October 08 - The Here and Now.

[CantSleepWontSleep]

The story so far....

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
12th Sept (Due 6th Oct) - iuseantiageingstuff - Boy - Fred William - 8lbs 13.5oz - Induction due to high BP.
14th Sept (Due 14th Oct) - twinklytoes - Boy - Samuel - 7lbs 4.5oz - Em C-Sec due to grade 4 PP.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
20th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - kookiegoddess - Girl - Reya Marie - - Induction due to OC, epidural, 3rd degree tear.
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz - Fast and furious hospital birth.
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz - Em C-Sec due to raised BP and high ALTs from liver.
27th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - accessorizequeen - Boy twin - Felix - 6lbs 8oz -
27th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - accessorizequeen - Girl twin - Bridget - 7lbs 7oz -
1st Oct (Due 29th Sept) - WombFor1More - Boy - Harvey James - 8lbs 13oz - Homebirth, no pain relief.
2nd Oct (Due 4th Oct) - annwoo - Boy - TBA - 8lbs 7oz - Amazing birth!
2nd Oct (Due 30th Sept) - sambrads - Girl - Brooke - 7lbs 9.5oz -
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
2nd Oct (Due 8th Oct) - Alexa808 - Girl - Tienette - - Planned c-sec
3rd Oct (Due 5th Oct) - rosebury - Boy - Austin - 9lbs 2oz - Delivered at home by dh!
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - Bethoo - Girl - Maia - 7lbs -
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - hoff - Boy - Oliver - -
3rd Oct (Due 19th Oct) - MrsTittleMouse - Girl - - -
4th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - 1sttimer80 - Boy - - -
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept) - plusonemore - Boy - Alfie Thomas - 8lbs - Induction, epidural
5th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - MrsBish - Girl - Rachel - 8lbs 8oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
7th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - Emmsy1 - Girl - Amy Louise - 5lbs 12oz -
7th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - snowymum - Boy - Rowan Michael - - Home water birth
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
8th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - 07mumstheword - Girl - Freya Mae - 7lbs 12oz -
8th Oct (Due 16th Oct) - moodywren - Boy - Hayden - 6lbs 9.5oz - Homebirth
9th Oct (Due 27th Sept) - Pidge - Boy - Arthur - 8lbs 14oz - Homebirth
10th Oct (Due 1st Oct) - CantSleepWontSleep - Boy - Duncan Elliot - 8lbs 4oz - 4 day induction with 1 hour established labour!
11th Oct (Due 3rd Oct) - usuallytooshytochat - Girl - Megan Leah - 8lbs 2oz - Homebirth with ambulance crew!
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.

when a baby is 4 months, can s/he hold his/her head up - like all the time so you dont have to support it?

Can't remember what age is normal for head self-supporting, but before 4 months IME. Dd could sit by herself at 4 months, though this was a bit earlier than most of her peer group.

wow. that would be nice! My dad is coming in Feb and wants to babysit while I go to work a couple of days but wanted to make sure quinlan will be more "stable" by then... i know it's silly, I mean, he cared for me when I was a baby... but so long ago!

Hopefully we'll see smudgey over here soon
myjob crazy how time passes so quickly!! It doesn't seem like 6 weeks have passed since you gave birth, does it? even 4 1/2 weeks seems strange. Still can't believe that smile.... amazing! You must have so much fun with her

quinlan is asleep in the moses basket!!! He settled in for a long night at 4.30pm... had not slept properly (except at breast) all day long!! We saw how "out" he was and turned him over, took blankets off so he would wake at 7, then fed him from one breast, bathed him/changed him (he was oh so happy.. ). Then fed him from the other breast and put him down again - that was at 9pm and then he slept until 12.30 when DH gave him a bottle of my expressed milk (80ml) and he fell right back to sleep and is still in his basket now. Yay!! I'm up because needed to pump or my breasts were going to explode.
dh had a really hard time with this... he LOVED those few hours that quinlan slept on his chest, but so glad he's finally conceeded to putting him in the moses basket!

up bf now. having dh give bottle of expressed milk made all the difference! Feel like i got a break and now refreshed to bf again

csws was it so early that you could only communicate through facial expressions? ha ha! .
He's sleeping again now quite soundly. Maybe we shouldn't have woke him up at 7pm.. he may have just slept through! You just never know... I used to think that getting a baby to sleep through the night would be EASY, but wow was I wrong... you just don't know until you actually have a baby!
Of course, Naomi and Joe have probably slept from 7pm-8am without waking

I'm not wanting ds to sleep through yet, just to sleep in his crib or basket when he does!

