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

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Sammie, sending you a big hug I'm sure all will be well, but better get things checked out to be on the safe side. Hope your referral comes through quickly.

Lola888

My friend's little girl is quiet. She just likes to sit, she doesn't really crawl. If you put her down she stays there- nothing like my LO she's off! Mabel will happily sit and just watch the worl go by, she is younger than my LO by about 1.5 mths if I remember correctly, but weighs a good 1.5kg more! She loves her food and just likes to watch. I picked her up once and she just looked at me, my LO wiggles, claps and will touch your nose, slap you in the face!! She just doesn't like to stay still.

I just think all babies are different.

choccielover

Lola888 wrote: »

I'm getting a bit stressed, my LO refuses cow's milk, I don't mind bf, but I've gone back to work almost f/t and I'm expressing, but its getting less and less. I used to be able to get a 7oz bottle in one pumping session, now its more like 2oz. I bf her when I'm home in the mornings, which is 8 out of 10 days. She always takes a bottle in the evening as she refuses the boob completely. Recently I've been giving her around 6oz of ebm with 2oz of cow's milk mixed in, she'll drink that. I'm trying to wean her off the boob, I'm going to give her 5oz of ebm with 3oz of cow's milk next week, then 4oz with 3oz etc. I just hope I can express enough to get her totally on to cow's milk.

HV keeps saying I should give her a beaker, she won't drink anything apart from squash or juice from a beaker and then its only a small amount so I'm going to stick with bottles and just tell the HV yeah yeah I'm giving her a beaker!!

Have you thought about coconut milk? It's naturally sweeter tasting so possibly closer in flavour to bm than cows milk. It's what I have my LO on and she loves it. I still bf first and last, and through the night as needed so its really just to supplement that.

Choccie

Lola888

choccielover wrote: »

Have you thought about coconut milk? It's naturally sweeter tasting so possibly closer in flavour to bm than cows milk. It's what I have my LO on and she loves it. I still bf first and last, and through the night as needed so its really just to supplement that.

Choccie

Thansk for the tip I'll have to look into it, never thought about coconut milk before. I did think about formula, but I'm a bit reluctant as it feels like a step backward :undecided

It's heartbreaking when I express all day and she leaves a couple of ounces in the bottle. I know in the grand scheme its not a lot, but it takes me ages to get 2oz now. I used to pump so much I donated my freezer stash to a mum who couldn't keep up with her LO as she couldn't take dairy, then my supply started to dry up, typical!!

PurpleFairy26

Hi everyone. Hope everyone had a good night. Our last two have definitely been better. Last night she went down at 7.45 and slept til 6. Has just had a feed and is now snoozing on me.

Someone was asking about fussy feeders, sorry I can't remember who . My LO definitely is. Some feeds she will come on and off numerous times. Sometimes just suckling once before she's back off. It depends, sometimes I just take her off for a few minutes if she's not upset and then have another go. Sometimes I just try and go back to basics making sure she's in the right position a perfect latch tends to stop it. However I must admit some feeds nothing works, I just have to put up with the frustration! A muslin over them sometimes helps if they are getting distracted.

HTH

Hopefully another sunny day everywhere for everyone. Hoping to try a new playground today for the 2 of them. Have a good day everyone

katiechoc_2

Hugs Sammie, I'm sure he's fine. Hope you get to see someone quickly to out your mind at rest.

Yay for clapping Fluff! George doesn't clap, or wave anymore either! He has just about mastered the high five though.

Little terror is waking up at 5-5.30am every day at the moment, need to get a black out blind ASAP but its a velux window so blinds are £££. Anyway, he's down for his first nap already so I need to get cracking on this bomb site so I can do some baking later.

PurpleFairy26

Katiechoc. I think this is where I got mine from, although it was a while ago. Obviously the velux authentic are more but the others are great value. I left it ages to get one as I thought they were all going to be so expensive.

http://valeblinds.com/roof-skylight-loft-blinds/vale-for-velux/vale-for-velux-blackout-blinds?gclid=CNCr2vK--bYCFZQZtAodTz4AwQ

It made a huge difference to our room.

Boo to early waking.

martafdz

I have easyblind, they stick onto the pvc frame with Velcro.

I tried to post twice only to get a call in the middle of it and lost what I had typed (I use the phone). Someone asked about sleep routines. We have a bedtime routine, it used to be longer but now it's simplified because she was getting irritable in the middle of it because she just wanted to sleep, so I cut down the book. I change her nappy, put a long sleeve vest, put cream on her legs and arms, put on the sleeping bag (I only use it at night, so this usually tells her is bedtime), I then go to the other room, no lights and curtains drawn, I put Ewan and tell her it's sleepy time, I feed her a bottle and if she's not overtired she falls asleep before she finishes it. It took a few weeks to work, at first she didn't get that it was night time and would need to be rocked to sleep (my fault, I know) or other times she would still be wide awake and wanted to play. However, we stuck to it, same things, same order, around the same time (between 7pm and 7:30pm) and now she starts to be sleepy when I put the sleeping bag and the whole process including the feed takes me under half an hour most days. Before establishing the routine, she would stay awake until 8:30pm or so, and then some days she would cry to sleep because of being overtired. With naps, however, I don't have a time. I go with her. I use a baby app (baby connect) and I know that she gets sleepy 60-90min after waking up, she sleeps for 30-40 min and then stats awake for 2h before needing a nap again. She usually has to sleep 40 min every two hours awake, but she can manage three hours before bedtime, so I keep her awake after 4pm. She's changing the pattern again, I think, as now she's had a couple of longer naps at lunch and stayed awake for longer before bedtime. This pattern happened from three months onward, before she was sleeping longer naps, one to two hours, and staying awake no more than an hour and a half at a time. She was also going to sleep later and woke up more often at night. I log everything, it's like second nature now, it just helps me to see changes and keeps me informed of when she ate last or how much she's slept today, etc. I'm having rubbish memory lately, so it helps me relax if I know I'm not making her hungry or overtired by thinking she's just fed when she hasn't, or similar. I plan to print the log for the year and hard bind it for her, so she can see it when she's older or for when she has her own kids, so she can see what she was doing at specific weeks.

I went to do the scan and everything is fine. My tummy pains must be something else then.

Fluff, you always have so amazing pics! He looks such a happy baby!!
Thanks for that link on babycalm, I was worried I was not doing the sleep training that tv and books and family told me I should do, but I'm going to go with my baby rhythm

martafdz

Amazon has the discovery jumperoo at £83, but if you are enrolled on Amazon family, you have a 15% off code KMQR2JBT until Sunday , so it works out like £70, but if you are not in Amazon family yet and you do the three month trial now (free) then you also get the £10 voucher on top, so it works out at £60.

PurpleFairy26

Well went to play group. Helpers were lovely and DD had great time. Felt like a bit of an outcast though was rather clicky. Will go again though as DD really enjoyed herself. Im big and ugly enough to cope with people being ignorant

Both have tested my patience since we got home though. LO decided not to sleep today so just wants cuddles and DD just being defiant so has spent a bit of time on the naughty step :eek:

Hopefully DH won't be too late home from work if he's not caught in bank hol traffic. Have a good night