October 08 - Growth spurts and rolling and sitting and stuff

[CantSleepWontSleep]

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.

x post star.
I didn't express milk for my rice pudding - I used rice milk.

CSWS - how much did you give him?

I felt like he could have eaten 4X the amount I gave him... but the package said 1 tablespoon milk to 1 teaspoon rice...

Far more than I thought he'd eat!! At least a couple of tablespoons of rice, and I added a bit more milk to it to cool it down/make it less sticky. He then whinged all through our dinner until we gave him one of our (chip van) chips! He is so obviously not our pfb, as there's no way that we'd have given dd a chip at this age!

I?m enjoying all your weaning exploits! I haven?t given ds anything yet as I don?t think he?s quite ready for solids. I have to say he?s hungry though ? He?s not feeding as often, but he drank me dry before bed this evening.

Sorry to hear about your ds purpleflower. How did you get on at the doctor?

Oh Pepper ? it?s all happening at yours isn?t it!

Ds slept for 6 hours straight last night. Longest stint he?s done so far. Trouble was, I went to bed late so didn?t get the benefit. I?m going to toddle off now in the hope he repeats it again tonight. [Fingers crossed]

What's the difference between baby rice and normal pudding rice?

Baby rice is, iirc, cooked rice that has then been dried and flaked, so that it forms a smooth paste (resembling wallpaper paste in both appearance and taste) when reconstituted. Rice pudding, however, is a yummy dessert for grown ups.

lol at the chip csws
your descriptoin of the baby rice made me laugh! I'm such a fussy eater myself, that, sadly the baby rice description sounded more appetizing to me than the chip van chip!!
So, csws it's ok to give them more than the tablespoon that it says on the package? It certainly didn't inhibit his bedtime bf at all. he drank as much as usual

From the best night ever we went to the worst night ever DD woke at 3am (after the 10pm,11pm,12,1am,2am) and decided to stay awake! She has just had a half an hour nap and is awake again.

I think I may try her with a bit of food today, it means a trip to tescos to get some new weaning spoons though as DS's are really scummy. Should I give her baby rice first or would just some carrot be ok? I was thinking of trying at lunchtime so if it upsets her tummy it's not while she should be sleeping. I can remember being excited with DS but I'm nervous with DD
We haven't even got a highchair yet though, the local bootsale starts on sunday so we are going to try and get her one then.

They had booked DS in with the nurse not the doctor and all she did was send a sample off and tell me to call back on wed afternoon. She was very dismissive almost as if I shouldn't have taken him bacause he is fine within himself. No bad nappy yet today and it has been first thing normally so fingers crossed he is getting better and I can go and meet my cousins DD soon

That sounds horrible pepper, I hope everyone is better soon.

Hi everyone - thank you for your kind words - it has been a bit grim, but I only had to get up once in the night and we de-camped to a friend's today who wasn't bothered about chicken pox so all in all, I feel a lot more human.
Parked outside the local shop this afternoon so I could dash in and buy bread while kids in car (I hate leaving them in the car but what can you do?) and then, huge embarrassment at the till when I had no money !
Cue emptying pockets etc to rustle up #2.91 (splashed out on brocoli as well..)
Curiously, several of my keyboard keys have swapped places. @ & " are a direct swap. Try as I might I can't find the pound sign - it must have done a 3 way swap. Sigh.
Anyway, you'll have to guess my symbols!
I hope you have a better night tonight purple and DS stays horrid nappy free.
csws I laughed a lot about your giving DS a chip! was it ronshar who couldn't bring herself to puree one? BLW is clearly the way forward jenwa hope you are feeling a bit brighter today.
myjob I suspect if I ever start to wean DD she'll eat loads and make me feel guilty for not starting sooner!

Purpleflower ? re high chairs. I don't know if you're anywhere near an Ikea, but I gotthis one. It?s only £10.99 plus £4.00 for the tray (although it?s the perfect height for our table so we don?t really need the tray) and it?s absolutely fine. Just thought I?d mention it if you?re looking for a cheap one. It also comes in red or white.

I just got some banana flavoured hipp organic cereal. it says 4m onwards... is this diff from the rice other than banana flavour? cereal vsrice? can i give it to him?

star - if it says 4m+ then it should be fine. The packets I have seem to have corn as well as rice if they're called @cereal@. Just check the ingredients.
Or mash up a small amount of real banana and mix with baby rice...
Obviously that should read "cereal"

myjob what did you mix with cereal - it says cooled boiled water? Or ebm best?

when can they have those buscuits that turn to mush that they can gnaw on? And what are they called?

i could not find rice milk today as csws suggested. Just hand expressing milk into a bowl to mix w/ rice at moment! a bit unladylike

star - if it says boiled water you need to use water - not milk. They're carefully formulated so keep an eye on the instructions!

thanks that makes sense one more silly question... if you use bottled water, do you still have to boil it?

Star - I think you may have to be careful with bottled water and babies. Something to do with the sodium level. But someone more knowledgable will hopefully be along soon.

Are you thinking of rusks?
Mine have all loved them, though I suspect they are considered evil for sugar content etc!
I suspect they are the baby equivalent of sausage rolls in the world of mumsnet

I think aubergenie's right - I've only ever used boiled tap water. On holiday I've boiled bottled water but had to research which were suitable.. unfortunately baby brain has erased which one we used (This was DS2, 2 years ago..)

yuck, sausage rolls! I'm going to look into rusks. I think it would be great to be able to give him something to gnaw on that he won't choke on.

Bottled water contains too many minerals for babies. Evian the best in an emergency, but cooled boiled tap water is the way to go .

Rusks are evil. Take a look at the ingredients star - yuk yuk yuk.

Are you avoiding giving Q dairy when weaning too star? I presume so, so do check the ingredients on the banana cereal, as many of them contain dairy. And check that there's no gluten, as that should be avoided until 6 months. I bought an organix apple and rasp cereal today, which is milk free, and made from rice. It will turn into pink gloop and make a huge mess I am sure .

Ds ate most of a boiled new potato, about 3 sprouts and a bit of broccoli for tea, largely without help . I did cut the sprouts in half and give them a little squeeze for him first. His new high chair arrived today (finally - we had to cancel our original order and get it from somewhere else), and it suits him so much better than the temp one that we had been using (same as your Ikea one Aubergenie). He tended to slump forward a bit in the other one (would be fine in a few weeks I'm sure), but sits much more upright in this.