Babies born Nov

[Riebee]

Right oh this should be ok this time. I hope I've done it right this time - If not I'm giving up!!!
Posted the thread under pregnacy last time.

mmm think that should be spelt cries

Hi Bunny and Riebee

We dont have a daytime routine either. I let him do what he likes and feed him when he wants. However, in the evening I try not to let him sleep from about 5pm or feed him either. I distract him by giving him a bath at 5.30pm. The routine for him and DS1 is
5.30pm Bath for both boys and ready for bed
6pm Tea for ds1
6.30pm TV for 30mins for DS1 while ds2 has a bottle of EBM
7pm Story and settling down for DS1 and DS2
7.30pm DS1 is usually asleep and DS2 will whinge for a while and then fall asleep too.

This routine often fails and I am up with 2 boys at 10pm but it can work and needs to work as I am back at work in March and need ds2 in a routine by then!!

Enjoy Florida Riebee......I am going to the UK with both boys on Thursday.....if DS2's ruddy passport is here!

Hi my son was born on 5th November 2005 at 2.10pm. Was told ten years ago that i could not have a baby. Very surprised tofind myself pregnant at the age of 35. Had a wonderful birth, at home, no drugs, 15 hours. Now have a wonderful healthy baby son. Looks like he is teething though. Have told him not to bite me when I am feeding him.

Hello Mandy, what a lovely surprise DS must of been! Congratulations! Ow about the nipples, I know what you mean, DS decided to have a nice big stretch whilest feeding from me this morning, biting down at the same time as stretching backwards. Lovely for him I'm sure, not quite so pleasant for me. Fine, I wouldn't mind, except he did it 3 times!!

He has just had his jabs again so not likely to be a happy chappy again today. Gave him his calpol as soon as we got home this time, he has been asleep in his basket (?!) for nearly an hour and a half so I am hoping he will wake up feeling a bit brighter? Time will tell.

Yesterday, for the first time, we put him down awake in his basket, and he went to sleep! Did the same today and he is still there. People have told me everything gets easier after 12 weeks... surely it is too good to be true? I am trying for some sort of routine but it is a bit of a joke really, I do try and make sure he has a morning and afternoon nap though.

He has also started to seem to use his hands. He will grab the antenna on his caterpilla toy and grabs my hands. He has been taking a bit more notice of his chubby little hands too, bless him.

Sorry, long post. Earlier in the thread we were talking about whether we were broody or not, and I said DP didn't want anymore. Well he says he has changed his mind, and we can have more so I am really quite happy! Won't be for a good while (obviously!) yet though. Hope everyone is well. This thread seems so quiet here still. Come on everyone, we need to catch up with the others! x

my son spends a lot of time looking at his hands. He has now realised he has two hands and looks at though he is riding a motorbike when he looks at them. He is also beginning to hold things. Likes to hold his rattle/teething ring but then unfortunately whacks himself in the head with it. he is an absolute joy though. Am able to put him down awake in his cot but does like to have a story before he goes to sleep.

Hi Mandy and congratulations on ds.

Great news about having more, Flossam. Just read an article on a woman with 4 daughters and then had triplets!! All boys! She is only 34. I would physically die! 7 kids. ARRGHHHHHHHHHHH!

DS2 is a dream and I love him so much. DS1 is a bit trickier atm so I dont know what to do. ah well.

good news Flossam

Dd is still going in her basket without a murmer, she is so chilled out. She gets mauled by ds and his frineds every day but she never cries. We are all absolutely in love with her. Her smile is the gummiest and sweetest ever, I cant help laughing every time she gives me her gummy grin. Still feeding every 2 -3 hours though so I am totally knackered.

all is much more settled in our house at last. All of dd1's activities started in earnest again after the summer break and dd2 is quite okay about being dragged here there and everywhere.

We are definitely treated to the best smiles which makes the moany times more bearable.

Our house has been focused on getting dd1 settled again into her routine after such a long break.

We also had brilliant news yesterday - our dd1 ( 2 1/2 and has down syndrome) walked for the first time without help from anyone - but with the help of a walker.... she had so far refused and even when dh tried to help she would not do it. He went upstairs and I was feeding dd2 and lo and behold dd1 pulled herself up and off she went zooming from one end of the house to the other. I was screaming at my dh to come and see and shouting praise at her and clapping like mad... poor dd2 did not get her usual 'peaceful' feed......

