sillywoman

One of mine has a messenger bag, one has a rucksack, both are happy and have no problems (though their bags do seem to weigh a ton). Get whatever style she wants, in whatever colour she wants. She'll change her mind a few weeks into term anyway once she's had a chance to check out what everyone else has. Come Christmas you'll be getting her a new one. :D

The Lanes Midwives are Kings Midwives If you go to St Thomas's you can't be with them. There are no local Tommies Midwives because ED is not their area. You'll need to go to Tommies for your antenatal appointments.

Au Pair (if you have space). Mother's Help (usually a local teenager) if you don't?

Hi everyone, apologies for gatecrashing. I just wanted to let you know that this coming Thursday 26th, I will be hosting June's "ED Birthtalk" (this is the East Dulwich Positive birth group). It will be from 10am-12midday and everyone interested in exploring how to think about birth in a more positive way is welcome. It's held at my house in ED, so is walking distance for most, and babies/toddlers/children are very welcome. I will provide tea/coffee/soft drinks/biscuits etc.etc. and you just bring yourselves, your positive attitude and interest in all things birth related (and a packet of biccies if you want to contribute). The theme this month is "Choice in Birth", which should make for interesting discussion. Did you feel you had/have a choice regarding the birth of your baby? When you're in the midst of labour and things aren't going to plan did you still feel you had choices? Can informed choice ever be a reality - if so, how far? How much knowledge do you need to be 'informed'? How are choices presented to you in the UK maternity system? Were your choices respected? If you're a maternity professional, how far are the choices you can offer women dictated by the needs of the system, rather than the needs/wishes of the women? I think this one may run and run!! :D Please PM me for the address, otherwise I'll look forward to seeing any you who are interested and can make it on Thursday morning. Sorry again, as you were! SW x P.s. Did I mention that it's free?

Hello everyone, apologies for gatecrashing, but I just wondered whether any of you might be interested to come to this months 'Positive Birth' discussion? It's this coming Thursday 26th, It will be from 10am-12midday and everyone interested in exploring how to think about birth in a more positive way is welcome. It's held at my house in ED, so is walking distance for most, and babies/toddlers/children are very welcome. I will provide tea/coffee/soft drinks/biscuits etc.etc. and you just bring yourselves, your positive attitude and interest in all things birth related (and a packet of biccies if you want to contribute). The theme this month is "Choice in Birth", which should make for interesting discussion. Did you feel you had/have a choice regarding the birth of your baby? When you're in the midst of labour and things aren't going to plan did you still feel you had choices? Can informed choice ever be a reality - if so, how far? How much knowledge do you need to be 'informed'? How are choices presented to you in the UK maternity system? Were your choices respected? If you're a maternity professional, how far are the choices you can offer women dictated by the needs of the system, rather than the needs/wishes of the women? I think this one may run and run!! :D Please PM me for the address, otherwise I'll look forward to seeing any of you as are interested and can make it on Thursday morning. SW x

Hi everyone, apologies for gatecrashing, I just wanted to see if anyone fancied coming to this Thursdays' positive birth meet up? It's this coming Thursday 26th, It will be from 10am-12midday and everyone interested in exploring how to think about birth in a more positive way is welcome. It's held at my house in ED, so is walking distance for most, and babies/toddlers/children are very welcome. I will provide tea/coffee/soft drinks/biscuits etc.etc. and you just bring yourselves, your positive attitude and interest in all things birth related (and a packet of biccies if you want to contribute). The theme this month is "Choice in Birth", which should make for interesting discussion. Did you feel you had/have a choice regarding the birth of your baby? When you're in the midst of labour and things aren't going to plan did you still feel you had choices? Can informed choice ever be a reality - if so, how far? How much knowledge do you need to be 'informed'? How are choices presented to you in the UK maternity system? Were your choices respected? If you're a maternity professional, how far are the choices you can offer women dictated by the needs of the system, rather than the needs/wishes of the women? I think this one may run and run!! :D Please PM me for the address, otherwise I'll look forward to seeing as many of you as are interested and can make it on Thursday morning. SW x

