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January 2018 Babies Club

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  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,990 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Hopefully she won't be too bad. I remember my little boy wasn't too bad after the first round of vaccines, it was the second one where he was very unsettled afterwards. My baba is in for her 6 week check tomorrow, then the immunisations in 2 weeks time. Got a letter from the HSE today giving out to me that I hadn't had her immunised yet - "we sent you a letter 2 months ago asking you to arrange the vaccines with your GP" - eh, no yiz didn't yiz gob****es, the child wasn't even born 2 months ago.

    We booked a christening, but we're not having it until July. She'll be 5 months old then, I think my little boy was 6 months when we had him christened. I wouldn't be able for it yet, and also hoping that in July the weather will be better so we might get some nice outdoor photos.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭New farmers wife


    I'm trying to organise the christening, I'm catholic and husband is church of Ireland, we had our first girl christening in the church of Ireland church, only bcos it had not bearing on future religious choices.There's now a new rector in the church and the dates I want are the first Sunday or both months but they do communion those days and he doesn't really want a christening as well. Seriously like it's only an extra 5 mins! I'm thinking about asking in the local catholic church.
    The tiredness I have during the day the last few days is crazy, I never remember being this tired during pregnancy or even when I was doing night feeds. What's worse is we've just started lambing so it's early mornings and late nights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Had A's 6 week checkup yesterday - all good! He's quite dinky - 9lb 7oz (4.28kg) at 6 weeks - but not extremely so and he's following his line nicely. No other issues and no sign of brachial plexus injury, which was a concern following a shoulder dystocia delivery.

    Laced up the running shoes again this week - was able to do 2k today, it'll take a while to build up again but shouldn't be as bad as last time as I only had around ten weeks off the road compared to nearly 5 months last time.

    Jabs on the 29th - squeeze them in before Easter!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭saggycaggy


    Good on you Rainbow Kirby, I keep threatening to get out for a wee run but haven't done so yet. I'm blaming the weather today!!
    We had our 6weeks check up this week too, he's up to 11lb5oz which is great to hear when I'm feeding him myself. I must book injections for before Easter too.

    Has anyone got the Baby Jogger City Mini?? I bought a Quinny 2nd hand and I hate it!! Instead of buying a whole new travel system I've heard the mini jogger can be used from birth. Love to hear feedback!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I do - we got ours secondhand when my older son was around a month old. It lies very flat so is good from birth. It's quite narrow so good for public transport.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭saggycaggy


    Cool, are you using it currently? Would you need any sort of neck support for them lying down or is it pretty secure? I might try one out in one of the stores that stock them!thanks!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    We didn't bother but if you wanted to it's quite cheap to get a head support on Amazon. We use it mostly for the toddler at the moment (sling for baby if we're out with both and don't want to take the double) - but we do set it up for baby the odd time.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Had our birth debrief yesterday, found it very helpful. Looks like we just got really unlucky - a combination of unrelated complications (true knot in cord which was around his neck, infection on day 2) and an insanely fast second stage (4 minutes including the time to free a shoulder dystocia!) made for a quite traumatic birth. A is just over 8 weeks now and doing great, but still quite dinky - he was just under 4.5kg at 7 weeks and he's still in size 1 nappies.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Had our birth debrief yesterday, found it very helpful. Looks like we just got really unlucky - a combination of unrelated complications (true knot in cord which was around his neck, infection on day 2) and an insanely fast second stage (4 minutes including the time to free a shoulder dystocia!) made for a quite traumatic birth. A is just over 8 weeks now and doing great, but still quite dinky - he was just under 4.5kg at 7 weeks and he's still in size 1 nappies.

    Is that something they do for every birth in the UK or just where there are certain complications?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Only for complicated or traumatic births. My first son's birth was in the midwife led unit and was very straightforward, nothing like that needed.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,730 ✭✭✭mirrorwall14


    Just jumping in to say that the Coombe have a Birth Reflections service. I didn't know about it until my booking in appointment but I've been in touch to make an appointment. They operate on a Tuesday and Friday morning apparently


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Wow they really don't advertise this sure they don't!?
    My friend had a horrific birth with her first and when she was in for an appt shortly after the birth she lifted her folder off of the desk and had a look while waiting on doc to come in.
    They almost karate chopped it out of her hand and told her that she had no business looking at it - her own fecking file for Christ sake!


