Mother of all conception months Graduates

[tas1]

Morning all

Well I did get some sleep,I fell to sleep then my OH woke me up coz there was a loud bang so I had a slight heart attack then fell back to sleep til caleb woke at 2.30am so I put him in our bed stayed awake trying to listen out for anything plus I thought caleb would want feeding as he missed his 9-10 feed but must of fell back to sleep woke up at 5.30 for calebs feed still listening out lol! But luckily no-one broke in not sure if my car is damaged as I'm abit nervous to leave the house now,all my doors are locked and windows and I'm sat in silents how sad am I?!? But slot of murders have happened in S****horpe so you never know!

Gilz and madly your drs make me so angry why aren't they listening to you you guys know your babies better than they do! Gilz could you not go to a&e if Noah is no better? I think all the grads ladies should come to your appointments and kick up a fuss as well then the drs will listen lol! I really hope this gets sorted for you both.
Gilz could you try the hungrier baby formula as that's abut thicker and they say that's the step before weaning

Xx

 

[pinkclaire]

Tas glad you got some sleep in the end hun, I hope that everything is ok with your car now!

Gilz no she's got no other choice, she has to go to the job centre to sort out where she's going to be living and money and stuff because she's split up with her husband. It's not I'm this town and managed to get a lift with someone but couldn't take the kids!

How was your night madly?

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Glad you managed some sleep in the end Tas is your OH at work now?

Pink thanks for asking basically crap I updated my journal as didnt really want to moan anymore here sadly if this carries on I might be like your friend

 

[pinkclaire]

Ok I'll go look now chin up Hun xxx

 

[Sofiekirsten]

to all those who had a crap night...

Madly I commented in your journal

We had a crap night aswell. Jacob was in so much pain he didn't want to sleep in his basket and slept with me in my bed.

He basically cried all night and I couldn't calm him down until eventually at 4am he puked all over me and then settled down until 9am the poor bugger must of been knackerd!

DH isn't being really helpful either which makes it so much harder!?

And he wonders why I still have baby blues?!!

He screamed all night last night and I have never heard him scream out so badly in pain

Just wish this bloody colic would go away

 

[gilz82]

Oh SK sorry Jake is having a hard time with colic. What are you trying for it?

Madly massive massive hugs you don't need to put stuff in your journal rather than here. We are all here to support each other.

Noah got his jags he wasn't happy but that's more to do with his legs being pulled straight than anything else. The HV said there's nothing she can do about the useless paediatrician so has arranged an appointment for us with the gp tomorrow who will act as our advocate to try and get things sorted. If the worst comes to the worst she told us we have the right to ask to be seen by a different paediatrician.

 

[Sofiekirsten]

we are using infacol and massaging him at the minute because apparenly you can't use gripe water until they are a month old?

 

[pinkclaire]

Madly I just commented hun.

SK Colic is a hard one theres not much you can do. There is colief you can try but its very expensive!

Do you wind him during his feed? That might help. Also did you see my post to gilz about a way to hold them which helps get their wind up? Also putting them on their tummys and letting them kick about a bit helps as well. He wont like it very much, but movement helps get any wind up.

 

[madcatwoman]

OH my goodness, our poor grad babies are so unhappy, makes Baileys odd bit of colic sound like a party

I dontknow what to say, Gilz im still appalled with your doctors,i really am.

Madly, Charlies random screeming is a hard one, you cant put it down to anything when its so random

 

[gilz82]

Yup agree with everything else Claire said. There are herbal things you can try called colocynth crystals, I sent mine on to Madcat but you can get them in most big chemists. I know a lot of people have had success with them, but like anything else it's just trial and error I suppose. Also watch with gripe water because if they are classing Jake as premature you can't use it til he's a month corrected not a month actual.

 

[pinkclaire]

We'll all be experts on colic/wind/reflux after all our babies lol.

