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.

Morning all! Nice to know I've been missed my absence was noted...

I think you all know where I stand on Poppy being left alone - she's pretty much not! Altho she is getting better, I got a super-duper new cot mobile (mothercare jungle animals one £5!) at the NCT sale and that is doing a good job of keeping her in her cot for 5-10 mins without screaming!

Am off for lunch with a friend soon then my second osteo appt is this afternoon... sad, I know, but I'm really looking forward to it, I just want to get back to normal!

I haven't mentioned this before because I thought you would all laugh at me, but we think Poppy has been saying "Hiya" since she was 3 months!!!!! DH has been saying it to her at bathtime since she was about a month old. I got it on film the other day, I'll put it on FB sometime. I know that sounds ridiculously early but apparently I started speaking at 3 months. She's not said anything else tho so maybe just sounds like Hiya.

My DD1 is convinced William answered her the other day by saying yeah! I hope not, it should be yes not yeah.

William will roll around the floor given the chance. You put him down on his Fisher Price thing, come back in 5 mins and he is underneath the table!
We have teeth coming out. Wierdly it is the upper eye teeth. The pointy canine ones They are causing all kinds of problems. I have given William's first ever paracetamol this morning. Mostly so he could get a little sleep. It has worked for 45 mins and now he is awake again. Eating his toes in his cot. He obviously isnt as tired as me.

HMM. I am not pimping your beautiful girl. Just trying to help with the vomit situation. Honest. I double checked the cereal box and it isnt completely dairy free. It is made with follow on milk. It only needs water to make it into porridge. So ingnore me anyway
I firmly believe that everyone makes their own parenting choices and it isnt for anyone else to judge.

I am up for a trip to meet everyone else. And all the babies. We can watch while they roll around a pull each others ears

Wow, red nose emoticons! Cancel my lunch appointment!!!

Indeed hmm, I started a thread about it!

at all the rolling babies. S can roll onto his side, but his arm gets in the way of him rolling any further.

I had a ridiculous night last night. My upstairs neighbours came home quite late and were hanging out of their bedroom window smoking. Their window is directly above ours and the smoke was coming into the bedroom, even though our window was shut (just shows how badly insulated our flat is). S was snoozing happily and I was lying there really worried that he was breathing in the smoke and was going to suffer a cot death because of it.
Once they'd gone to bed I got up and opened the window to air the bedroom out as it was stinking! I was thinking of saying something to them about it, but in the cold light of day it seems ridiculous to ask someone not to have a fag in their own home. I am going to have a word about them chucking their fag ends on my garden though.

Myjob - yes that is the same cube. He loves the songs and things and is just starting to get big enough to turn it over by himself which is nice.

Aubergenie - it does fold up but doesn't go much smaller. It is quite compact when completely taken apart though and only took me about 5-10 minutes to set up (no screwdrivers etc needed) so it's not too bad. Its diameter is slightly wider than the width of a doorway, so takes up a little more space than a small clothes airer. I believe it's the smallest freestanding bouncer (looking at the hop n pop etc). We have got the tiniest front room ever though and it fits in a corner! It probably wouldn't had we not recently removed one of our sofas. I can post a pic if you want but you'll have to excuse the mess

Ha! You should see the state of our place Cherry! I was thinking it might be something that could be folded away at the end of the day rather than something that needs proper assembling. Thanks though.

I?ve just made a lovely, dairy-free chocolate mousse made with?..

Avocado! Absolutely yum. I?m going to test it on dp tonight (he doesn?t like avocado normally) and I bet he can?t guess what it?s made from. The oil in the avocado gives the mouth-feel that you get from the cream and egg in a normal chocolate mousse. Dead easy as well. It took about 5 mins. If anyone wants to know how to do it I?ll type up the recipe.

I'm allergic to avocado. Sounds good though, I can imagine it would give good texture.

That's a very cute pic! She has loads of hair!!! Is Jessica the only nearly bald baby???? She still has the fine downy stuff from birth but with a bit of extra fluff.. she's doomed to be fluffy like me .
We had a marginally better night last night - I only got up 4 times and DH was able (with much moaning and groaning) to get up and help a couple of times. So his back is a little better.
Poor DD has some terrible terrible spots on her bottom and ladybits - they almost look like small ulcers, I'm slathering them in sudocrem at the mo (which a doctor friend recommended) and she did say they'd look awful before they got better. But she had her appetite back a bit today and drank a few bottles at last.
I've moved onto gin!
Tomorrow I've got a back massage booked - I am so excited and desperate for it that I could cry! How sad is that?
HMM - how was osteo?
Hello jrsqueak nice to hear from you (we have pox too).

Love the photo!

Oooh, aubergenie I'd love the recipe if you have time to type it up!!!

Ronshar - here's the NCT 'schedule'.

