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Just dropping in to say, Lucuma you deserve an award for all that you're doing at nights, plus dealing with a toddler during the day! We're 14 weeks+ now and I feel she really turned a corner with the wind at the weekend, just sleeping much more at ease, napping better during the day and doing less explosive and enormous dirty nappies. Hopefully your little one will improve with time too
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Hey ladies I have attempted to reply on here so many times and keep getting distracted. We are doing ok, breastfeeding has become much easier although I am still pumping and giving him expressed milk at night. This is working for us for the moment so we are sticking with it for now. I would love to quit the pumping but have some sort of fear he won't get enough from me and I won't know how much he is getting. I still seem to have an oversupply and my freezer is full with milk. I am going to donate a good bit of it as I am unlikely to use it all.
My visions of being super active and getting out walking have not materialised as I imagined they would...LOL! I really need to get my ass in gear as I still have a bit of weight to shift. The little man had his 6 week checkup and has gained a good bit of weight, he is now over 11lbs so doctors were delighted with him. Getting some smiles and he is getting so strong, I feel like he is getting so big really fast. He sleeps Ok at night, asleep right now, will wake at midnight for a feed and then again around 4 and then at 7, he has been like this since early on so not bad. He gets a bit of reflux now and then, today he spat up an hour after a feed and I could see it hurt him but because its not regular I don't know if I should try and get something done about it. I feel so clueless on the baby front at times.
He has some dry skin on his head and a little bit of yellowing around his eyebrows, not sure what it is, maybe cradle cap? I have been using some oil but not sure its doing much of anything. Poor little guy had a great head of hair starting out but he is losing a lot of it now
Teggers how did the baby massage go? I have been doing my own at home to try help with his digestion but would like to do a class. Great to hear you guys are doing well.
Lucuma do you put your little one up to bed or do you keep her in the sitting room with you? We have zero routine here and i just go with him when he is tired he sleeps and when hungry he eats but as he will be 2 months next week I need to start thinking of a routine. We usually let him sleep in the moses basket down here then bring him up to bed around 11.30pm and I feed him then nappy change and bed and he goes back to sleep till 4am. Although in saying that he woke at 2am last night wide awake like he wanted to play so hoping that was a one off.
Hopefully you continue to get some extra sleep Lucuma. Your some woman I would be a zombie with that lack of sleep. My little guy doesn't sleep much during the day so I find myself wrecked when my husband gets in from work. Are you girls doing any set nap times during the day?
I have his vaccinations booked in for next week, glad to hear they were ok for you girls, I hope he doesn't react badly to them, hate seeing him in pain.
Wuffly you poor thing with the tongue tie getting re-attached! What a pain in the arse. The lactation specialist said our guy had a mild tongue tie but he is feeding fine so I dont think I will do anything about it. It seems nearly every baby has tongue tie these days so not sure what to make of it!
Anyway this is turning into a novel and the little man is stirring so better go feed him and get some rest.0 -
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Just dropping in to say, Lucuma you deserve an award for all that you're doing at nights, plus dealing with a toddler during the day! We're 14 weeks+ now and I feel she really turned a corner with the wind at the weekend, just sleeping much more at ease, napping better during the day and doing less explosive and enormous dirty nappies. Hopefully your little one will improve with time too
I wish I could say the same for my two year old....
Ha....before you go handing out awards, I've utilised the services of a night nanny to get a break. I have had the toddler most of my mat leave so far, but she will be going back to her childminder fulltime the week after next so then it'll be just me and baby so in theory I can catch up on sleep during the day ...hmm that hasn't worked with this baby so far though. We've turned a corner with wind here too. 11 weeks now but she started improving around 10 weeks. Sounds like we have kids very close in age. What's the story with your 2 year old?
The cranio sacral therapist we've been attending with little one said that explosive poos (which baby has) are usually a sign of lactose intolerance, any thoughts on that? Another family member told me that once they put their baby on the lactose free formula his wind probs disappeared. Food for thought!The little man has gone down for a nap in the afternoon for the last 3days and has started to feed around 3hrs apart at night! Starting to feel vaguely human again! He just gets formula for his during the night feeds. Thankfully no more spews! During the day I breastfeed and top up although he is fierce slow to drink from the bottle (have tried avent and nuk) and it's hard to know what he needs/wants.
That's great about the afternoon nap & stretching to 3 hours at night. You must have been like the walking dead up til now. Great that you're starting to feel vaguely human! Do you find your boobs leaking a lot and very uncomfortable now during the night coz he's only having formula?
About being slow to drink, which formula are you using? I've been playing around with the formulas and bottles a good bit. I'm now settled on 6 oz bottles, Dr Brown's, with 2 scoops anti-reflux aptimal and 4 scoops normal. When I used 6 scoops normal the nappies were like water and I was doing 3-4 full outfit changes a day (by outfit read: vest & babygro ;o) but when I used 6 scoops anti-reflux the bottle was like soup and she wouldn't drink it. Both gaviscon infant and reflux formula thicken up her poos so they're not as runny. I was using Mam bottles as babies love the teat on them, but I switched to Dr Browns for wind. Now we've seen a dramatic reduction in wind here and it does coincide with when I started using Dr Browns bottles. Could be a coincidence and she was going to get better anyway but worth thinking about. Also one thing I learned from child no.1 - read the instructions on everything! They can contain some small pearls of wisdom, even like how to stack a sterilser correctly I read the instructions on the Dr Browns bottles and they said you shouldn't shake the bottles to mix the forumla and water. Now I couldn't imagine how you could make a bottle without shaking it but they suggested stirring instead, which I do now I use a long spoon like a latte spoon (or a long spoon feeding spoon) and stir instead. (one thing i have noticed with the reflux formula though you need to stir it straight away after putting it in the 70 deg C water to make sure all the lumps break up) anyway the theory is that stirred not shaken (James Bond eat your heart out!) , means less bubbles in the formula so less wind in the baby. Also worth thinking about. I was putting Gaviscon infant in normal formula before I started using the reflux stuff, but I find GI so hard to work with, but then again I wasn't using it propely (you're supposed to mix to a paste first and then add to bottle) I was just bunging it in with the formula and stirring. Anyway I find the reflux formula does the same thing as GI but much easier to dissolve.
wuffly;100334334 he gets a lot of wind despite being slow, using gripe water but may up it to infacol. In general since we started topping him up he is a much happier little man. I was all set to just stop bfing but because i don't have to worry he is getting enough I can use the shields. So I'm actually enjoying it while I still have milk and it will be a bit more gradual for both of us.
