November 2012 - Starting weaning, what does your baby eat?

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Been in bed two hours. Can't sleep. Stupid FH has wound me up and has been sent to sleep on sofa. I can still hear his snoring and it's winding me up
Paracetamol has sorted headache. But I want to sleep now

Now 3 hours of no sleep. Damn fucking Ewan the sheep not having any batteries left. I need it.

Please please don't let me go back to the days of me posting several night time posts in a row cos I can't sleep

S is awake. Wide awake. Bottles are for fools. As is sleep. Its much more fun to kick the mattress and be a crab, mummy look at me lifting my bum!!

Now shes crying. I cant stop the crying because theres no reason for it. :(

Sounds like there are some rough nights being had

We're just doing feed 2 so not too bad.

izzy with N, after giving her a bottle I started getting her to go down in her pram first, so I could rock it if she stirred. Once she started getting the idea that 8 o'clock was bedtime - not 11 as she previously thought! - I then went straight for the cot. It's taken a while but she mostly goes down ok at some point between 8 and 9. I rock her and put her down asleep.

And we re awake blowing raspberries! Gotta love learning new tricks!

8.30 to 5.50 with a dream feed at 10.45! Don't get me wrong I'm grateful but wtf? How do we get from such an awful night to a perfect night. It leaves me a bit jittery as I don't know what to expect tonight. Still at least I got some decent sleep phew.

Second yy for lactulose GT.

Luis is rather impressively good at wwf isn't he Chasing. I thought I got game but he thrashed me good and proper oo-er

Hope things settled down for you Wanna. Meant to say, the Titanic museum in Belfast is brilliant (book tickets in advance). The Ulster museum is small and great for kids, they have a DIY art room my DSs love. The Folk and Transport museum is excellent, the Ulster-American Folk Park is really good. Be prepared for a lot of hilly walking if you go to Belfast Zoo. The Giants' Causeway is a must but try and go there on a good day as it's quite exposed - it is near to a ruined castle (Dunluce) and the famous (and scary) Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. Seaforde butterfly farm is nice for kiddies and has a big garden and maze. Carrickfergus castle is very good as well. Finally look at the National Trust website for info on places like Mount Stewart and Castle Ward.

8.30 till 4.30 . I am in shock!! ignores fact we have been awake since 4.30

Izzy lots and lots of hugs. I know exactly how you are feeling. At M's worst she was doing two 20min stunts a night max. I was snapping at everyone and too tired to function. What changed for us was DP doing 5 whole nights while I attempted to.log some sleep so I could cope when he went back offshore. (This was also the same week she decided bottles were sooo much better than mummy ). Anyway, we have been very strict with her and she now has a set bedtime routine somewhere between 7pm and 9pm (depending on when she has slept during the day and what we are doing. It is deliberately flexible to work around us but is normally 8pm). I have worked out she goes down best when she is sleepy but not quite asleep. Failing that you need to wait until she is in a deep sleep. We do our own version of CIO too whereby we ignore whinging but anymore than that requires handholding or - for full on meltdowns - cuddles. Also I have kept up BFing overnight when she wants fed as my logic is, if she's hungry she won't fight me. She is a lot more receptive to my boobs overnight than during the day.

You could of course just move into IKEA instead I very nearly moved into my gran's house as that is the only place M sleeps FC you get some sleep soon xxxx

I will cry if we are hit by a 6 month regression in a few weeks!

Stunt I recognise some of those places! (Predominantly due to MIL's obsession with tagging herself on fb everywhere she goes - yes DMIL, I am aware you have a better social life than us and are trying for Granny of the year with your other GC. M is your GC too incase you have forgotten )

GT your other fred mummies are at finding out sex time?! How exciting! How many weeks are you? Are you going to find out?? (sorry can't remember if you did or not with H)

M and I are away to Aberdeen today. I am sooo excited!!

Omg. My pelvic bone feels like its been smashed in with a bat. I'm in so much pain I can't move. N stupid FH is asleep down stairs how the hell can I get worse while I'm asleep

I'm sorry everyone, I am trying to keep up but is impossible. So I have skim read caught up. Even that has taken four days.

mm have a great day in Aberdeen.

I am off to take DH to Heathrow as he has an interview in Dublin for a job in Belfast

O is a gannet. More ganetous than the others. He is currently have 6 ice cubes of mixed veg at lunch with chicken stock and a pudding, and veg and fruit for tea. He loves a rice cake but fingers wil always be his favourite.

I put my foot down at DRs last week in a vq det stylee andgit an inhaler for the cough he has had since he was born and he is loads improved.

Life is crazy but wonderful really.

Ok advice please. Shall I go to A&E? I can't move. My stomach is hurting. My pelvis hurts I can't move.
I've woken stupid fucking H to get LO fed n ready.
I don't know what to do

GT phone triage now and do what they suggest.

gt How did you get on with triage?

Shit nights here too nothing new there then

VQ ranitidine is causing terrific wind here. Hard to get up from the top end, and hard to get out from the bottom end, all of which amounts to lots of grunting, groaning and shrieking between 5 and 7 am. I'm hoping it will improve. It's been 3 weeks though so far

Detective did he manage til 6??

GT let us know how you are - agree with VQ, get yourself seen asap, whatever's going on it doesn't sound pleasant.

My parents are coming down for the day today, it'll be lovely to see them. I'm hoping it stays sunny so we can take F for a walk to the shops as no food, oops

Hope your ok GT.

Sophia so jelous of your LO being a gannet.

detecive hope your having a better morning.

