CBFM (thread/statistics) graduates TTC,BUMPS & BABIES 2011/2012

[StranjeGirl]

Claire- I think Giada was eating about that at 6-7 weeks. She has always eaten a lot, and still does. She now eats 6-8 oz 6 times a day, but she is a big baby and long. I do remember that at that time she was doing pretty much the same thing...getting up twice. ONce in the middle of the night like 2-3 and then early morning like 5, and that was with her going to bed at like between 9 - 11pm. She also had no routine during the day (and still really doesnt) But at around 8 weeks it all of a sudden started getting better and better very quickly. Swaddling was a HUGE help! I fought it too as she loves to have her hands above her head and suck on her fingers and she would fight the swaddle if she was awake enough. So I started using the halo sleep sack and I would put her in it, feed her while rocking and then do the swaddle part when she was practically asleep. She doesn't fight it at all now and she sleeps so much longer if swaddled. I say try it for 2 nights and see how it goes. I am trying a schedule now, but only for yesterday and today. Yesterday I went every three hours between feedings, and she was not happy, today I did every 2.5 hours because she skipped her middle of the night/earling morning feeding and I wanted to get six in between 7:15am and 9pm when she goes to bed. She was much less cranky today than yesterday. I am curious to see how tonight goes. I am praying it is another long night, but sometimes I feel like you can replicate things exactly and it just doesn't go well for some reason! Give it some time though as Darcey is still very little. I heard that at 3 months babies start to sleep better, so she still has some time!
Does anyone else feel weird calling the baby by his/her name? They seem so little..I keep calling GIada baby because she seems so little for an adult name!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Just saw that futuremama got a bfp!!! We need her and high spirits on this thread to make it complete!!!

 

[Claire1]

Yay!! Fantastic news about future mama, hope she gets on here soon to fill us in. I also think about hispirit often, hope she has some good news soon

Thank you stranje I feel much better now. I felt like I was falling behind and that I was doing something wrong, but yes she is still very little and I know it will take time. I hope she follows Giadas foot steps, she seems to have followed a similar path to her so heres hoping
Im going to look into the swaddle and halo thing, it sounds as though it will be worth a go.
I had her weighed today and she is 10lb 6oz, she is between the 25th and 50th percentile, I dont know if you have this in the US. But she is where she needs to be and doing well. She will be 8 weeks on friday and seems to be content on 4-5 ox of formula every 3hrs or so. She seemed to jump from 2-4oz really quickly, but has stuck on 4-5oz for a while now, she seems ok and is gaining so im not worried.

Regarding the name thing, I totally know what you mean. I rarely call Darcey by her name, like you I tend to call her baby alot or If im being silly its bubs or twinkle. xx

Hope everyone else is doing well and the babies are bahaving for you.

 

[babies7777]

Yay, congrats future, hope you're all well and your lo's too. xx

 

[LadyL]

Congrats to Future mama!! Wonderful news!

Babies, hope all is well with your pregnancy!! Nearly halfway there!! So exciting!

 

[babies7777]

Im great thanks, feeling lots of kicks now all over my belly, really happy as i was worried with my placenta being anterior that it would take longer but im now wondering if my placenta has moved to posterior, will ask at the scan as they dont officially tell u till the 20 week scan its position. Your lo is so cute, cant wait to see my little girl on or after her due date of course.

Congrats to Future mama!! Wonderful news!

Babies, hope all is well with your pregnancy!! Nearly halfway there!! So exciting!

 

[baby2310]

Congratulations futuremama, so happy for you!

Still quite sore and bruised here. My waters broke on the tuesday lunchtime, they had me in hospital on the wednesday afternoon tho as i wasn't having contractions until 6 am on the wednesday morning. 25 hours later Callum was born using forceps after i'd had an epidural. I was exhausted and needed all the help i could get.
Coupled with the fact that my arm swelled to twice its size as they botched up my drips and the i was having difficulty breathing as my chest was rally tight, felt like my ribs were going to split open. After having the epidural i was using the gas and air just to cope with the chest pain.

He's worth it though and i can't believe how much i love him!
Now if i can get his sleeping sorted that would be great, he thinks day is night at the moment lol. Still he's only 6 days old, i think we're doing fairly well and he seems to be quite a placid baby most of the time.

