September 2010: windy bums, weaning starts to loom!

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A starter for 10 on our Sept 2010 babies as their first Christmas comes nearer! Can't believe we're there already; I was barely pregnant last Xmas!

Hahahaha put the dog in the kitchen and get busy!! To be fair we didn't have sex AT ALL when i was pregnant as i was so ill for the first 20 weeks and we both felt really weird about it once id started to show, neither of us could even think about it.

Grace thinks it's party time tonight, i think it's bed time. Guess which one of us will win this argument! It's going to be a loooong night!

Saoirse Can't stop laughing at your dog 'huffing' when you have sex. Is it jealous or just wants you to stop so it can have a good nights sleep?
We generally try downstairs when they are all asleep but only if I still have the energy. DC3 is at nursery in a few weeks so it will be if we can get Lucy down for a nap on the way back.

Chelle hope you have a better night, Lucy won't sleep unless she is in our bed and she is still up now. At least I only need to feed her when she wakes in the night and she goes back over.

Just wrote post and then lost it! Hate that!

Saoirse Health care a disaster here. 50 euro a visit to GP 70-80 if more than one child needs to be seen. We have spent a fortune on the kids

So have been easing into a routine with Phoebe. Its hell for leather this week tho as DH is off work. Trying to establish proper naps. I dont think she will do the night until she is bottle fed. The boys were 11-6 or 7 at this stage but no hope with Phoebe. I dont think she is feeding enough at 11pm. Anyway will see.

mammyG
that is insane !

saorise we had dd in our room for 18months,and we certainly had sex then!
just not in the room with her,but then we very rarely had sex in the bed before she came along as dp goes to bed about 2-3 hrs after me! you just have to be creative

the problem now,is quite simply...i cant muster the energy!!

12.30, Arlo, really?! Can't believe he's gone from 9 hours straight to only 3. Argh.

Does anyone have a baby with a flat head? Arlo's isn't too bad, but definitely slightly flattened at back on one side. Anyone use a pillow?

nope no pillow,no flat head,but arlo doesnt spend alot of tme on hard surfaces on his back as he's in the sling most of the time,his bouncy chair is also more of a hammock type,you could try that,as i def wouldnt recomend a pillow yet,dd didnt have one until she was 18mo!

he does however seem to be balding ?!

Hah, Aphra went bald on the back of her head from quite a few weeks ago! But in compensation the hair on the top of her head is just about starting to grow, slightly.

I went and looked on that 4 month sleep regression thread - saw you there, Chelle! - because it seems we've got it too, though not quite as despairingly as you do. Ah well, ah well ah well.

Aphra also has a bit of skin trouble - like spottiness more than a rash (still did the glass test just in case!). It might be because we're still at Mum and Dads and using different laundry detergent, but I'll take her to the docs / HV this week whe we get back anyway.

Aphra 18 + 5

Orlaith's got a bit of a flat head but I'm not too worried because it sorts itself out doesn't it? At the moment she really likes to lie on the floor or her playmat (which is actually very soft) and hates lying on her front so I think it'll be better when she's older.
She's also got a kind of rash or spots that appear on her head all the time. I kind of seems like it's from being dry so I'd just been using baby lotion. Then my mum suggested nipple cream and it worked!

DP's not very adventurous in the bedroom, or anywhere else for that matter, so I might have to work hard on this sex thing!

Orlaith 14 + 3

dixiebell ds1 had a hugely flat head!! No matter which way I turned him he always laid on the same side, I'd turn his bouncy chair so he had to lay on the non-flat side to look at us but he'd rather stare at the wall and the same in his cot. His head is fine now, sorts itself out when they sit up and are not spending as much time squashing it. I think beaditAli was worrying about it a while ago.

Those with sleep problems don't forget there is also a growth spurt at 16 weeks so the babies may just be hungrier at night. Ds1 was totally breastfed and slept 8-6/7 from 14 weeks and never woke in the night after that unless he's ill mammyG so she might do it. I think as Luke is much smaller than ds1 so he possibly doesn't have enough stored to sleep through yet.

Luke has started to be aware of where I am now. Was very funny yesterday dh was holding him and everytime he left the room Luke cried and as soon as he came back in he stopped! He was hungry so I think he knows where his milk comes from!!

Don't have the problems you all have with sex as Luke is in his own room. We were back to normal pretty quickly but that was mainly driven by me! Dh was put off when I was pregnant so have to make up for it now.

16w

Oh yeah forgot to say, definitely don't recommend a pillow at this stage. Ds1 had one when he moved into a bed at 2 but it's dangerous for babies so small, I think the recommendation is not before 1yr.

Apparently in Sweden, the official recommendation is to use pillows from the start to prevent flat head. Funny that advice can vary so wildly in different places. Anyway, I would prob only use it for when he's on his playmate, being changed and perhaps short daytime naps when I'm around. He hates tummy time at the moment, but hopefully will get better with that. We've bought a bumbo too so he has a sitting up option, although he only manages 5 mins at a time in it at the mo.

After 12.30 waking last night, he went back down till just before 6, so wasn't too bad. Then daddy got up with him later and let me have a bonus sleep!

Arlo - 3 months tomorrow. Funny to think he was conceived round about this time last year..!

