December 2011 - Worp speed 5 to sleeping and smiling

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FairyBayleaf DC1 EDD 6th Dec BORN 29th Sept Albert Elwyn 2lb 14oz
Tjuice DC2 EDD 21st November BORN 7th Nov Amaya Rose 3kg
Sevensevenseven DC2 EDD 20th Dec 25yo Southwold BORN 21st Nov Eva Rose 5lb 4oz
Girlwiththemouseyhair DC2 EDD 24th Nov Maggie Juliet BORN 25th Nov 8lb 9oz
YBR DC1 EDD 22nd Dec BORN 25th Nov (girl) 6lb 3.5oz
LittleBlueBoat(Cheeptrick) DC2 EDD 5th Dec 29yo S.Yorkshire BORN 26th Nov Hope Brynn Frances 8lb 9oz
Kri5ty DC1 EDD 13th Dec 26yo Manchester Boy BORN 29th Nov Saul Harrison 6lb 13oz
LauraSmurf DC1 EDD 3rd December Girl BORN 30th Nov
BeeMyBaby DC2 EDD 29th November 25yo Scotland BORN 1st Dec Safia Hawwa 7lb6oz
SoTiredOfTheWheelsOnTheBus DC2 EDD 7th December BORN 1st December Boy 8lbs5oz
Iggly DC2 EDD 2nd December South London BORN 2nd Dec (Girl) 8lb 1oz
Girlsyearapart DC4 EDD 6th December BORN 3rd Dec (Boy) 7lb 7oz
HoneyLovesCake DC1 EDD 2nd December Cornwall BORN 6th Dec Rocco Kaleb 8lb 14oz
Mmmmcheese DC2 EDD 25th December 32yo BORN 7th Dec (Girl) 7lb8oz
Itsybitsy08 DC2 EDD 6th December Boy BORN 9th Dec Kieran 8lb4oz
Msbuggywinkle DC3 EDD 13th December 27yo BORN 10th Dec Miranda 8lb6oz
OiMissus DC1 2 December, 39yo, Horwich, Bolton BORN 10th Dec (Boy) Alistair Jude 9lbs
jigglebum BORN 11 Dec Freya 7lbs
Pludophtherednosedreindeer (plupervert): DC2 EDD Dec 10 (Kent) BORN 12 Dec Helena 8lb 6oz (3.8kg)
NorthernChinchilla- EDD 19th December, BORN 12th Dec, Boy, 7lb 7oz
Jomouse DC1 EDD 2nd December 35yo London BORN 14 Dec (Girl) 5lb 8oz
Tyelperion DC1 EDD 3rd December 27yo Windsor BORN 14 Dec (boy) 9lb 8oz
KateM77: DC2 EDD Dec 10 34yo BORN 16 Dec Daniel James 8lb 6oz
BennyBenBear DC1 EDD 5th December Manchester/Bolton BORN 18 Dec Oliver Stephen Bolton 8lb 9oz
Kiteflying DC2 EDD 7 December 44yo Australia BORN 18 December (Girl) Lulu 8lb 14 oz
mopsytop DC1 EDD 25th December BORN 19 Dec 6lbs 11oz
AWomanCalledHorse DC1 EDD 22nd December BORN 21st December 7lbs 6oz (Boy)
Figgygal DC1 EDD 12 December 30yo Bath BORN 22 Dec Daniel James McMillan 9lb 4oz
Kitty5824 DC1 EDD 21st December 33 yo Manchester - Don't know BORN 23rd Dec, Boy, 7lb 14oz, Sebastian John
Aethelfleda DC3 EDD 27th December London BORN 3rd January, Albert Thomas William 8lb 10 oz
hawthers DC2 EDD 22nd December London 33yo BORN 28 December 7lb 4oz (boy)
LittleMissFlustered DC3 31st December BORN 6 Jan (boy)
hopeful1 BORN 6 Jan Noa Francie Kate 10lb 3oz
MissRee BORN 12 Jan 12 Freya Violet 7lb 7oz

I dont believe my PND affected my son so it will be interesting to see the results. Today was free play to see the base line and he was playing with baby dolls doing everything that i do we Hope it was interesting to see how mush he is watching me. He even lifted the dolls bum to his nose to see if it had pooed

We are going to start potty training next week now as i just dont think we are ready this week.

I ware the moby wrap to take Hope to dr's and it was great. She is lifting hr head up and looking around and smiling at everyone and laughting now its great Next week i'm going to get a play mat to see if she will start turning over.

Her eczema is better on her face but its moved to her neck and chest and its so sore and red, i just wish she didn't have it. I so want her to grow out of it.

