Scoobies

Thanks all, I will give a couple a ring on Tuesday, I am overdue so I will try and see who has some early availability.

I have been with Dulwich Medical Centre and always been very happy with them for my 2 year old.

Hi, Has anyone tried this and had a positive outcome. If you have please could you let me have some recommendations on good people to us. I hear success does depend very much on the experience of the person. Also any thoughts on reflexology. Thanks for any contributions..

Hi, I am with DMC, my baby is due at the end of August. I made my introductory appointment through the reception and saw an assistant midwife. You then get put on the list to be allocated a midwife, this happens after your scan. There are two levels of service, one in the lanes where you get allocated your own midwife, which is excellent - though there are only limited spaces. If you are not on this service then you will go through a midwife based in Dulwich hospital, this is the old fashioned service where they don't accompany you to the birth. Give reception a ring and just ask to book an introductory appointment, that is what I did.

Hi, I have my second baby due on the 30th August, but expecting it a week or so later. My son will be 2.5 years. Would love to meet other Mum's. We are at a wedding the weekend that you are meeting up, but would love to come to another meet. I will keep watching.

Hi, Does anyone know a good childminder in the ED area who could provide care from next week for an 18 month year old boy. Ideally I am looking for days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Please help! Ex-Bojangles!

Thanks for all of the hard work and information sharing. It seems that we are moving forward on an informed basis. I agree with comments that the meeting needs to remain calm and productive. There is clearly fault on both sides, the church for putting parents in this situation. There justification of a debt to HMRC risking their charity status is woolly at least. My view is that they have seen a financial opportunity in running a nursery. Bojangles - have clearly been trying to hide the liquidation and need to admit that they made no efforts to tell parents before any trust can be re-established with them. We have spoken to a couple of the nursery nurses. Their view is that they are going to stay with Bojangles and will not move under the church. They are very happy with their current management team and will follow them. This leaves us in a difficult situation, as much as my anger with the church and Bojangles disturbs me I want to provide consistency of care for my son. I want him to stay with the carers and children that he knows. My view is that in the meantime I am forced to look for other options which I hope I will not have to take. I understand MightyMouse's post and if my son was not already settled and happy with his carers and peers I would be out of there like a shot. Going forward if Fingerprints to maintain a business I think that as parents we should insist that there is at least a couple of parent repesentatives who attend all director meetings, have access to financial accounts and can feedback agreed information to parents. They should be bound by confidentiality to the business but release all information that parents should rightfully expect to be told, like a liquidation. I hope that Bojangles management team have learned that secrecy and subterfuge generally come back and bite you. Anyone have any information about other childcare options. Having looked at most of the other nursery's in ED there are not many that take children under 2.... eeek.