September babies!

[Bekki]

Hes soooooo gorgeous and hes all mine! I'm on such a high right now, don't know how long it'll last though.

I didn't have to be induced, I didn't even have to wait till my due date a healthy baby and no stitches! I'm ecstatic! The relief of it all being over is wonderful. Now I'm going to concentrate on remembering every last detail of his face before this stage passes away too.

Come on Cha and Ailsa!

How is everyone doing??

Harvey has his first cold bless him lots of snot and snuffles!

Im pleased to say the sleeping continues to be good - for the last two nights hes gone down at 8 fed at 3 and woke between 7 and 8. Im hoping its not drowsiness due to cold and is a real pattern emerging!!

pph - just read about your little ones poorly ears hope he gets better really quick

didnt dare post a reply on the non sleeping baby thread as i dont want to jinx myself!!!!

hi beccarollo, love the new italianate name!
miles' ear infection started off as a very snotty snuffly few days - which then blocked up his little tubes in his ears. so I was told next time to keep his room a bit on the cool side, and not too dry (eg put a wet towel on the radiator to add some humidity). also to get some saline nasal spray from the chemists, and spritz him regularly - helps to wash out the snot and they don't seem to mind it at all. that might have stopped the ghunk from blocking him up. you mikght want to think about some o fhtat for harvey if he is very snotty?

otherwise he is a dream - apart from the night from hell when he was up with his sore ear he has only been waking once in the night (between 6.30pm and 7am) for a couple of weeks now. it was usually at about 1.30, but last night was at 10.00 which meant the whole of the rest of the night was miles - free! so I cant complain. my other two were the same - they all seemed to understand the difference between day and night from about 3 weeks, don't know how. I feed them downstairs in the day and upstairs in their room in the semi darkeness at night, and never talk to them at all at night either and they just seem to understand that it is different....

ooh i might get some of those drops for harvey, he has had his cold for about a week now and it doesnt seem to have bothered him UNTIL today where he has been much whingier, green poo, a few all out cries and just before he felt really warm

its great when they sleep well isnt it!! my dd was the same so i was nervous incase i got a non sleeping baby this time but touch wood he seems as good as megan

arent they just lush!

oh dear, miles got a fever just before the night from hell, so keep an eye on him!!
they are completely yummy aren't they?>!

eek fingers firmly crossed for tonight then

do you think its worth taking him to the docs tomorrow or as its still "only" a cold to leave it to hopefully clear up?

wouldn't take him to the docs unless he seems in pain or something, or if he gets wheezy and you think it might have moved to his chest. if it is just a cold and fever with nothing else, all they will do is tell you that you can give him calpol to bring the fever down. and may suggest the saline nasal spray!!
also i hate taking babies to sit in doctors' waiting rooms - full of other lurgies!

your right

can i give him calpol if he gets very hot? or do you have to wait til 8 weeks?

Hope everyones snuffly babies aren't keeping you all up at night. Alex's never ending cold is no better. Does anyone know if breastfed babies can catch chicken pox? Ds1 has woken up covered in them and I'm quite worried about the prospect of a 7 week old going down with it.

B/F baby can catch chickenpox but it is less likely because the baby gets protective antibodies from mum through breastmilk. However, mum needs to have had chickenpox already. Presume you have Bekki?

yes, you can give 2.5ml calpol to bring a high fever down my doc said.
bekki, little ones can catch chicken pox - my friends 5 week old got it from her brother and to add insult to injury the mother got it too! she hadn't had it before, unbeknownst to her. they were very miserable for a while! but I think it is quite unusual and they tend to have it quite mildly at that age I think

ahh, mears, that must be why the babe got it.
I have a very embarassing question to ask you which I can't bear to go to my doc about - are you online for a few more minutes?

Yes I am, fire away

started a new thread under health and "extremely embarassing".
help!

pph - ouch massive sympathies on your embarassing problem

can you give me the rundown on your ds's routine at bed - when do you feed him last before his long stretch?

bekki - sorry to hear bout chicken pox i HOPE babe doesnt catch it

Bekki

Yes bf babies can catch chickenpox but if you have had it it is likely to be very mild. However she may catch it again later on as her immunity to it may not be permanent if she catches it so young.

hi beccarollo! don't think th4ere is any magic to the bedtime routine. about 5.00 he has his bath and from then on he is upstairs with no more excitement. bath, little massage, into pyjamas, lights off (just dim bedside light), bottle with no chat or talking (at aout 5.30 to about 5.50), then burped, and in bed fully swaddled at 6.00. Then before his earinfection he was going until about 1.30, nappy changed, fed and down again in dim light with no talking in about 30 mins, and sleeping until about 6.30. Since the ear infection he has had one night where he fed at 10.30 and slept until 700 and one where he fed at 3.00 and slept again until 8.00.

