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.

Smudgey - I co-sleep and DS just lies next to me. I position him for a feed in the crook of my arm and curl around him, then I drop off to sleep. When he's done he rolls back and sleeps beside me. Does that make sense?

I bought a breast pump yesterday and am quite excited at the prospect of using it today and hopefully DP being able to give Stanley a bottle soon. Isn't it funny how your definition of excitement changes when you have a baby...

Hi all, I'm sorry to hear so many of you have poorly babies, best wishes to them xx

We are supposed to be meeting friends at a pub at 1 (easier than tidying the house!!!) but I have had Poppy latched to my boob for the last 2 hours, give or take 5 mins... the girl sure likes her milk...

I am still completely confused about slings, I really want one asap but I dont want to order one online just to find it doesnt suit and I am not average sized, plus Poppy is long. Went to Mothercare the other day and tried the Babasling and the Primaxx, the Babasling seemed too small and the Primaxx I have read on MN reviews gives you a bad back. AAAARRRGH!! Have just emailed my local NCT representative to see if she has any ideas.

Honeymoonmummy, There is a site on the web that lets you hire slings to try www.bigmamaslings.co.uk

What you really need is to visit a local slingmeet where you can talk to other sling users and try a variety of slings. www.slingmeet.co.uk/

Honeymoonmummy, There is a site on the web that lets you hire slings to try www.bigmamaslings.co.uk

What you really need is to visit a local slingmeet where you can talk to other sling users and try a variety of slings. www.slingmeet.co.uk/

great site. i justordered the peanut shell! anyone tried that one?

hi everyone - doing my best to catch up for the 1st time since Ethan was born, where the hell does the time go?!

Sorry to hear about all the sick babies, must be a bit miserable for mums and babies alike.

Sling-wise, think we'll go to a sling meet because Ethan is too long to be carried in the cradle position with our calin bleu fleece and can't hold his head up enough for the cross carry - also I still haven't mastered getting it on on my own, think we may have to just get a baby bjorn for now

Had a tough few weeks as a new mummy, never thought it would be so hard - hugely rewarding and I adore him but flipping heck!! Have also thrown out all the parenting books as the stress of being the perfect parent with the perfect routine baby was making me spiral in a mess of baby blues - not pretty, so learning how to trust my own intuition again.

hope to be able to keep up to date a bit better from now on

Parenting books are great in theory aren't they gwtmh, but sadly most babies don't read them!

If you're going to get a bb carrier, then may I suggest that it's worth paying the extra for the 'active' one, as the back support is much better.

DD is bouncing today, so apart from her runny nose you wouldn't know that anything had been wrong yesterday.
Sadly the same can't be said for the rest of us, and I am now officially Not Well. Not helped by only around 3 hours sleep last night. Will be v glad when ds' cold is gone and I can try to get him into his crib again without guilt! Last night's attempts failed miserably.

Soory you're still so poorly csws and hope you get more sleep tonight. I have been failing to get Joe to sleep anywhere but with me during the day due to his cold and blocked nose. My MIL has helped no end in getting me to put Joe down at night awake in his cot but it's not working during the day and i can't be bothered with it whilst he is so unwell....he did let me put him in his rocking chair once he was asleep this pm but like Duncan he woke after 20 mins with a big sneeze, poor love.

Newsflash - Joe had a HUGE poo this morning you will all be pleased to hear!! Very relieved, especially Joe i expect...right off to watch SCD
here's to a quiet and settled night all round

ajm200 i have a pair of lilpadz and just cant get on with them, my let down is fast and furious and they just cannot cope with the amount of milk,so have gone back to the avent washables and changing countless times!
Has anyone else had snow? We had about 3-4 inches, we tried to leave our village to pick up dd1&dd2 from my parents but our van couldn't cope with the snow and hills and after much slipping,sliding and desperation (i pushed it up a bloody hill for about 1/2 mile!) we had to turn round and come home as it was simply to dangerous So our dd's are sleeping at my parents again tonight and hopefully tommorow it will thaw and we can have them home.
Tilly-Grace doesn't have a cold yet everytime i move her head from my boob she has left a lovely little bogey for me Parenting is such a glamerous job 'eh!

evening all,
csws sorry you are having a miserable time wth sinusitis - can you take anything for it? i seem to remember having some abs when I had it and was PG with DS2 so there should be something safe while BF?
loulou v glad to hear about Joe's poo !
gwtmbh no-one tells you quite how tough a new baby is, especially when it's your first and you're making such a huge adjustment to being a mum. My mum said - "but you wouldn't have believed me anyway, and why make you miserable in anticipation!"
Hope all the other poorly babies feel better soon.
We had a lovely evening out, though I yawned all the way through the dessert and we didn't last till coffee! Then we had the most appalling night DD just wouldn't settle till 2.30, woke at 3.15 , took me till 4.30 to feed and settle her again and she woke back up at 5.15....
Have looked like a zombie all day and Dh is in bits, as he'd had a drink to celebrate his birthday as well so had that to fight with too.

