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Hi Anya - due for a C-section in 6 weeks - will definitely be up for the class once healed after that...

Any chance I could be added to the email too - I got the first lot of emails about the picnic in Dulwich Park but haven't had any since. [email protected] Thanks Look forward to meeting up x

i didn't get my notes through PALS, but at the meeting with the midwife at the hospital (Cathy Walton), we went through the notes carefully and like people have said before it was rather revelationary understanding the cause of the problem - at time of emergency c/s we were just told baby was unhappy, i had a temp and that was that - but the doctors were meanwhile writing in the notes how baby was trying to come out sideways and that was never going to work....

Hi, I'm also due with my 2nd after an emergency C/S first time round and finding it very difficult to decide whether to go for VBAC or elective C/S. To be honest my gut instinct is to go for C/S - planned/controlled/and in my eyes a whole lot easier than the birth process - I think whats holding me back is the gentle pressure from friends/family/society/Kings to "at least have a go at VBAC". Yes it has 70% success rate but that also means 3 of 10 end up going through labour and having an emergency C/S all over again which I really want to avoid. We also met with Cathy Walton but to be honest really felt she was trying to encourage us away from an elective C/S which was actually unhelpful especially with the emphasis being on how VBAC was better for the baby so I left feeling guilty for wanting a C/S. However, she made it clear it was totally our choice - having had a C/S before we were completely at liberty to ask for C/S so regardless of their preference if you want one you get one. We still haven't committed to C/S but pretty sure we will. I'm due in November - what about you? If you fancy meeting up for a coffee we could hash it out together??!!

Hey ladies, sorry i missed out on the meet up last week. Saw from one of the posts that there is a meet up planned this week? could you post the details please - think i may not be getting emails. thanks, lucy

apparently both tesco's broken into. Just spoke to a friend who is at The Rye pub (tables and chairs up against the doors) - on their way in a group of yoofs were handing out scratchcards they'd nicked from one of the tesco's....

we've been looking into this too and are thinking about this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80120579 its supposed to be the slide out bed under a single bed but would work on its own and you can obviously buy it on its own - cheap (?65)and low down which is handy for a first-time bed...

wow, how thoughtful of your husband!!! Once i've had baby no.2 that sounds like exactly the kind of thing i need...

I start work in Romford at 7.30!!! so figured the bus/train combination wouldn't be too bad - its the coming home in rush hour bus that makes me nervous. Hopefully when the overground comes to Peckham next year they'll live up to their promise of putting in access lifts for those who can't manage stairs..

I also had/have this - last pregnancy had bad nausea from 5-15 weeks with similar nausea in car/bus journeys from about 30 weeks onwards. Currently 24 weeks pregnant and get nausea surfacing if i've been in the car (as a passenger) longer than about half an hour....

Congratulations Ruth - hope you're feeling ok and that you and Alexa get out of Kings quickly. Very exciting times...

Avoid Peckham Rye with a pram - there are 2 flights of stairs up to each platform - its a pain. I'm about to do a similar journey - peckham to Romford, Essex - not with a pram, but i'm 6 months pregnant so want as easy a journey as possible. After much deliberation i decided on the 78 to liverpool st station then train out to Romford - decided that getting on/off trains and up/down stairs in rush hour was going to be too irritating...

Its all done at the same time and you get the results on the same day - scan takes about 40 minutes and you then have bloods done straight away - we then waited in waiting room for 30 mins when they called us back and told us combined results.

It is definitely worth it, but i admit to buying 4 boxes and only got through 2 - used it with most baby washes for first 6 months, but then needed it less and less - have 2 boxes remaining saved up for next baby...

Ruth - you just made me laugh out loud!!! love the shush patting of your friend - hilarious! pickle - i have also opened the door to postman with boob out! Also, just remembered - with 4 week old baby, door rang and a lovely passerby said she noticed my keys were still dangling in the front door and would i like to take them inside!!! - could have been disastrous!

I had mega-crush on Roger Stirling from MadMen, which has since dissipiated! Also, on driving no.1 home from nursery (whilst pregnant with no.2) i turned around to see she had no shoes on - thought dammit i left them at nursery, how silly. Got out the car once home (5 minutes drive) to find them happily sitting on the roof of the car - must have been a funny site. p.s. happy for comments to go on website and for username to be used.

during pregnancy - running a bath, going off to do something else - coming back 10 minutes later to get into lovely hot bath only to realise i never put the plug in. i did this twice!!!! My husband won't let me forget it...

I'm good for the 2nd too = looking forward to it, especially as I can prove that i can and will pay my own way....!!

There was a similar thread to this a few weeks back - people concerned about a scam/con by a young indian couple. No telling if its the same people, but alarm bells were ringing then and now. Just had a quick look through old threads but couldn't find it I'm afraid...

again, if anyone knows who paid for my tea please let me know - my husband thinks it hilarious that i'm so badly behaved!

I answered my own question: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=534438&y=173983&z=110&sv=donkey+alley&st=6&tl=Map+of+Donkey+Alley,+London,+SE22&searchp=ids.srf&mapp=map.srf

Where's Donkey Alley?

the first books i've started buying are ones i totally loved as a kid: Burgular Bill The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch John Brown, Rose and the midnight cat The Lorax The Cat in The Hat Morris' Disappearing Bag Rosie's Walk...

Hello - I also agree it was lovely - we should start planning something more regularly! However, i have to apologise - have just this minute realised I left without paying!!! I'm Lucy and was the first to leave when my husband came to give me a lift home. It completely slipped my mind to pay - whoever paid for my cup of tea, i thank you very very much and owe you big time! not great for first impressions - i'm very embarrassed! Anyway, i look forward to seeing you all again, and particularly looking forward to maternity leave. I stop work sometime at the beginning of October - not planned quite yet, so am free weekends until then x

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