December 2012 - the sleep and poo thread (too much of one, not enough of the other)

[PurplePidjin]

Baby weigh-in this morning - N is now 12lb 7oz (up from 7lb 10 oz at birth). Very proud, but also a bit - obviously knew he was getting bigger, but not that he'd had such a spurt. Makes the weekend's feedathon seem worth it though.

Well today i have reached for the dummy......im not against the uae of them but am worried it may disrupt feeding. If ds genuinly wanted boob cause he is hungry would he happily take the dummy or would he keep crying for milk? At the minute he is happy with dummy but i cant help but worry

ISpy what an amazing weight gain! How old is he now?

Ellie ds will not take his dummy at all if he is hungry. They definitely know the difference.

I would not give weird random stranger lady a lift, certainly not with db on tow.

A dummy might delay baby requesting a feed but only for a short time, after that I imagine you would get some cross spitting out!

We had a mixed night, T went in her basket for a couple of decent stretches - 2 hours ish, unfortunately I was up from 1.30 til 4 feeding and trying to settle her again. Pretty sure she's got the dreaded reflux so have got dr apt for her tom.

New moby wrap has arrived, am v excited to try it out - have tried with dds dolly and all seems good, just need Tabs to wake up from her nap and play with me!

sling meet success! hired a ring sling :) :) :)

Spotty - he's 5+4, can't believe how quickly time"s going. Also agree with everyone else that I would NOT be giving a lift to a random, esp when there was obviously no need!

Ellie - we've just introduced adummy as N seemed to be trying to comfort-suck when he was really tired, and getting angry with the boob for producing milk!It seemed to help him settle for a bit, but he spat it out quickly enough when he was hungry. The only reason we hadn"t tried it sooner really was because his big bro was an absolute dummy refusnik so it wasn't something we ended up doing last time. Yet another way in which they are all different I suppose.

Yay for slings! R napped for 2 hours in his at knitting group today while i made him an Easter Bunny hat to wear in it - ears and tail rather than face as it's only visible from the back :o going to try and sell some, how much would people pay for something like that? £15? More? Less?

I wouldn't let a random stranger get in my car, baby or no baby, unless they were incapacitated through illness and there was no ambulance available. What an odd woman happy to brave AIBU on your behalf if you like?

Dp has decided that he and R should take their afternoon naps together.

I can hear screaming

I have decided it's not my problem

I have a blanket square to finish and a bunny hat to tweak and a nappy wash to hang up

Only if u can tell you YABVVVVVVU she did look really quite elderly that's the only reason I felt bad but like I said she was very mobile!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/1655197-AIBU-to-not-give-this-woman-a-lift

:o

I'm scared now pidj!

It's going well so far

Hehe, will check it out.

Currently got Tabs in the moby - don't think I've perfected it quite yet but she's fast asleep having comfort nibbled the boob. Def feel happier letting go than I did with ring sling. Wish we had a local meet/support group around here.

Spotty & Pidj

Well Jamie hasn't slept all night or all night.. Currently losing my mind! Managed 1h 20m at 3am but nothing since.

Would I have been unreasonable to have told this woman to fuck off? (I did not) I was in boots buying gripe water and canestan when she looked in my basket and said:
Her: you can't give them that til 3 months.
Me: Nope its 1 month.
Her: I don't like that stuff then don't fucking buy it they do something called infacol buy that instead.
Me: I've tried it I said it doesn't work for him.
Her: he's a boy maybe he's just windy.
Me (internally): that's really fucking helpful, I'll remember that at 2am when he's screaming in pain.

Why can't people mind their own business?

I'm with you Willyou! I'm also sleep deprived and I would have been even more scathing to someone like that sticking their nose into my shopping basket.

Gah - I hoped today would be easier, but she's crying so much! She isn't usually a very cry-ey baby so I am perplexed! I just keep offering the boob, and she keeps taking it and that seems to work most o the time, so I guess... Just continue on?

Thanks Mama, Jamie is not a cryer but has spent the entire day wailing . He seems to want to suck for comfort (but doesn't want a dummy) I have been giving my finger. Could you try a dummy? I just want some sleep

Growth spurt MaMaPo?

WillYou how rude of her! Because obviously all babies are the same

I wouldn't mind but her little darling was killing the shit out of a display of Benylin

kicking

We did our first big full day out today. Left at 9.15 and just got home. Tired. Was waiting for DH at one point when a woman came over, looked in the pram and said 'how old?'
Me: nearly 11 weeks
Her: does he sleep at night?
Me: not really
Her (with a smug look): my daughters LO is 8 months and has never slept longer than 2 hours

Me (to dh): well that's really fecking helpful to know isn't it?

It's like horrific birth stories- people -especially older past having babies ones-- go out of their way to tell you the rubbish stuff to try a get a rise out of you.

Grrr. Sounds like lots of us have had interesting experiences with strangers today...

Honey you must be exhausted! I'm tired just thinking about it!

Spotty - I am telling myself it's a growth spurt, as that way it will end sometime! i think there's a 4-6 week or 6 week growth spurt, and she's 5 weeks today so perhaps that's it. She had a less intense version of this at the 3 week growth spurt.

A shame - MIL was supposed to look after her this evening while my husband and i went out for a nice dinner together, but I am so shattered and she's so fractious that we have opted out. I think my husband is particularly disappointed but then again he's not the one who was up all night.

She is lying in her crib grizzling at the moment but I can feel that it will erupt into full blown wails any second now...

mama that's what I normally do! Today DD finally took a dummy for the first time (she's always just spat it out before) and happily sucked it for at least an hour whilst in the carrier so I'm def gonna try that again.

ispy amazing weight gain, well done!!

willyule sounds like a tough night/day, definitely don't need other people giving you useless "advice" when you're sleep-deprived! big hugs

Got some infant gaviscon from the GP today but I'm not convinced that DD has reflux. How do you know? Does gaviscon really help? Can you give both infacol and gaviscon??

peony we had infant gaviscon at the weekend and it was awful. Helped with the sickness but D didn't poo from Saturday till 11.30pm Monday (he normally has about 6-8 small ones a day) and was in so much pain it wasn't worth it. He was miserable until total poomageddan on Monday night resulting in all clothes going in wash, D going I'm midnight bath and DH going for a shower I've been recommended by lots of people to ask for ranitidine as doesn't cause this and is much better if bf. can't remember if you're bf or ff, sorry.

Ds practically hums the whole time when feeding he's so noisy