March 2013 - still too sleep deprived to think of a funky title

[StormyBrid]

Old thread here.

We seemed to be running out of space (again) so I made us a new thread.

Good night here too, down with no problem at 7.50, awake at 8.30 but quick burp & cuddle & back down. Awake at 9.15 but shush/pat & bak down, awake at 1 but ignored & back down & didn't feed until 3.15! Then back down until 7 & then into bed with me where she's still snoozing! If only every night was like this!

I need to make sure we have a nice day today, in laws coming tomorrow which always makes for a stressful weekend. I think I'm going to set up a tally for how many times she'll tell me this baby needs 'real' food.

Oh yes, completely forgot, congratulations on the completion Leni & good luck with the move!

That's a great result soyo - Just keep up with the not feeding every time she wakes and she'll get the idea.
And also congrat to leni - fun times!

Go miniYo! Also, milk is totally real food when you're a baby. And even if it weren't, what's the point in giving food to a baby who isn't ready for it? We're still just on the odd piece of toast here, but it doesn't actually get eaten, just played with. Hand to mouth co ordination is definitely improving though - when I went to get her after the last, she was lying on her side, dummy in hand, pulling it out of her mouth and putting it in again.

We have the health visitor here to weigh later. She's a student, cos the usual one's away for a while. Very tempted to mention the toast and see how she deals with it.

Twenty one weeks today, Eig - is it smushy pear time in your house? And where on earth did the last five months go?

Woohoo for better nights!

And congratulations on your flat Leni. You're in for a busy week eh? But at least when you sit down with that first cuppa, surrounded by boxes in your new flat, with your gorgeous baby screaming nearby, you'll have the satisfaction of knowing its all yours!

Stormy enjoy your five month check. I got given a shitload of rubbish including a laminated sheet describing the main food groups and how to eat a balanced diet. I know they have to talk to people from all walks of life, including those who may have no clue that its not ok to feed Big Macs to a newborn but I hated every second of her visit. Most of the stuff she came with is already in the bin. If you're lucky though you may get a tube of baby toothpaste.

In a moment of weakness yesterday I had a slice of toast and Nutella. Cue DS grabbing a crust and smearing Nutella all over his chops. Bad mummy! He just sucked it though so I still win. That hv is never coming to my house again!

Oh and not just the last five months, but the last year! Thinking that this time a year ago I was just ten weeks pregnant is a bit of a mindfeck to be honest.

Already got baby toothpaste - perks of having a dental nurse for a sister. Don't have a baby toothbrush though. Or any baby teeth to brush.

Re feeding babies big macs, I have a horrible feeling my neighbour (due her third in January) will do this. She's got a five year old and a two year old and they have takeaway pizza every night. Obviously we're not meant to judge one another's parenting choices, but in this case I can't stop myself.

any soyo and stormy good nights? If you can pull that off in this heat things must be going very well. Good work babies and mummies.

DD slept through Tues and Weds night. In fact I got in bed at 11 on Tues night and didn't get out of bed until 7 on Wednesday which made me want to swing from the rafters. That's not happened since 2012 what with the pregnancy middle of night wee thing. HOWEVER, last night was an out of bed not that I was counting but 9 times type of night. Bit like you Leni. No fun eh? Are you renting out your supernaturally cool room worse? If so, please start tenant checks on me.

Our local sure start centre is running a summer hols 'baby mouth/dental care' session. What's to learn I wonder?
Currently packing car for a camp weekend. This time with DH also, and meeting 2 other couples with 5 month old babies. Only going an hour up the road to Holt so if it's a disaster we can come home. It's been bucketing down all morning which is bliss. But it can stop soon.

Wishing you all happy weekends...because in our rather strange world it's started already right?

Happy hols eco. You're welcome to my sofa any time, but it would mean you'd have to live with me . A frightening prospect...

Congrats on the flat Leni, brilliant news. Hope the move goes smoothly and ds sleeps better in his new pad.

