September 2014 Babies leave the newborn stage behind. Thread 2

[SeptemberBabies]

New thread because our initial thread is about to max out.

For babies born around September 2014 - or just before for early arrivals and just after for late arrivals.

Hey,

Sorry Ilove only just seen your message. I'm doing better thanks. Infacol is really helping with Jessica's colic and she's sleeping better (also maybe because am now giving formula at night). So last night she went to sleep at about 9.45pm, up at 3.40am for feed, and then not up again until 6.45am (and then sneakily managed to persuade hep to co-nap with me for an hour afterwards)! I'm hoping she sticks to this sort of routine as I think of last weeks mini breakdown was just sheer exhaustion coupled with immense frustration at her screaming for hours with colic. Fingers crossed! Feel more positive so far this week.

As for routines, we have some loose routines. Jessica has a bath every morning. And at night we take her up around 9pm-ish (or a bit earlier if she's obviously tired) and keep the lights dim whilst we put on a clean nappy and babygro, and then she has a last feed and a winding / cuddle and then we put her in her basket with womb noise playing (thanks to Ewan the sheep)! She's still bf on demand in the day though (no routine) and has no routine yet for day naps. I don't think I'll be introducing any strict nap routines or anything though as I don't want to be tied to a routine that limits our ability to go out etc, but understand why other families do.

Holls what do you mean no use of sleeping bag?
Also the advice not to swim before immunisation is done is an old nhs one which is updated recently and as I understand it you don't need to wait any more

Kitkat glad you are better x
Fate what you described sounds so though... Welldone to whoever can manage life with more than one child... I feel I have difficulty dealing with a single tiny baby!!!

holls that is weird advice from your HV. I was told best to wait to swim until after the first set of immunisations but even that wasn't considered mandatory.
Did they give a reason for the no sleeping bag? I thought that was done on weight and I think most have a minimum of 7-8lbs but I could be wrong!

I rang hv to ask for advice. she said shr thought nurse meant no sleeping bag tonight if he had a fever which he doesn't. she also said fine to swim and I checked NHS guidelines which said same.

he is v unsettled - do I give him some calpol?

Eli has been in sleeping bags since he hit the correct weight. Which is good cause he hated being swaddled and kicked off his blankets

He cat napped all morning, and has been asleep from 3.30ish. He is waking up slowly so hopefully bottle playtime and then bed at 10. As I am shattered!

So has Barney! Am I ok to put him in one tonight? See I was all calm and one bit of conflicting advice has me panicking again

Thank you. my thermometer gave 4 diff readings in the space of 30 secs so I gave calpol just in case the highest one was right!! he seems much calmer. had 2 massive 7oz feeds since jabs and is slowly working his way through another bottle. I have just had a smile from him

Has anyone else's little one been v fidgety after immunisations?

Holls, Jessica was really irritable and restless after hers for several days. HV seemed to think it probably wasn't to do with the vaccination, but I'm not so sure.

I'm convinced thi dis vaccine. He won't settle to sleep easily, legs and arms kicking away, grunting away. He is yawning too :-(
He woke at 12.40 but wouldn't settle till 2.15nd then woke at 4.50 -I think we are up now!!
He is eating fine temp down. In factu
If it wasn't for the fidgets and not settling would say it had. Been a good night!

DD was unsettled and fractious for 48 hours after hers. No temperature though.

Baby is 13 weeks and still no vaccine date

He needs bcg too.

Glad yiur better kitkat

DS was unsettled, crying, screaming and nagging for 2-3 hours last night after vaccinations, he was all fine during the night and throughout the day today, so it passed whatever it was...

Ladies, most your babies are younger than mine(although ds corrected age is 10.5 weeks, his actual age is 14 weeks) and my question may not make sense to you, but here we go anyhow- since a couple of weeks ago ds started to be frightened and scared so easily by the smallest most normal things, like today he was about to cry by the noise of the plastic bag I took out for his nappy!! Whatever sudden noise or strange things make him so scared he easily cries... This is our first and we are not sure if this could be normal ?? I did a quick search and didn't find much, but back to google again once I post this

P.S. Red thanks for suggesting oball x it is brilliant

Naz I would think its a phase plus iirc you dont have other dc so baby will be used to it being quite so any noise out of the ordinary will startle them. Plus startle reflex too probably. Or everything mixed together.

I will shut up now lol

seemingly the fidgeting is normal it's the vaccine going into system. b has been better today still a bit fidgety when sleeping and slept a lot from 8-11 which he doesn't normally do.

Nazly - being startled by loud, sudden or unusual noises is completely normal, don't worry. He's starting to become more aware of his environment, which is really exciting!

We have vaccinations on Monday. DH is taking her because I am needle phobic.

I have a question! My DS was taking between 37-39ozs of milk in 24 hours until Saturday (32 of these between 7am and 7pm). Since Sunday we can only get max 32 ozs in him. Today he has gone to bed like normal but has only taken 24 ozs. I can't see him taking more than 4-5 ozs at the dream feed so thats a max of about 29oz.
Is this normal? Have other people experienced a significant drop in feeding at about 9 weeks??
He seems content most of the time and if it continues I'll go to the clinic next week to get him weighed. It just never happened with my DD, her feeding just steadily rose until we weaned her.
Any ideas??!!

Banana, DS is fed expressed breast milk so the quantities are different, but I've been stressing over a similar drop in feeding at a similar age.

About drop in feeding, Erin was taking 6oz at each feed until this week when she turned 9weeks. Now 3 - 5 oz max but is still sleeping through 11 - 7. I haven't asked anyone but always thought fluctuations were normal depending on growth spurts. I used to be a nursery nurse and found similar feeding habits in lots of babies. I'm not going to worry unless weight gain becomes an issue or she seems unhappy

Yeah A has dropped feeding too. Seems happy enough though!

Is anyone elses lo drooling alot? A seems to have started doing this and also sucking his hands!

Yes to both Cumbrian, hoping it's not early teething!