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.

Nice to hear from you Womb.

CSWS, she is getting better. If she's already asleep she'll let me put her on the mattress long enough for me to have a shower. She sleeps well at night, but only cos she's in the king size bed with me with DH in the single in the nursery! I worry about her co-sleeping with me...

He's too worried about rolling onto her. She has already started to wriggle herself closer and closer to me as the night goes on so she's REALLY close to me when I wake up. I am sleeping with a duvet just over my legs and a baby blanket over my upper half but still worry about it. I would rather she had been the model baby and lay in her moses basket with the sensor mat underneath - meh

Oh and have to share this...the other day I managed to get her to vomit milk out of her nose and eye!!! She started to be sick and in an attempt to get her away from the pillow I moved her head back - big mistake!!
The Bad Mum Award goes to...

DH gave her her first expressed bottle feed the other day, it was kind of sad when she took it! Altho she did drink it (only 2oz) then immediately demanded boob for another 30 mins!! I'm scared her first word is gonna be "boob", its all I seem to say to her...

Ah yes, I had the same concerns about co-sleeping the first time round, but I've had to relax about it a bit this time. We all sleep in the same bed, but dh and I have separate duvets.

Good to hear from you womb.
Did any of you see WTAP's thread yesterday too? She has split with her dh since having the baby .

Ds slept for 1.5hrs in the Amby last night . Not long, but a huge step for us.

congrats csws!
that's great!
poor wtap
great idea about separate duvets - would never have thought of that.
ds sleeping on cot mattress. we cant find screws and bolts for cot... but does well on mattress although up a lot past 2 nights

We'll need a new thread soon ladies!

Anyone had a growth spurt around 8 weeks? Ds been feeding every 1.5-2 hours for the last 36 hours or so, which is even more than his usual frequent schedule.

Have fun tomorrow myjob.

Naomi is beautiful Myjob!

Good news about half hours of sleep CSWS. How did D get on in the Amby last night?

I don't know what to do about our sleeping arrangements. I'm co-sleeping at the moment, which is working well. DS wakes approximately every 2-3 hours for a feed, but I never have to worry about soothing or settling so I don't feel particularly tired. The trouble is I keep wondering whether I should be encouraging him to self soothe or sleep on his own, and i'm worrying that I'm storing up problems for later on. He will nap for short periods in his moses basket, but won't sleep in it at night. I was considering an Amby as well as it seems like a lovely way to sleep and I thought that he might start doing for longer stretches in it and get used to sleeping on his own. Ho hum. It seems that whoever you speak to, they have a different opinion and it's so difficult to know what to do.

I'm in the same boat as you Aubergenie. I'm considering a co-sleeper cot. There's the Arms Reach which is smaller and I dont think you can use that as a proper cot so not v cost effective; then there's a Mothercare cot with a side that drops away completely and one by Cosatto.

We haven't bought a cot yet, so we could go for any of them, but I dont know whether paying a bit more for a co-sleeper cot is a waste of money when normal cots have a drop side anyway? Does anyone have any experience of this?

Loving the Xmas emoticons, might just have to get the decorations down from the loft today...

I'm glad it's not just me Honeymoon! I was considering the arms reach too. The Cosatto is a bit big for our room. The co-sleeper mini is nice but the height isn't adjustable and it's too high for our bed, but the regular co-sleeper is adjustable. I think they can both be used as a normal cot. Expensive though aren't they. A friend of mine just adapted a regular Ikea cot, I'll have to find out how they did it.

I have to admit to being quite taken with the Amby idea as well now. It could solve the space issue for a while too. Hmm, I wish you could hire them and try them out...

I know Aubergenie, hire would be REALLY useful, would have saved us money on a moses!!! Let me know about your friend.

Love the pics MyJob, you inspired me to post some pics of Poppy

very cute honeymoonmummy and myjob Gorgeous little girls!
How much does the amby cost?

I think from memory its somewhere between £100 and £150 Star...?

I managed to express 3oz this morning

God, Poppy has now been eating for 3 and a half hours straight, give or take a nappy change!!! My poor nipples!

Lovely pics ladies. The 9 week one is stunning myjob.

No joy with the Amby last night at all.
star - it costs too much! By the time I'd bought a couple of fitted sheets too, and paid for next day delivery, it was about £180 .

Lovely pictures!

Sorry to hear that about the Amby CSWS. I hope tonight's a better one for you.

DS is havign a feeding frenzy at the moment. He's been feeding constantly since about 6 this evening and goes mad if you try to stop for a second. My nipples are raw. DP has also just given him a 5oz bottle of milk which he attacked like he'd not been fed for ages. It must be the 9 week growth spurt.

Also, he's very dribbly and foamy at the mouth, and has been gumming DP's finger all day (when not feeding). We had some friends over and one of them said she thought he could be teething. I thought they didn't do that until much later? Is it possible this early?

Have a good night everybody!

Teething can start anytime Aubergenie (some babies are born with teeth already). I've been wondering whether ds might be a little too. Was going to put some bonjela on to see if it did anything, but it had all dried up since I last used it.

2.5 hrs in the Amby last night. If only dd hadn't decided to get up twice during that time!

That's brilliant CSWS!

Aubergenie it sounds like the symptoms of teething. I read on another MN thread that you can get gauze(?) that you rub on their gums so its less painful when the teeth come thro? I'll have a look see if I saved the thread...

Here - www.mumsnet.com/Talk/behaviour_development/660361-DS-not-quite-14-weeks-driblbing-handchewing-can-he -be

Great progress CSWS! Shame about DD but small steps...

Gosh I didn't know they could teethe so early! Thanks for the link Honeymoon. I'll check out the gauze.

Great news about the Amby last night csws, lets hope its the turning point for your ds....

Aubergenie - it could be teething, or at least the start of it, but you may have a while to go. DD started that at about 3 months, but only got her 1st teeth at 11 months. She still only has 7 at 18mths!

Ds has another cold. He's so snuffly & woke up in the night with a chesty cough. Dh & dd seem to have it too & I'm getting a scratchy throat.... We're not a very healthy household at the moment

I should be sorting out all my online Christmas shopping, but instead I've been messing around on MN. Anyway, I've been inspired by all your pics to put a couple of photos of DS up on my profile.