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

[StuntNun]

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Oh shit GT poor you and poor H if that goes on for the rest of your pregnancy. SPD is my biggest fear. I hope they can do something to help. I think with modern medicine its easy to forget what a huge toll pregnancy is on the body. I suppose naturally we're not meant to have wee ones back to back - my HV reckoned the body has natural means to protect Mum by giving the body time to recover between pregnancies (I suppose she means the cessation of periods when BF?). You have RL support don't you to help with H? I hope it works out OK. I know your in laws drive you a bit mad

As for constipation if you don't want to take anything I found kiwi fruits amazingly effective when preggers.

PR collect conkers this autumn. Put them near windows and doors - apparently spiders don't like the smell. It sounds bizarre but works for us.

Drum roll, fan fare, high kicking show girls please!!!! DS slept from 8.30 til 6 and then 6.30 til 8 - the secret - I slept in the spare room downstairs. I think when I'm in the room he smells milk and wants cuddles and snacks. Thank god the velux blinds for his room arrive this week and he can go in his own room though did love having huge bed to myself and DH being the first line of cuddles and soothing. Whoop. OK it might be a fluke but going to do it for the next two nights to see if we can establish a new routine.

Getthafuckinnnnnnnn

I think we might move in the autumn. Bit fed up of this house. Childproofing the garden is impossible.

Thanks YW. Pil are still in India so we r alone. But mum is only 5 mins away. Sis has wed off. Mum has thurs off. So that will b good FH has fri-mon off. N think he has called work to say he can't come today. Just the pain is awful. Like a stabbing pain in my pubic bone. No position is comfy n I want to sleep.

PANIC.

So this interview is tomorrow. Just got my Birth Cert out and the fucking sticker has been peeled off. Thanks DD1!!!

Is it invalid now? They dont let you participate if you dont produce RTW in UK. I dont have a passport. GAH!

PR you illustrate a shit night beautifully! Sounds utterly horrendous.

Nice one YW!

VQ I seem to remember that P had explosive farts about 5-7 days after starting ranitidine. Nothing now though.

I have one sleepy baby today! She was awake at half 7 when DH went to work but went back to sleep. Got up at 9:15am, put her back down at 11am and she's still asleep. She had a big feed at 4:30am but since then has only had two tiny feeds as she was too interested in the tv

Thinking about it she slept lots yesterday, from 1-3:15, then 4:30-6:30 then went to bed at 8:15.

Means I'm getting plenty of jobs done though.

I want a sleepy baby. Both mine are on nap strike this afternoon. Have made DD1 sit at table while I mop (open plan so can't close off any of the main part of the house) and she is whining as she wants to get down.

But I have to clean the bloody floor some time and if she won't sodding well nap then I will make the time she should be napping as unfun as possible. Don't want her thinking skipping her lunchtime nap is a good idea.

I was hoping to have a short nap too but that idea is pretty fucked now.

Wednesday is a public holiday here so will be moving LO into the other bedroom and will explain to DD1 that she can move in there too when she sleeps in her own fucking bed.

Some rubbish nights last night it seems for those in need.
Our night wasn't terrible, feeds at 1 and 4, in with me from 5:30 and up for the day at 7. I think he wakes at 5:30 because that's when it gets light. He did a 5.5 hour stint, which is the third night in a row so am crossing my fingers that we are getting somewhere. He is coping well with just having 3oz at his second feed and he is feeding better in the morning so will decrease this to 2oz in a couple of days.

Tried baby rice again today. He took the first two mouthfuls and pulled a yucky face. I gave him the spoon to play with, with some baby rice smeared on it and he preferred being able to feed himself, until he hurt his gums on the spoon. And screamed. And screamed some more.

I know he likes the taste of broccoli so am going to try it as a puree tomorrow. I'm getting the feeling that he prefers to be able to feed himself rather than being spoon fed, but I want to check with a familiar taste first.

We need a vom emoticon. I hate broccoli

Sorry for the sleepy baby with so many of you struggling with none sleepers, it wasn't a stealth boast honest.

She's awake now, went up to check on her think surely she can't still be asleep and she was awake playing in her cot.

We're going swimming to the private pool again this evening, I'm excited. Hope M loves it as muc as last time

Hope your ok GT

Have fun in Aberdeen MM

Not sure about the birth certificate wanna I've never had to take one to an interview before. Good luck! You'll be fab

GT I'm afraid that sounds like definite SPD :( I'm still suffering, in fact I have physio this afternoon. I'm the exception rather than the norm tho. Physio will likely strap you up with tubigrip and support belt and crutches of necessary.

We co slept all night last night. He wouldn't settle in cot yet slept 10.10pm til 4.40am then fed and back asleep til 6.30 and another feed and sleep for an extra wee hour. This is good but I don't sleep when he's in my bed!!!

I am honestly so fed up of broken nights and I just don't know what to do. He has a feed in morning and goes a stupidly long time between feeds. I need to get this changed to a nice big gap at nighttime!!! Help!!

