June 2020 Babies-Newborn, snuggles, recovery, milk and night feeds! 2nd thread

[Busylizzie85]

New thread!

Wow there is a lot of sleep training programmes out there. @mrssunshinexxx your one does sound one of the kindest ways, do you think it's worth the money?

How's everyone coping in the first few days of lockdown?

@magpie21 we found taking away the dummy to be a lot easier than I thought. He has had the dummy from a couple of weeks old as he was so unhappy with his reflux etc and wouldnt settle. He would have it in the day, in the car, at night so he was very fond of it! We would be up multiple times in the night putting it back in and even during day naps too. We would also have to pull the car over to put it in!!

When we took it away, he did cry a couple of times at night and in the car and I had to wait it out a bit (just patted him and said shhh not picking him up etc). But after a couple of days he forgot all about it and the last couple of weeks have really been great. He has 4 naps a day which total about 4 hrs and his night time he sleeps quietly from 7 till half 6. So I thoroughly recommend weaning them off it!!

Wow @SRS1311 very jealous of all that sleep!!

@Cornishbumpkin PM me and I'll email you it and anyone else who wants it x

Oh @mrssunshinexxx that's so kind of you Thankyou so much

Hourly wake ups to breast feed have got me feeling so down ladies I ended up co sleeping last night which I said I’d never do . Maybe it’s time to bite the bullet and get a routine in place

@Cornishbumpkin for me the first lockdown was a very scary time with being pregnant and fear of the unknown. This time round feels very different in that we can at least still interact with other people in person (albeit outside), which is good. If I let myself focus on all of the things I have missed out on (baby classes, making friends) I get quite sad, so I try not to think about that. How are you doing? Are you getting out for walks - did you say before that you live near the coast.

@SRS1311 That's good news regarding the dummy. I may follow suit in the next few weeks if the night wakings get silly - currently not bad.

@Mj2196 awww that's very though. We all know how that kind of night feels like. Did you LO need picking up each time to re-settle.

I ended up going for a Maxi Cosi Highchair by the way. It was a bit of a splurge which I justified by 'cost per use'! Im very pleased with it - It has Wheel's at the front which make it easy to move around the kitchen and the top table is easy to remove and replace. It also reclines....lol. Would have been amazing for when LO was younger.

@Magpie21 picking up and feeding ! Cries blue murder and wakes dd if not . Fil saw us in the village and I said I was tired . He said aw Did he not sleep through last night. Hahaha He’s never slept through a night since he was born 🥱

@Mj2196 that sounds something I would have said last year! Oh how I have learnt!

Re co-sleeping: I also said I would never Co-sleep but I do if I need to.

We turned the heating on a timer at 4:30am last night and my LO managed to sleep through those early hours whereas the last few nights she has been waking up at all hours.

[quote mrssunshinexxx]@Cornishbumpkin PM me and I'll email you it and anyone else who wants it x[/quote]
Hi I've just sent you a PM for the sleep programme...hope it worked as it's the first one I've done!

@PurpleLaws yep got it and replied to you and emailed x

@mrssunshinexxx how long did it take to get your LO to self settle?
I started today, with the morning nap she drifted off twice but then would wake up a minute later. I tried for a full 45 minutes then gave up and by that time she was awake again and wouldnt go to sleep. I ended up leaving it half an hour then had to take her out in the car.
Lunch nap she wouldn't settle at all so have finally given in and gone out in the pushchair with her, even though I have zero energy I figured it's safer than driving half asleep!

I don't expect to work first day by any means, I'm just interested to know how you found it in those first few days

Hi ladies, I hope it's OK that I've come back after such a long absence. You probably don't remember me as I didn't join until May and I think I stopped keeping up somewhere around July/August. I can't believe how much time has gone by. I'm sorry I've not kept up. I feel like I've missed out on so much.

I had my little girl Charlotte on the 9th June. We were having some issues with thrush/white on the tongue, fussy feeds, very short feeds, weight gain issues and she had been diagnosed with a heart murmur when I stopped keeping up.

She's five months old now and a lot of our troubles from before have resolved themselves. She has beautiful, long, red-brown hair. She smiles, laughs and rolls over. She likes it when you sing, and she tries to chat or sing back a lot. She prefers to be sat up if she can be.

