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ninja · 14/01/2009 20:54

Hi - welcome to the new thread!

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CarrieBo · 17/01/2009 23:09

To all my lovely mumsnet friends,
sorry I haven't got time to catch up on threads tonight, been far too busy deciding which photos of the dcs to print out.
But I have a warning for you all...
DISCARD YOUR OLD FORMULA! We only do one bottle feed a day, so the box I opened tonight was 4 weeks old, and in it was.....A MAGGOT!
EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I had to eat a whole chocolate orange to get over the shock.
Love from Carrie x

foxytocin · 18/01/2009 03:29

Carrie i suspect the only way a maggot can get in there is to have the egg in the packet before the packaging was sealed, esp this time of year. And where there is one...

FWIW, I am sure I have eaten maggots or pieces of maggots in my childhood. I used to sit in the fruit trees in our neighbour's garden and eat plums straight from the tree. I remember chucking half eaten plums with maggots in them. [yuk]

can you retrieve it from the bin? i would look to send it to Food Standards Agency or another body like it. The gov't monitors things like contaminants in all food products. There are legal limits as to what kind and how much is allowed in any packaged food. This may be (but more likely not be) something important for them to know. I hope this doesn't worry you (too much) but for me knowing is better than not knowing.

Hopefully · 18/01/2009 07:42

WOOPEEEEEEEE!!!!! T slept from 11:45pm-5am! then had a bottle and has just got up again (7:30am). i am feeling a billion times better for having 7 hours sleep. I'm sure it won't happen again any time soon, but i feel recharged for another few nights of crapness. I settled him in his cot and we ignored 10 minutes of moaning/grunting at 2:30am, no idea if either thing made any difference.

Hopefully · 18/01/2009 07:43

Oh, an eeewwwwww about the maggot. Would definitely send to Food Standards if you can recover it from the bin.

jenpet · 18/01/2009 08:55

Oh boak about the maggot Carriebo that's just horrid. Agree about retrieving it - it would be really important to find out what kind of maggot it was - a regular "fly" maggot should not be able to grow in powdered milk - you could have some exotic species! You can call your local environmental health people at the council - they will take it on for sure...
Starlight am crossing fingers the funding comes through for you - you would be fantastic - I think we are all lucky to have had your advice on these threads for so long...
Well we are recovering today chez Jenpet - DS1 had his 7th birthday yesterday and we had a bowling party for 8 of his little schoolfriends - wild excitement in French. S just looked around in amazement and carried on pretty much as he always does giggling and been fab! 7 years though!! Where has it gone?? It feels like about 6 months since he was S's age...

eandz · 18/01/2009 13:17

yuck! i read Carries post like 10 minutes ago and i'm still shuddering.

Kagey · 18/01/2009 18:51

Bleugh re the maggot I shall be inspecting E's powder a little more closely, however she goes through a tub per week .

Yay, E is 4 calender months old today and we shall be taking foot and hand prints this evening to commemorate!

Hopefully · 18/01/2009 20:32

Gosh, isn't it quiet here today! I was expecting lots of posts from you all being incredibly impressed at my 5 hour sleep stretch.

digitalgirl · 18/01/2009 20:39

not a nice thing to find carriebo definitely send it back, they may send you a new one in return (which I imagine they will have checked is maggot-free)

hopefully yay for T! we got a relatively good night too, A woke at 4:10 after his 11:30 feed. He may have woken before then but would have got back himself to sleep relatively quickly as I can't really remember it.

We have a night out planned at the end of Jan which will require someone else giving A his bath and bedtime feed. Am nervous, but thinking I can try and feed him up as much as poss just before I leave so that if he only takes a little from the bottle he'll make it till I get back. He'll be 5 months by then, but he's not had a bottle of ebm since early December.

All my EBM is in the freezer from Nov and December, will it still be ok?

digitalgirl · 18/01/2009 20:40

I was impressed hopefully - I started writing my post before reading yours. honest!

DebiTheScot · 18/01/2009 20:42

gross gross gross gross gross bleugggghhhhhhhh

We were only doing 1 feed every week (of formula obviously, that sentence could look bad if I don't add that!) so I was using the ready made cartons, we've just gone up to 1 a day so I bought powder but when I opened it I wrote the date on the lid so I know when the 4 weeks are up. have to say though I also think that it must have already been there- sorry I know that's worse.

digi I meant my ds2 in that post but I can see how you thought I meant your ds2, maybe one day soon you'll have a ds2 though

Debs75 · 18/01/2009 20:44

Carrie Just read your post and gross!!!!Send it off if you can. Going to check mine now.

Where can i get a chocolate orange at this time of night??

Hopefully Well done, it is amazing what a good nights sleep does. We are trying to bring forward Robyn's bedtime so she has already had her morning feed when i get kids up at 7. as a result i am shattered again.

