Babies Born January 1st ~15th 2009

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Is it normal to take up to an hour or hour and half to settle after a feed or nappy change? Do you think JD is picking up on my lack of confidence?

We have his ultra sound tomorrow morning at 9.45 for his kidneys, not looking forward to that at all! i hope he is in a good mood tomorrow. It took me ages to settle him this morning. He woke for a fed at the usual 4am and it was 6am before I got back into bed. I would settle him so I thought and then 10 minutes later he is winging again and I have to pick him up ad cradle him some more until he falls asleep again. Is this normal.

I am going to try and get a nap in now before DH comes home from work. He is going to do the night shift tonight so I am looking forward to a sleep tonight.

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As for the feeding. Its a new born teat, and it doesn't seem to matter what teat I use especially my breast. Cause he gets impatient if it takes too long to come out and my nipples were squirting milk like a water pistol down his throat so he was gagging on that. Now I am pumping and feeding him via bottle so I can regulate what he is getting and stop and start him for burp breaks about 5 to 6 with each 100 ml feed.

Also little bugga hasn't done a poo all day yet, hope he is not constipated... but he is sleeping nicely now so off I go for a nap.

Catch you all soon.

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what is the best formula to use for newborns? We use Karicare Gold 1? Interested to know what you experienced mummies prefer to use and why?

[MummyDeb]

Hey Amanda...I'm using the Karicare Gold atm for Harley, and he seems to enjoy it..although had some nice spews from him hehe

Hope the ultrasound goes well... and yeh it can take over an hour to settle bubs.. and yes they do pick up on any stress u have...I know that was my problem last night with Harley, after a few feeds when he wouldn't settle I just was stressing bad!!

Harley went a couple of days without pooing but that was before last night, and I was told breastfed babies can either poo every nappy, or go up to 10days without poo, cos they don't get constipated...

[Salad]

Hi Everyone, bit late in dropping in here so I thought I had better say hi straight away otherwise later might be too late.
My little girl Georgia is going well, she is a natural breast feeder which is great for me being a first time mum. She has been a dream so far so hopefully things dont change too much. We cant stop looking at her and still cant believe she is all ours sometimes I think someone is going to come and take her away and say sorry we were just joking you cant keep her.
Had heaps of visitors so I am looking forward to that slowing down - I guess everyone loves to see and hold a new born. Hope everyone is doing great looking forward to hearing everyones progress and glad we can all help each other.
Anyway I wont ramble on too much but just wanted to join in.
Thanks

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Well after a great day with JD is was only bound to happen. Last night he took ages to settle again. DH gave him his milk and he was just not looking milk drunk after 100ml so he gave him some more and he took about another 10 maybe 15ml more and looked to start to settle but I think he was just past tired. So DH put him in his room again to let him cry it out, doesn't sit right with me though. I just wanted to cuddle him but DH took charge a bit, he does that sometimes. Anyway he ended up getting him about 20 minutes later and tried again to settle but in the end the only thing that would settle him was laying with me in bed and suckling on the breast only for about 5 minutes. But he dozzed off and about 40 minutes later DH came and put him to bed. He woke again at 3.30am and it was DH turn to do the feed but I said no honey let me do it. Cause I was worried that he was tired and cranky and may be a bit rough with him and that would just stir him up instead of calm JD down. So I changed his nappy and gave him his bottle and he settled off the bottle nicely. I let him lay on me for about 30 minutes as he slept it was nice and then put him in his cot again with out his dummy. We are trying not to let him sleep at night with his dummy cause he winges if he drops it and we have to get up all the time to give it back to him. So dummy is only for day times.

He woke again at 6.30am and DH went to change his nappy and bring him into bed with me. I gave him the breast for about 10 minutes tops and he feel asleep again so I let him sleep with us. But do you think I could sleep, no my mind is racing around with so many things and all I want to do is just sleep. Its so annoying. I then go and put JD in his pram in the lounge room and make him comfy and try to go back to bed only to lay there with my eyes closed for another 2 hours but wide awake and DH snoring next to me. God I could be asleep right now, but what's the point of just laying there if my mind wont shut down! Is this common? Can you take anything while BF that can help you calm down for sleeping? If I can't get my sleeps when JD is sleeping I just wont survive!

[visitor1]

We had a 5am wake up today then he was back to sleep til 930am! his boy loves his sleep

Had another middy check up today....now only 35g under birth weight. Still has a gunk eye though.

Ive written up his birth story to and id like to share it with you all: https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ml#post1616717

Amanda i find Zach is hard to settle if he hasnt had enough milk....or not enough. If he wont settle i check for dirty/wet nappy, to hot/cold or burp a bit more. Some times babies just want to cry or be unsettled for no reason at all.

[seenabeena]

Is it normal to take up to an hour or hour and half to settle after a feed or nappy change? Do you think JD is picking up on my lack of confidence?

It's totally normal. Belle is very good at being unsettled in the middle of the night/early morning!!! I am so sleep deprived because of it.

LMS Did you make a sleeping bag for Xavier? I think it was you that mentioned it a few pages back? I have started sleeping Belle in a full length cotton stretch and grow at night because she won't be swaddled.

I used Karicare Gold with DS and if/when we go to formula I would use the same.

[RyleyMummy]

IBelle is very good at being unsettled in the middle of the night/early morning!!! I am so sleep deprived because of it.

This is Ryley all over he doesn't seem to settle well in the middle of the night..

Hiya Deb. As someone said to me as long they get the good stuff at the start then it will help them in the future..

Puppies-I hope things go well for you at the ultrasound..Ryley didn't do a poo for one day and he was a little constipated and the next morning he left me a little surprise. Loll.

I am using Heinz Nurture for him and he only spew a few times but he goes done well after he has a feed which is good..I am using the Nuk bottles and found them great.

I feel so lucky my brother bought me a cot from a garage sale and its a Baby Co and it comes with a mattress and its hardly been used. Now I got to sort my room out and find a place to put it. Lol.