FAB news Eidsvold! You must have been delighted! I have tears in my eyes (I am such a wuss!) DD1 must have been v proud of herself.

We are with my parents this week tho DH is in London and so I am with the boys on my own. I am knackered as I am doing everything and no one is offering to help. I dont know how single parents do it!

eidsvold how wonderful, well done dd1

That sounds wonderful, eidsvold. Well done DD!

Bunny, we were feeding 1-3 hrly all the time but a bit longer sometimes at night. It was driving me ever so slightly mad. But mum suggested and I thought it would be worth a go trying to make DS go at least 3 hrs at a time and it seems to have worked a bit atleast. Put it this way, he had last feed over three hours ago and all is currently peaceful in the Flossam household!

I think and this is quite embarrassing, that I might of been mistaking his crying for hunger when he was just knackered . And consequently he was having small feeds using me for comfort, and waking up a bit later absolutely starving which then explained the frequent feeding.

I've found I have to give him a dummy to help get him off to sleep but I'm trying to stop that a bit too now. He is going about 5 hrs a night, I'd like it to be longer but I don't find it effects me too much. He is still in bed with us so it is just a case of picking him up and plonking him on(!) them drifting back to sleep and waking up with him zonked on my lap a bit later ! Last night he woke me up by letting out a large burp!!

We have now ordered our cot finally. Seeing as DP has now come round to the idea of maybe another, I have managed to persuade him that perhaps a cot would be better. Also, I think a cot bed would completely take over our bedroom. I've ordered a bedside cot, the idea being he can still be next to me but increasingly further away, a bit at a time untill he is in his own cot and, one day in his own room!

Hi everyone!

Yay - am now officially on broadband so hopefully will be able to post a bit more often than I have been recently

Hang on, whats that I hear? Not silence?! Think today is the first day that both DD (nearly 2 and a half) and DS (bout 14 wks?! I lose track!) have been to sleep at the same time since DS came along! Bliss! Was hoping DD wouldn't have a sleep today and that they would then both be in bed by 7 cos DH is cooking for me tonight, but DD was tired and being very uncooperative (bought her bambi vid and instead of being grateful she threw it around the car-hmm, not impressed!) so off to bed she went, kickig and screaming. She actually cried herself to sleep. God I must be the worlds worst mother.

DS is fine, on the other hand! Soooo smiley all the time and feeding beautifully, well I thought he was until the bloody HV told me last week to 'feed him a bit more' as he hasn't put on as much weight as they would have expected. Bloody growth charts. Anyone looking at him can see he is perfectly content and healthy. Not small. He is nearly 14lb, thats fine for a 14 week old isn;t it? Ok, so DD was 1 and a half pound heavier at this age, but she was very chubby and formula fed, not breastfed. Sorry to rant, but HV managed to make me feel really crap and inadequate.

Will need to have a read through and catch up with the thread, so I will post later!

p.s. DS is still waking a couple of times a night to feed. Anyone else the same? I am expressing a lot tho, so I think I am going to give him a bottle of ebm before bed to see if makes him sleep any longer. Anyone doing this? How much shoud I give at this age, does 4oz sound about right?

x

Hi all!

I do this M2E.....give a bottle of EBM (4oz) and ds will sleep from 7ish to 1am ish which is good. I should try and express more for the night and get DH to feed him but it is easier to let him feed next to me as I sleep!! This means ds often falls asleep and needs more feeding later on so I should try harder!!!

Collision - a couple ofweekends ago I had to go away for the weekend without my babies ( ) sohad to leave a freezer-ful of ebm for DS. I did this by regularly expressing first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Problem was that my body got used to producing the extra milk and when I stopped, my boobs started leaking again profusly (sp?). 'twas a nightmare!

Hi there,just found this thread.First time mum whose baby born 5 weeks early(Brodie),Absolutely gorgeous but does like a scream.Few probs on and off.At the moment he just doesn't seem too interested in food but persevering.Brodie 15 weeks old today would go through the delivery again in a second .!!!Think I had a bit of an easy time ,only pushed for 29 mins and he came out like a torpedo

Hi all - thought i would post on here and join you all! My twin boys were born 13th November, now 13 weeks old and doing great...really interesting to read all your experiences! Mine are waking approx 3am every night for a feed still - is this normal for 3 months old (these are my first) , part of me thinks this is great and the knackered part feels like it will never end!!

