December 2008 Once you pop you can't stop

[Veggiemummy]

surely most of us will go on this one

reban, when did you have your others?

My midwives have been real PITAs over sweeps and are now saying they dont like to do them till 41 weeks thats legally what they are advised

Just a quick question about alcohol and breastfeeding. Would I be ok to have 1 glass of Babycham or should I stay booze free until I decide to stop BF?

Kayz crack it open.

trace that's weird - i was getting the exact same feeling a week or so ago - lack of appetite and dread. must be a hormonal thing?

gordon ramsay. yes!
terry wogan???!!!

kayz i had my first alcohol since march tonight - a small glass of mulled wine post-singing. was delish! enjoy the babycham!!

Katz as many of my brothers and sisters from the motherland would say 'get it in ya guts'. If you want the scientific stuff, alcohol enters and leaves the milk similar to your blood. Once it enters it takes a little over an hour to leave. 'Experts' recommend waiting about 1.5hrs after your last drink to feed, but that would be more like if you were having a few glasses 1 glass is fine. I've been breastfeeding whilst slugging sipping a glass of Champs.

cat isnt a white bumpy rash normal - milk rash or milia or something??

Trace go with your instinct give out of hours people a call if you are worried. Speaking of out of hours people why don't NHS direct have breastfeeding counsellor? It seems there is def a need for a 24 hour service for breastfeeding advisors but as most use volunteers or as charities it is diff for them to provide but NHS direct could train some of their people surely.

Did you enjoy your evening Verso?

Was lovely - just an hour and a half of singing - at some sheltered housing then the local hotel bar. V festive! I feel almost Christmassy now!

Trace you poor thing with the Apis mel, your sorted if you've got any insect stings or cystitis. They probably had the it in the Arnica section or something. How is your undercarriage.

Thats good then. We'll probably open it on Xmas Eve.

DS2 is being weighed again tomorrow so hopefully he will have put on more weight and I'll be able to drop the formula top ups.

Verso Glad you had a good time.

Love Actually is on so sitting through it to hear Alans lovely voice, oh and looking at Colin Firth and imagining him coming out of that Dam with his shirt all wet.

Verso, you needed a break

Reban - I dimly remember saying this several months ago but I'd forgotten you were a Villa fan - Up the Villa! Hooray!

Katie - I so know what you mean about George Michael. I have NO gaydar. I still find his gayness hard to take on board now. Mind you, I have no wigdar either, I absolutely CANNOT suss a toupee, which brings me on to Trace: Wogan? Shaky??? I can't compete, girl, you win! Oh, and Veggie and Turnip are the ones who seem to have the gen on homeopathy. I've got some spare arnica if you want it, I can pop it in the post (and WG, I HAVEN'T forgotten your parcel )

Dis - is it your first? I can't remember. If it is, I'd ditch the 23rd. If it isn't, I'd go with it as the subsequent ones seem to come out quicker

Cat - Hugh Lawrie is not a weird crush, he's clearly lovely. I'd run off with him like a shot. But I don't want to live in LA....

Kayz, if you don't open that Babycham I will flaming well bring you a glass of something myself.

Arti, when they are new I think they are only supposed to be awake about four hours but yours is super super new. Anyway - how can one size fit all? If she seems otherwise healthy I definitely wouldn't worry. That's my motto. Ask me if it panned out in about 16 years time....

Night night all.

Ooooh, Colin Firth! Now you're talking. DP thinks he is Colin Firth - buttoned up, deeply English barrister a la Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones

Slight surfeit of grins on recent posts. But I like them so much......................... Right, am really going now.

Oh dear. having a bit of a mare tonight - dd has been cluster feeding since 5, keeps falling asleep and falling off the boob then waking up 10 minutes later yelling.

took one slightly longer pause as an opportunity to bath her - I got in the bath (first one since she arrived), added some of the lovely mum and baby bath soak from my secret stork, and dh passed her to me. was sat up with my knees up and she was resting on my thighs - all very well until (you can tell what's coming next) she produced a nice explosive crap against me. This has to be the least dignified moment of motherhood so far - picking the milky curds of my beloved daughter's poo from my pubes. quite spoiled the nice relaxed bath i'd been hoping for...

verso carol singing sounds lovely

crushes on odd people - you lot are mad! Thought I quite fancy Stephen Fry even though it's clearly a pointless waste of time. I'd love to have him talk naughty but ridiculously intelligent stuff to me...

