*** NOVEMBER 2011 BABIES ! *** Chrysanthe-Mums - 39 babies here already!!!

[k8y]

Martha got constipted by baby rice and porridge. Since giving her just fruit and vege she's fine. I freeze her puree into ice cue trays and only give her one cube, It doesnt look much but when you only give a tiny amount on a spoon it lasts ages, It really is just for tasting at this stage and not for filling them up.

 

[alybel]

Hi everyone, I think it has been ages since I have been in here I thought I would say hi and see how everyone is going, check out new photos of the babies which are growing up so fast.

Cot bumpers - I am using an Air Wrap in her cot. It is a breathable fabric so that there is no SIDS risk using it. She keeps rolling over and hitting the sides of the cot too so it is very useful at the moment.

Here are a couple pics of Veronica, first one showing her first hairband and the second I took for a competition.

https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/alybel/v1.jpg
https://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y189/alybel/veronica4.jpg

 

[sherylb]

Huggles -- I'm still worried about her tummy so I am too scared to try anything.

We have finally transitioned to size 2 diapers. Last night I went in to feed her and get her back to sleep before I went to bed (she was stirring) and I found a very full diaper of #1 and #2 that had leaked pee all over her clothes. I changed her to a size 2 which was still super full when she woke up 7 hours later but hadn't leaked on her clothing so I guess we are ready for 2s. Going to list the 84 (1/2 box) of size 1s I have on Craigslist and hope I can get $15 toward new diapers.

 

[Huggles]

alybel she's gorgeous!

 

[Tish5478]

I am just giving Josie some rice cereal (1 tbsp cereal, 3 tbsp milk) 2x per day as her Doctor recommended. To each their own...

Wow Tish, your baby is HUGE!! Well done! Are you bf???

Dawnann, so nice to see you on here!!

Amanda, can't believe you are TTC so soon!! WOw!!

Qwk, did you say you are eBF??? How did I not know that....If you are, props to you!! Thats tough work!!!

AFM...things are good here...enjoying my last two months before I got back to work. Josie slept through the night but my bbs didnt get the memo. ouch!!

Thanks Andrea - he IS huge!!! My arm actually aches now when it's under him while I feed him!!! Sadly we had to knock the bf on the head - I still have days where I'm gutted by it! My milk never fully came in and I, as my DH so delicately put it, was starving him!!!! I was on medication to improve the supply along with various herbal remedies and continual pumping but alas nothing worked. Am pretty sure that is why he is so big as he's on formula though he really is taking a lot less than he was in January bless him.

By the way, Happy Mothers Day to all the mums in the UK! Hope your little ones have spoilt you rotten!!!

 

[Huggles]

Tish - i was in the same boat. At the end of the first week he'd lost 14.5% of his body weight and the paed said we had to put him on formula. I continued to bf until 2 months, but it really was a ff plus a top-up of bm rather than the other way round. Tried meds and herbal remedies and pumping. Managed to get from 5ml btw both boobs to 40ml, but that's where it stopped and at that stage he was already on 100ml formula!

Really is rather devastating when you discover your body just can't meet his needs, but the important thing is that he gets food and grows and at least you/I tried

 

[Mrs. AJ]

Yes, Happy (belated now) Mother's day to the UK mummies!! Hope you all had a fantastic day Strange that its a different day than in the US.

 

[Sun_Flower]

Just a picture of my gorgeous girl

https://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/483402_541324745787_207600461_31546025_892086722_n.jpg

 

[Huggles]

Gorgeous sunflower!

I think UK is the only country to do Mother's Day now. As far as I know US, SA, and oz are all in May.

 

[Mrs. AJ]

We've really got some gorgeous babies in here! Alybel, Veronica is stunning, and Sun Flower, Eden has the most beautiful eyes!

Here's a recent picture of Connor...

 

[Huggles]

i love that pic mrsaj!

 

[Sun_Flower]

Mrs. AJ what a gorgeous smile!

I'll just add that Eden was exactly the same - she lost 12% of her weight in the first 4 days! and she just wasn't putting weight on at all for the first two weeks when I was breastfeeding. The midwife said my low supply/ low milk quality was down to my PPH of 1.5 litres (I know, yikes) which made me SEVERELY anaemic. When she went on formula she started gaining and is still gaining nicely - not huge amounts, but she's staying on her line between the 75th and 91st centiles for weight. She is just above the 98th centile for length though!

 

[sherylb]

LOL @ Sunflower. My LO is in the 5th percentile so to hear you say your LO isn't gaining huge amounts in those percentiles is funny.

Wow, I just noticed her birth weight in your signature! K was 10lb 14.5oz at her 4 MONTH checkup.

 

[Leopard]

I think Kezzy is only just push 10lb now, she's 18 weeks tomorrow.

 

[sherylb]

Kezzy looks so happy! Kristin will not let me get a picture of her smiling still. How long was she at her 4 month check-up?

 

[Leopard]

58cm. We are having problems with her head circumference though, so she has a cranial scan start of April. It's only gone up 1/2cm in 4 weeks.

 

[Huggles]

hope the scan shows everything is fine

 

[sherylb]

I hope the scan is good. They measure K's but as long as she stays in the same percentile I guess they don't question it.

 

[Leopard]

Well she is out of the danger one persay with regards to FTT, but her head circumference is only 37cm, when she was born it was 31.5

 

[fides]

Ok, who has crib bumpers up??

I'm debating whether I should take it down now that I think she has stopped banging her head into the wall. That was why I put it up. But she does move herself into a corner every time I put her in her crib and tuck the top of her head against the bumper. I crept into her room during her nap (sleeping now) and looked at where her nose is in relation to the bumper and she has her hand against her mouth so I think she's fine. Maybe it will be fine until she is able to sit up. I think that's what the recommendation used to be. So that she can't step on it and try to get out of "jail."

Fides -- Kristin has rolled from tummy to back in her crib 4x now but she only does it when nobody is watching. I'm getting frustrated that I can't catch her. She also refuses to let me catch a smile on camera. I have one picture where she closed both eyes and stuck out her tongue in the time it took to click.

awww - i got lucky with the camera recently - hope you do too soon. our LO can't even support his weight on his arms yet, which i think they have to do before they can roll over. it's crazy - he loves to stand - can stand for 10 minutes, but he still doesn't want to be on his tummy.

as for the crib bumper, he still has to have a warm body to sleep or he wakes up, but we're hoping to get him to the crib in the next month or two as he learns to self-soothe, and we haven't decided about the bumper yet.

Here are a couple pics of Veronica,

good to see you; beautiful pics!!

Thanks Andrea - he IS huge!!! My arm actually aches now when it's under him while I feed him!!! Sadly we had to knock the bf on the head - I still have days where I'm gutted by it! My milk never fully came in and I, as my DH so delicately put it, was starving him!!!! :

awww, my milk never came in either, but i started feeling better when i started calling the formula "milk" instead of "formula" - made a big difference to me for some reason; hope you feel better about it soon - baby is healthy and that's what matters.

Really is rather devastating when you discover your body just can't meet his needs, but the important thing is that he gets food and grows and at least you/I tried

totally agree - as my midwife put it, our first priority is to make sure the baby gets fed; second priority is it's nice if you want to, and are able to, BF.

Just a picture of my gorgeous girl

awww!

Here's a recent picture of Connor...

love it!