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July 2013 Babies Club
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Boob helps with a lot of things, apparently it helps with snuffly noses too, I hope not to find out though. I love at night not having to wait for bottles to heat/cool, I just whip one out. My little lady gets all upset if she doesn't get to be sitting up in my arms, so meals are quite frustrating in my place.
I went to a parent and child group yesterday, I really just needed the company for a while and I loved it. Only gutted I lost 15e on the way there
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wolfpawnat wrote: »S got her injections yesterday, she was okay after them.
Brought her to hospital today for another check-up, they are unhappy with her weight, so I have to force her awake to feed her now at night
Aw golly, that's tough going. Did the hospital give you any advice re getting her weight up? I'm the same, CR has only put on 2ozs in 2 weeks from breastfeeding alone. She has reflux too which doesn't help. I'm a bit disheartened at the minute. I have to start giving her Galvescon in a bottle on the advice of the PHN. I just don't know where I'll get the time to prepare that on top of everything else 0 -
icescreamqueen wrote: »Aw golly, that's tough going. Did the hospital give you any advice re getting her weight up? I'm the same, CR has only put on 2ozs in 2 weeks from breastfeeding alone. She has reflux too which doesn't help. I'm a bit disheartened at the minute. I have to start giving her Galvescon in a bottle on the advice of the PHN. I just don't know where I'll get the time to prepare that on top of everything else
S spits up a lot of her food and has a lot of wind, but is generally very good. I think a lot of it is they seem to think every child should follow a particular pattern and that all children should be formula fed as it is easier to tell what they are feeding, rather than bf babies who can fluctuate more.0 -
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icescreamqueen wrote: »Not looking forward to Tuesday when CS is getting her immunisations!
I'm thinking of a routine too especially with the clocks going back soon. I thought I'd try to coincide this with putting CS in her cot but I don't think she's ready yet. She is feeding on demand, I feel like I'm spending 50% of my day feeding her.
I had a visit from a nurse this morning as part of a Lifestart programme which is being run for new parents in Donegal. She mentioned that I need to start a routine too. The only thing CS is in a great routine with is sleeping. She has gone the last 4 nights 12-10 without waking. It's a Godsend!
It's terrible really that they've to get them. Their poor little bodies having to fight all those diseases. Gave her a tiny bit of calpol last night coz she seemed in a lot of pain - the reaction was priceless. She was crying n the first drop went in... silence!! I could see her mind going "what is this strange new flavour!?" Gas!
A is in her cot. She's a tiny bug in it! She was getting too big for the moses basket; pushing herself up to the top of it! N she moves so much I was afraid it would topple over. She seems to like it, I think she likes that she can see me out the side of it! Going to get a bumper for the side that's facing the door though to stop the draft!
I'm not sure how to start getting into a routine. I'm not one to do the same thing everyday, it would drive me nuts but I suppose I could try set ones for the evening. She's had a tough few weeks with her cold and getting the jabs so ill see how we get on over the next two weeks n then try start it!
That's great that she's sleeping through for you
does she have a big feed before that?
For those of you on your first baby, how are you finding motherhood?
For those of you not on your first, how are you finding the extra person to look after?0 -
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It's very hard to get a routine started before 12 weeks, but if you do the same things every day, they soon realise them. Babies actually like routines, well basic sorts of ones. Not they always keep to them! I am up since 5, but I have been up since 3 some days, other days she goes straight back to sleep after a feed and I get up between 7/7:15.
I tend to bath her and her brother every other night, and every night as A is getting into his pj's, I change her into a onsie and put her in her sleeping bag type thing. I then feed her a bottle of expressed because at that time she gets lazy and will not for love or money feed from me. She goes down between 8-10 pm for a few hours. More often 8 but it depends how much she sleeps during the day. It depends on whether I was out a lot with her, she sleeps a lot in the moving buggy, as so many of them do.
S was grand after her vaccines, I have only given her calpol once, she loved it, it was a case of wah, wah, wah, wa.... hang on, this tastes good, gimme, gimme, gimme!!! I know the vaccines seem horrible, but as I remind myself, they are bad, but what they prevent are far worse! Meningitis, Diphtheria, they kill, or permanently damage. I saw a little girl in ICU with Men, as shíte as vaccines are, we are doing what it best for them, well that's what I tell myself anyway.
