October 08 - A spoonful of sugar* (*not recommended as a first food)

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Have done shortened stats this time, just for those of us who seem to still be around.

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz - Induction due to rhesus sensitivity, G&A.
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs - Just beat induction for PE!
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.
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz - 36hr labour, ventouse and stitches.
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz - Homebirth with paramedics due to meconium.
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz -
5th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - hedgepig - Boy - Oliver - 6lbs 3oz -
5th Oct (Due 29th Sept Oct) - CherryChoc - Boy - Ryan - 6lbs 11oz - 3 day labour with natural birth in hospital
8th Oct (Due 6th Oct) - ronshar - Boy - William Dexter - 7lbs 11oz -
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!
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!
16th Oct (Due 17th Oct) - rowanmac - Girl - Anna Ruth - 7lbs 2oz - 2 hours ARM to placenta delivery.
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz - Homebirth
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz -
24th Oct (Due 29th Oct) - Ekka - Boy - Matthew - 7lbs 15oz - Home water birth with gas and air.
26th Oct (Due 20th Oct) - jenwa - Girl - Phoebe Jasmine - 9lbs 2.5oz -
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. 24 hours of labour first though, and don't you forget it!

Hi there ! Can I join? or should I say rejoin? I was on the antenatal list and then somehow got so overwhelmed with the baby that I haven't had the chance to get back on MN !

DS was born on October 13 at 6lb 4 oz and will be 6 months now. I've started giving him tasters already, but he developed diarrhoea so i'm waiting till monday when he is exactly 6 months to restart weaning !

Am also researching high chairs now ! Any tips?

To my parents hmm.

Welcome back firsttimer.

I have bought the zuma highchair and am delighted with it.

Hi there Firsttimer! [excited wave] Don't even get me STARTED on highchairs!!

Oh have a good time CSWS and sorry about your friend MM.

Hello firsttimer. I joined the group when you left! Overwhelmed by a newborn? I don't understand how! I got the Bloom Baby but the concensus seems to be that I am a crazy fool.

Yes, don't listen to MM, she's a crazy foool. I ain't getting on no plane. [HMM goes into Mr T mode]

this is getting ridiculous now. Been up an hour so far this time, and was up for half an hour at 1 too. Still no sign of him sleeping, but I have no idea what the problem is.

i love the bloom, but i just cannot justify the costs! i've just gone back to work and childcare costs are so much that i need to be careful in my spending.

csws the zuma looks good too.

do most high chairs have a good balance or as there was a comment somewhere do i need to focus on its legs?

last night was awful. ds kept waking up every 2 hours and cld only be rocked back to sleep. at nursery he refused to sleep more than 45 mins in the entire 10 hours, so his sleep patterns are just horribly messed up.

re: weaning - what meal did everyone start with? i'm going to start with lunch and then move on to either breakfast or tea.

csws sorry D has been so unsettled sleeping! Is he fussy/crying or just awake? Has he gone back to sleep now?
thanks csws for petit filous info - I hadn't looked at one yet.
I should have logged on earlier... I'm up at 4.30 expressing!
Sometimes I notice Q needs less sleep than others... it's usually a few days where he sleeps a bit less and then after that he sleeps loads for a few days and then back to normal.
firsttimer08 - no fancy high chair here. No room! Or money! we just use a booster chair with a tray. it cost 12.97 in Tesco, is cheap and plastic, but primary colours and Q loves it and it serves it's purpose. And folds away really small so it doesn't clutter. We can also bring it with us if we want or put it on the floor, on a chair, on the table...etc. I also got one of those cloth things that you hang on the chair (as a gift) and we use that when out anywhere - he loves it!
MM I know someone in similar situation. It's scary and horrible.
Q was better through the night. He woke at 11, 2, 2.30 and at 4.30 I just brought him to bed with me and fed him once. He's still sleeping now (with DH). Rash is still awful, but I THINK it's getting a bit better?
myjob - just got your message on facebook! Sorry, I was logged in, but crazy with Q here. He wouldn't feed at bedtime, screamed and SCREAMED like never before... he's like a different baby all of a sudden and SO fussy. I will try your suggestion. What will I know after that?
Damn these jabs!!! I was thinking of not getting them. If he continues like this... i can't imagine.
His fever breaks for a few hours after calpol and then comes back - and this is since Wednesday. How long can a fever possibly last?!?!

