The brookers post graduate thread

[hawthers]

We've got so good at brooking no argument for no pregnancy complications and sneeze births, we're going for our Phds in big fat babies

at Hawthers. I believe you now, it sounds so delightful!

Well, Hawthers I'd expect nothing less. I can't tell you the number of times I've been stopped while out with the pram and people saying 'Kelly Brook!! I never even knew you were pregnant!' It's such a drag.......

Well, I am always showered, dressed and skipping round full of beans. In fact, people say they could never tell I'd just had two babies...

too of course its the temperature change, you will be as fit as pre-pg, both of them, within a week, I can tell

biscuits, if i had room.for an au pair it'd be great. Our 'fourth' bedroom doesn't even fit a full size single bed and bedside table in, let alone a wardrobe so i don't think we have room. Plus, the nanny lady, while I couldn't manage without her without bedlam and more screaming, drives me mad just being there and not doing things exactly how i would, not knowing when I want to sit in silence feeding and doing nothing when DD napping etc etc. I much prefer my parents helping. So I predict an au pair would be worse & witness my evening meltdowns !!
Very impressed at the catching sick in hands. Nicely done Mrbiscuits :-) DT1 did a projectile vomit which travelled about 3/4 metre and hit the kitchen wall today. Oh joy. I am trying to have a nap but can hear him screaming downstairs. Best go and collect.

hawthers my sympathies on the sleep. Mine slept 2am-4am and 5:30-6:50. Insufficient to say the least. Maybe we should try drugging them??? Fenegan...

Have spent most if today trapped under a sleeping baby. Every time he has woken up he has shouted the house down so I daren't move him but now I'm rather hungry and need a wee

I thought you were having the day in bed Hawthers? Are you at least sleeping under him? I'm trying to think of the quickest thing to make if you have to leave him to make a mercy dash for food and a wee.

Sodding washing machine has stopped mid-cycle and wants me to 'check pump'. I have finally found the instructions and it looks complicated and not something that can be solved one-handed while holding a baby. I need to wash babygros before we go away this weekend!

Have come up with new thing to worry about. I got the tape measure out and as far as I can tell, M is 48cm long. That means she's fallen off the bottom of the growth chart in my red book... She's 8 weeks this Fri but her 8 week check isn't until 25 May. Maybe I'm measuring wrong, but how many ways are there to measure a baby's length?

Too - grrrr for the washing machine . Hope it can get fixed - I'd be completely flummoxed by any pump checking .

Measuring Maia would be really difficult I think on your own. They did DS2 at his 6 week check last week and they have this big measure thing that they lie them on with a bit that sticks up to put their head against. Then I had to hold his head steady against the top while the HV pulled his legs straight to get the measurement. I think it would be nigh on impossible to do it with any kind of accuracy on your own, so I really wouldn't panic. What size clothes is she in? I would say if she's doing a half decent job of filling newborn or in 0-3 she can't be too far off average at 8 weeks?

[[http://www.google.co.uk/search?tbm=isch&source=mog&hl=en&gl=uk&client=safari&tab=wi&q=what%20do%20they%20use%20to%20measure%20the%20length%20of%20a%20baby&sa=N&biw=320&bih=356&sei=LUehT8yeIc6bOsLTuF4%23i=2 This] is the sort of contraption the HV used.

And this website suggests you could do it with their head against a wall and then you straighten their legs, but I guess you'd need the tap measure already laid out or something to get in place to mark where her feet had come to.

Sorry if that's what you already did

Link fail

I meant this

Or even this

She's in Newborn but her feet are right at the bottom of them... DH says I'm being ridiculous.

She's probably not that teeny tiny then if she's filling up newborn clothes lengthwise :)

I'm sure she'll be fine. She's a decent weight now isn't she? So if she looks in proportion (ie not dead long and skinny or über chubby (I know all babies are chubby)) and her weight is in the normal centile ranges then you'd expect her length to be too iyswim?

As in ds1 was always big on the weight charts but his length was on a similar centile and he looked in proportion so I was never worried.

Oooh, thank you! I shall get DH to help me when he gets home if he will cooperate

Am watching Glee - Finn and Quinn just got told the sex of their baby at a 10 week scan . Is this at all possible, even in America?

