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purplepatch · 5 February 2007 at 11:55PM

Nice to know we're all in the same boat. Mine has slept twice all day, both times for about half an hour. Rest of the time she has just yelled - not crying, but shouting - same thing happened yesterday. Been driving us mad - she isn't hungry, her bum's clean, no idea what she wants! Took her upstairs and put her in the moses basket while I got ready for bed - went back five minutes later and she was fast asleep.

:j:j:j

Now will it last until I go to bed or will she be wanting another feed....??

Wish they came with instructions sometimes

Lu_T · 6 February 2007 at 12:42PM

How on earth do you get them to sleep for that long?!

Imogen sleeps for between 45 and 90 mins in the morning in her cot and then for about 1-2 hours in the afternoon, but only if we've been out.

She's getting good at bedtime, going in her moses basket at 7pm, then a dream feed at 11pm. She tends to be up at 3am and 7am, which isn't bad at 6 weeks. Took us 90mins to settle her last night though - some you win, some you lose...

Can't wait for her to sleep through the night then I can get back to sharing a bed with hubby every night. He tries to sleep with us, but she's taken to screaming after her 3am feed instead of going straight back to sleep. Apparently she wants to be awake as if she needs changing she's always cooing and laughing at me. Not half as cute at that time in the morning!

On the bath thing - I read that putting a flannel dipped in the water on their chest helps to keep tem warm and not feel so exposed. Guess that only works if they aren't going to play with it though!

Clairabel · 6 February 2007 at 1:34PM

Hi,
Congratulations I had Georgia in August and we'd love to join.
Here's a few tips :-
Join Boots parent club, you get lots of vouchers.
Join the local freecycle group on yahoo, you never know you maybe lucky,we got a great buggy.
Look out for NCT nearly new sales they have a good website.
Get any freebies you can.
Join Netmums & babycentre websites these often have good money saving tips in their forums.
When weaning use ice cubes to freeze fruit & veg puree's and then transfer to freezer bags, we get our fruit and veg from the local market as it lasts longer than the supermarket stuff.
Enjoy being parents.
Lots of love
Claire & Georgia

cha97michelle · 8 February 2007 at 9:55AM

We had a 4:40 start with him, after 5 weeks of sleeping through.

He wanted a bottle and to play. I think he's ready for food, so i'm choosing to ignore th health visitor and give him a taste of baby rice. He's 16 week now, and at 16 pounds, big for his age, so ready for it. And he doesn't mess around either. It all gets swallowed. I deliberated about what to do, but no two adults are the same, so how we expect all babies to suddenly want food at 6 months old. Anyway, that's another whole debate.

I don't know what happened that started to make him sleep through, but it happened when i changed a few things. He was on bottles rather than breastfed, he went to only 4 feeds of 7oz a day, we tried to have a set routine of bath at about 5:45 and no later at getting out than 6:30, then feed, then bed. I also started going to the baby massage class, which helped him be more settled.

Also, the more i play with him on the floor (letting him kick, doing tummy time) the better he sleeps.

It'll come soon Lu T, and it will just click into place one night, and you won't even know what it was that made the change.

purplepatch · 8 February 2007 at 10:08AM

cha97michelle wrote:

I think he's ready for food, so i'm choosing to ignore th health visitor and give him a taste of baby rice. He's 16 week now, and at 16 pounds, big for his age, so ready for it. And he doesn't mess around either. It all gets swallowed. I deliberated about what to do, but no two adults are the same, so how we expect all babies to suddenly want food at 6 months old. Anyway, that's another whole debate.

