October 08 - the one without an imaginative title.

[CantSleepWontSleep]

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 - 7lbs 4.5oz - 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 - - -
3rd Oct (Due Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 2nd Oct) - 1sttimer80 - Boy - - 8lbs 10.5oz -
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!
11th Oct (Due 14th Oct) - tedmundo - Boy - Patrick Francis - 6lbs 15oz - C-Sec for breech
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz - Homebirth.
13th Oct (Due 15th Oct) - mum2jakeyroo - Boy - - 7lbs 2oz - Delivered in car by dh!
13th Oct (Due 7th Oct) - belgo - Boy - Wolf - 8lbs 7oz - Home water birth
13th Oct (Due 19th Oct) - rach010 - Girl - - 6lbs 11oz - Gas & air, small tear, no stitches.
13th Oct (Due 21st Oct) - caramelbunny - Girl - Megan Ruby - 5lbs 12oz - Em C-Sec under GA.
13th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - firsttimer08 - Boy - - -
15th Oct (Due 29th Sept) - perkypopsy - Girl - Stella Frances - 8lbs 14oz -
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 12th Oct) - milfakamonkeymonkeymoomoo - Boy - - 9lbs 13.5oz - Home water birth
17th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - ajm200 - Girl - Amelia Caitlyn - 7lbs 2oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
17th Oct (Due 27th Oct) - Rhian82 - Boy - - - Episiotomy and ventouse.
17th Oct (Due 22nd Oct) - pingviner - Boy - Teemu Finn - 7lbs 15oz - Em C-Sec
18th Oct (Due 13th Oct) - YumMum22 - Boy - - 10lbs - Home water birth
20th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - emkay - Boy - - 9lbs 8oz -
20th Oct (Due 16th Oct) - bigmouthstrikesagain - Girl - Polly - 8lbs 7oz - Good hospital birth with synto drip.
21st Oct (Due 16th Oct) - WheresTheAuPair - Boy - Finley Peter - 9lbs 7oz - Elective c-sec
21st Oct (Due 21st Oct) - hansnava - Girl - Sophia Leigh - 7lbs 6oz - Elective c-sec
23rd Oct (Due 26th Oct) - 4andnotout - Girl - Tilly-Grace - 7lbs 0.5oz - 2 pushes and out!
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 24th Oct) - sparklesandwine - Girl - Poppy - 8lbs 13oz -
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
27th Oct (Due 23rd Oct) - nuclear - Boy - - 8lbs 13oz - Gas & air and some stitches.
28th Oct (Due 30th Oct) - Jambers99 - Girl - Hannah Louise - 7lbs 3oz - Straightforward and quick labour.
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz - No stitches!
31st Oct (Due 21st Oct) - GirlWithTheMouseyHair - Boy - Ethan Christopher Loy - - Homebirth.
1st Nov (Due 25th Oct) - Flum - Boy - Bob - 8lbs 10oz - 4 hour labour with gas & air, pethidine and a healthy dose of champagne!
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz - Hospital water birth.
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz -
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz - Em C-Sec. Back to back and knotted cord around neck.
5th Nov (Due 23rd Oct) - Sallypuss - Girl - Eibhlin Alexandra - 9lbs 4oz - Induction, 15 hour labour then emergency c-section.

(apols if I've missed off anyone who has joined us post-natally.

Honeymoon - I've been wondering about the next baby too. I'm really getting on (just turned 41 2 weeks after ds was born), so if we're going to do it, we're not going to have much of an age gap. I've got friends with children close together and I think you just have to go with the fact that your life is going to be a grind for a couple of years, but remember that it won't be for ever.

I have to accept that it may not happen, and I would be happy with just the one if that's the case, but I think I would like to have two if I can.

So, ladies who have more than one baby here's a question. Which is harder - going from 0-1 children or 1-2?

Going 0-1 def much harder than 1-2.

Despite me being pretty happy with the age gap that we have, we did start trying for number 2 when dd was 9 months old, so we were theoretically aiming for (though not expecting given our history) an 18 month gap.

Aubergenie - that's the ergo under a different name .

Yikes - that bath support says only up to 8kg, but ds is 7.22 already, so what would be the point?! Yet it says to 8 months - do they really expect 8 month olds to weigh less than 8kg .

Mothercare reckon 6 months for the same weight.

Am thinking that this looks funky once ds is sitting though!

omg alex just fell off the bed!!!
he was still asleep when i woke up so left him in our bed. heard a thump then a cry, ran up and he was on the floor on his tummy about a foot away from the bed! i have no idea how he got there as he was on his back in the middle of a double bed ?!?
he's fine calmed down as soon as i picked him up.

we also have the ergonomical one, bought it for dd, alex loves it and means i can bath both of them at once.

Ah, I thought it was similar! I hadn't realised about the weight as ours is second hand so didn't have a box or anything. We were also given a Tummy Tub which I was really excited about, but I didn't get on with it.

That sitting one looks really fun, doesn't it?

Heather - I'm glad Alex is OK, poor thing. Do you think he's just started to roll?

i think so. he's look like he was trying for a few days now. poo now he wont stay where i put him!!

Heather, thats it, your baby has officially entered into the phase where they scare the life out of you daily.
William nearly fell off the changing table the other day. I dont want to admit that he is no longer my tiny little baby! He is getting more mobile every day. I put him on the floor after his bath so I could wash the girls hair (3 in the bath, oh the joy). William managed to wiggle himself completly round the other way on to the cold hard floor. He was very proud of himself. Every time I turned him back we could hear the bang bang of his feet on the floor as he wiggled off again!

CSWS I hope your hearing test is a sucsess today.

We have a 5 year gap between DD1 & 2 and a 4 year gap between DD2 & DS. Brilliant, the girls are both pretty independant & DD1 is 9 so she is really helpful with DS.

