Hi all,

long time no post, so I'm sorry if I have missed any improtant times

AMM, all the best with the re-lactating

Jan, happy aniversary tomorrow, sorry to hear about the gastro. Xavier had an upset tummy, but not gastro and he has gone off food. he will eat apples though and I think we are making some head way but it's like we are starting from scratch with a couple of spoons and working our way up again.


Nicki, we have been going through something very similar for the last month or so and it is starting to improve, there are heaps of reason that I have considered that it might be MCHN suggested that Xav was missing me 'cause he didn't see me all day anymore and wanted to spend more time with me, I think he's been a little under the weather, plus has been farting like a trojan so I think he has had trouble with some foods, so we are cutting back, and he is kinda teething, trying to crawl, occasionally rolling over and really wants to sit up, so it's like he's building up to do everything at once and it's making him restless. Your mum was telling me Lach is rocking on all 4's a lot so maybe he really needs to crawl and it's making him unsettled??

Ok, well update on us.
Xavier hit 7 months yesterday, had our 6 month needles last week (had to wait for a night session) has been very unsettled lately, not too different to what some of you others have mentioned but as I said above it just feels like it's a combo of everything. My mum keeps saying we need to call this specialist lady they have locally to get us some help to settle him, which I find very insulting. I plan to just perserveer for a while, and I feel like I have made progress.

I have a few questions for you all, what's your bub drink breast or formula and how often are the drinking now?? Because he is a creche during the day he has stretched out the daytime feeds and kinda holds on until I pick him up. So the closest thing to normal we have is

about 3-4 am wake and feed then back to bed
7am ish wake and feed
hopefully followed by breakfast at about 7.30-745 ish
he generally wants to be fed again between 10-11am and will drink anywhere from 100-180ml of ebm
about halfway between this bottle and the next he has some lunch vegies usually
then around 2-3pm has another 100-180ml of ebm
we get home by about 5.45 when he goes strait on the boob, drains them and is still hungry so has some solids. Plays for a while then either wakes around 10pm for a feed or gets a dream feed in the vain attempt of mum getting more than 4 hours sleep in one hit.
Latley we have had a few extra night feeds thrown in, but that's about the gist of it all. Because I kow what I can get out when I express (now up to min of 200ml per session) I can guestemate that he is getting at least 700ml per day which i believe is normal.

and has anyone got any ideas how I can get my little boy back eating vegies. he was doning very well but he's a clever little cookie and he just won't eat them. yet offer him apple and the hatch opend up. at the moment I so want his tummy to be full at night so I can sleep that that's what he is having for tea. I tried cutting out the fruit on the weekend and seeing if he would give up and eat vegies and I'm talking like pumpkin, and carrots which are both on the sweeter side, and nope just refused and then mucked his night sleeping up again.
I have tried whole pieces, I have tried home made, and jars, I have tried mixing a litle apple in to sweeten it. I have tried returning to plain farex with ebm so thick milk basically and he wouldn't have a barr of it. Yet has not rejected me in anyway. now that he is 7 months I bought a more exciting flavoured jar to try 'cause I can't spen the energy on food that won't be eaten, but am now wary about trying it 'cause i'm worried this fussiness might have been cause by an upset tummy because a food didn't agree with him.

any who gotta go, gotta get up and work tomorrow. Gees I miss those mornings where xavier went back to sleep and I could too!!!

Take care all