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And if so did you feel they were beneficial? X

Midwife told me not to worry as they would be able to 'fashion me a new vagina.'

Just saw that a friend of my brother's has posted this on facebook this afternoon.. 'Loath as I am to start a story with "In my local farm shop"... In my local farm shop, a man is giving a cookery lesson to some primary school kids. He says "does everyone like houmous?" Amid general murmurs of agreement, one kid shouts "I'm kind of over houmous." Yep, I'm back in East Dulwich.' It made me laugh and much as I'm kind of loathe to start a 'Kid's say the funniest things!' style thread, it reminded me of a couple of other things that cracked me up when I heard them recently. Firstly my friend was at Latitude last year and heard a dad reprimanding his small daughter with the words 'NO Jocasta, that's DADDY's Yakult!' Secondly my friend was the company manager on OLiver Twist in the west end for a long time, she was in the rehearsal room while the director put some newly cast workhouse boys through their paces when there was a cast change. After an initial rehearsal where they were briefing the boys about where to stand, what to do, whether to exit stage left or right, a few rounds of 'Food Glorious Food' etc, the director asked the assembled boys 'Has anyone got any questions?' And one little lad piped up 'Yes. What did they do if they were lactose intolerant in the workhouse?' too good.

there is a massive room above the crown and greyhound in the village which can be hired for weddings.

Like Otta I was also taken aback by your rather alarmist response...it doesn't sound like anything is 'wrong' with the OP's son, let alone seriously, and I don't think a paediatrician is necessary. She understandably wanted a bit of reassurance that others were experiencing the same, which it sounds like a lot of people are. You say that children ALWAYS play up for a reason...perhaps children do always play up for a reason but that reason might be that they want an ice cream they can't have, or don't want to get in the bath, which is not the same as there being something wrong.

I believe they have changed it from minimum 2 night stay to 1 night if no complications after c-section at Kings.

Buds in Goose Green Centre would let your son do 3 mornings a week, they've recently moved to Goose Green from nearer the village and have some spaces. Lovely staff, my daughter is really enjoying it there.

someone once came up to me in Dulwich Park when my daughter was a baby and I had a muslin hung across her buggy with clothes pegs to stop the glare of the sun, to tell me how cruel I was....baffling...

Thanks everyone, very useful! Is there somewhere I can get a nitty gritty comb in ED? x

Our daughter had (has?) nits and passed them to me, we're not sure if my partner has them as of course as soon as someone mentions nits you start scratching your head manically so I think he may be imagining it as I can't see any on him! We have treated all of us twice with hedrin and yet I think me and my daughter still have nits as we're both still scratching? Or do nits bite? i.e is it poss we're scratching from bites even tho nits have gone? What works better than hedrin? it's the lotion you leave on overnight we've been using, I gather there are other products in the range, something you leave in for just 15 mins etc, maybe it's more like an insecticide? Or are there better products out there?? thank all!

Thanks Sanity girl and Reren, really good to hear about these lovely mixed gender dynamics xx

Thanks so much for all the replies, I really appreciate it! xx

Our daughter is 2 and in a few weeks we're expecting our second baby who is a boy. There will be an almost 2.5 year gap between them. Since finding out the baby is a boy 3 months ago I have been in a real spin about it, which I know is a lot to do with the fact that my brother and I had an abusive childhood so the idea of a mixed gender pair of children somehow feels very negative to me, and stirs up all sorts of things that I wasn't anticipating until we found out the gender. My brother and I fought viciously like cat and dog from the day we were born, and had an intensely negative relationship, in fact it is only now in the last year that we have started to make friends again after 30plus years of unpleasantness. I think our relationship was so bad for 2 main reasons, firstly we're twins and were always battling it out for supremacy, if you know what I mean, and partly because of what was happening at home, we were psychologically and emotionally very scared and destabilised and took this out on each other. I think as teenagers and in our 20s we wanted to put as much space between us as possible as seeing each other reminded us of the past and what we went through. Anyway, I'm waffling, in short I was very keen for our second child to be a girl too as that felt completely different from my own childhood plus I have always wished I had a sister - I'd also built up a real fantasy in my head about how amazing and special it must be to have a same sex sibling and (nutty I know) feel like I've let my daughter down by not providing her with a sister. I wonder if any of you family roomers can reassure me that mixed gender siblings can have a good relationship and play well together, enjoy their relationship with each other etc? I know my feelings must sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but I just can't help feeling anxiety about this - am seeing a therapist to try and work through my own experiences as a child but would really value any reassurance about boy and girl siblings having good relationships...thanks all

we chose between these two the other day, I think the volo has mesh sides which means it's great for airflow if on holiday in a hot country but I figured rather nippy when it's freezing here, so we went for the triumph. also because of the recline as you say.

buggie Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > I'm all for the un-pinkification of girls, but > think if in life you demonstrate in life the > values you aspire for them, then the occasional > fairy tale or request to dress as a fairy won't > cause the creation of a submissive & brow beaten > adult. > > No matter their reading material, yourselves as > parents will still be their number one role model. good point, couldn't agree more Buggie

Poor thing, my 2 year old is constipated too and wanders round farting miserably saying 'poo poo' and clutching her bottom. we've been trying to get her to eat dried apricots all day as they usually help and she won't take syrup of figs. Have you tried prunes, dried apricots, lots of sunflower seeds, fruit juice, drinking lots of mugs of warm water (as warm as she can drink it) and a warm bath? Hope something shifts tonight...

recent threads on this on here have suggested that Oak Tree on Tell Grove (off East Dulwich Grove) has spaces.

Yes it's called Dulwich pre school. Tho their general intake is every September and it is from age 2.5 onwards.

Yes it's very easy to get a completely wrong reading with an ear thermometer unless you get it at exactly the right angle. I find if you take the reading 3 or 4 times, you can get a very different reading each time.

there is a new montessori called Little Fingers on barry rd, by corner of Goodrich rd, that has just opened or is just about to open, tho I'm not sure from what age they take. it may be from over 2.

Hi we have just bought the cheapest two screen one from the brand Logik that they sell in Currys in Brixton. It was about ?60 and It seems fine. One thing that confused me a bit about the 2 screen options is if they are labelled 'twin' then you can play one film on both screens, if they are labelled 'dual' then you could play a different film on each, tho whether you would want two dvds competing with each other in the back of a car is another question!

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > A former shop owner in the area once said to me "I > make money selling stuoid cushions to bored women > with too much money". think that statement says rather more about her life than her customers! Not what I'd aspire to have written on my headstone, put it that way.

Mrs TP Wrote: - > > > Every nursery seems to handle it differently and > some say along the lines of 'oh we like you to > wave it so we can plough the money back into the > nursery' - you don't have to agree. > Wow, does this actually happen in some nurseries? Audacious!

In a private nursery the discount doesn't work out to 15 hours per week as their hourly rate is more expensive and the 15 hours per week is calculated using term time only, not full time. Oh dear I'm not explaining that very well. Basically, in state nurseries and nurseries attached to schools it actually works out to 15 hours nursery free a week, if your child was attending private nursery from 8:00-6:00 all year round, for example say two days a week, i.e roughly 15 hours a week, and that came to roughly ?450 a month before the grant came into play, it would mean it would still come to ?250 a month with the grant taken into account. It amounts to a discount but not actually 15 hours a week at private nursery.

Shocked to hear of how you were treated today but relieved to hear you're seeing a doctor you trust tomorrow, please keep posting MrsS, we're all rooting for you x