May 2005 babies

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thought I'd start this up - apologies if anyone already has - for everyone from the dyue May 05 thread to graduate to.

profiles:

me: 31, SW London
baby: Murray (ds2) born 8/5/5 7lb 11oz
family: dp & ds1 (2 1/4)

thanx littleB

i gave up breast feeding nearly straight away because matthew was tonge tied and it was very sore to feed him. now i am expressing and he went onto bottles fine asweel. he is also suffering from wind alot but is still too little to have gripe water so he's just having infacol at the moment. matthew also gets lots of hicups and likes being held.

Anyone else got manic babies that are feeding constantly and not settling in this heat?

Yes Abow I've got one of those here. She is realy grumpy and bothered by the heat and hasn't stopped breastfeed. I'm totally exhausted

Hello. This heat is terrible. Nothing like a good mother-son sweaty feed session to put you off breastfeeding. I think we'll have to go find an air conditioned mall tomorrow.

I'm struggling along with the breast feeding and I always feel like I'm the only one. So it's nice to know other haven't gotten on so well with it either. I am mixed feeding but I don't think he gets much out of my boobs because of little milk supply. So he drinks a lot of bottles too.

I have left DS to go out for a meal. All was fine and it will be for you too, mumtobe. Enjoy your break.

Brighteyes and ABow - phew! at not being alone. She's just gone to sleep (well, 2 hours ago) after no real naps at all today.

hi everyone, hope all is ok.
a little tip for everyone- don't try moving house with a 2 week old baby and painful stiches. it's not all that fun!!
still in absolute chaos and i just don't seem to have any time to unpack, what with alice the eating machine constantly demanding grub!
she is getting more beautiful by the day and she smiled for the first time yesterday, but it was for my mum not me!
i got the gina ford book today and started as soon as i got home. i am absolutely exhausted as alice is demanding feeds every 2 hours and i can't cope with it anymore. hopefully i'll manage to get more than a couple of hours sleep a night once the routine gets going. anything is worth a go!!

Holly moving house what a nightmare you poor thing, you must be shattered. Although I'm bottle feeding Megan has been very hard to settle, she's just been awake for 3 hours! Luckily not through the night. I'm glad I'm not the only one whose baby wakes in the night, although I obviously wish they all slept through for us, I thought I was really lucky as she's usually only up twice but at my post-natal group they all seem only to wake once and my health visitor said its good if you can get them to go at least 5 hours so you get 4 hours sleep and I felt a bit of a failiure! I can cope with twice though, and she's so small I don't think she can eat enough to go through yet.
Hope you had a good evening out 18mumtobe.

Its too bl@@dy hot!!!
Im glad Luca is not the only one not sleeping during the day, all he has done for the last 3 days is cat nap, thank god he is asleep now, ive put him in his chair in front of the washing machine, its on a boil wash so he will sleep for at least 1 1/2 hours, hes is sleeping at night though, he sleeps about 7 hours at night. Goes to bed about 9 30 has a quick feed at 4 30 then back down till about 7 30.

We had a b b q yesterday for fathers day we all took it in turns to sit inside with the baby till the evening then he came outside too. Then we all sat with out feet in the paddling pool trying to cool down.

Hope every one else had a good week end.

Oh MissBlossom, I'm jealous! 9:00 to 7:30 and wakes up once??? Alex goes down at 11:00, then I finish the chores I couldn't do earlier because he demands to be held. I go to bed anywhere from 12:00 - 2:00am. He get up for feed around 3:00. He get up again around 6:00. And so that's it for me. A whole 4 hours of sleep. Although sometime we fall bak asleep 'til about 8:00.

I'm back at work in mid August. Must have the sleeping sorted by then. I'm considering banishing him to his own room very soon. Has anyone else put the baby in his/her own room yet?

Uwila

Ive never put any of mine in their own room until they are at least a year old. For my own benifit more that theirs I think.
When you do the night feeds do you put lights on and change nappies and talk to the baby??
The best thing to do is make as little fuss as possible, no lights or talking and only change the nappy if its dirty. This gets them used to the idea that night time is for sleeping.

Our bedtime routine sounds just like yours, Uwila. She screams until about 2am then wants feeding at 4 and 7. We are knackered. MIL is staying the night tonight to look after her while we get some sleep. We are thinking of putting her in the nursery soon too.

Sympathies on the moving house, hollya. Was it you that was living in your mum's house? Sorry, too tired to look up the original thread...

Hollya - I'm in awe of you!

Tinker and brighteyes - exhausted and drained (literally). Last night dd wouldn't settle to b/f so passed her over to dh with every intention of expressing so he could feed her. I only managed to express 2ml! Thank goodness for formula and mixed feeding!

I am also in awe of single mothers. I honestly don't think I could have coped without dh this weekend.

Seems that we are on the same hours as you Uwila. I laugh when the hv told me to sleep when she does. If I did this I have no idea when I would eat, shower or get any clothes cleaned.

Well Cerys certainly doesn't like this weather, after bf for an hour she vomited it all back up, she would have given Linda Blair a run for her money, I was just waiting for her head to start spinning. After it was all up she was crying to be fed again, rooting around like woody wood pecker.

