I'm waiting for the Melbourne PBC expo to get some more nappies - were there any good show specials on the ittis?
Hope everyone is keeping well :)
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I'm waiting for the Melbourne PBC expo to get some more nappies - were there any good show specials on the ittis?
Hope everyone is keeping well :)
we are good here. I think Oscar might be teethign but not sure i cant feel any lumps or bumps.
He only fits medium nappies now all his smalls are too small, and his weird body shape means even then only some work well.
NOt much happening, though he is likeing tummy time slightly more and holds his head a lot higher now than he was.
As for Milo I am going to look at a school next week, I cant believe he is at kinder next year and school in 2011!!!
WE HAVE A TOOTH!
I thought was teething, then he got a cold and has had some super weird dirty nappies, the this morning I saw it, its not thru the skin yet but I can see it and feel that there is definitely a middle bottom tooth about to come thru. No wonder his sleep has been a bit out of whack.
wow ray how exciting!
we are on a roller coaster still - some nights sleeping 7-4 feed then till 9 and sleeping well all day, then others 2 or 3 feeds and an early wake up, then cruddy sleeping all day. Sophia is chewing whaterever she can cram into her mouth and drooling like a rabid dog, but no teeth just her saliva glands kicking in I think. She went into her cot on Monday night... first night fabbo, second cr@ppo ...
How time flies hey - just got my reminder letter from GP for her 4mth injections ... before we know it will be starting solids, crawling ...eeek! not going to get ahead of myself!
xxxxxx
Teeth, already? Well, congratulations.
Jonah's doing well. Very interested in objects, new environments, new toys. My favorite part is how happy he wakes up. All smiles, ready to go live another day! Still wakes up pretty often and feeds pretty often but that's fine with me, so far. I'm just wondering how one would manage with more than one! (I already want more!)
Yay Ray - hope it cuts through soon :) We are the same, I can feel Ethan's under his gum, it's raised but not cut through yet. My poor little baby has chicken pox and he seems worse everyday. I gave him a bath in this stuff from the chemist tonight (starts wit a P - cant remember) and it must have made the blisters sting, poor guy was whimpering the whole time. It said to bathe him for 5-10 mins, I took him out just before 5 mins coz I couldnt stand watching him like that, then we patted calamine lotion on his spots and cuddled him to sleep. We had 2 explosive nappies today and both times he was on my lap and both times it squirted out of the nappy and I was covered in gooey poo!! Nice! (we really do need sarcasm font dont we...) lol The things we do for love!
We started Ethan on some solids, the Dr in the end said we can just try. Trial and error since we cant get into the allergiest till Dec. He loves mashed potato and pumpkin that I make... not too keen on the heinz pears tho.. But no reaction thus far!!! Yay!
Anyway, I hope everyone is going well. xx
Did the Dr say why to start solids so early?:
We were told to wait til 6 months..hmm..
Anyway sounds like is is going well :)
Oscar has been down for the night this side of 8pm for the past 2 nights Im so impressed - Milo was still up til 9-10 until he was 6 months old.
I've always started them at 4 months. He is still feeding every 2 hours and still 3 feeds overnight, so we thought we'd try a bit of mash to see if he needs that little bit more. He's gaining weight fine, I'm just exhausted! I'd rather start solids now than have to switch to formula. And since having a teaspoon of mash once a day at lunch time he's only having 2 feeds overnight, tho this is only day 3, hope I havent jinxed myself... lol He's been showing an interest in our food since 3 mths, he would open his mouth as we ate our food... lol
That's great oscar has been sleeping early.
well he sure sounds like he's doing well :)
Oscar gets weighed next week so I will find out just how big he is. I am so sick of people saying 'Oh wow hes so fat' and telling me I'm overfeeding him. Hes only having 5 feeds a day on average, sometimes 4.
Daytime sleep is still very much hit and miss. Sometimes he will settle himself, others he'll scream at me. I am sure we will get there but I do want to have something sorted before I go back to work in Nov as Im concerned DH will do controlled crying if I am not there and I dont want that.
Rayray, let us know how big Oscar is! And how on earth can you overfeed a baby? Sigh, people are dumb sometimes. I'm sorry you are getting negative comments. Terrific that he's sleeping so well for you! I hope he keeps it up! How's his tooth going? I'm sure Tom's are just there under the surface, but I suspect he's going to be a bugger about getting them. Clare was so easy, she'd just wake up with a tooth and surprise us.
I hopped on the scales with Tom this week and they reckoned he was 7.9kg, which would put him in the 95th for weight. :o I've never had a fatty before. It's rather nice, I have to say (not so nice on the back, though!)
Dee, I hope things are coming good at your place, been thinking of you. We'll be putting Tom on solids in a few weeks. The wisdom til now has been to leave off til six months but I'm reading more and more research that suggests that the optimal window for introducing new things is between five and six months, and that the theory of leaving solids til later isn't actually based on evidence but suppositions about biology and allergies. Four of my five other kids have allergies so we'll be watching him like a hawk. I know he's massively interested in food and gets all antsy when he sits up at the table in his high chair while we're having dinner and he can't have any!!
