New baby and post birth advice #46

[WhatABore]

New thread time!

This thread is designed to provide support. If you can’t be supportive and find something nice to say, perhaps mumsnet is a better place for you.
Nothing is off topic or taboo.
Knobwaffle of the week nominations always welcome.

 

[fairylights2000]

Trying baby lights with a cot nap after weeks of contact napping. He's just lying there chuckling to himself

 

[Nosysamsie]

Decided to try something new last night. Little miss falls asleep on us and then when we put her in the next to me she wakes up then takes ages to settle. Last night we put her to settle in the next to me and she actually fell asleep quite quickly and stayed asleep. Hopefully she'll do it again tonight

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Yay I don't have to click the next age bracket on the poll yet

Baby biscuit has her 6 month review with the health visitor today. As far as we can see she's on track with most stuff so I'm not worried. Interested to see how much she weighs now, and excited for our free cup and toothbrush

 

[pink_lemonade]

Just having a moan about my KW
Baby has been sleeping lovely the past few nights, 9pm - 4am and then having a feed then going through until 8am, give or take since last week, it’s been heaven!
we all get in bed last night, and KW decides to play a video on his phone with the sound on LOUDEST it could be, the video it’s self happened to be a prank one where it’s the bloody porn star moaning

I honestly could have drop kicked him out the bleeping window !!!!!!!!!!

The baby jumped out of his skin and cried and cried, he was so unsettled, poor thing but I was absolutely LIVID because it’s not the first time

 

[Nosysamsie]

Just having a moan about my KW
Baby has been sleeping lovely the past few nights, 9pm - 4am and then having a feed then going through until 8am, give or take since last week, it’s been heaven!
we all get in bed last night, and KW decides to play a video on his phone with the sound on LOUDEST it could be, the video it’s self happened to be a prank one where it’s the bloody porn star moaning

I honestly could have drop kicked him out the bleeping window !!!!!!!!!!

The baby jumped out of his skin and cried and cried, he was so unsettled, poor thing but I was absolutely LIVID because it’s not the first time

We must live in the same house, coz this happens on the regular here too even before little miss arrived it happened.
I hope he is doing everything in his power to make up for his error

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Just having a moan about my KW
Baby has been sleeping lovely the past few nights, 9pm - 4am and then having a feed then going through until 8am, give or take since last week, it’s been heaven!
we all get in bed last night, and KW decides to play a video on his phone with the sound on LOUDEST it could be, the video it’s self happened to be a prank one where it’s the bloody porn star moaning

I honestly could have drop kicked him out the bleeping window !!!!!!!!!!

The baby jumped out of his skin and cried and cried, he was so unsettled, poor thing but I was absolutely LIVID because it’s not the first time

Wait till he's asleep, find a loud video, blast it out. It's only fair.

 

[Sky Sports Main Event]

I know this was mentioned a while ago on the old thread but I can't remember the answers suggestions for a 1st birthday present for a girl?

 

[WhatABore]

I know this was mentioned a while ago on the old thread but I can't remember the answers suggestions for a 1st birthday present for a girl?

My 2 year old got the tractor when she was 1 and she absolutely loved it. She still plays with it. We got my partners nephew it for his first birthday too and he loves it as well.

She also got the boat for Christmas last year and loves that!
Both get played with daily!

The word books she has too and loves. They're touch and it says the word (and sound for the animal one)

 

[Justmechan23]

Quick question, is it normal for a baby to sleep more during a sleep regression?

Poor mini justme I think he’s got it all at the moment. Sleep regression, teething and growth spurt (I’m assuming, first time mum here). He’ll be 5 months in 2 weeks. The evenings lately are all fussy at the moment from about 5pm until his bedtime (around 9pm). The fussiness includes cluster feeding, clingy and fighting sleep. His daytime naps are seeming to be a little longer too. The naps at one point went down to being hardly anything, roughly 20 mins or so. Now he can do 2 hour stretches or more especially if I don’t go and make loud noise. Is this normal behaviour?

 

[WhatABore]

Quick question, is it normal for a baby to sleep more during a sleep regression?

Poor mini justme I think he’s got it all at the moment. Sleep regression, teething and growth spurt (I’m assuming, first time mum here). He’ll be 5 months in 2 weeks. The evenings lately are all fussy at the moment from about 5pm until his bedtime (around 9pm). The fussiness includes cluster feeding, clingy and fighting sleep. His daytime naps are seeming to be a little longer too. The naps at one point went down to being hardly anything, roughly 20 mins or so. Now he can do 2 hour stretches or more especially if I don’t go and make loud noise. Is this normal behaviour?

If they're going through a sleep regression at night, they'll be more tired during the day, so makes sense

 

[themuffinwoman]

New thread time!

This thread is designed to provide support. If you can’t be supportive and find something nice to say, perhaps mumsnet is a better place for you.
Nothing is off topic or taboo.
Knobwaffle of the week nominations always welcome.

