October 08 - The race is on to be the first to walk!

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My money's on Q.

Short and sweet list this time.

10th Sept (Due 1st Oct) - loulou33 - Boy - Joe Louis David - 6lbs 12oz
16th Sept (Due 8th Oct) - Ksal - Girl - Emma Rae - 6lbs
21st Sept (Due 5th Oct) - myjobismum - Girl - Naomi Caitlin - 5lbs 10oz
22nd Sept (Due 10th Oct) - Lozza70 - Boy - Sander Gene - 7lbs 5oz
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
3rd Oct (Due 6th Oct) - Bethoo - Girl - Maia - 7lbs -
3rd Oct (Due 26th Sept) - purpleflower - Girl - Rebecca Jill Erzsebet - 8lbs 10.5oz
4th Oct (Due 30th Sept) - Aubergenie - Boy - Stanley - 7lbs 12oz
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
12th Oct (Due 4th Oct) - pistachio - Boy - Thomas Fraser - 10lbs 2oz
16th Oct (Due 11th Oct) - heather1980 - Boy - Alexander James - 9lbs 5oz
17th Oct (Due 10th Oct) - pepperrabbit - Girl - Jessica Rose - 7lbs 15.5oz
20th Oct (Due 16th Oct) - bigmouthstrikesagain - Girl - Polly - 8lbs 7oz
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
28th Oct (Due 31st Oct) - Jojay - Boy - Edward Alexander - 7lbs 7oz
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
1st Nov (Due 22nd Oct) - SmudgeyDoodle - Girl - - 8lbs 2oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

50ft - You could make one big cake for M's birthday and some decorated cupcakes for the tea party?

Heather - Really glad that Alex is OK. S is definitely not sleeping through or anything close. He had a week of only waking up twice but has reverted to waking far more often.

I'm sure we've already covered this, but can someone let me know what the milk requirements are for a baby of this age? I'm finding it really difficult to express more than a tiny amount these days and it's making me more and more anxious if I'm not able to leave a bottle for S to have while I'm at work. DP gave him some oat milk today, which he liked. If I BF him morning and evening (and during the night), and supplement that with cows or oatmilk during the day, that's OK isn't it?

Hiya- J has had two better sessions at Nursery this week. He did a painting today Am not going to write anymore though as I might be tempting fate..

Pistachio- I really hope DD settles soon, I'm sure once she gets used to the staff and the building and the staff she'll gain confidence and be off playing. I held a little girls hand for an hour yesterday and she has been with us last year. If that's what it takes though then that's fine. If your DD is talking now then that is great progress. I'm just looking for small steps with J at his nursery and in some ways it's helping me with settling the children at work. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if they aren't joining in the activities yet they just need to get comfortable in their new surroundings first

Star- J is a fussy bugger sometimes with food so it does sound like a phase. J refused fruit for 2 weeks having loved it and now eats it again Also a friend told me once her son reached 1yr he refused a spoon and would only finger feed but it took him a while to work out how to finger feed. My Mum keeps telling me babies don't starve themselves and she is probably right. How are you feeling now?

Myjob- Hope N had a fab first birthday

Pistachio- It does help a bit to know how they are feeling but if they get tearful I do too which is so unprofessional! But I guess it shows I'm human. She will get there and if it takes time then that is fine. I think it really helps if the nursery is supportive which is the issue I had with J's as I didn't feel they were supporting us too until this week...after I moaned. It's really good that she's talking about it outside too, that shows she likes it and just needs to get really comfortable there. Am very about the eternity ring, what a lovely gift.

50ft- Meant to say I am going to do one cake for J's party. It will probably/hopefully be just the 3 of us on his birthday so in a way there is no point doing a big cake. Maybe I'll make fairy cakes so J has a mini birthday cake?

dh won't be getting a cake on Sunday either MM. He prefers cheese, so if he's lucky I'll get him some of that. In-laws are coming for lunch too, as it's mil's b'day on Tues, so need to work out what I'm going to cook. Actually dh prob would like a nice pudding, but I'm not sure that I have the recipe for his fave which his mum usually makes, and goodness knows where I'm supposed to find the time to cook anything fancy.

That sounds fine aubergenie - just make sure that the oat milk has added calcium (the organic one doesn't).

Glad that nursery has gone a bit better for you both rachie and pistachio.

Hope that martha's cold doesn't last as long as ds' has mm.

Sorry to hear about A falling down the stairs Heather, I'm glad there's no lasting damage.

Just spent the evening at my dad's, he's had an abnormal result for a stool test so he needs a colonoscopy to check for bowel cancer. He's already convinced he has it as his dad had it and it's apparently more likely when it runs in families. So not a good day. I'm going to bed anyway.

Sorry to hear that HMM - I hope he gets seen quickly and the results are able to put his mind at rest.

CSWS - Your dh would have enjoyed dp's brother's wedding that we went to in the summer. Instead of a cake, they had three-tiers of cheeses (my suggestion - I've always thought I'd do that if dp was ever going to make an honest woman of me ).

Thanks for the reassurance on the milk, Pistachio and CSWS. I was getting myself a bit worked up about it all but I think it was partly due to over-tiredness. Everything seemed a bit too much last week.

S got his first proper shoes this weekend. It was necessitated by S throwing one of his lovely soft shoes out of his buggy, never to be seen again while we were out for the day so we had to dash into Clarks and get his feet measured (4g - that's quite wide, isn't it?) and he's now the very proud owner of a pair of Cruisers. It was sweet though, as they gave you a photo of your child in his new shoes to take home. Possibly to make you feel better about the fact that they'll be fleecing you for around £25 every couple of months for years and years and years...