Oh my! So many babies since I last had a chance to post! Huge enormous congratulations to GettingBiggerBird (what amazing sizes!!!), Jollybear, hotmama, PinguRocks, OrangeCrush, abbeymeg, Jam, Cat, arti, majormoo and invisible!

Am trying not to think about cluster feeding, broken nights and the like before the event so am reading lots of posts with one eye shut!

Am I the only one left waiting?!

High stress in the hatty household, I have flu and DD's have chosen this week to develop chicken pox! Why oh why after three and a half years of almost monthly exposure to other kids having the pox does it have to happen when I'm 40 weeks pregnant! . Hoping I've finally turned the corner with the flu after spending the last couple of days in bed praying that I don't go into labour.

Disenchanted I also have m/w appt tomorrow and have been offered sweep to get things started. I think I'm going to wait until next week...did you make up your mind?

can't sleep so have come downstairs, put the telly on, got the internet up and running and have slathered 2 pieces of white bread in more nutella than is decent. yum.

ladyt - i'm definitely in the colin firth camp - seeing him in the bridget jones films did actually make my heart flutter. it sent me back to being a teenager and watching Another Country... hmmm... delicious! actually i have a friend whose dh is a younger, but balder version of colin and is also a barrister - spooky! (don't worry about the package - whenever, as yet no need for it)

jumpjockey - i caught a bit of tom brown's school days the other day and saw stephen fry cuddling up to jemma redgrave in bed as a happily married couple - i nearly spat my tea out in shock - it just isn't what you expect from him!

i suppose one of the advantages of going overdue is that your impatience begins to outweigh the fear (although i know i'm not exactly massively overdue - 2 days). really hoping this one pops out while it is still december - don't know why, but i was born in dec, mum was, lots of my cousins and godmother - it seems like a good month, and i just can't imagine this going on until we get to january.

what do i do now? try to go back to sleep? wash the kitchen floor? the options are endless...

waiting i want a december baby too! It's the thought of feeling like it's not just another month to wait but another calendar year to go into otherwise..jan 09 feels like decades away!

Don't you dare wash the kitchen floor! Is there anything good on tv at this time of the morning? I generally only ever watch ceebeebies with restless toddlers at 6am!

hi there hatty - thanks for the vetoing of washing the kitchen floor. all guilt now allayed. nope, nothing on telly - watching boring bbc news. might grab a book, go back up to bed and turn the radio on v quiet - just enough to hear radio 4, but not enough to really listen to it - find that works.

i have no experience (yet) of restless toddlers. hope you get some rest, too.

when are you due? can't find the list

Was due yesterday, but so relieved nothing happened due to flu and chicken pox sweeping our household!

When are you due?

here ya go girls:

