How are those January 2004 babies?

[Hayls]

Hi
Was just wondering how everybody was getting on. There were quite a few on the 'anyone due Jan 2004' thread but it looks like we're all still trying to catch up!
My dd was born on 29th and is absolutely gorgeous but any advice from people in a similar position would be much appreciated! How long and often do your babies feed? How well do they sleep at night? How tired on a scale of 1 to 10 are you? The list of questions goes on and on but these will do for now!

hi my baby was born on the 7th. he is wonderful but a total nightmare to feed. he has very bad wind which can take hours to get up. all remedies have been tried with little success. he sleeps at night from 10 till 7 with usually one feed at 3ish. but due to wind i can be up for hours last night for example i was up for 2.5 hours during the night. my tiredness level varies from 1 to 5 no where near as bad as a few weeks ago when it was a constant 10. what about yourself - you asked the questions but did not answer them! however life not all bad, when not feeding or sleeping he is wonderful, very alert and bright learning more every day.

Hi Hayls (and benjaminsmum too),

my dd was born on Feb 5th, so although not a January 2004 baby, is just a little older than your dd so I hope you don'y mind me joining in this thread
In answer to your questions, feeding varies between every 2 1/2 to 4 hours, usually for about 10 to 15 mins. At night she'll go from about 9:30 pm to 3 am, then feed, then back to sleep till about 6:30 / 7:00, although last night she woke up more often as she was v snuffly. I don't feel too tired (maybe 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 - with 10 being most tired)
How are you and your dd doing?

I logged on today to start this very thread!!!
Can I join you?
DD was born on 3rd Feb so she is close to a January baby (was due on the 30th Jan!)
To answer your questions Hayls ..
I seem to have acquired a dream baby this time round ... she feeds very regularly during the day ... 7 - 8 am, 10 - 11am ... 2 - 3 pm , 5ish ... then again after her bath at 6ish and feeds on and off till I put her to bed at 7ish.
We wake her for a feed at 10.30pm ... goes back down by 11.30 and sleeps till 7am with a small feed at 4ish ...
She falls asleep exactly an hour and a half after waking up ...
All this is a novelty to me as I had 'Nightmare Baby From Hell' 4 years ago in DS!!!
She seems very contented and happy ... is fully breastfed and when she was weighed on Tuesday she was 13lbs 1oz (10lbs 10oz at birth) ...
I am still tired though ... more from keeping up with DS and his busy schedule (Kindy drop offs, swimming lessons, football club etc) and feel bad that DD spends much of her time snoozing in the car seat being dragged here, there and everywhere ... I yearn for time and space to enjoy DD on my own but find that difficult to find!

Didn't meant to finish yet ...
Just wanted to say ... glad that there is this thread ... it would be nice to keep up with other babies of the same age as I do not know any 'real' ones as I don't have time to join a coffee group ...

Ghosty - you lucky thing! I am dreaming of the night ds only wakes once. We start getting somewhere and then he comes down with a cold courtesy of dd, and he wakes up much more often. I can't really complain though: I almost always get at least one 4 hour stint of sleep and have high hopes for this week now he's getting over his cold.

But he's getting on fine, and dd gets on with him pretty well. She seems to be more jealous of me for being the one holding him all the time than she is of him.

Tiredness on a scale of 1 - 10: 9
Regrets: none. Sometimes I think I should have waited until dd was at least 2 (she's 22 months), or out of nappies, but this way she's still small enough to cuddle at the same time as him

Hi all and how silly not to answer all my own questions! DD is feeding roughly every 2 hours during the day (sometimes more if in the car or pram)and does Ok at night- we are in bed from about 9pm to 9am and during that time she'll feed 2 or 3 times but can also wake for cuddles. She's had a cold for the past week and has spent more time snuffling in bed with me than in her moses basket. She's quickly outgrowing it so I'm going to try moving her to her cot at the weekend. I'm not that tired but sometimes it catches up with me and I can be an absolute horror for dh.
Ghosty, how do you do it??!!
Benjaminsmum, I can relate to you- dd had colic for a couple of weeks and screamed for hours most nights. We took her to a cranial osteopath and it was a miracle- she hasn't had it since the 1st session. Don't know if this would be of any use to you tho.
Would be nice for all of us to stay in touch- I'm 400 miles away from all my family and most of my friends and can't quite get it together enough to make it to any mother and baby groups yet so its a bit quiet sometimes!

