January 2013 Part Two: Coos and smiles but not always so much sleep...

[SpringFlowers]

Our first thread has almost finished so I thought we'd need a new one!

Glad your all getting out with your babies! No classes for Ivy and me she comes with us to library and parties at the weekends and hopefully will start going to rhyme time at library, more for me than her but used to like going with the others. Local pool does baby sessions and may sign up for those. Am quite enjoying being just us at home whilst dcs at school.

She talks now and its lovely to sit and 'chat' and make her smile and chuckle. Its so cute.

Ivy slept 12-5 last night! Was good but she wouldn't settle after that.

Seen it Pascha I keep planning to take a bath but life gets in the way lol! Bunty could you describe what you'd do? I'm holding him in cross cradle, left hand in a C hold round my left breast, right hand supporting baby's head. I tried to let go of his head (it was supported by pillow), but hard to get right pinky in - mouth is buried deep in my ginormous boob, shaped like shark, and his mouth is tiny still, getting my finger in just seems to totally de latch?

Was supposed to be going to bf cafe at 1pm today but he has just finished a mammoth feed - what is the point! Lol

Sorry too many lols! I am 33 wouldn't you know .

Ok, how I'd do it - change to a cradle hold. So, left arm cradling baby use your right hand, pinkie finger, to pull the jaw slightly down. Latch shouldn't be lost, but you should then be able to wiggle the lip out, and also some more boob in.

If you're really stuck, I'll see if I can video it with DH help
Tonight and YouTube or something

I need a slap. I sat watching sixteen and counting and the thought 'i could easy have another one' popped in my head.

Ooh lora, i watch that and thank god i've only got 4! Those people are nuts :) can't imagine what having that many does to your body...mines a total wreck! (although little babies are perhaps a little addictive)

I wonder how allchick and twinkle are doing they havent posted for a long time.

The woman at the la leche thing i went to yesterday was talking about a nursing suplementor, its like a bag and a tube, the tube goes into your babies mouth with your nip to help increase supply

.... Stoopid phone.

So has anyone used one?

I've been thinking I could have another one since a couple of hours after labour! Crazy that I am... I keep thinking of I got pregnant now it wouldn't be a disaster but think I'll enjoy Bailey for a wee while yet. We only got round to actually doing the deed for the first time this morning! Was the quickest and most unromantic session ever with Bailey crying in his basket and hubby not lasting very long owing to it being so long since we've done anything! Oh well...

I am taking DD swimming tomorrow, really excited about it. I am taking a friend to help me, as I think the logistics of getting changed and getting her in and out of the pool, might be quite tricky.

I have taken her to baby massage and it was nice but tbh I think she might be a bit too young for it - she enjoyed it for a little while but then cried and I spent the rest of the class feeding her. One poor woman's baby cried the whole time.

I saw a newborn baby at the Dr's today and started feeling broody again -I am mad.

Hi all,

My LO will be 10 weeks old on Friday, we haven't gone to any baby classes yet, is that bad? I wasn't sure if I should wait till he has his 2nd lot of jags? Have only just started venturing out with him by myself in the car to the shops etc and whilst it is good to get out, hate it when he screams or cries in his pram as feel everyone stares at you! Now he is that little bit older he doesn't sleep as much during the day and I find it hard to keep him content while awake if that makes sense. I do get lots of smiles and coos but find he isn't overly happy to lie in his cot awake so taking him out can prove a tad stressful :)

Hope everyone else is well, this thread is so busy and I try and catch up every few days, cannot believe we all have our wee babies now! Seems ages ago we were all fretting about scans etc!

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Newbie I haven't been to any groups either, and have also only just started venturing out by myself with her. And it's only twice we've done that. I'm really shy so I'm making going to these groups a huge deal when I'm sure it'll be fine.

Pregnancy seems like a lifetime ago doesn't it?!

I'm dreading to think what my boobs will be like when Nancy gets over this cold - she's feeding constantly the last couple of days. So so horrible to see her unwell, she's still smiling though bless her. Doing better than DH with a cold already!

Newbie i barely left the house with ds1 for the first 6 months and there certainly weren't any classes. They don't need any of them at this point. Have you gota baby gym all mine loved theirs and it gives youva break from trying to entertain them. Fwiw ds1 is doing just as well.as his friends who went to all the baby classes :)

at this age the classes are really for you, not the baby. I am really sociable and can't bear to be stuck in the house all day which is why I go to lots.

Creepy i'm really shy too and found toddler groups really hard. I always went to rhyme time as its more structured (and free)

I'm not really sure how to play with DS either, newbie. He likes to lie on his back and kick, so I let him do that whilst I dangle things over his head to look at. Other than that I really have no idea!

We are enrolled in swimming lessons and have been going to a post-natal group. Really enjoying meeting other mums and swapping ideas etc. The woman who runs it has some weird ideas though. At the last session she suggested one of the other mums let her baby CIO. He is 16 weeks old but was 8 weeks premature, and he has a hole in his heart. I don't like the idea of CIO at the best of times, but surely it's a really bad idea for this little one?

In other news, DS has been feeding practiccaly all day. I feel literally drained!

Thanks all, I thought baby gym was a class, I'm so stupid, ha ha! Like you guys, I sing to him (poor boy!), let him lie on his back on his playmat and shake his rattle etc at him and also try and massage him etc but it can be hit and miss if he likes it so only do that if I get smiles! Poor boy must know I'm clueless!

I do want to meet other mums so will venture to one after he has his 12 week jabs, oh my....so many new things to experience :)

X

I have booked baby group to start after Easter, although only really doing it because i feel guilty that i did loads with DD1. I quite like just chilling and going on my own little jaunts. Hoping i will feel more enthusiastic once she starts sleeping better. I have also booked swimming but it's a private lady and i don't have to get in :-). The other thing i keep considering is buggy fit but i hate exercise at the best of times so only going to go when weather picks up.

Thanks Bunty, have given that a go but in cradle his latch is worse than ever, he just grasps the nipple and nothing wider at all??

I've been really struggling last few days with Charlie, he cries for about two hours almost every night even tho I am doing everything possible for the colic. Apparently when he goes to his dad's he's good as gold I just find it so hard to cope with the crying and end up in tears myself.

Went to baby clinic and he's on 50th centile so doing well but then they measured his head and said it was way above where it should be which freaked me out a bit!

Not been a good day

Hormonal a lady i spoke to said they can go ages and be fine but then as soon as they see or hear you they want you. Either for food or just comfort. I can see where shes coming from, the other morning he woke up for his dinz and was fine with his dad changing him etc then as soon as i appear im cried at :'(

Ok so totally out of the blue, DS has just slept for a 7 1/2 hr stretch. He usually goes 3-4 hours before waking for a feed. I had to wake him! Did I do the right thing? Him sleeping through would be amazing but I worry that that's a long time to go between feeds - I was expecting to gradually space the might feeds apart not suddenly get rid of them...of course tonight might just be a fluke anyway

Don't wake him, woody!. He's old enough to wake when he's hungry, unless there are issues with his weight gain.

Thanks Bunty. If it happens again tonight I definitely won't wake him. He has absolutely no problems with weight gain (he's a whopper) and you're right, he'll let me know if he's hungry. He only had a snack at 2.30 - not really interested - and has been asleep ever since. Really hoping this isn't a one-off...

Really Lora? I thought I just made him miserable as when he's with other people he smiles n coos but I get the crying.

I prob find it hard because at tea time when he's at his worst I've no-one to pass him too