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!

Oi! I've just had a bath so I smell lovely. Aubergenie - go to bed, S is teething and will be awake half the night. You need to reserve some energy for baby dancing

I definitely should be in bed by now, but am watching ER double bill. Think I'll watch one more segment and then go up and save the rest for tomorrow.

I was just waiting to see if everyone else had gone to bed.....

Oh, and yes jenwa, it's largely to do with the way the milk comes out. Baby has to make more effort to get the milk from the breast, whereas the bottle will drip feed it in even if the baby isn't really hungry enough to have taken more if they had to make the effort (this is one of reasons why bottle feeding is linked to obesity more than breast feeding). The milk can also taste different (because from a bottle the fore and hindmilk is all mixed up), which might affect how much they want.

Hi all, have caught up now, you've all been chatty today! Am still missing my laptop

Rhian, you're not welcome back because you're lighter than pre-pregnancy

Ekka, you can have that Tesco's finest 85% Ecuadorian dark choc but (sorry MM) it tastes like someone's dipped it in an ashtray. However, Sains do choc brownie slices in their free-from range and they appear to be DF and are lovely.

JRSqueak, I'm dairy and soya free too, soya free only for the past week, I've started a thread, I'll link it for you.

MM - hussy! Re 3 hours sleep last night, she woke up in the morning with a leaky nappy, I'm wondering if it started leaking in the night but just didn't get thro the sleeping bag. Wee doesn't normally bother her and she doesn't normally need a change in the night, and I knew she hadn't pooed.

I'm really struggling to find a suitable disposable, the huggies chafe her skin and the pampers stink of wee and leak. Any ideas anyone?

Jenwa - I'll stand next to you at the reunion, I'm 5ft 9 and a half. It's nice that you've picked a song. I can't listen to it because Poppy is next door. It's probably well-overused but I'd have Bridge Over Troubled Water at my funeral.

MyJob - I could kiss you!!! Doughnuts mmmmm [big smacker emoticon]

God Aubergenie, you're such a domestic goddess!

All this talking about babies falling is setting my teeth on edge!

I'm off to bed soon, have been a bit of a domestic goddess myself today, have done quite a bit with my mum being round.

JRSqueak here and here

HMM- we used sainsburys own nappies at one stage and they were very good but quite bulky. No leaks though. I went to get some more but they didn't have the right size. We've been given a load of pampers from a friend which is great so are using them now. Had a few episodes of exploding nappies but they seem fine now so it was obv ds having an explosive bum phase

Whaaaaaaaahhhhh!

Just noticed you don't like the dark choc hmm. I wonder if I like it because it tastes of faaaaaaags!

Right I have had my fill of the gorgeous George and I didnt cry once
Welcome back Rhian. Congrats on your DS.

Jrsqueak. How was your wedding? I hope you had a fabulous day.

Star you may find that Q just doesnt want or need a feed in the time you are at work. Perhaps start to offer cooled boiled water mid morning. If you are concerned about hydration levels.

of anyone who is smaller now than before babies. My belly is like a separate part of me. Wasnt anything like this after the first two. Pesky boy has ruined my eyes now my washboard tummy. (not that it was washboard before, wishfull thinking)

With my professional hat on now.
A baby will fall lots. They will fall off things, down things, over things, they will get dropped by people, tripped over, things dropped onto them.
You might think you have got all your bases covered and then they have climbed out the cot and come down stairs to find you at 10 oclock at night, as my 18month old DD1 did! Scared the shit out of me!
As long as baby cries straight away you generally have not too much to worry about. A baby who rolls over and gets a mark from a cot bar will almost certainly be just cross, as will a baby who rolls off sofa or bed.
Be careful if rolling/falling from a height onto concrete as the impact is solid.
The things to look for if you are worried are
Unusually sleepy, floppy head, blood from ears/nose/mouth, vomiting, a high pitched cry.
The most important thing is trust yourself and your own instincts. If it appears minor then it most probably is. If in doubt go to A&E, they may look at you like you have dropped from the sky (I know because I have done it myself) but they will check over baby for you.