That's funny coz I would have always considered Infacol the 'lighter' one and Gripe water more hardcore! I'm using both anyway ! Although at this stage she hardly needs them but they're part of the night time routine so will keep going til the bottles are gone and not bother to replace them then. Yeah re the shields, I wouldn't have thought so before but based on my experience this time around, they definitely reduce the amount of milk the baby is getting. I found when I used them on this baby my breast still felt sort of firm afterwards, i.e. it hadn't been emptied. Then I'd feed without the shield and it would rapidly empty. Maybe some babies are more efficient at feeding through shields than others? Coz when I used them on baby no.1 I never noticed this issue. They are a catch 22 for a lot of people I'd say - can't feed at all without them can't exclusively feed with them! It must be hard for LCs and PHNs to know whether to advise women to use them or not?Can't believe is almost 8weeks and only 8weeks at the same time! It's been fricking hard, I don't know how people manage on their own. Lucuma your a rockstar I'd have my OH in shreds if I didn't get help at night.
I know yeah. I used to advise single friends that wanted kids that if they hadn't found a man by X time, consider going it alone with a sperm bank, but after actually having a baby I swiftly retracted that advice !! Well I haven't been spending much time with OH, been mainly back in Ireland. He was unhelpful the week I came back to Europe so I ran back to Mammy in Ire again and been there since. Then she came over with me last week. However we are now back in Europe again so we'll see how I cope without her (she just flew home today sob....). The other night I handed baby to OH at circa 5am and said 'would you do a feed'. 1 hour 15 mins later we were all still awake :-( I had to watch for an hour as he made every mistake I made in the early days.....feeding her in a position that filled her up with wind, thinking that just coz she's asleep it's a good time to put her back in bed (nope...she has to be winded otherwise she'll be awake again in 5 mins!), thinking he could get away with winding her while he sat half asleep in bed (nope, to get the big wind out of her you have to walk around the room with her) etc etc. It was painful to be honest. I was trying to sleep but couldn't....and with all his messing and fooling he used up all the bottle and she was wide awake at the end of it all so there was nothing left to feed her back to sleep with (unless we went and got another bottle from the fridge and heated it up) so after 1.25 hrs I just said 'give her to me' and I stuck her on the boob, knocked her out and back to bed. I try to see it as a good thing though....if he didn't experience her at her worst, he'd never take any notice of all my instructions or see the need for them. I've been dealing with her day in day out for nearly 3 months now, so I know what it takes to get her to sleep but for obvious reasons he doesn't although he'd be very good with kids in general but this one is a tricky, windy little creature.
No rockstars here - see comment about night nanny above !
Yeah if he's waking at 12, 4 and 7 during the night I'd be loathe to change anything to be honest! You need that sleep, especially if he doesn't sleep much during the day. I'm sure you've tons of milk and don't need top ups at all but if they're making him sleep that little longer, how bad!I am still pumping and giving him expressed milk at night. This is working for us for the moment so we are sticking with it for now.
My little woman is still stuck on the 3 hour sleep- feed- 2 hour sleep- feed- 1 hour sleep- game over- cycle at night. Occassionally she surprises me and the 3 hour is 4 hour or that golden one time it was 5.5 hour ha. I just have to keep hoping that it eventually stretches so she skips one feed. Last night now she went to sleep at 10pm. Woke at 01:30. Breastfeed + back asleep in crib by 2am. Woke again at 03:45. Nappy change, 6 oz bottle, wind back asleep by 04:45. And then woke at 05:45 and I stuck her on the boob in side lying down position. Fed and slept & I caught 10 mins here and there. Up out of bed by 8am as she was too full of wind to continue. I'm grand, I can cope with this amount of sleep but I woudln't be going for any walks or any of that malarkey - there's no spare energy to go around but there's enough to do what I have to do (which is a lot !!)The little man had his 6 week checkup and has gained a good bit of weight, he is now over 11lbs so doctors were delighted with him. He gets a bit of reflux now and then, today he spat up an hour after a feed and I could see it hurt him but because its not regular I don't know if I should try and get something done about it. I feel so clueless on the baby front at times.
Teggers how did the baby massage go? I have been doing my own at home to try help with his digestion but would like to do a class.
Wow, that's brilliant weight gain and all on breastmilk, well done you!!! You must be delighted :-) About the reflux, probably best just to mention it to the PHN or GP next time you are in with them. Generally the first step is Gaviscon infant, next up prescription Zantac drops, next after that prescription Losec. Basically the same as adults take for reflux as you're well familiar with! Except baby versions.
Just be careful with baby massage on their tummies, you shouldn't do it after a feed, it can cause them to spit up. Did you have a reason to think he needed it for digestion? Coz if he isn't having any digestion problems I'd probably leave well enough alone. I was doing it to relieve wind but I found it hard to find a time she wasn't either hungry or just after a feed. That was in the early newborn phase though, it would be eaiser now that there are longer stretches between feeds. The massage on the rest of their body is lovely for bonding though. I'd defo recommend doing a class during your mat leave!Lucuma do you put your little one up to bed or do you keep her in the sitting room with you? We have zero routine here and i just go with him when he is tired he sleeps and when hungry he eats but as he will be 2 months next week I need to start thinking of a routine. My little guy doesn't sleep much during the day so I find myself wrecked when my husband gets in from work. Are you girls doing any set nap times during the day?
No, I've never been able to put this baby down to sleep or put her up for a nap/sleep since she was born. Defo the hardest thing about this baby! She only does one 3 hour stretch in a 24 hour period which is her very first sleep of the night, so I have to go to bed when she does, otherwise I get no 3 hour stretch of sleep at all in a 24 hour period. So we go to bed together. That means if I'm organised we're in bed by 10pm if I'm not we go to bed at 11pm or even midnight. Saying that when we went to bed at midnight the other night she slept til 4am - a 4 hour stretch for both of us! Bliss......then last night I was being good going to bed at 10pm and she only did 3 hours 15 mins. So it's hard to know what the right thing to do is! i think I'm more refreshed after a 4 hour stretch than I am after 6 hours broken into several parts?
Jeepers no set nap times during the day yet. I wouldn't expect that to materialise til around 4 months. Then they should start off doing 3 naps a day, which over time moves down to 2 and eventually around the 1 year mark - to 1. Then it can stay at 1 til they're 3 and beyond. Before loads of people start jumping up and down saying my Johnny/Mary never did 3 naps/dropped all naps by 1 etc I'm saying that's generally what happens based on my friends with kids the same age. Bottle fed babies are more likely to have a 3 nap, 2 nap, 1 nap routine than breastfed though. That's tough that he's not sleeping much during the day, do you have a swinging musical chair? If not...get one!! My baby sleeps half the day inside in it (with dodie coaching using gripe water also). It suits her coz of her wind, lying horizontal isn't her thing so I never put her for naps in a cot, it's hard enough trying to get her to sleep horizontal at night so I wouldn't even go there during the day.The lactation specialist said our guy had a mild tongue tie but he is feeding fine so I dont think I will do anything about it. It seems nearly every baby has tongue tie these days so not sure what to make of it!
