Chinook My mum said something similar when I told her that the current thinking was to exclusively milk feed until 6 months. She said "but you'd have been starving" - so I said "OK the world health organisation is wrong and you're right". Then she told me she weaned me at 3-4 months but before that she used to feed me every 4 hours for exactly 10 mins on each breast and that was enough for me. Yet with the next breath she told me I would scream all evening. Well... give you a clue, mum. I mean breast fed babies need to feed almost constantly in the early days. She thinks I have a 3-hourly routine - I told her I did just to shut her up, but I don't as such. I do watch the clock and try and make it about that often but if he gets hungry and cries an hour to half an hour earlier then I'm not going to just sit there and let him cry when I could just feed him.
My DH is in Canada for work this week and I've been feeling a bit anxious. I posted on the MH board. I've been having nasty thoughts about something happening to the baby. Also in my part of SE London the take up for imms is not very high so there are childhood illnesses around and it is playing on my mind a bit. I know there's not a jab for chickenpox, so the imms thing isn't an issue in this case but it is rife in my area at the moment and I really don't want him to get it. I cancelled a barbecue I was having yesterday because one of the babies went to a storytelling thing at the library and one of the other kids came down with chickenpox a few days later. The incubation periond is typically 14-16 days and they are most infectious just before the spots come out and going by the date she was at the library, it was 14 days since she was exposed so if she had got it she would have been at her most infectious.
I had a panic all evening the day before and couldn't stop thinking about it so the next morning I told them I had a sore throat. I did just invite my friend from over the road and her baby for lunch, and when I told her she said she would have done the same so I don't feel quite so unreasonable and mad now.
Past few days sleeping (baby's) has been a lot better. I find that taking him up to bed at around 6 and having a long feed in bed with him and most importantly, taking my time, relaxing and not thinking "got to get him to sleep" really helps. He falls asleep in my arms and I can just transfer him on to the top of the bed next to me (I am letting him sleep on the double bed while DH is away - usually he is in the sidecar cot - but I put him on the side where the cot is so if he should roll he would only roll into the cot if you see what I mean).
Night before last he went from 7-half past midnight, then til 3.30, then til 5.30 then til 7 but I couldn't bloody sleep til gone midnight because I was fretting about what to do about the barbecue. Last night he wasn't quite so settled but I don't feel dreadful this morning which is the main thing. I think he went off about 8 and I remember waking briefly about midnight and again at 2.30 then it was all a bit not-exactly-sleeping-not-exactly waking with him in my arms and pillows propped all around me to stop him rolling off. He was VERY fidgety and kicky.
He has gone back to sleep now (8am) - hence the mammoth post.
He rolled for the first time yesterday. At 15 weeks or 10 weeks corrected. Just the past couple of days he's been able to raise himself onto his forearms briefly while on his tum and last night he pushed up and went right over. I don't think he had actually intened to do that but, hey - a roll is a roll.
I am going out tonight and leaving him at home with my mum and the expressed milk in the freezer. I'm going to see the Pixies play a small gig in Limehouse. I love the Pixies but I am pretty nervous about leaving him. I know my mum will be really careful and she adores him but I will probably be texting every half hour and I'll get a cab home to be back as quickly as poss.
As for poos - he does a couple a day and is quite trumpetty in the bum region. There's always a morning poo. It came early today, but it is generally at 8 o'clock on the dot. Then there's another one early afternoon usually. He never wakes up with a dirty nappy or poos in his sleep.
He still possets quite a bit, but I think it is getting a bit less copious and frequent.
The last few summers have been crap weather and now I don't want it to be particularly hot, I reckon we are in for a scorcher.