March 09 - there is no snooze button on a baby that needs milk.....!

[meep]

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What will it take to fill this boy's tank?

Dream feed of sorts of almost 8 oz of EBM at 11pm -- and he's still awake again and hungry at 2.30.

Weep.

Morning everyone. Lots for me to catch up on again.

corgi you seem to have a wee man that loves his milk. I have no idea what to suggest - but hats off to you for getting through it. Just think one day you will be shouting at him for sleeping in his t=bed all day when he is a teenager!

I'm trying to sort out when I'm going back t o work. Makes me feel so sad as I am really enjoying my time off this time round.

Rosie has turned into a frantic hand sucker accompanied by much drool. She drinks her milk then the fists and fingers go in the mouth with slurps and squeaks. I think I am going to have to dig out the bibs (she has been drool and bib free so far) as it is getting a bit soggy in her wee world . The rubbish thing is that she shoves her fingers down her throat which in turn makes her puke. So I have gone from a non-pukey, non-drooly baby to a damp, pukey one!

laum sorry to hear about ds1 - hope he is on teh road to recovery now.

miss Rosie had a screaming morning last week - no reson that we could work out either - she'd been fed and changed and wasn't due a sleep. She did finallty conk out and all was well again when she woke up.

kanga I'm also a fan of olive oil for babies - I use the stuff you get at the chemist counter at Boots.

Hi all

Haven't posted for a couple of weeks as I have been poorly after my wisdom teeth were extracted. Unfortunately I got an infection and had to be re-admitted to hospital for intravenous antibiotics. It's made me so tired and run down, and the follow up antibiotics have given me all sorts of icky side efects, but I think I'm finally on the mend. I can't remember on here who described life as 'going a bit eastenders' but i certainly feel like that has happened to me recently.

Argh, i can hear whimpering, which must mean it's feed time. Will continue this later...

one poo explosion and one bath later and i'm back, with a baby clamped to my boob!

thought my milk supply was drying up when i was ill and G has been mixed feeding, but over the last 24 hours i have reverted to exclusive bf and things seem to be improving. corgi i too am trying to work out how to manage feeding when i return to work, as i would ideally like to bf partially until G is 12 months. given the past few weeks i suspect my supply will diminish if i only feed twice a day, but i can't be doing with expressing. i guess if you're only bfing twice a day then it's mostly for comfort and bonding than anything else, so perhaps it doesn't matter if your supply isn't that great.

meep george is a dribbling hand sucker and occasional finger choker too! my mum is convinced he is teething. i find skibz baby bibs really good for soaking everything up. they're pricey but they save me having to do as much washing! you can get them in waitrose.

oh, and corgi, definitely do the nice restaurants now. in 2 years you'll have a tantruming toddler and you won't even want to try dining anywhere except your own home and pizza express. IME anyway! who knows, rhys might be an angel...

btw am very of those with bf babies that only poo every few days. g is still an every feed man. and i'm using real nappies. sigh...

I too have a champion fist chewer/finger gagger.

There I was thinking I was lucky that she has only properly thrown up once so far, but now she is making up for it in dribbling.

She seems to love chewing her sleeves/muslin/anything that she can get basically.

After just having one poo a day, she has made up for it... big style.

Poo explosion this morning here as well - ending up doing a full wipe down as it went everywhere.

Speaking of which - if the poo stain doesn't come out in the wash - how do you get rid of it? I found a nappy bag with a vest in that's been in the wash pile a few days and it didn't come clean first go.

Napisan grinning - I am sure that will get it out!

Another hand chewer here - been going on a while so hoping teeth are going to pop through soon which might explain a lot of things.

Sleep still poor here. Am gonig to accept it is this until she is weaned (that then probably won't make a differnece and i'll have to think of something else to cling to). At least she's a happy little thing most of the time (clutches at straws).

Had a massive hayfever fit last night and almost had to pop some pills which would hav emeant not feeding L but have managed to cope so far. Hve bought every natural/homeopathic remedy our high street has to offer. Any one any tips ?

no tips but feel for you wheely. We have to keep all the windows closed when dh's hayfever gets bad.

dd1 hand chewed for months and months - first to start in my antenatal group - last to get teeth ! Hoping Rosie's arrive more quickly.

Wheely try Vaseline round your nose, don't ask me why but it works!

Thanks all who asked about DS1, he's definitely on the mend and tried to paper the TV with his snotty tissues today......

BTW anyone going back to work, Matalan have some very nice shift dress suits for £36. I'm not back til Jan but buying nice suits when I see them to avoid the back to work panic this time!

thanks Meep/Laumiere - Laumiere, one of the things I got today was the same sort of idea apparently the pollen sticks to that instead of going up your nose.

Laumiere- I meant to say, sorry to hear DS1 isn't well. I hope he's getting better.

On the subject of A&E - I got a snotty letter from my gp's office saying I shouldn't have taken dd1 to A&E last week but should have taken her to the out of hours gp - which I would have done HAD IT NOT BEEN SHUT. Grrrrrr.

Melissa's another hand-chewer. I think it's kind of cute. She tries to shove her whole fist in. Then she stares at both hands intently as if willing her thumb to come out for a suck

Wheely our out of hours gp is always telling us not to go to A&E, but to wait for them to return our call . But to get a letter!? Someone has too much time on their hands

Missmod - the thing is we did wait for the OOH GP to call back to be told that she really needed to see someone that night but that OOH was shut so we should take her to A&E. I even questioned it as her temp had started to go down and she was asleep and I didn't think it necessitated A&E but the GP insisted.

