October 08 - Growth spurts and rolling and sitting and stuff

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Here we go again...

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 -
5th Oct - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
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
9th Oct (Due 17th) - Marthasmama - Girl - Martha - 7lbs 10oz - Elective c-sec
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.

Thanks CSWS, I just typed a long message on the old thread, that'll teach me to be so slow!

Hmm - I'm not in finance anymore, well I quit to take a 2 year career break, which is up in June 2010, but whether they will find a job to offer me is debateable. I don't actually think I want to go back to my old job, but I'm trying to debate what to do. As I'm 12 years younger than dh, I should go back to work, but I'm still trying to think how best to do it....

hiya - couldn't catch up with all the other posts. Have asked for a re-referral for Joe to paeeds as he has been sick, sick, sick this last week depsite gp upping his domperidone. He also still has some head lag and has trouble sitting upright enough with support to eat solids, so i've not bothered trying. Ironically, today he has barely been sick at all and has been able to eat a little carrot etc. Hv encouraged me to start weaning as he's 25 weeks and as he has been really grumpy/hungry this last week. So i offered him some puree at teatime yesterday and, after a few tentative attempts at me shoving food at him, he grabbed the spoon and shoved it in his mouth!! He cried when it was all gone too and i had to let him chew on the spoon. I have been starving the poor boy . He's been much better today so i hope it continues.

A few days ago, someone mentioned their dc had a mouldy chin....this morning Joe woke up with a really red crease under his double triple chin. Its all shiny and looks really sore. I've cleaned it with cooled boiled water, dried it thoroughly and put sudocrem on. What have other people used?? How long did it take to clear up as the fold is soooo deep (my son is very chubby) no air ever gets under there. Also we are planning to all go swimming tomorrow but shold Joe go if his crease is so red raw?? Should i just slaver it in sudocrem??

Its snowing loads here so i can't wait to see ds1's face tomorrow morning when he gets up. I didn't mention the forecast to him, in caase it was wrong, so it will be a total suprise

Is it windy where you are girls? It's really bad here! I keep worrying about DS's trampoline, oh and the massive tree in the garden next door.

Loulou33 - yes, DD has a good few chins too and her red bit was weeping . I did the same, cooled bolied water and sudocream. When it started to look better I put loads of vasoline in the crease to stop sick getting in there (I think sick casues the problem for M and it makes sense as sick is acidic). Hurrah for the weening, I am looking forward to it!

HMM - I'm going to need a bigger gap than 18 months as my body is rubbish and having had two c-sections now I need to wait at least two years before trying again.

CSWS - Told DH you said he was dishy, he laughed and said not anymore! . I do really feel for you with your terrible nights. I have been so lucky with M (touch wood) and I still feel tired. Plus you have DD to look after. It must get better soon.

Oh and have noticed that Martha and Arthur were born on the same day! Arthur was a possibility for DD if she had been a boy!

Oh dear Loulou, I'm sorry Joe has been so sick. I hope you don't have to wait too long for the paed appt.

Can you take him swimming but keep his neck out of the water this time? I used sudocrem when Poppy's neck looked red and it's really helped.

Congrats on the weaning tho, how exciting!

Ekka I would LOVE to take a career break after I (hopefully) have a second child but sadly can't afford it. Could you just do a few days a week or something?

I'm off to bed in case we have a bad night, g'night all!

Hi all, hope you don't mind me posting now and then. I'm more of a lurker than a poster.

CSWS ~ Just to update your stats, DD was due 26th Sep and her name is Rebecca Jill Erzsebet.

I'm really broody for another one but we have said we will have a bigger age gap this time. We were thinking to aim for around DDs 3rd birthday as it would just be strange for us to have it any other time in the year, it would be really funny to have another on the 4th of october to follow the birthdays on. Around DD's 3rd birthday would mean that DS would be at school, DD would be about to start nursery and I would get some time with the new one.

I had to get a double as DS wouldn't really walk anywhere and I'm getting rid of my car. I got a phil & teds and its great.

DD still isn't sleeping well at all. She has been waking 1-2 hourly since new year. We have managed to get her to go 4 hours by giving her 1 formula feed at about midnight but that has only happened a couple of times as she won't take the bottle from me and DP keeps falling asleep and I haven't been able to wake him

Hope all the other babies are doing ok

Oh hello I didn't know this existed! I wonder if my BabyG was the biggest baby...!

Yes he was teh biggest baby - and ahem I had 24 hours of labour before my emCS. Just so you know...!

loulou, BabyG is a little chubster as well and he gets taht awful red bit - I agree with teh cooled boiled water and sudocreme, it clears it up really quickly.

I feel like I'm choking him when I lift up his chins to clean it!

Morning! Just popping in so I'm on the thread. Back later...

Yes CSWS I have had a variety of jobs, but CPS and HO were similar. Here is my favourite barrister. He was absolutely beautiful, much more so than in the picture. He had lovely green eyes . He was also such a flirt, he would touch my hand a lot when we were talking. I used to blush when he phoned me, the whole office used to crack up! I would have put this message on Facebook, but I don't know how to link the picture on there!

