Summer babies club (due June, July, Aug 2013)

[Ginster]

Cool Wooly, see you there!

Will be good to finally meet everyone ;)

[Ginster]

Hi ladies,

I thought I should re-check our booking and so looked back through the thread to see how many people might be coming tomorrow evening. (I've been telling my hubby it's about 8-10 people) however check this list out at the bottom of my post! - 19 of us!

I just checked with the EDT and the area is still booked and it can hold that many people so we're fine. They are serving food (I'll probably grab some food) and it's booked under "Ginny".

Same area as before, so if you come in the main doors, go to the right of the bar and into the next "room" (on way to ladies toilets) and then it's the alcove just inside that room on the right - hopefully that makes sense. Otherwise look out for the large group of ladies or ask at the bar!

Looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow. I should be there from 7pm.

Any newcomers to this thread - feel free to join us!

List below (apols if I've missed anyone who said they're coming, 5 pages of posts to read through!) :o)

Me

Astrid83

Higgles

lstickler

Sals12

Hollysamantha

Sashabella

MarleneG5S

Furners78

Ellianna

PhillyIlly

LollyED

Julesonline

BellendenBear

Mikimoo

CatB99

Mbr

Whittinr

Wooly

[julesonline]

Thanks Ginny - super organised! I'll aim for 7pm and probably get some food too. Looking forward to it. Jules x

[astrid83]

Thanks Ginny that is great! Looking forward to meet you all tomorrow. I'll aim for 7pm as well.

Sofia x

[asagao]

Hello and congratulations to everyone. I was looking for pregnancy goya and I came across this thread. I am expecting my first on 23 July. I would love to join the meeting tomorrow evening. Thanks for organizing it, Ginny. looking forward to meeting you all tomorrow.

[Sals12]

Well done Ginny! Wow, so many of us, there is no way I will be able to remember and match user names with names of you all tomorrow, thought I had it sussed but Astrid83 you got me there! See you all tomorrow! X

[astrid83]

Sals12 - ha, yes - Astrid is actually my cat! Just a random pick when having to chose username...

Sofia x

[PhillyIlly]

Looking forward to meeting you all. Thanks for organising Ginny. See you at 7.Philly x

[MarleneG5S]

Thank you for organising Ginny, see you all tonite at 19.00. Marlene x

[Higgles]

Really looking forward to meeting everyone tonight!!! Will get there for 7 too. H xx

[hollysamantha]

Thank you for organising this evening and sorry I had to leave early!! Hope to see you all again soon holly x

[astrid83]

Lovely to meet everyone today, although I didn't get a chance to speak to all of you! We should do it again soon. Thanks so much again for organizing it Ginny.

Sofia x

[mollie]

There's a new Antenatal Course starting in May which you might want to look at. It's run by the NCT and is called Birth and Beyond. The focus is on preparing you and your partner for the arrival and first months with your new baby/ies. The course runs for 12 hours over 6 evenings and is ?170.

Venue is The House Gallery SE5, so not far from East Dulwich. 4 spaces left on this course.

Thought you'd like to know about this as it's a new course, the focus will of course be on the birth but with much more time spent on preparing for life after the baby arrives.

Info on this course from me or [email protected] or the main NCT website: nct.org.uk

All the best

[Ellianna]

Hi all,

So lovely to meet so many other mums-to-be in ED yesterday! Unfortunately I didn't have a chance to speak to everyone, but hopefully will do next time. Thanks again Ginny for organising and Astrid for suggesting!

There was some talk yesterday about setting up a group on Facebook/Google/Yahoo etc so I chatted to the Family Room Moderator who suggested a closed Facebook group, as that is what other Babies groups have done. So I have set one up.

It's a closed group so it won't be public but the fact that you have joined may appear in your own friend's newsfeeds, depending on the privacy settings you have for your own page. Also, people don't need to be 'facebook friends' to join but I think that I just have to add you to the group. I'll PM you all today with the name and link to the group. You should all be able to just request to join the group. Or if you have any trouble after that, just PM me with your name and let me know what your profile piccie looks like so I can add you and I don't add the wrong person. Anyone in the group can then post and it will stay private to the group. Also we can then make anyone of us group managers to help moderate the group.

Not sure what people think - Moderator said was a good solution but we can always use something else? Sophia, would your hubby suggest something else maybe?

Sorry for the essay!!

Jenny x

[Higgles]

Great idea Jenny...will get on to it shortly. x

[whittinr]

Lovely to meet everyone last night - thanks Ginny for organising.

As there was quite a spread of due dates I was wondering if the ladies with June due dates would like to have a meeting as a smaller group at some point?

Let me know what you think.

Laura

[Ellianna]

Hi Laura,

Yes good idea! I would be up for that, as am due in June.

Jen x

[furners78]

Hey Laura and Jen

Yep I would be up for that - Laura i think we are due 3 days apart in June!

Clare X

[LollyED]

Hey - thanks for organising the FB group Jenny - I will check out my privacy settings and then sign up.

I'm due in June so would be up for a smaller meeting (as well as a repeat of the full summer babies club meet) - I found the whole thing pretty useful as I don't know many mums-to-be!

Thanks, Lou

[julesonline]

Hi - was great to meet so many mums to be and look forward to meeting more next time!

Would be up for smaller June babies meet too. Jules x

[sashabella]

Lovely to meet everyone.

Thanks for organising.

Kelly x

[PhillyIlly]

Great to meet you all. Any July babies keen to meet separately?

[Higgles]

Yes I don't mind having a separate July meet although there's only a month in it so I quite liked the big old meet up too! But up for either meet so count me in!

[lstickler]

Me too- I liked the big old meet up. Was lovely to see everyone and looking forward to meeting those who I didn't get to chat to also.

Caroline xx

[Ginster]

I'd love to meet up with as many peeps again as it was fun.

Been trying to think where we could try next or does the EDT become the regular haunt with their free soda? ;o)

Also didn't get to talk to everyone yet as you say Caroline.