January 2016 - Hello babies!

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Thread to share our experiences and also have a chat to someone also dealing with lively babies at 3am!

My baby had hers she was upset but ok. Think what tipped her over the edge was the exam with the Dr afterwards. She actually fell asleep after jabs bur rhe woke up with Dr

I took baby calpol in my bag and administered it as soon as I got home. She did have a high temp and was a wee bit grumpy but she was ok.

I was dreading it but she was fine. Lots of cuddles and reassurance.

I think this must be coincidence, but he went back down at 9 and stayed sleepy all night, easy to settle. I'll try again today, maybe.. it appeared to work, thinks its a fluke

Ooh what's baby calm??

It's a book. Look at Sarah Ockwell Smith. I've dipped in and out of the baby calm book and not read much of gentle sleep. She's on facebook and does videos. If you like a more structured Gina Ford type approach then this won't be for you but much of what she says sits with how I've been going along anyway and with my own views of being a parent.

She's left the baby calm franchise now but has some new books coming out. But I like the baby calm book.

I'm not related. I promise

Haha, ok :) Smith seems more realistic about natural sleep patterns looking at her blog!

..talking of videos, completely forgot until now! DP showed me this when I was pregnant: Keep them calm!

www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/how-stop-baby-crying-doctor-6941451

Aaaw those babies are soo cute!! Worth watching just to see their sweet little sleepy faces

Thanks first that's good to know. Thinking about asking someone to come with me for moral support just incase.

It's always an idea it's horrible seeing them upset but I'm sure your baby will be fine

Mine has her jabs next week. Not looking forward to it but hopefully it will be out last doctor appointment for a while. She had an infection when she was born and had a course of antibiotics in her first week, then I had stitches and last week had a small operation for another health matter. So between us we are a bit fed up of needles!

With sleeping we ate doing OK. No real strategy but most days she has a good afternoon nap and she is sleeping for longer stretches at night. Slowly been working up to five hours consecutive sleep then up for 40 minutes before sleeping for another 2 hours. But every day and night is still slightly different.

Does anyone else have an un-settlable baby? Come 7pm and bedtime she goes mental when I put her in her cot - just cries and cries. I make sure she goes down well fed and content, but as soon as she realises where she is, that's it. I pick her up and soothe but the second I put her back she kicks off again. This goes on until I give up and put her on my lap (she goes to sleep right away on me!). I haven't managed a single evening without this scenario yet....

Elvi I'm sure your baby will be fine. My baby has his first jabs on the 15th but DS1 only screeched in shock for about ten seconds and was then completely fine with no after affects. I was told by the HV though that the new Men B vaccine is worse so I should give ds2 Calpol in advance even at 8 wks and expect up to 40 degree temp for 48hours but it probably won't bother the babies.

I'm meeting friends for lunch on Friday, not sure if this is a brave or foolish thing to do - either he'll sleep the whole time or he'll wake and scream just as food arrives and I'll be embarrassed about disturbing everyone else on the restaurant and get stressed and if I can't get him to settle quickly I'll just have to leave. Has anyone else taken their baby out much to restaurants or other not very baby-friendly places?

Bleugh yesterday was tough, crying from 5pm to 11pm. With short respites when feeding. Poor mite. And then she slept 6 hours!

Fourlegs mine falls asleep on me most of the time too. She sometimes will drop off in her basket but its hit and miss.

Cheese I have been to coffee shops and small cafes with baby and been OK. If we drive there she will fall asleep in the car seat. If she does wake up and cry feeding her kept her happy and quiet. Not braved an actual restaurant yet though.

Hows everyone doing?

DS is 6 weeks today and has been mainly unhappy or sleeping/eating for a few days. Crying a lot. Crying, then angrily eating then spiyying it back up...poor little guy. I heard crying peaks at 6 weeks, but it could just be a wonderful myth...

Morning! We've had a manic couple of weeks.. DS2 is 6 weeks and I am hoping that things get easier from here on out.. Little one was waking once for a couple of weeks, and I began to feel more human, but the last couple of nights have been twice waking again.. I think it may be a growth spurt again.

What is good is she's much more alert and interesting which is lovely..

The other night we had unexplained crying from 7-9.30!! No reason- it was so upsetting!

And rpj, we're doing a chilled version of Gina ford, and it's lovely. I like knowing vaguely what I can do.. And little one is super chilled as she knows what's going on through the day..