CSWS - You're not alone in still having terrible nights. M only woke up twice again last night but still did the 'I want to play for a couple of hours' thing at 3.45! She is now in a huge grump as she is so tired from another day of no sleep. We have tried everything (not CC or CIO) with that little madam and nothing works!

Hmm - I shall have to find an alternative way to drug you to get you on that plane as you are dairy free so....no milk. Oh, plus you're a veggie. I'm sure a burger was used once as an alternative. 'I ain't drinking no Rice Milk.' Glad you've decided on a highchair. There's too much choice isn't there?!

Star - Poor Q. That is a long time to have a fever. Hopefully if the rash is calming down his temp will come down too.

FT08 - I started with breakfast as it was the time M was in the best mood. It took a while for her to get used to food but now she loves it. I find that she wants to have some grub in the middle of a bf. She'll have a bit of milk, get bored, have some food and then back on the boob.

My friend has just gone into labour!!! She has three girls and her DH kept bugging her to try for a boy. So they did and they're having......a BOY!!! Finally! I am going to be so jealous. A lovely newborn.

Hi all, I've ordered the 3-sixti They did price-match CSWS, thanks. Th white noise didn't work but I've only tried it once to be fair. It should be here when I come back from Wales woo hoo!

Yeah for your high chair HMM! We turn on a little fan/space heater (on cool fan setting) at night for Q. he sleeps really well with that on. Without it I don't think he'd sleep so well.
Fever came back around dinner time. I fed him carrot/swede/melon/plum mix (he liked that... ). But had to give 5ml more of calpol. Fever is now down but he's sweating and clammy sleeping in his cot. I've put fan facing him and window open to give some cool air... he's been tugging his ear today,too. Goodness, when it rains it pours.

If he's been tugging his ear and doesn't usually star, then get him checked out for an ear infection if you can (not easy on a bank holiday weekend I know), just to be on the safe side.
Fever lasted 4/5 days for us, but no rash in the end, so still unsure what the cause was. Unfortunately dh might now have whatever it was, as he's been feeling terrible since last night.

Yay for kiddicare price matching hmm. Hope you have a lovely time in Wales.

Thanks. Poppy just started tugging her ear last few days, but I assumed she'd just found them....?

She's been really sick again today

Where is everyone tonight???

Good morning. Sorry hmm....I was fliting between MN and FB. Sorry to hear that poor Poppy is still so sick. Unfortunately I have no good advice to offer M still doesn't sleep. She went to bed at 9.30, woke up at 1 then from 3.30 - 5 then got up for the day at 7. She slept more when she was newborn! Dh is thinking of contacting the Guinnes Book of Records - the incredible non-slepping baby.

Out of curiosity, would any of you give chocolate to a five month old baby?

Absolutely not re chocolate.

I had to resettle ds and then went to bed at 9:47! He was up for ages in the night again (though a little less than the night before) and only resettled with the aid of medicine, so I guess he's still got some sort of pain that we can't see (and is still horribly snotty). He won't settle lying down for his nap this morning either, so am having to try pushchair (have left him in it for a few mins as he was playing with the strap , but I think that dd is now entertaining him by showing him her bare bottom).

Could it be a bug that Poppy has caught rather than any of the usual reasons for her sickness?

Oh, and tugging ears can be just found them, teething pain, tiredness or an ear infection, just to be really helpful!

Thank you CSWS. I was scared that my judgey pants were getting an airing unnecessarily. A friend was boasting to DH last night about how they had given their 5 month old ds some choc yesterday and how he was going to have loads more today. DH was but didn't say anything as he doesn't do judgey pants. What confuses me is that their ds is a very very very PFB. I don't understand why you would introduce chocolate when there is no reason to. Oh well, each to their own I suppose.

Is this pfb weaned already mm, or will this be his first food?

They started weaning at three months as he seemed hungry . I've just read that ideally babies shouldn't have chocolate until they are 2. DS had some at 18 months but that is because he stole it.

Oh and DH has just told me his friend has given M an Easter egg. She'll get it through mummy's milk!!

Most of my RL friends have started weaning before 6 months, if it weren't for MN I'd have probably started by now because of that.

It might be a teething thing, can anything soothe it for teething other than 24-7 calpol?

Happy Easter everybody!!!!

ONE SLEEP TO HOLIDAY WOO HOO!!!!!