August 2010: August is here, our babes are near!

[vitapulchra]

LIST
In Sweet Memory Of Belle, Daughter Of CazEM. Our First August Angel Was Born Asleep 21.6.10 at 00:08, 4lbs 5oz

ARRIVED
2 July (due 29 July) CherryPie - #3 BOY, Corey Owen, born 08:11, 8lbs 4oz.
18 July (due 25 July) Emster - #1 BOY, James, born 18:37, 9lbs 4oz
23 July (due 20 July) Aussie - #1 BOY, James (Jamie), born 02:50 and weight?
23 July (due 22 July) Chulita - #2 BOY, Samson William, born 01:15, 8lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 29 July) BouncingBlueberries - #2 BOY, Glenn, born 02:02, 7lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 4 August) Girlsyearapart - #3 GIRL, Matilda Queenie (Tilly), born 11:05, 8lb 10oz.
28 July (due 4 August) Kcoffin - #3 GIRL, Ruby Mae, born 14:49, 6lb 11oz.

WAITING ROOM
26 July - Anifersgirl, #1, age 33 South Bucks, 33week scan extended breech GIRL
28 July - CazzyBabs #4, Cambridge , SURPRISE
31 July - Missus84, #1, Bristol . Age 26 BOY
01 Aug - Nikalah, #1, Dorset . Age 35, GIRL
01 Aug - Bumblingaround #4, SURPRISE
02 Aug - Dibbydab, #1, Devon . Age 34 SURPRISE
02 Aug - summerymummy, #2, age 29, Berkshire , SURPRISE
02 Aug - JamieJay, #1, Cardiff . Age 29 - GIRL
03 Aug - fuzzybunny, #2, age27, Somerset SURPRISE
03 Aug - carolondon #1 North London age 37, BOY
05 Aug - RachelParker #1, age 26, Wandsworth ( London ), GIRL
06 Aug - YummymummyKJulie, #1, NW London , GIRL
07 Aug - NichyNoo, #1. Brussels . Age 30 - BOY
07 Aug - Weehector #1, Largs. Age 36.. BOY
08 Aug ? ElusiveMoose #2 Kent 33 BOY
08 Aug - DriedApricots #2, Surrey, SURPRISE
09 Aug - possiblenewmum #1, Guildford , age 31, GIRL
09 Aug ? Alice #2 Suffolk age 25, BOY
09 Aug - thecoffeelady #2, Fleet, Hants, age 32, SURPRISE
11 Aug ? CellyD #1, Walthamstow, SURPRISE
10 Aug ? SayAnything #1, Brussels , age 33, BOY
12 Aug - tunise, #4, Suffolk , age 31. GIRL
13 Aug ? Neenz #3 Liverpool (32) - SURPRISE
14 Aug - LCRLCR #1, Brighton , age 34, SURPRISE
14 Aug - Burkoid, #2 SURPRISE
14 Aug ? babyducky #2, Brighton , age 24, SURPRISE
15 Aug ? LizzieA #1 Wirral, 33, scan ok BOY
15 Aug - thedogwalker #1, age 37, Germany (originally from Halifax), BOY
16 Aug - parkgirl #1, 20wk scan fine - GIRL
16 Aug - Tah2 #3, South Wales . SURPRISE
16 Aug - Vix206 #1, Leicester , 32, BOY
16 Aug ? cakeywakey, #2, age 32, GIRL
17 Aug - Doodleydoo #2 Kent still just 34, SURPRISE
18 Aug ? Isheisnthe #3 Camberley, FPH, Age 33, BOY
18 Aug - biddysmama #2, Lancashire , BOY
19 Aug - marzipananimal #1, York , age 24 SURPRISE
19 Aug ? Bubbabear #1, Reading/Berks age 30, BOY
20 Aug - JessieEssex #1, age 33, SURPRISE
20 Aug - USMum27 #1, age 26, Wandsworth. GIRL
21 Aug - CrunchieNutterII #2, age 34, Devon , SURPRISE
22 Aug - Poncherello #2, North London , SURPRISE
23 Aug - chickieno1 #1, SURPRISE
23 Aug ? loobyt #2, age 34, Devon, SURPRISE
24 Aug ? JaysFourth #4, age 38, GIRL
24 Aug - growingbump2, #2, age 25, Isle of Man , SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sal321, #1, age 31, Essex SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sam86 #2 Liverpool , GIRL
25 Aug ? aendr #2, Huntingdonshire, 33, GIRL
25 Aug - Joey30, #1, Halifax - West Yorkshire , age 30., BOY
25 Aug - Soontobefatnat #1 SE London Age 30, BOY
26 Aug - pamplem0usse, age 26, #1, Herts SURPRISE
27 Aug - Jamiki #3, SURPRISE
28 Aug - LittleMissSnowShine, #1, age 26, Belfast, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Hildainstant #1, Sunderland , age 30, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Foxyjbro #3, age 30, Shropshire, SURPRISE
29 Aug - LilyPad72 #1, age 37, Berkshire , BOY
29 Aug - starshaker #2 & 3 Ayrshire Age 29 VIOLET TWINS
30 Aug - Sparkle #1, age 31, Kent SURPRISE
31 Aug ? vitapulchra, #4, Guernsey , 32, BOY
02 Sept - MrsZaC, #1, Glasgow , age 26 SURPRISE
08 Sept - ronx, #2, London , age 37, SURPRISE

