MSE Newborn to 1 year (& beyond!) baby club 3

Claree__x

Don't worry about giving calpol, Bangton. I went through about a week of giving it constantly due to a virus.

Eilis is struggling with her teeth a bit now (5 and a half months) so I occasionally give her calpol or ibuprofen before bed - she seems to go through 2 or 3 days of pain at a time so she gets it roughly once a day.

I asked my GP about it 'cause I was worried about giving it too much but she assured me it's fine. If they're not in pain it'll have no effect whatsoever - positive or negative.

*Nutella*

Bangton wrote: »

benice and those going through 4 month regression. What do you/did you do? Let lo just sleep where they want when they want?

In our case - yes. We had a horrible few weeks. The best advice I can give is to sleep when the baby sleeps. Have a nap when they do, go to bed early and lower your expectations of what you can achieve in one day. And keep telling yourself that it does pass, and things will get better. Big hugs x

*Nutella*

Boots baby event starts 5th February - it's the return of 3 for 2 mix & match

nickit1978

Having a rough day, Paige has cried/fed pretty much all day. She won't even settle on me unless she is latched on. Don't know how much longer I can breastfeed for, I can't give up entire days to feed her, but don't want to give up so soon. Everything else is being neglected and I feel so guilty for not spending more time with my other daughter.

BeNiceToMySelf

Bangton my mum likes to make me feel like a cr#p mum. If she sees me for a short time it's like an assessment of my mothering skills! I think teeth start their painful journey through the gums a while before they actually show plus it is possible to teeth at 4 months.

As for sleep regression the only advice I've read is to not introduce new sleep crutches eg rocking baby to sleep if you didn't do it before. Baby sleeps in bouncer chair and my bed. I keep trying the cot bed but it's not happening. I'm continuing to bf him to sleep but now it's very frequent through the night.

BeNiceToMySelf

nickit1978 wrote: »

Having a rough day, Paige has cried/fed pretty much all day. She won't even settle on me unless she is latched on. Don't know how much longer I can breastfeed for, I can't give up entire days to feed her, but don't want to give up so soon. Everything else is being neglected and I feel so guilty for not spending more time with my other daughter.

Big hugs. Baby is probably trying to establish supply hence the constant feeding. She may settle down once her 'order' for milk has come through in a fee days. My baby did this with lots of crying - it turned out that he was also very windy. Breastfeeding is hard! I found baby cafe great to go to for support. It's up to you what you want to do - you know what your family needs. How about breastfeeding in a sling?

Angelmommy

Nickit - it should start to get easier very soon. I managed to express a bit off one boob when baby was on the other just so DH and DD's could feed LO. It gave me a little break but also included them. Big hugs xx

vic3

Little one is on baby gaviscon for reflux following a lot of acidic smelling sick on Friday. It must be working as he slept from 12.30 until 6.30 am! The closest thing to a full night since he was born!

kerri_dfw

Sorry to hear you're having a hard time nikkit. We had a similar day with Isabella yesterday where she just wouldn't settle.

OH has taken to telling me how I should be looking after the baby last night. 4am is not the time to tell me the baby needs winding. I snapped at him, he jiggled her for 10 minutes, no wind came up, put her down again and she went to sleep no problems. She was already asleep anyway.

continualdiamond

Nickit - big hugs to you. Remember you're doing a great job and I love her name. My little girl was all set to be Paige, until the hearing test lady called her that and just something inside of me was like 'nope, she's not a Paige'. We'd liked that name even before our 20 week scan and found out we were having a girl so we didn't want to dismiss it so decided that was her middle name.

Decided to try Aldi nappies today after I just couldn't get on with Sainsburys. We liked Asda's but have heard so many good things about Aldi decided to give them a go, especially as don't have to pay for parking at Aldi.

Had a chilled out day really, only popped out to the shops to get a few things. However OH annoyed me with his 'it's my day off comment'.

I don't get why he think it's his day off, okay well I do in the sense it's a day off from work but no such thing exists anymore in my eyes. It's either work as in the day job or work as in being a parent.

His nights are Tuesday cos he has Wednesday off and Saturday night with him having Sunday off. So it was his personal choice to come to bed at 12am, me being sensible and always doubting that Scarlett will not sleep through means I go to bed no later than 10:30pm.

Scarlett woke up at 3:30am for a bottle and then was wide awake at 6:15am, he finally realised she wasn't going to go back to sleep and got up with her at 6:30am. I felt guilty staying in bed and was going to get up but then common sense kicked in and I stayed in bed until 8:30am, hahaha.

I did ask him why he think it's his day off as this is what my job is every second of every day at the moment and I never get a day off or a lunch break for that matter. He didn't reply....