expatttc
Growing with hope!
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Thanks for the support re. sleeping...will consider how much she's eating during the day to see how that impacts us at night time. So far, no change. Still waking every 2 hours with a 1 hour stretch of wide awake somewhere around 2-3 am every night. She doesn't take a dummy, or anything else to really sooth her. Maybe I should try that?? A blankie or stuffed animal?? Would be happy for anything that helps her to self soothe.
She goes down for naps 3 times a day, normally 45 minutes - 1 hour each time, after a feed -- she falls asleep on the breast, then I move her to her crib. She wakes up crying every time though -- not sure if it's because she can't see us, or if she just doesn't know how to call out to us otherwise.
Sigh, so happy to hear about your best few days
Gives me hope!
For foods -- we have done pear, carrot and apple. So far she loves them (all steamed purees). We tried rice cereal, but she kept coughing as eating it, though we tried really runny and a bit thicker...then she developed a little diaper rash, right around where she pees, so we stopped until we can find another type.
Bean - for Rosa's heat rashes, which she gets often since we're in the muggy Pacific, we just keep her naked except for her diaper, and I sponge her down with cool water during the day so her sweat doesn't really dry on her. Then at night, instead of using just baby oil for massage, we instead, on affected parts, use Aveeno excema cream that I brought from Canada, but perhaps any oatmeal-based cream would work? It tends to clear itself up quickly.
Rosa is sitting and plunking herself down into a crawling position; I think we will skip over the entire rolling stage to move to crawling like crazy. She still rolls but just in one direction and then calls for us to come get her.
A few questions:
-Do I have to worry about iron if we are breast feeding and doing fruits/veggies without rice cereal?
-What did I miss about carrots and nitrates?
to all
She goes down for naps 3 times a day, normally 45 minutes - 1 hour each time, after a feed -- she falls asleep on the breast, then I move her to her crib. She wakes up crying every time though -- not sure if it's because she can't see us, or if she just doesn't know how to call out to us otherwise.
Sigh, so happy to hear about your best few days
Gives me hope!For foods -- we have done pear, carrot and apple. So far she loves them (all steamed purees). We tried rice cereal, but she kept coughing as eating it, though we tried really runny and a bit thicker...then she developed a little diaper rash, right around where she pees, so we stopped until we can find another type.
Bean - for Rosa's heat rashes, which she gets often since we're in the muggy Pacific, we just keep her naked except for her diaper, and I sponge her down with cool water during the day so her sweat doesn't really dry on her. Then at night, instead of using just baby oil for massage, we instead, on affected parts, use Aveeno excema cream that I brought from Canada, but perhaps any oatmeal-based cream would work? It tends to clear itself up quickly.
Rosa is sitting and plunking herself down into a crawling position; I think we will skip over the entire rolling stage to move to crawling like crazy. She still rolls but just in one direction and then calls for us to come get her.
A few questions:
-Do I have to worry about iron if we are breast feeding and doing fruits/veggies without rice cereal?
-What did I miss about carrots and nitrates?
to all
I was devastated to understand how little she thinks of me that she would just throw my stuff away, even though I have done nothing but be nice and offer plenty of bonding time with LO. There's a lot more to this story but I don't want to go into too much detail/complain too much.
You are so patient!! Um... Let's just say I would've told her where she can put her clothes...lol. I hope things get better for you soon!
