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crompo123

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  1. Hi- i wondered if anyone goes to st johns church on goose green with a small child and can advise me....i havent been to church since i moved to london around 6 years ago, and want to start again now my daughter is getting old enough to benefit from it... i just wondered how easy it is on a practical level to bring her-- ie can i bring my buggy/is there anywhere to leave it, is there anywhere to go with here if(when) she gets fidgety etc? i read on the church's website that there is a sunday school, but she's only just turned 2, perhaps she's too young? any advise much appreciated!
  2. Helena Handbasket, thats so true and so beautiful- i love how my baby makes me just not really care (or not have time to care?) about how exactly i am looking that day. I feel strangely liberated when going on holiday and not being that bothered about being the shockingly whitest person there, even after two weeks in a mediterreanean climate.
  3. i'm a stay at home mum and i really love it- although ive never been at all ambitous career wise, and i think that you are extremely influenced by how you grew up- both my husbands mother and mine stayed at home and so neither of us even considered me going back to work. Although we don't struggle financially as such, we live a modest but really happy life- i do sympathise with those who are forced to leave their babies. Anyway, I was just very pleased to see that THERE ARE quite a few stay at home mums. In my area, just off Bellenden Road, sometimes i feel i'm the only one- i do tend to meet a lot of nannies (although lovely, they tend to have their own network/friendship groups) for some reason. At times it makes me feel guilty for not going to work and providing 'more' for my little girl (perhaps the reassurance of private school).So guilt comes on both sides.
  4. i agree, don't listen too much to what the HV says- all babies are differernt and in that sense doesn't matter what percentile theyre in- my daughter has always been 80-90th centile, but only because she's really tall i think, not particularly chubby. My daughter never eats much for lunch or tea if she has snack in between- i just offer her a drink and maybe a satsuma mid morning/afternoon-- that might make a difference? Also- even now, at 23 mnths i give her a cup/bottle of milk if i'm convinced she hasnt eaten enough for a meal, as she'll always take that. Occasionally she won't and i know somethings wrong like her teeth or a tummy upset. And she's still not keen on fork or spoon...i think we probably underestimate how much of an effort it is for them to get through their solids, never mind manipulating these new utensils. I hate to go back to 'what my mother says', but apparently i existed on breastmilk and ham til i was 20 months old, and i was by no means an unhealthy baby. And i eat my green nowadays too.
  5. we moved to the bellenden area this spring, and i absolutely love it- perfect location for my 22 month old, with lovely parks, peckham pulse, cafes, playgroups. I do however worry about schools as at the moment we cant afford the villa, and our nearest school I think is Oliver Goldsmith, which i don't know anything about really- but ive heard good things about Bellenden and Lyndhurst-- and i think its right to withhold judgement- alot can happen in 2 or three years.
  6. hi Lou- just wondered what time she wakes up in the morning....my 21 month old gets up 6-6.15am-ish, and she's ready to have a lunch time nap around 12-12.30 for an hour and a half, then to bed by 7.30. I suppose i'd rather have more time in the evening and a lunch break rather than stay in bed in the morning...i guess its about making compromises as always.
  7. Hi Tess- my now 18 month old went through this phase, when she was learning to roll over, to sit up and to stand up...in all three cases we went through a period of a couple of weeks of rubbish nights, having to lie her back down and soothe her back to sleep. I'm sorry i can't offer a solution, but sometimes it helps to know that it is a phase and other people have noticed it!
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