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!

Hi all

Hi bethoo nice to have you back and glad all is going well with your fella , is he still as fab as he was to begin with and how is the ex?? and congrats to the poss pregnancy, hope all goes well.

Had funeral today and all was fine. Did see Gran before and said goodbye. Service was nice and flowers had been done lovely.

Going to celbrate anniversary tonight but can see an early night as shattered!

Lydia was in a bigger car seat before she was one as she was long and used to kick the seat in the car which made her car seat shift up and back so was safer to move her in to the bigger one rather than her be in an upright position in the car can See phoebe doing the same, her feet are already hanging out of it, she is way up on the top of her length chart so will be a tall one!

Sorry its quick but have to go and chill out, been a strange day.

(HMM has 16 pages to read... )

Jenwa, sit back and take it easy. Funerals are always exhausting.

HMM dont worry it wont take you long to catch up

Myjob. My niece is a few days older than DD2. She was sat in a bumbo from around 4 months until almost her first birthday. She could hardly sit unsupported for a long time. Now aged 4 1/2 she is perfectly normal. By the age of 2 you couldn't tell them apart. Naomi is perfectly fine as she is. Dont worry. Remember she is only little, those muscles have to grow big first. DN was only 5lb at birth, long skinny thing, cute as a button. Now a tall skinny thing and still very cute.

HMM, I think we've covered (in reverse order...) carseats, no sleep, veg patch/broad beans, summer houses, no sleep, BLW, how early star gets up , baby carriers....
I always was crap at that memory game! where's myjob - she's ace

Just popping back on but it is quiet....HMM Still reading and gave up I think

I am tired so will be in bed soon. DH watching a film.
ronshar and myjob yes chilling out has been nice after funeral. Your mind goes all over the place. DH was emotional as said P will never have really know my Gran where as DD1 did . They are lucky though as have so much family around them.

P is not sitting or trying to stand up. She will be sitting soon though as she can sit for a few seconds or if she concentrates on something but then she just falls over. My friends baby who is the same age is not rolling but can sit better. They are all so different. I can see teeth coming down in P now though. Not sure when she will get them as dd1 was 13 months old and had 4 over the space of 2 months then nothing more until 18 months!

jenwa, sleep well, funerals are so exhausting, glad it went as well as it could.

Right. I've FINALLY caught up (have been doing other stuff too!)

Blimey, I left a postnatal thread and came back to Gardeners World!

Loulou how is the feeding going?

MyJob, congrats on Naomi rolling!

MM, love the website you posted, I want the Super Mario wall stickers for our bedroom and the Poppy dress is lovely!

No I wasn't saying I was trying for another baby on FB!! Bethoo, I was odds on fave for the first one to get knocked up again as am thinking of an 18 month gap. But that would leave us trying again in August and given that I'm so achey at the moment it's probably not a wise move!! All the best for the scan. I do remember you from the antenatal thread altho I was a late-comer, you were the one with the sex life .

Jenwa, I'm glad you got to say goodbye and that your gran got a nice send-off.

The firm I work for have asked us to volunteer to work less hours to be flexible during the credit crunch; upshot is that I can volunteer to take 12 weeks off at 30% of my salary, if I do it I'd be able to stay off till Xmas, am not sure whether to go for it as we can afford it but would not leave much of a nest egg for baby no. 2 esp with a small gap.

My knees are still knackered, I still have PND, saw the counsellor but not sure that's gonna be much use, am still dairy-free soya-free and spice and garlic and onion-free and lost 2 pounds but have now put them back on again?!?

I've got vit drops for Poppy this week, can't remember the name tho but one brand I noticed contained peanut oil so I didn't go for that one.

Poppy's still vomiting but rarely vomits food, just my milk, altho I gave her a Plum Spinach basil and parsnip yesterday and she vomited quite a lot on that. I've not really noticed a difference to her being soya-free. I'm seeing a paed dietician and a paed within the next 2-3 weeks so will see how best to reintroduce dairy, and how to get her off the nasty reflux meds. If I could just get her back to gaviscon only I'd be happy.

