Smithy, hope you've had a much better day today and a good night's rest last night. How is Charlie doing now, hun?
Greenslw wow, Lincoln's been having such a rough time It's so hard to feel okay when you're doing the best you can do and still can't seem to fix what is going on. I hope that the GP can have some advice. I think that ABs can really play havoc with bubs digestion - I know they did with my DD, and that was even when she was 10 months old the first time - hopefully you'll see a really big improvement once the AB course is over. Hope you're getting some better rest in the next few days.
Wow, all these beautiful little bubs are doing amazing things already! Trying to get mobile already, and being so curious about the world around them already! How wonderful!
Hi to Murph, Grub, Neptune, marcellus, BG, BW, Kelly, Lenny and anyone else I might have missed.
I'm much better now thanks for all the thoughts and wishes everyone - just quite tired as I recover, but being up with DD between 1am-4am last night hasn't helped... really really tired of these blasted molars, they're just hanging around at the last hurdle and won't finally cut through after all this work and bad nights for months to be ready to cut. Oh well, hopefully we'll have a better night tonight. I'm currently studying for the test I need to take to apply for permanent residency here in the UK (basically the citizenship test) so my brain is very quickly turning to mush tonight. Wish me luck - the test is on Friday and I have no idea how I'm going to retain all the ridiculous amounts of information I need to know whilst being sleep deprived. LOL any tips?
Murph - E used to go four or five times a day - it's normal at that age to go that often. as she got older, it became less frequent. it's "normal" for BF babies to go that long - but E's were both the long time AND very very solid. we tried everything to help her - prune juice or prunes, pears, more yogurt, water - nothing seemed to help. then a few weeks ago, it all stopped - she had one really yukky hard nappy after 12 days, then the next day she went again and it was the right consistency - and now she is generally a once a day mega pooper. am actually sitting here watching her now waiting for the explosion! yay for cloth nappies that contain it all though lol
When Sam was on stage one formula he would only poo every four days. He wasn't constipated and nothing we did made him go more often... That's just the way he was. I have heard it said of BF babies that once every 10 days or 10 times every day is normal and so is everything in between!
Smithy, when it comes to your little one's constipation problem, I'd seriously consider ditching the thickened formula. I have been told that S26 is notorious for causing constipation, so I'd try a completely different brand of formula before doing things like watering it down and so on. It is completely normal for babies to feed frequently at that age, too.
Now... I'm a little afraid of what I'm about to say next and how it could be taken, but I feel like I need to just say it anyway. For those who are starting their babies on solid foods very early, please, please PLEASE make sure that you are aware of what you are doing! It's something I was extremely paranoid about with Sam as he is high risk of developing food allergies, but we waited and he seems fine so far, thankfully. But I do know of a couple of babies that were started early (as in before 4 months old) and both now have severe food allergies and intolerances that will be with them for life. My nephew who was started on solid food at 4 months old also has issues with allergies. PLEASE look into what you could be doing to your babies and be sure that you are making the right decision for your family, not just doing it because it seems like fun.
I honestly do hope that I haven't offended anyone, it's just something I feel VERY strongly about because of the research we did when looking at Sam starting solid food and knowing what has happened to other babies who were started on solids early.
BW - Good advice and point taken. Especially helpful knowing that you have done a lot of research and reading.
For what it's worth and because we are all talking about poo habits , Adam is FF and does one good size soft poo once per day, sometimes every 2nd day and does not seem to have any trouble evacuating the evil spirits! We also tried the thickened s26 and I just didn't like the really yellow color that it stains everything, so we have given up on thickening his formula, didn't really help us anyway with his reflux. Didn't give it enough of a try to see whether it constipated him.
Acacia = hope your little one finishes cutting teeth soon!
Grub - go back to bed!!!!
Murph - Jazzy likes to fill her nappy, but listening to everyone here, that sounds normal!
Hello to BG, Marcellus, Lenny, Poppy, Green, Smithy, KellyD and anyone I"ve missed. Hope you are well, kisses to all bubbies.