We found that putting him down when he was really "out"/difficult to wake works well... you've probably tried that.
Also.. as I said before, putting him down on his tummy helps A LOT. We got the angel care monitor so it will alarm if he stops breathing (thanks again, loulou). But we really only leave him on his tummy for an hour or less (and neither of us sleep while he is like this) then we gently turn him to his side, then his back and he stirs a bit, but after a few minutes, he just sleeps on his back!! He'd prob sleep a lot longer on his tummy full time, but he will stay on his back for up to 2 hours now (but only if we "trick" him like I just described). We also just kept putting him in there once he fell asleep. He would wake up and want to feed... then he'd fall asleep... we'd put him back in there... over and over again, exhausting and we kept picking him up when he'd cry but back in once asleep. I think he's finally just dealt with it and realizes if he wants to sleep he will be in there (he didn't sleep at all for a whole day while we did this!). He's still sleeping soundly now...

myjob - luckily dh hasn't gone away since ds born . He was going to last week, but then figured he didn't need to so worked from home instead.

I just put ds down on his tummy in his crib when he was really soundly asleep, and he slept for nearly 2 hours .
He is windier at night so it may not work then, but we might have to try it, and then wrestle with the guilt before deciding what to do longer term. Was wonderful to have the time free though (dh and dd are swimming). I had a bath, tried on my new bra, got dressed, prepared lunch and dinner things, loaded dishwasher, sorted washing, cleaned table, opened a load of post, and sorted through all the crap that was in our fruit bowl so that I could actually put fruit in it - amazing!

Yay csws!! Great feeling isnt it??
I find when he's windy tummy sleep is even better... he just lets it out either end during sleep. or I can stand over him and pat his back until he does. If on his back it's harder for him.

The MW came this past week when he was on his belly and dh swiftly picked him up before she could see

Ok today he's really sleepy. He had that nap after feed from 7-10 then a feed (which was not as long as usual!) and sat in his bouncy seat just looking around.... I changed him and gave him one breast... he was there for about 12 minutes sucking. I took him off because it hurt and wanted to re latch him but he just came off and was asleep! Now I've laid him down to sleep and he's asleep again... maybe something is wrong

csws - for the stats we have finally decided on a name for ds - he's called Matthew.

Can't get online much at the moment, but congrats on all new arrivals.... Must dash and deal with ds's nappy now (boys nappies are MUCH harder than little girls!) so will try & log back on soon.

Hi ladies. We've finally made it to the other side! Will get round to writing birth details at some point but it all went smoothly. DD born in pool and came out in an intact amniotic sac. MW said this was meant to be lucky - anyone else heard that? Feeling much better than last time. DD (no name as yet) doing well but seems to think first night home is a party so not much sleep. She's got hiccoughs at the moment and seems a bit overwhelmed by it.
Hope all babies sleeping well tonight so you're all fast asleep!

I've heard about that being lucky.... but obviously the luck hasnt started yet
maybe tonight!

Oh yes, being born in the caul def supposed to be lucky.

Bad night here. Announced I was going to bed at 8:45pm as thought that ds was settled, then he woke up and screamed or fed (which also involved much screaming) until midnight. Then he slept til an astounding 1:30 before waking for another feed .

csws
he cries while he feeds? That must be very painful! Does he unlatch a lot?
Hopefully he'll be so tired out from last night that he'll sleep well tonight... or today
DS here started writhing around in pain at about 6am for ???? reason. Looked like he was straining to poo, but who knows... heartbreaking to watch

Hi everyone.

Finally have a day at home as DH has gone back to work and I'm enjoying the peace and quiet. He dragged us all out every day of his two weeks paternity leave which was nice but i could have done with some rest and recovery time. I can't catch up on either thread so I hope everyone will forgive me.

Amelia is thriving but permanently hungry so she had gained loads of weight and gone from tiny baby to newborn size in less than two weeks! Only problem is she wants most of her food between midnight and 5am. DS hasn't been in bed before 9pm for the past two weeks and up again at 6am so sleep has been a distant memory.

Only downside is that I burst into tears when the HV was here so they are coming back on Thursday to check on us.

Off to deliver invitations for DS's party. Not sure how we are going to manage as it is at the local soft play area and DH has just told me his day off had been cancelled so climbing round soft play frames with a 2 yr old and a newborn in a sling may be a challenge! The idea is making me panic if I'm honest.

Have started a feeding thread star with more details.

Was hoping for a nap whilst dd at school this afternoon, but ds has decided not to have his usual long afternoon nap, but to feed constantly instead. Think we must be having 3 week growth spurt .

hello everyone haven't been around for a few weeks hope you are all well. I can't believe oliver is 4 weeks old already where has the time gone? Star great picture of DS in the crib, he looks really alert and what fab head control

whats your thread called csws?
I propped ds up in there hedgepig - he cant sit on his own But yes, great head control makes bf fun trying to get him to latch on while he writhes around

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