Mother of all conception months Graduates

[pinkclaire]

I find it's a vicious circle, the less they sleep the harder it is to get them to sleep. It's true that sleep breeds sleep! If she's been awake a while I would try and get her to go down if you can?

Try and extend your feeding to 30 mins everytime, when she's finished on one offer it again, if she still comes off offer the other. She'll probably go longer between feeds if you can manage it?

 

[molly85]

sort of just done that. ido find as i can nurse on my side when shes done that in bed and yes i have fallen asleep she sleeps longer. am guessing she can help herself to more until shes completely full. i am being rubbish at setting up a routine for her

 

[Ozzieshunni]

Something I picked up from working with kids for so long is that babies can get over stimulated as well. So, if you've had lots of people over or been holding LO for long periods of time, they won't settle as well. I just had this problem with Alex tonight and I fed him, let him lay on the pillow over my lap without rubbing his head or anything and then I put him in his moses basket, made sure his hands were covered and rested my hand on him. He's settled now

 

[pinkclaire]

I wouldn't worry tbh Molly, it's important for bf babies to feed on demand and it's hard to get a routine going until they are older. Just try and make 7am-7pm day and 7pm-7am night, in how you respond to her and that will help her settle into her own routine. Personally I would let her lead you on it but like Ozzie said they do get over stimulated easily. In between feeds she should be sleeping at least part of the time!

 

[Sofiekirsten]

Well we are having a shit night already...

Jacob doesn't seem to settle after an evening feed and I got that upset I went outside and had a cigerette! I am so mad at myself for doing it!

I had been quit for 6 weeks and only now do I decided to pick one up! I didn't enjoy it and it just made me more upset!

Rang my mum and she thinks it could be colic...apparently I had it when I was a baby at evening feeds aswell. It is so hard to get wind up from him anyway.

DH has never been able to get a burp up from him and I have only ever heard him burp maybe twice since he has been born?

HV is round tomorrow morning so I will see what she say's bu I am going to get some infocol just incase

God I am soooo annoyed with myself

 

[tas1]

Caleb hasnt feed well at all today he may of finished one bottle totally and now I'm trying to get him to have his last feed but he has had 3oz and won't wake up for more! Also he was sick two hours after his feed quite alot as well should I worry? Ive never had a sicky baby before so everytime he's sick I panick!

Claire my belly is covered in stretchmarks it's horrible

X

 

[molly85]

i'm a serious pink zebra.

shes def over stimulated i get her chilled out then sleepy go to put her down and more crying. I am now feeling like a right useless mum i have no idea what I am doing. her natural night is 10 -10 which she has prob got from me. just feeling we should be in some proper routine now andshe can sleep 4 hours shes done it

 

[tas1]

Hey Molly your not a useless mum! It's hard to be a mum sometimes and sometimes things dont go the way we plan so just take one step at a time and I hope tonight is good for you xx

 

[pinkclaire]

Your not useless your doing brilliant! It's really hard adjusting to having a child, like I said she'll get herself into a routine it's such early days I really wouldn't worry! You can always try a bed time routine if it helps? But honestly I wouldn't worry until 4-6 months old as that's when they start learning! Molly do you think she could be having a growth spurt? She'll do four hours again if she's done it before. With babies I've learnt everything is just a phase, whether it's good or bad, it always ends and then cones back round again lol.

 

[pinkclaire]

Ps if your struggling get the baby sleep system by Wendy Deane, honestly it's the best book, it talks about how to get them to sleep better at night and encourage them to sleep longer. Might help you feel more organised if your doing something towards it? Xx

 

[madcatwoman]

morning all..

havent had time to catch up on the posts,but hopefully i can later on..hope everyone is ok.


grrr,,,one 1am feed, one 5am and 6.30am.
its baileys monthly weigh-in at the clinic this morning

 

[pinkclaire]

Good luck madcat!

Lottie has a cold plus her two week growth spurt, I'm feeding every hour to hour and a half at night the last three nights. I am exhausted! Hopefully last night is the last one as Matts back to work tomorrow

 

[madcatwoman]

ALot of the grad babes have colds, have i passed on good immunity or is bailey lucky?. "Touch wood"

 

[tas1]

Caleb has started being really snotty again and a little cough but it's not that bad coz his temp is fine and he's eating weeing and pooing ok he's just grumpy!