 

[madcatwoman]

re-the crystals...
well so far, ive had 2 colic free evenings, and one 1/2 hour colic evening using them. for the 1st two nights Bailey was halving small feeds throughout the evening, for the last night(evening) he had 2 normal bottles. Its very hard to tell, but im going to keep using the crystals for a while!

 

[tas1]

I feel so house bound! I've waiting for someone to come sort something out with my house since this morning and they are not coming til between 3-4! I wanted to go get caleb weighed and go to boots to get his milk but because my car isn't insurance til Saturday I can't drive so I was going to walk,its been dry all this morning and as soon as they told me they cant come til 3-4pm it started raining so I can't do anything and it's annoyed me so much that when the guy comes he will either be glad he's single or dreading having children! So annoyed I can feel my blood boiling just thinking about it

Xx

 

[molly85]

eugh hey all, not alot of sleep in our house last night. deffinatly growth spurt. im due at gps in an hour andstill i my pjs great. abby just screams continuously if i put her down. she actually looked like she had a nasty taste in her mouth earlier so must have been a bit of reflux i don'tthink thats why she screams though. last night was just killer as it was almost constant feeding. my poor boobs need a break.

Child Tax people are on form they over paid us brilliant. we either pay back or it comes offnext years £200 hmmmm. and they sent it in1 lump not what i was expecting

 

[vbaby3]

Hi all,sorry everyone is having a shit time of it.
big hugs all round.
Trying to catch up but shays wee friend is here to play and god are they bold and noisy.Me and teagan are hiding out in the kitchen while they run riot around the rest of the house.

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Afternoon all! I wanted to add to the bad night trend . Alex was awake and wanting to feed through much of the night. DH took him through the living room again and got him settled so I was able to sleep, but then they came back through and Alex started crying again. I had to bring him through the living room at one point and I was a bit bad because I fell asleep laying on the couch holding him but just for like 30 minutes. Then, we discovered something. We had his moses basket on my side of the bed which was near the window. The minute we moved it to the end of the bed, Alex settled I wonder if he was getting a draft from the window (even though it was closed and is double paned). Gonna try him at the bottom of the bed tonight and see if that makes a difference. He's so mellow during the day. I'm going to start waking him every 3-4 hours though for feeds so maybe he'll sleep better at night.

We went to DH's work today to show him off. DH works on the military base in Arbroath and all the officer's wives were in so Alex was passed around for lots of cuddles! All the wives and DH's coworkers said he was absolutely gorgeous

Sorry to hear about the reflux still being icky, Glitz. I can't believe they aren't doing anything about it! Silly doctors!

Quick BF question for anyone that might know. Sometimes, it looks like Alex has chunks of milk in his mouth, like little white balls Is that normal? He's just getting the hang of feeding and not gourging himself. He was eating and eating when my milk came in, which the midwife said was normal. I dunno, maybe I'm overthinking things, lol!

 

[tas1]

Not sure what they are ozzie,are they attached to his mouth or do they come off? Could just be remainders of milk!

Still waiting for this guy this takes the piss I havebeen bored all day because the thing he will be doing is messy so I have had to move things onto beds so they are out of the way I thought I would be cleaning up after him by now not waiting still,I didn't even get anything out for tea just in case that got dusty! I'm so mad it's unreal

Xx

 

[Ozzieshunni]

I think they are just remainders of milk

 

[pinkclaire]

Ozzie Charlotte gets that as well, so did James. As long as it doesn't look sore underneath when you rub it off (as this can be a symptom of thrush) then I'd say it's normal!

Maybe it's to light near your window? Who knows with babies, they can be very fussy!

 

[molly85]

if its on the outside it could be throw up. abby has that usually on the side of her head after a mid morning feed when i shange her catches me every time.

my poor nips feelvery chewed so went for the bottle just to give them a rest 4 flaming ounces and haven'tseen signsof her bringing any back up yet. as we are having agrowth spurt might do another later just so we all get a good sleep I have the health visitors are you nuts test tomorrow so need to be on form