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.

Honeymoon, one of my NCT friends has just started running again, she got a jogging buggy and goes out with her DS once or twice a week to a running club she belonged to pre-pregnancy. I think she spoke to her GP to discuss postnatal exercise and he recommended she went on a postnatal pilates course, as the teacher is trained in postnatal recovery, so she advised her when it would be safe to run again. Perhaps you could ask HV/GP/local gyms etc if there is anything like that near you?

Great news about N's weight gain myjob. Agree with everyone who said you should write down the key points that you want to cover to give you more confidence when you have your appt.

Ekka - that sounds scary. I hope ds is better soon.

Heather - I can sympathise about the piles. Ouch! I don't think you should have to suffer them for life though. When I went for my check up the doc prescribed me "Anusol HC" which really helps shrink them (Sorry ladies. I hope no one's eating!). If your doc won't prescribe you anything, you can buy "Anusol plus HC" over the counter at the chemist and, I just had a look, the active ingredients are almost the same.

Thanks CC, good idea but I've been to pilates before and I'm not keen. I am starting a postnatal yoga course though so will see how I get on with that. Plus intend to do Davina again tmrw when DH takes Poppy for a walk. I took Pops for a walk this morning, really stiff now!

Yeah, I thought the same thing about the piles Aubergenie/ Heather, I hope to god it's not true anyway!!!

TBH the thing I was really dreading was any form of incontinence and I seem to be fine on that front.

the gp has given me a cream for the piles. he gave me one called xyloproct, which is ok, but i got piles after dd and they came back with ds.

Piles are such a PITA

Ok ladies I read the instructions. Thank you for your help piss taking.

CSWS that article really confirms what I had been thinking all alone with William. He always sleeps better when we have had a quiet day at home than if the girls are running around!

We do not have to go to the HV clinics. There is no legal requirement to attend. My HV told me to only go at least 1-2 monthly. Or phone if I have a problem!
You can go to clinic just for weighing etc but leave without speaking to HV.

Ouch for those with piles. Not nice.

Thank you for all your kind birthday wishes - I'm slowly getting over a mega-sulk about being 40 - it just seems so ridiculous to be that old. Secretly I suspect I'm maybe 32 but in a cruel timewarp.
Anyway, I've only been to the clinic once, when DD was 6 weeks old. She seems fine, she eats and she's slowly getting bigger. No idea what she weighs .
Hope everyone ok this evening.
x

pepper - maybe you've swapped ages with me. I'm 32 next Sunday but feel much older!

The end of a very busy day. Very crap night with ds last night. Have been awake since about 4.15am, and up properly since 5:45.

Dd's party was a success I believe, though the hall was very full! Poor ds got somewhat neglected though. He was tired but only managed a little nap. He didn't even get fed very much, so was prob hungry too. By bedtime tonight (at 6:40!) he was desperately tired, but consequently didn't feed very well, so I expect he'll be up again in a couple of hours.

He had the strangest poo during the party though. It was enormous (pooed again whilst I was changing him), but whereas they are normally very runny, this one was very thick, almost putty like, and he was crying whilst doing it. I don't think I've ever seen baby poo like it tbh, so not sure what it was all about. I presume he was constipated a bit, and wonder if it is related to me feeling dehydrated since I was ill earlier in the week. He's had a more normal poo since thankfully.

hi - csws - joe had 2 poos like that last week when we both had a cold and i guess we would have been dehydrated - looked a bit like clay, wierd. Sorry you had a crap night - hope tonight is better

God, when did our lives become a discussion about poo???!

I'm glad the party wwent well CSWS.

Saturday night woo hoo! I'll be asleep as soon as Poppy is!

