KatDew

I take it she is upto date with her immunisations? Whooping cough has been doing the rounds

We've resorted to a dehumidifier. It's not that noisey, although I turn ours off at night. Ours has an optional mode where it only cuts in when the humidity reaches a certain level. In our case running the dehumidifier a couple of evenings a week seems to keep the problem under control. We only got ours this autumn so I haven't seen what it's done the the energy bills yet

Same happened with my son. We dropped the bottles and he refused to drink milk for about a year. He will now happily drink it in a cup. I'm trying to drop the bottles with my twins. They're not brilliant about drinking milk from cups but it's not the out right refusal that my son perfected. However one of my twins is fairly titchy and I don't want her to completly stop drinking any milk. The issues with prolonged bottle use are: -delayed speech -dental malocclusion -increased risk of tooth decay -an increased chance of ear infections. Most of these can be minimised by keeping exposure time minimal. The kid who has a bottle of cow's milk that they drink in 10minutes or less whilst sitting up is going to be at very small risk of any of the above. However if it's formula/follow on milk or juice in the bottle and they have it for prolonged periods of time, ie in the bed/ pushchair and are allowed to walk around with their bottle then the chances of the above are greatly increased.

I had a similar problem with my kids, what worked on my well rounded son (although he's lanky as anything now) didn't work on one of my skinny daughters. The idea of stripping the nappies is a good one. They get build ups of limescale and washing powder which can affect their absorbancy..... you can use white vinegar for this or weirdly a dishwasher tablet and lots of rinses works. If it's detergent build up you'll see bubbles in the washing machine even when no detergent added. In this case a couple of hot washs helps a lot. If it's skinny legs you possibly need to alter the rise on the nappies. Have a play around with the settings to try and get a better fit. Lastly girls have a different 'wet' zone. Sometimes getting a small bamboo or hemp booster and putting it in the 'wet' zone helps.

how old is you daughter? Could you and an extra booster to improove absorbency? Or is it the fit of the nappy itself

I went back six months after my first baby, same job but reduced hours. A year later I took on a second part time job as a career stepping stone. My second pregnancy was twins. I went back to my original job after 7 months and my other job after a year. I did however after a year find doing both jobs too much and found I wasn't spending enough time with the kids. So I dropped back to doing my original job 25 hours a week. I work in a senior professional role

I gave up at 15 months both with my singleton and the twins (suddenly like you it got too much) Cut down a feed at a time. We found the mid day one was easiest, followed by the bedtime one then the morning weirdly was the hardest. I wasn't feeding at night at that point though so no advice there. Good Luck and well done for doing such an amazing job

Unfortunately a friend had things stolen from a car on Abbotswood road on saturday as well. The car was only there for 40 mins but he had forgotten to lok it. Seems that there are some people scoping out the area again. It may well be the same group who were responsible for all the burglaries over the summer.

I've had children in the Mother Goose on Greendales (near Sainsburys) for over 4 years (3 kids). I only have good things to say. They have lots of well managed and well designed outside space. The staff are lovely and there is very little Staff turnover. They have an outstanding from ofsted. It's the same company as the one you mentioned but a different branch. If I was to make any critism sometimes their organisation from the admin point of view can be a little slow, never to interfere with the childcare though.

Congratulations! Twin shock can take a long time to settle, so take it slowly I have a set of twins and from a variety of twin mums experience have come across many mums where intially a mono pregnancy was suspected only to find the divide later at 12 or 16 weeks even. Kings is a leading centre for twins so you are in good hands. My son was 2 years 5 months when my twins were born (I did only have one however) you all adapt surprisingly quickly. I can recommend DDTC as well and there are a number of internet forums that can offer a wealth of advice and experiences.

I think that there should be some discretion involved from both sides. It can be very difficult for a mother with a very young baby to fold up the buggy on the bus. Do we suggest she just puts the baby on the floor whilst she does this? At the same time I have a set of twins and whilst now they are ok as two year olds, as younger babies there is no way I could have folded up their pram and safely managed the pair of them on a moving bus. If we were all waiting at the bus stop I can understand letting a wheel chair user go first. Anyone who uses buses with a pram knows you have to wait your turn. Frequently 2/3 buses will go past and you can't get on as there is already people with prams using the spaces, especially if you are waiting for space for a twin buggy! However if having waited for my turn, found a bus with space for my pram and as stated being in a situation where I couldn't fold my pram I think I would be quite upset to be made to get off the bus at that point. I understand disability discrimination but surely to evict someone when they also have no alternative is also discriminatory?

I have twins who turned 2 in august, one is brilliant on the scooter and can keep up with her 4.5 year old brother.... the other is fairly rubbish at it if I'm honest but she's enjoying it! We never got a lot of use out of our trike with our eldest but the scooters are brilliant. Not all kids can manage it at 2 though, I think my eldest was nearly 3 before he 'got it'.

Mine took about 90mins it was just past my shoulder at the time. I haven't had my hair dryer or straightners out since

I'm not entirely sure what chemical was used in mine but it was done in balham in a salon called 'Brazilian beauty' by a brazilian lady. I wouldn't be surprised if it was still the old chemicals.... and it wasn't anything like ?200.

It's genius. I had mine done last in mid may, it's beginning to need re-doing now, so it's lasted a good 5 months.

I agree this is a lovely group. I went there lots with my eldest and it was nice to go back again when I had my twins as well

I used entirely re-usables with my eldest. With my twins I did try and kept it up at least 50% if the time until they were about 15 months. The problem for me was keeping up with the laundry for two of them and all the rest of the family laundry. it was ok in the summer but I just couldn't get everything dry in the winter. It's likely that your twins will be a touch smaller at first so it will take them a while to grow into the standard sizes

The bike shop next to 'all fired up' on the way down to peckham common have always been really helpful and fixed a number of buggy issues for me!

Have you looked into the JAM after school club? They provide holiday cover. I haven't used their holiday cover but I use the after school club

This happened to me. Turns out the scales at my GP surgery were out.... by 300g!!!! A huge amount for a newborn. I suspected a problem as I have twins and both twins had apparently lost weight. My GP blamed the fact that I was BF twins. I contacted my HV and got them weighed on their usual scales and they'd actually gained 200g.

You could always do a mixture. Maybe a couple of days a week at the after school club and a few days with a nanny? Gives them variety and gives you access to the school holiday activities if you wanted/needed them.

My little boy has started reception this year and is going to JAM two days a week. He's enjoying himself so far. They seem to do quite a range of activities and they get a hot meal. I really liked that there are kids from a wide variety of schools. My son also likes it because their are male 'teachers' there, whereas seemingly his whole school is staffed by women. I probably wouldn't use it as an option if I needed 4 or 5 days a week because as you say it makes for a very long day. They also run good value holiday 'clubs' but I have no experience of these

My son has just started at the infants and it seems a lovely school. Can't comment further It might be worth bearing in mind the September 2011 intake was a bulge year so there may be a larger than average number of sibling places in the 2013 intake.

Most the twin mums I know ended up doing NCT classes in a group of singleton mums. I would higgly recommend joining the Dulwich and district twins club as well though

Abbotswood road is a nice place to live. I've been there 6 years and it has a lovely sense of community