Baby Born~November 2006 #48

[Olive]

tara i'll be back in a min to do a bigger post... but have you tried chino on rice milk instead of soy?

[Gigi]

for some mums, finding the RIGHT formula or the RIGHT animal milk for their bub sounds like a real minefield! a friend of mine has a 3 month old, and they have been thru SIX different formulas already! the formulas either give the baby diarrohea 15x a day OR make her constipated for many days.

ANother friend wanted to use some formula just for the rare ocassions she went out for the night, her bub reacted badly to all the supermarket ones, but is coping fine with an organic one (brand is called Holle). She has given me some to try on bilby, i will give her some in a cup, to see if i can stop the childcare breastfeeds. i am fine with feeding bilby anywhere but when i pick bilby up at 3pm, first thing she does (after squealing Mummy! and sprinting over) is "booby" and i feel more "tolerated" than "welcomed" to feed her there. She refuses to wait (until i get to the car, or home), so the timing thing seems to be non-negotiable.

i've really gone off track here, but my heart goes out to you Tara, trying every kind of milk you can lay your hands on, trying to find somethign Chino can tolerate, how frustrating for you both. I could just sock that silly paed who told you C has "no allergies", i think empirical evidence is telling you the contrary SO catergorically. Your "research" of observing him 24/7, is much more valuable than what the paed says after an hour or so of observing Chino.

how frustrating, i can't imagine it's easy to get to the appointments with two little ones, and then after all that time waiting for the results, to get such a "nothing" piece of advice.

[taralee]

It is SO frustrating Gigi!! especially since he had basically weaned himself (or infant-led weaning if you will) 2 months ago when i tried the cows milk and now i feel like i have completely missed my window cos he's so dependant on feeds to sleep...which isnt so bad, but it is with all the night wakings. i just cant function.
I was going to try rice milk but was told that it doesnt contain enough protein for babies under 2, this soy that im using is an organic one, has increased fibre and protein. im particularly interested in increased fibre since he does seem to have a prob with constipation.

[Olive]

i'll ask janie on here as i know her son is on it, hes over 2 so will find out when she started..

[taralee]

yup..we've all had swine flu. super. glad its over now!

[luua]

I dont know how you function Tara. Waking every hour would just make me jump off the nearest bridge.

The twins were sleeping pretty badly too in the first 3 months but we went to Tresillian and they helped get them into a better sleep pattern (with lots of tears) but now they sleep so much better. Its tough with 2 kids Tara. Is that an option for you?

We have teeth! Hana cut her first tooth on Sunday which was a lovely birthday present for me Mae is still working on hers but it wont be long.

Ella is sick AGAIN. Its the 4th time in a month and a half. Its the new daycare i'm sure. Such a pain because she coughs and sneezes all over the place and on her sisters.

She came home the other day singing "I'm a dingle dangle scarecrow". She can now say hello in French, German, Italian, Indian, Chinese and Japanese - thanks to daycare!

Ann

[taralee]

Tres bien Ann!! Elle est une etoile!
When he sleeps in our bed he sleeps fine. the only thing is that he's awake any time from 830 and wants to be in our bed. half the problem is that he wants to be bf'd back to sleep, so as soon as he's over this yucky sick patch i'll start weaning and stuff. I really like Pantley's no-cry sleep solution book so i'll see how that goes...

[Gigi]

happy belated birthday Ann
and
congrats little Hana on your FIRST tooth, you clever clogs

hope Ella gets better soon, bilby loves the dingle dangle scarecrow song too, pretending to be asleep, then jumping up for UP JUMPED THE SCARECROW part.

bilby woke EVERY two hours 24/7 until about 20 months old, i didn't have the energy to jump off the nearest bridge Ann, but if i did, i might have! i hate catnaps, if i'm going to sleep, it takes me AGES to GET to sleep, then i want to sleep a decent length of time. So despite KNOWING that the longest gap i would ever get, would be two hours (before she woke again), i couldn't brign myself to go to bed, i just thought "what's the point? as soon as i get to sleep, she'll be awake again". so i slept maybe two hours in 24 for nearly two years. By the time she started sleeping five hour stretches form 20 months, my body clock was so out of whack, took me a very long time to adjust. Even when i COULD sleep, my body wouldn't let me.

tomorrow afternoone, i find out the speech assessment results - can't wait!