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seldoc will be open from 6:30, hope you get seen asap xx

ameda double lactaline is a great pump, another recommendation from me

my mum put thumb guard on my thumb when I was a child, I would suck it until the taste was gone which only took a few minutes, it seemed worth a few minutes of the disgusting taste to get my thumb back at the end, if you see what I mean! But maybe it is even more foul tasting nowadays!

Just a thought but have also have you had her checked for tongue tie? The two often go together it seems. Babu Vadamayalan is the consultant for reflux at Kings as others have said. Claire Kedves is one of the breastfeeding co-ordinators / specialists at Kings and can check for tongue tie for you if you leave her a message. Katie fisher is also able to check, she works at Kings and privately. if you search her name on here, her number will come up.

the humble digestive is a nice workaday dunk, often overlooked.

I reckon best biscuit hands down is the dark chocolate choco Leibniz, a messy dunk tho, if I'm honest

the baby bjorn spoons are particularly easy, short stubby handle and deep spoon good for keeping the food on, also they're all plastic / rubber with no metal so less slippy. They really helped ours get to grips with using cutlery. We also bought the right angled kids cutlery you can get from boots and mothercare etc but we haven't really used it so not sure how useful it is.

LauraW Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lord Harris won't rest until he's got into every > child's head in this borough. His company has far > too much power over education in Southwark already > absolutely agree.

school nursery is 5 days a week, your child must do a session 5 mornings or 5 afternoons a week of about 2.5 hours, mornings are the most popular so depending on your place on the waiting list, you might only get offered afternoons. If you're at work, as others have said, you would need a childminder or someone to have your child for the rest of the day, so that would be the extra cost. don't think there are ever after school clubs for children at nursery age. some pre-schools not attached to a school let you have double sessions, so for your 5 sessions you might choose to have your child there for a double session two days a week (i.e roughly 9:00 - 3:00) and a single session on another day. Most of the pre-schools have quite long waiting lists so you might not be given a choice of which days or sessions you wanted tho. if your child remains at private nursery then obviously the fees will go down as they will give you a reduction in fees the term after your child turns 3. however, in a private nursery this does not work out to anything like the equivalent of 15 hours a week paid for as you would have in a state nursery, as the hourly rate in a private nursery is much higher than a state nursery, plus the 15 hours a week the government pays for in a state nursery is based on term time only, and private nurseries are all year round. That would be anther factor you would have to think about, if you're at work and your child is at a school nursery, you'd need childcare for the school holidays, which is about 14 weeks a year. hope this helps!

No but I will be your buddy in making a chocolate fudge cake with salted caramel meringue buttercream..good recipe!

oak tree on melbourne grove, or maybe the entrance is technically Tell Grove have spaces I hear

Happy Birthday edtots, you're a godsend! xx

dmc have 55, 000 patients (one of the GPs told me recently) and are still taking more on...gah! docs are good when you get to see them tho..but if you're in the Gardens catchment then I would go with them!

ah, so that's where you went Ruth!

if you look on ebay and search for 'ikea teddy bear' you will probably find people selling the same bear, new, with a mark up of a couple of quid. My daughter became very attached to an ikea soft toy that cost ?1 in ikea, and because we couldn't get to ikea for a while and I wanted back ups just in case, I paid about ?3 for it new on ebay. Bit sad that people seem to buy up ikea toys to sell on for a couple of quid extra on ebay but quite useful it turns out! good luck! I just had a quick look for you and there are a few different ikea bears on there, new, at the moment.

Snowboarder you really are our resident buggy expert!

isn't there also a site called www.claphammums.com which might be useful?

there are some bugaboo bee cocoons on ebay for about 20 quid at the moment, plus someone was selling one on here recently which may still be available? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?25,1009436,1021922#msg-1021922

That's a good idea Yak, maybe you could ask them to do that Eco79? 10 months is very young to drop the morning nap, despite the odd baby dropping it early (a sleep expert told me that babies that drop it at 13/14 months are dropping it early) most babies don't (voluntarily) drop it until more like 16-18 months). The nursery should definitely be supporting his need for a morning sleep so don't feel pushed into concurring that he doesn't need it if you'd like him to have it. I can see if your son started nursery at 2.5 and you were asking them to facilitate him sleeping in the morning when none of the other sprogs his age did then that would be a trickier thing, but 10 months old need to sleep in the morning so they should expect facilitate that, sure they'll be happy to work something out if you keep talking to them about it, and great that he is having a good time at nursery in general.

You're so right Jenny! Don't have the energy for milk-in-a-sippy-cup-tantrum, she'll can drink it from a bottle until she's 18 if it means bedtimes are relaxing!

if it's the conjunctivitis drops, they come in ointment form too, so if you find it a real struggle to get them in you can always go back to GP for the ointment, which is more effective in any case as it has twice the active ingredient in xx

very true Saffron

Pickle Wrote: > and to top it off has at bedtime told my oldest > son that if he doesn't believe in God "nice things > won't happen". > > you're right to be thoroughly cheesed off, that's an utterly shameful thing to say to a child. I would ask Mr. Pickle to politely ask his mum not to talk like that to the children again. If she told them that if they were bad they would go to hell and started explaining that concept to them, I imagine you would feel justified in immediately asking her to be quiet, and what she said to your son is unpleasant and threatening, ugh, you have my sympathy!

------------------------------------------------------- > SW, You brought it up. How hygienic. > > Lots of nappy changing going on in restaurants and > cafes around here. Doesn't mean it's > appropriate. Never seen it. Not Once.

If he doesn't seem too keen to use a sippy cup I would persevere with a free flow one, it's easier for them to grasp the concept when it flows really freely, and then when they've got it you can move onto a non-spill one. Sure this isn't the case for all babies of course, but most of them find it easier to use the free flow ones at first, which is why the tommee tippee one is so ubiquitous as a first sippy cup.