was thinking this morning, who needs Mums Net when you can consult ageing dog obsessed gin quaffing oldies like us?

 

[MrChew]

This is so much better than any "mum's" forum!

 

[Lab_adore]

Couldn't agree more

We are having a break from gin/wine/all things alcoholic. It s*cks . Temporarily of course!

 

[Jen]

I was thinking this morning, who needs Mums Net when you can consult ageing dog obsessed gin quaffing oldies like us?

Oh god don’t. Those sites and other mams terrify me.

I have to go & get him weighed on Friday and I’m making my mam go with me because I’m scared of all the other judgey mams

 

[MrChew]

@Jen I'm kind of dreading being hooked up with a parents group (formerly known as mother's group) because I'm scared of the judgey people.

 

[snowbunny]

We are having a break from gin/wine/all things alcoholic. It s*cks . Temporarily of course!

 

[Jen]

@Jen I'm kind of dreading being hooked up with a parents group (formerly known as mother's group) because I'm scared of the judgey people.

One of them made my friend cry because she had the audacity to be going out for a few drinks for her birthday, leaving her baby with her dad.

Apparently because she did IVF she should understand how precious every second with her baby is and shouldn’t want to be apart from her at all

 

[Lab_adore]

After the day I've had at work I feel an exemption coming on.

 

[Charlie]

@Jen I'm kind of dreading being hooked up with a parents group (formerly known as mother's group) because I'm scared of the judgey people.

I always gave them a swurve, never joined one! x

 

[Emily]

@Jen I'm kind of dreading being hooked up with a parents group (formerly known as mother's group) because I'm scared of the judgey people.

I was very sceptical but have been so lucky with my group of friends. It's three years on and we're still friends. The key for us was that we all supported (still do) each other, even though we have different views. We don't try and push our own view and always own what we do (e.g. one of my friends had coslept from day one and still does. She w my back to full time work at 4 months and has always found that the cosleeping has helped to maintain a close relationship with her son. Not my thing but I respect that it's what works for her and her family).

I actually found it really good to have a support network when I went back to work. We all were back at least 4 days per week before our kids were one. It's tough to do and we were able to lean on each other as we all understood.

I'd say a group chat is definitely the way to go. We set up a WhatsApp group after week two and have used it nearly every day since!

 

[Lara_Pigletina]

I was lucky too with mum friends - we did an NCT course and the group of 9 mums meet up every week and chat every day on WhatsApp. But I have left them in Berkshire still chatting but not the same. Tried to find mum friends here but I am starting work in 6 weeks and I haven’t met anyone that seems remotely like me! Probably because I am weird, to be fair

 

[Jen]

I’m quite lucky because all my friends are pretty much already mams. My 2 closest friends - one has a 6 month old and one has a 2 year old so I already had mam friends that I can ask a million questions to.

When Rory is a bit bigger I’m going to try and brave music bugs/rhyme time and hartbeebs and I definitely want to do water babies. But I still think I’ll have my mam in tow for most of them