March 2004 Babies

[Chuffed]

Hi, like all of you I'm sure I have been having trouble finding the time to get on Mumsnet. Hope everything is going well for you all. I love being a mum!
I thought we needed to have a post to discuss stuff as Feb, April and May have them but not us.
DD was born 29 March and is a real character showing lots of personality. Hopefully I won't be alone for long.

I feel very silly about the whole thing. Everybody's worried about me, but the baby is fine. She has a partner in crime, a few weeks older than her and even smaller (he still fits in his infant seat!) but also crawling and pulling up to stand, and they follow each other around.

We bought a SuperYard and made a pen in one room for her. I tell everybody it's like one of those new modern zoo enclosures, while the playpen is an old-fashioned cage. She thinks it's a pretty good deal, because she can pull up to standing on it, but then she forgets how to sit down again.

How's the bottle going, chuffed? DD still takes one for me but not yet for the nursery, but it doesn't seem to bother her much (I feed her at lunchtime anyway).

I have put the avent sipper cup tops inside her bottles as they all fit together so she is drinking a sippercup bottle. She doesn't actually drink all that much during the day though, managed about 7oz yesterday at a push. Will be interesting today as she is there 10-4 today.
I think it is almost time to order the baby den. What I like about it is that rather than put her inside an area we can just block off a portion of the living room so that she can't access it ie. computer/plugs etc.

Hello Marchies. Us May mums are wandering through the Mumsnet corridors noseying in on other people's babies. Do you mind if I ask how the babies are all sleeping in their ripe old age? I see further down the thread that it was a bit bitty. Any better now? Can I also ask how many of you need to feed during the night and how many times? Sorry to give the third degree. My DD is not very good at sleeping at the moment; thinks she ought to be fed at least 3 times a night. Would be lovely to think that things got better without intervention! thank you!

Hi Spots, not officially part of this March 2004 thread as I wasn't aware of MN until recently.
DD is sleeping through now from 7.30 till 7, and has done for a few weeks now. She's always been a good sleeper though, most we've ever been up with her is twice in the night!
And I must say, mush to the annoyance of those with wakey babies, we've done very little in terms of intervention. She's just a good sleeper it seems! The one thing we did do, was have evening routine and she's just followed the lead.
Hope all is well with your May baby!

DD used to be a lovely sleeper. Not any more! We have a new rule that she only gets fed every 2 hours (as otherwise her wakings get closer and closer together). This helps, and we had two nights where she only woke up every 2 hours after I'd gone to bed, but last night I had to soothe her two other times, as well. But only for a few minutes (the first night I wouldn't nurse her it took 40 minutes to get her to go back to sleep).

I felt much better when somebody directed me to Kellymom on sleeping where it turns out lots of babies sleep worse at 6 months than at 3 months. Plus now that I almost always get 2 whole hours, I am not quite so unhinged. She's in nursery 2 days a week now, and very distracted during the day even when she's home, and teething all the time (4 teeth in 3 weeks!) and piling on the new skills (she's a serious crawler now) all of which interfere with sleep, so I'm not trying to get her to sleep through, just to give me enough sleep so I can get through the days.

oh that is so good to hear californiagirl. dd is a worse sleeper now than at 6wks. It was fine till 3 mths then awful until I started solids, then we got 7-4.30 now it is a 7-1 then again 4.30. I'm trying really hard to settle at least one of the wakes without feeding but the one that I do feed she does guzzle so she must be hungry.
Nursery is going well although it makes me sad as I don't get too much quality time with her. Holding out for a month at Christmas in NZ. Yes another marathon plane journey.

That IS a good link, cg. God, though... imagine smacking your child to get it to sleep...

I know and how would that work, wouldn't it just make your child cry more?

helloooo
long time since I was able to get a spare minute to come on mumsnet but glad you are all still here.
ds is gorgeous as ever - still waking at least once a night though and usually really starving - I try to feed more during the day instead but he isn't interested in milk all that much - just scoffing his face on anything he can get his grubby hands on. he's just started pulling to standing and is also crawling around in a commando style/bit of all fours way. he's so so interested in the entire world now and taking it all in - boring mummy milk is the last of his priorities.
I'm also back at work parttime, all day today and then itty bitty hours during the week but at a school a minutes walk away so that's pretty handy!
what a sweetheart californiagirl and what a lot of hair she has!! my little one is still a fuzzyhead really
we're off to the docs on monday to see about a small eye op for him as his eyeduct is still blocked - I hope they say we can wait a bit longer!
love to all

Glad dd isn't the only one waking at least once a night. We are trying cc at the moment and thought it was making a bit of a difference until last night. She always seemed really hungry at night but she wouldn't eat her breakfast and the last couple of nights without 4am feeds she has eaten really good breakfasts.
I'm still in a bit of mourning about the loss of our baby as she seems more like a little toddler at the moment, really expressive, pulling up and starting to move to get things ie. if the remote is on the other end of the couch. It is fun though.
Hope you all had a generally good weekend.

