MS Tips for keeping the really Little one's Warm?

heather38

tummy time is just that laying baby on her tummy, it helps their neck muscles develop as well.
dream feeding is feeding the baby when it's still asleep, usually done before baby fully wakes up for a feed at night, ie when they start stiring.
i got my sleeping bag at tesco £10, and dd loved it.
i swaddled her when she was very young as my mw told me to, my hv is usless so i never listen to what she has to say!!

tiamai_d

pnq06 wrote: »

tiamai_d I can't say that I've ever heard of tummy time

yeah... and odds are you won't. http://www.plagiocephalycare.org/reserch.php

Have a read if you get a chance.

is dream feeding not when you co-sleep and breast feed? Its meant to be that you can feed baby and not remember 'waking up'.

there are a few co-sleepers on the site who could tell you a bit about it. can't remember who they are but I know that one can sleep through the whole night and still have a well fed baby!

pnq06

Ooh that made interesting reading Thank you for the link... It looks quite severe so I'll quite happily follow tummy time

Thanks Heather I'll have a look in Tesco's on saturday when I'm doing the shopping.

I haven't a clue what dream feeding is, heard it mentioned at the end of a programme and have just reminded myself to ask someone

morganb

I would second the grow-bag idea too, but I would suggest you buy one with a tog-rating just so you know how hot it is

rosh12

Just to say I have a 4 month old and everyone I've consulted- midwives and health visitors and books (!) say swaddling is great- and it worked for us really well. Re Gro-bags- you can usually get 'genuine' ones in TK Maxx for about £14, also Marks and Spencer do their own for about £12 I think? We put ours in one quite early (after about a month) and she got on fine though some people say you shouldn't use them too early... Not sure why?

poohzee

We did dream feeding and it was great for us. You cant start it straight away maybe at 12 weeks I think. Basically you give bubs the 8pm ish feed and put to bed then at 10pm when you go to bed - (i always went with bubs although!) you pick them out the cot whilst they are still asleep and start to bottle or breast feed. Bubs will automatically start suckling and this will last them longer through the night HTH.

Pregnancy is already dragging!! Last preg. had morning sickness til 32 weeks - only at 18 weeks and its still there!:o

Elliesmum

Thumbs up here for the sleeping bags. My little one had a gro-bag and no. 2 who's due in March will too.

EM xx

torianut

I have read lots of baby books etc and dream feeding usually means putting baby to bed after a 7 oclock feed and then waking them enough to take a further feed at 11ish when you go to bed yourself in the hope they sleep better.

My LO is 11 months and has JUST started sleeping through - and thats only til 5!! We tried dream feeding - in fact we tried everything - nothing had much effect!

The 2 dd's slept through from about 10 weeks!!

Hope that helps xx

MadDogWoman_2

Hi,

Recommend sleeping bags too, I have an expensive branded one plus a Tesco's one.

I swaddled DD until about 8 weeks until our room got to hot for it so we moved her into a sleeping bag.

She's only got one warm bag at the moment - I've got some Tesco's vouchers somewhere that I can use to get another one.

I dreamfeed my DD at 10pm (BF) it helps keep her going until 3am, before I did this she woke at all sorts of weird and wonderful times of night. It also means that she tends to start the day at around the same time (between 6 and 7am).

MDW

pnq06

Thanks for the help and tips!!!

Just been reading up on sleeping bags (aka grobags) and they look fab but apparently aren't recommended until bubs is about 11lbs as they can still be tiny enough to wriggle down cos the arms aren't a tight enough fit.. But apparently they come in sizes anyway. I'll also look out for the togs, think bubs will need a warm one for the cold months :eek:

I'm defintaly going to look into dream feeding, it sounds an absolute god send if it works :j

Aww bless poohzee- I can totally sympathize with the morning sickness, I didn't find out till I was 14 weeks and as soon as it was confirmed absolutely everything kicked in at once :rolleyes: I'm 35 weeks now and the sickness is just kicking back in after being absent for 9 weeks :rolleyes:

Good Luck to you too Elliesmum- my bubs will be 5 months by then :eek: