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savageHK

moneypenny mine is about the same age and I find as long as he's in the bumbo and can see me, if I smile or coo at him he's fine. Occasionally he wants to be picked up but often if he's been lying down moving him to his bumbo makes him happy.

silly_moo

martafdz wrote: »

Anti-colic bottles: I use Dr Browns. I like them because they worked for us but I wish I had tried MAM before buying a whole set of Dr Brown's. The reason is that they leak if you put hot water, if you prepare the bottle with water that is too warm and you put it in a container with cold water to cool, you'll notice that the water has turned white because some milk has leaked out. This is due to the design and the vent, so you need to prepare bottles at the right drinking temperature or cooled.

We had exactly the same problem with MAM bottles until I googled that it's something to do with temperature differences and pressure (don't remember exactly now) and that it only happens if the top is firmly on. True enough, we now loosen the top slightly before putting hot bottle in cold water and haven't had any leaks since.

My LO NEVER had colic, although I don't know if it's due to MAM bottles or if my baby was just not colicky at all.

sunshine_1988

Evening ladies

Happy birthday Sammie!!! :j

Hope everyone is okay. Not read back properly, have an awful cold here too missed a day of the shred yday as I felt so rough. Just done it now, so hoping it gets rid of some of the cold bug.

Will read back when I go up to bed. night xxx

Cake4brains

MrsAshworth, we are on Staydown. Have been using it since Boxing day and it has totally changed our lives! Mollie is a very sicky baby and was crying and generally unhappy til we started on it. She has thrived. I did ask the doc if we could get it on prescription after the cashier in Boots told us we could get it from the doc instead of paying for it. He'd never heard of it and wouldn't prescribe it but definitely give it a go. Hopefully your doc will.

It sounds such a faff with it having to be cooled water but we just make the bottles up and put them in the fridge. We make them up when they're cold and warm in a jug of water when needed. The only thing that I don't like about it is having to roll it between your hands instead of shaking cos I sometimes don't roll it fast enough and it can get small clumps of formula left in it which clogs the teat. I just get OH to roll it instead!

Re colic stopping at 3 months. It definitely didn't for us :cool: In fact its only in the last month or so that its stopped and the girls are now 6 months. We tried Infacol which I cant really be sure worked and so we changed to gripe water which seems a lot better. We've stopped using it in the last couple of days (had whittled it down to twice a day) so hoping the girls will be ok without it

Candlewax, I took Mollie to the doc at about 3 months about her being wheezy, her chest sounded kind of rattly. But apparently its just the way she breathes! He listened to her chest and said its not her lungs at all she's just a noisy breather :rotfl:. If it had continued I would have taken her back but I noticed she only seemed to do it when she was concentrating or excited about something and I haven't heard her do it in ages now. If yours continues I would keep taking him back though

Sweaty Betty, if I could be bothered to express a few times a day I totally would, cos with the amount I eat since I had the girls I should be the size of a sumo wrestler :rotfl: BF has been a godsend to my waistline :T

Sorry

Wont work for much longer though, I only BF once or twice through the night now and that seems to be ending

Amelia had been babbling for the last 2 days. She's been coming out with ba, da and ga :T. Now she's found her voice she wont stop, I love it!! Wonder how long that will last :rotfl:

Mollie started with 'ba' a couple of days ago but hasn't progressed past that yet. Cant wait til they 'chat' to each other

Mrshaworth2b

Cake4brains, Marta - thanks for the replies. The staydown milk seems to be helping with the reflux, he's not throwing any up, just a little yesterday but I only changed him once rather than 3 times! He's not choking on any spit, doesn't smell of acid and seemed more content.

We've used infacol for one day now, however I'm not convinced he has colic, yesterday he was absolutely fine, only cried because of belly ache, that's what I think the prob is, however gripe water wasn't helping so maybe infacol will be more our friend. It takes a couple of days to build so will let you know. Decided against the change if bottles for the time being, spending £30/£40 on new ones that may not even help can wait

I'm starting to feel better this morning - haven't do e the shred but not needed to - lost 2lb from having 4 slices of toast in 2 days!!

Sammie_03

sunshine_1988 wrote: »

Evening ladies

Happy birthday Sammie!!! :j

Hope everyone is okay. Not read back properly, have an awful cold here too missed a day of the shred yday as I felt so rough. Just done it now, so hoping it gets rid of some of the cold bug.

