Bubs- Don't worry about Danielle not smilling much, she will do it in her own time, i have a lazy eye, i had to have an op on it when i was a baby but its all good now, though i can not go crossed eyed. Have you decicded to put Danielle on the bottle all the time, if its easier for you then you do it, Madison wasn't b/f had she is doing well, i don't mind feeding when i am out. Thats good the Ken has worked out how much you do around the house, Tim has always said what ever i can do it great, he dosn't mind helping out around the house, which is good, he cooked tea yesterday has his brothers came up.
Fee- wow cooper is tall, Charlotte was 51.5cms at 4 weeks, she still fits in her 0000 clothes well, expect bonds jumpsuits she is in 000. She will also be in newborn nappies for a while yet as she only weighed in at 3.6kgs on friday. We are still getting restless nights i don't know why. Charlotte cyed like that last night, i thought she wanted to be feed expect she had alot of wind, poor thing.
Tulip- Lucas could be going through a growth spurt. i hope he sleeps longer for you soon. Also for contraception you can get the implant that goes into your arm and that works for 3 years, i am going to ask about that one.
Last night Charlotte woke up after an 1hr crying Tim got her up and we thought she was hungry (i feed her 1hr before that) so i feed her again, only to her not attching and screaming, I started to cry as i was so tired and i could not settle her, so Tim took her and the poor thing had so much wind, after that she took a good few hours to get her back to sleep, and she has been sleeping well today.
Bubseykel – Cooper is great at self-settling at night too. But only at night. For the last 2 weeks or so he's been terrible at it during the day! I have to put him to sleep in the Baby Bjorn. The mornings are the worst. He's finally asleep in his cot now.
About smiling … Cooper has done a smile type of thing since birth but it was obviously a wind smile. I believe it became a real smile at 2 weeks. Because his mouth opened up so wide and his whole face lit up – you could really see it in his eyes. He does it a lot more now. But you can't always make him do it. So I wouldn't say he's a really good smiler yet IYKWIM!
kmh – I think DH is hoping Cooper will be very tall. He hopes Cooper will be a great AFL star!!! LOL. DH is tall though – 6'3". I'm a shorty at 5'4". Hope you have some good nights with Charlotte soon.
No secret to getting Cooper to sleep well at night. I have no idea. He's just pretty good at it. He's not so good at sleeping during the day at the moment though. I'm about to go and post about it in a general forum.
Cooper has done a few piddles when he's nappy is off, but not that many. Maybe about 5 times?
Cooper is doing something weird all of a sudden. The last couple of nights. Basically his last feed for the night before I go to bed is around 7.00 pm. Two nights ago he went 7 hours until the next feed and last night he went 6 hours until the next feed. So this morning that feed was 1.30 am.
Anyway he then wakes up again just 3 hours later. Normally it's at least 4 hours between his night time feeds - if not more. Anyway so I get up to feed him and he's either asleep by the time I switch the lamp on and set up my glass of water etc. Or (like this morning), I go to feed him and he feeds for about 3 minutes and then falls asleep! So this morning that happened at 4.30 am... then he woke around 5.30 am but when I went in he was asleep so I went back to bed ... then he next woke at 6.00 am where he finally fed for 20 minutes. What's up with that?! He's trying to trick me or something?!
Maybe he's crying for another reason? I don't rush in the minute I hear a grizzle from him. I wait until it sounds decent.
Next time he does this I will just go in there and try to re-settle him with a pat. Maybe that's all it is. But I have no idea why he's just started to do this.
Bubseykel – Yay for getting a smile out of Danielle! Hope you get some more.
Shellbabe – I saw Tizzie Hall on Kerri-Anne I think it was. It sounded like a very strict routine.
About feed time … Cooper can vary. But 10 minutes is his norm. Sometimes he goes for 20 but it's rare these days. In the early weeks it was longer but now it's a lot shorter.
Yes I hear ya about it being messy at feed time. Sometimes Cooper rips the shield off and milk goes everywhere! Also sometimes it can leak out the bottom if the shield is not suctioned on well. Plus the fact that Cooper often dribbles milk out his milk at the start of the feed. He is sooo messy! And I agree about it being quite "in your face" when feeding with a nipple shield. There is no being discreet when you have to put it on etc. So I'm not really keen on BF-ing in public at the moment. I tried yesterday without the shield for a bit and sometimes Cooper would latch on and suck but then he would come off. I think he's confused.
boybump – LOL at Ben weeing on his head. Cooper did a wee one day while he nappy was off and it got on his face. Perhaps even some got in his mouth!!!
chantal25 – Cooper has been the same recently. He wants to feed every 2 hours at times during the day and is not sleeping that well. He's hard to settle after feeds as soon as it's daylight! Yet, he's fantastic at night. I wrote a post about it in the Sleeping Issues forum. I've had some friends on another forum tell me that they found week 5-8 to be very difficult with their babies.
kmh – Yay for losing 14 kgs! I'm sorta stuck on the same weight too. I have lost 12 kgs so far.
Cassie – Don't feel bad about the nail clipper incident. I have heard of soooooo many mothers doing the exact same thing! I think I read somewhere the clippers aren't the best and you're better off using nail scissors. I haven't tried either yet. Still just tearing Cooper's nails.
My 6 week OB check up is on Monday. I assume I'll be having an internal. Not really looking forward to that. It's so uncomfortable!
Baby~amore – I hope Cooper doesn't have a growth spurt at 6 weeks – I feel like he's already been through one! It's so hard to tell though. I guess their routines are just always changing. It's hard to keep up!
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