May 2017 #17 the fun continues

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Hope everyone will continue to chat about their beautiful May 2017 babies!

@teainbed have you seen this? https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/shows/bambino/ bit of a different fringe show

Has anyone here had any success in lengthening naps?? My little man's naps are getting shorter and shorter - not sure why but it's driving me bananas having 20-30 mins naps as have two other children so I am getting nothing done!! Sorry if this has already been covered but am finding I hard to keep up with the thread!

my DD only naps max 20mins if I put her down to nap at home I get nothing done unless my 6yo or OH is home to help with LO, she will nap for hours on me or in the pram when we are out lol

@Greylilypad yes we did but I'm not sure if my meddling fixed it or if it naturally fixed itself. How old is your baby? I read that at 12 weeks something happens with sleep cycles and they are able to nap longer. But if BabyTea woke after a very short nap and seemed tired or grumpy still I would shush and pat a bit until he settled again. Finding his thumb to suck made a huge difference. Do you feed to sleep? Is he waking hungry or windy/refluxy? If he woke up cheerful I would assume he was ready to get up.

He is only 8 weeks. He was due end May but born 12 days late!
I suppose I do feed to sleep at night as in feed back to sleep. During the day, sometimes he falls asleep while i am carrying him, or sitting on me, or sometimes while feeding and in the car or pram.
I have not yet been able to put him down awake and he goes to sleep himself. He is quite a pukey baby but don't think of it as reflux as it doesn't bother him. But he does get sick several times a day. Not sure if this is waking him though. The other two children probably do wake him sometimes but he will have to get used to that!

@greylilypad - baby nate's naps are starting to get shorter but I don't know if this is a temporary thing, as he hits 12 weeks this week. His naps used to last 1-2 hours whereas they have been lasting 30-40 mins sometimes shorter. Plus he has been quite grumpy and not his usual self but I had put it down to a growth spurt. Dh thinks he might be coming down with something given that dd's been unwell and both dh & I aren't 100%. Hope nate gets better as he's got his next set of jabs on Friday so am worried that it might tip him over the edge.

savage I have now googled and think you are right that will help. www.sterishoe.com/foot-care-blog/athletes-foot/how-to-kill-fungus-in-the-laundry/

my DD is 11weeks on Thursday she is getting her first lot of jabs tomorrow.. what are they? what should I expect? my first DD is 6yo so I've forgotten 😕xx

@p51642 one oral one (rotorvirus) and three injections! Met B, Pneumo and combined (I think!) we had ours last week. Take calpol with you if you to give straight after

Naps shorted here (at 10weeks) but frustrating as trying to do some painting and when he was asleep for over an hour I could actually get a bit done!

p jabs have changed recently, you'd not have had rotavirus or men b last time.

someone told me they get given loads of different injections now :/ my partner doesn't want our DD to have the MMR vaccine due to difficulties family friends children have had with it, it's all scaring me lol

@p51642 the MMR thing was bollocks research and the author struck off. Have a Google but try and reassure your partner that it's safe.

@p51642 as well as the MMR research being bollocks (as @teainbed put it so eloquently ) it's also not given until they're 1. Full schedule is here www.nhs.uk/Conditions/vaccinations/Pages/vaccination-schedule-age-checklist.aspx# however I don't think the 6 in 1 is everywhere yet so it might still be the 5 in 1 in your area.

p what specific concerns does your partner have? How old is DD?

Just to echo rise and tea, I did microbiology at uni and the MMR 'scare' was nonsense, really no scientific basis for the 'results'. We studied it as an exercise in how not to conduct research!
There was however an unprecedented rise in outbreaks of measles/mumps/German measles after vaccine uptake dropped because parents (quite rightly) got scared and didn't want to take the perceived risk. The MMR isn't without possible side effects as with all vaccines but I'd say the 'worst' one is the meningitis b which is known to increase the incidence of fever when given at the same time as the 5 in 1. But this is well documented, give calpol as per the instructions and you should be all good.
My wee man is going for his second round of jags today, no men b this time but I'm probably going to give him calpol afterwards anyway. Personally I'd rather prevent any fever than try to fight it after it starts.

I would of said go ahead with all vaccines but my partner is adamant she's not having it until she's of school age, she's on 11weeks atm, my SIL friends son died of meningitis 2 weeks after having the MMR jab and apparently the jab set of the meningitis or something and then now the mother of the child who sadly died goes go a support group with parents who's children also died after the MMR jab of meningitis so all his family are set against it until the child is older but they've fed all this to me and my OH, it's freaked me and he's adamant now but I'm scared now either way 😕

sorry, half of my words in that have jumbled up, the autocorrect on my phone is rubbish 😂

Bollocks is the technical medical term! 😂

That sounds tragic but very very rare (if the vaccine really was the cause, was this categorically proven?) but far more common to catch measles etc you weigh up the risks I suppose and make your decision.

I went to a conference a few years after the MMR scare they asked all the clinicians in the room if they'd vaccinated their own kids with MMR they all had.

well MMR is only at 12/13 months so you have time to research the facts and persuade him otherwise....

I don't know all the facts but from what I can remember from what SIL said the doctors couldn't give them an answer so I'm not really sure, yeah I think I'm going to look into it properly over the next year.

Ha this just came up on my Twitter, cracking timing.

twitter.com/thedailymash/status/894863320469176321

@Tiggermama ha snap, my degree is in microbiology too 😉 I must have done it longer ago than you though because they hadn't managed to integrate the MMR nonsense as a how not to yet 😁

@teainbed bollocks is a well known scientific term too 😜

Sorry not caught up with whole thing - tea I was being totally serious hope you didn't think I was being sarky I've learned loads and really appreciate people sharing x