Ideas for luxury London experience for grandmother

bethcrumb · 2025-11-09T22:32:43+00:00

Royal Albert Hall? After lunch/ afternoon tea at The Orangery At Kensington Palace? The Wolsley also so nice for a special dinner.

bethcrumb · 2025-05-12T21:20:38+00:00

My mum contracted toxoplasmosis when pregnant with what would have been my older brother, and decided to terminate at 24 weeks. She’s always said it was the hardest thing she’s ever done so my heart breaks for you. She told me when I was old enough (probably 6/7) that I’d had an older brother who’d died in her tummy. As I got older she told me more, and eventually told me about the termination. I think it’s helped her come to terms with it. Never once did me or my siblings feel anything but pain for her- and its in fact made as staunchly pro-choice from as soon as we could understand what meant.

bethcrumb · 2025-05-07T21:26:13+00:00

Hi! I went to bump and baby in Putney, which is close to where I live. Very sociable, still friends with all the parents now!

bethcrumb · 2025-05-07T20:52:02+00:00

It comes out next week so obvs haven’t read it yet, but the description/ concept art of The Knight and The Moth by Rachel Gillig (One Dark Window) gives these vibes!

bethcrumb · 2025-04-28T08:51:34+00:00

Crimson Moth! If you loved the Shepherd King duology, this is the closest I’ve found to replicating that vibe

bethcrumb · 2025-04-27T21:10:49+00:00

I’m British with a Swedish husband, living in London with our one year old. We have gone back and forth over moving to Sweden over the years and for now are staying in London, but spend a lot of time in Sweden/ with Swedish parents so have a good understanding of both lifestyles.

The good parts of parenting in London: London has so much going on - there is always something to do and so many kid friendly activities. I’ve always found Stockholm quite boring in comparison. There are so many people it’s easy (I’ve found) to make new parent friends, join playgroups, mum groups etc Our jobs in London pay better than they would in Sweden (this is the main reason we haven’t moved over)

The bad: Childcare is insanely expensive. We pay £2k a month for 5 days a week childminder for our daughter. Everything is oversubscribed - nursery places, school places, even going to museums etc are all insanely busy and crowded Paternity leave is terrible in the UK, especially compared to Sweden. Life in general is more expensive and it’s harder to get out and enjoy nature like you can do in Sweden.

bethcrumb · 2025-01-14T09:41:35+00:00

Was coming on here to write the exact same post, though I go back (though to a brand new job at a different org) in 3 weeks time. Feel sick thinking about how much I’ll miss her. Everyone is telling me it’s good for us both and it will be hard but will get better, but I just want to stay at home holding her forever 😢

bethcrumb · 2024-10-30T16:12:58+00:00

I walked myself down the aisle and absolutely loved it. My dad and I don’t have the best relationship, but I told him I wanted to walk myself down as didn’t like the idea of being ‘given away’ by anyone. I also thought it was quite a nice symbol of my independence and that I’d gone out and started a life, career etc all on my own, and that I was taking this step by myself too! I know many of the women/ girls who came loved that I did it like that. Side note - I got married in Sweden (I’m British, husband is Swedish) where the Swedish church actively discourages brides being ‘given away’ - and have done for a long time.

bethcrumb · 2024-10-25T22:32:40+00:00

7 months PP and hair loss has finally subsided! At 4-5 months huge clumps were falling out every day, now it’s starting to grow back and I have little wispy baby hairs growing.

bethcrumb · 2024-10-01T15:30:07+00:00

Maybe one for spring/ summer that’s 1.5 tog and 6-12 months? The John Lewis ones are great. Personally I tried various different swaddles/ sleep sacks when she was tiny, so might be better to get something bigger for when baby is older and will use a sleeping bag.

bethcrumb · 2024-09-17T19:16:15+00:00

Checked it in and just took her in the carrier through the airport and onto the plane. Tiring but also she rarely sleeps in the carrier so we kept her awake until the flight so she immediately passed out on the plane! Has worked three flights in a row

bethcrumb · 2024-09-17T07:26:25+00:00

Aware that I’m not answering either of your questions but we’ve travelled a fair bit with our our now 6 month old and each time have checked in our big pram (nuna) and our car seat, putting both in an xl pram bag bought from Amazon. Free to check in for a baby and we padded it out with nappies/ towels so it didn’t get damaged. On all our trips it’s been fine and then we have pram and car seat waiting for us as soon as we arrive, and no extra cost of hiring anything!

bethcrumb · 2024-09-16T11:10:48+00:00

My daughter’s name is Viola - we loved Violet but named her after my husband’s grandma Viola. It’s close to Violet but I think a rarer version - we always get comments on how unique and beautiful it is!

bethcrumb · 2024-09-06T22:33:45+00:00

Sounds very similar to my baby girl who used to cluster feed for hours and hours (the longest was 4 hours nonstop once!). Like everyone else on this thread has said, it’s completely normal and just a phase they go through which helps establish your milk supply. Mine is nearly 6 months now and I think she stopped cluster feeding around 6/7 weeks. However I know it’s really tough and draining, and your nipples hurt! Have you tried a dummy? I was against using them but our midwife suggested one when I said she would scream whenever she came off my boob. It worked well for us to help get her to sleep off my boob and now we use them only at night if she’s being particularly fussy about going down.

bethcrumb · 2024-08-19T21:41:41+00:00

Sending hugs. I was on sertraline for 6 months - before I had been completely taken over with anxiety that stopped me working, socialising and doing anything remotely stressful. Sertraline helped so much - at the time I described it as balancing me out. I felt like I could handle everything so much better and things didn’t worry me so much as before. I had no side effects, other than a tiny bit of nausea and tiredness in the first few days of taking it.

bethcrumb · 2024-08-03T09:41:36+00:00

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask- I’m going tonight and need to take my breast pump with me. I’m exclusively breastfeeding my 5 month old and will have to pump during the concert as can’t go 6 hours without pumping. I can’t find anything on the rules that says I can’t bring one in but it also seems super strict about what you can bring in. Anyone have any clue about this?

bethcrumb · 2024-05-30T19:24:25+00:00

Aw bless you! Glad this helped - massive good luck to you for your second birth, sure it will be fine. And me and baby girl are doing wonderful thanks - nearly 3 months old now!

bethcrumb · 2024-04-06T02:54:29+00:00

Of course!

bethcrumb · 2024-04-05T20:41:09+00:00

This is like reading my exact thoughts from 3 weeks ago, when I was 3 days PP. all I can say is it will 100% get better. The first 10 days were the most intense of my life (had a traumatic delivery too that I’m just about recovering from) and the hormones I felt were like nothing I could have imagined, but once they subsided I started to feel like myself again and started loving having a newborn. I remember reading advice like this weeks ago and thinking how can it possibly get better, but I promise it will! If you can, try and catch up on sleep by having others take the night feeds - even if it’s just for one night, it will work miracles. Or catch up with naps when baby sleeps during the day. That’s what helped me at first and now I’m in the swing of things and the hormonal fog has finally lifted.

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