Discovery Home & Health

Hi ladies, here you are! just a quickie as its late. Ben was weighed today and he's gained 9oz since we've been home so I'm well chuffed, the breastfeeding is paying off. He's now 6lb 15oz so he's nearly in newborn clothes at last!!!

He's unsettled at night due to wind building up, he's an absolute angel by day and sleeps between feeds a treat but at night its hard to get him down. The HV suggested infacol which I started today and he really seems to like the taste, so we'll see how it goes.

Hope you are all well.

Kate and Ben (who sounds like he's waking up!)

Hi to everyone - a real quickie as up to my eyes in all sorts!

Kate - just wanted to say that it takes infacol about 48 hours to build up and take effect so don't get despondent if it doesn't seem to work straight off!!!!!!

Big hellos to everyone else - hopefully be around tomorrow!!!!

Hi Girls,

Silky- If you decrease your feeds your milk supply will decrease too but as Leland still has top ups and occasional comfort feeds i try to express some at least twice dialy about 10mins each breast just to keep my milk supply up alittle its also usuful coz if they dont feed from you your (.)(.)ys become quite painful and hard so i express alittle for relief too lol.. plus when you decide to stop all together you can gradually reduce to stop engorgment ( very painful) Hope that helps you.

Kate77-SO glad Bewn is doing well seems to be coming on a treat, Karen is right about the infacol it has abuild up effect so once you have it in his system it should start to work you can either drop it in is mouth esoecially if breast feeding or put it in his feed if bottlefeeding some babies do,nt like the taste so at least you have that one sorted.

Llynn- Glad you & abbie are well you are right about the time thing its so hard to get a routine in the beginning, i have found it pointless at mo as Kids go back to school soon so the whole routine thing will change, so we are having plenty lazy time at the mo and house work is impossible to keep up to. I wa stold if you breast feed you do bleed for longer not sure if its true though, its driving me nuts now though as i am sore with wearing towels all the tiem sorry if (TMI) lol..

hope everyone else is well, will try to check in tomorrow.

love to all

hi soory to butt in from the april/may thread but im sat here with nothing to do as my darling baby got me up at 545 and is now back asleep lol it ok for some! was just reading posts.

Sugar - 24 days isnt that long really i dont know about the bf bit cos im bottle feeding but i think it can go on as long as 3 months if u really unlucky but i think 4 to 6 weeks is average. me and my cousin had babies at same time, i was lucky and only bled for 2 weeks but she did for 2 months. think it just depends on the person? that prob doesnt help tho lol.

plus i found that 2 squirts of infacol b4 every feed worked much better - tried colief and it seemed to make her worse.
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Sharon - Katie is 1 month today and i still have the odd bit of bleeding! I just get lulled into a false sense of security and think it's stopped only to get another glug! Like you i am fed up of wearing pads! With the others i only bled for about 10 days - with the exception of number 2. With her I had just about finished at 10 days when all of a sudden i had a humungous gush and i haemorraged!

Hopefully it will stop sometime soon!!!!

You're right about the routines too - i can't quite work out what is going to be best at the mo - all my other kids have to go in various directions so need to work out when i can feed Katie! It seemed so easy all those years ago with just one!!!! It takes about an hour to drop off the ones i take in a morning!!!! And then the same in the afternoon - it is hard to work round them and still have time to do something during the day too as no4 only goes to pre-school from 9-12!! Oh well - i'm sure it'll sort itself out!

Hope everyone doing ok!

Katie is doing well - sleeping about 6 hours through the night so not bad! Having a bit of a struggle with this staydown milk! It is working a treat and she is keeping it all in and is looking like a little piglet at the mo! But making it up is a nightmare! You are only supposed to make it as you need it and should roll it in your hands rather than shake it - it didn't seem to dissolve properly and often gets stuck in the teat as it is a lot thicker than normal milk! I rang the SMA careline yesterday and the woman was really helpful - she said that they have found that you now can shake it but it still has to be made with cold water directly from the fridge and then left for about an hour to come up to room temp before using it - it shouldn't be microwaved or heated with a jug of water as this thickens it too much. Only problem is getting up an hour before you THINK baby will wake up in the night!!!!! Oh well - at least she has stopped the throwing up!!!!

Hi Girls,

Tiamaria- Thanks for that i only bled average 10 days with my other pregnancies but yet this is the only one i have breast fed and i am still bleeding but we will see.

