October 08 - We didn't even notice the old thread was filling fast!

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Hoping you all find us soon!

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/jrsqueak - Boy - Joshua - 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
16th 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.

Sorry to new ladies - haven't added your stats yet.

Morning - just a quickie to say Hi from the pepper household. Should be picking up DS2 in 10 mins and DD still asleep..
Been potty training DS2 for a week, have cabin fever, but DD sleeping well at last, DS1 absolute monster but back at school today thank goodness.
take care all
I need a "getting arse in gear" emoticon.

CSWS - good call re not waking Poppy up, she slept through until 5.40 this morning! I think she was rather hungry though...by the time I'd changed her and given her the domperidone, renitadine and gaviscon she was rather desperate and "latched on" to my jaw!!!!! It was so cute!!!
Anyway, DH later said what's that on your face - she's only given me a bloody lovebite!!! I had to go for her second set of injections with a lot of makeup and a scarf on!!!

She was a trouper for the injections though, I bf'ed again. She's in a much better mood today (as am I!)

I've decided to go dairy-free , starting tomorrow as I need to go get some supplies in. I'm taking my mum with me who is allergic/ intolerant of loads of things including dairy so she'll be able to help. Is there anything that I can snack on like cake/ choc bars - flapjacks or anything like that? I'm gonna get loads of pistachio nuts and sultanas too because I like them.

CSWS your thread re lactose/ CMP has really cleared things up in my mind, thanks very much for that.

Will I need to worry about being deficient in anything, eg calcium as a result of this? DH is not keen on the idea for this reason.

BTW, my starting tomorrow has nothing to do with the fact that it's Shrove Tuesday today

hello all

argh find it so hard to keep up with everyone getting moving so quickly, and now Ethan's only napping for half an hour at a time I rarely get any time to myself (except to post panic threads in the sleep section!)...only on now because my mum's settling him for a nap!

Sorry for mums struggling with dairy etc - Ethan tends to be much more windy and unsettled when I have a mega load of dairy (so down to just one hot chocolate a day and not on the same day as a fat wodge of cheese) and I find that tough enough!

Taking him swimming this afternoon so desperately hoping he does go down for a nap soon so he won't be chronically overtired - also I think he's storing up a big poo to let rip in front of all the yummy mummies at waterbabies this afternoon!

As ever, will do my best to at least read to keep up

Just a quickie - which shops you going to honeymoon? For all of them check out the 'free from' aisle, but I can offer other suggestions depending on which one you use...

Honeymoon - M sometimes gets a bit frantic too but she has a tendancy to 'latch on' the wrong bit of boob. 'not cute and very OWWWWW! I end up with a nice bruise. That'll teach me to not watch what she's doing!

Poor M is not looking very pretty today. She has eczema on her cheeks and her forehead in addition to the puffy, yellow pusy eyes. Unfortunately she keeps gouging her forehead and is covered in tiny scratches. It looks like we've been sandpapering her head. We haven't, honest!

GWTMH - We really want to take M swimming but she keeps getting aliments which prevent it. I'm going to take her swimming costume back tomorrow as by the time she can actually use it, it will be too small!

I'm just going out the door to Tesco - any quick ones?

I'll have to go, I'll get them next time, thanks

Sorry, just missed you. 'Respect' organic carrot cake. Not in free from aisle, but is dairy free and v yummy. Look for a white box.

for conjunctivitis mm. for squirting bm in though - always my preferred cure.

Yay for Naomi sleeping through. I presume that your ds is a late riser too if you can stay in bed that late?

Is the potty training working pepper?

for Poppy going through too. And for committing to go dairy free. Sorry I just missed you earlier - am hoping that someone will have caught you with my fb message.
Can you get to a waitrose at all? The mini jam doughnuts from their bakery (bags of 10) are dairy free, but Tesco's ones aren't. If you like marzipan then W also sell 'Lyme Regis' choc coated marzipan bars which are yum. The 'village bakery' range is also good for cakes, but again W has a much bigger selection of these.
Anyway, let me know what you got and what you're still missing.
Holland & Barrett sell a soft 'cheese' called toffuti, which is ok, and can be cooked with. I bought some yest to add to a risotto, which I think I might make for tea tonight.
There's no reason to become deficient in calcium. Use a calcium enriched milk sub (rice oat or soya), sprinkle sesame seeds on roasted veg (yum), snack on dried figs, and eat plenty of leafy green veg.

at lovebite. Dd did that to me once too.

