Feb 06 - Dewmeadow's expecting another sucky cow!!!!!!

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Ok, so managed to combine our 2 thread title themes. Sure it will make sense to no-one but us!

CAMERON, Birthdate 6th Jan, Due 28th Jan, Weight 5lbs 13oz, Born to Teuch, Baby no 1, Lives Inner Hebridean Island, Gas & air and morphine
PEYIA, Birthdate 23rd Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight 6lbs 12.5oz, Born to TicTac, Baby no 1, Lives Horwich, Lancs, Gas & air only
ALEXANDER, Birthdate 24th Jan, Due 4th Feb, Weight ??, Born to Yeahbut, Baby no 3, Lives Holland, Elective c-section
CAITLIN ERIN MONICA, Birthdate 25th Jan, Due 10th Feb, Weight 8lbs 10.5oz, Born to Womba1, Baby no 3 (1 stillborn), Lives Eastbourne, Elective c-section
MAISIE, Birthdate 26th Jan, Due 7th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5.5oz, Born to ellenrose, Baby no 3, Lives Bristol, Induction due to SPD
JESSICA HELEN, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 5lbs 11oz, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 1.
EMILY ROSE, Birthdate 30th Jan, Due 9th Feb, Weight 6lbs, Born to JuA, Baby no 2, Lives Chorley, Lancs, Elective c-section. Twin 2.
ELIZABETH GRACE, Birthdate 3rd Feb, Due 3rd Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Kando, Baby no 3, Lives Holland,
PETER, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 12th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to popmum, Baby no 2, Lives Herts,
LAUREN EMMA, Birthdate 6th Feb, Due 22nd Feb, Weight 6lbs 14oz, Born to Morgan, Baby no 2, Lives Dubai,
PHILIPPA ROSE, Birthdate 8th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 9lbs, Born to CantSleepWontSleep (Tabs), Baby no 1, Lives North Herts, TENS and gas & air
LEWIS JAMES, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 31st Jan, Weight 9lbs 2oz, Born to PhoenixGirl (Cuffyj1/lewsmummy), Baby no 1, Lives Barnsley, emerg c-section
SETH PETER, Birthdate 9th Feb, Due 1st March, Weight 7lbs, Born to angedemarche (Jangus), Baby no 2, Lives NI, Elective c-secion
EVIE HARRIET, Birthdate 10th Feb, Due 29th Jan, Weight 9lbs, Born to Hotmama, Baby no 2, Lives Nottingham, emerg c-section
RHUARIDH GEORGE, Birthdate 11th Feb, Due 20th Feb, Weight ??, Born to MrsDoolittle, Baby no 2, Lives Newbury, Water birth
BEN, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 2nd Feb, Weight 8lbs 4oz, Born to 3K, Baby no 1, Lives Gravesend, Kent, c-sec after failure to dilate sufficiently
OSCAR, Birthdate 12th Feb, Due 13th Feb, Weight 9lbs 10oz, Born to Chloe55, Baby no 1, Lives West Yorkshire, Pethidine, epi & lots of stitches!
LUTHER, Birthdate 14th Feb, Due 6th Feb, Weight 8lbs 8oz, Born to NotAnOtter (4blue1pink), Baby no 5, Lives ??,
ANYA OLIVE CATRIONA, Birthdate 20th Feb, Due 8th Feb, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Popadopalis, Baby no 1, Lives Bedford,
BRAM THOMAS, Birthdate 21st Feb, Due 11th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to mustrunmore (Ixel), Baby no 2, Lives N London, c-sec
IMOGEN ROSAMOND, Birthdate 23rd Feb, Due 2nd March, Weight 7lbs 9oz, Born to Ags, Baby no 2, Lives Kent, Elective c-section
EMRYS JOHN, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 24th Feb, Weight 8lbs 5oz, Born to Flamesparrow, Baby no 2, Lives Bournemouth, Home birth
ISABEL ERIKA, Birthdate 24th Feb, Due 3rd March, Weight 7lbs 5.5oz, Born to Amiable, Baby no 1, Lives North London, Gas & air and epidural. DH German
LEON JASON, Birthdate 26th Feb, Due 18th Feb, Weight 7lbs 13oz, Born to Jelley (Jasnem), Baby no 3, Lives Waltham Abbey, Rapid labour, ventouse and episiotomy
SALLY ANIELA, Birthdate 28th Feb, Due 28th Feb, Weight 8lbs 13oz, Born to Thell, Baby no 1, Lives London, Water birth at home
RORY JOHN, Birthdate 25th Feb, Due 23rd Feb, Weight 10lb 2oz, Born to dewmeadow, Baby no 2, Lives County Tyrone, Ireland, emerg c-section
NEVE, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 8lbs 11oz, Born to Frizbe, Baby no 2, Lives Ripley, Derbyshire, Water birth
ALFRED WILLIAM, Birthdate 4th March, Due 27th Feb, Weight 9lbs 15oz, Born to damewashalot (Helen38), Baby no 3, Lives Warwickshire,

Mustrunmore - I 'only' managed 10 weeks bf with dd1 - so going this long is all new to me!

Hi Ladies!

