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!

fingers crossed that csws does not have long until she is back on here due to D falling straight back to sleep

star yes, they get really upset and its diffucult as so do we as mothers but instinct and maternal factors come in and we know what is best for our children. A man does what he feel is best for him

He was all confused because he didn't calm down when he picked him up, so he talked to me over the monitor to ask what to do (don't start me off on that one ), and I said 'put him down then' but he apparently couldn't hear over ds' crying, so he assumed (why????) that I'd said 'bring him down'.
Anyway, he appears to be asleep again now, and there was very little actual shouty crying (except when dh was holding him), more just a little prolonged settling moan.

Fingers crossed he will be ok now and sleep for you, he prob was distressed with DH picking him up and trying to talk through the monitor! He thought "doh daddy, thats not mummy"

Aubergenie - I need to take a dairy free dessert to friend's barbecue on Sunday. Any ideas - I don't do much in the way of dessert. Can't contain chocolate as dh allergic.

So Aubergenie - dairy free chocolate pudding for CSWS

Ho ho ho.

A good night here. He didn't wake again until 2:30, so I gave him a big feed (25 mins), and despite moaning when I put him down, he settled within a minute again. Didn't hear from him again until 6, when he appeared to coo cutely and put his music on, so I figured I'd leave him a few minutes, and he went back to sleep until 7:15

Bloody hell CSWS - that is fantastic. I'm really beginning to wonder if this whole NCSS thing is just a way of lengthening the agony and I should just follow what you've been doing. We had another AWFUL night last night with constant waking, but then I'm still feeling poorly and S is snuffly so I assume he's not feeling well.

Let me get my dairy-free brain in gear and I'll try and come up with something.

MM- have a great day!

CSWS - Remind me, can you have soya milk?

csws - that's fantastic and i bet you feel a million times better for all that sleep too. Joe does that cute cooing thing, although this morning it was loud shouts at 5.15 - fed and back to sleep by 5.45 despite him looking wide awake whilst feeding. He just snuggled fluffy and closed his eyes!! mr csws needs a kick up the backside for his numptiness but at least D didn't get too confused by the whole thing. Am i right in thinking he slept about 10 + hours with a wake up in the middle?? That is so good.....here's to more good nights for you.

just quickie from car to say yes to soya or almond or rice or oat milk - have all in.

On way to wimpole.

just quickie from car to say yes to soya or almond or rice or oat milk - have all in.

On way to wimpole.

csws yeh!I bet you feel great, or were you waiting for him to wake in the night? Glad he slept so well though.

myjob poor you, its horrible when they are poorly isn't it. Both of them too so what a bad night you had Dry coughs at night are always horrible. Sometimes that teething gel is good as it is slightly numbing so could be worth a little try if they both coughing again tongight?
Hope your back is ok, sounds very painful!

DH taking kids to his parents so we can tidy outside and get ready for bbq tomorrow.

MM Hope you are having a lovely day.

Oh and I have some red lentils to make a lentil thing for Phoebe from the annabelo karmel book. What else do you put lentils in as I have never cooked them before!

CSWS ? I?ve got a lovely recipe for mille feuille, all dairy free with lots of lovely fresh fruit in, and very easy to make ? you make the custard with soya milk, but I?m wondering if that might be a bit more afternoon tea-ish. You could make a glazed fruit flan and serve it with dairy ice cream/soya ice cream (I?ve got a recipe for the flan and dairy-free vanilla ice cream).

A sorbet?s probably no good is it, if you?re travelling to someone?s house? Otherwise that?s another possibility.

Or how about an apple tart or a tart tatin type thing? Easy too, especially if you buy the pastry.

Myjob ? I?d forgotten about your LOs being so tiny. We?re at the other end of the spectrum here?

Ak's lentil thing is good or a mild lentil curry, lentil soup are all good. Joe likes split peas as well althoguh you ahve to saok them first overnight - i am not that organised usually!!

Joe has barely slept today - 20mins this morning and 45 misn this pm, now very grumpy - ho hum

Just a very quick one, am supposed to be house cleaning for guests tonight.
Have fun today MM. Loads of pics please.

N will be better soon myjob. Hang in there.

CSWS Yah and for the men in your life.

Lentils are horrible. They make me very windy. So dont eat them. EVER.

Loulou you are now the in house sleep guru. Here is your crown...(it is a beautiful pink one, with sparkles)

Aubergenie, sounds like you are nearly better. Are you taking vitamins C at all? It may help to fight off the last bits of nasty.

Cherrychoc. Yep another 5.30 start here too.

thank you thank you thank you. we have no pink/sparkles in our house with 2 boys so it's perfect ronshar

I would like to thank my mother for having me..........

ok so my acceptance speech has driven everyone away then

Marthasmama gives good cake

Loulou. It is my absolute pleasure.
Also I really needed to get rid clean up the girls making stuff box, which contains more pink, fluffy and sparkles rubbish than you could believe.

OOOO who would have known MM was like that?