MSE Newborn to 1 year Baby Club 1

jenjade

hey all,

off to uni for the morning and leaving Ellie with her daddy. feel very sad

Doglover

Knuckle down Jenjade and you'll be home before you know it :-)

WW I'm really glad the ball is rolling. Glad your LO is reflux free too :-). I'm sure with counselling and LO getting older you'll be feeling a million times better soon enough! You're doing fab by getting swimming again and joining the slimmers....that's something I must tackle!

Off to group this morn sp about to dive in the shower.

Will pm someone about Facebook thing. Hope you all have a good day x

Emily926

Morning all, had an ok night but LO didnt settle after her 0430 feed, i think she was trying to fill her nappy and she was grunting, groaning and squirming a lot, not crying but still kept us awake. Eventually changed and fed her again at 0640 and she has been difficult to settle, she has nodded off but keeps stiring.

I thought of something else that helped me with BF in the early days and stilll now when i have a wobble. As she only fed for 5-10 mins and had previously stopped feeding and got dehydrated i was always worring that she wasnt getting enough, so i wrote down the questions the mw would ask me. The answers were yes and it calmed me and gave me a bit of confidence. The questions are:

Does she feed for 5-40 mins 8-12 times a day?
Does she seem content after most feeds?
Is she having plenty of wet and dirty nappies? (What goes in comes out, if it hasnt gone in it cant come out)

Hope this helps some of you.

Those that have bought a vibrating bouncy chair, which would you reccomend. Have you found them useful?

There are some waterbabies classes advertised but they are really expensive £12-15 for 30 mins. You have to sign up for a course of 10 weeks. Has anyone done this?

Jenjade I hope your day goes quickly for you and you will be having mummy cuddles again soon.

keelykat

Hello, haven't had chance to post on here yet. We're still getting used to new routines, getting up early in the mornings to get my 3 year old to nursery has been a challenge!

Lewis has been to the doctors-the gp thinks he has reflux i was hoping to have a non-sicky baby this time around (my other son didn't properly get over it untill he was 14 months old). So we're trying gaviscon to begin with, see how we get on. I also need to get him weighed more often to make sure he doesn't loose weight.

We've also been given eye drops-as Lewis's eyes are still very sticky/gunky.

Hope everyone is ok. xx

Winnie_in_Pooh

Morning all!

Hugs Jenjade - hope your day flies by

Blaming baby brain, but I'm confused about the Facebook thing...who do I have to pm? Lol sorry for being thick!

Another day and I have read back but haven't retained any information! We're (I say we, DH sleeps all bl00dy night, I don't :mad:) still not getting much (if any) sleep so going to try to get him into his own room at the weekend because most of it is just him grunting and gribbling in his sleep! I've got a feeling he's got his days and nights muddled up so I need to work on sorting that out too.

Someone mentioned baby massage class? Do it, its amazing! I took F last week when he wasn't sleeping during the day or night and within half an hour of the class ending he had crashed out and stayed asleep for nearly 2 hours!

We start swimming lessons after half term. We're doing them through the Sure Start Childrens Centre which makes it just £15 for the term rather than the £15 a lesson they usually charge! Best thing about this is that I can afford to go to the mother and baby yoga group I found Physio says no exercise until I stop loosing weight though, but short of stopping breastfeeding I've no idea how to stop loosing weight! I eat like a horse! Oh well.

Womble - I'm glad to hear you're going to be getting some help

For those who's husbands are about to go back to work, the only bit of advice I would give you is try not to stress about the housework. It's near enough killing me (blimmin' OCD *roll eyes*) but there just aren't enough hours in the day to maintain a sparkling house and give bubs all the attention he needs!

Anyway, F is having a kip in his chair so I'm going to bung the kettle on. Hope everyone has a good Wednesday xxx

katchambers

Lauralou wrote: »

How do you cope when your OH's went back to work. OH goes back tomorrow and i'm really not looking forward to being on my own. I was nearly in tears yday thinking about OH not being here.

My hubby went back to work this week, he was at home for 6 weeks so it was a bit of a shock, but actually, I have been really enjoying myself, the freedom etc, of course I have been busy this week, I made lots of plans. Maybe if you book something in each day, even if its just going for a walk to the shops, that might help. There are loads of baby groups, maybe you could try one, swimming, library reading and rhyme time, meeting up with friends/colleagues, shopping, baby cinema etc.

Let us know how it goes honey
kat x

Lauralou

Hi all:D

I have read bck but forgotten everything:rotfl:

We think DD has got colic. past couple of nights at 8 she starts to scream/cry, nothing really seems to settle her, last night was better. We had a feed at 7.40 but only for 5mins, changed nappy offered more but didn't want it. Cried, so i was just cuddling her laying on the bed then offered her another feed at 9.30 which she took for 15mins, after still crying, changed nappy offered more but didn't want it was crying, so just cuddled her and she fell asleep on me(whilst watching shmeless!!) so i put her down at 10.40, then she started mking noises at 12.40 but i managed to get back to sleep then had another feed at 1.55 for 15mins, changed nappy, still awake i put her in her basket t 2.50, she was making noises but went to sleep, then woke up at 5.50 for a 20min feed. Put her back to sleep at 6.35 then woke up at 9ish for a 18min feed.

We topped and tailed this morning and i'm a bad mummy, i cut her nails and made her little finger bleed:(

WW hope your appointment went well. are you going back?

I would recommen breastfeeding groups. I went for the first time yday, and i did feel much better.

When do people start to go to groups? Is DD still too young to go? Shes 15days.

Mirror i hve PM'd you

phian

Thanks. I'll recommend this to my neice who's expecting.

carolineb23

Lauralou it's really common for babies to be a bit grumpy in the evenings until 10/12 weeks or so. Sophia was the same. She just wanted to feed all evening which it also totally normal. What you just described sounds like perfectly normal newborn behaviour, that's not to say it's not totally exhausting though! It will get easier when your LO stops needing a nappy change after every feed and when she gets more efficient at feeding. Since about 10 weeks I've only needed to get up once at night to feed (I dreamfeed her before we go to sleep)and I'm back asleep within 15 mins. Barring growth spurts of course. Then it's a whole different story!
I go to a breastfeeding support group every week and it really is brilliant. I hear so many women say they top up or switch to formula because they don't have enough milk, and I've learned from this group that in 99% of cases this isn't true, it's simply the baby cluster feeding to increase and maintain the mother's supply. So please don't feel disheartened if your newborn appears to be feeding all the time, they're clever little things and they're just telling your body to make more milk. Babies will also do this if bottle fed as it's an instinctive thing. This also happens before growth spurts so you have enough to cover their needs during the growth spurt. If you do feel you need a rest, expressing and feeding ebm is a good plan (I had to do this from one side to maintain supply while feeding from the other side when I had a cracked nipple). This way your supply won't dwindle as it would if you were to replace breastfeeds with formula. Of course, this would only be a problem if you did decide to contine with bfing.
ETA Jenjade, I'm sure you LO was fine with daddy today, hope it wasn't too traumatic for you.

loumac

OK - am being really special because i dont know how to send a PM?! I have however added new born mse mse as a friend on facebook.