Aggghhhhh, if one more person says this to me, especially when I am tired and looking after a newborn and 3 older DC singlehandedly as my DH is not living here at the moment...
DD is 22 days old and BF on demand. She is quite windy/colicky and just likes to be held anyway. At first she wouldn't sleep in her carry cot at all, only on me or DH, but she is now sleeping 3-5 hour stretches through the night in it and will have a morning feed between 5 and 7 am and then go back to sleep in her carrycot until 9 or 10, which I actually think is great going.
Afternoons are more tricky and she usually needs to be held and then she sometimes cluster feeds all evening or at least likes to be held most of the evening. She won't sleep in her pram all the time, so walks can be tricky as sometimes she'll scream and we have to come home again. I am thinking of a sling so at these times I can pop her in her sling instead of having to come home.
People keep saying she'll be 'spoilt and then today when DH rang and I was exasperated after having to return from a walk to feed DD again, even he said 'maybe we've overdone the cuddles a bit'. She needed feeding FFS. What do people expect me to do?! Leave a 3 week old baby to scream until she's inconsolable?! A friend of a friend who was walking with us even suggested I take a bottle of expressed milk with me to give her if she needed it during a walk. Why? Am I supposed to shove a bottle in her mouth whilst also pushing her in the pram?! I calmly explained that I was trying to avoid bottles as DD was only 3 weeks old.
Yes, DD is more demanding than her brothers were, but she's only going to be tiny for such a short time and all babies are different surely. Plus, at least I can get some sleep at night. Surely it's impossible to actually 'spoil' a baby?
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midori1999 · 12/07/2011 19:54
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