October 08 - The Birthday Thread

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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
2nd Oct (Due 12th Oct) - star6 - Boy - Quinlan - 5lbs 15oz
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/50ftQueenie - 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
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
31st Oct (Due 20th Oct) - KnickersOnMaHead - Boy - Samuel Paul - 9lbs 11oz
5th Nov (Due 29th Oct) - Honeymoonmummy - Girl - Poppy Grace - 6lbs 15oz
5th Nov (Due 30th Oct) - MamaG - Boy - Harry James - 10lbs 9oz

lol at the idea that not staying would be putting me out hmm. You'll be pleased to know that I have made zero effort wrt you staying, so it's no problem!

So, it appears that the arrivals schedule looks something like this:
Ronshar 11am
MM 12noon-1pm
Hmm 1pm
Star 5:30am 2pm

So you can take your pick as to when you want to arrive KSal! Feel free to come and bum about early with ronshar and I, esp as you are otherwise on your own for the weekend.
If we have everything vaguely organised then we'll prob all pop out for dd's ballet lesson (the soft play is only a min away, so one of us will take D there for half an hour whilst the other takes dd to ballet), but we should be back pretty much on the dot of 11.

D will be having the MMR at or around the time we get called for it. I personally see no reason for any child to not have it.

Hmm - Whatever you do DON'T START A THREAD ABOUT MMR! They turn into mud slinging, anger-fests!
I think the procedure varies between NHS trusts. Our trust won't allow you to have the single jabs at all, not even if you pay for them. We would need to go to a different area to have them done. Have a look at this website. It has information about private specialists who offer the single jabs and also has some info about their effectiveness (the jabs that is).

Hope poor J feels better soon Rachie. The negotiations are tough aren't they? DS always got conjunctivitis on a Friday and always when DH had a team meeting. I used to work in court on the Friday so I couldn't ever have the day off, poor DH his boss never believed him..... until he was my boss instead and I told him all about why I couldn't have the time off. He felt very guilty!

I looked far and wide earlier this year. I had absolutely no problem at all with the DDs having imms. However because W being a boy and with the allergies I wanted to make a proper informed decision.
Almost everything I found lead me to the conclusion that for a "normal" child with no medical problems then immunisation is perfectly safe. Especially the MMR.
There are lots of sites which raise links with different issues. But I firmly believe that were it not for the Wakefield scandal back in 1999 then people would not be so scared about immunising their child. It has since be discovered that Wakefield was sponsored by 8 families who all wanted their childrens pre existing bowel and autism problems to be blamed on the MMR. All of the children had health problems before having the jab!!!!!

Hmm I completely understand you wanting to check everything out. If you are really concered then go to your health clinic and get their advise. If you are worried then maybe delay P getting her jabs until she is a little older.
Having watched my baby twins sisters nearly die from Measles and seeing first hand children severely ill from measles mumps & rubella then I would never encourage someone to miss the jabs. Delay yes, miss no.

Sorry I get quite heated about it all but I do firmly believe it comes down to parental choice as long as it is informed and not just giving into scaremongering.

Pistachio. I will try and remember where I found it but I think it was when drs thought W had R or Measles and then they were taking blood for sero conversion. I had to research the point at which babies lose mums antibodies and start making their own. It was around 8-9 months. Several prominent scientist have advocated the early imm but not very publically. Purely because of the sero conversion at that age.

Did that make sense? Or am I rambling now.
Must go to bed

50ft you are right.
Hmm STAY AWAY FROM MMR THREADS. It will damage you and you will come away even more confused and unsure. Seriously. It gets very very heated. I have had to walk away from several as it is just to much. Name calling and all kinds
CSWS I almost certainly wont get to you before 11am so dont rush back. I always get stuck on the M25. I think the traffic people see me and lower the sppeed limit to 40. Deliberately. DH is almost refusing to travel ever again, with me because of it.
I am excited.