I know! It does seem like a bit of an epidemic alright. The cranio sacral therapist I was attending in Ireland (who I found brilliant I have to say) said that there's a theory it's happening coz women are taking too much folic acid during pregnancy now. I also heard at a LLL meeting that apparently midwives in the old days used to keep one long fingernail and just do a sweep under the newborn's tongue so it's not that it occured less, just that it was dealt with before you even left the hospital! But that could be an old (mid) wive's tale!
Anyone else still using their pregnancy pillow? I wouldn't be without mine! I found a new use for it this week actually, put it behind my back when doing lying down bf'ing in bed. It gives a lovely support to your back! And I sleep wrapped around it every night. It still feels like heaven having gotten the baby out of the bed, I feel so free! ;o) She's just at the end of our bed in a crib so she's not far away, and I do enjoy the lying down bf every morning. I was trying to give only formula at night, but apart from that first 3 hour stretch after her bottle, formula doesn't seem to make her sleep longer during the night at all so I've started giving a breastfeed in the middle of the night every night as well. Like last night she guzzled 6 oz bottle of formula at 5am and then slept for the princely sum of 1 hour after it. WTF like!! I defo need to see a sleep consultant but have too much on at the moment, hopefully will see one in a few weeks when things calm down. Obviously will have to have improvement before I go back to work, I couldn't work in a demanding job on this amount of sleep plus keep the show on the road at home!
Re weight loss, I'm amazed to find that nearly 3 months post partum having done zero exercise (apart from lugging 2 kids about) and eating whatever I want which includes daily treats (I feel very sorry for myself with the lack of sleep) my body still has slowly shrunk. I think alot of it is just fluids that you lose slowly after the birth? My wedding rings are fitting me again as of last week and I've moved from super size granny knickers to just normal size ones :-) Next stop Victoria's secret ha, not!0 -
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Lucuma how are you getting on? Is your little girl gone back to the creche? Hopefully that gives you a little bit of space. Is your baba improving on the sleep front?
Thanks for the link to the nursing bras, I ordered two of them online the other day. Wonder why they re so much cheaper in your part of the world? I could do with some decent ones. I hear everyone talking about the boob or bust facebook page but I haven't attempted to measure myself or even try go get measured. The ones i have seem to fit remotely fine so Ill just stick them for now and await my online order from next.
Re the sling, we bought a boba 4g baby carrier after trying out a good few, didn't have the patience to be dealing with the wraps so went with the carrier, he is OK in it but not in love with it, fusses for a while, cries and then eventually falls asleep as I am walking around. I will give the ball thing a go, need to find where I threw it after the birth Lol!
Wuffly glad things are getting easier for you and sorry breastfeeding didn't work out as planned for you. It definitely is not an easy thing to master. I don't know anyone that stepped in and did it with ease from the get go.
We are still breastfeeding and I am so much more confident with it now, have literally fed him everywhere at this stage. Its amazing the difference a few weeks make and I feel its not just me that has gotten better at it but him too. He is 11 weeks in a few days, I just cannot believe how fast time is going. I need to try find a few mother and baby groups in the area, the local breastfeeding group in the health centre is not great and the LLL meetings are a bit far away but may be my only option.
He is doing great, dry skin is clearing up, think it was this mum and me shampoo i got as a gift drying out his skin so ditched that. Sticking with burts bees baby bee and Moogoo products which are working well. He still has cradle cap but almond and coconut oil are solving that slowly.
He is feeding well but still spitting up a lot, they are different at different times, sometimes he just brings up undigested breast milk which kind of flows out of his mouth, making me think he has over ate and other times he definitely gets reflux and brings up curdled milk which smells acidic and he cries so I know it hurts him. These arent at every feed so I don't know if I should attempt to do anything. We tried infacol but it was pretty useless. I don't know maybe this is just normal?
I think he may be starting to teeth, he is drooling and sucking his fist a lot and seems to be getting comfort in a soother more often these days. It feels very early to be teething but from an online search its not so uncommon to start teething now. He is also getting so much stronger, the last few nights he has managed to shimmy himself almost out of the co-sleeper and into our bed, he kind of throws his legs over then pulls his body along, im amazed he has the ability to do this. I think he smells the milk and makes his way over to me in the dark. Hilarious.
How are you guys all getting on? I feel like we still have a million more things to learn. Lucuma you seem so much more clued it. must be a second baby thing 0 -
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6kg! That's a great weight Lucuma, just under 5kg here, catching up slowly. He's doing 6 feeds at the moment just down from 8. Couldn't see us dropping to 4 for a bit. He's generally doing good stretched at night now, 5-7 hours.
Fantastic, well done on 10 weeks that's great especially after all the obstacles. You gave him a great start and it must be great to see him thriving and happier now as well and you can move on to worrying about hundreds of other things ;o)
I'm all confused about the no. of formula feeds. How did you know to give him 8 feeds every 24 hours? I checked the side of the Aptamil box both in Ireland and here in Europe and the highest no of feeds per 24 hours was 7 and that was at under 3kg. Above 3kg it says 6 feeds per 24 hours, and above 3.5 kg it says 5 feeds per 24 hours and then above 6kg reduce to 4 feeds per 24 hours. Are they just loose guidelines so and you can adjust them?
God my heart dropped when I read the bit about 5-7 hours. 5-7 HOURS!!!! That's just unbelievable and he's younger than my baby :O:(:ermm: My little girl is 3.5 months old waking up every 1-2 hours every night ahhhhh.
So how much mat leave have you left now Wuffly? Will you go back to Dubai for the last few weeks of it. Would be nice to get some time on your own to relax before going back to work. I remember you weren't 100% sure about going back to your job, what are you feelings on it now? Have you got childcare organised? I have about 6 weeks left of mat leave now, trying not to think about it. The childminder that minds our older child has made space for the baby 5 days a week so at least I don't have the stress of finding childcare or handing her over to a stranger this time around which is nice, also knowing she's with her sister all day will alleviate the guilt a little! Will you miss the unbridled access to Water wipes when you go back wuffly
have to say I've decided I really don't like them. I think they should be called 'water-logged' wipes. And it's impossible to pull just 1 out of the pack, they stick together and come out in clumps! I've stopped using them. I have actually started to use the good old fashioned face cloth now sometimes for some particular nappies (to be fair these would be on the toddler, e.g. weetabix nappies!) after seeing my mother use it when I was home on mat leave. Mam always uses a face cloth for dirty nappies just as she did for the 5 of us :-)He is feeding well but still spitting up a lot, they are different at different times, sometimes he just brings up undigested breast milk which kind of flows out of his mouth, making me think he has over ate and other times he definitely gets reflux and brings up curdled milk which smells acidic and he cries so I know it hurts him. These arent at every feed so I don't know if I should attempt to do anything. We tried infacol but it was pretty useless. I don't know maybe this is just normal?
