October 08 - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

[CantSleepWontSleep]

Thread title in honour of HoneymoonMummy

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 -
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) - 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.
20th Oct (Due 16th Oct) - bigmouthstrikesagain - Girl - Polly - 8lbs 7oz - Good hospital birth with synto drip.
21st Oct (Due 21st Oct) - hansnava - Girl - Sophia Leigh - 7lbs 6oz - Elective c-sec
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.
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz - No stitches!
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!

(I've taken purpleflower off, as she doesn't seem to be posting here anymore, but if you're still about pf then just let me know)

yes star mil is having P, cant understand why she does not stay at hers and give her lunch and let fil collect boys like normal rather then she go too purely to tell dd1 she is coming back later
Sorry your DH was a pita, men Can you not just do the sleep thing on your own at your friends house

rachie not sure about the looking good pics! There is usually alot of make up involved Agree with mil thing, will just let her do it her way and see what happens. Wont bother sending a list now either as clearly no point.

myjob I really dont have high standards, I just like it to be nice and sparkly I love it smelling nice but it usually smells of men and children men of course meaning DH not any other random men

mm glad M is feeding again, sorry you had to take her to the loo though, poor M although maybe being blocked up was in her favour at that point lol re shouty dragon too!

Jenwa! I meant for a wee!!!!

Jenwa- you make me lol! Poor MM and your blocked up comment

Myjob- I think the patience comes from knowing that at 3pm they go home to their mummies and daddies Mind you in a few years time will be going home to my own 3yr old so don't know what will happen to my patience then!

MM glad she has fed again
MM I'd say that to DH but he wouldn't know how to put him back to sleep. He'd probably get him up and play with him or try to feed him formula. Sometimes I do wish men could lactate on command.

DH just implied I've gained weight since being off work... I KNOW that I have and it's more than I should have, but I just think it's out of line for a dh to mention it. He's on my naughty list tonight Maybe I'll put Q in bed with me and not let him in.

myjob - yes I'm sure it was intentional

Jenwa - are you gone at work for a long day tomorrow or do you start of with fewer hours? Is it a long commute? Best wishes, I'm sure P will be fine - and very happy to see you at the end of the day

I agree Rachie - that's where my patience ends with my age group, too. Not sure what I'll do when I have my own at home that age well, that's a long way off isn't it?

Star - I would love for someone to invent a pill or something that could make a man lactate! Imagine that! Although I am convinced that if men had to breast feed and put up with the cracked nipples, the blocked ducts, the thrush...the human race would have died out thousands of years ago! You're a perfect weight for your height. If you've put on weight, then that's probably a good thing! It is so difficult to run around after children when you're skinny as a rake. He should definitely be on your naughty list. In ds's class room at school there is a sun and a rain cloud. If the children misbehave they go on the rain cloud. You need one of those for DH.

Oh meant to tell you....Oh the shame..... We went to DS's open evening at the school last night. His report was excellent so we weren't concerned. Turns out he is top in the class for literacy, top three for reading and top five for maths! But he is lazy. No surprise there. We were reading through his project work and came to the Our Town project. They all had to make models of buildings in the town. DS made a pub, because 'My favourite place in Gillingham is the pub because I can drink froot shoots' DH and I roared with laughter. It was so DH is proud, I am gutted!

We finally got a safety gate that fits! I have one in the living room and one at the stairs now. When I go around the corner to wash dishes and Q is in living room, he cries. He's started crying whenever I leave any room. Do your lo's do this? He used to be ok with it as long as he could hear my voice. I can see him still from kitchen but he can't see me. I don't want him to be an insecure child....

LOL about the My Town project, MM how cute!! I'll bet his teacher couldn't wait to show you
at the sun and rain cloud for age 6 (right?) ?!?!? Imagine being 6 and having your name up there in front of everyone in the class stuck under the rain cloud!
But for DH ... not a bad idea...

Star - M has been crying if I am out of sight for about 4 months now! She has learned to calm herself down now but still cries at first. It is a good sign that they cry, at this age they don't understand that you've just popped out of the room. They get scared you're never coming back. They do learn that you will come back and stop getting so upset.

