Babies Born April 2008 #3

[Taurusa]

Kirsty_lee I would be on the look out for a new DR!

Mine is great, and lovely also 17 looking receptionsit. They have fit me in twice when i have needed to see urgently, once for mastitis, and last week when he had a cold...just before they closed on a saturday morning!! and my dr usually takes about 1week to get an appointment as he is so good! and even though they squished us in DH was very impressed at how thourgh he was, not rushing at all

[Sharon19270]

BabyWrangler that poohey nappie that you took to dr's the other day sounds like it could be lactose intollerance (maybe). As for the spewing after Zantac, no and he is now on 1ml 3 times a day as well, Oliver's reflux was more of the silent reflux, where he only brings up small amounts and then it goes back down, and he was doing a lot of gulping/gasping for air when this happened. Projectile vomiting can be stressful for little babies (and mums and dads too) really hope that you can get some answers tomorrow.
Taurusa it's great when you find a good GP I have been seeing mine for over 20 years and he is now starting to go into semi-retirement which is a real PITA because now I have to find another great GP which is really hard these days.

Off to have my shower and start getting ready for my afternoon out, i'm excited, but don't want to leave my Ollie, even though he's with DH, it's the fact that i'm not there for him.

Have a great public holiday for all those lucky to have one.

[BabyWrangler]

Aaahh ok...Im here with more than 2 minutes to spare!
Whilst he's still not right, he's much improved.
We have switched BJ over to formula, and dropped his Zantac to 0.5ml (instead of 1ml) 3 times a day.
He is settling alot faster (and usually by himself with needing to be held or patted), sleeping much better (2X4 hour stints last night...I don't know myself this morning!).
He is still a little grunty and thrashy...and will definately be still paedying this week for sure, but he's much improved...chances are it was the drop in Zantac, but we are likely going to stick to formula now as we don't really want to put him through the pain of going backwards if we go back to breastfeeding and it turns out that was the problem NOT the Zantac.
Now that all made sense in my head, just not sure if it will to you guys, if not, sorry...its been a LONG weekend.

Right, personals (Im sorry for the delay!)
Kirsty_lee: I HATE people that think they know our kids better than us, the Dr I first went to about BJ's reflux was the same as the nurse you saw...I will NEVER see him again, he works in the clinic we go to, but I always request anyone but him now! Our clinic is good at squishing people in too...and if I say Im calling for an appointment for BJ they actually say "Do you need to just be fitted in now, or can you wait for the next available appointment" which I think is great, they even did it back when I was preganat and had severe gastro, I rang and said I needed to see someone for first available appt as Im 28 weeks and think I have gastro, they said "come straight down" I walked in the door and they said "Dr Courts patient just finished, go right in" They are great!
Grubi:Im glad you enjoyed your time out....We had a great time for DH's birthday last week when my boss babysat, even though I wished I could be in 2 places at once!
Sharon:I agree about the nice enclosed space, but in the end, BJ was wrapped (as I think Ollie is?) and then with the anti roll pillow, and the bed being short sheeted (I HATE putting them all the way down the end of the cot!) he was pretty enclosed anyway.
How much formula does Ollie take in each feed, and how far apart? Just trying to see what Bj's doing in comparison!
Nettie: LOVE the pic of Liam in your sig!
ShoegalDon't stress too much about the percentages (but it's kinda nice to know where they fit!), BJ is in the bottom 3 a fair bit, occasionally the bottom 25...what can I say, he's a pipsqueak! But the MCHN is always pleased with his progress so I'm happy! Baxter is a little cutie though!

[BabyWrangler]

Hi All,
Just a quick update (again).
BJ DID A POO AND DIDN'T SCREAM!
It was a run of the mill pastey formula poo and he just did grunted and did it, it was huge too, filled a nappy, then kept going when I was changing him so we applied a "catcher" and he filled that too!
He then had awake time for about an hour before a 20 minute doze in the car, then played with DH's stepdad for about an hour (smiling and talking!), then had 100ml of formula, burped and went to bed settling himself with only 2 dummy returns.
We have all but officially decided he is now a formula bub...we were using the s26 sachets (which I bought for hospital in case my milk didnt come in), a bit was coming back up though, so I popped out before and bought a tin of the s26 AR for infants with reflux and we'll see how that goes.
We will definately still be going to the Paed asap, but I'm happy the BJ seems to be improved.
Chances are its the reduction in Zantac, but I don't wanna risk anything!

[sarah_dobbo2]

On the bed thing:- Wyatt has been in his bassinette an in our room, I've done the bed thing but we are out of that now DH almost SQUASHED him so not again until his bigger.

However i have been thinking we will have 2 more the old 2 kids rooms over, and then put up cot for Wyatt. He will last at least another 2-3 weeks in his bassinette. Am bit scared as he will share with DS and not sure if he will try to get Wyatt out or if Wyatt will wake him during the night.

WE have to re-paint feature wall. I would like to get proper built-in done fits so I have room to put stuff. They have wardrobe now but would like to get new ones in there. I would also like to decorate the boyz room to make feel more boyish. I already have mobile on the ceiling. Also with pooh bear picture in frames on walls. Any one have any other idea's ???

