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scareyt

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  1. Hi the parents led nursery you are thinking of might be Childspace, it's on the Tulse Hill side of Brockwell Park. http://www.childspace.org I've never been there but heard good things about it.
  2. Have pmd you.
  3. Pickle you could always go to one of the makeup counters in a department store and get them to pick the right shade and show you how to put it on. I really like Bobbi Brown, their colours are all quite natural. I think it's almost impossible to pick the right shade of foundation and blusher without someone to help you as they all look so similar in the packaging. I have never tried false eyelashes either, am convinced I would forget all about them, rub my eyes and ruin them within 5 minutes.
  4. Lucy those are a bargain compared to the shops - thanks. They are the only thing that has worked for us too. Revolting but satisfying. I put them under the bed and they get loads there.
  5. I find a quick swipe of blusher makes all the difference. I also have a lovely lip stain from the beauty shop on Northcross Road called Beach Stain in watermelon, it looks and feels completely natural and doesn't dry your lips or come off when you kiss your baby. Then I just put vaseline or lip balm on top when I'm out during the day. I got a very flattering pair of very stretchy comfy jeans from Oasis the other day, ?20 in the sale in Debenhams in Clapham Junction. They fit neatly on the bum but have lots of room in the belly area. (Which I still need 2 years on!) Nothing more depressing than saggy bum jeans. Levis also do great fitting jeans in lots of waist / hip ratios if you want to spend a bit more on them. Also found some very forgiving tops in White Stuff and M&S that are loose enough to hide the lumps but not so baggy you still feel like you're in maternity clothes.
  6. St James' Park is also a great morning out, really easy to get to on the train from Herne Hill to Victoria and they have pelicans, swans & ducks to look at and a sandpit to play in. The cafe is nice but expensive, it gets crazy busy after 12:00 but if you get there by 12:00 it's fine. Or you can picnic if the weather is kind. If you go on a day when they are changing the guard in Buckingham Palace you can watch the soldiers marching around & playing music beforehand in the army barracks next to the park with no crowds - all the tourists wait in front of the palace but it's just as fun to watch the bit before at the barracks. Then the sandpit & playground are just across the road in the park. One of my favourite nice weather days out with little one!
  7. I cleared two whole kitchen counters yesterday and it makes me so happy to see them again! Not looking forward to junk modelling stage...
  8. Hi, I can really recommend an abs roller for stay at home mums, they are around ?10 from Amazon or John Lewis. I love mine, I keep it in the toy cupboard so it's really easy to use it for a couple of minutes a few times a day in between building train tracks or while Iggle Piggle & co are doing their thing! I can't ever get round to doing an exercise DVD but find this really easy to fit into a busy toddler day, and it's not annoyingly big to store like a Swiss ball. It works your abs and upper arms and is much more fun and pleasant than doing sit-ups or stomach crunches. Saying that I don't look any different yet but definitely feel stronger. And think possibly my arms are a tiny bit more toned looking.
  9. For my nearly two year old I use pancakes, either bought or home made with wholemeal flour and lots of eggs and then frozen. I use them either for breakfast or for desert if the main meal has been a bit lacking or not got down well. You can put them in the toaster from frozen and then put jam or anything on them to make them more palatable. Filling and very quick. I also in real emergencies use one of those Plum baby stage 4 ready meals, mixed with some cous cous (made up with boiling water then microwaved for a minute) to make it more filling and less sloppy. Probably not great nutrition but if you've been out all day and get home with a starving toddler it's very quick! Or toast fingers with peanut or cashew butter plus some strips of raw red/yellow pepper. Well balanced meal with no cooking at all!
