The March-ers 2019 - Baby Talk #2

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Thread 2 for all our newborns ❤🤗👣

@Footymum81 nothing like that here. I hope he's ok!

@Footymum81 mine didn't reject Calpol but wasn't great at getting it in so split quite a lot. He did throw up loads of milk after feeds for about 3 days after his jabs, sometimes a while after he'd fed. Hope yours bounces back soon, just keep an eye on his temperature if he's hot and sick.

@Footymum81 mine kept spitting out the calpol. The nurse said to wait until he's crying then squirt little amounts at a time into the corner of his mouth and because he's crying he'll swallow it. I was a bit worried about doing it in case he choked but he didn't and it was the only way I could get him to take it!

Is anyone else finding their baby cries/whinges continuously recently? He's always grizzling and then screaming in temper. It's usually when he's tired but won't sleep... which is the majority of the time! I'm not going to lie, I'm reaching the end of my tether and finding it harder than the newborn days! Feeling like a failure to be honest as he soon settles for other people but not me. ☹️

@AssumeItWasSomethingClever mines been the same a lately, mostly when she's tired. She whinges, moans and kicks her legs. I have to stand up with her rocking her to get her to sleep. Most of the time it works but others she starts having a full on screaming fit and can last a good 15-20 mins. I'm the same it's really getting to me, sometimes I just put her down and have 2 mins to myself in the kitchen. When her dad comes home she will be fine and shut straight up. Sometimes I think she's just board of my face

@Assumeitwassomethingclever Mine is similar too. But he's even worse for DH, so I should be grateful that I can still get him to calm down and sleep. He's also doing the same thing @Brobot mentioned little while ago. In the evening he falls asleep on the boob, sleeps for 45 minutes, then wakes up very unhappy and difficult to get to sleep again. It sucks, as he also learned a new, high-pitched scream which sounds like a demon screech. It's a special "I really want to sleep" scream, he makes the same if we have to wake him up for his medicine during the night. Wonder weeks app says 6 days til the end of this leap, hope that will make some difference. 🤞

@AssumeItWasSomethingClever I came on here to write what you've just written. Elliot has been the whingiest thing ever today and when I pass him to my husband he turns into an absolute delight! I decided not to go to my mum's today as I can't face him getting into the state he gets into in the car. I cant do it to him anymore. I need to figure something out. AND I discovered that the carseat we have isn't able to be used without an isofix so I cant move him to the front to see if it helps. Sigh. So we had a day at home today but he was a nightmare. We normally bath him before bed but I was so desperate for peace today that I bathed him at 12! Cue 30 mins of happy baby. Then straight back to the grumpies. Double sigh.

@AssumeItWasSomethingClever my LO is definitely more grumpy and when she's tied she screams like someone is trying to kill her, arches backwards and goes completely rigid. It's getting easier but it's exhausting to deal with. I've ended up with a boob to sleep baby as a result so now I'm working on getting her to self settle again.

So glad I'm not alone.
@HidCat My LO does the arched back/ rigidness whilst thrashing around. Makes it impossible to do anything with him!
My husband is brilliant with him when he's in a good mood but as soon as he's grouchy he doesn't really know what to do with him. I can't leave him alone otherwise he has a full on meltdown. so I wait until DH is home from work to have a shower/ bath. If I come downstairs and he's whinging DH rolls his eyes and thrusts him back at me. I really think they don't have a clue what we go through every day! I would love it for him to have him for an entire day just for him to appreciate how bloody hard it is!!

Ok I need your help. We were all fast asleep (husband still in spare room due to cough) and half an hour ago Elliot woke screaming. Now, when I say screaming, I mean worse than I've ever seen him. Any attempt to sooth him led to what I can only describe as a terror cry. It became more and more high pitched to the point I was about to take him to hospital. He has finally calmed and fallen asleep on the boob and being rocked. What the hell just happened?? He was very hard to settle tonight but was at no point "real" crying. It was more a whinge/fake cry but nothing like this. It terrified my husband and me. He doesn't seem hot or anything. It was as if he had broken a bone. It was that sudden and severe. He was lying on the other side of the bed from me so I couldn't have hurt him by accident.

@AssumeItWasSomethingClever I'm the same with my OH, when I tell him I need a break/rest all I get is you have all day for a rest, your only looking after a baby!!! I work 10 hours a day and work hard! I get so mad with him, like it's an easy job looking after a baby. Ok mate you have a full day with her see how you cope!!

@Brobot I don't have any advice but I know what you mean. I've had that a couple of times with my little one. Never seen her cry like that before and it worried me to death, I was like you and thought should I take her to hospital but she was fine after about 39 mins. So no idea what it is??

@sheeni that's great news, you must be so relieved! and such a relatively simple possible outcome in relation to what it was looking like it would be too.

@BadBadBeans I think it was you who said about Gabe & Grace liners? Do you recall how long it took for them to send you yours? I ordered one on 21st and then on 24th it was updated to "processing" and that was a week ago... the only thing I can find on their website says the processing time is 3-4 working days, and it's now been 5, so I'm not sure when to chase them up about it.

@cardboard33 it was me that recommended the gave & Grace sheepskin liners. It is 3 1/2 years since I ordered for dd1 but I can’t remember having any trouble with my order and trust me I am the queen of complaining if I receive bad service is there any contact details so you could chase the order?

