The November 2023-ish baby club!

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A new thread, under a new topic!
Welcome all and please tag anyone I’ve not, because I just copied and pasted from the old thread…

@spareincoming @Pinkplantcase @leeanneD11 @LilmissCa @FlyingHighFlyingLow
@Psqueak87
@spanglesj
@BabyBabyBaby123
@Houseonthehills
@GreenAventurine
@reememberly
@Cegbee
@DollyGx
@38andtrying
@JD90
@travellingislife
@mldn
@sb86
@TMI2000

@user666555 yesssss we’ve had this for the last few days. She rolls over to her stomach then cries and won’t roll back, if we turn her back she just does it again.. The best way I’ve found is to put her down super sleepy then she won’t attempt it and she doesn’t do it at night thankfully.

@user666555 exact same here for the past week but I think he is starting to try and roll back over now so hopefully coming to the end of this particular phase!

@Travellingislife & @Nov2023 glad to know I'm not the only one! She can roll back onto her back from the floor but not in the crib for some reason.

Please tell me it ends soon because every nap and night sleep is such a battle at the moment. Even if I put her down sleepy she wakes up and starts doing it

Anyone else got a cot creeper?
Lo keeps creeping up the the cot during the night and waking up howling because he’s cold!
We’ve tried sleeping bags etc and he hates them - he’s been under a sheet and blanket since we stopped swaddling him after his first stay in hospital at 4 weeks old!

I can’t think of a solution so we’re just going to have to ride it out, roll on the warmer months when our house will be a sauna as opposed to now, when it’s rather chilly!

@Spareincoming you can get Tog-ged sleepsuits. I know Sainsbury's have done them. Maybe one for Vinted?

@Alloveragain3 I get bruises and have no idea where they are from, there's no way we can track every mark on these little humans! Lots of hits from toys here. A rattle to the head is the worst!!

I have a 7mo potato. No rolling yet but is tolerating tummy time more.

Can't wait for a good sleep, it'll come one day.

Anyone else's baby spitting a lot? I don't mean reflux/bringing up milk I mean actually spitting 😂🙈

@user666555 yes we dealt with this around 6 weeks ago, I turned her back the first night but after that I left her as it was pointless because she kept turning back onto her belly. The crying and panic died down about a week later and now she usually sleeps on her side or her belly!

@Spareincoming i agree with the sleepsack thing, I bought a woolino one, pricy, but they fit from 2 months to 2 years. They’re so soft. My girl reaches every single corner of her cot through the night, multiple times, a blanket would never work for her.

can any experienced mothers help me with this.

formula in Canada is PRICY. Like $60 a box (800g) so what I do is I order formula to my mums house in wales before all of her visits and she brings it over to me. It’s actually working out $300 cheaper for me to buy 12 boxes of formula from tesco and have it delivered to my mum, buy her a new suitcase so that she can use it to bring it over (I needed a new one anyway), and pay the 60 quid for the extra piece of luggage on the plane! Madness.

anyway, my mums coming over in July and I’m trying to work out how much formula I’ll need between July and baby being one year old. Right now she drinks around 32oz a day, and a box lasts her 6 days. When do their needs of formula start reducing? I can easily work out how much I’ll need if she continues drinking 32oz a day, but I don’t want to order too much, as it’s also illegal to resell formula here. So I’ll be stuck with it!

@Thack@Psqueak87 Great idea thanks! Off to research them now!

@Psqueak87 no advice on volumes sorry, but a reminder that after one they can be transitioned onto cows milk (formula mums, please advise?). If you do end up with too much, are you able to sell it? Might be a few pennies profit in it.
Those prices sound crazy, that must be awful for so many families!

@Psqueak87 its a hard one to call. We’re 6 months and on 4 bottles a day (2x8oz, 2x6oz) I plan on reducing that to 3 bottles over the next month or so.
I suppose if you’re working it out overestimate rather than underestimate so you’re not leaving yourself short.
@Thack yes after 12 months you can start to transition to cows milk. From 6 months you can introduce cows milk into their diet through foods (use with cereal instead of formula, yogurts etc)

After my comment the other day about our lazy lump not rolling over yet…we had our 1st one yesterday and has rolled a few times since 🙈 fun starts now 😂😂

@user666555 yes to spitting! And blowing raspberries. Apparently it's due to teething?

Have you tried a sleep sack or sleeping bag? I think that prevents our one from rolling over. Also putting on edge of crib so no space to roll over on baby's favourite side.

@Thack it’s actually not legal to resell formula in Alberta! So annoying! I did attempt to sell the over supply of stage 1 formula I had, but I got a warning off Facebook marketplace, lol. I guess I could just overestimate and give her the second stage formula past the 12 month mark until it’s finished!