ARGGGGGGHHHHH! Please note the time of this post! Been awake since 2.30 with a very hot, very awake M. She has been absolutely on fire but seems fine in herself. But she is being really annoying! She woke up at around 2 and was all sweaty so striped her off, gave her medicine which she spat out onto me and fed her. She then crawled around on my bed for ages singing and chatting away, only to fall asleep in such a way that I was lying on the very edge of the bed. Cue no sleep for me. She woke up again at 5 and started shouting, really loudly for ds. I moaned to DH that I had been awake since 2.30 because of where she went to sleep and he just said "She's being really annoying, take her down stairs will you." FFS! He slept fine between 2.30 and 5 why can't HE take her downstairs so I can sleep. HE will bear the brunt of my bad mood today I can tell ya!

I mean bare, see I am tired.

Ok, he came down and told me to go back to bed. I'll let him off, unfortunately for me, M wants her mummy, not her daddy. [tired]

Sorry for the rough night, 50ft!
I think it is bear, not bare

We're not sleeping so well, either. Q doesn't get fed in the night but he wakes quite a bit and wants to be cuddled. He's been SCREAMING lately - before he would just whinge a bit and settle back to sleep. Probably teeth. Who knows.

Yup, bear for me too.

hello all... sorry you had a rotten night MM.

CSWS I will aim for around 11.30 then... if i'm lucky Emma might get a snooze in before then.

re the MMR, I just read 'bad science' by ben goldacre.... i was pretty sure i was going ahead before that but there is a full chapter in it that basically made my mind up for me (although it is quite a one sided book completely aimed at exposing poor research and nonsense based health scares).

as an aside re the side effects, the book repeatedly encourages you to report side effects of treatments through the yellow card scheme to allow it to be properly accounted for... for those of you that are interested the link is here

What the hell was I thinking? Of course it's bear. I really was tired. Duh. I was very grumpy too.

M looks terrible this morning, she's not hot anymore though. I wonder what that was all about. Didn't seem to be tooth related as she wasn't eating her hands like she usually does.

Happy Birthday William!

oh yes! Happy birthday William!!!
Glad M's fever is down. Poor thing.

ooh happy birthday william... birthdays are coming thick and fast now!!

Oh yes, silly me. Happy Birthday William .

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
I sent DH an email at work yesterday saying I'm going to this meet up and that he can either come with us or stay home and get stuff done.
He said well, I'm not sure I want to spend a day away from Q. I don't want to keep you or Q from going to the meet up, but I also want to see Q because I've had meetings after school a lot this week . I was NOT asking his permission to GO... I was asking if he wanted to come or stay! (thinking for SURE he'd stay). ugh. GRRR ARGHHHH
I'm going. I'll try to be there for 12 or 1 as well.

star

get him to come then, then there will be three men (including me!).

I will do my best

Oh hello - busy day at work dear?

ha! Are you talking to me or your DH? I'm having quite a bit of time to do assessment data today with bits of time with kids in between - so on the computer a lot and getting sooooooo distracted by MN!!

oh and I ate 2 cupcakes at our teacher appreciation lunch today. . I've gained 5lbs in past 2 weeks (seriously, not kidding). Need to cut down!

Dh star - have I ever called you dear before?!

Don't cut down til after the weekend eh?

I plan to start my diet again after the weekend.... that is if we are able to come.

M has a rash bloody inconsiderate baby. DH is taking her to the GP later but I KNOW they will say it's a virus. She seems fine in herself but I don't want to spread things around. We will have to see how she is tomorrow, hopefully it will be gone quickly. We've had no power pretty much all day. It has just come back on now so the cakes I started to make are probably ruined as I only got as far as making the mix. I'm going to have to try and resurrect it by whisking it up again. What a waste of a day!

MrCSWS - I thought that you'd prefer it being just you and Mr50ft. You two and a gaggle of lovely ladies.......

It's ok!!! According to the GP M is just teething. Sounds a bit unlikely but hey ho, the doc says she's fine.

DS is so annoying! He has thrown a big wobbler about Batman Lego on the Wii and been sent to his room. He gets really angry & emotional about things. M was hilarious though as she was copying him, it was like she was taking the piss! Ha ha ha!

MM

But you can have too much of a good thing

The more the merrier.

I think MrCSWS should be added to our list at the top