October 08 - Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others

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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)

I'm going to remind you of that comment when he is 2 rachie .

Well in my attempt to establish that ds is ok with some dairy now, I actually managed to establish that it's more of an allergy than an intolerance, as his whole chest/stomach got covered in hives. Great .

Had one of my best friends (who we established we hadn't seen since November ) and her dh and dd (6 months older than mine) up to play today. With the exception of both girls and myself being bitten/stung by red ants, we had a lovely day.

Rachie - Could be the summer holidays, but it is also the fact that his birthday is coming up. He gets like this around his birthday and Christmas. He also has instructions to tidy his bedroom and play room. However, I tidied his bedroom and now I just want him to keep it tidy. The threat is that he can't have presents until he has tidied, rather than not having presents at all IYSWIM. I am a hard woman, but I'm soft compared to my mum!

rachie No worries about the rant, I have been known to do it so please feel free, eek to cotton wool, glad you said it was wet as that my me get goose bumps! Phoebe sucks a wet wipe Hope you feeling ok now though. Think would be nice to have a husband free meet up to moan about them

csws cant remember if I said what fab pics they were, think I came on here yesterday but briefly and dont think I got round to actually saying anything, doh! never seen that programme, when is it on? is it cbeebies? sorry have no idea!

Am tired as been out today, let DH have lie in til 11 and then we went out and I really wanted to sleep, felt sick in car but had a really unhealthy tea at mcdonalds, never took any food out for P as we were going home so just ordered her fish fingers and chips I sucked all the salt of the chips though but she ate it all, well most of it, nearly 2 fishfingers a chicken nugget and chips and bread from mine and DH roll!! Felt bit bad but she eats so well normally!

I'm now in fear of the 2's CSWS!! Sorry to hear about the hives and red ant bites- how nasty.

MM- I can forsee your ds rushing round on his b'day morning manically tidying Does he get very excited about his b'day and christmas but it comes out in a negative way? My Mum was a tough cookie too, def more scary than my Dad. Once me and my bro were arguing over the tv and she flew in with a massive kitchen knife in her hands, ripped the plug out the wall, cut if off and shouted "Now argue over the tv". Needless to say we were very quiet for the rest of the night

Thanks Jenwa, am always up for a rant Urgh yes dry cotton wool, yuck. I don't think a naughty treat once in a while hurts. I will confess too that I let ds eat a bit of my krispy kreme donut today. He loved it

lol about the donut rachie

my dh is similar. Once recently, he went in the kitchen to "get Q's lunch" and I thought, wow, this should be interesting... he's NEVER made a meal for Q without me instructing him to do so before...
So he goes into the kitchen and starts opening the plastic pots in the refrigerator and says "so what's he having today?" HA!

WOW about the tv story rachie! My mom passed away when I was 14, but before that she was never very firm... didn't need to be.. I was such a goody-two-shoes. My sister was a handful... but no one ever ever raised their voices in my home. Not ever. If you wanted to yell or shout, you had to go into your room and close the door. They never smacked us or yelled at us. Because of this, I am INCREDIBLY sensitive. I cannot tolerate when someone raises their voice to me (getting better though). Surprisingly, I've been able to firmly and rather loudly say "NO" to Q when necessary not sure where that came from!

lol at takeaway for P jenwa Sounds like she loved it!!

MM glad M is doing better. Do you think DS has difficulty with routine changes or anticipation of routine changes? I know a little boy who gets like that just before a long holiday from school (xmas, summer...etc.) because he's so anxious about his whole world/routine changing.

Well, Q screamed for about 10 minutes tonight and then was so hysterical he was coughing and gagging, so I picked him up, he frantically went for my breast, so I fed him and then he fell asleep... he's sleeping still now.... ugh. he's not going to let me sleep train him. He's going to do everything he can to fall asleep while bf!!!

oh! BUT Q woke in the night a few times last night... once he woke for about 30 minutes but I did not take him out of his cot. He cried for a bit, but I was so tired I slept through some of it (he's right next to me in cot!!!) and he eventually just fell asleep... slept until about 5.30 (normal) and then I took him out and fed him... after the feed he was out for another two hours! (But in our bed at this time... oops)

Just logging on quickly to wish you good luck this week MM, just in case I don't get back on here before you go to the hospital. I hope it all goes well, and you're able to get lots of lovely sleep.