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,990 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Jaysus! I took photos of my labour charts for posterity when I was in Holles St. Didn't really read through them until later and was quite shocked by what I saw. I didn't have a chart in labour this time around cos it had all changed to computers in the Rotunda. Although even if there had been notes, it probably would have gone something like "7:20am admitted to delivery room. 7:39am baby born. 7:50am placenta delivered. 8am tea and toast administered."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    I'd read my postnatal notes - I knew from reading them that my second stage had been very short but the debrief confirmed just how quickly things had gone in the end. 7pm I was 6cm and asking for an epidural, 7:30 I was sitting on the side of the bed and baby's heart rate plummets, try position changes and it doesn't recover, checked again and I'm 10cm, 7:40 start pushing, 7:42 obstetric emergency called for shoulder dystocia, 7:44 baby out, 7:48 placenta out, 7:55 baby to NICU, 8pm I'm lying there on a super strength syntocinon drip wondering what the actual fcuk just happened.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,990 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    Jesus that sounds like the birth of my first, only without the shoulder dystocia. I was told I'd be a couple more hours but then they did one of those scalp PH tests and it came back that he was in distress and it was panic stations, forceps, ventouses, the whole lot took 15 mins after a 40+ hour labour and like you, I was in total shock. I read my notes later and it turned out there had been concerns about his heart rate for hours and nothing was done, and I wasn't told about anything.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭shesty


    It's amazing what you find out after the fact.

    I only learned on the booking appointment for my second that my first tested positive for group B strep a couple of days after the birth.
    I was kept in hospital for five days after her birth, she was treated with antibiotics and they did blood tests etc but nobody ever actually told me if she had tested positive for anything, or what it was she had.I had been treated for it during labour, so I knew it was a risk.

    Annoyed the S$%&e out of me when I found out because as a first time mum it was all very bewildering and quite upsetting, and all I wanted was information, good or bad, and I could never bloody get any at the time.Nobody would answer any of my questions.

    If ever anything taught me to stick.my neck out and keep shouting til I got answers while dealing with them, that did.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Girls we have all gone very quiet. I would hate for this thread to die out. My son's October 2015 one did and it would be disappointing if this one did too.

    Our little one is doing very well. Suffers a lot with constipation. She can get herself into an awful state of hysterical crying. I have been adding and extra ounce of water to her bottles and it has definitely helped but last night i had to help her go by using a ear bud. Not ideal but she was in awful discomfort. After pushing out what could only be described as playdoh, i thought she was finished and went to clean her up.... Big mistake. I ended up with a very green smelly hand! The joys!

    Routine is awake at 7am for bottle, back down for an hour or so at 10am, back down at 1pm and this is the long nap - she could sleep until 4pm most days. Back down again at 6 until usually 8 and then away for the night at 10pm. Bedtime is getting earlier as the weeks go on though. She doesn't wake during the night thank god!

    Hope all going well for the rest of ye


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Have you tried baby massage? I did a course and we learned some techniques to relieve constipation.


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,990 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    For some reason my little one doesn't go every day, what she seems to do is stockpile for a couple of days and then just explode.

    My son used to get very constipated and we'd lie him on his back and do bicycle legs to try and help him go. I notice with my daughter she will usually poo after she's been down on the floor having a good kick.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 273 ✭✭New farmers wife


    We set up a group in Facebook messenger and then switched to WhatsApp when I have my baby in November 2015, there's only 4 of us at its a great support.
    Baby massage is supposed to be great, it didn't work too well for my girl as she was only having dirty nappies every3-4 days, it improved when she went on to solids but she's 2 and 5 months now and wouldn't go every day


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    Constipation has definitely eased from happening twice a week to now where it hasnt happened in maybe 3 weeks so we are improving but i will definitely consider baby massage. I actually think i saw something local on Facebook.
    Are your babies breast or bottle fed? We bottle fed here and my mother was asking me today when would i think of starting her on spoonfeed! Obviously not for another few weeks but i dread the thoughts of it!!!


  • Administrators, Business & Finance Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 16,990 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Toots


    My son was bottle fed, but my daughter is breastfed. We started my son on a little bit of baby rice or mashed banana etc at 18 weeks - back then the guideline given by the PHN was that formula fed babies could start solids after 18 weeks, but breastfed babies had to be 6 months. This time round she said 6 months regardless of feeding method. It's hard to keep up! I know my little man was far more settled when we introduced solids, the colic disappeared nearly overnight.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,832 ✭✭✭heldel00


    The conflicting advice drives me mad. PHN nurse told me not to add extra ounce of water to the bottle for constipation, a very experienced midwife told me it wouldn't do any harm. Sometimes i think the old school methods are the best.

