February '15 babies - appearing thick and fast!

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Our first thread on the 'other side'. And may all our soon to be mummies join us in this adventure through the early days of parenthood as we continue to share exciting times.

Every time I try tummy time with LO, he whinges about it.. Is there a particular time that is best to try?

sand we've been doing tummy time since about 5 days, basically once he'd headbutted the midwife whilst she was doing his heal prick we figured he 'could take it'. I've read and hv also said that they won't enjoy it initially and will grizzle but just a few minutes at a time is enough. We tend to put him on his play mat were he drools onto it for a few minutes then put him on his back, he's starting to take increasing interest in the actual toys! As for evening cluster feeding, he's been doing that for weeks too, it makes no difference to his night sleeping ability :-/

Good news - he is now following the 50th percentile growth curve for weight despite being below the 25th at birth. Weighed in at 9lb 4oz on Thursday, MIL etc were all going on about how he's chubbed out in the last week. I'm worried he'll outgrow all the size 2 nappies before we use them up. Hey ho, onwards and upwards as it were.

Will catch up properly tomorrow I'm off for a full uninterrupted nights sleep hopefully. Now we're on mainly formula DP is having lo downstairs. 5 weeks of not a full nights sleep is taking its toll and the tears have started up again.

A full uninterrupted nights sleep! Ooh, v jealous!

So much for being given the night off.

Ugh.

Happy birthday for today sand! Enjoy your massage

I'm hoping DP will get up with both girls in a little while - baby has just been fed but still trying to settle her back down.

Did DH change his mind frenetic or did he need your help?

Tired. So blooming tired

Morning, hands round magic super caffeinated coffee which doesn't effect the baby to those who need it

Tired here too, dh and I are tag teaming at the moment, so he got up at half four and I got up at six so he could go back to sleep. It's making things slightly less horrible

Not much else to report really, still have a clingon so house is a tip but it's such a short time period I'm trying to be relaxed about it, not that easy though

Hope everyone has a good day today

It's official, the devil has possessed my child. Just when you think things are on the up. No one chunk of sleep longer than 90 minutes, 2 'til 5 was almost non stop feed, nappy, chuntering, grizzling and general not sleeping Better get naps today.

Morns all
knackered! We went bowling last night, with lo in tow- he was good as gold, slept through most of the evening and back into his usual pattern overnight- but me and dh both had an awful nights sleep! Think it's because we didn't get to do our normal routine and both of us just kept waking up!

We're tag teaming for night feeds too - quite like the idea of asking dh to do all the feeds one night, but i couldn't face the prospect of having to do the same in return!

Bang - he decided he was too tired. Because I'm not, obviously. Awful night as well, LO slept a couple of hours in short stints then fed and cried the rest.

Hmm- frenetic, i think i would be getting a little bit shouty if my dh did that to me!

Re tummy time, we were told we should/could do it from birth, so he's been getting a few minutes face forward starting once a day and now i do it pretty much every time he's awake- he doesnt hate it, but i think its less interesting than being on his back looking at stuff. Our most successful position is to lay back and have him on our chest

We usually sort our issues quickly and privately, but his night time grumpiness is something that I'm just meant to deal with and for 10 years I have... Things are just different now.

Frenetic that is pants it really is, you are both shattered but you are both equally his parents. Just because you aren't leaving the house everyday to go to work doesnt mean whatvyou do is less tiring.

Tummy time with ds1 I started at 8 weeks and he hated it so we never did it and he still have a flat head on the back from lack of tummy time, the mw told me to do it from the beginning, we started at 2 weeks and ds2 loves it, she did say sort of leaning back on sofa with baby on your chest is classed as tummy time too.

It is dh's birthday tomorrow and as ds1 is at school we are going farm today, it has a motor museum too so should be a nice few hours out.

Dh has been a star this weekend, i got a headache yesterday afternoon (while he had popped out on his motorbike) and it ruined mecfor day, he bathed LO and sorted him and his bottles, did 2 loads of washing and dried them, did the first feed for baby in night then i did the 5.30 one which i class as morning anyway then he took baby down so i slept until 9

Donnie's breathing is almost 100% normal again now thankfully

Another with a rubbish night's sleep here. Pass the coffee please.

DS woke at 1.30 for a feed, which I dashed downstairs to make. Usually DH would change his nappy at this point and I'd feed immediately after. DH decided that he would rather change him after the feed so he had a less wriggly baby to change. YES but then he is awake at the end of the nappy change!!! So yes he gets to have 2 mins of peace but then we both get kept awake by a overly tired fussy baby for over 2 hours until his next feed! Idiot. I wan't impressed when I came back upstairs to a still screaming unchanged baby, but I think the effect has made my point more eloquently than I ever could. Now I have a splitting headache.[anger]

On a separate note once we'd woken at 7 for the next feed, I woke up convinced I had fallen asleep with the baby in my arms and on the outside of the bed. Opened my eyes with panic only to find the cat staring at me in bliss

memphis glad Donnie is better, hopefully normality will quickly resume frenetic my OH also gets v v grump on a lack of sleep. But I get grumpier so he knows what's good for him!!

