sillywoman

The OP is from 2010 so I would guess their issue is now resolved maritap? ?8 is a lot for evening work though - daytime with children awake & needing input it's reasonable, but for evenings? Mine charges ?6.50 for evening babysits. As she says, it's just sitting in someone else's house keeping everyone safe. Her employers also always bring her home/get her a taxi though - we insist on it.

Zebedee Tring Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sillywoman, I don't think that Godwin's Law > applies, because fish is satirising the kind of > line that some cyclists (I hasten to add a small > minority) take on such issues. The word "Nazi" is > being used ironically. If a cyclist (or indeed > anyone else) actually used the word in all > seriousness, then it would be a case of Godwin's > Law. Oh. Shame. :(

"Nazi" - he(she?) said "Nazi". Someone-or-other's law is invoked (Godwin's?). This thread has surely reached the end of it's natural.

100% of Charter pupils this year who sat GCSE's got grade A*-C ???, As someone well within the catchment, not living in any of those places and with 3 very academically diverse, but happy kids there I'd have to disagree & defend it. It's quietly getting on with doing what everyone wants it to - providing a first class, non-selective, state education for local children of all abilities. And it's doing it brilliantly. The Charter should be applauded, not denigrated. We just need another like it, that's all.

YOur baby is too young as yet. This is something you should be looking to tackle when he is between 3 and 6 months old. Some babies are ready early, but for most that's the key timeframe to learn this skill.

Glengarry Rd & surrounding streets: Catchment for Bessemer, GooseGreen & the DV schools.

I third Hazel. She is fab :D

Hehehe That's why I love this forum . . .

Search dannyleedixon on this forum. He replaces iphone & ipad screens and lives/works in Peckham, so very close. I find him reliable, friendly and really, really reasonable. Nigello - you were done for ?40.

My son fell out of his high sleeper when he was 14. :D It was the middle of the night, he was deeply asleep and my husband & I thought a bomb had dropped with the noise he made when he hit the floor (He's not small)! He survived to tell the tale though my nerves were rattled. We put the side guard back on :D Other than that he's been it it since he was 4 with no problems. Go for it I say. But keep the side rails on even when he thinks he's big enough (and so do you) to go without.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Didn't happen for years and now coincidently when > more and more people are so broke they need food > banks for basic food items, milk has started going > from doorsteps of lots of people. I don't think this. Our theft some years ago now, and if they were broke then what's with the 'returning' 30 empties? We just bunged them in the recycling - same as anyone could do. Not the explanation here LD. Just nasty, low people I'm afraid. They do exist.

Yes, but I know they're in the minority. Rotters. :(

I'm coming too. :D I just can't understand how it hasn't happened already. I suspect the Olympics has played a large part in damping down voices of dissent and discontent - Bread & Circuses people. The whole 'royal baby' (don't get me started) feeds into that too. Im watching to see what they'll come up with next to distract us while they raid our metaphorical pockets to line their own. Vive la revolution indeed!

We had our milk delivered for well over a decade, we're a large family so we had a lot of milk (milkman didn't come every day), we had the odd batch go - taken by chancers - but then we began to be specifically targetted. Several times our milk went (8 pints at a time - more difficult to hide or be 'discreet' about), we tried all the above remedies, and even resorted to getting up with the milkman to try and catch the thief but to no avail. They were canny, they didn't come every time we had a delivery and, we think, had the milkmans timings to a tee. Sadly in the end we had to stop using the milkman after many happy years of deliveries. This was some years ago & we still feel the loss of that friendly service. SOme weeks later all the empty bottles (about 30 or so) were left on the path outside our door. They probably thought it was funny, but I found it extremely distressing as it felt so malicious and personal that I felt very threatened and vulnerable. I would love to have milk delivered by the milkman again but the nastiness behind that experience has shaken me too badly to try again. :(

Did absolutely no-one come out to help? If not then I am shocked. We are only round the corner (heard precisely nothing)and I know that on our road when there are disturbances or things out the usual people do come to see what's wrong & whether they can help.

It's only so small because after months and months and months (in fact it may have been years, would have to go back through my records to be sure) of increasingly complex negotiations for a 'proper' midwifery led unit, including the expense of commissioning architect plans, the company (bank? Am trawling my faulty memory now)that owns the building housing Kings demanded so much money to 'allow' the creation of such a unit that the project became inviable. All involved were gutted. So this mini unit is an affordable compromise. It's inevitable that access for KCH's unit will be restricted to low risk women - it's the same in most (all?) Midwifery led units. Everything simonethebeaver says is right, particularly what she says about taking into consideration the case-loading teams and homebirth rates.