BABY COUNT
Boys - 22
Girls - 17
Surprises - 30

TOTAL - 69

LCR with DD she slowed up massively in the last few days. I phoned the MW on my due date after i had a show to ask for advice wrt timescale, when i should think of going in etc (i didn't have MN then!) and they asked about fetal movement and decided to send me in for monitoring as she was a lot quieter. All was fine, she was just getting ready. This one still makes my bump change shape several times a day!

Congratulations on all the new arrivals! I have tears in my eyes reading the announcements and gorgeous names.

Still a few days away from due date here so taking the time to bake / cook and fill the freezer like a loon (and it's not as if there isn't a Waitrose / Tescos / Budgens and M&S at the end of the road).

Wish I had some advice to add on the breastfeeding / thrush challenges. With dd it was hell for the first 6 weeks or so and then after dd having Nystatin and me using Canesten cream on my nipples (and washing off before next feed) it seemed to settle down and click into place. I'd forgotten about the white bits and the toe curling shooting pain with the let down and latching on but it did soon go.

Really hope it improves quickly for you ladies - you're doing brilliantly to keep going through it.

I know the Daniel Craig comments have passed but I still vividly remember THE best dream I have ever had when pg with dd (three years ago) - I was telling him that Sienna Miller looked rubbish in the Agent Provocateur underwear in Layer Cake because she was too skinny whilst smooching with him on the sofa - I justified it was fine to get saucy with Mr Craig as I was pregnant and therefore it 'didn't mean anything' .....

Right off to make some bolognaise / lasagne / meatballs anything else you can do with mince and roast some veg.

Look forward to hearing more news and birth stories soon

hello - I'm out of the waiting room :), it was a bit of a dramatic labour as the baby managed to get the chord round her neck and her heart rate was dropping but I narrowly avoided a c-section but she's now doing really well and has just slept eight hours straight!

so, here are my details for the list:

13 August (due 5 August) RachelParker 1#, GIRL, Zoe Esme, born at 19.54

Hope all the other new arrivals are doing well and good luck to all in the waiting room.

congratulations rachel :) Glad zoe is ok now - does sound rather dramatic!

poncherello lol at your daniel craig dream, I wouldn't mind one of those!

Sadly I have seen the midwife and don't appear to be about to give birth, sigh. She said she'll do a sweep next week if I want (at 40+5) but I'm not very keen. Get a move on baby! Daddy and i want to meet you!

Congratulations Rachel! Marzipan I reckon they'll offer me a sweep on Thursday (40+4) but I'm going to say no I think, not keen either although I want to meet baby as soon as possible I know he'll come when he's ready :)

Congrats hector!! Amazing.

Another cruel mother here - definitely give the bump a good poke if I haven't felt him move in a while. Not much here either, some wriggles and elbows, but pretty quiet compared to a few weeks ago.

Elusive - heh! Hadn't considered the sustainability of my name before. Crapola. Maybe this is just the encouragement I need to really let myself go?!

Ooh - congrats Rachel as well!

