snowboarder

Sing and Sign will be visiting around 10ish on Friday morning - as well as the usual tea, biscuits and chat. Suitable for all mums with bumps and babies under one (or not yet walking). 9.30 - 11.30 every friday at St Faiths Hall, North Dulwich. Highly recommended!!

I would go for it - at 33 wks you will only see your midwife maybe twice more anyway before the birth? Having someone rooting for you at Kings is a godsend and the postnatal care is great - not sure what the alternative is like though.

Good idea!! It was good when on 3 naps - pre 10/11 months and suppose will be good again when all naps gone but for now is useless - especially in winter when they chuck you out at 3.30!! Have made the last half an hour recently but only due to bad/changing sleep!!!

I've seen quite a few mums with 2 going to whippersnappers classes (sorry know I bang on about these quite often) - entertainment for toddler while you can sit with baby. Check the website - some are free and some oyu pay for - various locations...

Buggie you and colleagues must benefit from trained eyes - I can never work out what part of the baby (Arm? Stomach?!) is on the screen at all - plus sonographer always sat right in front of you!

Thing is I LOVE drinking milk!! I have a probably totally flawed theory that b/f babies will never really be into drinking cows milk - this is based on the extensive research I have done - ie - I was bottle fed and LOVE milk - sister was breastfed and can't stand it. You see - very scientific..... Anyway - interested in the milk man - poppy - do you know what time he comes? Cheers all. He didn't like hot chocolate either. Weird, What's wrong with the child? Has milk on shreddies though and sucks the milk out of them, and eats yoghurt (on occasion), loves cheese and creamy sauces and eggs.

Cool thanks - had not occurred to me to look in UHT bit of supermarket. Does it taste disgusting? Could try the milkman - although I do not want someone clattering around outside at the critical 5-6am wake up time!! Bought a carton of rice milk from Health Matters to try. I think you could say Not A Success. Although I tasted it and it was vile. Started wondering why I actually want him to drink milk - do they actually need to? Man in healthmatters told me no, rubbish, they don't....so why do I think they do?!?

Yes our vivid tomato sauce stains tend to fade over time - table is in the window and gets a lot of light. Same with high chair tray!

Just about out of ideas on how to get little snowboarder to drink any milk - and after seeing an ad for toddler formula with straws and watching him down some apple juice from a carton (never had before!) I wondered whether you can get little cartons of fresh cows milk with straws? Looked in sainsbury but couldn't see them?

In despair, hourly this week: 'Poppet...please stop destroying the house....'

This made me smile sorry WoD - as candj says - it's hard to empathise when yours are up early!! In fact I nearly started a 'Why oh why do they wake at 5.20am' thread this morning!(Incidentally - when does the change from early to not get up take place?!?). Umm - how about actual appointments at a reasonable hour - for all the stuff he needs to sort out for uni? Like tomorrow - dentists/opticians etc at 10.30. Or a promise of a lift to Bluewater to shop for uni clothes? I suppose it has to be truely something worth getting up for! Is there a girlfriend? Get her to come over early?!? Or...I could lend you my toddler to room with him?

The most amazing info forum for double buggies here!!

Hmm have to say I have mostly avoided smug mums - I haven't met too many - I think there are also some people for whom motherhood has come very easily and they love every minute - they are different but sometimes just as hard to take!! I'm pretty open about thinking this is the hardest job I have ever had - and am only just recovering enough now to think if I knew before what I now know I would still have children - this was not the case for about the first year of my baby's life!! I do tend rather towards the self deprecating though - most people I know do too!

Has anyone looked at the Britax B-Dual? Saw one in Mothercare today - much more compact than City Select/pear etc but bigger than phil and teds for a toddler than when p&t in newborn mode. Quite heavy but might be a good compromise and no probs with baby getting too big for the cocoon before able to sit, and seems to recline quite well. And has a sunshade on the bottom seat, but I suppose might not accommodate a MUCH older child in the main seat like the p&t ultimately might....Saw the baby jogger in John Lewis the other day and it was MASSIVE! Sorry...unhealthy interest in all things buggy/pram like. Sorry to wander off again from the icandy peach too.

