Sept 2010 - Another 6 months past, it's going too fast!

[comixminx]

Our lovely new thread for the September 2010 babies. Dive in folks!

Congratulations comix all sounds lovely...... I bet he is adorable xx

All this talk of babies and birthdays and due dates......... Woke up to my period today so sad as anything. You're all making me feel EVEN more broody. Think the funny testing stick things may need to be purchased.

Lumps huge happy birthday to your amazing little man Toby! Jack sends a cuddle xxx

Happy birthday to Toby! Feel free to share his birth story i love hearing them!

Happy birthday to Toby as well

Oh go on then! I woke up at 6.30am with a bad period pain. Went to the toilet & lost some of my plug. Dh went to work with strict instructions to stay by his phone. I had a bath, then lost more plug. Rang my mum cos she was going to be there then just pottered. I tried timing the pains but they were really random so gave up. Nothing much was happening so we went for a walk at 12, passed Dh on his way home from work and told him he could go to his suit fitting for being best man a week later.
On the way home the pains got a lot worse. By the time I got home I could hardly walk through them. Told Dh he wouldn't be at the fitting and headed off to hospital. Got there at 1pm, it was 1.45 by the time they examined me & I was 5cm. 5 mins later I was 10 cm and pushing.
Not sure why but I was put on the monitor and his heart rate kept dropping so they attached the thing to his head. Next thing the room was full & they were ripping open blue packs. I was away with the fairys on gas and air but I remember my mum reaching behind my head to squeeze Dhs arm. Apparently it was a bit scary. Anyway, local anaesthetic, episiotomy, Ventous and 2 pushes later my little bundle was out!

I had the injection to deliver the placenta but it didn't work. When I was in labour with olly I found out that it was because the Dr was so rough that he pulled the cord off so I had to have an epidural and have it removed in theatre!

He was 6lb 7oz and had a cone head! Exactly a week later we were at the wedding, Dh was best man, I sat for over an hour on a church pew (ouch) and Toby spent his 1st night in a hotel. I've no idea how the hell I managed that!!

We've had a fab day, swimming, MacDonalds, and surprises from family and friends. I'm knackered and he's on a sugar high!

Hiya all! A short birth story now, not for Aphra but for Bruno's birth.

Woke up Wed am at 2:35 with contractions, timed them for an hour or so and they were maybe every ten minutes: I'd been having lots of BHs previously that went away when lying down, so the fact that these continued while I was in bed was a pretty good sign. By 6 am they had sped up a bit and generally were stronger and more frequent when I got up (went for a bounce on the birth ball downstairs). I texted the doula and by about 7:30 I also called the MW.

Doula Jane arrived not long after 7:30 am, shortly followed by the MW Amanda. First exam showed that I was at around the 3-4 cm mark which was a relief after having been stuck at the 1-2 cm mark for hours and hours with Aphra! The exam got things moving quicker too. DP was doing sterling work on lower back pressure but it was all strong enough that I got a bath run and had some G&A in the bath too. Once the water cooled Jane suggested I might like to move around a bit more and things progressed rapidly from there: I ended up pushing in the bedroom rather than back down in the sitting room where I'd been for the first part. That's where Bruno was born, at 12:15 pm.

Moment of drama: once Bruno was out and being passed to me through my legs, the cord snapped! Seems it was very short and it just went ping. Luckily, Jane grabbed the cord quick as winking and Amanda got it clamped, so blood loss was minimal and Bruno pinked up without problems, but apparently when Jane and Amanda went downstairs and left us upstairs with Bruno, they were both shaking and in some shock, cos of course if not caught in time it could have been jolly dangerous...

I had a couple of stitches but all fine otherwise and recovery is progressing quickly. Managed to avoid a catheter this time, too! All in all, very happy with everything incl Bruno himself of course.

In the meantime my friend Ruth who was staying was looking after Aphra and us: she took A to nursery, came back with ingredients and a soup recipe, made lunch for us, put sheets in the machine, hung them out again, picked up A from nursery at the end of the day, helped wrangle her then too, all sorts! Awesome work there from my lovely oldest friend (we were at school together).

Photo to follow in next post.

Photo of Bruno here. Various other photos of Aphra also on the Flickr stream, and more of Bruno to come of course.

