January 2013 - New year arrivals welcomed into the world.

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As a few of us have popped early I thought I'd start us a post-natal thread.

Leah sleeps a lot during the day too, especially if we've been out and she's in the car seat or buggy and she'll just keep on sleeping and not wake up. For instance right now she's asleep since coming home from my mum's house and my boobs are telling me she should be awake!

We have started swaddling her at night which she seems to love. Certainly it has coincided with her going down really easily, which does make the nights easier. Her sleep has not increased massively though at night.

Happyhow I have vouchers for Marks & Spencers and also stuff to return there but my nearest one is the next town (20 mins drive) and I haven't been able to face heading out there yet! Pathetic but there you go. Also I need to sort through gifts and see which ones to return (a lot of them are from M&S), e.g. ones I just won't get wear out of.

Floss is only 10 days old and definitely sleeps more in daytime than at night. I have decided for now to just go with it. One thing i would like to change is for her to sleep better in moses basket, she starts the night off in it and sometimes settles back into it but i always end up downstairs with her and she will sleep in her swing for a few hours.

Dan is getting better at daytime/nighttime but we do have to really enforce it by keeping him in the sling all evening from DS1's bedtime til his last milk feed (bottle given by DH) at around 10pm. If he's free he stays awake.

DS1 had it licked by now.

We still dont really have a routine, some times we get 2.5 hours sleep from him in one go, other times its just 45mins :-(

Happy and mamamary hurray for M&S! Tried to put my hermit behaviour behind me and ventured into town to get hubby Vtines dinner, thank goodness for their offer :-)

Ollie has got a little routine now

Wakes @7 feeds/plays until about 8-830/sleep
Wakes @10 feeds plays until about 11/sleep
Wakes @2 feeds/plays until about 3.30/4 then sleeps
Wakes @6 feeds/quiet play until 8then sleeps until 11
Last week hes woken between 4-5 but settled straight after feed until about 7/8

We follow Gina ford from the first week which really helped he's starting to be awake a lot more now but he's sleeping longer at night now!

Ive noticed that even with a VERY yappy yorkie dexter doesnt wake up. Ive come to the conclusion he got used to it when he was still inside.

bernie can you do gina ford without the controlled crying?

I think Nancy has night and day sorted. She usually goes down between 11 and midnight, and then wakes up for a feed at about 5 then goes back down from about 6:30 until 9. She's awake almost all day then, she'll maybe doze for half an hour a couple of times.

Had her weighed today and she's 7lb 15oz. She's put on 7oz in a week!

Dd is awake for 45mins in the morning. Then she is awake for about ten minutes several times a day when she has woken for a feed and has a nappy change. Then she can be awake for up to two hours in the evening, and I take her to bed as soon as she looks sleepy during this awake period.

Overnight she wakes to feed, normally does 2.5 hours at first, then every two. She can be a bit grumbly from around 6 and feed lots but will keep her eyes shut tight. We co-sleep and I feel like I am getting an adequate amount of sleep, although could quite happily curl up and sleep right now!

She is four weeks old.

Stupid, stupid iPad, no idea why it keeps reposting

Birdies - my understanding of what she recommends isn't controlled crying but in all honesty we haven't had to put it to the test as he's never cried uncontrollably to get to the point? But I am ff so this can potentially (my opinion only) make it a little easier, the most he's cried for is a few minutes occasionally during settling (day only) and if Im waiting for his bottle? but because I have done GF since he was born I don't know if it's the routine or if his just a chilled out baby?
I know there is a lot of negativity surrounding her routines but I genuinely think it's how people read into it? we used it because it's my first and I had absolutely no idea what to do with a baby, lol!

creepy how often do you feed Nancy in the day? I feed Xanthe almost every hour in the day but am thinking if I try and feed her less often then she might sleep longer at night.

...I have all these theories and I bet none of them will work!

Which book do you have bernie? I might take a look at it and see if it could work for us. I def couldn't do any sort of cc, the minute she cries I pick her up!

Birdies I feed her pretty much every couple of hours. She usually has half an hour of constant feeding at a time so it's probably more like 90 minutes between feeds. Some says though she is on me constantly. She's slept good at night since day 1 really though.

It's called the new contented little baby book! I'm a sucker for the LO and would never leave him crying at this age without doing something to try and sooth him ,even though everyone's l(read my mum/MIL) says leave them it won't do any harm - neither will going to him!!! xx

Hi all,

I'm following GF too and my LO is in a wee routine too. I'm formula feeding though so that probably makes things easier?

