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!

Star - yay to your summer hols! You definitely deserve a break!

Aubergenie - you'll probably beat me to it, doc says realistically I should put off trying again for 6 months to get myself sorted out. I'm not too fussed about that, altho that would be a 2 year age gap and Pistachio's just put me off..

Ekka - nightmare re milk, when Poppy's tired she rubs her face/ eyes while she's eating and I've noticed her face goes really red where she's touched for up to an hour, I think it's happening more with dairy. Is that symptomatic of an intolerance or could it just be sensitive skin?

Loulou - the AD's are sertraline, which I've researched and they are reported to be the best for BF, but last time on the third day of taking them I was really nauseous/ sick (as warned by the doc) but Poppy's sickness levels also went up a lot that day, and there was no other reason for that, I'd not eaten anything controversial, she wasn't weaned at the time. There is lactose in the tablets but the doc at the time said it would be too small an amount to affect her. So dunno, see how she gets on tomorrow. Despite the doc saying that even if Pops is sick she'll not have any ill-effects (and this doc is good), it's still going to be hard to carry on with them if she is sick tomorrow.

CSWS, nightmare about your carrier, esp as it was so shiny and new and expensive.

Pistachio - 9 teeth??!!??!!

Sorry if I'm rambling folks, these tablets are affecting my concentration a bit.

hm you are not rambling did you not see my post the other day that took up nearly a page! Hope Poppy is ok tomorrow, must be difficult, I think you just have to see what happens and maybe last time was just a coincidence.

Sadly Jenwa no, I have not finished catching up yet. Only 27 pages to go tho...

Right, I'm off downstairs to get a glass of wine get a large glass of wine and watch BB [HMM wonders if she can drink alcohol with AD's]

Well HMM (sorry always forget the other M) Please feel free to miss my post out its a rambled whinge .

myjob thank you , think I may fall asleep as no doubt boring!

Jenwa it is grammatically correct to say HM as it is only 2 words after all. I have to say you gave me such a laugh with your status update before

Is anyone else watching BB or am I the only saddo fan? I am SUCH a BB addict, have been since it started.

Am now sounding like Marge Simpson when I speak but my throat doesn't hurt anymore. I've obviously talked too much this week.

Jenwa- just been on fb and saw your post about peanut butter. Hilarious!

HMM- Hope you and Poppy aren't sick tomorrow and that the tablets make you feel better soon.

Am impressed with all this talk of ttc. Am not even thinking about it yet. Dh would like too as he feels old, he so isn't. I was sick as a dog with ds so would like to wait until he is at least 2 and before trying again. Having said that my cousin has just told me she is pg with her second dc and I can see myself getting very broody once he/she arrives in Dec

CSWS- Hope the carrier turns up too.

Just seen an advert for the Debenhams sale so off to have a look for clothes for J.

Ooh Debenhams sale

Did someone say Debenhams sale?

This is lovely, but I can't be arsed to pay the postage.

I'm not impressed with the boys stuff but there are lots and lots of lovely girls dresses. Really like that one CSWS.

Found one top for J but seeing as delivery is £4.50 I may as well have paid full price for it. Oh well, off to Verbaudet now as got an e-mail about their sale too...

I might venture into Chatham tomorrow and have a little look in the flesh! Only problem is there is a huge mirror in the lift so I HATE going in there.

No luck at Vertbaudet either. Am trying to buy sale clothes to send ds to Nursery in so I won't mind if they get ruined. He will nearly be one by the time he starts but all the clothes for that 12 months up look so grown up...keep getting drawn to the newborns. I don't want him to grow up Had the same in Mothercare today (big clothes sale too), found lots of bits but kept going "tsk those look too old" and putting them back. Do you think it would be cruel to keep him in romper suits until school?

rachie - you need to look at rainbow babies, but don't order without letting me recommend you as a friend first, as you'll get 10% off that way.

I'm off to bed folks, night!

Thanks CSWS just had a very quick look as I can hear ds stirring. They are lovely clothes, simple and colourful and won't make him look like a teenager at 1. I'll have a proper look tomorrow and then ask you to recommend me. Thank you

HMM- Sleep well

Dh just got home from a work outing to Ascot (what a hard life) all sunburnt and tipsy so he'll be snoring all night which means I'll be pinching him all night to stop it

Rachie - you should get an email from them to the email a/c you have on fb telling you how to claim the discount . I've bought a load of their stuff recently, and am very pleased with it.

Oh and we had a much better night than expected. Ds didn't wake for a feed until 4:30am .

Thanks CSWS!

Am so fed up with Ds and solids He'll be 8 months at the end of this month and it feels like he's never going to eat more than bird like portions. I've been trying to follow blw as he likes the independence but although he is sucking and trying chewing he is eating so little. There's been hardly any change in his nappies at all, a few lumps now and then. For the last 2 weeks for breakfast he's happily been having a little bit of porridge and fruit puree quite lumpy from a spoon before he had his toast fingers, which made me feel that he is actually eating something solid. I know this is against blw but it was working having this and then finger foods for all other meals. Now though he is refusing the spoon so I haven't pushed it. On Friday he ate a whole bowl of porridge but now it's like I'm offering him poision. He's maybe eaten two wheetabix bites this morning. He's still having his bottles, although last week it was a fight for him to take those.

I know he's healthy and happy but I just feel so down about it. I'm a worrier with a tendancy to blow things out of proportion when I'm upset but I just wish he was easy to feed. He's a good sleeper and a happy boy so I guess I can't have it all.

Is anyone else finding weaning hard? All the other mum's I know in RL have babies that happily slurp up the purees. I don't know anyone else struggling

rachie - read www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=parenting&threadid=258417-at-my-wits-end-with-11-month-dd-please-help#5 173451 if you want to feel better. It was my thread when dd was 11 months old, and eating as good as nothing. You really are not alone.
Thankfully ds is a better eater than dd, but even he's not mad keen on breakfast stuff (and there's nowt wrong with offering him something on a spoon sometimes, even if it isn't strictly blw). Have you tried just pieces of fruit for breakfast? Ds will eat that far better than anything else in the morning.

Rachie - Try varying what you're giving him in the morning. Babies seem to go through phases in what they enjoy eating. A month ago M would have bitten you arm off to get a strawberry, now she just drops them off the edge of her highchair. Try not to worry, babies pick up on stress and meal times can be a real flashpoint! As long as he is having lots of milk and still gaining weight try not to worry about it. M goes through phases of eating loads or eating hardly anything. Purées are easy to shovel in whereas BLW allows the baby to regulate their intake. I bet if the other babies were left to their own devises they wouldn't eat as much. If he wasn't getting enough he'd let you know.

Right off to catch up after I've stuffed all my Bitti's!

Just had a quick read CSWS. Sounds a bit like M, only M is a bit of a milder version. Is she still mummy obsessed now?