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)

Lurverly dress Aubergenie Wish I'd bothered to look now when I went to Bluewater last week but I just walked in Monsoon, looked at the rugby scrum and backed out!

CSWS- Glad the vomitting stopped but for the nappies. Do you think it's all over now?

Jenwa- for your hearing making you feel so low. Maybe if you talk to your boss there might be something they can do help? Maybe a change to your role? Or that might be totally not what you want. Good luck for the Next sale tomo. I've always been too lazy to go but did my online vip shop earlier this week and spent way too much

MM- Great to hear from you, glad you are feeling better. Sorry to hear about ds and dd. Bet they will be so excited to have you home.

Ds has been very whingy this evening. We were out all afternoon meeting a friend in the park nearby and he was very happy but then at home so grumpy. It feels like it's been such a long week and I'm shattered so in the end I called dh who was at a work leaving do and asked him to come home. Which he did so he is in my good books

wow, gorgeous dress Aubergenie.

No more sickness - hurrah!

Anyone else struggling with a baby who insists on standing up in the bath all the time? Ds likes to cruise around ours, but he slipped and cut his mouth again tonight.

Not had bath standing here yet CSWS- ds sounds like he is doing so well with standing and cruising if he can do it in water! Though obv you don't want him cutting his mouth. Ds can now pull himself up to his knees so peers over the cot, it's being lowered tomorrow morning.

csws - yes that happens to us. Q only wants to stand in the bath and climb out but then once out, wants back in! fickle pickle.

jenwa and aubergenie yes we will get together soon for taht. We had lunch today but I had Q with me. I've explained to her (via email) how I'm feeling so we'll see how that goes. It's more to do with how I just totally feel like a doormat a lot. And I know this sounds silly, but I think I'm missing her now more because Im realizing how alone I feel now that I have a baby. It's lovely to have my MN friends of course... but she's the only friend I have from before Q who has kids - so no one else understands what it's like.

I feel a bit crap saying that. I'm so happy I get to spend time with Q and not work, but at the same time I feel so alone. I've been very upset/crying a lot lately over the stupidest things. I think maybe I do need a pill to help.

Yay for Naomi standing on her feet!!! Keep her sitting for a while yet... enjoy it! . I feel horrible for saying it but I don't want Q to walk

Wow Rachie that he left the work leaving do! Good man. Dh is currently at his end of school year work do - it's on a boat on the thames... a booze cruise.

Q waved the other day - and today on purpose a few times... but won't do it on command so he shows us up a lot when we tell people he can wave!
He consistently does "high five" when Dh puts his hand up and says "high five", though. It's cute. We praise him so much every time that before he does the high five he squeals with excitement (I think in anticipation of the clapping and praise!)

True myjob. I feel 100x better than I did at first when Q was born. Every time a MW would visit or I would go to chemist... anything I'd burst into tears. I'm well past that. So yeah maybe PMT didn't think of that. I just never used to get any premenstrual symptoms really.

Sorry about the dentist I hope he/she was nice to you.

LOL about that video image of N myjob!!! What a cutie!

Star I'm so sorry you feel like that but I don't think you are alone in feeling alone- if that makes sense. I've felt like that through must of my maternity leave and still do now sometimes but less so thankfully. Are there any parent and baby/toddler groups near you? I've ended up being very active as I can't cope with too many days in with just me and ds. I love him more than anything but I need company too.

I've stupidly not wanted to tell many people how I felt to as I didn't want it to look like I'm not coping. So selfishly for me it is reassuring to know that someone else feels like me. My mum has been very supportive, dh knows but doesn't really get it. Maybe speak to your GP or HV if they are supportive? I really think this feeling is normal though as becoming a mum is such a huge transition and also it's not like starting a new job when you have colleagues around to support you. We actually have to seek out support and friendships which can be really hard to do when you are feeling low.

I've gathered hugging isn't the done thing but feck it I'm sending you one!

oh no, myjob. That's awful! I'm not sure how dentists work here... but can't you get an appointment sooner since it's causing you pain?

back at you rachie with the unspoken h word
relieved to hear you feel that way too!! It's so hard because you feel like you should be feeling nothing but utter happiness with your LO. I do love Q to bits, though.

Myjob for dentist! N sounds so cute

Star- Dh coming home was a rarity, if he had been out with "the boys" I wouldn't have bothered asking . TBH if it had been vice versa I'd have been livid if he'd have called me home but that's because I'm unreasonable I have ds all day everyday.

for you myjob. That doesn't sound nice at all. I do not understand the whole healthcare system here still. Was in awe of the public free medical care for all when we moved here... thought how wonderful that everyone gets the same care... but now I see that it has its disadvantages. NOT saying what goes on in the US is better... it's not. I've always been fortunate enough to be on my parent's health insurance or have teaching jobs with fabulous health insurance packages... but my sister is often unemployed and would be completely screwed if she had an emergency

I know Star you do feel like you should be on top of the world but in reality I find motherhood hard. Friends and colleagues comment on how well I'm looking which is nice of them but really I want to say well actually I'm struggling but don't because I feel a bit silly. I'm so lucky as well as J is a very easy baby, or so far he is, but that makes me feel worse sometimes, like why should I be finding this hard when he is so good?

Having said all this over the last 1-2 months I've been feeling better and more settled in my mummy role. This is prob because work is looming!

Hi all, I've not read and just a quickie cos I have a Dominoes Pizza downstairs with my name on it but...DH and I just had an accident with a condom And it's my fertile time And neither of us are that bothered about it!

However, am not sure if I should stop taking the sertraline AD's if there's a chance... I'm off for a quick look. Hope you're all OK.

HMM. Not sure if I am more jealous over the pizza or sex life .

I'd be having a heart attack HMM! ha! mmm pizza. Had dominoes once recently with some lovely people, but not since...

I thought you were trying already anyway hmm? Start a thread on here to ask re ADs - bound to be loads who know.