March08 mums- tummy and teething troubles!

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new thread for Merry...

Btw...had planned on doing the puree thing as I LOVE doing it, but DS has gone for BLW. He will eat anything as long as HE does it and it isn't mush.

im so tired! if i sucessfully toilet train do i get a day off?

dd has been good though with all wees in the toilet all day until bed time when she peed her pants whilst climbing onto toilet so i reckon that counts

has refused to poo, but she did on the first day too so will i have to catch her tomorrow. am worried that she isnt asking to go yet, just refusing if i ask her if she needs to then going a little bit after she has drunk something and i take her

ds dozed off in the bouncy chair as i brought washing in but is now wide awake and playing as i didnt quite manage to transfer him to cot no fuss

anyone seen derah? i havent seen her post for ages

Oh, i'm jealous of all the weaning (although not the potty training!) I wasn't planning to wean until close to 6 months, but now we've been told to definitely wait until then(because of reflux) I'm suddenly desperate to start now. How ridiculous am I Also because DS is one of the youngest on the board, he'll only just be starting while most of the babies are wolfing down roast beef and yorkshire pud followed by apple crumble and custard

I am absolutely exhausted tonight - haven't recovered from yesterday when I foolishly walked 2.5 miles to Kew, all round the gardens and then 2.5 miles back, plus I had to take DS to his first official swimming class this morning. Plus DH has cashed in his chips and is off drinking in town tonight, so I need to cook my own dinner and then stay awake to do late evening feed when DS awakes. And then tomorrow we have to be at the doctors by 8.45 so I'm going to have to get everything sorted before bed. Gah!

Good evening everyone, glad people are not experiancing too many problems holidayqueen hope the reflux does not last too long.

Harry and Millie are 19 weeks on saturday and have started to want more milk after their feeds, and have also been waking more during the night so we have bought some baby rice today and tried it for tea time, it was very messy Millie kept trying to grab the spoon off me which resulted in the baby rice been more over her face and me then in her mouth. I would say it was a success though all in all.

I was worried about weaning Harry too early with his weight but have really no choice as he would be drinking more and more milk which would not be good for him either so dreading telling the HV on Friday when i get them weighed again.

My DH has been on holiday for the last two weeks and we have spent a week in Butlins which was really good and been on a Fish trail in Hull which is a lot of Fish printed in the pavements or walls it took us 4 hours but was good and today we have been to sundown adventure park today Oliver loved it.

Hope you are all enjoying the sun.

this weather is close to torture when we're stuck in, sad to say. dh off next week, when the rain comes! we'll be muntering around doing low key stuff, consolidating the potty training and catchin up on minor details like me finally making it to gp to hear in detail how fncked up my immune system is now. haircuts. buying big boy bed. changing rooms over for the boys. stuff.

good luck tomorrow hq at the docs.

littleducks, ds1 also hasn't poo'd since monday and the baby for two days now either. i expect to be inundated by the damn stuff tomorrow. oh well, at least it isn't vomit, which is what i really dislike. he had 4 successful pees today, and on the downside one in bed while napping this pm (i was experimenting to see if he had sleeping baldder control!), one on the floor while running for the loo and one in the hall while tantruming for england about my clearly evil decision to fetch the laundry in (WTF was that about????). He will not be told or taken to the loo, but either puts himself on a potty or asks for company in the loo, so I'm just having to bite my lip and learn to trust him to get it right eventually. Tis hard. I am very ginger about it when he sits unnappied on my knees: i've only usually got one pair of clean trousers around at a time [slattern with the iron emoticon]

Love the idea of 'consolidating' potty training. You must also have a 'de-brief' so that you can have a list of 'lessons learnt' for when you do potty training mark II in a few years time!

actually consolidating = let dh see how mind numbing spirit sapping energy busting it is for a change ;)

Sounds like a very sensible plan to me Merry. On one hand you want him to get the hang of it really quickly, but if he does then Mr Merry won't be able to appreciate just how wonderful the experience can be.