I think he may be starting to teeth, he is drooling and sucking his fist a lot and seems to be getting comfort in a soother more often these days. It feels very early to be teething but from an online search its not so uncommon to start teething now. He is also getting so much stronger, the last few nights he has managed to shimmy himself almost out of the co-sleeper and into our bed, he kind of throws his legs over then pulls his body along,
Kathy I would treat the level of reflux you describe. But different strokes for different folks. The reflux my little girl has would be the same as that perhaps even a bit less and I went through the gamut of the reflux drugs from the OTC (gaviscon infant) to prescription (zantac and now losec). Infacol? Isn't that for wind? Never heard of it used for reflux.
We're just started on losec this week and I'm not impressed. You have to dissolve the tablet in a small quantity of water which is a pain in the behind. And trying to get it into the baby is terrible. I think the zantac was the best of the 3 I've tried actually, but the bottle expires in 1 month so if the GP had known that (I only found out from the chemist) I should have got a repeat prescription to buy a new bottle when the first one expired.
Omg can't believe your little guy is so strong already! Moving himself off the cosleeper nearly! That's unreal. I suppose I am not sure about the range of movement my lg has because she sleeps in the wedge which keeps her on her side. So she can't move about the bed so I never see her range of movement in bed. Don't mention sucking the fist! My lg seems to have her hands in her mouth constantly these days. She is also starting to do what looks like sucking her thumb, already! She's a very smiley little thing and starting to coo and laugh now as well which is brilliant. She has charmed the socks off me & her Dad!
Well no she's not sleeping better, she regressed and has been fairly brutal tbh! But the form is good, both me and her, so that's the most important thing. My husband (and when in Ireland, my mother) gets the toddler up and out in the mornings so I can live with it for now. I'm awake a lot through the night so I catch up a few snoozes in the morning. I started sleep training yesterday, didn't get a specialist involved yet, my sister is helping me. I also got tips from a friend that read the baby whisperer. She trained her two using the EASY idea:
E - eat
A - activity
S - sleep
Y - you time
The basic premise is that you don't feed to sleep. You feed and then they have activity which could be changing a nappy. In our case it will always be winding! and then you get them drowsy by sitting in a darkened room with them close to you til they get drowsy (in my case this hasn't worked so far so I had to stand up and rock her and sing) once they are drowsy enough that lifting their arm results in it flopping down, you put them into bed. So they're going into bed drowsy but not in a deep sleep. This teaches them that falling asleep in bed is ok. Then you do the 'pick up put down' method. So far she has gone out like a light first time though, no need for pick up put down! Maybe it's beginners luck but I'm delighted with it so far. She was after worming her way back into the bed full time at night and last night after trying the sleep training she did nearly 3 hours in her bed before waking at 2am. She woke every hour after that though :O
I was reading my old bible What to Expect The first Year today as well as bits on here http://www.mybabysleepguide.com/2016/01/3-6-month-sleep-guide.html#more
(this is what my sister used and seems to reflect the baby whisperer methodology) and I think I need to start reducing night feeds. WTETFY suggests that if baby is waking at 12, 2 and 4 for feed try cutting out the first and last one adn only give the middle feed. So I'm going to try that tonight. The first time she wakes up I'm going to try to settle her in some other way, not feeding (yikes! This will be a first!) and the second time she wakes I'll feed her, and the third time I won't feed her. Here goes nothing .....0 -
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6kg! That's a great weight Lucuma, just under 5kg here, catching up slowly. He's doing 6 feeds at the moment just down from 8. Couldn't see us dropping to 4 for a bit. He's generally doing good stretched at night now, 5-7 hours.
Fantastic, well done on 10 weeks that's great especially after all the obstacles. You gave him a great start and it must be great to see him thriving and happier now as well and you can move on to worrying about hundreds of other things ;o)
I'm all confused about the no. of formula feeds. How did you know to give him 8 feeds every 24 hours? I checked the side of the Aptamil box both in Ireland and here in Europe and the highest no of feeds per 24 hours was 7 and that was at under 3kg. Above 3kg it says 6 feeds per 24 hours, and above 3.5 kg it says 5 feeds per 24 hours and then above 6kg reduce to 4 feeds per 24 hours. Are they just loose guidelines so and you can adjust them?
God my heart dropped when I read the bit about 5-7 hours. 5-7 HOURS!!!! That's just unbelievable and he's younger than my baby :O:(:ermm: My little girl is 3.5 months old waking up every 1-2 hours every night ahhhhh.
So how much mat leave have you left now Wuffly? Will you go back to Dubai for the last few weeks of it. Would be nice to get some time on your own to relax before going back to work. I remember you weren't 100% sure about going back to your job, what are you feelings on it now? Have you got childcare organised? I have about 6 weeks left of mat leave now, trying not to think about it. The childminder that minds our older child has made space for the baby 5 days a week so at least I don't have the stress of finding childcare or handing her over to a stranger this time around which is nice, also knowing she's with her sister all day will alleviate the guilt a little! Will you miss the unbridled access to Water wipes when you go back wuffly have to say I've decided I really don't like them. I think they should be called 'water-logged' wipes. And it's impossible to pull just 1 out of the pack, they stick together and come out in clumps! I've stopped using them. I have actually started to use the good old fashioned face cloth now sometimes for some particular nappies (to be fair these would be on the toddler, e.g. weetabix nappies!) after seeing my mother use it when I was home on mat leave. Mam always uses a face cloth for dirty nappies just as she did for the 5 of us :-)He is feeding well but still spitting up a lot, they are different at different times, sometimes he just brings up undigested breast milk which kind of flows out of his mouth, making me think he has over ate and other times he definitely gets reflux and brings up curdled milk which smells acidic and he cries so I know it hurts him. These arent at every feed so I don't know if I should attempt to do anything. We tried infacol but it was pretty useless. I don't know maybe this is just normal?
I think he may be starting to teeth, he is drooling and sucking his fist a lot and seems to be getting comfort in a soother more often these days. It feels very early to be teething but from an online search its not so uncommon to start teething now. He is also getting so much stronger, the last few nights he has managed to shimmy himself almost out of the co-sleeper and into our bed, he kind of throws his legs over then pulls his body along,
Kathy I would treat the level of reflux you describe. But different strokes for different folks. The reflux my little girl has would be the same as that perhaps even a bit less and I went through the gamut of the reflux drugs from the OTC (gaviscon infant) to prescription (zantac and now losec). Infacol? Isn't that for wind? Never heard of it used for reflux.