Will read back when I go up to bed. night xxx

Thanks.

I missed the shred yesterday as I felt like crap! Ill give it a go today but not sure how well I will do. Hope you're feeling better.
X

*Nutella*

Morning all

Hope everyone is well and that the little people slept.

Happy belated birthday Sammie! Glad Noah is on the mend.

My LO has a new favourite toy: the Leapfrog Lettersaurus that she got for her birthday. She plays the alphabet song again and again and again and again... Amazingly though, despite having heard it approx. one million times over the past four days, I still don't find it annoying

I'm working from home today, and we've got her MMR later this morning - I'm dreading it, but thankfully OH is coming too, and with the current measles outbreak being predicted to hit London sooner rather than later, I just want to get it over and done with asap

I'm going to do my best to actually do some work rather than being on here today, but I'm sure I'll be back soon...

Have a good day all x

fluffnutter

moneypenny21 wrote: »

Good luck tomorrow morocha

marta - glow in the dark dummies have revolutionised my nights

Has anyone used controlled crying? I'm sure I read recently on here someone did. I never wanted to use it but I'm feeling at a loss at what to do. Little one used to fall asleep anywhere, she now fights it and fights it and screams blue murder until she is rocked to sleep. She also now cries hysterically if she is perhaps bored and wants picking up. She has just been sitting in her bouncy chair and screamed until I picked her up. She is now merrily sitting on my knee quite happy.

I don't know what to do about the overtired screaming, I feel like we've regressed back to the early days where she needed coercing to sleep. She is five months now. The last month has been hard as she has definitely had the 4 month sleep regression - she has had the same amout of feeding in the day as usual but wakes up all night crying and 50% of the time she wont sleep unless she is fed. the other 50% she wants her dummy back which is fine, though she has also taken to clamping her lips shut to refuse the dummy, prefering to get hysterical instead. She is fine as soon as she is picked up.

It's quite draining, the relentless crying and unsettledness, obviously she is awake half the night so must be tired in the day (we certainly are), then she cries hysterically because she is overtired in the day. It's just a recurring cycle.

Don't know what to do at all but feel like we need to do something - parents suggested letting her cry it out but I'm not sure that's the right thing for us to do. I'm not sure what is the right thing but I know we need to do something.

She is great at going to sleep at night after her last bottle in her cot in the dark, try that in the day and she just screams wildly.

I'm even wondering if she is unwell in someway but there is nothing obvious - as I say she is fine when picked up, I've given her extra feeds in case it is hunger but nothing is working!

Anyone had anything similar and any solutions? Please help!
Yours Sincerely
Exhausted Moneypenny

The good news and the bad news...? Sounds totally normal to me The problem is that means there are no quick solutions. They're always fine when they're picked up - they're little babies who like to be held! I think it's really hard to start establishing a nap routine and you just have to be patient. At 10 months Freddie now naps well in the morning but I have no success with putting him in his cot in the afternoon. I just go out really. In the car or in the pram and he tends to sleep. I do think that napping helps with the night time sleep. Like you say they get overtired otherwise.

The only thing I can suggest is don't worry about a routine - the important thing is that your little one has about 2 - 3 hours nap a day. When these naps are or where they are (e.g. cot, car, pram) is unimportant.

Everything will pass and you won't be exhausted for ever. She'll slowly find her own routine. I wouldn't recommend controlling crying for under six month olds. And even if they're over that age, you need nerves of steel. There are gentler ways to change sleeping habits but I wouldn't worry about that at the moment.

savageHK

Oh yes forgot to add - the rattly wheezy breathing thing - we have that here too occasionally, think it's normal. Only occasionally though, if it went on for longer than a few minutes or he seemed bothered (he's not) I might be more worried.

Kayalana99

Hey guys :-)

Sorry to hjack a little was wondering is it not normal for a 9month old to bite?

We went to see a childminder we was thinking of going to and she was letting him play with her hands and well...he grabbed them and put them straight in his mouth and bit her...but her reaction was pure shock and she looked at me and said Does he normally do that?!? and well honestly I just said yes.

Thing is he's just turning 9months and doesn't have any sense of right and wrong atm (well hardly lol) and its not that he is intentionally being nasty he just puts everything in his mouth atm !!

Am I wrong to think this is normal at his age?