MSE Parents Club Part 5

skintchick

Thanks Sami and FG

Sounds like I'm sstuck wwith all thenight feeds then. She sometimes goes 3-4 hours asleep (and once did 6) but usually it's more like 2. She is so noisy aat night sometims I think she's awake though when she isn't, which is why ii want her in her crib really as she kicks a lot and is generally a bad person to sleep next to!

We will start tummy time then. I never put her on my shoulder although sometimes on my chest, so we obviously need to do it it's just on her tummy she looks so uncomfortable and struggling to move her head (I know, that's the point!).

redmel1621

Haha I have to keep retrieving Kai from various parts of teh living room, he won't stay on the quilt now, just keeps rolling all over the place

skintchick

Thanks Redmel, we love the name too and everyone comments on it. Can;t wait till Strictly starts and she can see where we got her name from! :rotfl:

SHe does prefer to sleep on her tummy (or did, until very recently) so maybe we have been doing tummy time anyway. But I'll make an effort to do it properly from now on, it's something else to fill the day up with!

Oh, another question - how often do you baath a five-week-old baby? We've been bad and not done Lilia very often at all, as I thought it was bad for them but my mum told me we should be doing it every day now.

elle_gee

Krystaltips wrote: »

.. Feely, if I couldn't feed my own children myself I would rather give them someone elses milk than formula... Just to add my feelings... If your friend is the kind of person you can approach about this sort of thing then you should just offer her the choice...

I would have rather Rhys had donor milk than formula, from a health and easier to digest point of view. When it came to it, he had about six feeds which included some formula (as they didn't have any donor milk at the hospital at the time). I've had offers of donor milk from friends at the time and since, but I felt a bit funny about it - not because it was someone elses, but more because I felt I HAD to feed Rhys myself as I'd let him down so badly with the VP, so I had to try my damnedest (sp?) to get something right! I guess it depends on why Feelie's friend isn't breastfeeding - does she not want to or can't she?

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

.. Need ro call tax credits people today (are they open Saturdays?) ...

7 days a week, 8am to 8pm

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

Oh, I knew I had something non-wjongy to say too - I recorded Izzy laughing on my phone yesterday and now it is my ring tone Now if I get fed up when I go back to work I can ring myself to cheer myself up!

Aww cute! One of my colleagues has her son singing Twinkle Twinkle as her ringtone

The kick piano is going down well with Rhys. He's lying on his change mat playing with it against the wall atm. Keeps looking over at OH with a puzzled look cos he's not reacting - he's asleep on the sofa (turns out he was up playing comp games all night :rolleyes:)

My_Fathers_Daughter

weezl74 wrote: »

he'll be 6 months next week, we have tried some solids, but I'm not sure that in the small gap between finishing his milk-bit of banana-milk dinner which usually takes from 5.45-6.30 that we'd have time to fit in more solids before bed at 7!!!

Maybe this is why MFD and Mel are moving bedtime backwards

Yes, always sick after every feed. Is that not the norm? We do get good burps out of him

I am moving bedtime backwards (or trying to) because I am worried that when I go back to work I will get less than an hour of a grumpy baby each night during the week
We managed 7.45pm last night, which is not as good as the night before but is better than the 6.45pm/7pm that it was.
Benjamin isn't sick very often but sometimes after a bottle a burp catches him the wrong way and he chucks it all back in spectacular fashion!!!
I would imagine fergie is strong enough to get out of the way of any sick IYSWIM!! Benjamin seems to be doing laps of his cot at night these days!!

Does he like banana? Benjamin has started eating it straight from the peel in a bitey-mushy fashion!! He loves it!

BTW - a friend told me that they made her LO constipated so try to make sure he is drinking water too!

chopsticks wrote: »

I know I'm not on here as much as everyone else (or as much as I'd like to be ) but I'm a Midlander too. Would I be allowed to join you please? I just Googled Walsall and Google reckons it's about 1hr 20mins from me. I'm East Mids, rather than West Mids.

Everyone is welcome!!! East mids as in Lincs or Notts? I am Derbyshire originally - Chesterfield

redmel1621 wrote: »

I am feeling really guilty at leaving Kai with a childminder, I have no experience of it myself as my mum was always at home for us growing up...although I can never have that luxury and will always need to work at least 16hrs, I feel I am leaving him unnecessarily, for a purely selfish reason, although it will benefit the whole family in the long run as I will be able to earn a good wage. I also hope it will encourage the older two that gaining qualifications to be able to work in a career you love, as opposed to just 'a job' is a good thing to do:cool: BUT that all said I still feel sick with guilt.

Has anybody on here spent time in childcare as they were growing up, please tell me it wasn't too bad:o

My mum was a childminder when I was little and she still keeps in touch with lots of the kids that she looked after as babies. Only the other day she had a visit from a now-21-year-old 'baby' who still calls her mimda like he did when he first started talking!! She is also god-mother to some of her charges.
If you pick your childminder for the reasons that Mooki was talking about - because they like your child and want to give them cuddles and kisses and love then you are actually enriching babys life with another person to love and care for them.

Krystaltips

I only bath Caitlyn when Aimee's in the bath at the minute... And only if she happens to be awake at the time... When Aimee's at school I have a bath in the mornings with Caitlyn in between waking and morning nap... But not every day... They don't sweat, they don't need it... For tummy time, Aimee hated it, it wasn't until she was rolling over regularly that she would even entertain going on her tummy... She wasn't that keen on going down on her back either tbh... Caitlyn was a bit of a nightmare for her first 6-8 weeks and I couldn't really put her down without her wailing... But now she's quite happy to lie on her back or her tummy for a while on the floor... We have a jungle gym we've borrowed that she loves and gets excited when she gets laid under it but only in the last couple of week has she started batting at it... And only in the last couple of days she's started grabbing at toys around her... And she's not co-ordinated in toy playing at all!

feelinggood_2

Elle - how do you about having given that little bit of formula?

About the breastmilk thing, I feel responsible for this baby being born and I'm terrified it is going to have an awful life

skintchick

Ooh, more questions! sorry

When do they start sleeping longer at night? Is there a point at which this tends to happenn?

Also, bedtimes, we tend to have her up with us until about 9.30pm when she goes to sleep naturally. This suits us sso I've not tried to put her down earlier. Is that OK? Everyonee seems to be talking about 7pm bedtimes but we don't do that.

Krystaltips

Oh yeah, chopsticks of course you're welcome!

I'm terrible for reading things on the iPod, thinking 'ooh, I'll reply to that no the laptop in a minute' then completely forgetting... I always read all the posts but if I don't reply, that's why!

skintchick

feelinggood wrote: »

Elle - how do you about having given that little bit of formula?

About the breastmilk thing, I feel responsible for this baby being born and I'm terrified it is going to have an awful life

Aw feelie don't! It won;t have an awful life - you obviously love your baby so much and want the very best so of course you are doing the right thing and it will have a lovely life with a loving mum.

I know it's so easy to doubt yourself but seriously you are doing a great job and need to beelieve in yourself. xxx