Mother of all conception months Graduates

[tas1]

Get a jumper caden loved his so I'm using it again with caleb,get a cheap high chair but until she can sit up use her bouncy chair that's where I put caden top he could eat finger food! Purée isn't that bad to do and beneficial helps them taste food and eat properly in future,nothing wrong with jar food but cheap enough to do your own,I started doing porridge in morning the purée fruit for lunch and purée veg for tea (when he was on 3 meals) the introduced meat with his veg then went on to blending the food we ate so it's easy,ask your HV or get a weaning book definitely helps!

Xx

Meant jumperoo xx

 

[Ozzieshunni]

He's still feeding. It's been like 4 hours

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

my goodness ozzie! stupid question but is he actually getting any milk or is he using your nipple as a dummy?

i am no expert as i ff my first but have spotted loads of books which say "let your child completely empty the breast" (how can you tell it is empty) and "some babies like to use the nipple as a dummy . . . .etc etc etc"

maybe boobie is empty but is a good dummy? boobie feeding mummies? is this possible?

 

[Sofiekirsten]

my goodness ozzie! stupid question but is he actually getting any milk or is he using your nipple as a dummy?

i am no expert as i ff my first but have spotted loads of books which say "let your child completely empty the breast" (how can you tell it is empty) and "some babies like to use the nipple as a dummy . . . .etc etc etc"

maybe boobie is empty but is a good dummy? boobie feeding mummies? is this possible?

Jacob used my boobie as a dummy too my nipples were so sore!

 

[molly85]

hard totell with abs but i was deffinatly a comfort. Still BFing btw but she now declines the dummy or just doesn't need it. 4 hours sounds like a vicious circle as its a work out for them and you. But I seem to be pants at BFing togive baby all they need so it could be the ideal thing.

Abbys asleep my tummy is crampy it either AF in the worst form or something stomach related. The past 2 nights I have been for a poo and there has been fresh blood and a reasonable amout. these are quite large poop's so workis required to pass them. I havea little skin tag down there but I had thought the bum fruit had gone. I come from a family of bad bum holes my dad with his fruit salad for years and my grandad had bowel cancer and had a bag so thou these these normal there is worry in the back of my mind. ANy thoughts ladies just let it run its course or book in to see doc and have a finger poked up my bum? can you tell I have had this before?

 

[molly85]

on the food front it will of course be a play it my by ear thing but she has now sucessfully figured out hand to mouth whether they are her hands or not and I just think she will be an eary eatter. she was crawling up the moses basket hunting for food earlier the only bit she was not doing right was her head. more tummy time I think not that i want my 6 week old crawling across the room to me eeek.

oh our house wasn't designed for a bouncer is something like the jumperoo similer in function? ikeado a deab basic high chair for £15 as we might be going we thought wewouldget a few bits

 

[PeanutBean]

I would think 4 hours is more comfort than food Ozzie. I don't think I've ever fed either baby more than 40 mins. Indigo drains a boob in about 7 minutes now. Do you know how to un-latch? He may just be staying on for the sake of it. If you hear the glugging slow down try to gently lift your boob and if he's done it'll break the suction. If he's still too firmly attached you can release the suction by popping a lite finger in his mouth at the side. I'd set a max of an hour or so and then take him off. Give the other boob as of it's real hunger he'll drain it but after that keep him off a little while. You'll need a break and time to refuel.

I confess my demand feeding is not 100% demand as it is often clear when the issue is colic or needing a poo and not actually hunger. I think in the early days babies really don't know what's what and think everything is hunger but over-feeding can make colic worse so I spread out evening feeds more if I think this is the case.

 

[tas1]

I would of had a brill night sleep as caleb slept from 10pm ish til 7.30am he woke up at 6am but I put his dummy in fell asleep til 7.30am awesome! I say I would of had Abdul night sleep but my eldest decide he would wake up at 12.30 then 2.30 then 4 because his toe was hurting so I'll be looking when he gets up to see if it's an in growing nail not sure what they look like.

Hope everyone had a good night xx

 

[madcatwoman]

Morning all.
im a mug.DH stayed up till early hours&is now having a lie in.ive done one4am feed adn been up since 6.30.

glad you had a good time away peanut by the way

tas just read your post,i never think to try the dummy first...i keep waking up and just assume he's hungry!

