MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

jediquigley

Hey to everyone else, I miss this thread but find it hard to keep up with this and the facebook group.

Nialls sleep has finally improved, we moved him to his cot bed, added a bedtime bath, white noise and started on gaviscon not sure which one helped but he is now only waking for boob twice between 8pm and 6pm. I think he has learnt to self soothe most of the time during the night. In a couple of weeks times we will work on putting him down to sleep awake!
Eekk!

Laura

*Nutella*

Laura, yay for sleep - that's fab! :j

Had a pretty good night here - she demanded dummy at 1am and 3am and was then wide awake at 4.30. I put her in bed with me, cuddled her back to sleep and she woke up at 7! I'm actually feeling human today after a couple of terrible nights

Btw, forgot to mention that yesterday's 7-11 month development review went really well - she got the maximum score in every category Not sure I like the idea of scoring, but it does mean that she's meeting all her milestones and is doing very well for her age. We already knew this, but it's always nice to have it confirmed by an independent person! Oh, and we finally got our Bookstart pack

DayDreamBeliever_2

Hi ladies, a quick question and hope somebody has some experience of a baby who doesn't sleep enough! She's happy and alert and feeding well but she's had on average since Tuesday 7 hours sleep each 24 hours and this is either 1 solid sleep or 2 split sleeps overnight. Yesterday morning she woke up at 8am and didn't sleep at all till 11pm - not even a 5 minute snooze while feeding - she then woke up at 3am and was smiling and feeding till 5am and went back down till 7:14am and is still wide awake now, this has been pretty much the pattern for 4 days now and her eyes are all red and puffy and she looks shattered! How on earth do I get her to sleep anywhere near the length of time she needs to?

Gillyx

jediquigley wrote: »

We started having probs with reflux about 3 weeks ago when Niall came off colief. He is 23 weeks today. He has been on gaviscon for a couple of weeks and has worked but caused constipation...he now hasn't pooed for a week. Cut down on gaviscon and am stopping today going to head back to gp next week. Their answer is give him a laxative but I'd rather not give one medication to stop the side effects of another. I breastfeed so trialling no cows milk products in diet at the moment, only a week in and no improvement yet.

Gilly did they test your bubs at all for intolerances ? Wondering if they test for lactose intolerance although I have read that this doesn't exist in babies?

Laura

Sadly no, they didn't. Unless its allergies they don't seem to be interested at all, as an intolerance you can live with. From what I'm aware though it's difficult to test them when they're so little as it very often shows up inconclusive.

If you are breastfeeding it may be easier to test with your diet, if cutting out the cows milk proteins doesn't work (I'd include soya in that, no products with soya either) be careful with bread, pancakes, butter, cheese, none of them can be consumed. I can recommend pure sunflower spread. If that doesn't work the next thing may be to look at gluten. it's a pest but check every single label because even things you dont think have milk or soya in they sometimes do x

*Nutella*

Who needs toys when we have a steady supply of Amazon deliveries?!...

*Nutella*

DayDreamBeliever wrote: »

Hi ladies, a quick question and hope somebody has some experience of a baby who doesn't sleep enough! She's happy and alert and feeding well but she's had on average since Tuesday 7 hours sleep each 24 hours and this is either 1 solid sleep or 2 split sleeps overnight. Yesterday morning she woke up at 8am and didn't sleep at all till 11pm - not even a 5 minute snooze while feeding - she then woke up at 3am and was smiling and feeding till 5am and went back down till 7:14am and is still wide awake now, this has been pretty much the pattern for 4 days now and her eyes are all red and puffy and she looks shattered! How on earth do I get her to sleep anywhere near the length of time she needs to?

One thing never fails to work here - a walk with the buggy. No matter how impossible it is to get her to sleep, the buggy always does the trick; I guess it's the motion that does it. I make sure we go for a walk every day - I get exercise, she gets a nap And we've had a cuddly long afternoon nap together in the big bed pretty much every day since she was a couple of weeks old - this has been a lifesaver for me too, as I also get a nap.

DayDreamBeliever_2

*Nutella* wrote: »

One thing never fails to work here - a walk with the buggy. No matter how impossible it is to get her to sleep, the buggy always does the trick; I guess it's the motion that does the trick. I make sure we go for a walk every day - I get exercise, she gets a nap And we've had a cuddly long afternoon nap together in the big bed since she was a couple of weeks old - this has been a lifesaver for me too, as I also get a nap.

I've tried walks in the buggy, driving in the car, her Moses basket, car seat, my bed, play mat, sofa, my mum has tried to rock her to sleep incase her smelling my milk is keeping her awake but alas she just lies gurgling and smiling away until she gets hungry again and demands a feed. I'm getting plenty enough sleep so I'm fine, she just looks so tired I feel awful for her. My mum just says she'll sleep when she wants and to stop worrying but she also said she should be left to cry so she learns she can't always have what she wants lol so not taking her advice too willingly.

DayDreamBeliever_2

Aha, isn't it always the way - she's fast asleep now lying on her changing mat with no nappy on! Was changing her and the house phone started ringing so I left her on a towel without a nappy on her and when I came back 2 minutes later she was sound asleep - haven't dared move her for fear of waking her up!

Sammie_03

*Nutella* wrote: »

Who needs toys when we have a steady supply of Amazon deliveries?!...

Ha ha!! Brilliant!! :rotfl:
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moneypenny21

Nutella your pic is so sweet!!!

Daydream - cant offer any help I'm afraid, Maybe she doesn't need the sleep? This one is sleeping less and less. Has she got too much to look at? The HV said sometimes they get over stimulated and like to look at white walls have you tried that?!

Little miss has had a small bowel movement after much straining - she fully sicked !up the last two feeds so I've been quite worried about dehydration which I'm sure isn't !a problem yet but don't !want to get there Just done her a bottle of water which is cooling which I'll try and give her she is asleep at the moment. She had a few sucks of milk after the poo. Ahh they are such a worry these babies!!