We're just started on losec this week and I'm not impressed. You have to dissolve the tablet in a small quantity of water which is a pain in the behind. And trying to get it into the baby is terrible. I think the zantac was the best of the 3 I've tried actually, but the bottle expires in 1 month so if the GP had known that (I only found out from the chemist) I should have got a repeat prescription to buy a new bottle when the first one expired.
Omg can't believe your little guy is so strong already! Moving himself off the cosleeper nearly! That's unreal. I suppose I am not sure about the range of movement my lg has because she sleeps in the wedge which keeps her on her side. So she can't move about the bed so I never see her range of movement in bed. Don't mention sucking the fist! My lg seems to have her hands in her mouth constantly these days. She is also starting to do what looks like sucking her thumb, already! She's a very smiley little thing and starting to coo and laugh now as well which is brilliant. She has charmed the socks off me & her Dad!
Well no she's not sleeping better, she regressed and has been fairly brutal tbh! But the form is good, both me and her, so that's the most important thing. My husband (and when in Ireland, my mother) gets the toddler up and out in the mornings so I can live with it for now. I'm awake a lot through the night so I catch up a few snoozes in the morning. I started sleep training yesterday, didn't get a specialist involved yet, my sister is helping me. I also got tips from a friend that read the baby whisperer. She trained her two using the EASY idea:
E - eat
A - activity
S - sleep
Y - you time
The basic premise is that you don't feed to sleep. You feed and then they have activity which could be changing a nappy. In our case it will always be winding! and then you get them drowsy by sitting in a darkened room with them close to you til they get drowsy (in my case this hasn't worked so far so I had to stand up and rock her and sing) once they are drowsy enough that lifting their arm results in it flopping down, you put them into bed. So they're going into bed drowsy but not in a deep sleep. This teaches them that falling asleep in bed is ok. Then you do the 'pick up put down' method. So far she has gone out like a light first time though, no need for pick up put down! Maybe it's beginners luck but I'm delighted with it so far. She was after worming her way back into the bed full time at night and last night after trying the sleep training she did nearly 3 hours in her bed before waking at 2am. She woke every hour after that though :O
I was reading my old bible What to Expect The first Year today as well as bits on here http://www.mybabysleepguide.com/2016/01/3-6-month-sleep-guide.html#more
(this is what my sister used and seems to reflect the baby whisperer methodology) and as she will be 4 months in 2.5 weeks I think I need to start reducing night feeds. WTETFY suggests that if baby is waking at 12, 2 and 4 for feed try cutting out the first and last one adn only give the middle feed. So I'm going to try that tonight. The first time she wakes up I'm going to try to settle her in some other way, not feeding (yikes! This will be a first!) and the second time she wakes I'll feed her, and the third time I won't feed her. Here goes nothing .....0 -
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Lucuma, we are winging it a bit on the formula feeds, he was getting 8 feeds a day when i was bf'ing so it was just topping up with formula, we reduced it down to 6 when he went totally to Formula, he should be going 4 hours between feeds but he won't go beyond 3 and he won't have more than 150ml so that's why we are at 6, and some days 7 if he wakes twice at night, he's roughly having 800-900ml a day it should be 5,180's. The 5-7 hour stretches seem to be every 2nd night ish we did get one 9hr stretch at the weekend but i think it was a one off for the time being anyway. If i could get him to dream feed I think we'd be on a winner but he will not do it and its almost impossible to wake him enough to take anything let alone a full feed. I tried a few weeks ago and he woke again 2hrs later and 3hrs later so i thought feck that, I'm wrecking a good thing! I think i will leave it until we are back in Dubai to try and work on that part of the routine. We are still going from pillar to post here although thankfully more time at my home where he is more settled and I get more help from my Mam. He's sleeping better since he went fully to formula, probably a combination of things though, less stress for him and me, his age and him being better with wind. All i hear anyway is about babies that have been sleeping through since they were 2 weeks old and the like... :eek: He's still quiet small even though he is gaining weight now, but he is super alert, holding up his head, and he's so nosey he needs to see everything won't settle in the pram for a walk, thank god he sleeps in it or it would have been a fair big waste even if 2nd hand! I have a tula carrier that i bought which OH uses a lot (with a new born insert) and I use a kokadi that i borrowed it doesn't need an insert I find both pretty good, not needing the insert is handy as i can pop him down to the pram easily if he's asleep in the carrier pretty. Lots cooing and 'chat' and smiles. He's wicked for moving up the changing mat and throwing himself on his side, i think rolling over won't be too long, he'll get some fright he hates being on his tummy, he roars through every second of tummy time! Hope you start getting longer stretches soon. We are kind of using the easy routine as well, although I tend to rock him and use the dummy if needs be during day to get him down. At night I try and avoid the dummy as I don't want to be up and down putting it in all night, he has settled himself a few nights but the last few night I've ended up rocking him as for some reason he's trapped a lot of wind in during his last bottle, he'll roar for 20 mins in my arms then burp and pass out.. i was only trying to clam him and get him drowsy, but he's slept well after it so no complaints!
Its so nice to see them growing out of clothes especially after worrying about their weight and size etc.. although a bit sad there's a phase gone already, not that i will miss the stress and exhaustion one bit! I think i am on your team regarding the new born phase Lucuma!
i have a month of mat leave left but my job is all up in the air, I've been told on the qt that I'm being let go when i go back, there have been quiet a few redundancies since I left. (Mostly the useful and therefore expensive people) I have been offered another job but I'm waiting for info on the package. Will see how it goes, I will get my end of service package anyway and will be getting a sick note for my notice if they expect me to work it. (My back is in a shocking state since the pregnancy anyway so it aint too far from the truth) As far as I'm concerned they can shag off if they let me go after being such ****es about my mat leave. The people I need for a reference have been let go or have quit so I don't have to worry on that front.
I will miss my water wipes lol!!
i know what you mean about them tho! My mam bought a load of pampers ones (didn't know they even made them!) before we came home and I found them so dry and small they were useless once we started getting nasty formula nappies! :eek:
Kathy its great bf'ing is going so well for you, its so handy when you are out and about, rather than bottles and the stuff that goes with it. I felt more confident bf'ing in public (even with the pain, shields and faff with covers) than i do with a bottle, feel very judged. Are you on the Extended Breastfeeding Ireland Group? Its helpful but they are quiet harsh on mum's that don't breastfeed and all us 'failures' are seen as mindless idiots brainwashed by formula companies, i had to stop reading it but staying a member as i hope that i will get on better breast feeding next time and have better support and mat leave etc... If you plan to go long haul I would recommend it the longer term info and advice is very good, they can just very be harsh on new mums struggling (personally I didn't find it supportive when i was struggling and less so now that i am now ranked a failure and formula feeding is seen as tantamount to child abuse) I know that sounds mad recommending something I didn't find helpful but i can see it would be helpful for someone that has succeeded, if you know what I mean?