Wish I had read your previous post on weight loss before I weighed myself this morning

 

[WhatABore]

Wish I had read your previous post on weight loss before I weighed myself this morning

Easier said than done but try not to worry too much. It's only been 6 weeks!
Your body is in no way back to normal!

 

[Naataaliiee]

Does/did anyone else find it really hard to live and enjoy the present with a newborn? I’m finding it really tough as I’m constantly feeling sad that he’ll never be this small again. Every day I wake up and feel upset he’s another day older! Yet I know I’ll look back and regret now enjoying these moments as I’m filled with sadness about him being ‘big’- even though he’s not!
I know my hormones are still all over the place and it’s normal for parents to want their babies to stay small, but not sure whether to mention it at my 10 day check with the midwife or give it a few weeks and see if it calms down by itself!

 

[WeepingCassandra]

Anyone else got a LO who doesn’t ‘get’ tummy time? If we put him on the roll cushion he pushes his feet back so fast he face plants and if we don’t he just face plants the floor and cries. Does pretty good at lifting his head up when he’s on my chest but nowhere else

 

[WhatABore]

Anyone else got a LO who doesn’t ‘get’ tummy time? If we put him on the roll cushion he pushes his feet back so fast he face plants and if we don’t he just face plants the floor and cries. Does pretty good at lifting his head up when he’s on my chest but nowhere else

I'd say that's pretty normal
My kids have never liked the floor anyway. But on your chest is still classed as tummy time.

 

[WotsitG1]

Just got back from babies 6 week check. They were running 50 mins late. I had fed baby before I left…. But we got in there and baby started to stir….. she stripped him down and done the tests and baby started to cry…. I said he could be hungry as he’s been cluster feeding in the evenings… she argued with me that he can’t possibly be. I said last week he’s been really fussy and between 6-9 he can have a 3/4 feeds and I don’t know what else to do but feed him, nothing else comforts him. She didn’t seem to think this was normal.
Iv left totally anxious and confused.
She’s also told me I have post natal depression and advices I go Straight on medication…. But I feel like the conflicting information Iv got has made it all worse. The nhs website even days cluster feeding is a thing.
Has anyone got an experience with babies around 6/7 weeks cluster feeding and being really fussy and hard to calm down in the evenings. Thanks in advance

 

[WhatABore]

Just got back from babies 6 week check. They were running 50 mins late. I had fed baby before I left…. But we got in there and baby started to stir….. she stripped him down and done the tests and baby started to cry…. I said he could be hungry as he’s been cluster feeding in the evenings… she argued with me that he can’t possibly be. I said last week he’s been really fussy and between 6-9 he can have a 3/4 feeds and I don’t know what else to do but feed him, nothing else comforts him. She didn’t seem to think this was normal.
Iv left totally anxious and confused.
She’s also told me I have post natal depression and advices I go Straight on medication…. But I feel like the conflicting information Iv got has made it all worse. The nhs website even days cluster feeding is a thing.
Has anyone got an experience with babies around 6/7 weeks cluster feeding and being really fussy and hard to calm down in the evenings. Thanks in advance

You tend to find, in my opinion, that doctors know hardly anything about babies, especially specifics like feeding ect.

Cluster feeding is very very very normal

 

[anything at all]

Just got back from babies 6 week check. They were running 50 mins late. I had fed baby before I left…. But we got in there and baby started to stir….. she stripped him down and done the tests and baby started to cry…. I said he could be hungry as he’s been cluster feeding in the evenings… she argued with me that he can’t possibly be. I said last week he’s been really fussy and between 6-9 he can have a 3/4 feeds and I don’t know what else to do but feed him, nothing else comforts him. She didn’t seem to think this was normal.
Iv left totally anxious and confused.
She’s also told me I have post natal depression and advices I go Straight on medication…. But I feel like the conflicting information Iv got has made it all worse. The nhs website even days cluster feeding is a thing.
Has anyone got an experience with babies around 6/7 weeks cluster feeding and being really fussy and hard to calm down in the evenings. Thanks in advance

agreed with whatabore
I found that the GP I saw for our 6 week check was pretty useless and was like she knew nothing about babies.. we’d had a health visitor appointment the morning before our 6 week check and they were saying it sounded like our baby had silent reflux and to talk to the GP .. we told them everything and they quickly said no it wouldn’t be that

 

[morsbar98]

i come looking for major advice. Little girl is 10 months this month and I mean has been a devil spawn the last 2/3 weeks. I mean horrific. She won’t go in her car seat, screams the place down. Same with her highchair, nappy changes and now bath time! She used to have no problems doing any of the above! She was such an angel of a baby that honestly this new baby is completely different! I know she’s teething and everything but she’s never this bad. Like it’s a wrestling match constantly to do everything. I’m a first time mum in my early 20s and I honestly feel so so lost. I don’t know what has changed. In the last month she has started back seeing her dad 4 hours a week, it’s only 4 hours it can’t be making such a big difference. That is the only thing that has changed