Welcome back GWTMH. How was swimming?

Thanks very much CSWS. I have some osteocare vitamins and I think they're OK to take so I'll take them to make sure.

I got my shopping, it's actually made me feel a lot more optimistic, I was amazed by all the things you can get. I did go a bit mad at the "free from" aisle, picked up all the lovely cakes that were "free from milk" then realised there was a separate label for "free from dairy" But I did quite well, got loads of snacky things. I was going to go to Holland and Barrett but decided to leave that for another day. I'm going to have a last splurge tonight, have just had my last toffee crisp, am having a lovely curry that I made earlier in the week then froze for tea then pancakes with ice cream Gotta go out with a bang, eh???

Oh I forgot to say MM - very funny re then I'm sorry to hear she's suffering so much then, give her a big hug from me!

Our nearest Waitrose is 25 mins away unfortunately CSWS.

I will do Honeymoon! DS is trying to avoid his eyedrops because he doesn't want to go back to school tomorrow. Mmmmmm....Toffee Crisp. I'm meant to be dieting at the mo, but you've really made me want chocolate.

I'm sorry! Try a yummy apple instead mmmm apple...

We're back to green poo and quite loose considering we're on gaviscon - anyone get this with injections/ teething/ both??

hello all again...DS is sleeping and has been for an hour (totally unheard of for the last few weeks)...normally he's having his bath by now then last feed at 6:30 and bed so not really sure what to do. Swimming was great, he was a bit hungry so a bit miserable but kept his pecker up (also I got bloody cold so am sure he was the same), clearly he's exhausted from the exercise.

Not sure whether I ought to wake him up, but he only fed at 5 so won't be hungry enough for a proper feed - I def don't want him sleeping for the night now (with all this usual wake ups) and then thinking 5am is start of the day, but he's horrible when I wake him up - which is fair enough I think!

Think I'll just leave him, if he wakes before 8 (when it'll have been 3 hours since he fed) I'll try putting him back down as early as poss and if he's still asleep at 8 I'll wake and feed him...ugh constant rejuggling!

Sounds like a good plan GWTMH. Poppy doesn't sleep much in the day either...even when I took her swimming!

I posted a new thread earlier to get ideas for dairy-free treats, I've got some great responses, may be useful for all you dairy-free girls?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/allergies/710508-Dairy-free-what-treats-can-I-have?msgid=14485638

And this is a good summary of lactose intolerance v milk protein - altho not as good as CSWS's!

Um...where IS everyone tonight???

We're all enjoying listening to you talking to yourself hmm .

It was Mrs Crimbles stuff I meant when I said village bakery - the other thread reminded me, though both have some nice products.

Ha ha!

Poppy just went for my jaw again!! I think she liked it!!! I ducked out of the way this time, DEFINITE growth spurt in the Honeymoon house methinks!!

I've been busy stuffing my face with pancakes with nutella. Yum!!

Great that you sound a bit chirpier HMM. Glad you got some good responses to your query.

Quick question I hope someone can answer. I've got some expressed milk that's been in the fridge since the weekend. I don't want to waste it, so I want dp to give it to ds when he wakes at about 10.30 so I can get some extre sleep.

Can we warm it now and keep the bottle in one of those insulated bottle thingies that come with your changing bag until then? It could be in there for a couple of hours. Will that be safe? I just want to avoid ds screaming the place down until it's warm. Thanks guys.

I don't know Aubergenie sorry.

I've just eaten 4 pancakes and a lovely pint of milk, I feel very sick now

I'm off to bed anyway, dairy-free here I come!!

Night all, hope you all get a good nights sleep!