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!

Yeah, that's me MM. Yes I do stay the other side of the camera as much as possible CSWS. I don't really like that photo, my boobs look really weird cos of the angle I'm sitting at!

DH has ordered me not to come upstairs and "spend 3 hours on the internet" before I go to bed cos he knows how knackered I am, I've been on a keep in touch today, one of my friends at work joked that I should get pregnant again to avoid coming back! Ha ha ha ha...

I might leave the test, but I'm so impatient! If I say it's negative now how will you know I'm telling the truth??? Night all!

MM at the risk of sounding a bit like a stalker I've looked at your fb pics before and you are really really pretty, so no more of this too hideous for cameras malarky.

I have just tried on both of the dresses I was going to wear to the wedding and am too fat for one and my scabby knees (eczema/psorasis- too lazy to make a dr appt and find out) are revealed too much in the other. Am opting for trousers and top which thank god I decided to buy in the Next sale otherwise I'd have nothing to wear.

Because we trust you Hmm. And you know we'll all be very annoyed if you did lie to us.

Thank you Rachie but most of those pictures are old and I look terrible these days. I'm sure you'll look lovely in whatever you wear to the wedding. You could always ask a pharmacist what the skin issue is. They would probably be able to tell you and make a recommendation for treatment.

I've got a horrible cold suddenly, M is all snotty too. It's definitely not the dreaded lurgy as I feel fine except the runny nose. How annoying.

Oh and DS had a call from his girlfriend today. She apparently got hold of her daddy's phone and called DH to speak to ds. She is a very cheeky young lady. DS was over the moon about it as he's not seen her in ages. The wedding is now back on apparently. Bless 'em.

Oh, things I got at BW.....

these

this

this

these

and

these in the blue.

MM- I never thought about the pharmasist, that's so much easier than the docs. Will pop down on monday The clothes you brought M are gorgeous, so cool. I love the tights with the bear on the bum!

Ds has just gone back to sleep in bed with dh they look so cute together. Dh brought J downstairs this morning so I could have a lie in and fed him breakfast A very good start to the day

Happy Birthday CSWS

HM I thought it may be you on that pic and now I may have to look to see the wonky boobs , you do look very pretty on that photo. And MM you also are very pretty so will you all stop hiding behind the camere, you tOO CSWS And happy birthday to you, get your dh to take some nice b'day pics please
mm lazy eye, maybe that will be something I have then? Do you get headaches alot? I have it mainly on the right side in the middle of my head so probably behind my eye!

Whoops... camera and too!

oh and mm love the clothes.

Just off out the door to the NCT Teddy Bears picnic. I will answer you all later.

Oh and Myjob - they didn't have anything in her size in Monsoon. No willpower involved.........

Awww thanks Jenwa

Well, I've done the test, it was negative ... or was it? Mwah ha ha ha haaaar

[HMM walks off cackling]

Hmm - Now we don't know if you're playing or not. If you're not playing it might be too early still, like the birthday girl suggested.

The picnic was nice thank you Myjob. M wouldn't lie down for baby yoga but she played nicely with some other babies. We won't know about the competition until October but the photographer thought M was wonderful. M was apparently a natural and seemed to really really enjoy herself. Maybe a good way to solve my money woes, get that girl modelling ...... mwhahahahahahaha!

Jenwa - My head aches are in my eye area, so the bridge of my nose, my eye sockets and forehead. Go to the optician to have them checked out. If it is a lazy eye, then glasses can correct it by strengthening the muscles in your eye.

Quiet today girls.......

I'm looking forward to bedtime too today. M is in a bad mood because she's tired and DS is being a spoilt little so and so this afternoon. Roll on 7.30!

I am still feeding M at night but not as frequently. It's now down to once or twice a night, since M was about 8.5 months. It would seem she is still hungry at those times too, rather than just comfort suckling.

I'm watching Wall E with ds. It's a grim view of the future and quite depressing viewing as a adult. DS is enjoying it though. Has anyone watched it?

I have no idea when we're even doing bedtime here, as ds was up at 5:59, only slept for 30 mins this morning, and then crashed out in car from 4:15-5:45, and dd also slept in car for most of that - eek! Dd appears to be sickening for a cough/cold, but hope it's only minor, as we're supposed to be swimming in the morning.

Went out for meze for lunch (good for dairy free), and ds ate loads, whilst dd stuck with just pitta bread, cucumber and a few chips . Family at the next table with a baby the same age were impressed with ds' eating skills! I'm still full from lunch now, so will just have a boiled egg or some leftover chinese from last night later once the dc are in bed.

I came on here to see HMM's results.... where is she??

We went back to Godstone, today. DH much better mood and talked more... it's getting a bit better. We went in the toddler area of the playbarn and Q LOVED crawling through the tunnels and up and down the ramps... and somehow we missed this huge sandpit. Q LOVES dirt. We put him in the centre of this enormous sandpit and he was SO excited! It was hilarious! He also chased a bunny around the bunny pen (on hands and knees) and had a goat so tightly gripped by his horn that he found it difficult to get away he slept so hard afterward.

There's a pic on fb - all blurry blackberry photos of course as too lazy to download from camera right now - but he stood up on his own, for about a minute, then lowered himself down (photo) and then realized he was alone and collapsed onto his knees. I think he could walk if he had the confidence. He'll do it holding a finger with one or two hands and can cruise furniture with just one hand, not sure what's holding him back. I didn't want him to walk before, but now I think it would be actually a bit easier if he could just do it himself.