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sunshine_1988

*Nutella* wrote: »

Evening all

Hope everyone's had a good day.

Claree, hope christening went well?

Sunshine, how is Aiden doing? We have a snotty little person here too

Good day here, although not much to report - had a nap (always a weekend highlight!), went to Sainsbury's and spent the afternoon listening to (or in LO's case, dancing to) 'It is wut it is' by Irie Love approximately 1000 times :rotfl: LO loves it (although thankfully I do too) - every time it finished she pointed at the speakers and said 'mah!' (more). Good thing Spotify Premium allows unlimited and offline use or it would have been a very expensive day!

Off to bed in a minute - hoping to get rid of a headache that seems to be getting worse

Oh bless your LO Aiden loves music too. We have deezer on our phones just for him really!

He is coughing quite badly atm, it is ever so odd because it is almost to the date last year when it began to get bad. He goes to sleep fine and then about an hour in we have horendous coughing where he struggles to catch his breath. After about 45mins of that he settles again. We have just given him some tixylix and his inhaler and I have come to bed armed with a bottle of water with some ice in. Its strange how this time of year it starts, when he had his hospital stay the drs said it could be down to asthma but I would have thought that would show all year round and not just when it gets cold. Either way, I think we are going to go back to the drs. If anything to put my mind at rest as I dont want him back in hospital.

Hope the christening went well? We had a letter from our parish inviting us to a service with all the baptised babies names inscribed on a bauble for a xmas tree!

Hope you sleep off the headache nutella and your LO isnt too snotty.

My hair fell out too, although its back to normal now

Night x x x

Mrshaworth2b

Morning all

Claree hope the christening was good, ihd the perfect prep sounds good, I however made all the bottles for 24hrs in one good so would prob do that again. Now lo is only on 3 bottles a day, it feels like I'm never feeding him a bottle now lol.

My weekend was poo, was meant to be going on a night out but plans changed last minute so we went to in laws for tea, which was nice but not what I had planned. So I came home and drank 2 glasses of wine and was very tipsy

Went to a nearly new sale yesterday and paid £2 each to get in, for it to be mostly tat! Felt like asking for my money back!
Lo had a screaming fit because I woke him up from a nap, in my defense, he had been asleep for a hour and it was nearly 6pm so not long till bed time. Anyway took a bottle to calm him down so he had not solid food for tea last night and a late bedtime!

Hope everyone is well, my hair has gotten thicker, not dropped out yet, strange.

Good morning!

fluffnutter

BabaMoose wrote: »

Hello,

Bit of a question here for BF mums... I'm a week in and.......... ow.

I went to a Bosom Buddies workshop which was fantastic and have got the latch sorted now, but the trouble I'm having is with the (not so) old pair when I'm just generally walking around and out and about.

Does anyone have any tips?! (no pun intended).

I was having another problem with sticking to breast pads, but mainly due to not drying off before going back to sleep in the middle of the night etc. so that hasn't been helping things along... but just wondered if there were any other sufferers?

Your boobs will settle. The first few weeks is madness. Use lansinoh. Apply it after every feed and after bathing/showering. I think sticking to breast pads is pretty normal. I certainly never bothered drying the nips before stumbling back to bed, plus you leak anyway so they won't stay dry. What type are you using? I switched to washable ones fairly quickly and found them much better although you do need a fairly snug bra to hold them in place. Avent were my faves. And get some really decent nursing bras.

Mrshaworth2b

Sammie, Noah is so cute, I hope my lo grows to be as cute

amus

Kira000 - Claudia - 13th January 2012 :female:
*Ro* - Scott - 17th January 2012 :male:
Mozzyc - Charlie - 17th February 2012 :male:
Sunshine_1988 - Aiden - 11th March 2012 :male:
Sammie 03 - Noah - 20th March 2012 :male:
Dizziblonde - Erin - 9th April 2012 (7weeks prem):female:
Katiechoc - George - 5th May 2012 :male:
Nutella - 11th May 2012 :female:
turtlemoose - Reuben - 4th June 2012 :male:
fluffnutter - Freddie - 6th July 2012 :male:
Cake4brains - Amelia & Mollie - 1st November 2012 :female::female:
Bamama - Dewi - 25th December 2012 :male:
Mrshaworth2b - Blake - 16th March 2013 :male:
Saffagal - A - 26th April 2013 :female:
Lazywife - Edward - 4th May 2013 :male:
Sparkles87 - 3rd July 2013 :female:
Claree__x - Eilis - 17th August 2013 :female:
amus - Anna - 1st October 2013 :female:
Continualdiamond - Scarlett - 6th October 2013 :female:
Tiny_courageous - Patrick - 6th October 2013 :male:
Bangton - Jefferson - 3rd October 2013 :male:

Sparkles87

Perfect prep is currently under £50 on amazon. Wish it had dropped sooner, LO is four months now so don't think we'd get enough use out of it as she generally sleeps through now.

Oscar_the_Pug

Kira000 - Claudia - 13th January 2012 :female:
*Ro* - Scott - 17th January 2012 :male:
Mozzyc - Charlie - 17th February 2012 :male:
Sunshine_1988 - Aiden - 11th March 2012 :male:
Sammie 03 - Noah - 20th March 2012 :male:
Dizziblonde - Erin - 9th April 2012 (7weeks prem):female:
Katiechoc - George - 5th May 2012 :male:
Nutella - 11th May 2012 :female:
turtlemoose - Reuben - 4th June 2012 :male:
fluffnutter - Freddie - 6th July 2012 :male:
Cake4brains - Amelia & Mollie - 1st November 2012 :female::female:
Bamama - Dewi - 25th December 2012 :male:
Mrshaworth2b - Blake - 16th March 2013 :male:
Saffagal - A - 26th April 2013 :female:
Lazywife - Edward - 4th May 2013 :male:
Sparkles87 - 3rd July 2013 :female:
Oscar_the_Pug - 7th August 2013 :female:
Claree__x - Eilis - 17th August 2013 :female:
amus - Anna - 1st October 2013 :female:
Continualdiamond - Scarlett - 6th October 2013 :female:
Tiny_courageous - Patrick - 6th October 2013 :male:
Bangton - Jefferson - 3rd October 2013 :male:

Claree__x

Sparkles87 wrote: »

Perfect prep is currently under £50 on amazon. Wish it had dropped sooner, LO is four months now so don't think we'd get enough use out of it as she generally sleeps through now.