Off to bed now so night night.

MM stop thinking about chocolate. ronshar wags finger at MM, def no fags young lady.

Nobody missed me then? Just marking place and will chat more tomorrow I hope. Things sort of going ok but just not enough hours in the day to get to MN. DD not sleeping well and now DS not sleeping well either. DH has resorted to sleeping in the spare room and is sorting DS whilst DD and I have our bed. Weaning seems slow and messy and I spend hours cleaning the blinkin floor, walls, etc etc
Sleep well

Nobody misses me either! I dont take it personnaly.
I shall be here tomorrow as DDs both at school so you can tell me all about your lovely time away

csws Q exposed at all stages of CP unfortunately. My friend's little boy has it and it was just discovered this evening, but he says he's been itching since monday but didn't say anything to anyone because he didn't want to miss out of stuff at school this week! She's been allowing them to shower/dress on their own this week, too - so hasn't seen it (she's very upset as now he's been in the pool, at school...etc.). I thought about keeping Q away tomorrow, but I think it's too late as contagious period has likely passed and incubation is 14 days, so we'll wait and see.

Q only woke for 1 feed last night at 1am and is still sleeping! That's a huge improvement. He feeds loads with me over the weekend and always twice in the morning, twice in the afternoon/evening and the 3 out of 5 days for lunch time that I can come feed him as well... so I'm thinking it's actually ok if he doesn't take much milk while I'm away.

I missed you smudgey

I miss you during the day Ronshar as you are only ever on in the evening and you always make me laugh. I know, no fags. To be honest I'm not really tempted by the idea. But I can't help thinking that if I still smoked, I probably would have shifted lots more baby weight. But I do enjoy being wheeze free in the mornings. I really fancied a bit of choc last night, but didn't feel it was appropriate to leave a 5 year old in charge of a baby to bugger off down the shop!

Look at this. It's soooo cute. DO you think I can trade M in for one? I showed it to ds, now he wants one. Um, no. They're an endangered species, not pets. Anyway I want one of these if we're getting an endangered species.

am pssed off today... DH told me off last night for having too many american medical dramas on Sky+.... basically because there was an ER double bill and grey's anatomy on at the same time, which meant we couldn't watch anything else. he was such an ase about it and made out i have some sort of problem. I work a 40 hour week, have a 2 hour commute each day and i have a 7.5 month old baby... a bit of unwinding with some low brow telly can't be too much to ask surely!!

What does he want to watch then? Football? I am all for unwinding with low brow telly. If DH moans about me watching ANTM or BNTM I just tell him to bugger off to the another room! The only time he does moan is when I am on the laptop and hogging the tv. Which I suppose is fair. YANBU - you obviously enjoy that type of programme, it's not a big deal! It was on one occasion! Silly man.

Ksal
MM cute animals. We saw the cutest meerkats at the zoo on wednesday So cuddly looking... though I'm sure not actually cuddly! ha!

Hi all, I've not read yet, need to go do breakfast for Pops and got acupuncture inna bit. 1st day of breakfast, gonna do apple puree. Gonna do potatoes for lunch, can I add a bit of olive oil to them? And are they OK just mashed, do they go funny in a hand blender?

they do go a bit funny in a hand blender kind of gluey, well mashed or shoved through a seive if you are doing smooth would be ok. I'm sure a bit of olive oil would be fine - better than other types of oil anyhow!

Yes, will go starchy and yuk in blender. I actually wouldn't give mashed potato on its own at this age, as it is very cloying and has a tendency to just stick to roof of mouth. Can you mix it with another root veg (b'nut squash, carrot, swede?) to make it a bit lighter?

oh and on the cute animals front... seen [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8036405.stm these]?

Love a bit of low brow tv here and luckily DH does to though we think it's rubbing off on Sander as he keeps doing a 'broken doll' pose that Tara would love. I'll load up a photo to see if you agree!

Hmm the potatoes do go a bit sticky with a hand blender but I did use it initially for a potato, cheese and onion dinner Sander loved.

doh this