Measuring length is very variable. Think f managed to lose a couple of cms at one point. As biscuits says check how m fits into clothes.

Not managed to make it into bed as f keeps shouting the house down so I'm stuck on the sofa as I daren't move him when he is settled

America does have an obesity problem - maybe this makes for bigger 10 week babies?

I would think surely not at all possible? Don't they look like prawns? 'it's a boy / girl prawn'.....

We can't do it here even at 12 weeks can we. Mind you, America could put a man on the moon.....

Well, at my 8+5 week scan, as I recall, they could just about see a heartbeat in the middle of a little blob. at putting a man on the moon!

Poor Hawthers. I am also sitting under a sleeping baby, but this may be connected to the fact that the kitchen looks like a bomb hit it and if M was to go down properly I would have no excuse not to tidy it. Besides, she looks so cute!

She looks normal to me - not specially skinny or chubby, just normally proportioned, and she's definitely grown. Her head is closer to the size of my giganto-nork than it was. My boob is still bigger than her head, but it's catching up.

Have finally caught up with the thread, but I'm on my phone and can't remember which points I wanted to respond to! Apologies, please blame the sleep deprivation.

Loving how rosy the future is at 18 weeks though! My garden could do with some serious hedge trimming, think Autumn will be up for it or is it more of a male job?

Can anyone tell me when the leaky boobs will finally go away?!?! My milk started to come in on Fri/Sat, the crazy hot pain peaked on Sun, and since then they've been just as massive but fortunately less painful. I think the volume of milk is unchanged but my skin is gradually catching up. The amount of leakage has been insane from the start though. I soak through a folded up full length towel and into the mattress every night. Every time I stand up my milk just pours, not "leaks", onto the floor. When I bring DD to the boob I always soak through her sleepsuit before I manage to get her latched on Today was a new low though, as I unhooked my bra my milk actually shot out in a horizontal stream! It's just crazy, I mean it's Day 8!!! When does all this stop?

Eeeeeee, one of my best friends is pregnant! I am so excited I don't know what to do with myself! I can't call anyone else to discuss it and jump up and down because she called me first and is heading off to call the others now. I will have to possess my soul in patience until she's done that. DH is playing 5 a side so I can't call him just so I can tell someone! She's due 1 Nov, so is 13+6 and had her scan today. Yay, now I will not be the only one to have a baby amongst our group. I have already directed her to MN.

Yay for your friend Too - how exciting!!!

I shod think hedge trimming would be fine Scream. Although as a safety precaution I would suggest you don't give her electric trimmers (at least the first few times). A nice pair of Secateurs should be good for her little hands.

I'm hoping DS2 will decorate the bathroom for me. And re-roof the shed and summer house. And re-lay the patio......

Shod? Spot the one-handed-jiggling-a-baby typing

Oh and no ideas on the leaky boobs I'm afraid Scream - I haven't ever had really leaky boobs this time or last. Even when my milk came in I didn't really get engorged as such, they just felt a bit full. I've only had them leak if DS suddenly goes a long time without eating but it would just be a wet patch on my pj top. If he comes off just after let down though there is a jet of milk that goes all over him

One of my NCT friends from ds1 though had real leaking probs so I think it just varies from person to person. I guess hers must have settled down after a few weeks though because I can't remember her mentioning it later on? I'm assuming a breast pad just doesn't do the job

Ha! On the boob topic I've just been reading a topic about constant blocked ducts (well I don't get them constantly but I get them often) and one theory put forward is that people who done leak are more prone to blockages (maybe because anything left after feeding doesn't leak out, it gets stuck?)

So there's one possible plus point for you - maybe no blocked ducts?

too - I'm going to be honest - I think you measured wrong! I've been meaning to ask, and you may have said already, but did you ring the consultant about m's app? Oh, and my friend got told she was having a boy at a ten week scan at a private scan place.

scream - I've had engorgement and issues with heavy leakage from the not bring used boob during a feed in the early days both times. I think it got much better post the 3 week growth spurt.

Hope you did get some sleep in the end hawthers!

Too did you get DH to help you remeasure? What was the outcome?

Oh and yes - good point Pomme - did you get on to the consultant about the other extra scan thing for M?

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