supergolden88

ouch! That sounds horrible - poor baby. What kind of symptoms are you getting?

My baby boy started teething (drooling, red cheeks, chewing everything in sight etc) at 4 months. Bang on 5 months he has his first tooth. Two weeks later a second one. Bottom two. He is now 6 1/2 months and again going through something - I believe it is teething. His appetite is much reduced and he sucking/smacking his mouth in a very weird way. He is also waking up a lot early in the night and seems to be in pain. He has no fever or other illness symptoms (as yet). What teeth usually come next? I think he may be getting the ones either side of the bottom two but it's hard to say as he will not open his mouth. When eating solids (a battle currently) he will bite onto the spoon and not let it go.

I was a week overdue with my second. Sex did not bring on labour, neither did Rasp leaf tea or clary sage. In the end I was given a sweep the day before induction. I was so determined to avoid the induction that I went for a VERY brisk walk around the block that night. I was like a woman possessed. I also tried nipple stimulation and pinneapple and started having strong contractions before falling asleep. Next morning contractions started up again when I got up at 7am and got stronger and more frequent. We had time to drop daughter at nursery before making our way to Kings around 9am. Good luck!

Try feeding baby in a bouncy chair - worked for me. But I kept giving a bottle once a day even if baby rejected it. Eventually he started taking miniscule amounts and now he is ok with it for the most part (he is 6 1/2m). But I think he started being better at around 4/5 months. Initially the only time we had any success with a bottle was during dreamfeed when he was quite sleepy.

Thanks but panic over I have found it hiding in plain sight. Phew!

Seem to have lost my last one somewhere. Do they sell anywhere locally? To fit Medela Swing (although probably all Medela ones are same)

My boy wakes between 5.30 and 6.30 every day. Usually it's around 6am. He then proceeds to chat to himself very loudly until we pick him up. I just leave him to it unless he gets upset and then I go in and shush him etc. On a couple of occasions when he woke up really early, he then fell back asleep (after me going in and shushing him for ten seconds) at 6.30 or so and lasted till 7.15 when we pick him up awake or not. He frequently wakes around 3am in the night as well and sometimes just resettles, others chats or sometimes cries. If he cries I go in and shush him. But when something is bothering him (cold, teething, eczema) I can always tell by his 'tone'. I will then always soothe or pick him up. Funilly enough after the sleep training I am completely atune to what's real crying and what is being awake and trying to resettle. Before I would always pick him up and breastfeed him which meant he was never hungry in the morning. Right now something is bothering him in a really MAJOR way - think it is teething. He is extremely unsettled. I would not be surprised if he came down with something. My daughter on the other hand will always get up at 6am on weekends only because she knows it is the weekend. She is 5. I find that so beyond annoying but can't get her to stop.

The sunny mornings don't help. Even though it is completely dark in my son's room I think he knows it is sunny outside. But could be teething or the cold that are causing the wakings. Have you tried a dreamfeed around 11pm? That works for my son same age as your baby. Having said that he is teething like mad suddenly and woke at 3am last night / was up at 6am and refuses to nap or eat today. I would not offer a feed at 5am - try to hold out for 7am or near as

I am dreading having an actual chat. I know I should but not sure it would be constructive (once I pointed out an area which she had supposedly cleaned that was full of cat hair and she got very defensive about it). May ask her to do an extra hour is possible. Of course having a baby in the house at same time and trying to nap makes her visits rather fraught for me.

I have a cleaner who comes once every two weeks for 3 hours. It's a three bedroom house although she does not clean spare room or do any dusting or ironing (at my request). Mostly it's mopping, vacuuming and changing bedding plus cleaning kitchen surfaces and some general tidying. Recently I have noticed she is getting increasingly sloppy and the floors look like the haven't really been cleaned properly, there's dust gathering in corners where she has not vacuumed etc. Even the bedding looks like it been changed by my five year old. Not that she was ever cleaner of the year but the standards are dropping. I don't want to change cleaners really and at same time I dont really know how to bring up the fact that she is getting worse and worse. Any ideas? Should I ask her to stay an extra hour to do the work properly? I have to admit the house is pretty chaotic with baby toys and toddler toys/crafts strewn about and I really need the help to keep it under some sort of control.

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The change at 11 helped (changed before giving a feed) but not always. Seriously the Huggies nappies used to leak day or night sometimes the wee simply went everywhere but inside the nappy. The minute we switched to the Pampers active ones we stopped having the problem. He still sometimes leaks in the morning but that's without any changes since around 7pm and one dreamfeed at 11.

Strong Body, Ageless Body with Erin O'Brien is good, no nonsense and I like her style. Easy to follow but gives a good workout. She has a very good pregnancy workout DVD that I used to do so I decided to get this one and it does not dissapoint. But dont get it if you want high production values and music it is simply filmed at her house (I think). Belly Blitz is great if you want to tone your tum (and would be very effective too if I actually got round to doing it!) Tracy Anderson Mat Workout is good but I find her a bit grating. I love the Mari Winsor pilates workouts. I know those work and they are short and easy to do in the evening. I am a bit of a fitness DVD fanatic - if only one got fit by simply owning the DVDs!

I have been through this same problem and without the dream feeds (although there were frequent unscheduled breastfeeds). In my case the nappies where the problem - we were using Huggies and they were useless. I can recommend the Pampers active baby ones - we are still using the size 3 at 6 months. They are very light and thin out of the pack but seem super absorbent. I also used to change baby at around 11 to minimise chance of leaking in middle of the night. Perhaps start to reduce the amount you give at 3am so as to phase out that feed eventually? If she is between nappy sizes that may add to the problem.

