July 2023 babies

[Summermeadowflowers]

Hello everyone! So this is a continuation of the pregnancy thread(s) as we’re almost full.

DD was born by elective section on July 18th. Her older brother was born following an emergency section after a failed induction in December 2020 and I didn’t want to go through that again! It was a lovely chilled experience and I was a bit nervous waiting but felt like I was in good hands. I was also home the next day.

Feeding has been tricky for us. I really wanted to breastfeed but as with DS, DD hasn’t taken easily to it and struggles to latch. Nipple shields help to an extent although are not a cure all but she doesn’t get much milk and ends up frustrated anyway. I’ve mostly been expressing for her but realistically don’t know how long I can keep it up. It’s a shame as I do really want to breastfeed but it isn’t happening!

Oh and my wound is infected … lovely!

How is everyone else?

Torvi has been refusing the bottle except when she's half asleep 3 or 4 times at night, even then it's a battle. Hardly anything during the day. I've went up a teat size and she still doesn't want to know. Guess it's time to think about weaning, she will be 6 months on Tuesday!

I hope everyone has a lovely Christmas.

Happy Christmas @AngryBirdsNoMore 🎄

Nearly ate the spoon 🥄 😋

Happy Christmas everyone!

Any of you who are weaning already, have you thought about giving your baby some Xmas dinner? I'm debating it.

I was thinking to set aside some boiled sprouts to mash, carrot and swede crush, maybe some mashed parsnip?

That sounds a lovely idea, @GC2023.

Im not weaning DS2 yet, but from my experience weaning DS1 - all of those (bar parsnips which were very hard to get hold of in India where DS1 spent the first six months of his life) went down very well! Nice variety and sprouts and swede have a nice sweetness to them too that babies will probably like.

I had intended to start by now so that we could do the same - so I’d say go for it!

Absolutely gorgeous, @Rutennotou !

I think we have a sleep regression. DD is waking twice a night which isn’t terrible but the problem is it can take a while to get her back to sleep. It is becoming a bit of a problem because I am very tired and keep losing things.

She will be 6 months in 3 weeks so I’ll start her with some porridge and see how she goes.

How is everyone else? We had a lovely first Christmas with her.

@Summermeadowflowers DS is still waking every 1-2 hours every night and it's really getting me down, I feel ill all the time and am just so exhausted. He is also only napping for 30 minute stints in the daytime still so I can't nap when he does.
He's never going to be ready to go in his own room 😭

@AnxiousAnnie94 i really sympathise, it does get you down. Is he on some solids now? I don’t know that it makes a massive difference. I think for DD it is habit more than hunger but I’m obviously not going to go down the sleep training route for a few months. If things haven’t improved by the 10 month mark I will. It’s not even that she’s excessively waking but she woke at 1 and 4 last night and I feel I just get back to sleep then woken again.

Our room situation is difficult. I am getting her a new cot but DH wants to wait until February when he gets his bonus. But she’s just too big for the next to me now so she’s in bed with me which isn’t helping my sleep!

@Summermeadowflowers he started on solids about 3 weeks ago. Just one cube of pureed veg once a day at the moment though, I don't know when to go the feedings or to offer more of a meal, protein or carbs etc.
I fear his is habit, but cannot just leave him to cry 😭

Of course you can’t I wouldn’t either

I’m on my second diabolical sleeper. Since 3.5 months things have gone down hill and we are now having wake ups every 30-90 minutes with at least one split in the night. I really really feel for you. The tiredness is crushing. My first was awful from birth but DS2 teased us by sleeping well as a newborn. I hate the 4 month regression! We’ll probably do some gentle sleep training at some point but I think now is probably a bit early for us. DS1 didn’t go into his own room until 14 months (when he was consistently sleeping through in his cot). Thank goodness he is now a phenomenal sleeper -
you will get your evenings back and undisturbed sleep, I promise!

@VivaVivaa that made me cry! I feel that DH and I never get time together.
DS has to be rocked to sleep, he will not fall asleep in his next to me on his own, when he's asleep, I put the monitor on and come downstairs, within 30-45 minutes he will be screaming awake. I think they call it a false start? By this point, I may as well stay upstairs 😭
Then I get 2 hours if I'm lucky until he wakes.
He feeds off me every time and falls back asleep.
I feel like I've created an awful habit 😭

Hi ladies how are you all doing? I haven’t posted for a long time, I hope you all had a good first Christmas & new year with your little ones! Is anyone still waiting for their babies to roll over? Freya is 7.5 months now and gets so close but can’t quite seem to get all the way over, wondering if any little ones close to her corrected age are still figuring it out? Xx

Hello! DD is 6 months and not terribly mobile. She can roll, she’s desperate to sit up independently but can’t quite manage it and she’s loving grabbing toys (and her feet.)

Weaning isn’t easy, she isn’t interested really but she did have a tiny amount of porridge today so progress!

How is everyone?

@Summermeadowflowers
same here! DD not sitting but is trying to crawl so I think theres a good chance she will figure it in a few weeks time. She also hates weaning and started refusing a bottle just as she began nursery. I feel so awful leaving her there but it’s only 2 days and honestly we need the money from me working.

