January 2018 Babies Club

Pocos

saggycaggy wrote: »

I'm thinking the same-the show is in town (Dublin City Centre) at 8.30pm and over around 10.30pm so really I shouldn't be away for more than 3 hours but it's the getting to sleep at night that's the biggest problem. He might have to come into town to collect me instead of getting the bus :-)

My wee man will put the bottle in his mouth and play around with it but won't drink/suck, I'm happy to keep exclusively bfeeding but it'd be nice to know I can get away for a few hours without worrying about the little one.

Saggycaggy you are preaching to the choir! Like I really am enjoying the breast feeding and totally happy to do it till 6 months.. but it would be nice to be able to walk out the door and not be under time pressure or worrying will baby need to be fed when you are gone! And then the guilt for feeling this way. It’s horrible! Our little one is 18 weeks tomorrow and I have heard that’s the week when lots of babies will start on the bottle better! But I dunno! How old is your little fella? Also have you tried formula? Sometimes they don’t like the taste of breast milk from the bottle so you are bette off with formula! Also you don’t have the hassle of having to express!

Yes you should be ok that length of time depending on how old your fella is! I’d leave a bottle just in case though! The chewing on it may just distract him if nothing else! What type bottles you using? We use Avent and nuk, she doesn’t seem to have a preference for either! Also I feed my little one to sleep too! Such a bad habit seeing as I will always have to be there for bedtime!

saggycaggy

Pocos wrote: »

Saggycaggy you are preaching to the choir! Like I really am enjoying the breast feeding and totally happy to do it till 6 months.. but it would be nice to be able to walk out the door and not be under time pressure or worrying will baby need to be fed when you are gone! And then the guilt for feeling this way. It’s horrible! Our little one is 18 weeks tomorrow and I have heard that’s the week when lots of babies will start on the bottle better! But I dunno! How old is your little fella? Also have you tried formula? Sometimes they don’t like the taste of breast milk from the bottle so you are bette off with formula! Also you don’t have the hassle of having to express!

Yes you should be ok that length of time depending on how old your fella is! I’d leave a bottle just in case though! The chewing on it may just distract him if nothing else! What type bottles you using? We use Avent and nuk, she doesn’t seem to have a preference for either! Also I feed my little one to sleep too! Such a bad habit seeing as I will always have to be there for bedtime!

Thanks Pocos....kinda nice to know someone else is going through the same thing- even though I wish we weren't!
We actually for the first time this evening tried a bit of aptimal (thinking the same as yourself) but no luck there either!he screamed the place down and then I got upset and stuck him on the boob to comfort him. We're using Tommy Tipee bottles. Would you believe we have a 10yr old and a 5yr old (2girls) and had the same problem with them, you'd think I'd know by now what to do. They both eventually took the bottle but I remember it being a battle!!
Charlie is 14 weeks tomorrow, he was the end of January. I never heard that about the 18 weeks, I must look it up thanks! Yeah I'll leave expresses milk and some aptimal for tomorrow evening, he might take it a little bit easier if I'm not around at all!

rainbow kirby

My kids don't do heat at all. Both of them absolutely melting today, it was 28c and A was feeding like a newborn.

Health visitor has me worried about him, had him weighed last week and he was only 5.28kg (11lb 10oz) at 3 months exactly, which is 2nd-9th percentile when his length is on the 50th. Trying to feed him up as best I can, expressing when I can despite it being difficult with a 2 year old around and hoping for the best...

bee06

rainbow kirby wrote: »

My kids don't do heat at all. Both of them absolutely melting today, it was 28c and A was feeding like a newborn.

Health visitor has me worried about him, had him weighed last week and he was only 5.28kg (11lb 10oz) at 3 months exactly, which is 2nd-9th percentile when his length is on the 50th. Trying to feed him up as best I can, expressing when I can despite it being difficult with a 2 year old around and hoping for the best...

