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.

you'd need a wheelbarrow Myjob! Check me out! I'm using my iPhone!

Where's Pepper? She's probably collapsed due to exhaustion from looking after her poor sickly family.

Star - we could go to Richmond Park! I'd need to bring DH as I can't drive.

Jenwa - I get muddled when so many places have the same names. I live in Gillingham, but alas, not the one near myjob. I think it's probably a much nicer setting!

CSWS - how did you get D to stop sleeping on you? I still can't get M to nap in her cot. The only time I get to myself is when she's still asleep in her pushchair when we get home from a walk or when they're both in bed in the evening.

Been laughing at all your chat ladies. Not a lot to add. Amazed at people's memory for all that they've read. It's just taken me an hour to catch up I was going to go to bed at 9.30!
Went for coil fitting today and it was fine. She did a smear at the same time and to be honest, I don't think it was any worse than a smear. I've had a bit of cramping but that's it. I did have to take both DC with me so had interesting conversation through the curtain with DS to keep him entertained! Very of your LO who are now sleeping better. About time for some of you I know but we're getting worse rather than better. last 4 nights have been every hour and a half and she likes to be within touching distance again. I think she'll be in our room for a while yet!

Poppy just off to sleep. I'd love to stay up in the queue for norkage but I'm pooped (no pun intended). I'm watching the apprentice tmrw too. Night night all.

Wow, you've chatted so much. I tried to remember what everyone said, but I've totally forgotten most of it already . Hope I don't muddle people up...

Poor Naomi with her ear infection, I hope she feels better soon.

CSWS, glad to hear the loss adjuster sounded reasonable! Lets hope it all gets sorted soon. Funnily enough we'll be up your way this month visiting our friends in Harpenden!

Star - yay for Easter holidays! Bet you are looking forward to spending loads of time with Q. His photos on FB are gorgeous! I could always make Surbiton (we're further down the line at Fleet)

Smudgey, I can sympathise! Matthew is up really regularly too and if its not him its his sister! We need a 'desperate for sleep mummy' emoticon....

Our paediatrician appt went well, Matthew now has stronger steroid creams, which have really cleared up his skin just in 24hrs, plus more moisturisers and will need to avoid milk when we're weaning him. The paediatrician also made me take a poo sample to check whether there is any lactose intolerance showing up now (which would mean I need to avoid dairy again).... She wants me to see a dietician to check that when I went dairy free I was really excluding all dairy, and then try again for a month (just round Easter ). But he is much happier today. And I'm happy as dh bought me an eternity ring for my b-day . Even the thought of missing out on chocolate easter eggs isn't bothering me too much at the moment!

Now I really must go to bed, ds has been asleep for 3 hours and I should really be making the most of it!

my my you lot can chat!
well today alex has had toast for breckfast, some satsuma segments for lunch and potato wedges for tea. so weaning is underway! i was eating lunch and he was going mad that i wasn't feeding him so i gave him a bit of my satsuma and he sucked all the juice out! my mil came round at tea time and she was panicing over the wedges, she was convinced he was going to choke, he loved them. he's not fussed over water but i wanted to rinse his mouth after the toast, but it kind of dribbled out of his mouth.

Ekka - Harpenden is so close to me (dd's nursery school is on the outskirts of it). If you have time free then we should meet up at a playground for an hour so that the older ones have some entertainment.

mm I am sorry did not mean to make you feel uncomfy re my hearing just wanted you to give me some and def would like some more norkage too! Can I buy one get one free???

star my geography is pants! I know what I need to know other than that I have no ides

myjob hope its not too stressful re wedding! Surely Naomi is not going to take up too much space hope you get it sorted but whatever we can meet if able but otherwise we will have to do that big meet up (was it Warwick Castle)

ekka glad appt went well. Eek to poo sample! How lovely for you needs must though!

Can I give DD a farleys rusk to suck.hold etc.? I have given her one this am mixed with milk but it says something about not giving as finger food until about 9 months? They are soft though!

heather glad the weaning going well, sounds like he enjoyed it.

smudgy lol at you having coil fitted whilst children there, its not the best experience I imagine and I suppose it makes it slightly more entertaining!

star Should have remember where you lived as I was born in Aldershot and lived in surrey until I was 4. My dad was in the grenadier guards.

Off to shopds today to have look round with DC then going to have lunch with DH if weather is nice and will check out the farm area there to see how child friendly it is

Poppy just slept through for the second night in a row after 2 weeks of hell bad nights!

Ekka, that's brill news

I'm off for lunch with a friend today, all I seem to do these days is go out for lunch - it's great!!

Oh, aubergenie - just read your post as I was reading back through carefully. Thank you so much - I really needed that today... feeling like it's all getting too much, but like a child, a little bit of positive reinforcement helps keep me going

Have a great lunch HMM

Myjob - I can't believe there's confusion about Naomi being invited. Sorry I must lol at that one!Hide her in a handbag JUST KIDDING... I would never put a baby in a space without air. Totally a joke. ha!

Jenwa I work very close to Aldershot

Joshua nearly choked on broccolli yesterday. He doesn't seem too interested tbh but will keep on trying. Dp has taken ds2 and ds3 to a friends to let me clean the house pre wedding guests. I keep feeling really sick - hope its just nerves!!!