 

[tas1]

I always try a dummy first maybe I'm just lazy but at least I k oe he's really hungry plus he's a little chunky monkey so he's not starving lol!

What was your DH doing up til early hrs?

Mine is doing a car boot lol

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

I always try a dummy first maybe I'm just lazy but at least I k oe he's really hungry plus he's a little chunky monkey so he's not starving lol!

What was your DH doing up til early hrs?

Mine is doing a car boot lol

Xx

will try dummy next time, thanks!.

Playing his sodding ps3. i had to do baileys last evening feed(soothe colic-while he watched a film),get his bottles ready-sterillized, get us both to bed for 10pm while he stayed up till1.30. so ive done the night feeds,the early rise. Bailey did cry while i was cleaning my teeth and DH woke, went to look at him & complained "oh ive gone dizzy i got up too fast" and went back to sleep.
Yeh...we laid down the rules before we had bailey, i would do everything durring the week when hes working and he would on the weekends for me,and tried to enforce it,but it never worked out.

 

[tas1]

God what is it with games consoles it would bore me to sit and play on one all the time,I set the rules about my OHs ps3 after caden because he had an xbox and was on it every sparin moment so I said not this time lol!
My OH has been good but think it's coz we're at my mums lol

Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

God what is it with games consoles it would bore me to sit and play on one all the time,I set the rules about my OHs ps3 after caden because he had an xbox and was on it every sparin moment so I said not this time lol!
My OH has been good but think it's coz we're at my mums lol

Xx

i set rules about him nto playing it while Bailey is around because i dont want Bailey doing the same with square eyes all day. Didnt realise he'd play it all night instead!.

does anyone have problems with their OH's leaving LOs unattended at times?, like, when you ask them to keep an eye on them, and say theyre on a changing mat on a table, or somewhere where they can suffercate, they your OH walks off to do something. I have pointed it out, as i know these things can only take a min when your back is turned..

 

[PeanutBean]

Sorry about your oh Cat. DH found his own way to being responsible and participatory so I don't really know how to get men to do stuff. Maybe they just won't if they don't iyswim. I'd be cross if he ditched the babe after I'd asked him to do something. On the flipside though mums tend to worry more than they need to about these things.

Cat maybe when you've had enough you should put the screaming baby on the he'd next to his head then leave the house for a bit or something. Sure that would rouse him!

DH doesn't do much with Indigo but that's because she bfed and pretty good and he spends all his time sorting out Byron so I don't need to. I like the division that has him running around doing stuff while I sit and read holding the baby.

 

[tas1]

Mine does that too sometimes he still does it with caden like when he is in the bath and my OH walks off and I say it only take a minute to drown but still doesnt listen when I tell him.
I've made that same rule about games consoles!

Xx

 

[gilz82]

My OH does the same really annoys me. For example Noah has to be propped all the time after eating to help minimise the acid. So if we are downstairs he lies propped up with a cushion from the small of his back up. He's not hugely mobile yet but he can wriggle so I keep telling my OH not to leave him alone when he's propped. Then he keeps coming into the kitchen etc, freaked a little yesterday and was told I was being stupidly overprotective won't be that if he rolls of the bloody couch will it

As for the lack of help Cat I'm in the same boat. My OH has been home since Thursday because of that accident with the company he works for. Hasn't done one single night feed or the hours of cuddling require after night feeds to calm Noah back down. Ive come to the conclusion I'm so soft I'm actually a marshmallow.

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

:wave: Hi Ladies,

Just catching up .....

The point I was trying to make about the nappies is that there is a huge 5lb difference between huggies and pampers sizing

NOMORE when we potty trained Oliver we made a point of staying in for four whole days (we both had time off work!) and we let him run around in just his t shirt and big boy pants we showed him the potty (although it had been sat in the living room for about a month beforehand and we kept telling him what it was for although he never used it!) and we just kept reminding him where he needed to pee he very quickly got the hang of it he had a few accidents but we didnt make a fuss we just changed him and reminded him he needed to go to the potty and he slowly got there We took him to buy ` big boys pants `and made a big fuss about him being a `big boy` now When we went to the loo especially DH we took him with us bizarely Oliver would never poo on his potty and he asked to go to the toilet almost as soon as we started potty training he adopted an odd routine of only peeing on the potty and only pooing on the toilet until eventually the potty became redundant I have other tips for going out etc feel free to ask

for breakfast in bed SK and well done on the weight loss

for a good night Ozzie have you tried swaddling Alex

blah for period Tas hope you can get your coil fitted as soon as

madcat the travel cot is a great idea its what we did with Oliver as for your belly button sorry no help over here mine seems to be ok

