October 04 babies - 6 months already!!

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well the pox isnt too bad at the moment altho we are still getting new spots daily so dont know whether its reached its peak yet. DS1 had it at 8 mths and he was fine with it so am hoping ds2 is going the same way. The sleeping seems to be getting better despite the chickenpox (have a feeling may have jinxed it now that i've said it) and is crawling like a good un, all over the blinkin place! Need eyes in the back of my head as well as the front, sides etc. No sign of sitting up yet tho. He has learnt to growl tho! He will be 7 mths on the 1st May so is looking very grown up these days. Glad to hear everyone's doing ok.

well the pox isnt too bad at the moment altho we are still getting new spots daily so dont know whether its reached its peak yet. DS1 had it at 8 mths and he was fine with it so am hoping ds2 is going the same way. The sleeping seems to be getting better despite the chickenpox (have a feeling may have jinxed it now that i've said it) and is crawling like a good un, all over the blinkin place! Need eyes in the back of my head as well as the front, sides etc. No sign of sitting up yet tho. He has learnt to growl tho! He will be 7 mths on the 1st May so is looking very grown up these days. Glad to hear everyone's doing ok.

sorry about that!

Thanks very much for all your bottle advice peeps, will definitely try the warmer milk tip and have bought some new teats to try. Huppa, it is really reassuring to hear you turned it around with your ds, I was beginning to think that I'd left it too late to have any chance of success.

kath - mine be 7 months old on 1st may as well, what time was your born as mine was born 12.09pm (was induced on thurs night) and eventually after 17 hours later gave birth (e. c-section).. baba seems to cry at certain people so i dont want her to be superglued to me and feels comfy with me.. one of my friend babysat baba whilst we were in college, came home and friend said she had been crying for an hour (she had babysat her nephew before but not my baba) and baba loves her.. always smiling and i thought 'No Problem', how wrong i was!! ... im getting used to it now but dont really wants her to be like that

biglips - he was born at 5.15am on the bathroom floor! I have the opposite problem - he's only too happy to be left with all and sundry!

Beansprout - I haven't helped him and he has had the feedy cup stuck in his ear for the past day, but he has to learn how to phone A&E himself.
Poglington had his first meat thing today - shepherd's pie. He seemed to like it. mmmmmmmnnnnrrhgh!!

Can I be nosey and ask about giving birth?? I have been reading the beginning of the thread and can't find much.
Is anyone interested in hearing about how Pog was born?

maisie - me me me!!

kath - ... i take it you wasnt due till later date ?

biglips - he was 3 wks early but i was having quite bad contractions so went into hospital at about midnight and then despite the contractions and the fact that i was told to come in in plenty of time as only just made it with ds1 and in 3 previous births have had a retained placenta and i've got a hernia in my groin which the consultant said they needed to keep an eye on during the birth they sent me home at about 3am. Tried to have a bath but the pain was so bad i couldnt sit down, felt something down below was a bit odd so looked down and there was a pair of beady little eyes looking back at me! DH nearly fainted when i shouted him! Felt quite shocked myself tbh. Had to get taken in after the birth as suprise of suprises i had another retained placenta! Maisiemog - what happened?

My birth story is here but if that's too long, the short version is planned a nice water birth but ended up with induction, 16 days late, emergency c-section, 10lb 5oz.

KathH - that is amazing!

Ds loves being around people. Has been on the tube twice this week and has had a whale of a time. I am very, very smitten at the moment.

KathH, amazing birth story!

Docket, I didn't try DD with a bottle until she was six months - she has taken to them so well, it's scary. I think she just loves milk and doesn't mind where it comes from. No progress on food though.

big news is, DD has two little bottom teeth! Actually DS noticed - I heard poor DD gagging because DS was poking his fingers in her mouth, and then he announced that she had teeth - wait till she's got the full set, she'll have her revenge! Trying desperately to crawl - up on all fours and rocking back and forth, which is very cute to watch.

biglips I think your baba just knows where she wants to be - with you! But the more she is around a person, the happier she will be being left with them.

