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Shoegal try not to stress about Baxters weight gain. I can't say anything about the illness, but my BIL's Sister's son, Christian, is now 2 and is still in size 0 to 1 clothing, some kids are just small. The OBs and Drs get concerned when they are not on their magical charts, but not all babies fit nicely into the charts. There isn't anything wrong with Christian, he's just small and was born around 6lb, so not significantly underweight.
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Bellas- Mj is a fully cloth baby and has been since we run out of tha nappies that were gicen to us. But we use MCN- my favs atm are bumg and happy heiney.
Shoe- sorry to her bax is still have probs with his weight gain. I hope they can find siome anserws for you.
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Fire just wanted to say the more I look into AP the more I realise that it is about me as much as it is about the baby. Like so many have said - wish I'd known these things with my first. It is very hard to retrain yourself too and to accept the cries. I'm glad I wasn't ever able to do the controlled crying thing. I may not have done everything right, but a lot was on the right track, now to undo the damage I've done.
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Aahhh back to the BJ I remember from days of old!
We had a MUCH better night last night, maybe because of the stuff we've implemented, maybe because he was tired from the night before, I'm not sure, but I'm happy!
Bj's night went like this:
7pm bottle (EBM with food thickener), Zantac and Lactulose
8pm wrapped and into bed
8:30pm asleep after only losing dummy 3 times (this used to happen every 2 mins or so!)
11:30pm awake, dummy returned
1:00am Bottle (EBM and food thickener), Zantac
1:30am Settled self back to sleep (feeding and settling used to take an hour an a half each night)
5:00am Grunting but still sleeping (I assume he was pooing)
6:30am Bottle (EBM and food thickener)
And now, at 7:15 we are about to get ready to have another snooze.
All in all, a fantastic night...I slept half in the main bedroom with DH, and the last part (the grunty bit) in the spare room (the grunting trips the monitor slightly, and we just get patches of static that wake us up, didn't wanna wake DH).
Hope you all have a great day (I'm feeling awfully chipper today!!) am bound to be back later!
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Shoe, what Grubi said, and get to a bfing expert, pronto! Formula is not a better option, and they should be ashamed of themselves for suggesting it. Are THEY the ones gonna be there if he gets ecsema in the middle of the night? Call the ABA, you really seem to want to feed him yourself so you CAN make that happen. Everyone has problems bfing, most of us very significant problems, each our own unique ones but they are all valid and challenging and can make us feel hopeless and like quitting. One word to back those feelings up from a friend, relative or even worse - a medico - and we DO quit. Yet women the world over have to feed and therefore manage to somehow. We can to. The ABA deal with low weight gain all the time, it is their main support problem, they'll be able to help you without threatening ABM on yer a$$.
Eek, gotta run, sorr, back soon
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SG- you're a good mother, working so hard to do what's right for bax, its not easy expressing milk and feeling overtired and sore and awful. Your milk is just what he needs, I agree with everyone else who said get thee to a bfing expert. If you want to keep going with the bfing, then do. hope it gets sorted...
god, slings are magic. this is day 2. Lila slept so well last night, could be coincidence... And she's in it now, I can't believe how much i'm getting done.. wow... I'm still not too clever about putting it on, but I guess that will sort itself out with time... I might even get some baking done today, would be the first time since I was in labor with her...
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steph what kind of sling are you using? i've just today put dd in a wrap (bought a long piece of cloth, no-sew, so nothing fancy) and it's fantastic to wear. don't think i'll be doing any baking though! exhausted myself yesterday making pasties to freeze for DS who is incredibly fussy about eating vegies - kind of annoying since we're vegetarian...
shoegal hugs to you, and good luck for baxter's tests.
baby crying, gotta go...
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