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.

Star - I'm not sure how he got them (I haven't got them by the way ) but I'm not going to tell you how their life cycle works as it is yucky. Awww, little boys love their willies and it's fine for him to play with it. They even get little erections sometimes - tee hee! You'll have to get used to it I'm afraid! You'll never stop a boy playing with his wink.

DS is all clear now thanks to the tablets, phew! M hasn't got them so hurrah for that too. She has been eating a bit more and definately wants to feed herself. I ate a chocolate cookie last night and she went crazy trying to grab it from me. She then threw a massive strop so we gave her a rice cake and she scoffed it down. I have also discovered that she can sit up on her own but she is more interested in eating her feet so collapses down to grab them. When I held something she was after up above her head, she sat up, without support to look at it. She is so lazy!

Awww I love the picture of N eating toast. DH says awwww too, he thinks she's gorgeous.

I wonder how the CSWS family are doing....?

Cute, myjob! I'm so jealous of the toast! I can't imagine giving Q anything but puree after the choking incident. It was heart stopping.
LOL about M being lazy MM!

oh goodness.... back to breastmilk only

I'm having a hard time trusting myself re: weaning. I'm reading annabel Karmel... but I still feel like I might not be doing it right. By which age does Q absolutely NEED 3 meals a day? And is it ok to do more, smaller feeds? I thought this was a healthier wayt o eat, anyway?? Do GPs know about this?
I need to make appointment. I missed Qs third round of jabs two weeks ago and no one has called me to reschedule . In fact, no inquiry or anything since he went for his second round of jabs.

I was thinking that too Star but only because of the horrible poos that are coming out!

Star - trust your instincts. You know Q better than anyone else so you know what approach to take. M is having milk first thing, a bit of baby cereal with us down stairs, then more milk, then a bit of lunch but for the rest of the day she just has milk as she is usually a bit too tired to make the effort. A bit of a delay between the jabs is ok I think but you should get it sorted. Nothing surprises me about GPs anymore. I never had a letter reminding me about my smear, I had scan results sat at the GP's for two weeks before anyone bothered to let me know, I have changed my address with them four times and they STILL get it wrong! Oh and I have no HV!

Oh forgot to tell you. I was sitting next to another MNer when I had my haircut. She has confirmed it! She was impressed with my memory, hope she doesn't think I'm a crazy stalker [not a crazy stalker emoticon]

star - worms are usually more prevelant in preschool and nursery children. they catch them from things like soil and sandboxes esp if cats have access to them (ie to poo in!) they can also be picked up very easily from person to person on things like towels and bedding which is why they recommend to treat the whole family when someone catches them. the reason young kids get them is: they get them, scratch (as they itch) don't wash their hands and then put their hands in their mouths and so the cycle continues. Q will get them at some point, along with nits!
i work in pharmacy and see people all the time with them, they are really common and nothing to be worried about. promise!!

also don't forget that milk is the main food until they are 1 year so don't stress about about they 3 meals. it took me 4 weeks to get kennedy on 3 meals, so rice for 1 week, then puree for 1 meal 2nd week, 2 meals 3rd week and 3 meals 4th week. after the 4th week we introduced lumps, and they got lumpier and lumpier over 2 weeks. so after 6 weeks she was eating solids like finger foods and pasta etc. after that we indroduced snacks as well and dropped milk feeds until she had 3 meals and 3 milk feeds a day. hth

Hi all

Eek to worms and willies! I am glad I am not checking willies and bums!

csws hope all ok, what a nightmare for you and all the work you have had done

star I never knew that about men in america either!

Right sorry its short but DD2 has just had a poo so better go sort her out.

Yes Star Q WILL be playing with his willy. DS1 used to pull his so he could see it properly. his little tummy was so big that he had to stratchit quiote a way to see it and DH used to wince each time.
Right go to go for a kip as Joe was up at 4am this morning with a cough and refused to go back to sleep - aaaahhhh. He has laryngitis again from squealing all the time - i have no idea how to stop him doing it, any suggestions would be great!! He is also really constipated despite the lactulose and prunes - poor boy

Hello ladies. Have been skim reading in dribs and drabs, but can't remember what I wanted to respond to, so will try and read again if I get long enough free now.

We are at inlaws but dh set up my laptop to work here so that I could carry on searching for a holiday for us and some friends - we've left it a bit late to get most of the villas we'd like. He has taken his mum to visit someone in hospital, and the kids to the park for a bit, as I am not well today. Have terrible stomach pain and feel really sick. Suspect something I've eaten, but no idea what as no-one else affected.

Ds had a lovely roast lunch - a bit of a chew on some lamb, then some carrots, parsnips, cauliflower and a roast potato. He tried some stewed apple (from an apple sponge that mil made) for pudding but pulled a right face - the only thing we've found him not to like so far, so he had some mummy milk instead .

Right, fil is wittering at me, so better stop typing for a bit.

Ok, replying to bits as i come across them, so excuse if disjointed and multiple posts!

star - do you mean more smaller milk feeds? If so, then can't see why not, but suggest block feeding (same side for every feed in a 3 or 4 hour period) to make sure that he is getting enough rich hindmilk.

Food is for fun until they are one (a little blw mantra), so he doesn't need to be having 3 meals a day for another 6 months at least. Dd hardly ate a thing by 11 months, until i started being stricter about cutting down on milk feeds during the day, and she is healthy as anything now, aged 3.

lovely toast pic myjob.

I turn my back for 5 mins and all talk turns to willies . I'm far to innocent for that and have had to avert my gaze from this thread.

remember to change your clocks everyone! ha! i thought my latop was screwed up for a bit there... I dont like losing an hour... I wonder if this will change Q's bedtime routine...? hope not.

myjob, i had 3 meals and 3 milk feeds by 7 1/2-8 months. i followed an annabel karmel book, which i found quite helpful. that was starting off on bm and then to formula by 7 months coz she self weaned

i just gave alex some baby rice, he wasn't to impressed and spat most of it back at me!

Love the pics MyJob.

MM- "You'll never stop a boy playing with his wink."- what can I say? You speak the profound truth my friend

CSWS, sorry to hear you're not feeling well.

I've been for a walk with the other yoga mums (altho I'm not going any more as I'm too rickety!!! ) -and the dads- that I arranged in Delamere Forest this morning. Thought it'd be nice for the dads to meet up too. It was really nice, the weather was perfect but it was a little more hilly than I was expecting so I've spent the rest of the day in bed with DD, I'm so stiff!!! DH took her out for another walk before so I had a nap.

She's not sleeping well at all the last 3 nights, we've had the hairdryer on cold on the floor virtually constantly now as she's so restless, so I've not been asleep as I keep setting my alarm every 10 mins so the house doesn't burn down!!

DH and I had a HUGE row this morning, I've been really horrible to him for a week or so now and have come to realise it is part of the PND, I really think I have it now so I'm going to the docs tomorrow. I always got really PMT where I was in a black mood that I could feel coming down on me and lifting off again if that makes sense, and I seem to feel like that all the time at the moment.

Anyway it all came to a head this morning and I realised how genuinely upset I am making DH so I'm going to do something about it. I need to do a bit of research to see if pills are actually the best way to go as I've just found an article on a depression website that says that the pills are the best solution for PND and it very rarely becomes a long term problem/ addiction. I was going to ask for counselling but I don't know now...

I hope to God I get a better sleep tonight!!

That should be "I always got really bad PMT"...

Oh and DD should be Poppy...WTF???