October 2014 // thread 3 // Maybe we'll get some sleep soon.

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Last thread is full so here's a shiny new one

Good luck with Gaviscon Me23 - a pain to give to them but worth it if it works. Push for Ranitidine though if you need to, we're finding it so much easier to use. I 'think' it's helping. He seems in less discomfort especially when being sick/hiccups but it certainly hasn't turned him into a content baby. Had 8 week check - GP going to send off some poo for checks though I know intolerances are hard to pick up.

My never sleep in day baby has just been asleep in pram (around Xmas markets) and is still asleep now in hallway. Total of 4 hours! This happened after his jabs - coincidence!?

goats that must be amazing to have photos from the birth, maybe a bit urgh still now but lovely to look back on later.

I have one of me laid on the hospital bed totally spaced out just before pushing but that's it. DH was allowed to take a camera into theatre but it was all so chaotic we didn't get photos until about an hour after birth. I'm really struggling to come to terms with the fact I hardly remember the first hour or two after birth as I 'd been given an epidural and diamorphine so was completely out of it, would have loved some pics of her newly born seeing as I have very little memory

We were told 3 times with Gaviscon- I think they like to start on low dose age but I upped it to 5-6 straight away as a friend had said it does nothing unless they have it with every feed. I noticed minimal difference but probably because he spat most of it out!

Pregnant Jonas is just starting to get easier at two. He's always been very verbal from 12 months but his understanding of consequences and conditional sentences ie Mummy losing her shit and general threats and bribes is muuuuch improved now!

Water babies is from birth in their hottest pools but the slightly cooler ones (which still felt like a bath to me!) are 12lb / 12 weeks minimum.

STIGZ I'm 4 weeks tomorrow. I have been walking a lot more than usual, due to not being allowed to drive. I'll go mad if I stay in all the time. It's probably due to that then. I need to book my 6 week check so will ask for a doctor call back if they think it's urgent before then.

Lol pregnant he sounds like a wee cheeky monkey no advice Apart from "this too shall pass"

My baby has been asleep for 3 hours and hasn't feed for 4.5hrs. Should I wake him up??

Our local baby swim class takes from birth but then the pool is heated to 33 degrees!

Missus No No No!! Let sleeping babies lie. My health visitor and outreach team both agree. I think it's only very early days you need to wake them and even then not everyone agrees. My DD has slept fir 6hours before now. She's perfectly fine and I'm not a sleep deprived zombie.

A propos of birth photos, for some reason I decided that the first thing I wanted to do after getting stitched up was to wander about the delivery room taking photos of my partner holding the baby. I'm glad we've got them and they're quite sweet but also mad blurry and with my cannula in the corner.

I've got a very sleepy baby today. She had a bad night last night and was a bit fussy this morning, but has been asleep pretty much all afternoon aside from feed breaks. I hope this doesn't mean she's up all night.

Whew!! I agree with you Pebble but had a sudden panic!! In the hospital he had low blood sugar so we kept having to wake him to feed, so I think I'm a little neurotic now

I wish he'd go 5.5hrs at night and not during the day

Hubby took pics just after bubba was placed on my chest. I look at them and revisit that moment of giving birth every time.
Priceless.

I wonder about waking them up when they've been in a sling for ages - mine sleeps for 6 hours in there sometimes. I have to be seriously on the ball ready to get a boob in her mouth the minute she stirs.

Pip sleeps 6hrs in a sling? Amazing!

How long does she sleep during the night?

I don't think babies know the difference between day and night. It's just continuous time for them. The best advice I had from someone was to act the same. So don't think in the middle of the night that you'll miss out on sleep that night, just move your sleep to the day if necessary. Take everything hour by hour. Easier said than done though if you have more than one child though I suppose.

I wake Lil every couple of hours in the day for a feed or a nappy change which is daft really as she went just a few minutes shy of 6 hours last night without either and wasn't dehydrated or leaking, at 8 weeks there's no way I'd have woken her as she's more than capable of waking herself now. I do prefer to wake them regularly in the day so they don't reverse cycle but I have no evidence for doing this, just a fear that if she's slept too much in the day she'll stay up all night eating the fattiest breast milk and pooing to make up for it!