I'm struggling a bit with sleep and it's started to affect my mental health. Both the sleep and mental health had improved and then we hit four months and I guess this stupid regression and I can feel it all coming undone again and myself slipping backwards.

She also keeps having green poo, and I can't figure out why.

Anyway, hi everyone. I'm looking forward to reading how all your little ones are doing and hoping I'm not the only one struggling with some elements and loving others.

Hi @HaichMal,
You are most definitely not the only one struggling! My girl is 5 months tomorrow and the sleep regression has hit us hard. She's awake every morning bright as a button and full of nonsense at 4am! She too has red hair but it's still very short!

I've not been on the thread for a while either, we've been struggling a lot. I have PND and Rose has been diagnosed with CMPA. She's been prescribed an allergy milk and is like a different baby, I've even heard her giggle! Before hand all she did was scream all day long. It's so lovely to see her wee personality, she's such a happy wee thing with a fiery temper!

@Magpie21 yes we are very fortunate and live on the beautiful Cornish coast so lots of beach walks here. Cornwall seems to be ignoring this lockdown though!

@HaichMal welcome back, sorry to hear you've had a bit of a rough time! You are definitly not alone with those feelings. The tiredness is a killer on its own but it plays havoc with the mental health, I'm trying to do as many positive things as I can in a day and get out as much as possible.

@Blizy that's so lovely that you got to hear her giggle at last, it's the best sound in the world and makes all the screaming and sleepness nights worth it for me

@Smiffette was she crying and really unhappy or just like wide awake ?
The first day she did really wel but I think it was a fluke she's never done the full 2 hour lunch time nap without needing resettling since ! I sometimes can take her out of crib and rock her til she's calm or feed her several times yesterday for instance it took me 2 hours to get her to sleep!! I ended up having to rock her off
What I'm trying to say if we are nowhere near perfect and she was awake every hour last night abs I don't know why but it has helped a lot because she will sleep in her bed now upstairs for minimum 40 minutes and before I was stuck on the sofa for every nap couldn't put her down
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@mrssunshinexxx yesterday first attempt, I stuck at it for 45 mins, she was tired and yawning etc and she did drift off a few times but then woke herself back up within a couple of minutes. Towards the end of the 45 minutes she seemed wide awake.
There was some crying but more her fighting sleep tired crying.

On the plus side I have attempted again today and whilst she wouldn't settle and it was more crying, I did manage to get her to have 3 naps in her cot which is a first!

I still feel like we’re in the thick of sleep regression and my app says the next leap starts n 7days already !! 🤷🏻‍♀️ Jj is 5 months now , he still tends to fall forward but can sit unaided for short periods and does nothing but roll over every time I put him down . A jumperoo has been our best purchase recently !

@HaichMal glad to hear things are better for Charlotte , laughs and smiles are the best . Your not alone in how your feeling . I question daily how to know the difference between a mental health issue and just sheer exhaustion

That's amazing progress @Smiffette mine being really good napping through he day but the night are awful at the moment. I was tripping up so much yesterday I'm that tired as zero mental support
What I would give for my lovely mum

@HaichMal I do remember you, glad to hear things have been getting better, apart from sleep, this sleep regression is brutal isn’t it? My daughter also has green poos sometimes, usually in the evening. Are you breastfeeding?

@mrssunshinexxx would I also be able to pm you for the email? Glad to hear naps are getting better, as hard as the nights are I find the naps so much more challenging mentally.

Hope everyone is doing ok with the second lockdown over there. Hope it works and you’re all able to have somewhat of a normal Christmas this year.

Anyone's else's baby disinterested in rolling over? Ivy can if she wants and has only really done it twice without a little help most of the time she just lays there on her back focusing on one toy just putting it in her mouth. She does some tummy time everyday but only a little as she gets annoyed and ends up just face planting the floor after a while. 🙄

@Busylizzie85 Jia has also lost interest in rolling over recently. She had been trying really hard to roll from back to front at 2 months old but since 3 months gave up. She has successfully rolled front to back a few times a few weeks ago but hasn’t even attempted it in a while. I know she can do it but just seems to have forgot? Glad she’s not the only one anyway!

@UKtoSK of course! Xx

Rose has only just started to attempt rolling!

Tallulah rolls back to front only and will only do it in one direction! usually within a minute of being placed on her back!