March 2016 Babies Thread #11 - We've got smiley babies, screaming babies and farty babies!

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This time last year....my nephew was days away from being born, I was planning a wedding and looking forward to that holiday.....little did I know that I would fly home with a little souvenir

This week coming should be interesting - C's first trip on the ferry to Ireland to visit our families! We're leaving London on Thursday afternoon and driving to near Manchester, staying the night there before heading to Holyhead for a 2pm ferry on Friday. Really hoping he sleeps well in the car.

He's still feeding like crazy. We're getting longer stretches at night now (6 hours straight most nights) but it's still every hour by day with evening cluster-feeding. I feel horrible about saying it but I'm really starting to hate breastfeeding and I almost wish I hadn't busted my ass to get things sorted in the early days. It feels like he's never satisfied even though he's clearly doing well on it.

In terms of childcare - we're most likely going to find a childminder. We did have the slight curveball of 2 days a week free childcare if we move back to Dublin thrown at us though...

Bollocks dh was about to get up to feed D and I said I'd get up so he said thanks and got back into bed!

Morning all. Can I ask about poo?

DS2 has had green and sometimes mucousy poo since the vaccinations last week. I had expected it to clear up by now. He's otherwise absolutely fine (only cries when he's tired), although the reflux is back.

Should we see the doctor?

A bit of googling says that it could be too much foremilk (I try to block feed to avoid this, but he is a quick feeder). Or an allergy/intolerance but that would be accompanied by other symptoms.

Mucous could be excess saliva (he's been blowing lots of saliva bubbles, I have a little suspicion he's teething a bit already), or infection but he seems fine, and it could still be the rota virus vaccine?

I don't know whether to be worried about it.

Dom we had green mucousy poo for almost two weeks after the first rota vaccination and for 24 hours after the second. Almost spinach like. I spoke to my health visitor about it and she said as long as T was well in herself not to worry. It stopped as suddenly as it started. One poo was green, and the next, which I think was several nappies later, was back to yellow-orange. T normally poos every two or three nappies so it was a noticeable gap.

Oh and it coincided with a big increase in spitting up post feed, which also settled down after the poo colour went back to normal. Sounds v similar!

purple glad things seem to be slotting into place for return to work, sounds great.
tri good luck with the journey...would you consider going back to Ireland for the free childcare?? Lots to think about I guess.
dom no idea I'm afraid, it seems reassuring that he seems well in himself and mship's account sounds reassuring. We've still not had his first immunisations at 11weeks now, despite my best efforts fighting a wholly overly complicated system here.

Very rubbish day here. DS2 has his first cold, fair enough, but he's feeding dreadfully and as a result I now have mastitis. Add to that my phone died due to water damage in yesterday's storm and half our electricity went off. All in all feeling sorry for myself. Though a packet of peanut butter Oreos are helping a little.

Ah, thanks TheM! Sounds exactly like what we've got here.

Oh no, magpie, that's all kinds of rubbish! Try saline spray for DS, get to the doc for yourself, and eat more biscuits!

Duh, should have googled:

"Rotarix® is a live vaccine, which means that a small amount of live virus will be present in your baby's intestines for about two weeks after the vaccination."

Magpie We are considering it - for both of us (software developer and civil engineer) there's quite a lot of work in Dublin, which is where my mum lives. It would be much easier to save for a deposit to buy a house there and the suburbs of south Dublin would be in our price range.

My big issues are twofold - I do not want to be forced into baptising C for a school place and I REALLY do not want him going to a Catholic school, and over 90% of the schools back home are RC. I'd take a Gaelscoil place (teaching through Irish) if it meant the school was multi - denominational. Also, we want another child in the next 2-3 years and I fear the maternity services in Ireland while the 8th amendment still exists. The 8th places the rights of a foetus equal to that of the pregnant person, which is ridiculous. It also removes your right to informed consent while pregnant.

Place marking will attempt to catch up tonight!

R had his 12 week jabs today, has woken every 2 hours since 9pm so far. I forgot how tired you can be.

Oh no q! We had two hourly wakings last week and it was horrific so i feel your pain! Dd2 has got her jabs today, hope we don't have the same reaction 😟.

Good luck for jabs
C has her 16 weeks one today to :(
Dreading it because it's men b vaccine to isn't it :(

Oh no Q, that sounds like rubbish. Hope you got some uninterrupted sleep later. O's got his jabs (12 weeks) too but we're already going through a period of sleep regression (currently every 2-3 hours) so hoping the jabs don't make things worse

doc and marmite DS had his yesterday and he was just fine last night so it might not be so bad! Sorry you had a rubbish night though Q.

