November 2012 - losing sleep and losing weight

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THANK YOU Nytol!! Bloody well slept fine! And still woke for feeds.

Ace!

Brilliant detective

Welcome Jackz

Well, it would seem a bottle made no difference :( I will try for a couple more nights but I thnk I may onto a non-starter.

Hi izzzy hope you got som sleep.

gt ahhhhhhhhhhh for those days! I have started journaling a bit in the hoe that I will look back and laugh at them! And lest I forget and want another baby!

Welcome jackz alas I am not bf ing but you will find loads of rants tips and advice in here, there are some amazing women on this thread.

pr yay glad dd is back to her mischievous self - fingers x'd LO improves soon so you can get back to normality xx

detective Dottie loves her toys - we've got an array of lamaze toys and theirplaymat is fab - holds her interest far longer than anything else and she lies in her travel cot chatting and smiling at her hungry caterpillar - we even put the silly wrist rattles and socks on her yesterday which amused dd1 no end

pass we watched that - the penguin found its mum!!!

Dottie was awake and feeding non stop yesterday the whole day - apart from the 20 min walk back from drs and an hour whizzing round asda - by 11pm last night she had such red eyes and although she was quite happy she would not crash until gone 1 am - so not like her!!!

Yup dots knows the minute food whether it be a full blown Xmas dinner or ice cream lolly I'm used to cold food but the lamb shanks we had last night lost their appeal when cold 😣

Car got its mot today fingers x'd it sails through as we're skint, HV this arvo and then a meal out with my college girls!!

Gonna try and sneak dots back into her crib and have another hour!!

LO going to the paediatrician this lunchtime. She really didn't drink enough milk yesterday. That plus the cough...

Can't believe she'll be 11 weeks tomorrow.

J was awake from 1-5 with congestion. I so hope he is not coming down with bronchiolitis again. It seems worse than it was the last few weeks, but the night before he did really well. Too tired to think straight really. DD2 in nursery today thank fuck

:( VQ I hope he is OK.

Hope he is ok

petite it's brilliant news that your DDs home, I've got my FC for you that your LO gets better quickly too

detective my DD loves toys! thank god she does she got piles for Christmas she loves lights and sounds and her play mat. We've got a swinging chair that she loves having a good nosey round the room in too

Aw VQ hopefully it's not

Welcome jackz

Lo is still in bed and I've just had a quick bath so need to get ready before she wakes up then were off to the baby clinic

Damn she's awake

The slings aren't working for us either every time I out her in she is not a happy baby so were only tried a couple of times but think ill just take it back this week and step away from the slings

I have another blocked duct!! Other boob this time. Could this be due to DS going 4+hrs at night or an oversupply issue? Also feeling a but woozy but my nose is bunged up so hoping it isn't full blown mastitis!!!

I've had mastitis twice, just finished antibiotics on Monday. Been trying to express some to ease the fullness but only get an ounce or two. Maybe it's a growth spurt?

Oh and DS is feeding every hour to two hours at the moment, on both boobs.

Vq fingers crossed. Ds also very very congested :(

Gt - try seeing if he'll take a bit more feed in the day? Is he regularly finishing his bottles? If so start offering another oz at feeds. Yes you'll throw more away but I'd rather know he's getting enough? Does that make sense?!

I second what horsey says GT.

We offer P a big feed for the first and the last a day. She always takes more when there is more in the bottle - I think it is easier to take when there is more in the bottle.

I really hope that J is ok VQ.

We are off on our road trip (slowly . . . ) to meet P's cousin! Very exciting!

vq hope you have a chilled day with J and he perks up. Hopefully just a cold. Xx

JABS TODAY!!!

Good luck pass hope you have an easy time of it.

Poor chap is hardly eating, just sleeping all the time :( no temp just generally grizzly and full if mucous. What more can we do for him?! Guess he just needs to sleep it off?!

Sympathies vq we were awake from 5am with congestion. I could hear the milk rattling around on her chest. Her broncilities went last week and she has started gaining weight (slowly) so really don't want to go back to square one.

Went for her check and she's put on 240g in 13 days which I thought was really good. Dr said it wasn't enough though so am back to him in 3 wks. Guess its good they are keeping a close eye on her. blonder how did you get on at the weight check?

Oh no to all of those with poorly babies! Rotten start to the year :(

We are on mission 'you will sleep in your cradle during the day so Mamma doesn't have to do everything one handed'... to say it is a total success in the slightest would be an over statement...

Horsey J isn't a fan of toys either, am glad the only pressie we got him was a £1.50 rattle this Christmas - anything else would be wasted. The only 'thing' he likes is his mobile - he loves people but is not keen on things.

J has been asleep since 8.30. Little bugger! He obviously needs it. He is propped up which helps. horsey saline nose spray and propping up mattress and keeping him propped up whenever possible is all you can really do. I feed J whenever he wakes and he has little and often when congested.

Not sure whether it is better to take them out in fresh air when they are bunged up or keep them in, and likewise a bath may help but I do not want him to catch a chill. Summer babies are much easier. As are girl babies in my experience.

VQ really hope J is ok.

Eliza we had a similar weight gain to you, I knew exactly what he needed to gain to stay in the same centile so when it showed he was slightly under I was quite upset. However the HVs were quite reassuring (stroking me!) and fortunately the letter had come through from the hospital for the TT referral (next Wed) so they are happy for me to continue as we are and see how that goes. I know how stressful this is so you have my sympathy. Very much hope your LO doesn't get poorly, just stay home as much as poss and feed feed feed!

Just had 1st jabs, fed him through them so just a little wail for each. Brave boy! (Brave Mummy.) Calpol at the ready in case he gets a temp.

20 mins and he's back in my arms....

VQ boy babies are meant to be harder physically on the Mum in terms of feeding so much so that there seems to be a correlation between more girls being born as a result of one night stands / other unstable relationships where there is a greater likelihood of lone parenting, than boys. Weird eh?

Sorry I have not been posting- I have been lurking and catching up with threads at night. Both babies are full of a cold at the moment. River is just a bit bunged up, but Saul has a cough and his nose is streaming. He doe not have a temperature, and seems happy when not coughing up mucous and thick milk, so I am just keeping an eye on him at the moment. He is feeding well too, but if any of that changes that I shall have him straight to the GP. I feel for you poor ladies who have been battling bronchiolitis (sp?) with your little ones :(