Hi! My dd is nearly 7 months! Where has the time gone? She sits up and rolls over. She's trying to crawl. I have only fed her veggies so far and she loves most of the ones she's tried. How's everyone's weaning journey so far?

Hi.
DS is 6.5 months and rolls like a mad man and can sit up now.
Sleep is still atrocious and I am so emotional about it.
I moved him into his own room to see if it helped as he was too big for his next to me really and he now does slightly longer stretches of 3 hours (if I'm lucky) at the start of the night and then back to 1-2 hours.
The HV says I need to night wean as he feeds back to sleep and he is probably waking out of habit so will try that, but when I'm surviving on very very little sleep every night, I don't know if I want even less.
We also have a false start every single night, anywhere between the 30-45 minute mark after being put down and that's tiring as I don't even get much time with DH in the evening either. So that's all doom and gloom, I dread bedtimes, and then I feel guilty in the daytime as I am so tired I don't feel like I am doing enough with him. DS is constantly grumpy as he is so tired from constantly waking in the night and he's reverted back to shit naps the last 2 days too.

But weaning is going well apart from he has now dropped so much milk, so HV has told me to up carbs and protein in his solids. He prefers a bottle to my boobs now too which has broken me (except at night home, he hangs off me every hour)
We introduced one bottle of formula a day because I can't pump enough to keep up with him but now he cries when I offer him the boob in the day and wants a bottle so he's going to have to have more formula feeds. I know formula isn't the devil, but it was always my plan to EBF and I only managed 6 months of it. But I know DS being fed is the main thing and he still has as much breast milk as I can provide him each day and always an expressed bottle before bed.

You did brilliantly getting to six months @AnxiousAnnie94

I managed six months of expressing breast milk! I still can’t quite believe I did it and am still doing it, but while my life used to revolve around expressing, expressing now revolves around my life, if that makes sense. I am no longer pumping at night and I only do four pumps a day, this is manageable for me. DD has six feeds a day and now three are breast milk. I really am pleased and amazed!

DS is now 6.5 months and rolling, sitting and trying to crawl and pull himself up but I think it’s because he’s desperate to chase his brother!! It’s amazing seeing how fast he’s coming on just from watching his bro all the time!

Reflux pretty much gone now and sleep is much better again.

Weaning wise, he’s eating 3 meals now and the odd snack. Just small meals so has only dropped one milk so far. Working on the next milk by increasing breakfast amounts daily. He’s eating porridge, baby rice, veg, dairy free yoghurt (he’s got a CMPA), fruit and he loves a rusk and the odd melty stick. Teeth look to be about to erupt too. It’s all go!!!

@AnxiousAnnie94 you've done really well to breast feed for nearly 7 months. I thought people would judge me for only breast feeding for 2 weeks and I hated myself (didn't help I was very depressed with high levels of anxiety). I was EBF for ages but my mum told me there's nothing wrong with formula milk and honestly this is what I needed to hear. I couldn't stop crying. No matter how you choose to feed your son, please be kind to yourself x

Hello all!

DS2 is a gorgeous little scamp. His brother was so grumpy and frustrated at this age which thankfully hasn’t repeated itself yet. He can roll belly to back but never does. Have seen no evidence of back to belly yet! Can sit up albeit wobbly. Still loves standing more than anything 🫠 weaning is slowwwww but he seems relatively keen. Nightmare getting him to breastfeed during the day, he’s just too distractible!

@AnxiousAnnie94 there had to be a catch and DS2s sleep is absolutely diabolical. He sounds very similar to yours. Multiple false starts at the beginning of the night, every 30-45 mins. I finally cave and bring him into bed between 10 and 11 then he’ll maybe do 2, 3 hours if I’m extremely lucky? He has massive feed to sleep association. I hear you about knowing you need to do something about it but being too tired to do it. I think I’ll wait until he’s firmly on 2 naps and it’s spring (so hopefully illness has subsided a little 😬) then do some sleep training, probably in the form of night weaning. Dreading it - so horrible knowing the tiredness has to get worse before it gets better!

Thanks for your replies, think I will speak to my HV about it if she hasn’t got the knack of rolling in the next few weeks. We started weaning a few weeks ago & we’re up to two meals a day, Freya seems to love it so at least that’s something!

Hi everyone!

Torvi will be 7 months old on Friday. She rolls back to stomach and can't get back over yet and is none too happy about it 😂. Still isn't sitting up unaided but she's getting stronger all the time.

As for weaning she seems to be enjoying it. Two or three feeds a day alongside formula and a couple of snacks.

She goes to bed at 6-7pm and I offer her a dream feed some nights around 11pm. Then she will sleep until 6. If I don't offer her one she wakes around 2am for a feed and goes back over. Usually sleeps another hour after her 6am feed and then up for the day. Can't wait for those 12 hour stretches though 😂

How is everyone? Am the original Summermeadowflowers, deleted but back again 😄

Hiya @Rainyspringflowers
would be interested to know if anyone has a solid food refuser on their hands? (And if it resolved with time) Our DD is almost 9 months and still refuses all but a couple of tiny mouthfuls of food. We’re doing baby led but she just mashes the food and rarely brings it to her mouth 😅 plus refuses bottles & cups. basically will only accept boob 😂

how’re you doing?