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snowboarder Wrote: > > I can kind of get over the price for a child - > possibly - but a fiver for an accompanying adult? > Why? Annoys me - like when they charge for adults > at Soft Play! I usually go into the soft play places and play too if I've had to pay... so maybe just ask to see Santa too if you've had to pay to go in? I'm pretty sure that you coiuld see Santa for free at Herne Hill market last year, and they had a goat too. Granted, it's not quite as good as a reindeer!

Thanks again for the advice. I'm having a relatively good patch at the moment and have even made it into work today! As for recurrence, the reason for the difference in stats that hellosailor has read is that if you had HG in a first pregnancy then the chance of recurrence is about 20% (if you have the same partner for both pregnancies). However, if you have had HG in consecutive pregnacies then you will almost certainly get it again (assuming that you keep the same partner). I have read and been told by several professionals that it is the partnership, rather than just the woman, that causes HG. Not that that is helpful in most cases...

Thanks to all who relied - good to know I'm not alone :) P.S. I didn't mean to give the wrong impression: I'm no superwoman. I have a nanny looking after my other 2 children for 4 days and my husband has been fantastic and cut back his working hours so he is around a lot more. I've also got a cleaner doing the housework, and great neighbours who are helping with pretty much everything else! I also haven't been to work for weeks... I really want to get back to as close to normal as I can, so I am going to start trying out your suggestions.

Hi all, I'm suffering from hyperemesis again with my third pregnancy, and it is starting to really get me down. I'm not really capable of doing any normal daily acitivties at the moment (i.e. working, looking after my kids, cooking, cleaning, well anything really). I've got a very supportive GP, but he doesn't have much experience of the condition. I've seen the specialist nurse at King's who is fantastic, and as a result I've reached a point where I'm not starving or dehydrated, but I'd obviously like to try to improve thinkgs a bit more. Here's what I'm taking/doint so far, and any further advice would be very welcome: Anti-emetics: cyclizine, metaclopramide, domperidone (all 3 times a day) Anti-acid: ranititdine Folic acid 5mg eating and drinking little, as often as posssible and whatever I can face eating whenever resting as much as possible Things that don't work (tried and failed so far): P6 accupressure ginger vitamin B6 Thanks!

?7-8 and a cab (or lift home) for non-drivers is what we usually pay.

My husband used Little Bean Design for his website. They are localish (Norbury) and really approchable. http://www.littlebean-design.co.uk/

Yes! One of the things that I'd look for in a nursery and in a primary school is male role models.

I bank at the Co-operative bank and they have no trouble with paying in cheques in my maiden name into an account (now) in my married name. However, although I use my maiden name professionally, the HR and payroll department at work use my married name (so pay cheques, life assurance, health insurance etc are in my married name). You can also carry a copy of your marriage certificate or your driving licence, which has space for you to add an alternative name used for professional reasons on the paper couterpart. Then you have ID for both names.

I had a very good result from seeing the physio at Kings. I have had 2 very rapid births (less than 2 hrs) which causes quite a lot of damage to soft tissue. Despite having an unusual birth history, I gather from my friends that some stress urinary incontinence is typical after having children. It is also reversible, so do go and see a physio. In my case, the physio improved my technique loads and also motivated me to excersize enough to make a big difference. Good luck!

We used Bumgenius v3 or v4 pocket nappies with Bambino Mio disposable liners for baby #1 and #2. I can only think of a handful of times that I've had to scrape poo off a nappy, and only then if I've missed the poo happening and it has been sat on (yuck!).

I always ask dog owners first before I let my children approach their dogs. I'd appreciate it if dog owners did the same, and asked me before they let dogs approach me/my children. A degreee of mutual courtesy is all that is needed to keep everyone happy.

I have a 3.5yo who is smallish (25 centile) and he has inherited some 2-3 Boden stuff which fits well. 3-4 stuff looks huge on him. My smallish daughter also wears about 6m behind her age (so at 18m fits the 12-18, not 18-24m). Having said that, all the Boden things we have must be at least 3-4 years old by now. From that and the above post I'd guess that Boden sizing is average.