I hope everyone has survived the cold. I wish we had more snow. I love the snow it is such fun for the kids (me really)

Oh my god myjob. I can't quite bear to think about TTC JUST yet! But I do take your point. I think I'm happy to take my chances in a few months time and see what happens. It won't be the end of the world for me if we only have one.

Also, I'm assuming that BFing so regularly means that I'm not ovulating yet. Although a friend of mine got caught out that way...

Afternoon all,
Aubergenie. I agree with CSWS, 0-1 was sooo much harder than 1-2 (which seemed like a walk in the park tbh ) we had 21.5 month gap between the boys - though this meant a full year of 2 in nappies.
2-3 has been exhausting, far harder than I expected and DD is an absolute dream most of the time - 2.5 years after DS2.
I'll whisper this bit, DD has slept through 3 nights in a row. And we're talking 12 hours (with a dream feed at 10pm!!!!).
Am slightly disorientated!

Pepper - I used to work with a woman who'd got 6 children and she said that once you get past 3 or 4 it doesn't make much difference. So you can take heart if you decide to have any more .

Congratulations on the sleeping through - you must be feeling like Superwoman after all that rest.

I'm stuck in the house waiting for some deliveries. DS sleeping loads (maybe due to CO visit?) There are tons of things I should be doing, but I just can't seem to get off Mumsnet!

Bugger heather! Glad that Alex is ok, but you've now made me realise that I have no plan for when ds gets mobile, as at the moment we just plonk him in the middle of our bed a couple of hours or so before I go up. .

Still not using the cloth nappies much myjob, for no particular reason!

Well they were running 45 mins late with hearing tests again, so I had to stand up and sway all the time to keep ds asleep in the carrier. His left ear is fine, but they got no response from his right one. Not panicking yet though, as they said that because of his cold he might just have some fluid in it. This does, however, mean going back for a third time!

Oh yes, forgot to at pepper.

Hello everyone. Can I come and play too? I had been looking for the Oct08 board but must have been looking in the wrong place as I couldn't find you. My DD was born on 9th October 2008 and is currently very grumpy as she has just had her second jabs . I feel liek I've missed a lot but hopefully I can catch up.

Well the asda shop came and it was all ok. Just annoyed about the stress of it all and the attitude of them making me look stupid and tellin me some one owuld have phoned me, well I was in ALL day and no one called and they still say "someone would have tried" DOH!!!! No missed call, no messgae, how is that trying! ANyway aubergenie it was all ok in the end so maybe give it a go. I usually do tescos but fancied a change. Lovely huge pizzas though at asda

We have ergo bath seat, had for dd1, we used baby bath and realised it was too heavy and to much bending and no hands free, dd1 went in ergo seat and just was lay in it whilst we sat on floor by bath and had hands free, its best invention especially when both dd's can bath together now.

Looking at getting new buggy for dd2 when she little bigger, thinking maclaren quest and seems to have good write up. What do others have?

And also DD2 sleeping through since xmas although have afew nights were she wakes and I get up about 5 times to put dummy in and eventually she falls back to sleep. She is awak now so off to feed her. Hoping to put her in her own room tonight as all sorted now and DH may get ideas but have just received my first period since dd2 born! So there goes any ideas he may have!!!!

Also dd2 got cradle cap...going to get the oil and mascara comb on it this afty, will have a flake fountain I think {hmm] (eek)

Heather OMG! I'm dreading that day!!

Welcome Martha! You'll soon catch up

I thought I'd got away with the first injections yesterday with no symptoms but Poppy's been so grizzly this afternoon, I've given her some calpol altho her temp was OK, should've seen the look on her face to taste something other than milk or gaviscon! She still hasnt settled down even with the calpol, am currently bf'ing her, that usually works for everything!

Ha ha CSWS, I was thinking the same thing re Pepper!
I'd like to meet the person who said newborns sleep for 15 hours a day and punch him or (unlikely) her in the face

Oh, what age can you use the Bumbo from? I got mine from a friend so no instructions. Poppy is 10 weeks and can hold her head fairly well.

I think bumbos are when they usually about 4months? Sort of able to sit supported, prob little too early yet.

alex goes in his now at 13 weeks, i think its when they have head control

The guidelines say four months but it must depends on the baby. My LO HATES her Bumbo so I'm going to leave her for a while and try it again later. My friend's LO is five days older and absolutely loves hers. I got a Bloom Baby highchair so I can talk to DD in the kitchen when I am doing stuff. She loves that so I am asuming that she doesn't like the feeling of sitting without the support. Saying that though, she does spend most of her life trying to sit up!

Do any of you know when bfed babes are allowed to start going for longer than 6 hours without a feed? Mine has slept through a couple of nights and slept for seven hours and I am wondering whether I should have woken her up. Not that I think she'll do it again!!!

I didnt know they couldn't go longer than 6 hours!! Not that it happens very often!

That's the thing, I'm not sure if it applies to them anymore! My LO was a bugger with the BFing at first, lost a pound in 4 days, ended up with jaundice and had to go to the special care unit for tests at 5 days. The nurses there told me that I needed to wake her up every three hours to feed her and to top her up with formula (which I didn't do, I just BFed). My midwife (who is FANTASITC and I miss loads) said as long as she didn't go for more than 6 hours, I could leave her to sleep if she needed it. I think it's probably ok to leave them longer now, but just wanted to make sure. My son didn't sleep through until he was 8 months and on solids so I was just wondering....... Hope I didn't worry you!!!! Sorry if I did!

I'm sure there'll be someone else on here who knows. I know what u mean re conflicting info, I've been told by a HV and doc to give orange for constipation and by another HV that this is not a good idea.... all from the same clinic!!