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.

I eventually found you all this morning! I posted a nice supportive post for Star and then my computer decided to throw a wobbly so I gave up!
Star. I just wanted you to know you are not alone. It took me nearly a year to get back toit after DD1 was born. She was a very traumatic birth for me and I ended up with full induction, waters broken, a really fast drug regime, an over enthusiastic midwife who wanted me to hurry up and then the world and his mates having a look inside me whilst my poor DD was dragged out with Ventouse!
My DH was so horrified by it all he refused to come near me for months and then whenever we did have crap sex it was painful for me. After a long time it just got better. We now have 3 children and 2 perfect deliveries without any drugs at all.
Sussex is just below Surrey, I can get to M25 in 40 mins from my house on the coast.

If anyone wants to have ice-cream by the sea when it warms up you are more than welcome to come for a visit
I have just read in the Lancet about the latest research which said that if you use Calpol/paracetamol too often, more than once a month, you dramatically raise the incident of asthma & excema!!!! WTF.
I a more worried about all the stuff my poor boy had put into him this afternoon. Nasty immunisations
I hope every one is ready for more snow. It is supposed to be back again in the morning.

You'll have to let me know the date, and if I'm up there then I'd def be up for meeting up.

Has the changed - I thought it looked a bit odd earlier too, but can't place what's different, if anything (am in classic mode).

Warwick Castle is always good for a summer meet up CherryChoc.

Sorry/pleased (delete as appropriate) to hear about your job Lozza.

Dd and I seem to be improved today, but dh is ill now too!

CSWS I hadn't thought of Warwick Castle - funny how we ignore the things on our doorsteps! Nice and central though and just off the M40.

Myjob I know about the weaning, I said that to the HV and she just said "Well you would think that, but it makes a difference on the charts". Them and their silly charts! He's not exactly wasting away! Only 2 months and 1 day (Or 8 weeks, 4 days!) until he is 6 months anyway - oh and she also reckoned my milk was bad quality because I don't eat. I'm just going to follow my original instincts and feed on demand, letting him join in with mealtimes when he can sit reasonably well in a booster seat, when he is ready. Thanks for saying though! Am really annoyed that I even took him to be weighed today, but DP was concerned he wasn't gaining at all so I did. The funny thing is he isn't worried now!

I hadn't heard of Tysoe, had to google it, it's not far away from me, but I don't drive and it is a bit in the middle of nowhere. I live near the town centre, about a 30 minute drive from Tysoe according to google, or there are bus connections to Stratford.

Honeymoon, did you find the charts? They are here if anyone else needs them. I found it quite interesting to plot Ryan's weight gain on these charts compared to the standard ones.

Crap. I just compared DS to the Kellymom charts and he is way down on his line! Way down. Even more than in red book. Whats that all about?

I love castles I wish I lived near you guys

CSWS, your house is under quarantine. A nasty sick bug has attacked you all. How is Duncan?

Heather, I would persever(sp) with the Creche. All children are unsure at first, remind DD that you will be back to get her and how much fun she will have there. It will give you some great baby time.

Lozza, are you pleased not to be going back to work or will you miss it loads?

Myjob, congrats for the move up in clothes. I looked through the Kellymom stuff and it very firmly said if family is little baby will be little. You must be a beautiful skinny wench then

Star poor you, I do remember that it wasn't great the first time after dd was born & I used to have to really consciously relax myself beforehand for ages! Its not so bad 2nd time round, though as I'm sleeping in with Matthew we aren't exactly getting much opportunity! I'd second the counselling idea.

I'd definitely be up for meeting up sometime

Bother, got to go as ds is really unsettled tonight........

Ronshar - haven't looked at the linked charts yet (but assume they are NCT ones that I've seen before), but I have said before that bf babies tend to grow quicker early on, not slower, and then even out further down the line, so that's why William would be further down the line at the moment.

I spoke too soon about dd, as she was sick again in the night.
Funnily enough, Duncan is absolutely fine (barring his cold). Bf is supposed to offer protection from tummy upsets, and it seems that it has in this case!

Bit worried about the additional snow overnight and forecast for next few days. Can see people not wanting to venture out for dd's party.

Oh, forgot to mention that it appears that we've hit the 4 month growth spurt (ds 17 wks tomorrow). After an initial 3.5 hr sleep, ds mostly slept for around 40mins at a time last night, with the odd hour thrown in. He was having a good guzzle at each wake, not just a couple of sips then dozing back off. I suspected that he was building my supply up a couple of days ago.

Warwick castle good for me too

myjob I am WR2 and there are 2 soft plays here. WR14 Is malvern so only 15/20 mins away.

Will def be good to meet up.

Jenwa - which soft plays are good up there? Have been to the one in the old co-op, but don't know others in Worcs.
Just spoken to mum, and may well be coming up in half term.

Thanks everyone for support. It is comforting to know that I'm not alone. Trying to get counseling. The last counselor basically said she couldn't help and that i needed cognitive behavioural therapy (and she blabbed confidential things to the GP with the door open!). I asked about another counselor but they said that's the only one attached to their clinic. I'm going to contact the consultant at hospital that I had during pregnancy and see if he can come up with someone.

Bored of snow now.

I agree pepper. Lets hopeit melts soon....

We've been at the docs for Matthew again.... His cradle cap has gone all yellow & weepy so they took a swab to see if there was a fungal/bacterial infection (yuk!). We also spotted that one of his finger tips is really red & sore & is infected somehow so he's on more antibiotics, so we'll probably have another week of nasty nappies/sick & little or no weight gain. Plus he's got yet another cold, like the rest of us... Can you tell, I'm feeling sorry for myself today?!?! I may be joining you in trying to go dairy free csws, I'm very sick of giving Matthew medicines.... I think its clear he's nowhere near weaning though - he can spit out pretty much an entire dose of medicinedespite our best efforts - thetongue thrust reflex is working good & proper

Hope the nights settle down for you soon csws, growth spurts are a real pain! Hope you are all feeling better soon....

I'm here again. Have been making carrot cake for the grown ups at the party. Need to make a second one later too, and the choc one tomorrow.

Oh, and I can probably beat 14 feeds, but haven't been counting. No wonder we have such big boys pistachio!

Hello. I've been to Bluewater today so no Mumsnet for me! We bought Martha some of those socks with little bugs on them that help them to 'find their feet'. Martha has been fasinated by her feet for weeks now so I thought they would be a hit. But no..... they are really annoying her as she can't reach them to play with them! Our snow has pretty much melted away now, everything looks horrible and dirty again!

DH has picked up his appointment request for his vasectomy! However he has just been reading about the side effects and I fear he may change his mind. DS's face has got worse! Apparently the face painter did skin tests on SOME of the children but not all. That's not much bloody use is it?!

been making a snow man and washing loads of clothes and playing with DD1 lots today.

csws there is another in st johns where the bowling place used to be (near car garages) It is also ok, food bit naff but food naff in them all. There was a fantastic one in Malvern but it closed nearly 2 years ago, that was big and fun.
madhatters (old co op) is good though, they are all just noisy!

think there is also one in sheriff street by shrub hill although not heard brilliant things baout it, quite dirty and also in kidderminster.

There is a pub (manor farm) and they have a ball pit/small soft play which is ok.

myjob sounds fab. Scary to think about Sept though and how little ones will nearly be 1!

I shall be cross if it snows again tonight. DH has the day off tomorrow as it's my (ridiculously old) 40th birthday .
Plan to spend most of the day Sulking Big Style.