Frankie29

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Hi This link has a list of all the cafes and contact information in Lambeth and Southwark: http://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/resources/patient-information/maternity/support-breastfeeding-lambeth-southwark.pdf

We're planning to start our 18 month old with lessons at Dulwich Leisure Centre. They have parent and child classes for this age group on weekday mornings. No direct experience of the classes for younger ones, but our 4 year old is enjoying the Saturday morning classes for older kids and the changing rooms and pool are in a nice condition.

Thanks very much for organising - looking forward to it! Frankie

The class I did was this one at the St Brides Institute just off Fleet Street: http://thecentredbody.co.uk/ante-and-post-natal/pregnancy-pilates.php It was very low impact but quite a nice relaxing way to spend a lunchtime! Slightly embarassingly I feature in the photos on the website but I promise I am not connected at all to Jacqueline who runs the courses (and is lovely) - she just happened to use our class to take some photos for her website! I can't do 23/24th but I can do 17th - general consensus should obviously win out, I can always join the next meet up. I have been to ToastED - it is very nice, but not sure how pregnancy friendly their menu is - I seem to remember eating raw egg and mouldy cheese when we went earlier in the year and my husband had liver! - but that may have just been the menu at the time and me not focussing on the other options! I'm going to look into the NCT refresher as well - sounds like it might be a nice way to focus on the new baby!

Hi all I am also expecting baby number two at the end of March (when my little girl will be nearly 3) and would love to join a meet up. I am at home on Mondays - but an evening meet up would work well for me too. I did Pregnancy Pilates classes at lunchtime in the city with my first pregnancy so I might look into doing that again once (if?) I get a bit of energy back! I also found swimming was a really nice form of exercise in later pregnancy because you get a lovely feeling of weightlessness.