Ha! What did I tell you? I knew that Hector was up to something . Many congratulations on little Alastair - you sound over the moon. Re the labour (obv water under the bridge for you, now), your experience sounds SO similar to my first birth (except I managed to get away with just ventouse but didn't get an epidural ). It's funny, you worry about and anticipate so many different things about labour, but it never occurred to me that my contractions might just be really rubbish and basically pack up once I'd dilated. Just a word of warning to other ladies, really - if it happens to you, it's not that unusual!!

Rachel, huge congrats to you too. Lovely name, and so glad you managed to avoid a section. Eight hours sleep?! That will be your last one of those in a while .

LCR I've had exactly the same experience re movements (I went in for monitoring about 10 days ago). I not only feel far fewer movements now, I would say they're less powerful, if anything (I rarely notice them at all unless I'm very still). But when I went for monitoring the baby was absolutely fine, so as long as I can provoke some sort of response, either just by sitting still or by giving the bump a good poke, then I'm not worrying (or trying not to...). I know exactly how you're feeling, though - you just want the baby in front of you so you know for sure that everything's ok.

Well, I'm all alone at the top of the list, now [harumph emoticon]. Not a big surprise, though, given that DS was 13 days late. Glad I've got the MW appt later today - even if she can't do the sweep, at least I'll feel like something is happening. I've got even more builders in the house today, so it would be an entertaining afternoon to go into labour .

Maybe you could just change your RL name, nat, and then you could be soontobethinlynn .

I will keep you company Elusive This baby is not coming before thursday, it is all arranged now!

Congrats weehector and rachel :) Well done to both of you!

LO is always kicking and shifting around for me. Except when MW or anyone else wants him or her to

Shy? Performance anxiety? Not sure!!

Soontobeskinnyminnie ?

Congrats weehector (it's about time!) and rachel!

Nothing much to report here, though I have also noticed that the LO has slowed down quite a bit, but when she does move it is massive and my whole tummy wriggles.

Off to Rigby and Peller - just realized that I should probably be fitted for a nursing bra before she actually arrives and I need it! Whoops - looks like I should have done this a few weeks ago (currently 39+4)

congrats rachel :)

when's it my turn??!! feeling fed up today!

USMum I haven't got round to getting any nursing bras and won't now until after the baby is here. Pathetic really seeing as I am a trained bra fitter and sell bras for a living... it was the one thing I never got round to and I'm too big and uncomfortable to go round the shops now so it will have to wait!

Congratulations Weehector and RachelParker! Not easy births but so glad Alistair and Zoe sound like they're doing so well. Very happy for you!

LIST
In Sweet Memory Of Belle, Daughter Of CazEM. Our First August Angel Was Born Asleep 21.6.10 at 00:08, 4lbs 5oz

ARRIVED
2 July (due 29 July) CherryPie - #3, BOY, Corey Owen, born 08:11, 8lbs 4oz.
18 July (due 25 July) Emster - #1, BOY, James, born 18:37, 8lbs 13oz
23 July (due 20 July) Aussie - #1, BOY, James (Jamie), born 02:50, 6lb 8oz
23 July (due 22 July) Chulita - #2, BOY, Samson William, born 01:15, 8lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 29 July) BouncingBlueberries - #2, BOY, Glenn, born 02:02, 7lbs 3oz.
25 July (due 4 August) Girlsyearapart - #3, GIRL, Matilda Queenie (Tilly), born 11:05, 8lb 10oz.
28 July (due 4 August) Kcoffin - #3, GIRL, Ruby Mae, born 14:49, 6lb 11oz.
2 August (due 19 August) Bubbabear - #1, BOY, Aiden Owen, born 10:20, 7lb 10oz.
2 August (on duedate) Dibbydab - #1, GIRL, Felicity Violet, born 04:13, weight?
3 August (due 29 August) Starshaker - #2 & 3, BOY & GIRL, Harry & Emilie, born 13:30, weight?
5 August (due 28 July) CazzyBabs - #4, GIRL, Poppy Susannah, born 05:04, 6lbs.
7 August (due 1 August) peanutpie - #2, GIRL, born 08:25, weight?
8 August (due 2 August) summerymummy - #2, BOY, born 08:38, 10lbs 6oz.
8 August (due 13 August) Neenz - #3, BOY, Daniel Jacob, born 02:23, 6lb 10oz.
8 August (due 2 August) CoronaAndLime - #2, GIRL, Amy, time, weight?
11 August (due 17 August) Doodleydoo - #2, BOY, born 04:00, 5lb 11oz.
11 August (due 7 August) NichyNoo - #1, BOY, Samuel James, born 18:08, 8lb 15oz.
11 August (due 4 August) AnnaAndBump - #1, GIRL, born 17:40, 7lb 11oz.
12 August (due 2 August) JamieJay - #1, GIRL, Charlotte Mia, born 06:08, 8lb 15oz.
13 August (due 1 August) Nikalah - #1, GIRL, Amira, born 22:48, weight?
13 August (due 5 August) RachelParker - #1, GIRL, Zoe Esme, born 19:54, weight?
16 August (due 9 August) thecoffeelady - #2, GIRL, Nancy Elizabeth Rose, born 05:34, 8lb 13oz.
16 August (due 5 August) Weehector - #1, BOY, Alistair, born 20:22, 7lb 11oz.

