Just mumming (viroids 1)

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So we don't scare the viroids on the antenatal thread with horror stories of no sleep, chomped boobs and endless laundry or make them envious with tales of cuteness....

Esk it's only been the last 2 weeks DH has really been able to put DD down for sleep. She's slowly weaning herself off feeding to sleep it seems. It feels a bit odd, but as long as I know she's had enough milk it's also great! So what I'm saying is there is light at the end of the tunnel, it just may take a little time to come.

Thanks FVP. The weird thing is she doesnt feed to sleep, DH gives her a bottle before bed, it just has to be me who puts her in the sleeping bag then crib or there will be shouting!
She had a massive tantrum at 4am last night. Am hoping there will not be a repeat of that tonight. If I'd just put hr straight in our bed she would have gone back to sleep easily. Instead she screamed for an hour before falling back to sleep....in our bed after all...

FVP - how old is your DD?
I was panicking last night that DD would always need feeding to sleep!
I know that's silly because she's only 6w+5, but you know, sleep deprived mummy here!

(okay, lady in shop freaking me out, it seems eldest DD has my name, and I keep thinking she's trying to talk to me! first time I thought "how does she know my name?! ")

7 months this coming Weds !

Time completely flies doesn't it FVP DS is 5 months tomorrow. Put on some 3-6 trousers this morning which look like pedal pushers

Got mastitis again :( To be honest I am now done with BF. I do like it but for over a month now I have had one boob or the other with a blocked duct and now mastitis again. Will wean DS off gradually and probably still continue at night for an easy life but have upped to 2 bottles.

are you going to ff then?
I suppose it's too difficult to express with M.

Val, horrible luck getting blocked ducts on both sides and then the dreaded M. Let us know how ds gets on with the switch. Has he been on one bottle for a while anyway?

Esk, how are you getting on? Did you fully switch to ff?

I have been really lucky to not have any problems. I do have left side favouritism though. Therefore, a bigger left boob. I suppose my only real problem is ds still wanting very quick feeds during the day (2-5 mins of bobbing on and off) and then wanting massive feeds at night. I have got him sleeping from 7-10.30pm in his cot, but I can't seem to stay awake to put him back during the night.

CC my sympathy, same issues here. Preferred boob and micro feeds which are compensated for overnight.

I have an anxious baby just gone back for semester 2, finished teaching around 10 today only to get home and discover a distraught little boy. And he wanted to be cuddled or fed all day too but he does have temp plus nappy rash plus insatiable need to bite so methinks another tooth is in the works.

Exact same issue here CC. I struggle to get dd back into her crib during the night. I am still bf as much as I was, just one bottle of formula in the evening. I decided to give solids a go rather than giving more ff. Thats going really well. Dd can eat a whole banana in one sitting - whole, not mushed up, and quite a lot of mashed veg. I am doing a mixture of finger foods and purées but will be phasing the purée out over the next month.

Val the mastitis sounds awful. Hope it clears quickly.

The big news here is that dd can sit up independently now. She has been getting gradually better at supporting herself throughout the last month, then last week she just did it and didn't wobble over at all. Very proud mummy. No action on the rolling either way yet though.

She slept!!
she actually slept!
most of the night - we went to bed at half 10 after a feed, she had another feed once we were in bed and then she slept.
which of course meant i didn't, because i kept waking up to see if she was okay/needed feeding.

a few times i tried to latch her on, but she took the nipple, gave a couple of half-hearted sucks then went back to sleep.

bliss, but oh so tired mummy now.

Yay for more sleep Nickel!

Frak, hope ds is ok now after lots of mummy cuddles. Feeling a little unwell just makes them want their mum and nothing else will do. Is being back at work going well apart from that?

Esk, clever dd sitting up already. Ds shows no interest in sitting up. His mission in life is to roll and reach things that I have put 'out of reach'. Glad the bf is going well for you again and that dd is enjoying her solids.

I am nearly at six months of bf ds, which was my furthest away target (initially wanted to get to six weeks etc). I think I'm going to continue but stepping into the territory of being seen as extreme by my family and probably some of my friends. Dh is supportive though, so I suppose that is all that matters. Though if he continues to mostly feed at night no-one will know anyway. Apologies for rambling on!

she's a velcro baby today.
It's really cold here today though, so may be why.
She's been doing a Musical Bumps session that the lady who hires my upstairs does. that exhausted her, so she's been fighting sleep since.
she was proper mithering in her chair, so i picked her up, expecting her to want food, but she put her head on my shoulder and dropped straight off to sleep!

just remind them that the WHO recommends at least 2 years for bfing

Aw, I love it when they drop off to sleep like that. Ds has been a bit grumpy this afternoon. Just took his nappy off and let him have naked time....result....happy baby!