I agree. With DD1 who is now nearly 4, the advice was to start weaning at 4 months and I remember it being a struggle to wait that long. Now the advice is 6 months - we'll never last that long here. My 14 wk old can't do more than 5oz bottles at a time, so we feed every 2 hours or so during the day and she's sleeping through most nights from 10pm to 7/8am which is nice. But she's definitely getting hungrier by the day and although I've tried 2nd milk, that doesn't make the slightest difference to her appetite - we'll no doubt be giving solids a go from 16 weeks as well. I spose for me there's also an element of 'if it was ok for DD1, then it's ok for DD2'.

cha97michelle · 8 February 2007 at 6:05PM

I think most parents i know follow that logic. I will wait another few weeks until i start doing any 'proper' food, as the baby rice is satisfying him for now. He's been having it for the past week once a day at the midday feed, and i've made up a tea spoon of it very sloppily, and let him eat what he wants. Today it was thicker, and he still ate most of it.

I'm really looking forward to the pureeing/mashing stage. I've looked at some of the annabel karmel stuff in books and on her website. You can get some of her recipes for free on her website, but then have to subscribe. I can't remember if there was a charge

but from what i saw on the web, i picked up a copy of 100 baby purees and the complete baby and toddler meal planner. There are some fab things that i can't wait to try.

My friend has gone out and bought baby pasta. Think i will wait till he's about 7 or 8 month, and then put some of our pasta in a bag and break it up so it is in small bits. After all, it doesn't have to be in silly shapes for him to eat it.

purplepatch · 8 February 2007 at 6:14PM

I'm having my mate's beaba babycook steamer/blender off her for a bargainous knockdown price. Can't wait to give that a go. Poor little bub's going to get all sorts of concoctions to try! :rotfl:

I'm shocked today to see she's got a little groove on her bottom gum - can't believe it if this is first tooth, DD1 was a v late 12 months before first one showed.

She's not allowing me to get too good a look, so hopefully a false alarm. I love the gummy smile stage so much and don't want her to suffer just yet.

Lu_T · 10 February 2007 at 3:40PM

Thanks for all the advice. We've tried her on formula and it didn't seem to make a difference to how much she slept so I've put her back on expressed milk. Strange thing is that after a couple of nights of expressing the 4oz she needs I suddenly can only get between 2 & 3oz. Going to feed her myself for a couple of nights to see if that encourages the supply. Have no idea how I'm going to get more when she needs it!!

kal25 · 10 February 2007 at 4:06PM

cha97michelle wrote:

I think he's ready for food, so i'm choosing to ignore th health visitor and give him a taste of baby rice. He's 16 week now, and at 16 pounds, big for his age, so ready for it. And he doesn't mess around either. It all gets swallowed. I deliberated about what to do, but no two adults are the same, so how we expect all babies to suddenly want food at 6 months old.

I agree with the above. Only you know your baby. When I had my first it was weaning at 4mnths with baby rice, now 6mnths? When I took my 2nd in for check up he was about 4mnths and another lady who had hers the same time was there, we were both told we HAD to take into account that they were prem by 4 wks. The difference between the 2 babies was that mine put very little weight on and was way behind, hers had caught up and was fine. She was in such a dither as he seemed to be hungry all the time that I said 'if you feel he is ready then do it'. I went the same with mine as I figured the worst he could do was spit it back at me.At which point I would have left it and tried again a few weeks later. I even had the HV have a go as she asked me if he was more hungry or not satisfied and why had I started him on baby rice?:eek: I told her that Ithought if we could get solids in to him then he would put more weight on. So as you say all babies are different and only you will know what you feel is right for your baby.:p

Js_Other_Half · 10 February 2007 at 4:32PM

Lu_T wrote:

Going to feed her myself for a couple of nights to see if that encourages the supply. Have no idea how I'm going to get more when she needs it!!

According to my breastfeeding counsellor (who is also a midwife) using a double pump will produce more milk - something to do with the dual action producing more hormone?
There is some evidence that some medication can also help - http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org/pdfs/GalactagoguesSept05.pdf

There is a woman on ebay who sells herbal tea (from Hungary) which is meant to help too- again it was mentioned by my bf counsellor.(Just do a search for breastmilk tea).

hth

(I'm struggling with producing enough/any! hence the research )

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