Thanks for all the reassurance, huge hugs all around.
Evil

Everyone was tired last night so we decided to all go to bed at 8. At which point DD1 decided she wasn't tired after all, and was almost literally bouncing off the walls til ten. At which point LO woke up and SCREAMED like she has not done since her ear problems.

Finally all was quiet and I reckon I fell asleep at about half eleven, but woke everyone up at midnight as I had the most vivid dream andwas convinced the bed was crawling with spiders. Lights on and babies up and I felt like a fool. DH went out to go to the loo and tripped over the dog who was asleep across our door way, cue more swearing, shouting, whimpering, lights on and off and upset babies.

Cats had been shut out but realised we were up so set up their Let Us In opera, but realised they weren't getting anywhere and just threw themselves at regular intervals against the shutters. For the rest of the night.

LO was up at 2 and 5, hungry. DD1 also wanted some milk at 5. And I lay awake going through pros and cons of mving house again. At one point I got up to go to the loo andbanged my elbow so fucking hard on the doorframe it is actually swollen this morning.....

I am fairly sure that other than my brief nap which led to the spider dream I didn't sleep at all..

Off to catch up.

GT hope you are OK

Arghh wwf sucks on one game I've got 6 sodding vowels and an L.

GT definitely get yourself seen asap.

PR sorry you had a bad night but you paint a beautiful picture of it. I have done the same re. spiders. Not surprising after your recent experiences.

New bedtime routine experiment not a complete success - dozens of brief wakings requiring Ewan and dummy, then feed needed at 4.30am. Only another hrs sleep after that. Will try again tonight but try and get more milk into him.

Sorry I'm here to have a moan and a whinge an hope that maybe some of you might have a suggestion or 2, I would start a thread but I find they don't get a lot of response.

I'm struggling.

I POAS and it was BFN (thankfully!) but I still feel so run down, I ache in every joint I have, from my toes up into my neck.
I keep getting spells of low level nausea.
I am so weak, I can't squeeze my hand to make a fist.

I thought it might be a low iron level or vitamin problem, I have been taking a breastfeeding multi vitamin every day without fail. I still don't feel any better.

So along with that I have the following issue.

J still has nothing in the way of a feeding routine. He has about 1-2 bottles of formula a week and the rest is bm.

He is suddenly feeding ALL night again, he sleeps latched on, i dip in and out of sleep, this isn't helping the above I'm sure.
He has 2 meals a day, breakfast and dinner, atm it's purees but I'm hoping to start BLW this week.

He is at the point though that he just wants me for food. If DP has him and I'm out of ear/eye shot he will happily be put in his chair with a dummy and settle himself off to sleep, my sister watched him on Friday evening for us and she gave him a bottle, put him in his cot and he was asleep in minutes.
The second he sees or hears me he wont settle, he wants me and he wants to feed until he's asleep, on me.

I love bfing him but I need some routine to it and I need him in his own cot, I'm falling apart because I feel so unwell and I'm not sure if that's contributed to the constant feeding, maybe I'm not eating right or enough?

J is 6 months old, the most I can say he has in the way of routine is that he has breakfast about 8am then milk (bm) until he falls asleep on me then I can get him in his chair, this is about 90% effective and he will sleep anywhere from 30 mins to 2hrs.

Apart from that, I have nothing.

I am also worried I'm not doing enough with him, he seems to spend all his time on me or in his jumperoo or rocking chair or in the car/pushchair. I wonder if he's in need of activities.

Oh and re the not doing much stage, he's 6 months. He doesn't really need to "do" anything. Watching you and the world is entertainment in itself. Don't beat yourself out about that.

Arses....tits I wrote a long post before that other one and it appears to have gone..! Fucking app.

Briefly; The bf, if I get E in the bed with me she will bob on and off the breast all night. Was fine in the early days but now she doesn't need it, it's more for comfort. I let her do this for an hour or so because I'm lazy but as soon as I put her back in the Moses baskets she's fine. She doesn't need milk, just boob for comfort and because its there. I know it's hard but I think perhaps its time to break the getting him in bed with you cycle. I know if I did this with E I'd get more sleep.

Was going to suggest you may be anaemic but i see your on vitamins so I don't know what to suggest, have you seen your gp?

Sorry in not much help. Hopefully a wiser quiche member will come along with some useful advice. In the meantime...virtual hugs are all I can offer.

In maternity triage. I'm 18 weeks so just mk it to be seen here rather then A&E
Hip/pelvic is bad. Stomach cramps r ok now. Waiting to see Physio Now. But pain is bad n I can't walk.

Cause likely to be SPd , earlier then normal due to close pregnancy s. oh dear. I'm having flash back to tits posts last year

Thanks EDD :)

I have just made a GP apt for tomorrow, I might ask but thyroid, my Mum had a very underactive thyroid I'm not sure if its hereditary.

BP Did he fuck. He didn't fucking sleep at all. Well, he did. If he was on me, and being patted.

At 6am, I shouted at DP to get the fuck up as I'd been up all night. Fucking horrendous.

I've slept from 6-11 when I woke with a start very confused. I slept in the deepest sleep I've had since being 32 weeks pregnant. I feel refreshed, but still confused! I had to check DS1 had gone to school I was that confused! I always wake up when DS1 is getting ready, DP is getting ready, when they leave, when they get back, and then at every whinge O makes until I give up and just get up.

But today, nothing. DP said he came in the room a few times and I didn't flinch a muscle.

Off to deal with screamo.