We tend to do feed at 7, then sleep at 9,
Feed at 10, sleep at 11.30-2.. Feed upon waking, then another nap around 4,
Feed at 5, bath at 6 and (massive feed 6-7!) bed at 7, and other than one night she sleeps from 7-10 and 10-4.. Thankfully the 4am feed I can lie down and feed her so it's not too disturbing for her and she drifts off..

I'm finding BF quite tiring though.. How's everyone else finding it? I'm having to eat soooo much!

My normally chilled out baby is 7 weeks tomorrow, but over the last few days he's been crying more frequently and fussing at the breast late afternoon/evenings. Had some bad nights this week - his sleep had been getting better during the night but we seemed to have regressed to waking up every 2 hours during the night. He only has very short naps during the day so I'm feeling very very tired now. It's lovely that hes more alert now, but needs a lot of stimulation which would be fun if wasn't so tired. I've heard the fussing, crying episode peaks between 6-8 weeks so hopefully he will be more settled by the end of next week.

Aw, glad it's not just me then! I'm ff, but I can imagine it must be really tiring breastfeeding. Maybe the babies are having growth spurts around this age. That sounds like a nice routine Vicky. My gina fording has taken a back seat, My little guy has been kinda sleepy in the mornings and I've been giving in and just sleeping with him 6-9am, but really this makes him grumpy late at night, he needs to be up in the morning.

Elvi1 It's lovely that they are more alert and looking around and starting to smile, it makes all the hard times melt away. :) (and then come oozing back in when hunger/over-stimulation strikes! haha)

I have to say, I think with routine or not, you know what suits you and your baby.. With my first I just had no idea what to do- read all the books (from co sleeping to other end of spectrum), and we seemed to fall into a pattern vaguely like GF so went with that.. But I never found it stressful- if it works, great.. But no worries if it needs adapting etc ( or a lie in after a bad night!!) and most of my mates did attachment parenting!

And elvi I find the fussing at the breast really distressing- it's like she doesn't like it! Mine is mainly just before bed- do you find evenings are worse?

Yeah it's not nice - first time it happened I got really upset as I was convinced it was because he couldn't get any milk out which I later realised wasn't the case. Fortunately, he doesn't fuss that much but when it happens anytime between late evening and before I (try to) go to sleep at night.

Yeah it's lovely they are alert - I tend to talk utter rubbish to him just so I feel I'm not ignoring him. My husband is loving this period I think - he comes home from work and spralls lots of toys over the lounge to 'play' with him.

Hi all, mine will be 9 weeks on Friday. We found weeks 6-8 really tough with lots of crying in the evenings, but she seems to have turned a corner this week and she is a much happier baby again. Hang in there ladies, I think they are right about the crying stage peaking at 6 weeks.

Yup- the crying continues. dS goes down at 7 happy and settled. Then wakes at 7.20 like she's in pain and has been crying and refusing to feed since!! No rhyme nor reason! Currently she's being cuddled by the other half who has just got back from work...! Tired! Hope this doesn't continue all night!

I've given in and used a pacifier.........peace. H's had full bottle, winded, nappy change. Still cried but sound asleep 2 mins after the dummy. relief......guilty relief! I'm so glad littlejeop that you have turned a corner.I hope the rest of us follow suit!!

Yeah, I may have spoken too soon. We had four really great evenings this week but she had her jabs on Weds, just wanted to sleep all day yesterday and has been very upset today. Didn't fill her nappy till 3pm and crying lots again this evening. Hoping it is the jabs making her out of sorts and it will pass soon
Don't feel guilty Rpj, anything that stops them being so miserable.

Oh dear, hows she doing now?

Has anyone got any funny stories? My little guy has a brilliant pooing face. Not a story but kind of funny :D

She's been much better now, thanks. Has been a happy baby yesterday and today. I don't have any really good stories but she did manage to do a very loud poo at a church event this weekend , right in the quiet pause after the pastor said 'amen'!

Hey all.. Funny story- in the shower yesterday morning. Newborn starts screaming- I sing loudly to distract baby and self from howls.. Three year old pops her head round door of shower: 'I gave Hannah a pillow'.
Whhhaaaaa???? (Imagining the worst)
I jump out of shower..
Toddler somehow lifted newborn into bed and proper her up with pillows...

Needless to say, I was somewhat relieved!!!

How often do your babies poo? My baby hasn't gone for three days.. We have started her on one bottle of formula a day as breastfeeding was killing me..

And littlejeap- that sounds hilarious! At our church the babies always so funny things at the quietest moments- it's like they know..!!!