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.

loulou why is Joe having to have a blood transfusion?

CSWS I did swaddle Sander for the first week or so and he was quite good but he just loves his hands waving in front of his face. He also seems to sleep with his right hand above his head, must have been in the womb like that.

Does anyone know what green poo means? William has been doing the usual yellow til this afternoon, now it is green! Very strange.

ronshar hopefully someone like csws will be able to clarify but I think my bf counsellor and someone on here said it had to do with not getting enough 'hind milk'. Quinlan has had a green nappy or two but i'm always comforted when goes back to yellow next time. Is he feeding long enough?

just took 30 min for ds to latch on!!! why???

Star is right that that's one poss reason ronshar, but tiktok always says not to worry about the whole fore/hind milk thing.

star - hard to say without more info, but some possibilities are not hungry, got wind, breasts too full, picking up on stress from you. Have you asked on your other thread too?

Cheers girls. That makes perfect sense.
The little monkey is messing about with the latching on and is on off all the time. So it is likely he is only getting a little bit of the hind and lots of fore.
When he was wieghed on Monday he had only lost 70grams. He is due to be weighed tomorrow so we shall see if he has lost any more.

morning all. long night last night. ds eventually settled to sleep at 3.35 and promptly woke at 4 for another feed then didn't settle again till 5.30. feeling tired but mum is coming up so looking forward to a mid morning nap.

on the other hand the early start helped get me organised and we were in school for 8am queuing for the annual family picture! ds wore his first "proper" outfit for the occasion - will back to rompers and sleepsuits when he wakes!

Good Morning.

DP goes back to work tomorrow

I'm not worried at all about DD but DS has been quite difficult with me, I'm hoping things go back to what they were. He has decided that he only does what he is told when DP tells him, not me. I couldn't even get him down for a nap Please someone with more than 1 tell me it will be ok.

CSWS - The blood transfusion is for the rhesus sensitivity thing - not connected to reflux - hope Duncan doesn't have silent reflux, its horrible. I'm convinced Joe doesn't have reflux but is just greedy (6 ozs gained in 3 DAYS for gods sake) and then sicks up what he doesn't want. He likes to eat all the time he's awake, which is most of the day and also has a bit of wind which forces milk out at high speed - nice!!

Lozza Joe has different blood group to me as i'm rhesus neg and he's pos. he had a knock during pg (probably when neighbour's dog jumped up at me) and this made his blood cross the placenta. My blood then made antibodies against his and these try to kill of his blood cells. This causes jaundice and anaemia and he has these antibodies i nhis system for up to 12 weeks after birth. They decided yesterday that his haemoglobin is now too low and so he needs a top up of blood which is being couriered from glasgow on Monday am.

DH is being featured in local lifestyle magazine for xmas issue so we all had to appear in photos yesterday for the feature. It was a nightmare getting us all ready and keeping joe sick free. The photos looked lovely on camera so i can't wait to see the article.

got to go Joe awake....

ooh - before i go - anyone using a baby sling to carry lo around? If so, are they any good and which one do you use??

I tried one in a shop and Joe was all squashed up in it (he was then sick not suprisingly) - maybe i waas using it wrong....

Boo for your long night twinkly.

Purpleflower - it's tough for the older ones to accept the new arrivals, but I'm sure it will settle down in a while.

loulou - how funny that you should ask about slings. Duncan has spent most of the day asleep in his, and I was going to post tonight to say how pleased with it I am. We have the close baby carrier, and he's been in position 1 for all of his naps today. It's been very comfy for me walking about with him in it. Just hoping he'll still sleep tonight after barely being awake all day!

I can confirm that pregnancy brain hasn't cleared here yet. DD weed in her knickers in town this afternoon, so as we were right by Next I popped in to get some new knickers and tights. Got her to the parent room to change her to discover that I'd bought vests instead instead of knickers - doh! The trip into town was wasted too, as none of the mobile phone shops had the phone that we went to look at - grrr.

I was going to get it in pistachio, but it was out of stock where I wanted to get it from, and then I discovered that it now comes in chocolate colour, which co-ordinates better with both mine and dh's clothes, as well as seeming more wintery.

Have added pic of ds in carrier to my profile .

ooh i want one of those!! adorable baby csws!!

That's funny - some friends just clubbed together and bought me the Close baby carrier (in charcoal - I like your brown one though CSWS) and I just tried it out for the first time today. It took a while to feel confident that I was putting in on right, but once I got the hang of it, it was great. I can see me using it a lot around the house and out and about.

Loulou - DP bought a babasling at the weekend but I found that ds is completely lost in it and really scrunched up as well, so I haven't used it. Apparently they're good for carrying toddlers in though, so hopefully it's not money wasted.

Sorry - I also meant to say I hope it all went well today Loulou. What a horrible thing to have to go through.

Hi loulou hope the transfusion went okay.

the "fortress" is not working - dd2 just climbed in, grabbed sam and somehow put him on the armchair - he was screaming so have to guess she put him there with a bit of force . I'd only gone upstairs for a wee. really don't have the back to be carrying him all day but I mightjust need a sling too.

ds much more settled now, has had a feed and isn't drifting off to sleep so hopefully no damage.

Hi all,

You've all made me think i've missed a few days - Joe's transfusion is Monday not today but you made me think it was monday today and i was very late for his appt - cheers!!!

I have bought a sling off ebay that is very similar to close one (called cleb sling i think) as can't afford £50 but may get desparate.

Finally got Joe to have lunchtime nap at same time as DS1 so had hour and half to myself - nice!! Joe slept for 6 hours last night from 8pm to 2am before waking for feed then was up for 3hours but you can't have everything.

ooh csws - Duncan looks just like you - weird how genetics works heh?