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maniana Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don?t know anyone who has used a private midwife. > If you want a home birth you can just ask on the > nhs and they?ll provide a midwife to assist in the > homebirth. There are specialist teams on the nhs. Hi Minisimo2, I'm a local Mum and Private Midwife (lived in ED for 25 years, run antenatal classes here for 15 years and all four of my children born and raised here - ED is carved on my heart!)I've PM'd you to say please feel free to ask me anything :) If you'd like, I can ask some of my current/ previous ED clients if they'd be happy for you to chat with them about the services locally, both NHS and private - just let me know. x

afr Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It was an Uber driver at 3am this morning. He had > a heart attack. Hope he is ok! Oh no, poor fellow. I really hope the poor man is okay.

This morning I travelled from East Dulwich Hospital to Bromley - a journey I've done hundreds of times over the last 25 years. There are a few routes and shortcuts I can take, most of which google-maps usually agrees with. Today for the first time ever google-maps advised me to go to central Bromley via Honor Oak, Ladywell and Catford - a massive loop to get to my destination. I can only assume this ridiculous route deviation is due to the utterly awful traffic on all the other routes caused by these facile, ill thought out and almost universally loathed road closures? Really - who is behind this complete chaos, and what on earth are they getting from it?

lbsmith73 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think you are on to something there... Really I > am a car owner and to be honest all the traffic > made me change my behaviours. I now cycle the 9 > miles to work and it is quicker than driving and > the train. It keeps me in shape, saves on gym > fees, good for the environment and you only need a > bit of wet weather gear from time to time. Not to > mention it has saved me a fortune in fuel and rail > fares. I know it?s difficult but change is hard > and sometimes you have to look beyond your own > needs. Marvellous. Good for you. Now how do I translate that into my working life? I'm a community midwife. I travel 500 miles a month from Fulham in the north to Epsom and Banstead in the south and to Bexley in the East. I have to carry my emergency equipment with me at all times - 4 large and heavy bags and boxes that fill my car boot. Includes resuscitation equipment for adults and newborns. Impossible to do my job without a car (I know, I tried to do it on a scooter for a year). I live just off East Dulwich Grove and the combination of these utterly selfish and purposeless road closures - reducing the routes to my home form the south from 5 to 2 - and the soon to be CPZ means that my day-to-day working life has changed significantly for the worse. This means that after 25 years of living in our home, and raising our children here, creating a community, we are feeling forced to seriously consider moving elsewhere. We don't want to, but we might have to. Sometimes you have to look beyond your own smug, self-satisfaction to see needs of others, and hear the distress being caused to them.

?20 a month. For any inessentials - money in his packet kinda thing. We pay for phone, clothes, special trips out e.g cinema or theatre, school trips, I also buy him one item of inessential clothing a month choice of his choice up to ?50. We also will give him ?10-20 here or there for a day/ trip out with his mates or his girlfriend for example. He also has a couple of part time jobs.

I've had four babies under Kings and their midwives, with a variety of experiences, however I trained and worked as a midwife at Lewisham. I now work in all the big South London hospitals so have a good overview of the ethos and 'feel' of each. There is no shadow of doubt in my mind what I would do were I to be pregnant now: If I were giving birth in a hospital I would chose Lewisham in a heart-beat. To my mind Lewisham is vastly over-looked, and somewhat over-shadowed by the giants of Kings and Tommies that surround it, however not only is their Birth centre nationally recognised as Gold standard, but I am consistently impressed with how ahead of they game they are clinically. As a midwife I have found that 9 times out 10 when I hear that one the big teaching hospitals has now started offering X or Y to their women, it's often something Lewisham was doing several years ago - without fuss or fanfare. And this is the key, Lewisham is a brilliant local unit. Many of the midwives and Doctors that work there also live nearby - their families use Lewisham, there is a vested interest in making the hospital good. They do really good work without being loud, or bragging about it - they just get on with it. And if I had opportunity to give birth in their Birth Centre I would jump at it - it knock's spots off Kings. 10 years ago kings had an amazing reputation for maternity, partly because of the legacy of the Albany team, and partly because of their wonderful caseload midwifery teams. That was all ruined by their last director of midwifery who disbanded them - apart from one or two half-hearted nod's to continuity that are still limping along. I suspect your consultant friends are harking back to this, and the fact that Kings does loads of research. It does have a super-glamourous fetal medicine unit where they do the scans so sonographers love it, but for actual labour and birth? Lewisham every time.

