MSE Parents Club Part 16

delain

It gets easier MV I promise... and as everyone has said, BF is good but is not and will never be more important to a baby than a happy mum who can sleep a whole night once in a while

Squeak has been all wide awake this evening (not too shocking after that mammoth sleep :eek:) and she is suffering with her teeth so now being really grizzly. She's down to 4 bottles a day, about mealtimes plus an evening one.

We've (well Squeak and me) got that horrible ongoing cold/flu/cough jobby so I feel for everyone else with it.

I'm being a bit sad and watching time team, and looking on ebay for lino for my kitchen, does anyone know where they sell it cheap online? The stuff in my kitchen is the paper thin landlord special and I've ripped it in several places so got to replace it. I''m looking for grey tile effect stuff.

Just realised how late it is :eek: Good job no school runs this week although it soundss awful I'm looking forward to them going back, we're broke and I'd like to take them out tomorrow but even the bus fare to feed the ducks can't be spared lol.

jennynoo

Evansangel wrote: »

Whilst im here, Lily has a burst blood vessel in her eye. Is that a problem?

Hi EA, no idea about this although it usually isn't a problem in adults. Has she poked her eye or banged her head recently? Might be worth mentioning it to your HV. Have you found anything out?

hngrymummy

Hi all. Thought I should 'graduate' from the pregnancy thread now the sproglet is a real person and not just a huge bump.

At the moment we're struggling to get him to sleep at night. I know he's only 10 days, but he settles quite happily upstairs during the day, however bedtime is another matter. He can be sound asleep, until we pop him in his moses basket, then he's wide awake and crying. I can only hope things get better quite soon.

Other than that, he's an adorable baby

aless02

Welcome hngrymummy! Not sure about sleeping advice, have you tried all the usual tricks of a shirt with a smell, propping up the end of the mattress, etc.?

Hi Jenny, yes work is fine. It helps a lot that I have a 5 minute commute, otherwise I don't think I could cope with full-time at ALL. Finn loves the CM and is generally happy. I still wish I didn't have to work at all, of course, but that's life.

Becles

Chakani wrote: »

Becles, thank you for the suggestions. You make it all sound so effortless, I shall aspire to be as breezy about it one day!

Oh no - I'm a disorganised mess really

It's trial and error a lot of the time. Work through loads of different things until you find what works for you.

hngrymummy wrote: »

At the moment we're struggling to get him to sleep at night. I know he's only 10 days, but he settles quite happily upstairs during the day, however bedtime is another matter. He can be sound asleep, until we pop him in his moses basket, then he's wide awake and crying. I can only hope things get better quite soon.

Have you tried having him sleep downstairs where it's light and noisy during the day? I had mine sleeping downstairs during the day and upstairs where it was dark and quiet at night.

Off out to the Discovery museum in Newcastle today. The boys are asking to go and I'm keen as it's free :money:

Need to get coffee on the way home as we've nearly run out :eek:

Have a good day all xx

gizmodo_2

Metranil_Vavin wrote: »

Glad to see that BF'ing is as big a pain in the..boobs for others as it is for me..having a horrible day today and am also seriously contemplating throwing in the towel with breast feeding

Josh just struggles, cries and almost tears my nipples off at the moment. He doesn't seem happy and I certainly am not. My nipples are sore and scratchy.

I thought it was getting better and easier, but it just seems to have become horrible again. I had a good cry earlier, feeling really trapped and exhausted.

I need a good couple of nights sleep with no disturbances, but that's not likely with a (nearly) 6 week old.

Sigh..just on a downer this evening.

((hugs)) I know it doesn't help you, but reading about other mums having similar problems to me makes me feel a bit better.

I feel the same, I just need some solid sleep. It's only going to get worse when OH goes back to work as he'll need his sleep more than me.

I'm falling asleep on the sofa at 7pm and I hate that as I feel I no longer have an evening. But I've tried the lying in (like I said I would) but I can't get back to sleep after a 6/7am feed! I'm so wide awake.

hngrymummy wrote: »

Hi all. Thought I should 'graduate' from the pregnancy thread now the sproglet is a real person and not just a huge bump.