Umm ... think that's it for now. Oh, I can't watch the wall plug link as I can't be arsed am next to Poppy's bedroom, what did it say?

Oh I've just finished sorting Poppy's 4-6 month pics too so will post them on FB soon.

Dammit Pepper, cross posts, you could've saved me a lot of time there!

tee hee!

I haven't watched the link either hmm, but if I ever have 9 consecutive minutes free then I'll watch and report back!

Glad funeral ok jenwa.

Off to bed in a jiffy. Dh still not returned from settling dd to bed.

HMM. It basically was trying to tell you that plug sockets are perfectly safe on there own with out socket covers. A few really exciting experiments later and you are very aware that things can get pushed behind the socket covers and thus electrocute the child.
I personnally would go for the time off work unless you think time away from the house would help with PND.
Dont be afraid to admit it if you need time & space from your child. I know that if I dont get at least a couple of hours away on my own I start to get resentful of everyone. If that isnt the case for you then just ignore me.
It might be just my bad parenting

No I agree Ronshar, I think I enjoy DS more (and am a better Mum) now I'm back at work so get a bit of breathing space.

Urghhhhh...so.....tired.....talk....tomorrow.....

Thanks Ronshar. I know a lot of people who are like that but TBH if I could give up work I would, I'm the main wage-earner tho. I was sooo ambitious and career-minded before I got PG, I've changed so much! Maybe I'll find my competitive streak again when I get back to work!

I'm off to bed too. Just added pics on FB, took me a while to get them down to 60!!!

Ooh I forgot to say, I read the sleep problems/ solutions with interest. The problem I have with Poppy is not waking regularly but that I have to feed/ rock her to sleep and she only sleeps in the day while BF which means I can get less done. For the past week I've been keeping her awake during BF (which is no mean feat when she wants to sleep!) and in the last 6 nights, she's slept a minimum 9 hours straight for 5! She hasn't got the hang of sleeping when she's NOT feeding yet, but I'm giving her some "quiet" time after the breakfast feed and the lunch feed so hopefully she'll start to have 2 naps in the day and not while BF.

I am still feeding her to sleep at night though

(HMM thinks HMM posts are like buses...)

DEFFO off to bed now!

i cant beleive some babies are slready pulling themselves up! Maia is also a mid air swimmer with her lags doing breast stroke but she loves it. she also tends to roll off the blanket on the carpet onto the dogs front feet! she is very vocal though and it sounds like da da but we know it is just gurgling! i am quite happy for her not to move as then it is just one more person ot be chasing all over the house! she still co sleeps and bf.
yes i know we should have used protection but dumb ass me thought i could use withdrawal/abstaining during fertile period but naturally my cycle would not be instantaneously regular so heaven knows when i conceived. could be either 6 weeks or as far as 10. yesterday i felt like s* but today i feel ok, no sickness as yet ut then it tends to hit me after 11!
should find out next week what is going on...

bethoo - you fell pg using withdrawl?!?!? that's our current method...

I feed Q to sleep at night. I'm wondering if he'd sleep longer if I didn't, Based on what HMM said?

No more sleeping well here. He's down at 7 or 8 or 9 and up at 11, 1, 3, 5 every night now. That on top of working all day (with small children) and having a sore throat/fever this week is not working well.
I feed to sleep for naps when I'm with Q, too. My friend otherwise pushes him around in pushchair until he drifts off.

How on earth do you keep them awake while bf?

I earn more money than dh, too HMM. HE wishes I could just stay home with Q but just can't do it.

Ladies ladies - just popping in to lecture..... The withdrawal method is not a good method of conception. Millions of Catholics would tell you so. A man doesn't only ejaculate at the end you know, little bits come out all the way through. Plus you remain very fertile for up to two years after giving birth. You've been playing Russian Roulette Star, especially as your periods have returned. Lecture over.

Ha ha ha I meant contraception! Doh! My brain is mush (at least I did say brian!)

back to abstinence

It's the only way Star