June '07 - This season we will mostly be wearing Eau de Baby Sick

[loonylovegood]

CHICKS!!! Over here!

Ok - have had a look on Kellymom and now feel reassured. Disaster averted...

Not sure TA. Could he be going through a growth spurt?

Morning all

TA - how old is LO now?

DD is 7 weeks old and suddenly started feeding like that a couple of weeks ago (I FF as well). 6oz every 3-4 hours after previously going 5-6 hours.

I can only assume its a growth spurt (that is still going ) as she rarely goes over 4 hours these days (sometimes 5 during the night).

Is he regularly draining the bottle? Perhaps its time to offer 7oz?

Its amazing how much they can fit in isn't it?

Is he happy in himself?

Hope you're ok x

I am SO slow - only just found this "new" thread - though not so new now I guess. Have had quick skim through what's been going n - too much to respond to, except that hope Bumper's water and leccy get sorted asap, though realise even that will be a while.

Had 15 min or so play time with DD earlier. By play I mean she gazed at me while I made her activity caterpillar sing and dance for her, made her toy cat give her a cuddle, discussed some of the places we could theoretically go today - the zoo and the farm - making suitable noises as I listed the animals we might see, and roared suitably when she pulled the toger tail on her play mat. I felt like a right idiot, but she seemed to enjoy it - at least she didn't cry. So looking forward to when she can show active pleasure in things, smiles or laughs etc, so I know when I'm doing it "right" rather than just that I'm not doing it "wrong". Please tell me that time is coming soon? (She's 6 weeks tomorrow)

Hi Charlie,
He's not yet 5 weeks
if he's not eating he's screaming. Although I am unfair, he was quite good yesterday.
He takes just under 6oz so not yet time to go to 7oz - can it be a growth spurt?? He just had one!

Jamamntha, they usually start smiling around 6 weeks. Just keep smiling and laughing to her and you'll get one back soon. When their wee eyes light up for the first time it's the most magical feeling in the world [soppy emoticon].

I caught DS's second ever smile on camera and it still gives me a warm and fuzzy glow when I look at the photo.

TA is it worth having a word with your HV to make sure he's getting the right amount? According to baby centre he should be taking between 2.5 and 2.7 oz of formula per lb of body weight per day, if that helps you any. He's a big boy so may just need more milk in general. link to babycentre

Hello

I love my sister Emily.
I'm dressed as Optimus Prime.
He is a transformer.
I love Grimlok the Dinobot. He is an Autobot.

bloody hell that took us about 25 minutes to type! I suppose he's got to start somewhere

Still in my jammies today. DD was up at three and wouldn't settle. She was fine as long as she was in contact with me. As soon as I tried to put her in the cot she started writhing and growling and was all curled up. When she started relaxing her legs would go down so far and then she was joliting herself awake. Tried swaddling her and that didn't work either. finally got her off to sleep cradled in the crrok of my arm at half 5. Then DS got up at 6 o'clock. I managed to persuade him to leave us be for a bit, but he periodically came into the bedroom asking me to get up. After a few "in a minutes" from me, I looked at the clock and it was nearly 8 o'clock! He'd been downstairs watching Transformers, bless him.

So, I've now managed to get her settled again in the big cot, swaddled up, but had to nurse her back to sleep. Think we'll have a bit of a duvet day the three of us!

I'm bloody knackered!

Hello mystic red ranger, you are super cool! I used to play with transformers, they are wicked!

erm...I don't think saying wicked is "cool" any more holly. At least not according to MRR!

Got him a transformers suit in tesco yesterday and he had to be prozed out of it at bedtime and had it on when I got up this morning. Could've saved a fortune in clothes!

At leaast it cuts down on my washing as well

how are you today?

Oh dear, I am not young any more ! I used to know all the cool words to use! How about fandabbidosi? Is that cool?