I am sending a response !

wheely at the end of the day if a child is sick then it doesn't matter where you take them as long as they get seen too. You definitely have to reply. I would be so at them - grr for you!

where is slick by the way???

Where is everybody?

Thanks for the tip Meep I shall get some Napisan at the weekend.

Wheely I'm shocked that you got that letter. I'd send them one back too!

We have the dreaded jabs on Friday. Second lot, and I'm hoping she'll fare better than the first time.

We did a fair at a special school in Lincoln last night. Amy seemed quite popular, and it gave her lots of different things and people to see. I have to say, seeing some of the kids really upset me and I had to duck down behind our table for a cry. Blinking hormones...

I was thinking the same thing grinning - is everyone on holiday?

Rosie's dreaded jabs are today - poor wee thing

I still cry at anything baby/birth related, so totally understand where you're coming from - those Great Ormond St adverts on tv get me every time.

Realised the other day that I still had Rosie in size 1 nappies! Have moved to size 2 and she has less of a water balloon between her legs now !

Hi y'all! Just haven't had a blinkin' moment to post. Need to get time to sit down and look through all the posts.

Just had HB's jabs as well this morning, my how he cried! The HV said we deserved a medal to get this far without weaning and has suggested we start today. he's now 18lb 8.5oz and has been in size 4 nappies for ages. DD2 (nearly 2) is in size 5!!!! So if I get stuck I always have a spare nappy for them either way!

He's still up every night so am hoping he will fair better after the weaning

Will try and get a chance to read all posts tonight. DD1 off to Wales this avo so lots to do. Just got another new (old) car yesterday. Our drive is starting to resemble 'Arnold Clark' with all the cars coming and going!

Hope yooz are all well and will see what you've all been up to later. xx

size 4 !

Hi All - I'm here !

It was my birthday yesterday so all quite busy although not necessarily birthday related. DH had to go to a funeral for a little girl of one of his colleagues who was v. severely disabled and died of SF which has obviously had us very upset. I couldn't go as I had to take DD1 to a teddy bears picnic at her new school (I'm not sure how well I would have coped at the funeral and I didn't know her really. He said it was lovely although v. distressing obviously.

DH and I then actually went out for dinner which was lovely although 3 glasses of wine finished me off.

On a happier note, sort of, L is growing up too quickly - as well as now pushing herself along with her knees bent so sort of half crawling, she also has started swiping food off my plate. Unforetunately they've been things such as croissants and chips which I have wrestled from her but think we might have to wean sooner rather than later (but hopefully will last till after our hols).

L has her third set of jabs this afternoon at the same time as A's pre school boosters. A seems v. excited about it bizarrely ....

Cross post Slick. Wowee at HB's size 4. L is just going in to size 3. She's been in size 3 at night for a bit because size 2 weren't containing her because she still drinks so much at night (grrrrrr).

have to tell you a cute thing about Rosie - she is very very tickly, so much so that she giggles whenever I change her vest/top as my fingers must brush her ribs - very cute!

I keep forgetting that Rosie is now nearly 4mo and no longer a newborn! Thankfully she isn't moving anywhere (yikes about L almost crawling wheely)!

Her favourite thing to do is sit in her bouncy chair while dd1 has her tea. It is a low kids table so I can sit on the floor and talk to them both. This results in mammoth kicky legs sessions from Rosie and much bouncing of the chair.

Was annoyed the other day when a friend made an OMG comment when I took Rosie out of her pram ........ about the size of her cheeks! I was too dumfounded to think of a witty retort. Rosie does have little hamster cheeks but they are not mahoosive. if you can't say anything nice, say nothing at all........!

V cute at Rosie being ticklish Meep !

We're a hamster cheeked family here but as you say - doesn't need pointing out !

Am so glad to hear things are going well for people -- to hear how much HB weighs and how L is moving around,slick and wheely! meep, I was just wondering when babies start getting ticklish...

Thanks for the info on the trailer, mdavza - interesting about retrofitting it with the car seat - I wouldn't have thought about that!

I have to confess that despair is setting in a bit around here. Rather than an evolution toward the positive at three months, Rhys seems to have taken several massive steps backward. His eating, sleeping and routine have gone all to h*ll -- his mystery reflux or whatever it is has come back, which means 8 out of 10 feeds become screaming, writhing nightmares and it's a tossup whether I need to top up with EBM or not (and if I don't, meaning he refuses categorically to take the bottle, he's crying to eat again within the hour). My ability to express seems to be going backwards, too. And with him like this, we can't in good conscience leave him with anyone, so I'm just really, really tired.

Everything just seems hopeless and I don't see how they'll get better.

DP keeps pushing to switch to formula, and I keep resisting because it's not a guarantee that bottle feeding will improve things (the reflux kicks in 50% of the time even when we do EBM) and I would feel like a failure giving up bf'ing now. Maybe I'll start trying rice cereal or something. I don't know.

And then I think, oh god, he's only got six weeks before he starts at the nursery and it's going to hit him like a ton of bricks -- with no fixed feeding or sleeping schedule, and zero ability to soothe himself, and zero ability to be on his own for more than 15 minutes without melting down, it's going to be... awful.

Whoa. Just re-read this and it comes across as the world's biggest whinefest. Sorry about that -- I just really, really needed to let that all out.

Sorry to hear things aren't going too well Corgi.

I don't think bottlefeeding would help tbh (although if yuou wanted to that's a different matter). I'm not an expert on these things but I think reflux can be worse on formula. I think a lot of reflux babies can be dairy intolerant too so would be a reason to keep off formula.

I can't remember but is he on Gaviscon or anything else for the reflux ?

Anyway, none of that is probably helpful but I hope things improve for you soon.