I'm trying to keep my LO awake more during the day to help at night and so far our routine is as follows at 5 weeks old:

7pm feed and then put in crib for sleep
Wakes about 10pm ish for feed then back to sleep
Wakes about 2.30am for feed then back to sleep
Wakes about 5/6am for feed and I tend to put back down for sleep till 9am
Fed again at 9am ish and he is awake till about 11am ish when he gets another small feed then sleeps till about 2 or 3pm.
Feed him when he wakes and take him for a walk or play, tends to be awake till 5pm ish when I feed him a little and either bath him or play with him till about 7pm when he starts his night routine again.

X

I agree with Bernie - it depends on how people read into it. We've followed GF (lite) with DD1, and never left her to cry.
We however did some CC at 6 months to get her to sleep through rather than wake up and monkey about.

I have bought a swaddle m kidopotamus - DD2 seems to like it.
She is 6 weeks and had a mega long happy spell this afternoon - approx 2.5h, then another 2 hours tonight. Hoping for a nice restful night!

Still no Gaviscon though, and the post-feed sessions are pretty difficult :(

At wits end with fractious infant. For the past few days he has been crying screaming and boaking v hard to settle. Has not slept since 5.30pm. Feeds sporadically but does not induce sleep and does not appear v hungry, don't think this is cluster feeding. Colic? Reflux? He is bf, five weeks old x

dd is 7 weeks and we don't have a regular routine yet. she wakes in the morning any time between 6 and 9 for a feed, then stays awake for a couple of hours. then she has another feed and drops off. she then sleeps through the day and only wakes up for feeds/ nappy changes. she wakes up again in the evening just as I'm about to eat dinner and cluster she feeds till around 11.she sleeps quite well at night, waking every four hours or so for food, but touch wood always goes back to sleep easily, especially now we have Ewan

I've read the GF book but don't think it would work for us as it doesn't allow for cluster feeding, and I couldn't stand life to be so regimented either. I like to go out most days for the sake of my sanity, and dd sleeps whenever she is in the pram, so the day's structure depends on when and where we are going.

Meringue - it sounds like a 'wonder week' to me...see the website below!
www.thewonderweeks.com/

I am not a gf fan and am more of an attachment parent follower. That's what seems to sit best with what I believe. We just go with the flow most of the time. DS is four weeks and feeds every three to four hours day and night although often feeds more in the afternoons. He sleeps most of the day but has wakeful periods around feeds. Yesterday he rolled from his back to his side. It totally took me by surprise and I'll have to be much more careful about where I leave him!

I hope everyone had good nights. It's my birthday today. Dd3 is taking me to musical bumps as a treat!

Hi hope you don't mind me suddenly joining in my lo was born on Christmas Eve 2 weeks early was due 7 th jan so was reading this thread instead of dec one.

For those doing gf routine just wondered how many oz your lo is taking mine has reflux and while takes 5 oz during day I find will only take 2-3 at 10ish and 2 and then 5 it's frustrating me cause I feel he would sleep longer if I could just get him to take a bit more at 10.

Hi

I'm following GF loosely I might add and don't find it regimented at all and we very much still go out during the day for walks or into town for lunch/shopping etc. like others have said I think you can use it as a guide and adapt to suit you and it seems to work quite well. I just wanted some sort of guidance as this is my first baby and was totally clueless but appreciate it won't suit everyone.

snowfedup my LO is 5 weeks old and takes approx 5oz per feed but like your LO seems to manage less during the night. I can normally manage 5oz at 10pm but the 2.30am feed is usually about 3oz. I sometimes split feeds so maybe give half the feed at 8.30pm and then try and get him to take the rest at 10pm? Not sure if that will help or not but maybe worth a try?

X

Thanks I did gf with my first and he did really well with it always slept 2 hrs in middle is day and all night at least from 17 weeks when weaned !

I was a bit stressed though and got quite hung up about routine so thought I would go with easy routine but feeling its not working out so well so thought would try gf again !

Anthing to get more sleep !!!

Well we've gone back to feeding every 1.5 hours in the night. On the plus side, just had the first official non-windy smile which lit up her whole little face!

Someone gave me the 'no cry sleep solution' book which I skim read last night. Anyone else read it? There's not a lot in there for newborns. Am tempted by GF now as I like do like routine.

Ps anyone else windy I'm the evenings?! Wondering if its hormone-related or a post c-section thing.

Meh to valentines day
We own a florist and we totally did not consider the timing of our little lady with the hell we call valentines day!!!
Working into the wee hours of the morning 3 weeks post birth on very little sleep is not my idea if fun
Ah well at least it's all over with now ......... Well until monsters day in 3 weeks time

Darcie is adjusting her nights and days now, she spends more time awake during the day, and is sleeping better at night, although still has a lot of trouble with her wind.

I would have liked to follow GF but with a toddler too I don't think it would be suitable for sticking with her routine x