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!

evening ladies, nice thread MM!
Just to make you all gasp, one of the mums at the pre-school had her lovely new baby this week, her DD2 is aprox 7 weeks older than J . I have never quite asked if DD2 was late August or early sept - cos she could well have 2 in the same school year now! her mother drops off and doesn't speak English so details are sketchy......
I cannot cannot imagine having a newborn now as well as 2 older kids, just the thought makes me panic!

Oh, and I discovered the absolute best teether today. A corn on the cob! Well, a half one. Ds had an absolute ball with one today!

Pepper - one of my NCT ante-natal group from when I had dd had her second child 4 days before her first's first birthday, and her third child when her first was 26 months!

I do not know how people cope with those tiny gaps.. I've been on my knees with 3 under 4 1/2, now we've reached 3 under 5 it's not much better!

Pepper & CSWS . And I thought a 16 month gap was being brave....

Please could someone remind me when the Godstone meet up was supposed to be, I didn't write it down and now can't remember ? I can do 10.30 CSWS, and won't want to be staying too late either as it will supposedly take me 1 hour to get back and ds is decidedly not good at waiting for food.

We've had a great day here - out to feed the ducks and walk round Fleet pond this morning, then baking bread with dd and painting with both of them this afternoon. I've also finally got round to cleaning the dining room floor as it was revolting. Unfortunately the only time I get to do any housework, except loading the washing, seems to be after the kids are in bed. I must try and find some time in the day to manage stuff. How does anyone else manage????

OMG. Shopping, lunch, meet up with October ladies. Heaven. Can I join you. Please.

CSWS- I did post a while back to see if we could do 11am as a compromise but it probably got lost in my ramblings I'm not sure I'll make 10.30 with the greatest will in the world but can give it a good try. What do you think? Ekka glad you can come too, it's next Thurs which is the 30th.

Off to bed now. Night all.

Pistachio - I only bfed ds for 7 months as he was an absolute nightmare for looking away. No matter what I did, he just wouldn't turn to face me. I wanted to carry on but it was too stressful. My mum was not very supportive when I was battling to get M time with me in hospital to bfed, she thought I was over-reacting. Oh well, it worked out anyway. Alas, my mum only bfed me and my brother for 5 months so she doesn't really get the idea of feeding them for longer. I was chatting to my old school friend's mum and she bfed her son until her was 4 and a half!

Pepper & CSWS - Bloody hell! That's amazing. I think my poor body would have fallen apart. Plus with no time to lose the weight in between babies I would have ended up the size of a small country.

Ronshar - Do you the visit to BW? Of course you're welcome! Though Brighton might be a better destination for shopping. I haven't been to Brighton for ages, I love the Sealife Centre!

Ekka - Manage? Um, we barely manage to get things done in our house. Strangely, when DH was away our house was spotless but ever since it has reverted it's usual chaotic sty-like state. It is more difficult now that M is on the move. She is very destructive!

Ekka, I dont, my house is a pig sty. Although saying that I did do loads of ironing today.

CSWS, can babies decide to drop feeds on their own? W really doesnt seem interested in his bedtime feed. 4.30 in the morning no probs. 6.30 at night a right pain!!

Stop shopping you lot. Leave some stuff for the rest of us.

Jenwa love. Just because your hearing isnt 100% doesnt mean that you are not 100% good at your job. No one thinks you are stupid. You are beautiful. P will be fine, she just has to adapt to you being at work.

Pepper, I am on my knees most days and my eldest is 9 1/2. I can not imagine the misery of three under three

Pistchio, what do you do in the gym? Is it a class or just machines?

Yes they can ronshar. In fact that's the ideal scenario . Unusual for them to drop the bedtime feed first though! You can have nights out again .

Another one living in a pigsty here, even (or because of ) with dh at home all the time! I blame having such a tempting computer big house .

I could perhaps be persuade to do Godstone then, and aim to meet Ekka around 10:30 (adding the 'traffic permitting' caveat after today), and then rachie at 11 and star when she can manage to drag her arse out of bed . Then I'll aim to leave around 2:30, which surely must be early enough to skip rush hours!

Pistachio, I too do body pump but I have to add I am a weakling. I have been going for 5 months and I have just this week put my weights up to 4 1/2kg each side at its heaviest. Some ladies lift about 20kgs all together. Are you one of the hard core.

CSWS so if I stop trying to give that last feed is it likely to signal the end of my BF? I was hopeing to make it to at least a year

MM I havent been to BW for ages but I am happy to travel for shopping to meet you guys.

No ronshar - if he's still happy to have it in the mornings/other times of day then no reason why bf would end altogether.
If he starts to refuse lots of feeds then you might want to read some about nursing strikes and self weaning though, as they are much much more likely than actually self-weaning at this age.

sorry, end of that sentence doesn't make sense now as I edited what I was linking!

I am sooooooo bored! I'm not used to be in the house all day for this length of time. I want to go out. Especially as DH is going to Bluewater to get ds's birthday presents. He told me that if I come and then set myself back recovery wise he'll have no sympathy. Hrumph!

Hi, I've got you tube playing a baby for Poppy on one side of the screen and MN on the other because she's about to kick off so can't be long!

Doc put me on double dose sertraline, 100mg now, see how that goes. Hope it wont make my insomnia and daytime tiredness worse...

I am hurting EVERYWHERE from the Davina DVD the other day, but it's usual exercise aching so that's fine

Waiting for my new fridge freezer to get to the 24 hour mark so I can turn it on and get some goodies!! Do u know how long it takes to cool, the destructions don't say?

Poppy's kicking off, laters!

is anyone expecting again then yet? I couldnt cope with a smaller gap than 14mo, i struggle now. Is anyone in the yorkshire area for a meet? Ds is still bf. He has cut down any feeds at all. Im starting to feel worn down by him feeding all the time but dont want to stop yet. Will try and start posting more on here. Its just hard replying to every post using my phone and dont want anyone thinking im being rude!

he hasnt cut down feeds i meant.

CSWS- Glad you are persuaded to come, it would be great to meet you. Shall we exchange mob numbers through fb as you will no doubt get there first

Ds is being so demanding today, continuing from yesterday. He wants me to hold him, then he wants to get down, then he wants me to pick him up again. My patience is wearing thin. I'm taking him to a toddler gym thing later, he's probably too young to access it but he needs a change of scenery. As do I!!

He's just gone to sleep so am rushing off to have a shower in peace..hopefully.

Toddler gym thing was a big hit. However J has now been asleep for over an hour and not had any lunch Bad timing on my part.

Having read Pistachio's posts about the gym I've eaten the rest of a box of chocolate fingers Oh well there's always tomorrow. Hope the fresh air worked Pistachio!

MM- Hope you aren't too bored... you are very quiet have you gone to BW after all?

Just to join the gang- I also got my period today. Am quite relieved as it explains why I have been very tearful and hopefully why my patience is so stretched. Don't have to worry that my baby is turning into a monster now, it's me, a PMT monster.

Oh well off to visit my Nan later as she is going on her hols tomorrow...that's if J ever wakes up?

Rachie I've not forgotten about the DVD, waiting for DH to do it!!

I'm having a low day today, I'm off to bed

Rachie - I'm still here but I've requested a piece of Leon chocolate brownie to make up for the lack of shopping.

Myjob - It is too far for you isn't it? Maybe we could do a Brighton meet up at some point. I love the seaside in the Autumn, plus the shopping in Brighton is good!

Awww Hmm - Have a sleep and hope you feel better later.