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

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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!

Ksal - don't worry. It's encouraging to hear you sing it's praises like that. I'm sure the first time I used/removed a tampon I though so I'm sure it's something that I coudl get used to. Hmmmmmmmmm........

Jenwa - FIL is an arse, a drunken arse at that!!

Hmm - I use Plum and baby organix for emergencies. The 4-6 month ones are just pureed fruit or veg & as far as I remember they are dairy free. The ingredients are listed on the box so you'd be able to tell really easily if there was dairy in them.

HMM - As the other have said, try not to stress about the whole weaning thing. I did at first and it was horrible. I wanted to do blW and tried it tentatively but had a really overwhelming worry about ds choking so I went over to purees only to find it was a whole world of extra work and faff. We only did it for a few days before ds was ill and stopped eating altogether. And now he now will not be fed from a spoon, so I've gone back to the BLW and he seems to really enjoy it.

So far he likes roasted red pepper strips, sweet potato pieces, butternut squash, carrot, toast, banana and chicken and oven chips . Of course, not much of it's really being swallowed, but he's enjoying the feel of the food in his hands and mouth. I'm telling you all this not to go on about ds (although I could talk about him all day!) but to show that they're all really easy things to prepare, as I was eating them anyway. I got the book from the library and found it really reassuring - no talk of timetables or meal planning at all. Obviously when the time comes, you need to do what suits you and P, but I just wanted to let you know my experience.

Sorry that was a bit long. I'll go now.

I have got a moon cup. I bought it because I was feeling a bit eco warrior at the time. However, I dont have a problem with tampons etc but I just cant seem to get used to the whole pulling out, putting back in. I felt like I was pulling my insides out. It was great only having to change it once or twice. The other thing I found was that I could feel it inside. Often when I was sat down or bending over! Maybe It was in wrong place! I shall be getting another one because I do want to use one rather than tampons. I shall keep trying.

HMM welcome home. Can I suggest that you use jars to start with. I know that is is very un MN to use jars, but I use a combination of all kinds. William has finger foods every day. HIPP, Plum Baby and Ella's Kitchen jar/packs. And I also puree up food that I have prepared at home.
Weaning should not be difficult or scary. All you are doing is giving your little girl something new to try. Same as a new toy, bouncer, highchair or carseat. If you create a big tension around food then Poppy will pick up on that and then not eat very well. She will also be scared. Can I ask are you scared of food yourself or is it more about the choking issue?? If you are worried about poppy choking then you have to start with urees. They are not the devils food and also alot less messy

Ronshar waits for CSWS to come and tell her off
Have a great holiday MYjob.

Aubergenie, toothbrush down the toilet! How did that happen?? I think you have to add salt to bread machine bread. I cant get the levels right in my machine so I have stoopped making bread and use it to make cakes instead

Ksal the vomiting may just be due to air being trapped while coughing and forcing food back up. I think babies with reflux already have weaker stomach sphincters and so would not be strong eneough to stop the vomit. IFSWIM

MM, lovely invites. I think your little girl is beautiful. She does look just like you. Your FIL sounds like a gem

DH came back last night. Shit nights sleep after the steam train woke both me & William up with in minutes of him getting into bed William is in his own room which makes it worse.
I was telling Dh that I had a run in with DD1 and she called me a horrible bitch.
I was expecting some kind of support from him. Fat chance. He walked away while saying thats not surpising as you are a horrible bitch
I went to bed as I was really hurt by his response. I am not sure what to do/say to him now! Welcome home arsehole springs to mind but then that is probably why he said it

oh my god ronshar that is awful . I don't know what to say.

Sounds almost like our dh's have been conspiring ronshar, as that's the sort of behaviour I'd expect from him.

Did you cut back the stem on your mooncup? I could feel mine until I did.

Haven't time to tell you off re weaning, as off to the zoo now!

Ronshar, that's awful. Does he normally say that kind of thing to you?

