@lokicat Sounds like you’ve had a crazy start!! Both of the boys had tongue tie. I found this out by neither of them being able to feed properly and all of us ending up in the children’s hospital for 4 days! Poor Conor had lost well over 10% of his birth weight to the point the dehydration was affecting his kidney function. It really angers me to be honest that they don’t just sort tongue tie as par the course; they had noticed it at birth but said it ‘wasn’t severe’ and just left it and 5 days later I was in hospital with two very poorly babies! Ruairí didn’t even wake up once the first day we were there. It’s actually odd to write about it now, feels like a long distant memory!! Anyway the point of that waffle was well done for going with your gut and getting the referral!! I wouldn’t worry about naps much at 7 weeks. They do as they please at that age!! I found the obsession with sleep kicked in a few weeks later haha!
Also - I absolutely love the name Alayna, it’s beautiful!
@Lemonysherbet Sounds like you really went through it with the birth! I don’t know about you but I found being in the hospital so hard - but then really missed the midwives when I got home!! Yes the baby blues are very, very real - we were all actually back in hospital on day 5, the same day my milk came in, and my god I was hit like a tonne of bricks!! The staff just used to find me wandering the corridors crying my eyes out. It does get better!! Don’t worry about getting your feeding sorted yet no matter how you’re doing it - I started BF, then combi and boys are now fully formula fed - and I was so, so sure I’d Bf them both for 6 months. Sometimes it just doesn’t go to plan; like everything with these babies!!
@TrashKitten10 It is just so unfair that we have to survive the 4 month regression only to get two more at 8 and 12 months! What are these babies trying to do to us?! I so agree - once you’re used to finally getting some sleep, to have it snatched away is the hardest part!!
@LikeTheFruit 12 weeks already! I can’t understand where the time is going! That’s fab some naps are in the snuzpod - I think from around the same age actually the boys would have a nursery nap and it was amazing - hands free! The sling thing never worked for us for naps with two. It was glorious haha! Hope you’re all going great!
@purplefig Wow sounds like M really enjoyed it!! Yeah I hoped as soon as I sent it that my sleep deprived sentence didn’t sound like Mum bashing, it wasn’t in the least, I just get so interested - one of our NCT mums is already weaning at 5 months, she’s a few weeks older than the boys. That kid is freakishly strong - she’s already sitting up unaided!! Whereas the boys still lick the playmat during tummy time 🙈
Ladiessss - we had a good night! Maybe the day from hell means an okay evening?? Was fairly rough actually getting them down after their baths especially as I do all of that on my own now DH is back at work. But they were asleep at about 7:30 and they still are now. We’ve had a few ‘dream screams’ but they’ve not actually woken up (just woken me up!!) I have of course been awake since 5am! But still - I will freakin’ take it.
We also had the boys weighed yesterday and Ruairí at 18+2 is a whopping 16lb6! He’s jumped another centile! He’s jumped centiles every month now since he was born. He’s just such a greedy baby, that kid drains every bottle put in front of him! Wee Conor is 13lb3 - he’s getting there haha! I think we’ll throw him a party when he finally hits a stone!! Here’s a pic just because haha.
Hope everyone has a lovely day!