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We pay ?9 per hour (before tax etc) and she's definitely worth that much.

Another one who has experienced noone answering the phone here too. Its very annoying. They should just have one member of staff whose job it is to answer the phone. Several members of staff also have attitude on the desk, obviously hate being there.

I have a three year old and a 19 month old and we probably get 1 night a week when they both sleep through. At the moment it is the older one usually waking. She normally can be settled very quickly but being woken for some random reason has become a normal expected part of our life and is completely manageable. It is very different from the extreme wakings and periods of being awake for hours that we used to get when they were younger. We always feel amazing when we get one of the dream nights though! Good luck x

got mine on amazon, arrived within 2 days

I have ordered mine based on everyone in this thread and for once am eagerly awaiting the next opportunity to try it out!

I'm feeling a little hasty in my decision...lots of positive reviews here so maybe I'll give it a try :) Saffron - I found this on the website (I'm in the same position) IUD/Coil Hi Cathy, A friend passed on your web link to me - it's amazing. Please can you tell me whether it is perfectly safe to use with the IUD? Thanks a lot and keep up the good work. With correct positioning and usage the Mooncup can be used by women with an IUD. The IUD expulsion rate for all IUD users is around one in twenty (Mooncup user or not) within five years of the IUD being inserted (NICE guidelines CG30; 2005). You may choose to discuss this with your doctor/nurse/gynaecologist if you have concerns or you feel that your Mooncup may interfere with your IUD strings. We would recommend; * When an IUD has first been inserted, you should wait six weeks before using a Mooncup (or any internal sanitary protection) * Remember to place the Mooncup low in the vagina and ensure you have an adequate seal * It is important to always release the seal before removing a Mooncup * After each period, check you can still feel the IUD strings. If you cannot feel them, you should contact your doctor

We have tube thing alieh mentions, dream tubes. Great for travelling, but you will probably want to buy an extra sheet as well so not cheap. Excellent for making daughter feel cosy in a strange bed. First night we took side of cotbed off husband thought we didn't need anything. Cue piercing screams at 2am when she fell out, very confused. Yes she probably would have learnt very quickly but it was one of those things we couldn't face disrupting sleep at that stage. Also travelling you don't always have option of putting something on floor and beds sometimes high up. Daughter loves it.

That review is hilarious. Nope never tried it and don't think I ever will now!

Interesting thread, as usual strong opinions on both sides. I haven't got time to get into a huge discussion about it, but just wondered whether anyone felt the guilt actually encouraged them to carry on breastfeeding for longer? For me, I think I would have given up much sooner (ie within the first few weeks) and not pushed through all the challenges we faced had I not had the little lines (breast is best, you can't give up, that chart which says the benefits of feeding for different lengths of time etc) playing in the back of my mind all the time. Or is it generally more unhelpful to have this sort of pressure? I think we all agree that better support is vital, and from a personal point of view earlier picking up of issues like tongue tie. For the record I think it is a huge shame that breastfeeding rates in the UK are so low and that is just not a societal norm unlike in lots of other countries. If it were I think the support available would be so much better e.g. from friends, family etc. Its just I only ever hear the guilt is unhelpful, but for me its what forced me to get through the toughest part....but maybe I'm the odd one out?

I've been trying to get into slow cooking. I don't have a slow cooker, but our range oven says it has a slow cooker compartment (no temperature control, just on or off). However when I tried using it with a casserole dish after about 4 hours it did not look even hot really. So I stuck it in the main oven on low heat. Results were ok, not brilliant. Tried again this weekend and managed to give husband and myself food poisoning. Both sick all night and off work on Monday. I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong, but feel like I'm not getting the hygiene aspect right. Now my casserole dish has gone back in the cupboard, neither husband nor I can bear to look at it without feeling sick. For those of you that are slow cooker experts, particularly those without electric slow cookers who do slow cooking type recipes in traditional casserole dishes - what are your hygiene tips? ie minimum temperatures/cooking times. Do you every defrost meat in microwave then slow cook (this is what I did, and what I believe was my error). Do you slow cook chicken in the same way as beef/lamb? Really want to like slow cooking but I think I am no good at it!!!! xx

Blossoms nursery on Dunstans Grove has a French class once a week which is optional for the kids there. Its on either a wednesday or thursday (can't remember which).

Agree with all of this. We live on Mundania and strongly support the extension. trizza Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Which roads can't handle the traffic? Forest Hill > Road? The 63 and 363 use the route at the moment > and all that is being proposed is that the route > be extended. > > I live just off Forest Hill Road and strongly > support this. For those living in Honor Oak it > would provide a great link over the hill as well. > > ddboy - why don't you think a lot of people in > peckham rye ward would support a direct link to > the ELL? > > For what it's worth I haven't had a visit from any > of the labour councillors but I have had a leaflet > through the door.

