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!

That makes me Kapha Pitta.

We do food separately to milk too. food when we are eating, milk in between. Do those of you also doing this, esp those bf, give any kind of drink with the food? If so, what and how?

CSWS - I don't but feel I should and was wondering how I go about it too!

Hi All
You have all been busy chatting again

Had curry last night but was well peed off as DH went out to get it at 7:20 and returned at 9:30 after going to the pub with his bro and telling me how it took along time for food to be ready

had busy day out today and got christening tomorrow so hopefully Monday will be a rest

Off for bath now, am wearing a skirt tomorrow so need to shave my legs and get sorted. Got some well funky shoes from new look so am excited to wear them tomorrow too. Had sad am I!

CSWS- Not bf but I've brought a cup and have started giving ds water with his food. He pulls a face when he drinks it and to be honest I don't think he likes it that much yet but I think at the very least he might like to wash out his mouth after eating iykwim.

ah, sounds like we're all in a similar position then. Ds sometimes gets offered water in a doidy cup, but he takes it and then spits it out.

I really need to find a way to get him to drink something well from a cup, as want night out in a month which will mean going out at 5 or 6 pm.

I'm hoping that persistance will beat resistance and that if I keep offering the cup one day he'll happily accept it

am v knackered from busy day so in bed now. Night all.

I tried some watered down apple juice in a cup but like the rest of your babies, she spat it out. I have resigned myself to staying home until M is off the boob! She won't settle for anyone other than me or my mum and won't let anyone hold her other than me, dh or my mum. Fussy? M? Never

Myjob- I don't think you're getting it wrong, I think it's whatever it works for your baby. Jack has always been a pain with bottles, sometimes I struggle to feed him so it's easier to give him a gap between solids as he'll be more accepting of his milk!

no you're not getting it wrong myob. I sometimes do too, but ds is eating so well now and I don't want him as reliant on boob as dd.

Off to bed too now- night all. Hope the dcs sleep well

Myjob - Don't worry, you're not doing it wrong! How can you be when N's growing so well? It's probably a good idea as she will be taking a nice bit of foremilk and having a good drink. The most important thing is that she is still getting milk which she clearly is. It doesn't matter when, my routine is different as it suits me that way!

oh poo. Ds awake again.

I know what your DH means when it comes to certain alternative therapies CSWS but acupuncture has been around for centuries and look how healthy the Chinese are! But I totally understand the financial side, the first consultation was £55!

Rachie that's why I'm giving her solids mid-milk because of AK but I can't see why not just go for food and then milk after for a drink?

I'm off to bed anyway, just popped in the study on my way to bed. The bathroom was forfeited for a glass of wine and a butchers with DH at the photos of Poppy eating. We both had to stop the video of her eating yesterday as it's so obvious now that she's really struggling to not be sick Still, we know now.

Night all!

Oh just refreshed and realised I'd missed loads! Re water, I think I read recently on Kellymom that you shouldn't give more than 2oz in 24 hours at this stage, but don't quote me! Will try to find the link tmrw, remind me.

Hmm - Aww bless her, but don't beat yourself up. You're learning too don't forget.

CSWS - I have given M a little expressed milk from a doidy cup and he sometimes quite enjoys it, so I'm going to try and introduce water in a couple of weeks or so, when he's a bit better at drinking from it. I'm hoping the fact he's got used to having milk from it may make him more open to trying the water

Myjob, I remember with dd I was very careful to give her half her feed then solids then the other half, until she was about 7-8 months, but with ds he isn't in the 3-hourly feed routine that dd was and we have to cope with her as well so he just gets food when we're ready! I tend to give him milk before solids, but that is more to do with my hang-ups about my kids getting dehydrated, than any right or wrong (I get awful migraines if I don't have enough to drink so am paranoid about making sure both dcs get enough to drink as well )

HMM - another sweet potato devotee here! Ds had an interesting day of food today - not much breakfast and we had to eat out for lunch today so he got a bit of mashed swede which he hated . So then we had a bbq for tea and gave him the sweet potato that I'd intended to give him for lunch - he got so excited! We all got covered though as he tends to show his excitement by blowing huge spraying raspberries which cover everyone within range!

If you do like gadgets and want to do steaming etc, there is the beaba babycook which dh got me when we started weaning dd. I was sceptical, but it actually has had a lot of use.

just back to sleep. So much for early night!

Grr. Up for another half an hour.