Sept 08 - Is it day or night?

[lollyheart]

Hope no one minds me starting a new thread?

just been looking at that website linked by Foxy, and was thinking, the more i read criticisms of any parenting technique, the more i find it astonishing how many parents continue with a style of parenting that makes them miserable, because of lack of confidence. I appreciate that some parenting techniques do have real flaws (and baby wise may be one of them - I've never read it), but many seem to suffer from parents trying to force themselves to do something against their nature, such as following a routine when they are more nurturing, attachment parenting types.
Take, for example, me and starlight (sorry, you are my lab rat!). She would go absolutely bonkers trying to bring up a baby in my routine based way, and I would go mad trying to do what she does, playing it very much by ear and being entirely baby led. Yet both of us are doing things the best way we can, and will (probably) both end up with balanced, normal children.
I just wish more women had the confidence to follow the route that suits them, whether that's AP, routine based, or a hybrid of the two, and ignore their friends who say 'oh, you should co-sleep' or bow down before Gina.

God, I ramble sometimes!

I'm intruiged, what's water intoxication?

i also can't spell intrigued.

LOL hopefully

if you google 'water intoxication' it ought to tell you.

sorry? did you view the link i posted as criticism? maybe one person's 'information' is another person's 'criticism' in the post natal haze.

No, foxy, sorry, didn't mean to suggest you were criticising, anything or anyone! Just looking at the website made me think about it. Probably didn't phrase it very well.

Well, shit, I do really hope I have not water intoxicated this baby. foxy any ideas reagarding not pooing then? It'll be a week tomorrow!

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who had a rubbish day yesterday. Katie had a nap in the morning and then I couldn't get her to sleep more than half an hour for the rest of the day. At ten thirty in the evening she finally conked out, completely shattered and slept in bed with me until 6 in the morning!

Today is better so far, she had an hours nap and is now on her second nap which has last for 45 minutes so fingers crossed....

We're going to a firework display and bonfire tonight and I'm quite excited as it's my very first one. Katie will go in the sling and Becky is very very excited about it all.

I've put a pic of Katie in my profile if anyone wants to see.

here

Hello, very quick question re; vaccinations...

Toby has his first jabs on 25th of this monght when he will be nearly 9 weeks then I have been told that he will not have his second lot til 13th Jan because "they dont do a clinic the day before xmas eve and you dont want a grisly baby over xmas do you?......"

...ok, I realise I might be being overprotective but..WTF?????? I would rather my baby have his jabs when specified by the DoH!!!!!!!

Can anyone either;
a) reassure me
or
b)Tell me if I am right to be concerned?

Thanks x

pacita, a bf baby can go 10 days between poos. just watch out for the fallout when it blows.

are you still excl bfing? how old is your baby now?

irrelevant if he has the jabs a bit later beca.

hopefully.

Ladies, I am proud to report a massive Dijon mustard poo of beautiful colour and consistency. I wish you could see what a contented chap Diego is right now. (He's basically like a bloke after a poo).

Foxy, yes, he is exclusively breast fed and he will be 6 weeks next Tuesday. I was freaking a bit because although I do know that BF babies can go a long time between poos, I thought that happened when they are a bit older. I guess he is quite close to the 6 week mark, which seems to be the official transition from newborn to baby...

Thanks to all for the advice!

thanks foxy

well done diego!

lovely story debs (wipes away a tear!)

my ds1 calls ds2 "my lilltle darlin'"

sorry about typing - ds2 on my lap.....

OMG, jabs jabs jabs. I keep meaning to book them.

not sure why my pics aren't visible. I'll see if I can fix it.

We seem to have made major progress this week with spacing out DD's feeds. I was getting a bit carried away and feeding her whenever she cried and it wasn't doing either of us any good. Mum took her to town on Monday (with a full tummy) so I could chill out in the afternoon and not feed her constantly. By the time she got back DD was ready for a bigger feed and it seems to have stopped her gassy tummy as her feeds are now every 2-3hours in the day. I'm gritting my teeth and not feeding at evey cry, TBH she seems to cry when she needs to fart or burp, not because she's hungry. I'm more relaxed now.

if this doesn't work I shall scream. Link to my pic...

www.mumsnet.com/member/MemberPage?call=com.mumsnet.member.PublicPage&nick=meglet

Meglet I think you need to go to your profile page and choose "profile visible to all mumsnetters" in the pull down menu at the bottom. Your link takes us to the profile edit page, but not to yours, to our respective ones.

Hope this works!

Just in case we run out of space before anyone gets round to doing it, I've created a new thread here. It's called Just Ladies with babies, as these seemed the favourite so far...