NCT classes have been long debated on this forum - try a search for more info?? However we did them 1.5yrs ago in ED and thought they were great. The daytime session took place whilst on maternity leave for us, so worked fine, and was a women only session. Would really recommend, but it's quite a personal thing....

We've cut down to 5 second morning feed and maybe 10 mins at bedtime but I'm now stuck! Admittedly junior snowboarder is younger - only 16.5 months - but I need him to stop now for a number of reasons - not least because I want an night away!! It's weird as he has never been super keen on b/f - always quick and often reluctant, but it's such a part of the bedtime routine I don't know what to do - and he wont drink ANY milk out of a cup at all - so his 10 mins pre bed is all he gets. I even tried to bribe him with a cup of hot chocoate (spat it out and cried). Sorry not helping - just sharing! Molly I have NO idea but the way we stopped all those horrendous night feeds was cold turkey....argh...

On a slight tangent I have the icandy apple (which can become a pear) and there is no way I would get the doubles kit for it - it is heavy now as a single, and I think the double seats are smaller. I know that's not what you asked....sounds like the peach is better.

Have heard fab things about Calcot - looks amazing!!

Yeah John Barnett have clarkes ones (think width fittings too) and pretty pregnant have funky ones. Despite not finding a problem with fit, wellies are apparently the devils shoes - if the full on tantrum in both shops when they were put on junior snowboarder's feet is anything to go by.

Ha junior snowboarder is similarly sturdy and after this mornings little episode where he and his friend spent an entire hour happily splashing through quite a deep puddle at p rye playground (cue horrified looks from other parents all of whom successfully managed to stop their children from entering puddle) I am going shopping this afternoon. Will report back.

It would be nice to find a local younger toddler friendly group though which was relaxed and you could sit and drink tea whilst the little monsters tire themselves out!! There are masses of music classes (some of which are free like rhyme time and wednesday whippersnappers), little snowboarder likes to RUN (which he does at sing and sign anyway!!) - and believes he is david beckham - when can they start doing these toddler football classes? Not soon enough I imagine!

KBN - we found where we were (andalucia) NONE of the cafes or restaurants had high chairs at all - it was really weird - they seemed to expect you to feed your child in the buggy....not remotely possible the way baby snowboarder eats!! They looked at us in amusement when we whipped out our travel high chair!! So would recommend getting one as easy as poss to carry around...

Lochie - I haven't found a good replacement yet!! B&B at Goose Green is more toddler friendly due to the space and think some of the organisers have toddlers. Other playgroups I have been to I find a bit big and scary and there are dangerous things like felt tip pens around, and nowhere to sit so I just seem to hovver around - def not relaxing, maybe better for 2+ yr olds? Classes - we like sing and sign and tumbletots - but not especially cheap! Theres always the one o'clock clubs (but at nap time or car journey to Crystal Palace) and mad library sessions I suppose..... I also keep meaning to investigate the playgroup at St Barnabus in Dulich Village and the one at the church by the station in Peckham - anyone go to those?

Miraculously good night's sleep (woke at 6.10 huzzah has been 5am for a while now!) - and I have cheated today - he had 10 mins cat nap in the car this morning which seems to make all the difference. Quite hard to make sure they only have 10 mins in cot though - hard to work out when they fell asleep!! I think it's a combination of not quite being ready, waking so freakin' early all the time and the fact I have almost 'trained' him to sleep in the mornings after breakfast! I thought going to one nap might help with the early wakes....but yes there will be a bit of a transition I think. He'd better hurry up though - lots of the toddler activities start 9.30-ish - on the assumption they don't nap I suppose!!

Hi - we have 2(!) - a phil and teds which is great but doesn't fit on all tables, and a softer one from mothercare/jojos - perhaps this one, which is good as fits on most chairs and quite easy to chuck in the bottom of the buggy - it lifts them up just a bit more than the cloth ones. Saved out lives in Spain this year as nowhere seemed to have high chairs!