Hi Everyone, This is just a heads up to remind you that this coming Thursday 26th, I will be hosting June's "ED Birthtalk" (this is the East Dulwich Positive birth group). It will be from 10am-12midday and everyone interested in exploring how to think about birth in a more positive way is welcome. It's held at my house in ED, so is walking distance for most, and babies/toddlers/children are very welcome. I will provide tea/coffee/soft drinks/biscuits etc.etc. and you just bring yourselves, your positive attitude and interest in all things birth related (and a packet of biccies if you want to contribute). The theme this month is "Choice in Birth", which should make for interesting discussion. Did you feel you had/have a choice regarding the birth of your baby? When you're in the midst of labour and things aren't going to plan did you still feel you had choices? Can informed choice ever be a reality - if so, how far? How much knowledge do you need to be 'informed'? How are choices presented to you in the UK maternity system? Were your choices respected? If you're a maternity professional, how far are the choices you can offer women dictated by the needs of the system, rather than the needs/wishes of the women? I think this one may run and run!! :D Please PM me for the address, otherwise I'll look forward to seeing as many of you as are interested and can make it on Thursday morning. SW x

Is it this one Saff? http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8491000/8491177.stm

Wow Saff!! What an amazing and special gift, what an amazing Godfather - Lucky little Saff. I'm racking my brains but all that I can come up with is the Cumming museum on the Walworth Road? I know they hd a fire some years back and had to close, but maybe they're open again now? Does it have to be indoors?

50p here too, though the South London tooth fairy is very busy and doesn't always come THAT night - sometimes she takes a few days (weeks) to collect (remember or find the right cash).

Dulwich Tandoori - all you can eat buffet. Delicious :)

largeginandtonic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Isn't the point of signing up to both that you are > saying that, if there is a habs school on that > site, it would be my first choice AND if there was > a Charter school on that site, it would be my > first choice. In other words - I want a school on > that site and it would be my first choice school > if it was either Habs or Charter. > > Obviously if a Charter (or Habs) school on that > site really wouldn't be your first choice and you > would, for example, rather choose Harris > Boys/Girls instead of a Charter (or Habs) on that > site, then don't sign both. But if our primary > concern is to get a school opened on that site, > surely we should sign both? Especially as it looks > increasingly like the real war here is getting the > site? > > Stating a preference would be all well and good if > we knew for certain we were getting the school. This sums up my view too. Thanks largeginandtonic.

Hmm, I left it on quite a while Otta - more than 30 minutes and it hadn't charged at all, in fact it seems to be frozen. I'll try the suggestions on Rolo's links and see if I can salvage it. Thankyou both.

Done.

It's at booking. Go back to your Midwife & ask for them. damsel it's to too late if you want to get them now. I recently got my old ones to read through & my eldest is 18. You will have had yours & carried them through your pregnancy, then once you are discharged by the Midwife (usually around 2-4 weeks post birth) she takes them back & Kings stores them. I just contacted PALS at Kings & they told me how to get my notes.

I haven't used it for 6 months or more now and it won't charge - not at all. Should I just accept that Kindle and I weren't meant to be, or is there some button to push to salvage our relationship? Any advice gratefully received Thanks.

Sorry tiddles but I strongly disagree with you: tiddles Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think West Dulwich is probably easier for > schools if you are not going private (elm > green/dunraven/charter) Dunraven intake is mostly Streatham, and you've a snowflake in hell's chance of getting into The Charter from West Dulwich - it's an East Dulwich/Camberwell/Herne Hill school. ED state Primaries are pretty much all brilliant, and the secondary situation with Charter/Kingsdale/Harris boys & girls plus a new school planned is as good as, if not better than, WD's. > Larger houses for your money. West norwood high > street is not far away - grittier than Lordship > lane but lots of useful shops and some nice coffee > places. Yes WD does have larger gardens. ED's Lordship Lane has the 'useful shops and an abundance of 'nice coffee places', just with a pleasanter feel to the high street - it's a nice place to browse, especially on a Saturday with Northcross market - sadly I couldn't say the same of Norwood High street. > also getting a cinema and have recently had a > sports centre refurbed, many family friendly pubs. You're describing East Dulwich here aren't you? > I think East Dulwich has peaked and LL will be a > victim of its own success and become more like > Northcote road with its chains and parking > charges. I've been hearing this for the last 15 years - it hasn't happened yet - but you could still be proved right. Still, if a couple is moving from Cla'ham, maybe the Northcote Rd parallel makes ED even more appealing? WD is lovely, but it's a no-brainer to me - anyone who knows the area at all would surely go for ED every time? ED is fab :D

