October 08 - The Here and Now.

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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.

cripes pistacho what a fantastic weight. Oliver has only today got back o his birth weight of 6lb 3oz, I have just been round the supermarket and kept hearing these whispers behind me of oOOO what a little baby!.

it's very weird though......people don't smile and say hello they just whisper to their friends as they walk past!

Hi ladies. Anyone got a spare girl name they want to share? We're not doing very well on our own! DD finally slept from about 4am til 7 with only about 2 feeds. Nips getting very sore but I'm sure her latch is ok, she's just got a really strong suck and wants to do it all the time. Really hoping my milk comes in tonight and then hopefully she'll give me a bit more of a break to recover. DS been very cute with DD today. She started crying when he was having breakfast and he wanted to give her his toast and drink
Sounds like your LO are all doing well. I can't imagine being up and about every day ajm. DS is really not well with a cough/cold so we're making the most of him not demanding to go out. LOL at peope whispering about tiny babies as you pass. Pistachio, I bet you can get a t-shirt that says: I'm not 3 months, I'm newborn!

Zoe was our top girls name Smudgey. sounds like she will have your milk comming in , in no time at all.

The whispering is too funny - I watched people's reactions as dh carried ds on his chest on sunday. People would open their mouths and stare or say, "oh, look, a brand new baby"... This was ok for a while but now I feel a bit defensive because he's 4 wks - that;s a month! He's grown SO much so I know he's healthy, but I worry that if I say he's a month old people might think we dont feed him or something silly, I know...

Ooh smudgey - have Felicity for me would you?

How was your night, csws?

smudgey - Rowan, Naomi(taken ), Enza were some of ours

Horrid until about 10pm star, but reasonable after that (assuming frequent small feeds all night but without screaming can be considered reasonable).

csws at least there was no screaming did you get much help from your feeding thread?
star oliver is 4weeks and actually just back o his birth weight so he still looks very dinky so I shouldn't be suprised at the comments.
I gave up bfeeding him on Friday , it just wasn't working. He had to be tube fed in the hospital because he was so sleepy and every time he latched he fell asleep despite taking his clothes off, tickling, gently prodding etc he was loosing so much weight that I have been topping up with formula after each bf hoping he would pick up but it wasn't happening. I feel quite sad, I fed my older son for 5 months and really see the positives of bfeeding but it wasn't working with Oliver. since just FF over the weekend he put on 160g which brought him back to his birth weight, still not quite on the bottom centile yet but going in the right direction.

pistachio he is lovely. he does not look 3 months! he looks like a little baby

smudgey We had decided on Phoebe for a name but afew days before I saw the name Erin, but we went back to the original. Erin is spare if you like it My friends DD is Felicity and thats nice too like CSWS said.

I am off to DRs in mo as seem to have mastitis! My boob was so sore this morn and I felt soo sick and could not shivering, my teeth were banging together! MW said need to get antiobiotics so made appt this afty. Cant have another morning like today, was sooooooo sore and could not move

Sander is 6 weeks now, I cannot believe it! He is quite a big lad but people in the street still comment on the new baby.

I've been worried this week as until last night he had gone just under 48 hours without a poo. Managed to sort that with a bit of leg pumping but the resulting nappy was a 10 on the poo-ometer and took both DH and I to change him We had to throw out the vest and sleepsuit he was wearing as well. They never tell you about that in antenatal classes

Smudgey our girls names were Calista (shortened to Callie) and Sorca (Irish for Sarah).

Glad to hear everyone is getting on well but I feel for your lack of sleep CSWS

LOVE sorca lozza! How sweet is that! Is the "c" soft or hard?

Hello all,

I've been absent for a few days as my mum came to visit to help with children as dh working away. She was worse than useless as she barely picked Joe up, couldn't handle his crying for more than 2 mins before saying 'i can't listen to this' and hading him back Then she had the cheek to go to bed at 9pm on saturday as she was tired out whilst i was still up trying to settle Joe (who didn't settle til midnight) so i was left to sit up on my own - cheers then!! Next day she said maybe she should have stayed in a hotel when i asked her to get up with ds1 at 7am as Joe had been up since 5am and had just gone back to sleep. She also dropped a cake tin lid on the floor downstairs just as i had got Joe to sleep at 8pm on sat which woke him up and it took me 4 hours of feeding to get him off again . sorry for rant but i feel really sad and disappointed that she can't help me out once in a while....