The toothbrush in the toilet was really annoying as it was an electric one! Our bathroom is really small and I nipped to the loo and managed to knock it off the side of the sink into the toilet while I was washing my hands. Dp somehow managed to tip a bottle of mouthwash on his head while getting it out of the cabinet over the sink the other night too. I think we're both overtired.

Re the mooncup - Did you cut the stalk off? I know that my friend said she didn't cut enough off and so could feel it until she cut it shorter.

X post CSWS! Stem, that's the word, not stalk. How am I going to teach children to talk properly when I go back to work?

X post CSWS! Stem, that's the word, not stalk. How am I going to teach children to talk properly when I go back to work?

by repeating yourself !

Pepper

ronshar - that is awful for you , especially after you'd had trouble with DD1 as well - I'm not sure he could have been less supportive if he'd tried.
Back to school for DS1 today, after just 2 weeks he's forgotten the whole morning routine and I could see him wandering around, still in his coat, clutching his water bottle and book bag at least 5 minutes after he went in.. we can only go in with them if there's a crisis - but he's one of the youngest - still only 4 - you'd think they'd be a little more helpful! Cue me miming taking my coat off through the window like a complete nutter

• What a shitbag Ronshar! If my dh said that to me he'd have spent the rest of the night trying to retrive his bollocks from the pond! That is totally unacceptable firstly that he didn't support you and secondly that he spoke to the mother of his children in that way. I don't expect he's been up all night getting a sum total of three hours sleep looking after W. I really can't understand how these men fail to appricate everything that you ladies do!

Thank you by the way. The in-laws are a bit odd in general.

Stalk/stem. Cant remember if I did. I shall get a new one & try harder this time. Probably a bit more baggy in there now. After 3 chidlren

I'm too much of a wuss to try a mooncup, I know i've had 3 children, but I can't even bring myself to have a coil fitted cos someone told me you have to check the string? Just can't do it .
MM - lovely way with words there!
jenwa can I ask how much milk DD2 has in a day? I've just started weaning (day 3) as DD seems intent on dropping a bottle anyway (5pm ish) so she's down to a max of 24oz, when she was guzzling 30/32oz till about 10 days ago. Seems quite healthy for it, just not interested then.

Opps sorry Pepper!

why sorry! I love the image of ronshar's DH searching for his bollocks in a pond (and I don't even know him!)

Oh I thought I'd offended you! I can be a little foul language happy at times. I think it cones from working with the police!

Comes of course, not cones. Mmmmmmm ice-cream....

I work in a bank, I have a very thick skin! In fact talking of bollocks, my first presentation, when I reached the lofty heights I'm at now (office full of men...) was a credit paper on investing in bull semen. I was the only woman there...

Bet that puts you off your ice cream...

Oh, I missed your earlier post Pepper. Sounds exactly like my ds. His birthday is in July so he turned five in the Summer holidays. The teacher had many 'chats' with us about ds and his dithering. Poor little fella!

just had a quick read whilst basking in sunshine at whipsnade. What a lovely day!
You are all very funny!

Quick post as Poppy in bath and I should be sorting out holiday washing, she been so high maintenance today I've got nothing done.

Ronshar that's awful. I agree with MM altho I wouldn't throw them in the pond cos then they're retrievable!

I'm not that worried about choking/ her not eating etc, I'm fairly sure she'll eat anything, her medicine tastes like earwax yet she reaches for the syringe when i give it to her! It's more that she is so high maintenance and I don't think I'll have time to prepare them and whether or not to continue with the DF and for how long. Do you think I should ask for a dietician referral for her from the doc? I bought some Plum today, funnily enough, spotted them when in Boots for something else, I got a sweet and a savoury. and I got some hipp DF baby rice. I'm already subscribed to Hipp, thanks.

Ksal why don't you get some baby gaviscon and try it? Let me know if you need more info re reflux.

Right, I've probably forgotten someone but best go, won't be on for a while now as feeding Pops in single bed. Hey ho... Laters.

Pistachio - just read your fb status. I dare you to talk about mooncups