Funny everyone talking about tummy time. Isaac pooed so far up his back we needed tummy time on the changing mat to clean him up And total change of clothes. Yeesh.

Geeky yes I think I am the same he may be grumpy but he would prefer to get up than get one of my death stares
To Isaac doing a poonami up his back! Donnie doesn't poo very much but he wee's likeou wouldn't believe, one wee saturates a nappy, it wouldn't hold two of his wee's.

Went to Asda today they had boxes of size 2 nappies £5 for 72 so got some of those. He is wearing his first 0-3 today, we had to try everything on they were all too big apart from a boots one, think we need to let him wear some big sized stuff soon as his feet are well and truely popping from the smaller stuff!

We've got about 50 boots size 2 to use up but may even try size 3's next. He's over 9lb's now and chubbing out. Heading up north tomorrow so we'll be road testing the Aldi nappies. We seem to be having a cluster feeding day, boobs totally drained and he's still fussing Luckily there's expressed in the fridge Also a miracle has happened, someone in OH's family txtd before coming around and getting no reply didn't knock on the door and just left their pressie hence we have managed an afternoon nap. I figure we have one intelligent cousin each, the rest of our folk are mares.

Glad Donnie is doing better memphis.

Such a knackering day today - baby has been awake the ENTIRE day, really not happy and fussy. Wouldn't even settle when on us. It seems to be a bad combination of cluster feeding and then suffering wind/colic. He's finally asleep in his basket and I need a glass of wine!

Hi everyone.

Still following closely but sorry haven't posted in a while. Girls are doing really well, still managing to bf them both- they are gaining well and settling into a bit of a routine. Starting to get beautiful little smiles from them both and my elder daughter has finally grasped the gentle concept now! However...
I'm really really tired though and feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm quite anxious about other people holding the girls which I know is ridiculous but it means I am struggling to get any break from them day or night. The tiredness is probably not helping the anxiety- vicious cycle! I think the responsibility of being a mother to four children has just hit me.

Hope everyone has a restful night.

Tonight glad to hear all is well with the girls! Four children hats off to you one is hard enough right now!

LO has been awake since 2:30 not like him just does not want to be out down v frustrated with him tonight and OH working tomorrow so I don't feel I can ask him to help ... Oh well there goes tomorrow's plans out the window!

Question - my LO poo looks like it has bits in it seeds small almost is that normal am mostly breast feeding is it something I've eaten or done I wonder if that's why he's not sleeping??

Nice to hear from you tonights it sounds like you're doing a grand job with your girls as I'm sure you are with your other 2 DC's.

I've started trying Bethany on cow&gate milk now to see if it settles any better in her tummy. I hope it does! I can't have us both getting soaked during/after each feed anymore!

Thank you bang and littlemiss. I have seen every hour through the night, I'm lucky in that they both settle straight away after a feed but they just wont go very long between and won't wake in synch! I can see me being a shouty mum today.

Littlemiss the seedy nappy is totally normal. My understanding is that it's undigested hind milk and nothing to worry about. Can't remember where I heard that so might be rubbish. The twins have both had seedy ones occasionally though.

So a few of you may have seen that we had about of a nightmare this weekend. After a month of plodding along in neonatal and doing really well our baby girl had a setback.

On Saturday morning I had a phone call to say that she was desat-ing and the had moved her into the higher dependency nursery to keep a closer eye on her and they had taken bloods. Within about an hour I got another call to say her condition had got a little worse and they were giving her oxy flow to help with her breathing. When we managed to get over to her she was back in an incubator, in just a nappy, with so many wires and needles that I just burst into tears.

They said she was anaemic and started discussing the possibility of a blood transfusion, but in the meantime they put her back onto the caffeine she had been on to remind her to breathe.

When I went in on Sunday the caffeine and antibiotics had done such a good job that she was back in a cot and looked so much better. I managed to have a cuddle with her and change her nappy .

When we rang last night they said they had moved her into a side room because it appears from her tests that she has picked up a small viral infection that they don't want her to pass on to the other babies, but her breathing has been much better and they have taken her off the oxy flow as she no longer needs it.

I was hoping she might be able to come home in time for my birthday on Thursday, but it's not looking very likely now :(

Oh dances I hope your lo turns the corner soon and you can enjoy cuddles at home

littlemiss the seedy nappy is normal for breastfed babies, our one has them too.

Not the best night here, plus also couldn't ask DH for help as he's off to work after the weekend. She was up more often for shorter feeding.

Also she's started making noises outside crying at nearly 3 weeks, is it normal?