Sorry to hear about your DH's fuckwittage Rachie. How does he get on when you go out?

Star - How's the sleep training going?

We've only just had dinner as S absolutely would not go to sleep. Just kept jumping up like a jack in the box rattling the sides of the cot, like he's King Kong. Took him 2 hours to finally go down. Now it's time for me to head off to bed and I've had absolutely zero evening to myself. Night all.

Rachie - I can sympathise with frustration over dh! Individually they are only little things, but all day, every day they can drive you up the wall....

Star, it sounds as if the sleep training is making a difference to his nighttimes. I'm impressed at Q trying to stand by himself, M hasn't worked out how to pull himself up yet, though he is getting speedy at crawling!

CSWS - I love those pics. Poor you with D and the milk allergy. Will you follow up with a doctor? We've been advised not to even try M with milk/eggs till he's 2 because his allergies are so bad.

This week has been busy with a paediatrician's appt on Tuesday, a dietician's appt on Wednesday and a Dermatologist's appt on Thursday. Luckily the first two don't need to see us again for ages, but the dermatologist wants us to get more allergy tests (for wheat/gluten/soya/fish etc etc). I'm just hoping that she doesn't ask me to cut anything more out of his diet. Its hard enough planning meals as it is!

This weekend has been busy too, dd was in the children's parade in our local carnival - she had a great time, but as she got tired part way through the parade I ended up joining her childminder and carrying her in the procession ! I've put some pics up on facebook of the carnival & our holiday....

I must go to bed, both kids (and dh) have a terrible cold. Apparently dd has been at a toddler group with a little girl who had swine flu, so dh keeps muttering about the chances of it being flu and whether he should take some time off work 'just in case'

No re doctor Ekka. My GP won't be interested, and the paed won't actually do anything except prescribe formula that I don't want.

Hope that you get more of an evening tonight aubergenie.

star - I think we had an odd night where that happened at bedtime too, but it didn't hurt the process.

Oh and we had a bad night, but maybe just a result of the dairy, or eating less tea.

Sorry for the bad night csws

aubergenie sleep training is going well. I'm noticing I'm able to keep Q in his cot for the night now only ocassionaly having to take him out for milk on some nights but always before midnight then right back in. He's getting A LOT better at settling himself back to sleep when he wakes. I guess it's just ok that they cry. He's happier for it because his sleep is better and I keep reassuring him I'm there when he is crying. I feel a bit badly now b/c I know his teeth are hurting but I give calpol and teething gel when I know it's really bad and he's ok. I sleep in the bed right next to his cot but I have a blanket on the side of his cot so he can't see out. When he wakes, I do say "shhh" from my bed and that helps him. If he can see me, he just wants out. So I think that helps

Hello, just popping in will be back this evening....

Thanks Aubergenie

M said Hello this morning and waved to us from her cot! She then said Hello-lo-lo-lo and waved again!

GRRRR, what is it with men being idiots DP is completely and utterly useless. He does absolutely nothing at all around the house, which annoys the hell out of me. He called me this morning to tell me that he had gone to work with both of the car seats in his car along with the double pushchair, my cousin was supposed to be taking me into town so I could pay the rent today. Not only that but he hadn't even got enough money out of the account yesterday I then came downstairs to get the kids breakfast and there is no bread because DP ate it all, only 4 raspberries left for DD and the cake I baked a couple of days ago is left out on the side uncovered! DS has now been begging me for cake as he has seen it and I have to throw it in the bin as its dried out!!
He is starting to get really arsey when I get asked to go out too. He was moody as hell yesterday as I was going out last night and then got asked by a different friend to go out next week to celebrate her graduating. I only went next door last night for an Anne Summers party, which was great until I got home at midnight to DP and DS asleep on the sofa and DS screamed when taken up to bed!
I honestly think life would be soo much easier on my own. All he does is mess things up and make me feel like crap all the time. He is a fantastic Dad though and the DC's adore him, probably because he is the fun one as he does no cleaning etc and just plays with them

Sorry for the rant, I wish I could say I feel better but it just makes me realise how unhappy I am at the moment

DD is starting to cruise around the furniture now, it's so sweet I need to sort her out a push along walker now.