Well done Teagan and fab on the mummy alone time vbaby enjoy the cinema have your boys already broken up for summer? Oliver doesnt break up until end of July

Welcome back Peanut sounds like you had an amazing time This is why I love seaside holidays with Oliver and have always chosen that over holidays abroad we ram pack our holidays too and you should see all the fliers etc I have put in Oliver scrap book of all the places we have taken him and visited since he was born we are going to do exactly the same with Charlie its just a shame we cant afford it this year but we will sure make up for it next Summer

NOMORE for a crap day and poor little Leo

Gilz glad your appointment was succesful fxed upping the meds work and great news on the referral fxed you get an appointment really soon Sending you lots of

Molly Oliver had a foldly up type highchair as we are alway tight on space from Mothercare I will be buying the same one again because it was brilliant all totally wipe down (nothing needed to be washed in the washer!) which is what you want nothing worse than waiting for covers to dry that you cant tumble dry especially in the winter which is when our babes will start weaning I will post a link if you like I think its about 25.00 ... In the mean time I have a bebepod once he can hold his head up and we probably wont buy a jumperoo although I have considered it because Oliver never like anything like this he screamed when you put him in the swing we bought however we did buy a door bouncer and he bloody loved it it was the tigger one (I have one handed down from my sister this time!) but for me a def buy

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr I see some of our men are at it again

OH GOSH THIS IS A HUGE POST BUT I WANTED TO REPLY TO EVERYONE

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Ok so land of Madly

We are doing well with the colief Charlie was unsettled for about 2.5hrs last night but we both think it was because he hardly slept all day and was over tired and just wouldnt give in and sleep hes been totally different and although hes been taking more feed wise (nearly 3oz every feed!) hes still behaving oddly over taking his feeds am now convinced he is possibly lactose intolerant I have felt it was the milk all along so maybe am right no paediatrician appointment yet but HV reckons I should hear something this week so fxed

Yesterday DH decided to treat me like one of the kids refusing to take me out to fetch some household shopping now I try to carry as much as I can whilst out with the buggy but I do sometimes need help with the heavier or bulkier household stuff but he decided to give me the third degree about asking him to take me to buy the stuff we bloody need I mean am not the only person who uses household stuff and toiletries etc but you would think so the way he behaved well it ended with me in tears again money is also an issue because although DH will give me money I have to ask him for it because I now have no money of my own I find this very very very hard and suggest he puts me money in my account so I dont have to ask for it but he tells me just to ask him when I want some He has all the money now and it makes me just want to go out and get a job any job and leave my baby when hes only two months old because DH makes things so difficult for me

On another note can any of you lovely ladies give me some advice?

Charlie just did a dirty nappy and his poo is always yellow looking kinda like curry paste but today we noticed its all watery although the same colour it usually is we have been using colief since Thursday pm and other than that I gave him 1oz of cooled boiled water last night cause I wasnt sure if he was constipated or not? Any ideas? should I be worried? Oliver was never so puzzling as Charlie is

 

[madcatwoman]

Madly,about the poo thing, Bailey has done a watery one following a normal one before now, but maybe its something to do with having given charlie just the boiled water perhaps?

As for my belly button, seems alot better today, i think its because i did alot of leaning forward and letting my belt dig in!.

Gilz, as far as our men are concerned, i must be a soft as a marshmallow too, i guess we both hope that if we're not ngging winging wives/OHs they might respect us for it and decide to help out but it doesnt work like that!

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Thanks madcat will keep an eye on it thought maybe that was it

as for been a marshmallow I`m one too I mean I must be letting DH walk all over me time and time again although I know I shouldnt let him somehow I just dont have the energy right now to be strong and say enough is enough I keep hoping things will change when maybe I should just except they never will