Ah you are here. Thank you CSWS for a sparkling new thread.
I am off out to stock up on baby jars. I am a lazy moo and while I cant just about cope with the girls eating chips etc I draw the line at mushing them up for DS.

loulou, goodluck with weaning. It has reduced massively the amount of sick I am covered with.

Barristers can be very charming. When I went to Court with them, I would often be pink!

Afternoon all, that last thread went fast! My computer has been crashing randomly for 3 days - some kind of facebook v firewall thing apparently, and I've missed loads!
DS2 still has pox, DS1 has been at home for 2 days with a huge spot on his cheek that I've now decided is a zit not a pox, checked with the school and they were fine to take him. The pair of them at home were driving me up the wall.
DD is adorable even if I say so myself, she spends a lot of time trying to catch her feet, can't roll over or anything yet but is full on milk drinking at the mo. All the mouldy bits cleared up with sudocrem.
Was it myjob who mentioned not being pregnant aagain? Don't worry - you won't be alone - I am def not having any more! 3 is lovely and what I always wanted, but it's such hard work, most of the time I seem to be surrounded by laundry and poo .
Ronshar - I'll be weaning in a similar way! - but not yet cos I can't be bothered with all that faffing around yet

Joe's neck crease is better today but decided against swimming due to an impromptu visit from in-laws.

hmm - you may think weaning is exciting but Joe has ruined 3 white t-shirts of mine in the last two days with carrot sick . you wait until you're covered in orange sick and i'll remind of how exciting it is!! He has been a lot less sick the last two days and i am hoping it continues. The paeds have agreed to send an urgent(ish) appointment but now feel like a neurotic mother as he seems so much better!

Myjob - no i will not be having anymore babies either, so you are not alone. i sometimes wonder about having another but docs have advised against it due to rhesus thingy. I am also fed up of people saying that i WILL want another one (usually in response to me saying two is enough) because i will want to have a girl.....this really annoys me for lots of reasons (there is no way of 'getting a girl' just because i have 2 boys already) but i worry for Joe when he's older that he might think i wanted him to be a girl iyswim. I did wonder shortly after Joe was born, and they told me we should be very cautious about having more, what we would miss out on not having a girl but i don't really think about it now until people insist on going on about it.

Right off to soak my carrot stained clothes and puree some chips pear for tonight's tea.

I have an orange Tshirt I shall wear all summer for weaning. HMM - never underestimate the staining power of the humble banana either...
Bizzarely we have bright sunshine and HAIL here at the mo

Found you! thanks for the new thread CSWS.
I had ollie weighed today an he is happily pootling along his 2nd centile line and is 12lb 13oz at 21 weeks.
loulou I have finished baby making too, 2 boys are fine I don't have any desire for a girl. LOuLou my neighbour had 4 boys before finally getting her daughter.

loulou, the cautionary tale comes from the guy who did our fence - he & his wife had 2 girls about 1 yr apart then decided they'd try for a boy. They ended up having twin girls!!! He said after that they decided no more kids

Not having a great day here, stressed about matthew (obsessing about him having enough wet nappies) and every time the poor lad opens his mouth he gets my boob shoved in... Got turned away from the toddler group this morning as it was full - unfortunately the woman in front of us was the last one in so dd had seen all the toys etc, cue her getting v upset when I had to take her away . Still, she's off to her cm this afternoon & ds & I are off to coffee with some mummy friends, so things are looking up!

I've never heard of a toddler group being full before!

We're certainly done with baby making for the time being, and as far as dh is concerned, for ever.

Nice of you to join us. What kept you?!

Yuk for orange white t-shirts loulou. I must remember to wear some of my many already stained clothes when I wean ds, although I'm hoping that blw will be a bit less messy than purees. Pepper is quite right about bananas mind. They leave black dots galore on clothes and muslins.

Ekka - Matthew hasn't been having a problem with lack of wet nappies has he?

Ds and I spent this morning at a La Leche League meeting. I left dh a list of jobs to do, and in just over 4 hours all he managed to achieve was to clean 2 bathrooms not terribly thoroughly.
He did have some good news re work though. His old client called to see if he was still available and able to start some work for them next week, although they aren't able to say what yet (because it's prob hush hush rather than because they don't know!). It should be for somewhere between 2 weeks and 2 months. Even if it's only 2 weeks it's still great news, as they will pay his full daily rate (lots of ££!), whereas he may have had to drop it for other work. We presume that it may mean being away again though, which is obv a big , particularly with it meaning that dd won't have company at night to stop her from coming down and disturbing me. We should find out more later in the week.

Yes, i'll prepare an acceptance speech now!

I suspect Harry might be the biggest baby stil - not been weighed for 4 weeks but he was just under 21lbs a month ago! We shall see what he weighs tomorrow.

I'll join the "no more dc!" club as well - 3 is definitely enough. Love them all to bits, but my childbearing days are definitely over!

Hi all, quick question - is chip shop curry and/ or gravy usually dairy free???