Parenthood is so exhausting

Uwila, I posted on the June thread earlier with the same question re moving baby into their own room. I am kept awake not so much by the feeding - which happens about twice a night and is fine - but by the constant snuffles snorts and weirdo baby noises that babykins makes in her sleep. it sounds to me like she is constantly puking so i keep checking her and she is always fast asleep, but I, obviously, by that stage, am not! I know the SIDS advice is keep them in with you for six months but with DD1 i moved her into the nursery at 5 weeks and we never looked back. She dropped a night feed instantly (which she obviously didn't need - it was just me pre-empting) and I got better sleep. However, i have had lots of frowns and negative comments re cot death whenever I mention this so am not really sure what's best this time round.

hi everyone

my night out went fine, i missed him when i was gone. but it was nice to have a break. and daddy was fine with him, he was fast asleep when i went home. bless!

i can't stand this weather either, its unbearable. but at least we are not still pg coz i couldn't handle it if i was in this heat.

matthew is all hot and bothered too, he is sleeping alot, so ive been waking him for his feeds coz i don't want him to get dehydrated.

he is still in his routine mostly, but he has sarted missing his night feed at 2, and has been sleeping from about 10.30 through until 5.30am which is nice to get a whole chunk of sleep. but im sure this heat is going to throw him out because he's already gone abit out on his normal times but i surpose its to be expected.

just wandering if anyone else is given babe any water between feeds to keep them hydrated , i tried matthew on some yesterday but he didn't like it very much. not really sure if your surposed to give them anything else apart from their feed.

feel for you hollya about moving house, i don't think i could manage to do anything like that for at least a year!

im not really sure about putting baby in his home room yet, but i also get woken up by all the little noises he makes and always think he's awake but hes still fast asleep. i think its down to the individual really, do whatever you want and feel happy with don't worry about what other people say. i know theres all the scare about cot death (which is horriable to even think about) but i think as long as you've got a good baby monitor then really its just the same as them being next to you.

take care xxx

Hi Nogger, well who can look after a toddler and a newborn and keep up with the June thread at the same time???? I mean really!

Your problem sounds just like my DD (now 2 yrs old). I am the deepest sleeper there ever was. But my DH is a very light sleeper and DD was keeping him awake all night. So we sent her off to her cot in her own room at about 2 weeks old. DD is a great sleeper. Has slept through the night since she was 8 weeks old, and even now we have no trouble getting her to go to bed. I believe part of the reason for this is that she has always slept in her own room. And so I'm thinking that if I don't put Alex in his iwn room very soon, I might be making a rod for my own back. But, right now, I actually like having him in my room. So that's my concern.

yuk i'm so hot! mostly it's my gigantic boobs that are making me so hot and sweaty, these crazy women that want breast enlargements are mental- give me back my old small pert ones any day!!!
thanks to gina ford i got about 5 hours sleep last night, the most i've had in over a week. is anyone else trying it?

18 mum to be, my HV told me to give megan water occasionally as she was wanting to feed every couple of hours, she called this grazing and said she should go at least 3 hours and to offer her cooled boiled water if she asked for food earlier, just an ounce. I've done this a couple of times but she doesn't like it much and just pushes the bottle out. I think they are supposed to get enough fluid from their normal feeds anyway. she is going 3-4 hours now anyway, occaisionally 5 at night which is bliss!

18mumtobe i'm giving alice water every couple of hours. she gets really bad hiccups and the water stops them and also seems to settle her. she spat it out the first couple of times, but now she takes it quite well. i think it's down to personal choice, i don't think they need it, but it seems to help them go longer between feeds as they are not feeding because they are thirsty.

thanx hollya and littleb

im abit worried that matthew is going to long inbetween feeds at the moment, coz of this heat hes sleeping much more and is going 5 hrs sometimes during the day and im worrried he will get dhydrated, should i be waking him up to feed? or should i just leave him to decide when he wants it? most people are saying their babes are not sleeping as much and are restless so i surpose i should be greatful.

hi holly290505

hope everythings going ok and Ruby is well. you haven't posted for a while so you must be busy with baby. so how are you enjoying being a mummy. im loving it at the moment, well the night feeds aren't so much fun but the rest of it is amazing. i find myself just watching him sometimes(is that normal)
well i hope everythings good for you, hope to hear from you soon

take care eveyone xxx

Oh dear hollya we move house in 2 weeks and I had a section. I too want my pert boobs back. Problem is after bf last time they were like 2 deflated little balloons! Can't imagine what they will be like this time around. DH has offered to pay for a boob job and not sure if he is joking..........

As for night time ds2 feeds at about 2130, 0030, 0300, 430, 530, 0700 ish. He is v unsettled from 0300. I am dead on my feet as ds1 wakes often inbetween these times. DH just got his paternity leave starting yesterday thank god. Started giveng formula at midnight but makes not difference at all. I think he is colicky.

OK - WHO'S HAD SEX YET? I'm going to post on sex after childbirth as I think it is about time (depending on the answers i get)

Been considering it Northstar but haven't found the time or the energy yet

Forgot to say, DP reckons that after a 5 month drought on the sex front we're only going to need to find a spare three mins. After such a long wait he doesn't think he be able to last any longer than that

Well, got all positive replies when i posted on Relationships, I am going to give it a go tonight. (Sorry if tmi but I have worked this up into a big deal after birth)