December 2012: Dribbles, giggles and rolls!

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Thought we should get a new thread before the night shift

Nope no number plate. Dd learnt a few new words though

We've only given calpol once but slowly in a syringe works for us.

I'm so stressed I actually feel like going out and not coming back for a while....

weejo we developed our medicine blitzkrieg attack after we had to give him some drops for oral thrush and he simply wouldn't stop spitting it out. The introduction of the dummy changed all that.

Seconds The problem is C won't take a dummy :( We tried on the flight over to Chicago last month as we thought it might help if her ears got sore & she just spat it out, or rather just couldn't (or wouldn't) keep it in her mouth & suck it.

Weejo we give from the syringe in tiny amounts and i say yum yum yum till she swallows, it takes ages but she doesn't spit it out anymore

Spotty what a wanker, hope you and DC's are ok

I got DS to take a dummy today for the first time in a week, it's not one of the ones he refused point blank to have in his mouth before and he's still refusing the ones which were the only ones he would take he didn't want it to go to sleep but it Kept him quiet during story time. He went to bed suspiciously easily today. Although I'm in the bedroom with him watching tv and eating biscuits as DH has gone to play squash.

Sounds good to me IsThat!

I'm having feeding issues, any advice welcome... Ds keeps hitting me in the face when feeding he's generally fussy at the moment anyway but it's really annoying me. He also keeps pushing against the sofa/bed/chair (wherever we're sat) with his feet whilst feeding. I'm getting frustrated...

Good evening all. I am new to mums net & only just discovered the postnatal bit, can I join? Have a lovely December born DD who does not sleep! Sympathising with the 4 month sleep regression sufferers as we have now had 4 weeks of waking 1-2 hourly every night yuk!

Welcome hels lots of sympathy on the lack of sleep zzzzzz

helsbels welcome, fx we've just got over the sleep regression in our house, but there are many others still going through it.

DS wakes 45 minutes after he goes down for the night (between 7 and 7.30 depending on when I get the others to bed), feeds and then goes back to sleep. Not the worst thing in the world but its when I'm normally trying to make our dinner! Lol

Welcome hels.

At what point should I become concerned about spitting up? Is the quantity brought up? Or the frequency?

Welcome hels - when was your daughter born? Sympathies for the crappy sleep - you have plenty of company around here.

Spotty, I have a similarly fidgety feeder. She's not hitting too often, and will mostly tolerate me holding her free hand while she feeds. (She also tends to rub her eye really forcefully, so I try to stop that too). She is a bugger for kicking though - I now can't sit with a pillow or the edge of the chair near her feet, as she will dislodge herself constantly. I guess I don't have any advice, except for trying not to have anything in contact with the feet.

Bit of both ski I suppose?

Thanks mama nice to know I'm not the only one!

Welcome helsbels.

spotty I don't know about the feeding but Z is a real kicker especially recently. I wonder if its just a phase? What I have found today, though, is that he was wearing a pair of trousers and no socks and was fascinated with looking at his feet, and he didn't kick while he looked at his feet.

skibunny Z is a spitter-up. I don't know at what point it might become an issue but I just wanted to let you know you're not alone. I think sometimes for him he is taking in a bit too much food, but sometimes I think he's just a bit more delicate, eg today he's spat up loads but then he's also had a sniffle too so might have a bit of a bug. Are you using infacol, because if so, you may find there's less spitting up without it. I was recommended infacol by my doctor but found that it made things worse.

Hmm he's not much of a kicker otherwise.... He doesn't do it an night either?

Argh up for first feed already!

Dp has gone to his brothers birthday meal but he only left here half an hour ago and is only going for a drink and he said he will drive to and from sil's birthday evening (ha! (To SIL not dp)).

Welcome Hels.

FOD - N couldn't have his jabs last time either as he was still on antibiotics for his dodgy belly button. He's due to have them on Thursday now, and I'm really hoping that the fact he's had a bit of a temp today doesn't scupper it as they only have the clinic once a fortnight - a month late seems quite bad.

No, no infacol seconds. He's not normally a very sicky baby, occasionally just a bit of undigested milk if he over eats, like you said. Today he has thrown up quite a few times and it is curdled. It's not a huge amount each time. I think he's teething, could it be related? His wee cheeks are rosy and he's even more chompy than usual.

DD born on December 14th. Thanks for sympathy.
We also have some fussy feeding much worse when things to distract her. I find if I feed her lying down on the bed it helps- but no good if you are out doing baby stuff/drinking cappuccinos!

Weejo until you said that a dummy was no good I was going to suggest trying the dummy I saw in mothercare the other day, which you just fill with medicine.

A seems to take his medicine really well so far. I just put a little at a time in from a syringe. I've also used a tiny (1.25ml, looks like a toy) spoon which worked. DD decided she was feeling ill this evening and "wanted to take medicine nicely like Anthony".

Ski, I think teething makes them drool loads, and I think someone on here said that when they swallow lots of saliva it can lead to more curdled sicks. No idea if this is true or not. Then again, C was sick/possetted on me constantly today, so I should know what it's about. She's not usually sicky either, but man - my tshirt was wet in places, and there's a nice stain on the leather sofa.

I have been out to choir tonight :)

I have left The Little Mister with my DH and my Mum in the day but going out in the evening seemed different.

Apparently The Little Mister screamed for 20 minutes and got all hot and bothered and finally gave in and took a bottle. Logically I knew he would be fine but I was worried about leaving him when he has a nasty cold.

ski has you LO had a cold too or am I remembering wrong? ds's cold has made him pukey. But I think teething can too.

DS loves his feet, he is highly unimpressed that he's not quite flexible enough to get his toes in his mouth. He's also learnt to take his socks off. He's usually kicky but only does it while feeding if I'm working, where he kicks the arm I use to move the mouse!

barbeasty you can also just put calpol into a bottle teat (obviously you have to be careful they don't take too much air at the end of the medicine.

Nope, no cold isthat, thankfully. Although DH hasn't been feeling well for a few days so I hope he's not getting sick!

Yeah, that makes sense mama, thanks.

Second wake up....

welcome helsbels!

yup to the several weeks of 1-2 hour wake ups and yup to feeding in dark room lying down! though due to tongue tie we've been lying down ti feed for some time. It was snipped a few weeks ago but we're back to lying down due yo distractibility!