Well everything fine here. Could do with more sleep and more time to be able to get stuff done. How is everyone else doing???

Cheers
Sarah

[Fire]

I lost my post. Good though, because I'm not in a good place right now. I'm really struggling emotionally with this whole thing. I can't get him to nap anywhere but in teh sling and my back is killing me. I also can't get him to settle when he is really tired and needing to sleep unless he is bounced on teh fitball. Its doing me in. I tried several times to put him in teh cot today and once he puked and was face first in it (he is a bit pukey so it's not safe on his back), and te others simply didn't take.

We cosleep at night which is fine, no complaints about that, he is behaving like a normal bfed baby at night with his frequent feeds. But during the day, I'm not sure whether to wait it out until he is older for the cot thing, or get him into the swing of it before he is too old. Actually, either way, I can't cope with the slinging/bouncing anymore, I actually bounce through most of his naps, just to keep moving. If I stop moving, he wakes. It totally sucks and I'm getting nothing done because my back hurts too much to do stuff while holding him.

So I'm trying to work out how to transition him without damaging him and it's doing my head in. Anyway, just thought I'd check in cos I've been away for a while feeling quite low and desperate.

I've read a little bit, not totally caught up, but I hope you are all doing ok, at least better than me.

Best wishes xx

[BabyWrangler]

Fire, there is a thing you can get its a vibration machine that goes under the legs of the cot and shakes it...maybe that would help?!
Try an ebay search, you may be able to get one cheaply

Aah ok, did a quick search, its called a LullaBub and there are about 5 listed on ebay at the moment.
Hope thats helpful.

[Fire]

Thanks BW. I can't find it though, even in a google search. Do you know what they are called?

[alittlegrubi]

Fire sounds like your Ci and my Greer and a lot alike. The days are doing my head in too. MCHN said be kind on yourself for the first 3c months - but make sure that you get to the cot between 3-6 months as that is when they make their memories of sleep associations.
No time right now for any more writing be back later.

[Fire]

Looks good BW, I will show DH. We hve a motion junkie, that's for sure.

Grubi, it sucks, eh. At the moment, being kind to me means Ci comes off second best, so we're at an impasse. So far he's in the lead, but I don't know how much longer my body will hold out.

[bellelass]

Whew, the past two weeks has been really full-on. Just as they'd started to settle, Lila got her immunizations and the shock to her system made her teeny little cold pretty bad for a few days. When she was sick she didn't have much of an appetite so my supply went down (silly of me not to keep up) and is just now getting back to where it was. Good news is that I've gotten up in the middle of the night with her once this whole week, she's sleeping 6-12 hours a night now. No sleeping during the day, just dozing in her sling but wakes up should I put her down.

Making lots of cooing noises, very smiley all the time and responsive. She likes to play by herself for 10 minutes or so at a time. Been giving her tastes of things I'm eating, just little dabs here and there. She likes to suckle apple wedges especially. We've gone to cloth nappies, I'm using plain towelling and woolen wraps I made when I was pregnant. Wow, wow, I'm blown away by how well the little wool Tickle Turtle wraps work. Seriously amazed, she's dry on the outside even after 12 hours sleeps. Cloth nappies are easier than I thought, I just throw in a load of them every other morning and we're sweet.

Am changing my dr after the way they treated me when I had her 2 month shots done... The Dr made fun of her cloth nappies ("Oh my, did YOU make this? Hah, I didn't know people still used cloth...") and so did the nurse giving her the shot. Then the nurse gave me an awful look when I pulled out some EBM to calm Lila and made a snarky comment about how my baby hadn't gained enough weight for a FF baby. Excuse me... But the kicker was when she asked me about sleep. I told her and she was aghast, telling me that she HAS to sleep at least twice during the day (where do these random numbers come from?), that her brain won't develop properly blah blah and here's the kicker- When I told her all the things I'd tried to get her to nap, she told me to put her in her cot and let her scream herself to sleep. WTF? Sorry, I just can't do that.. I mean, if nothing else its horribly impolite- the only way Lila can communicate with me is through crying (which she does very little of anyway) so why should I just ignore my little girl when she's calling for me? She's so little still, maybe when she's older and having a temper I'll leave her but not now...

Been expressing her milk for the past 6 weeks or so since she had thrush but I think its cleared up now so have been putting her back to breast. Amazingly, we're having very little drama with it so far. She doesn't attach as strongly as she used to, but she does attach well and stay on for 10-20 minutes. Then I top her off with a bottle of EBM, maybe soon it'll be just breast. Here's hoping.

Sorry for no personals, I'll finish reading through and get on that. I just wanted to start getting back into the threads... Hope you're all well and your babies are thriving.

(Janine, I'm also counting down to 12 weeks, MIL has been telling me to savor it all but I say phooey I want a routine and some regularity to life. And I'm looking forward to putting her on my back, too..)

