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Also if anyone has a suggestion of a cottage you know does weekend rentals / short breaks rather than minimum stays of week, thanks!

Just wanted to pick the brains of mums and childminders about this as not sure how it works? If a child minder picks your toddler up from pre school - (I guess they would either be picking up at 12:15ish or 3:15ish depending on wether the child had done a single or double session?) - is there normally an hourly rate you pay from the pick up time (I only know that in terms of a day rate childminders normally charge about ?50 for a full day so not sure how it works when it isn't a full day) if the pre school only operates term time, what happens in the holidays if you're at home and don't need the pick ups? Presumably the childminder cannot just lose the hours and money so do you still pay over the holidays? Or do you just pay a retainer? Or do most people just continue to drop their toddler with the childminder on those afternoons anyway even if they haven't beem to school to keep continuity or how does it work? Grateful for any advice as just trying to weigh up the differing costs of private nursery a couple of days a week as opposed to pre-school and childminder option..thanks for any advice!

Thanks Mathilda, that's kind, I will email him for more info Anyone else recommend anyone?

Does anyone have a cottage they would like to rent out over Easter Weekend, (i.e going on easter friday 29th March and coming back monday 1st April) we would be 4 adults and 2 two year olds. Preferably it would be at least 3 bedrooms, and preferably within a couple of hours drive of East Dulwich. Let me know if you have a suitable cottage available, thanks!

I was also prescribed domperidone to boost supply and it works quickly, (i.e practically overnight)

Hi all, I hope this is ok admin, I know not strictly a family room matter but I really would like to hear the recommendations of the family room specifically on this if that's ok) I would like to find an Independent Financial advisor to give various family members advice on tax, pensions, savings etc, can anyone suggest a fairly localish person who is clued up, pleasant (trying to imagine them explaining money stuff to my not-very-with-it mum for instance) and has reasonable rates. Thanks family roomers!

I forgot to say, when I was in John Lewis to buy the country style wooden kitchen they have just started selling, one of the staff on the shop floor told me that they still had some of the previous wooden kitchen in the back, reduced to ?60ish, which if you asked them for you could still buy. They might still have some if you phone up and ask?

I love banana bread / cake / muffins. I do love a choc cupcake...

The current John Lewis wooden one (country kitchen?) is nice, but expensive at ?100. the ikea one is very good too and cheaper.

Mother Goose Greendale is only about 5 mins walk from ED station, you cut through by Sainsbury's car park.

DMC have 55,000 patients, one of the doctors told me on my last visit, and are still taking more on

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!