DD's hands are different temperatures - is this normal??

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She's in bed - very unsettled but no fever or anything. Her left hand is toasty warm and her right is very chilly. She's 14 weeks. Is this normal????? We got back on a long haul flight on Thursday.

no. she's on her back.

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i would say totally normal. babies feet and hands can go purply with yellowish spots at times. their circulation is rubbish at this age.
she may have had one tucked away till not long before you checked on her?

honestly, really dont worry.

Thanks! I'm starting to get all twitchy because she's just been so unsettled for the last week - no poo either (solely BF) but have given her lots of massage, baby yoga and water too. Her sleeping is normally brill but she's become rather clingy and grizzles on and off until we go to bed too. Is this normal for a 3 monther?

i would say this sounds pretty typical of ds1s behaviour at 3 months. ds2 on the other hand is an angel!
mine have appeared to go thru clingy stages which are well documented on the net and in various geru books.
when a child hits 6 months and again at 12m, they begin to realise they can be left alone and so a stage of clingness kicks in.
at around 3 months, babies are only just realising they are actually a seperate being from their mother, especially so for the bf baby, as yours is. bless them!

during this stage, and generally until you feel they are too heavy, i would personally recommend 'wearing' your baby in a sling or as i did in a snug wrap which holds them against you. as with babies who are worn as a normal day to day necessity in places like africa etc, your baby tends to cry less and sleep better and grows into a confident little person. some wraps and slings also allow the child to be bfed inside it without anyone knowing. you can walk round tesco with baby feeding out if sight and just get on with it, hands free! (it does take practice to get positioning right mind, but once you have- bloody excellent!)

at the 3m 'oh my god, i am not attached to mum' bit, the baby is not 'clingy' as such, just a bit disgruntled!

I agree with the baby wearing approach. DD will only go for it if she's held vertical facing outwards though. She also insists on being held in a weightbearing standing position every moment of her waking day..... I need to look up how long she's allowed to stand for at this age!!

ooops, sorry if taught you to suck eggs there then.
i dont think the weight bearing does them any harm, it wont make her bow-legged anyway.

Oh crikey - the more egg sucking teaching coming my way, the better!

have double checked. weight bearing will do her no harm as she will only take what she is comfy with then drop all her weight back to you holding her iyswim?

another possibility for her restlessness is babes typically have a growth spurt at 12 weeks and can start with the early symptoms of teething.
both my boys did at 12 weeks, ds1 just couldnt handle it and cried and was unsettled, ds2 just rams a fist in his mouth and gets on with it!
teething powders are very good for this and nice and natural too. you can get them in boots down the natural medicines aisle and they are about £4 but i found them brilliant.

Again - great minds think alike - I bought some of that parsons powder stuff yesterday! Thanks for checking the weightbearing thingy - that is most reassuring!