October 08 - Teeth n stuff

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Hadn't even noticed that we were close to filling the old thread!

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 -
28th Oct - RachieW - boy
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!

Ah, it always is. M is busy turning her nose up at some fish pie.

And it ALL STAYED DOWN!!!!!!

Do you all do food in the middle of a milk feed?

My laptop is broked, internet explorer not working (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!) and it can't be fixed over the phone (its a work one), I have to go into the office to fix it and that's 40 mins away minimum so won't be on much for a while (Unless I can be arsed to use the crackberry)

Don't forget meeeeeeee...

HMM I usually add a bit of softened apple or dried apricot (softened)... the brown kind, not orange as that has the chemical in it to keep it artifically orange...to the puree with my veg (even sweet potato) to puree just to aid in Q's digestion. He has such a hard time with his poo... this has really helped!
Congrats on keeping hte food down

hmm - I am the hottest and sweatiest person alive in summer! My headaches are also in my forehead (because they are sinus related), and I have always had crappy skin. So how exactly is one supposed to cure all this?

What you eat and drink really doesn't affect the quality of your breastmilk (allergens excluded obv). I'm sure that you will still be eating better than those in developing nations who successfully feed their babies for years.

We had a lovely day out in the sunshine today. It is always our village festival over may holiday weekend, and we were in the procession with toddler group, who won first place in the junior category. We then spent the afternoon at the rec ground having a picnic, fairground rides, doing tombolas etc. Ds didn't nap after about 1pm, so was utterly knackered by bedtime at 7. He feeds appallingly when out of the house (too distracted) and isn't great with sandwiches yet, so survived largely on just a banana all day. I was a bit worried that he'd be hungry all night, but he had a big feed when we got back just after 4pm, and then ate a big tea (lamb stew - lots of parsnip, carrot and pearl barley in the main, followed by a big handful of blueberries) and had another milk feed just before bed, so hopefully he's tanked up ok!

What a lot of successes in the last day or so - sleeping, eating, rolling........ Well done babies!

We're definitely doing BLW now, He's had sweet potato, carrot, courgette, peppers, pear, banana and mango so far. The mango was the biggest hit - he loved it and slurped away for ages.

I found some lumps in his poo today so it looks as if something is going in, but it's hard to tell really. He's very happy with it though. I may try some spoon feeding in a week or so ( sorry BLW purists) just to see what happens, but I'm not going to push it if he doesn't want it.

I am trying a bit harder to get him to take a bottle now though. I go back to work when he's 9 1/2 months, and I leave the house at 6 am so a morning feed isn't possible. So I need to know that he can get through a day without me by that age. If we're BLW then I can't guarantee that he'll be eating much so i need him to take a bottle really.

I've bought a tub of formula and I'm making up a couple of ounces and offering it every day. No luck yet but I'm sure if I persevere we'll get there.

Another question for you. Dh's brother has coeliacs disease, and my aunt is wheat intolerant. Are these close enough relatives to hold Ed off wheat for a bit longer? Neither had been diagnosed when I weaned DS1 so I introduced it at about 6-7 months with no problems, but I'm not sure now. DS1 is asthmatic, DH has hayfever and Ed has eczema patches, as does MIL, so I guess we're an allergy prone lot. I may post this in allergies too.

Oh, and I'm knackered 'cos we had a rubbish night last night.

DH decided to use the blender at about 9 pm which woke Ed up, so he had his dream feed early, which meant he was up at 2 am and 5.45 am. He also woke at about 4.15am so I got up , went to the loo and went to his room, by which time he'd gone back to sleep Then DS1 was up at 2.45, briefly and for no apparent reason, but it all added up to a rubbish night for me. Yawn!

And DH rolled over this morning and said 'How was your night?'

Don't you have it when they do that?

I'm back! Did you all miss me?

I'm not sure Jojay but I'd probably say better safe than sorry, someone else will know better though.

CSWS, you're obviously a PITA too Join me on the rice cake diet... Apparently we get too hot and I zoned out a bit but with me it's to do with my liver, large intestine and something else, oh she also mentioned gallstones and lungs too. (Should have paid more attention but I had the attention span of a gnat that day) I'm on this diet and getting the needles and some Bach remedy stuff too, might be worth you seeing an acupuncturist(sp) yourself CSWS? Also (sorry if TMI) if your period blood is really blood red that's another sign you're too "hot". I didn't know it wasn't supposed to be!!! And if you get cystitis a lot (with me only about once a year max) and are always thirsty.

