September 14 babies - bring on the weaning!

[KitKat1985]

New thread for the Sept 14 babies. :)

Having a crap night so far. Again. I much prefer feeding her numerous times in the small hours to this battle we have going down in the first place. I hate it. Argh. I might get some gripe water tomorrow incase she's got wind or something.... unlikely though as she can fall asleep on my shoulder as soon as I pick her up out of the cot when she's hysterical.

Kit kat.... Hope it will be different for you but weaning also did nothing for Jessica's sleep. It's probably worse but who knows if that's anything to do with weaning. Veg has less calories than milk so it fills them up but doesn't last them as long so they can start waking more often for milk. When they start eating protein though I'm more hopeful for it making her sleep longer.

Weaning early has no benefit and does not help settle baby. Late weaning is much more effective to sooth a fractious child. But as with virtually all things to do with having a baby, most Mums need to learn this for themselves.

KitKat - 23 weeks isn't that bad realistically. You are quite close to the 6 months mark. Honestly though, formula top ups would be more useful for settling (if you are breastfeeding?). It might be that the tiredness and stress is affecting your milk.

Also tanking up on feeds through the daytime - 2 hourly at least.

Oh dear. Doesn't sound very hopeful then. Another rough night here, combined with me having a touch of DH's cold, and Jessica deciding she'd like to get up early today means I feel rough. I'm tired of feeling tired! There was a woman in our post-natal group yesterday whose baby slept from about 8pm-9am solidly every night. I had to suppress the urge to kill her a little bit (joke). Oh and Fate TBH I'd love to ditch bf now (I'm truly sick of it) but Jessica has decided to be difficult about bottles, so that's not happening at the moment either. Maybe I need to persist more. Jessica is fed pretty often in the day anyway - usually in the day she wants feeds every hour or two (she's a bit of a milk monster)!

I'll think about the weaning then. Maybe I'll give it a tad longer.

Nazly yes of course you're back to work already, I remember now. I guess there's not much you can do in the immediate then other than to explain the situation to your boss and say that for the duration you're going to have to mainly work from home and will only be able to come into the office for short periods at a time. Either that or (depending how far your MIL is from your office) you may need to pop back to your MIL's intermittently through the work day to give a feed, but obviously that's only practical if your MIL lives pretty near to where you work. Crossing my fingers for you that your boss is understanding. xxx

I thought my DS was showing no signs of separation anxiety but I went out last night and he was pretty much hysterical the whole time DH said. I think a combination of crap naps, eating purée properly for the first time and teething just had him so wound up that he wouldn't sleep and he's awful when he gets overtired. He had an hours sleep but woke up again hysterical. Its easier to just not leave them!

Acron I may be wrong but I think separation anxiety will come a bir later when they start working out what distance is - at this age they would not necessarily understand the distance or understand you are leaving the room, once they do, they will worry you may not come back and separation anxiety starts. What we are experiencing these days (I am in the same boat) is that they realise their normal day to day comfort which happens to be mum is not there and they get upset. The result for us is sort of similar...

Another night with one wake up only. No tooth here. It could have been a leap or sth...

Hi all.
Its me ilovemonstersinc

not been here for a while now! Ds1 and ds2 are quite poorly so not really had the time.to top it off baby has been ill. On a course of antibiotics and steriods and has been given an asthma diagnosis as hes always wheezy and his older brothers are ashmatic too so hes on the brown and blue inhaler too.

Weaning is going good. He was weaned a lil early and he loves his food.

How is everyone doing???

Nazly - separation anxiety probably the wrong words, but yeah, he needs me to comfort him. Shame as he's fine with DH usually, when I'm there as well. I could hear him screaming as I came in the door and he stopped as soon as he saw me and had a cuddle.

Hi ilove! Sorry to hear your wee ones are poorly

KitKat now I've started switching to ff I'm desperate to give up bf too! Dd takes the bottles well but has started upping the no. of bfs she has, so it feels a bit like two steps forward and one back... not sure why she's still eating SO much?? We're on for a 6-week growth spurt atm!