At the moment we're struggling to get him to sleep at night. I know he's only 10 days, but he settles quite happily upstairs during the day, however bedtime is another matter. He can be sound asleep, until we pop him in his moses basket, then he's wide awake and crying. I can only hope things get better quite soon.

Other than that, he's an adorable baby

Join the club hngrymummy

Some good news from me - I expressed this morning I got 50ml in 5 minutes which I thought was quite good. In total I got 100ml in 15 minutes. It makes me think DD is getting plenty to eat after all. She rarely takes the second breast (and when she does like this morning she projectile vomits over me), so it's nice to know that in the 10 minute feed she does she probably is getting enough.

So tonight I will get OH to feed her.

So - this projectile vomiting problem - is it simply that she's just overfilled herself? It's only happened when she's had 2 breasts full in one session and she usually does within about 5 minutes of coming off the breast. She is quite a sicky baby, I wonder if she's too sicky. Will have a chat with HV when she eventually phones.

Last night OH let me go to bed without DD so I could get some sleep. So DD came upstairs at 2am for feed then stayed upstairs. Now for the past week she's had her screaming sessions at 11pm when we go to bed. Last night she slept soundly downstairs between 11 - 2am. And then had her scream session at 2am.

I'm thinking of starting a bed time routine (she's 2.5 weeks) is it too early? I'm thinking 7:30pm bath, nappy change and to bed in our bedroom on her own. Then I'll go to bed after her 10/11pm feed. And hopefully she'll be settled by then and fall asleep after that feed and the 2/3am feed?! Yeah, maybe not. I just don't know what else to do. I'm going mad.

Chakani

Giz, I've started doing that this week with bedtime, and it does seem to help that she has a quiet room to settle in, and she's all snuggled up when we go up later. Not to mention those precious couple of child-free hours you get in the evening. It might not stop her screaming, but at least it will be out of the way earlier in the evening when you are a tiny bit less tired, and you can go to bed and sleep afterwards at a sensible time, so you get some rest before the night feeds start.

I will also send you a huge hug and a lot of sympathy - I have an easy baby this time, but DS was a screamer, and it was hideous. What I can tell you looking back though, is however bad it seems when you're in the middle of it, is that it's only a few weeks out of your lives, and every horrible night now is a night closer to the time when your little girl gives you a kiss goodnight and snuggles down with her teddy to sleep right through the night

delain

I found that keeping Squeak downstairs to sleep in the day helped with this, and keeping the lighting low at night She also has Ghostie who really helps I find. Quite often we get her up in the morning and she's still snuggling (or chewing) him.

And it was :money: because we got it in the MSE giveaway :money:

keelykat

I'm glad I'm not the only one who has had problems with breastfeeding!

My little boy is 2 1/2 now and is a healthy happy toddler-i only managed to bf for a short time but he's doing well. I felt guilty for a long time, felt a failure and even now i wish i could have carried on. But then i look at my son and smile, we were both a lot happier with formula/bottles.

I will still try again when we do have another baby-it hasn't put me off having another go

Metranil_Vavin

Morning team.

Feeling a bit better today, and haven't thrown in the BF towel yet!:D

Josh slept a bit better last night. I fed him and he went to sleep at about 11pm. I put him in his moses basket, and he didn't wake again until 3.45am for a feed, so nearly 5 hours! He then did his usual grunting and groaning, but finally slept again until 6.45am, so not too bad. A friend of mine bought me a swaddle for him that has velcro and is much easier than trying to swaddle in a blanket. He always manages to fight his way free of a blanket, but this keeps him nice and snug and he actually seems to like it and falls asleep in it!

I use it mainly for feeding for when he's kicking and wriggling, but the 2 times he has slept quite well through the night, we've just put him down in it.

He's been feeding better today (so far) so a bit more optimistic.

We are meeting my NCT gals and babies for a pottery and baby footprint session this afternoon, which should be fun (if Josh doesn't decide to scream the entire time that is!)

Hope everyone is managing ok today x