RC, what does your gut tell you? Do you feel like there’s something to worry about if you hadn’t seen the numbers on the page? Is he happy in himself and having plenty of wet nappies? I’d be inclined to think he’s just a slight baby if he’s happy and well hydrated. Obviously it’s something to keep an eye on but the HV saw him for maybe 30 mins whereas you are with him all the time and know how he’s developing.

rainbow kirby

His older brother is also a stringbean. C was 50th-75th for weight and 98th for length most of the time to around 18 months, he's just over 2 now and is still a slim but tall child.

bee06

My little fella sounds like C. He’s 50% for weight but has gone from the 75th to between 91st and 98th percentile for height in the last month. His toes are bursting out of his 3-6 month babygros but he’s doesn’t fill them width wise at all.

Both myself and my husband are tall and skinny so he’s following suit. I was the only baby I ever saw who never had any baby fat! No amount of topping up will fight your genetic coding.

heldel00

Saggycaggy i personally know nothing about breastfeeding but i do know that my friend had the same issue with her fella and was advised not to feed him the bottle herself because he would still be able to smell the breast milk off of her. When he got used to the bottle she could feed him formula bottle then no prob.

Rainbow I just looked at my girl's record there and she was 12lb at three and half weeks. Has been on formula from day one and is measuring long too so i wouldn't worry too much. Every PHN is different and some will use common sense and some will stick rigidly to the documents. You know your own.

rainbow kirby

bee06 wrote: »

My little fella sounds like C. He’s 50% for weight but has gone from the 75th to between 91st and 98th percentile for height in the last month. His toes are bursting out of his 3-6 month babygros but he’s doesn’t fill them width wise at all.

Both myself and my husband are tall and skinny so he’s following suit. I was the only baby I ever saw who never had any baby fat! No amount of topping up will fight your genetic coding.

I'm average height and generally tend towards being slightly overweight. My husband is over 6' and skinny though and I think both boys take after him. C is wearing a 3-4 Adidas t-shirt and Sainsburys 18-24m shorts at the moment... He's 25 months.

Toots

Pocos wrote: »

Hello ladies,

Just looking for some advice! My husband, little one and I are off to costa del sol for ten nights end of May! Baby will be 20 weeks and I won’t have started solids, she is EBF. So from a feeding perspective there isn’t anything I need to bring..

Does anyone have any advice on bringing small babies abroad? I’m not sure are we mad but I can’t wait to get 10 days of sunshine and for my husband to be off and helping me mind baby for ten full days! That’s the best part

Thanks in advance all advice greatly appreciated

Advice my GP gave me, which I still follow to this day, is give the child a dose of calpol as soon as you get on the plane - that way it should help with potential ear pain on takeoff and landing. If her ears are playing up you might find that you'll have to feed for a lot of the flight because the swallowing will help, or alternatively bring a soother for the flight and switch between boobs and that

Pocos

Toots wrote: »

Advice my GP gave me, which I still follow to this day, is give the child a dose of calpol as soon as you get on the plane - that way it should help with potential ear pain on takeoff and landing. If her ears are playing up you might find that you'll have to feed for a lot of the flight because the swallowing will help, or alternatively bring a soother for the flight and switch between boobs and that

Good advice I would not have thought of it! Thanks Toots

heldel00

We've started spoon feeding this week. Really just to get her used to spoon and swallowing but nappies have changed slightly so something must be going in.

My toddler refused to put a nappy on on Monday so we've have toilet training to contend with too. Its all go here!

mojesius

heldel00 wrote: »

We've started spoon feeding this week. Really just to get her used to spoon and swallowing but nappies have changed slightly so something must be going in.

My toddler refused to put a nappy on on Monday so we've have toilet training to contend with too. Its all go here!

