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!

Ksal that walking thing is what Ollie wants to do too, my back is killing! I have roped DS! (nearly 6 ) into the holding up process though, he is closer in height to O.

Not having a good day here today, O does not want to eat any solid food (mush or fingerfoods) and only wants bottles. I keep trying to hold off on the milk but he just gets in a state. He is finally having a nap now. I was wondering if teeth coming through would put him off eating, what do you think? Myjob O has no teeth yet either just lots of chewing and dribbling.

Yes hedgepig - teething very common cause of lack of desire to eat. Just go with the milk until he feels more like solids .

Hedgepig - Have you just got the two DC? I have the same age gap with mine, my Ollie is nearly 6. How you finding it? Does your DS1 help or hinder?

CSWS - Cheeky mare! I have been busy doing house things today. I am normally on here when M sleeps or is playing happily on her own but today I was......vacuuming again. Now that really deserves a face!

Myjob - Yay!!! Do it do it do it!

I'll be back later. I am organising photos......

Hurry up myjob - bedtime all done here .

thanks CSWS although O is my 2nd he is so different form his brother it is like uncharted territory at times

MM yes I only have 2 DCs, I like the 5yr gap it works well for us. DS1 does try to be helpful but is a little ...how shall we say it.... overenthusiastic at times! i am worried he will pull the lOs arems off one day . How do you find it??

I hope bedtime is going well Myjob we have one down the other running around the back garden must go and run his bath.

I'm curious too myjob!

ohmygod! myjob when you visit the museums with us in July, could your DH and my DH go back to where you live with your dc and you stay here and put Q to bed like that? please? I cannot imagine Q being awake and then just whinging and then going to sleep. He's whinge then realize I'm not there and scream his head off - and now, he'll try to stand up in his cot and 6 times out of 10 be successful.

HOW do you get them to do that????????

Well, I just wrote a long post and the stupid computer froze up and I lost it. I might redo it later but am too grumpy at the moment. I have spent an hour trying to get M to bed and she was knackered to start with. I don't want to read about Myjob's wonderful good babies who can get themselves off to sleep.

Myjob that is impressive!

MM- thanks for the sun cream info yesterday. I'm sure I read somewhere that creams containing titanium dioxide are slightly brown in colour so don't give you that ghostly look. I might start a thread. I'm already slightly bluey-white, but my E45 suncream makes me look like I've been locked in a dark room for a long long time.

Ksal - Aah little Emma must have been really confused. Have you tried that face thing yet? I'm going to do it again in a bit.

I'm very plesed as I've found a childminder for January, as hopefully dp will have found a job by then. Booked her in now as she's lovely and in-demand. Good CMs (and nurseries for that matter) are in short supply round here.

Hello- missed so much again, I've tried to read back but it's not going in. Sorry Got an evil sore throat and 3 bloody ulcers which seem to equal no attention span.

Got back from Mum's on Saturday and then I've been in work for the last two days doing 'contact days'. Mum came home with me so she could look after J which was great. Felt very tearful leaving him yesterday but was so busy surviving working in the Nursery that the day flew by. He's had a really great two days with his Nanny. I'm shattered and the past two days have been an eye opener of how life will be come Sept! Really looking forward to having a whole day with him tomorrow.

MM- This is very late but I only learnt to drive about 4 years ago. My parents never had a car and I wanted a stereo for my 17th , then I moved to London for uni and stayed here. Couldn't afford a car and couldn't see the point in driving with such good public transport. Then when I moved in with dh he had a car so I decided to learn. See CSWS- she's not alone with those reasons. Anyway good luck with the lessons, I'm really glad I did it.

Jenwa- Sorry the MIL got to you at the airshow- you should have taken refuge in my parents garden after all

HMM- Great news about P's tooth and the hug! J has just started hugging too, he'd never do it before. It's so cute. Hope you have a better day tomorrow

Sorry to everyone else's news I've forgot

Myjob - Don't feel guilty! The little monster is asleep now. I think she just likes being with us, poor little mite. Well done on having such wonderfully behaved babies!

Hedgie - Your two sound like my two! DS often tries to 'help' but pretty much always makes the situation 100 times worse. He tries to pick M up but she's still too little. Are you stopping at two?????

Pistachio - I honestly don't know how it would go if DH tried to put M to bed. Earlier this evening I would have said no way would M go to sleep, but tonight she went to sleep when DH went up and wouldn't settle for me. She does like her milk though. Her little belly was sloshing about!

Aubergenie - I too and milky blue/white. My arms are a little bit dirty looking but my legs actually seem to reflect the sun. The worse one I ever had was a Clinique one. I wore it in Portugal and people actually gathered round to laugh and point!

Rachie - Thank you for sticking up for me. I am pretty excited about learning, well, not learnign about being able to drive. I am terribly impatient!

Jenwa - Was it you that recommended Photobox? I am obsessed now! I have been ordering loads of pictures! It's great fun!

MM- Impatience is good as hopefully it will help you pass quicker. I was quite lax about it all and it took me a year and two tests to pass. Worth it though

Pistachio - no! He has put dd to bed without me, when she would have had a bf if I'd been here, but not as young as this. He wouldn't be able to put ds to bed yet.

Well done myjob. Can't imagine ever being able to do that here!

Ooh, just a quick one as I'm having a break from packing. Last week ds put on 12oz and this week 6oz. Thats the first time he's put on weight for two consecutive weeks for ages

Wow Myjob, great bedtime! I don't think we could achieve that with both dcs in the same room....

MM - I love photobox, must spend a fortune on there

Now back to packing .

Pistachio - My dp has put ds to bed a couple of times when I've been organised enough to leave a bottle of EBM and ventured out. He's fine with him.

MM- I'm so glad I don't have to take my test again. I'm sure I'd fail. Thankfully we didn't have to do a written test or parking when I took mine or I'd probably still have my provisional licence.

Rachie - nursery sounds like hard work. It's pretty full-on isn't it. But I suppose at least you won't have much marking. I just found out today that I'll be doing a job share next year in year 4. Pretty pleased actually, although it's going to take some organising.

Hey all, god I'm exhausted so writing this then going to bed. Had another day of vile mood today. Went to docs and explained everything and she's persuaded me to try the same AD's again. She thinks the PND is actually causing the constipation and achiness, because I'm constantly on edge and it's affecting my nerve endings or something...I got lost. Anyhow, I took the first one this afternoon. I was hideously nauseous and Poppy was more sick on day 3 last time so watch this space... She assured me that the drugs will not harm Poppy.
Thanks for bumping MM but it looks like noone wants to answer my shiny new thread! Hope you're all well, I'm afraid I haven't read again, I just want my bed.

Night all!