AFM: All well, Adam giggling away madly all day and I just love it, although it means far less study than I'm supposed to be doing, even when DH helping out. Too cute to ignore. No problems here.
Hehe might as well throw in my DD's bowel habits for reference for everyone too
DD was exclusively BF for almost 6 months and she would poo multiple (i.e. many!) times in a day, right through until she started solids. I was waiting (as told many BF babies do) for her to stop soiling every nappy she went into and start to go a big stretch between poos, but it never happened lol. After she started solids she would still poo every feed, but then slowly dropped to pooing 3 or 4 times a day, and now she's anywhere between 1-4 times a day still. Very occasionally she will go more than a day between bowel motions, but that is rare, and is usually a sign she hasn't drunk enough fluids (BM or water, usually water) and often results in her getting generally backed up for a while (i.e. harder poos until she catches up).
DD was much like Jazz, Murph - she would use her bowels during or directly after a BF. In fact, she would often be really unsettled trying to poo (often in her sleep, waking her up) until she had a feed, which was hard, as she'd be thrashing about really uncomfortable, sucking to try to get a feed, but sucking also to try to do a poo ITMS.
As mentioned, this all happened especially whilst she was having a lot of trouble learning to be able to use her bowels properly, so sucking and feeding helped her as a baby's tummy filling up triggers what's called the gastro-colic reflex, giving them the urge to poo. My DD still works this way - all her bowel motions now happen (usually) within 5-10 minutes of eating a meal, and occasionally after having a BF still.
hehehe gotta love the chatter that happens in these threads. you become a mummy, and you actively discuss your bubba's toileting habits!
BW - i read your post and i know we discussed the allergy thing at length when you were contemplating starting Sam on solids. i have also done a lot of reading to go with it, and i agree that holding off solids til 6 months (or as close to as possible) and then introducing foods helps to reduce the risk od allergies developing. there is also a lot out there that now says that foods such as peanuts that may cause allergic reaction are best introduced (just a little) before the 12 month mark (unless there is a known allergy in the family) - the only thing that seems to say to hold off until 12 months is honey, which makes sense (botulism risk).
we started introducing low risk foods, and have gradually introduced pretty much everything now. as i've probably mentioned, we live at least 15k's from a pharmacy, 30k's from the hospital - doesn't sound like much, but it can be a long trip if something is happening (like allergic reaction!) so the "high risk" foods have been introduced at mum's place when we've had a couple of hours to hang around and check on DD. she hasn't had much in the way of peanuts (just a scraping of peanut butter on a slice of bread) - but she had no reaction - means i'm not so worried about introducing satay back into our diet now!
Hi all - just wanted to say that we are back! Haven't had time to read through all the posts, but a big HI to all you lovely mummies and your gorgeous bubs.
We had an awesome time in LA and Hawaii. Jasmine was so funny at Disneyland - she really didn't know what to make of all the characters, so consequently all our photos with the characters have her with her face towards them trying to figure out what is going on! Spent all our time swimming in Hawaii. She was fantastic on the flights - basically slept for 90% of the time - wish I had been able to!
Will have to come back later to catch up properly as Jazzy is stirring.
wow, Lincoln's been having such a rough time
It's so hard to feel okay when you're doing the best you can do and still can't seem to fix what is going on. I hope that the GP can have some advice. I think that ABs can really play havoc with bubs digestion - I know they did with my DD, and that was even when she was 10 months old the first time - hopefully you'll see a really big improvement once the AB course is over. Hope you're getting some better rest in the next few days.
and get back to work.
, Adam is FF and does one good size soft poo once per day, sometimes every 2nd day and does not seem to have any trouble evacuating the evil spirits! We also tried the thickened s26 and I just didn't like the really yellow color that it stains everything, so we have given up on thickening his formula, didn't really help us anyway with his reflux. Didn't give it enough of a try to see whether it constipated him.
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