Ruth_Baldock

Belle, that's awful! Poor little j! My son likes to crawl over to tiny babies And have a good stare/babble but I always swoop in, pick him up and say "that's a. Very tinybaby, darling, he can't play with you yet" and then try and divert his attention. I'd be mortified if someone had to tell him off because I wasn't watching him! He also gets pushed over a lot and once in a playground, he was on a little roundabout thing sitting up and clapping and an older toddler kicked him off. I don't know who was more upset- baby or me!!!

I'd take her to a&e personally. I suffered from asthma as a child (still do) and after a while my mum realized it was quicker and more productive to bypass gp altogether

Fuschia, I am so sorry you're going through this. Echoing everyone else, you're very strong for not going doolallyover the past few weeks. Thinking of you. X

No, Autistic Spectrum Disorder. Low functioning, specifically. I meant that the link between his autism and bf was the need for routine and consistency and he was so used to having his nursing sessions at specific times of the day etc. It felt excessively long to my Mother, and I know she wanted to stop when he was 3, really.

Hi all, I booked an area under my name from 7.30pm at the Mag. However this morning my husband told me he's going out tomorrow evening (nice...) so I can't goooooo! Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Yes, it's definitely all about confidence too. I think thats also why I passed when I was much older- by this point I had a good A-Levels and a degree and a job and felt that I shouldn't be intimidated by maths. Whatever it was, it worked. I guess I was just more 'ready' then, this may also be the case for your son.

Yes, should be. I'm still poorly sick but SHOULD be better by Friday, in theory.

This might make me unpopular, so let me preface by saying I am NOT blaming the school/teachers whatsoever. I really struggled with maths all throughout secondary school. I failed my maths GCSE, and then failed it at re-take (when I was in the same school doing my A2 levels). I FINALLY passed when I was 23, and it was because of my teacher. She just had this approach that made sense to me. All my other teachers were lovely- very caring and helpful but I didn't respond to their methods. Does that make any sense? Could be the same in your son's case.

Ive experienced this, although a lot of it was down to my sons witching hour. I think it's a very common phenomena, and n wonder! Taking care of a tiny baby all day is knackering. I got round it by having a nap with my baby in the afternoon to boost my energy, and also for some skin to skin. I reall made sure I drank a lot of fluids from 3pm onwards, and I had a bowl of porridge in the afternoon too- oats are good for milk supply. I also used to bath with my baby- relaxed me and yet more skin to skin.

Gina, no advice but to echo others- good for you!!!! Women between 16-24 are least likely to even attempt to bf, let alone do it for 22 months! (I'm 25 And am breastfeeding my 11 month old. I hope to continue until he's at least 2) agree with saffron, my son fiddles when he's a bit wired. I do the same as saffron, put baby down and leave the room for a. Few minutes. 9/10 it works.

Unfortunately myself and my fellow host are quite unwell, as are a few others and their babies. As thus unfortunately today's session won't take place. Apologies all, especially those of you who said you were intending to come for the first time :(

Hi Belle, Mum started to take us when we were 18 months+! Her Dad is a dentist, so we all went to get our teeth checked every 3 months! (not fun for me, I'm terrified). Didn't work, I've had 4 taken out including ALL my wisdom teeth and have loads of fillings. whoops!

My sister was once chatting to an old lady at the bus stop, when she was 3 or so, and when the old lady said 'where do you live?', my sister for some reason said 'In the pub!'. No idea why. Mum was cringing. She said that the last 25 years of her life have revolved around her being embaressed silly by her kids. Sorry, Mum!

My Mum just reminded me of something awful I said when I was 6. She was walking me to school one day, and she was really, really pregnant (on mat leave too presumably). She was gasping and panting for air (As you do, if you're 9 months pregnant in still-warm September). I stopped next to her and shouted really loudly as an elderly couple were passing "THATS THE NOISE I HEAR YOU MAKING IN YOUR BED WITH COLIN (my stedad), MUMMY!" (My mum said she was mortified but when the elderly couple slowed down to give Mother harsh looks she gestured to her bump and said "Well, it had to come from somewhere!".)