Ladies, at what age should babies be lifting and holding their head? Freya has been able to lift her head since birth and can now hold her head for a good few minutes at a time!! I thought this came much later?

Darcie/seven we spoke to midwife last week as Freya hadn't pooed for a day and they said NOT to give OJ in water, just the cooled boiled water on it's own as the OJ can give them explosive poops and makes them very very uncomfortable.

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An artical on attachment and the importance of attachment for newborns.

air that's really shocking that they are assuming that PND had an effect on Air. I had PND after DD1 and she is (mostly!) normal, like you, I neglected myself but DD1 was always impeccably cared for.

MsB - i have talked to lots of women with PND and its the same story over and over again. The children are loved and cared for its the mum 's needs that go unfilled. If anything the mothers are over protective of the children. Thats why i want to take part and confirm this.

Air I think you are great - it seems to me that there are some shockingly mis informed hcp in your area and you always seem to cope with them so well :)

Missree as also can hold his head up well, and has done since he was only a few weeks - he can be carried upright without having to support it. He is a chunky monkey though, so maybe that has some thing to do with it?

Been for our 6 week check today and iban proud mammy today - first time as has been weighted since day 8 when he was 8lb8oz from a 8lb4oz birth weight and he is now an impressive 12lb - I couldn't beleive it :)

grrr damn auto correct - as should be DS

missree I had already been giving her water which hadn't helped at all, it was then that the HV suggested trying OJ. I just assumed if sky is constipated that darcies would already be giving her water. Other than a week when she was on the comfort milk Eva has pretty much always been constipated. The OJ makes it bearable for her, I'll be giving her fruit purees as soon as I'm able to.

darcies did you get a callback?

Eva has spent all day either asleep or crying, think I'm in for a bad night.

It always amazes me that the advice from HCPs varies so much

I dont always handle it well - last week i told my HV that i had made an appointment with the mental health nurse so i could get a certificate of my sanity for her as she clearly thinks i still have PND even tho i am still taking the tables and have been stable for over a year and that being happy with my newborn was a sure sign of PND to her

Well, no.2 can be ticked off the list- been to the doctor's, with LO in pram, and all was fine. Only problem is we have steps up to our house, so I have to take him out of the pram then out of his snowsuit which wakes him up, bugger it.

My only concern is that he just doesn't sleep much during the day- yesterday he went from 4pm to 1am with only a 20 min doze. We went to bed at half ten, but he just wouldn't settle and was doing his mad hyperventilating thing. However, the trip out over the weekend saw him sleep for both car journeys of about an hour-hour and a half, and had a sleep of about the same whilst at DP's sister's (like your LO YBR, he's marvellous in company).

Not sure whether I should worry, or start to build a routine, or accept that at 6 weeks this is still 'normal'- it's just he's nowhere near the 16-20 hours asleep or the 'not awake for more than 2 hours' bit.

Delighted that there are fewer haddock issues around !

It's a bugger about work/PHD stuff, and I'm in a similar boat Oi and Mopsy. The only thing we can do is explore all the options and then take the best one...but often there is only one option and that's driven by what we can afford, not what we'd do in an ideal world. It sort of makes it tough, but at the same time possibly less awful, as we have to do it. And ditto YBR, I need to avoid brain atrophy and plan for DP's possible redundancy, joy .

Another good weigh in today LO up to 10lb 10oz from birth weight if 9lb 4oz 4 weeks ago. He did seem to be finishing all his feeds the last few days and has grown out of all his newborn stuff apart from his up to 1 month sleepsuits from next. Disappointingly though he is going on Breast with less resistance and staying on there for longer he finishes all of his formula feeds so we need to increase them so he's still not getting anymore from me than he's ever been despite the expressing, fenugreek etc I actually missed BF group today as he was feeding on me and didn't want to stop him.

Have successfully got him in his babasling twice today and he immediately falls asleep hopefully a good sign for his trip to Scotland next week. Am not taking pushchair to airport as meeting parents at other end who have one for niece and a car seat just need to get through airport and the flight without him wigging out .....not holding my breath

I've finally read it all! So sorry I have been AWOL. I just haven't been able to stick at the reading when I'm always 23 pages behind, and can't type when DD is feeding for hours, or crying (or in the sling - though she's in it now, I'm leaning forward, and my back is aching!) So instead I've been watching the BBC iPlayer and DVDs (am now on season 10 of MAS*H ).

Thankfully, I'm still breastfeeding, as I can't face the washing and being-prepared-with-formula-while-out-and-about and potentially not losing weight . However, for all those who are suffering with guilt about formula, can I just say that I was almost totally formula fed, and not only do I have a brilliant immune system (happily survived a year in Nigeria when I was 1-2 y.o.), and made it to Cambridge (then out again), so it doesn't seem to have affected the physical and mental potential I started out with (although I am a complete malco when it comes to sport: I've only ever been good at rowing, and that is the same movement again and again, so may not even count). Meanwhile, my "little" brother reached 6'6" (2m), so suffered even less physical effect. I know it's common on MN to repeat "the plural of anecdotes is not 'data'," but of course we're affected by individual stories.