We used infacol for wind but we've stopped as i think it wasn't as effective and he seems to be a better at getting it up himself these days. i hope the reflux gets better, its frightening when they spew, we've only had a few thankfully but its fairly common from what I'm told and as with most things he will grow out of it. He is a super weight well done! you are doing a mighty job! I've only left our little fella for 2, 3 hr stints so far, i actually didn't mind it too much, although the 2nd time was to get my hair sorted which felt like a total waste of 3hrs but hey ho! He's young and if you don't feel like staying away don't, you won't regret going home to him. Re the drooling and chewing getting a lot of that here too, i think its pre teething tho just his salvia glands getting going, that was the TT Dr said anyway, he doesn't have another symptoms besides being a bit more fussy at night but I think thats because he Daddy is away at the moment!
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Wrote a long reply yesterday, don't know where it went!
We are back home in Dubai, so nice to be back in our house and space. Never ever travelling or have visitors for the first six weeks if there are more kids!! Little man is generally very good, routine is a bit messed up but hopefully it will sort itself in time. We had been getting sleep through from 9/10pm - 5/6am but now he's waking during the night for a feed. Possible hitting that 4month sleep regression as well. He feeds and then pops down again so can't complain. He had been doing great finishing his bottles and doing 5 feeds but we are back on 6 and not finishing them! We are breaking the dummy habit as well it had been a great help to get him down for naps but then he started needing it at night and then waking when it fell out, a few nights waking every hour, feck that for a lark!! He always crys going to sleep at nap time, although seems to be a bit less without the dummy now, bit of rocking and cuddling and he's down. he does about 1.5-2hrs 2/3 times during the day.
He's probably bored with just the two of us and no family doting on him! The heat is still fecking cruel here and he's hating the car, def miss the dummy there. I may make an exception on that front!! Re milestones the little fecker rolled over a few weeks ago when i was out for an hour!! hates tummy time so will pop himself over almost as soon as he goes down!
We are checking out nurseries today we have one that will most likely go with as two of the other babies we know are going there. i dread the thought of handing him over, but happy he will be with other kids we know and 3 sets of parents using the place we should be well covered. Re my work I am none the wiser, old job is in limbo and new job don't have the cash flow! eck! OH is looking for work and seems to have a few options, as the business isn't making enough money, but is off the ground, Yey!! Good to have some of the pressure off.
Lucuma, how is your sleep going? Hope its improving and you get to go to your family wedding, they are such great occasions. We went to one when we were home, he wasn't sleeping through, so we had him for the day and my mam looked after him during his longer night stint, the hotel were great and brought us the meal in the drinks reception area and we tagged in and out during the meal, our table was right beside the top table at the far side of the room so couldn't take him in and out easily. We didn't last too long into the night anyway!!
Are you going back to the same place? Or do you need to look elsewhere? Hope going back goes well and at least you have peace of mind with your childminder.
My back is much better now we have a changing table at the right height and we have mats on the floor here so my knees aren't sore, I am a wreck lol! i have a spa voucher that i must book and theres a cheap thai place near my work will check them out.
Kathy how is your little man doing, hope the vomiting is lessening. Hope things are settling down and you are enjoying your mat leave.
Re EBI i left when one of the admins said it was a place that bf mums could vent about ff mums! Thought it was a horrible attitude and certainly not what the likes of me needs to be reading. Its a pity they don't just concentrate on supporting bf'ing.
Taggers how are you getting on?
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Hey ladies how are ye doing?
Lucuma hope sleep school is going well. i would be the same as you, if you are getting a good stretch take it and run with it. our little man is getting into the dream feed at 11 now which is great, he wakes at 4:30 which i don't mind but then he's bugger for his 7am bottle.. which is grand for now, but when i'm back to work (in a week) I really want to have him feed properly before I drop him off at nursery. His naps are now all over the shop I don't think he needed as much as we were trying to give him, seems to take power naps now, 30-90mins could last any length! Sometimes I can get him to go back down but other times theres no getting him down again. Not too stressed about it, he's eating enough and getting good rest at night. Half the time he still screams blue murder when I try to put him down for a nap so decided forcing it isn't doing either of us any favours. He's passed out on his mat now! Crazy child! Its mad how quickly things change, he'll do great in a routine for days then he figures it out and fights it tooth and nail!
In general he's good, he's moved into his cot now, which we moved into our room, I just wasn't ready to have him in his own room, think id be up all night looking at/listening to the monitor. Rolling in both directions although he gets a bit stuck when he rolls on to his tummy.
Haven't switched over to the stroller use of the buggy yet, since we've been back we've clipped in the car seat a lot, mostly because if we leave it in the car it will be f'ing roasting when we get back. He never liked the bassinet when were out and about, only used it for sleeping most of the time, so may change it to the stroller option soon, he's very nosey so he'll probably love it.
Kathy great news that you no longer need to pump.. glad your little fella is doing better after the tt release, its very hard seeing them go through it and the 24hrs after can be very though. How is his reflux now? Any better? Great he is doing so well with his weight, no idea what our man is, will get him weighed when we go for his 4 month vaccinations.
Thinking of doing a mix of BLW traditional weaning a friend has lent me the annabel karmel book, so will see how it goes, I'm thinking as ill be working part time i can give the blw a go. Any recommendations for books?
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Hello ladies, great to see your updates on the babas! Hope they're all well.
Kathy I didn't have a negative experience on EBI. It was on another group Mama for Mama Bf'ing where I was lynched!
That's gas my little lady was the same with the rolling, did it once and then didn't do it for weeks. But she started it back up again there yesterday and today again. Only rolling from her front onto her back so far, not the other way around yet. Not long now they'll be crawling and tummy time will be a thing of the past!
Regarding the buggy we're the same as wuffly - using the maxi cosi clipped into the buggy. I've a double buggy and we're currently using the mode shown in the attached pic (note use of models this is not us ha ;o) So I've turned into one of those mothers that has them in the maxi cosi buggy mode all the time....the kind of mothers I used to mentally tut tut at when I was a FTM ...when I used to think 'Don't they know the child should lie flat for the first 6 months, how can they even be allowed to rear a child!'