I put S in her cot from the word go, we have a small rocking crib, but no space. She looks so lost in it.
I find it okay, having to go on an hour long round trip to A's school twice a day is annoying, it means I have to organise feeding her around those times. It is hard to function when you can be up for ages and not be able to get some sleep when S is sleeping because A would be alone then.0 -
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SnoozySuzie wrote: »Teething has started!!! My lovely placid baby that was sleeping through the night is now a demon crying for no reason waking up 4 times a night dribbling everywhere and biting everything she can get her hands on. She seems to be in better form today thank god!!
I'm gonna put L in her cot the weekend she's hulking out of the moses basket? Did any of you put a positioner in the cot or just make sure babies feet were at the end of it?
Think A might start teething soon! She's drooling a lot, chewing her hand n nomming away on the soother even when she's not hungry.
I just put A's feet at the end of the cot didn't even know there was positioners :P 0 -
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Hello lovely ladies, haven't been on here since the little man was born. Hope you are all well and settling into mammyhood
have been so busy here, I don't think anything can prepare you for parenthood! T is doing great, I'm breastfeeding which is going good, he is 9 weeks old on Thursday and is 13lbs! Hungry little boy. The first few weeks were tough- exhaustion & soreness combined. I had a third degree tear and was hobbling around like John Wayne at first lol. Glad to say I've healed perfectly and docs say only a small chance I would tear badly again. How are you all getting on? Xx 0 -
Hello lovely ladies, haven't been on here since the little man was born. Hope you are all well and settling into mammyhood have been so busy here, I don't think anything can prepare you for parenthood! T is doing great, I'm breastfeeding which is going good, he is 9 weeks old on Thursday and is 13lbs! Hungry little boy. The first few weeks were tough- exhaustion & soreness combined. I had a third degree tear and was hobbling around like John Wayne at first lol. Glad to say I've healed perfectly and docs say only a small chance I would tear badly again. How are you all getting on? Xx
OMG Bundaberg how did you cope with a 3rd degree tear!! I had a 2nd degree tear and the recovery was worse than the actually labour. I'm dreading tearing again on the next baby!0 -
Hello lovely ladies, haven't been on here since the little man was born. Hope you are all well and settling into mammyhood have been so busy here, I don't think anything can prepare you for parenthood! T is doing great, I'm breastfeeding which is going good, he is 9 weeks old on Thursday and is 13lbs! Hungry little boy. The first few weeks were tough- exhaustion & soreness combined. I had a third degree tear and was hobbling around like John Wayne at first lol. Glad to say I've healed perfectly and docs say only a small chance I would tear badly again. How are you all getting on? Xx
OMG Bundaberg how did you cope with a 3rd degree tear!! I had a 2nd degree tear and the recovery was worse than the actually labour. I'm dreading tearing again on the next baby!0 -
SnoozySuzie wrote: »OMG Bundaberg how did you cope with a 3rd degree tear!! I had a 2nd degree tear and the recovery was worse than the actually labour. I'm dreading tearing again on the next baby!
You poor thing! I don't know how I coped lol! I think I was so distracted with Tadhg and getting to grips with motherhood that I didn't even think about it! It was tough though, i was nearly put off having more kids lol!! all good though. How are you feeling now? Have you had your check up? X 0 -
You poor thing! I don't know how I coped lol! I think I was so distracted with Tadhg and getting to grips with motherhood that I didn't even think about it! It was tough though, i was nearly put off having more kids lol!! all good though. How are you feeling now? Have you had your check up? X
I was convinced it was infected I was mad for getting the midwife and gp to check the stitches! its gas how once you have a baby you dont care :-D Turns out at my 6 week check up Ihad a bladder infection that was causing the stinging. I had a natural birth with no pain relief I also got the last 3 stitches with no anesthetic and was home 9 hours later but because I was breastfeeding didn't think I could take anything
for the pain. Three days later the midwife gave me a prescription for ponston and it was like Christmas morning! !!!0 -
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