MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

turtlemoose

Mmm I love weetabix!!! Either dry with a thick layer of real butter, or plain with milk - wait until they absorb all the milk and mush them up. I like thm as they are, unsweetened, but my OH loves to heat the milk first, absorb and mash, create a well in the centre, and put chunks of chocolate in and bury it - so you get warm melty chocolate pockets.

Money penny I'm afraid I can't offer any advice on the milk blister, so instead im just sending get well wishes to your nips

Nutella eeee you are making me nervous about nursery!!! I hope she has a good day tomorrow, I'm sure she just needs a littl time to get used to it. I'm viewing my first one tomorrow, quite nervous!!!

katiechoc_2

Sorry to hear nursery didn't go so well today Nutella . Hope tomorrow is better, I'm sure she'll settle in with them in no time.

You're not missing much with the weetabix tbh, G loves them but I'm not keen. Takes a shovel full of sugar to make them edible IMO, and they absorb milk like a sponge and end up as piles of soggy mush.

I just got into bed and he's waking up. Sigh.

katiechoc_2

Turtle your OH may be on to something with his chocolatey weetabix! I am definitely trying that! Ergh to mushing them up though, and without sugar?:eek:

I think he's going off again with his dummy. Fingers crossed. Off to the docs with him tomorrow, got a list of things I was hoping would clear up on their own but so far he's got; wheezy cough, gammy eye, and a slight rash on his tummy. None of it seems to be bothering him but want to get him checked over.

Good luck with the nursery viewing, let us know how it goes

martafdz

Moneypenny, I think that a teat.number two should let the milk out even quicker, although your lo might get less wind if she doesn't need to suck as hard. Have you thought of the Medela calma bottle? It's designed for breastmilk and to alternate with breastfeeding, because they need to do similar work to get the milk out. It's also one size, there are not different teats, the more your lo sucks the more your lo gets, as with breast.

I'm exhausted, my parents arrived and they have been with us for about 12h today staring at the baby in awe. Not that much of a problem itself, but this lo gets all worked up when she's over stimulated, and we had a full crying with tiny tears evening. It breaks my heart to see.her like that, and the.tiny lips trembling. she usually sleeps 8-9 during the day and today she slept around three and in the sling, all very short naps because at the tiniest sign of her waking up she had the grandparents at an inch over her face saying "oooh, look at her, she's waking up", so obviously she ended waking up. Everything was more or less ok until 5, when she started a circle.of feeding.for two minutes, crying for half an hour, trying to sleep for ten minutes, start all over and add 15bonus minutes to the crying part every time. I felt so sorry for her! You could see she was exhausted! Then she fell asleep five minutes after they left, but kept having nightmares and waking up a bit or opening her arms and legs suddenly as if she were scared. I tried to put her in her moses after a while but she woke up immediately and started crying, so now I'm fulfilling my role of mattress and having her on top of me to see if she manages to go over an hour sleep! Poor little thing. I think going out didn't help, too many new things sounds, people, etc. She hated the pram and I had to carry her all the time, at least I had taken with me the sling as well, so it was easier than normal arm carrying. That sling is the best thing ever.

missbunbury

Hiya, some of you will remember that the last couple of weeks I have been stressing over my eight week old's slow weight gain, and struggling with a doctor who wasn't supportive of my desire to EBF and was pressuring me to supplement. A quick update: Alice and I struggled through the snow today to the clinic where we found she has gained 5 and a half ounces this week. Then went in to see the nasty doctor who said "oh great, that's perfect, did you finally take my advice to give her a bottle then?" I took great pleasure in telling him that actually I didn't, and I feel about a million times better now. Thanks so much to all the ladies who posted advice and reassurance, I have definitely learned from this experience that I need to listen to my instincts, I know my baby better than anyone and if I hadn't got freaked by stupid lines on a stupid graph I could easily have known she was fine all along, she is developing beautifully and has spent this afternoon doing her very best to copy me blowing raspberries!

She also had her jabs today, thankfully with all the stressing over weight I had totally forgotten so had no chance to get worried about those, she did scream as the injections went in but bless her she pulled her bravest face and stopped crying within a minute or so, what a little trooper!

Just going to read back, will come back when I've read what you lot have been up to, but thanks again everyone, it really helped and meant a lot to me x

fluffnutter

*Nutella* wrote: »

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

You'll have to do a bit of sleuthing! You have a clue - you know I'm female

fluffnutter

moneypenny21 wrote: »

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!

When Freddie was small I thought it would be good to express and bottle-feed occasionally. I thought it would give me a bit of freedom - the OH could do feeds, I wouldn't have to get my boobies out in public etc. I quickly realised that it's quite a lot of hassle - not least the expressing but the feeding too. Freddie would do exactly what your LO is doing - I simply don't think he realised that he'd had a feed until he'd also been put on the boob, at which point he'd promptly sick a load back up. He got terrible wind too.

As it turns out I didn't have a lot of choice because I was so sore on one side that I could only bear to express for a while. Hence he had a bottle every other feed on and off for a week or two. After he'd finished the bottle I had to put him on my good boob else he'd never settle. I tried different bottles but it never made any difference - he'd always guzzle the bottle, then cry for boob, then throw up a bit. In the end I decided that combination feeding (albeit always with breastmilk) wasn't giving me the freedom I thought it would. It was tiring to express and stressful to feed him with the bottle.

I know it's not the solution to your problem but do you actually need to bottle-feed? If you're only doing it because you feel uncomfortable feeding in public, could you get your head round that? Once I'd got more confident with feeding, I was happy to do it in public. I started around 8 weeks and I've never looked back. Obviously you might have other reasons for wanting to bottle-feed too, or are simply prepared to persevere more than I was, but it's worth exploring your reasons. I think we're often led to think that expressing and bottle-feeding gives mums freedom, but if your baby doesn't take to the bottle, that freedom comes at too high a price. I think people think that bottle-feeding is this easy option but, just like the boob, your baby has to learn how to feed efficiently from a bottle.

I think it's good that Freddie would take a bottle. There was the odd occasion where it was simply much easier. But as a regular alternative to the boob? Didn't work for us.

fluffnutter

moneypenny21 wrote: »

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!!

I'm not sure I know what a milk blister is. Is it actually on the skin? Or inside the boob?

moneypenny21

Thanks fluff on phone with wriggly little one on knee so will reply more later.

Milk blister also know. As a bleb it's dry milk with a bit of skin over grown its not protruding it's under the surface

katiechoc_2

Quick post as need to get on with cooking and work but great news miss bunbury! Hope the nasty doctor was suitably humble?!

sunshine how's it going with you today?