DebiTheScot · 18/01/2009 20:47

those of you who are breastfeeding all the time and wonder about giving your baby formula at night to see if they'll last longer between sleeps- it doesn't necessarily work. Ds2 has had 8oz of hungry baby milk at 10.45pm for the last few nights plus a wee bit from me and he's not lasted any longer than he was when he was just having the breastfeed. In fact last night he when he woke he was soaking and had to be changed which woke him up too much and then he was awake for an hour instead of the usual 10 mins. grrr

Pidge · 18/01/2009 21:03

Hello all - long time no post from me! Have been utterly incapable of getting on mumsnet for weeks and weeks. Anyway, really loving being mum to my fab 3 and the two dds are still thrilled with their little brother.

Ds has been a totally mellow baby from day 1, though interestingly his sleep is deteriorating somewhat now at 3 months just when it's supposed to be improving. But he was up to doing 9-10 hours in a row, so even slipping back to 5-6 hours isn't too bad I suppose.

JennyL - great to spy you on that other thread, I now can't find it to reply to your response to me! So hope you see this here. Great to hear that you and your dd are doing so well.

To any of you mums of 2 wondering about a number 3, it is an absolute breeze in my experience compared with 1 and 2! Can't recommend it more.

Hopefully · 18/01/2009 21:11

Glad you were impressed DG! I certainly was. Glad you had a good night too. I think I read EBM was good for 3 months, so should be ok. Is it worth giving him the odd bottle for the next week or two to make sure he'll take it?

Debi I've also found that giving T formula doesn't make him go a minute longer than BF. The only reason we do it is so DP does that feed and I get some sleep. I actually think he wakes up sooner from formula than from BF - possibly he gets a greater amount from a BF? Who knows?

Pidge glad you're having such a great time being a mum of 3! I always thought I wanted 3, although who knows? It's lovely to hear positive stories of it.

lollipopmother · 18/01/2009 21:52

MEGA-PFB MOMENT!! Elizabeth just rolled! Oh I am such a proud mum!

ninja · 18/01/2009 22:30

Well done Elizabeth

Good to see you Pidge, I'd been wondering how you were getting on.

Here's hoping for more sleep than the last few nights (I think the last 4 together make up a normal night)

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Sassyfrassy · 18/01/2009 23:00

Congrats Lollipopmother It's lovely when they do new things. Katie has rolled over 4 times but never when dh or dd1 are looking so they say they don't believe me.

We've had a bit of a troublesome weekend. I'm ill with a cough which has led to migraine strength headache which I combat with frequent co-codamol. Katie is teething so wants to feed frequently, drools like crazy and chews on everything! Her ear that has infected exzema on it isn't healing up so will have to take her back to the doctors who will no doubt prescribe more foul antibiotics that I can't get her to take. Why can't they make antibiotics that doesn't taste so vile...

Pacita I've been dairyfree since tuesday now and it's not as hard as I thought. I use oatly milk and vitalite spread. Baked cupcakes today and they tasted really nice. Only thing I really miss is cheese. I'll give it another couple of weeks to see if Katie's exzema gets any better.

eandz · 18/01/2009 23:50

congrats lollipopmother!

Noah has been rolling around but he only does it once in a blue moon, and never when I'm watching.

ok you wise wonderful women of wisdom it's time for me to spill the beans about Noah and ask for help.

Noah has been spitting up after every feed with horrible wind/colic and gas. his burps were sharp, loud and dreadful sounding. also when he fed (even straight from the breast)you could hear strange noises coming from his chest as the milk went down. he was always stiff after a feed, the burps would take up to three hours to come out and he would cry till they were all out. it's still like this. we used infacol, colief, gripe water. i bought the dr browns bottles and then the born free bottles...nothing helped. throwing up a couple times a day but i thought it was nothing to be concerned about. it's one of those things babies do.

then two weeks ago he would throw up at every feed it would be projectile. he'd finish feeding, start screaming i would start burping him and regardless of how i burped, where i was or how he'd been fed or what he'd been fed whatever was behind me would be completely drenched with vomit. it streamed out of his mouth excorcist style. he would not settle for naps, for sleep of any kind unless he was upright facing me in his sling. would not even let me lay down with him, would not be seated. stiff as a board. anyway needless to say we ended up at the emergency room and they told us it was indigestion. they gave us domperadome (or something like that) and renitidine.

problem is, neither have helped in anyway, his symptoms are exactly the same and it's just getting worse i feel. i took him to the gp and she just said it was indigestion and that thats all she could give me.

my son is sooo miserable and i feel horrible about not being to do anything except hold him upright in his sling.

any ideas? suggestions?

i also tried the comfort formula, and lactose free stuff.

eandz · 18/01/2009 23:52

hopefully
congrats on your 5 hours of sleep! i aspire to be there one day.

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eandz · 19/01/2009 00:23

his weight gain is slow but finally constant. he's at 6.75kg finally. he gains weight at the rate of 3oz a week and for that i do feel i should up his feeding but he just refuses to eat more than he wants.

his nappys: always dark greenish brown poo up to 2x a day. he's wetting nappies, about 6-10 nappies a day.

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eandz · 19/01/2009 01:08

I think he gets about 3oz of bm a day at the most. (when I can express that much)

formula: 36 oz a day