Graduated Elderberries

[HazleNutt]

It's time to move to Post-Natal clubs.

good luck merk, trust your instincts and you will be fine. Hopefully she will be sleepy after the birth so will give you a few hours sleep. I'll be thinking of you, I'm normally up around every 2 sodding hours at the moment with H, so should be around if you need anything. Enjoy your first night as a mummy.

my god, H just slept 10.30 - 5am with no wake ups for the first time in what seems like forever what an awesome little guy! Must be feeling better

Great news mother

S has been harder to get down at bedtime this week - takes longer to get sleepy on the boob and then wakes when put down, so we have to keep putting the dummy in and even hold it gently in place sometimes until she drifts off. Not sure why. I feel bad holding the dummy in place but she would keep pushing it out otherwise and I can't work out how else to get her to sleep. I really hope think she quite likes the dummy but just keeps pushing it out for some reason. When it's in, she does suck away and seems to like it.

W woke in the night more than normal last night (fed at 12, 4, 6.30, 7.30 and was awake several other times wriggling and farting) and now she is so knackered she has decended into tired crying. DP has just managed to get her to nod off in the sling. Got 15 people and a dog coming round in 2 hrs and haven't started making food yet - am shattered!

What are you making quod? I have my NCT group coming to mine on weds and am thinking about what to make. Also need to clean the whole house on mon/tues as we're away this wkend!

Hope everyone had a great day! How's new mum merk getting on?
Over here in lolland I gave L some formula mixed with breast milk and she took it all. Don't know if I'm happy or sad! Today I gave her hipp organic - about half a small carton. Will try aptamil next and see what happens!
Struggling with vit D though. Mixed t to her yogurt and she refused it all. So I've ordered these drops from amazon - you're supposed to put a drop on your nipple for baby to suck! I'm hoping that works rather than put her off bf forever!

Doing ok actually. Had a really good day of feeding, 8 decent feeds already today so pretty much by the book. Nipples sore but not terrible
Ended with a 3 hour trip to hospital as they called worried about rhesus disease after her bloods yesterday but she's ok...we have to go back in the morning to confirm. Otherwise its great and I'm in love

Hope all is ok in the morning merk! Poor minimerk having to have a canula, I'm sure she was very brave.

Feeding sounds like its going well!! Huge pat on the back to you!!! Me and H were shit at bfing so you have my admiration!!!

Hope E sleeps for you tonight The love for them just grows every day, its amazing sorry soppy cow alert, see what happens to me when the child actually lets me sleep

lol H has no loyalty either, so far he has taken expressed milk, cow and gate, aptamil, antibiotics and steriods disolved in water from his bottle.....I was also a bit gutted that he took formula so easily when I'd spent 7 weeks expressing for the little minx

Can I ask why you are trying different formulas? We switched from cow and gate on advice from a friend that aptamil was better, I think most of it is just branding though so kind of wish we had stuck with c&g.

Sounds like you're doing really well merk Hope all's well with the tests.

Can I ask how sore is normal for nipples at this stage? I'm trying to understand if some level of soreness is ok as they toughen up or whether I should worry about latch? It only really is sore for the first minute, and I'm using masses of lanolin. Latch looks fine to me and getting plenty of nappies so hoping this is normal but please tell me if its not...

Merk if it's only sore at first then that sounds normal to me but might be worth popping into a BFing group so they can watch you feed? I found them much more knowledgeable than my MW and when I went they diagnosed E with a small posterior tongue tie which was contributing to my soreness. If all is well and you are putting lanolin on before and after every feed then I think most soreness should be gone after the first few weeks, and should get a bit better when your milk comes in as baby won't have to suck as hard or for as long and you will probably both be covered in milk.

I don't know about nipples Merk as mine were basically grated at the ends due to bad latch at first. But I think a bit of soreness as they are stretched is pretty standard?

So I am in a bit of a sleep dither here. I have been trying the sheepskin in the Babybay which I think is better for dd's flat head and means she doesn't rub so much hair off (she's got a big bald bit and hair all over the sheet in her cot). However, it also means she moves around in the cot as its more slippery. She's been wiggling downwards towards the foot end and normally I just reposition her when I wake up. But last night she managed - twice - to wiggle sideways into my side of the bed, which freaked me out as she could potentially end up under my duvet. So got rid of sheepskin in middle of the night, and then she woke up after an hour again looking uncomfortable and rubbing her head fr

...from side to side. Fed her again in the bed and she spent the rest of the night in bed with me (on top of duvet in grobag) and slept through from 3.30 til 8. I dunno what to do now - and actually am a bit confused about how you keep babybay safe once they are big enough to wiggle/roll - do I need to put the side bars on? Am I doing it all wrong?

quod S is in a sleepyhead pillow in her babybay so haven't encountered that issue yet but I did wonder about her rolling into my bed when she's too big for the sleepyhead. Just one idea maybe - S uses a "pillow" which is basically one of those tiny comfort blanket things (you know the small squares attached to a tiny soft toy?) so maybe that would help with the uncomfy head rubbing instead of the sheepskin if that isn't working out well?

merk my personal experience of bf was it hurt like hell at times over the first couple of weeks but she was getting the milk and then suddenly my nipples changed texture, toughened up and it didn't hurt at all. It rapidly went from "aaargh" to no problems at all. I decided my HV was talking shit incorrect when she said it shouldn't hurt at all as I know lots of other people who had pain at first while their nipples adapted and they waited for a good flow to come in. I don't think there was anything wrong with her latch and it just needed a bit of time. Lanolin was fab and I stopped using it as soon as the pain stopped.

Oh and think it's very normal for the let down to hurt the most at first.

quod when V started rolling over to our bed, I just put the 4th side up as well. Was not as comfortable to get him in and out, but I also work up a few times, V half-way in our bed.

merk my nipples didn't hurt that much, but let-down was a toe-curling burning sensation for several weeks.

Thanks Hazle. This week she has suddenly become able to roll front to back, so I'm guessing rolling back to front isn't far behind? Agghh - it seems so early for her to start being mobile!

Quod not necessarily. There was a few months between rolling front to back and back to front here as I have a very lazy baby.

Cavort that's good to know. I think the front to back manoeuvre is just a result of her dislike for tummy time so maybe she won't go the other way for a bit.

quite a long time before V rolled both ways as well. He started from back to front though, then got stuck there and complained loudly. Even though all the books say that front to back is way easier, he apparently had not read the books.

Poor V is still working on this one tooth, have never seen him so grumpy as this evening. Sleeping now, let's see what the night will be like.

Hazle M was the same - they really are twins!

haha, H is the same janey, hazel, he rolls back to front then gets stuck and shouts really loudly! He's daft though, I roll him back and he immediately starts trying to roll again, little fidget! Once on his front he seems bamboozled as to what he should do, he can half roll back, the arm is sorted but the legs dont help yet. It's so cute to watch

Morning. Slightly better night here. Bed later than normal as out for dinner then up at 12, 2:30 and 6:30. So I feel more human!
L is the same on rolling. Can do both ways but is lazy to do front to back and prefers to scream instead!

Yay, to a better night lol!!

Moving H into his own room seems to have worked wonders for his sleep and mine he went 9.45 - 6.30 with one wake up at 1.30. I then put my wide awake child back down at 6.30 thinking he might chat to himself for a while, but it's very quiet so sounds like he is asleep again. Certainly beats the 4 or 5 wake ups a night that we were having!