kuraiza - My DH actually isn't against giving her a dummy, but wants to wait and see if it really is necessary. At the moment we find most unsettled periods are during the day, which is easier to cope with than at night. But we are both willing and ready to use dummies if we need them! And thanks for the advice on unsettled babies. Somehow my DH discovered the first method the other night and it worked so well for us. I need to try the wide-eyed quiet baby one though, cos a lot of the time she'll be wide awake during the day.. show no signs of tired.. but suddenly become a screaming baby! I think she wants to be awake and then just suddenly is too over-tired!
Hi girls.. I'm thinking I should join this group. My baby buddies group is hard to compare with. All their babies are smiling and doing all the typical things a 8week old babies does, though Byron is really only 1 week, he is 7 weeks behind. All his milestones will be compared to with his corrected date, which would be the same as your babies. Do you's think that it's a better idea for me to hang here?
Georgi! jump on in! it is nice to have someone from our due group in with me
Well last night was a semi better night. DS fed 3hrly overnight which is a vast improvement!
I encouraged him to cluster feed every hour from 5pm-8pm... so he had a full belly... Before hand he was cluster feeding at 2-5am!! my supply must have been low!
Ethan is looking around more now - wide eyes! i think they are brown... hard to tell but they are def not blue like DD's were!
kurazia - we were public (although i had a home birth lol) so no bills.. but i feel for you. Has your baby bonus come in?
Itsme - We did the same with DD - had to hold realy tight for about 10 mintues until she would settle. - are you swaddling bub?
I noticed a few of you were thinking that there would be only 1 October group, but they will stay as they are in BellyBuddies, with a 1st-15th group and a 16th-31st group
Pinkpalace: I'm struggling with lack of sleep. Jude might go for 3 or 4 hours from start of one feed to start of the next, but each feed takes an hour or more. He almost always poops either while I'm feeding him or after I finish feeding him, so I have to change his nappy at the end of a feed which completely wakes him up and makes him scream-cry so then I have to resettle on the boob and sometimes he'll poop again ... it's awful. I wish there was some way I could stop him from pooping during feeds because it's a logistical nightmare.
When I wake up to feed him, I can't open my eyes or find the strength to sit up. Sometimes it takes me 1/2 an hour to wake up properly, so add that to the time I'm not actually sleeping between feeds and I'm very lucky if I get an hour and a half sleep between feeds.
I really don't know how anyone gets anything done while feeding a newborn baby. I haven't even made it to get Jude weighed since we left hospital. I just got out of bed and it's already midday.
Our thread is soooooo quiet so thought I would pop into all my ole due BB lovelies.
Hope you are all enjoying your babymoon - slowly my brain is coming back and I can get a shopping list organised again But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
Get some rest when you can (of course I ignore my own advice though )
I WILL get a proper ticker with a pic, sometime before the end of the year ....
But hubby away rest of week so I am sure I will be back in zombie land by the end of the week.
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