A breastfed baby rejecting bottle at that age is so common. My second (diagnosed and snipped TT at 3 weeks) rejected til 13 months when I gave up brestfeeding then she accepted bottle a month later. My first also rejected bottles for several months. Get checked by Claire Kedves. Fuschia posted a great thread with photos about how to tell if your baby is TT recently xx

Nunheadmum - mine does that too. She calls me back with an alarming 'i want to tell you something!!!' and of course I go back. Then she doesn't know what to say and does the looking around thing too. Sometimes it's I don't want this pillow, I love you so much (ahhh!) or just repeating something that happened in the day. It's very cute but i know from experience if I don't try and wind it up somehow she'd be telling me things til midnight...

Madmum those are hilarious. I like the blame on the brother. Mine has blamed pieces of finger nail hanging off before, as well as bogies (which I am asked to remove from the finger). Ah well. Funny in the daylight, less so at 3am :)

Last night my nearly 3 year old (who has been sleeping through, apart from when ill since about age 1) started crying loudly so when I went in found out she wanted me to blow her nose. Fine, I thought, poor thing has a bit of a cold. Half an hour later, same thing so I give her a roll of tissue and she seems happy. Half an hour later she starts crying and I find out it is because she wants me to put the tissue in the bin. She is in a big girl bed by the way so can get out herself (but doesn't like to). In the last couple of weeks we've also had crying in the early morning because: - her bears ballet shoe has fallen off, can I put it back on - covers have got tangled - she doesn't want a doll in her bed any more but in the chair No real point to this thread, other than I'd like to hear some other quirky reasons your child gets you up. I'm sure it's just a phase she's going through and it's not too disruptive. Usually I just sort out the problem, put her music on and she settles down quickly.

If the thrupenny bits doesn't work out you might want to try my Brest friend, I found it so good I bought two, one for upstairs, one down. Good luck!

Very helpful. I hope more doctors and midwives here are getting training on picking it up. Would save a lot of women (and babies) a lot of distress and pain.

Sorry to be more bad news but bags from doc in nappy didn't work for our daughter. Kept getting contaminated samples back and each time it took a few days before finding out as samples had to be sent to Kings. Ended up in A&E after she deteriorated quite quickly (very high temp, vomiting, limp and listless) and had to do the sitting on our lap cuddling, watching and waiting for 2 hours. After that quickly diagnosed UTI, course of antibiotics, cleared up within 48 hours.

I can't hear the name Ralph without thinking of the book Forever by Judy Blume. If you've read it you'll understand why it is credited with a decline in popularity of the name after its publication in 1975. Rafe much better!

My family and in laws (visiting from the US) were going round to my Dad's and stepmother's on Boxing Day this year to have a cold meats/leftovers/salads etc type of lunch. On the morning my dad informed me that he had cooked the turkey crown on Christmas Eve then put it outside in the shed in the spare fridge (which doesn't work) to keep it safe (as they were with my stepmothers family on Christmas Day). I expressed slight concern about meat being unrefrigerated for two days before being served to guests but he insisted it was cold outside and would be fine (um, 12 degrees, the exact danger range for food storage). I said I would bring some of our own (refrigerated) turkey for our 2 and 1 year old to eat as I was a bit worried about them getting food poisoning. He didn't mind and just kept saying I was overreacting, when he was young the turkey was left out on the kitchen counter for ages. I told my inlaws and husband who all went for the ham option instead (although I didn't enquire about its storage). It was made more difficult to understand given that the only reason the turkey didn't fit in the normal fridge was because that was full of wine!

I'd get a prescription just in case as well if possible. Mastitis cleared up for me within 48 hours of antibiotics but you don't want to be stuck with it getting worse over xmas. What about that walk in place in Peckham? Can you see any redness on the outside? In A&E they took that as quite a strong indicator that it was mastitis. Mine was a very obvious red patch with a very distinct outline with the white skin next to it. Good luck. It will probably clear up itself. Remember to try and feed with baby's chin on the affected bit, upside down if necessary xxxx

Ooo I'd have loved you as my midwife! Exciting! Xx

I think I'm going to try cheeky c's today with my two. Is anyone else going?

I'm sure Bluesuperted will respond but there is an AP group that several people on here go to and they meet regularly. I've only made it to one as I work part time but everyone I've met is lovely! http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?29,580851,page=1 Welcome to East Dulwich! X