Hi everyone! We're getting to the end of the thread already. Lovely weather today
I went to the drop in clinic to see the HV, all geared up for a fight about BF/weaning. And was gutted when she wasn't there!!! I still decided to speak to the other HV about weaning but she just told me that W should be on three "good" meals a day but he was clearly healthy so nothing to worry about. Which I knew already (although I do have my doubts and keep thinking I'm starving the poor boy by not giving him big meals - but he doesn't seem to want much??) She didn't seem bothered about how much he BFs. So I'll go back in a couple of weeks and find the other one!
PM have a fab holiday.
Ruby did you enjoy your hectic day? I also see you've got a lovely pressie from your DH (saw the pics on FB). I'm
littlepea, I hope you're getting more sleep! Hopefully the higher calorie stuff will do the trick?
HT good news about J's routine. Lets hope the long stretches of sleep improve. The afternoon walk probably chills J out - I find that W needs to chill without us playing with him in the early evening before bathtime, bedtime, sleep time (or BBS as we call it!).
On weaning how many milk feeds is everyone's baby on? W still has 5 a day plus 1 or 2 overnight. I'm also trying to get him to take a bit more solids but he's not mad keen on spoon feeding although he likes finger food. When do they cut down?
sleep wise, W has gone backwards (yawn) - since we've come back from holiday and had builders in, he's not been napping properly in the day so night sleep is rubbish. We had 2 hourly waking for a couple of nights which, quite frankly, nearly killed me! The problem is that when I try to resettle he wanted boob yet DH could resettle no problem. So we're doing a bit of gentle night weaning to see if that improves thing. Last night William went for 5 hours without boob which was great - although I was leaking all over the place. I expressed 9 ounces of milk in the morning to relieve the pressure!!! Good thing too as he drunk it all in the day with his breakfast and on the way home from SIL in the car. He was really hot and thirsty so had to feed him and he downed the milk really quickly. Makes me worry about the hot weather as W doesn't "demand" feed so I'll have to keep topping him up?
Anyway, time to go to bed as I'm tired!! This weather makes me groggy and who knows how many times W will be awake. His room is really hot and stuff - we're going to move his bedroom once the bathroom builders are gone.