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Hi My 3 years and nearly 4 months old still wakes up in the morning and shouts for me (mummy) to come and get him - this morning because he had a bad dream at 6:00am. My partner says I am pandering to him and he should get up and play quietly with his toys by himself at this age - is this right? Does your 3 year old get up and let you have a lie in??? While of course being considerate enough not to wake up his one year old sister too?

No book recommendations but I did recently bring my newborn home (last weekend!) and I too was advised to get Daddy to do the introductions. Although the hospital were happy to discharge me straight from the delivery room in the morning I stayed in hospital all day and brought the baby home after my toddler (2.4 months old) had gone to bed. Then in the morning we brought him into our room, sat him in bed as normal, gave him a drink then got Daddy to introduce him to the (fortunately) sleeping baby in her moses baskets. Then explained how she wasn?t in my tummy anymore and how I had a sore tummy etc. He?s been absolutely fine about her arrival since. Also made sure we both patted my tummy and said hello to the baby everyday in the weeks leading up to the birth. To be honest though he goes to a childminder who frequently looks after a baby ? this has probably helped more than anything else. So if you can get might be a good idea to get some baby experience in beforehand for your toddler (borrow a friends???).

Not what I would say but what I?m forced to wear (the other sunhat from his Next two pack). He has the blue star version, I get the (I feel slightly inferior) green ?Mummy where is your hat?? ?But I?m driving/in the supermarket ? do I really have to wear it?? ?MUMMY HAT ON!? I don?t mind looking like a fool in my own house to please a 2 year old ? ?Mummy beard! Mummy beard!? (my white foam bubble bath beard he likes me to don every evening) it?s just in public I feel a tiny bit silly. Edited to say: I try and stand firm whenever he requests me to wear a bib.

Hi I think the title says it all. Is it worth it ? it has excellent reviews but at over ?110 for seat plus toy it?s rather pricey? How much baby hands free time will it buy me each day? Having had no luck finding a comfy chair for my first child (tried a fisher price swing which he hated, a mamas and papas rocker he was less than impressed with and a bumbo which he would not tolerate at all). I?m keen to find a decent baby chair for the second which she will happily sit in and watch the world go by in for at least 5 minutes leaving me to get on with making a cup of tea and unloading the dishwasher. Thank you in advance for any opinions/reviews.

Sounds (to me) like the parents sling the kids out into the garden whenever they can?t cope anymore ? if the garden is a safe, protected environment and the kids have each other and its summertime I would not say it constitutes neglect or child abuse. It?s just a not very good form of attempting some sort of parental control, irritating to the neighbours and something you don?t particularly approve of. Also sounds like the kids know a little emotional blackmail (a couple of ?Daddy?s I love you? will gain them access into the house again. I find locking children in bedrooms overnight a far more disturbing practice. Really quite shocked. Hate the thought of a child waking up distressed or ill at night and not being able to seek help.

I too have chosen a cabin bed as a first bed (one from Next) very low for a cabin bed at 90 odd cm's and has big sides. Very positive reviews from parents of 2/3 year olds (haven't moved my son yet as he's only 25 months and can't escape from his cot). Personally I wouldn't want to go any higher. http://www.next.co.uk/x471216s1?utm_source=google&utm_medium=product_search&utm_campaign=googleps#747876x47

Not sure if someone has mentioned them already but I had success with the MAM silk teats when my son ws 7 months old. I know they have worked for others definitely worth a try.

Legoland 2 for 1 offer on a tub of Vanish I bought yesterday.

Jars! WTF indeed ? I would get my personal chef to blend me three trays worth of ice cube sized chunks of food instead if I had the money and inclination towards eating baby pap.

I have a 2 year old who suffers from chronic constipation. I give him very diluted coridial (no sugar added) to make sure he gets his 6-8 cups a day. I also try to give lots of watery foods like cucumber, tomatoes and kiwis. However everything I have read on the subject suggests his bowel muscles don't have the necessary omph yet to squeeze stuff along and that he will hopefully improve with age. So I also have a perscription for Movicol (better than lactulose) to try and avoid any potential toilet issues in the future and keep things sloshing along. I have a Dutch friend and they recommend semi-skimmed from the start of drinking cows milk over there. Which makes me think it must be ok.

As I really dislike getting up early I always fed at 05:00am and put baby straight back to bed (in room with blackout blinds and very thick dark brown curtains). Then up at 8, lazy breakfast about 9 which fitted in with us as one of us was always at home. Eventually slept through at 11 months without 5:00am snack. Since then has consistently slept 8 till 8 which suits us. I didn't dream feed and found the early morning was the only feed from about 4 months (started at 3am and then pushed to 5am). I don't know whether this helps just my experience - I prefer slight disruption 5:00am and back to bed till 8 than up at 6:30 and baby asleep again by 9. (Not that I ever got on top of consistent day time napping).

Reading through the posts it would seem in an odd way I?m quite lucky to have a mother who freely admits (despite having 3 children ? all accidental which might explain it) to having ?no advice to give? and that?s she is ?more an animal person?. She didn?t visit until my son was 5 weeks old as she knows how ?fraught life can be? with a newborn and even got his second birthday wrong this week. However I love her eccentricity, uniqueness and sense of humour even if she is of no practical use to me and is quite emotionally distant. I also understand why she doesn?t want to be particularly close to her own children (she was the only adopted child of a very overbearing mother). Personally I would like to be more involved with my own grandchildren but I shall certainly hold back from giving parenting advice unless asked for especially after reading through here. Will just discreetly volunteer my baby sitting and food cooking services. Definitely age not motherhood has brought us closer.

Hi I don't know whether anyone else has stumbled across 'the nub' theory: http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2009/06/03/nub-theory-baby-gender-prediction-at-12-weeks/ Or the even more unreliable (or at least in my case) the Chinese Gender Calendar... http://www.chinesegendercalendar.info/

I say do use a (Northern) based cheap as chips solicitor. We have used RA Wilkinson & Co. based in Birkenhead, The Wirral and our past 3 house moves they have been absolutely fantastic ? super efficient and very reasonably priced. There isn?t anything that requires an intimate knowledge of the local area. Why pay London based solicitor prices when you?re already paying London house prices?

If "We prefer male nanny. Or just nanny." Then why didn't you title the post "Sex wth the Male Nanny"?