Babies Born September 2007 #40

[Ginger]

arte- where have you been????
no, no anniversaries or anything coming up...you would've thought maybe my b'day would've been a good one?? but ....no.....i don't know what's going on in his head...
they started giving him formula because my milk didn't come in properly till day 5 and he was losing more than the 10% weight or whatever it is- mind you, he weighed 10bs3oz...so idk????....anyway, i basically stopped the formula once i got home because i was too lazy to mix it up and bfeed and express....all i was doing was feeding.
i didn't know you had gd. was will a large baby?

[AnyDream]

OMG talking of large babies, I'm going through some little clothes and sorting them into boxes for my neice and soon-to-be-born neice, and DH got on the phone to ask what size 13 week old neice is. I was thinking, prolly size 00, she looks pretty porky in the photos. Well she's a 0-1 (!!!!!!!!!!!!) WTF E is still in some of her 0s for crying out loud. Well I shouldn't be surprised since she's now apparently having three meals of solids stuffed into her a day. Sorry if I sound like a raving delaying-solids lunatic but REALLY. Last week I emailed some proud aunty pictures to my friend (who's incidentally a dietician) and she's really concerned. She was average sized (7 lb ish) when she was born, apparently even my MIL (her mother) is worried even though she bottlefed and introduced solids early to all of hers (like they did in the old days). Lordy let's just hope she becomes a very active toddler.

ETA - I remember some of our bubs in this thread were pretty big (but from memory looked in proportion), so if this is normal someone please give me a reality check!

[Ozstar]

Hey ladies,

Just have a quick question for you all since all our babies are chucking tantrums, how do you deal with them? Do you ignore them or distract them?? Every time I say no, take something off him (that he shouldn't be playing with) or bring him inside he has a tantrum. I know it is all part of the age and they dont really bother me I just want to know the best way to handle them. Sometimes he throws himself on the ground and hits his head (he doesnt bang his head over and over or anything) or he pushes his head across the ground like a bulldozer.

thanks girls and sorry for the selfish post, I have been meaning to ask but keep forgetting.

[Cally]

MD - gosh that does sound big. K is somewhere between a 0 and 1 now, I bought all her summer stuff as a 1, but if it's a cooler day she is still right for her 0's. Any idea on what she weighs? K seems stuck on 9.5 kg. (DH just asked if your niece was on steroids lol!!)

Oz - if I know what the reason is, I will try and reason with her, but if she doesn't get it, I generally just leave her for a bit. If opportunities for distraction are around that is handy, but they aren't always there (like this afternoon she was refusing to walk down the ramp from childcare, not really much available for distraction there, so I just picked her up and walked back to the car telling her that it was home time - I suppose it's good she wanted to stay though)

ETA: Science of Parenting had some good stuff on tantrums, I need to read it again to remind myself - do you have that book? I could scan the pages and email it to you if you wanted - PM me.

Rainy - DD lost more than 10% too, but they never asked me about formula, they just got me to pump in the hope of bringing it in faster. I had a Csect though, wasn't yours vaginal, 5 days is a long time for the milk to come in. DH brought up formula because he was worried about DD but I just told him no.

Had to fill in an accident report today, K fell over and hit under her eye on the floor today, so she's getting a black eye. Both eyes are also a bit gunky which was the first sign of her last cold that turned into a shocker, so I really hope she doesn't get badly sick again. Will try and be a better mother this time and get her to the doctor more quickly, poor little poppet.

Time for bed.

[Ozstar]

Cally I borrowed the Science of Parenting from the library, might have to go and get it again. I am trying to find a copy of Toddler tactics too.

ETA it must be frustrating for them not being able to just say what they want.

[Ginger]

hi girls

md- that baby is so big! why are they giving her solids so early???

cally- yes my delivery was vaginal- i'm not sure why my milk took so long, but when it came i looked like pamela anderson! LOL there'll be no formula this time, i'll be more assertive now that i'm an experienced breastfeeder

katie- yes tantys are bad! i have to admit, *touch wood*, lewis isn't as bad as some of the other kids i've seen lately at mothers group etc. he's pretty cruisey. generally we can distract him by picking him up and blowing mouth farts into his neck or tummy or something like that, that makes him laugh and forget.

[AnyDream]

md- that baby is so big! why are they giving her solids so early???

Ummm, because they have rocks in their head???!! I reallly don't know. The photos we have of her is of a plump baby getting progessively plumper to the point where her head now looks triangular on account of her jowls (that sit on her shoulders). I'm assuming that perhaps she has been an unsettled baby that settles well when fed and so therefore they have just keep feeding her more and more in order to settle her? And I'm guessing that after a point the formula stopped working and so they started solids. That's the only explanation I can think of. You know you see large babies and plump babies around the place, but they always look in proportion, you know? So you can say, that's just a large baby, that's just the way they are. My friend's little boy is like that, he was always huge, but in proportion, kwim? But she really just looks utterly overfed!

ETA:
BTW - it's not unusual for it to take up to 5 days for milk to come in, Cally. Especially not with the first. When I went home with DD1 on day 4 my milk had not yet come in (not that anyone at the hospital gave two hoots about it). My understanding though is that the colostrum usually meets their needs just fine during that time, if you keep putting them to the breast frequently (ie every time they so much as murmur) and expressing (if there's attachment issues or sleepy baby, etc) then hopefully the milk comes in as it should (although Trill will vouch that sometimes it does not).

[AnyDream]

crazy stoopid computer!

[Ginger]

i think that's kinda cruel- you know, like when you see on tv those owners of labradors that are 70kgs and massive huge obese cats and stuff.
has anyone said anything to the parents?- like the mchn or anything?