Amazed, that's lovely your bubby wakes up so smiley and happy :) Isn't it gorgeous how much they love the world when they are babies? There are just no bad surprises for them, nothing they dread, it's just all cuddles and love and boosies and bottles and baths and lovely things.
Nelly how is Sophia doing in her cot? We're doing so much better since moving Tom into his own room although I miss him a lot. But he's definitely sleeping better and settling himself off to sleep much more. We're still having one or two overnight wakeups, but that is so much better than what it was.
He had a fever yesterday and has a cold today, but it's not too bad, I guess. He has sort of gone quiet on the development front. He was very chatty and then quietened down, and he isn't rolling or anything any more. He just likes to watch what's going on. His favourite thing is sitting in his highchair playing with his toys, and blowing raspberries.
I would really love to read this as I am getting conflicting info - even the RCH website has one page that says 4 months, and another that says 6 months.:
I'll have to dig out the reference I was thinking of this morning.
Okay, so this was the first thing that got me looking into this, because I've always been very good at delaying solids but my kids still have lots of allergies and food intolerance.
Then there was something in the New Scientist that I can't find.:
The hospital's Director of Allergy and Immunology is Dr Mimi Tang, and she says it's now clear that this policy of avoiding certain foods hasn't worked.
Mimi Tang: It seemed sensible at the time, expert groups internationally were recommending it, but it really has subsequently transpired (and this is what happens of course in research, is you discover new things that change your thinking, and this is important), but we have now understood better that to develop tolerance, one must be exposed to the antigen in the first place. So to become tolerant to a food, surely we have to have been exposed to it, otherwise how do we learn not to react to it?
Ian Townsend: This new research is revealing how complex our immune system is, and exposing how wrong we were to try to manipulate it without knowing what we were doing.
Mimi Tang: There is this shift in thinking amongst experts in the field that, you're right, maybe delaying the introduction makes it worse, not better. I take that back: delaying foods does not prevent allergy; I don't know that it makes it worse, there is no good evidence that it makes it worse, but it certainly doesn't make it better, so why would you do it?
Ian Townsend: This is a pretty big shift in thinking, and the reasons haven't been explained very well in Australia yet. Your local GP is probably reluctant to give any advice at all now.
We're talking about allergies so severe, that a small amount of nut, prawn, or egg, can cause an anaphylactic shock, or anaphylaxis. Advising people to avoid nuts was easy. Withdrawing that advice, though, is a minefield.
At Princess Margaret Hospital in Perth, Professor Susan Prescott is one of the people who's now working on the delicate process of what to tell parents they should now be doing.
Susan Prescott: I think in the next year or two, you're going to hear that the current recommendations for avoiding foods and delaying the introduction of solid foods in infancy and avoiding things like eggs, milk and so forth, and peanut in young children, is going to be changed so that we are not going to be any more recommending the delayed exposure to these foods. The earlier, maybe the better.
..... Mimi Tang: Importantly, some emerging data suggests that there might be a window of opportunity between four and seven months when you're actually very good at developing tolerance to foods. So your natural body's tendency is when you eat a food to not react to it. You learn not to react to it, you learn to be tolerant of it. And it seems that there is a window period between age four to seven months where foods introduced at that time, particularly if under the cover of breastfeeding, you are very likely to be able to be tolerant to it. It's the optimal time to develop tolerance against foods.
And then there's this:
Cereal Grains Not So Bad for Baby - Medicine Online
Of course, it could be that families who are aware of allergies because of a family history waited longer anyway, and their children may have developed the allergy regardless.:
Just one percent of the children -- 16 kids -- developed wheat allergies. But the study revealed that children who were first exposed to cereals (wheat, barley, rye and oats) after six months were 3.8 times more likely to have developed an allergy than those who first ate cereals earlier.
The risk of wheat allergy also went up by 1.6 times if the child was exposed to rice cereal after 6 months of age and by nearly four times if a parent or sibling had asthma, eczema, or hives, the researchers found.
Ah, here we go. This is a change of position from The Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, based on evidence gathered that contradicts previous advice.
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The ASCIA Infant Feeding Advice document was developed in response to the urgent need to clarify discrepancies between established infant feeding guidelines and new information.
Professor Prescott said that recent publications challenged previous recommendations.
?Current evidence does not support the delayed introduction of solid foods, including allergenic foods into infant diets beyond 6 months,? said Professor Prescott.
?There are even some limited studies which suggest that delayed introduction of solid foods beyond 6 months of age may actually be to blame for an increased risk of food allergy, celiac disease and autoimmunity, although further studies are needed to confirm this.?
Thanks :)
It's been a while since I've been on here...have had just enough time to lurk, not enough time to post...! Max's sleeping seems to be getting better (touch wood)...although his daytime naps are still pretty short, but he's been doing 6-8 hour stretches at night which is fabulous, but then he'll intersperse those nights with waking up every two-three hours!
