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!

Have a good hoiday HMM. Hope fully Poppy's sickness will imprive soon but it does get worse at this stage. Joe's sickness got a lot worse at about 23 weeks - took him to docs at 24 weeks as i was sure it should have been better by then. Saw paed at 30 weeks by which time his sickness has pretty much stopped. I took him off all his meds a week before seeing paed and it has not made him more sick so i think his stomach muscles are finally strong enough. (if you factor in his 3 weeks prem, his sickness stopped at 26/27 weeks which is spot on) How long til Poppy's 26 weeks?? Its amazing, when Joe burps immediately shove a cloth under his nose expecting a big sick but all he does now is grab the cloth and shove it in his mouth...

Joe accidentally sucked some chocolate at lunchtime that i had stupidly left within his reach - his arms and legs went wild and he cried loads when i took it away, although some banana soon took his mind off it.

Hope you are all enjoying the easter sunshine [bsimle]

Sorry i meant holiday hmm - but if you are having a hoiday, enjoy that too

Teething can make them miserable hmm, but it doesn't normally make them sick. You can try anbesol (can't remember if there's an age limit for this) or bonjela on their gums, and nurofen works better for some babies than calpol, but there's not a lot else you can do (assuming they've got cold toys or bickiepegs to chew etc). Don't use the teething powders due to lactose base.

lol at accidental choc loulou, but choc banana sounds yum .

Ooooh...I've been using Ashtons and Parsons. Daily. For weeks [HMM goes off to check box and kick herself]

It's in a lactose base. Grrrrrr!!!

You do realise the one sure fire way to slow down the vomit is to give Poppy something to eat

Eeeeevil!! But not chocolate tho, eh??

Star, if you are allergic to something it doesnt automatically mean Q will be. Have you been giving Q cool baths, not cold just cooler than normal? This will help bring down a temp much more efficiently than medication alone. Myjob is right to say that there are hundreds of different reasons why babies get rashes. The main one is a viral infection of some kind. It would make sense if Q now has an ear infection.

Welcome back Firsttimer08. Was it your little baby with the kindey problems? If so are they all better?

I am at the holidays. I am being abandoned by DH this week when he goes off fishing with his uncle. Can't complain really as Dh used to fish every week but hasnt been for nearly a year.
William is going into his own room tomorrow night. I am looking forward to maybe getting some sleep but will miss his little snores and snuffles.
W is nearly crawling, he goes backwards and goes up on all fours and rocks. He gets so frustrated when he wants to get something but is stuck.

Not for sharing Chocolate. I most def do not agree with giving chocolate to little ones. Also not a fan of the Petit Filo/yogurts. Full of sugar.
I seem to have forgoten the dairy thing today. W just had Cauliflower cheese. Puke central

MyJob did you say you were going to Butlins? Whereabouts? I hope you have a lovely time.

Just had a HUGE row with DH over various silly things, too boring to repeat, happy holidays eh???

Poppy will be 23.5 weeks when we get back from our hols so there won't be long to wait from then. I guess a bit of baby rice from 24 weeks wouldn't go amiss??? What do you all think??

She was a week late too

But she's not quite sitting up yet.

Ha ha at Puke Central Ronshar! It makes me feel a bit better about missing the lactose in the teething powders!

Oh and Loulou, what is a hoiday anyway???

I've asked the caravan vendor if there's wifi at the site so you might not be rid of me that easily...

My god, it's like the Honeymoonmummy one woman show around here!!! Ronshar post something else quick!

Try baby rice first. Horrible bland. Look for something that has flavour in it. As I'm sure I have said before I give William the HIPP cereals. Diary, GM free, vegetarian. Also some of them can be made with water not milk.

Seriously, HMM, dont give Poppy anything if you are not sure about it. Trust your own instincts.
How did you get on with your blood test? Are you thyroid levels better?

Do you often talk to yourself??

HMM hope poppy is feeling better now. I is also going through a bout of sickness. he's been doing these projectile vomits, so I'm not even sure whether I should be giving him food. Seems there is conflicting advice on giving/not giving food on this thread !!

Star6, i'm totally impressed that you wake up at 4.30am to express milk !

re teething, the powders have worked well for us. I has 2 teeth already and he seems to be biting furiously again, so maybe some more coming along.

happy easter!

What, now I am talking to myself

Ha ha! I went off to do what I was supposed to be doing pack some clothes. The only summer clothes I can fit into are my maternity clothes

Thanks firsttimer, she's not been sick much this afternoon. I've been dairy free for 4 weeks now (since the start of Lent!) to see if it helped Poppy's reflux, that's why I'm so angry about the powder, I could've been having lovely cheese and chocolate for 4 weeks! I'll just stick to the bonjela.

Lent is six weeks isn't it As I was saying, dairy free for 6 weeks now...

Firsttimer, there is conflicting advice everywhere with regards feeding. the only time a doctor will recommend early solids is for babies with reflux. Poor Poppy has quite bad reflux so HMM has done really well to not give solids yet.
Has your DS got a tummy bug? Lots of it going about.

Firsttimer - I used to lecture everyone about how important it is not to give solids before 26 weeks, but then ds took some food and started feeding himself at 5 months, so since then most people have felt more relaxed about admitting they are doing it .
We are doing blw though, and the theory of that is that the motor skills develop in line with the gut, so when he is capable of self-feeding his gut is ready. Most of the ladies on here have seen some video of ds self-feeding, and all were impressed with his co-ordination at the time.

He has got his appetite back today - hurrah! Though he still needed calpol this afternoon for whatever is left of his illness.
Sadly dh is pretty ill now with probably whatever ds had, and my throat is now closing up too, and head starting to hurt, so I expect that we are sharing the bugs around. I don't have a fever (yet) though.

Hmm - if you do want a cereal to give then I've occasionally given ds an organix raspberry and apple one, which I make up with rice milk (20 secs in micro to warm it up before mixing). Ds prefers to feed himself though, so now that he's hit 6 months raisin wheats are our cereal of choice (I try to buoycott Nestle so choose these over plain mini shredded wheats).

Ronshar - d'oh at cauliflower cheese .

Aww shucks Ronshar, thanks [HMM goes all coy]

Glad to hear about DS feeling better CSWS, but you seem to be constantly stricken with illness in your family don't you? Maybe I've been lucky to have caught nothing since Poppy was born, mind you I'm not often ill normally and other than the reflux Poppy has only had 2 minor sniffles (touch wood).

Right, pretty much everything is ready, I just need to get it into bags now...and then into the car. Antone got a spare trailer?