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15th December ? Santa's Grotto Adventure, St. Hildas Church 12pm-5pm, ?3 per child The elves will take you on a journey up the winding icy steps, through a wonderful festive landscape where you will catch the Polar Express to meet the jolly man in red himself I love tdlp events!!

I don't know how the list hot created ... Other nurseries Oti ably should contact southwark

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/download/6602/camberwell_and_dulwich_nurseries

Dolphin swim school in Mitcham is great

Really shiny gold card - ebay An old adult tshirt belted is a good basis for any costume - a bright colour would suit a king Makes a sort of tunic

Though ladybird abc book, and the opposites book, are good

My no 1 started reception unable to write his name, (admittedly he turned out to have a problem holding a pencil due to hyper mobile joints) and hadn't done any phonics (it was pre the integrated eyfs curriculum) though he did love to be read to, was very active at running and jumping (gross motor skulls precede fine motor skills) By October half term of reception he was reading and now in y5 he is well ahead in everything - level 5 for reading already, for eg Twins attended cr?che (same as pickle) and by the time they started school nursery the one with the shorter phonetic name could write it while the one with the longer gaelic name with many vowels did not. Nursery year covered phonics intro ... Now they are in reception they are writing phonetically and reading short words. The one who started more slowly is now more advanced. So ... In my experience, an early start Makes little difference. Getting plenty of chance to wave their arms about and use their hands - puzzles, play dough etc plus being read to, eye spy games etc, are quite enough at 3 in my view

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What good news ... Hope he will Grow out of that dairy allergy, I did (was allergic till about 3)

Travelodge and premier inn cheap deals can be your friend 'wink'

Superkids swim school - try them

The article is funny though

http://m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/14/facebook-organise-relationships-like?cat=commentisfree&type=article

I didn't have a plan for the first one, just an independent midwife. For the twins I did, especially knowing that I was going to be supported by hospital midwives I hadn't met before... Though my main concern was actually that twin 1 was skin to skin with my partner once I had to let him go to have bay no 2! It broke my heart to think of him being plopped in a cot! I has to be fairly flexible about quite a lot, but it all worked out fine despite a few issues that arose. Last baby I had a plan but never really got near it... Apart from getting to stay in the labour ward skin to skin for a long time after the birth

http://www.elc.co.uk/Cup-Cake-My-First-Stroller---Blue/125130,default,pd.html

Elc do blue toy buggies I think Few quid

This sort of doll is lovely http://www.ptolemytoys.co.uk/2094/Haba-Toys-Little-Scamp-Michael-Doll.html

There are ones that cry and wee and stuff but in my experience, little boys mostly want to wheel them about in buggies, and tend to remove any clothes that they have on! Soft bodied is good, though

Most of the dolls in our house were bought not for our girl, now aged 4' but originally for her big brother, when he was small. You can buy by dolls, dressed in blue, if that is preferable to sickly pink

Not to minimise the complex emotions, even trauma, that can follow a difficult labour (as if having a healthy baby is the ONLY consideration and the mother's feelings aren't important) but I do think we need to be kind to ourselves and feel compassion for ourselves. Having had an easy first birth, and twins naturally with minimal intervention, it was a huge shock to me that baby no 4 presented every problem imaginable. He was transverse, he went breech, I had ECV. I developed high blood pressure, had to drop my planned home birth, suffered an induction that took from Monday- Saturday, had a failed epidural, problems with my bladder afterwards, readmittance to hospital post birth with high bp and then a baby with a posterior tongue tie who didn't bf till 6 weeks. Do I think it was 'my fault'? No. Perhaps I could have refused induction when I did, gone home, gone into labour naturally and avoided much of that. But knowing the risk to the baby of maternal high blood pressure I accepted the interventions and the cascade that followed wasn't really a surprise, I was well informed enough to realise how it might go. I was sad that I never got a home birth or a water birth. In a way that bonus baby was my chance to have a less medicalised birth than I had for the twins, who by their nature tend to attract more fuss. But it was not to be, and I know I didn't 'fail' anything. In fact, I was quite heroic, going through a lot of it alone due to the heavy snow and my partner being stuck at home with the other children. I do think the actual process of birth is life changing, and most women will have a lot of incredibly complex feelings about it afterwards.

You can't 'fail your birth plan'! What happens is that things don't go as you hoped or expected but you coped within, even if you came out of the other side feeling bruised both physically and mentally Think of yourself with the same compassion for any other mother you talked to who is doing her best in the difficult early days xx ( and yes, do contact Clare - she has so much time for each individual mother and baby, it's a hUge boost

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Clare kedves I think you can ring and ask for her She is very kind and knowledgeable

Dd, I would suspect a tongue tie ...

Try Elizabeth Mitchell for car journeys Very melodic folky songs to sing along to