My baby wont eat. Am going nuts. He has suddenly decided bottles are evil (teething?) and just wants me and my milk supply is dwindling...argh. What to do?

turtle, could you try cup feeding or else a bottle he gets to hold? My DS has started doing his own feed at night by choosing when to pull bottle into his mouth and when to push it away, and does this many times per feed. We are just there as a bottle prop device Alternatively, could it be the temperature? Perhaps try warmer or colder.

First dose of gaviscon gone really badly. Spoon, cup and bottle all rejected, ended up feeding manically after each attempt so my nipples now hurt, and he is now in a very big grump with me. Need to go and buy a big syringe i think...

Thanks HQ...done all that and am now just quietly pulling hair out. Have resigned myself to just feeding constantly for a few days to bump supply back up and forgetting bottles for a bit. It's too much for me to cope with.
With the gaviscon, I just mixed a few mls of milk with it and put it in a little medicine syringe. There is no need to try and get it down them with a huge amount as long as they are feeding properly IMO. Pascal hated the stuff, but we managed it with the syringe. I also didn't need nearly as much as it says.

Should say that he does take a bottle when it suits him. We were at a kids party the other day and he downed the whole bottle despite the noise and activity. Four hours later he threw a fit and wouldn't go near it. Haven't been able to bottle feed him since.

deffo syringe, hq, push dose into side of mouth (inside cheek), cuts down taste on tongue, harder for younger babies to push it back out as not directly on tongue. ditto turtle, we didn't need as many doses as suggested. never ever feel bad for doing it despite their squirming, much happiness will come to baby when the burning stops!

all power to you elbow turtle, persist persist persist...very difficult in this heat for anyone to feel normal i think...let alone babies.

ds1 has thrilled me with 3 days worth of poo (did an elephant parade through our downsatairs cloakroom??) in the toilet, accompanied by copious wees. made up for the 3 wees in clothes during park play this am (kept running into bushes, i'd peg after him, get there too late, just not enough warning!). also made up for huge going home tantrum and the fact that when he poos i must stand close by, ahlf in and half out the loo, rest my head on the door jamb and nOT OPEN MY EYES until instructed to. it's all now so insane i'm starting to laugh about it. house is grubby, i am sweaty, he is triumphant, baby is grinning through the neglect.

i just played hardball on second dose. just kept pouring it down his throat on the basis that he would need to swallow at some point in order to clear his mouth as he couldn't spit it out fast enough. he screeched but he kept more of it down. DH getting syringe for me on way home.

DS now sleeping off the trauma while I make courgette puree (organic on mega offer in our tesco metro and frozen puree lasts 3 months so figured i'd take advantage now)

merry - from a safe distance your potty training sounds very amusing indeed

yup, v amusing from my safe distance too!

what is NOT amusing today is the spiky halo of baby hairs around my hairline. It isn't falling out quite as clumpy as before, but hairline is shocking when I pull it back.

Anyone having an easy time of it?

Think I may have been fortunate to get to 19 1/2 wks before experiencing explosive poo, but had 2 doses to cope with this morning - all up the back as far as LO's neck, soaked through vest, sleeping bag, bedding and into mattress.
Put spare matress and bedding on and he did it again, but milder so have just turned it over until the other one dries out! (Bad mummy ).
Not sure if it's down to Calpol again, or the stuff I was giving him to try helping with teething pain. Or the carrots. Stopping all until normal bowels resumed then will not give all 3 in same day again !

HQ - Mothercare do a medicine dummy which might help with the gaviscon, if he's already used to a dummy that is? We didn't mix it with water, but with a little expressed milk.

We had a horrible evening/night with LO last night, down to teething pain. He is a crap sleeper at the best of times, but last night really took the biscuit. After thinking we had successfully put him down at 7.30pm, and ordered a chinese and poured a glass of wine, he was up every 20 mins until 10.30, after which he slept until 12.30 (thank you calpol!) and was then up for feeds as normal every 90 mins. Until we got to 5am when obviously it is play time....