Hi there harrowgate mum. DS was only waking 3-4 when he was going to bed with us. But this week he has moved into his new cot and is going to bed early but much more unsettled. Last night he woke at 11, 3 and 5 and that was back in bed with me! I had a cold and was absolutely knackered after lack of sleep the two previous nights, so just gave in after an hour of trying to settle him. DP isn't much help, DS was whinging in his cot the other night, but I was managing to sleep through it, DP just sat up and told him to be quiet, waking me up in the process! He has never been up with him at night, he is back at work obviously and can't understand why i'm so tired . I did point out to him that if DS had woken him up he should of gone and tried to sooth him ... hopefully he'll think differently next time.

I think ds is a complete pig! 4fl oz for a feed? Try 5 and a half ounces EBM, then a breast feed, and then another within the hour! He weighs 16 3oz now...

dd2 is going along well - slept from 9pm through to 5.40am last night.... she did have a big day with not a lot of sleep as I was running tonnes of errands and we had a hospital appt with dd1. She usually goes from about 9.30/10pm til 5ish without a feed.

She now weighs 6.2kgs and has shot up 15 cm since she was born. She does look very long now. Strangely dh and I can't get used to how big she looks. Dd1 was just 6lb born and due to her heart defect put on weight very slowly. Even now she is slight.

Things are busy in the eidsvold household... now that the summer break is over all of dd1's activities have started again - swimming lessons, therapy sessions, playgroup and mother and toddler group - we have one day at home a week ( m - fri) Thankfully it is usually one activity a day - at the most out just over two hours. Just need to get dd1 back into her routine.

Dh and I are out Friday night - we went out for dinner once since dd2 was born but we were only gone an hour or so and could not stop talking about the 2 dd's - made us wonder what we talked about before they arrived. So friends have volunteered to look after the two monkeys whilst we go out - movie or perhaps 10 pin bowling and a meal.

Otherwise all is well at our end of the planet.

Hi all - well we are coming to your neck of the woods soon eidsvold - flights booked for end April to see my SIL and her family in Brisbane plus a week on Hamilton island. Cant wait but not looking forward to flight! Last night dts slept frm 730pm to 345am before waking for a feed - not bad I think. They are both about 12lb now, were both 5lb 15oz at birth.

hello everyone

dd2 is finally into a routine of some sorts, must admit I have kind of followed GF's guidelines, I ahte the tone of her book and never even went near it withh dd1 (who slept 12 hours a night from 3 months of her own initiative), but this time I thought dd2 needed a bit of encouragemnt, so I make sure she has her naps during the day and feeds more so that I can get more sleep at night (but I'm not so stuck up about timings!!) so far it seems to work, and since last friday she has started to go down at 7-8pm and last night slept from 8 till 5 and again till 9am, dd1 was late for nursery, but I feel like a new woman!! She's started sucking her forefinger as she wasn't getting anywhere with thumb, so that helps with sleeping too. She's such an angel, and smiles and giggles now. Still not able to grasp things though, but she will play with her hands and chew on them. Can yours hold on to rattles an teethers, etc?

HI Webmum. Yeah DS is holding onto things, though most the time he looks like he is wreastling with the onject because he can't get it into his mouth quick enough! He is so smiley all the time and his smile is so gorgeous, I just want to eat him!

webmum - dd2( she is 13 weeks) is grabbing her shirts/vest/clothing to put into her mouth, tries to put her whole hand into her mouth.

harrogate - weather should have cooled a little by then but still be wonderful. Who are you flying with?? We brought dd1 to Australia when she was 8 months old to see family when we were still living in Aus - we had two night flights - from Heathrow to Singapore and then Singapore to Brisbane - dd1 was awake for a little while but we just put her in her sleeping bag and into the skycot and off she went. If you want any hints for travelling give me a shout - you can contact me via CAT.

meant to tell you all - have managed to solely breastfeed dd2 this week since MOnday morning. I have been formula/breast feeding her - BUT have managed so far this week to do it all breast..... so pleased with myself.

eidsvold - I tried to CAT you but it said you wouldnt accept email from Mumsnet, think you have to revise your member profile page to receive them.

have changed it for you.