Dixie we got a goi goi pillow for Jack at about 4 weeks for his increasingly flat head and he still has it. I think it is safe as babies sleep on them from upper back/shoulders and head. Also, Jack was nowhere near turning and we had the movement monitor under his mattress so I wasn't worried about any danger. The pillow has definitely helped and I know a mum of a 4 year old boy who still has to ask the barber to leave her ds's hair longer at the back on one side coz he still has a flat head! They do use them from birth in most cases in Sweden but haven't really looked into their research/risk factor.
Jack also has a Bumbo and I use his pillow for change times too..... doesn't really work in the pram but he's not in it for long anyway.

Jack's still a grazer which does sometimes stress me out as he has a bottle every 1 1/2 - 2 hours and it can be really difficult when we're out and about.....
much better now and back to his happy self tho the winter bug is doing the rounds up here and lots of little ones have been suffering. Hope everyone and their lo's are ok!
Going to read the sleep regression thread now..........
chelle will find you soon on fb!

Ooops.... 14 weeks today

Hello

Sorry to hear about your problems chelle. Sounds like me a few weeks ago. Hope you get more sleep soon. x

I found this on one of the weaning threads. I haven't read it all yet, (just page 4-6) but it seems to be saying that it's ok to wean between 4 and 6 months, with little need to worry about allergies.

Weaning

Well he is definatley 100% teething - he is in absolute agony. Literally looking at me and screaming in pain. Poor little boy. Slightly better night last night - went down at 7pm until 1am and then back down til 4:30am - we both got up with him at this point coz he was doing he screaming in pain thing! Then DP went downstairs with him and 5:30am and let me sleep til 8:30am which was lovely.

Hoping for a half decent night tonight but not too convinced. DP back to work tomorrow too and my mum laid up with flu....

Olly has slight flat head at the back - nothing we can really do about that though. We also have a bumbo which he is slowly getting used to. He loves all his musical toys that he got for xmas too.

Going to try and get his 2nd set of jabs again tomorrow - hopefully stupid nurse will turn up! Worrying that its getting too late for them...!? When is too late?

Olly - 14+1

Ds1 had his at 16 week chelle1986, not sure when is too late other than he was fine with that.

We are off to our EAT study first appointment tomorrow sassy34264, will let you know any info we get from there but will definitely read that article. From what I understand there is a lot more research needed and the WHO guideline of 6 months is a lot to do with developing countries where things like cholera are are problem once they start weaning. I have read a bit about the increasing numbers of IBS suffers being related to early introduction of wheat but again not enough research and I totally understand why people don't want to be involved.

Don't think can be too late, Chelle. It's too early they worry about. Arlo's only just had his first set when he was 11 wks.

I feel like my two are ready, but i am putting it off because of WHO guidelines- which i said i wouldn't do. I'm constantly feeling like they are hungry and my breast milk is not enough for them (dp doesn't help with his 'your not drinking enough, eating enough' etc. ) but i've tried topping up with ff and they just won't take to it. I'm going to trust my instincts and get them some baby rice. I've persevered now for a while and it's just not happening. I felt like i'd feed a pack of wolves the other night. I understand about the growth spurt at 4 months, but maybe that is a reason to wean in itself. Sod it, i can intellectualize about the ins and outs all day long, with this report/survey/research/guldelines, but their my babies and this is what i think is the best for them now. So there!

they're !!!!!!!

sassy - you know your babies - if you think they are ready then try. It isn't going to do them any harm - worst that can happen is they don't like it and wont eat it. Then its back to boob and ff! I am sure your instincts are prob dead on though.

beadit - you are like scarlet pimpernel!

Sooooooooo relieved the sex thing isn't just me!!! The only time we've managed it is when the boys went to my parents for the night! They're going this weekend so who knows! There's never the opportunity in the day & by the time they're both settled & I get sat down at night, its the last thing on my mind!

Chelle Sorry you're having a rough time. It will get better, it will get better, it will get better! I've found that when things start going pear shaped you diagnose every little thing you're doing to find out what it is & 9 times out of 10 it stops as soon as fast as it started & you never actually find out what it was!

Started the exercising today. Only managed 15mins of Davinas cardio workout! I'm gonna try to do it every other day. I've got a wedding to go to & the most gorgeous dress but it looks awful right now. I WILL get in it!!!!

Olly 18wks 5days!

Also, we're not having sex either! Think we've managed it twice, since babies were born. Had a jokey conversation with DP the other night. I said 'it's your fault, cos i'm up for it'! I asked if it's cos i'm fatter and he said 'a bit'! Said well, don't bother coming to me when i have the body of a goddess, cos i'll tell you to feck off. He said, you'll be back to having bee stings (little boobs) then anyway! Just laughed and said, well you can't have it both ways, life's just not that fair. Good job i'm thick skinned and i have enough self esteem to get me by! ha.

sassy

arlo is teething too,although the worst night we've had with him was a few days ago and he was awake for about an hr...i feel a bit guilty saying that,as i know how shit it is when your baby just wont sleep (dd was a reflux baby) so i havent been posting too much,just lurking
im waiting for an amby hammock to be delivered,im hoping it'll help him with day time naps,as he currently just sleeps on me!thought it might be of use to those of you who arent getting any sleep!!

ive gone and bought another buggy ( britax b-dual ) its really great to have Arlo facing me,and still be able to have dd strapped in,she really likes poking her head out and shouting "BOO" at everyone! but i cant decide what buggysnuggles to get as its a red buggy,so i dont want it to clash!decisions,decisions

i cannot believe Arlo will be 4 months old tomorow!

You should still post clumsymumluckybaby, you're hardly say nahnah nanahnah my baby sleeps better than yours!

I did ask dh if his increased interest was because I was thinner sassy34364 but he denied it! Can't believe your dp though, give him a slap