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

[CantSleepWontSleep]

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 was at a building society Honeymoon. It was truely dreadful.

CSWS - sorry ds and dd aren't letting you get any rest. Joe is also trying to sit on his own (although he's 24 weeks today) but he tends to tip forwards as well. Its wierd as last week i thought he couldn't really sit up even with help as he was slouching a lot and today he sat up between dh legs just supported a little bit. his head control is better and he's also rolling a lot and can get across the room in a few mins!! DS1 never rolled from front to back at this age and we always had to help him over but Joe seems to have mastered it quite quickly. we went swimming again today but joe struggles to keep his head out of the water when swimming on his front - still has some way to go with the old head control then. he's not bothered by it or having his head ducked under so i'll have to keep going. he even reached for the side today and was kicking properly (usually his legs just dangle and i do all the work) ... right i'll stop bragging about my baby
hmm - well done on the weight gain

This FB thing is funny. I'm never going to remember your names!

Ooh I meant to say MM, nice wallpaper in the background of your profile shot!

Aubergenie I've just been looking at your pics. I love DS on the bumbo. The photo quality is amazing, what camera do u have?

Thanks HMM. I'd love to take the credit for those pics, but they're all DP's work. It's an old Canon digital SLR (300D). Fortunately, he's a really avid photographer so we've got some really lovely shots. His mum lives quite a long way away so he's always taking pics to email her.

I keep meaning to get a digital SLR, is it not sold anymore then? Tell DP he's very talented

Thanks I'll tell him.

His is a discontinued model and already 5 years out of date. The equivalent these days is the EOS 1000D or 450D.

Yeah, I'd just looked myself. A friend who's into cameras has told me about one so I'll prob get that.

csws I have heard nothing back from MN, not sure I emailed right person! Thank you though, I feel such a twit! Was too excited about all this FB and not paying attention.

It's gone jenwa. I got a response back to my 'report this post'. For future ref, don't just e-mail them, click on the exclamation mark next to the post.

I have joined the group on facebook. I have also found you Marthasmummy and I have added Star only because I recognized your name from earlier
I am too daft to try and work out who everyone else is. I have sent random messages to people I dont know before because I thought they were friends. I try to only communicate with people when I am really sure who they are now. (Doofus emoticom)

Grr indeed Honeymoon. Bloody HVs. When I take M to be weighed (which I must remember to do tomorrow!) they are astounded that I don't need them. They hover around and ask me about five or six times 'are you ok?' I don't know why they think I need to be asked constantly. If I need help, I'll ask them!

Thank you CSWS and Aubergenie for your comments on my wallpaper. Our house is Edwardian with lots of Art Nouveau features so the bold florid pattern is a modern attempt at keeping with the period, IYSWIM. Sounds poncy doesn't it?

dontcha just love a 5.30 start to the day?

cwsw thankyou. Yeh they never emailed me back. I was so worried last night too and still feel stupid. I will learn! Thanks for that though
sorry you were up early too, hope it was the only awake time? Better night?

Right off to get ready and out to meet a lady I dont know today, will fill you in later.

Have a lovely day all.

Morning all. No CSWS, I don't love a 5.30 start to the day! I hope that was the only wake up, cheeky DS! M had started waking up loads in the night again but for the last couple it's only been once. D is only a day younger than M so maybe it's a 19/20 week thing.

Sounds mysterious Jenwa!

csws - we have a 4.30 start most days but not nearly as many wakings as you have - so I get my fair share of sleep... I have no clue how you do it!
Jenwa - no worries!!!! I'm glad it was removed tbh just because of things I have said about friend and her situation - wouldn't want anyone I know to put it together as it's not public knowledge, but that would take some serious searching by a very nosy person to figure it all out Don't feel badly, I prob would have done the same thing! And ha ha about thinking my university network was my MN name That made me laugh!
I'm loving seeing what everyone looks like on facebook. What fun! I posted a pic this morning (a mobile upload and it's a bit fuzzy, but one of my favs of DH reading with Q...it makes me teary looking at it! I'm such a sap!)

yes, jenwa, can't wait to hear about the mystery lady!

Awww it is a lovely pic Star.

lol at the idea of 5:30 being the only wake up. There were about 6 before that!

Curious jenwa!

csws I think i'd throw myself out the window for the night at this point if I were you!

Morning ladies. Great looking at you on Facebook.

I got very excited when William slept all night on Wednesday. All night from 7.30 - 6.30. Unbeliveable.
Last night back to normal. He woke up at 12.30. Ihad grand dreams of being able to read in bed again. I was going to be able to go to the loo at night without walking into the cot and banging my toe. All those dreams shattered. I am going to have to share my room for a bit longer. The bright side is that when I wake up in the morning I get to look straight into the bright blue eyes of my baby and he gives me a great big smile. The best way to start the day

Jenwa, where are you going??? How exciting.
How many of you are going back to work soon? It is almost that time again.

No back to work for me ronshar. I quit my horrible job in January last year so that I could concentrate full time on finding another one and help my DH out with his IFA business. One week after quitting my job I discovered I was pg! EXCELLENT timing . So I'm going to have to start from scratch when I go back. I am thinking of re-training I was going to do a PGCE but the timing was all wrong and am now thinking about midwifery. But I need to do some more research first because of the lack of MW jobs. I've got to do something, a philosophy degree doesn't really lend itself to a career! We think that we're probably going to keep M in with us until she's 1. We're so pathetic that we don't like the idea of her being in her own room. It's so far away from our room. Luckily we have big rooms in our house so the cot fits in out of the way.

CSWS - Was DD as wakeful as DS? I was thinking it might be a boy thing as my DS was wakeful until 8 months, but DD has been better

M has gone back to sleep on my bed! I'm meant to be taking her to be weighed today but I don't really want to wake her up. It's the only time I'll get to myself today as DH is out until 1am at a conference. He is on a five week course as of Monday so I'm going to be a single mum during the weeks.

Csws - you poor thing. We had a few weeks of horrendous nights of waking about 6 - 8 times a night and seem to be coming out the other side (I hardly dare type that, as I know what happened last time I bragged about ds going 5 hours. It was the one and only time it happened!). I really hope that it's the same for you.

I've had some really sad news. The sister of one of my best friends was 6 months pregnant, but found out that her baby had died. She managed to convince the doctors to let her have him at home and her, her partner and my friend did the whole thing by candle and firelight while the midwives hung back. She said it would have been the perfect birth if only the outcome had been different. I can't stop thinking about her and bursting into tears. I've got a card her that I want to send, but everything sounds so trite I've got no idea what to write.

Got to go and do some cleaning. Inlaws coming down from up north later on today and the flat's a tip!

Oh Aubergeine that is so so . Poor woman. How brave of her and how totally heart breaking to go through her perfect birth like that. It's made me feel teary too, it's such a terrible thing to happen.