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.

You can buy creamed coconut.

Whats happened to mumsnet! Its all new!

Thanks csws!
Loving the new MN
GREAT night last night! Not as good as the good sleepers, but good for us
I'm at work - figured out how to put MN on my computer and wander over to check posts when I get a chance (snack, recess..etc...)

Star - creamed coconut is quite widely available. If you've got an Asian food shop near you, they should have it, but I'm sure they have it in our local supermarket. It comes in a small block (about 70p).

Jenwa - I was a bit thrown by the New Look Mumsnet. I'm not good with change this early in the morning...

Talking of BLW, does anyone know if the Gill Rapley book is any good? I was thinking of ordering it from amazon.

I've heard that it's good if you are the sort who likes a book to read, but there's nothing in it that can't be found on Aitch's blog or on here.

Hello ladies.

I'm going to try BLW, it seems to make sense to me. I doubt wile babies would have had puree. And the happy coincidence, DD will be 26 weeks on Maundy Thursday, just in time for a fun Easter meal with the family!

I've got a lot of catching up to do with you guys!

Honeymoon - Did Poppy enjoy swimming, even for the short amount of time she was in the water? My DD is a real water babe and DH wants to take her swimming but she still has quite bad eczema.

DD has started waking up in the night more which is great . She was, don't hit me, sleeping through but alas no more. She has started making some new noises but....still hasn't rolled. I figure she's just lazy.

I meant to say I doubt wild babies.....

Thanks CSWS - I thought so. I've been looking at Aitch's blog and it's very comprehensive, isn't it.

BTW - I went on a very good course at my local Sure Start centre on heuristic play for babies and treasure baskets. I've started putting one together for ds. There's some info here if anyone is interested. The nice thing is that a lot of the items are things you have around the house.

WTF is going on??? Took me 3 mins to find this thread and that's 3 mins too long IMO!

CSWS, call me old fashioned but I prefer to follow instructions on medication

MM, I wouldnt go so far to say enjoyed, there was another baby in the pool for the first time and he was laughing and splashing, he was 4 months. Poppy was just mesmerised, watching the other babies. But she's not smiling and splashing in the bath yet either, the only reason we know she enjoys it is because in the early weeks it was the only time she stopped crying!!

We're going to docs tonight for 4 week review of Poppy's reflux, 6 weeks since she diagnosed and she's still regurgitating most of her first feed of the day I've just changed my work Bupa to cover her so I'm gonna ask for a referral to the paediatrician. Looks like it'll be renitadine, or however u spell it!!

It was our wedding anniversary yesterday (I didnt get the journal done so it'll have to be late, gave him a Clangers DVD instead!!

We're going for our first post-Poppy lunch out together, so fingers crossed!

I feel like i'm on another MN planet. Almost set up the sat nav to find the thread...

hi all, am struggling with new look mn - don't like change!!

Honeymoon - the reason they say to make gaviscon in advance is that it settles slightly if left once mixed. neither of mine dc have had any ill effects from making it up in advance. i used to do two at a time...hope you get some help form gp/paeds this week

Joe is aslo showing 'signs' of weaning but i am ignoring them at the moment. He has finally stopped waking every 2/3 hours at night but only becuase i gave hime some extra hungry formula when he woke at 11pm which broke the habit iyswim. he slept for about 10 hours after that . Last night, i fed him at 7 and he woke at 5am - wouldn't go back to bed mind but i had 7 hours bliss last night.....hope others are getting more sleep, if not sorry for rubbing it in...i am with you in spirit on the night shift if not in body...

Hi all.

I quite like the new look - there is an option to customise it at the top of the page and I tried all 4 options out and picked my favourite. Just remember to click on "save changes"!

I'm hoping to take DS swimming soon. I read somewhere that they grow out of the dive reflex (ie the swimming underwater thing) by 6 months so have been trying to teach it as a learned response in the bath, he seems to like it unless DP takes him by surprise.

Those of you who have taken your DCs swimming already in public pools, did you bother with a wetsuit? Our public pools are all really cold (DP's friend works there and said it's about 28C) and I read somewhere if you are taking a young baby swimming the water needs to be over 32C or you should put them in a wetsuit so they don't get too cold.

I really need to tidy up before our tesco delivery arrives....

Oh myjob i really feel for you.... weight gain and feeding are so emotive. What did the health visitor say?
Sorry i don't have any advice....

myjob are you breastfeeding or bottlefeeding?

oh myjob - am sending you a big hugs and i'm not one for hugging usually...[loulouhugs myjob]....i can't understand why only half an ounce - has she been poorly at all...didn't she have an upset tummy and temp last week. She may well have lost some of the weight she had gained in the previous weeks. Its a shame its a friday (why do they do jabs/weight clinic on a friday ffs??) and i'm guessing your hv hasn't been in touch today??
I'm going to say what i said last time...she's happy, contented and sleeping pretty well. In a few weeks she'll be 6 months and maybe you could get away with just adding a bottle in here and there once she starts weaning to avoind giving up bf altogether....go to go ds1 grying over something

take care
xxxxx

oops missed a bit out, i meant to say...'m going to say what i said last time...she's happy, contented and sleeping pretty well and that's a pretty good sign that she's 'thriving'.

Hang in there myjob... without the weigh in you were comfortable that she was happy and your instinct counts for a hell of a lot. Hopefully the HV will have some constructive advice.

have you considered bottle feeding her expressed breast milk at all? It may be an option to top her up in that way without introducing formula, which would disrupt your supply... I'm no expert though... where is CSWS?!

Myjob, definitely get yourself over to the breastfeeding/bottlefeeding board for some advice and support - I have got a link for you to read as well: Increasing weight gain in breastfed babies

As LouLou said, it sounds like if she is happy and contented you are doing fine and you shouldn't worry - I know that is much easier said than done though, especially when they faff about with their silly charts.

Also just thought of one more thing - do you usually get her weighed at clinic but this time had her weighed at the GPs? Was she due a feed when she was weighed? Different scales can account for a lot of stress!