Ah lovely. I haven't been able to nurse seb in public for months because it goes like this: latch, gulp gulp gulp, pull off, look around, milk goes everywhere, seb smacks boob.

Was reading another online community today, there was a thread detailing the most embarrassing things people's kids had said/done, with contributions such as one lady's son shouting 'HEY MUMMY, DO YOU HAVE YOUR VAGINA ON?' in a shop, and a little girl saying 'Good girl go wee!' and clapping whilst looking under the stall in a public loo. What have your little one's done? Baby Baldock can't speak yet, but he does have a habit of BEING SICK in other people's nappy/handbags, and trying to latch on to breastfeeding mums and playgroups. My son, he's a charmer.

Another 'cry' for help! More of my volunteers have had to reluctantly leave the group! Some more information about what volunteering involves: Hosts arrive at Goose Green Community Centre at 9.45ish, to set up. This involves putting toys and mats down, setting up a table for the refreshments and donations and flyers, making said refreshments (i always delegate this bit of hosting, my teas are AWFUL). At the end, we do the whole thing in reverse. And thats it! Very easy, and you get to meet lots of Mums and babies. I always come away from sessions feeling a lot more positive and less like I am going to break Baby Baldock in the next 5 days or so; it's a lovely way to start the week.

I always followed the rule of freeze, thaw, heat to body temp, feed, throw out.

Yes, unfortunately what Fuschia said is true! I recently invoiced someone for well over ?600 for a book and admin charges and shipping fees etc. They worked for Olswang, so the company paid and I imagine it was a drop in the ocean...

Hiya, I work in a library (albeit a law one where the books are about ?400 each) but when this happens, patrons contact the library manager directly to report the fault/replace the damaged book. They'll probably send you an invoice, because they properly source all their books from the same supplier etc. Also damaged books still say in the 'system' but are labelled in the acquisitions software as 'damaged' and are usually stocked away. New material all has to be processed through, and approved, that way. Hope this makes sense! Hope

Okay Mums (and...Dads?) I am going to call the Mag tomorrow from 'work' (ha! Seems all I do is mess about online and go to Pret about 5 times a day when I go to 'work'...) Should I book the area from 7.30pm?

We had a bad night with Baby B on Friday night, and we all fell asleep at 6am in our bed on Saturday morning, after he'd been up since 2am! Slept till 9am, and then put him to bed an hour later (at 8pm) so he'd think it was 7pm. It worked, he woke up at the 'new' 7.15am! Sorry if I sound smug, but to be fair we've only recently cracked his terrible sleep woes after 9 months of torture.

Like most of my links, this is an american website but it looks quite good! http://weelicious.com/ Found it via yet ANOTHER parenting community I am on. Really should get out more...

Ryedale, you do make me laugh! Although, ED to Farringdon is a bit far if you've never commuted by bike! I cycle to work, SE5 to Holborn and the scariest bits are indeed EC roundabout (I can always be heard muttering 'oh god oh god oh bloody f***, help!") until I get to St George's Circus. Aldwych/Kingsway is sometimes a bit hairy, but I get by. I keep some spare clothes at work, and my hair always looks like a nest but if you have long hair and you put it in an 'up' do, pony tail or bun or whatever, it helps to reduce helmet hair. You can get cycle proof makeup, or don't bother with it till you get to work. I always look like a zombie, but I can get away with it by mumbling 'I have a 10 month old, and no time to look nice'. Have an office full of men, all terrified of sexual discrimination lawsuits to banter with me about it. Could you, Mr Rydedale and C's both big and little go biking at the weekends? You could have a trailer for Big C and a baby seat for little C, or seats for both of them? Go as a family? It's what me and Mr Baldock do, Seb loves it, points at things, giggles, sometimes falls asleep. We cycle to dulwich park, then go round and round. It must be working because I'm back to 8stone6 now. WHOO HOO! Can't stand the Davina DVDs either, they're in Seb's toy box. He uses them to chuck about and hit his tambourine with.

Judy Blume's book 'Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret' is really, really good. 'Religious' aspect aside, it's about a 6th grade girl, she moves to a new school and has a friendship group of 4, which changes over the year. Really good.