MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

Bamama

llolollol ssosorsorrsorry! DDoDonDontDon't sshshoshoushoutshout aatat mmeme fflfluflufflufffluff

^ haha my phone! *don't shout at me fluff I just got insecure cause my dad got him to sleep where as I would have given boob and he probably wouldn't have slept.

fluffnutter

Bamama wrote: »

I've slowly begun to realise that he's not staying on long before falling asleep and he wakes as soon as I want to put him down ><

Yep, they're little buggers like that. I'd say a good feed for a baby that age would be 15 or so minutes on the boob. Not every feed - some will be shorter, some longer, but if you aim for that you can be sure that he's both filling his tum and getting to your hind milk where all the nutritious fat is.

If he's falling asleep before this then he's probably not filling up enough. Do you try waking him whilst he's feeding? Speak to him, stroke his cheek, shift your position. It may be that he needs to be encouraged to wake and continue suckling so that he gets a full tum. Are you sure his meds aren't making him drowsy? If they are, at least you know that once he stops taking them, everything's likely to right itself with minimum effort from you or Dewi.

Gillyx

I don't have anything in A's cot, just a sheet over the mattress and he goes in with his sleeping bag on and his comforter

All his teddys etc just stay in his toy box in the living room.

fluffnutter

Bamama wrote: »

llolollol ssosorsorrsorry! DDoDonDontDon't sshshoshoushoutshout aatat mmeme fflfluflufflufffluff

^ haha my phone! *don't shout at me fluff I just got insecure cause my dad got him to sleep where as I would have given boob and he probably wouldn't have slept.

My OH can hold Freddie and he'll be asleep in minutes. I can't. If I try it, he squirms and whines. It's because he can smell my milk. A newborn's instinct is to feed above all else. That's why Dewi would rather suck on your boobies than sleep (even if he does nod off too quickly!). Don't think that you don't have the 'knack' with him, he just sees you differently to how he sees everyone else (and trust me, you're the best).

fluffnutter

Gillyx wrote: »

I don't have anything in A's cot, just a sheet over the mattress and he goes in with his sleeping bag on and his comforter

All his teddys etc just stay in his toy box in the living room.

This is precisely my point. I think I might have to put him into toy cold-turkey

katiechoc_2

Fluff I was having the exact same thought earlier on - he's got a row of teddies across the end of it that periodically get wrestled with when he can't settle. Really should take them out now, before he uses them to make a teddy ladder to escape. No idea where they're going to go, the shelves are taken up by his collection of super mario toys (OH is a games nut , and I had a lucky streak on the grabby claw things at the arcades, we've got nearly the whole mario team!)

Bamama

I try waking but sometimes it doesn't work. It's hard to tell how long he's on for because he's always on!

He's very alert when he is awake and am pretty sure the meds are having very little affect on him.

missbunbury

She gained 3.5oz in 6 days, this is not enough apparently, doc says "you must be doing something wrong" but has no interest in anything other than me giving her a bottle. So frustrated, I have literally fed her constantly for a week, haven't got dressed or done any housework or anything. He has made me promise to start expressing more milk and cup-feeding it to her but I can't see where I have the time, she feeds all the time so I would have to stop feeding her and express instead which seems counterintuitive.

Bamama

Oh missbunbury I thought 4-7 a week was "normal"? 3.5 doesn't sound bad to me!

*Nutella*

fluffnutter wrote: »

What's people's stance on stuff in the cot? Since birth Freddie's had some tastefully arranged soft toys at the end of his cot. Inevitably, over time the number of these has grown. I went to put him down tonight and I could barely fight through the detritus of faux fur, plush bunnies, cot snakes, blankets, muslins, and Miffys. Now that he's mobile and interested enough to drag them around the cot, it's getting to the point where I struggle to find him when I go to feed him during the night

Is it all a bit much?

:rotfl:Our collection grew too... Then she started moving down to the other end of the cot to play at 2am, and they now live in the toy box and on a shelf in her room The exceptions are her comforter, which lives in her arms when she sleeps, and a giant pink teddybear that was given to her by a relative. It doesn't fit in the toy box and is really ugly (but very soft, and she likes cuddling it), so it stays at the end of her cot so that I don't have to look at it