Cool - Richmond park meet up then? Fun! Or Kingston (upon thames ). Who can come? Next week or week after or after 19th June? 19th June is when our term ends for the summer DH (at british state school) doesn't get out for the summer until the end of July

I've just checked and I can get from Cheshire to Kingston in 3 hours for a bargain price of £60 ... maybe not!

Can't you all come to Cheshire? You're all so selfish!

I've seen Hollyoaks HMM, I'm not attractive enough to go the Cheshire. I'd have to go through London, on the undreground and every thing to get to Cheshire. It would take me 5 hours and cost £144.50. So no I can't come to Cheshire.

Myjob - so glad N is feeling better. Poor little sausage.

Jenwa - you can of course get bogof!

Jrsqueak - You'll be fine on Saturday. You'll have the time of your life, you'll look beautiful and it will fly past so quickly. Enjoy every minute of your day.

Ekka - eczema is horrible isn't it? DS's eczema cleared up completely by the age of two and was almost gone by the age of 1. I had allsorts of potions and lotions to put on him too! If I so much as touched him with normal washing powder his skin would flair up. I didn't have to get a poo sample though. Mmmmmm lovely!

Heather - DS used to suck the juice out of satsumas too! He loved them!

Star - I think we should meet up in the summer as the weather is too unpredictable in April! Gives me us more time to plan around other dc.

Smudgey & Ekka - I too have a baby who is getting worse through the night. She started sleeping through at three months, then stopped at four months and now wakes up 3/4 times a night, sometimes staying awake for a couple of hours. Yay ! We'll get there I'm sure, one day.

My AF came back today. I wouldn't mind but M is still feeding every four hours. Hurumph.

OMG, there's about 400 posts in 2 days!
I've been in a tiredness bubble for several days now with DH home malingering poorly. DD has decided sleep is for wimps and like many of the others seems to be worse now than ever, and therefore also ridiculously overtired - she's had 45 minutes sleep today since 7.30.... and that was in 2 goes.
My brain can't remember everthing but here goes..
ekka - glad Matthew's got something that works at last - we could go on the train together to Kingston or Surbiton...
CSWS - glad loss adjuster was human!
myjob - hope Naomi feels a bit better soon
MM - was it you auctioning norks? I'll join the queue..
ronshar - so sorry things are a bit grim, I find juggling 3 a complete nightmare sometimes when you just feel you're on 24hr standby and all those deadlines like school just loom up at you with no-one having any sense of urgency.
aaagh - DD really stinky
love to anyone else who knows me... as they say. Back later.

Myjob - Ooooo fingers crossed then!

She's been hungry for real food today maybe because my milk tastes a bit strange if AF is here. I bought some emergency pots (they are Plum ones, with only vegetables and quinoa flakes in them, they even have a use by date of a few weeks rather than a few years - before you all put your judgey pants on ) She ate a whole jar of sweet potato and butternut squash and then had half a pear! She seems to get hungry for food at this time of day and doesn't fancy milk. Any other time of day she just wants milk. DH is back for two weeks over Easter so I can get cooking while he has M. I've got terrible back ache. I'd forgotten how yucky periods are, nearly 15 months without one..... Grump.

We went to Asda today, on my annual pilgrimage to buy cheap summer clothes and for a PowerRanger as DS2 has a birthday next week. It was truly horrid. I know I'm a snob but honestly, within 30 seconds I heard a woman threatening to "punch your FFing lights out" to some really old lady who'd accidentally bumped into her!! I didn't have nearly enough tattoos to blend in and had forgotton my grey leggings and flipflops. I didn't even have a cleavage to "double puppy".
I think that's why DD didn't sleep today, she was aghast that there's a world beyond CBeebies and Waitrose.
I'm sorry, I can't help it but we call it Chavda

PMSL at pepper, and wondering how many people on this thread you've offended .

Good going Naomi on the food front!
Ds had a homemade fishcake (with haddock, prawns, celeriac, potato plus lemon, garlic and parsley flavourings), loads of asparagus tips, some carrots and a few peas for his tea, as well as having a decent lunch!

I could feasibly come to Cheshire, as dh has family in Manchester who we could visit at the same time.

Ouch Pepper! Sounds like your Asda is in a loverly area!

MM - one question - WTF does AF stand for??? I know what it means but what does it stand for?

I need to order a highchair, I really like that 3-sixti pear one but still can't find any reviews.

Wow, I'm impressed at all the food our LOs are eating. I tried DS with some porridge and fruit this morning, but I think it may have been to early for him as he wasn't really interested. BTW - what was the verdict about giving soy to baby boys? CSWS I think you were talking about it a while ago (Was it you? I'm not sure).

HMM - AF stands for Aunty Flo.

I'm very excited, as we're going away this weekend with a load of friends to stay in a nice house near the sea. I'm really looking forward to relaxing and having lots of people to entertain Stan. His shrieking is really loud, and it makes him so proud of himself, but it's driving me mad. I went to a bumps and babies group today and his constant shrieking was widely commented on.

Aunt Flo.

Get the zuma highchair hmm - it's fab. And it's come down in price - check out kiddicare.