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Hi all, I've had 2 responses from Sainsburys, publishing the first one here with their blessing....

On 27 Oct 2010, at 18:02, [email protected] wrote:

Dear Cathy

Thanks for your email and for your patience in awaiting our response. I?m sorry there don?t appear to be enough parent and child spaces and double trolleys at our Dulwich store. I can understand your disappointment as you think there are a high proportion of parent with children who use this store and need more spaces.

We always want you to have a great experience when you shop with us, as anything less than this is unacceptable. I have spoken with the Store manager Andy Dalitis about your concerns and he has reassured me that he will do all he can to help.

Unfortunately no issues with parent and child car parking spaces, have been brought to Andy?s attention. However Andy himself has assigned an Eurocarparks attendant to man the car park from today. This will ensure that inappropriate use of disabled and parent and child spaces is stopped, as this has been an issue. In this way more spaces should be freed up for valid users.

Your feedback will be passed to the new colleague from Eurocarparks, so the parent and child parking spaces can be monitored to best effect.

There are 20 disabled and 18 parent and child spaces available, which should be more than plenty for a store of this size. However Andy is always happy to help and is available to speak with you in person should this be acceptable to you. In this way he can directly address your concerns to your satisfaction.

If this is not suitable you can also email Andy at [email protected]

In addition to this Andy is reviewing how many double trolleys are available and if there are not enough he will order more to meet demand.

As Andy and his team have only been at the store for 6 months they welcome your comments and will always be on hand and happy to assist when you are shopping there.

I trust this is of help and that you are reassured to our commitment to providing you with the best service

We appreciate you taking the time to get in touch with us and look forward to seeing you in store soon.

Kind regards

Denise McIntosh

Customer Manage

Yeah, go Katie, well done. If you're okay to send me their address I'll send a letter too.

Apparently the store have had numerous complaints and have told head office but as with the 2 baby/toddler trollies nothing has been actioned.

Given the amount of families in East Dulwich you'd think they'd have more spaces.

Hi, anyone out there reading this that has high level access to Sainsburys or know who I can contact to complain about the lack of parent & baby parking spaces? Thanks

My LO though a few months older is also a front sleeper and although I have a different buggy to you put up my own 'curtains'! I carry an old scarf (long & wide) in the bottom of the buggy with clips and put that in place to make it as dark as possible. Sometimes works.

Here's the Sing & Sign classes, a lot are full already and from memory they won't let you join the class after the first 3 weeks. http://www.singandsign.co.uk/franchisee_details.php?i=22,Southwark_&_Lambeth

helenat1970 - how old was your friends son when he started?

Sorry no advice to help you with the nap situation, just to say my 9 month old has never napped well during the day. At the same age as your little one he also did 30 minute naps - usually 3 a day and now has 2 naps for anywhere between 40 minutes each and if we're really lucky 1.5 hours. I once spent a whole week at home with him trying to put some sort of routine together - made no difference. I'm now back at work 3 days a week and our nanny has also tried to get him in to sleep for longer but again he's not having any of it! Thankfully he's generally a happy little chap (sometimes the bath & night time routine can be a bit tense as he's generally very tired by then!)

Also blackout blinds make no difference to how long he sleeps.

The only thing that we've managed to do is get a sort of routine in that he has a morning nap around 9/9.30 and a lunchtime nap around 1.00pm.

I guess some people would envy your nights :-))

Good luck and here's hoping you have better luck than me.

Yep, lovely to meet everyone and up for doing it again.

Hi Curly Amy

Great to meet you earlier, can you remind me where you got your 'picnic' sheets? Thanks

Cathy

Pictures rather than words but still lovely....

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Good for me too. xx

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My 8 a bit month old goes through stages of tucking in and then ignoring the food but have a friend with similar age baby who LOVES his food and tucks in 3 times a day with gusto, he seems to prefer the loaded spoon option. My boy prefers to get his hands in even with rice crispies...! Then another friends baby just puts his head near the plate and hoovers it up! We've started meeting once a week at 5pm for them to eat dinner together as although we try to eat with them, talk 'normally' and behave like it's a general dining experience it can get hard when it's just the 2 of you. More than happy to meet up but can only do Tuesday & Fridays (not am) as am back at work.

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I second the BT one (you can turn the alert off completely or turn it to vibrate)

Excellent news MrsMc.

Water worked for us in that he went back to sleep, though not until he'd let me know his displeasure at being offered water and about half hour of coaxing. But even after 5 or so nights of not feeding him he was still waking up, add to that that he sometimes wakes before the dream feed, sometimes takes 8ozs plus and others not even an ounce - we're beyond confused!

Guess he's just being a baby and can't complain really as he's generally a happy chappie, doesn't wake to play in the night, wakes only the once in the wee hours of the morning and seems to have a regular wake up time of around 7am.

Molly - yours was a Vaude - excellent recommendation. :-))

Thanks but all sorted now

We bought a Vaude, hubby saw it discounted when going past an outdoor shop http://www.penroseoutdoors.co.uk/acatalog/Vaude_Jolly_Comfort.html

Little one has just turned 8 months and we started using it a month or so ago when he could sit up unaided. Loves being in it. Hubby was in marines and used to carrying rucksacks and says Vaude is very comfortable.

Feel free to PM me if you'd like to pop round and try your little one in it.

I didn't have enough expressed milk in the fridge so he had formula at bedtime and going to give formula again at 11pm, here's hoping for a restful night.

Good luck tonight MrsMc

Fair comment, I'll try the water and see how we go, thanks

Thing is he was sleeping through and when we give him the bottle he sometimes takes up to 8ozs - surely that's hunger not habit! I've never used a monitor at night so it's his rather loud lungs that wakes me...!:-S

So glad you've posted this as I have a similar predicament with my 8 month old - the first few nights we blamed it on his cold and teething as he didn't seem to want food, nor holding, nor being left alone. But neither did he want to be awake as was seriously miserable and not looking to play. Then the last few nights it's been for food reasons as although I breast feed he also takes the bottle so we used the bottle to check it wasn't for comfort. Yesterday he had 16ozs during the day with the nanny, a feed from me at 9am and then 9ozs at bedtime, 8ozs at 11pm and still woke up at 4am for food. It was also his best day for eating solids - HELP, do I just have a boy with a healthy (greedy!) appetite.

Be great to hear what others have to say on this as any words of wisdom would be sooooo appreciated.

Hi, I'm a photographers agent with an 8 month old, any good for you?

Hi, is there somewhere locally I can get some velcro sewn on to the edges of a Baa Baa blackout blind? Can't make the suckers work on our window, the velcro we'd ironed on isn't strong enough and there's no hope of me getting a needle & thread through it by hand! Thanks