I was about to rage 'cause I bought it last night for £60 but it's still at that.

Bangton

cleofish wrote: »

hi everyone sorry i havent posted in a while, but i have been reading and catching up on my pad, but it takes so slow to reply on there especially as i only seem to have 1 arm now to do things with LO.

i was wondering about the smile timings as well, LO will be 5 weeks this weekend and its the same with me not matter what i do or giggle to her...nothing. she seems such a serious baby, it just seems to be eating, sleeping, frowns and cries at the moment but i suppose thats normal for newborns?

we are having a bit of trouble with feeding, LO is ff and we started out on 1st infant on sma and she just seemed to have really bad trapped wind and be in a lot of pain and so far we have tried infacol, dentinox and colief and no we are currently on by request of hv the sma comfort milk.

there hasnt been really any difference so they have recommended i now go to the doctor and ask for a prescription for a low/lactose free formula? has anyone else been through this?

and the other thing is, it just seems like constant feeding and one bottle leads into another, shes on 150ml/5 oz of formula now and will sometimes drain this in one go, other times she will have 90ml and then have the rest in a second sitting. Nothing seems to satisfy her really and when she is eating shes fighting to get the teat and guzzling it down. do you think this might be linked to the formula problem? shes putting on weight and weighed 9lb when the hv weighed her the other day.

it just seems as if a new day brings a whole new set of worries at the moment.

I could of written this and my baby is 5 weeks old Literally word for word that's how our baby is. He was on cow and gate which we swapped for their comfort formula when he was just 2 weeks. To be honest this made things worse - he was so flatulent and it stank!!! He was also groaning all the time and straining.

We switched last week to SMA Gold and the difference has been immense until Saturday when he started pulling his knees up and groaning. However, this only lasted a day and by evening i put him on his mat to play and he seemed to kick it all out!!!! But i'm not confident it won't happen again as too early. Depressing isnt it? What about Hipp Organic? Read it's amazing but our boy didnt like it and spat most of it out!!

Only difference in our posts is our baby is very smiley - he started at 4 weeks what felt like real smiles. As i have discovered though - babies are dam unique. Ours is smiley, alert but doesnt sleep much. Not bad at night most of the time but sometimes he's terrible.

TBH everyday varies - about a week ago he stopped napping much and whilst he has always been a good feeder he is bordering on greedy at moment. Wondered if it was a growth spurt maybe. One day he went 12 hrs with only small catnaps on me, today he has napped twice, other days once or not at all. I literally have no idea what each day will bring - he's usually ok at night waking once or twice after bed although he can pull all nighters too!! He has slept through about 3 times in last few weeks (6hrs).

Feel awful writing it down but for last couple of days i have been fed up again. It's so baby led and i crave routine. At 2-3 weeks we seemed to be getting at least a night routine which although loose was fairly close each night plus a nap or 2 in day. Then at 4.5 weeks bam, no 2 days are same. He's 6 weeks on Thursday and i feel like it's 6 weeks of being led around and dictated to. HV says i need to go to docs with low mood and im scared they will say PND ... anyone else had this? Is it really PND if i am happy too? Everyone wants to label it including OH but i feel like I've gone from freedom and independence to having my life mapped out by this little creature and yes at times i resent it but at times i love it. Had bad health since a traumatic birth and feel unable to cope because of that too

IHateDida

Bangton wrote: »

Feel awful writing it down but for last couple of days i have been fed up again. It's so baby led and i crave routine. At 2-3 weeks we seemed to be getting at least a night routine which although loose was fairly close each night plus a nap or 2 in day. Then at 4.5 weeks bam, no 2 days are same. He's 6 weeks on Thursday and i feel like it's 6 weeks of being led around and dictated to. HV says i need to go to docs with low mood and im scared they will say PND ... anyone else had this? Is it really PND if i am happy too? Everyone wants to label it including OH but i feel like I've gone from freedom and independence to having my life mapped out by this little creature and yes at times i resent it but at times i love it. Had bad health since a traumatic birth and feel unable to cope because of that too

Awww....bless you Bangton - I can't advise whether you have PND but if they do, you will get loads of support.

I sometimes feel like the "mapped out" bit - especially from the point when OH goes to work until he comes home. Baby dictates exactly what time I get up, what I do during the day (to some extent anyway) and also how I feel. We used to go on weekends away and out for a meal on a whim - not any more! In fact we haven't been out together for an evening since LO was born - we have out first evening out in a couple of weeks as a friend has offered to have the LO for us (we don't have family who would offer).

I think its entirely natural to feel like you are feeling - all of a sudden this little "thing" comes along and demands our full attention. I love being with her most of the time but I also do look forward to 7pm when she *should* (note *should* LOL!) be in bed! Routine does start to set in, believe it or not, although you will always have "off" days - yesterday LO was so over tired she kept waking up when we put her to bed - it drove me crazy at the time....but today was a new day and all that.....!

Do you have any groups you can go to for support? We have a post birth group that meets up - organised by our HV (an I know childrens centres do them too) - definitely worth asking about as meeting other mums in the same situation actually make you feel almost normal when you share experiences!