March 2020 babies

[Jesskir89]

Any new mums about? First timer here. Baby freddie was born last Friday 13th. Could do with some company especially in the early hours!!

@abbs1 just had 4 hours ☺️ I hope you're having a good night. We tried gripe water yesterday and it seems to work for freddies wind :) just putting him back down now hoping he sleeps til 8 again x

@jesskir89 oh that's really good! Little joseph fed at 11:30pm 2:30am and now at 5am. Hes really struggled to go back to sleep due to wind though grunting and crying when I put him back down so I may see if I can get some gripe water to see if that helps him so by the time hes gone back to sleep hes only getting 1 1/2 hours before waking to feed again so I'm tired.
It's my birthday today as well so hoping hes a good boy and will sleep in the day. He has been taking 2 1/2hour naps the last 2 days so fingers crossed for today.

@abbs1 happy birthday hun! I recommend it, they can have it from 4 weeks only 0.5ml but it seems to do the trick x

Hi girls, hope u are all well! Just wanted to give u all some hope ha it does get better ☺️. Daisy was 9 weeks on Saturday, scary how quickly it's going! She's been sleeping for 5/6 hours solid since she was 5 weeks old and for the past 2 nights she's slept from 10 til 4.45. She was in the moses basket inside the next to me but the past 2 nights she's been in a Purflo nest inside the next to me and she clearly likes it! She was born 6lbs 8oz and I really strugged for the first 3/4 weeks cos all she wanted to do all night was feed, it was wearing me out and really affecting my mood so we started giving her one formula bottle before bed. So she now has breast milk on demand but after her bath at 8.30ish she gets a bottle once she starts showing signs of being hungry and it seems to work well. The only problem now is because she's sleeping through I'm waking up in a soaking wet bed from my boobs leaking! Stay safe and enjoy your beautiful baba's ❤️ x

@Danix91 my little boy is nearly 6 weeks now but was born at 5lbs 12oz so only drinks 2-4oz per feed so is awake a lot for feeds. I'm hoping he starts to drink more soon so he sleeps longer. Hes formula fed but even that doesn't seem to fill him up for very long unless hes just a piggy! 😂
@jesskir89 awww thank you. Hes been awake since his 5am feed. Just crying and fussing and nothing is settling him. I've massaged his tummy and rocked him but he goes quiet for a couple minutes and then cries again. Very frustrating!

Sounds like we are all in the same boat. Evie usually sleeps in the evening (DP takes her and I get a couple of hours) then feeds about midnight and then again at 3, but then she usually won’t settle for more than an hour after that. She takes a while to go back down after feeds with burping and nappy. Keen to try gripe water when she is old enough (3.5 weeks now). She’s getting better at going in the next to me overnight, usually I warm it a little with a hot water bottle so she doesn’t notice being put down.

@daniX91 9 weeks wow! How times has flown since we were all waiting for our LO to arrive! I think you were the first oj our thread though wasn't you? Getting nearly 7 hours straight is Brill! @abbs1 hope Joseph has settled have you tried him with a dummy again? Freddie doesn't have his a lot but sometimes helps him settle. @singme you can use gripe water from 4 weeks so not long and hopefully it helps x

@jesskir89 he finally fell asleep at 1PM and slept till 3PM had a bottle and slept again till 5pm had another feed and is asleep again now so I've finally had a break! I haven't been able to get any gripe water yet but hopefully I can get some tomorrow. He seems a lot more settled now so hopefully a cosy bath will help him sleep tonight.

I keep trying his dummy when he gets distressed and it works sometimes for a few minutes before he spits it out.

Its nice in a way to see that everyone seems to be / has experienced the same thing! My daughter continues to be fussy (read screaming, inconsolable, refuses to sleep in her cot..) of an evening. Although I spoke to a HV and they suggested colic medicine so we are currently trying that. I’ve also started using an anti colic bottle for the evening feed to see if that helps. She is however sleep longer at night which was scary at first but we are slowly adjusting to it being ok! She’s a month old and over 10lbs, but I just assumed the feeding every two hours new born stage would last longer! There’s just so much to worry about isn’t there! @DaniX91 thank you for the reassurance from the other side, hopefully we will all be there before long!