Anyway, must go to work. Have a good day y'all.

aubergenie - I have only given Q a morning and evening feed for a couple of months now. BF counselor, HV and GP all say that's fine. He has oat milk when he wants it during the day (with added calcium) and water. I stopped expressing milk in June when school ended... dropped day feeds for the summer and now just this morning, we've dropped the morning feed, too!
We only have the night bf left. Apparently, as long as they are eating enough food and getting nutrients from there, they don't need as much milk as they get closer to 12 months.

oh and I don't bf Q through the night at all. I stopped night feeding and once I did that, he started sleeping more hours in a row. Now when he wakes before morning, he knows to settle himself back to sleep or with a pat on the back from me.

congrats on the cruisers aubergenie

Exciting about the ring, pistachio!

I'm imagining a big cheese wheel being cut into slices for the family for csws' dh bday

sorry, I keep posting early.
I'm feeling better on the AD's. But I sort of also feel a bit emotionless... if that makes sense. This morning I was SO SAD that we dropped the morning feed - I did the don't offer/don't refuse method and it worked (won't work for evening feed, I'm sure of it - I thought that would be first to go, but he wants that one too much!). ANyway, I was SO sad, but ordinarily, I would have cried my eyes out... had no tears. Didn't feel like crying at all. It was a different kind of sadness. This has happened with other sad things that have happened recently, too. Is that normal when on AD's? I was talking to the counselor and same thing.

when you say oat milk wth added calcium what should i be looking for. my tesco sells oatly.

yes, oatly with added calcium. there are two - one is organic and one is +calcium. hth

myjob - I was going to do that with the morning feed, but decided to do the "don't offer/don't refuse" method instead. He wanted cuddles and I rocked him and cuddled him for about 30 minutes but he didn't try to feed (I'm sure he would have taken it if I had offered). Then, he had some oatmilk in a cup with his breakfast. he didn't want to be cuddled by DH this morning though ... ( - I know...evil! ha!). He wanted to just be close to me... but I don't think he knew why.

My breasts are very large today and slightly uncomfortable.. knock on wood, no mastitis yet.

The night time one, he ALWAYS wants - and is quite obvious about trying to get the milk . I'll do the don't offer/don't refuse with that one in 2 weeks time and just let him decide when he wants to drop it. I'll keep increasing his oatmilk or rice milk with dinner as well just a bit.

HMM sorry to hear about your dad

bless her That's how Q is at night after his bath. It's going to be a tough one to drop. I tried to shorten it last night a bit but he just wants it so much it's hard to say no.

Hi all, I'm glad some of you are starting to drop feeds as I am considering doing that too. I gave Poppy a bottle of formula for her mid morning feed today as we were on a playdate and altho she was sick after (and only once in a blue moon nowadays on the BM) it was better cos she had more time to play. I might start doing that every day very soon, with the mid-morning at first, then the mid-afternoon. I'm gonna leave the nighttime one till last, I'm not sure whether to continue that one after her first birthday or not yet.
I'm gonna put some pics on FB soon, all the way back to when she was 6m old, she looks so different!!!

Myjob. I am so sorry I missed your beautiful little girls birthday. I am sure she had a fab day. Did you cry?? Lovely trousers. I love the brown.

Rachie sounds like things are better with the nursery. Are you enjoying the little ones at school? My idea of a nightmare

With babies falling down stairs it must be time for the stair gates to come out. At least Alex & Martha are all ok.

Star I think that antid's are supposed to numb the edges. So how you are feeling is quite normal.

CSWS/50ft, I hope you all had a good weekend.
Hello to everyone.

It is birthday central here at the moment. Daughter, sisters, DH, son, God daughter, dd best friend. Very expensive. It is my dads 60th in a few weeks as well.
I have been looking for one of those plastic climbing frames for the garden. No room for a wooden one. They used to be made by little tikes, seem to have dissapeared.

I am watching the Wounded program on bbc1. It has made me cry loads. poor boys.

HMM. Sorry about your father. I hope he is ok.

Thanks Ronshar. I'm looking for the same Little Tikes climbing frame. You mean this one?

Oh sorry Star I meant to say yes, I think that's perfectly normal re you not being so upset, I get that too. I guess it takes the edge of everything. It is a bit scary until you think that hopefully it's gonna make you completely better (fingers crossed) and then you can come off them and be completely back to normal

Oh and re Oatly, our Tesco only does the organic one, I have to go to Sains for the calcium one. I'm still on oat milk instead of cows milk, I love it!

I'm off to bed as I am once again speaking to myself... Old New pics now on FB by the way.

well i took alex to the gp to get him checked out before i switch to oat milk, just to make sure that all is ok and he has swine flu
i'm not convinced as he is also teething but has a high temp, snotty nose, irritible and has the runs which are all symptoms of swine flu. i declined any treatment for us all as i'm not convinced about the use of tamiflu.
i've got to take him back in 2 weeks once the cold has cleared and to try him again on cows milk to see if the runs continue. sigh

star it's normal to feel dissasociated when you first go on to ADs. your seratonin levels are adjusting to a new level, it can take upto 3 months and then hopfully you should start to feel more normal.

october is an expensive month for us too, my mums bday is the 13th, alex on the 16th and kennedy on the 27th.
i have no idea what to get alex, mum is getting him a smart trike as he loves going on kennedys but hers is pink