Kathy your fella is in a great routine for a BF baby! Maybe it's coz you were pumping and giving him expressed milk in bottles but he's doing 3 naps a day that's the same as what's on my schedule from the sleep specialist for their age. So both you and wuffly are putting baby down to bed around 9pm ish? That's funny we're the same and I feel really bad, like it should be 7:30pm or that but it just hasn't fallen that way so far. My husband wouldn't get home til around the 7 o'clock mark as well Kathy and I'll be the same when I go back to work, that's probably why kiddies bedtime is late in our house compared to others I know of.
Wow Kathy you've been busy with the TT etc! At this age did baby need to be sedated for the operation, I presume it was lasered? Was it hard to watch? Was his TT a normal one i.e. at the front? My sister told me you're supposed to put on a glove and rub under their tongue every day to prevent it growing back (that's if it's a normal one). Not sure how many times a day but I remember seeing her doing it with her baby. Your little man sounds quite similar to mine in fairness with the wind and the reflux. I joined a group called Surviving Reflux Ireland and also bought and downloaded their app on my phone. I was reading all the info in the app yesterday and came across this description (attached) about the difference between GOR and GORD. From reading it I'm thinking my baby has the milder one called GOR. I do have her on Losec but am going to wean it off coz I think she's improving big time. I was putting 2 scoops reflux formula to 4 scoops normal in her bottles but her poos started getting semi-solid the last few days so I've reduced to 1 scoop reflux formula 5 scoops normal. She was throwing up breastfeeds and keeping formula down but the last few days she's keeping breastfeeds down now as well. Not sure if that's from the Losec I'm giving her or is it just that her reflux is on the mend. Gonna wean her off Losec and see if the breastmilk still stays down.
I can understand you going down the TT snip route Kathy, as you mentioned before you take reflux meds yourself so the idea of starting your baby on them from such a young age doesnt' appeal I'm sure! I'm having second thoughts about starting mine on Zantac and then Losec now....wondering was it a bit over the top considering she doesn't cry with the reflux or anything. They're complicated little so-and-sos!
Great that you got to stop pumping and that baby is finished feeding in 7-10 minutes, that's a far cry from the marathon feeding sessions at the start isn't it! I think if someone could tell you in those first few tough weeks and months that after X amount of time the feeds will only take 7-10 minutes it'd be so good to know but problem is no-one knows how long it takes to get to that stage!
Re weaning I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to the BLW....not sure I'd be able for the choking :O I'd say I'll do the purees......my main piece of advice is give little or no fruit and just give veggies.....otherwise baba gets a sweet tooth and turns into a fussy eater later on! I never pureed fruit for dd1, only meat, veg, potato etc combos. Also good idea to wait as long as possible before introducing known allergens so I'd wait til 6 months for wheat, and 1 year for strawberry, kiwi, egg also you know you can't give honey or nuts obviously. Pureed sweet potato is a great one for the early days, babies usually love it and it's so easy to make a big batch and freeze cubes of it. I'm going to wait til 6 months to start anyway as per the guidance, I'm not naive enough to think that starting early is going to improve baby's sleeping, if only it were that easy eh!
Wuffly I'm interested in the dream feed....are you picking him up asleep and getting a few ounces into him while he's still asleep and then put him back down is it? I know what you mean about wanting to get the morning bottle into him before you bring him to nursery (is that the same as a creche by the way? I've always wondered.....) but really there's no need just let the creche workers give him his bottle, it's one less job for ye to be doing in the morning! So did you get your old job back or starting in the new place? It'll be a wrench alright going back to work but considering the crappy mat leave over there you've done fairly well to get as long as you did and he will settle in fine I'm sure. It's easier actually to put them in full time from the get-go.....I've seen friends that are SAHMs and try putting baby in for 1-2 mornings a week to get a break and their kids HATE it. I hope you aren't too upset saying goodbye to him! It's a balls but the bills gotta be paid eh!
Regarding their own room well the safe sleeping/SIDs guidelines say the lowest chance of cot death is if baby is in their own bed in parent's room til 6 months of age. I am not following it though as we moved her into her own room about 2-3 weeks ago. However there's a single bed in that room which I sleep in for the latter half of the night so she never spends a full night alone. I've attached 2 pics of her bed. We have this thing called a 'Sleepyhead pillow' inside it keeps them on their back and keeps them cosy. She's very up and down with the sleeping.....this week alone she had a night where she was dreadful altogether and then last night.....which was totes amazeballs. I basically broke all of the rules that the sleep specialist gave me last night:
1. Instead of following EASY I decided to give her a few oz of formula just as I was putting her to bed so I changed nappy, put on sleeping bag, went into her room with lights off and gave her a few oz. Quick burp and then put her to sleep
2. I'm not supposed to rock her to sleep but I rocked her on the sleepyhead pillow in my arms til she was asleep then laid down into crib
She slept from 21:30 til 5am :O:O:O
I woke up a few times and at one stage - 4am - I woke to a baby screaming. I said to OH 'oh my god the monitor is not working' and I went out to check but herself was sound asleep ....it was the baby in the apartment above ours screaming! So back to bed for me.
Then I fed her at 5am. I'm not supposed to breastfeed her lying down in bed coz sleep specialist said it will 'confuse her'. But that's exactly what I did, brought her into the single bed behind her crib, fed her lying down til she fell fast asleep, then put her back into her crib.
She slept til 8am :O:O:O
So now I just don't know !!!! My god if every night was like that I'd be a new woman !!! Could be a one off but let's see.....
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Wuffly can't believe your back to work, did you sort out what you are going to do. Honestly how hs time gone so fast, feels like only yesterday we were pregnant and waiting for the little folk to arrive.
I used to use the car seat a lot but he really hates it and is so much happier in the buggy, he is a nosy little guy so likes being able to see everything rather than lying down. We may need to use it soon downstairs for sleeping as he is pretty big for the moses basket although still sleeps in it for a few hours before we go up to bed. Lucuma are they definately supposed to be lying flat for thw first 6 months, should we be using the cot part still rather than the buggy? He has very strong head control so thought it should be ok.
Reflux wise he seems to be doing ok, it has definately camled down a lot since he got the TT snipped. He has a had a few smaller pukes but nothing like the ones he was having before, they used to hit the floor and others would cause him a lot of pain. Im so glad I got it done.
Wuffly there is a Facebook group Baby Led Weaning (Starting Solids) in Ireland that you could join. The only book I have heard reccomended for baby led weaning is Babyled Weaning by Gill Rapley. She seems to have a few books all available on Book depository here.
