Any Scottish April 2013 babies out there??

[Kaybee]

Aww he will be super cute in a wee kilt. My friend had her DS in a kilt when she got married. He was nearly 2 at the time. Was soo cute.

 

[arlene]

My nephew was in a kilt when my brother and SIL got married. 2 and a half a uber cute!!

I won a Jumperoo on ebay last night for James! Got it for £32 which I thought was pretty good! How do the boys like them? Xx

 

[Kaybee]

Thats a good price arlene. I paid 40 for mine and dylan LOVES it!

 

[bbymc]

Lewis likes it for about 5 mins lol. Then he gets fed up lol x

 

[lj2245]

Alex would stay in his all day if you let him!! He loves it. Ours was £100 I didn't pay for it though, Stephens stepmum did.

 

[arlene]

Cool, I'm hoping Jamesy will like it! Xx

 

[bbymc]

Laura, I found some porridge and other foods you could give Alex...

https://www.ulula.co.uk/shop/baby-food-listing.php?CatID=186

 

[lj2245]

Cool I've just been giving him a little baby rice mixed with banana, mango, pear, etc. he's only taking a few spoons.

 

[lj2245]

Did your gummee glove arrive? We lost Sophie the giraffe. Disaster!!

 

[bbymc]

Yeah it came. They emailed me today in response the the email I sent days ago. Great customer service that is!

Lewis seems to like it. Definitely better than sophie for now since he just whacks himself in the face with Sophie just now lol.

He had his third jags today. Wee scone. Totally knew what was coming with the second one this time and tensed and started crying before the hv got near him. Poor wee soul.

I've totally noticed that if I try and keep lewis up a bit when he's tired at bedtime, he starts screaming blue murder and stops ( and starts smiling) as soon as I start his bedtime routine. It's quite funny. It's like he's thinking ' thank god, I'm exhausted' and practically falls into bed lol. Shame it doesn't mean he sleeps all night though lol x

 

[lj2245]

Alex is the same lol. He goes mental until he hears his bath running then he's all giggles again lol. It's like sheer relief that the day is over lol.

 

[Kaybee]

Dylan is the same about bedtime. Although the last couple of weeks his sleep has been terrible. Thinking of trying him with some baby rice. What time of day do you feed them?

 

[bbymc]

I give lewis his in between his second last and last feed so he's hungry but not starving and it wont affect the amount he takes at his last feed.

Funny how they all get so excited about bed time lol. Lewis' sleep hasnt been great either. Although, because ive been staying at my parents this week I stupidly started feeding lewis every time he woke up even if it had only been a short time just so he wouldn't scream and wake them. Now hes waking ever 2 hours for a feed. What an idiot eh? Lol. Total nightmare!

 

[lj2245]

I feed Alex in the morning right after his 2nd feed at about this time of day. That way he's still getting all his milk. He usually only takes a wee bit to be fair. I might give him a little at dinner time too after a couple of weeks. He doesn't have a tongue thrust reflex and can feed himself so I figure he's ready

Are your babies as desperate to sit up as Alex is? He is always trying to pull himself into a sitting position. He managed it yesterday and after about half a second fell forward lol. His face was on his wee feet! I don't like him sitting upright with his legs out infront of him for long because it makes him sick but he loves it. Typical! The position he's in in the Jumperoo is perfect, upright but legs down. I sit him on my knee like that.

Emma, have you tried increasing Lewis's milk feeds during the day? I read somewhere that if a baby gets all the milk they need during the day they stop looking for it as much at night and are happy to have a dummy. Not sure how true that is or if it was written by an 'expert' with no kids of their own lol. Alex gets one feed during the night and both of us are happy with that for now. The day he had a full bf then 14 oz in a bottle then another bf in the space of 6 hours was the time he STTN lol!!

 

[bbymc]

I originally was feeding him every 3 hours but I changed it to every 3.5-4 hour a few weeks ago. Everything seemed to be going fine and he was only waking twice, that changed to once for a few days after I started the porridge but now its worse than ever. He's up loads and then when we get up he's looking to nap after about 45 mins.

I still feed him whenever he wants during the day. Recently that's been anywhere between 2-4 hourly. I had heard that if he doesn't get as much at night he will take more in the day so I started giving one side only when he wakes at night and last night I gave him nothing if he woke sooner than 3 hours from the previous feed. He complained for 5 mins but did go back to sleep. I'm hoping it will be easier tonight.

It's been pretty tough since Ryan has been away this week. I'm shattered!!

 

[bbymc]

I've been expressing this week so I can go out on sat night. I've only expressed 280mls so far. How much would your boys take at a feed of EBM? 14oz is loads more than I thought I'd need for one feed :-/

 

[lj2245]

He had 8oz and was crying with hunger an hour later (according to Stephen) so I expressed another 6 oz and he wolfed it down. This was the day I had my 6 hours to myself supposedly lol. Usually if I'm going out and taking bottles of ebm with me he has 8oz every 4 hours.

Where is Ryan?

 

[bbymc]

Hmmm, that's 230mls (ish). I was only going to give 150mls per feed. Better express more incase.

I wonder if he's getting fed enough then.

Ryan is up in Tain working in the Glenmorangie distillery for the week.

 

[bbymc]

I gave lewis some porridge this morning. I decided to make more than I thought he would take rather than less to make sure he got enough. It seemed like masses! Anyway he wolfed down the lot. Do you think he would take that much even if he wasnt hungry?

 

[lj2245]

I've been thinking about your question all day and I'm still not sure I cant even work out my own 2! Alex can take or leave the solids and will only take them if he can feed himself and its only a wee bit he takes. Shaun was the opposite. He'd inhale whatever you gave him and would keep on eating and eating anything and everything as long as you kept shovelling it in. He LOVED his food. His very first meal was wholeheartedly enjoyed. I gave him solids at the HVS advice at about 14 weeks because he acted like he was starving all the time. He was bottle fed though and was getting the required amount for his weight.

It might be that Lewis just really enjoys his food! It's a strange one because I thought Alex would have been a bigger eater as he is always BFing and is always trying to steal my dinner but he'd probably happily carry on without it. Shaun NEEDED it lol.

I get the impression Lewis is having another one of his impressive growth spurts. Alex has steadily gained but Shaun used to gain his weight in massive spurts. Lewis seems the same! Just try what you did last time and feed him milk as often as possible and offer the food as top ups of that. Alex does have days every so often when I feed him constantly. I'm guessing that's him increasing my supply so he can have bigger feeds.

The whole thing is a bloody guessing game lol! Do you think he's hungry?