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sarahh112

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Ok Ok, I'll try to do less, but you all know how it is. I like seeing updated pics too snaggles.

Sarah, welcome and Hi! Your baby sounds like he may have reflux. That was exactly how Jack was and I had him diagnosed about 4-5 weeks old. The doc prescribed gaviscon sachets which I put in his milk, it helped a bit but I found we had to do it with every bottle, not just the twice a day they first recommended. It can bung them up a bit so we offered him plain water and eventually put a little bit of prune juice (we called it poo juice) in his night bottle. This kept him from being bunged up. Another baby I know had the condition much worse and was on all sorts of medication under a paedatrician, but your GP would have to refer you if all else fails.

With regard to milk, we went through the whole chemist, Breastmilk, SMA, Cow and Gate, Comfort, Wysoy and by 11 weeks old the poor chap had drunk 7 different milks. Then I saw the most experienced HV in my area and she put him on Nutramigen combined with Gaviscon and we didn't look back, but his system I am sure had matured a bit by then. By the time he was 6 months old and sitting up it had improved and by 7 months we were off the gaviscon completely. By 8 months he had decided Nutramigen was truely awful and wasn't going to drink it anymore (I have to agree its foul) and we went onto Aptamil, which he loved with no further problems. Then I bought SMA progress 2 weeks before I weaned him onto cows milk, as it was on offer, he drank that too. So the long and short of it is don't be fobbed off, if you have a sensible HV or GP, they should be able to see that a 8 week old baby is uncomfortable and hopefullyl prescribe Gaviscon.

HTH.

Google Infant reflux if you want more info.

Thanks Bailey I will ring the doctor in the morning and see if I can get in to see him. I've got to do something he gets himself so upset.

heather38

oh purple what a day, i remember having to take kenny to a&e, it was awful.
i hope izzy feels better soon, lots of hugs and kisses and i bet she forgets all about it.
kennedy jumped off the bed today and wacked her head on the bedside cabinet and landed on the floor. she screamed the house down poor thing.

Becles

Sorry to hear about Izzy's accident. Hope she feels better this morning.

I had to take my youngest son to A&E so many times when he was a toddler. I was worried in case we got put on the "at risk" register

Just a few things he did:

He was supposed to be in bed, but instead was "parachuting" off his bedroom windowsill, but managed to smack his head off the radiator and split it open.

Bounced off a bouncy castle and twisted his ankle. It had to be x-rayed but luckily it was just sprained and bruised.

Went to his Dad's who had left a stanley knife on the coffee table and he sliced his hand open with it.

Tried to fly, but landed on his forehead and ended up with a mega lump and concussion.

Plus umpteen cuts, bruises, bumps and scrapes. He's still a daredevil and does things like handstands on his bike handlebars while it's going along :eek:

SusanCarter

Hope Izzy recovers well. We have our heating on all day (6am to 10pm) so that we can have them on a cooler setting as I'm really paranoid about Alice getting burned on a radiator. (I'm not sure how much difference it makes but it makes me feel less worried.)

I'm a few pounds heavier than my pre-pregnancy weight which makes me no longer underweight. The only trouble is that the weight has redistributed itself so my fingers are still too thin for my rings and my waist is too fat for most of my skirts. What with breastfeeding I'm also too large for all my blouses and I can't wear dresses so I still can't wear most of my pre pregnancy clothes. :mad:

Alice has got a cold and a chesty cough at the moment so we've been up for two hours in the middle of the night the last couple of nights as she wakes up and can't get back to sleep. :sad:

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Oh my goodness what a sorry lot today.

Congrats to your sister Snaggles, what good news, I really hope it works out for her, then Natasha will have a little cousin to grow up with.

Purple, I hope Izzy is feeling better now, what a shock to you both. I think if Jack had done that I would have been in tears for him too. You acted quickly and wisely though. I will be careful now not to leave anything tempting by a radiator. Lots of huggles to her.

Heather, maybe you and Kennedy need to have a little chat about using the bed as a trampoline LOL? I know its easily done though, Jack is always bouncing in his cot using the bars to hold onto, I can imagine a double bed to be very tempting indeed. Is it just a bruise now.

I don't know how hospitals decide on whether a child is at risk or not. Like Becles said, some are just simply accident prone. You have to take them though if its necessary, but its a horrible world we now live in to be having those thoughts in the background. And even more horrible to think that some parents would actually deliberately harm their LO's. The thought just makes me shudder. When I have had accidents with Jack i.e misjudged the doorway on the way through etc, I've felt truely awful and guilty for ages, so how someone could harm their child purposely I don't know.

