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.

evening all.
what a day. my dd has croup the poor thing, she's in a right state. dr was a waste of time. grrr

have booked alexs baptism. he's being done on mothers day, which is funny as dd was baptised on mothers day 2 years ago!

Awww poor DD. Croup is horrible and so scary. I don't think there is much that drs can do irc. It's just a matter of getting some humidity in their room to help them breath. It's horrible to listen to your DC struggling like that. .

HMM - mmmmm....fish and chips. Can't tell you whether they are likely to have dairy in I'm afraid. I have lost about 4lbs so far this week, probably because I have no time to eat now DH is away!

CSWS - I promise to be a good girl and won't post on the old thread anymore. But I do like to have the last word. .

MamaG - Mmmmmm barristers. They're so charming and old-worldy. I used to shock the older caseworkers because I was so cheeky to counsel, they loved it though.

Myjob - I showed my mum the picture if N in her gown and she said that N looked like a little china doll.

I am hoping that M will give me a break tonight. She's so tired poor little thing. I took her for a walk in her pushchair and she screamed the whole time! Yay .

, and - Felt I had to use them all....

You'd need to always check with them hmm, but I wouldn't assume it was dairy free unless they say so. Of course down saaarf we don't have gravy on our chips, so I've never needed to ask.

No babies here myjob!! I know you all think I'm crazy. But ABSOLUTELY NO MORE CHILDBIRTH for me. I have the chills and shortness of breath just thinking about it. When we are in a financially good position, we will seriously consider adoption, but no more childbirth.

Q is sleeping. DH had a job interview for next school year (needs to get into a better school!) and so he had Q for the afternoon after that... so Q did not nap! House is a complete train wreck, but Q and DH had a GREAT time together I should be happy that at least DH loves spending time with Q. he thinks the world of him and loves him more than anything... I think he might love him as much as I do, although I don't think anyone could...
But I DO wish he'd take cues from me about when I need help with little things - especially housework!

lol MM!

gravy? on chips?
yuck.
chips. yuck. I don't like that yucky film that stays on your tongue / in your mouth after you eat a chip. Sorry, is it blatantly obvious that Im teh world's pickiest eater?? I truly am!
I just had Quinoa with Pak Choi, aduki beans, cherry tomatoes, mushrooms and tofu. With lime juice. That's vegetarian AND dairy free! And it was delicious!

oh! And I've started eating a flapjack most mornings and a piece of wholegrain bread with my dinner and (when i can remember to pack it) with lunch - thanks to all of your lovely suggestions! And weight is now more steady (not losing anymore, thank goodness - that was scary!) and I'm feeling like I have a bit more energy and able to make more milk. But now worried about gaining....

at gravy on chips!

Re croup, if your baby is really struggling, you could get comfy on the bath room floor with a hot shower running to really get some steam in the air? Apparently my Mum heaved a mattress onto the bathroom floor when my sister was tiny!

Pistachio - I think you should accept the award, as Harry was a CS and looking at the list it says you had a homebirth - wow

Mmmm chips. We just had curry (homemade) and onion bhajis (also home made. I've been very busy today). Yum. I'm now making some yoghurt in the slow cooker.

Heather - croup sounds awful. I really hope it gets better soon.

We had a breakthrough last night. I managed to keep ds in his Amby ALL NIGHT (fanfare, please!). He fed at 11.30, 4.30. 5.30 and 7ish and I had to get up a lot to bounce him back to sleep, so I didn't get much rest but I really need to get him in the habit of sleeping in his own bed. My back can't take any more co-sleeping and I'm walking like an old lady.

I'm watching a programme about urangutans and there's a woman wheeling a load of baby ones around in a wheelchair. They're so cute!!

Quinoa. Yuck.

Sorry to hear about croup.. NHS helpline told me steam not good idea for young babies but dunno how young.

Aubergenie - I'm watching that too! I was watching them wheel them in a wheelbarrow & thinking that we should have saved money on our buggy . But I think 6 babies at once might be rather too much!!!

CSWS - not exactly wet nappy issues, its just I've not really been keeping track, so I had a panic this morning! He has done 6 today, but a couple were barely wet, so I'm going to watch him closely tomorrow and see. If there are any issues we'll be at the docs asap (I think we should have a regular weekly appt specially for Matthew at the moment). He seems bright enough and happy and chatty, so I hope it continues. Am on the full works - fennel tea, fenugreek etc plus making sure I drink lots and I'm trying to eat plenty of healthy foods. I'm just hoping this is a blip related maybe to my D&V virus last week?

Heather - how horrible, croup sounds awful. It must be so hard for you as well.

My guilty secret is KFC Zinger Tower, chips & gravy.

