MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 2

*Nutella*

silly_moo wrote: »

nutella - my LO is 8.5 months and I'm still washing his new clothes. I think I'll be doing it for a while, after all you don't know how many times they were dropped on the floor and by how many people they were touched before you bought them.

This is exactly why I'm still washing new clothes at almost 11 months. But when, the other day, I washed a duvet cover and some dresses bought online from Mothercare I was starting to think that I was being a bit OCD - they were wrapped in plastic and had clearly never been anywhere near a shopfloor or another customer... I think I'll stop washing stuff bought online, but continue doing it with shop-bought stuff. We've never bought anything second hand for her

*Nutella*

Thanks so much for all your replies about cow's milk and washing clothes

Katie, yay for sleep! Sounds like he's finally cracked it

Sammie, sorry to hear the germs are spreading

Jannine, hope you're feeling better.

Gilly, hope he slept in the end and that your journey back home wasn't too bad. And that the war wound is healing

We had a terrible night - she's got a cold and she's teething; she woke up at 11pm with a fever which Nurofen took care of, but she was utterly miserable and just wanted cuddles. I was up until 2am when she finally fell asleep in my bed, but she then proceeded to cough every 10-15 mins or so for the next two hours (so I barely slept) until she woke up again at 4am. At 5am I gave her some milk as I couldn't take being awake anymore - she then fell asleep for another hour and a half She's very tired and not her usual cheerful self today - and how is it possible for such a small body to produce such an enormous amount of snot?!...

Just back from a nice walk though - lovely weather today

Hope everyone else is well x

Mrshaworth2b

When making bottles how long do you ladies leave the kettle to cool? I know it's no longer than half hour, so can you wait about 15 minutes so then theres not much time to wait for the bottle to cool?

Also did any of you make up the feeds for night time so then you didn't have a screaming baby for half hour?

dizziblonde

Considering booking a docs appointment re reflux - what's going on isn't normal - the constant demands to snack tiny feeds incessantly, the sick after every meal, the discomfort lying down all adds up to me. She just doesn't seem a very comfortable baby at all ever.

I'd ask the health visitor when she comes tomorrow but she just annoys me too much and will have me on weekly treks down to the flipping baby clinic if I mention any concerns to her - and if there's one thing I cannot be bothered with this time around it's weekly trips to the hell of babyclinic (or Rate My Buggy Clinic as I mentally dubbed it long ago - they all look your pushchair up and down as you enter the clinic like some kind of stranger entering the bar on a bad spaghetti western). Plus she's effing useless - her greatest hits last baby were missing a tongue tie (which is blatantly obvious when you compare how the two girls stick their tongues out as well) and a massively long and large umbilical hernia!

dizziblonde

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

When making bottles how long do you ladies leave the kettle to cool? I know it's no longer than half hour, so can you wait about 15 minutes so then theres not much time to wait for the bottle to cool?

Also did any of you make up the feeds for night time so then you didn't have a screaming baby for half hour?

I boil the kettle and bung it into a thermos flask so it's got the time to drop off boiling and to the right temperature - then make the bottle with flask water (I'll normally get two feeds out of one kettle boil this way) to half, the formula into the hot water, note how much the water level rises when the formula's added and fill to the amount needed plus that little water level rise from the formula going in with cooled boiled water from the fridge to bring the temperature down to make it immediately drinkable - if any of that makes sense. The full on "official" way would have worked OK with Erin who is very patient when it comes to waiting for bottles... Robyn goes from asleep to full on small and wrathy mode within about 2 seconds and has one HELL of a set of lungs on her so no way!

OK well actually what I normally do is yell at hubby to make the bottle up FOR me...

Going to go on the hunt for some small new toys to keep in a treasure box to just get out when I'm feeding Robyn as Erin's started to look at me, grin, giggle and go straight to get into mischief when I am so I suspect there's more than a touch of jealousy sneaking in there - want something new and special I can restrict to feeding times to entertain her - as sitting on the floor feeding blocking off different hazards she makes a beeline for with various body parts is starting to resemble a game of twister.

*Nutella*

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

When making bottles how long do you ladies leave the kettle to cool? I know it's no longer than half hour, so can you wait about 15 minutes so then theres not much time to wait for the bottle to cool?

Also did any of you make up the feeds for night time so then you didn't have a screaming baby for half hour?

I'd leave a full-ish kettle for 20-25 minutes. I make up a 24-hour supply of bottles in one go - that's only two now, but it used to be 6 or 7. Just make them all in one go, cool down quickly in cold water (adding ice cubes to the water is even better), then store at the back of the fridge. Pour out anything not used within 24 hours.

moneypenny21

Cripes I didn't think about grubby hands touching shop clothes! All new clothing shall now be washed pre-wearing

dizzi - sounds like you are right, all classic signs of reflux

mrsashworth2b - I don't bottle feed LO in the night but if I did, I would sterilise the bottle before bedtime, put boiling water in the kettle and let it cool then have the powder tub next to me at bedtime to put the powder in. However, we have never warmed a bottle for the baby as we didn't start giving her formula until about 8 weeks and she just wasn't bothered by it being hot/cold. The only time I warm it is if it has been expressed, been in the fridge and is really cold. Not sure that helped!

*Nutella*

moneypenny21 wrote: »

mrsashworth2b - I don't bottle feed LO in the night but if I did, I would sterilise the bottle before bedtime, put boiling water in the kettle and let it cool then have the powder tub next to me at bedtime to put the powder in.

Unless I've misunderstood this, my concern would be that the water won't be hot enough to kill the bacteria in the formula when you add the powder? I think it needs to be something like 70 degrees, varying a little from brand to brand?

silly_moo

Mrshaworth2b wrote: »

When making bottles how long do you ladies leave the kettle to cool? I know it's no longer than half hour, so can you wait about 15 minutes so then theres not much time to wait for the bottle to cool?

Also did any of you make up the feeds for night time so then you didn't have a screaming baby for half hour?

I don't cool the water at all, I add the powder to the freshly boiled water and then cool the made up bottle in a jug of cold water.

I never made formula in advance - I make each bottle as it's needed. We feed him at regular intervals and he adjusted very quickly to that so I don't think I had a hungry screaming baby more than a handful of times. Usually the bottle is already ready when he's due to eat.

moneypenny21

*Nutella* wrote: »

Unless I've misunderstood this, my concern would be that the water won't be hot enough to kill the bacteria in the formula when you add the powder? I think it needs to be something like 70 degrees, varying a little from brand to brand?

Ooh crikey I think my brain has gone to mush since having a baby - I'm not sure why I thought adding powder to cooled boiled water would kill bacteria Luckily babs has been fine up to now but I will go and collect my brain from a shelf and make sure I put the powder in when the water is hot enough. :eek:

Where would I be without this thread?! :eek::rotfl: Thanks to Gilly I realised that MAM bottles come apart in 5 pieces, not the 3 I had been washing and sterilising.

Thanks to my Mum I found out that sterilisers don't wash bottles, they only sterilise them Luckily I found these last two out after just a few bottles. It's amazing that babs HAS been fine actually :eek:

Thanks Nutella

P.S - Please...no one take advice from me!