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!

Glad you had a good birthday lunch CSWS. I love meze but there isn't really any opportunity to have it round these parts. We've had fajitas for dinner. M loves her food spicy it would appear, she certainly doesn't like bland food either Pistachio!

We met a really lovely lady at the picnic who is a freehand tattoo artist. Yay!!!!! I can feel another tattoo coming on.... Here are some of her designs.

oh pistachio - how was the show?
love wagamama. mmmmmmmmm
oh- the boden dress... very pretty but sooo long on me. How long is it on you? It goes just below mid calf and it's an 8. I really didn't think I was THAT short... the pic online makes it look a bit shorter than that... I might see if I can get someone to take it up just a bit - it's just a really weird length on me - don't know if it's me or the dress

happy birthday csws! Glad you had a nice lunch. And 5.59 is better than 5 (more your usual, right?)

MM spicy is a good idea - I should try it with Q. He had grilled aubergine with tomato and green beans and cous cous tonight. He couldn't get enough aubergine... I didn't actually think he'd like it, so was surprised.

Star - DS still amazes us now with the food he likes. I imagine that most his mates would have requested McDonalds for their birthday dinner but not DS, he wanted Thai. DH won't even eat aubergine and he eats almost anything (his list of food he won't eat is: Wheatabix, sag bhaji and aubergine).

lol at wheatabix. why not? texture?
I HOPE Q will love lots of different food because DH and I are both very finicky eaters.... but I've done everything possible to offer him a big variety of (vegetarian) food... he is into snubbing some food now, but it depends on mood I think. He'll always eat spinach and yogurt. and lately... blueberries. Used to manage to eat an entire mango within very little time, but he's gone off that for now - thank god, that is a pain to cut up!

Oh! I wanted to say - met Ekka for the first time at our meet up and very sweet dc. Her DD is sooooooo cute. I can't stop telling Dh about all of the things she could do and how sweet she was. And she's 2! Everyone says that age 2 is so horrible and they are not pleasant...etc... but she was such an angel. I wanted to take her home!! (don't worry, I don't kidnap children... or anyone.. ha!). I'm now excited for Q to move on to his next stages, while enjoying the present

Rachie - what areyou putting on your knees? I used to get eczema on inside of my elbows and I did this whole daily regime with moisturizing and baby oil for 1 year and it has never returned. But also Oilatum Jr cream really worked well for me for short term relief and reducing redness.

Good to hear, pistachio I can't wait for Q to say something to me!!

Girls seems to be quite a handful...

seem!

Mmmm I love Wagamama. Poppy just asleep so I'm going downstairs to get some tea.

Good news - I got me a dress!! Woo hoo! It's from a designer outlet shop, reduced from £130 to £30

Am back. Just don't ask about my "holiday" as I'm still counting to 10.......
Off to read about 500 posts!!!!!
Hope everyone well

Wait until they get to 6! Looking back ds was an absolute delight at 2,3 and 4. Now he is a small stroppy teenager-like creature. Imagine having a defiant, ignoring 18 month old and add a dose of smart-mouthed, answering back teenager & you have ds (and all his mates apparently). I'm sure Ronsahr and Pepper will back me up, they get worse as they get older!

Myjob - Yay for the talking. M is still saying daddy and calls for mumumumum when she's unhappy or tired. She also says NO loudly to DS when he stops her doing what she wants. I am guessing that Bagger is DS. That is so lovely.

Star - From my experience of friends' daughters and observation of my ds, it would appear that girls need a lot more interaction from parents/other people while boys are better at entertaining themselves. Girls seem to need someone to play with but boys are happy with something to play with. I bet someone will come along soon and say I'm wrong but that it what I've seen. Oh and yes it is the texture. And finally are you sure you don't want to kidnap my ds? Go on.... you know you want to.....

Pistachio - Life might get a bit easier for you once dd can have better interactions with T when he gets a bit older. She'll have someone else to play with will hopefully be less demanding on your time. That has been the case for my friend with a 21 month age gap between her two. And her two are a real handful!

Sorry Myjob - DS is still moody, stubborn and cross. He got some Wii games for his birthday and throws huge tempertantrums when he can't do something. He won't listen and won't accept help. It is nothing, you hear me, nothing to do with your parenting. No matter what we do, no matter what we try nothing changes the situation. Dh does the angry shouty parent thing and I do the calm rational parent thing. He ignores both of us. we've tried rewarding good behaviour, we've tried punishing bad behaviour, we've tried ignoring bad behaviour...... The good things still outweigh the bad things though. I am finding dealing with his behaviour difficult when contrasted with M's sweet angelic behaviour. Th best thing about them getting old is that they go to school! Oh and it will get better, you're going through a bad phase caused by over-tiredness and boundary testing. We are going through similar with ds at the moment. I am sure that in a short time they will both be back to being our sweet little boys. It is never terrible for long and it is never all bad.

Oh Myjob! They are just very skilled at winding us up. I will never understand the logic of children. Why do they not understand that if they listen, do what we ask, then life is would be much better and much more fun. DS is the same. It isn't you, it really isn't. DS is tired and that is making him more difficult. Can you see why we were put off having another baby for so long?

Planet's where I got my dress from, couldnt remember the name before.

Wow Myjob, that is quick progress! Just goes to show they do take in what we're saying! Poppy is still mainly on Dada or Baba, hardly any Mama's. Altho she's just started Yaya and Rara.

Going for her christening dress tmrw to John Lewis. Had a bit of a nightmare with the one we preferred, the 6-12 months is too big and 3-6 months too small so going for the john lewis one now. christening is a week tomorrow eek!

Oh, this is the christening cake altho not with the teddy.