Karen i am a bit like you just as i think it is stopping it starts again.
Glad that katie is doing better on this milk a little bit of a palava making it up though, what happens whens when you go out? you could do with going to mother care and buying a box of three milk despensers from the new Tomee Tipee range i have some they are good each pot holds up to 8 scoops i think they are small and compact and only cost a few pound not like the bulkey milk storage containers, if you send me you email i will send a picture of them so at least you know what they look like. Also have you either tried faster flow teats or heating a need and stretching the holes in the teats you have, thats what i had to do when Abigail was on thixo d coz it was so sludgy and a night mare to clean bottles.

Leland doing well also does about 6 hours on a night so i cannot complain about that though i have had to by the next milk up for hungrier babies as he was over filling and throwing some back seems far more settled now and takes average 4oz but night feed will take 5oz gets weighed next week so cannot wait to see how much he has stacked on as his little face is filling out now and his legs do,nt look quite as skinny lol..

Anyhoos must go washer finished so best peg it all out now, a womens work is never done (and thats a fact in this house)lol..

Love to all

Hi guys

Sorry to nip onto this thread when I am not technically 'qualified' yet but I think I am left on August thread on my own

Have posted a query about some feelings I have been having and was just wondering if you more experienced ladies could have a peek on August thread and see if any of these things happend to you.

Thanks guys, hope all babies are doing well.

Love

PJ Girl
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hi girls
hope everyone is adjusting to being mummys

bernadette is doing really well, shes 5 weeks old now, the time is flying past
shes on 5oz of milk every four hours in the day, she sleeps a good 10 hours from last bootle at night, finding the other 4 children more hard work than her, will be able to get thing more orginised once they go back to school

sharon.. im also still bleeding, 5 weeks and 3 days later! im not breast feeding, ive also never had bleeding for this long either,

chele and chris, hope you are both doing well

hi to everyone else that ive yet to meet, and get to know

better go, need 2 pop to the shop then come back and blitz the house, got the inlaws down over the bank holiday weekend

have a great day
Em, xxx

Ladies, any tips on how I can get Ben to sleep at night. By day he's a dream, feeds every 3 hrs and goes down to sleep a treat in between. I've also started playing with him rather than putting him down for a sleep in the afternoon. But literally at night he just wont go down. As soon as I put him down after a feed he either wakes and starts crying or wakes 1/2 hr later asking for more milk. I'm breastfeeding too and finding it very hard going during the night. I'm spnding more time winding him and giving him infacol and he's burping and farting well but its just so hard to wind him for ages in the middle of the night when you are falling asleep after feeding him for 1/2 hour beforeand and are sleep deprived. I got 2 1/2 hrs last night and thank god DH was able to work from home so I could catch up. Typically Ben went to sleep from 7.30am - 10am and after a feed slept til 1pm so I could catch up, but why wouldn't he do that last night?

Any advice would me much appreciated, I'd give anything for him to sleep for 6 hrs like Karen's baby

Kate and Ben x x

Hi Girls,

PJGIrl- Try not to worry too much i have been like that with my last three and i think yes i do believe its part of as things prepare inside and change this is down to surges in hormones which also cause things like been weepy the same happens when your milk comes in a few days after you have had baby you will become weepy then too. So in agood way things are obviousley changing for you, you will also experience the calm before the storm, where you feel very at ease and for some strange reason when you go to bed you actually sleep which is doen to your body reserving its energy hope these little things help you hun ,bob in on here anytime you will be on here soon anyway chick, so to sum up you are deffinately normal and the way you are feeling is normal too pregnancy is a long strech and the last couple of weeks are def the worse.

Kate77- Not really sure what to suggest to you hun, Leland was very much like that to begin with and i was dead on my feet by day time in the end i had to introduce a bottle of formula on is last feed before i put him down which worked for me he went a good 5/6 hour stretch and then when he woke i breast fed him, one good thing about this is you could go to bed alittle earlier to catxch up some sleep and dh could give ben his last feed and put him down. If you don,t want to give him formular express a couple of times aday till you have a good few ounces and try give him that from a bottle it could be that your supply is not enough yet to saticfy him so expressing will also incurage your body to make more milk. This did not work for me as i have had abreast reduction and unfortunately i cannot supply the amount he needs so i am doing abit of both.
Another tip if you think it is wind or bloating thats keeping him awake is baby massage so on an evening when you get is jim jams on strip him use a small amount baby oil and gently massage his tummy with gentle strokes downwards to help relax his tummy muscles then go on to massage his arms and legs to generally relax him then dress him and give him his last feed and put him down see if relaxing him helps plus its anice bonding thing for you and ben too do, they do run baby massage classes at clinics so it maybe well asking your hv if your interested in doing it hope these things help you love.

catch up with you all later

Love

Thanks Sharon. Feel really funny today. Clingy, weepy and at the same time snappy. Have just taken poor DH's head off for no reason. Just want Bean here. My feet are swollen up like balloons and walking is hurting now. Carpel Tunnel meaning cant do much with right hand at all and am feeling really impatient with people. Even friends texting to see if any signs and I want to snap their heads off. Feeling like right moody cow need to lock slef in a room for a couple of days.