Sorry to hear so many people are struggling with the weight problem. DD was nearly admitted to hospital for Christmas, and the paediatrician set us a regime of 2-3 hourly feeds plus formula top-ups, but we couldn't fulfill those, as the topping up took so long that the poor baby was too tired to then feed (let alone be topped up), so we had to rely on my milk (which I've been trying to boost using fenugreek), as it has been far more efficient. DD only recently (about 5 weeks) topped her birth weight, but a midwife did comment that (a) the original weight may have been wrong or (b) she could have been trending toward her norm (was it you, aethelfleda, who called it catching down?). She looks pretty healthy, anyway, so I am trying to have faith in that, and hope the same will be possible for those of you who are worrying, too...

Our best baby buy so far has been one not for the baby, but for DS, a BuggyBoard. He looooves it, and it's making outings so much easier than I ever imagined they could be.

Can't possibly comment on sex, though!

Right, supper time, so need to rush the chicken wraps.

Love to you all. I've really missed you.

x

Ah, welcome back plu! I've knocked the idea of having fajitas/chicken wraps (or anything that can't be eaten one-handed with a spoon or fork- but NOT soup. SOOOO not soup) on the head til LO will be put down, sigh....

Glad you and DD doing well!

Seven I couldn't get to the phone quick enough. I called straight back and he'd literally just gone out of the door on a visit and not heard back even tho they said they would put a reminder on to call as I called straight back! normally he's really good.

I'm just giving Sky her first bottle of C&G comfort to see how that helps and then spk to the doc in the morning.

Didn't find any bridesmaid dresses today - however, my dress looks fab :)

Plu Welcome back

Air Would be interested to know what your HV response was.

Figgy Well done on the weight gain.

Welcome back plu it's good to hear from you

Air Your DS sounds lovely trying to console Hope after her jabs. It's so cute when the older child copies you isn't it? Today I had DS in the baby bjorn and DD put her baby doll in her little rucksack and put it on her front. V cute indeed :)

Aethel belated congrats on the weigh-in, that's great news

Kri5ty I hope all goes well with the GP

Sorry to hear there are so many rubbish HV's out there. Like seven, mine is great...well, my normal one is anyway. 6 week check tomorrow with a different one who came for the first visit as it was over the Christmas period and my normal one was on holiday. Not as convinced about this one, but hoping tomorrow will be straightforward and we can get that box ticked!

loving the new name:o

Doing the initial bedtime feed. Have given Octopus boy a stern talking to. If he doesn't go down for at least three hours he knows the riot act will be read...

I have krispy kream dounghnuts and coffee to help with my sleep deprivation as Hope's injection today and she has been grumpy from 4pm, so not like her. I think its going to be a long night

HV just wrote clinet going to see mhn!

I want coke. I haven't had any since before the boy arrived, was my resolution >_< Regretting it now, such a craving:(

Fizzy pop coke, just to clarify >_< :o

EVening: hi, plu, good to hear from you. Yep it was me who mentioned catch-down: something I am pretty sure DS is doing as he so strongly resembles my 9-25th-centile weight and 75th centile height DD1, not my 50-75th centile DD2. That's a nice way of saying he's tall and skinny.

Managed to successfully navigate town today without a)pranging the new car in the car park (it has lots of weird high kerbs and is a multistorey with tight corners) b) getting too cross with the DDs (there may have been a tiny bit of shouting: I have more kids than hands now!) and c) bailing and running home halfway through.

As a result DD2 has new glasses on order, a replacement umbrella, and DD1 went to rainbows while DD2 and I hit the cafe and fed DS. I'm rather pleased we managed all that!

darcies, do get back to your GP but I wouldnt recommend orange juice in any quantity for a child under 4 months: their gut can't process solids before 4 months. I've worked with ethnic groups who feed their children flat coke and rusks barnstormingly early, but that doesn't mean it's safe or recommended. If your babybis genuinely constipated they are better seeing your GP who can prescribe a gentle and safe laxitive for them.

Ps flat coke and rusks is not a constipatiOn treatment! I used it as an example pf how just cos the HV said people have done it, that doesn't make it safe!

*LMF, there's bowt wrong with Coke! The occasional baby is caffeine sensitive but the majority aren't. There's less caffeine in coke than in instant coffee anyway, and you can have 5-6 cups of that daily. Swig away!!