She reckons I'm still anaemic, the threshold is lower in Chinese medicine apparently, if you can see black spots in your vision that means you're anaemic. If you crave chocolate it's probably anaemia. I hardly ate any chocolate before the pregnancy/ birth.

Can't think of anything else right now.

Poppy was really sick after the next milk feed but only a very slight bit of sweet potato was present.

Right, I'm off to clean the bathroom.

CSWS - You sound like a PITA (or pitta) too. I am sure sinus infections are related to that dosha type. I get loads of sinus infections too and ear infections. Everytime I get a cold I get a secondary infection. I hate the summer but I certainly don't get hot, I wore a long cardigan in the Algarve in 40c heat

I have felt really wafty today so am convinced I am still anaemic as AF is here today. It all ties in now! I had a nice sleep while dh took M to visit his parents and am having fillet stea for dinner to boost the old iron. I love fillet steak but will only eat that cut, which means I don't get steak very often. It looks so yummy I could eat it raw. Nom nom nom. Sorry Star and Hmm, you poor veggies

evening all, just to say that dh advert is on tv from today! i've only seen the preview of it but we've had txts to say that people have seen it.

I have gallstones hmm. Discovered this when dd was only a week or two old. Seems that the 'afterpains' which I had were actually my gallstones - appears that pregnancy and birth had shifted them about a bit, and the fish and chips I'd eaten caused them all to flare up and cause my agony for a while!

I don't think I can start having acupuncture, which dh thinks of as 'hocus pocus', when we have no income though.

I only eat fillet steak too hmm.

I'm going to have to go and read your links now aren't I MM. I was avoiding!

Ds already had one wake, so clearly tonight not as good as last night!

Forgot to say, yay for sweet potato staying down and I tend to feed M seperately to milk feeds. I don't follow a feeding plan but it seems to be working for us. I have put M on four hourly feeds after yesterday's biting/nipple stretching shenanigans. It was totally related to her pretending to be hungry and then buggering about. Today she was hungry at milk times so no problems. I give a milk feed at 7am , then breakfast with her brother at about 8.30, then a milk feed at 11, then lunch at about 1pm then a milk feed at 3pm then dinner at 5pm then a milk feed before bed at 7pm. The timings are bound to move about a bit but that's generally the pattern for us. I have been trying to get some extra fuild into her but she won't take a bottle and looks at me like I'm mad if I try and give her a drink from a cup.

Jojay - Nobody in my family has any problem with wheat but I am wheat intolerant so I have no idea how it works! Also nobody in my family has eczema but both my babies have/had it under the age of 1. But we all have hayfever. I didn't eat bread when I was a babyb as I didn't like bread, don't know if that's anything to do with it.

Myjob - I must remember not to use MM-speak on here. 'Wafty' means feeling wobbly and a bit dizzy, like a sheet blowing in the breeze on a washing line.

HMM I'm still very anaemic... we can swap remedies sometime if you'd like Its a total PITA! And there's little you can do to beat the exhaustion.

JJ - I leave early for work now and fit in a morning feed. I get up and express at 4.30am and then feed him an hour later. he's usually up by 5.30 and DH plays with him for a bit while I shower...etc. then I feed him.

I'm kapha- very interesting stuff MM.

A good day here, I did some shopping for our holiday and dh had ds. Apparently ds didn't seem too fussed with lunch but I'm wondering if that's because he had breakfast today too?

HMM- really pleased the sweet potato was a hit and stayed down. J loves it too.

How can I be 16% PITTA, 13% Kapha and 3% VATA. What is the other 68% supposed to be?!

Pistachio & MM- good to hear that you're alternating food and milk as this is what I've moved to. Annabel Karmel suggested half milk feed then food but that seemed a bit confusing to him and ended up with all the food going and very little milk. I'm now doing pretty much the same as you for milk Pistachio, but without the 8pm feed as he's bottles so only 5 a day.

I think it means that the rest is in balance I think CSWS. I can't remember though. But as predicted, you are PITA! I'm maim;y Vata, but have piita elements. This is more straight forward. I always come out as Vata/Pitta.

Yes Pistachio - I left out the night feeds as they are totally up to M! I don't do a dream feed as it just makes the situation worse, she wakes up too much if I disturb her. If I wait she wakes up soon enough! I think it takes a while for the food to make a difference to the sleeping. DS started sleeping through regularly at 8 months when he was having three regular meals and snacks.

Deary me, my grammar is getting worse!