Jan 2012 - Higgs Boson Gang pt1

[Oeisha]

Link to antenatal thread for convenience

Not a very good title, but it will suffice 'til we fill this one in record time!

Congratulations to all that have popped so far!

Argh! Sucking a finger, sucking!

Awful phone

I'm sorry cakes but that autocorrect made me laugh out loud!!!! Totally inappropriate I know...

ha ha cakes

link to article on dummies

LOL! Excellent autocorrect.

Interesting re: dumimes. Have been thinking about it as we're not 100% sure when missy just wants a suck and isn't hungry. Making up a bottle/using expressed is a ballache when she just spits it all out/chokes on it...DH finds this particularly frustrating. If we could whack in a dummy and give her a few minutes to continue to rage for food (whilst we panick, boil the kettle and pray she can last the 30mins cooling), or settle, then that might help. She's gone back to being an erratic eater today and is eating a lot!

Can anyone recommend a good brand?

Re: backache, yes. Lots of backache. Going to bed with a HWB and still have diclofenac from the hospital, so that's doing down nicely.

As I thought earlier, I have a slow burning (hopefully not fully refractory) migraine. Making eating rather awkward as I just want to throw everything up again.

Just to make you all even more sick, I'm down a stone on my pre-pg weight. Still have absolutely no appetite at all, so hopefully I'll manage to keep a bit of it off...(as I was 'overweight' pre-pg). At some point though I'm going to have to go and buy some bloody clothes. Bloody hate bloody clothes bloody shopping.

I was even braver than standing on the scales and had a look at my stitches too. Not bad, though still not great. Still wondering if I'll ever be back fully in command of my nether reigons again. I am beginning to feel the kegles though, so that must be a good sign. Just needing to wee a lot today!

FANTASTIC! I couldn't read your post outloud to dp for laughing cakes

oiesha we use avent dummies but the mam are good as well

I'm a strong believer that dummy us better than thumb. A friend has bad buck teeth as a result of thumb sucking.

Back ache here too x

Oh my god i am feckin exhausted-my boy has not been off the breast today. Talk about cluster feeding/growth spurt. He's certainly dialling up more milk, i do hope it comes in quickly. He had a 4oz bottle of expressed milk as well though and he took the bottle wihout too much issue-he's only ever had a boob or a cup feed before so i'm pleased.

In the end this evening I had to use the old harvey Karp technique to get him to settle on the end-but it worked at step 3. Swaddle shush sway

It brought back so many memories of dd at the same age! if youre not familiar I can highly recommend Baby bliss by Dr Harvey Karp he advocates the following:

Swaddling: Tight swaddling recreates the confinement of the womb.
Side/Stomach position: Holding the baby on the right side slightly face down.
Shushing: Karp uses a loud "ssh" sound similar to the loud white noise that is present in the womb.
Swinging (and jiggling): Gentle but constant jiggling (especially of the head) is intended to remind babies of the constant motion they experienced in the womb.
Sucking: Karp also recommends the use of pacifiers.

Pray for some decent rest and good milk production tonight!

I really want to have sex :(

We DTD last week, 2weeks after giving birth. Thankfully no pain but is defo kicked me up the bum to get birth control sorted!

Re:dummies, we have a couple of avent ones for Freya. We figured that you can take a dummy away but can't take thumbs away!!!

Good grief fish and missree DTD is the last thing on my mind atm, much to DHs disgust!! It must be nearly six months for us so I'm thinking a few more weeks won't make much difference!

We have Avent and MAM dummies, James prefers the MAM and is starting to resemble Maggie from the Simpsons...

I have tried 3 different shapes of dummy . Dd won't take any of them.
I sucked my thumb until I was 12 .......

Worm so did I but I have a clicky jaw now and I don't know if it's not related, sometimes it's a bloody PITA. DD1 sucked thumb till age 7 and managed to jack it in in 3 days after a lecture from the orthodontist, but with DD2, being strict about when we used it (i.e. only for those sucky times to help w sleep) we were rid very quickly.
Having said all that, Roo took it once last night, but then later when I was almost falling asleep with exhaustion and she was still fussing, she wasn't having any of it, so it might all be theory anyway...
Cakes superb autocorrect...
Oeisha you're getting every delight going, aren't you? Hope your migraine passes quickly.
Fish FX for more milk!

LOL only just found the thread where have I been for the last month think I lost my brain.

On another note does any one want a packet of huggies 1 size and a 12 pampers one size as my baby out grew these before we used them up.
COLIEF is another thing to try for a colicky baby- as sometime colic is related to lactose intolerance.

NUK dummies worked for ds one and our baby has the occasional feed from Nuk bottles as they have the orthodontic shape.

Has anyone heard from deb recently? I was reading a thread in relationships and she poped into my head. Really hope she's ok.

Afternoon all!

Not feeling to grim today, and have even managed to not weep like a loon so far.