No magic there. except I do strongly believe that fully and firmly swaddling them is worth an extra hour or two of sleep. He is out of his swaddle for his daytime naps but I'll keep him in it at night for another week or two until his sleeping is really properly established.

that probably doesn't help at all, but it sounds like harvey is just about as good!

yeah he is very good and I too believe very much in the swaddle - do you have any particular technique as now he is bigger he is getting out sometimes and wakes himself up

do you use a dummy - i used one in the early days to help space feeds and satisfy sucking reflex as he was using me as human dummy but i would like to start and get rid of it now i think as he is starting to rely on it for sleep

haven't used a dummy with this one as he doesn't seem to be very sucky and was never very screechy either. and I don't space feeds during the day - the more milk goes down him in the day the less at night I reckon! He feeds about every 2.5 - 3 hours in the day (gets about 5 feeds in between 7ish and 6).
Swaddling - um, don't know about technique particularly. I have swaddling cloths made out of a sort of thick brushed cotton that don't have any stretch in them which helps I think. When I've used a cellular blanket or something I've found he gets out more quickly. And I swaddle with his arms straight down his sides rather than across his chest - again, more difficult for them to get out of...

I still demand feed but use dummy for sucky moments as when he goes on the boob at these times he sucks for a few minutes spits up what hes taken then goes to sleep!! Im a firm, firm believer in getting as many calories in them in daylight hours to reduce the need for them at night time, Ill never understand people who will try and push a crying baby to four hours for the sake of schedule when they are obviously hungry and will sleep better if given the feed - IYSWIM

Everythings great at the mo, Im just being neurotic worrying about when the time comes to take the dummy away will he be a mare to get off to sleep and when he is UNswaddled will he ever settle!!

Im PIS*ED off with DP at the mo too, probably why Im waffling!!

oh dear what has dp done?

why don't you experiment with taking the dummy away for daytime naps first? then if he doesn't settle it isn't so much of a drama.

my ds1 had a dummy and we took it away at about 2 months and congratulated ourselves on being so clever. we discovered at about 3 months that he had substituted a teddy bear's ear (approximately dummy shaped!) instead, and now at the age of three he still has to go to sleep chewing that bear. it is very sad looking and very stinky despite being washed every two days but the ear is still going strong!

I knew I couldn't avoid chicken pox for much longer. Oh well it could be worse. Thanks everyone.

Good luck with the dummy Beccarollo best to do it now before they can really object to it. My baby is not really attached to his dummy... I am, I can't stand him hanging off my boob when hes not feeding it itches like crazy.

Am I spoiling him?... baby is always with me, in my arms during the day and in my bed at night, he comfort feeds and I don't really like anyone else caring for him probably because he refuses the bottle, but I don't mind I like the contact but everyone tells me that he will be spoilt and he won't be able to cope without me as he gets older. Has anyone got any proof of this? I thought that it would make him more confident and a more calmer child.

hehe isnt it funny how a few hours sleep can help - I was getting myself all stressed last night about dummy etc and feel fine now - yes PPH Ill start limiting its use before it gets too bad - DD never got attached to hers but now she has a NOO NOO blanket that at 4yrs she is still very attached to.

Had quite a good night last night - cold considering

He went down at 7.30 - sniffled himself awake at midnight, went back down til 4 then up at 8.

Bekki - I wonder the same things, Harvey has barely left my side in almost 7 weeks - although I dont need to carry him all the time in the day and he spends most of the night in his moses - Im sure they are still too young to get too spoilt dont they say its after 3 months that they can form the bad attachments? Not sure
Keep doing it if it makes you both happy which I bet it does! Theres nothing better than snuggling with a gorgeous baby - I get butterflies when I kiss and cuddle Harvey - its those velvet heads! lol

Forgot to add DP is being generally crap - not sure if Im expecting too much but he just does naff all apart from go to work! Quite often too he doesnt come straight in and goes out for a while after work so I feel im just totally doing everything by myself and then he has the cheek to come home and say how exhausted HE is!

Hello girls, yes dh's have their moments don't they. Mine is working flat out at the mo and when he gets home (which can be anytime night/day) he decides to goo over dd usually waking her when I've spent two hours trying to settle her
All our little bubs seem to have colds don't they, so much for those b/feeding anti-bodies.
I've had a touch of mastitis in the last few days unfortunatly, I say a touch as I feel a lot better today than I did yesterday. Yesterday I felt as though I'd been run over.
The best thing that's happened lately has been my mil going home. She was here for a week and sat like the Queen of f*ing Sheba on my couch wanting to be entertained aaaarrrggghh.