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.

I had a completely spherical boob Myjob! I feel like a dariy cow now, I might go into business......There was a thread discussing whether you'd sell your breast milk. There was an article in a magazine about a women who sold her breast milk to those strange men who dress up as babies. She got £10 per 100ml, so I would have made £30 in half an hour. Not bad I suppose....

Sorry to hear you'd ill again myjob. I seem to have had so many colds this winter. I suspect that M is nicking all my viatmins and leaving me with nothing to fight illness off with.

I am too MM, I've given up trying to express!

DH just took Poppy out for a walk and she cried the whole time, then stopped as soon as she saw me [smug emoticon]

Blimey MM - You are milktastic. I thought I did well to get just over 5oz this morning.

Pepper - I've got a mini greenhouse and it's fab. I've got all kinds of veg seeds (hopefully) growing away in there at the moment.

I'm so sleepy today, despite getting a bit more sleep than usual last night. Dp has taken ds out for a walk. I think I might curl up on the sofa and have a little snooze.

Aubergenie - I meant to say thanks for telling me about your friend who went on to have two babies with one ovary. I'm just a terrible pessimist so always expect the worst!

Stop being jealous hmm and myjob - there has to be a perk to having to carry these enormous things around with me. I'm sure they're as big as my bum! They weigh 6lbs each, N didn't even weigh that when she was born did she? (before you ask, I got DH to hold them when I was weighing myself)

I bet DH thought it was Fathers Day

afternoon all, we had alex baptised today, it was a lovely service but i nearly punched my fil. he is such a pita, he said that if we have anymore children that he wasn't going to the baptism coz it was all mumbo jumbo. i told him that it was important to me and i never asked him to do anything ever, not that he would anyway. we were having a small do at my parents after and he didn't want to go to that he wanted to go to the pub, my mil made him come in the end but he sat there and hardly spoke. grrr and argg now breathe..
my dh has had that d&v bug since friday, he's lost 6lb in 2 days! so i've not really done much today, went to church this morning and then to my mums, i brought him home so he could go back to bed and i took the kids to his gm as she's been ill and couldn't come today.

Star - poor you, but men don't get these things.... If its any consolation, last year dh was ok (I dropped loads of hints mind you!) but this year he totally forgot despite my reminding him every day last week . Still, we had a good day doing swimming this morning & spending this afternoon working in the garden.

We just spent a week with my grandmother in northumberland which was great, we had lovely weather & she loved meeting matthew.... I've spent today trying to catch up & can't remember anything I read

Sorry to hear about your fil heather, but I'm glad the service was good.

thanks ekka. there's more i can tell you, the man is a knob! after our wedding breakfast was over he went and got changed out of his suit as he said he was uncomfortable. i made him go and put it back on for the pictures!

The thing that scares me Heather is that men turn into their fathers . My fil is basicaly an alcoholic. He used to drink two bottles of whiskey at home each week and have 5/6 doubles in the social club before he went home, every day. At my sister-in-law's neice's christening he got so drunk that he couldn't stand up. So, I know where you're coming from.

Pistachio - I'm too protective of my 'stash'! I just keep adding to it. I'm not sure if M will take a bottle as we haven't tried since she broke my nipples when she was a week old!

Hmm -

Thanks everyone I love MN.
DH made up for it all later in the day, once he realized that it is special to me since it's my first mother's day. You're all right. Men are stupid. They just need to be told what to do!
We had a lovely Mother's day lunch and walk around with Q then a lovely dessert while Q napped.
All I really wanted was "happy mother's day" and I want to hear him say that he thinks I'm doing a good job as Q's Mother. I know it sounds silly . High expectations. But it all turned out ok in the end... once he got over himself and realized the day was about me, not him!

Myjob - I hope you're feeling better soon!!

MM - wow! Q weighed less at birth than your boobs. Amazing! I think mine wouldn't even weigh 1lb total.

I'll buy all of your extra EBM!!
I need to go to bed. So I can get up at 4.30am and express enough milk for Q to drink while I'm at work!

Evening ladies.