At 6 months:
On waking - milk feed
Breakfast - baby rice mixed with usual milk & pureed fruit + milk feed
Lunch - milk feed
Tea - milk feed
Evening - milk feed

At 6.5 months
On waking - milk feed
Breakfast - baby rice mixed with usual milk & pureed fruit + milk feed
Lunch - Pureed veg/fruit + milk feed
Tea - milk feed
Evening - milk feed

At 7 months
On waking - milk feed
Breakfast - baby rice mixed with usual milk & pureed fruit + milk feed
Lunch - Pureed meat & veg + pureed fruit + drink of cooled boiled water
Tea - Pureed fruit/veg + milk feed
Before bed - milk feed

But they also say that mid-morning & mid-afternoon baby may want a milk feed & thats fine. Right up to 1 year, they suggest the milk feeds at breakfast, tea and bedtime, and on waking if thats what baby wants (though obviously the types & amounts of food suggested at the meals changes - I thought I wouldn't take up the whole thread typing it up . This was pretty much what worked for dd as she was in a steady feeding schedule.

With ds I reckon I'll be just giving him his usual feeds and starting with one feed & adding solids for a week or so then upping it to solids at 2 feeds, then at 3 feeds. Dd did just gradually cut down on the milk she took until she wasn't interested in feeding with/after her meals. In fact by the time she was 1 she was down to feeding on waking plus a feed mid-morning and a bedtime feed. But I have a feeling ds may be more stubborn about his milk.....

Wow for canines already ronshar. Dd was nearly 2 when she got hers!

Yes please for recipe aubergenie.

Just took a look at the photo myjob. Go Naomi!

I don't like the new facebook. I can't work out how to get into my groups again!

Sorry, that was a mammoth post and really, really dull!! But we don't have much exciting going on here at the moment (apart from pureeing lots of butternut squash!).

Pepper - Matthew has a fine down, but sadly the weepy bits are back on his head so most of it is covered in goo or plastered to his scalp so he looks pretty bald! Ouch for Jessica's spots, that sounds nasty. And am very about the gin - I love a good G&T

Myjob - love the pic of Naomi sitting, so cute! Matthew still gets a very wobbly head when he gets excited about anything and wobbles himself over before he gets at all balanced . I think he has a way to go on the sitting front!

Oooh G&T. I haven't had one of those for ages. Must get some gin in.

That weaning thingy was interesting Ekka. Thanks for typing that up.

The avocado mousse was a success. DP had no idea what it was made from. Even when I told him to guess (chickpeas??). I'm going to work on the recipe and adapt it slightly. I'm thinking it might be good with melted dark chocolate, but here's the one I used. The avocados need to be really ripe and squidgy. Like the ones they sell cheap on the market that are nearly going brown inside.

3 very ripe avocados
50g cocoa powder
50ml water
100ml maple syrup/agave syrup (a low GI, fructose alternative to sugar, available in health food shops. Also called agave nectar, I think)
I tablespoon of good vanilla essence

Throw the lot into a food processor/blender and whizz up until smooth.

I served it with some raspberries out of the freezer.

I keep crying at Comic Relief. All those poor babies with malaria. Awful.

I know what you mean aubergenie. I've been upset at comic relief before but I'm seeing it for the first time thro a mother's eyes. I feel very very very lucky right now.

I know what you mean aubergenie. I've been upset at comic relief before but I'm seeing it for the first time thro a mother's eyes. I feel very very very lucky right now.

can you have a glass of wine while breastfeeding? I'm even asking! Off to bed now... but just wondering if I could in the near future. I haven't at ALL since being pregnant/breastfeeding. Iknow there is no research to say it's harmful. Any to say that it's not harmful?

I don't know about the research Star but I'm tucking into my first sip of red wine in 2 weeks! I just buy the mini bottles and I've had a third of one of those tonight with a glass of water, I've never had more than 1/3 in a night. I'm sure that'll be OK, you can probably have more if you want!!

Feel quite now as I've had about a third of a normal sized bottle of wine HMM. I go with my memory that I've read somehwere that the alcohol doesn't stay in your body long and only a tiny bit will get through in your milk. I'm sure I read that it's ok as long as you don't go totally over the top. Smudgy sticks her fingers in her ears as to anything else because I NEED that glass of wine on the odd evening!
I keep welling up from Red Nose Day too. One at the moment about 1 in 8 women in Africa dying in childbirth. What a scary statistic thinking how many were on our thread. 50/50 for babies living through it too.
Sobering thoughts ladies, sorry.

I don't watch comic relief.

A bit of wine whilst bf is fine. If you search for posts from tiktok on the subject she has written plenty .

Thanks for recipe aubergenie.

I'm sure that'll be fine Smudgey, you can take your fingers out of your ears now - or indeed, open your eyes!!!

I saw that re childbirth too, scary. I had to turn it over when that baby had breathing difficulties.

Poppy slept for over 11 hours straight last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She has a cold tho which prob explains why.