March 2008 births

[MarchNowFebMum]

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

Hi HQ, I go back to dd2 if she fell asleep while feeding cos she probably didn't fill up iyswim, but after the 3rd strike she gets left. I agree if she cries continually and it lasts more than a few mins its usually wind with her, so I pick up, soothe and put down. If theres pauses between cries I leave her for a bit longer. HTH

FNF LOL at the fighting sleep- do babies learn this in utero! My dd2 is soooo nosey that we are lucky if she sleeps more than 2hrs total during the day

Glad its not just me with a faffing LO LOL. Its only taken me 8wks to realise she faffs if she has wind! Much improved now I wind her when she starts faffing and then try again with the boob.

My dd was also being sick so I had the emergency Dr out to her (twas a lovely shade of flourescent yellow). Nothing wrong, still feeding but had a chesty cough so was being sick due to all the phlegm mixing with milk. Yuk!

Ah I feel better now, thank you! With DS it is easy to tell if it is wind/hunger versus just general tiredness so I don't worry too much about mistaking the cries but I wasn't sure whether he should be left to cry it out a bit if it is tiredness. It is heartwrenching but it means he settles properly much quicker if we leave him.

I still can't tell the difference between wind and hunger though... For both he sucks his hands, arches his back, screws up his face and then gives me a withering look as I invariably try the wrong solution...

DS is very smiley today and is wearing his Man Utd babygro as he has started his big match build up, so I had to be a proud mummy and add a photo to my profile

HQ-I could just eat him, he is divine!!

love your pics hq, esp the just born one. i actually regret not having more of the birth.

i too have a sleep fighter but is naping now! if she fights/cries in night/early morning we hold her until calm (for my sanity only). if afternoon, i try to do the thing where you stay in room and soothe but don't pick up. tbh it rarely works. i do it for 10-15 mins and if no result then a cuddle until almost asleep and back down. that will often work. she's funny - the morning nap and early evening bedtime she goes down textbook style - down awake, soothes herself then sleep. but the afternoon nap and post 5 am feed sleep are horror shows and so i usually insert myself as a sleeping prop.

fortunately or unfortunately i can very much tell the difference between wind and hunger - hunger is rhythmic consistent cries. wind is intermittant shreiking and red face.

switched to cloth this week - like it more than i thought i would but people weren't kidding when thet said they take forever to dry!

ps to mb, were you able to register?

lovely pic of lovely babe hq! mnfm, gg is the same re: easier and hard sleeps, funny that. we did register, albeit in the midst of a 5 hours tantrum from sick and overtired ds1 who just couldn't get to sleep in buggy as hoped. currently struggling to find babysitter for the actual day for him at home, as we can't take a repeat! week daytime very hard to find, as most of my mum friends have school runs/work etc of their own.

Awww HQ, he is so cute! Re the difference between crying for hunger/wind, I found it really difficult to tell until I realised that if I cuddle DS close to my face, if he is hungry he will try to latch on my cheek .

I am so at those of you managing to get extended night-time sleeps - I'm still up at least 3 times a night. Are you all mixed feeding or some exclusively bf? I still can't get him to take a bottle so can't top up with EBM (although I'm determined to persevere - can't imagine no nights out for 6 months!).

hi guys, well for the first time ever i am bottle feeding, rudi was just a nightmare feeder and i was at the end of my tether, i have NEVER felt that exhausted and stressd before, so he is on bottles and the diff is amazinG last night he slept in the evening, the bottle at 11, through til 5am, the asleep again till 8am, despite him having a cold. he is also learning to suck his thumb, sooooo cute

re milk, i have him on hipp organic as i liked the idea of it being organic, but if their poos are softer on aptimil i may give him that instead

glad to hear we are all getting on ok, knackered but ok, its seems like babies are getting more settled and we are getting the hang of understanding them a bit more.

OH we had a big BELLY LAUGH from RUdi yesterday, i sneezed and he thought it was hilarious, strange boy but great to hear him laugh like that

Hello all,
HQ Leo is gorgeous and supports the right team too! I'm very excited about tonight. It's going to be 1999 all over again!!

As regards to poo, Charlie was on Hipp from the beginning as I'm anal about organic milk for the rest of us and DD had it from when I changed her over from breast to bottle. But when we were in the hospital Hipp wasn't available in the ready made bottles. So I chose SMA Gold while we were in there and have never looked back. I actually have an unopened box of Hipp left over as I have decided to keep him on SMA. For a start he sleeps like he has never slept before, night before last he went from 6.30pm to 2am and then 7am. The bliss. Last night was not quite so good but we live in hope.

Anyone else's baby vastly exceed the recommended daily amount of milk? Charlie caused some concern in the hospital but his tests came back ok. He's now on 180 (said in a darts announcer type way) about 8x day. Such a fat boy I have.Luckily his sister is slender like a willow otherwise I fear I'd have social workers at the door.(i'm extremely voluptuous these days)

Also MB we're in a parallel universe you and me. Charlie sleeps longer when we put him down earlier. Bottle at 6, dowm at 6.30 although he only takes 10 mins to drain it.