Fair play to you. Going to start spoon feeding next week too...big week this week, injections tomorrow, first swimming class Thursday plus I think she's having another growth spurt... she's been feeding like mad all day and dopey

Looking forward to introducing different foods to her though

rainbow kirby

So how are we all getting on? A is nearly 5 months, still absolutely dinky (6.2kg) but a very happy baby. He's had his full primary set of jabs (2/3/4 months in the UK) so thankfully nothing more now until he's a year old. He's doing his best to army crawl during tummy time and it's incredibly cute

saggycaggy

Hey Ladies-been meaning to check in her for ages! Grabbing 5 mins while the little one is happy out in the bouncer..........doesn't last too long before he's back in my arms and glued to me for the day!
He'll be 5 months on Friday, ahhhhh it's flying! I want to pause time but also I'm loving seeing him develop and do new thinks and interact etc. We're still exclusively breast feeding and he'll take the odd bottle of expressed milk but I'm hoping to wean him off in the next month or so. Is anyone back to work soon?? I'm back in November and already dreading it, I'm getting upset about it already
We've yet to start the feeding also but I'd say in about a couple of weeks we'll get going. Very little sleep these days between the heat and teething!
Hope all the babies are doing well!!

Toots

Just about to turn 5 months here and she said her first word on Sunday - mama - I'm chuffed!

Finding the heatwave tough, she's feeding constantly and my husband is away for the week so bedtime are hard.

Pocos

First words!! Wow I didn’t think they could speak so early! Honestly wouldn’t have a clue when they could!!

Back to work end of August and dreading it already! But I don’t want to ruin the last few weeks with dreading work! Like the longest Sunday be nice and probably good for us all to get into a routine!!!

rainbow kirby

How are we all coping with the heat? 29 and humid in London today, fan pointed at A's playmat. My two are melting! Moving north soon, a 3 bed in Manchester awaits and it's going to be lovely having more space.

I've decided to stop breastfeeding. Mental health reasons mostly but I'm fine with the decision, biological norm or not I'm just done after nearly 2 years in total boobing. A is doing fine so far even if he is quite a hungry boy, 6 180ml bottles every day.

Pocos

What age is your little fella rainbow kitten? You should be 100% happy with your decision! A happy mum is a happy baby and if the breast feeding ain’t working then go to bottle! Absolutely nothing wrong with that and no one should even try and make you feel guilty about it! Esp yourself be kind!

Up north and more room ye won’t know yourself!

Heat sure it’s great for adults but tough going on the little ones!!

rainbow kirby

Just over 5 months. I breastfed my older son 16 months, stopped because I was pregnant again. I'm just so touched out and drained it's not even funny and the perinatal psych was holding out on increasing my meds because A was and is quite dinky.

It's in the high 20s in the room I share with both my kids at midnight. 2 year old is in just his nappy and I can see beads of sweat on his head.

Pocos

rainbow kirby wrote: »

Just over 5 months. I breastfed my older son 16 months, stopped because I was pregnant again. I'm just so touched out and drained it's not even funny and the perinatal psych was holding out on increasing my meds because A was and is quite dinky.

It's in the high 20s in the room I share with both my kids at midnight. 2 year old is in just his nappy and I can see beads of sweat on his head.

Look you’ve done fantastic to have done it this long! So be proud of that!!

As for the heat that is tough going! I’m such a worrier and this heat has me feeling so bad for my LO I’m so terrified of over heating! But sure how do babies in India and the likes survive??!! I have to keep reminding myself of that!

heldel00

Any of ye that have gotten this far with breast feeding have done so so well. Seriously admire you all.
Between the heat, a toddler who is really testing my patience and i mean REALLY and teething I'm about to pull my hair out. Today has been a very difficult day. She woke crying at 5:30 and hasn't really let up since. I've given calpol twice and that seemed to give a bit of relief.
With the first lad it wasn't until i heard the spiin hitting a tooth that i even knew he had one. This doll is a very different story.