Just catching up, not been on for a few days.

For those having crap nights sleep - there is hope. J was basically waking every 2 -3 hours, which wasn't great. Then last week it took a turn for the worst with hourly waking. He was quite easily settled, but it was making me tired as I didn't feel as if I was getting any sleep, and it was pissing DP off as he works long hours, early mornings and commutes. At 4.30 am on Sunday morning, my DP started ranting about how J was going backwards etc etc and I ended up in tears. I was so stressed out that I was going to take J to a Travelodge for the remainder of the night, but DP apologised and then he sat with a very giggly J so I could get an hour or two of sleep.

As if by magic, J is now sleeping ! We haven't changed anything we do...he goes up at 8.30, has a dream feed at 11, then sleeps until 4.30, has another feed and sleeps until 7.30. This has been consistent over the past 4 nights. This is the most sleep we have ever had with him.

So, although I can't offer any solution....at the time of breaking point, J has sorted himself out on his own.

I do think this is connected to wonder weeks stuff. For a few weeks, J was very frustrated and angry and made a constant growling sound. Now he is happy and chatty and interested in things again. He's had a bit of a transition period.

Other news, still not weaning. And his hemangioma looks as if it has stopped growing and will stay tiny.

Having a few problems with my 12 year old daughter - well not her, some of her friends. They seem on a new level of bitchy nowadays and everything is competitive - and done via social networks. It's so hard not to get involved . I hate to think how things will be when J is older, but boys don't seem to have it so bad - my 12 year old son is quite happy and drama free.

I am not looking forward to going back to work and haven't organised a single Keeping in Touch day .

Ilove so sorry to hear that. I tried to send you pm to your previous id asking how you were but not sure uf it worked. How are your dcs? Why are they poorly?

Jay this is exactly what happened to us, but a few months ago. Then it went downhill and now back to normal for last two nights. I also think it is leaps.

For the first time ds sat on his own unlimitedly. Until I picked him up.

Hi all, I've been a bit busy lately but have been readin daily. Sounds like lots of sleep trouble all round :( after his cold DS is so unsettled, 1-2 hourly wake ups all night for the past week or so. I'm v tired. I dont know what it is either, he's not hungry because he falls asleep with dummy and light projector, but then quickly wakes again when the dummy falls out. I've been feeding though just to get him back off more quickly so I can get some sleep. We were doing quite well as well but it just seems to be getting worse.

Haven't started weaning yet, he doesn't seem interested in the slightest!

Welcome back ilove.

Thanks all.
Ds1 has been poorly with his asd and has been bleeding a lot on the inside too.
Just on our way home from the hospital with him now at least 5th time in 5weeks

ds2 has got something alomg the lines of a skeletal problem? His ribs are sticking out at the front, back bones too and his shoulders are uneven. His foot is dodgy too and needs physio after his 2nd birthday. His back seems to be 1sided

baby has been ill with his chest but has smiles through it.

How is everyone doing.
Thank you for trying to get hold of me nazly

Yay ilove/lost! Welcome back! I've often thought about you over the past few weeks. So sorry to hear that your boys have been poorly though. I hope you'll be a regular back here.

Jay, sounds like you've had a tough time, but great that baby is now doing better a night. DD is a little better, but still nowhere near sleeping through a chunk of the night. Think we are getting teeth here now too!

Id go loopy if I didn't get decent night most nights so well done to those who are coping!
Just got in the door and ds2 was loving with lots of cuddles but baby looked confused lol

yippeeee you're back. Sorry to hear about your boys.

Welcome back Lost, nice to see you.

Bigger three children have been on a sleepover at my Mums yesterday to today. So DH & I had two days of solid decorating (whilst also looking after baby) to get my eldest room decorated before she came home at 6pm this evening.

It ended up being something like Changing Rooms (do you remember that program, with Carol Smiley?) with a mad rush to get the last minute jobs done before the deadline.