Anyhoo enough grumbling am boring myself. Hope all you new mammies and babies doing well - hopefully wont be long before I join you {I hope}

PJ Girl
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Hi all

Kate - it is hard going when they wont sleep at night isnt it. Abbie isnt too bad now, she wakes every three hours for a bottle, but then more often than not she will go straight back off.

Abbie seems to be struggling in the last couple of days with constipation. she seems to really strain and goes red in the face and draws her legs up to her stomach. when she finally does poo its really small pellets (sorry if tmi!) I've tried giving her a bit of cool boiled water with brown sugar in but it doesnt seem to be helping. is there anything else i can try?

Lynn xx

Sharon - thanks for the tip but i have the avent dispenser already!!!! I've just been out this afternoon and bought some larger teats so will give that a go later!!!! I have the avent bottles and teats at the mo which obviously their teats have more holes rather than larger ones so i have just been and bought some boots own ones so cross fingers!!!!!

Kate - don't forget Katie is nearly 2 weeks older than Ben and if you read back to 2 weeks ago (in fact even last week!) she was as much of a nightmare at night as Ben and i was just as tired! I find if she sleeps before her 10pm feed she is a nightmare! If she is awake between the 6 and 10pm feeds then she goes down ok! Bit pot luck though! At the mo she is fast off so hopefully will sleep til 6 feed and then will be awake in the evening!

PJgirl - don't worry hun - it won't be too much longer now. I know what you mean about snapping at people. A few days before i had her my FIL made a joke about still being here and i nearly went potty! I tried to make a joke back saying DH and i had just said if anyone else asks they were going to get a slap! But deep down i'd loved to have bopped him one!!!!!! And i was only 38 weeks then so not even due!

Thanks for the tips ladies, a few things to try.

At the moment we're trying to be loud during the day and quiet at night so Ben learns the difference between day and night although we have MTV on and he's fast asleep!

Sharon, I think my milk supply is ok, it times I have to feed him every hour or so and I seem to have enough but I have considered a bottle of formula at night but, have a box on stand by, I'll just have to make sure I express so I don't jeapordise my milk supply. Failing that I migjht try to express enough for a bottle so DH can do a night time feed. Trouble unless I express straight after a feed I only have 2 hrs til the next one so don't want to run short! He gained 9oz in the last week so I know he's getting enough from me but they are more satisfied with formula aren't they.

Karen, how do you keep Katie awake? when Ben wants to sleep he drifts off just like that - shame its not at night!!!. I will try to keep him awake by playing with him after his early evening feed and see if that helps, he likes his playmat and bouncer. Its defo worth a try, thanks for the suggestion.

Lynn, sorry poor Abbie is constipated, apart from what you are already trying I can't suggest anything, just checked my book (What to Expect - The First Year) and it says to consult your dr, or ask your health visitor. Sorry I can't help.

Hope everyone else is well and coping with the sleepless nights!!!

Kat and Ben x x

Hello everyone,

Mason was weighed yesterday and since last week, when he was 8lb 3, he is now 9lb 4!! PORKY BOY!

He is going 4-5 hours between feeds and we’ve even had a couple of 6hr periods! These have been in the day though so I’m hoping we’ll start getting them at night. He does go for 4 hrs at night though so it’s pretty good.

He’s been a real grump this week though and I think it was the antibiotics. Apparently it’s really unusual for such a young baby to get an ear infection so I guess his little belly didn’t like the medicine. He’s had bad diarrhoea and that’s never nice but he stopped the med yesterday and I’m hoping he’ll be okay, his ear is all better now. Every time I put him down he cries so he’s spent most of this week in my arms.

I asked the health visitor about it as I was worried if I kept picking him up that he would get used to it but she said at such a young age and because he is on medicine, its okay to pick him up as he probably just wants some love to make him feel better. She said if he was 6 months she wouldn’t recommend it as they can associate crying with being picked up at that time.

Kate77- how did you get on with the Infacol? I found it a godsend when mason has trapped wind. One way of trying to keep Ben awake for a while is to bath him after a bit of play, I do this with Mason if I want to keep him up for a little while. You may have a baby that goes to sleep after a bath thou

Llynn – Mason was just like that when the mw first suggested infacol to me. ~He was pulling his legs up etc. He still goes red in the face and strains when he poos but don’t all men do that! LOL.

C x