How are all your little ones getting on? Any rolling or sitting up? She roars the house down if i put her lying on the mat so we not near rolling yet

Pocos

heldel00 wrote: »

Any of ye that have gotten this far with breast feeding have done so so well. Seriously admire you all.
Between the heat, a toddler who is really testing my patience and i mean REALLY and teething I'm about to pull my hair out. Today has been a very difficult day. She woke crying at 5:30 and hasn't really let up since. I've given calpol twice and that seemed to give a bit of relief.
With the first lad it wasn't until i heard the spiin hitting a tooth that i even knew he had one. This doll is a very different story.

How are all your little ones getting on? Any rolling or sitting up? She roars the house down if i put her lying on the mat so we not near rolling yet

Sorry to hear your little one is acting up! This heat has been amazing but it’s tough with babies! They really can’t handle it! I’m still feeding herself and we are both roasting in every feed! Anyone else finding this?

Herself loved tummy time from day one so she’s been on the floor a while! She’s rolling away like mad and I’d say she’s not far off crawling! She can get the stomach off the floor this week! So that helps! She was born jan 2nd though so she’s an old January baby

She’s been off form all day today! Wanting to be up not napping well at all! Pretty much driving me nuts! But in fairness we don’t have too much days like that!

Any routine?? We have very little in our house! Once I’m back to work I think it will fall into place then!

Toots

My little one will roll on to her side, and if you put her down for tummy time she'll pretty much roll straight back over again. The heat was tough last week cos she was just constantly on the boob and then I ended up overproducing and the breast pump broke so I was going around with rock hard boobs and leaking all over the place - it was like she was a week old all over again :pac:

We had her christening last Sunday, which was lovely. She screamed the place down for the entire thing. The photos of my little boy at his christening show a cherubic little boy smiling up at the priest as he poured the water on his head. My daughter looks like we're about to waterboard her!

We started introducing a bit of solids this week - she's got these rice wafer yokes that she can feed herself, then I gave her a bit of pureed apple today. She loves the water and did eat the Apple but I wonder was it a bit tart. I used to add a pear to my son's but the ones I had were rock hard.

rainbow kirby

A is rolling, both back to front and front to back, and doing his level best to army crawl. He's actually February 1 (22.5 weeks) but induction started in January...

We just started solids a couple of days ago with a tiny bit of carrot puree, but he just spat it all out and smeared it across the front of the nappy. Dirty protest!

He's finally outgrown the Moses basket - he's waking himself up by hitting his arms off the sides.

heldel00

Oh i had to get rid of the moses basket weeks ago. It was creaking and cracking and waking us both so she in cot for past two months.
Blame myself a bit with the lack of rolling. With the first baby i lay on the floor a lot with him to play but my shoulder is still paralysed so if i got down there is no way I'd be able to get back up.
Serious mammy guilt

rainbow kirby

We have moved - from our 2 bed in London to a big 3 bed house in Manchester! Doing it all ourselves with a 2 year old and baby probably wasn't our smartest move.

Toots

Ooh! Congrats! I bet ye don't know yourselves with all the space.

Pocos

Congratulations rainbow Kirby that’s great news!!!!

rainbow kirby

2 year old is mad about having the back garden to run around in and his own room.

Manchester is so much cheaper than London it's unreal. Paying less rent despite big house in nice/slightly hipstery area and will be paying much less per child in childcare.

Eviledna

I've been lurking in the background of this thread for a while and wanted to drop in and say hi, and thanks! I've found this (and the Dec'17) thread great to 'parent along with' :-) I'm a first timer, and my lil fella was born in early Jan. We started solids 2 weeks ago and so far so good! He was ebf to date and though he's taking bottles of ebm no bother all along, I'm having trouble introducing him to formula. I have tried a few different brands, first milk and follow on milk, mixing it with bm, all with no success; he just gags and spits it out. I had hoped that with the new tastes of solids he would be more receptive, but no joy. Anyone else have this issue?

I don't intend to give up bf totally, but would love the convenience of being able to combination feed at this point.