@cardboard33 if I hadn’t heard anything by tomorrow afternoon I think I would contact them x

@Wineandchoccy ah sorry, got you mixed up!! Some of my friends said them too so we took the plunge, but we did find the website very complicated/old fashioned to use!!

I also love a good complain and have got so many vouchers from my twitter moaning which is an added bonus. But I also complement when they do a good job so it's not one sided. Yeah, I also thought tomorrow PM although we are busy Fri and then the weekend so it may end up being Monday. (just realised how many also's I've put there) ... I just don't want to chase without giving them time to fail first as that's not fair! I'm really looking forward to getting it so it had better not disappoint. What colour do you have on your older daughter's?

Scratch the above. Husband's just been to the sorting office as they tried to deliver a package yesterday when I was out... Turns out it was the liner!! But they haven't sent me an email or updated the status beyond 'processing' ... How odd!

@cardboard33 yeah glad it’s arrived. I can’t remember the name of ours but it’s a dark grey colour. I wish I had a pound for every time someone has stopped to ask me where I have bought it from I would be very rich

@Brobot it's awful when that happens. I don't know what causes it but I usually give Calpol when it happens.

@AssumeItWasSomethingClever my hubby can be like that. When I go back to work though he'll be doing solo childcare as well so he knows what it's like from having DS and it's only because I'm on mat leave that he takes a hands off approach atm.

Oh my god. The struggle is real this evening. He's been screaming for the last 45 minutes, unable to fall asleep in any way. Shushing doesn't work. White noise does nothing. Rocking doesn't work, even while walking. BOOB IS NOT WORKING! When will this phase be over?! I have enough of this little Beelzebub and want my traditionally cranky baby back.

@Wineandchoccy we got a dark grey one too as the pushchair is black. Already had someone say today how comfy he looks and he went to sleep in it for two hours, yay.

Does anyone else's baby do a weird dance move wiggle thing with their arms above their head when they're on their back and clearly excited/happy? It's like he's wiggling into the floor with excitement... But anyway, he was doing that lots so I knew he was happy!

@Brobot how's your brother doing? Sending strength to you and your family.

@Sheeni sorry you had a tough night. Did he finally calm down? Mins doesn't tend to scream but when he does we find that he gets himself so worked up that it then takes him ages to calm back down even if it was a relatively minor thing which set him off. We are now at the five month marker and tbh it's hard to tell if it has got easier or if our expectations are just lower these days but we are doing good if he makes it to midnight without waking up whereas before the sleep regression hit he could go a lot longer.

@cardboard33 After almost an hour of relentless screaming he fell asleep on the boob, still sobbing a bit. He woke up after 45 minutes again with his demon, high-pitched scream. I tried to calm him down, gave up after 15 minutes, put him in DH arms just so I can go to the loo...and he randomly fell asleep. I couldn't even sleep as DH had a beer with his dinner and I was paranoid he'll roll over him . So I stayed up for the 45 minutes LO managed to sleep, then took him back.

Your LO's happy dance made me giggle. Don't think mine does that.

@cardboard33 yes we love the happy dance here! When he sees us come towards him his arms and legs do a little jig. So cute!

@Brobot last night we had the same thing with LO waking and just screaming out of nowhere. He's been terrible sleeping in the evening for a few weeks now. Seems to be that he's waking every ten mins crying but i dont check the time so it may not be that soon. Feels like it though. But mostly just whinging more than a proper cry. Apart from last night. No idea what caused it. Didn't seem hurt, hungry etc just woke up screaming. Lasted about 10 mins of us holding him ntil he randomly fell alseep on me then seemed fine. Very odd qnd concerning at the time.

Anyone whose LO can roll now. Do they do it a lot? He rolled front to back about 3/4 weeks ago, did it quite a lot but now doesn't bother. He rolled back to front about 2 weeks ago. Did it a lot, to the point where i couldn't put him down on his back, he'd just flip to his front. Now again the past week he hasn't bothered with it at all. Rather than flip onto his back when he gets sick of tummy time, which i know he can do easily, he just cries. I thought he'd be practising all the time but just seems content on his back right now. Should i just leave him to it?

@melissa112 hey! Been watching this thread for a couple weeks but only just posting now. My LO used to roll front to back, hasn't rolled back to front at all but lies on his side. When I put my LO on his tummy now, he is most definitely trying to crawl. He is absolutely determined to move. And because he can't, he just gets fussy and cries and no longer rolls onto his back. It's a weird thing but I'm sure it's developmentally normal? 'OK mastered rolling over, on to the next!'

@Sianlouise432 hi and welcome to the thread how old is your little boy? Ha he'll be army crawling before you know it by the sounds of it! My DP likens it to completing a level on a game. Done that one, what's done next sort of thing!

@Jenfur glad to know he’s not the only one. Luckily Freddie is all back to his usual self now
@AssumeItWasSomethingClever we’ve tried that, he just holds it in his mouth cheeky chap! He was kind of gargling with it while screaming, I felt like I was torturing him. Glad it’s all over now.

We’ve finally started enjoying tummy time and he’s able to sit for about 10 seconds before drunkenly slumping to one side, 18 weeks today.
We had a week of bad sleeping but he’s back to usual the last 2 nights, could that be the sleep regression over? crosses fingers