  10. Hi, there is also the Michael Tippett School in Herne Hill that comes under Lambeth.
  11. They do it at the Fourway pharmacy in Herne Hill too.
  12. Hi Richard, I've come a few times to the group and love it but I do think the name is quite silly. And thinking about it, when I've told other people about it I haven't mentioned the name at all. I think the "hummy" part makes the experience sound less good than it actually is - it makes me think of something quite chaotic and random, which your group isn't at all! It's a lovely all-female choir which meets in the daytime and happens to welcome small children to rehearsals. I would also agree with handstands - since it's a business rather than a social group I think it is worth getting the name right now and changing it if you already know it is alienating some potential customers. Thinking more about the term 'yummy mummy'.... it's only ever a label people give to other people, and often in a negative way. It's not how any mums I know would define themselves. Maybe that's why some people find it patronising.
  13. Hi I wouldn't bother with the babyset, we took ours off at around 16 months as baby was climbing over it to get in and out. I found the trip trap harness really fiddly to use and ended up cutting the shoulder straps off it. We now just use the lap belt from the harness which works fine. Also without the babyset you can get the chair much closer to the table so it's less messy. So I would just get the chair plus a cheap lap belt harness.
  14. Another vote for herne hill to victoria on the train then 73 bus - completely step free and very quick!
  15. This sounds brilliant! We do something on Monday mornings at the moment but I will try to swap it around so we can come next week. So excited!
  16. Jollybaby - Merry Go Round on Half Moon Lane in Herne Hill sell second hand & end of line maternity and children's clothes.
  17. I spent 4 weeks in William Gilliat when my baby was born - 2 weeks beforehand with preeclampsia and 2 weeks after with my blood pressure still way too high and him in special care. I was in a side room in the antenatal bit beforehand which was lovely, then had a c section followed by 3 nights of no sleep in the post natal ward surrounded by other people's crying babies (and the odd hideous partner!) while my baby was upstairs and I was trying to express milk for him every 3 hours. It was horiffic and after I lost the plot in the corridor by the midwives station on day 4 they moved me back to a side room in antenatal where all the midwives were lovely and then things got a whole lot better. I had asked straight away after the birth about a private room but I think I was just unlucky with the timing / didn't seem desparate enough at first. So if they say there are no free side rooms and you are desparate it's worth finding out if there are any free in antenatal. And/or crying a lot. Once I was in that room they let me stay as long as I wanted which was wonderful and my baby ended up being discharged from special care on day 12 to spend another 2 nights with me in that room being monitored by the antenatal midwives before we both went home together. Agree about the bathrobe cord tip post c section - that was a lifesaver!
  18. Hi we had a similar thing at the same age, not the choking but just endless fussing, faffing about, refusing to eat anything, creating an enormous mess and driving me insane. What about just stopping completely for a few weeks and then trying again, taking it really slowly? If she's hardly eating anything she probably won't care and it will save you a world of pain. My little one was a nightmare with food until around 9 months when he suddenly got interested and I wish I had taken it much less seriously until then and just followed his cues a bit more. Good luck!
  19. Hi all, thanks for the suggestions! I will try a sheepskin today, hadn't thought of that.
  20. Hi we stopped daytime feeds first, starting at about 13 months. My little boy is 16 months now and we now have one feed a day first thing in the morning which I love and am planning to carry on with until he's bored of it. And I also still feed during the night if he wakes up but that's rare now. I had been feeding on demand (& often co-sleeping for part of the night as he usually woke at least twice a night for feeds which I did lying down) so I just stopped feeding him between certain times of day, first from breakfast to lunch, then quite quickly we went to nothing between the early morning feed and around 3pm, then nothing from early morning to bedtime. If we were at home and he was whining for it or needed a nap I relented quite a few times, always feeling guilty about not being consistent but it never seemed to make any difference to him - the following day if we were busy he wouldn't ask and would be perfectly happy. We then dropped the first morning feed, just going straight down for breakfast instead which was fine. And around this time he started sleeping through consistently for the first time ever! Conincidence? Who knows - there is no control experiment! But it meant I never had to do any grim nighttime battles over not feeding when he wakes up at night which was my biggest worry. We dropped the bedtime feed last which was harder as I'd been feeding him to sleep all along. But we used some ideas in the "No Cry Sleep Solution" book and changed our routine first to bath, feed, teeth, stories, songs, into the cot awake. Getting that established was the hard part but once we had after maybe three weeks or so, dropping the evening feed wasn't a big deal to him. And then, 24 hours after a very emotional (for me!) bedtime feed a couple of weeks ago which I was fairly sure would be the last one ever, he got really sick, threw up 6 times in the first night and once a day for the next few days and was utterly miserable and ate nothing for a week and lost losts of weight, so I went back to feeding on demand all day long, feeling like all that effort of weaning gradually was wasted! But also so relieved that I could still get some calories into him and make him feel better when nothing else could. And as soon as he was better to my huge relief he had no interest in it again during the day. But I've now ended up feeding him first thing every morning which was never the plan but is a lovely snuggly time & I like knowing it's still there if he gets ill again. Occasionally he pulls at my top during the day but I can easily distract him with a snack or a tickle or something and it's not really a problem. Bedtime is much better now and I can finally go out for a whole evening which is wonderful. I was also really worried about stopping, I couldn't imagine how I would manage him without the magic boobs to help me but it's been much easier than I expected. And if anything he's more cuddly and affectionate and better company now that he's relating to me rather than my boobs!
