October 08 - Clapping, kissing, waving, crawling, sleeping our babes can do it all!

[Marthasmama]

Ummm....Ooops I need to copy and paste that list don't I?

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!

Size 8! I was a lot les than 30 last time I was a size 8.... I like to think of myself as a generous 12, so that's a 14 then.

I'm here, but mainly cos I should be packing...

Pepper I'm a generous 12 too Size 8??? am so

MM- Don't tell me anything about The Street please- am recording it as I was having a bath when it started. I really like it, last weeks was very good but sad.

Jenwa- am off to check out your feet pics in a mo

Had a busy day today. Went swimming with J and my brother, hadn't taken J for ages. He spent the first 15mins making 'oooooh' noises and then the rest of the time splashing. Then my brother announces he needs clothes for starting work, he's just finished uni, so we ended up spending the rest of the day at Bluewater. Off to Leeds Castle tomorrow. Phew...next week will be very dull in comparison.

Rachie - You spend loads of time near me you know! My mum is taking me for a half hour visit to Bluewater on Thursday as I reckon I can manage that amount of time.

Prepare yourself by the way Rachie. It's not a nice one tonight.

Jenwa- I'm being thick, I can't find your pics??

MM- We'll really have to meet up once you are fully recovered. Which shops will you spend your half hour in?

OMG Jenwa, if you think you need to lose weight I'm REALLY in trouble! Lovely pics

Just got Poppy off to sleep in her cot rather than in my arms!!!!! So proud of myself!! It's ridiculous! I've been working up to it, 3 weeks ago she had to be rocked to sleep standing up, then sitting down then in my arms but not rocked and now in the cot with me rubbing her thigh. Got a bit of a way to go yet but WOO HOO! It only took 35 mins and she didn't really cry much!

I'm off to watch BB [saddo emoticon]

Rachie - Probably Baby Gap and Monsoon kids! I'm not bothered about things for me. Too fat at the moment!

I get confused every time someone mentions 'The Street' on a Corrie night.

Had reflexology this evening, but had forgotten until woman turned up to do it!

Am exhausted and barely keeping eyes open now, after terrible night from both last night, combined with me taking around 1.5hrs to get to sleep in the first place!
Can't remember anything of what I've just read, except that you're all half (or 1/3) the size of me - quelle surprise .

Well done HMM!
Am off to bed now (it's clearly too late to pack, we'll have to leave late tomorrow )
Was up at 3am with J last night, she can't crawl yet but is at the reversing stage and she'd reversed all the way down the cot away from the dummy . So she got cross and trashed all the teddies innocently sitting at he bottom of the cot, then (as far as I can tell) a life size penguin (don't ask) that the boys insist she "wants in there" had fallen on her head.....
Shall not be packing the penguin.

MM- Monsoon sale was still going strong today I only like buying tops at the moment for me as my bottom half is too large. Really need to do something before I go back to work as I only have jeans and can't wear those Have you seen that new shop, something like Hollister? It is for the very young and slim but is so odd, it's practically candle lit. How on earth are you supposed to see what you are buying is beyond me [old lady emoticon]

Evening all! Just marking my place. We've been up in the Yorkshire dales for dp's brother's wedding. It was lovely and ds got loads of attention.

Hope you're feeling a lot better now MM.

Right, off to catch up with everyone's news.

rachie - was there that terrible noise that young people call "music"?!!

Ha ha ha Rachie - We've not even been in there as we are waaaaay too old! It smells funny too. DS thinks it's a Chinese restaurant!

Not me CSWS. I'm not small! Short yes, small no.

Hello Aubergenie! I thought we would be missing you until the end of August! How lovely to see you. I am feeling much better thank you. I am feeling tired quite often but that's to be expected I suppose. DH is an angel so I am getting lots of sleep when I need it.

Have you read bethoo's latest status update on fb?

I don't think I have bethoo on fb.. is she ok?

Pepper- There was!! It was so young that the shop assistant (who was probably 17) looked at me in my mummy wrap round dress with my pram and I swear nearly fell back in horror into a pile of hot pants behind her. I had to restrain myself from asking in a granny type way 'how do you work in here it's sooooo dark?'

MM- the main reason I went in was cos it looked so intriguing, I'd agree with your dh it does look like a chinese restaurant

I'm not friends with her on FB.....

Oh no don't know Bethoo very well but isn't she pg, is all ok?

I'd need a lot of hotpants to break my fall.
And they always look so draughty, tut tut.

She's 17 weeks, but her dp has walked out on her.

Me too Pepper!

oh dear, poor poor bethoo.

Bastard! Stupid bloody man.

for Bethoo