We finally have a tooth! So weird because she’s been sleeping better than ever the past two nights! I felt in her mouth yesterday, nothing, felt today, and there’s a tiny tooth poking through!

The 5am wake ups and the rolling over on to her stomach and then crying is driving me insane 🙃 #teamnosleep

Now we have rolling over in the night too 😣 3 times last night. My husband thankfully deals with them though, I sleep in the spare room as I’m such a light sleeper and I also struggle to go back to sleep once I’ve woken up.

She is still refusing to drink from
a bottle but we’ve been trying a cup now and she drinks quite well from
it. Only 90 ml though (3oz ) but it’s a start.

@Travellingislife oh the rolling.. we had over 10 rolls last night. I thought it had stopped because he can roll back during the day but not at night again it seems.

What cup are you using? my boy stopped taking a bottle of pumped milk and won't take a bottle at all. I would like him to take formula due to food intolerances that just keep coming but haven't found a cup he will take more than an oz or so from!

@Nov2023 I’ve been using a “doidy cup”, you can get them on Amazon. Next I’m going to try a Munchkin miracle sippy cup to see if she will drink more.

Same for us with the rolling, during the day she rolls both ways but in the night she just wakes up and won’t roll back.

Nuby 360 cup here, Lo will drink a little but not a lot - we use it at meal times.

He’s also sleeping more or less
all night on his front now but leaking through his nappy. Off to big Tesco’s tomorrow to find alternatives to the Pampers Harmonies we’ve always used!

Thanks for the cup tips! I have tried a few and have had the most success with the tommee tippee weaning cup but nit 3oz worth of success! I'd say 3oz leaves the cup but 2oz ends up all over the place!

@Spareincoming i take it he’s leaking at the front? Have you tried putting the nappy on back to front? I’ve not but have seen others suggesting it for babies that sleep on their front and leak

@DollyGx Alas, we had the same result with putting the nappy on backwards; I’m sure we’ve had this issue with the Pampers harmonie nappies leaking overnight previously - when they were “pampers pure” - I think we needed the “Babydry” for overnights.

That said, if pampers are still trawling the site like they used to in the olden days… I don’t think the Harmonie nappies are the same quality. as the Pure nappies used to be, the new version’s outer feels thinner and more leaky, the capacity seems poorer and they definitely smell wee-y a lot quicker than the old version. Before these ones, I’d never had to change a nappy after 2 hours because of the smell!

Not impressed!

Not impressed but we have 2 massive boxes to use up… and they’re too expensive to bin!

Posted on sleep but maybe someone else here going through similar. My LO has suddenly decided he must claw my face to get to sleep. My nostrils, inside my mouth, eyelids, all scratched up and bleeding. It's painful, every person that sees me asks WTF happened to my face, DH is terrified people think its him. Can't go on.

So last night I said absolutely no scratching my face. I was rocking, shushing, cuddling but he's not touching my face. He screamed 3 hours straight, slept 2 hours, woke up, screamed another 3 hours before another hour and a half of sleep. I'm breastfeeding and he's got free access to that, but he comes off and cries when I won't let him latch onto and twist my face at same time. He has a dummy which he's had throughout if he wanted. I've offered him comforter, my hand, arm, clothes. He grabs at my face, I intercept gently with my hands and hold his hand as an alternative and he just cries, throws my hands away and reaches desperately for my face again. Nothing will do but the face, he just keeps screaming. Any help or advice please!

@FlyingHighFlyingLow

Oh my gosh, my DD does this but with my chest and upper arms. I have lots of scratches and it is so painful. She does also sometimes yank my lips.

Thankfully she only does it for a minute or 2 but it's not pleasant. I can wear my dressing gown for her to pull at instead, but I appreciate this wouldn't work for you.

Just to say, you're not alone!

I've heard breastfeeding necklaces can be good but haven't tried one.

@BingAndTing I even in a moment of desperation put a favourite blanket of his over my head for him to play with 😅 he just hanked at it to pull it off making desperate noises.

@FlyingHighFlyingLow that is rough! Have you had any tips from the other board?
I'd keep on saying'no' and moving his hands away. It's what I'd do with nipple biting, the babies do have some understanding now. It takes about three days to make/break a habit, if you've got it in you then try the battles (for hopefully a short war!)

My baby has been swapped with another this week. Suddenly making it known what they want and being vocal when they aren't happy. I love the communication element, they look at something at wriggle like crazy to say they want it.
Still a potato here, but had some good leaning today as if they wanted to roll.

Hello ☺️...

How's everyone coping at the moment? DD is still rolling onto her stomach and getting frustrated but it's not as often. She's also having longer naps and needing less soothing on my part to put her down - though I'm aware this can all change at any point if another regression starts.

How's everyone else?