  21. My little boy also recently outgrew his first pair of Startright pre-walkers and the lady in the shop said he should really have something more solid and suppportive now but everything else we tried on made him cry so I got a second pair of the prewalkers even though he's walking well now. It also didn't sound right to me that he needs a solid "grown up" shoe yet so I'm really interested to see the Vivo article, thanks for the link. May have to make a trip up to Neil Street for our next pair! I think the Startright prewalkers are kind of the next step up from cruisers and I've been really happy with them, they seem really comfy and the sole is quite soft but completely protects his feet in the park. We got them in Biff in Dulwich Village and they were ?24.
  22. Hi I don't have a group 2 seat yet but have heard Halfords in Brixton are really helpful at advising and fitting and I would go there for advice if not to buy one.
  23. I go to Gymboree in Herne Hill with my 16 month old and we both love it, we also used to go to Gymbabes at St Faiths but I found it a bit grubby / noisy / random / too crowded and I think he was a bit overwhelmed by it as he spent a lot of time just staring at other children instead of doing anything. (Mildly annoying when you are paying ?7 a time to be there!) Granted he's also quite a bit older now than he was when we went there but he absolutely loves Gymboree and I've been really impressed by how nice and clean it all is and how adventurous he is when we go. There is some free play and some group stuff including bubbles and parachute games and I think the balance is just right, with much more songs & interaction than gymbabes. It is expensive though and you have to sign up for I think three months, although it's then nice that you see the same people every week. And he always naps really well afterwards which is a bonus. I've also heard really good things about Whippersnappers and I'm going to try that soon too.
  24. Hi all I'm having a bit of a nightmare trying to find the perfect pushchair snd wondered if anyone has any suggestions. (Sorry for very long post!) My son is 16 months old, quite small for his age, and we have the Icandy Cherry at the moment. I find it really comforatable for me - it's the right height and easy to push and I loved it with the carrycot but as he's got older he's often struggling to sit more upright than the seat allows and the seat is also too deep for him and is tilted too far back so he's either slumped with his lower back not supported or else is straining to haul himself forward and balance on the front part of the seat. I've detatched the shoulder straps so he can move a bit but he just doesn't look comforatble. I tried him in the McClaren Techno today and he looked really happy and comforatable, but I couldn't stand it as I like to take long strides and keep kicking the wheels on every umbrella fold stroller I've tried. I also tried out the Baby Jogger City Mini which was perfect for me but had the same problems for him as the icandy but worse! I've read good reviews of the Mamas & Papas Luna but don't think it can be bumped down stairs which is no good. So I seem to be stuck - it seems like one or other of us can be comfortable but not both! Has anyone else struggled with the same problem and found the perfect solution? I also want it to fold in one piece and ideally not be horribly expensive since we already spent so much on the iCandy. In desperation I've ordered two wedges of foam to try to make the icandy seat more comfortable but that doesn't solve the folding problem. Many thanks to anyone who has made it to the end of this post and has any suggestions! :-)
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