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)

Oh god yes, we're fed up of the same dinners all the time too. Let's all share a list of the sort of stuff we eat in case we can inspire each other. Doesn't have to be grand.

I'll most certainly be bringing dh to Warwick.

MM - am happy to go to Willows any time .

Let me know how you get on on the blw site aubergenie. I could only find one big screenful of recipes last night, but I know that there are more somewhere. Should prob ask Aitch really.

LOL pistachio!! Sweet DD
Not sure about cake HMM I think bananas need to be old... waiting for mine to turn...

ohhhh goodness.... just looked up warwick castle (before mentioning to DH).... DH is a medieval historian... we MIGHT have to find a place to stay and come on Saturday afternoon.... or I'll have to let him wander and indulge. I'm glad I looked it up, DH would be disappointed that I didn't really know what it was all about DH's favourite thing is to go look at castles... especially ruins, though. It is exciting... we're American, so we don't have a lot like that back at home ... so those of you who have not met me before, we'll be the obvious american family of 3 staring with open mouths in awe of hte amazing history...

myjob's husband is so sweet
And DS is a lovely normal 3 year old boy!!! (and he's quite clever, too!)

omg and there is jousting every day in August.... wow, DH will be in medieval heaven!! I'll make sure he behaves and plays nicely in the sandbox that weekend.
He usually behaves very well and is extra nice after sex. So I can sort that

lol star! Sex and a castle - he will be a happy boy.

OK so we laid off the sleep training for a bit while Q was in the most teething pain. I'd let him cry a bit and then he'd get really tired and I'd go and give him a quick feed, he'd doze off within minutes.... so now that he's ok with the teething pain, (with calprofen), I let him cry much longer tonight. I went in every 7 minutes to shhh and I would even lean over and give a cuddle in the cot, but make him stay in the cot. he was crying so hard an hour and a half total. He stopped for 10 min... I went in and he was fighting sleep sitting up! So I laid him down and he didn't fight it (the first time in an hour and a half) but he's still taking those quick breaths that you take after crying for a long time

I hope so. I think he thinks I'm just going to always leave him now, though

Warwick Castle sounds really fun. I went on a school trip there when I was at Primary School and I remember enjoying it. Lots of looking out for a bear with a staff? It's too far for us I'm afraid but also we'll be in Dorset for a week with my family. Have a great time though.

Star and CSWS are we still on for Godstone? Could we maybe meet at 11 as a compromise? Just gives me more time to get out and hopefully miss some traffic?

MM- So glad you are home. I'm sure M will be a mummy's girl again very quickly. I'm sure these dcs like to punish mums. By the way you haven't missed much at the Hop Farm. There is quite a lot that your ds would probably like, driving circuit, big playground area, but it was just a bit odd. A real mish mash of things, wax works, 3-d goblin thing, tanks ?? The animal part was tiny and they all looked at bit sad. Plus it was £13 to get in and the same for children (not ds obv) which seemed incredibly expensive for what was there. Also it was empty- maybe because most people have visited before and decided never again It wasn't a bad day though as we made the best of it and had a nice picnic near a peacock.

Star- Well done with the sleep training, it is really hard to leave them crying. Agree with Myjob- he knows you are there.

We might be able to make the Godstone farm meet up, I'll have to see how ds is doing, his eczema has really flared up and so he is really unsettled at the moment, poor chap. I'm trying to decide whether its the washing powder (we changed back to fairy non-bio recently), the new anti-histamine we've been given, or the fact that I've given him some 'normal' bread which had soya flour in. Aaargh!!!!

MM, I'm sure M will be back to being a mummy's girl soon enough! I'm glad you are back home and feeling so good.

CSWS, glad to hear that the sickness is over in your household. Poor D, bumping his mouth again. Luckily M can't quite pull himself up yet, he gets onto his knees then looks surprised and can't work out what to do with himself .

I'm with everyone on the 'sameness' of meals. I'm trying to go through some of my many recipe books and make a list of easy recipes (that can be adapted to our special diets!) to help me get out of this rut! Unfortunately I keep getting distracted by things like mn

Star, its hard to hear it when they are upset, but he's upset because he can't get to sleep, not because of you. Both of mine if they were overtired would scream like mad even if we were holding them and then suddenly just give in fall asleep.

Star - Sex and a castle, that made me laugh and hurt my belly! I have to get DH to do any sleep training as I am too much of a wuss plus for some reason M's crying turns me into a crazy woman. I get really stressed, so you you're doing better job than I would have been able to!

Hmm - She is a cheeky minx isn't she? All that fighting so I could get her in to see me, all those times s he came in & I had to try to find a comfy position..... She actually seemed pretty happy to have me there last night so I'll let her off!

Pistachio - Awwww that is so cute of your dd. You've obviously been a fabulous role model, we need a generation of little girls that see breastfeeding as the norm.

Ekka - M's eczema is a PITA too. It's not as bad as M's (confusing!) but nothing seems to work on it. Well, things seem to work, then stop working, then start working again. It;s very strange, nothing else changes. M does that pulling herself up on her knees thing too, only she does pelvic thrusts once she's there!

Rachie - Are you near Greenwich? DH often suggests going to Greenwich so maybe when I'm better those of us near London could meet up there. I think Chatham Dockyard is better than the Hop Farm but probably not at J's age! There are loads of mannequins there .

Myjob - Unfortunately intelligent children are challenging. DS is also a real pickle and has always been one. Every time he's being a PITA just remember it is because he is so bright! That certainly helped me get through lots with DS.

star lol at sex and castles, I hope you too dont wonder off if he is grumpy to some secret tower YOu are doing fab with Q though and he wont ever think you leave him, remember he always wakes in the morning and sees you so you have never left him

mm glad your home, you should have asked me and star to pop in for a quick clean whilst you were gone

ekka sorry your ds has eczema again, its a trial and error I think taking away things, prob with washing powder is you have to remember what you washed in it so it may flare up again in afew weeks when he wears something that had been washed with it. Poor thing but hope he is ok.

I have completely forgotten where everyone lives now, I need a list again

P has been really trying to crawl and can get from sitting to crawling and sitting back up, I found her sitting up in her cot the other day!

myjob also meant to mention re your ds, he is the same age as my dd and it will be nice to see them meet, they seem to be simular with their night terrors and day time grouchiness

thread on fb jenwa re where we all live.

On way to swimming so on properly later.

I am saying a quick hello before I go back and spend a week catching up!!
See you soon

Awww Ronshar! I was just wondering where you were! Everyone has been very chatty lately! I needed you here to be impressed with my amazing recovery!