She squealed with delight though - absolutely loves it. Main colour turquoise with deep pink accents. Really pretty, but in a bigger girl non-babyish way. Suits her perfectly

Red yesterday when I was cooking for ds I was thinking about your post about baby food... Just thought I'll share it: you know, once you start weaning it will matter of a couple of weeks before your ds drops milk feeds which means you will need less time expressing.
Consider this: yesterday in my usual shopping basket I ordered two pack of winter veg (washed and diced and ready) and just added water and let it cook for half an hour or so. Then put them in blender, added milk and made a nice puree for him; it gave me te. Portion and froze 9 of them. As I buy the stuff ready to be cooked the whole process including washing up and putting in freezer packs took me half an hour or so. Not bad, no? I'd say perhaps try once before ruling out on basis of time

Fate you are a good mum. I wonder if I can ever do something like that. Prob no.

ds seems uncomfortable and I think it is his tummy. But his diet is so varied already I can't say what has bothered him :( he basically is eating what we are eating but made into puree.

Nazly I managed to get bags of pre chopped veg today on sale so there are now parsnip, swede, apple and bns purees in freezer!

however....I feel that there isn't that much variety - so far he has had
peach
bns
apple
pear
broccoli
carrot
sweet potato
parsnip

purees. on own and in combination. I have been told tp keep him off banana and tropical fruits cos of his excema.

any ideas for other veg I could puree? we have a month to go until he can move on.

avocado I was thinking?

Holls - what about a quarter slice of bread, or toast, or bread spread with cream cheese, or toast and pate, or hot crossed buns, or a chunk of cheese.

Soft foods there is porridge, tuna, yoghurt, Bolognese sauce. Whatever you are eating or have in the cupboard really.

Some other food groups to fruit and veg would be worth considering.

For the record and not aimed to anyone in particular - I cannot see anything wrong with baby food jars/pouches if you are feeding purees.

ds has a high temperature... I can not decide about blanket situation. Will he be cold with sheets only? Aaagh ftm. Any ideas?

Fate have you tasted them?? Aren't babies supposed to learn what actual food is? Ellas are the only one that are OK taste wise and even then I feel nervous using them as main diet all the time, but that maybe me...

Holls when you say moving on you mean adding protein and diary and etc? How old is he now?

Nazly hope DS is ok. If he has a temp, sheets will be fine - just chevk on him and add blanket if he seems cold later on?

Yup, we aren't quite at the protein stage, b is 5months. We use elllas pouches when out, for ease!

New panic....b has clearly decided to practise rolling at night, twice I was woken up by his grunts when he couldn't get back over...when DH went into him this am he had rolled again. Please tell me not to worry!

I use ready made jars and dont have a problem with them either. I have very little extra time to be making extra things for baby. I dont have time to pick each of them up for a play some days due to hospital appointments etc

I think you do what ever suits you. As for just blending what we eat well dh is pakistani so it's mainly curries or rice lol.

Welcome back I love / lost. You've been missed!

I tried giving a dream-feed last night, which to be fair I think may have bought me an extra hour or so until her first wake up. Unfortunately at her first wake-up she had also filled her nappy, then whilst I changed her nappy she peed on herself, and by this point she was wide awake and didn't settle well afterwards for the remainder of night. Eventually gave up and got up with her at 6.30ish. Sigh. May have got a bit irrationally irritable with DH this morning - I know it's not his fault that he doesn't have boobs and so can't do night feeds but he always looks so peaceful / is snoring happily whenever I have to get up for the billionth time, and it's so bloody irritating.

Holls avocado sounds good. Maybe some baby porridge / rice as well for variety? Still haven't decided on whether to try giving Jessica some pureed veg this weekend. She's 23 weeks today. Hmm.

Oh and I don't think there's anything wrong with jars. Will definitely use some, especially if we are out, but must admit there's a big cost difference. 1kg of carrots for pureeing the other day was 80p which made about 3 ice cube trays of carrot puree, which depending how much Jessica wants will do 10-15 meals probably. One meal of carrot based food in jar from Tesco was 65p each! However, it took AGES to peel, chop, cook, mash and place 1kg of carrots into ice cube trays; so can certainly see the disadvantages.