Don't panic... "Parents have the right to withdraw their child from the daily act of collective worship and sixth-formers can decide for themselves whether or not to attend." from the bbc website.

Also, many day nurseries do have a "pre-school" section for 3-4 year olds, as well as day care for younger children.

Catchment areas don't exist any more. The LA has a fixed set of entrance criteria (distance from the school is one of them) and some schools set their own entrance criteria. The Southwark website will tell you the maximum distance from the school that any pupil who started last year lived (but this could be a sibling) or you can contact the school office with a specific question about admissions to that school. I've found all the school offices that I have been in touch with are very helpful.

My son goes to Halfmoon Montessori and we all love it, inlcuding his younger sister who keeps trying to sneak in too!

My top tops would be to leave out some toddler toys (my hsband used to hide plastic dinosaurs around the house) and I also set up a train track before going to bed every night. That way when you get up there is instant entertainment for when you need to focus on the newborn. The other thing that was great was a soft sling (Hugabub in my case) so I had both hands free. Also, the TV is your friend. Get some DVDs or use iPlayer when you are otherwise at the end of your tether.

I have taken a cooler bag and ice pack along with me on day trips and stored the milk in there in the freezer bags. I also used milton tablets to re-sterilize the pump. At work I just kept the milk in the pump bottle in the fridge. After 10 months or so I didn't bother expressing if I was away for less than 24hrs. For longer trips away (overnight or longer) I just dumped the milk down the sink.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/life-and-physics/2012/sep/23/schooladmissions-particlephysics?newsfeed=true This article gives food for thought to anyone applying for schools. More choice has certainly not been better for the residents of the Southwark/Lewisham border...

Carbonara Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Is there an overall shortage of Southwark > places, or is it that the distribution does not > match the residential density of the borough? Both of these are true. In the Herne Hill area of the Southwark/Lambeth border there is one very good Southwark school that always goes under-subscribed (no idea why as all the parents I know with kids there are very happy with it and I also know a teacher there who loves the school), and another Lambeth school that is undersubscribed as well. However, many parents in the area only put down the very over-subscribed Dulwich Village Infant School, and then use a private school instead if they don't get offered a place there. These children count in the stats of "received no offer of a preference of their choice". I think that the Southwark/Lewisham border area is just short of school places, so no matter what 6 schools you put down you will never get a school place close to you unless you are *very* close to the school gates.

I think that childminders tend to have more short-notice vacancies than nurseries, so that is worth looking into too.

I agree with mynamehere. However, I have utterly failed to do this with my children (I am French-speaking, but not for a long time). On a more positive note, I would hardly say that I am even bilingual any more given how badly my French as deteriorated. But I did not have any formal contact with English speaking (other than my parents and their friends) until I was 5 or 6 and it is now my dominant language by a long way. Even at age 5-8, I still spoke French at school. So you are not too late to start a second language at the age of 3. Even more positively, my sister is a linguistics specialist and her opinion is that 10 years old is the upper limit for starting a second language and learning it "naturally" rather than formally. PS Monkey - do you want to try to get our non-bilingual 3 year olds to meet up and try to speak French together?

Yes. The application process is centralised now, and all online and you can apply to 6 schools in any borough. I'm in the same boat with Southwar/Lambeth and will apply to schools in both places.

I have to agree with snowboarder. For us, our nanny is an essential part of coping with working and having 2 children. It is also more cost effective than two places in a nursery in our neck of the woods. The other thing that I rely on is that my husband gets home from work earlier than me, so I'm not under pressure to leave on the dot of 5pm to get home.

I was also expecting #2 when #1 turned two. We kept the older one in his cot for another month or so after the baby was born, and then got a toddler bed for him. He helped us to build his big-boy bed, and then was very keen to move into it. He has never associated his little sister arriving with being turfed out of the baby cot/room. I think that's because she had been around for a while before he moved, and then she didn't move into his old room for another 5 months or so anyway. I hope it works out well, Mrs F.