For about a month or so now Jack has had a cold or runny nose or a cough, its just one after the other. We had a few days grace and since yesterday anonther one has started. Poor chap. DH picked him up from his grandparents and I put him to bed when they came in. By the time I had come downstairs and asked DH if he'd had any medised, Jack was asleep. So the little man woke crying at 4.30am and I had to wake up DH to get the medised and some water for him. Impossible to comfort him and do both. As soon as I put him down he screamed. Anyway once he was dosed up I cuddled him for a few mo's but he was fidgeting so I put him back to bed. Goodness me, how dare I? But I also needed the toilet and I thought if you are not going to relax in my arms then tough, bed it is. He cried for the time it took me to go and wash my hands and then he stopped. So I went back to bed, Jack slept round till gone 8am, which is unheard of. I'm not sure if that has ever happended. Unfortunately for me, I couldn't go back, so I just lay there tossing and turning and moving the alarm clock forward and forward to give DH a lie in. He works late on Mondays so doesn't need to leave until after 9am.

Its completely thrown our day though, I've had to manipulate his routine and he's only going to get one nap today, but i'll try to get him in bed by 6.30pm.

Anyway I'm feeling very tired, i had 4-5 hours I reckon,hopefully tonight will be better.

Sarah, good luck at the GP's, let us know how you get on please?

Js_Other_Half

Ds has a cold and cough, so I've now taken matters into my own hands and started giving him manuka honey for the cough. I know it's not meant for under 12 months, but as his birthday is next week I decided to risk it!
I have no idea whether or not it is helping, but it makes me feel better. The manuka honey isn't cheap though - a normal sized jar cost almost £9 at sainsburys.

Here is the link to the report about honey helping coughs:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2007/dec/04/health.medicalresearch

cha97michelle

Gosh so much going on with you lot.

Poor little izzy - i remember my brother picking up the iron mum had left unattended when he was about 2. He picked it up as though he was going to iron, and it was too heavy so used the 2nd hand to hold it on the hot plate. The worst was it was really late (about 11ish) as my brother was such a hyper little thing.

Bailey - i'm really feeling for you. I know where you are coming from with the health being worse for you second time round. I guess its because the older one is not old enough to know to help out a bit like a 2 or 3 year old would. Thankfully charlie sleeps ok but he is being a really mardy boy at the moment and i can't work out why. Dh did a disappearing act most of the weekend with work and left me to it, along with the other million and one things i need to do.

speaking of which - another major paddy now - which has been going on since picking him up from nursery at 2:30, so i think it is bath time. I wish i had stopped at work longer - at least i could have sat and got on with some work there but i thought it would be nice to do something with him. He only stops when i pick him up but i am not doing that for hours or i will not be fit for anything come bedtime.

Michelle, x

heather38

thanks bailey, she has no fear what so ever, she throws herself around, i've been trying to teach her to get off thinks backwards, like the bed and the sofa, so far so good, but bouncing is too much fun!

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I've yet to teach Jack the backwards thing, but its something I want to. His latest thing today is finding out he can turn the TV on and off, something i've been dreading!!!! Initiallly I ignored it as I was in the kitchen so it wasn't affecting me, I was "ignoring the bad, praising the good etc". But even though it hasn't happened today I haven't got a plan for when i am watching it and he does it. My brother suggested turning the TV off at the wall when i'm not watching it, so he doesn't get a reaction from me or the TV, which I am doing. Has anyone got any ideas for when we are though please. I really don't want to make too much of an issue as my friend has and her little boy is now constantly turning it on/off. Distraction only works for as long as my back isn't turned.

Michelle, my DH dissappeared on sunday and I couldn't help feel a little resentful that i spent my day doing jobs. My parents expressed their opinion to me that they don't think he should have done boyz toyz especially as I was in hospital the day before, but they don't want to say anything directly to him as that would be interferring. I agree which made my resentfulness worse. But he did do some jobs before he left and he did do some when he came home. Its just i'm coming up for 8 months and I wish he would knock boyz toyz on the head for 3-4 months. I did ask a while back, but I knew it was be a brick wall bang head situ.

JS i'm interested in that manuka honey thing, Jack has developed a really bad cough today and even though he is in bed I can hear him coughing away. I'm tempted to wander down to tesco after tea, although i'm not sure if they will stock it, its not a massive store. Is it a thick/thin honey and how do you adminster it. The article mentions a syringe, but I can't imagine getting honey down a syringe in the first place, also how much it doesn't say. I'm sure the honey pot won't either.

I've just rang my local store and they are currently shelf checking for me as we speak, to save me a trip. If not I have DH on standby to try Sainsbury on his way home, its a slightly bigger store but a different town. We might be lucky.

I've just been googling the manuka honey and found this link to be good. It says it comes in different strengths and recommends trying "20".
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/janeclarke.html?in_article_id=499581&in_page_id=1988&in_a_source=

Which one do you have JS? Have you found it any good?

Js_Other_Half

Hi Bailey, the one DH got was a 10, but I decided not to complain as he'd taken DS out to give me a break!lol

It's quite a thick honey, with an almost medicinal taste, so I've been putting a teaspoon of it onto some plain yogurt along with some fruit puree. I try and get most of the teaspoon into DS in the first few spoonfuls, hidden in and amongst the strong tasting fruit puree.

You shouldn't heat the honey as it loses some of its effectiveness. I think it's helping the cough, but that could be wishful thinking. It certainly won't do him any harm.