Posts by Roxswood

We first dtd at 10 days pp with the first one and 7 days pp with the second one. I'm not recommending this, I'm sure its not medically a good idea but I just couldn't wait any longer. I had two fantastic homebirths though and my small...

My 22 month old wakes anything between twice on a very good night to 10 times on an awful one. She is sometimes awake for a 3 hour block in the middle of the night bouncing around my bed. She is a much better sleeper than her big...

Yes, nobody in the UK gets their cats declawed or their dogs debarked and we don't get our boys deforeskinned either. Its been illegal for a number of years to dock tails or ears of dogs as well. I find it so difficult to understand that...

In my opinion up to 2 years or so is pretty much a baby. They don't have the verbal skills to tell you what they need. Yes you can tell the difference between frustration/whingy cries and the desperation cries but don't think about it...

I would absolutely expect to see medical professionals refuse to do procedures that people have NO RIGHT to do. Circumcision of a penis that is not attached to your own body, or in clear medical need comes very firmly under that. There...

Can I clarify that by of an age to be partly responsible for her own safety I was talking about puberty and early adulthood, not 6 or 7.

Ah ok, then I guess a hotel stay with planned visits out someplace during the daytimes might be the only way to do that, which is of course going to be expensive.

Would it be possible to limit times when they are in contact to things like a meal in a restaurant all together (with someone sitting between them) or a trip to the zoo etc where an adult can be with dd at all times and engaged with her...

There is only one safest answer. Doesn't matter what the laws are, doesn't mean parents who don't know what the safest answer is are bad parents, but for someone to KNOW that rearfacing is so much safer and NOT share that knowledge is...

I'm very sensitive to smoke smells but I'm ok with visiting my Dad (who does smoke indoors all the time) as long as he opens the doors and windows for a while before I arrive. The main thing that might be an issue, since they don't smoke...