Hello everyone my dd was born on the 12th jan, so she is 10 weeks old now. I really can't believe how quickly the time has gone.
I have 3 other children 5, 3 and 18 months so things are quite busy! On the whole I have been pretty lucky my dd feeds every 4 hours for around 15 minutes and she is sleeping from 11pm to around 7am. I am still really tired and finding it hard keeping up to date with all the washing and housework.
Have any babies had their first injections yet my dd is due to have them tomorrow and Im really not looking forward to it, anyway bye for now

Hayls ... I think much of it must be luck ... as Forest Gump would say ... you never know what you are going to get ...
I feel blessed and so relieved that I am having a better time this time than with DS ... by 7 weeks with him I was well on the way to PND and was on anti depressants by the time he was 8 weeks ...
So ... maybe it is my 'turn' to have an easy one ... Mind you, as DH says it might come back and bite us on the bum one day ... DD might end up with all sorts of piercings by the time she is 16 with a tattooed boyfriend call Gnasher ...
I am miles away from family too so it is nice to chat .... where do you live?

Hi fairygirl ... wow ... 4 between 5 and O ... how do you do it?

Ghosty - you're right. Dd was sleeping like your dd at this age.

Fairygirl - 2 are hard enough for me!

Wow, I don't know how you cope fairy girl! I suppose you just have to! I'm exhausted enough with only one. It seems that everybody on here seems to be doing really well, which is brilliant.
Ghosty I live in the South West and am originally from Scotland so it's quite a journey! I went with dd last week on the train while dh was working and it was excellent seeing everyone. Where are you?

Ghosty - I just have to make sure I'm really organized, I'm always up at 5 so I can shower and have a cup of coffee before the children are up.I do all my food shopping online and I have a fantastic husband who helps me alot. The time it gets really hard is when they are all ill, like this week my 3 eldest have all had tummy bugs and its been really difficult looking after them all and the baby, I'm just praying that the baby and I don't come down with it.

Mumsnet medal winging its way to you fairygirl ...
Senorapostrophe ... do you think it is a girl thing? I am finding that most of my friends with one of each say the girl baby was easier than the boy baby ... what do you think?
Hayls ... I am in New Zealand ... so 12000 miles from my lovely parents and far too close to my awful in laws ... they are so awful they show no interest at all in their grandchildren so I guess that is better than having them on my back all the time!
Where in the South West are you? I went to Uni at Exeter ... best 4 years of my life

Don't know if it's a girl thing, Ghosty. I definitely think ds was an 'easier' baby than dd. Not that she's bad but she does have her moments or rather her 2 1/2 hours in the evening when she howls the house down. I am assuming it's colic as nothing will calm her down and hope it will improve as she gets older.
Hayls, what part of Scotland are you from? I live near Falkrik but was in Edinburgh before that. Well done for travelling up by train. How did you find the journey? So far, I've only managed to travel 25 miles with dd and thought I was doing well.

That should say Falkirk not Falkrik Am going to bed now, after saying yesterday that dd slept well at night she decided to wake up every two hours so I'm considerably more than 3 on a scale of 1 to 10 right now.

I lived in Glasgow for 4 years then moved down to Gloucester with my dh (then fiance) when we left uni. So not too far from Falkirk Tabitha! We go up quite often and are going over Easter for dd's 'non-religious baby celebration party' (I've been practising that!) I found the train fine, dd slept most of the way because of the motion and when she did wake up was happy enough. I'm not really looking forward to driving up with her though- anybody got any tips? I expect I'll have to add on a couple of hours to the journey to account for all the feeds!!
Tabitha, what kind of birth did you have? Don't mean to be nosy but I had a very long ventouse delivery and dd had awful colic for a while. I mentioned it earlier in the thread about taking her to a cranial osteopath- this man really did work wonders, what he called 'processing the effects of the ventouse'. Since the 1st session she has hardly cried at all and abolutely no colic- I'm recommending it to everyone! She now entertains herself for ages, just lying on er mat watching what's going on. I don't hink it works for everybody and if they can't find anything 'wrong' then they don't treat them just to make some money but he could tell that she was just a bit stiff and uncomfortable. I was so desperate I'd have tried anything!
Sorry bout your inlaws Ghosty- could you ask them to do a swap with your parents? Can't relate to that at all, IME there is no such thing as a non-doting grandparent! Make sure you get lots of visits home to see them

