October 08 - Chit chat

[CantSleepWontSleep]

That's us with the chit chat, not the babies!

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 -
8th Oct (Due Oct) - RedElsie - Boy - Daniel - -
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 -
17th Oct (Due 27th Oct) - Rhian82 - Boy - - - Episiotomy and ventouse.
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 (Due 23rd Oct) - RachieW - Boy - Jack - 7lbs 4oz - hospital birth, epidural, stitches, 24hrs start to finish
28th Oct (Due 31st Oct) - Jojay - Boy - Edward Alexander - 7lbs 7oz - hospital birth - gas and air, 2nd degree tear. 7 hrs start to finish.
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!

just had call from dr and have to give sample at end of the week and take my own test as well and they will tak it from there. i just hate the waiting!

bless ya, you do have your hands full! having a man is like having another baby IME, just this morning dh asked if he had a shirt ironed, i asked him if he had ironed one. 'no' he said, so i said no you don't then!

dp is being very good, had back massages already and will not even let me pick up the puppy! yes it gets worse, we bought a puppy 4 months ago! just a cavalier king charles to keep my boxer company!
hopefully moving in wiht dp this year, defo before baby arrives (if baby arrives)

wow, bethoo! you are brave... new man... 2 babies... another one... a puppy. I'm tired just thinking about it!!

i am an idiot

no your not . i'm planning a 3rd baby too, not till late next year mind! i'd love a dog but we live in a small terraced house and it wouldn't be fair.

Hello Bethoo, I have heard about you and your lovely DP but I didn't arrive on this thread until post-natal so haven't 'met' you until now. Ooooo exciting if you are pg but yes, slightly crazy! There are a few of us who are planning more babies so you're not that unhinged! Even though M is the incredible non-sleeping baby, I want a third too.

Heather - I like the cut of your gib young lady. The ironing comment sounds like something I'd say to DH too! So are you planning to start ttc at the end of 2010?

M was a nightmare last night. I ended up staying up really late as I am starting to dread bedtime so I am knackered. She woke up every hour until I gave in and let her sleep in bed with me at 5am. But if course she's all chipper and smiley today - how?

thanks you Marthasmama, nice ot know that while i was gone i was not forgotten!
my little maia has been suffering from constipation since she is on formula with the childminder. so i have been giving her prune juice mixed with cool boiled water. i was also advised to give her brown sugar (demerara??) with water too as it apparantly softens it so easier to come out. it is awfula hte way she screams with it. my ds has never suffered with it so maybe she will suffer from it on a regular basis. anyone elses suffer?
Maia has her first ooth pooing out on her bottom gum and looks so cute. she is so chunky i am finding it hard getting her chubby legs into some 6-9 trousers LOL

i meant her first tooth popping out! lol

Bethoo. What a lunatic you are

It is lovely too see you again though. I figured you were far too busy to sit and talk about your new DD

My dad was with us for dinner yesterday and I gave W his dinner a la Duncan. The looks my dad gave him where fab. Even my DH was a bit WTF is he doing. Funniest thing ever watching W chase peas around the high chair top!!

The MaxiCosi Priori is the best car seat. It has come top in tested for years. Look on the Which? web site for details. W hates being rear facing, his poor legs end up half way up the seat back. I shall have to keep him in rear facing as last time he was weighed he was still only 16lb!

Myjob, can you not move dentist forward? Post pregnancy is a key time for dental damage. Baby has sucked all your goodness out. Your teeth are normally the worst effected. Thats why dental care is free for 12 months post birth.

MM i think so, i'd so love a 3rd but the broodyness hasn't hit me yet! i was so ill with both dc that i need them both to be older before ttc again. i was sick for 22 weeks with dd and 17 with ds. and dd was only 15 months when i got pregnant i feel that i missed out on loads and tv became a babysitter. dd is off to preschool in sept and i hope alex will be at preschool when baby no3 is due.

bethoo - try pureed dried apricots if you're doing purees or fresh apricots of you're BLWing. If you use dried ones, make sure they're the brown sulphur-free ones. Whenever M is a little 'backed up' I give her some apricot and it softens everything up. She was very constipated last week so I gave her some apricot and she did four soft poos in one day! I am going to buy shares in apricots, I am always banging on about them!

i knew that you'd get apricots in there MM!

• I am a woman obsessed.

thanks Marthasmama will look into that as i had her on cow and gate pureed fruit thingys. it seems that i solve the problem then the following weekend she is backed up again! apart from that she is a smiley chubby little thing who adores her brother even if he does get a bit too rough for my liking climbing all over her!
but it is nice watching them together

We don't like having a leg on the carseat, so avoided the priorifix and went for the almost as high scoring Britax DuoPlus Isofix instead. Have always been happy with it, and ds will use dd's old one, as she is another chunky monkey and is in the stage after already.

Bethoo. Potential congratulations. But if you weren't planning on trying for a baby yet then how are you pregnant again. I have just one word for you young lady...CONTRACEPTION.

Go Alex with the pulling up. He'll be cruising and schmoozing before you know it!

I bet that W had a ball didn't he ronshar?!

god don't say that! he had this look as if to say 'look at me i'm so cleaver!! but what the hell do i do now?'

i'm confused mm - i followed your link from your post on sat (9pm ish) and used the code you quoted 'hello' from the email they had sent you - or am i getting mixed up again!!

there is no way joe could stay in his rear facing seat any longer as his feet are half way up the back seat as it is....oh well crap parenting from loulou again then....

hi bethoo - glad to hear from you - it was bound to be you getting pg first what with all that sex stuff you get up to

M pulled herself up by hanging on to the collar of DH's t-shirt but instantly collapsed back down. She started to twig that she has to move her feet in order to walk, it's just getting them to move that is causing the problem!

I got some baby vitamins with omega 3s in them and M seems ok with them. I got me some iron too.

Good girl MM

CSWS, W always loves to feed himself, it comes down to the very simple issue of do I have the time and the spare clothes to let him get on with it
Heather Alex is obviously very clever

I was sat on the floor reading the paper, which was out of a certain young mans reach on the table, when I spotted these two sets of small fingers appear at the other end! I then saw these big eyes staring at me. W had pulled himself up just enough so he could stare at me but not enough to pull himself to stand. Oh man my life has ended again

Q pulls himself to standing a lot. It makes me crazy because he gets all caught up in his feet and doesn't quite know how they work then ends up falling over. Today he went from belly position to sitting upright without any support. ahhhhh I don't want him moving around so much!

Put lead weights on his arms and legs Star. That's the only way you'll stop him.

I'm not even going to let J read this pulling yourself up stuff! Tho as she can't even sit up at the moment I think we're safe for a while
bethoo how exciting - someone else having a baby! 3 is jolly hard work but they all love each other - it's like having your own gang!
DD will have to stay rear facing until we figure out how on earth we are going to get a different 3 car seats in the car .
I seem to remember buying DS1 the second stage seat as his first birthday present and he was bigger than DD so shan't think about it yet (la la la, head in sand)

BTW, I meant someone other than me having a baby - I have no plans ever ever ever to have another baby.
Just in case that was ambiguous.

MM - i have finally worked out where i got it wrong - doh. i am such air head or is it airhead? what will i be like at work, 4 weeks today

i know i get confused pepper but i hear you loud and clear . That's NO more for you