I am looking for a ballet dance along dvd for my daughter. She has a Disney one which she loves just wondered if there any others out there that are good. Kind of a ballet class /instructional but fun.

My daughter went to nursery at around 8 months. It took a few days to settle her but she soon was perfectly at home at her nursery (up till then she had never spent more than an hour away from me). Initially she was there 3 days a week and soon after full time. She loved her nursery, her carers and still to this day (she is now nearly 5) has dear friends from nursery she sees once a week or more. She was full time at nursery till she went to school. Nursery fitted her personality though - even at 3 months she loved being around other babies and adults - a real social butterfly. So I think 7 months is perfectly fine to go to a nursery. Look around and talk to other parents if possible. Do go on waiting lists - some are very long but frequently spaces become available so keep calling the nursery and asking. Good luck.

My boy was born in November and we got the Bee. There was snow everywhere in December but he was perfectly snug in his baby cocoon - I put a lambskin lining in it and put the rain cover up when it was really cold.

Both ends do look the same on mine but it works fine. They sometimes fall out but usually because I am trying to reach something while pumping. I do have an older one so maybe they have changes it slightly since?

There are emergency nannies you can hire (at a premium) or perhaps call a nanny agency and see about short term contract. You pay agency fees but they can tailor to your requirements Or you can find a nanny that has a couple of days available and see if you can arrange a short time arrangement. I have found a lovely girl through this forum that works as a nanny but is available (most) mornings only. That works if I am not terribly busy. But I do find myself working evenings and weekends quite a lot as I am freelancing from home. I also have a nanny I call on days when I am super busy but she is likely to find full time employment soon... (just when I suddenly find myself really busy). When your contract ends are you not likely to look from more work? I initially had my daughter at nursery 3 days a week when I first started freelancing and within a couple of months I was asking the nursery to do extra days so often that I had to ask for a full time place. A childcare arrangement between freelancers can work nicely if you know them really well and the children are old enough. But I would find it quite stressful I think.

Need to get some birthday presents for my daughter (and all her friends) and would love some new book ideas. She is only now learning how to read (can sounds out simple words etc) but would like to get her some books that are enjoyable for me to read to her. We have been reading How to train your Dragon, Pippi, Clarice Bean etc. She still likes looking at pictures but I think is bored of very simplistic repetitive stories. Any ideas welcome

I was reading through a few blogs recently about breastfeeding and came accross using Domperidone to increase milk supply. In some cases this was prescribed by the GP specifically because of low milk supply issues. I had never heard of this before. Obviously not something that should be used except perhaps as last resort but it is interesting to me as I have had a few friends who wanted to breastfeed but has such little milk (because baby would not latch, was premie etc) that they ended up supplementing with formula and eventually gave up. Does anyone know if it is safe? I did a bit of googling and came across conflicting info. By the way, in case people jump down my throat for this thread, in no way am I advocating taking drugs to help breastfeeding.

Yes 12 weeks is perhaps too early to establish a routine but you can lay the groundwork for it. And while I agree having a warm baby asleep in your arms is the loveliest thing (my daughter used to fall asleep on me all the time while my son never does unless he is ill) you don't want to end up in a situation where you are motionless for hours daily because baby is sleeping on you. The Millpond methods is very gentle and gradual - I bet it would work for you. But waiting it out will also work as baby will change a lot in coming weeks and nap less anyway.

I think changing the venue and method of naps is confusing for your baby. Like Moos said you need to be consistent and do it at certain times - you are almost programming the baby's body clock. If you also follow a bit of a ritual - say rocking or singing before you put her down you give more cues to the baby. I would be careful of doing something that the baby will depend on for napping though (like putting her on your chest) because that's what they will be looking for in order to fall asleep. Naps are very difficult to master - some babies are better than others and need them more. Your baby will change as she grows older and be more alert etc. I am also thinking sleeping for 6 hours in the day sounds like a lot?? I could be wrong.

and I should have pointed out this blogpost is called Do the 'Breastapo' have a point? http://www.pantswithnames.com/2011/04/do-breastapo-have-point.html and just in case I did not make it clear I completely agree with this (from blog above) "I appreciate that the environment I'm in, the support I've been given and the education I have had have all contributed towards the decision to breast feed my babies. I know that those from more disadvantaged backgrounds (and teenagers in particular) are very unlikely to choose to breastfeed. Often they are not aware of the benefits of breast feeding and lack support in those crucial early days when breast feeding is hard. Those people campaigning to help provide information to women in order that they can make an informed decision about whether to breast feed need support, if only so that abysmal figure of 3% can grow to something vaguely acceptable."

Because sometimes (and this taking it to extremes of course) the well meaning supporters of breastfeeding are so militant in their approach (the minute you give baby even a little formula/a dummy/ the bottle that's it you will never breastfeed again) that "breastapo" applies. see another blog http://triticumturgidum.blogspot.com/2006/04/breastapo.html and another http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/202464/the_breastapo_thats_what_new_mothers_call_the_army_of/ http://www.pantswithnames.com/2011/04/do-breastapo-have-point.html I breastfed both my babies BTW. My daughter exclusively for 8 months and then combination feeds for another 4. My son for about 4 exclusively and combination feeds since (he is 6 months). I am planning to stop breastfeeding sometime in the next couple of months although I would like to hold on to the 7pm feed for as long as possible. I am already beating myself up that the mild eczema my son has had since birth is due to me giving formula or solids a month early. Mothers are incredibly capable at beating ourselves up about everything we do (or don't do).