Only downside so far is the feeding: I'd hoped it would all be so much easier second time round, what with still feeding A and all. Well, yeah, but a newborn's mouth is so much smaller it is still difficult to get a good gape and latch. Don't want to be struggling for weeks like last time! Think it is on balance better this time round but let's see what the day 5 weigh-in brings. The tandem feeding turns out to be a blessing tho: Aphra has helped reduce the engorgement this morning!

comix I'm glad things went pretty smoothly. What can happen if the cord isn't clamped straight away? Sorry, I have no idea about so man things still! And that's great your friend was there to help.

It's not so much what can happen if the cord isn't clamped straight away generally, as what could have happened in this sort of case if it wasn't spotted. If it had kept bleeding them that would have been blood coming out of the baby's body, and obviously there's only so much blood in a wee newborn... DP read on the Internet about a case where this happened in a water birth, and because there is blood on the water in any case it meant it wasn't spotted quickly and the baby lost a lot of blood.

Sounds like a good labour comixminx, glad you were at home and that Aphra was well cared for. Glad you had someone who spotted the cord break quickly and that they didn't let you worry about it :). I didn't have weight problems with either of mine ds1 gained 4oz at 5 days and Luke lost 0.5oz. I found that I did have sore nipples with Luke but only for 2 weeks and nowhere near what as bad as with ds1. Although you are right newborns do have tiny mouths I was much more aware of a good and bad latch and after the trouble I had with ds1 I was very strict with taking Luke off if the latch was wrong so I didn't get any actual cracks.

He's GORGEOUS comix
So good to read a happy story..... And a home birth too.... All good stuff.

oh comix he is a stunning boy! well done you. x

Morning Ladies. It seems a rather silly time for me to join a post-Natal club, as DD is almost 2, but never mind.

DD3 (the G thang) is two on 13th September. She is precocious as all hell and a born entertainer - I see a Robbie Williams/Russel Brand type monster in my future. The Peppa Pig gene has recently kicked in.

What a lovely boy Comix and a great birth story as well.

Comix he's gorgeous & what a lovely birth story. Hope you're doing ok.

Bit quiet on here! Where's everone gone?? It was the boys party yesterday. Toby loved every second of it, Olly hated it! He cried and clung for the first 45mins then went to sleep for 30mins then cried and clung for the last 45mins! Check out my cakes cakes The party bag hand prints went down well too handprints Much cheaper than filling them with toys etc!

I then went to see Alfie Boe with my mum! Wow, he was amazing, a fantastic singer and entertainer!

Hi DancesWithWoolsEnPointe, my ds2 is Luke and was also born on 13th September! He's lots of trouble but also wonderful!

Loved your cake and party pics diddlybop, well done!!! We've done hand prints on canvas at a toddler group we go to, had quite a few crying tots though :(. Sorry to hear Olly didn't enjoy his party!

Hope everything is better with feeding and Aphra is loving her baby brother comixminx!

I'm off work this week and next, not done a lot so far, off to the in laws Thursday and then our Hols on Saturday :). So looking forward to a week away and of course peppa pig world then it will be back to school :( and planning for Luke's birthday :)

Hi all. Think we're all busy with party organising. Grace's is all sorted now. Dp has booked us a holiday for october. We can't go to my brothers wedding in cyprus cause its too expensive so dp has booked for us to go to wales for 4 days around the same time :)

Something most of you won't have to worry about for a few years but today is GCSE day. DD1 did us proud with 6 A's 10 B's and 6 C's.

It does sound like loads but she did 2 btec so 4 of the A's were for the Chinese btec and 4 B's for her art work. Still we are really, really proud of her and looking forward to her going to 6th form college and getting A level results in 2 years

Aww well done to your dd debs! Thats amazing! X

That's great Debs75, you must be so proud!! Dss is going to secondary school in September and that seems far too grown up to me!

After all this good news I'm going to come along with a moan!

How do all of you find your oh's with discipline? My dh is doing my head in at the moment with his inconsistency! The boys never behave for him and I have to step in and sort it every time. He looks at me like these terrible children are not doig what I want. Yes they have their bad days with me but they know if I say something I mean it and always follow through. He seems to have a real downer on ds1 all the time at the moment, he is very different to dh and I think he finds many of his personality traits frustrating plus he doesn't think he has to do what daddy says as it always ends up with me sorting him out if he's misbehaving and I get the look from dh and him going back into the distance. Plus at meal times he spends the whole time telling ds1 to shut his mouth while eating and take his elbows off the table. I find these things hard to back up as he's only 5 and has an appointment with ent to possibly remove his tonsils and adenoids and his speech therapist said he's not breathing through his nose at all.

