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!

star oh no, did you manage to express any today?

Hi all- had a really nice day today. Went to a babygroup I'd not tried before and everyone was lovely and Jack loved it. He's done so well with eating today as well, I'm so proud. Pear for breakfast- slippery so a bit tricky, breadstick at lunch, green beans and more breadstick for tea.

I've all of a sudden gone a bit brave about feeding. Wasn't sure if the breadstick would make him gag but he loved it.

Oh and told the HV at the babygroup that we were using this approach and she said "oh good" so felt very positive about it all

oh star! I'm sure they're legally obliged to allow you to express, but I can see that sometimes that's really hard in a school trip situation. You must be exhausted feeding Q all night too.

Sorry was so proud of ds eating very rudely didn't mention any other comments.

Star- sorry to hear about your day. I find school trips so tiring and stressful, but obv good for the kids. Must have been even more awful adding on the fact you couldn't express.

Jojay- thanks for the link, have just posted now.

Thanks too myjob- Jack is being so clever today, am just crossing everything that he will continue

right, tomorrow we try breadstick... rachie - glad you had such a good day, makes everything right with the world somehow

Ahhh bollocks. I wrote a long post full of my usual wit and brilliance but the bloody computer crashed.

Star -Here is some info about your employer's obligation. They should have made allowances for you, they should have given you the chance to express. The fact that you have carried on the way you have is amazing and I am in awe of your dedication to bfing!

Myjob - My desire to be a midwife is currently the main thing niggling me about having another dc. If I did have another one, I'd probably have to give the idea up or by the time I finished training I would be nearly ready to retire! I don't know what to do. I really want to train as a mw and become a bfing specialist. It might end up winning over another baby yet.

If I wait that long I can fit another baby in Myjob! I'd be 40 by the time I finished. (Not that 40 is old, but I can't imagine wanting to be start a job involving shift working etc when I'm 40....before you shout at me!)

Gah! Lost my post. And it too was full of wit and brilliance. You'll never know how much...

I'm off to research laptops zzzzzz

Bet it wasn't as good as mine hmm.

Sorry the trip was so stressful star.

myjob - I paid far too much for blueberries at Tesco (£4 a pack), but discovered them much cheaper in Asda (either £1 or £1.50 a pack iirc) at the weekend. Have you tried there?

Well I think that ds might have had an allergic reaction to a mussel tonight. The roof of his mouth appeared to have swelled up. He didn't seem bothered, and it's gone down again now. Guess we won't be offering them again for some time .

We'll never know MM. I got so far as looking at Which reports re laptops. BORED. Isn't there some baby equipment I still haven't got?

Myjob, forgot to say, I bought some brown apricots at Tesco. Is it just me tho or are they a complete PITA to prepare? I boiled them for about 8 mins then peeled them losing a layer of skin in the process and then hand blended them which did NOT go well cos they just stuck to the blades then pushed the remainder thro a seive and from my initial 6-8 apricots I was left with about a teaspoon of goo.

I'm off to get a snack then get ready for swimming tmrw.

hmm - dried apricots are peeled already .
Should have listened to me and bought tinned ones .

Was a seafood risotto myjob.
How odd that blueberries more expensive in your Asda than the one I was in at the weekend.

I couldn't find tinned ones that weren't in syrup at the supermarket (asda).

Hmm - I never bother to peel them. I boil them for about 15 mins then blend them up with a splash of the water I boiled them in and voilà! You can get the consistency to a jam, I don't think you need to sieve it. DH wants to get me a laptop as I always nick his and he was going to get me an Airbook. MMmmmmm, sort of the opposite of what you're looking for and I told him no, too bloody expensive. Even for me!

CSWS - Mussels? My goodness, that is impressive. I can;t stand them myself, but wow!

I am off to bed now as I think it's going to be one of those nights. M has already been up a couple of times. Poor baby, I must remember to be patient. It's not her fault her teeth are playing her up.

Evening ladies.
Great weight in Rachie.

I hope you are feeling better now myjob.

CSWS have you got rid of your ulcers yet?

Jenwa, pooeee stinky DH. I like to see someone else getting told off by CSWS

Hmm, great that DD slept through. Shame you didnt.

Pepper I love the photos, I have to get our walker out. Not sure how it will go on the carpet. Our old house was all wood floors.

Star, how was the Zoo other than you painful breasts? Have you been before? If Q is eating three meals a day then he may not want alot of milk to drink as well. W has almost dropped his day milk, only really feeds 3 times.
I cant remember anything else so will post and come back.
Had a busy day in Ikea Southamton. Loads of pregnant ladies there. Myjob and MM you could practice your baby catching there!

Hmm, can I ask why you are blending and then using a sieve. You are breaking down all the cell structures and getting rid of all the ggodness in the juice. Also the food will be really dry.

I am doing BLW. William tells me he is hungry and I give him food

Can I just add about the Quinny pushchair. I saw a little girl asleep in one today and she looked really really uncomfortable her head was all squashed.
I had a Microlite pushchair for DD2. She hated it, would never sleep etc. I snapped a front wheel off and had to quickly buy a £50 mothercare thing. DD loved it fell, asleep straight away. Ungrateful mare.

Good point Ronshar - The pushchair element of the Quinny Zapp doesn't fold down. We have got it purely for quick trips and M goes in it in her car seat for the time being. I wanted to get a Bugaboo Bee but DH said no. And, amazingly, I actually listened!

Bugaboos have several issues same as the Quinny. Have you tried to fold one down?
Pushchairs are a real issue for me. Sorry. I hate to see babies all squashed up in a pushchair that is "fashionable". Also if you are tall several of these pushchairs are very low down. I am only 5'5 & struggled!