December 2012: Sunshine, saliva & sleeping more...we hope!

[WeeJo08]

New thread ladies

utopian it's always been my understanding that the safest car seat is the lowest stage that they fit in re: size/weight ranges. This is why my 8+6yos are still in high backed boosters. So personally I'm not looking for a forward facing yet. You can get mirrors they you position on the headrest behind baby so they can see you in the rear view. Would this make it better at all?

R has a jellykat dragon and a lamaze peacock clipped to the sides which keep him calm. I'm also careful not to over dress him, it's warmer in the back of my car than the front. He's usually just in clothes, no blankets although i put a light (aran weight acrylic crocheted) one over him after he got cold at the beach today. I think because he's normally wrapped, he wears fewer clothes than most babies. Push chair babies i see seem to be either swamped under pram suits and blankets or burning their cold legs in shorts R was fine today (sunny and breezy) in lined corduroy trousers, long sleeved vest and light knitted jumper (sirdar baby bamboo, thanks Aunty Roz!) well, up until the sun went in at 5pm in the cliff top cafe! Are the ragey babies dressed for a pushchair and therefore too hot?

Not trying to be patronising btw, my friend was doing this to her 4mo - and using her dc's hand as a guide to temperature. Things got better for her since i told her R's hands are normally freezing due to being slobbered on so i go by the back of his neck! Child now wears noticeably fewer layers and is often seen in a sling despite Mum's initial horror. I appear to have converted half the village

We have DD in a rear facing seat still, the BeSafe Izi. We'll move her into a high backed booster when A grows out of his baby seat.

A was certainly a quicker labour than DD- 4 vs 29 hrs. But that's all I'll say.

Hope you feel better tomorrow WL.

I absolutely have to be better tomorrow - I hate being ill and am very bad at it!

T having an unusually early feed. I don't mind, I've missed her little fuzzy head today!

Fingers crossed for you WL

This afternoon DBiL, DSiL and DNeph came round today and DNeph (2) was screaming the house down crying. This set J off and we eventually worked out it was his teeth as he screamed solidly for 4 hours. We dosed him up but it wasn't touching the pain. He only stopped when we went out for an hours drive to knock him out

Hmm second early wake up...

Oh actually I can't tell the time, this is a normal wake up time!
willyou that sounds horrendous!

We're on second wake up so not bad. Ds seems to move from the bottom of his cot to the top in between feeds now

willyou we had that the other day, thankfully we were going out anyway so it was only an hour before he went in the car.

12, 2.30, 4. 5.30

D has a cold which is making him miserable and shouty and he's very kindly now given it to me I may spend today being miserable and shouty

WRT next babies- we're not not trying- we aren't using any contraception but periods are yet to make a return so I'm not holding my breath. If we aren't pregnant again by the end of the year we'll start officially 'trying'

Ds woke at 5:15 for a feed then only went down until 5:50

Poor dash honey! and you How's he getting on with the cup?

Thanks spotty he's doing better now we've tried some different cups. Still spits water everywhere but were getting there!

D seems to be

On car seats, DS1 is in the Maxi Cosi Pryori fix but will be moving to a high backed booster soon. We moved him into the Pryori once he reached 9kg, however since then I've found out lots more about rear facing being far safer so don't intend to move N into it until his head is over the top of his Cabriofix.

Damn phone...

D seems to be eating quite a bit compared to others! Yogurt and banana for breakfast, bits if finger food (mainly just played with) during the day and a veg purée with either a little chicken or cream cheese mixed in followed by fruit purée with yogurt or custard!

T was up 4 times in the night so I guess either she didn't feed as much as normal yesterday or being poorly affected my supply. She was in with a couple of times between 5&6 but it was worth the battle to settle her as she then slept til 8.30! Unheard of.

Honey ds eats quite a bit too. He had his breakfast with cows milk this morning and I will introduce meat this week too.

Are you feeling better WL?

A bit better in myself but still awful throat. Today I'm going with the ignore it plan and taking dcs out with their friends.

Sorry to hear about the illnesses, I've got the sore throat/hot and cold shivers combo. I'm wondering if that's what J had yesterday. No wonder he was grumpy.

He's unfillable at the minute so I think it's time to start weaning. He's 23 w. He drank 42 oz during the day yesterday and still woke at 1:30am and 6 for 7oz a time. He's still a skinny Minnie though so maybe he's just putting on some Chubb finally. Must get him weighed soon.

My house is a tip today so I shall be attempting to tidy it as and when I'm allowed to.

It's horrid isn't willyou, everyone seems to have it. Lots of paracetamol. That's a lot if milk! He must have a fast metabolism if he's still skinny - is he long? Have you tried the hungry baby formula?

Sorry to hear about illnesses. And wow at your greedy monster, Willyou. Sometimes I get very curious to know how much baby C drinks, but as she's ebf and rarely takes a bottle I guess we'll never know.

WillYou that's a lot of milk! Is he a sicky baby? It's good that he's feeding so well will be interesting to see how much he weighs

Thanks everyone for car seat replies. He has a favouritejelly cat zebra aand Freddie the firefly with him, plus the Tomy car mirror, but each one is only a temporary distraction. I wondered about him being too hot pidj, but he's a sling baby too, so unlikely to be too many clothes and we've tried turning the air con cooler.
I genuinely think it's a combination of boredom and hating the position, which is why forward facing is my only guess as a solution..

Utopian - just an idea but I've found T to be much better in his car seat now that I make sure I leave enough time after feeding before I put him in. Usually at least 30m to an hour. The 'scoop' eating position puts pressure on their tummies and can make then uncomfortable.

He's not at all sicky Spotty, I'm going to take him to clinic on Thursday. It's been around 2 weeks now that he's been having this much. He was under the 9th centile before it started. I'll post a picture on Facebook so you can see the little beanpole I've not tried hungry baby, I'm a bit worried about it upsetting him as he goes through long bouts of constipation!

Ski I think you asked about the fb group? It's run by Honey so you just pm her for details.

He looks a perfect size WillYou :)

I've just written my CV now my brain is fried. Personal profiles are the worst. I don't want to go back to work yet but there's a job I've seen that I like the look of and they're pretty hard to come by these days.... no idea what I'd do with DS! I don't think he will be happy without me

Honey DS has only, in the last couple of days, started to take proper mouthfuls of his drink. Only two at a time though and the rest gets dribbled out!