Good luck for the weekend SoYo. You're MIL sounds like a tedious house guest. I'd say ignore ignore ignore, but that might be difficult, so my only advice is it might be best to refrain from punching her. If you manage that you can give yourself a big pat on the back for coping so well.

All's well here, other than the fact I am beyond pi55ed off with the s*dding NHS. I know they delivered the worselet safe and sound, for which I am eternally grateful, but given I'd really like a worselet2, I just wish they would do something other than faff about the pain I'm in. I think it's PID myself, which causes infertility if left untreated, and they are just leaving it. I've had it for months now. I think it would be fair to say I'm a pretty mellow person, not given to wild emotional outbursts, but frankly, today, I could kill someone.

Wors you need swabs and a pelvic ultrasound. Keep pestering the GP or if they're being useless it might be worth a visit to A&E in the hope they'll get gynae to see you who will then book you a clinic appointment. Is it the GPs you're having trouble with? Have you asked to see a different one?

Thanks SoYo, I made a fuss, and DH made a fuss also, so I now have a referral and some more abx. I suspect DH's fuss was the more effective, as whereas I ask for stuff he just sort of tells iykwim. It's a bit rubbish that it takes a major middle class strop to get anywhere.

MY GP is lovely btw, just a bit, well, slow about stuff.

So, I'm officially in a good mood again, and not about to kill anyone

Excellent. Glad you're sorted. DH is home from work, has all next week off & says he wants some quality time with his girls, fingers crossed the sunny mood lasts for us all as it might be a lovely family week.

Dinners ready to go in the oven and I'm just attempting bedtime although I suspect madam might throw a wobbler through the night tonight so we don't get complacent after last night, happy to be proven wrong though!

Enjoy the camping Eco, has anyone else got any good weekend plans?

I just had something vaguely resembling a good night's sleep! Bed at half ten, asleep by eleven, woke at twelve fifteen when the baby did but could hear the man heading upstairs with milk, went straight back to sleep without even opening my eyes! Woke at half six for a wee and she woke up while I was on the loo. Three flozzes drunk and a big poo cleared up, and we are both now back in bed. Fingers crossed she goes back to sleep!

How does one switch from three hourly to four hourly bottles, just randomly make her wait one day? Yesterday at my dad's he fed her an hour later than she wad due, and she drank the whole bottle in record time and wanted more. It's the first time in ages she's had a full bottle for him. But I'm worried that, with only four daytime bottles, it'll only take her pissing about with one and her intake for the day will end up lower than I'm comfortable with. Anyone have any words of wisdom?

Stormy I have absolutely no words of wisdom on lengthening feeds (madam had one every 2-3hrs overnight despite many efforts to settle without) but I do have congratulations on the good night!!

Stormy, my words for wisdom are you still needs 5 feeds but have four I. The daytime and one at 11pm (or so) until solids established then drop 11pm.

All is good here we are christening dd tomorrow and having a party, she asnt been I'll for weeks but had a sniff ths morning so pay frame tha this isn't another illness!! Surely we've had enough!

And that I will one day be able to write in sentences that make sense!

EBW has a plan for this Stormy. On phone ATM and off out then but will try to look up and report back later if noone else has answered by then.

The boy just did it by himself a few weeks back, feeding on demand and went from 8 feeds per 24 hrs to 6. I kept feeling guilty that I'd 'missed' him being hungry and trying to feed him and that just caused screaming. So I stopped. We have new rhythm and he's still gaining so guess all ok.

Was v proud of him last night. Went out to friends for first time past his bedtime. Bonus nap and feed had him lovely while he was cooed over, then bedtime story and Ewan and he went out without a whimper in his carrycot. Everyone very impressed (including me!)

Will check EBW after this smoke, cheers pud. Incidentally, my phone wanted to correct that to PhD.

Sending lots of healthy immune system boosting thoughts your way, Eig. When I say we need to switch from five feeds to four, I mean during the day - at the moment it's five day feeds and usually two night feeds. Ideally I'd like to drop a night feed and a day feed. But not both at once is probably best... I dunno.

