WEST LONDONTHREAD - JULY/AUG 2007 (when we finally get a summer?)

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Just thought I would get this up and running before the old one is full.

Morning all.

Bubble, so sorry to hear about your DS.

I am sorry to say things hadn't improved much when I had my DS in Oct 2005 at Kingston Hosp. They were so under staffed (and lacking beds) that I was sent home 5 times. I was in labour for five days and ended up having c-section. In the end, I was too tired to do anything.

Have a lovely day all!

btw can anyone tell me about Wandsworth? is it an ok area? any roads to avoid?
my sister is looking to buy a flat but none of us know the area
tia

I did actually rather like the pethidine last time largely because it was the only time I wasn't throwing up (presumably because the anti-emetic they combine with it was kicking in?).

Oh dear, I'm just starting to remember all the bad aspects of this whole having-a-baby business...

May go tour the Birth Centre and think about it all deeply...

with me i was still in pain but felt like i was buried alive, horrific stuff had flashbacks afterwards. and i am sure it slowed birth even further.
next time (fingers crossed there will be a next time) i plan on gas&air only and if it takes more than 24hrs go for a c-section.
i felt dd was put at risk last time her Apgar was v.low and she was on SCBU

SFXMUM

Hard to advise I dont know your sister or her age (nor her budget). Personally I would not want to live on Putney High street. It is highly congested, noise and and carfumes, and in the evening the drinking crowds take over, so it is still noisy, vomiting and pissing. Trendy young city professionals (or hairdressers for all I know) seem to like it.

There are some nice flats in Roehampton Village (but Roehampton Library have the doors locked at daytime, you need to buzz to get in, due to vandalism, at least that was the case last time I checked)

The Tonsleys is fashionable.
Nice flats on Putney Heath, and the mansions up there.

They gave DS a 10 although I feel that was bollocks as you can clearly see in the photos that his fingers and toes are blue, which should have bumped him down to a 9, I believe.

Does your sister mean Wandsworth Wandsworth, or Putney Wandsworth?

thanks for property advise i think she means SW18. she is single no kids. she feels priced out of north london. apparently the flat she was looking at was just sold.

I have friends who live in the Galveston Road/Mexfield Road area of Putney (which is juuuuuuuust over the border into SW15) and that seems nice. The next couple of roads along (Cromford Road, Santos Road) are SW18 and I imagine that they are similar in feel.

Morning all

Well I can't commen on Putney, or wandsworth for that matter

I just want to add my little comment that pethedine really messed up BFing with DS1 as he was so doped up to the eyeballs he couldn't latch on for 36 hours. I was the MW hadn't mentioned the side effects when it goes into the baby's bloodstream.

and regarding tears - well my Kingston MW stretched me so so i wouldn't tear. I tore very badly with DS2 (is it TMI if I say "anus dangling by a thread"?) but it healed up in less that a week. That area down below has masses of blodd flowing through it and heals itself in miraculous timescales pretty much.

Why does the phrase "anus dangling by a thread" remind me of Sacha Baron Cohen?

Sorry, that was TMI wasn't it?

Wow - someone on my post natal thread has just announced she has a baby due in March/April 2008!! Just after you lemonaid!!

Can't believe DS2 will be 1 year by then! Where has my newborn gone to???

Only slightly

Fortunately my NCT classes had mentioned side effects of pethidine on the baby, so I only had it in early labour when it was clear we were going to be around for a while, so it would be out of our bloodstream before DS arrived. I reeeeeally wanted more (and I think they'd have given it to me if I'd asked) but I knew it would probably be a bad idea.

I've asked Birth Centre to send a brochure. I'd quite like to get to end of first trimester and nuchal scan on the NHS, though, if it'll save a bit of money.

Assuming it's the same person, I thought she was pretty keen when she joined the April 2008 antenatal thread...

Who are these people who get so much sleep in the first few months that they can afford to ... well ... not sleep ?

lemonaid its Shanks from my post natal group!

Am feeling a bit of both of you now - a lovely baby to look forward too!

What do you have already? (sorry, brain like a seive)

DS 2.6. He's seemed quite keen on his friends getting brothers and sisters, so we'll have to see how he takes to the idea. He did say yesterday (in respose to vague question) that he wanted a baby brother called Hugo -- probably not unrelated to the fact that his friend Annabel's new baby brother Hugo arrived this week and he has another friend called Hugo. Or he may have meant that he wanted one of those Hugos, specifically...

I like the name Hugo!

So do I, actually, but we definitely know too many of them now. And I seem to remember that it was on my (very) long list last time and DH vetoed it for some reason.

I like Hugo, too. Wonder if names like John, Keith, Paul, Peter, Neil, Neville would ever be popular again.

Right, I'm going to Kew beach tomorrow, probably in the morning to avoid crowds.

Sushi - I need to get out tomorrow too - have been couped up in house all week doing "stuff"

What time R U going?

Kew - are you still around tomorrow?

11-ish? Have invited a couple of Japanese mums with Anglo/Japanese DC to join, too so we'll be easy to spot.

Yuck. Like Hugo the hippo?

More like Hugo Weaving, I like to think.

Who is Hugo the Hippo? I know of Helena the Hippo (at least I presume she's supposed to be a hippo -- she looks more like some kind of deformed zombie pig creature to me) in the Spot books, but her distant relation Hugo is a new one on me.

That sounds fun Sushi. I will try and make it!!

Kew if you joined us we could have our Blue Spot meet?

The more the merrier!

Foxie, has the lodger arrived, yet?