Dec Stars 09 Chat Thread

Purpledaisy, Are you using a moses basket or cot? also Have you tried bathing Ava before bed?

I have a snuggle nest in my bed, she wouldnt go in the cot, gonna try the snuggle nest in the cot cos its hurting my scar to get her out the snuggle nest, yeah i bathed her last night but i was told not to do it everyday yet cos her skin is dry, its just she sleeps so much daytime and then is awake at night but i dunno if its normal to be backwards for now x

I know exactly what you mean about the scar

the snuggle nest looks good we brought something similar to stop Emilie trying to roll over we bought it to put in the cot

re the bathing everyone has something different to say my HV says not everyday my mum says she bathed me everyday I say do what you feel is right I bath Emilie most nights & the dry skin she had when first born never got worse HTH

Have you tried massaging her in grapeseed oil before bed, its brill for there skin purple.

Im thinking about changing hollie to SMA white, as shes drinking 4oz every 3-4hrs sometimes not always full. I changed amber over at 2-3weeks old, never had a problem from then.

Hope you all had a lovely xmas with your LO's x

i have no idea about the milks.. i just used the one the midwife used the first time she topped her up after a feed from me, so i stuck with it when BF failed, shes drinking about the same as hollie but seems satisfied and hardly ever has any wind, Is sma white for hungry babies?

anyone else have a c section? i am a bit worried about my wound becoming infected because im still so ill and it was leaking a little today..

my mw is useless, only been out once and everyday phones to say is it ok to come tomorrow, i need more antibiotics and now my scar but theyre too busy. Its just getting worse. Tomorrow if she calls im saying no way come now. Ava's fine but im not!

purpledaisy, tell your Mw you need to see her she should be coming to make sure your both ok!

I had an emegergency c - section after failing to progress, & tbh I have found the recover the worse bit my scar is infected the anti - botics seem to be helping alot as well as the anti - botic cream

Purpledahlia - Its quite normal for baby to confuse day and night. The best thing to do is to have a brightly llit, noisy house during the day and a quiet dark house when you go to bed. LO will soon learn that its time to sleep. Laura had it down at about 3 weeks or so and does occasionally wake at night for a cuddle and a grump but it takes time and nothing more i'm afraid

Last night was good, she had her awake time late evening and settled much better at night, and is awake now so hopefully the same again tonight, i think we're on track, shes such a good baby apart from that settling at night thing which might be not such an issue anymore!

how does everyone else feelw hen other people hold the babies? does anyone feel jelous? and like you wanna scream at them for not doing it right or whatever? i do :S

Ha ha! I hate it when people feed her and they don't do it properly, sounds silly but Laura dribbles and needs winding half way through, I can tell her signs and so can my mum as she feeds her often but I can't really say no to MIL so I find myself fussing and panicking that she's not feeding properly, it's important to me that she feed properly by day otherwise she plays catch up at night

ugh a friend came to visit, she was holding her and the blanket got all squished up and Avas head kept flinging back and my friend was like '' oh look how strong her neck is '' i was just screaming in my head '' she shouldnt actually be able to do that!!!! hold her head!!! '' she very swiftly needed a nappy change.. haha!

Im starting to feel a bit better, one lot of antibiotics finished today.

Had fried eggs with runny yolk yesterday and been eating pate since i got home! BLISS

AND.. i can drink a cup of tea again!!!!!!!!!!! waheyyyy!!