Jan 2015 new year new babies new thread AND EXPLOSIVE NAPPIES!

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Apparently the other thread is closed. How're nappy explosions going?
Baby bought up a little bit, but I thinks it's because she had a total of 9oz in an hour.

Oh dec it's so hard isn't it. Ds has days like that too. It's so intense. A friend of mine has a toddler and a 6 mth old and she was saying she was in such a foul mood recently through lack of sleep and both the kids crying etc that she felt like running away. I could relate to that as sometimes that's how I feel! Of course I never would but it drives you to thinking like that when it gets too much. That sounds like I'm not coping, I am but the lack of sleep is tough!

Ds had his own room last night for the first time. Sleep was better for him but not for me! He only woke once at 2, I fed him and he went through to 7. Sounds great considering the nights recently of every 2 hrs but no, I couldn't get back to sleep after the feed and lay wide awake for at least 1.5 hrs while everyone else in the house slept! I forgot to switch back on his angel care monitor so that was playing on my mind but I didn't want to go back in and disturb him. In hindsight I should have just got up and gone back in. Sleep deprivation does funny things to your head. I'm starting to consider reintroducing a dream feed of formula to see if that would do any good as he takes so much milk during the night feeds that it's putting him off his morning feed and a few mornings running he's not wanted his 7am feed. The other thing is his day feeds have dropped to 4 hrly so he could be making up the lost feed in the night. I don't know it's all so confusing!

We had a breakthrough with the bottle yesterday. I took dd to a party and left Dh to try feeding him. We weren't far away so after a while he called and said he'd been struggling for 40 minutes to give him the bottle and he'd thrown a huge tantrum over Dh trying to give him it so I came straight home and he was quite happily bouncing away in the jumperoo by then so I hung on a bit until he started to get grizzly then gave him the bottle and he took 5 ozs! So I'm really pleased about that. I feel like the pressure is off a bit and I can go out if I need to.

How was everyone's night?

little I can relate totally to that! It doesn't sound like your not coping to anyone that's in the thick of it all too! 4hrly feeds, that sounds like heaven to me! I think I struggle with Dd's total lack of daytime routine. I have tried, trust me I have tried, but noooooo! She's gone back to having mile little but often and is taking more at night than in the day again! Literally like a newborn! Dh has her now and Ds is napping. She is ok if she can't hear me, but the minute she hears my voice, the waterworks and screaming start until I cuddle her! She will scream blue murder if she has any incline that I'm around! Then giggles at me! Think she's going to be trouble
So glad Ds slept so well for you little and he took a bottle what a fantastic 24 hrs! It's such a relief when they finally start making breakthroughs isn't it?!

You're not your!
Milk not mile.

Dd is starting her evening routine earlier and earlier which means that she's waking up earlier and earlier!

Whenever I go over to my parents dd is happiest when attached to my shoulder! Can get tiring as the whole reason I go there is to get a break sometimes!
Sunday evening already... Where has the weekend gone?!

Hi all! So interesting what you were saying about your ds not wanting his morning feed little as my dd is just the same. She's started waking at 5ish wanting a feed, but then barely takes anything for the rest of the morning. Glad you managed to get him to take a bottle though, that fills me with hope!

I think dd may be starting to show proper signs of teething now. The drool has increased, she's got really flushed cheeks and she's been crying quite a bit the last few days particularly when I try and feed her.

I just tried to dream feed him, more like a nightmare feed. I managed to wake him up, make him cry and splutter and cough milk everywhere. Then had to bf him back to sleep once I'd well and truly pissed him off. Don't think I'll be trying that again!

12.45am feed... Haven't done that since she was 3 weeks old!
Sooo tired...

We managed 9pm til 5.30, then she woke up ready for the day. We were just having a cuddle and I started laughing which made her giggle, then neither of us could stop!

Anyone else's lo going bald? She's developing a mohawk

Aww cute
We aren't fully giggling here- just the occasional random giggle!

Dd was born with a Mohawk! But it's disappearing as the rest is growing out more.
Gorgeous sunshine is back so we had a lovely walk today : )

Quade has lost all his lovely hair! It's all growing back in blonde now.
Here's as a newborn and now lol.

Wow alyx, what a difference! All of mine had dark hair when they were born, now the eldest has a medium brown, patsy has brown roots with very blonde tips, almost like an ombre effect, and ds1 has very light blonde hair. I'm intrigued as to how the babies hair will turn out, but am quite certain she'll be curly like her sisters, ds1's hair is also poker Straight! Weird how these things go...

Well dd has calmed right down! I don't want to jinx it but she seems an awful lot better and os a lot less clingy. Naps as still short but at least she is napping and she is taking her milk a little better too which is good I'm beyond exhausted though. That along with huge chunks of hair failing out and night sweats is leading me to believe there is more on it than just post pregnancy rubbish so I think I'll have to go to the doctors! Can barely keep my eyes open and yet I go to bed and struggle to sleep! The joys of being a woman hay
How is everyone else and how are all the cuties?

Glad to hear your dd has settled down Dec, fingers crossed you're over the worst it now! I know what you mean about the hair loss. I seriously think I am going to wake up one morning and not have any left!

