August/ September 2019 babies #2

[kyles101]

Thread number 2 for our August / September 2019 due date babies.

DS is having a regression on nighttime sleep since moving over to combi - seems to want to wale at 1am whereas before would always go through until 3am...

[Stroan]

No, nowhere near as bad!

[kyles101]

No where near as bad. I hear the 17 week ones are a bitch though and ds has those booked for 27th; just a couple of days before we go away for a week 😬

@KnobJockeythat sounds fab! We already have our name down for one set in its own grounds and has donkeys etc but yours goes even further! It will make all the difference when the time comes if it's somewhere we're 100% happy with.

[Dyra]

12 weeks were a doddle compared to the 8 week ones. It was just the one injection and the rotavirus oral vaccination.

gulp at the news of the 16 week ones. Alice is also due them on the 27th, but I'm delaying them until the 10th Jan since we're away both Fridays. Just need to remember to book them now...

[Megan2018]

Nurse told me the 16 week is identical to 8 week, so the same rather than worse. But I think babies are more aware so perceived worse.

[db92]

Thank you for all the replies about the 12 week jabs. He was a complete trooper and is now all smiles. Fingers crossed we don't have an awful time like at 8 weeks

The nurse warned us about the 16 weeks. She herself said they're worse in her experience than the 8week as they are around the same time as a developmental growth spurt and 4 month sleep regression she's said they're the only jabs she suggests calpol be taken BEFORE the jabs and not after.

[yevans]

My baby is an actual moth. She stares at lights all day long, cooing and smiling at them. Anyone else? 😂

[happydays00]

Haha @yevans yes! DS just loves them. I had him in the sling as I walked around the lights department in Dunelm and he was literally pushing his chest away from me to stare at the lights 😂

[Lavellan]

Oh lord she's going to hate the 16 weeks then. She was clinging to me after the 12 with her wee paws. She looked seriously distrusting of the health visitor after.

[Horehound]

Yea Arthur loves the lights too. He loves our Xmas tree it's got 300 of them on there!

Right so I have been thinking he had a cow's milk protein allergy recently because usually he's very sick at night and can't be put down for ages after feeds etc and then for a few days I noticed I could and that he wasn't sick at night and the common denominator was me not having cereal and yoghurts on those days.
I went back to eating them and lo! He was sick again.
Now he has the cold but I have reduced dairy and he isn't being sick. Is this coincidence?
It's not like I've totally eradicated it from my diet. I still have milk in tea and cheese on spaghetti etc.
He doesn't have any skin rashes or eczema, he isnt puffy.
Health visitor told me not to stop dairy because I need calcium for breastfeeding.
I just called a helpline for advice and she told me she wasn't convinced he does have a cmpa but that the fact he only feeds for 3-5mins a time every few ours and is putting on weight is bizarre, he doesn't empty my breast, he only feeds on one breast, he is farty.
She thinks I have an oversupply of milk. She did advise me to go to a group.
Also, I wanted to take a photo of his poop cause I'm not sure about the consistency of it. Would anyone mind if I did that at his next poop?

[kyles101]

@yevans our living room ceiling light is ds' favourite thing in the world 🙄 he chats to me light all the time.

@Horehound yeah, share the poop, why not,
I've stared at loads of ds's today 😂 also,
Dh came into baby change with us as he needed to go too - wee I assumed - NO!! So was gassed out by both my boys stinks today! What's one more poop 😂

[Dyra]

I swear Alice loves the living room light fixture more than us. So many of her unprompted smiles and coos are directed at it. Our bedroom fan + light has her entranced, especially when I turn the fan on for her.

I think the light section of any store might very well blow her little baby mind.

Absolutely post pictures of poop.

[db92]

@Horehound I found our GP and HV were very reluctant to diagnose CMPA initially and made us try many different things even though he had symptoms. Like your little one, DS was gaining weight fine so they said it couldn't be an allergy. He never finished a bottle, would squirm during his feeds and get upset. He made this awful growl/ grunt constantly along with farting and terrible dark green nappies.
2 weeks on his new milk and he's finally taking decent bottles, better nappies and no more grunting.
Can't breastfeeding mums takes calcium tablets - are they even a thing?

[Horehound]

Ok here is one although it's not as "good" as I was hoping to get. Ive then zoomed in to show the certain stringy gloop...is this normal for a breastfed poop?
I think CMPA is supposed to be super rare though for bf baby? Yes I think you can get calcium tablets but I think generally if it's not a bad case then they prefer you to just carry in as is.
I mean I'm really not sure if it is that or something else. It could be poor latch cause he still can't get much of my boob in his mouth. I think he is just very efficient along with my fast flow. Hmmm I just feel confused. I guess I should start a food diary and note his behaviour and if anything happens to see if there's a pattern.