 

[Claire1]

Sorry to hear you had a difficult time baby, you will slowly put it to the back of your mind and it will feel less traumatic.
As for you lo with the day and night confussion, he will get it right. It might take time and at the moment you probably feel like it will never happen but it will get easier. I would say the first 2 weeks were the hardest, though you dont realise it at the time. It is so worth it though. xx

 

[trixie79]

god girls wer do i start!!!
i cant rem who said wat!!! but ill try and answer as i go!

conor was sleeping well the 7.30 till 3 till 7 then regressed and went back to waking at 12 and 4 for a couple of days!!
i am very regimented with the feeds...he takes on average 6 oz at 8 ...12.30...4.30ish and 7.30 and is so drunk from the last feed that he is conked out by 8....waking is a different story it can be anything during the night but i try to just feed him once....i did try 4 oz and he cracked up and woke at 4 5 6 and eventually i gave in and gave him another 6 oz and he slept till 9.30m that morning.
i havev been in the house since sat!!!! and have got him in a routine of feeding at 8ish and nap at 9 for as long as he wants....yesterday he slept till 11.30am 2 and a half hours...in the pram of course!!
then i feed at 12.30 and he sleeps from 1 to 2.30ish and then feed again at 4 ish and let him sleep for only an hour!
i then get him in the bath at 7 but by this time he is super cranky!!!!so he feeds again at 7.30 and then bed!
god it sounds easy but its not!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i swaddle him which really helps and the love me baby allows him to have his hands at his face...

congrats future!

 

[trixie79]

oh and conor is now over 6 kgs....14 pound 1!!!! jumped up to the 75 th centile! oops ...i call him conor, pudgy,sausage, and any other ridiculas name!!!!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Trixie that pic of conor is so cute!! We should all add some pics as our babies are growing!

Baby2310, I can remember the soreness!! I was in so much pain, I never thought it was going to go away. It gets better!! My ped said all babies usually have their days and nights mixed up due to the fact that they are lulled to sleep by us moving around during the day. It took giada like 5-6 weeks to finally get it right. So glad callum is doing well!

So I need help ladies. Giada is sooooo fussy. She is great at night. Has no problems going to sleep, and will sleep anywhere between 7-10 hrs. If she wakes up at 7 hours, she feeds and does not fuss, and goes back to sleep without problems. But during the day she is fussing ALL the time. I dont know what to do. She is usually better if I take her for walk in the stroller or vigorously bounce her etc, but I can't do that all day long. I don't know what to do. SOmetimes she will have a good day and the fussing is very mild, mostly in the evening, but on many days lately the fussing has been all day. Any suggestions. I am about to pull my hair out!!!

 

[trixie79]

i have NO sugestions as conor is the exact same!!!!!!!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Claire1]

Stranje, have you got a swing or a bouncy chair. We have both, and the bouncy chair vibrates which she loves but the swing is amazing! Its the only way I can get things done in the house. x

 

[lilrojo]

Hey ladies..

Congrats to future

Baby try your best to get him switched over as my dd had hers messed up for a long time.. with him i turned the lights down at night.. well almost all off and he would eventually fall asleep.. then in the day keep it all bright.. he will get it sooner than later.. as for being sore you will be for quite some time.. but you forget it all and all is better 100 percent by your 6 week check up..

Bryce doesnt like to do much in the day either.. he is great at night.. he likes his bouncy the best.. didnt like the swing much though.. but oh well he hangs out in the bouncy or the couch.. for now till he rolls..

Cant believe how fast our lo's are growing..

Oh and im staying team cbfm for our next lo.. loved that thing so much.. going to use it to track my cycles till we start ttc.

 

[_dreamer_]

i meant to say i've lent our cbfm to my oh's aunt a couple of weeks ago (she's quite a lot younger than his mom, she's 38 and has been trying for quite a while). really hope she's as lucky as we all were.

sorry to hear giada seems to be very fussy in the daytime stranj, and conor trix. erin is usually reasonably good but she has a real problem with trapped wind, sometimes she SCREAMS about 10 mins after a feed and she is so hard to wind. i found infacol didnt help much, gripe water is better but still not great. while she is awake, i tend to move her between her vibrating chair, her playmat and her cot with her mobile on which she loves. she gets bored of one after about 15 mins. shes getting better at being entertained by things like that, ive got the cutest video of her talking to her mobile, and another of her hitting a hanging zebra and shouting at it lol. the evenings are still generally the fussiest, i try to remind myself at least she is sleeping well, i'd prefer that to getting no sleep

i'm sorry to hear your birth was traumatic baby. i also hope he sorts out his nights and days soon, hopefully wont take long.

trix - erins always been 75th centile lol, little chubby, she weighed 12lb10 at 8 weeks, i'm guessing shes at least 13 1/2 now if not more lol.

her nickname is munchkin which we shortened to munch lol, also fits with her loving her food haha. all our family call her that poor thing

 

[StranjeGirl]

Thanks everyone. Today is a much better day. Yesterday was horrible. NOt only was she fussy all day, but she had horrible gas in the evening and even screamed through her feeding. It finally seemed to all pass. She went down at 9 and woke up at 2, which is very early, but at least she ate and went back to sleep within an hour and then slept til 7:30. It was very cold in the room and she broke out of her swaddle, so maybe that is why she woke up.

