October 08 - Teeth n stuff

[CantSleepWontSleep]

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!

i would do that too mm!
i've always hated cats, i was attacked by one when i was younger and i've hated them since. there is a local cat that tries to sneak in my house when the back door is open, it usually gets a sharp kick if it tries.
also when they poo in the garden i have to clear it up before the kids can play, its bad enough i have to change a hundred pooy nappies a day without having to clear cat shit too.

Hi all, I'm too tired to even catch up folks, I'm off to bed. Friday night, eh??

Speak to you all properly tomorrow x

Smudgey - I am a terrible slacker mummy. I figure if the kids are happy entertaining each other, I can MN without feeling guilty. Also M sleeps on me during the day so I am stuck on the sofa for hours at a time so the laptop is necessary!

Clingy old M is now asleep on DH. I think daddy coming home has confused her and now she won't sleep. Or maybe she's just a pickle pants! DH is loving it though as M is normally such a mummy's girl.

just you wait MM, dd was like that and now she is deff a daddys girl, when he's around i don't even get a look in

It worked Heather, that cat never went back in my granny's garden! I hate the shit. If I wanted shit all over my garden I'd let the kids go feral.

Heather, that's ok. DS is a big mummy's boy so it would be fair. DH is going to be such a soft touch with his little girl.

I have a cat.

It would have a long commute to poo in my garden! Actually it's unfair to say I hate cats, I hate what they do. I am also deathly allergic to cats but if I wasn't we'd have one. And it would were a bell to warn the other animals. Actually it would probably be a house cat as I would feel too guilty about it pooing in other people's garden. I do think people in this country need to get a grip when it comes to cats and dogs though. I find it a very sorry state of affairs that people care more about poor Rover who has been abandoned than some poor child who is being used a punching bag. But people give more money to animal charities than to children's charities.

Actually I refuse to give money to animal charities on the principle that people charities tend to need it more.
And i am livid with my cat if she poos on my veg patch! We have a little wooded area behind our house kind of unused next to a carpark and i expect her to poo in there tbh.
Now chicken poo - that really is fowl foul, next door have lovely chickens but they used to stray in our garden and in the summer we even found them in the house. Nowt so surprising as finding a huge chicken looking back at you from under the table!

I can imagine, especially an uncooked one! Oh and I wasn't suggesting that you give to animal charities Pepper. I was just harking back to the reason I got started on the cat hating thing! I shall stop ranting now. I've been on a massive moaning session today! Need to calm down I think. Maybe some Rescue Remedy is in order.......

Oh go straight for the alcohol! just an itsy bitsy bit won't do any harm
See how I've resisted any pussy jokes after 2 glasses of wine myself!

Have you tried scratch mittens at night? DS scratches at himself lots and we just try and stop him in the day (with limited success) but at night we put scratch mittens on, and attach them to his babygro with micropore tape so he can't pull them off!

Agh that was meant as a reply to RedElsie on the previous page, I'm half asleep and have been drinking wine!

I'm the same with charities - I never give to animal ones as I always think there are humans that need it more.

www.monsoon.co.uk/invt/45017235&bklist=icat,5,shop,women,dresses,newwomandress#

what do you all think of this dress? i'm going to a wedding soon and need a dress i can feed ds in but still feel nice iyswim

Very pretty Heather. Lovely colour too. Have you tried it out for feeding purposes? We've got a wedding coming up in the summer, and I've got the same issue.

Terrible night again here.

A question for those of you whose babies sleep through (or at least for extended periods). Have you done any kind of sleep training, or do you think it's more luck of the draw?

Oh and Star - I meant to say before, ds usually naps three times a day but they're generally only around half an hour each.

Heather - You have red hair don't you? In that case that dress will be gorgeous on you! I love this but am too fat and short for it. I need a dress for M's baby naming but am loathed to buy anything in my current size. I might just go for some Ghost.

Aubergenie - M was a nightmare last night. She didn't go to sleep until 11 and then woke up at 12.50 and insisted on sleeping on my arm again. She woke up for the day at 6. She looks absolutely terrible. I am starting to wonder what the hell I'm going to do with her.

heather love that dress.

csws sorry, never meant it was your opionion, just thought it was a general opinion, never actaully knew it as fact

fab night here, girls got up at 8! Dh just called though and someone drove into the back of him so he is off to A&E his dad is taking him. He seems ok just stiff neck and he said his hands done feel like they belong to him!

DD2 bit grizzy this am, she had brekkie but wont take her bottle and not sure what she grizzling at so put her back to bed even though she not been up long! She did wake at 6 but went back off, she was stuck on her tummy and at 8 she had done a poo so whether she was unsettled and now wants more sleep!

Got my parents dog for a week, he is a total PITA! I will trip on him at some point as he keeps following me and getting under my feet!

Just a quick one - Martha has learned to clap her hand on our hands and she seems to love it. Now when we say 'clap clap Martha' she understands what we mean and starts clapping! We can even distract her from trying to grab things she's not allowed. It is sooooo cute. [proud mummy emoticon]

DS was worse again last night, after being wonderful the night before. DH was trying to settle him between 2 and 5 but he kept waking up and crying. At 5 I fed him and he slept for a bit, but now he's really grouchy.

MM- I was just looking at that dress too. Gorgeous isn't it? In fact, I'm so fed up with my lack of clothes at the moment, I've decided to go shopping today. I need something bright to distract from the bags under my eyes.

Aaawwww to M's clapping too. I keep trying to get S to do it, but he's more interested in chewing everything in sight.

Glad your DH is OK Jenwa.

There are only 3 cats in our area, all belonging to next door. We regularly see the black one, who is called 'That'. I was worried that the others might be 'This' and 'The Other', but thankfully they aren't! He has left the odd dead mouse around, but I haven't found any poo as yet.

Dress is lovely Heather . I would get a little wrap to go with it in case weather is inclement, and to give some privacy whilst bf, as you will have to come out of the top rather than underneath.

A better night here, but part of that was because dd didn't come down until 6:30, and said that she'd just woken up. Dh, however, informs me that she got up at 5:20am, and it is now showing in her behaviour/mood. We've tried to get her to have another sleep now, but it just lead to masses and masses of screaming and tantrumming.

Off to a party this afternoon. An adult one officially, but lots of our usual toddler crowd will be there. We might have to go out a bit early so that we can drive around for a while for dd to sleep. Or dh will have to stay in the car with dd whilst ds and I go in to party.

Q has been taking 2 1.5-2.5 hour naps one morning one afternoon and sometimes another one in between or a bitty 30 min nap late afternoon (4pm-ish). I didn't consider 30min a real "nap".

Thanks for all your replies. Glad that we've got a bit more time before naps slow down or disappear completely

csws love those lights!!! Is it plugged into the wall or battery operated? I might get one but only if I can put it where I want. I do not like our current night light in the wall at the socket.

Oh and MM - about the choking incident, in the BLW weaning book it says that the can squirrel away little bits of food until they've learnt how to use their tongue to retrieve the bits that have got lodged between their gum and their cheek. I noticed that S does that with things that are more tricky to chew like chicken. Now I make a game of getting him to open his mouth so I can check it at the end of a meal.