Actually pepper it's not so much sinusitis as I had expected, but a horrendous chest/cough. I went to bed an hour ago, but after not going more than 2 seconds without coughing, and being barely able to breathe, I have got up again. No idea how I will cope later, as all my inhalers were out of date (never use them normally) so were thrown away.

thanks pepperrabbit - I've found it a really hard adjustment just in terms of knowing when to trust myself and my intuition, think that's been the hardest thing of all...csws have heard those wise words before - that the babies don't read the books!

ajm I know its not funny but did chuckle at your DS dragging DD more of the image really, scary as they can be so quick to do things, DD tried to pick up DD2 yesterday no!!!!!!

Feel tired, DD never settled for ages last night, took from 6:30pm til 12:30 with feeds on and off but then slept til 6am, have put her in the swinging crib as she fell asleep in it this am and hoping she sleeps now til next feed due and I will go up to bed too! Please dont let me jinx it by saying she slept in it this am fingers crossed. csws you poor thing, I cant cope when I am tired so dont know how you are, I slept from 10 :30 -12:30 then 1am - 6am and am shattered!!! Hope you feel better soon, and get some rest!

Girlwiththemouseyhair just ask on here as you will get good advice from other mums. I think the books are good for a guide but its hard to stick to set routines as you can never live like that everyday! Other things happen and you just have to tweak things to work around you. Just do what you can and dont get too stressed

My Dh went out the other night and he kept me awake by falling on me and throwing up afew times oh and then snoring!!! He made up for it today bu getting up with DD1 and bringing me brekkie in bed

Blimey jenwa - that's more sleep than I used to get before even getting pregnant this time!

(Am up drinking honey tea to try and ease chest whilst feeding ds).

jenwa how did you do that? I would give my left arm to sleep 1am-6am. i chuckled at dragging baby by one leg image, too! but agree, very scary! and at your dh!
csws i hope you get some sleep tonight. dont know how you do it!!
congrats on the poo loulou how do you get him to sleep putting hi down awake??
gwtmh I know! big shock, isnt it? like jenwa said, keep posting here, everyone is super helpful and have first hand experience and practical advice.
pepper not sure how you made it through the day. I hope tonight is better!

I've already tried the slingmeet site and there is nothing in my area unfortunately. I will have a look at bigmama, didnt realise they hired, ta.

Honeymoonmummy, it's a shame there's no slingmeet in your area.

gwtmh Have you tried the cross carry with Ethan's head behind one of the shoulder straps. I have carried Amelia like this from birth as she fussed too much in the cradle carry and as my hormones went a bit made I ended up with enormous boobs for a week or two so with Amy's head against one and her bum against the other I looked like I had a Jordan style boob job and was wearing lilac bandages over my clothes. The last straw was a boozy old bloke commenting on the size of my bust to his equally drunk mate. Another option would be the cradle carry with his legs hanging out.

It look like bigmamaslings have stopped hiring them out since I was looking at the start of the year

Try www.slingjax.co.uk/ instead. 9.99 for two weeks hire + refundable deposit

im so excited for my sling to arrive! thanks again for posting that site, ajm! Q just settled himself... sort of... for first time an hour ago!

morning ladies.
i got my sling from bigmamas, they are very good. found this video to show a cross carry and it helped me learn how to do it properly uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VHUEM6K0Q&feature=related

had a rubbish night last night. went to bed at 11pm and alex didn't go to sleep till 6am!!everytime he unlatched from the nipple he woke up, nightmare. i've had about 2 hours sleep and then kennedy woke up full of a cold, so i'm spending my day cleaning up snot

have ordered my nappies went with the totsbots cottons. they should arrive tomorrow, i can't wait!

Hi all
Am currently looking for a new pushchair, been chatting on pushchair thread for some advice so searching on ebay! Not liking my big pram so looking at the bebe confort which are local to me so cheaper as 2nd hand and collection

Had good night last night, sorry to rub it in! But Phoebe had bath and formula bottle at 7 then I fed her at 9 for a good 45 mins and she slept til 3:30 then up at 6:30 then again 11:30 and sleeping again now so hence me ebaying . DD1 doing cutting out and I am about to sort more baby clothes to sell.
What have you done with your maternity clothes (those of you NOT wanting more babies!!) I am going to ebay mine but not done such a huge batch before so how do I post a binliner full of clothes ?????

csws how are you feeling today?

uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1-VHUEM6K0Q&feature=related even

oh how do you get rid of the saggy skin on your belly !!!!?????