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My short and stocky 2 and 3/4 year old boy still fits in our 2009 bee, up until recently we used it every day and he'd happily sleep for two hours in it too!

Hello everyone / those still checking this thread! Congrats to all the new mums and dads, I guess we are all done now since summer is over?? Kristy - would love to meet for a walk on Wednesday - I'll send a pm Rachael x

We walked to camberwell and got the 148 bus all the way to the playground.

Hi everyone, Congrats to the latest summer mums, Claire and Fran. And me! I had a (tiny) baby girl, Lucia, on Sunday 1st and we haven't managed to leave home yet. Hope to see you all soon though Rachael

Congratulations Annabelle and Julia. Funny how little bearing due dates have on actual birth dates!

hey Claire unfortunately I'm busy this afternoon, and I've just realised that this will be the last Saturday meet up before my due date! Would be great to meet up again soon though, maybe it will be with a new baby too if I cam manage it... take care all, Rachael

Congratulations Erika! Hope you're enjoying the first days of motherhood... I'm looking forward to meeting Rory soon too xx

If anyone is heading down to the plough today, I'm sitting outside right in the corner... Rachael

Hey Sarah, I can be at the Plough for 1 o'clock on Saturday, if you like. We might get to sit outside this time! Julia, I will send you a PM. See you all Saturday Rachael

Hi everyone, Unfortunately I'm unable to make it to the Plough this Saturday, but I have the next one in 2 weeks already in the diary. Also, due to having a toddler with me all week I can't make the weekday meet ups at Green and Blue, although they sound so lovely and civilised... instead I'm aiming to make a playground meet tomorrow. If anyone wants to join please let me know Rachael

Hi all, Ok - the next weekday meet up we're planning for Friday 4th May 3pm at Peckham rye park. Meeting at the little open playground next to the one o'clock club (my son loves that roundabout!) Hope to see some of you there, and if not, then this Sat at the Plough at 2pm. Rachael

Hi again, just a reminder I'll be at goose green playground tomorrow morning with my 2 year old boy, when there's a break from the rain... hope to see some of you then. Will send a PM to browncoffee now, and anyone else planning to come maybe send me a PM and we can swap numbers? Also hoping to meet up next Saturday 28th at the Plough, as I missed the 14th. Hope everyone is happy and growing! Rachael

I was very impressed by the turn-out on Saturday too! Now, anyone interested in a Friday playdate how does Friday 20th April sound? 11am at Goose Green playground?

Yes, you can use the sunshade with the original canopy. We made the mistake of buying the silver canopy thinking it was necessary and have hardly ever needed it!

Hi everyone, I agree Saturday afternoon sitting outside was lovely - but the plough certainly didn't make much money from us! Lets hope the 31st is just as nice... Unfortunately I now can't make it to the playground next Friday, so I'll be keen to arrange another weekday play date soon. Is Friday the best day still? Hope everyone is keeping well. See you soon! Rachael

Umm, do we need a Summer Babies Club events co-ordinator? The next meet up would be Saturday 10th of March, but time (2pm again ok?) and venue TBA - the Bishop and Plough have both been mentioned... anyone need to bring their child/ toddler along? Luckily I don't, I'm off the childcare hook on weekends! For anyone around on Fridays, especially (but not exclusively) those with toddlers, I've suggested another playground/ park meet-up on the 23rd March.

congratulations Clarey28! It was lovely to meet everyone at goose green playground yesterday. It was quite busy... I hope nobody came later and couldn't find us. We should do it again, maybe Friday 23rd March? See you all on the 10th Rachael

Hello ladies, and welcome to the new joiners... nice to see some more of us with toddlers too! On Friday morning I was thinking of getting my son into one of the baby swings at 10am, so anyone who turns up can join us there? I'm sure it won't take long until all the little ones are running off in different directions (so it may be difficult to keep a conversation going!) Hope everyone is feeling well

Don't be scared of Thailand! We went to Club Med Phuket last August when our son was 18 months old. We booked him in for the full week of the creche - which was brilliant - although we could take him out for the afternoon or day if we wanted to do something together. It was run like a nursery with a separate area and staff for the under twos, they even had their own pool (really shallow covered by shade cloth) and daily activities. The staff were excellent. It wouldn't have been our first choice for a holiday pre-kids, but it turned out to be perfect for us because of the facilities for our little one - happy baby, happy family! By the way, our son did spend the entire flight running up and down the aisles! Happy to answer any other questions, too.

Righto - Count me in for the 10th of March, happy with any venue On Friday 24th, I'd prefer the morning too only because the playground is rammed with school kids at 3.30. looking forward to meeting some more "summer mums" :-)

I'm blonde and wearing a frumpy pink maternity top today (Australian accent obviously, but I can't think of any other distinguishing features...) looking forward to meeting some of the group later. Also I was going to mention I have my anomaly scan (22 weeks) on Friday morning but I'm free in the afternoon, or 24th I'm free all day. Hoping the weather has improved by then so I can suggest meeting at goose green playground, if others live around that way?

Saturday is good for me, I can leave my toddler with his dad... Any suggestions on how we can recognise each other? I think my bump is huge, but a lot of people haven't noticed that I'm pregnant. nbb - I'm around most Fridays, would be good to have a bump n' toddler meet up Kristymac - sorry to hear; no advice I'm afraid but I do feel for you having to give up chocolate muffins (a weakness of mine too!)

It's so exhausting isn't it... Hope you got a good rest Ellie and the rest of you ladies too. Yay for the weekend!

Hello, I'm due 23rd June, and I have a nearly 2 year old already. He's my full time job! Congrats to all you first timers, it is really exciting... :)

Hi, we have the kiddy guardian pro; bought it a couple of months ago for our (now) 19 month old. Chosen because of the which? safety reports and because it's easy to move between cars. We don't own a car but do hire cars/ use street cars/ get taxis so we needed to be sure it would fit any make of car. The impact shield thing does look a little strange at first but my son doesn't seem to mind it at all (he falls asleep in cars instantly anyway) He's at the age now where he can wiggle out of a 5-point harness so we're glad it doesn't have/need one. I'm not sure at what age or weight you stop using the impact shield, so this might be irrelevant for your 3 year old. We got it from John Lewis Bluewater where we "tried it on" - i.e. they have a car seat set up there for trying out different models, this was really helpful for us to get our heads around how it worked with just the car seatbelt. Hope this helps, but let me know if you need any more info