I mentioned toast to the hv yesterday and didn't get lectured! And she said we don't need to wait until exactly six months, we need to pay attention to the baby and start when she's ready. Going to test the tongue thrust with some baby rice after lunch. Exciting!

Oh, and it turns out I slept right through the 12.15 and woke at the 3am, which the man failed to write down. He says she was doing press ups in her cot and only drank two ounces, so guessing she didn't wake from hunger then, but just rolled too far and couldn't roll back.

We've been on 5 feeds for a while, sometimes only half of one or two of though, but DS is past 16lbs now - double his birth weight was back at 14lb! So i'm still just feeding on demand and he's just working it out himself. He has some of a feed in the night when he's had a good solid four in the day, but it can vary massively as to when he has them, something I wish we could regulate a bit better.

Seems much cooler today here - hopefully everyone else is enjoying a brief respite from the sticky heat.

It was pretty weird when we got our keys and took one of DS's rockers to the new flat, he was howling in the kitchen and it sounded all echoey! Like a scary film a little bit

Currently in that packing limbo where I've packed boxes and then realised they're too heavy for me to move myself, so getting trapped in corners and generally getting surrounded by mess.

We're on 5 feeds too - dd just dropped the night feeds herself, which I suspect had a lot to do with the fact she was really hungry in the day so ate enough to keep her going. It certainly wasn't down to excellent parenting on my part. I.Had.No.Clue. Still don't.

Speaking of having no clue - major break through here today. We (by which I mean DH) solved the milk refusal problem. Wrong size teat on the bottle. Yes, really, it was that easy. Swapped up a size and da-da - a full 7 flozzes down the hatch in 20 minutes. 20 minutes!!! I could have cried. I've been battling (ok, I exaggerate, persevering) for an hour to get 4 or 5 down her all week. I think she was sucking so hard she was giving herself wind, before giving it up as a waste of time. That's another bad mother point on the card.

Big news for the day - the tiddler had her first taste of proper food. Avocado , which sounds terribly yuppie. I'm sure I wasn't weaned on avocado. Puréed swede probably, if I know my mother. Anyway, she seemed to quite like it in a dubious way, until DH shovelled in too much of the stuff, and choked her. Her enthusiasm waned rather rapidly after that. Tomorrow I'm thinking baby rice. I know, I know, tasteless pap, wouldn't feed my baby what I wouldn't eat myself, blah blah blah.... I've read the weaning posts elsewhere on here.... however, heartless mare that I am I'm giving it a go as I figure even DH couldn't choke her on slush.

Worse which size teats are you now on? We're on size 2 but maybe we need to switch up too...

As far as not giving your baby what you wouldn't eat yourself, that's total crap! Their palates are completely different from an adult. Ignore!

Forgot to say - OH gave the boy an unsterilised bottle earlier - will he explode?!

We were only on 1 Leni . It hadn't even occurred to me to change them terrible mother. If you've been on 2 a while and ds is monkeying about over his food, he's probably ready to move up again.

As for an unsterilised bottle, at a guess I'd say exploding is unlikely. If he'd filled it with milk, carted it round in a bag for half a day, and then fed it to ds, yes, you might have a problem. Otherwise so long as it was clean I think it'll be fine. Put it this way the tiddler spends half the day chewing the strap on her pram. Said strap has never been washed, let alone sterilised, and she has as yet suffered no ill effects. She also eats her bib, muslins, my clothes, her toys, anything she can get her hands on in fact. None of those are sterile.

That's true. I do wonder sometimes how much it does even matter, and when do they become able to eat from normally washed stuff?

6 months leni - bottles and teats should always be sterilised but everything else can just be washed in soapy water. DD was chewing on the toys in her paddling pool today. The pool in which she was sat naked.
I think I mentioned to the hv once that there was such a thing as 'too clean' and she looked at me like she was going to call social services the minute I was out of earshot.