I don't know if this will help you trixie, and it may just be a coincidence, but I read something yesterday that made me realize I was not paying attention to when she was tired. She used to like her swing more, and the bouncy chair she liked less, but would last about 10 minutes. Today I started looking at the clock more. She woke up at 7:30 and I fed her at 8. Then I moved her from place to place because she only lasts on one thing for about 15 minutes. I never realized that this was normal. I figured if I was holding her she should be happy...wishful thinking for me! ANyway, at 9:30 she really started to fuss and I realized she had been up for 2 hours and needed a nap. In the past I would have tried to stimulate her more until she got really cranky and hten I would feed her a little to calm her down and let her fall asleep. I now think I was trying to stimulate her when she was tired, and she took the bottle not because she needed to eat, but because it calmed her down. Anyway so at 9:30 I took her to the rocking chair and gave her a pacifier and she took the pacifier the way she takes a bottle, like she has never eaten before. ANd within a minute she was asleep. After rocking her for 5 minutes I put her in the swing and she slept til 11, when I fed her again. After she finished eating at 12 I took her for a walk. She started to get a little cranky-not sure if she was too hot because normally she loves walks. Then I came home and sat her on my lap while I ate and she started getting really fussy and I realized it was 2pm. SO I took her to the rocking chair and gave her a pacifier and within 30 seconds she was asleep. I had no idea that I was misreading her. Again, everything could be different tomorrow, but it did open my eyes to the fact that she gets cranky when she is tired and needs help going to sleep during the day. Usually I have to let her get really cranky before she wears herself out and falls asleep. ANyway, sorry for the long post but I am so happy to be having a decent day. She just woke up after a half hour but seems content in her swing! We will see what tomorrow brings!

Giada was almost 15 pounds at her 9 week appt. She sounds like a total porker compared to everyone elses babies!!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

dreamer, I had to switch to similac sensitive for that same reason. SHe does much better on it!

 

[LadyL]

Sorry to hear you had such a rough labor Baby. With time you'll forget all about it and be feeling back to normal!! Enjoy your precious new baby!!

Glad to hear you may have Giada's fussiness sorted out Stranje!! Isn't it funny that sometimes we try so hard to figure out what our little ones need, and once you've tried everything under the sun, it just hits you like "duh, that's all you needed!" I feel like I have those moments all the time!!


Can I just say how much I LOVE each and every one of you on this thread!! I am so glad you are all so excited about each of our kid's milestones and helpful when any of us has questions!! You don't always get that in other parts on this forum.

I say this because I posted a question in the breastfeeding section about mixing BM and rice cereal. Jack had his 2 month check up yesterday and all was well. I asked my ped if he thought it was ok if I tried a little cereal mixed with BM at his nighttime feed to see if he'd sleep longer. (he currently sleeps between 5-6 hrs). He said that was TOTALLY fine. That it may or may not work, but he was ok with me giving it a shot. He actually said 5 hrs is good for a breastfed baby, but I really think if he had just a touch extra it would probably help.

So, I posted this in the BF section to see if anyone had experience with this and how much did they suggest I mix to begin with, etc. And some of the responses were so not helpful. They are saying that it is absolutely not ok to introduce cereal this early, and that I should be happy he sleeps 5 hours. One lady even suggested that I'm not feeding him enough during the day. SERIOUSLY!!! I was not asking their opinion on if they thought giving him cereal was ok... I have already been told by my PEDIATRICIAN, who has been in practice for nearly 30 years and is one of THE BEST in my area, that it was ok. I was just asking for some advice about how to go about introducing it to MY son, not theirs. Every child is different. And some of my friends started giving cereal to their kids at 7 weeks. It just frustrates me when people try to act superior to me, and in a roundabout way, make me feel like I'm not as good a mother as they are.

Maybe I'm being too sensitive about this, but I really do try not to impose judgement on how anyone else chooses to birth, feed, and raise their baby. Whether it be unmedicated birth or c/s, breast or bottle feeding, cloth vs disposable diaper. As long as the baby is getting fed and changed, who cares? What's most important is that he/she is loved unconditionally and we do whatever we can to keep them happy and safe.

Sorry for such a rant. Here's the link to the thread I started. I kinda want to reply back how they are making me feel, but I do not want to start drama or an argument. That's not my style.

https://www.babyandbump.com/breastfeeding/945619-mixing-rice-cereal-bm-much-9-week-old.html

Hope you are all doing well!!

 

[StranjeGirl]

Oh my gosh Lady, I hate that breast feeding forum. I swear they are so judgmental. They totally made me feel like crap on that forum. Don't pay any attention to them!! My dr had warned me to stay away from the breast feeding nazis lol! I love all you gals too for this very reason...everyone is helpful and not judgmental!

My mom used to mix one teaspoon of rice cereal with our formula before bed, and it did help us go longer. Maybe you could start small and see if it helps and then increase if you need to? Sorry I don't have better advice for you but let us know what you decide and your results!

 

[LadyL]

Thanks stranje!! I hardly ever go in that forum bc of that reason!! I'm not ever going back!! Haha!

I'm gonna try it tonight and am just gonna mix a small amount with his bottle and see how that goes. I'll let you know how it goes!!