Ive been using a few drops of honey because thats what the lady at the chemist said, but i will try the raw sugar and see how that goes:)
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Ive been using a few drops of honey because thats what the lady at the chemist said, but i will try the raw sugar and see how that goes:)
Just a quick note re honey - honey can be fatal in infants under 12 months of age. It contains bacterial spores that a baby's digestive system cannot break down and lead to infant botulism. Don't mean to alarm you but especially under 6 mths it is a big concern. (Older toddlers and adults are able to break this down safely).
Try to fit in a few extra bfs - bm is the best cure for constipation in a baby. Sugar in water is not likely to have any effect and is not recommended.
Sorry to hijack!
WTF!!!!! I totally want to slap that lady at the chemist!!!!!
Hi ladies,
Thanks for all your imput on the immunisations. I ended up taking Cameron today to the community health centre to get his needles. I've never seen him cry so hard or scream so loud. I was almost in tears but I know it's for his own well being. I felt better after I heard all the newborns scream just as loud ;) it wasn't just him!
Con, formula feeding for 6 weeks now. I only b/f for 2 weeks.
b, lucky you for the 5 hour stretches! I've only had a couple of those myself, it's mostly 4 hours over night and 3 during the day.
Meercat, what exactly are those classes? I'v been thinking of going to the mother's group thing, I should get out of the house more!
Jelly, I've been using the dummy on Cameron prety much since the beginning. I wasn't a 'dummy' person but it was and is handy when Cam is unsettled. The only negative is that he likes to fall asleep with it during the day (not at night though, go figure :o) and every time it falls out he grizzles. Sometimes it falls out 10 times before he falls asleep, it's a bit annoying if you're trying to do something!
When I thought Cam had colic (which turned out to be oral thrush, so no colic here) I put him on Novolac Colic. It constipated him so much his poos were really hard. I now have him on the previous one, Nestle Nan H.A Gold and poos are back to the normal consistency (ie like wet clay/toothpaste hehehe).
Teresa, I put a bit of brown sugar in Cam's water, but I used to put a tea spoon in 100 ml of water, and now I have been slowly reducing it to nothing. A lot of people told me that the sugar can still rot the babies' teeth in the gums so I am trying to give him plain water eventually.
Well, today was quite emotional for me with the vac. injections. It breaks my heart to see Cam upset, and really felt for him when he screamed in pain. It was if someone was killing him!!! He was a bit unsettlesd today but I gave him baby panadol when we got home and again at 8 pm. I've noticed that he's been feeding every 3 hours for the last week or so, he was previously going 3.5-4 hours during the day......don't know what is going on. I got a whooping cough/tetnus shot too today, and off for my flu injection on Friday.
Hope everyone is going well, I am so in love with my little guy :p
B xxx
Hello Ladies,
I only just found this thread. My son Liam was born on the 16th March and is now 8-wks. I hope you don't mind me joining, I have had a little read at some of your posts and have found them really helpful as I guess we are going through very similar things at the same time.
Hi Beata, the immunisation thing has been doing my head in to be honest. I am seeing my GP next week and have a few questions for her, but I am leaning towards getting them for Liam as well. It is just the amount of injections they get in such a small space of time that stresses me out! It must have been stressful for you seeing Cameron cry that much, but as you said it is protecting him. Well done mum, not easy thing to do I'm sure.
My little boy is thriving, but the one thing that I have been struggling with and wanting to ask you all about is settling him down to sleep. He is a great night sleeper (once his down), but getting him to sleep during the day is quite tricky. I look for tired signs and know that he is ready for bed, but he just can't settle himself yet. Has anyone managed to 'teach' their baby to self-settle yet, is this possible at this stage? I was rocking him in my arms which could take anywhere from 10-mins to 45-mins and now have a really bad back & neck. I am now putting him is a baby swing sometimes at that seems to work, but I am told 'to be careful what habits I start' as they will get use to falling to sleep that way. I hope this makes sense - lol! Any suggestions or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I look forward to getting to know you all and hope everyone is doing well.
hi beryl and welcome. i have been trying a routine with Hamish where i will spend a few mintues in my rocking chair cuddling him then put him down in his cot, wrap him tightly, then walk out. will wait a minute or two of his crying then go back in give him his dummy, try and comfort him and walk out again. sometimes it works great, others not so great. he is getting better tho! u could try googling sleep and babies or go to your local public library and loan some books out on it. i am off to my local library today to pick up pinky mckays books to read. she is very recommended so maybe try her books? good luck with it all
beata - Hamish cried with tears when he had his 8 week injections (mind u by the time i got hold of my gp he was 10 weeks when he had them :wall: ). he is coming up in a few weeks for his 4 months ones! i cant believe its almost that time.
Grr - just typed a long reply and it didn't post!
Hi berry - welcome to our group! You have joined a great group here - everyone is lovely. Look forward to hearing about you and your LO.
Con - I am still expressing BM (not getting much - about enough for one feed per day) and then using formula for the rest.
Teresa - hope your routine is still going well - good on you!
Sorry I can't remember any of the other posts - I don't seem to get the previous posts underneath like I used to.
Any of you girls in Perth - do any of you use Karicare Gold or S26? I have open tins of both that only have a few feeds out of and I don't want to throw them out. You are welcome to them if anyone wants them.
Things are going pretty well with us. We're sticking with the Novalac for Constipation for Fraser - he seems pretty settled on it. We were trying to give him a bottle or two of Heinz a day, but it seemed to get him wired and we couldn't get him to sleep. He's been much better today (fingers crossed it continues) since just being on the Novalac. One thing I have noticed though is that when I give him his bottle of EBM, he gets hungrier so much quicker than if he has formula. After formula, he normally goes 4 hours til next feed, but with EBM, we're lucky if we get 3 hours.