Its still a bit hit and miss here with my ds. Last night he slept through till 6.30am but the night before it was 4.50 and the night before 3.30. Still giving the dream feed but he really only takes 2oz or so. Have decided to just feed him if he wakes - but from a bottle and with him still lying in his cot. If it's really early he usually just suckles for 10 secs or so and then falls back asleep. If it's after 5am then I bring him into my bed and feed him there then we go back to sleep till 7.30 and we have proper breakfast then.
He's a real little boy now - boo hoo - crawling properly and pulling himself up to standing given half a chance. Also much more interested in the world around him than b/fding! I wonder should I give up it's a pain having to express and give him the bottle as he can concentrate more easily on that than me!

Ooh we gave dd some water at 4am this morning and she went straight back to sleep so maybe this is what we'll try for a while.
I think we've also been through a bit of a growth spurt as a whole bunch of clothes suddenly seem to short in the legs.

well ds woke at 3.30am last night and wouldn't go back to sleep after a little milk. He was really howling so I think his teeth were sore. I gave him a tiny bit of calpol and took him to bed with me and he slept soundly till 7.
I thought he was ready for his nap at 9.30 and he dozed off for 5 mins - but now he's going mad bouncing in his doorway bouncer thingy - chatting away good style.

Oh now I miss dd. Thinking about her while I'm at work you are very lucky to be watching your ds in his bouncy chair.
We almost have 2 teeth now, you can almost see one and can feel the other both middle bottom.

ds has 1 through and I think I can feel the one next to it ready to come through. It bloody well better come through as I've been letting him away with waking up in the night 'because he's teething'. He'd better not be taking the piss!
I must admit - I don't miss work at all (only the money) - so I'm trying to think of an internet based business that I could start to bring in extra pennies.
ps he's now got hiccoughs in his bouncy thing.

DD was an absolute horror all weekend, due to having hand-foot-and-mouth, poor mite. DH and I both wrecks. She is much better although she looks terrible, and all my hopes of pumping enough to feed her on Tuesday at daycare plus refill the freezer stash went out the window since she wouldn't eat solid food all weekend.

oh no big hugs CG, I can't imagine bf for a whole weekend. how did she get that?

photos for dd today at nursery which we had forgotten about and she is right inbetween clothing sizes at the moment, most of them are too short in the body or a little too big apart from a few hand me downs from a friends little boy which we didn't want to put her into for the photo as they are a bit boyish. Aghhh such a silly dilemma.

well i've had a good day today. ds slept through till 6.45am, had his milk and loads of porridge. had his nap at 8.45 and woke all smiley. had a play with some toys at the hv weigh in. then had loads of mashed pot, broccoli and cheese for lunch (me too - yummy comfort food), walked the dog and then had a lovely nap at 2. i've been reading my book and watching tv all afternoon.
Oh if only every day could be this good!

Hi Chuffed! My DD was born 30/03/04! She now has 2 teeth but is a little under the weather at the moment. She keeps giving me false impressions at the moment. Just when I think she is in a routine....then she's not!!!! But she is the best thing that has happened to me!!!

She got hand-foot-and-mouth at daycare -- I think every baby in her room got it. Out of 8, only 4 were there today, and three of them (including her) were still noticeably not quite as usual.

Today she got a flu shot, which so far was a non-event -- she also got bitten at daycare, which was far more traumatic. I was there at the time and thought she was just fussing out of surprise, but actually there's a bruise.

Wow, mashed potato, broccoli, and cheese! Sounds yummy.

oh CG it is one thing after another isn't it. I hope dd feels better soon. Hi iddy that is exactly how I'd sum up parenting so far, just as you think you've got something cracked they change it around on you. No matter what I can't imagine life without dd.

After a good day yesterday - today was more stressful. ds woke at 2.30 had an ounce of milk and fell asleep again. dh snoring so I had to go to spare bed. ds woke again at 6am. bf to sleep till 8 then running around like mad to get ready to go swimming at 8.45.
Got there with 1 min to spare. then went shopping and all my expressed milk leaked out of the bottle all over the shopping centre floor. ds not having much to eat today - so may be up tonight!

oh no that's awful Tracy and it is so hard to express as well, I'd be devestated. Good luck for your sleep tonight, dd was up for an hour from 5-6 which was a bit of a nightmare but we all have off days don't we.

I was devastated - and luckily ds hasn't been hungry today and didn't need the milk. I tried to bf in John Lewis but he wasn't interested!
I'm sure my milk is dwindling - I can only express about 5oz and takes ages now. Should I give up?