Jonas has just had us in stitches with his rendition of "Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the cock"

Heidi had a 8am feed yesterday then passed out, she was then in the sling from 10.30 til 2pm (and slept throughout) when she woke up for a dual boob cocktail and was back in the sling and asleep from 3.30-5.30! She still slept her normal 12-5/6am that night, though I wouldn't have let her napped so long in the day were it not for a pretty napless day and v restless day the day before. She isn't much of a napper in the day at all unless she's in the sling. I know our motto is "This too shall pass" but I dearly want to hold onto my 5-6 hour stretch she seems to have adopted!

My DD sleeps a lot in the day. I'm worried I should keep her up playing more.

I can't remember who was asking about nappies but we use bumgenius now that N has chunked out in the thighs. I have some v4 pocket ones from last time with ds1 and treated myself to a few new free time ones which are amazing. Its absolutely no hassle at all, adds maybe 2 or 3 loads extra a week washing and they dry overnight so I don't bother with a tumble dryer...
There are lots of good nappies out there though, BUMGENIUS aren't cheap but it's still cheaper than buying disposable ones. They are more bulky in clothes but I've got a few vest extenders to go around the bulk!

Right off to sleep now and hoping for an ok stretch, things are certainly better since I let him sleep on his side or front...
Good luck everyone tonight!!!

There's no way I could sleep when she sleeps during the day, it'd be 10 minute slots on the sofa with a boob out - and it would take me 5 of those 10 minutes to work out that she was asleep!

I'm having no luck with my aim of getting her to sleep between 7.30 and 9.30. I feed her from 5 - 7, bath at 7.... then shouting until she finally drops off at 10 or 11, depending on whether it's a bottle or boob at my bedtime. It's not screaming, it's just loud noise, not always even an upset sound. She might scream a bit towards 10 when she's hungry. But mostly she's just knackered and overtired.. grrrr. How dare she have her own body clock.

I don't do cloth nappies (wanted to with J but reflux screamfest knocked that on the head and now with two its just not going to happen ) but I do think their bums look so cute and patable in them! If anyone is struggling with clothes for fluffy bums John Lewis and Little Green Radicals clothing is extra big round the bum to cope with cloth nappies and Asda vests are just built for monsters so pals using cloth have tended to use them. Moneywise they're much cheaper, they're much more resource friendly and there is a health argument too but in terms of water resources and carbon footprint if you use a tumble drier they're actually not any greener - I did a life cycle assessment of cloth vs disposables for WRAP back in my yoof. It makes me feel like a slightly less crap environmentalist for not using them.

Oh I'm having a down moment this evening. Feel like crying but don't have the energy to . I've been trying so hard to stay positive but over 8 weeks of pretty constant crying and broken nights is leaving me feeling a bit low. I don't want to feel low at this point though as certain things, mainly sleep related, didn't improve for months with my daughter (She just started sleeping through the night a few months ago aged 3 1/4). Actually nights aren't too bad this time as I'm co sleeping but it's the day times that are the killer. How do people using slings for naps manage? I'm finding that now he's 13lbs (and I'm little) it's really taking its toll on my back and shoulders. Also he needs me to keep moving the whole time or he wakes up howling. I'm feeling stressed just writing about it now. Days it's just me and him then I can just go with it but it's the days I have DD too I struggle with as I just can't meet either of their needs. Sorry to moan...

Hi everyone, need some bf encouragement as P is on a cluster feeding marathon today. Please tell me this is a phase or growth spurt or something... I'm sure I read somewhere that 6 weeks is the magic growth spurt week

captain it is hard so you are allowed to moan. Particularly with constant crying. Have you tried a bouncy chair to get him to sleep? Probably. Or the car seat? Swinging ds1 in car seat was one of the limited successful ways I got him to nap.
R isn't too bad - generally cries if he's tired, bored, hungry or windy. And can usually figure out which it is! But very hard to respond to when have another kid to look after

Today was my first attempt to get R to sleep by 7.30. Failed. more like 8.50!

Yes Popsicle -- IT will pass and is one of the hardest phases particularly if bf.... Keep going it will end!