Hello all,
Sandi, I used the Aqueous cream last night on dd2's eyebrows and it really made a huge difference I thought. The skin was nice and soft and I was able to peel away the cradle cap. Still hate doing it though. Her face is looking so much better now. Put more on again tonight as there is still a little bit left on her eyebrows but I'm hoping that it should all be gone by the end of the week.
Took both dd's into work today. It was great dd2 tried to cry a couple of times but then changed her mind. She even gave some of the guys I work with smiles, but not any of the women,Hmm, lol My friend had her tea break while we were there and she held dd2 while I was with dd1 and she managed to get dd2 to bring up all her wind, I know where I'll be heading next time dd2 is windy, lol.
She was very windy today which isn't normally like her but she seems to have settled down to sleep ok so I'm hoping that she'll be ok through the night as well.
Sandi I breastfed for 5 weeks this time around. With dd1 I fed for longer but had problems this time around in that it was so much more painful, cracked and bleeding nipples, I was stressed dd2 was stressed, I spent most of the first 2 weeks in tears, so started off mixed feeding and now she's on bottles. Everyone is different when it comes to breastfeeding. We also had a lot of visitors the first week and I spent most of my time when they were here sitting in the bedroom feeding dd2, wasn't brave enough to feed in front of everyone. It was really boring, no tv, no books to read etc.
When it comes to sleeping dd2 has a bottle at 8pm and then goes to bed at around 9pm when she shows signs of being tired. I seem to have figured out what she needs much more easily this time around. I don't remember ever noticing signs of dd1 being tired. dd2 usually sleeps from 9pm through to 4am when she gets up has a bottle and then goes back to sleep until about 7 or 8 am. It works for me, she's nearly 7 weeks old now can't believe the time has gone so fast. I'll eventually get her into a routine of going to bed earlier so that once dd1 goes back to school in August she fits in with the school routine. I keep thinking that I should maybe introduce a bottle around about 11.30pm to see if that helps her sleep through to 6 or 7 am, but I don't want to wake her while she's sleeping so soundly, silly I know, Might try it next week I don't mind getting up at 4am at least it's starting to get light at that time so it's not too bad.
HV said that dd2 will get her jabs on the 28th. told dh he has to come with me so he can hold her. oh and had my check up today very exciting came away with a prescription for the pill and some hayfever medicine, but since it's done nothing but rain this week the hayfever has been fine, oh well at least I have the medicine for if it gets sunny again.
Libb your ds could be going through a growth spurt, dd2 wasn't lasting the 4 hours she had been at the beginning of the week and the HV said that by looking at her weight gain it was probably a growth spurt. Today she was a bit unsettled and seemed hungrier so I've started to increase the oz in the bottles, this child is going to eat me out of house and home if she continues this way, lol Keep trying with the bottles, I know it's hard but eventually he will get the idea. Can't advise on the Avent teat size though we're not using avent bottles this time, we're using Mothercare sterilising bottles, you just put the bottle in the microwave to sterilise don't need a sperate steriliser, they're brilliant wish they'd been available 1st time around.