[Geegrl19]

Nate loves a good ceiling fan to stare at, mesmerising! Reckon it neatly blew his mind when it was turned on. Was at the supermarket with him and put some snacks in the trolley - messy monkeys - is a bright coloured bag with a cartoonish pic of a monkey. He freaked! Poor kid!

@Horehound food diary sounds like a good idea. My health nurse is always on about dairy even though I have a minimal amount in only my hot drinks. Good poop shots. Looks a lot like Nate's poppy ones. He still does 4 to 5 a day!

[kyles101]

@Horehound has the mucous just been since the cold?

[Megan2018]

We’ve had stringy mucus in poo, from all the saliva from hand sucking. Doesn’t look like an allergy poo, looks normal to me?
We had bright green spinach poo with flecks of blood for ages which worried me but was due to fast gut transit and irritated anus as she was pooing all the time. Once she stopped pooing as often it went back to curry coloured and no more blood. I spent 3 weeks convincing myself there was something seriously wrong! Poor HV had to endure poo photos

[Megan2018]

This was one of our bad ones, but turned out to be nothing

[Dyra]

Looks like a normal poop to me. Very similar to what Alice's look like anyway.

[db92]

I think that looks normal too. Our allergy ooo nappies were a very dark khaki green colour

[Horehound]

Oh thanks everyone.
No, there has been mucus in lots of them...I just didn't realise what it was.
But I just tried block feeding (from the same boob each feed rather than alternate) because I do think I have an oversupply. First time doing it and the second fees my breast did feel Alot emptier. Usually they still seem pretty full and therefor don't think he gets enough hind milk. (Not usually an issue but it is for an oversupply/ fast feeding baby). And I also noticed he fed for longer when at the same boob for a second time.
Nappy this morning was good actually. It's not all the time but I do get dark green nappies or ones with more mucus. I'm not going to give it huge thoughts because he is putting on weight well and can keep up with supply. It's just that there definitely is a difference when I reduced how much milk I drank..could deffo be a coincidence though!

[DustyDoorframes]

@Horehound I've been thinking of you today, I've been off dairy since midway through the pregnancy, and have been trying to reintroduce it. Day 3 of having a yogurt each day. Baby seems fine, bar a massive vom on day 1. I, however, feel completely rubbish and need to stay within dashing distance of the loo...

[Horehound]

@DustyDoorframes oh no, dust, that's so crap. I guess after abstaining from it your body needs to adjust again. Makes you wonder about our bodies and what we are really meant to consume. Hope the reintroduction goes well!

I feel crap, throat is getting sorer by the hour so I think I'll be off to bed soon and hope the little man is happy to come with. Since he has the cold I've managed to get him three good naps in the day so I'm hoping I can continue that after this cold has gone. He's a great wee boy though. Really rarely complains and is very happy and funny.
Remember I was saying I dreaded the dig coming to stay? Well...we are 13 days in and have survived but she's been a complete bloody nightmare. She is so old and can't see much so will bark at shadows etc. I think she managed to bark right beside Arthur's for every single time I out him down! We drop her back on Sunday and I can't blooming wait. As much as I love her me and husband have decided never again!

[Megan2018]

From what I understand the main issue with babies with allergies is that they are completely miserable as they are in pain. If you have a largely happy baby with weight gain then nappy content isn’t something to stress about.

[DustyDoorframes]

Agreed @Megan2018 ! My first two were enthusiastic posseters, and number three much less. I'm wondering in retrospect whether it was dairy with them too, but as they were totally happy and growing it wasn't an issue, and that's fine. Now the issue is clearly me! I'm still banjaxed, having had three days of having one yogurt, stopping well over a day ago. DD was a bit more possety, but fine. I'm still totally knocked out! No dairy for me for the foreseeable!

[Horehound]

I do agree but we had big problems at night time and since I cut down dairy so did the issues..to the point he can feed and go to sleep happy without it us walking him around for hours until he falls asleep.
With him feeding for five mins and only on one boob the bf helpline said hat is unusual and maybe try block feeding. So I did that yesterday and already notice such a big change in my supply that I'm not doing it anymore because I think my boobs have reacted so well to it.
Today he has fed longer, emptied the breast and just the last feed he fed from both boobs. This means he's now been getting the hindmilk whereas before I'm pretty sure he was only getting mainly foremilk and therefore touch lactose.
Will see. I was on the cmpa Facebook page but came off as I'm convinced there's so many people just willy nilly diagnosing their babies when the symptoms could be results from many different things.
I'm deffo going to start eating normal dairy amounts to see how it goes but will wait until we are both over our colds.
In other news I ordered 4 totsbots easy fit nappies and got a free Christmas themed one. They look and feel great and think they'll be really easy to use. I currently only had some elementals and elemental joys. Happy with my purchase :)