December 08 Due List

Natalie537 due 09/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
hennaly due 09/12 DC#7
Webbi due 11/12 DC#1
IceCube due 11/12 DC#1 - Homebirth, Cheshire
Bisou due 12/12 DC#1, Australia, (BOY!)
fishnchips due 12/12 DC#3
Jackstini due 12/12 DC#2
KutilPutil due 13/12 DC#2
cococat due 14/12 DC#1
pootleflump due 14/12 DC#2
monkeydops due 15/12 DC#2
chinchi due 17/12 DC#2 - Calderdale Royal, Halifax
Purple79 due 17/12 DC#1 - St Thomas', London, (GIRL!)
SummerLightning due 18/12 DC#1 - Addenbrookes, Cambridge, (BOY!)
Twiga/okaythen scheduled c/s 18/12 (due 26/12) DC#3
moaningminnie2020 due 20/12 DC#2
reban due 20/12 DC#4
Ninii due 20/12 DC#2
Indith due 20/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Durham
RhinestoneCowgirl/MaeWest due 21/12 DC#2 - Homebirth, Bristol
waitinggirl due 21/12 DC#1 - Whittington, London
preggiejane due 21/12 DC#1
georgiepig due 22/12 DC#2
NineUnlikelyTales due 22/12 DC#2
hattyyellow due 22/12 DC#3
missmama due 23/12 DC#3 - Birmingham Heartlands
Turniphead1 due 24/12 DC#3 - St John & Elizabeth's, N London
zoejeanne due 24/12 DC#1 - Scarborough
HollyMiranda due 24/12 DC#1 - Chelsea & Westminster
anjlix due 24/12 DC's#1&2 - St Thomas', London (TWIN GIRLS!)
EnchantedWithEdwardCullen/DisenchantedPlusBump due 25/12 DC#3
kitkat9 due 25/12 DC#3
Annagt due 25/12 DC#1
strikey due 25/12 DC#2
purplepansy due 25/12 DC#3
Lowrib due 25/12 DC#1 - Homerton, London
mybumpsaboy due 25/12 DC#1, (BOY!)
tm2 due 26/12 DC#1
GordontheGopher due 26/12 DC#2
LitterBug due 26/12 DC#3
Crazycatlady due 26/12 DC#1 - Homebirth/St Thomas', London
BoyMeetsWorld due 26/12 DC#?
Olipop due 27/12 DC#2 - West Middlesex, London
simmo14 due 27/12 DC#2, (GIRL!)
rowergirl due 27/12 DC#2
emmanbump due 29/12 DC#1
Kimberly1979 due 29/12 - St. John's and Lizzies (BOY!)
EffiePerine due 30/12 DC#2 - Homerton, London (BOY!)
march29 due 31/12 DC#2

Morning! Just been catching up.
Arti/Orange/Catdean - Thank you for your lovely birth stories!!
Major - Congrats on birth of Jesse!
Rosmerta - Hey...Sean is lovely! He is a daddy double for sure!!!!!!! Hope the hearing thing isn't worrying you too much.
Disenchanted - I'm with you on the 'do I want it in or out' conundrum. I'm due next Monday (29th) and DH and I were umming and ahhing about whether we want it early (like we have much choice in it!). We decided on Saturday night whilst lying in bed that actually the due date would be perfect...I then pointed out (TMI alert....) that as we'd just eaten a curry and managed to have sex that maybe we shouldn't be so picky about wanting it to stay in!!!!!!
Waitinggirl - could be a strange RL coincidence here ...my PIL are off to a wedding in wales on the 27th Dec....I think that the initial of the bride is M. That would be odd wouldn't it!

DS is feeling much better although not eating very much..even refusing biscuits and icecream?!?!??!???! WTF???? Consequently he is a bit squitty which really upsets him. He is also pretty damn stroppy so that is loads of fun!!!

On crushes...mine are totally mainstream but pregnancy hormones have got be all teenage..I've got a bizarre Russel Brand lusting and a not so bizarre Jonathon Rhys-Meyers one too. That Hugo advert sends me all silly!

Right ..DS has had about 17 Peppa Pigs so I suppose I should go and play something constructive with him!
x

Morning.

I actually think I will kill DH. He wants us to FF Dylan. He says I am tired(well duh!), depressed(I don't feel depressed) and grumpy. I feel like I have spent the last 11 days struggling to BF and arguing with MWs for no reason.
I do sometimes think he might be right, when its 4 in the morning and I've been feeding DS2 for 2 hours. Last night he wouldn't settle so DH gave him some formula at 1 and he slept until 7 this morning. DH was in a 'I told you so' mood this morning. But we all know that might not happen tonight.

So feeling really pants here.

Hope everyone else is better.

Am lol at the crushes. Don't think I've got any wierd ones though I did have a couple of naughty dreams about Peter Jones when I was pg!

Oli, sounds like ds has what ds1 had a couple of weeks ago. He refused ice cream as well

trace if you're at all worried call the mws, its what they're there for!

We had our first good night last night! Ds2 slept in his moses basket, only woke for his feeds & went back to sleep afterwards! It does seem to have left him wanting loads of cuddles today though!

Hope everyone else is ok