MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

*Nutella*

Morocha, yay for sleep! It's amazing what a difference a bit of sleep can make You sound like you're taking some practical and positive steps, which is great and which I'm sure will make you feel better. Enjoy your walk! I went for a walk with LO in the buggy every day too, no matter how tired I was, and it always made me feel better. Granted, she was born in May so the weather was a bit better, but still... As for dummies, my dad thinks whoever invented them should get the Nobel Peace Prize, and I think he has a point

PS: Huggies doesn't suit any shape - they leak, leak, leak! No wonder they will no longer be sold in the UK and Ireland - I don't know anyone who'd buy them once their pile of free and/or heavily discounted ones run out...

Aimless

Marta, strange as it may sound, sometimes if you eat too little you can't lose weight, as your body clings onto its reserves as it doesn't know when it'll next get fed!

However, it is slow going. Over a year on I still can't get into my old jeans!

aventurine

Hugs Morocha, I feel your pain. DS1 was a 'colicky' baby (I now think he had reflux but it wasn't really known about 15 years ago!) I lived on brandy for the first four months of his life Years later, if I hear that particular kind of shriek/cry from a young baby, it turns my insides to mush

Yay for dummies here too! We have the avent ones, they have been a sanity saver for sure. I would like to wean her off them once she gets to the 3-4 month mark, but we'll see how we go. DS1 had one till he was three, but only for sleeping in the end. However, it was very difficult to get him to give them up. I bought him a train set and told him it was in place of the dummies, he happily enjoyed playing with it till bedtime that night, when he cried and cried that he'd changed his mind, and the train set could go back to the shop!!

We have stopped using the gaviscon here, as it seemed to make her worse. She was very unsettled with tummy pain, and I had an awful night with her after she started with it the previous day. I've had better results with gripe water, she's been much more settled. She has an amazing amount of wind for such a tiny human being though, but she's handling being able to expel it much better. I'm using Woodwards at the moment, but have read rave reviews about Mama's Bliss - it's a natural product which I'm all in favour of, but it does cost 3 or 4 times as much as Woodwards.

LO is now rolling! I thought it was a fluke when she did it yesterday, but she did it again on her playmat this morning. She's a big strong girl, and has been holding her head up unsupported for quite a while now. I have to remember how young she is, and not treat her like she's a month or two older because of her size lol. TBH although I'm really enjoying her and appreciating all the cuddles etc..I do prefer babies when they can do a bit more for themselves (like sit up unaided etc) and I'm really looking forward to the toddler stage - I love 'em!

Well off for a walk to the shop in a mo - I also have weight to loose. It's only half a stone or so, but as I'm a lady of erm..more mature years *cough*, it's not so easy for me to loose it!

dizziblonde

I have a load of weight to lose - from before I was pregnant the first time (I was back in pre-pregnancy jeans after a fortnight last time but I put that down to the crap hospital food starvation diet)... since we now have no local bus routes I'm expecting to lose a load of it having to walk up and down the stupidly evil local hill pushing a double buggy - especially since the library's closed for a 5 month refurb too so that's another mile and a half or so walk in the opposite direction with another stupidly evil killer hill too (we really didn't pick right with a house on the TOP of the stupidly evil killer hill did we - although I guess if it ever manages to flood our street Noah will be out in his ark).

I'm physically really struggling now - not quite sure what to do with things - had to drive a bit yesterday - needed the car for the afternoon to get to the midwife, so I'd dropped hubby at work in the morning, gone to baby group in the morning (even though it's killing me getting there I'm trying to keep some consistency and getting out of the house going for Erin), then midwife in the afternoon and off to pick hubby up - of course the snow meant traffic was really bad as the council didn't seem to have gritted well so there was no grip - so everyone was creeping along at like 15mph, so loads of on and off the clutch needed - by the time I got to his work, which is only normally 10 mins or so drive away, I was sobbing in pain and barely able to move my clutch leg to get out of the car to let him drive home... my mum can come down next weekend to help a bit- but I can't anticipate flareups of the SPD and when exactly I'll need the help most (and if one more medical bod suggests I go to the group physio to sit there for an hour being told to keep my legs together - when I had a fairly extensive one to one physio last time so I've been told all the stuff about getting out of cars, pillows between knees etc and I already have crutches I can't flipping use! - grrr) to try to get her down to help then... plus every time she comes down it's mayoral appointments she needs to dodge out of, and there's tonnes of other political stuff she does that sometimes she can't rearrange or send apologies for... I really do not want MIL down "helping" as she's so judgemental and confidence-bashy (and has NOOOOO concept of personal space which has always driven me nuts), but the only other alternative is that I basically either send Erin to my mum's for a while (which will kill me - and again - she's got all these meetings and appointments and what-not - and she'd end up falling back on my cousin to mind the baby then... this being whooping cough cousin whom I want Erin to have minimal contact with anyway because of her behaviour in the past) without me - which is a no-go, or I go up and stay there for a period of time - which again, leaves me without hubby and Erin without daddy (whom she idolises), and I'd be if anything MORE isolated and housebound there, plus I'm hitting the point of strings of medical appointments down here anyway - and the last family member who went into the hospital up where my parents lived caught a hospital infection and came out in a wooden box.

Not quite sure how to work things - so existing on paracetamol and codeine to try to get through the day.

katiechoc_2

Thanks ladies, the small one is a bundle of tears at the moment. He picked up earlier and we had half an hour of our usual cheeky monkey (with an added trail of snot which was just lovely) but he's gone off again so got a docs appt in about an hour. I'm in desperate need of an intravenous shot of oats or something - we were down to just 2 or 3 bfs a day but he was on pretty much all last night and is firmly attached again now.

Dizzi hope the painkillers take the edge off a bit, no good saying take it easy when you've already one LO running you ragged, but try!

*Nutella*

Marta, my body shape has changed too (bigger hips here as well) - I now weigh less than I did when I got pregnant but most of my old trousers still don't fit

tazzyb

Morocha I got a Victoria slinglady wrap last week and I love it. It is great when LO will not let me put him down just strap him to my front and he is as happy as larry. It does get a bit warm using it in the house so I just have him with a body suit and socks on. I do the froggy leg wrap.

LO is 11lb 14oz now a gain or 14oz in a week.

aventurine

Meant to have added to my earlier post that I have 3 unopened boxes of infant gaviscon. If anyone would like them, please feel free to PM me your address and I'll put them in the post

savageHK

tazzyb wrote: »

The last few days he has started to get upset while feeding screaming and crying while still attached, pulling back the. Pushing his face right into my boob the leaving go. Legs and arms kicking and waving like crazy. Then wanting to latch straight back on. I have tried winding him and offering other boob but neither seems to help. It only lasts a few minutes then he finishes feed happily. It is also not happening every feed. Not seeing HV for over a week. Any advice and suggestions would be great. Thanks

This might be the same as what mine did for a while and still sometimes does. No crying here but he'd de-latch, then arms/legs waving and head bobbing up and down above my nipple like a mad baby but with no latching/sucking. I think this is what others here call 'flutter' feeding and it's supposed to help your milk. Apparently. Aren't babies nuts?

morocha

my baby does the same thing !

LO has been in better mood today, i gave her gaviscon after her first feed in the morning and she has been fine today, bit of crying then pooing and struggling with wind but nothing too bad... ill get gripe water if it does not work colief then..

what is that toy that mimics the sound of the womb called ? been reading about tapes and soothing babies apparently the earlier you start the better.. i want to get one.