TMTM: that info on solids is interesting. I was going to put off introducing solids until 6 months, but I've been hearing advice about starting at 5 months also.
Rayray: let us know how heavy Oscar is. We always get the 'Max is such a big boy' as well. We think he's about 8.3kg (on our bathroom scales) which puts him in 95th percentile and growing out of his clothes really fast! He's now fitting most of his 6-12 months clothes and is almost growing out of his 00 sleepers!
Dee: I hope the chickenpox has cleared and the solids has helped with the sleeping. Poor thing, I know how you feel. For about a month, Max was sleeping really well, only waking up once, and then about two weeks ago, it was three-four times, and hourly from 2am! Ugh.
Hi everyone, I've been lurking too just no time to sit and reply. Things here are going pretty well. We are really lucky with night sleeps. Liam goes to bed at about 7, I get him up for a dream feed at around 10 and he sleeps through until about 7. We still have the occasional night with a wake up but he usually goes back to sleep with his dummy. We're very lucky! Day sleeps are a different story. When I eventually get him to sleep he's alright but he resists it so much! As soon as I wrap him he goes hysterical and I have to rock/pat him to sleep. If I put him in his cot awake he just plays and then cries, will not settle himself to sleep. He used to do it but this has been going on for about a month now. I've tried not wrapping him but it's still the same reaction and then he just wakes himself up with his arms flapping about. Hopefully he'll settle down soon.
We've also started on solids, just for a few days now. At first he hated it but he's figured out what to do now and loves it. It's very cute. We're taking it very slowly, he's having one meal a day and it's very small. We started on farex but today we're going to try pureed apples, we'll do that for a couple of days and then I'll give him something else. I tried the farex and it's horrible! Any wonder he turned his nose up at it.
We are also getting the "My goodness he's a chubby baby" comments. He's in the 95th percentile - 8.2 kgs. EVERYONE comments, not always in a negative way but we do get some of those too. I had one MCHN tell me that if he kept going this way he would end up with childhood obesity. Needless to say i haven't returned to her. He's on 5 bottles a day and just drinks what he needs, I certainly don't think I'm overfeeding him. I love my chubby bubby. I figure I'd rather him have more on him than not enough!! it's just hard being a first time mum with people commenting all the time, makes you worry that you're doing something wrong!!
We also have the teething symptoms - for over a month now he's been dribbly, rosey cheeks, more grizzly. He has a few white specks on his gums but nothing has actually cut through yet, it's so frustrating! The poor little things, it must be so painful. I hope all our bubs get their teeth soon!
Anyway it;s great to hear how everyone is going.
Dee, I'm thinking of you and little Ethan, you're going through a terrible time at the moment! I hope he gets better soon and hopefully it'll be the last of the tough times for you!
TMTM I'm glad you're getting more sleep with Tom in his own room. I hope his cold clears up soon!
Chat to you all soon xx
Thanks for the kind thoughts everyone :D Ethan seem much better today and so do I now. *sigh of relief
I was so worried that it would be dangerous for him to get the pox so young but the spots finished coming out yesterday and they are dried up today, his fever has reduced significanlty and he woke up all smiles - I actually dont know how long he was awake for but I woke up at 7am (body clock) and he was happily playing in his basinette beside me, full of smiles. He didnt lose his apetite (which usually happens with chicken pox), and only has a very slight cough so I am confident we are over the worst of it now :D
Thanks for all that info TMTM, that is sort of what my GP was telling me - kind of... basically saying you wont know what he's allergic to without trying it and that DH's reactions to food are not life threatening so it's not likely that Ethan's would be either and that introducing them early may help him build a tollerance to it. But I just really wanted to continue breastfeeding but was just plain exhausted from feeding so regularly, especially with all the illness and growth spurts and teething etc not allowing me to get sleep at night. And so far so good... he went to bed at 9pm last night (the last few nights he's been waking at 10 and not going back down till 11 or 12 :doh:) but he slept until 3:30, stirred at 6am but resettled himself then I woke up at 7 and he was awake. so it seems to be helping.
He has potato and pumpkin at lunch time and he loves it, I also find that he skips a feed in the afternoon which means by his next feed I have heaps of milk so he just has a longer feed then is all set till bed time, so I can get dinner made and have time to relax with him and DH until his next feed.
Ray - I agree with TMTM I dont think you can overfeed a baby. Babies eat what they need! My fiends have a baby that almost doubled in size just from switching to formula, she was in size 1 at 10 months. But she's the happiest baby I know, never grizzles always smiles and is just a beautiful baby girl! THAT is what matters, it's much better they have reserves than be underweight or being one of those babies that rejects food and needs to be drip fed... That would break my heart!
He looks like a beautiful happy boy to me so I wouldnt be too concerned. :D Once he gets mobile and taller he'll be leaner anyway ;)