Lucuma the lactation consultant said his was a minor one but when i brought him in she said no denying this one. The public health nurse also thought it was tight when i asked her to have a look. Funnily pediatrician in the hospital said it was grand! Anyway it was an anterior type 2 so standard TT. Nope no sedation needed (apparently only needed after a year old).She did the exam an snipped it within seconds and not with a laser just the standard way. She is actually really good and was saying that there is not enough focus on it and it can cause problems later on. In the UK apparently the midwives check and do it at birth which is the way it should be in Ireland but not going that way. Yeh I wanted to try this first as I want to avoid medication as much as possible. How is she doing now with keeping down breastmilk?
Way to go on the 9 - 4.30am sleep!! Have you had any more of them? I've found my little guy sticks his legs through the cot (I think on purpose, lol!!) when I put him down for a nap during the day, he sleeps in the cot in his room for naps as its where i have the monitor set up. Ha we have actually used all 3 of the beds purchased for him. Our guys is sleeping terrible at the minute, I'm thinking 4 month sleep regression/growth spurt. He is waking every few hours, wont sleep in his co-sleeper if i am in the bed beside him, has to be beside me which is really disrupting my sleep as he is so fidgety during the night and seems to wake for a feed more often. Don't know what to do with him at all.
He has also point blank refused a bottle now. We went out for dinner Saturday night and my parents in law minded him for a few hours and tried a bottle to no avail, my husband tried the next day just to see and he just started at it blankly with his mouth open. Then on Monday I went to the cinema and he also tried the bottle with no luck. He ended up just falling asleep and woke when i got back for a feed. We have a wedding next month and I was going to leave him overnight which I was already dreading so no idea how its going to roll with him not eating a bottle, wonder will he eventually give in if really hungry. Making me more nervous now about leaving him, hate to think he is going to be upset 0 -
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Oops KathyI was wrong....just double checked my baby book there (What to Expect the First year) and it's 3 months they have to lie flat for, then into the normal buggy seat between 4 and 6 months!
That's so great your little fella didn't have to be sedated or lasered ha! it sounds very straightforward, and how brilliant to be able to improve the reflux without needing meds. And he'll thank you for it one day when he's a teenager and he goes to irish college haha ;o)
I've taken my little girl off all meds now and she seems to be ok. I did lose the run of myself and stop putting reflux formula in her bottles as well and then got a few explosive poos for my efforts....so back to 2 scoops reflux 4 scoops normal! That seems to suit her best. But she's definitely not throwing up the breastmilk that often anymore so it seems to have sorted itself out. I was starting to wonder was it from my drinking too much caffeine (I do, definitely drink too much caffeine!) but just like her windy woes it seems to be just something that passes with time.
Nope of course we haven't had anymore of the 9pm to 04:30 sleeps! That was a one hit wonder.....bah.
In fact she's now guzzling an extra bottle just before sleeping but has reverted to waking up 4 hours after she goes down, just like always - she's laughing at us!
She seems to be ravenously hungry at the moment! She's 5 months tomorrow thank god....the countdown to solids is on! Sure once I start her on solids she'll start sleeping through the night IMMEDIATELY I'm sure
Have ye bought highchairs yet? The one we got dd1 is a wooden one that separates out into a little kid's table and chair when you're finished using it as a high chair. It wasn't the best highchair as her thighs used to get stuck taking her out of it from 1 year onwards.....you had to jiggle and if anyone else other than us did it (e.g. a babysitter) they always bruised her thighs! She is now happily using it in its broken down form so we'll have to get a new one for bubs. I'll definitely be getting a different model next time around. We live in an apartment so with 2 kids there's already hardly any space so something with a small footprint is key (not one with big wide legs that stick out at angles) but we also have an antique dining table and chairs so want to keep the babies away from them! Gonna go shopping for one in the next few weeks.
Kathy I can't believe after all that your little fella is refusing a bottle now!! Little fairy. We've a wedding coming up but unfortunately babs is coming with us, it's going to be sheer hell even though we got an overnight babysitter (local girl) and we're staying in self catering house. But I have no faith that she won't need to come in and wake us up coz she can't get baby to settle and/or I'll still be able to hear the baby crying and won't be able to sleep. Am seriously considering not drinking at the wedding. The babysitter is booked from 5pm so we won't have to bring her to the meal or anything, just the church which will be grand, I'll sit down the back. I didn't manage to get a breastfeeding friendly dress for it, too much hassle! With her being combination fed as well it wasn't worth the hassle for the few feeds a day I do give her - I'll just take her to a private place and lower the top of my dress down.0 -
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Lovely to hear from you Teggers!
Glad your little man is doing well, hopefully he will get used to the larger amounts and the relux will resolve itself, must be a big change for him being able to drink so much all of a sudden. Our guy took ages to go up an oz at each feed so can imagine doubling would be a huge difference. Hopefully once he settles into the sleep will improve aswell.
How are you getting on at work? Just finishing my first week, we've been dropping him to nursery for a few hours and upping it each day, so far he seems to be enjoying it. The nursery have an app so i get photos and updates while I'm in work, its nice but i spend half my time checking my phone!
. This week OH has been doing pick ups and drop offs next week I will be picking up, not quiet ready for drop off!
Going see how the naps go with nursery and if he's still fighting them to the point of being frantic will look at getting a sleep counselor. He's good at night now (got to 6:30 this morning!!!) so I know I'm lucky but i feel like I'm terrorising him trying to get to nap! They've been brutal since that 4 month sleep regession. Trying to catch his sleep cues but he stills fights it. Not sure if I'm trying to give him too much or too little! :ermm:0 -
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Wuffly hope work is goin ok for you, i'd say the first few weeks are really hard. Teggers that's fantastic you get to keep your little guy with you. Although I'd say being a nanny is hard work!
I have been in touch with work and have decided to go back the end of March next year, with holidays I saved up and my bonus at Christmas I should be able to stretch till then. Means when I go back the weather will be starting to improve again and the evenings will be a bit longer which will be great for spending some time with the little guy.
We have had a bad week. Little guy is teething quite bad and also has a viral infection, bad cough, runny nose etc. Took him to the doctor after I noticed a rash on his stomach, turns out its a little virus so hopefully it will clear up in the next few days. He was being an absolute nightmare to put to bed and also sleeping really badly. Some nights he went down at 11pm. I think it may be the 4 month sleep regression happening as well. He has turned a corner last night and is in better form although still a little sick. Just going to stay in with him and let him get as much rest as possible. He also isnt eating as much as normal so I have been pumping the excess in the morning as I wake up quite full, have a bit of a bruised feeling in my left boob so praying its not a bout of Mastitis
Thinking of doing water babies, he is finally starting to enjoy baths so am going to look into doing it.
Hope the week flies in ladies for ye and you have a great weekend.
How fast is the time going! :eek:0 -
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