My daughter would have luuurved a 'pamper party' at this age. She seems a normal enough kind of girl to me, though now I'm wondering what secret darkness her early love of girlyness could be indicating? Hmmmm ? I'll watch her closely for any signs of wagness. Oh yes - now I think of it she does love 'Made in Chelsea' - she and her friends all gather to watch it together. She even got me to buy her the Binky book - oh no! It's a slippery slope to doom and destruction from here emc . . . Seriously though, WOD - who I know to be a normally sensible and utterly reasonable poster - may be hinting at the feminist issue here to do with self regard and encouraging our daughters to love themselves for who they are without unnecessary adornment. But, at her own admission she doesn't have daughters so I hope you'll take it in the right spirit WOD if I say, I think you may be worrying unnecessarily. Most (not all) little girls love a bit of dress-up, sparkle and slushiness, it doesn't herald a life of Katie Price emulation. With the right encouragement from their parents (and I know that emc is a lovely, grounded and conscientious Mum) they can grow up to be articulate, intelligent, strong and lovely women, most will support feminism and have sufficient idea of their own worth to make a bit of pampering now and again something they will delight in. The worst I see a 'pamper party' leading to is a lifelong love of spa-days. Now that's not such a bad thing is it?

hi dulwichpsychlogy, are you still hosting it in Lordship Lane? SW x

MP don't worry, there'll be another one next month. :) Thursday June 26th, it's a morning session though - 10am-12pm. And there'll be another evening session the month after that. This months discussions were as interesting and informative as ever, ranging from the current school situation (well we are in ED after all ;) ) through to the topic at hand - what sort of choices are women presented with, touching on midwifery choices, and the incidence of burnout among Midwives. We discussed does the type of Midwifery care you get influence the choices you have? How to get the best out of the system; who gets the best care - private Obstetric lead care/NHS/Independent Midwife? Hospital guidelines and policies and the research that underphins them - how accurate is it? And so the evening flew by again. I hope to see those of you who couldn't make it this time at the next one (details above) Anyone is welcome, just PM me for the venue. :) SWx

Anyone up for a chat about Birth tonight - please PM me for venue details. We'll be discussing "Choice in Birth" over coffee and biccies.

Morning all, A heads up for this coming Thursday - it's the last Thursday of the month (my that came around quickly) and so I will be hosting the East Dulwich 'Positive Birth' group. It will be an evening session this time so that those of you with daytime commitments can have the chance to come along. The topic is "CHOICE IN BIRTH" and I'm hoping that should provoke some interesting discussion. If anyone has any tips for how to promote choice, any tales of how their choices were, or weren't facilitated then bring them along! So: East Dulwich 'Birth Talk" (Positive Birth); This Thursday, 7-9pm at my house - please PM for the address. Anyone and everyone who wants to spend a couple of hours discussing the sate of birth locally, nationally and globally is welcome. SW x

breastfeeding as contraceptive is only proof if you're: - feeding every 3-4 hourly day AND night - your periods haven't returned - Your infant is taking no other forms of nutrition of hydration e.g no food, no formula, no water, no nothing - only breast milk. I'd guess by 10 months these rules don't apply to you now? Sooo ... you're good to go ;)

Kings and The Royal Free are the only London hospitals working with the Anthony Nolan Trust at the moment (it's not cos the others didn't want to it's because when the cord blood donation project was set up it had limited funds so could only be established in 7 hospitals). It's been such successful project that it would be wonderful to see it extended to other London units. You have to be giving birth in one of those hospitals to donate, so sadly if you're at Tommies or lewisham then you can't - though you can organise to do it yourself privately, but speak to your hospital as many units wil only work with particular companies. And it's expensive. You can't do it if you home birth (planed or unplanned). You can delay cord clamping and still donate, but the possibility of them being able to draw an adequate amount for donation is reduced - the benefit though is that's because those precious stem cells have gone into your baby - where nature meant them to be - to do whatever work nature meant them to do :D Alternatively, if you're St Georges or UCH then you can donate via the NHS cord blood bank. http://www.nhsbt.nhs.uk/cordblood/ It's a lovely, altruistic thing to do as T&G's story illustrates.

If you're at Kings they already offer this with the Kings cord blood programme.