Star - They had them in year R too! I think you have to be pretty bad to get put on the rain cloud. In year R there was a sun, a white cloud and a rain cloud. DS once went on the white cloud when he friend jumped on his back when they were meant to be tidying. The teacher just saw the two of them sprawled on the floor and they both got told off. DS was horrified!

Some people like a white fluffy cloud day
Poor DS. I HATE things like that - humiliation is NOT the way to get kids to behave! Ok... I will stop here before I get myself into an argument over behaviour management not that this would happen on this thread... but in case anyone else is lurking . I'll go to bed now .... I think... if I can tear myself away!

Imagine the poor kid that goes to the grey rain cloud quite regularly....how that must eat away at their self esteem and how humiliating And the fear of stepping out of line and having your name moved to less favourable weather sign, like a stormy rain cloud I'd be so nervous I don't think I'd get my work done! Ok, sorry, couldn't resist!!!

I was going to respond but I won't poke the bear.... Night Star!

Star - there is nothing of you - how on earth can your dh be complaining about your weight? Or was he not actually complaining, but just observing?
In fact, at the risk of making you blush, I don't think I'd seen many photos of you before, and was quite shocked at how pretty you are. Well, pretty isn't really the right word, as it sounds too girly, but 'attractive' makes me sound like a lesbian, so you can pick your own word along those lines .

Finished the first series of House now, so off to bed in a tick.

CSWS - You can see that a person is attractive without actually being attracted to them. For example I think that Orlando Bloom is very very attractive but he seems too devoid of personality for me to fancy him.

Ahem star - real names!
We had a much better night - just one feed around 4, so no, Q didn't steal it all!

Forgot to mention that on Monday night dh watched ds climb up two stairs, very quickly apparently!

AH! I'll try to get that removed immediately.

CSWS - We thought M was going to try and climb the stairs but she just sat next to the bottom one and just bashed it. M likes bashing things!

I've reported the post. I'm so stupid sometimes. wasn't thinking

It's ok star - easily done.
You might want to copy the post and repost it without the name as if MN delete it then no-one will be able to read the rest of what you put!

thanks Sorry again....

Thank you csws. I certainly don't feel and have never felt attractive, so that was nice to hear blush ... especially with dark circles from no sleep under my eyes.

You and myjob were both also very attractive - must be how you have such beautiful babies! grin

I stepped on a scale yesterday afternoon (we don't own one here) and I am in fact 7lbs more than I was in the beginning of June. DH has a big thing about weight. It's ridiculous actually. He will always say "no, you look fine"...etc, but I can see the way he looks at me when I've got a little extra that it's not appealing to him. It's ok. I have a healthy diet... just been having too many "treats" lately probably blush

I love House. Dh doesn't.

Q is becoming more and more confident standing and going through his toy box drawers...etc. I want him to slowwwwww down and stay my little baby!
I've put all of the toys with little pieces on the top one grin so I can decide how many of those come out at once. I wonder when he'll learn to play with one toy at a time hmm well, my 6 year olds in school can't do that.... oh well.

We've been showing friends and family the video and everyone is laughing so hard at Q because I've been telling them how since I've been off work I've been taking him to gymboree, playgroups, farms, parks...etc to get him used to other babies and up until we met D and N, he used to just sit there, surprised and letting the other kids take toys off him/throw things at him, swipe at his face...etc. I was so worried he'd be a "pushover" ha! I showed that video and now they think I'm lying! grin

Q had another pretty good night... still woke 3 times, but fed and right back to sleep. I hope sleep was good in myjob and csws house, too, else I'm going to really believe that Q took your good sleep! If he did.... I'm so sorry But I'm not giving it back grin ha!

star glad you got little one off to sleep eentually. maia was like that last night, refused her bottle so was not hungry and seemed ok when picked up as nowadays she prefers to roll all over the floor rather than sit in her chair! yesterday she was openign and closing the living room door!
anyhoo she went to bed at about 8 as had enough of the constant screaming for no reason (maybe teething!) and she did go down. i was so tired this morning when she woke at 4 i just fell back asleep and she managed to settle down again. i guess i can be quite heartless with my determination to get them into a sleeping pattern!

Star, those new pictures of Q on FB are lovely! He's such a cutie!