EDmummy

Funnily enough, although our first was called Ebechenezer (sp?) whilst in the womb, the name we called him after he was born just did not suit him. Luckily we had another name that we really, really liked and were going to use as his second name so we just reversed them. This name was and is absolutely perfect.

Floyd

Lucky legs, lucky they don't snap off and stick up your bum Origin My mum circa 1975

Lovely to hear of new babies arriving in the next few weeks. Ianeasy, I love that name. It is truly beautiful.

daizie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bobs your Uncle > Meaning > > To reach a satisfactory conclusion through minimum > effort > > Origin > > Came into use following the appointment in the > 1890s of Arthur Balfour to Secretary of State for > Ireland. Balfour was a suprise - few thought he > was qualified. It became known he was the nephew > of British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil > and people said with a wink that anything was > possible if Robert was your uncle . My mum used to say "Bob's your uncle and not your father after all".

Spaniel

It has been a few years since I was last pregnant but I wondered if I was witnessing a change in the way people talk about their unborn bundle of joys. It started to get a little more common in the last 10 years to find out and tell other people the gender of your unborn babies but I have recently noticed people calling them by the name they intend to call them. I have absolutely no problem with people doing what they want, it is just an observation and I wondered if it was becoming a trend.

Rubbish

loo

Sailor

One week's salary? Think this is what we gave ours when we had one but it was split between two families.

Had this recently myself. Must have got it from one of my children who were not being very affected by it. Could not eat much (everything tasted awful) for a week, my tongue took over two weeks to fully recover and ended up getting one of the spots in a salivary gland and looked like I had mumps. I became very down throughout this so I can only imagine how horrid is must be if you are 17 months old! My advice would be to be led by him with regard to food and fluids - he is unlikely to suffer too much by not eating for a few days (unless he has any underlying health issues) and if pain relief helps - great!

Giraffe is a restaurant on the South Bank but no matter how child friendly it was I would never go again. The grown up food is extremely over priced and tastes awful. I would go to Wagamama's next door to it, still child friendly with crayons minus the balloons.

"The Nappy Lady" you are not a bad mum at all. Our two are exactly the age where No. 1 can look after No. 2 in the morning and let us have a sleep in. Quite blissful at times (but not always!!).

I'm with Sane Pane's mum. 4.5 between my two. They absolutely adore and dote on each other (when not play fighting - like boys do). My brother and I were 13 months apart and were in constant competition throughout childhood and adolescence. Have only become friends now we are adults. Bottom line is that it is not a science and probably completely dependent on the family you are born in to.

How sad, lorraineliyanage, that you feel this way at 32! It does not bode well. I definitely feel old when my bosses are younger than me or colleagues are born in the 80s but, hey, you are only as young as you feel (unless you are a man and you are "only as young as the lady you feel"). Who cares that I need to have my grey roots done every 6-8 weeks - it is 2-3 hours of listening to the troubles of "young" people in the hairdressers - enough to be thankful that I am past all that.

Sorry to hear about your daughter and glad to hear the wound has healed well. When we have had similar experiences we just waited for it to drop off and then washed and comb it out (gently) but we usually wait more than a week to do this.

I bought two Beatrix Potter cups from ED in North Cross Road just a few weeks ago.

We live on one of those roads and got our child into Heber but that was before it became oversubscribed and the next child was a shoe-in. As someone said on a previous post, these things change all the time and if you really like a house perhaps you should go for it.

A HV will usually visit at least once to see if all is fine. If they are concerned about anything (early signs of PND or baby failing to thrive) they will book in a few more visits. If all is fine they tend to direct you to your local practice baby clinic for weigh-ins etc. They should not be undervalued and unfortunately in some parts of Southwark they are needed to offer more support than in others.

My attempt at agreeing with bob that LL needs new pavements above the other locations that have recently had their pavements replaced. Do you live around here, ruffers?

Who was it that decided the pavements in Crystal Palace Road and in Dulwich Village needed replacing over one of the most walked pavements in the area?! The pavements are a disgrace pretty much all around here.

Update on Maclaren issue here.

Important to point out that the article says it does not affect UK buggies.

Well done, Girl!