Happy Bank holiday everyone

Well its my last few days at home before returning to work on tues, and boy am i going to make the most of it.

Unfortunately ds was admitted to hospital on thurs evening as he had slept most of the day and was lethargic and a little floppy when we tried to wake him up. He is slightly anaemic and has a viral infection. We came home today which is fantastic - me and ds get to sleep in our own bed/cot again!

Still no sign of teeth but over the last few days ds has given us some cracking little smiles.....yippee at last!

He has also been doing much better with the solids too!

Oh yeah as you were just starting on birth stories...

Ds stopped growing inside me and i was induced 4 weeks early, 1 pessary mon evening, another tues am, tues pm they broke my waters as 3 cms, about an hour of contractions asked for epidural, before they could do anything ds's heart rate dropped so i had to roll onto side then suddenly had the urge to push "hang on we need to examine you"......... "your 10cms so push when you want t0", 9 mins of pushing and ds slid out nicely, no tears etc lucky me!!!! So i should have been on nov thread!!!!!

jbadgirl, dont worry yourself too much about going back to work - I've been back about 4 weeks and it's not anywhere near as awful as I'd imagined. It was horrible and stressful, as you would expect, but I didn't spend my first day crying in the toilets (it was just my first break time), and dd goes wild for me when I get home, so that's a wonderful welcome. You' and your db will be fine!

KathH - WOW! at your birth story!

If anyone wants to know, my rambling tale is here

Also, good luck to you bf-ing mums trying to wean on to the bottle.
My aunt tried a few things, but the one i remember was her using either ubber or silicone teats, can't remember which, but her dd found one type much easier than the other.

OMG Kath! Baby in the bathtub. It shouldn't surprise me really, as I was actively discouraged from coming in to hospital, and sent home once (ouch - the car journey from hell).
So long story follows:
I found out I was pregnant halfway through my Master's Degree. At the time I was on the waiting list for a myemectomy as I had a 17 cm fibroid, which meant I had constant attention through the pregnancy, 6 scans 2 weekly appointments etc... ( the attention all stopped the minute I went into labour). Anyway, the fibroid didn't actually cause any problems, although I had very little appetite throughout the pregnancy - so it may have been pressing on my stomache.
I was warned that the baby (Paddington) was likely to be early, due the lack of space, but that he was fine and following the average curve for all measurements. What happened was that my bladder was being constricted more and more over time, although noone noticed this until...
At 37 weeks and 3 days my waters broke 9am. I didn't go into labour for ten hours (went shopping). Finally we went into our hospital 12am (Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh) and were then sent home. I mentioned that I hadn't been to the loo for anything since that morning. After that we were discouraged from coming back whenever we phoned. I was having pushing sensations the next day around teatime, but fighting them. Finally, we went back to hospital - the contractions had stopped at this point.
I was told there was a labour room free would I like to be induced? Went up, they did a quick check - I was fully dilated and they could feel Pog's head.
It turned out that my bladder had been filling up, but due to the pressure of the baby and fibroid, I couldn't urinate. So the baby was stuck, poor old Pog had been trying to get out since the previous night and had given up.
Anyway, once they put in a catheter, I could push and Pog was born about 45 minutes later. He was 5lbs 8oz - very cute and diddy, all his babygro legs were empty.
Apart from the faffing about, I was surprised at how the pain was nothing like as bad as I had expected and got away with taking paracetamol and having gas and air for about 5 minutes.
I had read that in a survey 70 percent of women found the pain to be worse than they had expected, so I had prepared mentally for the same amount of pain as undergoing an amputation - without anaesthetic - it wasn't that bad.
Now I'm experiencing back weakness and pain, when I wake up - if I wake up on my back. Does anyone else have this? What did you do about it?

jbadgirl -sorry your ds has been so ill, but it´s great to hear he´s smilimg at last - it just melts your heart doesn´t it. Hope your return to work goes well.