Dd is slightly better now sleep wise. She wakes 2 or 3 times during the night but sometimes that third waking is between 5 and 6 which throws out the rest of the day. She's started going to sleep slightly earlier in the evenings which is nice too. I wonder if this will all change again when we start them on solids and put them in their own room (for those that haven't already done so!).

I haven't started the solids yet despite being advised to by the paediatrician as Dd's reflux has settled a lot so I will start in the next few weeks as she's coming up to 5 months! I will start really slowly with very small amounts and the. Start properly building it up from 6 months as is the recommendation! I can't believe how much they've grown!

I'm losing a crazy amount of hair. It's everywhere and I'm collecting up large handfuls of it off the carpet. Good job ive got a lot of hair! I remember this happening with dd too.

Ds is sleeping better. He's in his own room now and I'm doing one night feed and he wakes around 6 but if he's not crying I leave him to it as much as I can until 6.30 to eek the morning feed a bit later as it goes throw the whole day out otherwise. He's still not taking a good morning feed though. That one night feed is at least 30 mins so I think he's taking a lot of milk overnight.

He seems a bit more settled at the moment with better naps, not so clingy and happier. He's a big hit with the old ladies in shops!

His reflux is bad some days but not so bad other days. He's been prescribed gaviscon now too aswell as ranitidine. I haven't decided whether or not to try it. Does anyone have any experience with it? Dh doesn't want me to give it to him as he doesn't want him in pain from constipation when the reflux isn't bothering him so he thinks I should leave it alone and just change the clothes but as he said it's not him coping with it. So I'm a bit torn.

I have used to for both dd and Ds. Ds was on it until about 10 months and has it occasionally now of he is going through a bad stage. Ds was never that bad with it, dd doesn't go very often anyway so it didn't make an awful lot of difference, but I did sometimes think it was bothering her. If helped massively with Ds though as we were going through countless clothes and as he got older he got more bothered by being sick. His was so bad that he needed the maximum dosage as well. To be honest I think it's another one of those things that works for some and not for others.
So glad to hear things are getting better for you though little. Reflux is so tough.

Sorry for the errors! I shouldn't do this on my phone as I always make mistakes because of stupid predictive text!

Baby has been really unsettled today, I think she's teething. Her cheeks are so rosy and it's not from being too warm. I've had to have my hair thinned twice already since she was born and really need to have another trim, my hair dresser is shocked by how much ends up on the floor
Glad your little ones have come un stuck and are generally happier, waking at 5 here most mornings (it's the only way I can have a child free bath) and I'm so tired now.

littlepink personally I'd give the gaviscon a go. The sick may not be bothering him but it can't be doing his oesophagus any good. All the acid in the sick will start to burn it and could cause serious damage. This is what happened to my DD. An endoscopy showed the amount of damage the reflux and sick caused and she ended up on high levels of omeprozale to deal with the damage. Don't wish to scaremonger as of course it's quite a rare case scenario but you can never tell what goes on in the body. And he may not suffer too badly from the constipation, not all babies do.

Glad to hear that things are getting marginally better all round.

I feel like I've finally found some form of pattern with DS feeds and sleep which is making it easier to get things done and have time for the girls. Having said that I saw a tooth rearing it's little head so that could all go to shit

3am and I can hear dd whimpering and starting to cry
I struggle to open my eyes and get up... I look in her cot and she has wriggled all the way to the top and is banging her head against the wooden head board!
Aaagghh what are you doing baby?!?!

Wow, this baby has such a bad temper. She was getting really angry just now and because I was laughing at her she screamed at me what have I got myself into?!

Hello everyone I've followed this thread but not posted yet but really need some advice so i hope you don't mind me butting in!

My ds2 is 17 weeks now, Slept brilliantly when newborn and by 7 weeks was self settling and sleeping 10 hours solid over night. Our eldest didn't sleep more than 4 hours until he started school so I'm not boasting honestly! I was so happy that this time we had a sleeper after 4 years of sleepless hell the first time. Now it's all gone wrong!!!
For the last 3/4 weeks he's been up every 3/4 hours for a feed in the night. He's bottle fed and usually drains his bottle in the night.
I've read into the 4 month sleep regression and he's just mastered rolling over both ways and is trying to sit up so I'm guessing it's all development related?
I just wondered if your are in a daytime routine with your little ones yet and where do they have their day time sleeps? At the min I have no daytime routine and he sleeps either in his swing or on me in the day but googling last night suggests a better daytime routine might help him at night.
Is anyone else going through this and how are you coping?!

Hi worriedaboutwee. I have a daytime routine going but it's taken weeks upon weeks to get there. Ds is 17 wks now and he's literally just started to settle for naps this week even though I've been consistent with the routine. He goes down 1.5-2 hrs after waking in the morning. Sleeps an hour but I often have to resettle halfway through then 3 hrs after that he goes down again for 1.5 hrs, sometimes have to resettle. Then 2 hrs after that for a 40 min cat nap then bed at 7. He's on 3.5-4 hrly feeds now. He doesn't sleep thru though I'm afraid but he's a lot better than he was. He wakes once for a feed at any random time but last night he did 7-5.40, was amazed but I'm knackered as we've been up since then as he wouldn't settle back to sleep!!

He naps in his cot or on the go