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.

Thanks Jenwa. I guess I can handle putting it back in at night... it sure beats waking up every 2-3 hours and staying awake to feed for 40 minutes only to wake up 2-3 hours later, then get up for work at 5.30am and start all over. I cannot believe I am used to that sleeping pattern for 15 weeks. ridiculous!

Must be the night for it Joshua did 7 hr stretch last night too. woo hoo.

sorry I was mum2jakeyroo. I thought I had put that on last post. Tired brain to blame lol

Yay for sleep CSWS (are you going to have to name change soon, or am I being a bit previous?)! Thanks for all the links. You are indeed the October thread?s personal shopper. I?ll run them by dp. I had a rubbish night. Ds has a cold and is more clingy than normal.

Star, your ds sounds just fine. As the others have said, all babies are different. I think it?s easy to start comparing and feeling that your own child isn?t doing as well, especially if you?re feeling a bit tired and stressed. The screaming sounds just like S ? he?s windy and suffering quite badly from painful farts (sorry if tmi). The CO has been working on it and it is improving, but she did say that some of it is just because he has an immature digestive system. Have you mentioned it to your CO? Maybe they can help.

Dp treated me to a massage the other night. She came to the flat. It was fantastic EXCEPT that ds cried the whole way though in the other room. It was like a drill in my brain. The minute I went through and picked him up, he stopped. I think he must have just wanted his mum. How relaxing (not).

I am so jealous but also glad that your LOs are sleeping for longer. The jabs have really screwed DD up and now she has a cold too. It a really nasty one, I know, because I have it too...... If she feels as bad as me then poor little love. She was so exhausted last night that she fell asleep sitting up on my lap, but slept from 10pm until 1am, then decided it was time to play until 3am. She did sleep until 7am, so not too bad but she had been sleeping through! Lovely DH took both the kids out as DD was going to Bluewater to have hand & feet imprints done. He's taking them out to Tesco in a minute so I can go back to sleep.

Yay star - well done.

MM - ds, dd and I all have stinky colds too. I can highly recommend the karvol vaporiser I bought this week (except that the back doesn't come off as easily as they make out).

MM - I think I deserve a better sleeper this time as I was still up 5-7 times a night with dd at 8 months!
I won't be changing name Aubergenie, as am too well known on the boards, but I have been known to tweak the 'Can't' to make 'Can'.

Thanks for clarifying who you are jrsqueak!

Oh jrsqueak! mum2jakeyroo!! I feel like you've taken a mask off Feel like I know you know
csws does dd not sleep through?
I cant wait for ds to sleep through.... dreaming of the day... as we live in a 1 bedroom flat (which we bought while market was good... now a bit stuck!!) he's in our room, so I wonder if that will hinder sleeping through as well. But much much easier to pop binkie in his mouth or pat back when he's in cot right next to us
aubergenie how awful that ds screamed through massage!
myjob not sure about that helping with growth, but I can tell you that ds has fed up until last night every 2-3 hours his entire life pretty much and he's gaining more than enough - I would say it works!

ha! I meant "know you now" not "know you know", of course

star - yes dd sleeps through generally, unless unwell or feeling a bit insecure/unsettled because of the arrival of a sibling .

Does N have a dummy as well myjob? I guess that a thumb has the advantage of not needing you to put it back in at night, but the disadvantage of you never being able to get rid of it.

myjob I know this sounds totally daft, but 4 months is how many weeks? I assumed 16 weeks was 4 months... so I thought ds would be 4 months next Thursday? But I think N is older than Q... just curious if I'm calculating this incorrectly because thinking about using and trying things that say "from 4 months" but don't want to act prematurely b/c of my poor math skills!!

star alex is 13 weeks but 3 months yesterday. some months have 5 weeks in them. i would go by birth date so if Q was born 2nd oct then he'll be 4 months on 2nd feb but 17 weeks iyswim

My god, I go out for the day and there are a million posts! It's just taken me 30 mins to catch up!

Definitely something in the water last night, Poppy did a whopping 9 hours straight!!

I've been out sho[[ing with DH and POppy today, Poppy's first shopping centre visit. Why do they make the damn floors so smooth?!? Which cafes do you all normally bf in? I cant summon up the courage! Just fed her in car in Tesco car park!

Spent far too much money in Mothercare - again - bought myself a Medela swing pump after all the MN recommendations. Also bought POppy a wetsuit so just need to get that swim nappy now and we'll be set! I haven't dared see how I look in a swimming costume yet! I've just weighed myself for the first time in a month asnd I've put on 4 lbs!!! Time to lay off the bf ing choc snacks I think!!

Also bought a babt sleeping bag which she is now wearing, thanks for the tips folks!

Excuse any typos, am typing one handed while side feeding on bed!!

Its quite nice having babies in the lower quartile Myjob isnt it as long as they are healthy cos we can use the clothes for longer!!

Re dummy, I cant get Poppy to take it for more thamn few secs, any tips? Dont want her to end up as a thumb sucker.

Would it be covered by house insurance Myjob? I'm sure it will be fine

Oh and Star, re development, I like this website for seeing which stage babies "should" be up to... www.babycentre.co.uk/baby

No tips for dummies here - I can't get ds to take one either.

Honeymoon - are you going to get disposable or reuseable swim nappies? If you want a reuseable one I have one that dd only used a few times that you're welcome to. I think it's like this one, although more of a fuschia pink. If you want it then email me your address details on CantSleepWontSleep at gmail dot com.

I'll feed pretty much anywhere honeymoon, but prefer cafes with comfy seats if poss, so like starbucks, costa, John Lewis etc.

How will the trampoline get wrecked myjob? Is it one of those big ones with an enclosure?
Is v windy here too, but I worry more about it waking the dc up!

Star - what things are you thinking about using and trying that say 'from 4 months'? I ask only out of concern that some food manufacturers put 'from 4 months' on weaning foods, when they really aren't suitable at all until 6 months.