How are you all doing?
Sorry I'm not on here much these days, I can't keep up with you all since going back to work.

I hope things are going well for all of you.

csws - Are there people still breast feeding?? Really? Good on you.
I stopped back in September when ds nipped me and thought it was funny watching me jump
Well that and my terrible impatience.

Hello MrsD - lovely to see you! There are several of us still breastfeeding - me, mrm, flame, Jas and hotmama are all going strong.

I think if i didnt want to take slimming pills at some point, I'd prob just bf forever. Its soeasy this time for some reason, and i'm alreadt finding preparing 2 bottles for bedtime and early hours is very tedious I cant think how I ever had the patience to bottle feed ds1!

ah yes nipple n boob scrunching, that's why I knocked off fully by 7mths
Having read the thread tonight, I'm considering myself so lucky that both of my dd's took to the tommee tippee bottles (the ones with knobbly teats) straight away, phew!
CSWS have you tried presenting dd with a straw to drink through yet? just a thought as remember my friends ds would only do boobs or straws he wouldn't even consider dropping the boob until 18mths either....

at slimming pills - what the proper ones prescribed by GPs [xenical]. Don't do it - take it from one who knows that they aren't worth it.

Hi Mrs D this thread is fast moving tonight!

Heck!
Ds has always been hideously pukey. He leaves little trails of white spew as he crawls around the floor. Last month I cut down on his milk completely, he has a 8oz when he wakes up, water in a beaker during the day and 8oz before I put him down. That's it!
He is still pukey but much less so. He's eating and growing and is developing at an alarming rate (is it me or do No. 2's grow faster??) so I think we are doing okay.

Are you still on mat. leave?

Ohhh Hotmama, we're doing a northern meet 4th Dec if your interested at the Sculpture Park up near Wakefield?? Just off M1, 10.30am kick off!

csws; why not worth it? I've never heard of any non successes so far? I just need a kick start . you know what I look like

Frizbe - I did try straws a while back when mrm (I think) suggested it, but haven't tried recently. But she would still need to want to drink from something else, and if she wants to then she is perfectly able to drink from the wonderful playtex cup that I got at the babyshow.

Hi Frizbe and Mrs D.

I'm not too worried about dd2 messing about with daytime feeds as from Jan she won't be having them when I go back to work. Both my HV (a very good one) and La Leche say that dd2 will be having enough if she has 2 feeds a day - and fine to have just water during the day (or cows milk but don't let La Leche think I am considering this ).

TBH, I can't be arsed with messing about with formula now at nearly 10 months - so dd2 will go straight onto cows milk.

Haven't the slightist idea how I am going to stop completely - perhaps when I get pregnant with dd3/ds1?

ds2still wont do a straw, ds1 did it at 6 monthsish.

Well mrm - meet your first failure! Didn't lose a thing, and let's just say that if they have the same effect on you as they did on me then you'll be needing that potty for more than just ds1!

MrsD - was that question to me? I've decided not to go back to work for the time being. Being self-employed it's just a case of finding another contract as and when, which might be a long way off yet (esp if we manage to conceive again soon).

Ah, but there lies its great success; by putting you off eating the foods that go straight through in the first place!

Hotmama are you trying? really

Sounds much easier to be a man, laydees... but then our punishment, forever, is trying to understand you lot properly.

at the teat / bottle factories... blimey (again).

Mrs D, I am maternity leave atm - go back in Jan.

Frizbe - I'm usually really crap at getting to a meetup - hence haven't been yet - how far is Wakefield from Nottm?

Oh hub, just give up now - you'll never manage it!!

I'm such a wind-up merchant! No, I'm not trying - hence bf and I'm on the minipill - had my last af in April 2005!

BUT - I would quite like a 3rd, but want a bigger age gap than the present 16 months between the dd's, I am 40 in March and am supposed to be getting married at some point! However, may try to get pregnant next summer or wait until after Jan 2008 - if not caught by the summer then pack it in as I feel I will be too old at nearly 42!

Blimey - I just had a shower and everyone went mad posting on here!!

CSWS - I dont venture out of this thread really on mumsnet, occassionally I look at the reviews etc but not normally on the other threads. I shall have a nose when I get a sec!!

Hotmama - I'm not sure whether to put DS on cows milk at 12 months or the follow up milk.

Go for cows milk 3k - follow up milk is just a big con (there have been lots of threads about it I'm sure, but they'll fall into the category of 'NOT READ BY 3K BECAUSE THEY AREN'T THIS THREAD' .

I just thought i would post so you know i am still alive. I do lurk on here and try to keep up.

I've read the follow-on is un-necessary (ie. a con).

FWIW though, we still have dd on formula as she is a veggie baby.

csws - too right. Mysterious Beasts that your fair sex is. LOL.

3k - don't bother with the follow on milk if you feel that your lo has a balanced diet - just use cows milk - a lot cheaper and follow on milk is such a marketing ploy!

I use organic cows milk which is naturally rich in omega 3 - I think because of the grass the cows eat!

MInd you dd1 has stopped drinking all milk from 20 months - just has a lot of yogurts/cheese etc. I stopped giving her a bottle teat - and she won't drink it from a sippy cup - well she will at Nursery but not at home!