baby throws up milk - when do they stop & is sleeping with a bib a SIDS risk?

[tenar]

It's amazing how much extra washing one little newborn creates! I couldn't believe it in the early days - between me leaking milk and the baby vomitting I think I was chained to the washing machine!

You're not kidding. I was in a state of shock the first morning after we came home, from the sheer number of things she had dirtied over the night. I'm with you on the leaking milk thing too... Now I'm just resigned to doing a baby-stuff wash every morning without fail until her digestive system has matured somewhat. Making the switch to cloth nappies doesn't help either, though to be honest some of her clothes and the change table cloths and so on get just as dirty as the nappies on a regular basis anyway.

I'm looking forward to some distant-seeming future when I can do a baby load only every second day...

I've had a brainwave on the bibs thing, though. We have a couple of "newborn" bibs that I got somewhere online (I forget which website). They are basically round, with a smallish hole, and they are only about 5cm wide at the "longest" point. They are clearly meant to catch dribble from someone lying down who might dribble in any direction, rather than to catch mess from someone sitting up who will dribble or spew down their front.

Anyway, the point is that I think these bibs can't reach far enough up her face to cover her mouth or nose, so they are safe, I think, from a SIDS perspective. Two isn't enough though, but what I've done is taken some cheap other bibs and sewn the bib part up so that it's not very wide and doesn't hang down far at all. So it can't flap up over her face either.

I'm hoping using these bibs for a while will mean I don't have to buy another grobag just to stay saner with the washing+drying. Though I'm definitely starting to get a point about needing at least 3 of everything so one is worn/used, one in the wash, one drying, at any given point...

[Janie]

3 is a good number I find 4 is even better!!! LOL

My DS was very spewy until about 6 months (when he was starting to sit) and then moderately spewy until about 12 months. If it makes you feel better, it all seems a very long time ago now!! And you do get used to dealing with it (and constantly smelling like spew ).