I'm beginning to think Snufflix has colic. She's having patches of being very upset and doing "expelling evil" face, curling up and looking super-distressed and then eventually a massive fart, though not with every bout. It comes in spells. She will be upset and I can feel it all gurgle for a bit, and then fine for a couple of minutes, then it starts again. Nappies are as usual, so I don't think it's consiptation. There is a hisroty of lactose intollerance in the family, so, well maybe I'll give colief a go.

As for thumb-sucking, I sucked my ring and middle finger as a baby (oddly, as does my niece, who looks so much like me as a baby) and child, think I stopped when I was about 8. I ended up with braces as a teen (full on neck-brace at night, with tracks, whole kit), partly due to this, but partly due to a natural overbite too. Perhaps another good reason to get the dummy in there early...it's probably easier to wean off something you can take away.

I was wondering about Deb too. If anyone is in touch, please send my love...

Thats really good oeisha

My little boy is wearing me down a bit today :( and yesterday. I have just given in and given him some formula-he took 1.5 oz straight off.

He basically has been crying constantly unless he's asleep or boob feeding. I reckon he's just on a big growth spurt and as yet i haven't kept up, my wound is sore and infected again and i am feeling a bit low-I will pump later to make up for this formula feed.

Hi everyone

I'm knackered! How is everyone else? After a few really settled nights, ds decided to turn night into day and was up for 2-3 hours per night! I have resorted to giving him a dummy to settle him down. My dd had a dummy from birth as she was in scbu and she managed to breast feed fine, so hoping ds will be the same.

Thanks for everyone for agreeing with me that the woman with her too posh to push comments was out of order - DH thinks Im being over sensitive.

I am still really weepy at times, I feel so anxious aboute everything. I heard a local shop was closing and I started bawling. is this normal? Ds is almost 3 weeks so not sure if I should be over this by now?

fish hope you are ok and can get some rest x did you have a cs?

I am still very sensitive too, think its the tiredness as much as anything.
We had a worse night last night. Meg settled too quickly for the night as she was worn out. I always find she sleeps better if its taken longer to settle. Weird hey.

Welcome nanny.

I'm finding it so much harder to meanuver her onto the boob as she grows. Have dug out the v pillow again.

to fish

to mz and Ame. FX.

Re: anxiety and PND def. mention how your feeling to HVs/GPs. Mainly because if you're like me, half of you think "it's not that bad" and you tend to ignore it/brush it off as 'normal' and then when you do have a 'crisis moment' you can't remember what the hell's happening. If you're wanting some reassurance, try the Edinburgh PND scale online test, and remember it's taken over how you've felt for a few days.

Oh gods, another bad screaming fit. She's fast out again now. Seeing HV tomorrow, will ask her. It's not nappy, not food (she's had 120ml in last hour) and she doesn't seem to be trying to squeeze anything out. Just yelling, red face and arched back. Tummy rubbing sort of helps, but difficult to tell. Then it just STOPS and she's fine. Could be aptamil...must keep a timing on it...

god dammit... to fish and others feeling low...

oeisha when she gets like that have u tried reducing stimulus-very low lighting and taking her somwhere quiet. Colic can be related to over stimulation as much as tummy pain in some cases. Lavender oil can help too-a couple of drops one each shoulder of her sleepsuit.

worth looking at the 5s technique I mentioned up thread too-it has helped Jago several times now.

Johnsons Baby Bedtime Bath lotion has Lavender in it. So good William fell asleep before I got his bottle to him (he was screaming blue murder whilst I was warming it up. Picked him up and he fell fast asleep!)

May give lavender drops a go when the bathtime lotion is not available ...

Thanks fish.

I've been popping tea tree and lavendar oil in the non-bio washes for her clothes...but might try some on the shoulders too.

Off to register Snufflix tomorrow so will get a variety of pacifiers then and see if they help.

Also, she's monstering back a shed load. Easily 200ml every 3h...if not more... . I hope she sleeps well...

Hi ladies, just keeping my place on the thread! With DH away - and delayed due to bad weather - I'm alone with the baby and don't have much spare capacity for MN . She's being great but I could do with a bit more help in the night; hope DH will get back today.

I've been doing ok emotionally but I cried some very angry tears when DH called to say his bastard work were sending him overseas when DD was only two weeks old...

Has any one heard how mummyzoe is doing with her little one as I heard baby was admitted to hospital?
Ghost- I had angry tears when dh told me he wasn't having the second week off and then preceded to launch back in to full work load and now have to pick up 5 children house cat with no help while dealing with dd1 and her being bullied and full hormonal tantrums and first periods arr now there will be 2 hormonal women in our house.

ON a good note pickle decided to sleep 6 hours which is a world record was wondering if it was the bottle of formula that dh gave him. Picle glugged 5 0z which he has never done before.

Baby cakes is coldy I think. We both had a shit night, but dh was a star when he got up at 5 am, put me back to bed and kept baby quiet till he left for work. So at least i've had some sleep.

Sigh. This whole thing would be hard as it is, but with all these illnesses adding ti the burden i'm starting to feel a bit picked on by the universe...