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

lazywife

Saffagal wrote: »

well done for contacting a nursery so quickly. I still need to do that. I hate making phonecalls which is half the trouble.
I'm taking her to Bluewater to meet a friend for lunch. Its the furthest I'll have gone on my own with her, and on a Friday... Fingers crossed the traffic is kind!

Have a good day all

I took the cheats way out and emailed the "contact us" section on their website... I hate phone calls now as I'll guarantee T will decide he needs a feed NOW when I'm on the phone and start screaming.
Good luck with the journey. Remember,don't try to work to any sort of time that might get you and A flustered, just go with the flo and if she needs feeding every hour to settle her, go with it.x

morocha wrote: »

i had to hold her like the monkey holds the baby lion in Lion King... she looks so cute,

Aaaaw cute.x

morocha

btw, here is me and Jade
Bear in mind, just woken up, messy hair and no make up

Mrshaworth2b

Wow lo just had really bad belly ache, threw up on the both of us, screamed for a good half hour and managed to head butt my mouth twice, his head looks a little red where he head butt me, I felt like I should have been crying too ouch!

What pap weather, I love getting out for a walk but it's raining again! Lo has fallen asleep on my shoulder from crying so much. Don't you hate it? I just want to take the pain away for him what's the weather like for you guys?

morocha

well my baba had a bit of a cold, nothing to bad but decided to keep her in all week... im so bored, fed up etc..that i have been stuffing my face every single day, i mean i lost my pregnancy weight the first week and now instead of getting better, toning up, loosing pre pregnancy i actually gaining weight even so normally i eat so little, im starting to wonder if the pnd pills they have given me are messing me up; i had a good body image but now im getting so down about my weight that im thinking of stopping them.

martafdz

Don't stop any medication, go to the GP and ask, if it's the case that those tablets have that kind of secondary effect, they might be able to change them or figure out a way to help you. I have not lost much of my pregnancy weight really, other than her weight and the placenta's weight, I think so far I have lost about 5lb since. I'm just trying not to stress about it, it will come off eventually I guess.

Mrshaworth2b

Back on the staydown milk- had 3 weeks on the comfort milk and his reflux is back with vengeance! He's spent today screaming and I've been having to change him 3 times a day for the last week, he's been throwing up so much milk!

I rang the hv for her opinion, she said to put him back on staydown but go back to the docs because obviously he's going to get constipated again!

I can't wait till we can start weaning! It's too hard trying to control his reflux when the dr won't give us anything and there's a waiting list for the baby dr at the hospital

fluffnutter

I think there's this big conspiracy around babies sleeping through that people have just blindly bought into. From birth it's all about 'establishing a routine' and 'make sure you put them into their cots awake and at the same time each day'. From six months, you're told 'babies over six months are fully able to sleep through the night'.

There's this implicit message all the time that you're spoiling them, you're teaching them bad habits, that you're making a rod for your own back, that you're a bad parent, that if you boob your baby back to sleep you're practically murdering it, that, heavens above, if you so much as guiltily enjoy the odd night with your baby in your bed then he or she will either die of cot death or they'll still be in there when they're 15.

IME, through talking to other mums and through a bit of internet research, many babies don't sleep through the night until they're at least one. By 12 months, only one third are regularly sleeping through, the rest are still waking one or more times a night. Always remember too, that 'sleeping through' only means five hours or so, from about midnight to 5am - not exactly most people's idea of an uninterrupted night's sleep.

There's a whole industry devoted to encouraging babies to 'sleep through', perhaps motivated in part, and understandably so, by many mothers' need to go back to work but, cynically, also to sell books. Sod what everyone else says, sod the advice. Lower your expectations, just as the always excellent Gillyx advises, and enjoy your baby whilst he or she is tiny through the inevitable haze of sleep deprivation.

Bamama

Well said Fluff

Gillyx

Aw Fluff you make me blush

Mrs H, push for a quicker referral, rapid response is what you want to ask for. Is he in pain? If the reflux is severe, weaning won't automatically solve it, and could cause issues if not done under the advice of a pead. There could be an intolerance there. Push for the referral, they should see you in 3 weeks or less as you have such a little one. What medication have you been given so far? Have you tried feed thickener?

morocha

Yes, i know Marta but i have lost all the weight from the pregnancy, only 4.5 kg and then some of my own weight the first week... i was a size 8, then week 2 i started these pills and i am a size large 10- small 12 now... Ive stopped then now as i want to exercise and i have been exercising apart from this wk, with bad weather and poorly baby.