Why is it that babies just know somehow when you need to go out. DS is messing around on his bottle right now hardly taking any because he somehow knows we need to leave in 15 minutes.

time We didn't have any side effects from menB or from the other jabs, just the rotavirus green poos and extra spit-up. Our surgery does the menB's separately, so we have jabs at 8, 9, 13, 16 & 17 weeks. We're in between 13 & 16 weeks now, so only 2 more rounds to go till we get several months off. C will likely have minimal side effects, most babies have nothing worse than a little redness and maybe a mild fever. You might even get lucky - some babies are sleepier for a day or two after!

Hmm Little Miss C has decided now is a good time for rolling practice, she can only get on to her side and back but has somehow managed to turn herself through 180 degrees in her cot to put her head where her feet should be! I often put a blanket on her rather than a grobag but looks like,that will have to stop now. Hoping our first night feed in weeks will knock her out! Dh is away at the Euros but mil did say to call if I needed any help day or night...

time what a lovely photo. E is a very cheery baby but it is hard to capture on camera.

TriJo lots of tricky issues, hopefully spending time back in Ireland will give you a chance to think through them.

Second jabs were good here, no green poos like last time and E wasn't as grump either. Nurse did manage to nick a blood vessel though so we had blood down her leg, down DH's hand and his trousers onto the floor. Luckily she took it in her stride or I'd have been upset.

Got E a bounch chair this week as she is keen to be up observing everyone. She has a good view as It is up on a side table to save hand licking from our pup.

dom 8wk jabs aside, when we had green poo for a few days E had a spate of green poo in week 6-7 that just went away by itself. I'm guessing at a foremilk issue as she was fine otherwise.

Butter wouldn't melt right? Bless her.
Dd didn't react well to her 16 week jabs.
She had them at 9:15 and slept 11-1. But from 1-5:30 was screaming and screaming :( gave her calpol ( acted like I was poisoning her haha ) and her temp was fine. Finally got her to sleep from 5:30-8:30 and then she woke three times in the night.
She woke at 6:45 and has slept 8-10:30 and has gone back down 15 minutes ago.
Can't wait for oh to get home. I have the huge urge to blitz the flat this weekend. Bet it won't happen though.

French- c loves her bouncer to. She loves to look around.
She has a thing for our curtains. She can sit smiling and cooing out them for hours on end.
She also loves me blowing raspberry on her tummy. She gets the sweetest little look on her face when I do it.

Ugh DS is going in his own room soon. Just spent the last hour resolutely awake because he's been moving around making loads of grunty noises whilst still fast asleep. Every hour is precious, I feel resentful that I have missed out on a possible hour of sleep! He's quiet for most of the night but the last bit before he wakes he's always very noisy. Another 2 weeks and he'll be 4 months old so I think we'll move him then - I know SIDS guidelines say 6 months but I read some of the research and it said that the highest risk is between 2 and 4 months and it tails off dramatically after that.

me I doubt we'll make it to 6 months for similar reasons and as the cot would be a huge squeeze. We only have a couple of weeks left in the moses basket so will have to take the plunge then. A couple of people in my antenatal class had their babies in their own rooms from about 6 weeks. Too soon for me though they do have fancy monitors with movement pads. Their babies sleep through though where I've been glad of having E close for fuss free feeds.

Hi all! Just been reading back. DS is exactly 3 months old, can't believe it.

We get good daytime naps most days (but he has to be in his cot in a dark room with white noise/moving in the buggy). Night sleep still broken up with lots of feedings. We might get an initial 4 hour stretch but mainly it's every 3 hours initially and then every two. I had thought this was normal but it seems all other babies are doing a long stretch!!

Re childcare I'm 99% sure I'm not going back to work. Aside from childcare costs I don't think I could bear to leave him and (at the moment!!) I enjoy being at home with him and doing our own thing. I've never been fussed about my career - I quite like my job as the people I work with are lovely but I can take it or leave it really.

Same here french, even if I didn't want to move him anyway he'll grow out of his Moses basket and his cot wouldn't fit in our room. I'm not sure if I should buy a movement sensor or not. They're quite expensive and I hear that there can be quite a lot of false alarms which would have my nerves shot!

I realised today that this time last year, to the day, is when DS was conceived

at conception dates! ours was 2nd July

I want to keep DS2 in with us for as long as possible to make night feeding easier. But you're not supposed to use the Snuzpod past when they can sit up, and he might well grow out of it too.

We still need to actually sort DS1's room out for them to share (and get him out of the cot bed!). That'll be a summer holiday plan.

I'm back to work in three weeks. (But only for 8 days. It doesn't count!) and after um-img and ah-ing I think I'm happy with remaining FT. I popped into the nursery we'll be using 2 days a week and it's ok. It'll be fine!

Oh and sleep-wise. We get a 3-4 hour stretch from about 9pm, then 2-3hrs, then 1-2, then he's awake and there's no avoiding it! And he still feeds every 2 hours during the day (no matter how much I try to stretch it out).