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I thought that the food was really nice for a local neighbourhood Italian - seemed fresh and was very tasty (and cheap!)

This place is totally brilliant for kids (and also parents!) That lunch deal is brilliant - any pizza or pasta on the menu + salad or garlic bread. Think that the food is really good and homemade too. Great place!

Do you know if it is easy to register or it is it v bureaucratic and time-consuming? It certainly sounds like something we should ask her to do from everything that people have said! Thank you!

I have used an excellent employment lawyer in the past Shohaab Dar. http://uk.linkedin.com/in/shohaabdar These are his details on LinkedIn. shohaabdar@gmail.com I found him to be excellent, really friendly and knows his stuff. I am sure that his training covered maternity issues etc Good luck!

We are in the process of looking for a nanny and the one that we like is not Ofsted registered. She has said that she is happy to register if we'd like but I just wondered what the benefits either to her or to us would actually be. Any opinions happily received! Thanks

very unusual for a childminder to only look after 1 child

You can find nannies for about ?8 an hour (though of course there is tax and NI)Echo the view that at 6 months I'd try and do a nanny/nanny-share in a home. SimplyChildcare.com is very useful website that specializes in SE London (I think). http://www.simplychildcare.com/index.asp There are some nurseries that start at 2 years old like The Villa that might be worth putting their name down for now.

Just to say that we went to this for the first time on Saturday with our 8 month old and thought that it was great! There do seem to be quite a few baby music classes around here but this was a really good one.

Consider yourselves baby-rearing geniuses! With a slower teat and generally a slower approach to the feed, tonight was brilliant. I think that he had been so anti the bottle that sub-consciously I was really forcing him to go fast otherwise I thought that he wouldn't do it. But tonight we stopped and read a story half way through, winded him properly and he had a full feed of 210 ml (which he has NEVER done before) and is now fast asleep hugging his moomin toy.

Milk is dribbling out a lot so off this morning to get a slower teat. Hoping that does the trick. Formula is new to him as well so the poor kid has a lot of changes to contend with. Thanks again for advice!

Great advice - we are on the fastest teat. I didn't even think of that! Really appreciate your thoughts. (I am almost tempted to send my husband out to Sainsbury's NOW in the rain)

In the past few days my 7 month old has had two enormous projectile vomiting sessions after his evening bottle. After he's puked all over him and me and his grobag he seems fine - happy, smiling and babbling away. But I am worried that maybe I am making him sick? Maybe I am feeding him too much food and then the bottle on top of that makes him puke (though he only has about 120oz) or I should still be sterilizing his bottles, or go back to boob instead of bottle for his evening feed? The bottle is a new thing for him and its only been in the past few days that he's actually drinking from it. I will take him to the health visitor tomorrow but I wondered if any other mums had similar experiences or could offer me any advice. Thanks!

Ditto a lot of what's been said - its tough and it sounds like you've done brilliantly. Could you try and run home from work?? I have no idea how far away your work is but I know when I go back after maternity in Jan, I am planning on doing that a couple of days a week. Also I am a recent Davina DVDs - excellent and in blocks of 20 minutes too.

We found a brilliant anti cradle cap product while we were in the states on holiday - made by a firm called MD Moms http://www.bigelowchemists.com/product_info.php/cPath/314_476/products_id/4094?osCsid=268b321c092a1f3b0fbdd0a068ac58f2 They ship to the UK. More expensive than the coconut oil option but we did find it to be really good

See you at 3pm today !

i'm hoping that its open to all wanting to speak french - whether that's mother tongue or otherwise. shall we do the cafe in dulwich park at 3pm on monday?

The new cafe at the South London Gallery, just along from Peckham Pulse, is staffed by Kiwis (I think) and they do a fabulous flat white. http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/3009/Caf Food is lovely too - worth the trek out of SE22 ;-)

if you can find a baby bjorn on ebay (or here) grab it! they're great, really well designed and babies love them. at least all the ones that we know do

I am English and my husband French. We've got a little boy of 6 months. My husband is only speaking in French to him and I'm talking English as we'd really love to help him grow up bi-lingual without him having to sit down and learn verbs by heart. His grandparents don't speak any English so its really important to us. I'm starting back at work 4 days a week in January and am thinking of getting a French-speaking nanny. I'd much rather do a nanny-share as I think that babies enjoy having other baby company and it also makes it much more affordable. Are there any families in ED that are looking for something similar? It would be great to see if there are and have a coffee and a chat to see if we could join up.

Si Mangia on Forest Hill Road great for babies and kids

If you can deal with my terrible french (I have a french husband so I have no excuse to be rubbish!) my baby boy and I would love to do coffee! I'd also love to find out what other french groups/classes/families there are around this area

total agreement on the brilliance of the glider footstool!

Love the idea of My First Day - I hadn't heard of that before but its great and I will use it in the future. I think that books are always a good idea and something that you keep for years. We got a friend's daughter the collected works of Beatrix Potter which I hope will be something that she can end up giving to her children in years to come!

my son is older than yours but seems to have decided that bottles are highly boring and won't feed from them. we're finding that the slanted "doidy cup" is a life-saver. http://www.bickiepegs.co.uk/acatalog/Bickiepegs_on_line_About_the_Doidy_7.html might be worth a try?

love our one! Really though that it might turn out to be a waste of money but it turns out to have been one of the best things that we got - so relaxing for baby and for me. A friend is going to re-cover hers as the colours are dreadful. Someone should design and market one with great contemporary colours! But apart from that, its a total recommendation from me