A fairly good day here. I got a lie in until 6:30. We had the in-laws for lunch, who annoyed me by phoning to say that they were stuck in traffic as far away as they live (40 mins) at the time by which they were already supposed to be with us and sitting down to dinner . Was nice once they were here though, as dd (nor us obv) hadn't seen them for 6 weeks whilst they'd been touring Oz and NZ.

Ds has continued to amaze me with his eagerness to consume all 'normal' food. Today he munched cauliflower florets enthusiastically at lunchtime (plus some other veg that he'd tried before), and then ate a hummous sandwich for tea. There's nothing like introducing 2 known allergens at the same meal .

Glad that everyone else seems to have had a good day, and that yours improved star.

MM - next clothes sizing is utter crap. We've had clothes from them where the 12-18 month stuff has fit dd at about 5 months, and some 6-9 month stuff fit her at about 18months-2. In fact today she wore a skirt for 12-18 months from them (she is 3, and a hefty 3 at that, wearing mostly age 4 stuff), and she still sometimes wears one for 9-12 months .

Hope that poorly mummies and babies are better very soon.

Glad that you have now realised that DF has made a diff hmm, and that we didn't nag you to try it for no reason!

Evening all. A flying visit as DH wants his laptop back. LOL at weighing boobs. Glad everyone had a nice day in the end. DH made lunch and washed up which is a real treat. We then went out for a drink this evening as my mum is here.
Very of some of your expressing abilities. I only seem to manage half an ounce at a time unless feeding DD.
Bed now. Good luck all.

That's well done for D eating all of those solids, csws!
I can't remember if I shared this with you or not, but Q CHOKED on a rice cake on Sunday. Proper choke. he had gotten most of it to mush but bits came off and got to his throat... there was gagging and no breathing for a few seconds, then coughing again then blotchy face and no breathing again and I put my finger in to clear his airway and tipped him on his tummy in my arms and patted his back... it was incredibly scary. He'll be on purees until age 18. Anyone know what you're propery supposed to do if your baby chokes??

Oh, and he's learned to fake a cough.. it's really quite funny!!!

D is amazing CSWS! M still isn't fussed about food. She'll have a good go then completely lose interest. But then her brother does have a tendancy to distract her.

Star - Had to laugh at the idea of Q being on purees until 18! I always intended to do a baby first aid course as DS often shoved too much food in his mouth and would choke. But he grew out of it very quickly so I never got round to it .

Is there any way to stop a 5 month old screaming in a shrill high pitched oprea singer style? She's happy when she does it and I'm sure she's just playing with her voice but dear God it's loud!

I don't mind when she's playing with her toys or in her baby gym, it's when she does it in my ear thats the problem! Ouch!

Putting your finger into his mouth to try and clear it is actually exactly what you're not supposed to do star (not telling you to make you feel bad, but so that you'll know for next time), as this can push the food back into the throat and cause more choking. A bit like if they get a pea stuck up their nose (and you'd be surprised how many do!) you mustn't try to stick anything up to get it out. Patting his back was good though, and a bit of tipping up doesn't hurt. If that fails and it's looking serious then there's a place on their chest that you should push/hit with them on their backs but tipped slightly up on your lap. Tis hard to explain, but expect their are pics to be found on www - will search later.

Thank you for telling me that, csws. I am a bit angry with myself that I had the "instinct" to sweep it out with my finger... and you're totally right!! That doesn't make any sense. We were in a panic. But VERY good to know for next time. What do you mean tipping up? I'm going to look this up online now. If you give birth in a hospital, they should teach you this before you leave! I think I'm goign to wait until he's more confident with purees before giving him anything like a rice cake again.

Isthis any use to you Star? I plan to do a couple of courses myself including baby signing.

Since I teach young children, I am first aid certified for children... but not babies. Thanks MM, I will look into that. Would be very useful.
How very that even knowing first aid for children, my instinct with my own child was actually something that could hurt him! Please don't tell any of your RL friends about that. How awful.
I'd like to learn baby sign, too!

Watch this star .