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, Like the others, I think the volunteer thing sounds like a great idea. A friend of mine does volunteer breastfeeding support and loves it. She said it's fantastic to do something that she feels passionate about. It's helped her to be sure that she wants to pursue with the training. It would be a fantastic thing to back up your application when the time comes.

We've been out trying out those baby carrier backpack things today. S loved going round the shop on dp's back. He looked funny with his red, red cheeks. His rash has spread all over his arms and legs and his cheeks now, poor fella.

more 'outs' than 'ins' in midwifery i suspect myjob!

sorry

Phew - long day here. Started at 5:30am and included buying new trainers for dd, chasing dd round the supermarket for far too long, leaving ds' cup behind in cafe , dd getting a raisin stuck up her nose, a church fete, an unexpected bbq and wine with friends at a campsite, and a friend of a friend going to hospital due to allergic reaction to wasp sting. Just got in and put the kids to bed after a v quick bath! Would love a soak in the bath myself, but far too late. Will be off to bed v shortly (just drinking coffee).

Will catch up properly tomorrow.

Myjob - I have been looking to see if there are any jobs like that locally for me. And would you believe it, there are two paid jobs that I could do being advertised at the moment. Plus they're available part-time! Bloody typical, the timing is a little bit out for me, 7 months down the line, it would have been perfect! I'll just have to hope there's something when I'm ready. It would have included night shit which won't work until M sleeps through as in the night she only wants her mummy. So, this evening Myjob, you have inspired me.

about the raisin CSWS, but only if it wasn't properly stuck. DS never put anything in his nose or ears so I expect M will do it enough times to compensate.

at 'night shit' MM - freudian slip perchance!

It was properly stuck. We threatened her with A&E. She got hysterical and then fell asleep (we were in car). We went to fete and asked nurse doing first aid there (friend of friend) about it. Then dd went on bouncy castle. Then dd came bounding over saying 'mummy, mummy, my raisin fell out' . I think she ate it .

I really didn't expect ds to be up at 6 after not going to bed til 10.30.

Oh yeah CSWS! Didn't notice that! Heh heh, what would Freud have said eh? Re: raisins, my SIl, who is very good academically but not so great with common sense once made a very strange assumption. We talked to her about how raisins came out whole in DS's nappy and that they just looked a bit plumper than when they went in. We joked that we could wash them and put them back in the packet. Well, she saw some raisins on the kitchen work top and for some strange reason thought that we had actually taken them out of ds's nappy. Good to know that bouncy castles are good for dislodging nose raisins. It's such a shame that things had gone so wrong with the sleep when it looked so promising. D must have sussed what you were trying to do.

Myjob - How are you this morning?

Blimey - where is everyone?! Ds (and I) went back to bed at 7:40, and he didn't get up until half ten (I was marginally earlier).

x post mm . What a loon!

I think everyone must be out enjoying the sun. Not me. I like being indoors....

afternoon, MM not out in the sun here but trying to work up the energy to make some salad for a B-B-Q, I am not finding lettuce very inspiring at the moment.

CSWS you raisin up the nose story reminds me of my rather straight laced colleague who took himself very seriously getting the rubber of the end of a pencil stuck in his ear, he was very embarrassed as he scuttled off to casualty

lol at your colleague hedgepig.

Ds catching up on the last two days' lack of sleep it seems, as he's been asleep since just after 2pm, as well as sleeping for much of the morning! Think I'll go wake him so that he's not up all night.

Heh heh Hedgepig. Hope that took him down a peg or two! Lettuce is not very inspiring generally.

M is trying really hard to crawl. She managed to do some 'commando' crawling, but then gave up and collapsed into a heap. I don't think it will be long now, which is amazing as I was starting to wonder if she was ever going to move! Yay!

Hope you've all had a lovely day!

The suns gone in and still nobody around! I have applied for my provisional driving licence. Eeeek! I have been promised a Mini once I can drive though.

I didn't realise that you couldn't drive.

CSWS - I left Uni and worked in London for three years before having DS so no need to drive. Then after I had DS I worked locally so again no need. Then I worked at a branch of Nationwide that was almost next to the station so again, cheaper and easier to get the train. Alas now, I really need to learn to drive. DH is so fed up with me not being able to drive, he's happy to buy me a Mini! I am trying to be practical and am looking at the fiesta as it has really good MPG. But I feel that a Mini reflects my personality far more accurately than anything else on the market.

Pistachio - I hate getting the bus. It is expensive and bus drivers seem to think they have to accelerate as fast as they can then break as hard as possible, accelerate, break, accelerate, break.... I nearly tipped M out of her pushchair trying to hold on for dear life! The main thing that concerns me it trying to moderate my temper.

Hi all, just a quickie before I go to bed. I've only read the last couple of posts, yay for commando crawling M!

I've made an appt on Tuesday to see the same doc I saw on my 6 week check to try to get myself sorted out, it can't be right that I'm STILl constipated 7 months after the birth, and have now been constipated for over a year Plus the achiness, the other doc said it would get better once the pregnancy hormones left my body and would be better within 6 months of the birth I'm gonna start a new thread on this I think, see what worked for others.

Good news - Poppy started babbling today and she's just cut her first tooth! The lower one at the front, I didn't feel anything on applying bonjela at lunchtime but could feel it this evening So far no pain on the ouchie nipples front but watch this space... I thought it was coming since she's done approx 15 poos in the last 3 days and gave me 3 lovebites on my arm yesterday!

Oh and Poppy is now on soya and dairy! Started dairy 2 days ago and so far so good, no significant rise in sickness altho been a little bit more projectile but not much. Saw paediatrician on Thurs who said to try the dairy and gluten as, looking at the bigger picture, if she's gaining weight then all I'm cutting these things out for was a little extra laundry and it was potentially detrimental to her development. Well he wasn't that harsh but that's what he was getting at. Fair enough I guess.

I think there was something else but I can't remember now. I'm off to bed anyway, Poppy's been getting me up at 5 every morning and I've been staying up till 11 to watch BB! My own fault I know! Night all x

Sorry, started babbling yesterday.

Hmm - What have you tried for the constipation? I think you can try bulk forming laxatives (such as fibre tablets) whilst breastfeeding but not stimulant laxatives. When I was constipated after my c-section I tried fibre pills but for me, the iron tablets solved the problem. Good to hear that you're making progress with P's diet. If she can eat dairy, just think, you'll be able to eat it again soon!!!!! Toffee crisp here you come! Oh and stop watching BB - it's total tripe!