Good luck for this week MM, i have a little boy who is majorly playing up at the moment too, he has gone to bed hungry a couple of times because I believe in sticking to my word.

Thats funny about the TV rachie, I might have to try that one I do unplug the TV quite a lot but DS has started trying to plug it back in

Purple- so sorry to hear that your dp is being like that. Are you stuck at home now? Bloody men. I think given what you said before about being down you need a break so stick with your nights out even if he is moody about it.

Ah my Mum's not too bad...just a bit crazy sometimes Mind you my youngest brother was like one of those kids you see on 'The House of Tiny Tearways' so I can't blame her. I have to say the tv episode worked, lucky she didn't give herself an electric shock though!

MM- Good luck for today, I know it's easy to say for someone not going through it but when it's all over you'll be cyst free and hopefully much happier. So cute about M say hello, what a clever girl

Star- well done with Q last night, it does sound like he wants to do things his way, very much like J! But it sounds like you are sticking to your guns which is good. A non-shouting household sounds lovely, no wonder you don't like raised voices. Do you ever raise your voice in class? Not that I'm a shouty teacher at all and I don't believe shouting works but sometimes I need a loud voice to get their attention, in PE etc?

Well ds and I had better get dressed Mondays are lazy days.

Oh btw can I give ds a pasta dish with parma ham? It's an AK recipe but in her book for 12-18 months, it's just cheese sauce, veg and pasta- so that's all fine, not sure about the ham though as it's uncooked?

Hi,

just a quick one whilst i am at work. Joe is crawling now (but only just myjob and he 10 months and 1 week). He pulled himself up to stand but immediately fell over.

Myjob - Joe does that L shaped thing when you stand him up but he's now trying to bounce and strengthen his legs. TBH i don't really want him to walk yet as it will be such hard work chasing him around. I don't think you should worry about the crawling thing yet. Joe couldnt' crawl til last week and now he's off a few days later, i'm sure N will get it soon....Joe used to cry and get really frustrated as he couldn't get his legs to work (eventually he just dragged himself by the arms across the room) - then one day it all clicked for him. Have you tried teh throwing a breadstick trick (courtesy of psistachio )

right best do some work

Joe has an 'almost tooth' - he has a lump on his guma nd you can see the shape of the tooth but it hasn't come through yet - DS! keeps asking him when his tooth is going to come through.

DS1 has been a little monkey recently and i think he is struggling with me going back to work - he plays up for mw all the time and screamed for 1 1/2 hours last night because i wanted him to tidy all the toys he had thrown (yes, thrown) across his room. He had been showing off in front of a friends dd and his rooms was totally trashed. He did tidy it in the end but it was a huge battle (and dh was trying to work in the gallery and he had customers in as well ). He has been realy cute this morning but he wants me to play with him all the time and its hard to do that and get ready for work etc...will have to try to find some time tonight to play with him but Joe will want cuddles too as soon as he sees me and DS1 hates to share me sometimes - tis such a balancing act

sorry pistachio not psistchio

Sorry about dh pf
Men can be very useless but he doesn't sound very nice.

Rachie - We have teachers who teach PE, art, music, french, dance and movement, computers - so I don't teach PE, PE is one of our "specials" 2x a week when I get planning time. We have 2 specials a day +lunch and recess but have to do one lunch/recess duty per week. It's A LOT of planning time. All of it is common with other teachers on our grade level. I'm quite spoiled with it, but I like it it also allows for me to shoot out and see Q several days a week for a feed or whatever.
So no, I do not ever need to raise my voice to my class. I believe in keeping very calm with children. Sometimes I WISH I could yell like some other teachers I see (nice quick fix sometimes!), but I just don't have what it takes, i guess. My approach does work, though as I also have taught in New York City Public Schools in a very rough area with a class of 30 (no assistant, I don't have an assistant now either). That was a lot to deal with behaviourally, but keeping calm did get me through it.
I don't use reward or incentive charts and do a lot of philosophy from the american "Responsive Classroom" model.

MM that M said a word!!wow! Q only makes noises. sometimes i swear he says "mom" but it's just mumbled sounds. I would pass out if I saw Q do that hello with wave!! awesome!! How exciting!!!