Oh and whoever asked we don't have a bedtime routine or bath daily. He has horrendous skin so advised no daily bath. Current situation is feed downstairs, he either feeds to sleep or falls asleep on one of us then is carried to bed.

Izzy I have a similar problem, O was feeding a lot at night but then not hungry until lunchtime. I have started to reduce his second night feed (3/4am) so that he wakes hungry. It has started to work after 4 days and we got a 5.5 hour first stretch last night.

I'm sorry I can't remember if you are bf or ff so this advice may be completely irrelevant

fatima we share the good and the bad on here don't worry one day when you'll be tearing your hair out I'll be updating the fred on LO's passing grade 8 piano while finishing her dissertation and eating her first birthday cake :o

chasing J is still BF. I could reduce his night feeds by removing him from breast sooner but he snuffles around and keeps trying to latch on until he's content so its trickier than reducing by an oz or so :(

izzy you must be really struggling Could you introduce a bottle of EBM for night feeds to try and wean him off the comfort factor of bf? I'm sorry I have no decent advice for you, but I can offer you plenty of , and

If I want to use some frozen puree tomorrow do I just leave it in the fridge overnight? Should I heat it before I use it?

Chasing yep keep it in the fridge to defrost and either leave it out to come up to room temperature or zap for a few secs in the microwave (making sure there are no hotspots). Cold puree was the only thing that made j wince when weaning - I served straight from the fridge whoops!!!!!

Mr IKEA has delivered our nooooo sofa bed. Tis lovely. So haggis quiche if anyone can be arsed to schlep through to Kirkcaldy - there is now space for tea and chit chat

Izzy I think Chasing's idea about a bottle of EBM sounds really good. Also I wonder if you have a wee Mummy's boy like me (meant in the nicest way!). It might be a total fluke but Jonas slept so well in his cot when I wasn't in the room - I'm guessing there was no milk smell to make him think of food not sleep. Could you sleep in another room for the night and DH attempt to settle (with the proviso that if J is inconsolable then he really does want fed not comfort you're happy to give 1 or 2 feeds)?

YW I'll be in St Andrews in July...

Izzy you really need a bedtime routine. It tells your baby that it is time to go to sleep. It's the most important thing you can do when there are sleeping issues.

Yep Stunt that's a v important point.

OK Izzy you can't do bath time but maybe a bit of baby massage, change into a fresh sleep suit then into sleeping bag for a story - all in a dim quiet room before fed to sleep then into cot? To prevent endless hours of comfort feeding when we instigated bedtime I would feed the bear for 40 mins / hour then hand him over to DH if still awake to be shooshed to bed. I knew he was full. It worked after two nights. Routine at bedtime is so important. Its annoying to feed upstairs whilst adult life continues downstairs but once he's in a routine with an earlier bedtime its less of a bind. Better that than feeding all evening on the couch.

You poor thing you must be going mad with it. Two weeks of shit sleep have had me threatening nutramigen so you deserve a medal xxx

Stunt wahey!!! MM and I and other local quichettes am sure would love to say halloooo in July

Izzy we start a routine at 6.15, some nights she has a bath, others not, then from 7 she begins her feedathon. Bedtime is when it is - anything between 7.30 and 9.30.

How far can babies smell milk from then, do you think? I was thinking of moving Fs crib to the corner of our room so she can't smell me, sbout 3m away, but is that going to make any difference??

I forget who was feeling shit under the weather - I would get baseline bloods checked, yes to thyroid, and try to crack the nocturnal feeding. I'm as bad as they come, too lazy to rock back to sleep overnight so whip out a boob and nod off. I know she's not hungry. She goes longer between feeds in the day ffs. But too tired to try to crack the nights. It's a vicious circle.

Det I need one of those sleeps!
GT ow.

BP It was amazing. But the lead up to it was fucking horrific!

Izzy did you read about my utter cock of a night? Well, it was all down to the fucked up bedtime routine, when he vomited everywhere, it just all went downhill.

Bedtime routine for us has been crucial in bringing bedtime to a reasonable time, and getting the longer sleeps finally.

Ours is very very simple. As soon as he looks tired any time after 7.15, we go upstairs. The bedroom curtains are closed, he is changed upstairs with a clean nappy put on and swaddled. We then feed. Often he is screaming his head off before we get to the feed, but as soon as the milk is on his lips, you can see him relax and start to get sleepy. By the end of the feed if he hasn't fallen asleep, I put his snuggly blanket around him, and rock him with the white noise on. He buries his head in the blanket, and in fact prefers the damn thing covering his face up. The whole thing takes around 30 minutes. The actual getting him to sleep bit is 3-5 minutes.

It's not perfect, but it does work. And when it goes wrong - we get last nights results! But we knew we would....!

So dark room, change and feed. Done.

Right I have a plan...thoughts please..

I know he won't go down before 10pm at the earliest but I thought I could give a bottle of ebm at 7pm then do jammies and bag for 9.45pm and a further ebm bottle at 10pm upstairs then into cot. I hope this might start a routine and I could bring feeds and bedtime forward by 15 minutes each night?!?

It's my only idea!!