Evening all, we're away in not so sunny Scarborough at the minute. Having a lovely time but so far have had to pay 2 trips to the walk in centre. Olly has a chest infection and dh has really bad abdominal pain! It's rained everyday and all we seem to have done is watch Tele. Having said that, its been nice to be away and just have time together. I can't believe Toby starts school next week and olly is 2 on Friday!

Debs, congratulations to your dd on her results. I can't imagine how it feels to know that your children are clever. I know we all hope but the results prove it.
Hope all the new babies and are doing well.

Cinnamon what happens if you don't step in? Dh and me are pretty together on discipline but I sometimes feel that he can be too hard. Hes very keen on the naughty step and sometimes over uses it but if he starts the telling off I let him see it through especially if I don't particularly agree. I do sometimes tell him to leave it to me if I can see he's loosing his patience or going to be too harsh.

Sorry this is in 2 posts, I'm on my phone and it wouldn't let me carry on!

I'm getting a bit impatient with dh right now. I know his stomach hurts but he's huffing and puffing, laid on the sofa and leaving everything to me. I've had a lot of problems lately with shoulder pain and neuralgia but have just got on with things and not moaned. Well, not much! Argh!

Hello, sorry to butt in but I'd love to join this thread, can't believe it's taken me so long to get round to finding it!
My dd1 is Elodie, born 29th Sep 2010 by rotational forceps after an induction and a very long labour. She is a massive Peppa and Alphablocks fan and is absolutely crazy and I'm a SAHM these days.
Nice to meet you all

Hello all, some catching up for me to do, I see!

chocolateporridge, welcome! A local mum friend of mine has a DD called Elodie, lovely name! How are you finding the SAHMing?

Welcome also to DanceswithWools - good name!

diddly, glad the party went well even if Olly wasn't keen! Aphra's is this coming Sunday, and we've also gone to the party for a toddle in the same NCT group, so the birthdays have definitely started already. The party we went to (last Friday) was very convenient for us and worked well; it was in the nearest wee play area and the rain held off, so the kids could all run around without the adults worrying and we were lucky with the weather too. For Aphra we're just having a family get together though. Once baby Bruno is a bit bigger I'll have a proper NCT get together at home with more kids but for now it's a bit too much faff.

Debs, very well done to your DD with her results! I take it she didn't fall foul of the dreaded English GCSE scandal then?

More catchup to follow but before I hit post a little moan / worry of my own; feeding Bruno is going well in itself I'd thought, with much less in the way of sore nipples than with Aphra, and I do feel much more confident about checking the latch, adjusting for it, etc. BUT yesterday we took him to get weighed and he'd only put on ten grams since the previous weighing, five days earlier. Aphra took quite a while to get back to her birthweight so maybe it's just a family trait, but once I got better at feeding her the weight gain was respectable each time. We've been giving him a ff top up at about 10 pm so that he sleeps for about 3 hours and gives me a chance to catch up on some sleep then, and then I feed him during the night and get a more or less fractured night myself. Well last night he wouldn't stop feeding, and wouldn't settle to sleep; I ended up giving him two ff top ups at different points during the night and he glugged the lot! eventually at 5ish he went to sleep properly and is still snoozing now.

now of course I feel like I've been starving him, and like this is going to risk my milk supply generally / endanger bfing if I give him more ff top ups. How funny (not) would it be if I end up still bfing Aphra but ffing Bruno... everything else seems fine re bfing, generally my nipples aren't very sore, my breasts clearly are making a good amount of milk, Aphra is having a reasonable amount but not, I think, robbing her brother of any of it; Bruno does come off the nipple satisfied and sleepy, it's just that last night he didn't actually go to sleep afterwards, and he still wanted more! Is this just cluster feeding or the sign of actual bfing problems?!

cinnamon, could you sit and discuss ground rules for discipline with your DH separately, maybe? If DS1 doesn't seem to think that he has to do what daddy says then that sounds to me like something to be nipped in the bud sooner rather than later. Maybe you could even come up with some signals so that you can silently "tell" DH what to do / say at some points, if he seems at a loss?

diddly, it's rather like manflu by the sounds of it! perhaps you ought to try lying on the sofa complaining a bit more too, to make sure you don't get done out of your fair share?!