WAITING ROOM
07 Aug - ElusiveMoose #2 Kent, 33, BOY
08 Aug - DriedApricots #2, Surrey, SURPRISE
09 Aug - Alice #2 Suffolk, 25, BOY
11 Aug - CellyD #1, Walthamstow, SURPRISE
12 Aug - tunise, #4, Suffolk, 31, GIRL
14 Aug - LCRLCR #1, Brighton , 34, SURPRISE
14 Aug - babyducky #2, Brighton, 24, SURPRISE
14 Aug - Tah2 #3, South Wales, SURPRISE
15 Aug - LizzieA #1 Wirral, 33, BOY
15 Aug - thedogwalker #1, 37, Germany (originally from Halifax), BOY
16 Aug - parkgirl #1, GIRL
16 Aug - Vix206 #1, Leicester, 32, BOY
16 Aug - cakeywakey, #2, 32, GIRL
17 Aug - Doodleydoo #2 Kent, 34, SURPRISE
18 Aug - Isheisnthe #3 Camberley, FPH, 33, BOY
18 Aug - biddysmama #2, Lancashire, BOY
19 Aug - marzipananimal #1, York, 24 SURPRISE
20 Aug - JessieEssex #1, 33, SURPRISE
20 Aug - USMum27 #1, 26, Wandsworth, GIRL
21 Aug - CrunchieNutterII #2, 34, Devon, SURPRISE
22 Aug - Poncherello #2, North London, SURPRISE
23 Aug - chickieno1 #1, SURPRISE
23 Aug - loobyt #2, 34, Devon, SURPRISE
24 Aug - JaysFourth #4, 38, GIRL
24 Aug - growingbump2, #2, 25, Isle of Man, SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sal321, #1, age 31, Essex SURPRISE
25 Aug - Sam86 #2 Liverpool, GIRL
25 Aug - aendr #2, Huntingdonshire, 33, GIRL
25 Aug - Joey30, #1, Halifax - West Yorkshire, 30, BOY
25 Aug - Soontobefatnat #1 SE London, 30, BOY
26 Aug - pamplem0usse, 26, #1, Herts, SURPRISE
27 Aug - Jamiki #3, SURPRISE
28 Aug - LittleMissSnowShine, #1, 26, Belfast, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Hildainstant #1, Sunderland , 30, SURPRISE
29 Aug - Foxyjbro #3, 30, Shropshire, SURPRISE
29 Aug - LilyPad72 #1, 37, Berkshire , BOY
30 Aug - Sparkle #1, 31, Kent SURPRISE
31 Aug - vitapulchra, #4, Guernsey, 32, BOY
02 Sept - MrsZaC, #1, Glasgow, 26 SURPRISE
08 Sept - ronx, #2, London, 37, SURPRISE

BABY COUNT
Boys - 23
Girls - 20
Surprises - 22

TOTAL - 65

Just checking in to say all is going well with Daniel. The DTs have been really good with him. He just feeds and sleeps. He slept 10.30pm - 3.30am last night then slept till 6.30 . It is a piece of cake so far compared to having the twins!

Wow - things have been hapening in here! Congrats Anna, RachelParker, WeeHector, Nikalah & CoffeeLady.