[Taurusa]

GREAT!!!! DH organized for his mum and dad to take caleb for a few hours today to give me a break, and i just realized that i sent my wallet off with them in the baby bag!!! TYPICAL hey! so much for my shopping errands

When we went to the paed yesterday we found out that Caleb has a umblica hernia too it is not too bad, i just thought it was a funny looking belly button, half way between in-e and out-e So it should hopefully go away on its own then???? Also he has some fluid on one testical any one else come by this before?? would like to hear from anyone else with same thing!!!

[MagicSeahorse]

Just checking in to say Hi!

I had done a huge post a few days ago, having a vent , whinge, and a cry after being up all night with Hunter, and just as I went to send it the whole thing, website and all vanished! I was so frustrated, that I nearly threw the comp out the window. I was too upset to try again, and have been too busy to do any thing since. I'm back at work a few days a week now. The joys of being a business owner.
Hunter had his immunisations yesterday. Took them very well! only a little cry. but he seems to have come out in a rash of little tiny pimples on his chest. I remamber the nurse saying that babies get little spots like ant bites, and that its normal. Anyone else got this?

We still have wind problems, tho not as bad as they were.
He does have a herniated belly button now. The doctor and his nurse both said it's ok and not something to worrie about. It's just disconcerting to see thid big blister looking thing that pops in and out when he cries. It's about the size of a marble normaly, but pops out to twice that.

I'm not doing personals, sorry if that makes ne seem antisocial, I just don't have time. (I'm at work right now)
Hope you are all well
Love Lisa

[Butterfly_Princess]

BabyWrangler I was SO amazed to have heard all the things that a mis alligned spine can cause in a baby (and adult) its so amazing how it affects everything!

I heard with the belly button hernia, its not really a concern, my doc said even adults have them sometimes. An outtie is considered a belly button hernia coz it hasnt been sucked in. Isabell has a half innie half outtie, but doc said nothing at all to be concerned about.
Im getting Isabells injections next week, should probably have been this week but DP is working and i thought it would probably be easier if i had him around to help if need be. How have all your bubs been after their needles? Unsettled or just normal??

[alittlegrubi]

Both the doctors that looked at Greer's belly button have said the same thing... will monitor it and if it is still there at her 4 month injections they'll refer her to a paed surgeon and asked if I have private health insurance/hospital cover for her. i hope it does go before then - hate the thought of her having surgery.
Bellelasse I've learnt not to listen to half the medical staff I see when they tell me what to do. My Mum said it best the other day..." You are her mother, you know what is the right thing to do for her". As Fire I think said babies don't read the books that tell these people what babies should be doing. Good on you for doing what works for you EBM, cloth nappies, not control crying etc.
MGM - Still having difficulties with out of the arms sleeps here, I try and I try and feel like I am useless, the minute she goes down from the arms she cries, no matter how tired she is.
Taurusa Don't you hate that when you leave something you need in the bag you send off with the kids. My DH tool my DS to daycare along with my mobile the other day - I panicked that I had lost it, then remembered putting it in his daycare bag pocket when I picked him up. Hell of a job to get in and out of daycare without him seeing when the kids call out "Logan your mum is here".
Greer is still screaming from being over tired if i put her down and I have got to go to the Post Office so might try to do that and hope she falls asleep in the car.

[alittlegrubi]

Ooops double posted - just removing the extra one

[bellelass]

Meg- my Lila had a little sniffle before her immunizations, and afterwards it developed into a full-on cold... She was alternately sleepy (looong stretches of sleep) and cranky/restless afterwards, I gave her panadol to help with the little fever and the aches that I'm positive she had. It lasted a few days, I'm sure would have been less so had she not been a bit sick beforehand. I'd say just make sure you have some baby panadol around.

[Fire]

grubi, NIS would perhaps nail the problem, but umbilical hernias do often clear on their own. How severe is it? My DD had one and I forgot about it until I realised months or maybe years later that she just didn't have it anymore. I hear this happens a lot. If a lot of bowel was protruding however, it would be worth having it looked at by some kind of practitioner, neurolink or whatnot.

Steph, they probably mean well, those medwives and fruitcakes we deal with on occasion with our babes. They don't keep up to date on the updates in research and pediatric science, much to the detriment of babies. But luckily for your wee one, you listen to your gut, and that will steer you right. My mum raised five of us and was very hands on and nurturing and a little AP really. But even she surprises me with her antiquated ideas sometimes. The other day she told me babies can manipulate you, which was the thought of her generation for sure, but in this day and age we now know this isn't even possible, let alone probable. Babies are short changed, they have one signal - crying. Poor sods. Not only that, but it's the most irritating sound to most people on the planet, and nothing gets under a mama's skin more than the sound of her baby crying. Which is how it was designed. Unfortunately, many babies are abused because the crying is subconsciously interpreted by parents as being able to be controlled by the baby and therefore pushes all their emotional buttons, including anger. We'd all deal much better with the crying if we didn't keep hearing this pseudoscience as to how to treat babies and their motivations.

Well, things suck here. Where I thought I was resigned to having to put him into the cot cos of my back, now it seems I might be stuck slinging. He isn't taking to the cot at all. But I hear to persevere, and cos I don't let him cry, this is going to be long and painful for me. Either that or stick with the slinging until he isn't so little and vulnerable.