MSE Parents Club Part 11

Mazcabs

:mad: for toilet training, Henry is fine at nursery with no accidents, been home since 5 oclock and he has just had 4 accidents in about half an hour...

He's just helped himself to an apple out of OH's lunchbox and started eating it cheeky monkey!!

feelinggood_2

kindofagilr wrote: »

Can anyone remember how much milk their babies drank when they were 8 days old (I know i've asked EA this already) just Elliot is only drinking 2oz a time, and sometimes in the middle of the night he only has like 1oz and is then awake very soon again for more?

Toby took 60ml at a time until he was quite a lot older than Elliot, slowly increasing to 120ml per feed at 8.5 weeks old. For various reasons, I was happier the smaller and more frequently he fed.

carlamagee

Mazcabs wrote: »

:mad: for toilet training, Henry is fine at nursery with no accidents, been home since 5 oclock and he has just had 4 accidents in about half an hour...

He's just helped himself to an apple out of OH's lunchbox and started eating it cheeky monkey!!

i know exactly what you mean maz about the toilet training!
Katie is pretty much fully there, except at night times, but a couple days last week, (in the evenings) she had accidents - but i dont think they were actual accidents if u get me!?? She was watching "Up", and i tink she just got engrossed, but then she proceeded to do it another 3 times before bed that night! i was very frustrated, and it is so hard not to shout or tell off.
I started making more of a fuss about her using the potty/toilet again and she seemed to go back without accidents fine then....who knows what goes through their little mind!!

got-it-spend-it

kindofagilr wrote: »

Hey everyone

Happy birthday GISI

Congrats to Gymfiend, wow that is one long time for baby to be born 4 days after being induced!

Can anyone remember how much milk their babies drank when they were 8 days old (I know i've asked EA this already) just Elliot is only drinking 2oz a time, and sometimes in the middle of the night he only has like 1oz and is then awake very soon again for more?

Also we tuck Elliot into his sheets and blankets, not quite swaddled but all tucked in, he can and does sometimes pull his arms out, do you think he would be more relaxed at night time if we had him wrapped in his sheet while feeding him? or do you think it would stress him out? cos sometimes he wakes up too much in the middle of the night and I it takes me hours to get him back to sleep (the last two times he's only gone back to sleep after OH has lay him on his bare chest)

I had another teary moment today I wish it would go away.

You will feel better soon. It's still very early days and the hormones are still running rampant round your body.

H never liked being swaddled but I'd say give it a try on Elliot. You won't know whether he loves it or hates it unless you do.

On the milk q, I'm not sure how much H was taking at that age, but they do only have teeny tummies still so do need to feed little and often. Have you tried waking him up a bit after he's had 1oz, maybe change his nappy or something, then try him with the other oz? It's hard cos you don't want to wake them so much that they're hard to put back down, but you do want them to have enough milk. I found it's a bit trial and error until you find what works for you.

Carla-yay for lumps!

csh- sorry your manager is being a pita at the moment. It's hard, isn't it. I asked my manager if there were any other managers in our company who worked part time and she said she'd never known of any, but that doesn't mean that I can't so I am still hopeful.

kindofagilr

Sorry I should have said Elliot loves being tucked in, cos he was swaddled in SCBU. I just wondered if we kept him tucked in a blanket at night while feeding if it would help him realise its sleep time?

Ah well ok cool 2oz isnt bad then

I just get confused that he can easily eat 2oz at each feed during the day but come night time he only has 1oz lol

elastigirl

I never took H out of the swaddle during night feeds but it still took him a little while to know what was night and day. He still was very unsettled until recently when we put him in a sleeping bag and now he only wake once in the night which is great as i lost count how many times he would wake.
Ds1 hated a sleeping bag or any blanket on him at all. When he was old enough he would always work his way out of his clothes completely and he would often take his nappy off too lol.

SusanC_2

kindofagilr wrote: »

I just get confused that he can easily eat 2oz at each feed during the day but come night time he only has 1oz lol

I know you can't really compare babies and adults but we eat more in the day than in the night so maybe it is similar?

Mazcabs

carlamagee wrote: »

i know exactly what you mean maz about the toilet training!
Katie is pretty much fully there, except at night times, but a couple days last week, (in the evenings) she had accidents - but i dont think they were actual accidents if u get me!?? She was watching "Up", and i tink she just got engrossed, but then she proceeded to do it another 3 times before bed that night! i was very frustrated, and it is so hard not to shout or tell off.
I started making more of a fuss about her using the potty/toilet again and she seemed to go back without accidents fine then....who knows what goes through their little mind!!

he just had another one as OH was runny bath... think a couple of times he was ingrossed in ITNG so very similiar to katie...

Glamazon

Nat - Jack is almost 7 months and today he has had the following

8.30am - bowl of weetabix made with milk & fromage frais (about 20 spoonfuls)
10am - 7oz bottle
12.45pm - scrambled egg and half a piece of toast
4pm - 6oz bottle
6pm - fruity chicken curry & rice - he had a piece of chicken about an inch square cut into bitesize pieces with about a fistful of rice (his fist not mine!)
7.30pm - 7oz C&G Good night milk

Night feeds - I used to turn the light on to go down and warm bottle up but we ended up for ages so I started doing it by torchlight and he went down alot easier.

csh_2

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

csh- sorry your manager is being a pita at the moment. It's hard, isn't it. I asked my manager if there were any other managers in our company who worked part time and she said she'd never known of any, but that doesn't mean that I can't so I am still hopeful.

Its really ruining the last 5 :eek: weeks I have off cos he just won't give a straight answer.
I've waited a fortnight for a phone call and I'm more confused than I was before! I said to OH 'I've got a 13yr old so can speak idiot but have no clue as to what he just said!'
Will go into the shop tomorrow after swimming, see my direct manager and get her to translate, I'm assumimg shes in the loop too although has also been evasive!


My 5.5mth old eats lots compared to everyone else Hes not huge so I don't know where he puts it!

6oz bottle first thing
Breakfast Porridge with fruit pot mixed in (same amount of porridge)

5oz bottle mid morning

Lunch: Whole jar of something and half a rusk or some banana or toast to play with

5oz bottle 3pm

Tea: whole jar of something, some fruit pouch or a yoghurt and something to hold and gum

6oz bottle and bed.

He only dropped a 5oz breakfast bottle this week, so has more porridge now.

I've been trying to take photos of his teeth but hes not playing!