Nicky Harris is the best postnatal support in East Dulwich (I think that's what you mean by postnatal practitioner?). Tel: 07935 435 903.

At Kings, the two midwife-led suites are currently only being used for women who have, or are suspected of having Covid19.

"ED - NAGAIUTB Wrote: ----you can't even wind your neck in during > a global pandemic. > > You really are a vile specimen." Ive reported your post for vile and cowardly bullying. Penguin: your post is completely wrong. "There is no evidence that the pregnant are at risk, this is just precautionary - and those most likely to be at risk (based on the fact that the virus is so new) are those in early term pregnancy - no one has yet gone through to term having risked early infection! This is merely a worst case scenario. " We know pregnant women ARE more at risk of viral infections in pregnancy as their immune system is already suppressed to support the growth of the baby. The evidence is that women in the LAST few months of their pregnancy are MOST at risk of contracting the virus. I don't actually understand the last part of your sentence "no one...early infection" so I can't comment on that, but please only post information that you are sure of, as in the current climate posting incorrect information about the risks the virus poses to pregnant women could be dangerous. For more information please check out the RCOG website.

Trossachs been doing it a few days now, delighted to see others following #weapplaud

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It wouldn't be the first time school children have > been arrested at Sainsbury's since Charter opened. What an utterly ridiculous comment!!

We attended the meeting at Half Moon Lane. There we were informed by the council representative that no-one in area A (encompassed by EDG/ Townley rd/ north Lordship lane) will be entitled to a permit due to the fact that we are shortly getting a CPZ. So that's us told then.

I can't help, but it might help you find them if you can say roughly where you saw Edward & his carer?

Thanks dbboy.

Thankyou.

Thankyou everyone. I've been asked to remove this post now.

Hey Kalvinbrown, congratulations on your pregnancy. This thread is particularly about Osteopathy in pregnancy, if you're looking for other information then it's best if you start a separate thread with your own question - it helps to avoid confusion. To answer your question though, NO Airborne is NOT SAFE to take in pregnancy as the amount of vitamin C & A and E is way too high and this can cause problems with the baby's growth and development in the womb.

So not resident only then - as long as one's prepared to risk being closed in by a barrier that's - to my knowledge - never been used in the last 25 years? Looks like that'll be hotly fought over parking for the Alleyns teachers once the CPZ is in force then.

Just because an institution has been in place for a while doesn't mean it can do what it likes seenbeen. It's good that through threads like this Alleyns can be held somewhat to account (they don't seem to listen to individual local residents for sure). If it was clear that the ED community was getting something back from this parasite squatting in our midst then personally I would feel more favourably inclined toward their ever encroaching expansion plans. As for the "people make sacrifices" nonsense ... I don't know what kind of cars or holidays you imagine folk are giving up to afford the ?15k plus per annum school fees, but I can state that even if we took no holidays and went carless it wouldn't even touch one years worth of fees, I would guess that there are many, many others in the same boat. Don't kid yourself - you have to be rich to send your children there full stop.

nivag Wrote: > > Not everyone has easy access to water or a > convenient place to wash a car. Seriously? Bucket. Tap. Sponge. Car parked in road/street. Job done. Honestly - words fail me.

"There was a drug-related stabbing here earlier this year (from what I remember) and the teenage boy was badly injured." You're partly right. A teenage boy was stabbed in the bum on Glengarry Rd by another teenage boy - part of a gang initiation it was thought. Not badly injured though. "someone in Trossachs Road has already got their Christmas tree up" It's the new people - no-one's met them yet. Very mysterious ... and clearly early celebrators of Christmas!

Lived here happily for 24 years - raised my kids etc.etc. Wonderful street, truly wonderful neighbours all up & down the road (can't leave because I can't bear to move away from them!) Happy to answer any queries, feel free to PM me. x

...and the school staff car park used to be in the quadrangle (behind the main building). Anyway, regardless the point is that they have plenty of land, and plenty of clout - Im sure Southwark could be persuaded to agree to use some of Alleyn's MOL acres for a coach park as and when it becomes convenient for Alleyns (which I suspect will probably be pretty soon, once the streets around them have been forced into having CPZ's so Alleyn's teachers can't park their cars there anymore, and the yummy's and nanny's can't park to collect the darlings). Watching with interest.

Oh yeah!! That IS weird!