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!

HI all,
can't stop as tyring to watch BB 9i know its shit but its mind numbing and that's waht i need today). Ds1 still poorly, whingy and tired all the time. joe now has a cough and has barely slept all day - also think a tooth may be coming. All is quiet now though (sorry csws)

MM - sorry about the op - what about getting a second opinion or an assessment at private place? They may do keyhole or may offer you a bedroom where M can stay too - if they can, go back to PCT and demand they pay for it privately as they should be promoting bf not stoping you from bf. They may offer you a private room in NHS hosp as a compromise....or they may pay for keyhole, you never know!!!

Star - Men do not seem to understand the concept of worry. Dh is the same. When I was pg, he went out without his phone for drinks with a friend. I can never sleep when he's out as he always drinks too much and I worry about him. At 4 in the morning he still wasn't home so I called his mate. His mate had left him at the pub 2 hours earlier. I was convinced her was lying in a gutter somewhere beaten or dead or something. I called my mum to come round so dad could listen out for ds while we went to look for him. Just as they arrived, down the road staggered DH, munching a kebab, garlic sauce all over his hands and face. He was very drunk and very confused. He's done it loads of times to me and it makes me so so every bloody time. You're not too controlling. You care and worry about your DH, the father of Q. FFS, men as such idiots! He won't have thought anything of it. He'll say he told you he was going out (though he won't have) and won't see the problem.

CSWS - Glad he's finally gone to sleep! Little pickle.

Oooo Loulou! That sounds like a very good idea!!! I doubt that anyone could do it keyhole as the cyst is in the way of where they'd need to put their instruments in. They'd pop the thing! Yuck! My consultant is very good and I am confident that he would do keyhole if he could. He is going to see if he can get in underneath it and go horizontally and will only go midline as a last resort.

Posted before I finished -

Loulou - Poor ds1 still suffering.

MM that's right on the nose. glad it's not so uncommon

Is anyone watching 8 out of 10 cats?

Not me. Watched an episode of first series of house, and now watching sleb masterchef.

There was something very funny on there from Irish daytime telly. A Riverdance massage. Hilarious! I don't really like House that much, it's a bit too much like Diagnosis Murder which I hate with a passion!

and now another ep of house, despite the fact that i should be going to bed.

I have wine and chocolate too.

MM I'm gutted for you. Dunno what to say If I was there I'd give you a very unwelcome hug Surely these days there MUST be a way for you to see/ BF Martha in the hospital?????? It's not like she'll be running round the ward if that's what they're worried about. Your parcel is currently in the Northwich sorting office, I missed the postie. [Can't stand the anticipation]

I took Poppy to be weighed yesterday, she's put on 10oz in a week!!!! It's her biggest weight gain yet! She's back up to the 25th quartile line now

Also, I told the acupuncturist I wouldn't be coming back for a while and have just polished off a pizza - I'm not DF any more as of today ... [HMM goes off to get cheesecake]

Poppy has been a bit more sick but nothing too drastic, it's been building up a bit more each day since started giving her dairy so I think it's that rather than the AD's. I haven't been sick unlike last time ... yet.

Oh and Poppy started waving today! It's been a big week, first babble, first tooth and waving!! We have been waving to her and moving her arm to wave back and she's started doing it herself! It's not a "proper" wave yet but you can tell she's trying

Oh and I gave her a whole uncut banana today and she ate it all - how brave am I getting????

CSWS - Have you watched any of Lie to Me? It's very good. It might be something you'd enjoy.

I'd never seen house til this week.

Ooh I love House but I always miss it so haven't actually watched it for about 6 months.

Never heard of Lie to Me MM.

We've got the whole of the first few series loaded onto dh's ipod.

It features Tim Roth and it's very good. It is a relatively new series and think season one is on Sky at the moment.

Hi Myjob, I'm not staying long as we're off shopping soon. Is she really uncomfortable with her teething? Awww to her clapping

Poppy been quite sick this morning but I'm not going to do anything rash like stop my dairy/ AD's, I'll just see how it goes. I had a danish for breakfast this morning mmmmmmm!!

Hmm - I missed your post last night!! You do sound so much happier which is fabulous news. And yay for cheesecake. I would have chocolate cheesecake as my final meal because I love it so much! I am going to speak to PALS and see if I can stay in the postnatal ward so M can come with me.

Last night she demonstrated just how hard it's going to be. She wouldn't settle with DH and would only calm down when I was standing over her stroking her hair. She just got worse when DH took over. but secretly . When she woke up at 5 for milk she wouldn't let DH cuddle her and reached for me crying and pushing DH away. God it's going to be soooo hard for all of us. I think I am going to have to try and be less and less involved in night-time so she gets slowly used to it.

HMM - don't worry about the sickness yet, Joe has days when he is sick (like today and yesterday oh, and the day before) but then he was fine for a while before then. He has a cough at the moment but he also has greedy feeds/meals so that doesn't help. Sertraline is supposed to be one of the better ADs but i will ask one of the colleagues (who's a psychiatrist and mum of two bf babies) if she knows anything else to help...hope you are enjoying the dairy as well

I'm not so worried about HMM's mental health as yours Myjob - what are you thinking of taking on another baby at bedtime and on your own!! We barely manage to get two to bed with two of us there, let alone three - although you are the queen of bedtimes for me, managing that on your own. Do you do bathtimes on your own as well? Hats off to you if you do - its chaos here...

MM - you have a few weeks til operation so maybe start with gradually introducing dh nore and then stepping in before she gets upset (this may be only for a few seconds to start with). If you take over once she has strted crying she gets the message that 'if i cry, i get mummy' and so next tiem she does it more. If she cries instantly, then you have to tough it out and leave her with dh for a few mins before you take over (this was the advice from my osteopath who said babies learn connections between their behaviour and our response at just a few weeks old . This was when JOe would not let dh hold him at all and after a few weeks of diong this, i got a lot better...he's fine with dh now but he used to scream if i handed him to anyone
off to get ds1 up before he sleeps too long

Thanks Loulou - we'll try that. DH is terrible for leaving her to cry before he bothers to get off his bottom, mainly as he knows that I will never leave her to cry so will stop whatever I'm doing to pick her up. I've warned him that when I can't help he is going to have to do what I tell him and pick her up straight away.

Good to hear about the carnival Myjob. Hope DS sleeps well for you. I often do bath time alone, I don't find it too hard either, but then M loves the bath so I never have to fight her about it.

M joined us for chilli and wedges tonight. We used haricot beans rather than kidney beans as I hate kidney beans . She did better with her dinner than DS! She loved it, she had chicken, sweet potato and chickpea curry with us the other night too. Obviously the chilli and curry were not spicy at all.

Myjob - lets hope they all sleep well then when your friends LO is there....maybe you're practising for number three

My two love the bath too but how do you manage to dry and dress one with the other still in the bath or do you take both out at the same time?? DS1 would be off round the house naked if not pinned down to be dried as it were....maybe we battle too much with him. I guess i probably would cope if i had to but the logistics of two of them baffle me sometimes!!

MM - can't wait till M has a curry or chilli nappy - Joe's are always super stinky after he's had chilli or curry - even worse after lentils. DH nearly had a fit when Joe did a dark purple poo (he'd had bluberry puree the day before)...

Ah, I suppose things are a bit easier for me considering I have a nearly 6 year old! He can dress himself after all. Doesn't really compare does it?

Loulou - I think M had a curry nappy tonight, it was horrible! She has been a very smelly lady the last few days. Funny, my DH panicked too when M had a purple blueberry nappy! Silly men. I'll tell you something that is horrible, N loves asparagus. Her wee stinks!!! Yuck!