Smiler - sorry you are having such a tough time. Your DH needs kicking into touch a bit (or just kicking) for how he speaks to you! And your landlord As a landlord myself stories like this make me furious - that's why the rest of us are so bound up in red tape and regulations while people like your landlord who could not give a toss just flout everything!

Chulita/Blueberries - sorry things are still tough. I'm taking preventative measures on the thrush score - you have got me terrified/paranoid. Sorry Sam is hard work Chulita. J is quite wakeful (family keep saying he will learn lots but its no consolation when you're tired and probably not true if baby is overtired) but he does have 3 fairly regular 45 minute minimum naps (morning lunch and tea) where I can get things done and after me deciding to introduce a proper night-time routine (swore I would not do this while he is so young but I succumbed) he does now seem to be down in the evening from 7-11 and I do really feel like DH and I have some life back.

Confession time (whispers): while taking 75% of it with a pinch of salt 25%+ of Gina Ford's book has so far proved quite useful. Am I about to be slung out of mumsnet with pitchforks???? I don't think I could ever go with CIO but who knows and as noted in the book if J is fed and clean and I'm sure he's not in any discomfort it makes little difference if he cries in my arms or cries in his crib for a few minutes while I make a cup of tea and brush my hair!

So excited for more good news soon - Alice your date (ie cs date) seems to have come round so quickly. Glad you are feeling so positive.

Looking forward to your birth story Coffee - you promised drama, I believe .

Right ladies, fresh scones, banana cake and chocolate biscuits with a coffee icing topping on the table for everyone to help themselves to! Yes I've gone on a baking marathon again, if only I could share them all with you! x

Yum vix, I've been baking aswell today so I shall add lemon drizzle cake & choc fudge cake to the table!

Aussieng - i hate gina ford ... but then i am the least organised person ever and am always late!

i am about to bake too ... and i wonder why the baby weight is not falling off????

grghhh dd4 keeps being sick ... i am covered in baby sick and have no clean clothes that fit :( ... hope she's just sicky as opposed to a side effect of my medication

mmm chocolate fudge cake!!

If I'm still pregnant on Thursday I am going to make millionaires shortbread.

Aussie, sounds like it's going great. I am a bit of a Gina Ford fan too altho I think her routines for babies as young as ours are a bit . They're fine if your baby falls into that routine naturally but I don;t think you can make a newborn 'feed for 25mins' nor 'stay awake for 1.5hrs' . Daniel still sleeps all day and night except when he is feeding. You're right that it doesn't matter if you leave your LO crying for 10mins while you shower/dress if necessary. It's not what you want ideally but you need to be able to get on with stuff. When the DTs were ltitle we'd do their bedtime routine, put them in bed just as our tea was ready and they would scream their heads off for 10min while we ate . It was not great but we decided we needed that 10mins just to ourselves. If he is restless have you tried using a sling? The Ergo is supposed to be excellent.

I forgot to say before congrats to all the new mums! Weehector, well done!

Aussie, sounds like it's going great. I am a bit of a Gina Ford fan too altho I think her routines for babies as young as ours are a bit . They're fine if your baby falls into that routine naturally but I don;t think you can make a newborn 'feed for 25mins' nor 'stay awake for 1.5hrs' . Daniel still sleeps all day and night except when he is feeding. You're right that it doesn't matter if you leave your LO crying for 10mins while you shower/dress if necessary. It's not what you want ideally but you need to be able to get on with stuff. When the DTs were ltitle we'd do their bedtime routine, put them in bed just as our tea was ready and they would scream their heads off for 10min while we ate . It was not great but we decided we needed that 10mins just to ourselves. If he is restless have you tried using a sling? The Ergo is supposed to be excellent.

I forgot to say before congrats to all the new mums! Weehector, well done!

Congrats ladies , am really pleased to hear all the other safe arrivals.

Feel a bit funny today, somehow accidentally we have thrown away (probably in a nappy mine sweep!) the two hospital bracelets our lo had put on. For some reason this has made me feel really really down. I am a sentimental idiot at the best of times but really feel like I have let him down somehow. As a boy he probably won't care as much as a girl but I keep thinking maybe he will think I didn't care as much as I did for dd.

Think its a combo of baby blues and the fact it is my due date today, which I find oddly strange that he is here already and can't remember what it was like to not have him .