Joe is now refusing to lie down during the day anywhere except on me and is constantly grumpy. Took him to osteopath today and she said he's all twisted from being born too early and too quick (due to induction) so lying on back is really sore for him. Also head very tight and will only lie with head on one side. He will only stay asleep at night if really really sound asleep when i put him down. Since the 2 'all night sleeps' he's been up til 11pm ish and waking at 5am. I could handle this if i could extract him from me during the day for more than 2 mins - hope this will improve with more sessions at osteopath.

Hope you're all doing ok and well done star for getting QUinlan to sleep in his crib.

I so feel for you louloiu

I had a similar (ish) experience with my mother recently, she really wanted to help but was amazingly useless. I just couldn't understand why she couldn't realise what I needed (the simplest things). It was a shock. I think its cause she thought I was coping so well and didn'tg want to interfere but still..............

frustrating!

she offered to come again to 'help', it was all I could do to ask 'but how exactly do you think you help', she is wonderful and kind and means so well. i guess its my fault for not communicating better

Sorca pronounced saw-sha IME star .

We saw a cranial osteopath for ds today too loulou. Def some compression in his head, and he has a tight diaphragm which probably explains his very frequent hiccups. She always says not to expect miracles from the first session, but have a second one booked for next Tues, which we're hoping to see a bigger difference from. Hoping that we might eventually get him sleeping on his back.

So far so good this evening. Managed to get him to nap for a bit in his basket whilst I put dd to bed, and he's now having a calm feed, despite my breast being pretty full when he started.

for bf not working out for you hedgepig, but for his improved weight gain.

I'm seeing cranial oesteopath next week!
csws lol. We pronounce "saw" very differently the way I read that would be "sasha" but I do get what you mean

csws - weird we both went to cranial osteopath today - i was thinking of you when she talked about the induction and not wanting to sleep on his back. Something to do with not being ready to be born and so not yet unfolded in the womb and head not fully engaged for long enough before being born.

My mum phoned tonight and said that she enjoyed her stay ( oh good, i'm glad she had a relaxing break!) and wished she coudl have helped more but there was soo little that she could do (erm, hold the baby, change him, soothe him, sit with him, played with ds1, hold the baby and er...did i mention holding the baby). It took all my effort not to snap at her but there is no point. I am resigned to having a mother who is very young and glamerous but not good in the nurture stakes...dh's mother on the nother hand is totally brilliant - much older but calm, kind and with endless patience to sit with the children no matter how collicky they are. She's coming over tomorrow for the day so hopefully i will get a little rest - hoorah!!

Joe is asleep . He was totally chilled after his appt today and settled to bed on his back no bother - he really wants to lie with his head to the right but i had to 'force' it so that he was looking straight up and put rolled up cloth around his head to stop him lying on that side. Hope it works for you too csws and star

I'm with you on the sorcha thing csws - i'm sure its pronounced sore-shar too. Had a friend at school called sorcha and she was lovely......nice name

smudgey - Kate and Emma were our favourites as well as annasia (danish), morna and isla...

dh and i will have sleeppless night regardless thinking about US election... well, I guess we could look at it like, either way, Bush is gone!!

I'd still like to use Sorcha if I ever persuade DH to have another one and we had a girl of course, he says he could not sit and watch me going through birth again. I was alright as I was drugged to the eyeballs, DH has an altogether different memory of the birth to me

Thanks for names ladies. I think we are slowly getting there and will of course let you know. We seem to have so many names we like but don't quite work because of a) b) or c) (Things like we don't want it to start with an initial we already have, sounds too similar to names already in the family etc)
We went out on our first family outing yesterday - to Asda!! DS is being sooo cute with DD. The first thing he checks is where 'baby' is going and he held her hand all round the shop yesterday. Every time she cries he tells us to pick her up and give her a drink. Easy for him to say when I have the sore boobs. Hope you get the mastitis sorted quickly Jenwa. Yay for all the babies getting back to their birth weights. Hedgepig it sounds like that was a difficult decision for you but glad Oliver is filling out.
Loulou your mum doesn't sound much help. When is DH back? Hope you get a break with MIL there to help today. Glad the session helped Joe to settle more. Hope you had a good night. DD doesn't seem to like her moses basket but will sleep well in bed with us. Saying that, she's in her moses basket now and I'm the one that can't sleep! CSWS - glad you had a better night. It's strange how quickly our perception of what a 'good' night is has changed from not waking in the night to at least getting more than 1 hour sleep LOL at OH different perception of birth. I just had gas and air this time and everything was a lot quicker and I realise how much I missed/forgot/denied from last time round.
Sorry for mammoth post everyone. Just nice to have a bit of time to myself and to ramble!