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Take viatmins which also have Vitamin D as these are recommended for your new baby and all children until they reach 5years old and also for mums.

Hi just to inform all mums and dads who belong to the Elm Lodge Surgery in Burbage Road, that the powers that be will be getting rid of our lovley Health Visitor in less than 2 weeks. I went to baby clinic yesterday (Tuesday 18.12.12), and she gave me a hug to say goodbye, she told me that they are moving her and replacing her with a new health visitor. Now don't get me wrong, but it has taken us a while to get a stable person at Elm Lodge -someone who actually cares what happens to us and our babies. She is always there, available to help and talk you through the most simplest of crisis. She has been there since May/June this year and already her clinics are proving very popular with us mums not minding the wait so long as we get into the room to be supported by her. What is management thinking of? don't they realise that we are not going to stand for this messing about with our services? I want to offer her our support and ask that they keep her as they dont know her true value - We need to write in to Southwark PCT management - not sure who to write to though - any ideas? We need to put a stop to this as we may well end up with a person who simply doesnt understand us and our darling babies

Hi everyone - New to this thread but very interested in your musings. I had a really helpful health visitor when we had our darling son a few years ago, now we have just had our daughter, it was a complete turn around. The health visitor says she can only visited us once and it was at a time when we were having our baby's naming ceremony. Totally inappropriate. She said she could only visit us then and it would only be the 1 visit - so I had to leave the ceremony and listen to over an hour of 'words' which I couldnt take in. As I was tired, pre-occupied and certainly in need of the loo! My only wish was that this was done at a time when I more relaxed and possibly when my husband had returned home from work so he could have been a part of the proceedings. I asked for an evening visit and was told they only work 9 to 5pm and certainly no weekends. This we saw as a huge gap in their service delivery. The only way around this is to ask for a private visit- which of course they cannot do. Now my friend has just told me about a new service which she got a leaflet at her clinic its a new website www.privatehealthvisitor.com - does anyone know anything about private health visitors are they any good? How do they work? I am interested in using this service I will of course dig some more and offer any more info I find about this service through this forum.

EmmaDoran, Oh my goodness a dog basket?! Goes to show that "Excellent" doesn't always mean "excellent" in practice. Good luck in your search for a good nursery :)

Ah Bless- the simple life of the cat ... Just change and change quick - speak with your GP or the local hospital midwife services manager, so that you get comfortable and relaxed with your new midwife. No point staying with someone you are not comfortable with as it is such an important time... and if all else fails, then try the cupboard under the stairs... Good luck

Just hang n there and he will be alright - give him and yourself time to adjust to the new routine. The last thing you should feel is guilty. think of all the positives - he will be made comfy, meet new people, start his learning journey with external people and come home to you at the end of the day tired, but happy. Good luck.

I do agree with Monkey's response. This is a an open, honest response - one which us parents come on this site to get and share with each other. I think that child care is already expensive nationally - as reported on GMTV the other day, but to pay over ?1200 +/- a month, as being eluded to, is extortionate and well above average price. I'm not really here to argue with anyone, but just to give a fair and honest review and not one based on a few years ago. I heard that the Forest Hill branch has had a total refit and is more spacious and bright. I suggest that EmmaDoran go and visit ALL the nurseries that she is considering so she gets a persona, first hand feel for the place as a whole - as we did 4 years ago when we were searching for homely, caring child care for our DD. :-)

Hi there - just registered on this site. Useful forum. We've been sending our DD to Excel Child Care SERVICES (NOT center as that's another nursery) in Peckham Rye since they were on the main road- (before Sternhall Lane). Having read some of my fellow parents' views and entries, I feel compelled to respond. Many parents leave the nursery as you did due to moving areas - not because the child care was poor- we are still there and pleasantly happy with the love, attention and care our daughter has had from 9 months old. Yes there may be problems and issues, staffing in nurseries always raises issues - At the last parent's meeting one of the parents talked about staff leaving and recruitment, and the Directors said quite openly that staff are often ASKED to leave because they were not caring for the children and had poor standards of care. I know I would prefer the staff to leave than to look after my daughter if they didn't know what they were doing or they showed poor practice. There are laws out there to protect the staff - so could they really have been treated so badly by the management? Ask yourself this. Staff leave for all sorts of reasons so for them to 'tell parents' that they are been badly treated, needs to beggar the question - why do many other staff stay and 'put up with the bad treatment'- without the authorities been called in? I have seen many staff who have been there for a few years. There was a period when they did hands up that they had issues with their new computer programme so fees were a bit haphazard, but that has been worked through and we've not had any problems with our fees for the past year. For those parents who read some of the comments on here - it can be frustrating to hear some of the unfounded /negative reports when really it does appear to be a bunch of untruths and poor information/gossip. I speak as I find and I feel that in order to find good child care one needs to be honest when reporting the facts so other parents can see the wood from the trees. LINZKG, ALIBO, PALEHOUND appear to have a vested interest in sending out untruths- maybe they want to spoil the nursery - maybe they just want to rubbish the place after they have left (do they owe money to this nursery as PALEHOUND suggests???) This is obviously not sound unbiased advice is it? MONKEY, ???? and JDR appear more balanced and honest in their reporting - they report the good with the not so good in a frame of mind which shows me that they have no bad axe to grind. which would lead me to at least test the nurseries for myself and not make a poor value judgment and bad mouth the owners and the staff who work so hard to provide a good enough service for those of us who have to go out to work, and who feel guilty already. Our daughter is still attending 4 years on and is doing wrap around care - they take her to school and collect her for us and she is there all school holidays and inset days. She loves it at the Peckham Rye branch - we also have friends who also have their children at the Forest Hill branch so I am speaking from a place of some knowledge. Sorry to vent on my first entry here, but it needed to be said for all those of us who stand for honesty and fairness.