I'm an Auntie!!!
it's a good job she was induced when she was, he's 3 days early & weighs 10lb 1/2 oz!!! Xander only weighed 10lb 10oz last Thursday! I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's already longer than Xander!! Can't wait to see him.
It'll be interesting to see him and Xander in a picture side by side for comparison 
Congrats on being an auntie! Is he your first nephew?
he was asleep & about jumped out my arms with shock after the first, he look on his face was heart breaking. He did however settle back down then cried more for the second but that 1 stings apparently. He's actually been fine since then, not really overly fussy but I have had him attached to me since then!!
He's gonna sprout and inch over night, watch! Yep, they have a schedule for a bit then change it up for you....pretty soon he'll settle again and give you a respite! I understand how you feel when they get poked 
Dh and I choose to wait on immunizations until they are bigger but still gotta get that little cut on the foot to check for allergy to aspartame--do they do that in UK?
Still in the garage just trying to be super good about it this time and dh hauled off a full suburban truck load of garbage today Hope to drag another one out of there. Course he came home lugging a painting he decided to keep 
and some other htings. Guess I'm gonna have to start breaking stuff when I load it, huh? 
lol!
......beautiful little princess
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I'd never even thought of the epi being the culprit, got to say I'm relieved though! That 5 hour stretch turned out to be more of a 7 hour stretch... to say I was fretting would be an understatement
Shradha - Laura's right, at this stage babies have all sorts of little growth spurts. At my 12 week scan I was put forward 8 days! Phoebe ended up being born the day before what would have been her original due date if my first scan hadn't changed it
Oh and Laura, you won that little sweepstake we had a few months back. You got the gender and birth date spot on, and were just a few ounces off her weight! Shame I don't have a prize for you
Anyway, huge stress reliefs today, on a few points. 1) We now have our winters worth of fire wood, which is a huge relief to us, especially since we wanted it before babes is born. Here’s the thing- we always end up paying at least $680-700 a year for wood, and this year we only had to spend $300! What an amazing blessing! Also we got it delivered by dump truck so no hand-unloading! Also instead of dumping it in piles that we had to hand stack we got it in huge wooden crates So no stacking 
lol, anyways, I am really happy about that Phew! So I can ditch the heeled boots that are currently killing my feet and back ). Now I am cooking pork steaks for dinner and thinking rice or salad? I have had rice the last few days as my energy seems to have bottomed out 
and I thought it might help. Don’t want my, um, back end growing though so gotta be careful 
Re: the low lying placenta. Mine is low this time also but doc reassured me that the placenta also "moves" as it were, in an upward direction as your pregnancy progresses. What happens is the uterus expands and grows, yet the placenta cllings to the same portion of uterine wall- during the process of growing and stretching the placenta ends up much higher than it initially was So give it time and will move up. Lol. It's so cool to hear you talk about feedings now when it's been "the bump" for so long 
But if we give th ekids anything sweet it is natural. Which reminds me, choclolate milk lovers- Nesquick makes a corn-syrup-free chocolate syrup for milk and ice cream and at least locally it is comparable if not cheaper than Hersheys Oh, and yes, we start brushing as soon as baby's first tooth pops out. They sell little finger pad style brushes with baby tooth paste !!!