Well caden is going away today and I'm thinking my plans to do a big spring clean will go out of the window as caleb is grumpy! I've got 3 days to do it so I'll do bit by bit!

I'm getting caleb weighed tomorrow so I'll see if he's been a little piggy or not! And I'm gonna ask about his thrush!

Xx

 

[NOMORENUMBERS]

aw bless all the poorly grad babies! my boy is on the cough and sore throat stage of his cold, how do i know .. . well it is the same stage i am at and we are both pulling the same pained face when we sneeze/cough poor little thing!

 

[pinkclaire]

Lottie's got one because my ILs were here at the weekend and their kids always have colds and are rubbish at washing their hands and touch her when I'm not looking! It's always been the same everytime we see them James gets a cold and now Lottie!

 

[tas1]

I hate it when your kids get poorly because of others! Whenever caden is poorly he knows to wash his hands or use the anti-bact gel! Then I anti-bact all his toys and everywhere my friends kids have touched!
That's what I'm gonna be doing this week making sure I have no germs in the house coz my OH has a cold as well.

Xx

 

[pinkclaire]

It's just annoying as if they washed their hands it wouldn't be so bad! My hubby is crap to, he thinks I'm being over the top with stuff but we fall out all the time over it lol. I'm the one who spends hours reading about kid related stuff so I know best in my head lol.

 

[MADLYSBOYS]

Morning Ladies :wave:

Well Charlie now has a cold too our poor grads babes

Its his weigh in today too .... HV here at 12.15pm wish us luck am guesstimating he now weighs 10lb 14oz ( he was 10lb 9oz two weeks ago when he was last weighed only 5oz gain since birth ) am not stressing but am getting concerned over his lack of feeding now so intend to speak with her again

Just waiting on MIL and step FIL to arrive she said she would be here between 9-9.30am so I got up showered and did some of my morning chores etc and its now past 10am and no bloody sign why do people do that give you a timescale with a 30mins gap and then turn up fecking late I could be doing some chores

 

[vbaby3]

Fingers crossed charlie has put on some weight madly.x

Gilz hope you had a better night with noah last night.Its so frustrating nobody seems to be able to help.You would think a paediatrician would be able to help in someway.x

Ozzie big congrats again,gorgeous pics.I'm delighted alex is doing so well.
Great news about dh's job too,things are definayely looking up!!!x

Hope baileys weigh in goes well madcat.

sofie,that does sound like colic.There's lots of stuff you can try,but a lot of the time you have to wait it out,they just grow out of it.I know when i had shay he was so bad it was unbearable.hand jake over to dh and let him pace the floor with him for a while and go where you can't hear the crying.dh and i did 'shifts' with shay.it was the only way i could get through it.

God these babies are so unpredictable at night!!
Last wk teagan slept thru twice,this wk when i really need it she's being completely ridiculous.
yesterday morning i was up from 3.30 am,got her semi settled by 5am,but she was shuffling and grunting so i couldn't get back to sleep at all and of course orans up at 6am.

I then had to drive down to dublin in the aftyernoon with all 3 kiddies in tow to go to my aunts funeral.Then drive back up afterwards.Didn't get home til 10.30.I'm just wrecked.
Last night after a feed at 2.30am I left her in her own room,she is so restless I can't sleep through her shuffling and grunting.I went back to my own bed at 4am and slept til she started crying at 6.30.Might consider putting her out to her own room soon,for my own sanity.Even when she's sleeping I'm awake listening to her making noises.Plus dh makes an almighty racket turning over in bed,and EVERYTIME he does it it disturbs her,just when the shuffling has stopped it starts again!!

Madcat I think the only reason Teagan had a cold is because shay brought it home from school and gave it to all of us,and both shay and oran practically sneeze in her face,and kiss her with big snotters all over their noses!
They both have a cold again after a wk of being snot free so she'll probably have another in a few days!