MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

Gillyx

Awesome cake, they look so alert for 5 weeks. Bless them and such brilliant weights for them being 2 :eek: you must have been very tired towards the end. Hope you manage to post more but I appreciate how busy you must be x

moneypenny21

Hi Cake - they are gorgeous girlies! I am in awe, one is more than enough for me!

Thanks fluff and Jonno - I think it is lazy latching as I've been using the tease with a nipple technique to get her to open her mouth wide and when its worked we don't have a lipstick nipple! But as I'm carp at any positioning other than rugby ball, I need to sort that out if I am ever going to have confidence to breast feed outside my own home without the need for 75 million pillows :eek::D So tomorrow I'm going to call someone and hope they can help. One thing I'm not so worried about is "is she getting enough?" she put on 15oz in a week :D :eek: think she is having the 6 week growth spurt early. Thanks for the advice and support - she appears to have sucked the blister out after olive oil, hot baths, hot compresses and better latching! One less thing to worry about I guess!

Any advice on giving a breast fed baby a bottle? She has avent first size teat with expressed breast milk (expressing for when we go out) - 4oz is gone in less than 10 minutes, I wind her at each ounce (10 mins including winding)!, she absolutely squeals with horror at the thought of not getting any more so I put her on the boob then she promptly vomits a good amount of it up. Health visitor said to try her on a bigger teat as she might be sucking so viciously at the size 1 teat she takes in loads of air which makes her sick but the bigger teat might make her guzzle more and so she ends up being sick anyway (helpful!). Anyone had this with bottle or expressed breast fed babies? I tend to think she guzzles it that fast it doesnt give her tummy time to register that its full so she cries for more (absolutely sobs!) and then has too much. Anyway, any advice most gratefully received!

turtlemoose

Gorgeous girlies cake!!

dizziblonde

Two hours waiting around for a GTT with Erin today - who proceeded to sulk and try and scrounge everyone's lucozade with the most horrified and indignant faces (and pet lip) every time that she saw someone drinking something she wasn't allowed to have - and then flirt and flutter her eyelashes at any little old lady she saw walk by, and sit in the cafe loudly blowing raspberries and giggling setting half the hospital occupants off in fits of laughter caught from her!

*Nutella*

fluffnutter wrote: »

Talking of the Guardian, my letter was printed in last Saturday's edition. That's just how awesome I am.

Ooh, I've still got Saturday's edition (and of course I haven't found the time to actually read it yet), and now I want to know which letter's yours!... Well done you

*Nutella*

Cake, welcome to the thread - your little ladies are very cute! I'm in awe of anyone with twins - I honestly don't know how you manage!

*Nutella*

Nursery Day 2 deteriorated after I posted - when I went back 45 mins later, she'd had a snack with the other babies, but then realised I'd gone and started crying She looked so upset when I got there, and just wanted to be held and cuddled. I stayed there for the rest of the time, was able to get her to play again as long as I was nearby, but she kept looking over and wanted to come to me a couple of times. I managed to get her to fall asleep in one of their cots (whilst her nursery key person watched from a distance to learn what I do so that she can do the same), which I was very pleased with, but she woke up after only 10 mins. She ate her lunch before we left, but started crying when her key person tried to feed her - she wanted me to do it....

So all in all not great, but not too bad either - like they said, she's been with me for 8 months, so it will inevitably take her a bit of time to adjust. But it was hard to see her so upset and know that I had caused it

She was all smiles this afternoon though and wouldn't stop talking She also slept loads - half an hour in the buggy on the way home, then from 3.10 to 5.30! We just let her sleep as we thought she needed it.

9am - 1pm tomorrow, and they want me to be gone the whole time... They'll call me every hour to let me know how she's getting on, or sooner if there's a crisis. I'll be going shopping, but am feeling a bit apprehensive about it all

*Nutella*

Turtle, thank you for asking the Weetabix question, and Katie for answering it I bought a pack for my LO almost two months ago, then realised I had no idea what to do with them - I've never actually eaten one myself.... And then I was too embarassed to admit on here that I had no idea how to eat a Weetabix!

moneypenny21

Ahh Nutella it is so sad when they are sad, when I see real tears from my baba I just want to sob! Good luck for tomorrow, babies adjust quicky so who know she might be fine. Thinking of you The Weetabix story is nuts!

edit: seems my milk blister is still there must have been hiding this morning. tried absolutely all sorts to get rid of it. fearing it may need to be dealt with in a more clinical way!!

*Nutella*

moneypenny21 wrote: »

The Weetabix story is nuts!

Always good to talk about these things... My name is Nutella and I'm a Weetabix virgin.

Thanks for your kind words Hope your blister decides to disappear by itself - sounds painful