October 08 - More chit chat!

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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 6th Oct) - Bethoo - Girl - Maia - 7lbs -
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 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!

myjob... i dabble in health and safety. was he doing his nebosh certificate by any chance?

i work in the oil industry (promise i'm not evil!) mainly on the environmental side, but i am moving into health and safety management too. I did my general certificate a couple of years ago and can remember what a huge volume of information there is to take in and remember for it! it was very stressful and i swore i would never do that kind of thing again... yet here i am at my pc on a saturday night studying for another professional body exam (an environmental one this time)!!

obviously slightly distracted by mumsnet at this stage!

Myjob - I think my friend's husband did that, and it was a huge amount of work. Hope he's done well, anyway.

We don't even bother buying newspapers anymore pepper.

I never go in to check on dc in night (unless ill) for fear of waking them! Not that they actually sleep for any great length of time in between visits anyway.
Ds took so much milk in the night last night that by 5:25am he had soaked through his nappy, sleepsuit and sleeping bag, and after a full change obv didn't want to go back to sleep. He then ended up sleeping from 9:15am to 11:50am. I'm not surprised that he wants milk in the night though, as he just won't take any during the day. It is sooooooo frustrating!

Our Sky+ box has gone totally kaput, and sky want to keep us (and everyone else apparently) waiting for 6 weeks before they will sell us an upgraded HD box (it's actually cheaper to do that even with the extra subs for a year than to get a new ordinary Sky+ box). I'm currently waiting to watch Brothers and Sisters on C4 on demand (like i-player), but it seems that my version of flash isn't modern enough for the episode selection page to actually show the play buttons , and it's taking over half an hour to download the latest version .

hmm - I'd be surprised if you couldn't have a good deal of stuff from a chinese takeaway.

to be honest i haven't looked that far into the environmental diploma because my degree was environmental and its what i mainly do.

I think the syllabus looks good, but that is from the viewpoint of someone who has an environmental background... i'm just not sure how much of prior environmental knowledge you would need to be able to do the course.

I guess its slightly different to safety because that is more work/life experience and common sense based than biology/chemistry if you see what i mean?

having sadi all that your DH might be an environmental scientist and i'm talking nonsense!!

CSWS- I can't have soya, therefore soy sauce and tofu is out, I can't have garlic or onions or spicy foods. I've been once and had mushroom fried rice.

On the plus side, I've lost a stone since I started dairy-free in Feb!

I know a stone isn't all that much in 3 and a half months but I've not technically been "dieting"

I was thinking of stuff like lemon chicken, but forgot about you being a veggie! And forgot how many things soy sauce would be in at a chinese - doh!

I've finally got the internet back tonight! Yay! I'm not going to be able to catch up and have no idea what you're talking about regarding the health and safety stuff

Hmm - Well done! That's a fabulous side effect of the dairy free eh? Glad to see you back I can't lose weight as my hormones are up the spout due to the cyst, plus it is now huge and I look about 6 months pg. I can't wait to have it removed.

CSWS - Oh how frustrating! Sky have been losing lots of customers to Virgin recently, I hope they're not expecting you to pay for the service while you have no functioning box! It was just a theory about the BLWing and dribbling, M must just be a non-dribbly baby.

Aubergenie - You are Stan is doing really well with the sleeping! M managed to only wake once for milk last night between 8pm - 7am and she went straight back to sleep afterwards. I however, had to sleep on the sofa as DH was snoring like a tractor.

Myjob - If DH has done the work, he'll be fine. Hope he does well on Wednesday!

We've had a relaxing day at my mums and M impressed my mum with her chicken and broccoli eating skills!

I still have my horrendous sinus headache. Might try and see a doctor this week to see if there's something 'proper' that can be done as it's so recurrent.

Hmm - Can you get Thai? You could have a big load of tempura veggies. Mmmmmmmmmm........ They would be fine I'm sure as the batter is generally made with egg, flour and soda water.

I'm on the laptop MM so I've not read my FB msgs yet (assuming it's from you!!)

What's happening with your cyst?

Thai? In Northwich???

CSWS - I have problem sinuses too. I started getting headaches as a teenager and pretty much every time I get a cold, it goes to my sinuses. I used to go to the dr, tell him what was wrong and demand antibiotics. I had some medication to relieve the head aches as a teen but I think they were migraine tablets (and one of the side effects was weight gain eeeek!). Let me know how you get on.......

I don't even have a cold though MM - just the headache!

Hmm - I am seeing the consultant on the 18th June but was meant to be going on the 21st May but the appointment was moved. The bloody thing is huge now and I want it taken out. I am now suspicious that they won't be able to do it through keyhole surgery now that it so large so that would mean a major op cutting through my stomach muscles again.
And is it not cosmopolitan enough for Thai?

CSWS - That's like what I had as a teen then. My mum gets really bad sinus headaches too.

Jesus, that's awful Just what you need when you've just got over childbirth! Have they mentioned about having more children further?

Northwich is not cosmopolitan enough for Chinese, never mind Thai!! I have to go to Manchester for a decent Thai meal, that's about 40 mins away. I don't think they'll deliver....

Talking of food, Poppy has eaten LOADS today! She had steamed pear fingers this morning and porridge with apple jelly, then for lunch she had cod with butternut squash pureed and more apple jelly for dessert and 2 rice cakes, and for tea 2 bananas pureed with a organix carrot wotsit thingy and more apple jelly for dessert! PLUS milk!! I think she's eaten more than me today!!

I had some of her frozen squash puree for tea mixed with my pasta T'was lovely with my fresh tuna steak yum!

Oh I know what I was gonna ask! I'm going to try her on soya yoghurt (before dairy per the recommendation of the paed dietician), she was hardly sick yesterday and the day before but she's been a bit more sick today (probably because she's eaten her own weight in food), I was gonna try it tomorrow but I might leave it a few more days because of the sicky day. Anyway to cut a long story short too late is soya generally bad for babies or just soya formula?

Hmm - That's only speculation by me, but the dr struggled get the last one out with keyhole surgery and that was smaller than this one. I was in surgery for 3 hours! When I came round I was knackered and couldn't work out why as it was supposed to be a quick op. But if they can't do it that way it's basically going to be like recovering from another c-section only I'll have a 20lb baby to carry around rather than an 7lb one. That, is going to be tough. Nothing further about future kids but I haven't seen the consultant yet. It's one a like and requested so I'll question him loads. Well done Poppy for all that eating!