March 2008 births

[MarchNowFebMum]

Welcome March Mums (and late Feb/early April Mums!) from the March 2008 threads.

I "%£@! hate gas...am in the middle of the faffiest feed ever.....grrr

wow timmy, that's stressful for you. she's a selfish, daft woman IMO, what a bad impact for all of you i hope things are calm enough at yours despite her upsetting you all.

mnfm - is it burp gas, colic gas, both types of gas? it is so damn tedious no? i get very fractious stcuk under my poor gg, holding him up for ages to let the burps come.

thanks for the kind wishes. yesterday was not our finest hour, very hard work with toddler ill and toddler tantrums. we lobbed them both into bed early which they both needed and i fell asleep inf ront of the tv at 2020, went to bed, feel human today. ds1 has started having pretty disturbed nights, as you'd expect at this age, but dp does him in the night and i do the baby. apparently, ds1 was fast asleep but yeling in his sleep 'idon't want to go to sleep' at midnight!.

i've managed to shake the cold now, and it seems baby has too and is clearly putting on weight at last (extra chin, cheeks puffedout), courtesy of whatever antibodies i invented in my sleep. turtle i hope you do too, get loads of rest if you can? ds1 still very coldy. we'll have a very quiet day, with a short trip to woolies to buy a toy or dvd and pick up some snack foods. i do an online shop, but always, always forget something! usually ds1's snacky stuff, because i don't program it in for anyone else.

c4it, we've never had decent photos done cos i can't imagine it going well. sorry to hear you had a hard time. i would not have appreciated that queue jumper, quite loudly!

cor just been friends reunited by a lass i knew when i was 15! that's interesting for me...she's coming back to england...cool.

I had some kind of angel on my side yesterday...DS has rotten cold and I bent the rules and let him sleep on my chest in bed. He was awake for a total of 1.5 hours yesterday. He then only woke at 2 and 6 last night! I feel much better (although coldy) and so does he.

Turtle - sometimes rule bending is the only way to go! Glad you and merry survived yesterday.

Anybody got any tips for settling a baby into his cot? We moved him 4 nights ago as he was getting too big for his moses basket (and we can't cope with the grunting and shrieking in the middle of the night any more ) and he really fights sleep now. I think he is a bit freaked out by his big bed / own room (not surprising at 7 weeks old I guess). I feel bad, but he barely fits in his basket so we can't really go back to that, and even if we wanted to, his cotbed wouldn't really fit in our room as it is so big. I just want to help him settle. FWIW, he goes down well in it during the day but at 8pm and then after his night feed he shrieks and cries and takes about 45 mins to settle post-feed. Not sure if coincidence but apart from our one sleep through on Staurday he is waking at 3.30 which is a good 60-90 mins earlier than he was in his basket. So I feel like we have taken a step backwards compared to where we were last week.

I thought maybe some rolled up towels around him but not too close might give the illusion of a cosier space. Anyone think that a good or bad idea, or have any other thoughts?

HQ have you tried putting basket in cot for a night or two to get him used to the space?

hi turtle - is it worth trying that now even though he has been out of the basket for a few nights? i'll give it a go tonight.

another question - when is sick too much sick? DS has just brought up a lot of sick - probs several tbsp of both undigested and digested milk - and was pretty sick during the night as well. i keep hearing about bringing up a whole feed, but have no clue what that means. Does it mean i am only meant to worry when I see around 5oz of sick given that is what he takes in a bottle (obv don't know how much when it's from the breast) or is a few tbsp enough to worry about?

hq, when i moved ds1 into cotbed i used baby whisperer's pick up put down to get him used to it, took 4 nights. ie, when crying, pick up, no words, no movement just hold till stops, put down. repeat ad mauseum. so they get comfort, but not too much is the idea. ideal one for dh/dp to do, to reduce risk of prompting bgaby to ask for breastmilk.

don't know about vom, sorry.

turtle, can ds take gaviscon with a cold? how's the reflux going? gg is getting wise to ways to spit out his gaviscon. sigh

MB- DS not having many big enough feeds to warrant gaviscon. The big ones been mixing with EBM and shooting it in quickly and seems ok. We shall see. He's really only snacking, and is on me upright quite a lot

tis bloody hard work feeding through a cold isn't it turtle, wishing you both a speedy recovery and for the time to go smoothly xxxxx

er, hq, reread my post and was laughing at myself. sub text tot ht post is bith dp and ifeeling like joining in the crying. it was bloody hard work!

let me know if you need english translation of last sentence

cackle

merry - think i got it i have been perhaps a bit too comforting with words, rocking etc. plus we def need dh to do settling as ds clearly thinks it's mealtime every time i go near him... normally dh makes dinner while i settle him but think we need role reversal for it to work. will try tonight.

