sillywoman

Andy, please, please, please can we have a clock put back in the main checkout area. It went when Sainsbo's was remodeled and we've never got it back. We don't all wear watches or carry mobiles.

Fab post JessKat. You've highlighted the pro's & cons beautifully.

or, you could arrange beforehand for your Mum to come (she lives 2 hours drive away) and look after your 18month old who doesn't know anyone else and is very shy and clingy. On the day you could phone her at 8am when it all kicks off and ask her to keep close/ in touch though it might be a while. phone her 12 hours later to see where is she as you haven't heard from her, and say things are really happening perhaps she could come now? Phone again 2 hours after that to see if she's coming, she says she's been out for dinner with your step father and had drunk too much coffee & wine to drive. She'll leave soon. Get partner to phone again at midnight when your homebirth midwife says she's staying cos it's really happening. Get fast asleep step-father with Mum in the background saying "tell her we'll be there about 9am tomorrow" Partner can say crossly "tell **** we need her NOW!" Midwife can get partner to call at 3am to see what's happening. Get fast asleep step-father again saying " we'll leave soon" Now you can stress out about baby 1 waking at usual time of 6.30am as it looks like that's exactly when you'll be pushing and needing partner most and there's no-one else baby 1 can got to. If you have to go to hospital resign yourself that baby 1 will have to come along or you'll go alone. Have baby at 6.30am on bedroom floor. Be amazed that for the first time in her life baby 1 sleeps until 8am. She doesn't do it again until her teens. Your useless Mum can arrive at 9.30am and still say 15 years later that it was such a quick birth they didn't have time to get there. Bitter? Moi? Well maybe just a tad. (6)

Much nicer way to put it than my grumpy post Newcomer (sorry Mumtobe88, had just had run in on other thread & was very . . .well, grumpy when I posted on yours.) Ignore me - read lovely Newcomers reply instead. Much better & really what I should have said.

Don't get the question - do they not have shops where you're going in the states (next year & you're asking now - really? Have I got this wrong?)? And for good measure :-S

Hoist up your judgey-pants new mother and give it me with both barrels. In simple terms - in your world it's how-very-dare-they, not OK to judge parents of one children, but it is ok for you to judge families with more than 3 children who have insufficient income to pay for private education. Can you see how that might be constued as amusingly hypocritical of you. No? Thought not? As you were new mother, as you said - why on earth did they have children? I guess that's a question you'll never figure out the answer to.

new mother Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > "Schol fees are the killer. We can do two but not > three and that upsets me. I must say it irritates > me to hear parents of eg 4 or 5 children saying > that they can't afford school fees. Well....in the > modern world, why did you have so many children???" "What an utter cheek! How dare people > criticise that situation?" :))

OK badges are here, Woo-hoo! So anyone who wants one please PM me (if you haven't already) or post on here & I'll work out how to get it to you.

Thanks Pebbles - Bless you - but I must confess that I wasn't asking for me, rather to pass on some top tips for friends who are having second babies about now. I've done my bit for repopulating ED and really don't intend to do any more. Four is the end for me!

Beauty & the Beast also on at National Theatre, Lyttleton, on the Southbank.

:)) wasn't me you were swearing at huggers, but your post made me smile. I hope your day (and your dogs day too) gets better.

Awww, lovely news Fuschia. Well done, It will be so lovely for you to be able to have Christmas at home now surrounded by your lovely family. Congratulations.

This thread has recalled me to the birth of my eldest. I well remember driving to Kings as the snow started. Sensibleman insisted on parking practically at Loughborough junction & made me walk to the hospital. I remember clinging to the railings growling "just wait" at him as he complained at me to hurry up 'cos the snow was falling! After she was born, as I was being attended to by Midwives, he took her the window of the labour ward room. It overlooked Ruskin Park and he showed her the snow & the beautiful park and talked to her about how he would take her there to play in the park of his childhood when she got bigger. When we left Kings the world was white, & I remember thinking (in that post birth crazy endorphin haze) that the world was all clean & new in preparation to welcome my beautiful little daughter. She's a grumpy teenager now, sigh.

Different spectrums though. Saffron's is a spectrum of parenting approaches, you describe a much broader spectrum of 'what makes a good parent'. Not the same thing. You did make me LOL though by describing Gina and attachment parenting as "the same end of the spectrum". I suspect both camps will have choked on their lattes reading that.

Teenage boy; Guiness book of records? silly stuff from Hawkins Bazaar? Hexbug? voucher for cool shop (is that allowed)? Boy of 6; Mine has also asked for a metal detector; also a telescope, a recorder, Star Wars lego, & a snowglobe.

Badges should be here by the end of this week/ beginning of next. Will post as soon as they arrive.

nylonmeals Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that she won business woman of the year, > so would assume that this is someone with great > experience and great advice aren't we all?

If they're in GG catchment James. Every year is different & past history suggests that assuming a 'choice' in ED isn't realistic. However with GG and other schools having bulge classes you could be right - maybe this year things will be different. If I were applying for primaries now I couldn't be as confident as the OP though.

AFAIK its wherever they have a school with places to spare in Southwark, & I think all the south Peckham schools - like ED schools - are usually now full or oversubscribed. Every year is different mind, & I know that many ED schools now have bulge classes to try & compensate for Southwark Councils crap forward planning & social policy for ED, but as prdarling might testify, every year a few families in ED fall through the net and it's best not to assume anything with regard to school places. As someone said to assume your child is 'likely to get into either' of two schools is extremely naive in the current climate - more like "likely to get into neither".

Hmm, like the other posters I wonder how aware you are of the tricky school situation in ED? If you live between Heber & Goose Green then you may fall into the ED 'deadzone' school wise and find you don't have a place at either because you're too far away from both. If that's the case you'll be offered a place at a school in North Peckham. PLease check out exactly which one is your closest community school and how far you are from their door, then check how far away people were who got places last year to get a realistic idea of which school you should apply to. Good Luck.

Yes I've noticed that Dorothy, that a lot of people I know were raised here, some moved away, but all seem to find themselves back here to raise their children in the bosom of their families. I'm with the 'move if you have to, but I'm glad I didn't' school of thought. Even though my family is all elsewhere. SE London is a fab place to raise teenagers if you can.

All my boys wore tights as babies, and all their friends did too - I thought everyone did it? I was very sad when they outgrew the habit. It just didn't seem to work for them after they were 2 or 3.

Have emailed the company. Am going for 50, 25mm orange background, "I like biscuits", badges initially & we can see how they go. Will let everyone know when they're here.

It's so frustrating to only get part way through a song before your throat closes and the tears start isn't it - there's a few books that do that to me as well 'Once there were Giants' by Penny Waddell being the one that springs to mind - just cannot get through it. Motherhood has made me so much more pathetic than I used to be.

Another moltex & metaniumP fan here, & like others have said change nappy much more frequently for a few days & try to keep him as dry as possible. Avoid wipes.