Going to Portugal tomorrow with DH, LO and my parents for a week. Looking forward to it, but also very nervous about the plane, and LO's ability to scream for the entire flight. I'm planning to drug him full of calpol so he'll hopefully sleep. My case is definitely a little different to holidays before LO arrived - I have two bikinis, a couple of tops, shorts and 2 dresses - LO's stuff takes up the rest of the case . Wish me luck!

thanks monthly - the only time he'll take a dummy is immediately after a feed when he's still in a sucky mood so that may work!

good luck with your trip, and have fun. when we went away, my DS fed on take off and landing - kept him quiet and stopped his ears hurting - so maybe try that.

HQ - Ffion has been taking Gaviscon since around eight weeks. I know that the packet and Doctor say to give it after the feed, but I have found that it is much more effective if you give it BEFORE the feed. Can't help with dispensing problems though - despite it tasting like pure evil, my beautiful little weirdo seems to love it!

Four days into mushed up carrot followed by mushed apple at lunchtime, and she is doing so, so, well. No complaints, a fairly respectable amount of carrot smeared all over her head, and a great big smile whenever I offer her the spoon.

She has discovered a new noise, so it is out with the adorable bubble blowing of a few days ago, and in with a crazy high pitched shriek, that she is using for all communication. It's driving the dogs batty! At the moment it's hilarious, but I am hoping that she will discover something new before it wears thin...

Hayls - I know that shriek well. A little too well truth be known. Bring back the bubble blowing!

Had 3rd round of jabs today (2 weeks later than planned due to incompetence of drs receptionist and nurses holidays) and she is not a happy bunny. Calpol worked briefly but she has been really squawky and we have had some bouts of true 'everything hurts mummy' screaming which break my heart and reduce me to tears too. which is obviously not much help to her. Eventually managed to get her latched on and then when she had had a little milk offered her some pear puree and baby rice which she enjoyed last night and to my amazement she ate a fair amount - yay LO! She doesn't seem to have grasped the concept that you have to OPEN your mouth to get the spoon in though so whilst some goes in an awful lot doesn't... any tips from anyone on getting the idea across to her?! Still she enjoyed it - and the bath afterwards where we washed off all the pear that she was wearing!!

Cricketsmum-Know it sounds a little obvious but make sure you open your mouth...she will copy you. You will then do this for a very long time without realising it and look like a loony in public.

I'd forgotten about the mouth opening thing. It works well.

My blocked duct has passed, but now I feel as though there is no milk, so looks like I've got a growth spurt to deal with for the next few days. Oh well, I know I can do it, I know I can do it, I know I can do it, etc, etc...

Had a lovely day today, took my kids, one of dd1's friends, and met friends at the park. Easy peasy picnic, relaxing chat and long walk home via ice cream shop. Got home completely knackered and thinking the kids would be happy to veg out for a while, but oh no, 'Mummy can we play tennis purrlease' before I'd even managed to shut the front door behind me, guess what my reply was .... 'Maybe later darling'!

I am in floods of tears and really quite scared. He wont eat Wont let a bottle, cup or syringe in his mouth without force. My milk is barely there. He will suck on me, but there's just nothing coming out. He hasnt weed since about 5 last night as far as I can tell. Dont know what to do! Waiting for dr to open....

Easy for me to be calm and sensible at a distance I know, but can you pour some cold water from a spoon into his mouth. No doubt he won't like it but at least you know he'll have had some fluids. I think they really only need a tiny amount (teaspoonful) at regular intervals throughout the day if you are really worried about dehydration.

I hope the doctor is helpful. Must be tough when you've made the emotional decision to stop bfing, and then he changes his mind.

Keep strong and fingers crossed.

Thank you maybelater...I managed to express half an oz this morning and syringe it in while holding him down. I'm sure it's teething, hope I'm not being too pfb about this. It is right to be worried if he hasn't had wet nappies, isn't it?