While I remember can anyone recommend good reusables for night time usage?

Isn't it weird?
Naked time seems to be the most fun a baby can have!

We just use the normal nappies at nighttime. Just make sure they're tighter.
If you're having difficulties at nighttime, you might need the next size up.

We switch between normal ones (the bog standard 2 parters) and the pocket ones. We've found that the pocket ones don't contain the poo as well ,and sometimes leak, but we think it's because they're still a big too big for her.

ARGH DS has given up on sleep again . Since Friday he has had a wide awake 2 hours from about 10:30pm. Last night he wouldn't settle at all. Slept with us, he sort of slept. I didn't. Today he hasn't even napped . He has got very upset every time I have tried to put him down. Tried his cot, feeding to sleep in our bed and then trying to feed him to sleep on my lap. Nada. So very nickel of your DD Think we are teething again but both Bonjela and Calpol have had little effect. My fingers on the other hand (pardon the pun) are being chomped to death.

Upped to 2 formula bottles a day now and my boobs are still misbehaving -have yet another blocked duct :(

LOL at the naked time. DS is within an inch of never being dressed again

Awh Frak I hope your DS settles down. It must make going back much harder to find him in a state when you return.

Anxious here as DS has his MRI and MRA scan tomorrow :( On the plus side, maybe the sedation will last all night

Was meant to say, not from my experience but I always hear a bamboozle with a motherease wrap recommended for night time.

But this is coming from the lady who would recommend you a Pampers

I can't get any nappies to work at night, reusable or disposable. We had been using a (old style) bamboozle with motherease, then got fed up of horrendous leaks. Then used first huggies size 2, then an Eco brand, then pampers size 3, then back into the next size up bamboozle. Nothing holds her nighttime wee in. I changed her in the middle of the night as a preventative measure last night and the nappy was so wet it was horribly squidgy (disposable). Then DH changed her at 7 and she was completely dry!
We're battling sleep too. Can't see any of the sleep training methods working this time though (pick up put down worked for bedtime in the past) as she DOES NOT STOP SCREAMING. Not for sshh pat, not for cuddles, not for dummy, not for water in bottle. Only for bf. She is not hungry. Not that often. Not every hour or 2. Especially as when I latch her on she goes straight to sleep so I take her off and try to get her back in the crib whilst still slightly awake and she screams. Can't do pupd if she never stops crying to be put back in the bed can I?!

Ah Esk, that is why we have never done pupd. The assumption that a cuddle or pat is enough doesn't work for us. I have gone back to just getting to ds quick. Then letting him 'feed' for about a minute and then sneaking away when he drops off again.

I have a bamboo lollipop with a motherease wrap (put in a bamboo booster for good measure). Probably going to buy more, but wanted to check if there is anything better. Was still in disposable at night, but it was almost bursting after a few hours. I also have a little lambs nappy. It was soaked in about 5 minutes. Will need to try a bamboozle.

Esk - totally sympathise - especially with the feeding when they aren't hungry. DS is a fiend for this. Part of the reason I have given up moving him back to his own bed. I keep reasoning you never hear of 18 year olds in bed with their parents and ignoring you regularly hear of toddlers

DS has just had his first taste of congealed wallpaper paste baby rice. Big, BIG hit! I was just going to give him a spoonful and then one for him to play with. He must have had 6 or 7 and thoroughly enjoyed holding the spoon whilst shovelling the baby rice in with his other hand!

CC I'm up to 7 months bfing DD now, and am not going to stop and I know a few people are begining to think I'm a bit odd, but actually I went out for a Mums night out on Sat and talking to some of the others they bf well past when I stopped with DS (8 months though would have gone longer had I been able to), so I feel a lot better knowing actually there are still plenty of other Mums about who bfed up to and beyond one year (not that I plan on letting other peoples opinion make me stop!)

Sorry I'm with Val on the night all the time pampers recommendation.

I hope to keep BF a bit. No way would I let people's opinions pressure me. I had thought I would be EBF to 6 months. I had always thought I would know when I felt done, and hoped it tied in with DS feeling ready to move on to. He took to bottles and formula well but doesn't seem to want to stop BF for comfort which is fine by me. That said, totally fed up with blocked boob

ahh! little lambs! we've got some of those. no liners though, so we only use them in the day.
i've been wondering what brand they are - they've only got a woolly lamb picture so i couldn't find them
like the velcro.

does expressing relieve it at all?
It's a shame that it keeps happening.
Is there maybe a massage technique you could try?

For the past two nights ds has been in my bed by midnight and then woken every hour for a feed. I really need some sleep!