Wow, you lot have been busy chatting. We've had a few busy days. DS was 2 on Thursday and we had a little tea party at home with 3 of his friends. it was lovely and he liked his tractor cake (cue DH and me up until 1.30 the night before being creative!). He was full of cold though and ended up waking up at 5 the next morning so we're absolutely shattered. Sounds good for milk supply myjob. I tend to do the switching thing for the last feed and through the night in the hope that A will sleep a bit longer. She's really unsettled this evening though so not sure what kind of night we're going to have. Not much snow up here but we did manage to make a snowman on Monday. DS seemed quite confused when there was just a carrot and hat left by Wed! Sleep well little ones

ouch for piles! Anusol PLUS did the trick for me. It has the thing that makes them shrink.... regular anusol was ineffective.

Congrats myjob on all of the milk you're getting into Naomi! Sorry about the lack of sleep, though

I developed Mastitis last night (AGAIN!) My Dad and wife arrived yesterday morning, DS wasnt' feeding as much as usual during the day... we went out for dinner and my left breast was very painful, but just let him feed from it. By the time we got home, I stood up to get out of the car and my whole body felt awful.... I was achy all over, had all over headache, shivered and could not warm up (despite being under blankets in a very warm room!). still a bitshivery and very achy. head pounding and fever slowly going away...
i called nhs direct and then out of hours dr rang me bsck. i have to go in on monday but for now i can take antibiotics leftover from last time i had it (20/10) - yes i KNOW i should havefinished course last time - it just got better and i forgot!
Yuck not nice to feel like this

Oh dear Star, sorry to hear about mastitis. Are u managing to feed OK? I thought (from parenting classes at hospital) that they gave you strong painkillers when you had mastitis so you could feed through it? Have u got painkillers?
Poppy wouldn't take her first gaviscon this morning so cue vomit-fest . Hopefully she'll take one after this feed.
Paed tomorrow - I'm rather excited about it!!! Do u think he/ she would appreciate a record of her sleeping/ feeding pattern? I've written it all in a notebook since she was born, anyone else sad enough to still be doing this???

We are a delightful bunch aren't we? Piles and poo!

Oh Star, you poor thing. I remember my sister having mastitis and it was awful. She said it was the first time in her life she felt really, truly ill.

I got a Kari-me sling yesterday and I LOVE it!!! My Close carrier is going on Ebay, as ds seems to have outgrown it already. A friend with a 10-month old tried the Kari-me with him on her back and said it was really comfy, so I'm hoping it'll last for a while.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend everybody!

I kept a record with dd honeymoon, but am not with ds.

Aubergenie - in what way has ds outgrown his close carrier? They are supposed to last for years! Although my last few wearings have seemed to result in ds' head being in front of my neck or face .

Sorry about mastitis star .

Ds slept for nearly a whole 2 hour stint from 3:50 this morning, during which I couldn't get back to sleep at all, despite being knackered - grrrr.

Dd's b'day today. We're going out for lunch with both sets of grandparents.

CSWS - I know! They're meant to last much longer than this and ds, although chunky, is a pretty average weight. I find that in order to get him in tight enough the rings at the side end up pulled quite far towards the front and I can't pull the straps any tighter in case I catch his feet in them. Because of this, the last few times I've worn it, ds has slipped further and further down and I've had to hold on to him as he doesn't feel secure. I've unthreaded and re-threaded it and I just can't get comfortable for any length of time. He was carried in it every day for the first 3 months and I felt a real sense of loss that I couldn't carry him in it any more. You're not having the same problem then?

Oh no, haven't had that problem at all. Have been too afraid to unthread it so far (but really needs a wash now!) just in case I can't get it back together again. Have you tried switching it to the last position where the rings are on the shoulders rather than by the feet?

It's just started snowing again here! Poppy is vomiting quite badly today, hey ho. Feel so bad fo her when she vomits then starts screaming.

Still shivering here... canNOT warm up!! Fever still pretty high. Too scared to take temp. Taking antibiotics and feeling mildly better but even carrying Q around for a minutes is exhausting. I feel like I'm going to vomit when he's feeding. I just want to die. No I don't really... but I want this to end.