One handed typing here...sorry. Off to Crainal osteopathy tomorrow as Charlie favours his right side of his head to sleep and is getting very lopsided. Right better give Charlie Five Bellies some more milk before we head to school to pick DD up from Parforming Arts Club. It's been at least 3 and a half hours since his last mahoosive bottle. poor child must be ravenous

PS Come on you Reds!!!

Jaut thought as I was feeding DDS that I never mentioned the fact that the SMA Gold poos are much easier to clean up than the Hipp poos. (Such an importtant fact to post about, not!) Since I last posted Charlie has had 180 ml and a nappy change. Gosh, we're quick. Time to get out in the sunshine I think.

Hi everyone

Hi Oliviasmum!

MFKAG, i was tempted to go look for reds under the babies' beds after your ps, then realised this was a footie thing. Football and me, oil and water.

All sport really...

I went and looked around a nursery for DD this morning damn having to go back to work. Really liked it though and the babies looked well cared for, cuddled etc.

Went into London today for lunch with some friends, such a lovely day I walked back from Soho to Victoria. This weight WILL come off

The twins had their six week check yesterday and their first injections. It was not as bad as i thought it was going to be although my DH had booked off the wrong day from work so i had to take my mum with me. They are now 8 weeks old and Harry weighs 14lbs 8oz and Millie weighs 11lbs 7 oz i was really worried about Harry as he is near the top of the weight plotting graph but the doctor said there is nothing to worry about. Millie still has her thrush and has been given another tube of Daktarin it seems to be easing but taking ages to clear up.

Wow mods they are great weights - DD at 9weeks is 10 lb 9 oz and is really filling out and IIRC yours were a bit smaller at birth.

I can't imagine having two babies, must be v.hard work!!

had 1st injections on tuesday and much screaming in the evening till i gave her some calpol and she settled. had to get dh to take her though as i hate being there when they have them!

has anyone elses lo got a flat head? izzys is getting progressivly worse. we try and get her to lie with her head on the other side but she flips it straight back, and sitting her in her bouncy chair is making no difference. the only way to stop her is to lie her on her side

Had a moment this morning- was talking to a mum at local baby group who said she switched her baby onto formula at 3 weeks because she didn't like not knowing when his next feed would be and "didn't want to be in the middle of Waitrose and have a hungry baby". I kid you not.
Felt really sad as bf was something I really wanted to do and couldn't (fully). I know bf is hard, but that seemed a bit much.
Back on Aptamil- anyone want a box of Hipp?
ps. football way over my head too

spugs, ds4 likes to lie on his side to sleep, all the madboys have done actually, i know its NOT recomended tho....

i forgot to mention that i had a fright with ds4, when the other day he went from being a happy, smiling laughing baby one min to a VERY HOT floppy glazy eyed baby the next, it was awful, my heart just went, ykwim? anyway the HV arrived just then, as i had arranged a visit due to stopping bfeeding. she said gp asap, called gp who said NO appointments, i said i have VERY poorly 9wk old, still no appointments available, i said the hv said he must be seen, still no app, anyway i got cross and INSISTED DR PHONE ME, he listened to what i said, that he was hot, floppy, diff to rouse etc and said BRING HIM NOW, we did and he was still poorly, high temp but dr did very thorough check and concluded it was a virus, and to give calpol, which we did, he did say tho if he got worse or didnt improve to call out of hours dr. luckily he made a miraculous recovery. ds3 did the same thing today tho, so i must be some viral thing, but it was very worrying for a short while.

DD sleeps on her side all the time. Loves it.
btw, respect everyone's decision to feed their babies how they choose!

i think i may put Rudi onto aptimil then, i liked the idea of organic if he wasnt going to be having bmilk, but i am not happy about the consistency of his poo, i dont want him to get constipated, so i shall try the aptimil as everyone says its makes the poo the same as bmilk poo, which imo must be good

i too respect everyones decisions, i was a seasoned bfeeder, fed ds1 for 18mths, ds2 for three and a half years and ds3 for three years four months BUT it just didnt work with ds4, i was shattered and at breaking point, bottlefeeding has TRANSFORMED our daily life, seriously.

I was following your other thread 4mb and I'm so glad things have gotten better.

£mad- that's what happened to us too...due to it being midnightband him being 3 weeks we had to go in to hospital. Glad you just had calpol. Very scary! Big hugs

we use hipp organic and no sign of constipation- poo still as squirty as when he was bf, just stinks a lot more! Actually, we only get pooey nappies on average once a day after first morning feed, so that's probably abnormal and no doubt he should be squitting for Wales all day
As Hipp don't do the ready made cartons we've tried Aptimil and now using Cow & Gate as it's vegetarian but Aptimil isn't. While I can have a say in it (and until LO shoves some dead cow in his mouth ) he'll be brought up veggie!

And at the risk of being contraversial, anyone declining immunisations? Haven't had any so far as I want LO to be at least 1yr old before he gets any jabs.