The CRESH Creche and Spa - future home of all ESH

[Muser]

I liked the CRESH acronym more than FESH so have used it. Welcome all ESH to your final stop on the journey. Rest your aching lady bits, try one of the many gin based cocktails, and try to molest the gorgeous waiting staff.

I was doing Squeaker's chart the other day, as I hardly ever weigh her and we've got a new car seat. She's still only 7.5kg/16.5 lbs (so stuck rearward facing for some time yet). She has been on the 2nd, 9th and just under 25th. Currently near the 9th and hasn't gained much since Christmas. But I know she's eating well etc, and that she's taken a stretch, so I don't fret.

I expect they'll give you more peace once she's bigger, but she certainly looks like she's growing to me, muse. Don't fret.

alps Squeaks has never been measured for height/length.

I think if I were you, I'd keep feeding as much as poss, and go back in a month, not 2 weeks.

Artie was born on 50th, dropped to 25th, then went just under 25th, and then back up to 50th - they just don't always follow the curve. As long as she is gaining and is happy, I'd leave it. There are so many variables to weighing, when they last fed / did a poo etc etc.

BTW muse our rise to the 25th was at first jabs, then it went back down. I think it's just how it works, because in the early days they eat loads and don't exercise. But once they are more active, weight falls again.

I think she's putting all her effort into growing long rather than heavy. Her 0-3 month sleepsuits are all a bit snug round the toes.

I am trying not to be concerned but it does reignite all my worries about "is she feeding so frequently because there's something wrong and I'm starving her". Which is bollocks.

she's feeding frequently because that's what babies do!

Seconded. Rastus was born on 75th, went up to 95th within a month and was off the chart last time we went for a weigh at about 7.5 months. He is a government obesity and huge head statistic :-)

Cheers cunty. One Geoff Capes makes the rest of us look as though we're hauling around underweight dweebs.

Ah well at least yours will avoid the elasticated waists and enforced treadmill misery in later years!

Not to mention having to visit the specialist Humungo-Bonce Hat Emporium should he ever take to head coverings...

It's people like you who get the rest of us a bad name at the HV. Obviously they'll start bitching at you before long about over-feeding him and/or obesity.

Oh Squeaks can join Rastus there cunty. She might be small, but her head is huge. I don't actually like baby headbands, but decided to shove a 12-18 month one on her to see if it fitted - and it did not! Meanwhile, she is wearing a 0-3 month vest today...

bloody hell, I've just spotted the bunting

MB is wearing a 6-12 mth jumper which fits his bod however I only just forced his large head through the hole!!! God knows how I'm gonna take it off later cos he screamed when I put it on!!!

Scissors?

To cut his head orf?

Fo sho. You can sellotape it back on, no?

Only got masking tape. Will that do?

Alps Not offically. We did ask but apparently epilepsy is just a clinical term to discuss any number of conditions with seizures. But yes, this is caused by the brain bleeds from her first set of seizures.

Meds - am glad she's home and it sounds like you're getting amazing care. Like everyone said, if you need to wail at any point the Esh-massive is here.

Muse - am also currently chanting the look at the baby, not the scales mantra, as Berwhale happily plummets down the centiles. Have lucked out with local area, tho, as policy is not to weigh too often as it causes unnecessary anxiety in mothers. HV wrestled me away from the scales the week before last and told me she didn't want to weigh him for AT LEAST another three weeks. If KateBob is actively sucking and your latch is fine and she's coming off with the drunk baby happy face and you're feeding on demand...then she's fine. (can you tell I've been chanting this to myself all week?)

Ta for all napping babies thoughts. Had brainwave yesterday evening and fed him to sleep lying down, which relaxed both of us.

You sound like you have good HVs there Drom. Who needs to follow a line anyway? Clearly are babies are rebels.

I do feel I ought to have more to show for these bloody evening cluster feeds though. Some evenings I take them in my stride, some evenings I'm wondering if a bottle of formula would magically make her sleep. This is not one of the good evenings.

Sorry it's not a good evening Muse

I don't know if this is helpful or not, but in E's red book there is a whole page about how they now don't recommend weighing babies more than once eveyr 3-4 weeks because it's so individual and it just makes mothers worry unneccessarily etc. And here they don't adjust the charts for anything over 37 weeks as that's what's considered term - E was bang on 37 weeks and is on the normal chart.

It definitely seems to me that since I had L, there's been a big move away from micro-observing babies and their weight gain, more towards a general "yep, they're heading in the right direction, they all get there, as long as they're feeding, weeing and pooing we'll see you again in a month or so" type vibe.

All that to say I really REALLY wouldn't worry.

EA was shaping up for some cluster feeding, but the magic pinkie (MrM's) seemed to sort her out, so it clearly wasn't actual hunger.

She may have actually fallen asleep. I hope so. Main problem I'm having today is I couldn't get back to sleep after she went back to sleep at 4am last night. So I am a bit zombified.

No success with the magic pinkie here. And she still spits dummies out. This girl knows what she likes, and she likes a boob.

Anyway, going to try and go to bed myself. Night all.

Attempting the feed to sleep lazy parent manoeuvre. Night, peeps. See you at 4...

muse I'm thinking of you here when i say are you sure she's hungry or just using you as a dummy? What happens when you assume she's hungry? I'm probably talking out of my arse but it seems like the cluster feeding has been going on a long time when your supply should be established so there may be the opportunity to break her suckling habit if it's not actually hunger related. Nowt wrong with formula though - i gave it as relief from cluster feeding at about week 3.