Has anyone's bubs rolled over yet? One of the bubs at mother's group has, and I must say it has frightened me. Not that I am in the habit of leaving Fraser at any heights, but must make doubly sure that I don't now.
Hi to everyone else!
Hi everyone,
wow that was a lot to catch up on! We've finally moved out of our teeny tiny unit and into a lovely big house with a great big back yard and I'm loving it! So much less stress as we're not sitting on top of each other with no room to move, and as well as that we're in a very kid friendly neighbourhood and feeling very safe especially when DP has to work (he works nights).
Hi Berry, welcome to the boards :)
Jelly, we gave Harri the snip just because that's what we wanted to do. When DP was 5 he apparently had some troubles and had to have it done then and apparently was a bit traumatising for him (understandably) so we just wanted to get it out of the way while he's so young...and on that note he had his 2 week check on Tuesday this week and the doc said it looks like its healed perfectly...he also said he hasn't seen such an alert and responsive baby in quite a while *I was so proud as this doc is the only pedeatrician in the region and sees a LOT of babies*
DTD, yeah we do it, was a bit strange at first but all back to normal now *yay!* No monthlys for me yet, and am having my check up next week, or the week after I can't remember
I won't even attempt to do more personals as I've forgotten who's said what :( but I certainly hope that everyone is doing great :D
AFM, Harrison is 7 weeks old now!! Have been formula feeding for 3 weeks now, I'm using Karicare Gold and Harrison has taken to it incredibly well. He has about 5-6 bottles a day, more in the morning not as many in the afternoon. I've found he hasn't been constipated with it at all and is doing at least 1 poo a day runnyish and mustardy, the only difference I've noticed with formula to BF poop's is that they now smell! BAD! lol but I guess I don't exactly smell like the botanical gardens either :doh:
Harri now weighs 4.9kg and is just on 60cms tall (he's a freaky tall baby). He's such a happy little boy! Always smiling and has been giggling too! He's super ticklish which makes it easy to make him giggle but pulling funny faces and saying to him 'where's mummy's smiles' makes him giggle and smile. By the sounds of it Harri's not the only one who doesn't sleep much during the day. He has 1 nap usually from around 10 to 12-1pm but not everyday. Night times we start his bath about 5 and spend a good hour singing, reading and having cuddles and he falls asleep around 6:30-7pm. Sleeps until anywhere between 1-3am, wakes for a feed and is up for about an hour and then back to sleep again until about 5-6am. It's rough waking up that early because I'm definitely not a morning person but I have a new found love for Carl Stefanovic :ROFL:
DSD is still with us and it's been great, there's still so much up in the air regarding the situation, but long story short is the court papers have been handed over to us by the mediators (mediation failed) and now its just a matter of filing them. However we've decided to give her mother 1 more opportunity to be the mother she has the potential to be and are trying very hard to convince her to move back to the same town, that way DSD has both her mum and dad close by which is the best thing for her.
Anyway time for a bath (OMG we have a bath now instead of just a tiny shower *love*) and bed.
Hi!
Sorry I've been missing in action a bit...it's been really hectic around here as I'm sure you guys can imagine!
Jayden is going really well...seems to be growing so fast before my eyes! He actually had his biggest stretch betweeen feeds last night - 6.45-2.25am...WOW!
We're away for the weekend from tomorrow - a 2 1/2 hour drive away to the in-laws so that will be interesting...
Ok...can't write much - I'm missing the letter between o and { on my keyboard and it's driving me crazy...also the backsace button is wrecked as well...I knocked water on my la#to#
give those bubbas a big cuddle and I'll chat soon..xo
Wow B, $600 for the procedure, I feel pretty lucky now...Harri also had the plastibell method but it only cost us $300 ($200 after the medicare rebate).
Hi ladies,
Megan, welcome to our group! Really glad you found us. I'm glad little Liam is going well, but he's not the only one not wanting to sleep during the day!! Cameron is a lot more aware of his surroundings now and chats to his 'mates' in the cot heaps during the day. I mentioned this to the MCHCN earlier this week and she said that the trick is to put the baby down for a sleep as soon as you get the cue that he/she is tired, otherwise you might miss the boat. She said to look out for yawning, frowning, jerky movememnts, the baby looking past you or away from you or staring into space. So I have tried this and succeeded a few times so far. Cam always sleeps through the night which is good.
Teresa, I thought the next lot of needles is not until 6 months, I forgot about the 4 month ones! I don't want to take Cameron next time, I'll get hubby to do it :)
Miamunchkin, no rolling over here yet! Thank goodness...
Missawah, Cam's poos are extra smelly on formula too ;) Glad you like your big house! Must be a relief to have so much space now. Wish I had the same! We live in a shoe box :wall:
Krisvee, have fun away this weekend!
b, glad you're doing well! And woo hoo on losing 1.5 kg, way to go hun!!
AFM, Cameron has settled OK after the needles, only cried the next night for a bit. In general, he has been staying awake more during the day, but somehow doesn't seem to get over tired as much during the evening. He's been playing up a bit during his feeds though....He takes in half the bottle and then thrashes about like the shark in Jaws, and refuses to take the rest. I have to then put his dummy in his mouth to get him sucking again, and sometimes he coutinues to finish the bottle after I quickly take the dummy out and replace it with the bottle. I have tried the bigger hole tits lately, don't know if the flow is too fast???????? Would that give him more wind??? Also, he is still doing his half smiles, I am waiting for him to take off like your little bubs and smile heaps more. Are some bubs just slower than others??? He 'talks' to his mates which is just a funny sound he makes, but doesn't giggle as such.....when will this happen????
Hi to everyone else out there, hope you are enjoying your bubbas!
b xxx
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