If your DC is very sicky, how do you go out?!!!

[Murtette]

Help!! DS is 14do & does at least one spectacular vomit & usually 2 or 3 a day. Sometimes they happen during a feed, sometimes randomly between feeds. The ones during the feed tend to be worse as, unless I have a muslin positioned in exactly the right place, it gets me, the chair &, sometimes, the floor. Most times this results in me having to change top, trousers, bra & pants I get that soaked as well as wiping up the chair &, sometimes, the floor. This is fine when I'm at home as, once I've sorted DS out, I can go upstairs & change and then deal with our (luckily leather) sofa & (equally luckily laminate) floor.

I ask as we were invited to friends today who have just had their sitting room "done" and have a new fabric sofa & cream carpets. I chickened out & invited them to ours instead & was relieved I had done so when DS did an outstanding vomit & I saw my friend flinch and think "Im glad he didn't do that at my house".

So what do I do? Always travel with an entire change of outfit for me as well as DS and some carpet cleaner? Stay at home for the next year? Hope for the best when out & about?

Hello, am I reading this right that your DS is 14 days old? First of all, congrats on your new DS Second of all, this is very likely to settle down. How is the BF going?

Have a read of this about oversupply, see if it rings any bells or if I'm way off.

Don't worry too much about what will be going on in a month or a year- 14 days is still VERY early days, you are both still learning and it's fine to just lounge around getting to know each other if that's all you feel like doing.

Take spare clothing... Also, maybe let him feed for lesser amounts of time (if he's happy to be distracted in other ways). My baby possetts most when he's car-sick or has taken far too much milk. But he'll always bring up a fair bit ;)

Yes, DS is only 14 days old but he's DC2 so there's his older sister to keep entertained and, unlike after her birth, I'm feeling fine physically & a bit cooped up myself after a long weekend mainly at home.

Yes, I think part of the problem may be over supply & also that I was feeding him for too long so, to the extent possible (i.e. when its possible to distract him with something else) I am feeding him for shorter amounts of time. He's clearly getting enough milk as he'd re-gained his birth weight by his 5 day check & had put on another 10oz by 10 days and now has a double chin which he didn't have when he was born! Each nappy is wet & dirty too. He's got good head control now so I'm trying to have him sat up (obviously with his body supported) when I'm feeding him & keeping him upright post feed but it hasn't made a noticeable difference.

I guess it will be taking spare clothes when visiting friends with wipe clean houses & otherwise having people over to ours!