    Just out from appointment with consultant neurophysiologist (bit of a mouthful!) It could take anywhere between 18months to 2 years for my shoulder to regain function. Nearly fell off the chair. Of course i cried like a baby. Really thought she was going to work some kind of magic and cure me instantly. Could be worse i suppose


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 389 ✭✭donkey10


    Hey peeps! Yes we have gone quiet so would be great to keep it going 😊
    My lad is 3 months today cant believe hes growing up so quick! Time really does fly.

    Im still combination feeding - give one bottle at lunch and one before bed. Finally got him to go for naps during the day. I have got 2 or 3 straight nights of 8 hours out of him but usually its about 5 hours before he wakes.

    He usually has one big poo a day he destroys the nappy when it comes aa with the clothes 😊

    I reckon hes startin to teeth also - constant fist in the mouth when hes fully fed and sometimes goes through half hour spells of constant cryin. Have been recommended the homepathic Teetha granules. I got them and it seems to do the trick of calmin him down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭Pocos


    Hi all

    Our little one is 15 weeks this week! Time is flying by! She’s great 90% of the time she’s been ebf but kinda not by choice! She still refuses to tahe a bottle so we kinda are stuck! Like I’m happy to fed her 95% of the time but it would be nice the odd night or odd feed my husband getting to feed her. Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or heard of anyone else having this problem? We got a lactation consultant in just to get some professional advice, hers was to shop bottles and just go straight onto sippy cups at 6 months!

    Also little sleeps at night from 5 hours til 9 hours straight so she’s a great sleeper! Do I don’t want to do anything to affect that!

    As for teething Donkey I think our little one has started about a week ago too! Such a pain for them cos they can be in a lot of pain! Hard to watch!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,928 ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    My older son was slow to take a bottle, we just persevered though. In the sample size of two that I have I've found the Nuk bottles with a latex teat good for my breastfed babies. The latex is a little softer than silicone and some babies find that easier. Some babies are really finicky about the temperature of milk in a bottle too.

    A is 11 weeks tomorrow (we missed January by a few hours!) - he's doing great! He's had a real growth spurt in the last week and he's just into his first 3-6m clothes. He had his first flight on Saturday, I brought the two boys to Dublin to visit their grandparents. He was a little angel, boobed for takeoff and landing and was quiet for the rest of it. Charmed the pants off the Aer Lingus cabin crew! He's giving me a 6 hour stretch most nights, usually 10pm to 4am and then until 8 after that - which is great.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭Pocos


    My older son was slow to take a bottle, we just persevered though. In the sample size of two that I have I've found the Nuk bottles with a latex teat good for my breastfed babies. The latex is a little softer than silicone and some babies find that easier. Some babies are really finicky about the temperature of milk in a bottle too.

    Thanks rainbow Kirby, we have those nuk bottles and latex teat (along with 4 other type of bottles!) she just has no interest in them! We were advised to give it a break and revisit again in a few weeks! So I think I’ll try her every 2 weeks up to 6 months and then introduce a sippy cup. She’s currently 3.5 months (15 weeks)

    Like I do feel really bad and I am enjoying the breast feeding.. I just would love to head out for a night out and not have to worry about her feeding! One night out after 4 months isn’t a lot to ask! :(

    I feel even bad giving out about her as she’s s very good little baby! Some nights sleeping up to 8 hours at a time! But if only she’d take a bottle... fingers crossed one day she will! The guilt is unreal too that I even want a break! Motherhood is so tricky!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    Pocos you shouldn’t feel guilty! Your mental health is important too. There’s a Nuk soppy cup suitable from 4 months. I’ll see if I can find a link.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,514 ✭✭✭bee06


    bee06 wrote: »
    Pocos you shouldn’t feel guilty! Your mental health is important too. There’s a Nuk soppy cup suitable from 4 months. I’ll see if I can find a link.

    Actually it’s Nuby. It’s in the Aldi baby event tomorrow.

    https://www.aldi.ie/nuby-360-sippy-cup/p/082418196535900


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 336 ✭✭Pocos


    bee06 wrote: »
    Actually it’s Nuby. It’s in the Aldi baby event tomorrow.

    https://www.aldi.ie/nuby-360-sippy-cup/p/082418196535900

    I know logically I shouldn’t feel guilty! Just can’t help it!

    A sippy cup from 4 months brilliant thanks for letting me know! :)


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