I am now loaded up with HIPP jars. Should last for a while. Boots have a triple points offer on baby stuff.
On my way back to the car my pram broke. In the middle of the street!! How bad is that. Poor William had to be parked up like an old broken down car. He thought it was fab.
I was shocked to notice William sitting up on my lap without me holding on to him. When did he change into a big boy

Myjob, I am also in the no more babies club. Three is so much more work than I thought it would be. I love them all to bits but I think adding another one in would tip us me over the edge

I LOVE gravy on chips. We are having chinese tonight and am waiting forever for it to arrive and I am starving.

Ryan was due 29 September.

We have had an eventful day today. I went to a coffee morning and met a lady by chance who I had previously seen at the home birth group. It was lovely to chat to someone who doesn't think I am mad for co-sleeping and carrying Ryan in a sling and doing baby led weaning! We swapped numbers so will probably go for a coffee at some point.

But then on the way home (had a lift from my NCT friend) we got rear-ended by a van on the dual carriageway. Thankfully everyone was fine and even the car wasn't too bad (we were slowing down suddenly because of the traffic in front, it seems the van was a bit close) but was just a big and ended up hanging around for 3 hours in A&E waiting for the babies to get checked over.

Domestic goddess award goes to aubergenie. And healthy eating award goes to star.

Yay for all night in the Amby. Think I'll prob end up selling mine on ebay. What a waste.

Really must go and look at that korma recipe you posted on the last thread...

Eek CC - scary even if not hurt.
Is there a branch of the LLL near you? You can find lots of likeminded types that way.

thanks for the good wishes. dd is 2.4, she has sat on the sofa all day and barely moved except to be sick, put her to bed at 7 and she is bouncing off the walls!! she has lost her voice the poor thing but she does sound so cute. i've had to cancel her 1st ballet lesson for tomorrow as well and we missed my friends little boys 2nd birthday party today

Poor poppet Heather.

Can I ask a dumbass facebook question for those of you who use it more than me? Is the only way that I can see which groups I'm a member of, and navigate to them, to go to my profile page, click on the 'info' tab, and scroll down to the bottom? I'm sure it was much easier than that before the fb revamp. I'm hoping that there's another way to get to it, as I can't see that page when I'm using fb for mobiles.

MamaG - we have a fb group for us Oct girls which you're welcome to join. We just set it up last week.

CherryChoc How dreadful to be in a crash ,thank heavens the LOs were OK. Can I ask you about co sleeping? I have fallen into it without planning, do you hold your baby? I have my arm round DS2 but it is starting to make my arm ache, but I'm worried if I don't hold him he will wriggle somewhere while i am asleep

myjob Naomi isn't that much lighter than Ollie, are you still worried about her weight?

CSWS how do I find the face book group? I am not very good at this new fangled nonsense

hedgepig - not sure whether the group shows up on a fb search or not. Try searching for mumsnet oct. If that doesn't work then email me on cantsleepwontsleep at gmail dot com and we'll sort it out from there.

I cosleep too, but I don't hold ds, except when we both fall asleep with him on top of me! He just lies next to me (on his tummy) on one side, and I have the duvet trailing off the edge of the bed on the other.

does he stay put. DS2 ended up on this tummy on my arm! this morning don't know how he did it as he can't turn over on his ow in the day time.
Can't get the search to work I will email you

oh my god, ds is watching cbeebies... I need to get him sorted for the day so I just put him in his bouncy chair in front of it

yay for whole night in amby aubergenie
myjob remember that N is fine if she's content I know easier said than done - how long ago was the last weight check? seems like ages ago, but may have been recently.. I can't recall.
Q is 16lbs and I think he's huge! at 21lbs. You must be in fantastic shape!

CC ? Sorry to hear about your accident. So glad you?re all OK! It?s nice to meet someone in RL who has similar parenting ideas as you, isn?t it. I think a lot of my friends think I?m mad to co-sleep and, although I?m trying to stop because of my back problems, I would definitely do again in the early months if I had another baby.

I?m just enjoying getting back into cooking again. I used to do it for a living before teaching, and I get all grumpy if I don?t have regular time to cook and experiment. I should make the most of it, because, once I?m back at school I won?t have time again.

Hedgepig ?I also co-sleep. We use a bed guard and I only pull the duvet up half way and use a blanket on my shoulders. I put ds in a grobag on a small towel so I can pull it and manoeuvre him around if necessary without waking him. I don?t hold on to him but I do automatically curl around him leaning on my lower arm (if that makes sense). I feed him that way, and then tend to drop off to sleep, knowing that I won?t roll on him. Trouble is, it?s doing my back and shoulders in! I find that I?m quite sensitive to his moving around and wake easily but he tends to keep quite still while he?s asleep. I suppose all babies are different aren?t they?

Sorry that was a bit of a tome. I?ll leave it there. Have a good day, lovely ladies.