I only wish I could Hayls ...
MIL (who lives in NZ) has announced that she is coming to see her only grandchildren at the end of April ... DD will be 3 months old by then.
OK ... so MIL lives on the South Island and we live on the North ... but it is an hour's flight and the expense isn't a problem as MIL is loaded due to taking FIL to the cleaners 6 years ago when he ran off with Step Witch MIL from Hell.
MIL has said that she hasn't found time but she was perfectly able to go away for 3 separate weekends with friends recently ....
It really upsets me as my parents came all the way from the UK just to be with me for the birth and they really can't afford it ...
Anyway ...
I too am a fan of Cranial Osteopathy ... I reckon all little babies should have it regardless of the birth they had and how contented they are. DS had CO and it really helped him (long nightmare labour) ... DD went (easy c/s) when she was 2 weeks old just because I wanted her to ... didn't do her any harm at all and maybe that is why she is a happy little thing????
Having said that she screamed for two hours last night non stop ... inconsolable ... I think she got herself overtired and she hit meltdown ... I try really hard to keep an eye on her usually and don't let her get too tired ....
Just as a matter of interest ... how long can your babies stay awake 'happy'? ... my HV said DD should be able to stay awake for 2 hours now but if she does that we have the meltdown thing ... the longest she can manage (including feeding) is 1 1/2 hours ...

Hi Ghosty. My dd can atay awake for literally hours- not sure how long exactly but I reckon it's at least 2 hours but that's more because every time she dozes off and I try to put her down she wakes up and won't go back to sleep! Unfortunately this can also apply at night!"

Sympathies about your inlaws- it can't be easy for you. Your children will no doubt draw their own conclusions about them and at least they have your parents

Ghosty, I'm sorry if that sounded a bit harsh or rude - I didn't mean it to!

It didn't sound harsh at all Hayls

Hayls, I wouldn't say I had a particularly difficult labour, no forceps or ventouse, but it was longer and harder than when ds was born. I hadn't thought about cranial osteopathy but after searching on the internet for it, I have discovered that there is a cranial osteopath who does a baby clinic at the place I go for yoga so I'll maybe take dd along there. It's certainly worth considering.

How is everyone?
DD is 9 weeks today ...
Poor thing has not been too well though ... little trip in an ambulance to the hospital at 3am Saturday morning - she had a tummy bug ...
Now she has DS's cold and is coughing and spluttering all over the shop ... she hasn't been too bad at night (thank goodness) but hasn't been happy during the day ...
It is so awful to see such a little baby feeling poorly. She is normally so happy and smiley and now she is just looking at me as if to say, "Please make me feel better Mummy .... "

Oh Ghosty, poor you. My dd had a cold a few weeks ago and I felt totally helpless when she was all bunged up. Hope you're coping Ok and she gets better soon. Our two are close in age- mine will be 10 weeks on Thursday.
dd was weighed this morning and was 13lb 1oz- she's put on 6 lbs since birth and I'm so proud of her (and quite chuffed with myself for obviously producing such quality milk! Sge's also started sleeping a lot better since we moved her into her cot (touch every bit of wood in the house) and got through the other night with only 1 feed at 5.30. It's since gone back to 2 at 2am then 6ish but I can cope with that

Hope everybody else is OK. There must be more of us out there!

Hello everyone,
Sorry to hear your Daughter has been so poorly ghosty, I find it so hard when they are ill as there is so little you can do to help them . Hope she is feeling better soon. I've got the 4 children at home for the school holidays so things are pretty busy for me at the moment anyway must put the children to bed now, I just wanted to say a quick hello

Hi Fairygirl ... welcome
DD and I have had a pretty nasty time of it ... I took her to the doc's on Tuesday ... he thought she had bronchiolitis ... and wanted to see her on Wednesday for a follow up. So we went, DD was really really unwell.
The doctor didn't like the look of her so we were sent back to the hospital. While we were there she decided to sprout some scary looking spots and her temp went up so then it all kicked off. Blood tests, lumbar puncture ... the whole lot. Results last night came back negative for anything really scary ... but they still kept her in overnight to monitor her. We have just got home and I am exhausted. DD is still struggling to breath and is off her feeds but the district paed nurse is coming this afternoon to check her over.
I am feeling really quite miserable now ... why do these things happen to me?
4 years ago when DS was a baby he needed an op at 4 weeks and then we had a similar scare at 6 weeks when he spent 5 days in hopital on full meningitis antibiotics (although it was discovered later that he didn't have meningitis thank god)
So ... hopefully things will improve a bit now ... fingers crossed
Hayls ... soooooo pleased to hear that your dd has put on 6 whole lbs!!! Isn't it funny ... they are roughly the same weight now but my dd was 10lbs 10oz at birth!!!!! She has put on 3lbs in 9 weeks!