They plan to open their lovely, 2 bed, mini-midwife led unit in October. So if you're due much before then & that's what you'd like you might want to check out Lewisham Birth Centre?

Fixing my husband with as serious a 'Paddington' stare as I could manage between gasps of gas & air (no mean feat at the time) and demanding the car keys to 'drive myself to hospital for a Caesarean' because I felt he wasn't taking my request seriously enough. 20 minutes later we had a 10lb baby.

Rose Red Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I used to live in East Dulwich Grove. Think my old > house is now a boy's school. Lordship Lane went > through radical changes in the '80s. I hear it's > now a gourmet's playground. Is the East Dulwich > Tavern still there? Is there a boys school on East Dulwich Grove?

http://thestir.cafemom.com/baby/158373/Waitress_Writes_Must_See_Note?email_id=871521196&utm_medium=cmi&utm_source=cafemom&utm_campaign=General&utm_content=stir_newsletter&utm_nooverride=1 I thought this might boost your confidence a little - you have more support around you than you may know :D SW

Hollie that's just lovely, thanks for sharing it. I'd like to have it made into a crib sheet to give to all new Mums the day after they give birth :D SWx

buggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > True enough, & I'd never suggest bad habits being > formed so early, and as reported by the OP it > comes across as overbearing & unsolicited, but > none of us know the full context of the > conversation OP & HP had, thus my defensive hat! I've worn that a few times myself ;)

Buggie, yes of course you're right, and admirably measured in your response. But at 4 weeks??? Surely there's no-one on the planet (with the odd Guru exception) who would make the Mum of a tiny 4 week old baby feel that she was creating bad habits by holding him - health professional or not?

astrid83 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm stressing about a similar thing at the > moment... > My son is almost 4 weeks old and wont fall asleep > anywhere else but on my chest at the moment. And > if I put him down to quickly in his buggy or moses > basket he starts having hiccups, wakes up and gets > really upset again. > So the best way to get him to sleep is to let him > stay on me for a good while, and then put him > down. > > We had a health professional visiting us yesterday > who said I might be creating bad habits, so now I > am stressed about doing the right thing! Oh FGS!! Where do these people get off? You cannot spoil a tiny baby by meeting its needs, you just can't. Babies are teeny little mammals who are essentially designed to spend the first 3 months of their life attached limpet-like to a primary or secondary carer mammal (you or your partner in case you were unsure who the mammal was :D ). Please Astrid83 repeat after me - "there is no habit you can create in the first 3 months that cannot be changed or broken in the next 3 months". Ignore the rod-for-your-own-back ers, they are dinosaurs who don't deserve the slightest bit of attention at this point in your baby's life. You'll hear it time and again, but I will say it now - these early months will just fly by, blink and you'll miss them. Enjoy all the peaceful time you have with your lovely baby, however it comes. Cuddle them, adore them, hold them close, smell them stroke them, let them snooze on you, and relaax. Spend a LOT of time sitting on the sofa, let everyone else do stuff for you. Really. Enjoy it. There's plenty of time for dealing with any 'bad' habits later on. Grrrrrrr (not at you Astrid83, at unknown HCP)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > fl0wer Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Something is wrong, but how seriously is hard to > tell from your post. > > > Idiotic post. > > He's growing up. If you're still worried in a > couple of months go and speak to someone. I'm afraid I second Otta on this. PLease be careful how you phrase your posts Fl0wer, it's unfair, unkind and a comes across as somewhat arrogant to be so absolute and alarmist. If you post in such a way then you must expect people to protest. I see no evidence of insult or disrespect to you at all, but I'm glad to see that someone has challenged your post as it must have been very alarming for the OP to read. OP, having been through 3 year old boyhood 3 times now I would say he sounds completely normal and is having what I used to think of as an 'emotional growth spurt'. My remedy in times like this was to back of completely, allow whatever regression was needed (within reasonable limits), and wait. Usually within a few months I would notice a change and my boy would move on a stage. I'm really just concurring with what most other posters have said and am aware I'm not really adding anything new to the debate, but I wanted to reassure you that from the description you posted he sounds like a normal 3 year old boy with nothing "wrong" at all.