@atomacats can I ask what medicine the HV has suggested? I didnt manage to get gripe water but I got some infacol that I started yesterday evening and so far it's made Joseph fart an awful lot and his burps are now sicky burps but he is still wriggling round crying and grunting after his feeds this last night. I managed to get him to take his dummy in the end and he finally fell asleep for a bit with it but he just seems so uncomfortable or in pain and its stressing me out cause I dont know what to do. It seems to be really bad at night and then in the day he cries with wind but will sleep in his carry cot fine now for a couple hours.
I'm gonna try to get in touch with the HV but seeing him like this upsets me as I'm not sleeping at night and neither is he and I dont like seeing him so distressed.

@atomcats how long are you getting at night now? @abbs1 glad you got a break yesterday and hope your nights not too bad. We were giving freddie the wrong amount of gripe water it should be 5ml not 0.5ml lol

@jesskir89 hes been sleeping for 1hrs 40mins between feeds all night and his sleep is very restless with crying but I think the infacol is starting to help. Just wish he ate more so stayed fuller longer. I have to push him to take 3oz if I'm lucky for each feed but I'm just going with the flow and getting my sleep as and when I can.
I'm glad the gripe water is helping Freddie. How long did he give you tonight between feeds?

@abbs1 he didn't go to sleep til 1.30 and woke up at 4.50 so I've had over 3 hours but I just can't get him to sleep at a reasonable time. He was awake most the day until about 5pm. Freddies the same still he's just had a 4oz expressed bottle but the other 2 feeds we give him from the bottle were lucky if he takes 3oz. This is probably why he feeds on me so much in the day it looks like he's feeding little but often. Will you get some sleep now?

@jesskir89 oh bless you so it's been a long night for you then. I hope you can sleep. Thats interesting what you say about feeds at night as Joseph is the same. Eats a lot in the day not much at night.
Little Joseph just vomited up everything hes just eaten all over him and me so hes gonna be hungry again soon. I'm gonna try to get a bit of sleep now see if he will settle before he wants more milk.

@abbs1 hope you get some sleep!
@Jesskir89 well it sounds like the gripe water worked for you even though it was a smaller dose so that’s good I’ll be trying it in a few days as Evie quite windy!

Had a sleep 0030 until 0130 and then 0230 until 0430 and been up since then. She is wide awake now!

@singme it did :) you've had a rough night hope you get a kip today x

@singme yes I did get some sleep. He fed again at 7am and then finally settled. Hope you get some sleep too.

Glad you both had a rest! I did manage a sleep- woke DP up at 7 and he took baby until 9. She has been really unsettled this morning, wind again I think!

@abbs1 they suggested infacol. I’d agree that it’s increased wind (!) but I assumed that was the point. She’s never been sick, but since starting there have been a few spit ups which is new. We’ve been using it for a few days now and she seems a little more comfortable, but there are still periods of fussing.

@Jesskir89 she’s been sleeping 4-5 hours for the first part of the night on three occasions which has been amazing! As to whether it’ll become consistent is another matter entirely

@atomcats oh that's good. I'm gonna give it to Joseph every other feed as hes feeds every two hours and I think every 2 is a bit much which is why he was being sick. This seems to be working better and he seems to be more settled so will see how tonight goes.

I was wondering if any one elses little one frequently chokes when feeding? We give Hayley bottles of both expressed milk and formula. She has the usual newborn slow flow teats, but still manages to end up caughing and spluttering most feeds. I was thinking maybe because she has a shallow latch, which is why I couldn't continue breast feeding. Sometime she struggles to latch onto the bottle!
I just wondered if it was something that just happens to newbies, or we are doing something wrong?

@NixGostling freddie has done that but when my breasts are full.

Unrelated to sleep girls but what is everyone doing once lockdown is over regards visitors with their baby?

@jesskir89 we are planning a big family get together from both sides of the family as only my dad and my husbands parents got to meet Joseph before lockdown.
Have you got any plans

@abbs1 that was initially my plan but I'm now considering keeping us in lockdown a bit longer but don't know if I'm being too paranoid x

@Jesskir89 I dont think it's a bad idea at all. Joseph has great grandparents who have been in lockdown for weeks that are desperate to see him and we want them to get to meet him but we may hold off on great uncles and aunts as well as other family from coming but it's so hard as Joseph is the first grand baby everyone is desperate to see him but I'm sure we will find the right way to go about it.