Lisy, you're right, breastfed babies don't need any extra water, esp if they are fed on demand. Offer more during the hot season. Our water is so full of ***** anyway, better to give them the perfect structured water found only in water from frozen mountains, food and breastmilk.
I wonder about the fluoride about to go in our water up here, and the formula fed babies!! Just craziness, I'm SOOOO mad about the fluoride thing, but that's another matter, but concerning the babies on ABM, holy cow, that's just not cool, not cool at all. Mass medication, woo woo, yay, like great, thanks gov, like I can't figure out how to get fluoride supps if my family needed it like any other bloody mineral. Calcium is much more important than fluoride, maybe we should petition the gov to put that into the water. Oh, and some asprin, we could all use that, esp old people who get strokes and stuff, yeah?
Idiots.
Rant over.
MGM, I am still occasionally in the land of sleep dep. Ci likes to wake for an hour or two some nights. Feeding him would get him back to sleep (sometimes!), but I won't do it anymore because that was the cause of all our troubles. I have to feed him on a schedule at night, unfortunately.
In other news, I put the foam pad on the floor, his good one stayed in the cot. He slept on the pad after midnight, put up many fusses, probably about being so far away from me (poor sod, a whole arm's length away :rolleyes:). But I need to sleep, I can't contort myself all night like some cosleepers, I guess I'm just no martyr. Turns out I don't get sleep anyway cos of the fussing and trying to comfort him in ways other than he'd like.
He's 7 months on sunday. Freaky weird wild crazy berko madness. Never thought I'd make it past the half year mark. He is an absolutely beautiful looking baby though. And he has a lovely nature, he's known as having a "warm smile". Still big, but his growth has slowed considerably. His thighs are catching up to the rest of him, good ol' thunder thigh man. I adore him. He drives me crazy, literally, as he is a high needs baby, and he sleeps for crap, but oh dear God I love him so much my chest aches sometimes.