We are fine, I have been on a cleaning spree! Feeling very smug now ! Dp has an interview this afternoon, so fingers crossed!

hi everyone, we gone a full 7 days where dd not been admitted to hospital wayhay! hows every one and they babies? i can not keep up with you lot lol dd is still only taking 1 oz milk but its every 2 hours ans shes putting weight on as she now weighs 7lb 5oz at 6 weeks old

Hi Trace

I saw your post about DDs arm...is everything OK? It's great that she's starting to out on weight, it must be a load off your mind.

Have they figured out what's goiing on with her yet?

Back in a mo....DD has had an hour and decided that's enough for her...

hi daisy, no we no idea she is still not right if you know what i mean

what are the hospital doing about it all?
did you get your test results back?

no not all but they are saying its silent reflux whats made her blue and stopped her breathing, so they have lernt us crp, and got a monitor to warn us, but her kidneys sounds like kidney reflux where her wee backs up and gives her an infection, so she on low dose anti until they say stop

I assume the silent reflux will get better as she get older?

My neice is on long term low dose ABs too as she keeps getting recurrent infections. She has a cogenital defect; her sacrum didn't develop properly.

This last week must be helping you see there is light at the end of the tunnel though. Hoping she continues to go from strength to strength

just had weigh in - 11oz gain in 11 days

Hi everyone
typing one handed - got lo attatched to left boob!
Realised last night that I was feelin shit cos I have mastitis! Had felt all achey and feverish all day but didn't think to check my boobs!
Saw it when getting ready for bed so had a bath - massaged it - went to dr's this morning - got antibiotics - but going to wait a bit before taking them as I feel much better - and it's not so red today - so might have caught it just in time.
Lo had 3.5oz of ebm AND 3.8oz (ish)of formula before bed last night - and slept for 3 hours! which is so much better than the usual 1.5 hours we normally get!

Holly - Fingers crossed DP gets that job - I'm totally out of touch - but I'm guessing something went wrong at his old job?

Trace - good news Lo is putting on weight

hi dkma.....snap on the typing.

No wonder you felt crap yesterday. I had a blocked duct a few weeks ago and was getting hot and cold sweats. It wasn't nice.

Keep massaging it after applying warm flannel, and apparently combing the breast helps (yup with a comb). Don't know how that one works though and sound sore to me.

How are things otherwise?

Hi daisy
I'd heard about the combing but couldn't find one so I used a nail brush!? LOL!
Today seems like a better day! It's weird how some days are great and some days I feel like I'm cracking up!?
How's things with you?

Hi Can I join in?

I had a June 27th baby boy, Joshua.

I have a feeding question. He was 8lb 12oz at birth, and was up to 9lb 10 at 2w 5d. I am bottle feeding and he is now on 5oz 6x a day. The health visitor is extremely ambiguous about what he should be having, and no one else can advise. He seems like he needs more, although he will sleep for 3/4 hours. How much do bottle feeding June babies on here get fed and how many weeks are they?

I was also told to keep him on SMA gold, and not go for the hungry baby food, as hungry baby food is more like cows milk and less like breast milk. Is this correct? What are other June babies getting?

Thanks in advance, Jo xxx

Hi sunshine....love the name

welcome and congratulations on the birth of your LO. I take it this is your first?

I'm BF so I don't know about amounts of formula, but I did a link a few paosts back for the Babykind website section on how much formula to feed. I think it was 2.5-2.7 oz per lb of baby's weight per day, if that makes sense.

So a 10lb baby would need 25-27 fl oz per day.

We were just debating the SMA gold vs white yesterday and the concensus was that it was better to stick to the gold as the white has the same calories, but has bulking agents in to make it harder to digest. Theoretically baby could then drink less per day, hence get less calories than they would with the stage 1 milk, IYSWIM.

I never used the hungrier baby milk or follow on milk with my DS as I was advised against them by my HV at the time. I went from stage 1 milk to cows milk at a year old.