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scruffy96uk

purplepatch wrote: »

Congratulations scruffy. I remember you asking whether we thought you'd lost your plug! Obviously things moved along fairly quickly after that then!

:T

Yes things moved pretty quickly, it happened a week from the day I asked.

[Deleted User]

Heather - only 5 hours!!! :-( I have already been trying to prepare myself for feeling even more sleep deprived than I do now for at least a year.

Becles, well at least Charlotte made the final 12, you must be so proud and yes i'm slightly envious of that years supply of vouchers, considering how many ways there are to use them! But good on you with 3 children it will save on the pocket quite a lot for a long time. Plus its something to share with Charlotte when she is older, in a round about way your teaching her MSE ways already!

Mazcabs

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Currently using size 2 but already have 6 packs of size 3 waiting in the wings

Hi guys

never seem to get time to log on as Henry F doesnt sleep long through the day at all but got a couple of questions

1. Been using Pampers New Baby nappies (now on size 3) and need to move up a size, do I move onto Pampers Active Fit for the day and Pampers Baby Dry for the night or can you use either all day ? PS anyone found own brand nappies the same as Pampers ?

2. Also how son did you move your littlen's into their own rooms ? HF is now 12 weeks and really want to start him in bigger cot but dont want to do it too soon as everywhere says 6 months with you.

3. Moved him onto extra hungry baby milk (purple Aptimal) as he was having 6 ozs but he constantly seems to bring up cottage cheese now after each feed even when he's has been winded for about 3/4's hour so wondering about putting him back on the blue one and just giving him more ? Be so glad when he can eat solids!!

Sorry theres alot of qustions but have to catch up whilst HF gives me 5 mins on my own !

Ah the joys of motherhood

Mazcabs

Mazcabs

SeptemberBaby wrote: »

Currently using size 2 but already have 6 packs of size 3 waiting in the wings

Hi guys

never seem to get time to log on as Henry F doesnt sleep long through the day at all but got a couple of questions

1. Been using Pampers New Baby nappies (now on size 3) and need to move up a size, do I move onto Pampers Active Fit for the day and Pampers Baby Dry for the night or can you use either all day ? PS anyone found own brand nappies the same as Pampers ?

2. Also how son did you move your littlen's into their own rooms ? HF is now 12 weeks and really want to start him in bigger cot but dont want to do it too soon as everywhere says 6 months with you.

3. Moved him onto extra hungry baby milk (purple Aptimal) as he was having 6 ozs but he constantly seems to bring up cottage cheese now after each feed even when he's has been winded for about 3/4's hour so wondering about putting him back on the blue one and just giving him more ? Be so glad when he can eat solids!!

Sorry theres alot of qustions but have to catch up whilst HF gives me 5 mins on my own !

Ah the joys of motherhood

Mazcabs

Curious_George_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

Hi everyone.

CG, glad that danny is sleeping through, he must be about 10 weeks now? Out of interest what do you class as sleeping through - 11-7am or 7-6am? I'm just wondering as due to Jack's problems we never got him sleeping through and then bad habits developed and it wasn't until much later it happened. I am unsure realistically what people mean when they say that for a young baby.

Also for the other people who give bottles at room temp, when did you introduce that? A newborn would surely expect milk at boob temp/warm, did you just not heat them up so much over a period of time until they were room temp and at what age did you introduce that? I'd like to do something similar but i think a newborn might complain.

Right bed me thinks.

36 weeks today and still niggling.........there is just not enough room for both of us now, something or someone has to give!

hiya,
we all go up to bed at about midnight (after his bath/top an tail, dressed and milk) and he is sleeping from then until 7ish, this morning it was 8.30 and we had to wake him up because we had to go out!
long may it last! hurrah!
sometimes he does sleep from his previous feed (hes got himself into a 4 hour routine) til we get him ready for his bath but thats in his moses basket downstairs,
he only goes in the cot in the bedroom when its bedtime (i dont even put him in there when im upstairs with him and need to put him down for a minute... ive always though that the cot should be strictly for bedtime so they get the idea if they are in it then mummy doesnt want to play til it gets light again!!)

we are also big advocates of room temp milk,
we were heating them up to start with (because thats what i did for DD) but he would get so cross waiting for it! :rolleyes: and also it was a pain when we left the house worrying about where/how we might heat the milk...
so one day we just tried it at room temp, and he didnt even notice.
and i think it makes the night time bottle more effective as thats the ONLY one we heat up,
fresh from the bath, clean jimjams on, big bottle of warm milk and into bed
*bliss*

Hawksmuir

Hi there, just looking for advice.

Baby Cameron is 7 weeks old, and pushing 11 lbs, he is also over 2 foot long, so a big, wee fella.

He has started getting bad colic again, he had it a couple of weeks ago, we are using infacol/gripe water with his feeds, but we aren't noticing much difference.

Is this just a case of having to tough it out, or are we missing something, its OK during the day when my OH can confort him/sing to him etc, but hard to do that at 4 am.

purplepatch

Assuming you are bottle feeding? I tried switching to Dr Brown's anti colic bottles with DD2 which I hadn't with DD1 (had always used Avent previously) and noticed a definite improvement, although couldn't be absolutely sure she hadn't just grown out of it at around the same time. Both of mine suffered most in the evening and it was a dreadful time, nothing would console them, especially not my singing :rotfl:

Lu_T

Welcome all newbies. Good to have some more opinions.

Mazcabs - we had Imogen in her moses basket with us until about 14/16 weeks. She would only sleep when tightly swaddled and was getting strong enough to break out regularly, even with re-wrapping after feeds. Consequently she was windmilling her arms, bashing them on the moses basket and waking up screaming. We decided more room was what she needed (and she's a noisy sleeper so we were happy for the silence!). She went into her own room and never looked back. I just told her she was a big girl and that she had her own lovely room to sleep in with M&D just down the corridor and she never bothered! (Feels a bit silly writing that down, but I did make a point of telling her!!) T

The 6 month rule is about cot death. We all have our own views on this. Mine is that, if baby is going to suffer from cot death, I couldn't do anything about it whether she was next to me in a moses basket or two rooms away in her cot. You have to do what you're comfortable with and what's best for all of you. We've certainly slept better since she's been in her own room.

Hawksmuir - sorry I don't have any wisdom to add, except that sometimes you just have to stick it out. Speak to your HV if you're worried.

Mazcabs

Thanks Lu T

Agree with you re bashing arms etc. Henry can put his arms out of the crib on both sides and sometimes even gets his legs caught through the gaps. And he is a noisy sleeper as well (definately takes after his father).

I do agree with you about the cot death thing. May ask HV tomorrow at the clinic.

Bailey - I gave HF a mix of feeds at room temp and warm because the bottles he had in the hospital were room temp and pre made. Only reason I use warm water now is because formula is heavier and so mixes up better.

Hawksmuir

Lu_T wrote: »

Hawksmuir - sorry I don't have any wisdom to add, except that sometimes you just have to stick it out. Speak to your HV if you're worried.

We have done, her reply was 'What does your mum think'