Maisie mog- sorry can´t help with the back pain. Maybe it could just be ligaments readjusting after the birth, but that´s just a wild guess I´m afraid.
Have to say I belong to the other 70% so was really pleased to finally get the epidural.

Lovely sunny weather here at the moment, so I´m going to drag myself away from the computer and make the most of it.

Hi ladies - hope you are enjoying the lovely bank holiday weather. Grace is currently sitting up (well she was she has just toplled over backwards) when placed in a sitting postion. She has just started to get up on all fours for a mintue or so and rock. I can't believe how big she is - am broody for another small baby - why do they have to grow so fast! Have just got an erg (rowing machine) - at last pregnancy weight shall be gone!

Heard from my mother that a lady who works for her took an overdose over the w/e because she is so desperate for a baby and can't have one - so it made me feel very very blessed to have two lovely children and so sad for her.

yes im enjoying bank holiday today but mental weather though as suddenly it went really dark and a sheet of rain came down with gales, then lightening and thunder came and suddenly went all nice again !!!! ehhh!

i put baba onthe carpet tonight as DP cleaned the carpet throughout the house today but baba couldnt stop licking the carpet!! must be the taste of carpet cleaner on carpet, lets hope she wont be on a high tonite !!

Had PC probs for a few days but back now, scanned through this nice new thread. Our news is DS2 is now off the breast (sad but also quite pleased to have my body back). He has slept through the last 3 nights . He can hold his own bottle - very good for getting round sainsburies. However still doesn't roll, sit or anything remotely grown up, certainly not looking at crawling anytime soon. Next week he is trying out his passport! Solids is improving but only because i've given in and bought jars, he obviously doesn't rate my cooking! He has a real belly laugh and loves playing with his brother and sister. Handed in his nursery application today, back to work week beginning 6th June, still don't know what days as head is being a c*w!

MM - how is your back?
GT - good luck with the geogteaching!

Ds not interested in food at all, so may just leave it for a bit and go back to it. I could try and get some baby rice down him but he still just pushing everything out with his tongue and pulling "yuck" faces so I might just wait a bit. Not sure though. Had hoped that leaving it until 6 months may have made it a bit easier but he really doesn't want to know at the moment!

Hope everyone is Ok and had a great bank holiday - I know what you mean about the weather tho biglips - we were at a christening on Sunday and suddenly there was thunder and gales and 10 mins later sunshine! Let's hope it is a bit more settled this weekend as it is dd's christening and would be nice to be outside !
Bean maybe it is babyrice that ds doesn't like?? Veggies are much more exciting that rice

Have tried banana, pear, squash and a melon/grape smoothie that dp made (and we thought, "hey, why not?"). Haven't given him baby rice alone as it looks like sh*te . I think I might leave it until next week (when he will be 6.5m) and try again then. Am trying not to worry. He's not developing quickly in any other area so no reason to think he needs grub sooner rather than later.

Hello,
My back is still dodgy Bean . I've got a Lynne Robinson? pilates for post/pregnancy, from Blockbust so will try that in the next couple of days. So far have watched half yawn! It's quite hard doing an exercise video 'cos you can't see what they're doing when you are lying flat on your back. And then you put your back out craning your neck round to see what the next bit is. Arrrrgh! Thud! Ping!
Pog also pushes out food with his tongue, but I just scoop it off of his chin/bib and put it back in. And he makes horrible faces , whether or not he likes something - so I wouldn't let that kind of behaviour put you off Bean.
He has become very sleepy of late, and is going to bed around 1am and then sleeping until 12 in the afternoon. Very odd, but makes a change. He may have Denghi Fever (sp?) according to my brother, but I think there are other symptoms, not just sleepiness, like strange eye movements and speech confusion, actually it could be denghi fever....
Question - Last night I was reading about what a six month old should do, and dp thought that when it says a baby should be able to sit for a while, unaided, that it should be actually able to sit up up from lying, by itself.
I don't think so, I think that you have to place the baby in the sitting position and then it can sit for a bit, until it topples. Is this right?
Liver casserole tonight.