he's just been sick a lot after this feed as well but this time it hasn't bothered him unlike the screaming we had earlier. hoping he stays more chilled for rest of the day as combination of lots of sock and heart-wrenching screams was upsetting.

not the dreaded baby sock

Did I say he was snacking? Just had both boobs and 3 oz in a bottle...

farty gas, crying at boob, watery painful poo. was common earlier this month, did not welcome its return.

turtle am right now on couch with lo sleeping on chest - threw that rule out ages ago :.} besides it's so nice! am enforcing nap bc yesterday day and night was cascade of poor eating/sleeping

top that off with 2 hr wait at dr today for 10 min appt!

dd asleep in sling on me at the mo. Just needed a break- rules bah!
So sorry for this, but DD is mixed fed and has been pooing once a day for the past week- and it's a big one when it comes. I've just switched her from Aptamil to Hipp Organic and her poo has totally changed from looking like breast-fed, to chalky yellow and more solid. Should I think about going back to Aptamil?
Also, she doesn't want any milk yesterday or today. I'd like to think that magically my breasts have started producing more, but highly doubt it as she will hardly nurse either. Can get her to take 2,3oz max at a feed. Then she cries after but won't take anymore. Please tell me this is classic !

e14 - why did you switch her to Hipp? I would switch back unless any reason not to. Are you still gettng lots of wet nappies? She is probably just getting used to it I would guess.

Hope those of you with reflux are getting on well, DD has this and the gaviscon is really making a noticeable difference, if I ever forget to put it in her bottle she is so upset for ages afterwards, bless her. Have you noticed a difference in pooh?

hey mmh- no really good reasons except 1. it's cheaper and 2. like the idea of organic. Prob will go back if it doesn't get better after tomorrow.

mmh

(ALERT Way TMI poo detail coming here)

tbh i love the difference in poo - it is more formed and dryer and so much easier to clean up! to begin with it seemed so small a lump i panicked he was bunged up. then i realised that compared to runny smeary stuff it was the same quantity. gg only needs 2-3 doses a day now it seems though, so we're off back to grainy mustard. oh well.

me too...especially as using cloth nappies. Means liners really do contain the mess! (My god, how sad that I'm raving about poo consistency...)

parents have left us now, normal screaming and tearing out of hair can be resumed

Started trying a bedtime routine on Saturday which worked a dream with bedtime 6.30, dreamfeed 11.15 then middle of night feed just before 4. Yesterday tried the same but without the bath, we got an hour or 2 of screaming around 8ish but then he slept through from 8.15 to 3.45am. Tonight we had yet more screaming but from 6ish till 7.30, so gave bath in middle of screams which confused him! Don't know if I should dream feed again or not if he's sound asleep, but suspect he'll wake before midnight anyway as he hasn't had his normal milk quota for the day. Last night was great though for letting me get an extra hour or 2 kip when i'd normally be waiting up to feed him.
Cranial osteo seems to have worked to prevent the vomiting we used to get, all belches now come as milk-free! Just wish we could stop the pain of the trapped wind

Sympathy to those with the same and worse in their LOs!
MnFm I thought you meant the cooking gas rather than the windypops stuff

Possible progress on getting baby to accept cot. Realised that he keeps looking through bars and then crying - guess the vastness of the room upsets him whereas in basket he was oblivious to world outside. So I hung a blanket over the bars so he can't see beyond them and that seems to have helped. But the main cause of him finally going to sleep was my singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star really tunelessly... I think he realised that the sooner he went to sleep, the quicker I would shut up!

What are your thoughts on going to versus leaving a crying baby? We generally get quite a lot of crying from him at bedtime and naptime and I've realised that he is a baby that really fights sleep as he desperately tries to keep his eyes open despite yawning lots. I've decided that any whimpering cries that crescendo and then have quiet pauses in between may have to be ignored and we are trying the approach of only going into him if it is insistent crying or if he has been whimpering without a longish pause for more than 2-3 minutes. Does that seem reasonable or am I scarring my baby for life? Seriously, if you think the latter let me know because I really don't know what I feel about letting him cry but I don't think going into him when he's whimpering does anything other than start the cycle again.

i deffo leave if there are pauses in it. mind you, i'm blessed this time round with a major non-cryer. actually cries until i go away, tbh. ds1 on t'other hand, waited til he was incessant then picked up, waited for calm, put down.

i need someone to pick me up and put me down, am over exicted by this baking thread where i name changed

HQ, we get the crying to fight off sleep as well, I still get it a bit confused during the day if he needs feeding/winding or not, but if i spot a yawn in the quiet bits between crying then assume he needs a kip and let him cry himself out. If it turns into piercing screams and sounds like he's drawing his knees up in pain then we'd go and pick him up and jiggle him about a bit as it's normally wind then.

Off to bed now, too much to do tomorrow.